Li Yao felt that he had been swallowed by the sun in the blink of an eye.
Lei Yuqin's outburst was too intense, too unexpected, and too unbelievable!
Her soul was obviously drained, and she was dying. The fire of her mental power could not have been more feeble. Li Yao and Long Yangjun, the two high-level Yuanying, had confirmed it repeatedly and planted multiple barriers inside her head before they finally felt reassured enough to talk to her.
But out of everyone's expectation, all the barriers were like fences that were faced with a flood. They were all washed away in the blink of an eye. A force that was both scorching and cold, dark and bright, violent and tranquil rushed out of Lei Yuqin's brain unstoppably, drowning Li Yao and Long Yangjun at the same time!
It was … impossible.
It was not Lei Yuqin's own strength. It was not even a strength that a human being should have!
Li Yao felt that he was at the center of an infuriated star. His fleshly body was obliterated in the blink of an eye, and the only thing left was his shivering soul. But at the center of the sun, an enormous black hole was hidden. Pulling and pulling, his soul was stretched to millions of kilometers long before it fell toward the center of the black hole!
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
The whole process was not painful at all. Instead, it was filled with indescribable tranquility, as if he was about to be melted into a certain warm and eternal existence. It was exactly the weird tranquility that made him roar like an animal and try to get rid of the feeling that he was trapped, but he could not break free at all.
Time flowed backward again. The memory pieces hidden deep inside his soul flowed quickly. The Hundred Flowers Space Zone, the Uranian Ring Sector, Firefly, the Dragon Snake Space Zone, the Ancient Sages Sector, the hundred years of drifting, the soul-stirring adventures a hundred years ago … The memories were more and more distant and blurred, reaching the deepest part of his soul. Boneyard, Occult Orbs Fellowship, the Grand Desolate War Institution, Ding Ling Dong, Chixiao No. 2 High School, and in the end, he came to the magical equipment graveyard where purple water was flowing out under the dim sky and the beginning of his life …
The force that dashed out of Lei Yuqin's brain crawled into Li Yao's brain like a fatal viper, entangling, biting, and swallowing the origin of his soul brutally!
Li Yao was no stranger to this feeling.
Ou Yezi, the Blood Stripe Virus, and the star child had all tried to swallow his soul.
However, the intensity and strength of the devouring were nowhere near as strong as this time!
Li Yao felt that his spirit was about to shatter. At the very least, his spirit in this life was about to shatter.
Bang!
He seemed to hear a crisp sound of something breaking inside his brain. The cold viper had drilled through the solid shell that sealed his soul, and his memories were traced back to the time before he was a baby in the magical equipment graveyard, a long, long time ago.
Li Yao shivered and returned to the dark, boundless universe. Standing on the blue planet, the third planet of the galaxy and the only habitable planet, he heard himself swearing in the most solemn and deepest voice, "I will be back. I will complete the Vulture Plan. I will destroy it."
The memory, or rather, the soul that was launched from the mysterious world 'Earth' to the Tian Yuan Realm across billions of stars, immediately launched a counterattack against the cold force that had invaded his brain.
The mysterious force from Lei Yuqin's brain could never have foreseen that such a dreadful thing was hidden deep inside Li Yao's soul! It was already impressive enough that it had corroded all the way to this place. It was like a spring that had been stored for a long time, but Li Yao's mental power was like a thunderous spring that had been prepared for a long time. His counterattack was thunderous and destructive, ripping apart the enemy within a moment without giving it a chance to escape from his brain!
Li Yao heard screams echoing inside his head. Some were the screams of the old, some were the screams of children, and some were the voices of young girls.
He knew that it was the sordid tricks of the ghosts and monsters. He was not moved at all. Gritting his teeth, he released the last brightness in his soul and raised the saber of willpower, mincing all the things that had crawled into his head!
The short but intense battle of soul attack and defense almost drained the last drop of spiritual energy inside Li Yao's body. He could not even float in midair anymore. Captured by the artificial gravity field, he was smashed to the bottom of the cylindrical space more than ten meters deep brutally.
In a trance, Li Yao saw that the Crystal Suit on Long Yangjun's body was exploding, and glamorous crystals were growing out of her body. All the crystals were emitting brilliance that was even more dazzling than a supernova outbreak. It could vaguely be seen that inside the translucent crystals, colorful streaks of brilliance were chasing after a bright gray brilliance. The bright gray brilliance was like a wounded boa that was chopped into pieces very soon!
There was not the slightest human expression on Long Yangjun's face that seemed to be carved out of crystal. She could not have been more solemn and cold. Furious roars echoed from her translucent chest. "… Chaos!"
The last bit of bright gray brilliance that broke into Long Yangjun's body was minced into nothingness just like the weird force that invaded Li Yao's body!
"Ahhh!"
Lei Yuqin, who looked like a white-haired witch on the opposite side, shrieked. Billions of invisible colorful insects seemed to be dispersing inside her body and rising into hazy smoke. Ripples spread out in all directions, blowing out every bit of light inside the cylindrical space!
Lei Yuqin was gone just like that!
Before the darkness completely covered the place, Li Yao saw that Long Yangjun fell from the sky, too. The crystals around her retreated back into her body. She hit the ground heavily and crouched into the form of a baby. There was no telling whether she had collapsed or passed out.
Everything fell into silence.
Even the remaining soul 'Liu Shan' seemed to have been affected. He could not be sensed at all.
"Huchi … Huchi … Huchi … Huchi …"
In the darkness, Li Yao's and Long Yangjun's breathing was both feeble and clear.
Although there were light sources inside their Cosmos Rings, and they could easily summon flames of spiritual energy by rubbing their fingers casually, the two of them were too lazy to even move their little fingers.
Li Yao focused his attention on mobilizing every mitochondria inside his every cell to recover his physical strength and spiritual energy.
Deep inside his brain, there were still tiny, squeaking voices that sounded like rats in dark corners. "You can't kill me. Hehehehe. I will lurk deep inside your soul and live on your emotional waves, especially your negative emotions! Everybody has a dark side. Nobody is pure and innocent. So, I will certainly come back … again … What — what — what are you? What — what are you? What — what kind of monster are you? "
The mental devil's lazy voice came over. "My friend, are you here to possess me?"
The voice said, "It's impossible! How is it possible? What are you exactly? "
"Cut the crap," the mental devil said. "First come, first served when we are here for possession. I've been here for more than a hundred years, and I haven't seen anyone. You want to jump the queue? Not a chance!"
The voice said, "Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! "
While the mental devil was wolfing down the food, the tiny, tiny voices were soon drowned in screams.
Li Yao sank his soul into his brain. Frowning, he watched the mental devil hunting the weird voices everywhere like a tornado. He asked, "What's that?"
"I don't know. It's probably some sort of energy life."
The mental devil patted its round belly, as if it were quite satisfied. It licked its lips and said, "It's a very familiar taste. I feel that I've had it a long time ago."
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. "Energy life? The Blood Stripe Virus! "
The mental devil shook its head and pouted. "The Blood Stripe Virus is not the only energy life in the entire universe. The extraterrestrial devils can be counted as energy life, too. 'Chaos', the legendary enemy of the Pangu, is also a very ancient energy life. Huh. Just now, the woman emphasized 'Chaos' in a weird way, didn't she?"
Bulging his eyes, Li Yao exited the internal vision state and called Long Yangjun. "Hey, are you awake?"
Long Yangjun's voice seemed to be echoing from the bottom of the ocean. She was both dirty and dull. "… I don't know."
"It's an emergency right now," Li Yao said. "Let's not play games right now. Can we talk normally? You just said the word 'chaos'. What do you mean? "
"Chaos …"
Long Yangjun said gloomily in the darkness, "I think so. I only felt that the woman's head suddenly exploded and sent me back to my previous life hundreds of thousands of years ago. Yes. I once encountered a similar force. The force of Chaos. She was invaded by Chaos!"
Li Yao took a deep breath. "Wait. Wait. Wait. My head is in a mess right now. Chaos, Blood Stripe Virus, extraterrestrial devils … There are so many energy life forms?"
"Just like the 'Pangu' is not a species but an alliance of countless carbon-based life forms, the so-called 'Chaos' should not be an energy life form but an amalgamation of many energy life forms."
After a long silence, Long Yangjun sighed in relief and said, "Or maybe, it was the same thing in the beginning, but it was given different names by different species. In the primeval era, it was called 'Chaos'. In the Star Ocean Imperium, it was called 'extraterrestrial devils'. In the Flying Star Sector a hundred years ago, it was called 'Blood Stripe Virus'!
"If that is the case, everything makes sense now. Why did Professor Mo Xuan's personality change so much after a hundred years? Why did he grasp technology that surpassed the Federation and even the expedition army of the Imperium? Why did he improve the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus, artificial intelligence, and virtual space technology of the Federation so much on his own? Because he had the technical support of 'Chaos'!"
Li Yao asked in a hurry, "Are you suggesting that Professor Mo Xuan was corrupted by 'Chaos' a long time ago, just like I was corrupted by the 'Blood Stripe Virus'?"
He was asking both Long Yangjun and the mental devil deep inside his brain.
The mental devil blinked its big, innocent eyes. "Don't look at me like that. I didn't do it … However, Long Yangjun does have a point. The so-called 'Blood Stripe Virus' is a very ancient life form of energy, similar to the ancient fungi on the primitive planets. They drifted in the sea of stars for billions of years, during which countless mutations popped up and evolved into brand-new branches of energy life. It is perfectly normal that those branches are named 'Chaos' or 'extraterrestrial devils'!
"The theory that 'Chaos', 'extraterrestrial devils', and 'Blood Stripe Virus' are originally from the same family makes a lot of sense!
"Right. By the way, the 'Flying Star Sector', the first new world that you and Professor Mo Xuan explored together a hundred years ago, is a very suitable place for spiritual lives to inhabit. It is like an oasis in a desert, which will certainly attract countless creatures. I don't think that the 'Blood Stripe Virus' is the only spiritual life form in the world. The 'extraterrestrial devils', for example, are one of the three major natural disasters in the world. They often play the 'arrival of extraterrestrial devils'.
"Huh. This is strange. Speaking of which, ever since you settled the riot of the Immortal Cultivators, the Flying Star Sector hasn't had any 'arrival of extraterrestrial devils' for a long time!"
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