"You are …"
The firebird made of green flames looked at the source of the voice and soon sensed a familiar soul wave. But it was exactly because the name was too shocking that she found it hard to believe for a moment.
"It's me. I am Li Yao!"
In his anxiety, Li Yao blurted out, "The last time we met was not long before I set off for the dark nebula. At that time, you said that you had written a new novel and invited me to visit the illusionary world constructed by the novel. But when I learned that it was a romance novel, I turned you down. However, Ding Ling Dong seemed to be quite fond of the novel and spent a long time in the illusionary world with you. I don't know what you were doing, do you?"
The little green bird's eyes were glittering, and tears were almost flowing out of her eyes. Finding it hard to believe her ears, she exclaimed in both surprise and delight, "Li Yao? Li Yao! It's really you! "
Wei Qingqing and all the other spectral Cultivators involved in the 'Tinder Plan', who called themselves the Spiriters, were the real creators and maintainers of the Spiriters' Realm. They had long been used to the life in the Spiriters' Realm, but they were also the ones who were most deceived by the extraterrestrial devil.
Wei Qingqing was a culture-type Cultivator as well as a strong 'Illusionist'. She boasted the ability to construct illusions with words at will. Her discrimination, stabilization, and destruction of virtual worlds were much better than that of other Cultivators of the same level!
There were a lot of other Illusionists, architects, script editors, data miners, and analysts who had participated in the Tinder Plan together with her. They were all more adapted to the survival and fighting in the Spiriters' Realm than common people.
For the sake of absolute confidentiality, the extraterrestrial devil naturally did not tell them the real plan. Instead, under the guise of the 'Tinder Plan' and under the identity of Professor Mo Xuan, it fooled them into creating various virtual worlds and powerful battle-type artificial intelligences!
A day ago, when all the leadership of the Secret Sword Bureau and the Union Army in Hundred Flowers City had gathered in the Tinder Base and Li Yao vaguely noticed that something was wrong with 'Professor Mo Xuan', the extraterrestrial devil decided to take action in advance.
While he disrupted the sailing route of Li Yao's carrier with the fake jump coordinates, he also controlled the leadership of the Secret Sword Bureau and the Union Army in the Tinder Base. Including the souls of Wei Qingqing and the rest of them, they were all sealed in independent Spiriters' Realms so that they would not be allowed to run out and interfere with the plan.
However, because of a series of coincidences, especially under Long Yangjun's deep excavation and Li Yao's brutal collisions, all the virtual worlds were shattered, and everybody's soul was released to the core of the Spiriters' Realm.
When the extraterrestrial devils focused all their computational ability on the twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector led by Li Yao, they were no longer able to control the agitated Spiriters. They were all free!
The Spiriters, who considered themselves the third form of the civilization of mankind, watched the soul-stirring competition in confusion.
The aura of the Extraterritorial Demon was familiar to them, but the crazy fluctuations of the Divine Soul were extremely unfamiliar, causing them to tremble deeply.
"This is …"
Wei Qingqing flapped the wings made of green flames of spiritual energy. Although she did not know what was going on, she stood in front of Li Yao out of habit.
It was exactly like how she, as a Cultivator, protected Li Yao, as an ordinary person, when they were faced with overwhelming beast tides on the train north to the Grand Desolate Plateau more than a hundred years ago.
"It is not Professor Mo Xuan; it is an extraterrestrial devil!"
The twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector all knew that the situation had come to the most critical moment. Despite their hatred for Li Yao, they could only unleash the most powerful fire of their souls to buy a precious moment of rest for Li Yao, Wei Qingqing, and the rest of them so that Li Yao could finish his speech quickly.
He was both talking to Wei Qingqing and explaining to the thousands of Spiriters who were still confused. "The so-called Spiriters and the Spiriters' Realm are not the 'Succession Plan of the Civilization of Mankind' that was prepared for millions of years later but the 'Upgrade Plan of the Civilization of Mankind' that is about to become a reality right now. The extraterrestrial devil wants to complete a terrifying 'upgrade'. It intends to transform all human beings into the Spiriters, virtualize the civilization of mankind, and install everything about us into the super crystal processors. In the meantime, it will hide behind the curtain and control the super crystal processors as well as the entire Spiriters' Realm. By the way, it will absorb all our precious feelings and will and achieve its evil parasitism!"
"What!"
The souls of the ordinary people who did not know much like fireflies did not understand the true meaning of the 'Tinder Plan' and the 'virtualization of mankind' yet. But the specialists who were involved in the Tinder Plan in person and the self-proclaimed Spiriters who had been considering and debating the future of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus in the past decades were all greatly shocked!
There was only one Li Yao in the Xing Yao Federation, and Wei Qingqing was talking about him so passionately.
But both Li Yao's identity and what Li Yao had just said were not enough to describe them even if they wrote 'earth-shattering' ten thousand times!
However, everything around their souls, including the broken world of war, the cruel hell, and the hideous face of the extraterrestrial devil right now, could not be explained by the 'Tinder Plan'!
"Stop it!"
Twisted silver stripes were flowing on Li Yao's body and face, too. The extraterrestrial devil's corruption had reached the depths of his brain. His voice was shivering because of the excruciating pain. "We have tried our best. Only you, who know the virtual world best, can stop it!"
"It's true …"
Wei Qingqing and the other Spiriters moved their eyes from the twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector who were gritting their teeth and struggling hard to the extraterrestrial devil that was raging its tentacles and flagella. "You are not Professor Mo Xuan; you are an extraterrestrial devil. You have been lying to us!"
"Don't listen to his nonsense!"
From the depths of the silver 'universal virus', the anxious voice of 'Professor Mo Xuan' echoed. "I am Mo Xuan. Everything I have done has been for the sake of bringing a perfect new world without wars, conflicts, and absolute peace to the entire Federation and mankind! You are all members of the Spiriters. You are all part of the perfect new world. Have you not realized how beautiful the Spiriters' Realm is and how hideous the world outside is? You should stand on my side and let all humans become like you, from the human race and the demon race, to the Spirit race! "
"No, no! This is different from what we agreed on. This is different from what Professor Mo Xuan told us! "
Wei Qingqing flapped her wings, raising green tornadoes to resist the tentacles that were waving close from all directions like worms. "The conditions for the Spiriters to grow independently are not ripe yet. We have no choice but to live in the Spiriters' Realm because we have lost our fleshly bodies! However wonderful the Spiriters' Realm is, it is based on reality and can only be nurtured on the soil of reality! Wouldn't the Spiriters' Realm, without the support of reality, be like a river without a source and a tree without roots?
"Besides, the functioning and expansion of the Spiriters' Realm does require resources. 'Computational ability' is the most critical resource for the Spiriters' Realm, and the generation of computational ability depends on the continuous upgrade of the super crystal processors and the infinite expansion of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus.
"Both the super crystal processors and the signal transmission and reception bases of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus can only be produced at the cost of tremendous resources in reality. Many of the precious resources are also irreproducible and scarce!
"The resources to produce the crystal processors and maintain the interstellar network are limited. Conflicts are bound to arise. 'Perfect new world'? Is there really anything perfect in the world except death?
"Therefore, the Spiriters and the Spiriters' Realm are not prepared for today. We belong to the future, the future millions of years later! We will leave the 'present' to the people in the present. We will be the 'explorers of the future' of the civilization of mankind to explore and conquer the universe millions of years later!
"Isn't that what Professor Mo Xuan taught us in the past? If you are really Professor Mo Xuan, why did you betray your belief and turn such a terrible world into reality? "
Faced with Wei Qingqing's interrogation, chaotic ripples spread out of the silver 'universal virus' and gradually condensed into a fuzzy, giant face. It was exactly Professor Mo Xuan. Shame, guilt, persistence, zeal … All kinds of complicated expressions were mixed together. "… I can't let go. I can't let go of the motherland that I love, the compatriots that I love, and the civilization of mankind that I love deeply! I can't wait for millions of years. I'm not willing to wait for thousands of seconds! I'm going to save them. I'm going to save you. I'm going to save everybody! "
Veins that looked like earthworms and worms popped up on his giant face, as if he were caught in a fierce battle. His expression suddenly changed into the most hideous one. "Whoever stops me from saving mankind will be the greatest enemy of the civilization of mankind and the real 'virus of the civilization'! In the perfect new world of absolute peace, such viruses must be annihilated!
"Since you are unwilling to carry out such a sacred and great mission with me, just become part of me and part of the Spiriters' Realm!"
Chiliu! Chiliu! Chiliu! Chiliu!
The tiny flagella around its body suddenly extended and lunged at the souls of the ordinary people who looked like fireflies and the low-level Cultivators the size of fists.
Those people were mostly research-type, admin-type, and culture-type Cultivators. Naturally, their soul combat ability was not as high as that of Li Yao and the experts from the Ancient Sages Sector. They were swallowed by the extraterrestrial devil in the blink of an eye!
"Shua!"
One of the thickest tentacles opened the bloody mouth at the end and lunged at Wei Qingqing overwhelmingly. From the bloody mouth, another hundred tentacles that looked both like teeth and tongues dashed out!
"Sister Qingqing!"
Li Yao was greatly shocked. There was no telling which corner of his soul he squeezed out new strength. In a crazy roar, he broke all the tentacles around him and lunged at Wei Qingqing.
But he was one step too late.
Before he took action, Wei Qingqing, a culture-type Cultivator who did not even have the strength to truss a chicken, triggered her weak combat ability and the powerful fire of her soul again, just like she did on the train on the Grand Desolate Plateau more than a hundred years ago. She turned into a furiously burning, brilliant little blue bird and smiled at Li Yao. Then, without any hesitation, she flapped her wings and soared into the sky, rushing at the bloody mouth of the extraterrestrial devil like an arrow that had just been shot out of a bow!
"Professor Mo Xuan, this is not the real you. Wake up!"
Congratulations to 'A Cigarette in the Clouds', 'Three Thousand Meters', and 'Gene Private S0Dove' for becoming the new leaders of 'Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation'! Right now, we have twenty-four leaders. Everyone's combat ability is quite high. Even this old bull feels that he is walking in the wind. Ho! (Not yet)
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