When the blue planet that was as plump as a dewdrop, the third planet in the peaceful solar system, vaguely appeared in front of Li Yao again, he was not surprised or confused at all. Instead, he felt relieved and expectant that it was finally here.
He felt like a wanderer who had been wandering in the sea of stars for thousands of years was about to return to the warm and familiar embrace of his hometown.
Earth, the mysterious homeland that had haunted Li Yao's dreams!
Did it really exist in a certain space zone beyond the three thousand Sectors or was it a mysterious, indescribable existence beyond the three-dimensional world? Or maybe it did not exist at all and was just Li Yao's own fantasy, or was it a malicious joke played on him by a certain deity a hundred times more powerful than the extraterrestrial devils?
"Earth, do you really exist?
"What are the so-called 'earthlings' exactly?"
Li Yao stood on Earth. In the ocean of stars, the brilliance of billions of stars condensed into his translucent body.
He opened his arms toward Earth. His thoughts turned into thousands of telepathic thoughts and arrived at every corner of Earth like a magnificent meteor shower.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! The thousands of pictures on Earth were unfolded slowly deep inside his soul like infinite scrolls.
In the modern cities that were ablaze with lights, in the skyscrapers that soared into the clouds, in the busy streets, and in the strong armies that had developed stubbornly even though there was no spiritual energy, there were also smiling faces that were similar to the people of the Star Glory Federation.
"Earth. My Earth …"
Li Yao could not help but want to extend his hand through the atmosphere, through the clouds, through the overwhelming skyscrapers, and through the ocean of people to touch the children of Earth who were playing carefreely in the park at the center of the street.
Several children were playing seesaws, and several children were climbing on the community fitness equipment designed for the elderly. The scene triggered something deep inside Li Yao's memory, making him vaguely remember that he seemed to have had such a life before.
However, before his telepathic thoughts touched the children of Earth, all the pictures turned yellow. At first, ugly black spots appeared in the middle before they were on fire furiously, like the effect of burning a color photo from the back with a lighter.
Li Yao bulged his eyes and roared silently, trying to remind the ignorant children that the heavenly fire was corrupting their world.
But it was useless. His throat was empty, and his Adam's apple turned into a black hole, swallowing all his anxious, panicked, and angry voices. He could only watch the children turn into skeletons, the horses and the seesaws turn into ashes, the skyscrapers twisted and collapsed, and the glorious metropolises razed to the ground.
The furious flames enshrouded the entire Earth like a monster with ten thousand tentacles, draining the vibrant blue planet and turning it into a dying land of death that was mixed with dim yellow. It was like a plump red apple that had lost all its vitality in the blink of an eye. It withered, shrank, and decayed!
The rotten core of the apple struggled and revolved slowly.
"Run, Li Yao. Try your best to run. The Vulture Plan has completely failed. You are the only one who can run away now. Run to the desolate land at the edge of the cosmos!"
Li Yao heard an old voice shrieking in agony and frustration.
Then, he heard his own roar in fury. "No. The Vulture Plan has not failed yet. There must be hope. Don't give up just like that!"
"It has failed. There is no hope. The one billionth hope is gone!"
The old voice said. "It is too strong and too dark. Nobody can destroy it. Nobody has ever escaped from its net in the past thousands of years! This time, after sacrificing so many people and burning all our strength, we have finally broken a tiny gap. It is already our limit to launch the feeblest soul through the gap!
"So, run now. Go to an unknown corner at the edge of the cosmos and live a carefree, peaceful life. Just consider yourself as living a real life on behalf of all of us together with our share!"
"No. Let go of me. Let go of me. I cannot run away just like that!"
Li Yao heard himself shrieking. "I swear that even if you launch me to the edge of the cosmos, to the desolate space where no stars are shining, I will still come back one day. I will come back to carry out the Vulture Plan to the end and destroy it!"
"That's impossible."
The old voice smiled bitterly. "So many powerful beings have failed. This is a trap. It is a scheme that it intentionally lured us into activating the Vulture Plan so that it can catch all of us once and for all!
"Right now, the defeated soldiers like us are about to be completely wiped out by it. Only you, who are as weak as you, have a chance to pass through the hole in its dragnet. You have just awakened, and the fire of your soul is so weak. You are just an ordinary person. Don't even think about it!
"Run. Get away from its control. Forget everything about Earth and live a free life at the edge of the cosmos. This is your destiny and our … last hope!"
"No. No. Never!"
Li Yao heard that he was almost crying. "Even if I am an ordinary person, so what? I can train myself. I can train myself crazily at the cost of my life and my soul until I am stronger than any god in the sea of stars. Then, I will come back, complete the Vulture Plan, and destroy it completely!"
"You cannot train yourself!"
The old voice suddenly became aggressive. "Didn't I tell you just now that launching your soul to the edge of the cosmos is like launching a balloon full of air into an ocean? The water will naturally reject you and 'bounce' you out!
"Unless the 'balloon' is extremely small, to the point of molecules and atoms, there is a slim chance that it can be accommodated by the cosmos!
"Remember my words, Li Yao. Retract your brilliance, abandon your pride, and forget all the untimely illusions. Live your life peacefully. This — this is also a way of saying that we have, to some extent, defeated it."
"As long as I can emit the tiniest bit of light, I will never extinguish it voluntarily!"
Li Yao heard that his scream was condensed into the firmest determination. "I understand it now. If I stay in the weakest and most lackluster state and maintain the identity of an 'ordinary person', it will be possible for me to live in peace with the new world at the edge of the cosmos. But if I begin to 'expand' into a giant 'balloon', I will be rejected or 'bounced away' by the cosmos, right?
"That's exactly what I want!
"I can use the repulsive force of that world to cultivate. The stronger the repulsive force, the more dangers and hardships I will face, and the higher the intensity of my cultivation will be. The faster my cultivation will be, the more likely I will grow into an existence like you. No, I will be far more powerful than you, and I will be able to destroy that world!"
"It's impossible!"
The old voice said in a hurry. "You will die. You will be obliterated the moment you emit the first ray of light. You are … an ordinary person at best. However you train yourself, it is impossible for you to challenge it, much less destroy it!"
"How do you know if you don't try?"
Li Yao sensed that his voice and his will were more and more determined, condensing into something denser than a neutron star. "Even if my strength alone is far from enough, I will still find like-minded comrades at the edge of the cosmos and establish a stronger force. One day, I will return to this place with the largest army in the cosmos!"
"Not … not good!"
The old voice shrieked as if someone had grabbed its neck brutally. "It's here. It has begun to corrupt us. It has discovered the gap and is blocking it quickly! There is no time. The gap is getting smaller and smaller. Even the soul of an ordinary person is not enough to be completely launched. We can only … launch! Launch! Launch now! "
Li Yao felt that Earth, which looked like the core of a rotten apple, was quickly moving away from him, or that he had turned into waves that were more mysterious than light and fled from Earth as fast as lightning.
When the core of the apple was completely swallowed by the dark universe and the glittering stars around were all gone, he heard the old voice sigh for the last time, as if it were saying, "Good luck … Vulture."
…
Li Yao woke up again, only to discover that he was floating in a cluster of warm and pure blue liquids.
The memory pieces about Earth were all broken like soap bubbles under the sunlight.
However, the rainbows hidden inside turned into broken ripples and were deeply imprinted on his soul.
Earth and the Xing Yao Federation at the edge of the cosmos, two entirely different worlds, were gradually overlapping and being unified. He was only one step away from the final truth.
Slightly shaking his head that was as heavy as a mountain, Li Yao discovered that he was in the middle of an enormous bubble. His body was covered in an ivory membrane that was riddled with dense suction holes, which could absorb the energy from the high-energy nutrition liquids around him incessantly before it was pressed into his capillaries and internal organs through negative pressure.
It should be some sort of advanced medical cabin. Judging from its diameter and the primeval runes carved on the walls, it was not even designed for human beings. It was very likely that it was a super large medical cabin excavated from Kunlun for the use of the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan.
At this moment, there was only one other person in such an enormous medical cabin other than him.
Her red hair that looked like fire was spreading out in the deep blue liquids, but it was still beaming proudly. Her handsome face was slightly tough, but it was mostly dissolved by the innocence in her sleep. Her immaculate body was covered in the ivory membrane that was as thin as paper, and every bump and dent on it was as shocking as ever. She was crouching like a baby, holding her ankles and slowly rotating in the blue ocean that was weightless.
Sensing Li Yao's eyes that were even more scorching than a stellar storm, she put on a peaceful smile even in her sleep. Her eyelashes shivered, and with both expectation and nervousness on her lips, she opened her eyes slightly.
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