Li Yao pondered for a long time. "How does he want to fight?"
"The location can be designated by the Federation," Heiye Lan said. "For example, in a certain nameless space zone far away from the Tian Yuan Realm, the arena can be a forsaken starship that will be fully prepared by the Burning Prairie Fleet. They will not enter the arena until the last moment to make sure that they cannot play any tricks.
"The two parties will compete in the Crystal Suit instead of the Colossi, because the Colossi on General Di Feiwen's side are almost all broken and cannot afford repeated losses. Also, the battles with the Colossi are too uncontrollable. It is inevitable that both parties will suffer heavy losses.
"The three Immortal Cultivators with the highest individual combat ability in the fleet below the brown dwarf will enter the arena prepared by the Federation in their Crystal Suit. There is no limit to the number of Crystal Suits that each of them can bring. After all, 'air change' is a very important technique, too. However, the Federation can check all the Cosmos Rings that they carry with them first to make sure that they do not carry any explosives that are too dangerous and do not belong to the individual level.
"The format of the competition will be best of three. As long as Master Li can defeat two of the strongest Immortal Cultivators in the fleet below the brown dwarf, they will be willing to disarm and surrender to the Federation. Naturally, the more dominating your performance in the competition, the more reasons General Di Feiwen will have to persuade the disobedient Immortal Cultivators so that the surrender and reorganization will proceed more smoothly.
"General Di Feiwen said that Master Li and the Xing Yao Federation have a great plan. If you really want to march to the center of the cosmos, the Black Wind Fleet will be of great use. It will become an 'important asset' for the Federation. Only by demonstrating the demeanor of an invincible expert can all the Immortal Cultivators be convinced."
Li Yao sniffed. "That is indeed a wishful thinking. How do I know that it is not a trap?"
"General Di Feiwen is willing to jump to the arena with part of the leadership of the fleet near the brown dwarf on a starship that has no attack ability because all the turrets have been dismantled. Then, he will reduce his spiritual shield to the minimum. The Federation will lock onto them and send someone to board the starship to verify their identity."
"We will ask Master Li to show up after we make sure that General Di Feiwen is locked onto by the firepower of the Federation. If Master Li is still worried, there is nothing he can do. Let's reignite the fire of war and fight to the last man!"
Li Yao had a lot of mixed feelings. The Immortal Cultivators were indeed capable to establish an enormous Imperium at the center of the cosmos. He did not expect that even a deputy commander of the expedition army would have such courage and wisdom after Heiye Ming's death.
It seemed that the war between the Xing Yao Federation and the Black Wind Fleet might have been even trickier if the extraterrestrial devils hadn't interfered.
Li Yao secretly raised his thumb for 'General Di Feiwen' in his heart, but he did not show it on his face. He still said coldly, "He is quite bold. Is he not scared that I will tear his starship into shreds without showing up at all?"
"General Di Feiwen said that Master Li is one of the most extraordinary people he has ever seen in his life," Heiye Lan said dutifully. "A great hero whose goal is to conquer the entire sea of stars like you will not bother to play tricks on such unimportant details. Therefore, he completely believes in your promise. As long as you agree to his terms, he is willing to put himself on the chopping board and be at your mercy.
"Besides, if the negotiation fails, their next plan is to divide themselves from a regular army into space pirates who commit all kinds of crimes to do the most dreadful things in the universe.
"The harassment, destruction, and slaughter don't need him, the deputy chief commander, to tell us what to do."
Li Yao came to an abrupt halt and stared at Heiye Lan thoughtfully.
Heiye Lan felt that her legs were all frozen. The coldness reached all the way to the top of her skull. Her entire spine seemed to have turned into a cold viper.
It was too — too terrifying. The guy was getting stronger every day. Vulture Li Yao right now had another breakthrough compared to half a year ago. He was like a completely different person.
Heiye Lan even felt that, from a certain perspective, Li Yao right now was even more terrifying than her father had been when he was at his strongest!
"Please tell General Di Feiwen that by logic, there is no way that I will agree to such an absurd and hilarious request."
Staring at Heiye Lan for a long time, Li Yao finally said slowly, "However, he was quite lucky that I was in need of a batch of experts to test my skills when I was trying to break into a new level.
"I've just practiced a brand-new technique, and I can't control my strength very well yet. If he is not scared that the three experts will be killed, then … just bring it on!"
Li Yao was not lying.
Neither the enormous database that Professor Mo Xuan left for him nor the 'tenebrum energy' that the extraterrestrial devils stuffed into his brain could be digested and absorbed so easily.
In the past half a year, Li Yao had been sparing no effort to purge the 'tenebrum energy'.
However, it was an extremely unstable and violent form of energy after all, contaminated by too many negative feelings. Normal people might be driven crazy the moment they touched a little bit of it.
Even with the help of the mental devil, Li Yao could only absorb a tiny bit of it every day. But still, he could not help but feel anxious and often fall into extreme emotions.
Also, the mysterious sand paintings that he found in the Virtual Spirits Sector, the disappearance of the 'statue' that stored the information in his brain, and the absurd theories such as' universal virus' that Professor Xie Wufeng mentioned had planted a lot of seeds of suspicion in Li Yao's heart.
To put it simply, after absorbing tremendous tenebrum energy, his Cultivation soared again and touched the edge of the Divinity Transformation Stage.
However, the 'mind' that he used to control his Cultivation had not been polished to a whole new level yet.
It was just like a warrior who could only wield a saber weighing eighty kilograms. Now that he was wielding a divine weapon weighing two hundred kilograms, it was inevitable that the warrior would wobble and feel heavy at the top and light at the bottom. If he was not careful, he would hurt himself or others.
If things went on like that, even if he succeeded in the Divinity Transformation Stage, he would probably turn into an 'evil god' or a flawed 'false god'.
Sensing that his mind was not steady, Li Yao dared not stay in the Tian Yuan Realm or Hundred Flowers City to train himself. Instead, he went deep into the space battlefield and vented his new strength and killing intent on the Immortal Cultivators who were resisting stubbornly to the end.
However, most of the Immortal Cultivators were just shrimps. No matter how many he killed, it was not enough for him to improve his level.
For someone of his level, the most troublesome thing was to find a suitable opponent.
In a battle between experts, victory and defeat was only a hair's breadth away. If they were both at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage, once they let go of their hands and feet without any scruples, the slightest carelessness could result in a situation where both sides suffered heavy losses and perished together.
However, if he did not go all out and reserved himself, he would not be able to train himself at all.
Li Yao did not have the courage to practice with the super experts such as Ding Ling Dong and Yan Liren because neither of them could control themselves during the battle.
If Yan Liren performed his ultimate move, and if Li Yao counterattacked with the strongest technique that he had just grasped, one of them would certainly be killed.
He had practiced with Long Yangjun before, but he had been too timid and unsatisfied during the training.
Now that the strongest of the three Immortal Cultivators had come to him, it could not have been better. He could finally blow up the strongest technique that he had been practicing for half a year without any worries.
Li Yao vaguely had a feeling.
As long as he defeated the three strongest Immortal Cultivators in the fleet of the brown dwarf … the gate to the Divinity Transformation Stage would be right before his eyes!
…
A week later, in a dry space zone that was far away from the Tian Yuan Realm and devoid of any resources …
A broken, forsaken space station had been dragged to the place three days ago. After being reinforced, dozens of gravity control units had been installed, which generated feeble gravity and turned it into a shabby 'arena'.
Five light seconds away from the arena, twenty arsenal warships of the Burning Prairie Fleet were stationed. All their firepower had been locked onto the arena.
Ten Colossi were also ready to be deployed. Those who were piloting the Colossi included the super experts such as Long Yangjun, Yan Liren, Meng Chixin, Wu Suiyun, Fiend Blade Peng Hai, and Fire Ant.
The space was filled with space torpedoes in case a large troop of the enemy would suddenly jump over and launch a surprise attack.
The arena was full of crystal cameras that captured every detail in 360 degrees.
Outside of the arena, super-remote communication magical equipment that looked like artificial satellites was scattered, too, sending the sounds and pictures to the flagship of the Burning Prairie Fleet and the highest command center of the Defense Counsel in the Tian Yuan Realm in real time.
Including Ding Ling Dong, the Speaker of the Federation, countless leaders of the Federation were paying attention to the heavyweight competition.
Although the proposal of General Di Feiwen, deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet, was absurd, it was true that the Federation was still far away from 'total victory'. The Imperium and the Holy League were like two mountains that pressed on the Federation's head that had not been completely moved away yet.
The remnants of the Black Wind Fleet, especially the fleet around the brown dwarf that was still intact, were too important for the Xing Yao Federation. Any possibility of obtaining the fleet intact was worth a try.
Facing the twenty arsenal warships of the Federation and the ten Colossi, on the other side of the arena, the space began to twist. However, the scale was so small that it could be clearly detected that it was only one starship that had jumped over.
"The Immortal Cultivators are here!"
Inside the arena that had been modified from a forsaken space station, Li Yao, wearing a plain 'strengthened version of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit', sat cross-legged and rested his mind with his eyes closed, as if he were confident of his victory.
But his voice was echoing in the communication channel nonstop.
"Only one starship has come," Li Yao: "All the turrets have been dismantled, and the spiritual shield has not been activated, right?"
"Yes. Haven't we analyzed it more than a hundred times?" Long Yangjun: "The odds are above 97%. It's impossible for the enemy to set up any traps for you, because even if you are killed, the rapid development and rise of the Xing Yao Federation will not be hindered. Instead, the Black Wind Fleet will be doomed and doomed forever. The deputy commander of the enemy is a very rational man. He won't do such a stupid thing!"
"You can never be too careful," Li Yao: "What if the enemy has lost their mind and decided to drag me to death with them?"
"Seriously. If you are so timid, you shouldn't have agreed to it at the beginning!"
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