"Understood!"
'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong said loudly, "The 1,932 brothers of the 'Green Wolf Legion' and I are all natives of the Green Dragon Planet. The Green Dragon Planet is located at the sailing route between the Imperium and the Holy League. It is a place that every military strategist will fight for. Therefore, my hometown has been plagued by wars and savaged by the Holy League too many times.
"The people of the Holy League are all puppets of the fiends. Their brutality and inhumanity are beyond the imagination of the Federation. The war between the Imperium and the Holy League is a hundred times crueler than the competition between the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators. The Immortal Cultivators' hatred for the puppets is a hundred times greater than our hatred for the Cultivators, too!
"You may not know this, commander, but every time the puppets of the Holy League invaded my hometown and looted the population, they would deliver all the victims to the so-called 'holy temple', where their feelings would be deprived and they would be transformed into the most ruthless war machines. They were the real dolls that only had the appearance of human beings. Even when they were faced with their hometown and family in the past, they would not show any emotion but simply unleash their firepower.
"My father, two brothers, and one … son were captured by the Holy League in such a way. After being brainwashed and modified, they were transformed into battle puppets of the Holy League and projected to the Green Dragon Planet to fight again. The Holy League made us kill each other in such a way so that our will to resist would be destroyed.
"The Holy League is so evil. How can we not fight to the last man?"
Li Yao was silent. He recalled the last words of his foster father, who was suspected to be a member of the Holy League.
"However evil the Imperium of True Human Beings is, the Alliance of the Holy Covenant is a hundred times more evil. Right now, the Imperium is the only force that can defend the last glory of the civilization of mankind."
Justice and evil were relative concepts. The Black Wind Fleet's conquest of the Xing Yao Federation was, of course, a brutal invasion. However, before that, in the war against the puppets of the Pangu civilization, people like "Bloody Demon Spear" Zhou Tailong became the righteous side and were undeniably heroes.
Humans and human nature are really complicated!
'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong held his head high and continued speaking aloud. "In order to let you know, commander, the Imperium of True Human Beings values military achievements more than anything else. Most of the nobles, generals, and experts have the experience of a life-and-death battle against the Holy League. It is especially so for the Immortal Cultivators born and bred in the frontline. Almost every one of us has crawled out of mountains of corpses and oceans of blood. Countless of our family members have been killed by the Holy League miserably, and countless of them have been modified into battle puppets that are deformed beyond recognition by the Holy League. We all hate the Holy League the most!
"Commander, did you just say that we didn't sincerely submit to you and were only coaxing you to come up to the stage and help us pull chestnuts out of the fire? That's not right!
"I don't know about other people, but at the very least, I, Zhou Tailong, sincerely admire your valor, commander. I hate the guys in the Holy League who belittle themselves and work as the Pangu's puppets willingly. But I have to admit that the Pangu are indeed unparalleled in their formidability. The Holy League is already strong enough to compete with the Imperium by merely arming their pawns with some relics. If the real Pangu arrive in the human world, how terrifying and unstoppable will they be?
"I didn't know that the real Pangu at the edge of the cosmos had long been resurrected and that their heads would be chopped off by you, commander!
"No matter how different our beliefs are, at the very least, this general is absolutely in awe of the commander's bravery.
"You are more qualified to lead us than Heiye Ming because Heiye Ming has never killed a real Pangu. I believe that I am definitely not the only one who thinks that way. Countless Immortal Cultivators whose wives and children were killed by the Holy League admire you more than anything else. That is the biggest reason why we are willing to be at your disposal!"
Li Yao sensed the surging soul of 'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong and discovered that he was not lying.
It did make sense on second thought. The Imperium and the Federation did not hate each other at all. They were just differences, wariness, and wariness at best.
However, the Imperium and the Holy League had been fighting a bloody war at the center of the cosmos for a thousand years. How many gory things had happened in the meantime, and how many overwhelming grudges had been condensed?
The people of the Holy League regarded the Pangu as the supreme gods, but their gods had been slain by Li Yao after only one slash. No wonder the Immortal Cultivators who were sworn enemies of the Holy League would see Li Yao in a different light.
'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong's words, however, made Li Yao more or less embarrassed. He coughed and said, "I'm also told that a Colonel Yuan Qing, known as' Blue Silk Spider ', is an expert of reconnaissance in the Black Wind Fleet. He has discovered as many as twenty-seven world fragments and found tremendous techniques and magical equipment, hasn't he?"
Hardly had 'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong sat down when an Immortal Cultivator who was short and slender and wearing a metal mask slowly stood up. He bowed deeply at Li Yao and then took off the mask that sealed the left half of his face.
"Hu!"
A green, venomous fog that seemed to be made of tiny mosquitoes immediately dashed out of his cheek and surrounded his head impatiently like a weird fire, as if it were going to swallow the remaining flesh on his face.
"Commander, I used to be a member of the 'Association of Star Explorers' in the Imperium of True Human Beings. The 'Association of Star Explorers' in the Imperium is equivalent to the 'Occult Orbs Fellowship' in the Federation. They are both established for the exploration of world fragments, battlefield remnants, and ancient relics."
'Blue Silk Spider' Yuan Qing, who had a weird appearance, said casually, "The environment at the center of the cosmos is a hundred times more complicated than that at the edge of the cosmos. The number of world fragments, battlefield remnants, and ancient relics is a hundred times greater, too. Naturally, the danger there is much higher than that of the world fragments at the edge of the cosmos.
"In the world fragments at the center of the cosmos, it is very possible that all kinds of high-precision, weird traps, automatic, permanent war machines, 'apocalyptic weapons' left by the prehistoric civilizations, and even mysterious and dangerous alien beasts that have come through wormholes and consider the world fragments as their nests. Of course, it is inevitable that we will run into the exploration teams of the Holy League, too.
"All in all, the center of the cosmos is like the only lake in a forest. All the wolves, tigers, leopards, and monsters will gather there.
"I was lucky enough to discover twenty-seven world fragments for the Imperium. I was still able to retreat in one piece. However, my face was bitten by an unknown venomous bug, which made me look like this. No matter how hard the famous doctors and specialists of the Imperium treated me, the best they could do was to stop the wound from expanding.
"Thankfully, compared to my other companions in the exploration squad, I am already very lucky to have kept my life."
Li Yao observed 'Blue Silk Spider' Yuan Qing's face carefully and asked him to sit down again. He said, "Resisting the inhumane Holy League, excavating the relics left by the Star Ocean Imperium and even the prehistoric civilizations, resisting the extraterrestrial devils and other alien species, exploring the depths of the universe that no one has ever reached … All of these were battles for the civilization of mankind. Even the Xing Yao Federation will not deny your past accomplishments.
"However, merits and demerits are demerits. Merits and demerits cannot offset each other. The Federation will not tolerate the division of 'true human beings' and 'hominoids', nor will it tolerate the system of personal attachment or even slavery.
"From today on, you will receive a brand-new education on Boneyard, the Water Crystal Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, and other places. You will welcome a completely different life. Even if the true path of immortality in your head cannot be erased so easily, please at least remember the 'Constitution of Cultivators'. From this moment on, the 'Constitution of Cultivators' will be the new military law of the Black Wind Fleet. Even the war heroes in the past will not be pardoned once they violate the military law!
"Everybody has to leave something in the world when they are alive. Whether the Black Wind Fleet and you in a hundred years will be a notorious, dying troop that will be mocked and despised by everyone, or whether you will rise again in a completely different appearance and create unprecedented miracles, it will depend on yourselves!"
All the Immortal Cultivators were deep in thought, each with their own concerns.
Half a day later, 'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong shouted, "Commander, I don't care about anything else. I only want to ask one thing. If we truly obey you and abide by all the rules of the so-called 'Constitution of Cultivators', will we really be able to take back the Black Wind Sector, the Wild Wolf Sector, the Hard Rock Sector, the Purple Fire Sector, and the Fiery Spider Sector one day?"
"You will have to find the answer to the question on your own."
Looking at 'Bloody Spear' Zhou Tailong in the eyes that were as big as bells, Li Yao said, one word after another, "The Federation will show you a brand-new strength that is entirely different from the strength that you have grasped and believed in in the past, but it is much more powerful, vigorous, and representative of the civilization of mankind. I believe that you will find the answer in your heart after you really perceive the mysteries of the strength."
…
One month passed.
From long to short, and then from short to sharp, the woman was woken up from the dream that was almost like a black hole. She gradually sensed the existence of her limbs, muscles, bones, and even veins and nerves.
Her eyelids were still frozen. She could see nothing except the darkness and hear nothing except the buzzing. She could only feel the slight stinging all over her body, as if a hundred tubes had been inserted into and withdrawn from her body, injecting all kinds of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty feelings into her body. From her feet to her fingertips, from her fingertips to the tip of her tongue, and from the tip of her tongue to her temples, all the nerve endings were gradually opened, waking her body up from the hibernation that had lasted a hundred years.
The burning pain in her body had not yet subsided. Pain that felt like magma was injected into her temples, further activating her brain and awakening the mottled memories and abilities that were sealed under her cerebral cortex.
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