The tough bandits barely concealed that they were about to attack the Village of Peace.
The wolves from the Bloody Worlds did not need to be stealthy when they wanted to swallow the pigs and dogs from the Desolate Worlds.
The Village of Peace had obviously reaped tremendous assets in the Bliss Ceremony, but nobody in the village was delighted by the 'harvest' at all. Everybody was sparing no effort to strengthen the village, turning it into an impenetrable, impenetrable iron fortress.
Even so, it did not add the slightest sense of security. They were all hiding behind the rebars and armor, shuddering in fear.
Except for the few members of the exploration team, almost everybody stayed in the village.
Li Yao, Han Te, and Coloured Glaze, however, were not among them.
Twenty kilometers to the east of the lake, below a barren mountain with jagged rocks, in a remote and unpopulated place, Han Te and Coloured Glaze were looking at a small cave eagerly.
Li Yao, on the other hand, squatted behind them casually.
BOOM!
A soft explosion echoed inside the cave. The quakes were barely noticeable. Even the smoke that was drifting out was as thin as a cloud. If they did not sense it carefully, they would not have noticed the explosion at all.
Han Te and Coloured Glaze were both somewhat surprised. They did not expect that the crystal bombs that 'Grandpa Yao' had carefully modified would be so weak.
"Put on your heatproof suits and go in and take a look."
Li Yao said calmly.
Han Te put on three layers of heatproof suits and pushed aside the weeds outside of the cave. Before he reached the entrance of the cave, he had already sensed that scorching heat was flowing out like magma.
When he raised his head and looked inside, he saw nothing but orange and crimson. The cave, which was only one meter deep in the beginning, had been blown into a bottomless abyss by a single crystal bomb. Also, the rocks on the wall of the cave had all been melted and were dripping down like thick glue.
Han Te extended his left hand into the suit for a moment, only to feel that his arm was about to be burnt. He screamed and pulled it out. The two layers of heatproof suits had been melted together and almost did not stick to his hand!
"The more intense the sound and visual effects are, the more energy the crystal bomb will waste. Only when all the energy is concentrated on one point can the most destructive power be triggered."
Li Yao said seriously. He was not very satisfied with the power of the crystal bomb.
However, the time was too short, and he did not have any handy tools. He did not have a deep understanding of the new rune arrays of the Imperium of True Human Beings, either. Therefore, his achievement was only so-so.
Han Te strung up a dead rabbit with a long tail with an iron rod and extended it into the cave. Not long after, there was a burst of burnt smell. When he pulled it out, it had already turned into a lump of black charcoal. The iron rod was so hot that he almost couldn't hold it.
The two little fellows stared at each other in bewilderment, gaining a deeper understanding of the unbelievable strength of 'Grandpa Yao'.
"Right."
Li Yao suddenly asked, "Two days ago, I asked you to inquire about the factions in the village and figure out who was close to Zhao Lie, the internal structure of the dozen or so iron-shelled ships, and how to deal with emergencies … Have you found out all these things?"
"Yes."
Han Te nodded and threw the iron rod and the black charcoal into the cave. He sat cross-legged and asked, "Are you still suspicious of Zhao Lie, Grandpa Yao?"
"Even if Zhao Lie was not suspicious in the beginning."
Li Yao said unhurriedly, "But he has already left the Village of Peace and is nowhere to be found. If I were a tough bandit from Double Dragons Valley who had designs on the Village of Peace, I would certainly capture him and interrogate him to find out the inside story of the Village of Peace!"
…
On the seventh night after the Bliss Ceremony …
Although everybody had been suffering in panic for seven days, nobody in the Village of Peace showed any sign of relaxing their vigilance. Even Han Te and the Coloured Glaze were still performing bizarre, insane modifications on the magical equipment that had fallen from the sky together with Li Yao in the No. 3 warehouse.
The storage cabins of the multi-purpose mechanical arms on the two sides of Li Yao's body were completely opened. Four folding mechanical arms that could rotate 360 degrees extended out. Each of the mechanical arms had as many as seven 'fingers'. The twenty-eight 'fingers' were performing dazzling movements and turning into a cluster of silver haze. It was impossible to see clearly what components were hidden inside the haze. The only thing that could be seen was iron scraps splashing out of the haze nonstop. Some of the iron scraps were even burning fiercely into red and green sparks.
Suddenly —
After a crack, another mechanical arm was broken from its joint because it could not bear the control of Li Yao's powerful soul. The smooth, flowing movement a moment ago was immediately disrupted.
Clang!
The components that were being processed immediately fell to the ground in dull noises.
The Coloured Glaze hurried to help Li Yao pick up a brand-new mechanical arm, but it could not offset the displeasure in Li Yao's heart.
This body of steel and iron was simply too weak.
Or rather, his soul was so strong that common iron and steel could not bear it at all.
Even the super alloys that had been tempered thousands of times had enough hardness and flexibility, but the arrangement of the molecules and the structure of the atomic core meant that the 'passability' and 'resonance' of the soul and spiritual energy would not be very good. It was very easy for blockages to occur.
Human beings were born as carbon-based lives. Only the fleshly body was the best carrier for the soul and spiritual energy.
Li Yao craved the sturdy body that he was born with again, hoping that it could be perfectly melded with his fleshly body and enter the real Divinity Transformation Stage!
But right now, the most thorny problems of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, compressed food, and high-purity crystals had not been resolved yet.
What fell from the sky in the Desolate Worlds were all low-level food and crystals that contained tremendous impurities. They were more or less effective for the low-level trainers, but for the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage such as him, they would never be 'full' however much they 'ate'.
The Bloody Worlds and the Elysian Worlds might have food, drugs, and crystals of higher purity, but the bigger problem was the storage and transportation.
Li Yao had learned from the two little fellows that 'Cosmos Rings' were barely heard in the Land of Sins. He had even seen a lot of magical equipment that was even more precious than Cosmos Rings. Cosmos Rings, on the other hand, were just groundless legends.
If one of them appeared, it would be enough to trigger a life-and-death battle between hundreds of experts in the cities of the two Elysian Worlds.
Li Yao thought to himself that the Immortal Cultivators might have intentionally collected all the Cosmos Rings in order to control the Land of Sins. Such magical equipment was truly the best ancillary tool for sneaking, sabotaging, and murdering without being noticed. If the resistance of the Cultivators got ten of them, they would certainly be like tigers that had grown wings.
Without the Cosmos Rings, even if he could collect tremendous assets, how could he deliver them to the satellites beyond the atmosphere where his fleshly body was hidden?
The transportation ability of Neltharion was a major problem. What was even more troublesome was that the Immortal Cultivators had strictly blocked the entire sky of the Martial Meritocrats Planet through the Heavenly Rails and the City in the Sky.
Li Yao was confident that he could break out of the siege with Neltharion in the stealth state. But if he were to bring tons of assets with him, even a blind man could tell that somebody was about to escape from the Martial Meritocrats Planet.
After much consideration, he decided that he would need to get a piece of high-molecular layer-by-layer scanning magical equipment to open his Cosmos Rings.
While Li Yao was pondering, his soul suddenly shivered. "Somebody's here!"
When Li Yao led the two little fellows to the deck through the ladder, the lake was still peaceful and undisturbed under the dark night sky.
Although the ten or so iron warships of the Village of Peace were ablaze with lights, and many villagers were waiting around the turrets and the shooting holes day and night, it was still late at night after all. After such a long wait, everybody was more or less sleepy.
Looking far away, the vague mist on the surface of the lake made it impossible to see clearly what was happening on the shore at all.
Li Yao, however, triggered his soul and blew at the bottom of the shell of the warship through the five pairs of wheels and tracks.
BAM!
An earth-shattering boom rang out, as if the entire iron-shelled ship had turned into a giant bell. The lingering sound pierced through everyone's eardrums and brain, waking up thousands of villagers. They no longer felt sleepy.
"Enemy incoming!"
It was not until this moment that devastating roars and air-raid alarms each louder than the last echoed from the lookout post at the highest point of the mast.
The entire village was immediately seething. The noises of bullets being loaded and the humming sounds of chainswords and vibration sabers were echoing everywhere. Now and then, roars of shock and fury could be heard. Hundreds of pairs of boots embedded with iron plates were stomping on the deck, stomping on every panicked heart, too!
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze crouched on the rail of the warship and set up the high-performance binoculars that Li Yao had specifically crafted for them. Li Yao, on the other hand, was adjusting the thirty-six array crystal cameras that had just been installed on his iron head. He saw the invaders who tore apart the mist and tides and were charging at the Village of Peace like a beast tide almost simultaneously.
They were not the Black Water Gang but the sinners who had been spared in the Bliss Ceremony!
There was no telling where the sinners got thousands of shuttles from. They were rushing at the village while they roared and screamed.
They lowered the shuttles to a very low altitude and raised giant white tides on the surface of the lake as if they were dragging long tails. Boosted by the air currents in such a way, the shuttles were accelerated to the highest speed.
A lot of sinners were not assigned to shuttles but were driving boats. They were also cutting through the tides at an amazingly high speed.
They were like a combination of a yaksha and a headless fly. They could not have been crazier, more hideous, and more hideous!
"Those b * stards. We were kind enough to let them go, but they were bold enough to come to the Village of Peace and ask to be killed!"
Han Te was so angry that his entire face was twisted. His heart ached for his master's mercy that day, and he was even shaken for a moment. He wondered if Zhao Lie was right and if he should have killed all of them that day, should he have eliminated all of them?
"That's not right."
Li Yao said solemnly, "Look at their shuttles carefully."
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