"It is … the whole world that is wrong?"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze did not expect Li Yao to give such an answer. Complicated brilliance beamed out of their bulging eyes. Looking at the bloodstained lake, Han Te summoned his courage and asked, "If the ideology is wrong, it can be changed. But if the world is wrong, what should we do?"
Li Yao smiled. "What do you think?"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze were silent.
After the fierce battle last night, or rather, after spending more than half a month with Li Yao, the two little fellows had grown a lot. They vaguely got in touch with the truth of the Land of Sins and saw clearly the hope that they had been pursuing and had never given up.
"Can the world be changed?" Han Te mumbled.
"Didn't Coloured Glaze's mother want to change the whole world?" Li Yao asked.
"But she failed," Han Te said.
Looking at the Coloured Glaze, Li Yao stressed, "Did she fail?"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze looked at each other again, deep in thought.
Li Yao smiled and changed the topic. "Let me ask you a question. If the truth of the Land of Sins is not as simple as Leader Gu said, and there is darkness and evilness on a deeper level behind the devastated Land of Sins, and the world of angels is not the paradise in your imagination but perhaps even more dreadful than the Land of Sins, are you still going to look for 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'?"
"… Yes."
Thinking carefully for a long time, Han Te clenched his fists and nodded heavily. "In any case, I have to go to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', find my sister, and figure out the truth of 'Judgment Day' and the Land of Sins!"
"I want to go too!"
The Coloured Glaze held her chest high and said firmly, "I'm going to the City in the Sky to find a way to spread the Gold Barley all over the Land of Sins. Also, I'm going to ask the 'angels' what wrong have we done to deserve such a fate? If they really want to help us, why do they have to do it in such a cruel way? We — we are human beings, not 'sinners'. Even if our ancestors committed unforgivable sins, it has nothing to do with us! "
"So …"
The two little guys said in unison, "We must go to Sky City and find out the truth!"
Looking at the solemn faces of the two little fellows whose eyes were almost condensing into crystals, Li Yao could not help but chuckle. "Alright. After everything in the Village of Peace is settled, we will set off together and find a way to go to Manjusaka, the City in the Sky!"
"Grandpa Yao, are you going to the City in the Sky too?"
Han Te asked curiously.
"Grandpa Yao, do you remember something in the past and want to look for something in the City in the Sky?"
The Coloured Glaze asked.
Li Yao was slightly dazed. Then he smiled and said, "Yes. I am indeed going to the City in the Sky to look for something. But more importantly … I am going to make certain 'scumbags' pay for everything that they have done!"
Li Yao's killing intent pierced through the iron shell and condensed into tentacles with tusks and claws around him, making the two little guys' internal organs constrict. They shuddered in fear and said, "Grandpa Yao …"
Vague ripples spread out of Li Yao's soul. It seemed that the battle last night had been too exhausting for him to resist the bandits of the two gangs on his own. His soul was somewhat exhausted, and he could not even control his killing intent.
Withdrawing his killing intent, he said casually, "Let's go back to the No. 3 warehouse and give me a hand. Help me strengthen my shell with the scraps of the crystal suit you collected just now. By the way, find a large, enclosed container with tires or tracks below and load it with crystal bombs and ammunition. Connect it to my body. It's troublesome to not have a Cosmos Ring."
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze were confused. "Portable, enclosed containers that are filled with crystal bombs and ammunition? Are you going to war, Grandpa Yao? Where are you going? "
"To resolve the problem of the Village of Peace, of course."
Li Yao said casually, "I'm going to Double Dragons Valley."
…
The Twin Dragon Valley lived up to its name. It was formed by two angry mountain ranges that looked like dragons baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.
The two mountain ranges branched out into countless branches. The mountains were steep and precipitous. The highest point was more than three to four thousand meters. Gales blew them all year round, causing pebbles to roll everywhere. The deep valleys were as complicated as a maze, and they were also covered with intertwined underground caves. It was said that the underground caves were so deep that the bottom could not be seen, and they led straight to the netherworld. They were also filled with ferocious reptilian mutated beasts. Even if a peerless expert fell into them, they would turn into a pile of dry bones.
The two mountains named 'Blue Dragon' and 'Red Dragon' seemed to be two iron walls that soared into the sky. They separated the 'Thousand Lakes Area' where the Village of Peace was from the 'Bloody Plateau Area' to the northwest of the mountains, which was even more prosperous and bloody. At the intersection of the two mountains, perhaps because of the conflicts between the mountains, a narrow, long, and flat path had appeared, which was the Double Dragons Valley.
The Double Dragons Valley was an important road that connected the 'Thousand Lakes Area' and the 'Bloody Plateau Area'. If they did not take the road and bypassed the Blue Dragon Mountain or the Red Dragon Mountain, they would have to walk thousands of kilometers and take countless risks.
The Land of Sins was barren. Except for the mutated beasts that were everywhere, there was barely anything produced. It was all thanks to the 'blessings' that the angels bestowed.
When the angels distributed the relief assets, they often threw the necessities of life at different coordinates that were far away from each other.
Therefore, a strong demand for the circulation of resources was born, which made the business and trade flourish. Even the bloody 'Bloody Worlds' could not stop the business teams that came from the south to the north. Or rather, in the Bloody Worlds, 'business teams' and 'gangs' were basically two things that could be switched at any time.
Since the Double Dragons Valley was the hub that connected the Thousand Lakes Area and the Bloody Plateau Area, countless business teams naturally had to pass through the place. Even though the experts above average were not scared of the magnificence and cliffs of the Blue Dragon Mountain and the Red Dragon Mountain Range, it was impossible for them to climb the mountains with hundreds of tons of goods on their heads.
At the center of the Double Dragons Valley, the gangs in Double Dragons City took advantage of the geographical advantage. They were all large business groups that sold all kinds of dangerous assets. They had also set up barriers and collected high protection taxes. They had also established black markets of a rather large scale to attract the sinners from the Thousand Lakes Area and the Bloody Plateau Area to trade. As a result, the daily turnover was astronomical. Gradually, an abnormally prosperous city was established in the devastated, withered Land of Sins.
It was noon right now. The sunlight was so dazzling that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes.
However, even if the sunlight was ten times more intense, it could not illuminate Neltharion that had entered stealth mode and was lurking in midair.
Li Yao's soul and the mental devil were both crammed inside Neltharion and observing Double Dragons City from the high stance. The iron shell that had been strengthened and modified with the components of the Crystal Suit was hidden in a secret valley.
Double Dragons City should have been an enormous trade center a thousand years ago. Although it had been destroyed in 'Judgment Day', a lot of splendid buildings were still left, reminding people of its former glory and prosperity.
At this moment, a lot of buildings in Double Dragons City were still abandoned, but the central district had been significantly modified. All the buildings had been reinforced with rebars and plates. A lot of fortresses and shooting holes had been added, turning them into overlapping iron fortresses. Countless tanks, shuttles, and unmanned crystal cameras could be seen patrolling everywhere.
Looking down from above, Li Yao could also see a lot of brawny, ferocious men. All of them were carrying sabers, swords, and guns on their waists and on their backs. They all looked aggressive and ferocious.
Han Te told Li Yao that the ten or so gangs in Double Dragons City had at least ten thousand elite experts. They were the really well-trained, fearless, and murderous bandits. People like Ma Ku and Fei Zhong could be found everywhere.
Li Yao also learned that there were different levels in the Land of Sins such as' Refinement Stage ',' Building Foundation Stage ',' Core Formation Stage ', and' Yuanying '. In the Bloody Worlds, experts in the Core Formation Stage were not rare. Yuanying was something that he had heard of before.
Also, the sinners in the Land of Sins practiced the most dominating, costly arts. In the words of the ancient Cultivators, they were all 'evil arts'. Although the casualty rate was very high, once they were lucky enough to grasp the arts, they were often much more powerful and brutal than the 'righteous arts' that were more peaceful and decent.
Therefore, the combat ability of the sinners in the Land of Sins could not be simply classified by their level. Perhaps they were in the Core Formation Stage, but they had certain trump cards or powerful but highly unstable magical equipment that could be fatal threats to both the enemy and themselves once they were activated.
In other words, the Bloody Worlds were a bunch of lunatics who practiced the 'evil arts'. Naturally, Li Yao could not march into Double Dragons City and face almost ten thousand such lunatics.
Besides, even though Double Dragons City was occupied by almost ten thousand bandits, countless business teams were passing by. It was needless to say that the "business teams" that marched in and out of the Bloody Worlds must be the most brutal bandits in the world.
"There are about ten well-known gangs in Double Dragons City. The most awesome ones are naturally the Red Fire Gang and the Black Water Gang," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "The Red Fire Gang is a seasoned gang of bandits with decades of history. They mainly deal with the black market and the arenas in Double Dragons City. Those tough bandits have nothing better to do. Other than trading the most powerful magical equipment and pills, they are gambling and fighting in the arenas. Once they grasp those two things, they will be inexhaustible sources of wealth. Nobody can stop them.
"The Black Water Gang, on the other hand, only rose to prominence in recent years. It was able to grow right under the nose of the Red Fire Gang because of two things — exhilarants and human trafficking.
"It is said that the Black Water Gang has grasped the connections to a few major cities in the Bloody Plateau Area. One of them is even an 'Elysian World' that leads directly to the Heavenly Rails. From there, they can get tremendous exhilarants that can significantly strengthen their body and enable them to perform all kinds of unbelievable abilities!
"I estimate that the exhilarants were intentionally released to the Land of Sins by the Immortal Cultivators for tests. However, life in the Land of Sins is so difficult, and there is no hope at all. The sinners who are struggling between life and death are indeed in high demand for exhilarants. They are out-and-out hard currencies.
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