While they were talking, the metal lift dragged by the chains had slowly risen to everybody's feet. Before it came to a full stop, Wei Longtao had already leaped onto it and raised himself to almost five meters. He dashed to the front of everybody and smashed his legs into the ground like two thick, enormous nails.
Li Yao observed the general commander of 'Starlight' in the underground world of the Land of Sins without batting an eyelid.
He was a majestic bearded man more than three meters tall. Thick scars were everywhere on the bulging muscles all over his body, as if even the magnificent body could not hide his infinite vigor and was tearing his skin apart by brute force.
What was most eye-catching about him was his big eyes that looked like the headlights of an 'earthly dragon'.
Even in the deepest underground world, the pair of eyes were still emanating the brilliance of the sun, making him look like a man who was dreaming all the time. A real dreamer!
"Brothers from the Land of Sins, welcome to the temporary camp of Starlight. The conditions are rather shabby. Let's get over it!"
Before he stood still, a burst of hearty laughter echoed in midair, which was much warmer than Zuo Jingyun's coldness. "Everybody here calls me 'Commander Wei'. Since you are not a member of Starlight yet, you can simply call me 'Wei Longtao'!"
Standing in front of A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin, Wei Longtao looked at them with a smile, suppressing the intimidating aura of the two experts from the Land of Sins on his own.
"Excuse me."
He clasped his hands at A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin and said with a smile, "The situation on the ground and below the ground is urgent. I had to invite you to the underground world in such a simple and crude way. I hope you don't mind."
Xiahou Wuxin rolled his eyes again and again. He suddenly said, "Not at all. Had it not been for Commander Wei's help, we would've all been killed by the bloody mouths of the skeleton lizards. Is there any need to talk about 'mind' at all? However, you have spies in Liberty City who have been … watching us?"
"Yes. He has indeed been watching us."
A Boxing Champion was not so tactful when he spoke. He simply changed the word 'watch' into 'watch'. "Otherwise, it would've been impossible for him to order the earthly dragon to crawl out of the ground and rescue us when we were about to be annihilated. The number of people that were rescued was exactly right. They were the best of the best among the hundreds of thousands of bandits."
"A Boxing Champion is quite right. Not just in Liberty City, Starlight has secret spies in many gangs in the Elysian worlds and even the Land of Sins."
Surprisingly, Wei Longtao did not deny it at all. Baring his white teeth from his messy beard, he smiled and said, "The Fist King and City Leader Xiahou should've personally experienced the formidability of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. If we did not have enough eyes and ears, and if we were not well-informed enough, 'Starlight' would've been annihilated ten thousand times. How could we have persisted for hundreds of years below the ground?"
. "" Therefore — "
Xiahou Wuxin narrowed his eyes and said, "You watched the monsters projected by 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' butcher all of us and only saved the last few of us?"
"I didn't have a choice," Wei Longtao said frankly.
Wei Longtao said frankly, without the slightest hint of schemes. "Firstly, 'Starlight' is a great problem for the Immortal Cultivators. Once they are exposed, they will certainly be hunted and annihilated incessantly. Therefore, it is impossible for me to send a large batch of 'earthly dragons' to rescue them. I can only send Zuo Jingyun, our most awesome 'earthly dragon', as the captain. She is the only one who is confident to get rid of the pursuers in the underground escape.
"A single earthly dragon, on the other hand, could only accommodate a limited number of people after all. Was it possible that the entire Liberty City could've been stored inside?
"Secondly, and more importantly, we had to maintain the purity of the team. We've learned many lessons in the past. After rescuing our brothers on the ground at a high price, we tried to recruit them into Starlight, only to discover that a lot of spies from 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' were among them, which caused serious damage to our organization.
"The operation today is the largest counterattack of 'Starlight' in the past hundred years. Dozens of earthly dragons have been gathered together. If a few spies are mixed in, there will be dire consequences.
"Therefore, we can only observe in secret and make sure that 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is really determined to kill you. Only then can we absolutely trust you and rescue you.
"Mayor Xiahou, you know a hundred times more intelligence than the common brothers in the Land of Sins from your position. You must understand our difficulties, right?"
Xiahou Wuxin was lost for words for a moment. He could not help but nod his head.
"There's a third reason," Wei Longtao said casually.
Wei Longtao said casually, "We are all faced with the tremendous pressure of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. We just experienced a bloody battle three days ago. Trust me. The approaches that 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' deal with us are a hundred times crueler than what they did to you. They are absolutely beyond your imagination.
"After all, in the eyes of the Immortal Cultivators, you are just chess pieces and toys. We, the Cultivators of Starlight, are the real enemy!"
"Cultivators …"
Pondering for a moment, A Boxing Champion said, "So to speak, Commander Wei saved us at great risk because you want us to join your gang?"
"Join your gang?"
Zuo Jingyun could not help but sneer. "I'm afraid that you are not qualified."
"What?"
A lot of bandits slapped the table and rose to their feet, glaring at her angrily.
"Jingyun!"
Wei Longtao frowned and bellowed in a low voice. Then, he cupped his hands at A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin. "Truth be told, Starlight was indeed very prudent when we recruited new people and transformed the sinners into Cultivators. We did not directly recruit people from the major gangs to join our gang.
"For our organization, the size and the number of people are not important. What matters most is honor and loyalty. It is to never betray our cause!
"The life below the ground can't be more miserable. We are faced with the pressure of being buried alive by millions of tons of rocks every second. For the experts on the Bloody Plateau of the Land of Sins who are used to a life of luxury, it is hard for them to get used to it.
"However, the situation this time is somewhat special. Since you are already here, I do not want to keep anything a secret.
"We were planning a rarely-seen counterattack in a hundred years. Dozens of 'earthly dragons' were all ready to go, but a lot of manpower was lost in the unexpected battle with the Immortal Cultivators three days ago. It was mainly because we were seriously short of warriors.
"We are in dire need of fresh blood to accomplish our mission. That is the biggest reason why we risked rescuing people."
A Boxing Champion nodded and asked, "What kind of mission?"
"A mission to find the temple," Wei Longtao said.
"According to the ancient legends, there is a temple of the Cultivators that has been sealed for a thousand years somewhere below the Land of Sins. A legendary strongest Cultivator is sleeping inside, as well as the strength to destroy 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. As long as we find the temple, we will be able to transform the Land of Sins!"
Xiahou Wuxin was amused. "A legendary temple and a sleeping Cultivator? Is such an illusory story worth all of you going through so much trouble to find it? "
"It's true that the legend is illogical."
A Boxing Champion said, "'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' blocked the sky only hundreds of years ago. Since the temple was sealed a thousand years ago, how could it boast the strength to destroy 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'?"
"Naturally, we have analyzed your suspicions a long time ago. The Cultivators are not superstitious, nor do we blindly follow any traditions and legends. The so-called 'temple' is certainly not as simple as the literal meaning."
His hands behind his back, Wei Longtao said unhurriedly, "Just now, on the 'earthly dragon', Zuo Jingyun must've introduced the truth of 'Judgment Day' to you. Or maybe you already knew that it was not a civil war of the Martial Meritocrats Sector but a war between the Cultivators of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Immortal Cultivators from outer space.
"According to the intelligence at our disposal, before the 'Judgment War', the Martial Meritocrats civilization had already developed to the peak and secretly established a 'global automatic defense network'. The core attack force of the network was the super-enormous automatic navigation flying sword system that was distributed to every corner of the planet and buried deep below the ground.
"There are eighty-one large-scale, super-enormous flying sword strike platforms in total. Once activated, they will automatically launch destructive strikes at the invaders from space, such as the starships and the atmospheric assault cabins. It is equivalent to covering the entire planet with an impenetrable net of swords!
"Think about it carefully. If even the starships that were moving at a high speed could be completely blown up, wouldn't 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', which was fixed above the atmosphere, be a living target?
"In that case, wouldn't the control center of the 'global sword net' be counted as a 'temple' of infinite power?
"In such an enormous secret control center, wouldn't it be reasonable for some of the operators in the past to enter the hibernation state together with the control center through 'artificial hibernation'?
"As long as we can find the control center and activate the 'global sword net' again, we will have a chance to blow up 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. What do you think, everybody?"
A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin were both slightly dazed. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they were deep in thought.
Even Li Yao was thinking quickly. He did not expect that the truth of the so-called 'Cultivators who had been lost for a thousand years' would be like that. However …
"The story is still illogical."
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