Li Yao wanted to take a chance.
The carrier was not of a high level, and it was only transporting the nobodies who took part in the riot in the mines. The best it carried were a few Immortal Cultivator criminals in the Core Formation Stage. Both A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin were stronger than them. They should not be valued by "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky".
Also, "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was now planning the epic quest to fish up "Starlight". They did not have the time to bother with the minor anomaly of the explosion of such a carrier.
Besides, it was not unusual for a starship to be seriously damaged because of a storm during a space voyage.
Therefore, Li Yao estimated that the carrier should be able to stay in the dock of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" for ten to fifteen days. In the beginning, there might not even be enough hands to perform full maintenance on it.
Li Yao's real body was absolutely safe inside. As long as a certain Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator did not completely dismantle the carrier into pieces on a whim, nobody would notice him at all.
For the low-level Immortal Cultivators, even if he showed up in front of them openly, he would have ways to make those people ignore him. That was the confidence of a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator!
"Neltharion, go now. Figure out the overall structure and the distribution of troops of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. Most importantly of all, find the planner and commander of the so-called 'epic quest' and the core of the enormous space fortress."
Li Yao rubbed his teeth slowly and put on a cold smile. "Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I played the decapitation strategy!"
Neltharion turned into an inconspicuous ripple in the air again and dashed away quickly.
Under the dual control of Li Yao and the mental devil, Neltharion passed the heads of the Immortal Cultivators who were in a hurry, dodged the fire-extinguishing foam that was spurting everywhere, and snuck into the main warehouse where a thousand hibernation cabins were displayed behind a few patrolling puppets on a fixed route.
Now that he was approaching the core of the enemy, the common criminals were not his targets. Li Yao pondered for a moment and asked Neltharion to fly above the hibernation cabin of the Immortal Cultivator criminal with the highest Cultivation.
After circling the hibernation cabin three times, he found a cooling grate below the hibernation cabin. Judging from the form of the spiritual energy escaping, there should be cooling and stabilizing rune arrays inside.
The gap between the grilles as thick as a finger was just enough for Neltharion to crawl in without a sound.
Li Yao slightly adjusted the spiritual energy output model of Neltharion and melted it into the cooling and stabilization rune arrays of the hibernation cabin. Then, he lurked quietly.
The next thing to do was to wait.
The Cultivators trapped in the Imperium of True Human Beings had been waiting for a thousand years.
They didn't have to wait much longer.
…
After a few hours of frantic and anxious work, the fire at the rear of the transport ship was finally completely extinguished.
Although the engine compartment had almost lost all the impetus because of the explosion and fire, thankfully, they had reached their destination. Attracted by a few guiding starships from "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", they slowly parked at the end of a space port.
Looking out from such a close distance, it was even easier to tell how splendid and magnificent the crimson space fortress was.
It was truly like a flower of the netherworld that was slowly blossoming, divided into three layers that were nested and entangled with each other. The disc-shaped space stations at the outermost periphery were like enormous petals. Tentacles extended to the space outside of the petals. The transport ship was docked right next to one of the tentacles.
At the center of the petals was a thick "disc". In terms of scale, it was as good as "Hundred Flowers City", the largest space city in the Xing Yao Federation.
The disc, as the main body, was connected to a spherical space station deep inside the atmosphere through almost a hundred channels that looked like "roots". The spherical space station, in turn, extended countless circular rails in all directions and covered the entire planet like the claws and teeth of the gods. Countless small barges and fully-automatic spiritual puppets were moving up and down the circular rails. They were exactly the "Heavenly Rails" that Li Yao saw in the Land of Sins.
The port where the transport ship was docked was an enormous warehouse in itself. There were not many living Immortal Cultivators in the warehouse. Most of them were clumsy spiritual puppets.
It seemed that the two parties had cooperated countless times and were already familiar with each other. The spiritual puppets entered the warehouse one after another according to the fixed rails. With countless crystal wires and mechanical structures, they were connected to the hibernation cabins on the transport ship and lifted the hibernation cabins out.
Naturally, the hibernation cabin that Neltharion was hiding was no exception.
Because it was larger in size and more advanced, four spiritual puppets were needed to move it out of the transport ship.
Several Immortal Cultivators, who were wearing black uniforms and wearing the emblem of a cyclops on their chests and left arms, seemed to be discussing something with the captain of the transport ship. They were also pointing at the damage at the rear of the transport ship.
They seemed to be checking the quantity of the goods and the losses on the way, as well as discussing the maintenance issues.
Neltharion fell into complete silence. Like a meteorite that had been splashed into the hibernation cabin, it was not discovered by anyone.
Ten minutes later, the thirty-six hibernation cabins that caged the criminals of the Immortal Cultivators indeed parted ways with the hibernation cabins that caged the criminals of the 'hominoids'.
The hibernation cabins of the ordinary people were still waiting to be transported in the spaceport, but the hibernation cabins of the criminals of the Immortal Cultivators had been delivered to a spacious platform through a metal pathway. Complicated runes had been carved on the ground, from which bright purple smoke was spreading out.
"A teleportation array?"
Li Yao blinked. Then, the connection with Neltharion was cut off!
"Cr * p. As it turns out, the criminals of the Immortal Cultivators have 'green channels'. They are directly teleported to the depths of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' through the teleportation array!"
The mechanism of the teleportation array involved the four-dimensional space, super-small wormholes, and other complicated things. However strong Li Yao's telepathic thoughts were, it was impossible for him to track all the way to the four-dimensional space.
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao entered the state of deep meditation in a dark corner of the carrier. His telepathic thoughts turned into waves as he carefully analyzed the space ripples that spread out when the teleportation array was activated. Then, he spread his telepathic thoughts to all directions.
The twins boasted amazing telepathy, as if they were in a certain state where their souls were entangled.
Li Yao and the mental devil, on the other hand, were two halves of a complete soul in the first place. They were also entangled with each other in a mysterious form. Despite the thousands of miles away from each other, there was still amazing telepathic feelings between them.
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts spread out nonstop. As if he had heard the call, he dashed left and right in the channels of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' that were as complicated as a maze. Eventually, the entanglement of the two parties gradually became clear.
Before Li Yao's' eyes', the mottled picture from the main perspective of Neltharion popped up again, and he heard the mental devil's voice again.
"How f * cking … splendid!"
The mental devil mumbled.
The picture that was displayed in front of their eyes was indeed more splendid and weird than ever.
Neltharion seemed to be floating above a hollow, cylindrical skyscraper. Below the skyscraper were dense holes that looked like beehives, each of which was embedded with a hibernation cabin. They could see more than tens of thousands of such cabins just by looking at them!
Inside most of the hibernation cabins were frozen statues that were struggling in pain.
Some of them stuck their faces to the translucent observation holes hard. Their desperation was even deeply etched in Li Yao's heart through the ice and tempered glass.
Some of the hibernation cabins were also flashing ominous red lights outside, surrounded and manipulated by countless spiritual puppets. Hundreds of fully-armed Immortal Cultivators were floating in midair on floating discs and monitoring the place coldly.
The nutrition liquids inside the hibernation cabins were bubbling as if they were boiling. The people who were gradually waking up from hibernation were struggling, screaming, and moaning like ghosts that had fallen into a pot of boiling oil, trying to get rid of the cold nightmare.
However, their spines and limbs were all bound by shackles. The shackles that were as sharp as nails even pierced into their spinal cord deeply, turning all their resistance into hilarious dances.
When an Immortal Cultivator criminal was completely woken up, the hibernation cabin would be opened. His shackles would be connected to a couple of spiritual puppets and transported to the darkness below on floating discs under the close supervision of other Immortal Cultivators.
They were probably going to perform experiments or perform surgeries to remove the memory blocks in their brains, implant chips, or something similar, before they were thrown to the Land of Sins.
"No matter how many bad things the Immortal Cultivators have done, they at least have one advantage, which is that they are treated equally."
The mental devil clicked its tongue. "Not only are they brutal to the ordinary people and the Cultivators, they are brutal to their own people, too. Let me ask you this. Are you convinced now?"
"Follow the few guys who have just been unfrozen. Let's go down and take a look!"
Li Yao's heart was slightly beating faster, but his soul was even more condensed. Controlling Neltharion to crawl out of the cooling grille of the hibernation cabin, he brushed past the guards of the Immortal Cultivators floating in midair and sank to the bottom of the beehive prison.
Even in the past, when he was at the peak of the Yuanying Stage, he would not have dared to barge in so blatantly. Although Neltharion boasted stealth functions, loopholes could still be exposed when faced with the comprehensive scanning of the experts.
However, after he advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage, and especially after his soul was melded with his fleshly body again, his stealth techniques had improved by multiple levels. Those guards of the Immortal Cultivators were in the Core Formation Stage at best. Naturally, it was impossible for them to discover Neltharion that was remotely controlled by him!
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