After a brief silence, Li Lingfeng sighed and said, "If I say that everything that we have done through all the trouble is just for self-protection, would you believe me?"
Li Jialing blinked. "Self-protection?"
"The power that we talked about just now, the power to control people's minds through the slaughter stream as a super platform, is very fragile and can be completely destroyed despite its formidability."
Li Lingfeng said, "From the large-scale infrastructure of the Spiritual Nexus that crosses Sectors, to the information access of all the planets in a specific Sector, to the selection of crystal processors that meet our requirements, and so on and so forth, too many uncertainties are involved in every aspect.
"A lot of rigid, old-fashioned people are scared of the brand-new, unknown power, believing that the power will pose a threat to the old order that they have established with starships, chainswords, and electromagnetic whips. Therefore, they are trying to destroy our cause without bothering about anything.
"Some other people have seen the value and potential of the power and are trying to steal it by any means possible. Like shameless parasites, they are extending their blood-sucking tentacles to our cause and absorbing every drop of our hard work that we have accumulated in the past hundred years.
"As the saying goes, the tallest trees attract the most wind. Wuying Lan and I have made it this far with the concept of 'slaughter stream' because we were swimming against the current in the furiously burning torrents. We had to tread carefully every step forward, and we were faced with the scourge of countless storms and hidden arrows after every inch forward. One moment of carelessness, and we would be blown into pieces and doomed for all eternity!
"In order to defend the cause that we have worked so hard to create, we have no choice but to move forward and prove the power of 'slaughter stream'. We will attract more funds and resources, gather connections of a higher level, build a more vivid and soul-stirring brand, and package a superhero that everybody in the Imperium knows … Only in such a way will those who have ill intentions think twice before they attack us. Do you understand?"
Li Jialing's eyelashes were shivering slightly as he asked in disbelief, "With your position in the Li family, and with such a member of the royal family as Lord Wuying in charge in person, will other people still covet it?"
"Royal family?"
In a self-mocking smile, Wuying Lan said, "In the Imperium of True Human Beings, the royal family is the least valuable. After a thousand years of development, there are at least a million people surnamed 'Wuying' in the Imperium right now. Ninety-nine percent of them are merchants and merchants. Even the direct descendants such as myself are too many to count. When it comes to specific interests, who cares if you are a member of the royal family?"
"It's lonely at the top. I just told you that the higher I climb in the family, the more people will be watching me in the dark."
Li Lingfeng paused for a moment and glanced at Wuying Lan. Then, he continued, "For Lord Wuying, it is not a great secret. For example, my good sister Li Linghai, the empress of the Imperium, is a complete conservative. She is instinctively disgusted by the 'slaughter stream', which involves the information projection of the entire Imperium, and she feels that such an approach deprives the authority of the capital. She has been thinking about taking away the 'slaughter stream' all the time. If she can't, she will simply destroy it!"
"The queen is a tough person."
Narrowing his eyes, Wuying Lan added, "Everybody in the Empyreal Terminus Sector in the capital knows that His Majesty, who has just won the Holy League and is ambitious enough to be the second 'eternal emperor' after Blackstar the Great, is in fact a piece of garbage with great ambitions but little talents. Had it not been for the queen's manipulation, he wouldn't have been able to launch even a single battle!"
"Yes!"
Li Lingfeng sighed and said, "Who could've foreseen that my sister, who was purely focused on physical strength, could grow to such a terrifying level today? She is even disregarding her own family and is so heartless to me, her biological brother who shares the same father and mother. Now that she has set her eyes on us, what other options do we have except to protect ourselves?
"All in all —"
He patted the young man's shoulder again and sensed the shivering of the young man's every muscle without batting an eyelid, so that he could grasp the subtle psychological changes of the young man. "However many misunderstandings you have about what Wuying Lan and I did in the past, I hope that you can understand that it is for your own good.
"I hope that you can join our cause, because whether or not you join us, you are my man in the eyes of other people, which can never be changed.
"If our cause collapses one day, and Wuying Lan and I are both doomed, it will be impossible for you to stay out of it. Many people will capture you, slice you up, and study you, hoping to discover the 'Origin Plan' and the secrets of how 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' refined you. By then, you will know what the real hell is like.
"How about it? Do you want to go back and think about it?"
Li Jialing looked at the enormous light beams on the wall of the ball-shaped palace.
On the light beams, the poor worms that were caged in transparent glass jars were crashing into the light that they thought was the light, only to be bruised and bleeding after hitting the transparent glass.
Time and time again, they had no regrets even if they died.
"That will be unnecessary."
The young man narrowed his eyes and put on a mysterious smile. "It seems quite interesting to be a hero. However, can I stay in the beehive prison for a while?"
"The beehive prison?"
Wuying Lan and Li Lingfeng looked at each other and asked curiously, "What are you going to do there?"
"Didn't you say just now that you wanted me to arrive from the sky in the most awesome Crystal Suit and go on a killing spree?"
Li Jialing said with a smile, "Then, of course, I have to make good preparations in order to release the strength that has been suppressed for more than ten years. I want to choose a few Crystal Suits and find a few tough prisoners in the beehive prison to enjoy myself. Killing a guy like Li Yingxiong is like stepping on an ant. How boring!"
"That explains a lot. Of course, you can!"
Overjoyed, Wuying Lan nodded his head quickly. "You have just unlocked the seal. It is indeed time for you to do some adaptive training and activate your greatest potential in the shortest amount of time. I can help you establish a training area down below and capture a batch of the toughest experts from the beehive prison for you. You can play however you want."
"There's no need to go through so much trouble. I'll just go to the beehive prison and look for targets that look agreeable."
Li Jialing licked his lips, with hunger all over his face. "I vaguely have a feeling that a couple of experts are definitely not enough to fill my stomach. I'm just scared that too many prisoners will be destroyed. Will Lord Wuying's subsequent experiment plans be affected?"
"Hahahaha!"
Wuying Lan laughed and waved his hands. "Just relax and play however you want. After the battle, we will have abundant supplies of 'test materials'. Alright, if you have no objection, Lord Li, I'll ask somebody to take you to the beehive prison. You can play however you want!"
"I have no objection, Ah Ling. I know that you have always been a very smart kid. Besides, even if you were an idiot in the beginning, you should know what kind of choice is the wisest and the best for yourself after being inculcated by us for so many years!"
Looking at Li Jialing, Li Lingfeng said with a smile, "You can do whatever you want about your training. If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me anytime. But you won't have much time. One to two days at most. In one to two days, the most splendid scene of our epic quest will be performed. By then, we will choose the most soul-stirring and soul-stirring part for you to cut in."
"Then, I'll go right now."
Li Jialing nodded his head. Then, as if he suddenly thought of something, he said, "Right. There's something that I don't quite understand. Both of you said that the ideas of the Cultivators are both stupid and dangerous. Even I myself believe that they are something that only idiots and idiots would believe. But why are so many people still believing in them without stopping after a thousand years?"
"About that …"
Faced with the young man's eyes that were full of curiosity, Li Lingfeng pondered for a moment and said somewhat helplessly, "Perhaps it's because there are too many idiots in the sea of stars!"
…
In the No. 9 dock at the spaceport at the periphery of the City in the Sky, a ragged carrier was floating in the void. All the goods and personnel had been emptied, ready for full maintenance and upgrade.
However, there were still dozens of starships ahead of them for maintenance and examination. It would take at least a couple of days before it was the plain carrier's turn.
Therefore, nobody knew that an infuriated Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator was squatting in the deepest space of the carrier!
"The Immortal Cultivators are too outrageous!"
Bursting into fury, Li Yao slapped his thigh hard. "They are not only destroying the bodies of the Cultivators but also tarnishing our minds and souls! What a despicable, shameless, treacherous, filthy, inhumane, and even worse than a beast! "
"Not exactly."
The mental devil said solemnly, "I feel that the Immortal Cultivators' approaches to the Cultivators are similar to the approaches that the Cultivators used to deal with the Immortal Cultivators in the Xing Yao Federation years ago. Years ago, the Federation paid more attention to destroying the ideas and spirits of the Immortal Cultivators than to destroying their bodies, too."
"Is that so?" Li Yao asked.
"Yes," the mental devil said. "The Federation did not sentence Su Changfa, the Immortal Cultivator, to death but made him a professor in a university and raised him as a rare, protected animal for other people to watch. Isn't it exactly the same as what Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan are doing today? I remember that it was you who came up with the idea. You also said things like 'ideas are unkillable' before, didn't you? "
Li Yao: "… I didn't know that. I don't remember it."
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