"Well, that's unnecessary," Li Yao said. "I've already remembered everything."
"That's right," the mental devil said. "You thought that everything was under your control and that Su Changfa, the Immortal Cultivator, was already a turtle in a jar, unable to raise any waves. So, you tried to kill him and turn him into a 'living textbook', using his insignificance and ugliness as a contrast for your own greatness and brightness. But you didn't know that you screwed up your plan in the end and raised the freak 'Lu Qingchen', which almost infuriated and condemned you to death!"
"Thank you for your reminder," Li Yao said. "I've already remembered everything. However, our focus this time seems to be the sordid and shameless tricks of the Immortal Cultivators. Is there any need to talk about the past? Let's figure out how to resolve the trap before us!"
"Then, the key is still the little freak 'Li Jialing'," the mental devil said.
"It's just like you couldn't have expected such a little freak as' Lu Qingchen 'to show up years ago. As a result, you were slapped in the face so hard that you were dizzy and looking for your teeth on the ground. In the end, if it weren't for the fact that a lot of experts, including me, cleaned your ass for you, you would've gone home a long time ago. Li Jialing today is absolutely capable of becoming a character like Lu Qingchen and the key to resolving the trap!
"Judging from Wuying Lan's and Li Lingfeng's appearances, I don't think that they have as much courage as you do. So many unexpected experts will jump out to clean their ass for them. There will certainly be a lot of people who will hit them when they're down!"
Li Yao: "… Can we stop talking about Lu Qingchen?"
…
Standing on the floating disc, Li Jialing followed the three managers of the beehive prison and moved slowly in the metal pathway leading to the prison.
He was wearing a mustard-seed combat suit that was as thin as the wings of a cicada but extremely tough. His every muscle was clearly visible. There were also glittering strengthening systems on the chest, abdomen, and various joints of the combat suit, which enshrouded him in gentle brilliance and added to the mysterious air of the young man.
His vigorous clothes, together with the ambitions and desires in his eyes that could barely be concealed, made him look like a standard, inexperienced, ambitious young Immortal Cultivator who could not wait to control the entire world in his hands.
"Hey, what are you thinking about? Why aren't you talking?"
Li Yao released a ripple in the boy's stomach, and it followed the nerves in his spinal cord all the way to his brain. "Don't tell me you're hesitating and don't want to run anymore?"
Li Jialing smiled. "Why do you ask?"
"Because I feel that what Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan said sounds rather reasonable," Li Yao said. "Their conditions are very tempting, too. Packaging you into a superhero that everybody in the Imperium knows. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I feel that ninety-nine out of a hundred hot blooded teenagers want to be superheroes. Have you never thought about it?
"Even if the other party is really using you, they definitely won't do something stupid like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs in the beginning. Even if there is any conspiracy against you, it will only happen after they package you as a superhero. So, are you really not tempted? Don't you want to have some fun first?"
"If you are worried that I will change my mind, you are worrying too much," Li Jialing said casually.
Li Jialing said casually, "Firstly, I told you a long time ago that I want to live a free, lawless life where nobody can give me orders. I'm not interested in being the heir of the Li family, the spokesperson of the slaughter stream platform, or a superhero at all.
"Secondly, even if I really want to be a hero, or if I want anything, I will take it with my own hands without anybody's' packaging '.
"A packaged hero, however awesome and popular he may seem on the surface, is he not a wretch caged in a transparent glass bottle deep down in his bones? He will have to carry out the orders of Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan forever, accept the tone and style that they set for him, and live in their shadow as their marionette for the rest of his life. Hehe. What kind of 'hero' is that?
"Thirdly, I don't think that their plan to 'package a hero' is as simple as it seems. Did you hear it just now? Li Lingfeng mentioned the name of his sister 'Li Linghai' again. It was the second time in only half a day.
"For some reason, I vaguely feel that Li Lingfeng has inculcated an idea into me without me knowing it — Li Linghai, the queen of the Imperium, poses a major threat to my existence. He wants me to believe that Li Linghai tried to destroy me when I was still an embryo and that she would slice me for studies the moment I was caught. Is that my illusion?"
"It is not your illusion."
Li Yao said, "That is exactly what Li Lingfeng meant. He hopes that you will misunderstand and be wary of Li Linghai, if not hostile."
"Hostile? Yes, that seems to be the case. "
Li Jialing curled his lips and narrowed his eyes. "How interesting. Why exactly does Li Lingfeng want me to be hostile to Li Linghai? Besides, is it really a big deal if an insignificant nobody like me is hostile to the queen of the Imperium? What kind of strike will it cause to Li Linghai? It is truly worth studying.
"In any case, however meticulous Li Lingfeng's plan is, he has made a fatal mistake. He has underestimated me too much!"
"He has not underestimated you but underestimated his and Wuying Lan's abilities. Or rather, he has overestimated himself in your project.
Li Yao said, "I'm afraid that he has not realized what a terrifying monster he has created until now!
"The little monster, who was already extremely tricky to deal with in the first place, received the selfless help of another Cultivator whose capability was immeasurable, whose wisdom was as deep as the ocean, and whose integrity was as noble as the integrity of the world! I'm afraid that he will die a rather ugly death in this round before he meets Li Linghai! "
Li Jialing: "… I would like to ask you a question."
"Like I said, 'you' or 'Brother Yao'. What do you want to know? Just ask!"
Li Yao said quickly.
"In the education that I received in the Li family, some of the descriptions about the Cultivators were involved, too. The textbooks and the propaganda materials all described the Cultivators as the guys who were ostentatious on the surface but prostitutes deep down in their bones. They were all boastful people who did nothing but boasted and dared not make the right decision at the critical moment. In the last years of the Star Ocean Republic, which was under the control of the Cultivators, it was the most decadent age. That was why it was invaded by the Holy League and crushed by the Holy League. As a result, the Imperium had to clean up the mess left by the Cultivators when it was barely established. It has been a thousand years since then."
With a solemn face, Li Jialing said solemnly, "In the past, I quite agreed with such a theory. No, I still feel that it makes a lot of sense even now. However, after seeing how cautious Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan were just now, and seeing that 'Starlight' was able to crawl out for the forty-second time after the forty-first destruction, and encountering such a … 'maverick' Cultivator as Brother Yao, I'm suddenly very curious.
"What exactly is a real Cultivator? What is the real path of the Cultivators?"
The floating disc shivered slightly, and the triple gate in the shape of a lotus slowly opened. Overwhelming screams and roars echoed. They had arrived at the beehive prison.
…
"The real Cultivators …"
Below the Land of Sins, in the dark tunnel, under the dim light of the earthly dragon, Zuo Jingyun, the one-armed female warrior of the resistance organization, was considering the question, too.
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze were sitting cross-legged next to her, looking at her with curiosity written all over their faces.
A Boxing Champion was sitting not far away from them, too. He was staring at a small, delicate stove that was grilling the synthetic meat on the plate for the two little fellows.
It was a rare moment of rest, or rather, the last tranquility before a great battle.
All of the exhausted soldiers had long fallen asleep. Only the two energetic little fellows continued to pester the female conductor of the Cloud Penetrator, wanting to know more about the cultivators.
"In fact, I don't know what a real Cultivator is, either. I never even thought about becoming a real Cultivator. At first, my parents were both Cultivators, so naturally, I was a Cultivator, too. Later, I just wanted to avenge my parents. It's as simple as that. You have to ask Wei Longtao to tell you the philosophies that you want to hear. That's what it means to talk incessantly. He can talk for three days and three nights without repeating the same thing!"
Zuo Jingyun scratched her bald head in embarrassment. Then, she suddenly thought of something and put on a sincere smile. "In fact, leaving aside the identity of my parents and the revenge, I never wanted to be a Cultivator.
"I can't forget the feeling when I crawled out of the ground for the first time and saw how high the sky was and how vast the land was. At that time, I had a very 'great', or rather hilarious, dream. I thought that I would do nothing for the rest of my life as long as I could find a village and build a house on the boundless land below the high sky. I would not be chased underground every day, and I would not have to sleep with a chainsword and a storm bolter under my head. I would just sit on the threshold of my house and look at the sky in a daze every day. That would be my greatest satisfaction.
"If I could live such a peaceful, carefree life, only an idiot would want to be a Cultivator!"
"Ah …"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze looked at each other in bewilderment and remarked, "That's similar to what we thought in the past. We also hoped that the Village of Peace could be peaceful all the time. We would live on the boat without any worries forever, swimming, fishing, or watching the sky on the surface of the water when we had nothing to do. Nothing could be more enjoyable than that."
"Yes. It's a pity that such a life will never happen in the Land of Sins. Even the strong men like A Boxing Champion and Mayor Xiahou cannot be so free and carefree," Zuo Jingyun said with a bitter smile.
Zuo Jingyun smiled bitterly and said, "Not only can we not live such a life, we can't even live in fear and uncertainty. We are just lab rats in other people's laboratories. If they want us to live, we will live, and if they want us to die, we will die.
"Therefore, do we have a second choice other than resisting the world?
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