Although many people had vaguely guessed the answer, after hearing Wuying Lan say it in person and seeing Wei Longtao standing below Wuying Lan's enormous portrait in silence, a lot of resistance warriors still felt that their hearts were falling into an ice cave.
Then, they burned the ice cave into magma!
"Wei Longtao!"
Shuddering, Zuo Jingyun roared, "You betrayed us! You betrayed Starlight!"
"This is not betrayal but 'a wise man submits to circumstances'. Leading the members to find a bright future is what a qualified leader of an organization should do, instead of asking to be killed like a moth darting into a fire!" "That's right," Li Yao said with a smile.
Wuying Lan said casually, "Commander Wei, it's your turn now."
"Don't be excited, everybody. Listen to me. I'm definitely not trying to hurt you at all. On the contrary, I'm trying to save you, just like I saved you countless times in the past!"
Taking a deep breath, Wei Longtao held his head high again. Bulging his eyes that were as big as lightbulbs, he stared at everybody including Zuo Jingyun without any shame.
He spoke so resolutely and confidently that it was the same as every exciting speech he had made in the past. It was filled with the surging power to convince and convince people. It was as if even if he said that the sun hanging high in the sky was square, there would still be people who would believe him.
"Think about it. Why are we resisting the Imperium and fighting the Immortal Cultivators? There is no reason at all! It's just that we were born here, and our ancestors have been haunted by it all the time. Naturally, we have become the so-called Cultivators, the cockroaches, fleas, and rats who hide in panic below the ground all day long!
"Is such a life really worth it? Was this kind of resistance really useful? Do the ideas and hopes that we persist in really exist?
"Wake up, everybody. We are just caught in an illusion of self-hypnosis and self-touching. We have been haunted, parasitized, and possessed by the undead that should've perished a thousand years ago. We have completely lost our real selves!
"Our life is fake. Our resistance is fake. Our hope is fake. The heroes and the desperate counterattacks that we consider ourselves to be … are all fake. Fake!
"In the past, I was like all of you. Under the control of this undead who had been dead for a thousand years, I was shrouded in self-deception and thought that everything I did had some insignificant meaning.
"Thankfully, I woke up in time and realized that the so-called 'path of the Cultivators' was an out-and-out lie and a fairy tale that could never be turned into reality. It would only bring endless tragedies to the Land of Sins and all of us!
"Besides, we are not real Cultivators at all. We are just a bunch of mobsters who have been jumbled together by coincidence and driven by hatred, fury, and inertia!
"Not only are we absolutely no match for 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', we can't even cause any damage to them. We are just going to die for nothing! No one is afraid of death, but death must be worth it. Therefore, I must save everyone, lead everyone to realize the ridiculousness of this lie, lead everyone out of the sea of bitterness, and embark on a new life! "
Wei Longtao roared so hard that his veins were bulging. His face was so red that even his beard was congested.
He opened his muscular and powerful arms to the crowd and said with incomparable sincerity, "Come on, don't deceive yourself anymore. We are not real cultivators at all, not to mention that real cultivators were all beaten to a pulp by immortal cultivators a thousand years ago! What do the 'imposters' like us have to struggle for? Let go of your hatred, leave the underground world, and embrace a new life! I have received Lord Wuying Lan's promise. As long as we are willing to surrender unconditionally, we will certainly be treated humanely. We will have the opportunity to recognize the real true path of immortality and the rules of the world and become the supreme Immortal Cultivators.
"This is the brightest future that belongs to all of us!"
"General commander, you — you …"
Zuo Jingyun covered her mouth in disbelief. Tears flowed out of her eyes uncontrollably. She stepped back almost ten steps in a row, still finding it hard to believe everything that she had heard and seen. Her body was shaking like a sand tower in the wind, about to collapse at any moment.
The roars and explosions outside were getting closer and closer. With earsplitting noises, quite a few aggressive penetrators of the Immortal Cultivators crawled into the temple from all directions, bringing with them a large batch of raging Exos and spiritual puppets.
"There are enemies everywhere!"
"They are ten times more numerous than us!"
"What do we do? What do we do?"
The resistance warriors were like rats that had fallen into a hot pot. They were at a loss and completely lost their composure.
"Yes. Compared to the disobedient, uncivilized guys in the sea of stars, I feel that you still have the potential to be reformed."
Wuying Lan chuckled. "Therefore, if you are willing to lay down your weapons and surrender obediently, I promise as the master of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' that I will not hurt you. Instead, I will give you a chance to be transformed into Immortal Cultivators.
"Don't make a decision in a hurry. Come on. Let's see what happened to your 'fellow Cultivators' in the sea of stars first. Haha. Hahahaha!"
In Wuying Lan's laughter, the light beam around the enormous head displayed the battlefield in the vast sea of stars.
It could be clearly seen that in the space not far away from "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", hundreds of ragged, bizarre-shaped, half-armed starships jumped out one after another. When they gathered into the aggressive arc-shaped attack formation, they were rather intimidating, as if they could sweep through the enemy as easily as crushing dry weeds.
It was a pity that what they were faced with was not the broken city that had been blown to the brink of collapse by the "global sword network" but an iron fortress that had a complete defense system, abundant reserves of spiritual energy and ammunition, and which had been secretly reinforced by half of the main-force fleet of the Imperium in the recent month. It boasted tens of thousands of elite warriors from various families and was armed to the teeth!
Hardly had the coalition fleet of Starlight jumped to the depths of the Martial Meritocrats Sector when a large area of space torpedoes was detonated near their jump point, releasing the most violent radiation and high-energy particles, resulting in a highly unstable zone that extended to almost a million kilometers in space.
Those space torpedoes were not mainly used to damage the coalition fleet of Starlight but to completely disrupt the stability of the space in the area, in case the rats of Starlight ran away immediately when they saw that the situation was not good and launched a second space jump without bothering anything. Should they jump out of the Martial Meritocrats Sector or even the Devilish Scorpion Nebula, it would be even more difficult to catch them all. Should they be captured or annihilated by other forces, it would not be Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan's credit after all.
Right now, to perform a space jump in the highly unstable three-dimensional space was like setting sail when a tsunami hit. The difficulty and danger were ten times higher than before. Nobody would do such a suicidal thing.
Almost at the moment when the space torpedoes exploded, the weird bloody Flowers of the Other Shore slowly blossomed. The silent, cold, and elegant fleets of the Imperium slid out from the 'petals' one after another and formed an attack formation that looked like a sharp blade in a dazzling posture.
Hundreds of thousands of Crystal Suit spots were also awakened from the dark space around and surrounded the coalition fleet of Starlight.
From the bloody Flowers of the Other Shore and the Heavenly Rails, thousands of bloody pillars of light appeared without a sound, covering hundreds of thousands of kilometers in the moment and piercing into the coalition fleet of Starlight brutally, leaving bloody bubbles that seemed to be translucent.
The slaughter of the epic quest, Starlight Perishing, began!
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"We've been betrayed. 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is not damaged at all. Not even the surface of its spiritual shield has been scratched!"
"Why are so many main-force warships of the Imperium here? Shouldn't they be fighting the Holy League in the frontline? This — this is a trap! "
"We've been tricked! We've been betrayed by traitors! This is a scheme to lure the enemy in so that we can all be caught! A scheme!
"It's hopeless now. Run! Run! Run!"
Exclamations and screams were echoing in the communication channel of the leadership of the coalition fleet of Starlight. Now and then, tsunami-like explosions were taking place.
"Silence, all of you!"
When he saw that the enemy's space fortress was intact and that a large batch of main-force warships that far exceeded his expectations had shown up, Gao Kangda felt that the world was swirling, and the world before his eyes turned black and white.
However, he was a veteran general who had survived the 'Unpredictable Riot' after all. He knew that running at such a moment would be suicide. "Since this is a trap, our route of retreat must've been cut off by the enemy a long time ago. Look at the space stability index on your mainframe crystal processor. This space is like a piece of paper that has been ripped apart. It is impossible to perform a space jump!
"We have no choice but to march forward. Even if we are really going to escape, we can only break through the enemy in front of us and get rid of the chaotic space before we can perform a space jump!
"Have you forgotten our purpose? We are here to be killed in the first place. Come on. Show the Immortal Cultivators the courage of the Cultivators. Even if we are going to die, we will die together with 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and smash the wretched devil's nest to the surface of the planet!"
Faced with the glamorous main-force warships of the Imperium that were marching forward at a high speed, "Great Mountain", the armed mining starship that looked like a garbage planet, burst out the most dazzling exhaust flames in the past hundreds of years and charged at the enemy and "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky"!
…
"Do you see it? Your 'fellow Cultivators' in space have also jumped into our trap stupidly. They are being harvested, butchered, and destroyed merrily."
Wuying Lan said, "Those stubborn fellows are destined to die without the slightest chance. But you still have a choice. You can choose to repent, abandon the dark past, and embark on the path of brightness.
"Stop hesitating. My patience and mercy are both very limited. Drop all your illusions. Trust me. There are no miracles in this world!"
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The long-awaited fourth watch is finally here. This old bull is very excited himself, too!
It's a pity that I haven't written the part where 'miracles' are performed yet. It doesn't matter. We will continue our passion tomorrow and launch the real thunderous counterattack!
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