"Ao! Ao! Ao! Ao! "
Wuying Lan felt that his internal organs were burning. He could not have regretted it more!
In terms of level, he was only at the peak of the Yuanying Stage and had not reached the threshold of the super experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage. Also, he was not a pure battle-type but a rarely-seen triple talent in fighting, management, and research.
That was why he had been able to creat the concept of "slaughter stream" and establish the "Heavenly Eye Group", one of the largest media platforms in the Imperium. He was also able to participate in the cutting-edge studies in the laboratories on the Land of Sins in person. Although he might not be adept at them, he could at least learn the progress of the specialists and scholars in various fields and point out certain groundbreaking research directions occasionally.
However, with his talents in management and research, and having to deal with the paperwork and academic work of the Heavenly Eye Group and the laboratories on the Land of Sins on a daily basis, it did not mean that Wuying Lan's combat ability was weak.
When he realized that his talent in fighting could only reach the peak of the Yuanying Stage at best, Wuying Lan set up a new approach and modified his body with the research results on the laboratories on the Land of Sins.
He had injected all kinds of strengthening drugs and gene activators into his blood vessels and even his cells. He had even replaced all his internal organs with brand-new organs bred from the mutated beasts and transplanted them into his body to replace the weak organs that he had before!
In the laboratories on the Land of Sins, "level" and "combat ability" could not be equated. For hundreds of years, they had created thousands of secret arts at the cost of the lives of millions of people, which could exploit the ultimate potential deep inside the human body!
Therefore, although he was "only" at the peak of the Yuanying Stage, after the craziest bloodline inside his body was really activated, Wuying Lan was able to wield the combat ability equal to the low level of the Divinity Transformation Stage.
When he was highly vigilant, he could even fight a warrior in the middle level of the Divinity Transformation Stage.
Even if he ran into a Divinity Transformation Stage expert such as Li Lingfeng, he would at least have a chance to escape.
That was the greatest reliance that Wuying Lan had when he was bold enough to break into the central energy cabin and annihilate the mysterious enemy on his own.
He alone was equal to the entire most elite tactical squad of the Heavenly Eye Legion!
Also, the capability of the guy at the peak of the Yuanying Stage that he sensed at the beginning also befitted the identity of a "special expert of Starlight".
Wuying Lan did not consider the possibility that Li Yao was hiding his strength at all.
It was because Starlight, the other forces of the Imperium, and even the Holy League had already sent a top-tier expert whose combat ability was close to the Divinity Transformation Stage in order to deal with "tiny" Manjusaka, the City in the Sky!
Never in Wuying Lan's wildest dreams did Wuying Lan expect that he was faced with an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage and a seasoned expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage. Also, the guy intentionally hid his strength and built a trap with crystal bombs that were both real and fake. How shameless!
Clearly, he could have used his strength to crush them, yet he still resorted to schemes and tricks?
Wuying Lan could not figure it out at all.
His multiple misjudgments caused him to completely lose the chance to escape.
At this moment, Li Yao's most violent spiritual energy was raging among his internal organs, limbs, and bones, vaporizing every mitochondria inside his every cell. Wuying Lan's head was in a mess.
The memories of the past flowed into his head. He was not convinced. He was regretful. He was in pain. He tried his best to survive, even if he had to kneel down and beg for mercy from the mysterious expert.
However, he could not utter any explanation or begging for mercy from his burning throat anymore. The only thing that could be heard were screams that were each louder than the last.
Wuying Lan had never felt so desperate before. He had never felt that he was nothing more than a tiny ant in front of the mysterious Cultivator as he did at this moment.
Wuying Lan's body continued expanding.
Li Yao's spiritual energy that was flooding like a flood had burnt part of his brain, making him completely lose control of his ability to control the mutated cells inside his body. His limbs were expanding and twisting beyond his control. Now, tufts of hair were growing out of his body. Now, scales were appearing on his body. Now, his skin was completely ripped apart and dissolved, revealing the flesh below that looked like tumors.
"Hoooo! Hoooo! Hoooo! "
Waving his abnormal arms, Wuying Lan struggled hard, but he could not get away from Li Yao's control however hard he struggled. His body had expanded to almost five meters tall, but the crimson flames that suddenly surrounded Li Yao were condensed into the image of the giant that was almost ten meters tall, which was still suppressing him firmly. Crack!
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
Crack! Wuying Lan's expansion finally reached the limits. The mitochondria inside his cells were almost burnt up. The bones all over his body were broken at the same time, collapsing like a glass castle. Violent flames of spiritual energy dashed out of his facial orifices and his torn flesh. His gargantuan body was burnt black, and it began to shrink rapidly.
"No! No! No!"
Wuying Lan's soul screamed miserably and escaped from the shell that was riddled with holes and burning furiously. He turned into hundreds of telepathic thoughts and dispersed in all directions, trying to get away from Li Yao's savagery.
However, before the telepathic thoughts ran far away, hundreds of flames of spiritual energy that looked like tentacles spread out from the depths of his shell and tied up every telepathic thought, dragging them back into the shell that was burning smaller and smaller. Squeak! Squeak!
Squeak! Squeak!
Those telepathic thoughts could no longer trigger systematic ripples of thoughts, but they were shrieking like rats in a pot of boiling oil, struggling in vain.
In the end, they were all dragged back into the body and burnt up in the boiling flames of fury!
In less than half a minute, the abnormal body that was as magnificent as a mountain was reduced to a burnt corpse that was no more than one meter in diameter. It fell apart.
In the end, the remaining soul dashed out of the burnt corpse and condensed into a fuzzy face in midair. It was vaguely recognizable as Wuying Lan's face.
Pain, misery, regret, desperation, confusion, and many other complicated expressions were written all over the face.
The crystal at the center of Li Yao's palms had not been retracted into his body yet. He opened his fingers and aimed at the remaining soul. The light balls flashed nonstop and blew it into smithereens before it released the ripples of begging for mercy!
Wuying Lan, the owner of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", who was ambitious enough to create a media empire, was blown apart just like that, never to be reincarnated. He was completely obliterated in the cold universe.
The only things that could prove that he once existed were the burnt corpses that looked like charcoal on the ground and the lumpy pieces of the Crystal Suit that had been melted together!
"Shua!"
The bloody wings that were raging like furious flames on Li Yao's back were retracted. The biochemical crystal that was used to activate the Cell Obliteration Cannon was retracted into his palms, too. He did not bother to look at Wuying Lan's broken body anymore. It was just a small fry that was not worth his time.
Li Yao lunged at the main reactor of the energy core quickly.
Of course, he was not stupid enough to really destroy the main reactor.
It must be noted that the energy core was not only responsible for delivering incessant energy for the defense system and the anti-gravity rune arrays of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" but also to protect the overall structure of the space fortress.
If the main reactor completely exploded or died out, the immense tidal force alone would be enough to rip apart "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" in the blink of an eye. Then, it would be blown to the surface of the Martial Meritocrats Planet brutally in the most terrible meteor shower, making the Land of Sins, which was already devastated, even worse.
In that case, the ordinary people living in the Land of Sins would have to bear the strike of the second apocalypse.
However, it was not Li Yao's intention to allow "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" to continue floating on the atmosphere, either.
The critical problem was that the people of the Land of Sins had to count on the food and energy that "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" delivered regularly in order to survive.
Right now, "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was in chaos. In the foreseeable year and a half to come, it would be barely possible to deliver assets into the atmosphere.
The Imperium did not care about the lives of the people of the Land of Sins at all. Perhaps it would save them a lot of trouble if the people of the Land of Sins were starved to death.
Therefore, Li Yao had to figure out a way to get "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" to the ground. It did not matter even if it turned into debris, but it could not fall too fast. It would be best if it could be disintegrated into pieces and scattered everywhere on the planet so that the people of the Land of Sins would have a chance to seize the tremendous assets stored inside the space fortress and find new hope with those assets!
Li Yao lunged at the control panel of the main reactor.
The control panel had been protected by his defense rune arrays a moment ago and was not affected by the fierce battle between him and Wuying Lan.
As he expected, the main reactor was intact, except that the output power was gradually dropping because the ancillary operation units around had been sabotaged by Li Yao.
Li Yao was more or less relieved.
The mental devil's voice echoed from deep inside his brain. "You're done? So simple?"
"Yes, I am."
Li Yao said, "What do you mean by 'so simple'? What else could it have been?"
"I thought that you would be chatting with Wuying Lan for a long time," the mental devil said.
"You would listen to him expound on the fancy, seemingly serious philosophies first. Then, you would talk about his miserable background, his unavoidable difficulties, and his lofty ideals. Then, you would uncover some shocking secrets. In the end, you would discover that everything he said was just to buy time so that he could perform some awesome ultimate transformation. Then, he beat you into a pig's head with the ultimate transformation, and you perceived some mysterious ultimate skills the moment you turned into a pig's head. At the most perilous moment, you finally killed him."
"… It's not as unbelievable as you described," Li Yao said.
"It's not unbelievable at all. That's how you fought every time before!"
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