"I'm ready. Everything is exactly as you expected."
The mental devil shared the sound and vision with Li Yao. It was lurking in the main control center of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", among an enormous array of super crystal processors, spying on the specialists of crystal processors who were running around like headless flies. "This space fortress does indeed have a fully-automatic landing plan, which ensures that it will automatically disassemble and slowly land on the ground when it suffers an unexpected strike, ensuring the integrity of the main structure and the safety of the internal members as much as possible."
"Of course."
Li Yao said, "Such low-orbit space stations generally have a standardized fully-automatic landing plan. Otherwise, even if the people in the space fortress do not care about their lives anymore, the people living on the planet do! In the Federation, the low-orbit space stations all have to be installed with fully-automatic buffer and landing units. I believe that the Imperium follows the same logic. "
"Right now, the landing plan has been activated," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "The anti-gravity rune arrays are gradually turning off and weakening. We are slowly cutting into the atmosphere. By estimation, we will completely land on the ground in six to eight hours. As long as you do not continue sabotaging the energy core, I assume that the Immortal Cultivators in 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' will not sabotage the 'forced landing program' and get themselves smashed into pieces, right?"
"Very good. I did not destroy the main reactor of the energy core by brute force. I only sabotaged part of its cooling units, reducing its output power to … around 30%."
Li Yao calculated quickly. "Such output power should not be enough to maintain its defense shield or provide too much support to the mainframe crystal processor. How is the stream going next?"
"It is still going on," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "It's obvious that the enemy is reluctant to give up the epic quest of 'Dying Light'. Just now, I vaguely overheard that the quest is related to the lottery groups, the stock price, the financial market, the interests of the major families, and so on. They are all deeply connected. It is not even something that Wuying Lan can stop on his own if he wants to.
"The stream is still going on, but what they are sending out right now are highly-rendered and modified data packages. Some of them are even sounds and pictures that have been fabricated out of thin air. Technically speaking, it is no longer a real 'stream'.
"Now that Wuying Lan has been killed by you, 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is now leaderless. They don't know what to do with the rest of the people, either. Absolutely nobody is bold enough to stop the stream."
"Got it. They will soon taste the taste of their own medicine."
Li Yao sneered. "Have you located the nodes from which they send out data packages incessantly and hacked them?"
"Of course. Can you ask more in-depth questions next time?"
The mental devil grimaced. "Don't forget that I have swallowed tremendous tenebrum energy from the 'internet extraterrestrial devil' and absorbed all of Professor Mo Xuan's legacies on the Spiritual Nexus and crystal processors. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am a new generation of 'internet extraterrestrial devil' whose power has been strengthened!
"The internet extraterrestrial devil swallowed the 'star child' from the Imperium in the first place and had a high understanding of the features of the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus of the Imperium. You have also knocked out more than 50% of the output power of the energy core, which significantly lowered the performance of the mainframe crystal processor here. I also played a trick of 'diversion' to mislead the enemy into thinking that I was attacking the mainframe crystal processor of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' on a large scale so that we could completely seize the control of the space fortress.
"As I expected, the enemy has devoted all their remaining computational ability to the defense of the mainframe crystal processor, but nobody has foreseen that our real target is the data transmission base of the external nodes of the Spiritual Nexus in 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'!
"Hehehehe. This is essentially an undefended city. I feel that I am free to roam unstoppably!
"However, I still need to remind you that the best I can do is to catch the enemy unprepared. After all, they have such a huge array of super crystal processors, which is not something that my thin body can resist. Once they realize what is going on, they will definitely be able to block all the loopholes in one minute.
"Also, we can only solve the problem of the 'data transmitter', but we cannot interfere with the countermeasures of the 'data receiver'. When the data of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is packed and sent to a certain Sector on the other side of the sea of stars, the enemy can modify or even turn off the data exchange channel when they realize that something is wrong. Once they 'close the window and lock the door', there will be nothing that we can do."
Li Yao frowned. "Skip the details and tell me directly. How long can you buy them at most?"
"About one minute here," the mental devil said.
"After they are sent to various Sectors, it will depend on how smart the information inspectors there are. Maybe they can persist for half a minute, maybe ten seconds, or even five seconds."
"Five seconds? Ten seconds? Half a minute?"
Li Yao chuckled. "That's enough. Remember to hack into a few more crystal cameras and aim them at me. Make me look more handsome and extraordinary in the pictures!"
While communicating with the mental devil, Li Yao did not slow down at all. After scanning the situation of the main reactor, he extended and tore at the collapsed pathway, moving away all the metal debris that blocked the pathway out of nowhere!
On the other side of the pathway, a team of Immortal Cultivators was sweating hard in anxiety, trying to clear the pathway. Seeing that the pathway was automatically expanding, they were all dazed.
Li Yao did not give them much time to be stunned and panicked.
The Mystic Skeleton Battleship? The bloody wing turned into a streak of redness and darted into the Immortal Cultivators. In their desperate exclamations, overwhelming bloody flames were triggered!
Three minutes later, the furiously burning Mystic Skeleton Battleship? The bloody wing strode forward in the central area of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky".
Half a day ago, the central area, which had been peaceful, peaceful, and filled with the luxury and indifference of the upper-class society, had turned into a hell drowned by an ocean of blood.
The roars of the prisoners and the screams of the workers were everywhere, mixed with the fury of some battle-type Immortal Cultivators. But their fury often lasted only several seconds before it was swallowed by the noises of the ferocious beasts that were lunging at each other.
What goes around comes around. Li Yao's sympathy was rather limited. It was not enough even when he projected it onto the ordinary people in the Land of Sins. He could not feel anything for the appalling corpses of the Immortal Cultivators at all.
"Help me! Help me! Help me now!"
A middle-aged man in a white coat, who looked like a researcher in a laboratory in the Land of Sins, ran toward Li Yao in panic.
Perhaps it was Li Yao's Crystal Suit and his indifference that gave the man the illusion that Li Yao was a member of the Immortal Cultivators. As if he had seen a life-saving straw, he crawled toward Li Yao's thigh.
Li Yao raised his leg and kicked the man back into the hundreds of hideous, crazy prisoners behind him.
Sounds of flesh being torn apart and bones being broken immediately echoed in the crowd. In his desperate screams, the researcher was torn into pieces the size of a fingernail by the "test subject" that he had created in person.
Huchi … Huchi … Huchi … Huchi …
The prisoners bulged their bloodshot eyes and stared at Li Yao.
"Huh?"
Li Yao slightly frowned. He unleashed the most intimidating aura and slapped the prisoners who had fallen into madness brutally like a burning whip. They all grunted and finally calmed down a little.
"If you have killed enough, go and loot more fuel and assets. Then, try to find a carrier in the space port."
Li Yao said, "Of all the people here, some of you must have experience in piloting mining starships in space, right? As for whether or not you know how to pilot a carrier, it will depend on your luck. This space fortress will crash to the surface of the planet very soon. If you cannot find one or cannot pilot a carrier, just be prepared to live on the ground or even below the ground. In any case … this is as far as I can help you!"
The prisoners were slightly dazed. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they all rolled their eyes and dispersed.
Li Yao continued moving forward. Passing through the pathways that were burning and exploding nonstop and stepping over the mangled, deformed bodies of countless Immortal Cultivators and prisoners, he reached the most critical core of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", where the main control room and the information processing center were located.
This area was the last stronghold that the Immortal Cultivators were defending. It was guarded by the elites of the Heavenly Eye Legion and had not been breached by the prisoners yet.
One side of the pathway had been piled up with the bodies of prisoners. The prisoners who had gone on a rampage tried to break in again and again, only to be blown back by the stormy firepower of the Immortal Cultivators time and time again. They were all screaming in fury and scratching bloody wounds on their bodies that were deep to the bone.
Li Yao's arrival raised the prisoners' overwhelming roars. Their passion and blood almost blew up the entire pathway.
Li Yao was not moved at all. He simply tapped one side of the helmet of the Crystal Suit softly and sent out a ripple to Neltharion that had long snuck into the opposite side. "Are you ready?"
"More than ready. All the crystal cameras are aimed at you."
The mental devil whistled. "Come on!"
"You must make me look super handsome, invincible, and absolutely sage-like!"
Li Yao reminded him again and again. "This is … the first time in a thousand years that a Cultivator is being broadcasted in front of all the people of the Imperium!"
"Got it. Just come on," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "I guarantee that you will be as handsome and unrestrained as you can be in the photos. I guarantee that even if it is only a couple of seconds, all the ladies and wives in the entire Imperium will have their hearts pounding and fall in love with you without any regrets!"
"That's good."
Li Yao smiled and hinted at the hideous, raging prisoners to make way for him. Then, he fell on one of his knees and prepared for a sprint. After a shua, the two bloody wings rose high again like two red flags that were waving in the wind. Two dragons could even vaguely be seen dancing crazily on the 'flags'.
"You are so fond of livestreams, aren't you? Then, let's have some fun! Dear audience, the livestream that belongs to the Cultivators … begins now! "
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