It was Li Linghai, the queen of the Imperium, who had followed and hunted Li Lingfeng all the way in the heartland of the Imperium of True Human Beings despite universal condemnation!
It was an earth-shattering and unexpected answer, but at the same time, it was a logical and reasonable answer.
Who else could've boasted the capability to beat Li Lingfeng and make him flee in panic except for the queen of the Imperium?
Li Yao was quite curious about the queen of the Imperium, Li Linghai, who was suspected to be his foster father's "old lover".
He knew that ever since Wuying Qi rose unstoppably and established the Imperium of True Human Beings more than a thousand years ago, there had never been an emperor as dominating as "Blackstar the Great" in the Imperium.
The emperors that followed were worse and worse. Also, because of the congenital limitations of the vastness of the universe, the imperial power was collapsing and shrinking all the time.
Today, the star of the Imperium had dimmed, and the lords had risen to divide the Imperium among themselves.
The emperor had to be elected by the "four Kurfürst families". Naturally, the emperor was controlled by the powerful lords and was their puppet.
Li Linghai, as the queen of the Imperium, was naturally a tool that the four Kurfürst families used to monitor and control the emperor.
However, it could be inferred from Li Lingfeng's words that the queen of the Imperium that he mentioned seemed unwilling to accept her fate as a "tool of monitoring" and had her own ambitions!
Also, since the emperor was just a puppet of the lords, how could he command the army to win a decisive victory in the frontline and secure a strategic victory against the Holy League?
Even if the Holy League was playing hard to get, as Li Yao and Di Feiwen, the deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet speculated, the emperor's leadership over the army of the Imperium was beyond question. What kind of role did Queen Li Linghai play in the "Imperium's counterattack" that had lasted for years? What was she up to?
Was the "Imperium's counterattack" just aimed at the Holy League, or …
Li Yao thought quickly, but he showed nothing on his face. He chuckled and said, "Got it. Your scheme has been seen through by the queen. You're screwed!"
"That's right, I'm finished."
Li Lingfeng did not argue. Instead, he stared at Li Yao and Li Jialing in desperation and grinned hideously. "But you will die with me. None of you will escape!"
"Lord Li, I remember that we had a sincere conversation earlier."
Rolling his eyes, Li Yao said unhurriedly, "You are not naïve enough to think that you can hide your relationship with Li Linghai and Li Jialing under such circumstances, are you? Naturally, you won't be able to escape this calamity, but how can anything happen to us? "
"Haha, hahahaha!"
Li Lingfeng burst into laughter. In the middle of the thunderstorm, his messy hair was loose and dancing crazily. "Therefore, you idiots know nothing about the truth! Especially you, Li Jialing! I nurtured you out of the goodness of my heart and gave you all the best resources. I have never treated my own children so well. Finally, I made you the number one expert among the younger generation of the Li family! Is this how you repay me? You're really treating my good intentions as ill intent, and you don't know the difference between life and death! "
"You don't have to make it sound so nice!"
Li Yao stepped in front of Li Jialing and said coldly, "We know all your schemes. How about it? Are you going to tell us Li Jialing's real identity, or should I?"
"I … don't have anything to hide. I was planning to find an appropriate opportunity to tell Li Jialing in the first place. So what if I tell you everything right now?"
Li Lingfeng couldn't have been more frank. There was no telling if he was pretending or if he really meant it that way. Pausing for a moment, he said again, "However, before I tell you everything, there is one thing that you must know. What do you think my ruthless sister, Li Linghai, is here for? Who is she here to kill?"
"To kill you, of course," Li Yao said. "Do you need to ask?"
Li Lingfeng smiled miserably. "Wrong. She may have learned everything that I have done and is determined to kill me. But if she wants to kill me, she certainly has countless opportunities to do so. There is no need for her to choose such a risky approach."
Li Yao blinked and asked, "Is she here to kill me?"
"Wrong again!"
Breathing heavily, Li Lingfeng stared at Li Yao with the most vicious eyes and said hoarsely, "I admit that you are very strong. Perhaps there is a mysterious, malicious force behind you, and you cannot be treated as a random Mr. Nobody. But however strong you are, it is impossible for the queen of the Imperium to attack you in person!"
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense. Unless Li Linghai had clairvoyant techniques, she couldn't have foreseen that he would appear in the Martial Meritocrats Sector and jump to the Sand Primitive Sector.
However, the Sand Primitive Sector was a desolate, forsaken world, and the three of them were the only extraterrestrial visitors. If Li Linghai's target was neither Li Lingfeng nor Li Yao, it could only be —
"Li Jialing?"
Bulging his eyes, Li Yao found it hard to believe. "She is here to kill Li Jialing?"
"Yes, that's exactly it!"
Li Lingfeng burst into laughter, like a raging lunatic. "Despite all my calculations and schemes, I still underestimated my ambitious, ruthless, and cold-hearted sister! I thought that even if the news was leaked and she heard something, it would be impossible for her to rescue Li Jialing from my hands! But I didn't know that she was not here to rescue him at all. She was here to kill her own flesh and blood! "
Huala!
An incomparably sharp bolt of lightning flashed over the heads of the three people.
It also seemed to have slashed Li Jialing's face brutally.
"What — What did you say?"
The young man's face was pale, and his lips were shivering as he spoke softly.
Li Yao stepped to the side and held the young man's shoulder softly, transmitting a stream of spiritual energy into his body to help him stabilize his soul and his emotions.
"I said that you are Li Linghai's flesh and blood, which means that you are my flesh and blood nephew. Right now, your mother is going to kill both of us to prevent any future trouble!"
Li Lingfeng laughed crazily, hideously, and brutally. "How about it? Is it clear enough?"
Although Li Yao had given Li Jialing a warning in advance, which gave him a vague understanding of his relationship with Li Lingfeng and his sister, the most dark answer still shocked the young man deeply. He was dumbfounded for a moment, unable to say anything.
Li Yao's face was gloomy as he considered the loopholes in Li Lingfeng's words quickly.
"What? Are you suspecting that I'm lying?"
Li Lingfeng immediately sensed the subtle changes in Li Yao's soul. He sneered, "Now, it's time for you to activate the computational ability of the Divinity Transformation Stage and think about it carefully. In fact, the whole thing is very simple. Li Jialing is the flesh and blood of the queen of the Imperium, but it is a great, great, great shame that my good nephew's father is not our 'invincible, invincible, supreme emperor whose accomplishments are as great as Blackstar the Great'. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Who will be the most unlucky one when such a great scandal is exposed?
"Yes, of course, the Li family will suffer a heavy blow. Even I will be affected by the shocking scandal. But isn't the queen herself the first to bear the brunt of it?
"My sister's ambition is even higher than mine. In the past hundred years, she has been doing everything the family asked of her and faithfully completing all the missions that the family has given her. It seems that she is truly loyal to the family and to the vassals and is willing to be a tool to control the emperor.
"But in secret, she has been raising men of sacrifice, making friends with the vassals at the edge of the Imperium and the bottom-level young officers in the space fleets, gradually forming her own force. By the time her ambitions were vaguely discovered by the family, it was already impossible for her to get rid of her!
"Although my sister is immeasurable, and even I do not know what she is pursuing exactly, I am very certain that whatever it is, it requires supreme power as the foundation!
"If the scandal that she has an illegitimate son behind the emperor's back is exposed at this moment, the situation that she has worked hard for a hundred years will be ruined. Her power, position, strength, and ambitions will all collapse!
"So, smart mysterious man, tell me, is there any reason why our queen has left such a great trouble in the world instead of annihilating him completely without leaving any loopholes?"
His eyelids twitching crazily, Li Yao gnashed his teeth. "What's the use of killing Li Jialing? It won't even help if you are killed, will it? Would she not leave any evidence for such a big thing? Take you for example. Wouldn't you leave all kinds of experiment data, blood samples, and the like, and threaten her that the evidence will be publicized once you are dead? "
"Those are all indirect evidence. It is impossible to bring down an honorable queen."
Li Lingfeng sneered, "The leaders of the Imperium have a lot of clandestine deals in private, but as long as there is no direct evidence, there are naturally ways to cover or even completely erase them.
"But right now, there is only one piece of direct evidence, which is Li Jialing himself!
"As long as Li Jialing is killed and the traces are destroyed, no matter how much indirect evidence other people present, they will be able to claim that it is fabricated and slander the queen. With the queen's position and strength today, such feeble attacks cannot hurt her core at all.
"Therefore, she can even let me go today and let me run away like a stray dog. After all, I have lost everything and cannot pose much of a threat to her. Nobody will, or rather, nobody 'dares' to, believe what I say.
"But she will certainly not let go of Li Jialing, because Li Jialing is the only person who can possibly threaten her position, power, and ambitions!"
After hearing that, Li Jialing finally couldn't help but grunt. Vomiting a mouthful of lackluster blood, he collapsed on Li Yao's body.
"Are you alright?"
Li Yao hurried to support the young man. He thought for a long time but did not know how to comfort him. "Don't — don't worry too much. In fact, such things are very common. Many people have encountered them before!"
"I'm sorry, my 'good nephew'. I was hoping to find a more suitable opportunity to tell you everything slowly."
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