"It is useless to 'think about it'!"
Li Lingfeng suddenly raised his voice and glared at him. "My fellow Cultivator whose name I do not know, but who is in the same boat as me, although you have been covering yourself flawlessly, I have more or less guessed your identity and situation from the traces I found!"
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. "Is that so?"
"First of all, you were able to raise an assassin, attacker, and saboteur in the Divinity Transformation Stage without anybody knowing, and you boasted a Colossus that cannot be found in any database of the Imperium. In the entire Imperium, the only forces with such abilities are the 'four Kurfürst families' and the commanders of the few coalition fleets that have risen recently. Given your background, there is no way that you can escape from the few forces!"
Li Lingfeng declared resolutely, leaving no room for argument. "However, despite your distinguished background and remarkable capabilities, you have been used as a 'vanguard' by the forces behind you, who asked you to carry out such a mission that is almost suicidal without any pity. It seems that your life in the forces has not been easy. Perhaps, you have been resented, envied, or shunned by other people. Somebody is even trying to kill you through my hands?
"Otherwise, I really can't figure out why a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator would take such a high risk to destroy 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. For you personally, there are no benefits at all. There is even a ninety-nine percent chance that you will be killed!
"Take this very moment for example. Had it not been for Li Linghai's sudden arrival, you would've been killed by me a long time ago!
"As an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage, you should be able to calculate your life and death clearly in the blink of an eye. How can you do such a thing on impulse? It is completely illogical! "
Li Yao's pupils dilated and constricted nonstop. Veins were popping up on his face, too. He said slowly, "Fellow Cultivator Li, should I say that your IQ is finally online, and you are revealing the computational and deduction abilities of the Divinity Transformation Stage?"
Li Lingfeng sneered. "Excluding all the illogical and illogical choices, my speculation is the only possible truth. Otherwise, your appearance and your actions cannot be explained at all!"
Li Yao was silent for a long time. Finally, he sighed softly and said, "So what if it is the truth? In the sea of stars, one could not do as one wished. Even if one was as strong as a deity or a devil, one could not do whatever one wanted and be lawless! The Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and other resources that the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators devoured every day were astronomical. The seemingly powerful Colossus also required the maintenance and maintenance of an enormous industrial system. There was also the problem of fuel, ammunition, and weapons replacement. Without the support of the family, what could I do with one Colossus?
"Therefore, although I know that it is a life-threatening mission to sabotage your territory in the Martial Meritocrats Sector on my own, although I know that the ghost identity of 'Cultivator' cannot fool everybody in the Imperium, although I know that it is very likely that I will be beaten to death by you, or that I will be hated by you for the rest of my life even if I am not killed by you. Although I know that the entire Li family will consider me as prey if the whole thing is exposed, and I will likely end up as a victim of a private deal. Even though I know that it is a scheme of certain people in my own force to 'kill with a borrowed knife', and I know everything as clearly as I can, but … but so what? So what?
"You're right. I am just a tool. I am an extremely sharp saber. However sharp a saber is, there is no way that I can control whose hand it is in and what it is going to cut!"
Toward the end, blood was glittering at the corner of Li Yao's eyes, and his voice was filled with resentment and hatred!
Li Lingfeng observed him without batting an eyelid. Suddenly, he chuckled and said, "It seems that I was not wrong at all just now. We are both in the same boat. It seems that I should hate the forces behind you instead of you. Those guys who have been scheming to destroy my life, my slaughter stream platform, and the Heavenly Eye Group, as well as kill two birds with one stone at the same time!"
The blood inside Li Yao's eyes were glowing. He said gloomily, "Exactly. Perhaps those guys are trying to kill two birds with one stone by killing the two of us together!"
Li Lingfeng blinked and smiled even more brilliantly. "After such a long battle and such a long chat, I don't think I know your name yet, fellow Cultivator."
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "Just call me 'Vulture Li Yao'."
Li Lingfeng glanced at Li Jialing, more and more certain of his answer.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes, with hostility popping up in his eyes again. "Why? Your senses have been locked onto Li Jialing the whole time. Are you trying to determine whether or not the name I gave you is a fake one through his indirect reaction?"
"Of course, the name you gave me is a fake one."
Li Lingfeng chuckled. "However, judging from my nephew's reaction, you have at least given me the same pseudonym as you have given him, which is more or less a proof of your sincerity."
Li Yao glanced at Li Jialing and mumbled, "I feel more and more that I underestimated you yesterday. I thought that you were just an ambitious but incompetent heir of a noble family. I didn't expect that at the perilous moment of life and death, your wisdom would erupt like a volcano. Even the secret that 'Vulture Li Yao' is a fake name has been seen through by you. How impressive!
"Cut the crap. Now that we've all more or less probed each other's trump cards, what do you want exactly, Fellow Cultivator Li?"
"Vulture Li Yao, Fellow Cultivator Li, right? Don't be so wary. Although it sounds hard to believe, it's true that I don't mean you any harm at this moment. I'm not qualified to mean you harm, either. I only want to help each other. "
Li Lingfeng opened his hands and said frankly, "You know better than anybody else that the 'Dying Light Mission' has been completely screwed up, 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' has been destroyed, and the Heavenly Eye Group is completely hopeless. The tiny forces that I've been working on for decades may fall apart at any moment. The big shots of my family's trust and support for me can't be the same as before.
"All in all, I am more embarrassed than I have ever been in the past hundred years. It is barely possible for me to turn the tables on my own.
"How can I refuse the friendship of another expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage when I am in such a situation? And one in the Divinity Transformation Stage who owns such a powerful Colossus! "
"Friendship?"
Li Yao sneered. "Then, what can I get in return?"
"The friendship of another expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage, of course!"
Li Lingfeng smiled. "Although I have nothing right now, my core forces have not been damaged and are still cleaning up the mess in the Martial Meritocrats Sector. I just don't know what happened here. The wretched Sand Primitive Sector has been messed up by the destructive experiments in the past hundreds of years. It is barely possible for our signals to be sent out.
"All in all, as long as you can help me through the difficulties right now, I am absolutely confident that I can rise again. By then, if you want to change your fate, I don't think you will mind some selfless help from the 'real master of the Li family'!
"If two experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage form an alliance, the entire sea of stars will tremble. How about it? Do you want to appear on the most glamorous stage of the Imperium openly and claim the power and glory that belong to you in the first place?"
Li Yao's eyelids were cramping violently. He ground his teeth like a file, and his voice was even more hoarse. "That's it? You want to trick me into working for you with such frivolous nonsense? "
"Of course not. That's all for later. The most important thing right now is my good sister, our queen."
Li Lingfeng sniffed the air. "She has entered the thunderstorm area and is searching for us in the storm. It's a pity that the magnetic field here is too disordered for her to lock onto our coordinates for the time being. But it won't be long before she finds us … How about it? I don't believe that you are not interested in the queen."
Li Yao asked somewhat unnaturally, "Why should I be interested in the queen?"
With the expression of 'you can't fool me' all over his face, Li Lingfeng said, "Stop pretending, Fellow Cultivator Li. We have been communicating with each other sincerely. Why are you hiding anything when a great enemy is right in front of us? If you and the force behind you are not interested in the queen, how can you know so many secrets? "
After a brief daze, Li Yao relaxed the wariness on his face. He said, "Fine. I admit that the major forces of the Imperium are very interested in the queen right now. After all, just like you said, her ambitions are gradually revealed and pose a threat to all parties, don't they?"
"That's right. This younger sister of mine has become more and more unpredictable, unfathomable, and even terrifying in just a short hundred years."
Li Lingfeng sighed and said, "Pushing her to the throne of 'queen of the Imperium' was perhaps the greatest mistake that the Li family made in the past hundred years. But at that time, who could've foreseen that … she would become like this?
"All in all, she is now fully fledged, and she is about to bare the most hideous tusks. At such a critical moment, she will not allow any unexpected factors to disrupt her plan and kill the three of us here!
"If we continue our internal strife and brutalize each other, we will only be killed by her one after another. There is absolutely no chance of winning at all.
"However, if we join our hands, two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and Li Jialing, the 'perfect experiment subject' that Wuying Lan and I carefully produced, it is not entirely impossible for us to fight her!
"It must be noted that Li Jialing's existence has always been her greatest secret. Even the 'Deep Sea Fleet', a secret troop that she has been raising in secret, cannot be known by those people.
"Furthermore, she couldn't have guessed that we would team up at all. She thought that the two of you had already escaped to the deepest part of the thunderstorm area. Therefore, she must've chased after you alone and definitely wouldn't have brought any helpers.
"This will be our best opportunity!"
Li Jialing had been listening in silence. He couldn't help but ask, "You want us to kill her together?"
Li Lingfeng chuckled. "I never said that I was going to kill her. I know that you may not be able to do it, but I am only asking you to control her, talk to her, make some deals, and even tell her the truth about your birth. Is that acceptable to you?"
"Rest assured. Your uncle won't kill your mother."
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