The wrath of the Divinity Transformation Stage was certainly not to be underestimated. No matter how useless Li Lingfeng's performance was when he was faced with the unexpected setback, he did have the combat ability of the Divinity Transformation Stage after all.
Once he put on a desperate stance, the ground was torn apart by him, the rocks were crushed by him, and even the lightning was affected by his vitality magnetic field. Together with the stones and wind, they gathered around him to form an indestructible fortress. He had the aura of being able to move mountains and overturn seas, as well as the sky and earth.
Huala!
As it turned out, it was still Li Lingfeng who took action first. The blue spiritual energy that was visible to the naked eye slashed the ground like a saber. A gap as thick as a boa zigzagged all the way to Li Linghai's feet!
The Pure White Crystal Suit stopped at the end of the gap. The ladder made of lightning turned into a glittering throne, allowing her to stand in the middle of the storm as if a deity had arrived.
Although there was not a single ripple that could be called an "expression" on the mask carved out of white jade, anybody could still sense her intense disdain immediately.
"You're not running anymore?"
The queen of the Imperium chuckled casually behind the mask.
Her voice was very weird.
At first glance, it was indescribably smooth and graceful, with a hint of aloofness and indifference. It was the most standard, perfect, and impeccable voice that an "empress" should have.
However, in Li Yao's ears, he felt that the voice seemed to have been carefully processed. Every wave in the syllables had been adjusted perfectly before it was sent out through the broadcast rune arrays.
This was a voice that had been carefully embellished. Even the feeling of ridicule and indifference was a disguise, but it had deeply concealed the true feelings and will of the owner of the voice, causing others to be completely unable to fathom the depths of the owner of the voice.
"Impressive!"
Li Yao's pores, which had been constricted to the minimum, were about to expand again. Cold sweat leaked out.
The pressure that the queen brought to him was too enormous. The plain-looking word seemed to be much more terrifying than Li Lingfeng's performance a few days ago, when he was raging, unpredictable, and confident all of a sudden.
Li Yao even vaguely had the illusion that the queen was talking to Li Lingfeng or to him in a low voice.
His heart couldn't help but shudder.
Li Lingfeng shuddered, too. Holding his saber tightly, he shouted, "Li Linghai, don't you go too far! If I were to disregard everything and flee ten thousand miles away, you might not be able to catch up to me even if you were given three days and three nights. By the time the armies of the Li Clan and the other clans arrive, what can you do to me?
"However, this won't benefit either of us. It's a situation where we'll all die together!
"You and I are siblings after all. I don't want to do something that would hurt my family and please my enemies. That's why I've been waiting for you here. I want to talk to you, but it's definitely not because I'm afraid of you!"
"Pain for those close to you and delight those who hate you?"
Low chuckles echoed from behind the white jade mask again. Li Linghai said casually, "So, after more than a hundred years, you still remember that you are my blood brother. We are family. We haven't had a good talk for more than a hundred years. What do you want to talk about at this moment? About our 'love for brother and sister'? "
"Of course, we should have a good talk about our relationship as siblings. Perhaps you misunderstood me about something that happened more than a hundred years ago, but so many years have passed, and we've all undergone tremendous changes. We're siblings after all, so there's no unresolvable grudge between us, right?"
Rolling his eyes quickly, Li Lingfeng said, "However, let's not talk about 'love for brother and sister' right now. How about 'love for mother and son'? Let's talk about your own son, your own son!"
There was not the slightest stagnation or fluctuation in the voice below the white jade mask. It even sounded like a recording that had been recorded in advance and was being played right now. "His Majesty and I have twelve princes. Which one do you want to talk about?"
"My good sister, Your Grace," Li Lingfeng sneered. "Let's not waste our time beating around the bush. What I want to talk to you about is naturally not the twelve princes that you have with His Majesty but the thirteenth one, the one that you have with the Holy League and the one that you are here to kill today!"
The white jade mask was silent.
"I'll take your silence as a yes," Li Lingfeng said. "To be honest, I did chase them all the way to the Sand Primitive Sector, but the Sand Primitive Sector is not a barren land that has absolutely nothing. There are quite a few starships here!
"Where did those starships come from? It's very simple. You know that the Sand Primitive Sector is very close to the Martial Meritocrats Sector. Also, this place has been closed for almost three hundred years for the purpose of nurturing devils. It will be opened in a few decades.
"Wuying Lan and I were very interested in the Sand Primitive Sector. We wanted to establish a second 'laboratory of the Land of Sins' here. Since we had the geographical advantage, we often snuck into this place for investigation and exploration. For the convenience of our operation and safety, we secretly hid a few small starships that were filled with fuel and easy to maneuver in this place. That's not strange, is it?
"Let me tell you, even if you kill me right now, it will still be useless. This little guy who has the blood of you and the people of the Holy League flowing in his veins may still be running in the universe on a starship. That's … not very appropriate, is it?
"Therefore, let's talk and figure out a way to settle the matter properly before we deal with the annoying old guys in the family together. What do you think?"
The white jade mask was still silent. One would almost mistake it for a lifeless statue instead of a Crystal Suit.
It was not until half a minute later that Li Linghai finally touched the left temple of the helmet softly, dissecting the helmet slowly and retracting it into the Crystal Suit, revealing the most soul-stirring beautiful face.
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. He could not help but shriek in his heart, Wow. A white-haired witch!
The queen of the Imperium in front of him was at least a hundred and fifty years old, if not two hundred years old. However, she still had an ageless face that could freeze time. She had bright eyes and white teeth. She was so beautiful that she could topple a city and turn all living things upside down.
Moreover, the lines of her facial features were on the weak side, like … a lonely flower in the bleak wind and rain. It was unknown how much pain and torture she had suffered, causing one to be unable to help but have the desire to protect her with a single glance. She didn't have the slightest trace of aggressiveness, indifference, and mercilessness in her voice.
However …
That was on the premise that her hair and her eyes were ignored.
If one were to count her pure white hair that was as pure as a waterfall of ice crystals, and her eyes that were almost transparent and faintly flickered with white light, without a single trace of black light, her gentleness would turn into fierceness, and her delicateness would turn into viciousness. Her seemingly gentle lines would instead set off her lofty indifference and coldness!
It might be inappropriate to describe her as "mother of the world".
However, such a soul-stirring appearance definitely deserved the title of "queen of the Imperium of True Human Beings"!
"You are f * cking cool!"
Li Yao secretly sent a feeble wave to Li Jialing's head.
The young man turned his head inch by inch and glared at him.
After taking off the helmet, a certain seal seemed to have been undone. Li Linghai's aura was even more intimidating than ever, almost making all the lightning in the sky kneel before her. Her white hair moved automatically despite the lack of wind. She stared at Li Linghai with her eyes that were almost transparent for a while before she asked, "How much do you know exactly? Who else does?"
"I know more than you can imagine. If you don't believe me, I can tell you a short story, my good sister."
Rolling his eyes, Li Lingfeng spoke in a hurry before Li Linghai replied. "More than a hundred years ago, in a certain deeply rooted, powerful family in the Imperium of True Human Beings, an elite female warrior with extraordinary talents and infinite potential emerged. She defeated a lot of competitors in a series of competitions within the family and won the appreciation of many seniors and big shots. They prepared to invest more resources in her and teach her more sophisticated, secret techniques of the family.
"However, the elite female warrior, who was almost perfect, had a tiny flaw. For an Immortal Cultivator, she boasted a lot of combat ability, but she was too gentle, if not too gentle, in personality.
"In order to change her bad habit of being sentimental and softhearted, the big shots of the family decided to hone her with more real-life battles as a trial. Therefore, they made an exception and enlisted her into the exploration team of the family to explore the unknown world fragments deep inside the sea of stars.
"It is well known that almost all the Sectors have been discovered after the Imperium's expansion to this day. The cost and difficulty of continuing the exploration to the outer space are too high. It is not cost-effective at all.
"However, there are still countless broken small worlds, or 'world fragments', scattered in the sea of stars. It is possible that relics from tens of thousands of years ago, secret treasures of the predecessors, and even the Colossi, the super weapons of the primeval era, exist in them!
"Therefore, other than the troops to resist the Holy League in the frontline, the exploration teams to explore the world fragments are the most elite armed forces of every family. The fact that the young female warrior who had just distinguished herself was enlisted into the exploration team of the family was indicative of the importance that the family attached to her.
"It's a pity that the young female warrior was not very lucky. When she carried out her first exploration mission, the starship that she was on encountered a cosmic storm and was blown to an unknown place by the violent space turbulence. The starship was shattered, and a lot of people were killed.
"But out of their expectation, they did discover a mysterious world fragment in an unknown place deep inside the sea of stars!
"However, it was exactly in the mysterious world fragment that they encountered another exploration team — the exploration team from the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, the Imperium's sworn enemy. The exploration team of the Holy League had also been blown apart by the cosmic storm and wandered all the way to this place.
"When two enemies meet on a narrow path, the braver one wins. There was nowhere to run in the world fragment. The two exploration teams that had suffered heavy casualties and lost tremendous assets were also in a hurry to loot each other's trophies to repair their starships. Naturally, they fought each other the moment they met.
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