The words' refiner of the Holy League 'almost made Li Yao exclaim aloud.
He was now absolutely certain that the refiner of the Holy League who wandered to the mysterious world fragment together with the 'young female warrior' that Li Lingfeng described was his father, his foster father, who wandered to the edge of the cosmos and wandered to the Tian Yuan Realm in the Xing Yao Federation later!
If Li Lingfeng was not wrong, what kind of bizarre story had happened to a man and a woman who belonged to hostile sides in the tiny world fragment, and what kind of influence did they have on each other?
At the very least, in Li Yao's eyes, the incident should have been a turning point in his foster father's life. His foster father had been a member of the Holy League in the beginning, and based on Li Yao's understanding of the people of the Holy League, they were all guys who suppressed their feelings and willpower and could even be called 'inhumane'. They were entirely different from his foster father's warmth, kindness, generosity, and occasionally loneliness.
How did his foster father turn from a standard member of the Holy League into the middle-aged man of flesh and blood that Li Yao met in the magical equipment graveyard, who had the feelings of a normal human being and who was sometimes so affectionate that he burst into tears?
It was possible that the answer was hidden in the mysterious world fragment!
She stole a glance at Li Linghai's face. Although the white-haired queen's helmet had been dissected and retracted, her face still seemed to be covered in a transparent mask. There was no telling what her real feelings were.
However, she did not stop Li Lingfeng from going on.
Li Lingfeng smiled. "Everything below is based on the young female warrior's side of the story. According to her, the world fragment was a rarely-seen 'floating world fragment', which seemed to be drifting between the three-dimensional space and the four-dimensional space. The entrance and the coordinates of the world fragment were both unpredictable and unpredictable. Later, nobody ever found the world fragment again.
"All in all, according to the young female warrior, there was only one person left on both sides. But she was a warrior, and her opponent was a refiner. Naturally, she had the absolute advantage and subdued her opponent easily.
"In order to explore the world fragment and dismantle the units on the enemy's starship in order to maintain her own starship, the young female warrior of the Imperium did not kill the refiner of the Holy League but forced him to explore and maintain the starship. She even planned to capture him alive and bring him back to the Imperium.
"Because the starship was too dilapidated and they had limited manpower, it took the two of them half a year to repair the starship.
"For a hundred years, a single man and a single woman stayed in a mysterious fragment world that nobody knew about. Yet, they gained nothing. This is an ordinary fragment world. Both the resources and relics are barren. There is no value in developing it. Of course, this is only the young female warrior's side of the story.
"All in all, half a year later, they finally escaped from the fragment world on the Imperium's starship and returned to the Imperium.
"However, before they were discovered by the patrols of the Imperium, something very weird happened. According to the young female warrior, the refiner of the Holy League hid a few powerful magical equipment behind her back during the maintenance and exploration. Then, he suddenly attacked her at the last moment, hoping to seize the starship and escape back to the Holy League.
"As it turned out, after a fierce battle, the refiner of the Holy League was slain by her. Even his body was absorbed into the vacuum of space along with the broken shell of the starship. Naturally, it was impossible to find such a tiny body in the vast universe.
"That was the whole story. When the patrols of the Imperium found the young female warrior, she was the only one on the ragged, almost collapsed starship. There were also the bodies of the Immortal Cultivators that she brought back. Everything that happened in the past year was up to her.
"Of course, I have to admit that up to this moment, everything that the young female warrior said was flawless. There was not much loophole. My good sister, wasn't there?"
"Exactly."
Li Linghai said casually, "There was indeed no loophole."
"Yes. The Imperium and the Holy League have been sworn enemies for a thousand years. It was rare that the Immortal Cultivators and the people of the Holy League made peace. Besides, the young female warrior was weak, kind-hearted, and weak. How could the seniors and big shots in the family have ever thought that she was lying?"
Li Lingfeng smiled. "Most importantly of all, the family specially arranged quite a few loyalty tests to interrogate her mind. She was asked to repeat every detail that happened in the past year hundreds of times. No loophole could be found at all. Eventually, her statement was confirmed to be true and trustworthy. She was returned to the battle sequence of the family without any problem.
"Although she returned to the battle sequence of the family, after the incident, her weakness and sentimentality seemed to be even more serious. She was in a trance all day long, and there was no telling what was on her mind. Her potential in training had almost been drained. She was not even as good as a year ago.
"Everybody thought that her mind had been affected by the cruel battle and that irreparable loopholes had been left deep inside her soul. It was possible that she could never reach the level of a flawless super expert no matter how hard she trained herself. The seniors and big shots who had high hopes for her in the past all gave up on her.
"After that, the family was given a precious opportunity to select the crown prince's consort. After multiple screening and all kinds of operations, she was sent to the Empyreal Terminus Sector in the capital. She was the crown prince's consort first. Decades later, when the late emperor passed away and the crown prince ascended to the throne, she naturally became the queen of the world!"
Li Linghai listened in silence and asked indifferently, "Is there any problem?"
"Until this moment, there was no problem at all."
Li Lingfeng put on the most brilliant smile. "But then, there is a minor problem that I hope you can answer for me, sister. Why did the highly-respected queen of the world suddenly retrieve one of her life seeds after decades in the capital? Then, she got the life seed of a person of the Holy League from somewhere, combine them into a fetus, and send it into a very advanced unmanned starship, sending it to the depths of space. She seemed to be hoping that it would grow into a healthy fetus in the depths of space, and then … escape from the power vortex of the Imperium to a certain unknown, remote corner where she could live a free and unrestrained life?"
Li Linghai was silent with an empty expression on his face.
The lightning below his feet, however, suddenly became bright and violent, turning into raging dragons.
Li Lingfeng sniffed and gripped his saber tightly, showing the posture of a final battle again. He bellowed, "It seems that you are not interested in my story, Your Grace, and you do not want to answer my questions, either? Fine. Then, I will tell the story to the seniors of the Li family and even the experts of other families and ask them to answer my questions! "
Li Linghai's eyes, which were almost transparent, constricted to the size of two needle tips, halting the lunge of the lightning dragon below his feet.
Li Lingfeng laughed and said, "That's right. From the beginning to the end, I was unwilling to meet you on the battlefield. I only wanted to have a nice chat and ask you some questions.
"What exactly happened in the mysterious world fragment a hundred years ago? Did you really control the refiner of the Holy League purely to maintain the starship with him, or did more insignificant things happen?
"Also, is the mysterious world fragment really as barren and unpredictable as you described? Is it possible that a lot of invaluable secret treasures are hidden inside? Is it a rarely-seen relic?
"What is even weirder is that, if the whole thing was really weird and you were lying, how could you have fooled the rigorous loyalty test of the family? Perhaps, you had already received some heritages from the relic a hundred years ago, some secret arts that could resist the interrogation of the family? "
As a bystander, Li Yao, who had been eavesdropping nearby, more or less had the answers to the questions.
It seemed that Li Linghai had indeed lied to the family a hundred years ago.
The relationship between her and Li Yao's foster father was naturally not as simple as a victor and a captive. The two of them must've grown very close to each other during the year and a half when they were alone.
Otherwise, how could his foster father not forget Li Linghai even in his will and trust her so much that he asked Li Yao to come to her in the Imperium whenever he was in trouble?
On the other hand, the world fragment that Li Linghai and his foster father discovered together could not have been a 'plain' and 'barren', either.
The reason was simple. Little Black, or Black Wing, was found by his foster father in the world fragment!
The sealed form of Black Wing was already very complicated. The 'liquid crystal processor' form after the seal was broken was also the best medium for human beings to use the Colossi. Its enhancement and buffer effects were almost five times higher than the nerve connection liquids produced by the Federation on their own!
Li Yao and the masters of refining in the Federation had run a detailed analysis on Little Black. They speculated that it was probably a product of the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago.
The Star Ocean Imperium was the first powerful imperium of mankind in the modern Cultivation civilization that unified the entire universe. That was how the Cultivators in the modern sense were born!
The most brilliant and splendid civilization was far ahead in many fields to this day, leaving the latecomers in the dust!
There was also the half weird key. Other than Little Black and the will, his foster father had left Li Yao only half a weird key. Judging from the style and the materials, it did not seem to be a product of the recent thousands of years. It was very likely to be a piece of magical equipment from the Star Ocean Imperium, too.
His foster father asked Li Yao to bring the half key to Li Linghai if he had a chance.
Perhaps, Li Linghai still had the other half key in her hands?
What could the two parts of the key be opened when they were combined into one?
Li Yao was deeply troubled by the mysteries. But now, he was no longer completely baffled. Instead, he could see a glimmer of light in the darkness of the night.
Also, Li Yao boldly speculated that, even in the worst-case scenario, when Li Linghai turned into a ruthless, ruthless person who did not care about her relationship with Li Yao's foster father or Li Linghai as her own flesh and blood, at the very least, she certainly needed the half key of the Star Ocean Imperium in Li Yao's hands.
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