"You …"
Li Yao asked the queen hesitantly, "You're hurt?"
"Of course."
The queen laughed rather miserably. There was no telling whether she was mocking Li Yao or herself. "Why else do you think I've been listening to your nonsense so patiently? Li Lingfeng was an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage no matter how useless he was. Do you think that I did not have to pay any price when I performed 'Dragon Over the Sky', an unparalleled technique unique to the Supreme Emperor, to kill him?
"In order to kill Li Lingfeng, I drained almost every drop of my vitality and performed 'Dragon Over the Sky' to the maximum, condensing my soul into a 'sword of true dragons'. While I annihilated him, I also heavily wounded myself. What happened later … was just a bluff.
"I thought that you would run away in fear after seeing that I slayed an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage who was higher than you in one attack. Then, I would have enough time to rest and recover before I considered whether I should continue hunting you or go home.
"I didn't know that you had such a secret identity. You did not run away in panic. After we talked for such a long time, I couldn't suppress my wounds any longer and took action naturally."
"That's right!"
Li Yao was greatly enlightened. As he said, Li Lingfeng was an expert in the middle level and high level of the Divinity Transformation Stage no matter how unbearable he was. If the queen stabbed him to death casually, it would be too humiliating for the Divinity Transformation Stage experts.
In order to perform 'Dragon Over the Sky', the dominating technique that belonged to the Supreme Emperor ten thousand years ago, the queen had almost drained her vitality and her soul. That made sense!
"Be careful. She may be lying."
The mental devil, however, reminded him again, "She probably couldn't tell whether what you said just now was true or not and pretended to be weak to lure you to attack. If you attack her when she is' feeble ', it will prove that her fancy words just now are all false, and she will be able to perform multiple transformations in 0.1 seconds. Do you believe it?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "It's indeed possible, but it's also very likely that she is really wounded. I don't believe that she is strong enough to take down a Divinity Transformation Stage expert without paying any price!"
The queen's eyes moved back and forth between Li Yao and Li Jialing, as if her trick had been seen through and she was at their mercy.
However, although Li Yao's words just now were half-true, he really did want to contact and even cooperate with Li Linghai.
Besides, in the current situation, so what if they killed Li Linghai? The reign of the Immortal Cultivators would not end just like that, but Li Yao and Li Jialing would probably die here.
Li Yao sighed and reached out to the Empress.
The Empress stared at his hand for a long time and frowned. "What does this mean?"
"Uh, it means that if Your Highness is too weak and can't stand, I can help you."
Li Yao said sincerely, "I told you, I'm here to help you."
The Empress slowly wiped the blood on her lips and narrowed her eyes. She stared at Li Yao for a long time, her cold eyes almost piercing through every pore on his face.
Then, she really did relax. The killing intent around her was completely withdrawn, and not a single drop of water leaked out.
"You were a special envoy of the Speaker of the government-in-exile of the Star Ocean Republic?"
The Empress's eyes, which were almost transparent, rolled, as if she were calculating Li Yao's value. "You must know the politics of the leadership like the back of your hand, right?"
"Not exactly. I'm a straightforward person by nature, and I'm not good at schemes."
Li Yao said, somewhat in embarrassment, "However, I was indeed very familiar with the few Speakers before and after. I even had a very deep communication with one of them!"
"Huh …"
Naturally, the Empress did not know what Li Yao meant by "very deep communication". Pondering for a moment, she asked, "You were also the captain of 'Team Red Lotus', the Speaker's secret guard. You were more or less the captain of a personal guard, a personal bodyguard, and the leader of a special force. If you were given a bunch of extraordinary but disobedient bandits, were you capable of leading them to carry out missions such as' destroy Manjusaka, the City in the Sky '? "
"Of course I could."
Li Yao said, "But I still prefer to carry out such missions on my own because few experts were qualified to take action with me in a small place like Firefly. Most of the teammates would only be a burden to me."
"Also, you are a rather good refiner?"
The Empress looked at him coldly. "You can maintain and maintain the Colossi on your own?"
"Wrong."
Li Yao shook his head and said, "I am not a 'rather good' refiner but a 'grandmaster' refiner. I am best at the maintenance, upgrade, and modification of individual magical equipment such as the Crystal Suit and the Colossi. I know a thing or two about the runes, arrays, and refiners in the age of the ancient Cultivators, too."
The Empress stared at him.
Li Yao said helplessly, "I would like to be a little modest, but if you want me to be honest, then I am indeed a grandmaster. What can I do? I'm quite distressed, too! "
"… Fine. I hope that you are not lying, because both your combat ability and your skills in refining can be verified very soon."
The Empress paced back and forth and hesitated for a long time. Finally, she made up her mind and said, "Listen up. I don't particularly care about your stance and thoughts. After all, the organized forces of the Cultivators have long ceased to exist at the center of the cosmos. You can't raise any trouble on your own. It's not a big deal to keep you by my side.
"Trust me. It won't be long before you accept the real true path of immortality and become an Immortal Cultivator.
"But I do care a lot about whether a person is smart or stupid.
"I killed Li Lingfeng not because of his ambitions, not because of his cruelty, and not because of the grudge from a hundred years ago. It was only because he was an idiot who would bring me infinite trouble. That's all.
"I hope that you are smart enough. The smarter you are, the more pleasant our relationship will be. Do you understand?"
Li Yao was overjoyed. He nodded hard. But after thinking for a moment, he shook his head and said, "But I will not help you with the burning, killing, looting, and other crimes. If I see you doing such things, I will definitely stop you!"
The Empress frowned deeply and squeezed out a cold voice from her teeth. "Crimes? Who do you think I am? A bandit from a certain village? I am the queen of the Imperium of True Human Beings! "
"Well, what I mean is," Li Yao said, "about the businesses such as the Land of Sins and the slaughter stream, my belief does not allow me to do nothing in front of such tragedies. Therefore, I will not help you bully the ordinary people."
"Bully the hominoids?"
The Empress smiled. "You are truly adorably stupid. But it does make sense. After all, you have just come to the Imperium and know nothing about what happened in the Imperium in the past thousand years.
"It doesn't matter. After we return to the Deep Sea Fleet, I will naturally explain everything to you.
"Right now, all you need to know is that my targets have never been the hominoids but the high and mighty high-level Immortal Cultivators, the noble families, and the old experts.
"From that point of view, our short-term goals are even the same. It's like me killing Li Lingfeng does not violate your belief, does it?
"Tell me, if my ultimate goal is to destroy the four Kurfürst families and other deep-rooted families, sects, and forces of the Immortal Cultivators, and to achieve my purpose, I can even slightly loosen the control over the hominoids, give them more rights, and even arm the hominoids as my army. Can you give me a hand?"
This time, it was Li Yao's turn to stare at Li Linghai thoughtfully, hoping to find any loophole on the Empress's face.
However, the Empress's face, which was as ageless as an iceberg, was covered in the invisible solid armor, making it impossible for Li Yao to pry into her heart at all.
"Loosen the control over the hominoids, give them more rights, and arm them on a large scale …"
Li Yao thought quickly, but he found it hard to believe. "Really?"
The Empress smiled. "We will know whether or not it is true after we keep watching. I believe that an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage who used to be the Speaker's special envoy should have their own judgment."
"Alright!"
Li Yao nodded his head and said quickly, "If what you are doing can only be beneficial to the ordinary people of the Imperium, as a Cultivator, I will certainly spare no effort to help you!"
"Then, let's go. We have wasted a lot of time."
The Empress said, "An expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage is like an awl in a bag. You cannot hide your sharpness however hard you try. So, there is no need for you to bother to come up with a fake identity.
"The Deep Sea Fleet is a secret private troop that I established on my own. Few people know of its existence yet. Every one of them is loyal to me.
"I will tell them that you are a super expert that I have secretly raised, similar to 'ghost warriors' and 'dark assassins', who are responsible for the secret missions that even the Deep Sea Fleet cannot carry out. For example, in order to execute Li Lingfeng, you have lurked for many years.
"Now that Li Lingfeng is dead, you can surface of the water and join the Deep Sea Fleet naturally, staying by my side.
"Since you used to be the Speaker's special envoy, you can be my personal bodyguard for now. After we return to the capital and see the changes of the situation, I will fight for a more important and central position for you. Is there a problem?"
Li Yao thought for a long time. "No problem. No, there is a problem. What about him?"
Li Yao grabbed the young man's rigid shoulders and pushed him to the front.
Li Jialing gnashed his teeth so hard that his eyes were almost tearing apart. He glared at Li Linghai.
"Him?"
The Empress eyed Li Jialing up and down for a while and said coldly, "I almost forgot that there was such a trouble."
"Call her 'mom' now!"
Li Yao said in a low voice, "Her killing intent is gone. She won't kill you."
"I am a monster born in a laboratory."
Li Jialing's muscles were tightened, making him as rigid as a statue. He gritted his teeth and squeezed out, one word after another, "I don't have a mother!"
"Exactly."
The Empress was not angry at all. She said casually, "It's good that you know it."
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