After receiving the intelligence of the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance, the entire "Deep Sea Palace", the base of the reformists, began to operate at a high speed all of a sudden.
In the three days that followed, Li Linghai had been dealing with complicated intelligence and did not show up in front of Li Yao and Li Jialing.
Li Yao and Li Jialing, on the other hand, were busy modifying and testing the Crystal Suit together with Master Jin Tianzong. Li Linghai hoped that they could significantly improve the stealth and stealth functions of a batch of high-level Crystal Suits. It seemed that they would probably have to carry out secret infiltration missions in the so-called desperate operation.
Three days later, in the deepest part of the "Deep Sea Palace" …
Led by Li Linghai, Li Yao slowly walked into a ball-shaped secret chamber the size of a palace.
The entire secret chamber was more than a hundred meters in diameter. Li Yao and Li Linghai floated at the center of the secret chamber on the floating discs, like two ants that had crawled into a giant iron ball.
Dim brilliance was flashing on the dark walls around, congregating into colorful swirls now and then. It was as dazzling as a kaleidoscope.
Li Linghai told Li Yao that the secret chamber was a facility left from the Star Ocean Imperium. As the core of the entire planetary fortress, it was a very powerful communication room.
Through the communication room, one could communicate with their subordinates in space without worrying that the Spiritual Nexus would be monitored and infiltrated.
Even if somebody tried to intercept the content of their communication, what they would retrieve would only be a cluster of twisted, garbled codes. Even the coordinates of the two parties would not be locked. The security factor was higher than ever.
It was exactly because of the discovery of such a powerful communication room that Li Linghai gradually built the Deep Sea Palace into his nest.
When Li Yao and Li Linghai slowly drifted into the communication room, almost ten tall, intimidating officers wearing the old military uniforms of the Imperium of True Human Beings when the Imperium of True Human Beings was just established a thousand years ago were already waiting in silence.
Seeing that Li Linghai had arrived, they all stood at attention and saluted to the queen of the Imperium in the most standard unity salute. "Long live the Imperium!"
Li Linghai and Li Yao also raised their right arms to return the salute.
This was the first time that Li Yao had performed the unity ceremony of the Imperium of True Human Beings. When he recalled Li Linghai's promise that he would be made an elder of the Imperium the other day, he couldn't help but feel amused and ridiculous.
He did not deliberately hide his discomfort. After all, Li Linghai knew his background. If he changed too quickly, it would be suspicious.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
After the unity ceremony, many people turned their cold gazes to Li Yao.
Those who were wearing the old-style military uniform of the Imperium were naturally the leadership of the Deep Sea Fleet who craved to restore the glory of the Imperium in the past.
Li Yao had met some of them in the past few days, including Tu Zhengdao, the best assault captain of the Deep Sea Legion who often tested the Crystal Suit with him and was utterly convinced by him.
Those people were all very clear about Li Yao's expertise in refining.
Even Master Jin Tianzong, the director of magical equipment of the Deep Sea Fleet, had said in person that, leaving the theories aside, Li Yao was even more skilled than him in terms of the real maintenance and adjustment.
Besides, the "Vulture" was said to be a trusted subordinate that the queen had secretly raised. It was obvious that he had a promising future as the queen's personal bodyguard and magical equipment consultant.
Therefore, many people moved their eyes back after a brief glance and nodded at Li Yao.
There were also a few officers that Li Yao had never met before, but he had heard their names many times.
The most important of them was naturally Dongfang Sheng, the highest commander of the Deep Sea Fleet.
Dongfang Sheng, as the name suggested, was from the Dongfang family, the head of the four Kurfürst families. He was from the same family as Dongfang Tuo, an elder of the Imperium who had just perished.
However, just like how Wuying Lan, a collateral descendant of the royal family, was born, the Dongfang family, which had also lasted a thousand years, boasted more than ten million total population. Naturally, there were a lot of collateral descendants who were as insignificant as dust, weeds, and ants, too.
The fate of those collateral descendants was even more miserable than that of the outsiders.
It was because they were the people that the main bloodlines of the family, the chosen ones who boasted infinite resources, could bully whenever they wanted.
Also, as a member of the Dongfang family, it was only natural that they would serve the family loyally until the last drop of blood was shed. If they disobeyed, they could be punished with family rules that were a hundred times crueler than the law.
The outsiders might have ways to escape, but those "members of the family", on the other hand, were destined to be slaves for the family the moment they were born. They had nowhere to run to at all.
Theoretically speaking, if the collateral descendants of the family showed remarkable talents in training, it was possible for them to win the favor of the big shots of the family, make a name for themselves, and fight their way to the leadership of the family.
But that was just "theoretically speaking".
The weak would get weaker, and the strong would get stronger. For the collateral descendants who lacked resources in the beginning, it was certainly not easy for them to distinguish themselves in the cruel competitions of the family. Besides, if they wanted to distinguish themselves, they would have to stomp on other people in certain competitions and tests.
If they were not careful and stepped on the head of some big shot's beloved disciple or a noble descendant of the main bloodline to climb up, it was inevitable that they would be hated by others. The other party had ten thousand ways to play these ambitious branch family descendants to death.
Dongfang Sheng's story did not need to be explained in detail. All in all, he was a collateral descendant who craved to climb up but accidentally kicked an iron plate. As a result, he was framed and even plotted to be killed, but he was unwilling to wait to be killed. In the end, he counterattacked and broke out of the siege, ending his relationship with the family. That was basically it.
Li Yao was somewhat suspicious when he heard the name "Dongfang Sheng" at first. He thought to himself that Li Linghai was truly bold enough to allow an officer from the Dongfang family to command the entire Deep Sea Fleet.
However, after he learned that Dongfang Sheng had killed hundreds of descendants of the main bloodline of the Dongfang family, blown up a warehouse of crystals of the Dongfang family, and even executed an elder of the Dongfang family before he escaped and was still the "traitor" with the highest bounty on his head after decades, Li Yao completely shut his mouth.
Let's put it this way.
Dongfang Sheng's bounty in the Dongfang family right now was twice as high as the bounty that the authorities of the Imperium just offered after Li Yao destroyed "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky".
It was not hard to infer the guy's toughness and his determination to go against the family.
Li Yao and Dongfang Sheng looked at each other and sensed each other's immeasurable strength at the same time. They both lowered their eyes and fell silent. Zi!
"Zzz zzz zzz …"
Zi! Zi! On the arc-shaped walls around, the colorful swirls were rippling more and more intensely. Very soon, they were condensed into a fuzzy figure that was projected in the middle of everybody, forming a 3D shadow almost two meters tall.
It turned out to be a woman who was wearing a black cloak that was embroidered with hideous runes that looked like earthworms with dark gold threads. Her entire face was hidden below the hood, and her back was slightly hunched. She was giving off the weirdest vibe.
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. He knew that the woman who was far away in the "Empyreal Terminus Sector" in the capital and revealed through the remote communication on the Spiritual Nexus was "Yue Wushuang", the leader of the "Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils", an assassination, sabotage, and intelligence agency under Li Linghai's command.
As the saying went, when you stared into an abyss, the abyss stared back at you.
The devil huntresses of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils had absorbed brand-new techniques from the extraterrestrial devils during the thousand years of battles against them. They had even been infiltrated and corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils countless times, only to be healed and purged repeatedly. In the end, while they annihilated countless extraterrestrial devils, they were filled with the air of evilness that they could not get rid of, too.
Of the many special troops of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils was the most mysterious, dark, cruel, and mysterious one.
Many of their techniques were even performed with the power of the extraterrestrial devils. When their soul was burnt to the maximum, it was no different from being possessed by extraterrestrial devils.
It was also the reason why many elders of the Imperium wanted to abolish the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils and even kill all the devil huntresses. It was impossible to tell whether they were human beings or devils at all!
The only thing that could control the devil huntresses and make them defend the Imperium in the darkness while waving their sabers at the extraterrestrial devils was their infinite loyalty to the emperor.
Therefore, when the lords in the court in the capital occasionally mentioned the leader of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils in disdain, they often called Yue Wushuang by another name.
"Moon Devil."
Li Linghai had warned Li Yao time and time again that this "Moon Devil" Yue Wushuang was a highly dangerous person. Although she was "only" in the high level of the Divinity Transformation Stage, countless terrifying techniques that originated from the extraterrestrial devils were hidden inside her seemingly weak body. She could execute the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators of the same level easily and was particularly adept at stealth, tracking, and assassination.
In other words, if Li Yao were to go against "Moon Devil" Yue Wushuang, it was very possible that he would have nowhere to run to.
After reaching the Divinity Transformation Stage, she certainly had her own beliefs and opinions. It was impossible for her to become someone else's accomplice easily. Li Linghai had only recruited "Moon Devil" Yue Wushuang as his subordinate because he promised to expand the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils and make it the "primary agency" to monitor the Imperium.
Yue Wushuang, Dongfang Sheng, and even Jin Tianzong and Li Yao were all extraordinary people in the Divinity Transformation Stage. They could not be simply regarded as Li Linghai's subordinates.
They were all like-minded Cultivators who had come together for the same ideology and established a small group of "reformists".
Therefore, even Li Linghai had to show them considerable respect.
Zi … Zi … Zi … Zi …
On the opposite side of "Moon Devil" Yue Wushuang, a second 3D light beam was projected from the colorful swirl, condensing into a tall, slim man in glamorous clothes who gave Li Yao a feeling that was very similar to Di Feiwen, the deputy commander of the Deep Sea Fleet.
As he expected, judging from the badge on the man's chest that was made of nine overlapping coins, Li Yao guessed his identity — Jin Yuyan, the chairman of the highest council of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
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