When Li Yao led Li Jialing into the secret chamber behind the command center of the flagship of the Thunder Fleet, Lei Chenghu was the only one in the secret chamber who was staring at the light beam that was revolving in all directions in silence.
On the light beam, the stars were glittering. All the stars in the universe revolved slowly around the perfect Immortal Cultivator.
After returning to his own fleet, Lei Chenghu was like a dragon returning to the ocean. He was ten times more intimidating than when he was imprisoned!
Li Yao even vaguely felt that the soul of the "God of War" had turned into nerves and veins that extended out of the secret chamber infinitely and connected to every starship in the Thunder Fleet and even the Third Battle Area!
Lei Chenghu was completely melted into the fleet. Every starship was one of his cells. He was the fleet, and the fleet was him. He was the embodiment of the army of the Imperium made of countless starships!
"General, almost all the elites of the fleets in the Third Battle Area are here. Even those who haven't made it here are still preparing for a space jump. They will appear at … the predetermined coordinates at the same time."
Li Yao glanced at the deployment map on the 3D light beam and asked, "What about the fleets of the four Kurfürst families? Have they reacted to our operation?"
"It's been three days since we returned to the Third Battle Area. However stupid those people are, they should've realized that it is not good. However, they are not sure what we are up to exactly yet. They have simply deployed troops near the Third Battle Area and cut off our supply lines, but they do not have the courage to enter the Third Battle Area recklessly."
Lei Chenghu sneered and said, "It's a pity that in the boundless sea of stars, any blockage and precaution are useless. Attack, attack, and attack boldly is the only way to win!
"In eight hours, the Astounding Thunder Fleet and the special mixed team of the Third Battle Area, whose strength has been greatly expanded, will be able to perform a large-scale space jump and appear at the predetermined coordinates. However, the attack without any leeway will also consume all our crystals, fuel, and ammunition. In other words, this is a desperate, desperate battle. If we cannot get enough resources, we will be dead for sure!
"I hope that the queen's intelligence is as accurate as she said, and that the rest of the fellow Cultivators of the 'reformists' can work hard together with the belief of 'sacrificing ourselves to build a new Imperium'!"
"Rest assured, general. The queen's Deep Sky Fleet is already prepared. It will certainly join the Thunder Fleet at the predetermined coordinates. The destination that we are about to attack has been infiltrated by the reformists. It's definitely not a problem for spies. We will certainly catch the enemy unprepared and obtain the most abundant resources at the minimum cost."
Li Yao said, "As for the rest of the fellow Cultivators of the 'reformists', there is even less need to worry. As long as the Thunder Fleet and the Deep Sky Fleet raise their flags at the same time, the fire of reform will burn the entire Imperium. Do they have a second choice?"
Lei Chenghu stared at Li Yao thoughtfully and nodded. "Alright. For the Imperium, let's risk everything and take a gamble!"
He tapped his wrist crystal processor and said, "Bring him in."
The door of the secret chamber slid open without a sound. Two iron guards who had been highly modified with artificial bodies and were loyal to Lei Chenghu dragged in a middle-aged man who was also wearing the black uniform of the Imperium's army.
The door of the secret chamber was closed again.
Judging from the glittering skull on the middle-aged man's shoulder, he was obviously a lieutenant general of the Imperium's army.
However, his hands, legs, and spine were locked by the confinement magical equipment that looked like iron thorns, unable to move at all.
He seemed to have been forced to take anesthetic and hypnotic drugs that suppressed his soul and blocked his spiritual energy. His body was feeble, and his mind was in a mess.
The man's name was Dongfang Yuan. He was the highest commander of the "investigation fleet" under the special investigation committee.
He was also the person in charge of dismembering the Thunder Fleet in the Third Battle Area and capturing the radicals on a large scale under the order of the Council of Elders.
He had thought that the leaderless, panicked Thunder Fleet was a fish on the chopping board that was at the mercy of anybody. But out of his expectation, Lei Chenghu would march out without a sound and play a perfect "decapitation strategy" with an extremely tough super Colossus.
Dongfang Yuan did not have the courage to raise a civil war in the Imperium by sacrificing himself. Under the threat of Li Yao's unstoppable saber, he could only be a captive obediently.
To this moment, he still did not know all the ambitions of Lei Chenghu, Li Linghai, and even Li Yao.
He had thought that it was just a regular mutiny, and that Lei Chenghu was going to extort more benefits from the Council of Elders with him as a bargaining chip at best.
Therefore, the moment he saw Lei Chenghu, the commander of the investigation fleet hurried to shout, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Marquis Liaohai, everything is a misunderstanding. As the saying goes, an army cannot be without a leader for one day. Considering that the Third Battle Area cannot be left uncommanded while you are under investigation in the rear, the command of the expedition army has temporarily sent me to take over your duties and strengthen the defense of the Third Battle Area. Now that Marquis Liaohai has returned from the rear, my fleet will certainly not stay in the Third Battle Area to be a hindrance.
Lei Chenghu and Li Yao looked at each other and sneered at the same time. Their laughter was full of contempt and brutality.
"Marquis Liaohai, what — what do you want exactly?"
Sensing the killing intent flowing out of Lei Chenghu's every pore, Dongfang Yuan swallowed hard and said in a high-pitched voice, "Don't do anything reckless. All the resources in the Third Battle Area count on the supply from the rear. You can't raise any trouble on your own. You — you must think carefully. Do not get so many brothers of the Thunder Fleet killed —"
Dongfang Yuan's voice came to an abrupt halt. His eyeballs seemed to have been sucked out by negative pressure as he stared at the circular light beam behind Lei Chenghu and Li Yao. He immediately sweated hard, and his teeth were clattering nonstop.
He saw the overwhelming fleets jumping out of the void on the circular light beam one after another.
The fleets that were stationed in various Sectors and resource planets in the Third Battle Area, or at least the starships with the highest combat ability in those fleets, had all jumped to the anchor space zone of the Thunder Fleet, constituting an overwhelming coalition fleet.
It was a highly unusual mobilization, and it was certainly not approved by the commander-in-chief of the expedition army.
As a leader himself, Dongfang Yuan naturally knew that such an unusual mobilization had only one purpose.
Lei Chenghu was about to launch a large-scale attack with all the forces in the Third Battle Area. What would his target be exactly?
Thinking quickly, Dongfang Yuan's pupils constricted to the minimum, and he breathed heavily, unable to utter a single word.
Lei Chenghu stared at him coldly without saying anything. Suddenly, he tore off the armband of the expedition army of the Imperium on the left sleeve of his uniform brutally and replaced it with a new, crimson one.
At the center of the new armband was a lightning trident emblem. On the left side of the emblem was "Honor the Majesty", and on the right side was "Settle the Rebels".
Black uniform, red armband. Honor the Majesty and Settle the Rebels!
"Show some courage and don't be so pathetic. Even though you have been corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils and have been reduced to an evil 'Demonic Cultivator', you are still an honorable soldier of the Imperium."
Lei Chenghu smoothed the armband and straightened his clothes. He said to Dongfang Yuan, "You will be sacrificed to the flag later. Don't disgrace the soldier of the Imperium!"
"Extraterrestrial devils? What extraterrestrial devils? "
Dongfang Yuan's tiny eyes were both confused and grasping at the last straw. He hurried to say, "Honestly speaking, how is this related to the extraterrestrial devils? I am not a Demonic Cultivator. Absolutely not. Marquis Liaohai, this must be a misunderstanding. A great misunderstanding! "
In his haste, he did not realize that Lei Chenghu mentioned "sacrifice to the flag" at the end. He was even more dumbfounded after he realized what was going on.
Lei Chenghu winked at the two guards. One of them kicked Dongfang Yuan to the ground, and the other took out a tube of fluorescent green mystic drugs from his artificial limb and found Dongfang Yuan's carotid artery, injecting all of them into his body.
"Cough. Cough. Cough. Cough!"
Poor Dongfang Yuan did not see it coming at all. His willpower was slightly weakened, and he surrendered when he still had the strength to fight. Now that he had seen through Lei Chenghu's ambitions, it was too late for regrets.
He rolled on the ground like a drunken lobster, cramping violently with excruciating pain all over his face.
White foam spurted out of his mouth like a fountain, only to turn into thick green liquids mixed with thousands of streaks of blood very soon.
Veins that were as thick as leeches crawled all over his body. Black air was vaguely popping up from the veins, making the scene more horrifying than ever.
BOOM!
Black flames of spiritual energy were ignited all over his body. They were even more violent, brutal, and hideous than regular spiritual energy. They were shrieking as if they were alive.
"Crack!"
Even the magical equipment that confined him had been torn apart by the astonishing force. Dongfang Yuan, who had gone mad, lunged at Lei Chenghu like a furiously burning beast, while roaring crazily.
BAM!
In the next second, he was kicked to the ground by Li Yao. Out of 100 bones, 50 were broken. His ferocious nature stirred up by the medicinal power immediately vanished.
Li Yao stepped on Dongfang Yuan's head brutally and frowned. "Is this the 'tenebrum energy'? Has he really turned into a demonic Cultivator? "
"Not exactly. It's just an exhilarating drug that is very similar to the tenebrum energy."
Lei Chenghu said casually, "However, the extraterrestrial devils are unpredictable in the first place. Nobody can tell what the real tenebrum energy and the Demonic Cultivators look like. Right now, we believe that he is a Demonic Cultivator, and he is one.
"The Holy League is too special after all. It is unreasonable to accuse our enemy of joining the Holy League. However, it is much more reasonable that he was corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils and ended up as their accomplices."
Li Yao looked at Lei Chenghu and said, "I thought that General Lei was an honorable soldier who despised such petty tricks."
"In the past, I indeed despised such boring tricks."
Lei Chenghu admitted frankly, "But it doesn't mean that I know nothing about such tricks.
"A soldier is a soldier. There is no distinction between honorable and shameless soldiers. There are only two kinds of soldiers — those who win battles and those who suffer defeats.
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