At this moment, Li Yao was not sitting cross-legged. Instead, he was in a very weird posture with his legs apart, as if there was a magnificent throne made of the brilliance of the stars below his bottom!
The Imperial Fire Pearl that Li Linghai gave him was glittering above his head. Gold brilliance flowed out of the Imperial Fire Pearl as if it were real and poured on his head and body like a waterfall, only to be absorbed by the pores all over his body.
It could be clearly seen that every veins and nerves on his body was protruding high. Balls of energy were running toward his heart, abdomen, and brain nonstop. His veins were not red, and his nerves were not blue, either. Both of them had turned gold. Even his body of flesh and blood was translucent, as if he were a hybrid of gold and crystal.
The infinite dominance and overwhelming fighting will from the Supreme Emperor, the strongest expert of the civilization of mankind ten thousand years ago, flooded into Li Yao's internal organs, limbs, and soul incessantly, cleansing him again and again as if he were reborn!
It was perhaps not what Li Linghai wanted to see.
It was not so easy for a normal Cultivator to swallow the enormous energy and will deep inside the Imperial Fire Pearl.
However, Li Yao was an heir of the ancient Cultivators who had inherited the memory pieces of Ou Yezi, the grandmaster of refining forty thousand years ago!
Although Ou Yezi had never seen such a weird piece of magical equipment as' Imperial Fire Pearl 'in his memory pieces, magical equipment that contained the essence, aura, and soul of the experts of the ancient Cultivators with similar characteristics and usages could be found everywhere.
Most of the experts of the ancient Cultivators hoped to leave their strength and will in a certain relic before they died.
Some of them even intended to possess the body and be reborn with the legacy as bait.
As the number one refining sect in the world, the Hundred Smelting Clan naturally had many secret techniques that could wash away the evil impurities in the inherited treasures and release the most powerful power in the blink of an eye!
Li Yao was not interested in, nor did he know the first thing about strategy. In the past few days, he had simply focused on polishing the Imperial Fire Pearl. Thankfully, he had asked for a lot of rarely-seen materials from Li Linghai shamelessly and put together a few recipes of the polishing liquid. After testing them one by one, he indeed made breakthroughs and found the safest and fastest way to activate the Imperial Fire Pearl stably and absorb the energy inside.
Next, on the fiercest battlefield, he would use the fighting will that could burn the entire universe to completely refine this energy!
"Hu —"
The power flowing out of the Imperial Fire Pearl truly formed a raging golden throne behind Li Yao. In the next moment, the throne turned into a golden armor and covered Li Yao's body like petals.
Even Li Yao's right eye that was as deep as ink and his left eye that was bloodshot had two glittering gold rings outside of his pupils.
Li Yao's soul trembled nonstop. Illusions were popping up in front of his eyes, as if it were not one battlefield but two, no, three battlefields that overlapped across time and space.
The first one was naturally the fierce battle between the Thunder Fleet and the Divine Rain Fleet.
The second battlefield was the bloody battle between the army of the Star Ocean Imperium commanded by the Supreme Emperor and the coalition army of the demons and devils that was commanded by the Mad Armageddon and blessed by the extraterrestrial devils. It was truly a battle that made all the stars in the universe shudder in fear and could blow the universe into smithereens at any moment.
The third battlefield, on the other hand, was the battle to slay the devils that Ou Yezi led the disciples of the Hundred Smelting Clan in the age of ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago. Although the weapons and magical equipment were relatively underdeveloped, the intensity of the battle was as good as the modern wars tens of thousands of years ago.
Forty thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago, and now, the sounds of battle cries, explosions, and groans from the three battlefields, as well as the blazing flames, the swirling balls of light, and the electric arcs that were constantly spreading in all directions … all of them overlapped together.
Li Yao seemed to be able to see every hideous, angry, and desperate face on the battlefields through the Crystal Suit, every drop of blood that was condensed into pearls in the vacuum, and countless broken limbs that were frozen into ice or burnt into ash by the interconnected flames of light.
That was war, a war that would never change or end.
For a moment, Li Yao's mind suddenly crossed the river of time and experienced the subtle feelings of the 'Supreme Emperor' when he was faced with a space battlefield.
Did human beings really have to brutalize each other forever?
Even though there were almost infinite resources in the vast sea of stars, were they still not enough to satisfy the insatiable desires of human beings?
Was it true that wars … would never change no matter how civilizations changed?
As long as the sea of stars was unified and all human beings were subdued under the same flag, there would never be such … hideous wars again, right?
Li Yao observed the Supreme Emperor's state of mind when he was in a trance in the past. The golden strength that had been surging like a flood a moment ago had turned into gurgling brooks and trickles that nurtured his every muscle, vein, and nerve like melted jade.
Li Yao's eyes were brighter and brighter, to the point where he could almost see the dark universe clearly.
The three aggressive Colossi and the hundreds of Crystal Suit seemed to have turned into translucent objects. He could clearly 'see' the routes of the spiritual energy transmission tubes below their plate armor and the operation model of every rune array. He could even extend his senses into the Colossi and the plate armor and 'see' the gnashing, highly twisted faces that were covered in fury and fear.
Behind the Colossi and the Crystal Suit clusters, the starships that were firing crazily seemed to be able to see through their guts, including the structure, function, and weakness of every cabin. Li Yao could see through them easily.
Faced with the overwhelming fire of destruction with only one Colossus, Li Yao was not nervous or scared at all. There was only one thought running crazily inside his head.
"Let's go!"
Li Yao said to the mental devil, "Let's see if we can end the war!"
After all, Li Yao was not confident that he could resist the enemy's central cluster of starships with only one Colossus. The mental devil had to work together.
"It's not a problem for us to work together, but can I make a minor request?"
The mental devil said, "Can you remove the giant words made of three lines of spiritual energy around our Colossus first?
"It is already embarrassing enough that the Colossus is called 'Gold Vulture' with such a silly name. Yet, you are displaying the name directly on the head with spiritual energy. Do you have any sense of shame?"
"Not on the head."
Li Yao frowned and said, "The Colossus and my name are clearly on the left and right sides. On the head is the word 'surrender' that I made with the coolest sound and visual effects after countless tests!"
"That's not important!"
The mental devil said angrily, "The important thing is that this is really too stupid, alright? It is a hundred times more stupid than the coding technique that you came up with last time. Both the enemy and the ally will die of laughter!"
"If you want to die of laughter, just die of laughter. This is the effect of advertising. What do other people know?"
Li Yao sneered and said, "Think about it. We have entered the Imperium on our own without any power or influence. There is no force that truly supports us at all. Our future is completely in Li Linghai's hands. If she intends to make use of us, set us up, or abandon us after the job is done, there will be nothing that we can do.
"Dragging Lei Chenghu into the game and reaching a certain balance between the 'God of War' and the 'queen' is certainly a solution, but it will be too passive.
"In any case, I do not want the fate of myself, the Federation, and even more people to be completely controlled by the Immortal Cultivators such as Lei Chenghu and Li Linghai.
"I have to control the fate of myself and the Federation so that Li Linghai and Lei Chenghu will not dare touch me easily, or they will have to pay a terrible price if they do!
"Then, I have to establish my prestige, or at least my fame, in the Imperium of True Human Beings in the shortest amount of time. I have to establish the brand 'Vulture Li Yao' and let everybody know that I am the central figure, the pillar, and even the symbol of invincibility on the battlefield of the 'reformists'. I have to leave a deep impression on everybody regardless of whether they are my friends or my foes.
"Only in such a way will I be able to further compete with Li Linghai and Lei Chenghu after the victory of the 'reformists' and reach the balance of the three parties!"
"That explains a lot!"
The mental devil was greatly enlightened. "That's why you are seizing every opportunity to advertise yourself and even flatter the political prisoners?"
"Of course! A person like me who is wise and full of schemes like myself definitely has a deep meaning behind every step I take. Why would I waste my time doing something like fishing for fame?"
Li Yao said, "Now that you've understood it, you can help me activate my soul power and display 'Gold Vulture, Vulture Li Yao' in a bigger, more three-dimensional, and cooler way, right?"
"… I refuse. I'll give you three seconds to destroy the shameful words and I'll tell you!"
"Alright, alright. Don't be angry. I'll just destroy them," Li Yao said. "However, there's still a minor problem. If I launch an ultimate move when I slash someone later, can you display the name of the move with the flames of spiritual energy? I've thought of a lot of awesome names for the moves in the past few days. It's sort of a packaging for my personal image and brand marketing!"
The mental devil said, "No!"
As he spoke, the three Colossi of the Divine Rain Fleet and a large wave of Crystal Suit attacks had already reached him!
"Shua!"
The octagonal words around the Gold Vulture all exploded into unstoppable streaks of brilliance and darted at the group of Crystal Suit attacks like a storm.
The Gold Vulture, which had been glittering and dazzling a moment ago, vanished in the blink of an eye. It seemed to have split into thousands of golden sword auras and dashed into the group of Crystal Suit attacks! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM!
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