While he was talking, Li Yao's index finger had already turned into a translucent iron rod that was surging in the air in sizzling sounds.
Circles of spiritual energy were also spreading out next to his finger, condensing into ripples in the shape of sawteeth that revolved quickly like the threads on a drill.
His finger stabbed into Dongfang Renxin's eyebrow brutally like a drill hitting iron. Squeaking noises were echoing first, and smoke was popping up. Then, bright electric arcs burst out of the contact and covered Dongfang Renxin's entire head.
The muscles on Dongfang Renxin's face were all bulging. He tried to shake his head hard, but his limbs and spine had all been shattered by Li Yao, and he could not move at all. Even his devastating screams sounded like the grunts of a pig that was waiting to be butchered. After three seconds of stalemate, Li Yao's finger stabbed in brutally!
His fingertip was like an open gate. The most violent spiritual energy flooded into Dongfang Renxin's brain.
The soul power of the Divinity Transformation Stage was so enormous that it was like a beast that had been shocked and launched a natural counterattack.
However, Li Yao was obviously more skilled. He gritted his teeth and transformed all his hatred and hatred into torrents of fury that raged in the gully of Dongfang Renxin's brain and destroyed everything.
Crimson flames spurted out of Dongfang Renxin's eyes and ears, with golden brilliance at the edge of the flames. They were the aftermath of Li Yao's spiritual energy.
His screams gradually turned feeble.
Li Yao retracted his finger. An invisible spring of spiritual energy spurted out of the center of Dongfang Renxin's eyebrow crazily, like a colorful flower that was blossoming in the darkness and did not wither for a long time.
As the spiritual energy poured out, Dongfang Renxin's previously muscular face turned into a skeleton in the blink of an eye, but he was not dead yet. His two eyes that were almost burnt through stared at Li Yao blankly. There was no telling whether the swirls in his eyes were out of desperation, hatred, pain, or astonishment. He could not believe that Li Yao would really do that.
Li Yao smiled at him and retrieved a few medical drugs and high-energy nutrition drugs from his Cosmos Ring. He injected them into Dongfang Renxin's carotid artery, helping the living skeleton sustain his life that was more miserable than death.
Then, he groped on the man's body for a moment and soon found four Cosmos Rings.
The four Cosmos Rings had all been planted with barriers, but it was not a problem for Li Yao, who was an expert of refining.
Hearing the screams and the collisions of the Crystal Suit behind him getting closer and closer, Li Yao thought of something and suddenly knocked Dongfang Renxin, who was already half-dead in the first place, out and dragged him to a dark corner in the lower abyss.
He found a forsaken mine that was empty in a corner of the lower abyss and cracked the barriers of the four Cosmos Rings by brute force in ten minutes. As he expected, he found a unit that was similar to a storage chip of a mainframe crystal processor.
The raw data of the experiments and surgeries that Dongfang Renxin had performed in the past should be inside.
Due to the lack of time, it was impossible for Li Yao to copy all the data inside the storage chip. Pondering for a moment, he stuck a chip that was as thin as a cicada's wing that he had refined himself into the storage chip.
The chip, which was only one quarter the size of a fingernail and had been completely melted with the rune arrays of the storage chip itself, equaled a "backdoor" that had been cracked by brute force on the material level. It also boasted a very high localization ability. As long as Li Yao thought about it, he could find it within dozens of kilometers.
Li Yao did not know why he did such a trick.
Perhaps it was because Dongfang Renxin's words just now touched him.
Or maybe it was because Long Yangjun's reminder a few days ago was still haunting his head.
In any case, he felt that the so-called "victory" was too simple.
Assuming that the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance was really Dongfang Wang's elaborate scheme, and the reformists led by Li Linghai merely counterattacked in a hurry, the "scheme" would be too clumsy and passive, and the "counterattack" would be too aggressive, interconnected, and thunderous.
After assembling the four Cosmos Rings exactly as they were and simulating the original barriers, Li Yao finally dragged Dongfang Renxin back to the twenty-seventh district.
In the darkness around, countless pairs of eyes of the underground hominoids were still glaring at him without blinking. Some of the young people were exclaiming like panicked animals, but most of them had already adapted to the darkness below the ground. Their lifeless eyes were full of indifference, as if the fierce battle that took place just now was a farce that had nothing to do with them at all.
It would be a long and arduous path to make those people who had never seen the sun believe in the existence of light.
However, Li Yao would never give up. He would certainly try his best to fight until the end!
"I will certainly find out the truth … Li Linghai, what trick are you playing exactly? What is your 'secret weapon' exactly?"
Looking at the devil huntresses who were running close, Li Yao mumbled to himself and was deep in thought.
…
Dongfang Renxin's secret research institute had been demolished as "caught with the stolen goods". Even Dongfang Renxin himself did not escape but was captured back to the secret base of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils. When the news spread out, it would certainly raise a destructive storm at the center of the cosmos.
Before the reinforcements of the Dongfang family arrived, the fleet of the Li family had already appeared in the sky vertically above the twenty-seventh district. All the cannons and spiritual shields had been activated, as if they were ready to attack at any moment, forcing the reinforcements of the Dongfang family not to act recklessly.
Very soon, undeniable evidence popped up on the Spiritual Nexus, revealing the crimes that Dongfang Renxin had committed.
Li Linghai's judgment was correct. What Dongfang Renxin had done had already crossed the boundaries of the Immortal Cultivators and crossed the rules of the game of open competition and secret competition.
The Imperium of True Human Beings was a country of Immortal Cultivators whose ruling class was "true human beings". None of the Immortal Cultivators could tolerate being tied to an operation table like a piece of meat to be butchered or even drained alive. It was obviously the treatment of "hominoids", but they were high and mighty true human beings!
Most of the victims of Dongfang Renxin's secret research institute, on the other hand, were not regular true human beings but nobles large and small, including the core members of the four Kurfürst families.
Many Immortal Cultivators went missing after their starships and even their bases were blown up by the enemy in the fierce battles against the Holy League in the frontline. In a universal war, the attacks of the two parties could easily soar to thousands of degrees. It was more than easy for a body to be vaporized.
Furthermore, after a battle of such a large scale, ninety percent of the corpses would go missing, vaporized, frozen, or drifting to the depths of space. It was perfectly normal that only ten percent of the corpses could be found.
Therefore, many missing soldiers had been declared to have sacrificed for the country. Their families also thought that their loved ones had been killed by the sabers of the Holy League.
But as it turned out, they were not killed by the Holy League but by Dongfang Renxin, and their abdomens and spiritual roots had even been sucked dry to nurture another Immortal Cultivator!
For a moment, the whole country was in an uproar. The families of the victims, who were naturally the strongest Immortal Cultivators, were all infuriated.
The leaders of the Li family, the Yun family, and the Song family, the three Kurfürst families, could not suppress the flames of fury at all. They could only grit their teeth and establish a joint investigation team with the reformists to investigate everybody who was involved in Dongfang Renxin's case.
On the 17th of June, an elder from the Yun family used this case as a reason to propose an impeachment in the Senate. He requested that Prime Minister Dongfang Wang immediately step down and dissolve the cabinet that he had single-handedly established, and form a new temporary cabinet.
For now, there was no direct evidence to prove that Dongfang Wang was involved in Dongfang Renxin's evil studies. Therefore, although the impeachment was supported by part of the elders of the Yun family, the Li family, and the Song family, it was not passed.
However, everybody could tell that the impeachment was a declaration of war, which proved that the Yun family and the Song family had taken the Li family and the reformists' side. The three Kurfürst families had reached a temporary alliance with the reformists and pointed their sabers at the Dongfang family together!
At this moment, the morale of the Dongfang family was lower than ever. It was even showing signs of collapse.
It was because the primary victims of Dongfang Renxin's studies were the Dongfang family's own people. Some of the leaders benefited from Dongfang Renxin's studies, and some of them failed in the competition. Holding a grudge, they sharpened their sabers, eager to take back power.
Those leaders were immediately divided into two groups, or even more, who were blaming each other and shirking their responsibilities. They were also secretly considering who should be pushed out as a scapegoat to settle the whole thing.
For the secondary branches of the family and the bottom-level Immortal Cultivators, although they had long realized that they were nothing more than cannon fodder for the family and that it was barely possible to distinguish themselves in the enormous family system that was gradually becoming rigid, most of them had accepted their fate in their ignorance. However, the full disclosure of such an evil and ugly thing was still a shocking strike for them.
As it turned out, as the secondary branches and the bottom-level of the family, not only did they not have any chance to distinguish themselves, they had to fight as cannon fodder for the family. Or rather, if they slightly revealed their talents in training, they might be captured by the leadership of the family and exploited into "high-energy nutrition drugs" for the enjoyment of the leadership and their descendants!
What kind of family was such a family? It was almost a man-eating nest!
After all, they had never enjoyed the benefits of the family. Even if the Dongfang family was completely doomed, would it have anything to do with them?
It was even more so for the Immortal Cultivators and hominoids living in the Dongfang family's territory and even within the Dongfang family's fleet.
The Dongfang family governed almost twenty prosperous Sectors and had more than ten million Immortal Cultivators under its command. Naturally, not all the Immortal Cultivators shared the surname "Dongfang".
As a matter of fact, in the Dongfang family's territory and army, only ten percent of the Immortal Cultivators had the surname Dongfang. The other ninety percent were of other surnames.
Among the hominoids, the proportion of other surnames was even higher. It was more than ninety-five percent.
Before, the Immortal Cultivators of other surnames had all been suppressed by the Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family. However talented they were, they could not distinguish themselves. They had accumulated a lot of hatred and regret, but because the Dongfang family was deeply rooted and powerful, they did not have any channels to vent their anger or change.
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