In the blink of an eye, the Gold Vulture, which seemed to be taking the beating passively, suddenly opened its mouth and spurted out a streak of crimson brilliance that turned into a sharp blade that could tear apart everything. It darted right at the face of the Colossus "Heavenly Crystal"!
The two parties were very close to each other, and the Gold Vulture's movement was extremely tiny and inconspicuous. Caught unprepared, the crimson brilliance hit the forehead of the Heavenly Crystal!
The materials that the Heavenly Crystal was made of were neither metal nor wood. They were the cores and bones of dozens of ferocious beasts that had been squeezed together deep inside the crust of the planet under high temperature and pressure for millions of years before they finally took shape. They were extremely rare even on the primeval battlefields where the remnants of the Colossi were everywhere.
The source of the crimson brilliance was nothing more than "Neltharion", the training starship of the Star Ocean Imperium. Naturally, it could not pierce in.
However, just because Neltharion could not pierce in did not mean that the mental devil could not.
The mental devil's hideous laughter was louder and louder. It turned into a raging ghost and tried to crawl into the Heavenly Crystal through the gaps.
However flawless it looked, there were bound to be joints and gaps as long as it could move agilely.
The mental devil's body suddenly exploded into thousands of threads of blood stripes that explored the weakness of the Heavenly Crystal one after another!
Long Yangjun finally exclaimed in shock.
Although she had foreseen that Li Yao had more trump cards, she did not expect that Li Yao's trump cards would be so sharp.
Li Yao bellowed and cooperated with the mental devil perfectly. While Long Yangjun's mind was greatly affected by the mental devil, surging flames of light spurted out of the back of the Gold Vulture and completely blew up the fault behind it. Under the heavy pressure of the deep sea, it crashed into the Heavenly Crystal brutally with a terrifying force that exceeded the speed of sound!
BOOM!
This time, it was the Heavenly Crystal that was knocked to the fault on the other side by the Gold Vulture and swallowed by thousands of furious flames of light. It was not until the fault was completely blown apart by Li Yao's bombardment and buried the Heavenly Crystal deep inside that the attack finally came to an end.
Very soon, the mental devil and the Heavenly Crystal dashed out of the two sides of the fault.
The Colossus "Heavenly Crystal" was no longer as brilliant and colorful as before. Instead, it was mottled, with narrow, long red lines that looked like worms vaguely swimming below the crystal shell.
The mental devil, on the other hand, pointed at Neltharion with its hands on its waist and eyed Long Yangjun covetously.
"Do you still want to fight?" Li Yao asked coldly.
"Hu … Hu … That's more like it. That's Vulture Li Yao, Monster Li!"
Long Yangjun breathed hard, but she chuckled in a low voice. "So, this is your secret weapon. I seem to have seen it somewhere before. Yes, when the Xing Yao Federation was dealing with Heavenly Devil Mo Xuan, this little guy appeared. So cute. Is this your second primordial spirit?
"I didn't know that you had trained your second primordial spirit to such a terrifying level. Other than the fact that it does not have a real body, its combat ability is as good as that of common experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, and its weirdness is far beyond that of common experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage. What is this? Some sort of special 'quasi-divinity branching'?
"No wonder you pretended to be weak all the way just now. So, you were trying to set me up with your second primordial spirit. It is indeed your style. Thankfully, I knew that you were so sordid and sleazy, or I might've been tricked. Hehehehe!"
"Allow me to introduce you."
Li Yao said expressionlessly, "This is indeed my second primordial spirit, named the mental devil. Mental devil, this is Long Yangjun. You two should get to know each other better."
"I don't want to. I hate this guy who is neither a man nor a woman. I don't know if he is a deity or a monster!"
The mental devil sniffed at Long Yangjun. "Hey, I don't object to your decision at all if you want to kill this silly idiot, but this body is mine. If you dare to hurt one of its hairs, I will kill you!"
"Aya. How interesting. Your second primordial spirit seems to have formed its own independent personality!"
Long Yangjun chuckled. "No. It doesn't seem to be as simple as a second primordial spirit. I smell something more ancient and distant from it, as if … it came to this place from a place far, far away beyond the three thousand Sectors a long, long time ago. At the very least, I can't sense much of the scent left by the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan from it."
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. The 'Blood Stripe Virus', the mental devil's antecedent, was indeed from an extremely remote space zone beyond the three thousand Sectors.
Li Yao did not even know whether or not the hometown of the Blood Stripe Virus was in the same universe as the world where the Pangu, the Nuwa Clan, and human beings lived.
"I was wondering why we hit it off so well. As it turns out, our identities and experiences are almost the same!"
Long Yangjun continued with a smile. "As a member of the Nuwa Clan, I was corrupted by the forces of the Pangu Clan, and as a human being, you were corrupted by the Blood Stripe Virus. We both carry double destinies and bloodlines. No wonder we hit it off so well."
"Who hit it off so well with you?"
The mental devil stared at Long Yangjun warily. "What are you up to exactly? What do you want?"
Long Yangjun smiled and took off the Heavenly Crystal, her Colossus, and only put on a common Deep Sea Pressure-Resistant Crystal Suit. She opened her hands, indicating that she meant no harm.
Li Yao sneered, "Are you done?"
"You boast such a weird and powerful second soul. It's impossible for me to kill the two of you at the same time quickly. It's possible that your second soul will invade my brain the moment I kill you and cause severe damage. It may even steal my body."
Long Yangjun said frankly, "In that case, why are we wasting our time and effort? Like I said just now, it's not a life-and-death battle. It's just a friendly match that we haven't seen each other for a long time!"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "Alright. Now that you've forced me to reveal my trump card and I've seen everything clearly, you can finally tell me what your purpose is, right?"
"I don't have a purpose in the beginning. I'm just traveling at the center of the cosmos to see the world and myself clearly."
Long Yangjun said, "However, I did discover something very interesting during my travels. Do you remember that I told you to be wary of Li Linghai, queen of the Imperium?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. "Why? Did you find any evidence of critical importance?"
"It may not be evidence, but it's quite interesting."
Long Yangjun suddenly changed the topic. "Do you want to meet Dongfang Wang? He's dying. His soul and his body are both drying up. He doesn't even have a chance to be transformed into a spectral Cultivator. As the saying goes, 'When a man is about to die, his words are always kind'. His last words may be reasonable and interesting!"
"What?"
Li Yao was slightly surprised. "Dongfang Wang is with you, and he's dying? How is that possible? "
"Because his brother's secret research institute has been destroyed, and his' Soul Nourishing Liquid 'is out of stock!"
Long Yangjun said, "Don't look at me like that. It's the greatest secret of the two brothers. I didn't know it at the beginning until you exposed the whole thing and he told me the truth after his crushing defeat. If I had known it earlier, maybe everything would've been different!"
Li Yao thought for a long time and still found it hard to believe. "The 'prime minister of iron and blood' is dying just like that. From the beginning to the end, he was … too weak!"
"It is exactly because he is the 'prime minister of iron and blood' that he is so weak and died so quickly," Long Yangjun said something that sounded like something that sounded unreasonable.
"You should know how many Sectors, how many planets, how many starships, how many Immortal Cultivators, and how many civilians the Imperium of True Human Beings effectively controls, right?"
Li Yao nodded his head softly. He knew, but only the boring astronomical numbers.
"If you were the prime minister of the Imperium, would you be confident to govern the hundreds of Sectors, the tens of thousands of resource planets, the million starships, and the trillions of civilians and Immortal Cultivators without asking them to carry out their maximum strength but only to make the enormous system function normally?"
Long Yangjun said, "Or, let's change the question. If there is a prime minister of the Imperium who can do all that, how much computational ability will it consume, how much soul power will it consume, and how much vitality will it consume?"
Li Yao had never considered the question before.
In the first place, he was not good at strategizing and overall management. He only liked to fight to his heart's content and refine artifacts in a myriad of ways.
However, as Ding Ling Dong's man, he was also very clear about how many complicated problems and how many dilemma decisions he would have to make to manage less than ten Sectors at the edge of the cosmos.
The problems and challenges that the prime minister of the Imperium was faced with were a hundred times more than those that the Speaker of the Federation had!
Everybody had their limits. Not just the admin-type Immortal Cultivators in the Divinity Transformation Stage, even those in the Divinity Branching Stage or even higher levels would still feel powerless when faced with the vast universe with the help of countless super crystal processors.
"Do you understand it now? The Imperium is too large. Anybody who intends to govern the entire universe on their own will inevitably have to burn their own heads, just like the crystal processors that have carried out overly complicated and enormous missions have to burn all the chips."
Long Yangjun said, "Besides, Dongfang Wang is not a regular prime minister but a 'wartime prime minister'. He is the 'prime minister of iron and blood'. Under his leadership, the Imperium waged a super-large-scale war that had not been seen in five hundred years. Although he was not a commander in the frontline, as the helmsman of the entire Imperium, the efforts, energy, and even life that he devoted to the war were immeasurable.
"It was not until a long time after I got in touch with Dongfang Wang that I learned that the seemingly awe-inspiring 'prime minister of iron and blood' had long been drained of his brain by the enormous Imperium and the 'Imperium's counterattack'. By logic, his soul should've been drained, mentally deranged, and half-dead. He was only holding on with the 'soul nourishing liquids' that his brother provided.
"However, the 'soul nourishing liquids' have side effects, too. The most important thing is that the dosage will be higher and higher. At first, one dose per day was enough, but later, ten doses per day were not enough to moisten the dry brain cells.
"It was also an important reason why Dongfang Renxin's secret research institute never stopped functioning when the situation in the capital was so intense. It couldn't be helped. Dongfang Wang could not stop using the drugs.
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