In Li Yao's senses, Dongfang Wang's soul was spurting out of his brain like a volcano eruption.
It was definitely not a good sign but the last radiance of the setting sun.
Li Yao said in a hurry, "Prime Minister Dongfang, don't be excited. I trust you. Take your time!"
Dongfang Wang's eyes had been burnt into gray glass pearls. There was no telling if he still had normal vision, but his hands that were as dry as twigs were groping in the void, tearing the map of the Imperium into broken ripples.
The former prime minister of the Imperium roared hysterically, "Li Linghai, Li Linghai, you could've calculated everything, but you couldn't have foreseen that Dongfang Tuo and I had reached a secret agreement a long time ago. I have evidence in my hands that proves that I couldn't have assassinated Dongfang Tuo!
"Vulture Li Yao, Dongfang Mingyue, if you are both Li Linghai's men, everything will be over, and I will admit my failure!
"However, if you still care about the big picture of the Imperium and the civilization of mankind, help me bring the evidence and everything I said just now to General Lei Chenghu. Tell everybody in the world that we will unveil Li Linghai's real face together!"
Li Yao was about to inject another dose of medical drugs into Dongfang Wang, but the guy stood up, shaking. Feeble flames were flowing out of every pore on his body as he burst into the weirdest laughter. "Haha. Hahahaha. However, even if your scheme works out, it will still be useless, Li Linghai! You can defeat me. You can deceive and steal the entire Imperium, but you can't defeat the universe! You will be crushed by the Imperium and swallowed by the universe like me!
"Nobody … Nobody can escape from the universe, the boundless and barren universe, the cage of billions of civilizations!
"Both us and the deities and devils of the primeval age were ants in the sea of stars, dust particles in the universe …"
Dongfang Wang's hands tore apart the map of the Imperium and passed through the starry spots, as if they were extending to the real universe above his head through the seawater.
The spirit flames around him gradually dimmed, and his movements finally froze. He looked like a clumsy statue, and just like that, his life, which was difficult to evaluate, ended.
Li Yao gave up the idea of injecting him with the medicine.
Dongfang Wang's vitality field had been on the verge of collapse for a long time. It was only with his astonishing willpower and his unforgettable hatred for Li Linghai that he persisted to this moment. Now that he had confessed everything and let go of his burdens, his last breath of spiritual energy was gone. Even the deities could not save him.
Li Yao sighed and stepped forward, closing Dongfang Wang's eyes that were still open. Then, he laid him on the ground and cleaned his clothes, as if he had fallen asleep.
Dongfang Wang was naturally not a good guy. In the modern society, he was still doing things like "cannibalistic training". It could only be said that he had crossed all the boundaries of humanity and was a well-dressed animal.
However, in the past twenty years, he had indeed dedicated his life and soul to the Imperium of True Human Beings. He had integrated all the resources and brought the temporary victory of the Imperium's counterattack. That was an undeniable fact.
Li Yao really did not know how to comment on "Prime Minister of Iron and Blood Dongfang Wang".
Naturally, they did not know how to face "Queen Li Linghai" after what he said just now!
"How was it?"
Dongfang Mingyue, who had been leaning next to him in silence, stepped forward and patted Li Yao's shoulder softly. She said with a smile, "I didn't lie to you, did I? Were Dongfang Wang's last words very thrilling and exciting?"
"They were indeed very exciting."
After cleaning up Dongfang Wang's body, Li Yao cleaned up Emperor Shenwu's remains, too. Placing the two of them side by side, he took out a few bottles of drugs for processing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from his Cosmos Ring and processed them carefully.
Many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were the body tissues of spiritual beasts, demon beasts, and alien beasts. Naturally, they could only be preserved and used for a long time after being processed carefully. The fleshly body of a human being was not much different from that of spiritual beasts or demon beasts. The same drugs could be used to preserve the bodies of human beings, too.
The two bodies were both crucial evidence. Naturally, Li Yao would not allow them to perish in the deep ocean for nothing.
While processing the bodies, Li Yao analyzed, "Dongfang Wang's words cannot be completely trusted. They are of great reference value. It is true that, from the perspective of 'who will benefit the most from the incident', the queen is indeed the primary suspect in the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance. Also, her thunderous counterattacks after the incident of the Blood Oath Alliance broke out were too smooth, too violent, and too well-planned. Also, Dongfang Wang's way of dealing with the whole thing was indeed clumsy and passive, as if he had been caught unprepared!
"However, even if all the indirect evidence points to the queen, the most critical question cannot be avoided. If the Imperium is truly in chaos, what benefits will Li Linghai get? What can she do, and what can she get?
"Without military power, prestige, and influence in the Council of Elders. The four Kurfürst families will not obey her easily, either. Even the reformists are not following her personally but the ideology that she proposed. How can such a Li Linghai clean up the mess when the Imperium is in chaos?"
"What if she doesn't need to clean up the mess at all?"
Long Yangjun said casually, "Let's say that the queen of the Imperium right now is not the real Li Linghai but has been taken over by something else. For example, she has become … a member of the Holy League?
"If Li Linghai is a member of the Holy League, everything will make sense. She has been trying to mess up the Imperium so that the army of the Holy League will take advantage of the situation!"
Li Yao's eyebrows were like twisted towels. Thinking carefully for a long time, he shook his head slowly and said, "It's true that if Li Linghai is a member of the Holy League, everything will have a reasonable explanation, but I don't think it's so simple.
"I know that the Holy League has very advanced 'emotion simulation' technology right now, which can allow a puppet of flesh and blood to simulate normal feelings and avoid all the 'Ring-Tu Tests'. However, Li Linghai and I are both experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, and I have seen her burst out of fury with my own eyes. I don't think that she is a member of the Holy League."
There was something else that Li Yao did not mention.
Li Yao's foster father was a member of the Holy League, but because of Li Linghai's arrival, he broke the Three Fundamental Laws and gained the feelings and will that a human being should have.
His foster father could turn from a member of the Holy League into a normal person, but Li Linghai became a member of the Holy League? That was too absurd!
When his foster father was mentioned, Li Yao could clearly sense the fragility and longing in Li Linghai's heart. Such real feelings could not have been simulated.
"It seems so. Even if Li Linghai is a member of the Holy League, it cannot explain a lot of things, such as why she knows the secrets of the royal library and the underground royal palace." Long Yangjun paused for a moment.
Pausing for a moment, Long Yangjun said, "Right, you haven't told me the source of Li Linghai's strength yet. How did she turn from a common puppet queen into a mysterious, dominating schemer in only decades? She even established a rather elite Deep Sea Fleet in secret and conspired with many opposing forces to form such a new force as the 'reformists'?
"Reformists require money and resources. Leaving aside schemes, schemes, and combat ability, where did she get so many resources?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment. With everything coming to this point, it seemed that he had to tell the truth. “
"If I tell you —"
After thinking for a long time, Li Yao finally said, "Li Linghai was indeed taken over by somebody else, but not by the Holy League but by the legendary … Supreme Emperor. Do you believe it?"
Slightly stunned, Long Yangjun exclaimed, "Li Linghai received the Supreme Emperor's heritage? She — she discovered the 'Empyrean Transcendence Sector'! "
Li Yao nodded. "If that's the case, can it explain everything?"
Long Yangjun thought for a moment and shook her head hard. "I don't really believe that it's true. The legendary Supreme Emperor symbolizes brightness and justice, and he is known for his unstoppable strength. If Li Linghai was truly possessed by the Supreme Emperor or received the Supreme Emperor's heritage, she certainly wouldn't bother to resort to such schemes.
"Of course, if you insist that the legends are false and that the Supreme Emperor was a sordid scoundrel in the first place, or that his personality changed because of some weird changes during his ten thousand years of sleep, I can't deny your theory either."
Li Yao felt that the idea was too far-fetched, too. Most importantly of all, the half key to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum had always been in his hands. It meant that Li Linghai had never entered the core of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. How could she have been possessed by the Supreme Emperor or received the Supreme Emperor's heritage?
Thinking about that, Li Yao's heart suddenly palpitated hard.
Yes. It was impossible for Li Linghai to enter the core of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. It was impossible for her to receive the Supreme Emperor's heritage!
Then, where did her dominating aura that could swallow the universe and the sword aura of the true dragons of purple fire come from?
What's weird inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum exactly?
Li Yao suddenly remembered that Li Linghai had asked him to pay more attention to the files about the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. Thinking of something, he couldn't help but ask, "Long Yangjun, haven't you been to the royal library before? I'm told that it's the place with the most complete collection of classics and files in the entire Imperium. There must be a lot of classics about the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, right? Are there any … special files? "
"Special files? No, no! "
Long Yangjun shook her head quickly and frowned. "I'm so angry when I talk about that. There are indeed millions of files about the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum in the royal library, which almost takes up one tenth of the entire library. I thought that I would find something useful in there, but after rummaging for such a long time, I found nothing but absurd legends and bizarre travelogues. There was nothing useful at all. What a waste of time!"
"One-tenth of the entire royal library is reserved for the classics about the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum?"
Confused, Li Yao asked casually, "Why?"
"Because Blackstar the Great was most fond of studying the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum in the past. He collected almost all the files on the exploration of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum in the past ten thousand years and studied them crazily in the royal library. Are his descendants going to burn all the classics?"
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