Deep inside the Silver Moon Ocean to the west of the main continent of the capital planet, when the seawater was dyed red by blood, in the east of the main continent ten thousand kilometers away, the sun above the royal palace gradually fell into the mountains. The last ray of light brushed past the rolling mountains and congregated into a man-eating tide that covered the entire royal palace like a surging ocean of blood.
Inside and outside the royal palace, red mist was popping up everywhere.
Because the entire space zone was full of space cracks and wormholes, which were very suitable for space jumps, the Empyreal Terminus Sector had been a highly-developed Sector in the primeval era hundreds of thousands of years ago when the Pangu Alliance was in its heyday.
Even though the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan perished in the destructive war, the Empyreal Terminus Sector was still the center of the three thousand Sectors and a place that the military was bound to fight for.
In the age of the ancient Cultivators, only the most powerful sects were qualified to claim the hegemony of the Empyrean Terminus Sector. Whichever sect completely controlled the Empyrean Terminus Sector would have the capital to expand in all directions and establish a major sect that had been passed on for thousands of years.
In the Great Dark Age, the Empyreal Terminus Sector was also the political center of the Demon Beast Empire and was controlled by the most powerful demon warlords.
After the Supreme Emperor overthrew the reign of the demon race, the position of the Empyreal Terminus Sector was further strengthened, making it the well-deserved heart of the sea of stars!
For hundreds of thousands of years, countless experts had been managing the Empyreal Terminus Sector as a great enterprise. They had established countless residences, bases, military fortresses, war bases, and royal palaces. They had also gathered the resources from everywhere in the sea of stars and gathered them in this place.
Hardly had the royal palace of the old dynasty been razed to the ground in the barrage when the new one rose in the middle of the mess. Such things had happened too many times in only ten thousand years from the collapse of the Star Ocean Imperium to the establishment of the Star Ocean Republic and the usurpation of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
If the crust near the royal palace was dissected vertically, one would certainly discover layers of geological stratification that looked like a thousand-layer cake. Every layer represented the glory of an era in the past. The oldest layer could even be traced back to more than a hundred thousand years ago. They were almost like fossils. It was not an exaggeration to say that one could excavate the debris and even the remnants of magical equipment from tens of thousands of years ago.
In the process of excavating the ancient royal palaces and residences, all kinds of ancient seals and barriers were triggered, releasing ferocious primordial beasts or causing earth-shattering explosions that ravaged a hundred square kilometers and killed millions of people. It was also a tragedy that happened every now and then, recorded in various historical materials and classics.
Some people even speculated that the fierce battle between the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God took place deep below the ground of the capital planet. As a result, the aftermath of their fierce battle triggered a certain dormant force or a destructive machine from the primeval age, which resulted in the destruction of the capital planet's crust. Enormous gaps were everywhere, and the whole planet was almost destroyed.
Even though there was such a risk, the experts and rulers of the past dynasties still advanced dauntlessly, building vast imperial palaces and unearthing the deepest secrets of the underground.
Among them, Blackstar the Great was almost the epitome of the past thousands of years.
It was said that after he stole the supreme power of the Star Ocean Republic, he promised the panicked Cultivators that as long as they contributed 50% of their assets and resources, they would be spared and given a chance to 'reform' and become citizens of the Imperium.
Most of the Cultivators were indeed fooled. They gave up resistance and handed over their assets and resources obediently, becoming a great source of income for Blackstar the Great to build the royal palace.
However, after Blackstar the Great really took control of the situation and did not need to pretend to be obedient to those Cultivators anymore, he immediately turned hostile and captured all the Cultivators as slaves for the construction of the royal palace. With the lives of those poor people as the bargaining chips, he performed a second deception.
With the resources and lives of the Cultivators, the royal palace of the Imperium of True Human Beings covered an unprecedented thirty thousand square kilometers. It was obviously a splendid super city.
It was needless to mention the dense palaces, command centers, and defense systems on the ground. Deep inside the complicated mazes below the ground, countless war bases, military fortresses, and magical equipment warehouses were also hidden. The brand-new Crystal Suit and even the Colossi had been carefully preserved with secret techniques. They were as intact as before despite the corrosion of a thousand years and could be activated at any moment for battle.
It was said that Blackstar the Great even went through all the trouble to find nine world fragments and moved the entrances of the nine world fragments to the depths of the underground world at the cost of infinite resources.
As for the mysteries of the world fragments, or the unknown ferocious beasts and magical equipment that nobody knew, nobody except Blackstar the Great knew.
Even the emperors of the Imperium of True Human Beings after Blackstar the Great did not know 100% of the secrets of the "underground royal palace". The nine world fragments were even groundless legends.
After the four Kurfürst families usurped the royal power, a series of bloody coups and competitions for the throne broke out. Countless members of the royal family were killed in pools of blood, and the secrets of the "underground royal palace" sank to the abyss at the center of the planet forever. Unless the whole planet was cut into halves, it would never see the light of day again.
The royal palace today was no longer as glorious as it was in Blackstar the Great's age.
The four Kurfürst families checked and balanced each other, but they intentionally neglected the Empyreal Terminus Sector as the center of the capital and replaced the role of the royal palace with the Council of Elders.
After five hundred years of desolation, the magnificent palace that used to be undulating and magnificent was now as lifeless as a ghost town. Occasionally, the palace maids and guards would pass by, but they also looked like wandering ghosts whose feet did not touch the ground. Especially under the illumination of the setting sun, there were gusts of gloomy wind blowing, giving off a gloomy and gloomy feeling, which was extremely desolate.
Holding a rarely-seen scroll made of animal hide, Li Linghai slowly stepped out of the royal library. When he faced the royal palace that was so spacious that it was almost desolate, the bloody mist raised by the setting sun had already dispersed. The night poured down like a black ocean, and the waves swallowed the last redness in the sky.
Li Linghai's eyes pierced through the raging dragons on the palaces far away and stared at the first dazzling star on the horizon, deep in thought.
With the exposure of the "cannibalism training" and the "incident of the Blood Oath Alliance", the collapse of Dongfang Wang's cabinet was already inevitable, and the total collapse of the Dongfang family was only a matter of time. The reformists were even closer to the other three Kurfürst families. Many members of the reformists could already appear on the street of the capital openly and promote their ideas. They were also welcomed by the middle- and low-level Immortal Cultivators and even the bottom-level people.
Because Emperor Shenwu was still in Dongfang Wang's hands, many elders of the Imperium asked Li Linghai to return to the royal palace to pacify the people.
Also, the treatment of the surplus generals and the disabled veterans gathered in the Emperor's Mausoleum was gradually resolved. The "crying incident" was about to come to a happy ending. Li Linghai had no reason to stay in the Emperor's Mausoleum anymore.
It was impossible for her to hide in the Emperor's Mausoleum forever. After much consideration, she decided to return to the royal palace.
Li Linghai naturally would not completely trust the cunning guys of the three Kurfürst families. She could not rely on the Imperial Guards of the royal family to protect her, either.
Other than the Thunder Fleet that was deployed in the heartland of the Li family to stall the three Kurfürst families, the elites of the Deep Sea Fleet, led by Dongfang Sheng, were also stationed in the royal palace, ready to soar into the sky at any moment should anything go wrong.
Also, the control of all the defense arrays in and out of the royal palace had fallen into Li Linghai's hands. Her safety was almost guaranteed.
However …
Looking at the royal palace that was as empty as a ghost's domain, Li Linghai smelled danger.
Curling her lips into a vague sneer, she scratched her white hair and did not care about the "minor problems" such as where exactly the guards that she deployed outside had gone. Instead, she sighed softly and walked forward slowly on her own.
In front of her, the last bloody light of the setting sun elongated three shadows, which were all pointed at Li Linghai like three bloody blades.
They were three people with different appearances but equally violent and dominating auras.
They tore apart the tranquility inside the royal palace unconcernedly. Their killing intent condensed into visible electric arcs and surrounded Li Linghai from three directions in spluttering noises.
The expert standing on the east side had the most enormous head, on which uneven lumps of flesh were growing. At first glance, he seemed to have horns all over his head, giving a hilarious feeling as if he were a "big-headed doll".
But anyone who heard his name would definitely not be able to laugh.
It was because he was Li Jianyi, one of the best Meditation Healers in the Imperium of True Human Beings, who had trained his mental world to the deepest and most terrifying level of hell, and who was also known as "Devilish Abyss"!
He was nicknamed "Devilish Abyss" because anyone who took his mental attack would be mired into a trance and hypnotized state. They would feel that they had fallen into an abyss where devils were lurking, and there was no way that they could crawl out!
The expert on the south side seemed to be of average height, but he boasted a pair of giant hands that were as big as fans.
His hands could both crush the hardest diamonds and tear apart the most ferocious apocalyptic beasts in space. He could even "knead" a Crystal Suit into a metal lump with his bare hands.
It was exactly with such iron hands that he became the director of the Combat College of Imperial University!
"Acyclic Earth" Yun Kuohai had shocked the entire Imperium a hundred years ago for his brutality!
The expert on the west side was a hunchbacked woman.
In terms of body size, she was the shortest of the three experts, but in terms of aura, she seemed to be the most shocking one.
Her body was densely wrapped in a layer of translucent light golden sharp blades. Each blade was only the size of a fingernail, but they constantly surged and moved rhythmically as she breathed, dragging out streaks of golden light. They were like thousands of flying swords that were itching to attack.
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