Li Linghai collected the Colossi of the three experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, but he was not in a hurry to deal with them. Instead, he drove "Hellstar" to the depths of the black fog. In this place, thousands of thick tentacles of black fog bound a medical cabin tightly, making it impossible for it to move.
Inside the medical cabin was naturally "Silver Fox" Li Jiande, the most senior Kurfürst of the Imperium.
Although Li Jiande's eyes and senses were blurred by the black fog and he did not see the cause and effect of the battle just now, when he saw that his cousin Li Jianyi and the rest of them had all unloaded their Colossi and were floating in midair naked, as if they were waiting to be dealt with, and the debris of countless Crystal Suits and Colossi were scattered around, and "Hellstar" was swaggering at him, how could he not know that he had lost? But he simply heaved a heavy sigh, as if he had died in regret because of his failure to fight.
"Hellstar" extended two metal tentacles and dragged the medical cabin to the bottom of the enormous face. Then, the soul-stirring eyes stared at him gloomily, as if they were crushing the former prime minister of the Imperium from the bottom of his soul.
Under the pressure that felt like billions of tons of seawater, "Silver Fox" Li Jiande was not scared at all. Instead, he laughed bleakly. "Idiots. Idiots. What a bunch of useless mud. I'm afraid that you won't realize how stupid it was for you to retreat today until you die without a burial place one day!"
Li Linghai covered the space around the medical cabin with his spiritual energy, not fearing that Li Jiande's voice and telepathic thoughts would spread out. He sneered, "What's stupid about it?"
"Even if you are truly possessed by a thousand-year-old ghost, you can't be Blackstar the Great in his prime days!"
"Silver Fox" Li Jiande's eyes were bloodshot, and his hair and beard were all fluttering. As if he were truly against all the stars in the universe, he finally roared out the name of "that majesty". "The real Blackstar the Great died a thousand years ago. Even if part of his remaining soul lingers to this day, it must've been more feeble than ever! Even if you can attach yourself to Li Linghai and slowly nourish yourself with her blood essence and soul, there is no reason for you to recover 100% of your strength. Twenty to thirty percent is already the limit!
"Even if you have the combat ability of the Divinity Branching Stage, it is impossible for you to reach the middle level of the Divinity Branching Stage. There are three of them at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage. If they really summon up their courage to fight you, you will only be able to kill one of them at most. You will definitely be suppressed by the other two!
"Besides, you haven't completely possessed Li Linghai's body. You're just a part of your soul that's temporarily attached to Li Linghai's body. If you trigger the combat ability of the Divinity Branching Stage for a long time, both your soul and Li Linghai's fleshly body will be greatly damaged, right? It must be noted that your enemies are not just the five experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage and the dozens of Yuanying here but everybody in the four Kurfürst families! So, how could you dare to be so unbridled and fight with all your might? You can't take the risk of being seriously injured!
"Those idiots who have more brawn than brains will understand the logic if they think about it for a moment! Hehe. If you can really carry out your Cultivation in your prime days blatantly, why would you hide inside Li Linghai's body stealthily, not daring to let the world know of your existence? Why would you have to resort to such schemes and schemes and take us down one by one with the advantage of the great array? Wouldn't it have been more satisfying to simply suppress all of us?
"I'm suspicious. Haha. I'm suspicious that after you killed one expert at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage, your spiritual energy was almost exhausted, or maybe there was a problem with the fusion of your remaining soul and your body. You couldn't possibly have the strength to kill a second expert at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage, could you? Detestable, detestable. If they had mustered up some courage, united as one, and swarmed you together, they would have definitely … dismembered you into a thousand pieces, and eliminated all future troubles! "
Li Linghai listened in silence. He was not even angry when he heard Li Jiande's vicious curse at the end. Instead, he burst into laughter. "Isn't it only natural? Today is different from the past. This is the sunset of the Imperium. It is no longer the view a thousand years ago!
"A thousand years ago, when the Star Ocean Republic was struggling to survive because of the Cultivators, most of the first-generation Immortal Cultivators were transformed from the noble Cultivators who cared about the country and the fate of the civilization of mankind.
"They were all real Immortal Cultivators with dreams, ambitions, and selflessness! Only such Immortal Cultivators could've sacrificed themselves for the civilization of mankind without caring about their own safety under my command!
"However, today, a thousand years later, the Imperium of True Human Beings has been afflicted with the same fatal disease as the Star Ocean Republic in the past. The Immortal Cultivators today are no different from the previous generation. They have degenerated into selfish, shortsighted, and selfish people who are no different from the pigs and dogs in the parliament of the Star Ocean Republic a thousand years ago!
"You guys only have yourselves in your eyes. You have no dreams at all, and you don't know what you are fighting for. You are just a bunch of maggots who are under the banner of the Immortal Cultivators but are manipulated by your instincts. What's the point of 'unity' and 'sacrifice'? Such Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators who do not have beliefs are all garbage on the inside. Not just four of you, even if a hundred of you come, I will still be able to grasp your weaknesses and suppress you one by one! "
"Silver Fox" Li Jiande was rendered speechless. His inviolable courage a moment ago was entirely gone. He shriveled like a drowning man. His face was gradually covered in the air of death as he mumbled, "… Your Majesty, I — I surrender!"
"You are a rarely-seen smart man. You used to be the prime minister of the Imperium and boasted prestige in the sea of stars. By logic, you should be given a chance to correct your mistakes and follow your destiny."
Li Linghai said coldly, "It is a pity that there is no place for the so-called 'Kurfürst' in my plan!"
"Silver Fox" Li Jiande's lips trembled, and he withered even more.
He did not mean to surrender when he said that. Even his own life was not a big deal. He was only testing Blackstar the Great's attitude toward the entire Li family with that statement.
From what he had seen, Blackstar the Great did not intend to keep the four Kurfürst families alive at all. They were destined to be obliterated!
"You —"
Now that they were on bad terms, there was no need for "Silver Fox" Li Jiande to disguise anything anymore. The wrinkles on his face immediately condensed into a hideous grimace as he laughed crazily. "Whatever your plan is, it is destined to fail! Even if you can eliminate the four Kurfürst families for now, so what? There will be a day when you will still die! After you die, the court will still decline day by day, and the local magnates will still be seething! The emperors in the future will only be more and more stupid and weak. Very soon, new 'four Kurfürst families' will show up and destroy the Imperium that you have carefully constructed! In the end, you can't defeat us. You can't defeat time. You can't defeat the entire universe! "
"You're wrong."
Li Linghai picked Li Jiande up and approached him, one word after another. "Now that I have returned to the human world, I will not allow the Imperium to fall into the hands of a second person. From today on, I will be the Imperium. I will live for ten thousand years without dying. The Imperium of True Human Beings will also far surpass the Star Ocean Imperium in the past and become the 'First Imperium' of the civilization of mankind in the entire universe!"
"Live for ten thousand years without dying?"
"Silver Fox" Li Jiande shuddered hard.
For some reason, he did not detect any craziness from Li Linghai's words. Instead, they were indescribably solemn and serious, as if …
As if the ghost that should've dispersed a thousand years ago had truly found a way to live for ten thousand years without dying!
"You have already missed the best opportunity to stop me."
Squeezing Li Jiande's medical cabin neither lightly nor heavily, Li Linghai said casually, "But I'm very curious. 'Silver Fox' Li Jiande has always been best known for your meticulousness. Why are you so unwise to take the risk in person this time? With your identity and capability, shouldn't you be commanding in the rear? In that case, you might've been able to see through the truth of the underground palace and make corresponding remedies.
"But you have come here in person, without even the spiritual puppets or 3D projections that can communicate remotely. Why?
"Tell me the answer and clear my doubts, and I'll keep a hundred more people of the Li family alive."
Li Jiande could've chosen not to answer the question.
After all, the distance between "Blackstar the Great" and "a man of his word" was as far away as the distance between the Empyreal Terminus Sector and the edge of the cosmos.
However, "Silver Fox" Li Jiande, in his sorrow and desperation, shivered for a long time before he said regretfully, "I was the one who planned the operation to capture Li Linghai, but as it happened, Li Linghai was my biological granddaughter. The Yun family, the Song family, and the Dongfang family did not completely trust me, fearing that it was a scheme that I, Li Linghai, and Dongfang Sheng conspired to catch all of them.
"Therefore, they had to see me commanding on the spot in person before they were willing to believe my sincerity and send out their toughest experts. It's almost like … they're taking me as a hostage!"
"That explains a lot."
Li Linghai couldn't help but burst into laughter. The hundred metal tentacles around "Hellstar" were waving crazily too. "'Silver Fox' Li Jiande, ask yourself honestly. Don't the so-called 'four Kurfürst families', who are scheming against each other without the slightest trust, deserve to die?"
"… They deserve to die."
"Silver Fox" Li Jiande said at a loss, "They deserve to die. They all deserve to die. None of them is innocent!"
"Then, go to hell!"
The metal tentacles of "Hellstar" twisted brutally, and the medical cabin as well as "Silver Fox" Li Jiande inside was immediately shattered into pieces. Enshrouded in black flames, they turned into the raging background of "Hellstar".
"The Imperium that I built with my blood and sweat has been ruined by the unfilial descendants of yours. A thousand years may pass, but the pain will never go away!"
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