Those who were at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage were at least two to three hundred years old. Naturally, they had a lot of disciples and grand-disciples. Under the careful tutelage of the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, it was not a problem for them to advance into the Core Formation Stage or even the Yuanying Stage.
When the experts at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage went to battle with their top Colossi, they would often be followed by a hundred or more personal guards, who were wearing second-level Colossi or high-level Crystal Suits to cooperate with them in the battle. Those personal guards were mostly the disciples and grand-disciples of the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage. In terms of combat ability, loyalty, and teamwork, they were incomparable to outsiders.
In the world of ancient Cultivators, those personal guards were the so-called "troops". They were the greatest reliance for an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage to compete for the hegemony of the world. Naturally, the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage had to devote tremendous resources and efforts to strengthen the "troops", and the "troops" often valued the general more than anything else.
When Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong were in the Xing Yao Federation, their personal guards were commanded by Li Yao's first true disciple, Wu Mayan. It was not hard to infer their importance and intimacy.
Right now, the personal guards of "Devilish Abyss" Li Jianyi and "Star Breaker" Song Huanzhen, two big shots in the Kurfürst families who were elders, were in an uproar. It was obvious that it was not instigated by Dongfang Wang, who had already passed away, but by someone else that nobody knew.
Together with the anomaly of the Deep Sea Fleet, it was hard not to associate it with Queen Li Linghai. Li Yao was greatly alarmed. "They're so fast!"
More information came over in the communication channel. "Devilish Abyss" Li Jianyi and "Star Breaker" Song Huanzhen were the highest in the coalition army of the five forces in terms of Cultivation, combat ability, and position in their respective families. When the two of them led their personal guards to the command starship floating on the Silver Moon Ocean, naturally, nobody could stop them.
Also, the Deep Sea Fleet commanded by Dongfang Sheng was restraining and suppressing nearby. Hearing that the four Kurfürst families had issued new orders, everybody was at a loss for a moment as they watched their command being taken away.
The more Li Yao thought about it, the more scared he became. Suddenly, he bulged his eyes and bellowed, "Cut off your connection to the battle network now. Block all communication and information transmission channels, and turn off all the power and defense units on the Crystal Suit. Do not release any spiritual waves!"
These words came a little too late.
Long Yangjun and Li Jialing had indeed suppressed the spiritual waves of the Crystal Suit to the minimum as quickly as possible. The seawater around immediately pressed close like a collapsing mountain, making the Crystal Suit squeak.
They were like three lumps of iron, quietly falling into the depths of the sea.
But still, an extremely gloomy and cold perception scanned the gully at the bottom of the ocean that they were in, as if a hair-raising wind was blowing through their internal organs and limbs.
Li Yao, Long Yangjun, and Li Jialing all couldn't help but shudder.
"We're screwed. Somebody has set their eyes on us. Also, their telepathic thoughts can penetrate the dark ocean and scan such a deep gully precisely. It's probably Blackstar the Great!"
Taking a breath, Li Yao rolled his eyes and said in the point-to-point private channel, "Right now, Blackstar the Great doesn't know that we have deduced his real identity yet. He is probably gathering the troops in the Silver Moon Ocean right now. Do you think that we will have a chance to reveal his real face if we march out at this moment?"
"Absolutely. Then what?"
Long Yangjun asked back, "Are you sure that you can stop his plan if you reveal his real face? Don't forget that he is the founding emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings. Now that Emperor Shenwu is dead, who says that he does not have the legitimacy to govern? Chances are that other people will kneel before him after you reveal his identity. At the very least, 'Devilish Abyss' Li Jianyi and 'Star Breaker' Song Huanzhen seem to have betrayed the four Kurfürst families and joined his side. "
"That does make sense."
Li Yao thought quickly for a solution. "Then, he doesn't know of your existence yet. If you are lurking in the darkness, is there any chance that you can ambush him and kill him directly?"
Long Yangjun shook her head hard. "No."
"Why not?"
Li Yao slightly raised his voice. "Aren't you the reincarnation of a primeval god? You should have thirty to fifty transformations, allowing you to turn into a monster dozens of meters tall with a green face and tusks, right? Can't you beat him?"
"Primeval god my ass. We are all carbon-based lives that have to abide by the basic laws of energy conversion and cell division. If I were as unbelievable as you described, I would've slapped you to death a long time ago!"
Long Yangjun said angrily, "Just think with your pig head. If the primeval gods were so awesome, why was it human beings who survived in the end instead of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan? The air composition and spiritual energy changes of most of the habitable planets in the three thousand Sectors are no longer suitable for the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan to survive. It's like putting the experts of human beings on the primitive planets hundreds of millions of years ago, they will find it difficult to adapt to the air and the terrain at that time!
"Also, I was not the reincarnation of a primeval god but an elite warrior of human beings who received dual refinements from the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan. But essentially, I was still a common warrior. Blackstar the Great was at least an elite among billions of human beings. How could he have been killed by me so easily? What are you thinking?"
"That does make sense."
Li Yao mumbled and narrowed his eyes while he stared at the black seawater above his head where spots of light were bursting out nonstop.
Vaguely, he saw a pair of deep, dark eyes staring at him too.
Li Yao shuddered once again. He found that his small team was caught in a predicament where they could neither advance nor retreat.
At the bottom of the ocean ten thousand meters deep, in order to escape at the highest speed, they would have to activate the power units and the spiritual shield of the Crystal Suit to resist the pressure of the seawater and clear a path ahead.
As a result, intense spiritual waves would certainly spread out, which would immediately be sensed by an unknown enemy who would chase after them like a haunting ghost. If the enemy was really Blackstar the Great, Li Yao was not confident that he could get rid of him.
What if he did not activate the Crystal Suit?
Are you kidding me? Although a crystal suit was not a Colossus, it was still an iron object weighing more than ten tons. How long could it last if it was supported by the spiritual energy inside the Cultivator's body in the seawater without falling? It was needless to say that it could swim forward at a speed even slower than a turtle.
Now that the enemy had experts such as "Devilish Abyss" Li Jianyi and "Star Breaker" Song Huanzhen, as well as all their personal guards, it was only a matter of time before the enemy spread out a dragnet to search for them. They would not be able to get away in the end.
Time was running out. They had to get away before the enemy completely controlled all the troops below the Silver Moon Ocean!
"Given the current situation, there is only one way to go."
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "The three of us cannot get away at the same time. We have to send a hero who is both brave and smart to distract Blackstar the Great so that the other two of us can escape from the bottom of the crevice successfully. Otherwise, the three of us will be screwed together!"
After saying that, Li Yao looked at Long Yangjun.
Long Yangjun looked at Li Yao expressionlessly, too.
Li Yao: "Well, it seems that you are unwilling to carry out the arduous task of distracting the enemy … right?"
Long Yangjun: "What do you think? Whether or not Blackstar the Great is reborn, and what great scheme he is up to, does it have anything to do with me? I only came to the Imperium to experience life in the first place. I had lived quite a few peaceful and comfortable years, but everything changed the moment you showed up! "
Li Yao: "That does make sense. Then, do you think that Li Jialing should be sent … Forget it. I'll go! The enemy shouldn't know the first thing about it yet. Chances are that not only will I be able to fool him, but I will also be able to elicit more intelligence and figure out what Blackstar the Great is up to exactly. Only then will I be able to take appropriate measures! "
Long Yangjun: "… That does make sense. With your cunningness and wisdom, you will certainly be able to toy with Blackstar the Great. My concerns were unnecessary. Then, we'll leave in advance and wait for you to retreat in one piece at the undersea coordinates that we agreed upon!"
Playing with the crystal fins next to her legs softly, Long Yangjun swam to Li Jialing and grabbed the young man's arm. "Come with me."
"Huh?"
Before Li Jialing realized what was going on, he had already been dragged to the depths of the ocean by Long Yangjun.
Long Yangjun even cut off the communication between the two of them and Li Yao, in case the enemy tracked them back and captured all of them.
"You … You're running too fast!"
Looking at Long Yangjun and Li Jialing's shadows that quickly disappeared into the depths of the trench, Li Yao gritted his teeth hard and swam to the opposite side of the trench with the spiritual energy all over his body.
Now that he had made up his mind to distract the enemy's attention, there was no need for any disguise. He retrieved the "Gold Vulture" at the earliest moment and kept all the attack magical equipment in the combat-ready state.
As he dived deeper and faster, the dozens of cold winds were gradually left behind. It seemed that "Devilish Abyss" Li Jianyi, "Star Breaker" Song Huanzhen, and Dongfang Sheng's Deep Sea Fleet's top priority right now was to seize control of all the starships below the Silver Moon Ocean and suppress the disobedient guys so that the elite assault troop of a rather large scale would be under their control. For the time being, they would have no time to deal with the fish that had escaped the net.
However, the eyes that were even deeper than the trench seemed to be staring at the back of Li Yao's head the whole time. Stinging coldness ran all the way down along his spine, making him feel that he was sitting on pins and needles.
Finally —
He had reached the end of the undersea gap, and there was no way forward.
He could either sink all the way to the bottom of the trench, where he would be suppressed by billions of tons of seawater.
Or, he could only rise to the surface of the ocean and face the owner of the terrifying eyes.
Li Yao calculated the time. Long Yangjun and Li Jialing should've been far away by now. Taking a deep breath, he gritted his teeth and floated up.
The moment the Gold Vulture jumped out of the trench, he detected the giant iron ball that had tentacles all over its body and was waving crazily like vipers.
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