"It's me."
Li Linghai sent a soul mark to Li Yao to prove his identity. Then, he asked Li Yao to turn on the point-to-point communication channel. "Why do you look so guilty and scared?"
"Is … Is it Your Grace?"
Li Yao rolled his eyes quickly and adjusted the power rune arrays and attack units of the Gold Vulture without batting an eyelid. He also detected the terrain and undercurrents at the bottom of the ocean and calculated every detail on the battlefield precisely while he said perfunctorily, "Why did Your Grace show up all of a sudden with such a tough Colossus? I thought that you were one of the experts of Dongfang Wang's remaining forces!"
"Is that so? If you did run into one of the experts of Dongfang Wang's remaining forces, this is how you fled? That doesn't sound like the arrogant battle style of 'Vulture Li Yao' at all! "
Li Linghai did not dwell on the issue but simply scanned Li Yao's surroundings with a few mystic rays. "Where is Li Jialing? Isn't he your entourage? Why is he not cooperating with you in the battle?"
"Well …"
Li Yao thought quickly. Since it was impossible to hide Li Jialing's whereabouts, he decided to attack instead of defending. "What I'm going to say next, Your Grace, you must be strong and hold on. Li Jialing has just perished!"
"What!"
Li Linghai shrieked. Then, she realized what was going on and said coldly and gloomily, "You are making fun of me!"
"I'm not. Dongfang Wang has so many desperate experts under his command. They can do all kinds of insane things in their desperation. Even I can barely protect Li Jialing in the chaos!"
Li Yao naturally knew that Li Linghai would not buy the bulls * it, but his focus was on the following sentence. "Why do I feel that Your Grace is very anxious? Aren't you obsessed with power and disdainful of kinship, and you even tried to kill Li Jialing time and time again in the beginning? Now that Li Jialing is really dead, your wish has been fulfilled, right? "
Li Linghai was silent for a moment. Sure enough, he calmed down and said indifferently, "You're right. Then let's go. Come back with me."
As he spoke, he steered Hellstar toward Li Yao.
Li Yao's hair stood on end as he backed off step by step. The wings of the Golden Vulture stood up, ready to turn into a stream of light and fly out to kill at any time. It looked as if it was facing a great enemy.
Li Linghai stopped and said coldly, "You seem to be very afraid of me overnight."
"How could that be?"
Li Yao forced a smile. "Hahahaha, Your Highness is so amiable and amiable. You bring me warmth that I've never felt before. How can I be afraid of Your Highness?"
Li Linghai said, "Then, why are you so vigilant and unwilling to go back with me?"
Thinking for a long time, Li Yao said, "What if I say that … I'm suddenly tired of the bloody, bloody, and bloody life, so I want to get away from the swirls of trouble and find a random, desolate place to live in seclusion? It seems that … well, it's not easy for me to win other people's trust?"
Li Linghai said, "Indeed."
Li Yao swallowed, lost for words.
Li Linghai chuckled. The hundred metal tentacles swirled like a dance of devils as he said unhurriedly, "It seems that you do know something … that you shouldn't know. Tell me, how much do you know exactly, and where did you learn it?"
Li Yao couldn't hold it anymore after being pushed into desperation. Also, he estimated that he had stalled enough time for Long Yangjun to escape from the battlefield with Li Jialing and hide in the depths of the boundless ocean. It would be as difficult as finding a needle in an ocean to find them.
Now that he had nothing to worry about, he could take a chance. Spitting hard, the Golden Vulture shrieked, and the aura of the gold saber cut thousands of waves in his hand. Li Yao roared brutally, "Yes, I do know everything about you. I've even illuminated your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Blackstar the Great, come out now. I know that you must be hiding inside the queen's body!
"Your Highness, Li Linghai! If this is the message that you want to deliver to me, I have completely cracked the puzzle! I don't know if you were forced to cooperate with him or because you were bewitched by him, but I do want to remind you that cooperating with such a shameless, sordid, bloodthirsty, and untrustworthy thief like Blackstar the Great is like asking a tiger for its skin. You will definitely not end well!
"If my guess is correct, Wuying Qi is not capable of independent actions right now. Even if he is, his combat ability must be as weak as a chicken, right? That's why he has to trick and exploit you! When his combat ability is fully recovered, the first person that he will kill will be you, Li Linghai, because such a 'Blackstar the Great' will not allow anybody to see his weakest moment and grasp his greatest secret! "
"Shut up!"
Li Linghai's most twisted voice came from the depths of "Hellstar". "Put away your sharp tongue. You don't know anything. You don't know anything at all! Your Majesty is a real Immortal Cultivator and the savior of the civilization of mankind. The Imperium cannot do without Your Majesty! "
"Enough of his bullsh * t! You have been fooled by him, Li Linghai! It was exactly because of the terrible, bullsh * tty system that the supervillain Wuying Qi made a thousand years ago that the Imperium grew askew from the very beginning. It was only a thousand years later that the Imperium turned into what it is today. He is the culprit of everything! "
After confirming that Li Linghai was indeed stalled by Blackstar the Great, Li Yao's voice was even louder than before. "He is no different from the selfish Immortal Cultivators except that he hides himself better and covers himself with the righteous lies! Trust me, that is not an option. If you really want to save yourself, Li Jialing, and everybody else, just hold him back. Together, the two of us will certainly be able to figure out a way to skin, mince, and obliterate his soul!
"Li Linghai! Your … Grace? What's wrong, Your Grace? Can you hear me? Hey, hey, hey, hold on, Your Grace. Hold him back. You must hold him back! "
There was a long silence inside Hellstar.
However, the eyes of the deepest black holes that seemed to be enshrouding Li Yao were opened to the maximum and blew evil, violent, mysterious, and dark forces into the depths of Li Yao's brain.
Huala!
For a moment, countless black bubbles leaked out of "Hellstar". The seawater within hundreds of square meters was completely boiled, as if infinite venom had been injected. The end of the trench was completely dyed black, making it impossible to tell whether they were in the deep ocean or in a certain mysterious and dominating "domain"!
When Li Linghai controlled it just now, the six enormous faces on the shell of "Hellstar" all had their eyes closed and their faces dull, as if they had fallen asleep.
But right now, the fiend with six faces opened twelve eyes at the same time!
"What did you say?"
The aura of "Hellstar" soared more than ten times all of a sudden. It was almost like a towering mountain rising in front of Li Yao. The voice from deep inside "Hellstar" was no longer sharp and hasty but soft, deep, and thick, like a bottomless swamp that was spurting out venom incessantly. "What do you think my combat ability is not good enough for you? What are you going to do to me?"
"It … It's really happening!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao stared at the soaring parameters on the mainframe of the Gold Vulture, with all the cold sweat on his forehead vaporizing.
Even though the enemy's Colossus was still floating in the deep ocean, quite a few performance parameters were off the charts all of a sudden. Crimson question marks were popping up on the control menu one after another, which meant that the combat performance had exceeded the limits and could not be evaluated at all!
Although Li Yao had swallowed the violent strength of the Imperial Fire Pearl in the past few months, it was not so easy to improve one's Cultivation after all. If both of them fought with their lives on the line, he could not even beat Li Linghai in the normal state, much less the "ultimate state" enhanced by the remaining soul of Blackstar the Great.
Since he could not defeat the enemy, he could only outsmart the enemy with his wisdom and perseverance!
"N-No. I didn't say anything!"
Li Yao rolled his eyes quickly and put on a smile. "Are you … Your Majesty? Misunderstanding. It was all a misunderstanding just now! "
"Hellstar" was silent for a moment again. Blackstar the Great was amused. "What a great 'Vulture Li Yao'. It's truly an eye-opener for me. I thought that all the Cultivators were stubborn, idiotic idiots who would not turn back even if they were to run into a wall. I didn't know that such an interesting breed like you would emerge in the universe a thousand years later.
"We like smart people who can see the big picture and know their destiny. So, if you say it's a misunderstanding, then it's a misunderstanding. We can forgive you for your disrespect just now and give you a chance to work for us.
"Of course. Now that you know my secret, you should know that I will not keep a Cultivator by my side. Come on. Abandon the hypocritical, idiotic path of the Cultivators and become an Immortal Cultivator. Come to my side!"
Li Yao sniffed and said hesitantly, "I don't seem to have a second choice now, do I?"
"What do you think?" Blackstar the Great asked.
Li Yao heaved a long sigh. "Fine. Your Majesty's strength is beyond the clouds. I'm absolutely no match for Your Majesty. Also, I've been carefully reading the classics of the true path of immortality over the past few days, and I've found that they all make sense. The gate to a new world has been opened for me. Perhaps the true path of immortality is more suitable for survival in this dark and cold universe than the true path of the Cultivators.
"Besides, even Firefly has exploded, and the Star Ocean Republic has perished. I am the only Cultivator left in the vast sea of stars. What's the use of jumping around?
"Since the true path of immortality is my destiny, wouldn't I be asking to be killed if I don't follow the destiny? Then, so be it. I am willing to pledge my loyalty to Your Majesty! "
"Enough."
Blackstar the Great sneered. "You have changed so fast."
"I have to be fast when a saber is on my neck!"
Li Yao said in embarrassment, "Just now, I thought that Your Majesty had not recovered all your strength yet. That was why I was so insane, audacious, and rude. I did not know that Your Majesty's strength was so immeasurable and mysterious that even if Your Majesty has only recovered twenty to thirty percent of your strength, you can still crush me into minced meat by extending your little finger. I finally escaped from the hellish Firefly at the risk of my life. Wouldn't it be a shame if I lost my life after enjoying it for only a few days?
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