"Your nest?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. "Isn't it too dangerous to return to the headquarters of the Association of Demon Hunters right now?"
"Wrong. The headquarters of the Association of Demon Hunters is just the nest of 'Dongfang Mingyue'," Long Yangjun said with a smile.
Long Yangjun smiled. "I'm going to take you to my nest right now. I spent two years there before I snuck into the Imperium under the identity of 'Dongfang Mingyue'. I'm more or less prepared."
Li Yao immediately bulged his eyes and shrieked, "More or less prepared? What are you up to exactly? Is it really a scheme? "
"Of course it's a scheme. What else do you think I'm really here for a tour in the Imperium?"
Long Yangjun said casually, "However, after studying your life carefully, including almost a hundred absurd biographies, and considering the close-range observation after fighting side by side with you for such a long time, I've discovered a pattern.
"Since your debut, you've encountered too many tricky enemies, starting from Yan Xibei, Xiao Xuance, Elder Nether Spring, Lu Zui, Zhou Hengdao, and even Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan and Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen later …
"Most of the enemies are worthy of the title of 'great men'. Their schemes are profound, their approaches are brutal, and the power that they control is enormous. Even their final plans are extremely precise and thorough.
"However, no matter how sophisticated, brutal, powerful, and meticulous those warlords were, it was inevitable that they would be sabotaged by you in bizarre, coincidental, or even messy ways.
"Even Blackstar the Great today. Even such an unparalleled expert who was at least in the Divinity Branching Stage and had a lot of secrets failed in front of you. Why was that?"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao blinked and said, "Because … evil never invades justice, and I'm the messenger of justice?"
"Wrong. It's because you seem to be born with some kind of weird luck. Also, the more sneaky the schemes of these enemies are, the more effective this kind of luck will be."
Long Yangjun said, "As the dual successor of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan, of course, I do not believe in the groundless supernatural theories. The so-called 'luck' is just a statistical probability and a mysterious pattern that people haven't figured out yet.
"But since such probabilities and patterns exist objectively, there is no need for me to follow in the footsteps of Yan Xibei, Xiao Xuance, Elder Nether Spring, Lu Zui, Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan, and even Blackstar the Great, only to be sabotaged by you at the last moment. My efforts will be in vain, and I may even be killed.
"I've learned my lesson from the past. If I do this again, I'll be too stupid, don't you think so?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's true that I can't be more feeble right now. Chances are that you can kill me with one finger."
"It's not the first time that you've been feeble," Long Yangjun said. "Didn't the unparalleled heroes try to kill you time and time again? In the end, who succeeded? Not only did they not succeed, they even made you stronger again and again. "
"I'm not belittling myself, but I don't think that my wisdom is necessarily higher than Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, and Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan's. Chances are that you have other trump cards that you don't even know yourself, and my attempt to kill you will activate those trump cards. That's the biggest reason why I never intended to kill you!
"All in all, after thinking for a long time, I've come to the conclusion that the heroes dealt with you in the past were all wrong. Since they all believed in their beliefs, there was no need for them to be so stealthy. Were their 'beliefs' all shameful, and they couldn't compete for them openly?
"From the moment they chose to hide and act in the dark, they had already failed because they had no confidence in their beliefs at all. Therefore, your victory was not surprising at all.
"Therefore, I'm going to learn from their experience this time. It's true that I have a minor scheme and plan, but I'm willing to show you every step of the whole plan. Whatever details you want to see, I'll show you. I'll tell you the origin, the development, and the purpose that I'm going to achieve in the end. Then, Vulture Li Yao, you can try to stop me again!"
Amidst Long Yangjun's chuckles, Li Yao couldn't hold it anymore and fell into a deep and long black dream.
In the black dream, he seemed to have experienced the long time from the Big Bang to the present, and even from the present to the death of the universe again. It was so long that he almost forgot his own existence. His soul was about to perish.
However, every time his soul was about to perish, the blue planet, Earth, would always emerge from the depths of his soul and send a feeble strength to him, like a flickering blue fire in the dark night, giving him the last hope to persist.
Li Yao knew that his fleshly body, especially his brain, had suffered unprecedented heavy wounds in the battle against Blackstar the Great. It was even more dangerous than breaking into the Divinity Transformation Stage because of the excessive radiation in the Devilish Scorpion Nebula.
However, after withering, there would be new life. The old brain cells would dry and rot one after another, and new strength would flow out of the gaps deep inside his soul incessantly, refilling his soul and his brain and reestablishing an even more powerful mental world!
"I will certainly accomplish the Vulture Plan. I will certainly destroy Earth. I will certainly … liberate all of you!"
Whenever the deepest darkness was about to corrupt and swallow his broken soul, the feeble but unwavering voice would resonate with the pieces of his soul, making his brand-new mental world brimming with vigor and blossom!
Perhaps he was caught in a deep coma at first.
However, as his mental world was reconstructed, he seemed to be in a certain state of metamorphosis.
In a trance, he didn't know how long he had snuck in the deep ocean. He seemed to have entered a narrow, rugged, and sunless tunnel, and he went all the way down in the tunnel.
For several days in a row, they were in complete darkness. Occasionally, they could see bits and pieces of fireflies on the surrounding rock walls. They didn't know whether they were the light of ores or the eyes of demon beasts. Later, they seemed to have arrived at a large-scale underground settlement. Countless people in gray cloaks clustered around them.
Long Yangjun's position in the underground gathering place seemed to be very high. She had the power to summon a lot of people. Li Yao vaguely saw countless people worshipping her. There was no telling whether it was an illusion or an illusion.
After Li Yao really broke the "mental cocoon" and completely woke up, he discovered that he was lying in an enormous, square pool. His body was covered in a certain ivory substance that looked like paraffin. It was even denser than the regular jelly for treatment, and he had to tear it off from his body piece by piece.
"Brother Yao, you're finally awake!"
Li Jialing had been sleeping in a corner, his furry, short tail wagging here and there. Hearing the cracking noises from the healing pool, he immediately bulged his eyes and exclaimed in delight.
"Well …"
Li Yao managed to respond and struggled to stand up from the healing pool. While tearing off the "paraffin" that had solidified on his body, he carefully circulated his spiritual energy and scanned his body.
As he expected, his body was only barely recovered. There were still a lot of fatal cracks inside his body that were invisible to the naked eye, like a broken vase that had been carefully glued together. Whenever his spiritual energy flowed to the cracks, it would be like a waterfall that fell into an abyss, vanishing into nothingness.
Such devastating wounds were more than enough to describe the plummet of his level. Li Yao sighed and scratched his hair that was as messy as a bird's nest. He thought to himself, The sequela is so severe. The blast was truly too powerful …
It was already a pleasant surprise that he had survived the disaster. He could not be too greedy for the time being. After all, there were always more solutions than difficulties. Even Long Yangjun said that he was unbelievably lucky. Then, there was always a chance for him to recover his peak combat ability or even reach a higher level!
Li Yao calmed himself down. While punching out softly to test the strength and speed of his fist, he observed the environment around him.
He was lying in an antique medical pool, which was built in a small infirmary.
Judging from the materials of the walls and the precision of the joints, such a medical room must've been built by a rather advanced civilization.
However, all the facilities around were rusted, and the room was full of garbage. Gray moss and vines that Li Yao did not know the names of were crawling on the walls, too. It seemed that the place had been sealed for a long time and had been eroded by the merciless passage of time.
The air here was extremely stuffy, and there was a faint smell of decay. Even if he took a deep breath, it seemed that his lungs would not expand much.
Despite the feeble light shining above his head, Li Yao still felt that the intense darkness was pressing at him.
He keenly sensed that this place should be very deep below the ground.
How long have I been asleep? What is this place?
Holding back his headache, Li Yao glanced at the side of the healing pool. His mustard-seed combat suit was folded neatly on the ground, with his Cosmos Rings on it.
Other than the few Cosmos Rings that he swallowed into his body, all the other rings were here. There were even two extra Cosmos Rings that Li Yao had never seen before. He attracted them with his spiritual energy and sensed them carefully. Neither of the two Cosmos Rings was installed with barriers, and his telepathic thoughts were free to explore them. One of the Cosmos Rings stored the broken pieces of the "Gold Vulture", and the other contained the debris of "Hellstar". It seemed that Long Yangjun had helped him collect them.
Long Yangjun is indeed a good friend!
Li Yao was delighted. Then, he remembered the schemes and plans that Long Yangjun mentioned before he passed out. He couldn't help but frown again.
"Brother Yao, you've been asleep for ten days!"
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