Walking along the tunnel that was full of 'Fiery Flowers' and all kinds of luminous moss, they stumbled. When they accidentally stepped on the soft spores, they would raise glittering, colorful dust. Such a deep and amazing environment seemed to have introduced the two of them to an alien world that they had never seen before.
The deeper they went, the more humming sounds that could not be heard by human ears became. Even the air that was vaguely flowing was filled with subtle ripples and waves, which were the signs of collisions, entanglements, and dispersal of countless thoughts.
The ancient people called them "thoughts", and the modern people called them "information streams". Countless information streams were rolling inside the brain of every intelligent life naturally. As long as they trained themselves, they would be able to release the information streams with their brainwaves, which was also known as "thought projection".
General thoughts were only fuzzy, incomplete, and indescribable information streams. For example, the thought of "I'm going to have dinner" could not describe the time, place, or the dishes clearly, and the information that could be transmitted was actually very little.
However, when the trainers gathered thousands of thoughts with their spiritual energy, they would form "telepathic thoughts", which were a collection of highly-organized and compressed information. The telepathic thoughts of "I'm going to have dinner" could include the time, place, and even the color and aroma of the dishes. Then, they would be transmitted to the other party with high directivity, allowing the other party to perceive the true flavors of the food. After all, the senses such as sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty were just the information transmission of nerve endings and brain cells after all.
At this moment, what was drifting in the air was a certain special information stream that was between "thoughts" and "telepathic thoughts".
Although the information contained in every ripple was not much, thousands of ripples were surging over from the deepest part of the tunnel incessantly, as if an ancient and mysterious ocean was surging with dirty waves all the time.
The target was so clear that Li Yao and Li Jialing did not need Long Yangjun's positioning at all. Li Yao and Li Jialing sped up and soon passed through three magnificent but broken gates of the primeval era, reaching a splendid, boundless underground cave.
Such an enormous underground cave that was as large as a space fortress could only be developed in the middle and upper layers of the planet's crust. This place, however, was the intersection of the crust and the mantle, and it was even deep inside the mantle. By logic, it was impossible for such an enormous space that was as magnificent as a palace to develop naturally.
The only possibility was that this was a man-made living space developed by intelligent life.
Also, judging from the scale, it was not developed by intelligent creatures such as human beings who were around two meters tall. It was very likely that it was developed by giants such as the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan who were dozens of meters tall.
As he expected, when Li Yao focused his spiritual energy on his eyes, he saw countless square, well-drawn words on the walls. They were exactly the same as the primeval words that he had seen in the Kunlun relic, the Nuwa warship, and the underground palace of Pangu.
The primeval words had been branded on the wall with spiritual energy. Because of the abundance of spiritual energy, countless' fire flowers' and luminous moss had been attracted to them. As time went by, they formed glittering runes that brought vague brightness to the deep, bottomless cave.
With the help of the light, Li Yao narrowed his eyes and looked at the bottom of the cave, where countless thoughts were surging. He was slightly surprised.
He saw that there were at least a thousand barbarians moving about.
In the underground world where resources were scarce and the air was thin, it was an astonishing number. Quite a few tribes had come out in full force.
What surprised him was not the number of wildlings but their ethnicity. The Red Rings, the Black Armors, and the Night Wings, the three tribes that should've been sworn enemies, were all sitting cross-legged with their hands on their knees obediently. Their hideous and abnormal faces were full of calmness and expectation as they stared at the center of the crowd piously.
The thousand wildlings were in a circle. At the center of the circle were dozens of protruding stalagmites. The top of the stalagmites had been cut flat, forming stone pedestals and platforms. Dozens of Nepenthe believers in gray hoods and capes were sitting cross-legged on the stone pedestals in a certain mysterious state of meditation. They were shaking their heads and chanting weird spells, leading all the wildlings to release and receive their thoughts.
Surrounded by dozens of Nepenthe believers, on the highest pillar, Long Yangjun was in the same posture. She looked indescribably graceful and solemn at the same time.
"This guy …"
Li Yao's eyelids were cramping nonstop. Had he not known Long Yangjun's real face, it was possible that he would've been fooled by her glamorous appearance!
She was also wearing a pure and flawless loose cloak, but it was made of some kind of shiny fluorescent material. When it was draped over her body, her entire body seemed to be shrouded in clouds of milky white light. It was both holy and noble, but it also made it impossible for people to see her original appearance. They could only see that she was draped over her shoulders like a waterfall, with hair so black that it was shocking to the core, and a pair of perfect bare feet that seemed to be carved from jade.
What was most infuriating was that, half a foot above her head, there was a glittering, slowly revolving halo. After every revolution, gentle ripples would be released. Li Yao estimated that it was some sort of magical equipment for mental attacks that could pacify the soul and bewilder the mind. However, it only added some mysteriousness to her, as if she were a descendant of a goddess.
The guy who was neither a man nor a woman truly deserved to be a genius in the Ancient Sages Sector who bewitched all the creatures. From her appearance to her vibe, she was truly professional!
"What are they doing exactly?"
Li Yao vaguely felt that the scene before his eyes was somewhat familiar. It was probably not as simple as' brainwashing 'the wildlings to wash away their feelings and barbarism.
After recalling for a moment, Li Yao immediately bulged his eyes. He remembered it now!
The scene before his eyes was very similar to the riot of the captives of the Holy League in the Godly Might Prison!
When Li Yao snuck into the Godly Might Prison to rescue Lei Chenghu, he happened to run into the riot of the captives of the Holy League. The communication among the captives was not necessarily through language but through a certain 'telepathic resonance', which made the thousands of captives of the Holy League highly unified!
Both Li Jialing and Li Linghai had told Li Yao that the people of the Holy League boasted very special techniques. Even among the ordinary people, they boasted certain superpowers that were similar to telepathic thoughts, which made them much more united and organized than the common warriors under the Imperium's reign. It significantly made up for the shortcomings of the Holy League in terms of high-end combat ability.
He did not know that even Long Yangjun was capable of such a trick!
In other words, not only was she teaching the underground locals how to suppress their feelings and desires, which was so "harmless", she was also issuing certain clandestine instructions to the brainwashed people through telepathic resonance!
Well, wait. Since Long Yangjun had invited him to this place, it was not exactly "clandestine". All in all … it was very cunning, mysterious, and dangerous!
Glaring, Li Yao condensed his telepathic thoughts into a bolt of lightning and hit the center of Long Yangjun's eyebrows on the high platform brutally. "Let's go all the way. Why don't you carry a few pairs of chicken wings on your shoulders?"
The deep and mysterious humming stopped.
Perhaps it was an illusion, but even the overwhelming, glittering primeval runes on the cave walls were much dimmer than before.
The brutal, disobedient wildlings all stood up, but they did not howl or look at Li Yao at all. They simply disappeared into the darkness and crawled into the crevices that were deeper than they had ever been.
Even the dozens of Nepenthe believers in gray robes were hiding somewhere stealthily.
Long Yangjun glanced at Li Yao casually. Waving her white, glittering robe softly, she stepped on the nonexistent stairs and walked down from the top of the stone pillar step by step.
"Why waste your time? Why don't you just jump down?"
Li Yao threw another telepathic thought over. "I don't believe that your legs will be broken when you jump from dozens of meters high!"
Staring at Li Yao thoughtfully, Long Yangjun replied coldly, "Cut the crap. Follow me."
Li Yao pondered for a moment. He had a lot of secrets that he could not let Li Jialing know yet. It was not because he did not trust the little lion, but if Li Jialing was unfortunately abducted by Wuying Qi as a carrier for possession, it was possible that all his memories would be swallowed by Wuying Qi.
Then, everything that Li Yao told Li Jialing about the Xing Yao Federation was likely to be learned by Blackstar the Great.
Therefore, Li Jialing could only bear with it for now.
Li Yao asked Li Jialing to wait outside and gave him some surveying magical equipment so that he could explore the edge and structure of the man-made cave. Then, he followed Long Yangjun to the deepest part of the cave.
An enormous man-made carrier had been inserted into the rocks deep inside the cave. However, it had been melted by the high temperature and pressure and corroded by minerals for a long time, turning into something like a fossil. It was incomparable to the Kunlun relic and the Nuwa warship. It was basically worthless to be excavated.
Li Yao was still wondering why there was an enormous warship deep below the ground. After observing carefully for a long time, he finally realized that it was not a warship but an enormous excavator and a piece of excavation magical equipment that could shatter rocks.
Its general structure was similar to the "earthly dragon" that Starlight used below the Martial Meritocrats Sector. Naturally, it was countless times larger in size. It should be the excavator that the giants of the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan used.
At this moment, the most advanced excavator magical equipment in the past had turned into a lifeless, collapsed palace, which happened to be a temple for the wildlings.
Following Long Yangjun, Li Yao walked into the primeval excavator. As he expected, he saw a lot of enormous corpses that had been highly dehydrated and fossilized. Some of them had human heads and snake bodies, some had three heads and six arms, and some had long fangs, as if they had been deities.
It was not the first time that Li Yao had seen similar corpses of "primeval gods". He had seen a lot of them in the Kunlun relic and the Nuwa warship. So, he was not surprised at all.
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