"Xu Zhicheng has volunteered to stay!"
Li Yao was greatly surprised.
He respected the man who had turned into the Grand Guardian of Nepenthe in the extreme desperation after losing two children.
Although their beliefs were different, and the guy had just awakened his spiritual root and was much stronger than him, Li Yao had to admit that Xu Zhicheng boasted a strong personality and was a real man.
In order to cover the evacuation of the weak, and in order to appease the fury of the Immortal Cultivators, Xu Zhicheng had tried his best. Even many Cultivators might not have been able to do that.
"Did anything happen to Xu Zhicheng and the core members of Nepenthe who stayed behind? Were they killed by the Immortal Cultivators?"
Li Yao asked in a hurry.
"Not yet."
Li Xiaoming shook his head and said, "Both Dad's and Long Yangjun's arrival cast a complicated and confusing shadow on Nepenthe's uprising. There are a lot of similar resistance groups below the ground of the capital. The Immortal Cultivators actually did not care much about Nepenthe itself but focused their attention on Dad and Long Yangjun.
"In order to elicit clues about Dad and Long Yangjun from Xu Zhicheng and the other core members of Nepenthe, they naturally would not kill them easily but simply locked them in the Great Iron Plants for interrogation.
"On the other hand, in order to stabilize the situation, the Immortal Cultivators could not kill all the workers at the same time. After all, those skilled workers who are adapted to the harsh environment below the ground are not easy to find. If too many people were killed in a hurry, the entire Great Iron Plants would be paralyzed.
"We discovered that the Immortal Cultivators seemed to be in a hurry to produce a batch of magical equipment with the energy and the assembly lines of magical equipment in the Great Iron Plants. Xu Zhicheng surrendered voluntarily and was willing to maintain the order of the plants and resume production as soon as possible. Such terms of the deal were traded for the Immortal Cultivators to hold their blades for now."
"However —"
Li Wenwen added, "According to our analysis, it was just a stalling tactic of the Immortal Cultivators. The original workers of the Great Iron Plants were all 'corrupted' by Nepenthe after all. The Immortal Cultivators would never trust them again.
"Right now, the Immortal Cultivators on the ground are too busy with their internal strife to care about the riots below the ground. That is why they have reached a compromise with the workers for now.
"After the situation on the ground is settled down, the Immortal Cultivators will certainly raise their sabers and kill all the people who participated in the riot of Nepenthe. We have copied a batch of files. The Immortal Cultivators have done that countless times in the past.
"The same goes for Xu Zhicheng and the others. Three to five days is enough to dig out all the information in their heads. Right now, they have lost their value. Perhaps they will be executed soon!"
Pacing back and forth anxiously, Li Yao suddenly raised his head and asked, "Where are Long Yangjun and Li Jialing? Do you know where they evacuated the old, the weak, the women, and the children?"
"The old, the weak, the women, and the children of the Great Iron Plants have been evacuated to a hundred towns below the ground. After all, the magical equipment and assets that they brought out of the Great Iron Plants are enough to support the lives of those towns for a while."
Li Wenwen said, "As for the specific whereabouts of Aunt Long and Li Jialing, we really don't know. Our 'vision' is highly dependent on the Spiritual Nexus of the Imperium, and the places where they escaped must've been the corners that are not monitored by the network or the crystal cameras. Then, it will be impossible for us to track them.
"After all, the underground world of the capital planet boasted countless gaps, tunnels, caves, and unknown shelters after hundreds of thousands of years of development by the civilizations. It was more than easy to hide two people!"
"Then …"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "When you were still able to see her, did it not occur to you to leave her a message and communicate with her about my whereabouts?"
The two kids looked at each other and shook their heads hard at the same time.
"We are still too weak to trust other people easily."
Li Xiaoming said solemnly, "The Pangu civilization does not like the civilization of mankind at all. The Nuwa civilization, on the other hand, has overindulged themselves in their crazy and messy image. Whether Long Yangjun is a Pangu or a member of the Nuwa Clan, it is impossible for us to predict what she will do next. Adding such an 'unordered variable' recklessly will be a great test for our computational ability."
"More importantly —"
Li Wenwen looked at Li Yao worriedly. "When we peeped at Long Yangjun for the last time, she was cursing Dad furiously. She said that you were a shameless, sordid, and shameless son of a b * tch who simply ran away after leaving such a huge mess behind. She also said that she would mince you into pieces and feed you to the dogs if she ran into you again.
"We analyzed the micro-expressions on her face carefully and discovered that she was indeed in a highly unstable fury. With the bloodline of the Nuwa Clan, Aunt Long has abundant feelings in the first place. Chances are that she will really do what she says!
"How could we have been bold enough to tell the coordinates of this place to such an infuriated Aunt Long? Should she have come at us aggressively with a Colossus, we might not have been able to resist her at all!
"Later, she took a bunch of people to the dark area where the network was highly unstable and even completely disconnected. Even though we remotely controlled some tiny puppets, it was still impossible for us to catch up with her!"
"That was quite a mess."
Li Yao wiped his cold sweat and sat back on the rock. Looking at the two kids in a daze, he pondered for a long time and raised the most critical question. "Right. Do you know what's going on on the surface of the planet right now? What happened to the world of Immortal Cultivators on the surface of the capital planet in the past month? "
"Although we did not dare to sneak into the confidential database of the highest authorities of the Imperium, it is still possible for us to read the general information flowing on the Spiritual Nexus. The capital has been quite lively over the past month!"
Li Xiaoming said, as if he were eager to see the world in chaos, "First of all, soon after the secret base of Dongfang Wang, the former Prime Minister of the Imperium, was destroyed, the grievous news of Emperor Shenwu's demise came out. It was also confirmed that Emperor Shenwu was murdered by the members of the Dongfang family who were driven to desperation.
"The four Kurfürst families have maintained the balance of the Imperium for five hundred years. Before, even though the leadership of the Dongfang family was struck by the consecutive scandals, and even though the leadership of the Dongfang family had to be replaced, the Dongfang family was still standing, except that its influence was greatly reduced.
"Therefore, a lot of middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family did not join the chaotic battle because they wanted to protect themselves. They were even thinking to rise to a higher level in the leadership of the Dongfang family and seek greater benefits.
"But right now, after such a grave crime as' regicide 'was exposed to the public, the Dongfang family was faced with a complete collapse and irrecoverable doom.
"Although the royal power of the Imperium had declined in the past five hundred years, and many emperors died for uncanny reasons, there had never been such an unquestionable accusation before. For the panicked Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family, it was undoubtedly a signal that the other three families were going to annihilate them.
"Therefore, the situation that had just been calmed down was raised again. Almost all the Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family attacked the other three families ferociously in desperation, swearing to die together.
"The Dongfang family was the strongest of the four Kurfürst families in the first place. As the saying goes, a centipede dies but never falls down. Even though it had lost the leadership such as Dongfang Wang, it did not lose much combat ability. The two parties had completely fallen out on each other. The war was destined to be a protracted one.
"Right when the four Kurfürst families were falling apart and fighting each other, the reformists rose abruptly.
"The reformists had been supporting the other three Kurfürst families and attacking the Dongfang family together with them. But for some reason, they were on the same side as the middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators of the Dongfang family. They even took the opportunity to win over a large batch of middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators and young people from the other three families.
"Right, the reformists had completely controlled the royal palace. They seemed to have excavated a lot of good stuff deep inside the royal palace. There must be an enormous underground arsenal deep inside the royal palace, with powerful barriers and firewalls. We had studied it many times, but we never dared to intrude at the risk.
"Just like that, the original armed forces of the reformists, the desperate forces of the Dongfang family, the younger generation of the other three Kurfürst families who intended to overthrow the 'old people' and replace the leadership of the leadership like the Dongfang family, and the Thunder Fleet that was commanded by God of War Lei Chenghu and cooperated with them remotely, launched earth-shattering attacks in only half a month.
"Under the banner of 'renewing the Imperium', they organized an elite daring team, claiming that the Council of Elders of the Imperium had been seriously corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils, and they showed up at the gate of the Council of Elders out of everyone's expectations. Even a lot of people in the few garrison troops that were responsible for guarding the Council of Elders had 'defected' to the reformists' side.
"It was a textbook 'decapitation battle'. After only one day of fierce fighting, they took down the Council of Elders. A lot of elders were even captured alive by the reformists.
"Of course, not all the five hundred elders of the Imperium were in the capital. More than half of the elders were involved in the daily operations of the Council of Elders through super remote holographic projections. They were able to retreat in one piece and prepare for battle in their own territory.
"A small batch of elders also escaped from the capital in the bloody battle of the guards.
"Right now, most of the places in the Empyreal Terminus Sector have been occupied by the reformists. Only 1% of the place is still controlled by the troops loyal to the Kurfürst families, mainly the spaceports that boast large space jump systems. They want to send out more important people and intelligence through the spaceports.
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