"Then, let's do it!"
Li Yao made the decision. "Before the reformists occupy the entire capital planet, let's find a way to escape to a spaceport that is still under the control of the Kurfürsten's army. Then, we will escape to the depths of the universe from there and search for Boss Bai's fleet at the edge of the Imperium!
"The surging tides at the center of the cosmos will certainly affect the Xing Yao Federation at the edge of the cosmos. Boss Bai's family members are still in the Federation. So, I believe that he will not turn a blind eye to us. That will probably be our last hope!"
"Okay!"
Their eyes glittering, the two little fellows nodded quickly.
"But first of all —"
Li Yao leapt up from the rock. Cracking noises burst out of the joints all over his body, and his spiritual energy bulged his muscles, as if countless tiny crystal bombs were exploding inside his body. Licking his sharp teeth, he smiled in the most brutal way. "Let's go back to the Great Iron Plants and finish the unfinished war!"
Li Xiaoming jumped high. "War! War! "
Li Wenwen looked at the aggressive "father and son" with a smile, but she did not intend to stop them at all.
"Three Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes, brimming with confidence that was almost tangible. "Hehe. I'd like to know exactly how strong I am right now and whether or not I have a chance to butcher the three Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators like three pigs and dogs!"
…
Deep inside the underground sanctuary, inside the training room …
Li Yao's upper body was naked except for a pair of calf shorts that were as thin as paper. Making sure that every pore on his body was expanded to the maximum, he floated in silence.
Bright green gas was spreading out inside the training room. It was a very special inert gas that had been mixed with the volatilization of tremendous Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. It had the marvelous effect of calming the mind and preventing mental derangement. In the age of the Star Ocean Imperium, it was a necessary item for the Cultivators to break into a new level.
Li Yao had only advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage not long ago. It would be too unbelievable if he could break into the "Divinity Branching Stage" so quickly.
However, in the battle against Blackstar the Great, he almost shattered his soul to perform the "Ultra-Galactic Cannon", which was then repaired by the two "information lives" in an unbelievable way. It was true that the form of his soul had undergone drastic changes.
The strength from Earth that was hidden in the deepest part of his soul flowed out incessantly and enshrouded his soul layer by layer, turning his soul that was previously riddled with holes and scars into immeasurably powerful ones!
The so-called "Yuanying", the "Divinity Transformation Stage", and the "Divinity Branching Stage" were three super levels. Among them, the "Yuanying" experts had already reached the limits of the physical body of human beings and boasted absolute strength. Even if they advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage, their physical body, absolute speed, and absolute strength would not be improved by much. The only thing that they lacked was the utilization of the strength.
The "Divinity Transformation Stage" experts, on the other hand, had reached the level of the strongest soul on the basis of the strongest physical body. Even if they advanced into the "Divinity Branching Stage", the hardness of their soul would not be improved by much. Instead, they could split their soul into thousands of parts.
If it was just a collision of soul power, Li Yao was confident that he could defeat any enemy in the sea of stars. Even if Blackstar the Great arrived again, he would not be scared at all. He could definitely, definitely, and definitely escape at ease!
"Are you ready, Dad?"
Outside of the training room, the two little fellows manipulated a piece of weird-looking, cone-shaped magical equipment inside and aimed the sharp cone at the center of Li Yao's eyebrows, where the pineal gland and the spiritual root were located.
The cone-shaped magical equipment was originally a medical instrument for the detection and repair of the brain. However, after the two little fellows fully analyzed it, cracked its permissions, and improved its power. Then, they replaced dozens of high-purity marrow crystals as the energy source, which allowed them to unleash extremely powerful brainwaves for the training of the brain and further strengthen the soul.
The soul recovery in the past half month had been carried out when Li Yao was unconscious.
He had to perform a thorough training when he was absolutely awake in order to completely understand and control his brand-new soul.
"I'm ready. Come on!"
Li Yao made a gesture at the outside. Taking a deep breath, he stared at the sharp cone before him.
He only saw a tiny spot of light on the cone, but it expanded like a supernova explosion in one billionth of a second, and the dazzling brilliance enshrouded the entire world.
BOOM!
There was no telling whether it was his brain that exploded or the entire world other than his brain that exploded, but his soul exploded all of a sudden and expanded infinitely toward the depths of the sea of stars like some kind of cosmic behemoth that had infinite tentacles spanning billions of lightyears.
His body had completely disappeared, and even his soul had been obliterated. In a trance, Li Yao traced back to the origin and returned to the essence of all lives and even the universe — information.
Carbon-based life, silicon-based life, and energy life were all different in terms of the carriers and transmission methods of information. In the final analysis, weren't they all "information life"?
Wasn't the gene strand, the most important thing for human beings, the condensation of infinite information?
Li Yao pondered in silence, analyzing all the information related to himself and optimizing and reconfiguring the previously chaotic and redundant information.
The way his heart was beating, the speed of his adrenaline secretion, the arrangement of his internal organs, and the model of his soul's agitation had all been obtained after thousands of careful calculations.
A comprehensive analysis and optimization from the physical body to the soul was exactly a cycle. That was the essence of training.
In the meantime, Xiaoming and Wenwen were transmitting their metadata and the information on the Spiritual Nexus that they collected on their way to Li Yao's soul incessantly for his study and reference.
The customs, resources, and forces in the major worlds of the Imperium.
The structural designs and tactical databases of the battle puppets of the Imperium.
The strategic locations that guarded the important space jump points of the Imperium, the starships and the space fortresses deployed there, as well as the … ventilation tubes on the starships and the space fortresses.
All the information was displayed before Li Yao's eyes. It was rather odd that he seemed to be able to "see" and "study" the information at the same time, as if he had also turned on multiple "processes" that could process information independently.
It was not until this moment that Li Yao finally understood what Li Wenwen said. Li Yao felt that he had turned into an "information tree" at this moment. His physical body was lurking deep below the ground of the capital, but his mental tentacles were extending to the boundless universe like branches and roots.
In the age of ancient Cultivators, it was common for Cultivators to "transform into the universe". Naturally, it was a pipe dream.
However, if they could completely melt their soul into the ubiquitous information network, they would be "transforming into the universe" to some extent, wouldn't they?
Wandering in the ocean of information to his heart's content, Li Yao swam to the depths of the ocean without him knowing. Suddenly, he had an uncanny fear.
If he continued his training, he might really break into the Divinity Branching Stage one day and grasp the technique of splitting and controlling multiple processes. He might even be able to transform his body and soul into pure information and transform himself into the universe. Would he still be a real human being?
However, he soon felt relieved.
If a farmer in the early years of the age of ancient Cultivators, who worked at sunrise and rested at sunset and whose life was monotonous and did not receive the slightest change of information suddenly transmigrated to the modern society and saw such a world of information explosion, where everybody had a crystal processor in their hands, a pair of glasses in front of their eyes, and even a neural interface installed for special surgeries on their back, and where the modern people received more information in a day than he did in his entire life, would the ancient farmer consider the modern urbanites to be his "own kind"?
The history of the evolution of human beings was a history of information explosion in the first place.
The "new human beings" who crossed the three thousand Sectors and even the vaster universe and swore to be the masters of billions of stars would certainly be different from the "old human beings" who lived on a tiny planet and had not completely broken away from the nature of apes.
That was the future. An irresistible, unavoidable, and irresistible future!
Li Yao woke up from his momentary confusion and hesitation.
The information about himself and the world had been arranged and combined in an almost perfect way, like a transparent crystal bud that was slowly blossoming in the ocean of information and surfacing to the surface of the water.
He had completed an unprecedented training and touched the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage through the method of "absolute information control".
The mental devil, on the other hand, slowly floated up from the "stamen". Like his inseparable shadow, it looked at him with a frown.
"Have you made up your mind to help the two little fellows?" the mental devil asked worriedly.
"Yes. They are my children. Although I never thought about children before, after they really fell from the sky, I realized that the feeling … was not too bad."
Looking at the mental devil, Li Yao said calmly, "I can't just sit by and watch them destroy other people and themselves. I can't let other people control and destroy them, either!"
"But they are probably far more dangerous than you can imagine," the mental devil said.
"Perhaps you can't help them or control them at all. One day, they are destined to destroy all the civilizations in the past in a certain way."
"Why do you always like to disagree with me?" Li Yao asked.
"Because it is my responsibility," the mental devil said. "I was born for it. I am the other voice deep inside your heart. In fact, I do not exist at all. You have been by yourself from the beginning to the end. You yourself are full of concerns and even … fears about the two cute, mysterious, and yet highly dangerous little guys. You are only unwilling to face them. That's why you said it through the mouth of a nuisance like me, isn't it?"
"…" Li Yao: "…"
"The two little fellows may be telling the truth," the mental devil said. "They do have abundant feelings and know the meaning of life and death. They love their father and the entire civilization of mankind very much and want to help the civilization of mankind from the bottom of their hearts.
"However, are you sure that 'life and death, feelings, love and hate', and 'help' that they talked about are the same as what you said, and that you are not speaking the same language?
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