The teleportation array was like an enormous palace in the shape of a pyramid. Every five minutes, it would release intense spiritual waves in the form of pulses. As the bright gold brilliance raised tiny ripples in the space, troops in crystal suits that were armed to the teeth and heavy tractors showed up one after another. Inside the half-enclosed cabins of many tractors, small and medium-sized shield tunneling machines and the consumable parts of the large shield tunneling machines were also carried.
A new reinforcement troop was being gathered quickly. It was estimated that it would take shape in a day or two and be sent to the operation site more than ten kilometers away.
Everybody observed in the darkness for a long time. Li Jialing couldn't help but remark, "So, this is just a transit station and not the original starting point. It would be great if we could find out where this enormous teleportation array in the shape of a pyramid leads to."
Li Yao whispered something to the two little fellows. A dozen "ants" immediately crawled to the forward base, but they did not approach the teleportation array. They simply collected some stones, powder, and dust on the ground that the heavy tractors had just rolled over.
Li Yao divided the particles that they collected into two parts. One part was put into the magical equipment that he used to test the composition of materials, while the other part was picked up by his fingers and placed at the tip of his nose to rub and sniff before he put it into his mouth and licked it.
"Judging from the salinity, humidity, and composition of the metal particles in the particles, they should be from the east coast of the main continent of the capital planet, which is close to the temperate zone. Also, there are quite a few mines of rare metals in the thousand square kilometers nearby."
After saying that, Li Yao glanced at the result of the analysis and grinned. "That's right. The result of the instrument is exactly the same. The soil and dust that the tracks of the heavy tractors brought from the other end of the teleportation array contain the components of twenty-five rare metals. Although they are not the rarest metals, few places on the surface of the capital planet can gather all twenty-five metals at the same time.
"Xiaoming, Wenwen, you should have the files of all the large mining and refining bases on the capital planet in your database, right? Search and filter them with those criteria.
"Firstly, it's located on the east coast of the main continent of the capital planet, about … 30 degrees north latitude, no more than 5 degrees north latitude.
"Secondly, there are mines that contain the following twenty-five kinds of rare metals within a thousand square kilometers, or there are large magical equipment factories that smelt the mines. If there are mines, the mother lodes won't be too deep. Otherwise, the metal particles wouldn't have floated into the air and fallen into the soil and dust.
"Thirdly, I don't think this place will be too far away from the main Imperial Guards in the capital. But this can be discussed.
"Let's enter these conditions into the database first and see if there are any results!"
Xiaoming and Wenwen nodded at the same time, with brilliance beaming out of their eyes. Very soon, their portable crystal processors projected rays of light into a 3D light beam that locked onto a narrow, long area on the main continent of the capital planet, or the "Blackstar Continent" that was named after Blackstar the Great.
"Here …"
Li Yao felt that the area was very familiar. Thinking quickly, he realized what was going on. "Isn't this where the royal palace and the emperor's mausoleum are?"
Deep inside the royal palace or the emperor's mausoleum of the Imperium of True Human Beings, there was an enormous teleportation array that led to the tunnels that the Supreme Emperor or the Blood God opened in the past.
There was no telling what kind of shocking secrets were hidden in the mysterious space at the end of the tunnel.
Such a discovery made Li Yao and the rest of them anxious as if they were sitting on pins and needles.
All the intelligence that could be collected had been collected. The few of them were not enough to compete with Blackstar the Great at all. It was time to jump out of the capital, summon all the forces that could be united, unveil Wuying Qi's scheme, and march back unstoppably!
Li Yao and the rest of them retreated without a sound and returned to the narrow gap next to the enormous tunnel by following the path they had come from.
It was not until the Immortal Cultivators could no longer sense them that the two Colossi reappeared and finally saw the sun again after three days!
At this moment, it had been more than a month since Li Yao and Long Yangjun's great battle against Blackstar the Great at the bottom of the Silver Moon Ocean.
After only one month, the sun and the moon in the capital had completely changed colors.
With his identity as "Blackstar the Great", Wuying Qi won the support of the influential forces in the four Kurfürst families, including "Devilish Abyss" Li Jianyi and "Star Breaker" Song Huanzhen. Together with the loyalty of the young forces such as Dongfang Sheng, the reformists were ten times more powerful than before.
On the four Kurfürst families' side, after losing Prime Minister Dongfang Wang and "Silver Fox" Li Jiande, two Kurfürst families, in only one day, half of the sky seemed to have collapsed, and there were signs of division.
Wuying Qi conquered the coalition fleet that went to the Silver Moon Ocean to hunt Dongfang Wang in thunderous approaches and mixed the fleet with his own Deep Sea Fleet, constituting a brand-new core force of the reformists.
The Imperial Guards that were naturally on his side, on the other hand, turned into enormous bones and flesh based on the core forces. Although the Imperial Guards were too weak to compete with the elites of the Kurfürst families in space, it was more than enough for them to fight in the atmosphere of the capital in their hometown.
Besides, Blackstar the Great was watching them in person!
In such a battle, even if it was not a devastating one, the nobles who had lost two Kurfürst families in a row were not in the mood to fight.
The capital was not their base in the first place. Faced with the unexpected changes, it would be safer for them to flee back to their hometown first, review the troops in their headquarters, consolidate all the resources, and even summon the expedition army in the frontline to resist the Holy League. Then, they could take it slow.
Just like that, after only one month, the reformists became the new masters of the capital.
The news of Emperor Shenwu's demise was spread to the entire capital and even the entire universe through all kinds of channels, both on the surface and in secret.
As for the reformists, they regarded the four Kurfürst families as the murderers who murdered the emperor. They swore that they would get to the bottom of the truth and avenge His Majesty. In the unusual period when the truth was not out yet, Li Linghai, the current queen of the Imperium and the future empress dowager of the Imperium, was in charge of purging, rebuilding, and expanding the Council of Elders.
After a new, more righteous, bright, and honest Council of Elders was born, it would not be too late to decide who the supreme throne should belong to.
"Five hundred years. The Imperium has been sinking in darkness for five hundred years. Now, it is time to renew the Imperium and bring justice and brightness to all the people of the Imperium!"
At the official level, the reformists shouted such ambiguous slogans.
In private, a lot of zealous reformists, including the hopeless young officers and the middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators of other surnames who had been suppressed in the past, were already shouting that the Kurfürst system should be abolished and all the glory should belong to His Majesty and the Council of Elders.
On a lot of half-official military orders and announcements, the term "false Kurfürst" appeared many times, too.
Did the so-called "false Kurfürst" mean that the four Kurfürst families today did not deserve the title and should be replaced by somebody else, or that the title of "Kurfürst" should not exist at all?
It would probably depend on the starships, the Colossi, and the Crystal Suit in the hands of the two parties in the future.
Faced with the aggressive stance of the reformists, the four Kurfürst families naturally did not show any weakness and responded immediately.
No matter how passive the situation in the capital was, except for the nail that was the "Thunder Fleet", the territory of the other three families was basically intact.
After all, they were a deep-rooted noble family that had controlled the Imperium for five hundred years. Even though they were leaderless and had conflicts with each other, and there were still strikes and student tides in their territories, and the young officers and the middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators were not very stable … Such problems were not enough to hurt the foundation of the four Kurfürst families for the time being.
Faced with the hideous face that the reformists suddenly revealed, the four Kurfürst families were unprecedentedly united after part of the uncertainties were cut off.
Naturally, they also accused the reformists of regicide. They even narrowed the target to Li Linghai, the leader of the reformists, and accused Li Linghai of being the real murderer. They also described the whole process of regicide vividly, as if they had witnessed it in person.
What was ironic was that, although the "evidence" of the four Kurfürst families was all fabricated, they were in fact not wrong.
Since Li Linghai was the regicide, he was naturally not qualified to be the queen of the Imperium, much less the future empress dowager.
The new emperor could not be one of the princes that Li Linghai had, nor could it be decided by the illegal "Council of Elders". The glorious tradition that had been passed on for five hundred years should be decided by the four Kurfürst families.
The nobles had already found quite a few suitable candidates from the royal bloodlines that were scattered at the edge of the Imperium. They were conducting the final selection and interest exchange. It would not take long before the new emperor ascended to the throne in a certain Sector outside of the capital under the support of the four Kurfürst families.
After that, the coalition army of nobles that was loyal to the new emperor would naturally arrive thunderously and unstoppably to execute the justice of justice on the rebels entrenched in the capital as well as Li Linghai, the "regent" who had murdered the previous emperor!
As a result, two highest authorities of the Imperium of True Human Beings had appeared at the center of the cosmos. One of them was the "Reform Committee of the Council of Elders" under the leadership of Li Linghai, the queen of the Imperium, and the other was the coalition army of nobles made of the old nobles with the four Kurfürst families as the core.
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