The intimidating aura of the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators was like a collapsing mountain. Billions of tons of invisible rocks were falling at everybody's head.
Besides, Li Yao was not the only Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator. Long Yangjun was behind him, too. She released the sharpest killing intent coldly and locked onto the heart of every noble.
Li Jialing also grimaced, unleashing his fighting will like that of a lion.
Although most of those nobles were from the four Kurfürst families, the members of the Kurfürst families were of different levels too. Those who had lingered until the last moment were naturally not the central persons of their families. Their capabilities were rather limited. It was already not bad if one or two of them were in the Yuanying level.
Under the covetous eyes of Li Yao and Long Yangjun, two ferocious beasts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, those nobles did not have the ability to resist at all.
"Senior!"
"Elder!"
"My lord!"
Seeing that one of the nobles, who was in fact the most aggressive, aggressive, and had the highest combat ability a moment ago, was blown up by Li Yao and Long Yangjun in half a second, the rest of the nobles suddenly changed their expressions and squeezed out a flattering smile in the middle of their wrinkles and cold sweat.
Although they were cursing in their hearts, they did not expect that two extraterrestrials in the Divinity Transformation Stage would show up out of nowhere. Their faces and gestures, however, couldn't have been more humble. Their passion made it seem that they would be more than willing to kick their parents off the starship and save a seat for Li Yao and the rest of them.
Li Yao glanced at the starship that was docked in the dock and about to enter the rails. Pointing at the third starship on the left, he asked, "Whose starship is that?"
It was a "Blue Bird" -level, half-armed merchant starship. Although it did not carry a lot of cargo, and the turrets and spiritual shields that it could be equipped with were limited, its advantage was that its power unit was powerful enough, and it could turn and dodge agilely. It was most suitable for traveling among the enemy's barrage or the complicated meteoroid belts. It was a typical "smuggling starship".
Many people liked to use this model of starships to wander in the gray area between black and white and carry out all kinds of clandestine activities.
Li Yao did not have high demands on speed and defense ability. After all, if they did run into danger, he and Long Yangjun could simply charge out with their two Colossi. The key was that the "Blue Bird" -level, half-armed starships were relatively easy to maneuver and highly automated. In the cruising state, more than 95% of the operations could be completed by the mainframe crystal processor.
It was a classic starship. In other words, many people were very familiar with the control system. Xiaoming and Wenwen happened to know how to operate this starship.
In other words, even without the cooperation of the crew, they were certain that they could get the ship to the border of the Empire.
"Yes, it's mine."
A fat man with a face full of wrinkles and oily hair stood up, trembling. He said cautiously, "Senior …"
"Then this one will go first!"
Li Yao did not bother to waste time on him. With brilliance more dazzling than the sun beaming out of his eyes, he said to the rest of the nobles, "It will take twenty minutes at most for all the starships to leave. Just be patient and behave yourselves. Everybody is free to go! Otherwise, we can blow up all the other starships first and execute the pigs and dogs like you first before we leave! "
His words made all the nobles pale and scared. They all shook their heads and wagged their tails, saying that they would never dare to offend the authority of two experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage.
Li Yao sniffed and looked at Long Yangjun. The two of them took action at the same time. The Crystal Suit unleashed thousands of streaks of light, blowing the cave leading to the dock into pieces and collapsing. The entire channel was blocked.
Although the blockage was not very dense, it would take more than half an hour for the "demonized" rebels outside to drill through the rocks and march in.
"Let's go!"
Li Yao said to the overjoyed fat man.
The Blue Bird-type, lightly armed starship had finished the fuel injection and the space jump preparations a long time ago. It was only because the fat man was alone that he did not have the right to set off first. Right now, with the support of Li Yao and Long Yangjun, who were at least in the Divinity Transformation Stage, the final examination was completed in only half a minute.
After entering the rails, the starship spiraled upward at a higher and higher speed. In the end, in the most earsplitting shrieks, it tore apart the void and disappeared into the swirl-shaped gap!
Li Yao's squad finally escaped from the capital that was illuminated by the black stars. They were free to fly in the boundless ocean!
At the same time, in the boundless space at the periphery of the Empyreal Terminus Sector, the Blue Bird business starship crawled out abruptly, surrounded by fog-like space ripples that looked like hot steam.
The first phase of the jump was successfully completed.
Because the coordinates were set randomly, they did not know exactly where they were in the vast space zone at the edge of the Empyreal Terminus Sector. They only knew that this place was very, very far away from the capital planet. The fleets of the reformists were too busy besieging the capital planet and purging the resourceful space zones around the capital planet to be deployed to such a place.
They were safe for now.
"Two … seniors."
The real owner of the starship, the fat man with a greasy face, struggled to crawl out of the buffer gel. He looked at Li Yao and Long Yangjun in fear, both in awe and in unrealistic fantasies. "May I know your names and where you are going, seniors? If you don't mind the Song family's lack of capability … "
As it turned out, the fat man was from the Song family too. It seemed that he was just like Song Hongchang, the unlucky leader of the Furious Tide Sect, who was not valued by any family.
However, if he could bring two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators back to the Song family, it would be a different story.
Li Yao glanced at him casually. Then, he focused his attention on the intelligence that he just received and discussed his plan with Long Yangjun, Li Jialing, and the rest of them.
After all, during the first space jump, when the mainframe crystal processor of the starship was under the heaviest computational load, the two little fellows had already hacked it and grasped the key to the control system. They had also made minor modifications.
Right now, without Li Yao's permission, it was impossible for the captain and the crew of the starship to perform a second space jump.
They had stayed below the ground for too long and were in dire need of the latest intelligence on the ground to study the situation, especially the movements of the four Kurfürst families.
When they passed through Netherwind City just now, they had stolen a lot of crystal processors, including the portable crystal processors of the nobles in the dock. They had been "confiscated" by them without any courtesy, too.
Li Yao and the rest of them analyzed and discussed for more than half an hour, while the fat man surnamed Song waited pitifully nearby for such a long time, not having the courage to disturb the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators anymore.
It was not until the end that Li Yao showed him a coordinate. "Let's go here."
"This … is not the territory of the four Kurfürst families!"
The fat man was greatly surprised. Seeing that the coordinate that Li Yao gave him was at the edge of the Imperium, which was the most lawless and chaotic place. The Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the de facto biggest force in the place, was even the most hardcore ally and the greatest investor of the reformists. He was even more uncertain about Li Yao and Long Yangjun's identities.
However, before he gave an order to the captain and the crew, the Blue Bird starship began to hum and tremble on its own. It was the sign that the space jump unit had been activated to the maximum!
"This is —"
The fat man's pupils constricted to the size of needle tips, and his pants were soaked in cold sweat. He had no idea why the starship was running "automatically" as if it were haunted.
"Just sit down and be good."
Li Yao smiled and said to the fat man, "You will know in the future how lucky you are to be alive today."
…
When the Blue Bird starship, which carried the two, no, three, no, maybe five of the most dangerous people at the center of the cosmos, completely disappeared from the sea of stars in the Empyreal Terminus Sector, Netherwind City, the last Kurfürst settlement on the capital planet, was completely occupied by the reformists too.
The reformists did not march so fast in the beginning. They had thought that the Kurfürst army in the city could brutalize each other for a while longer.
But at the last moment, as if urged by some important person, they went out of their way and attacked without hesitation. Before midnight, at the highest point of the Lingfeng Mountain Range, they planted the Three Stars Lightning Battle Flag that had been cleansed by flames.
In the ruins of the Netherwind Tunnel, Li Linghai, who was wearing casual clothes and keeping a low profile, frowned and stared at the traces of damage that Li Yao and Long Yangjun had caused not long ago.
Her nose was twitching, as if she could smell something unusual from the feeble ripples in the air.
Among her white hair that was as white as snow, one or two black threads vaguely appeared.
"They've escaped."
Li Linghai said to a voice in her head, "Just half a day ago. If we had attacked half a day earlier, we would've had a chance to catch them."
"There's no need to hesitate. It's impossible."
The voice in her head, Blackstar the Great, said casually, "Those two highly-dangerous monsters couldn't have been caught so easily. Even if we had occupied Netherwind City a day earlier, they would've found other ways to escape from the atmosphere, steal one of our starships, and perform a second space jump."
"Then —"
Li Linghai seemed very concerned. "What about your body, Your Majesty?"
"My current form can still be maintained for a long time. That little guy belongs to me. He will come back obediently again sooner or later."
Wuying Qi said, "The few weird rats that escaped did not have much influence on the situation. Except for the minor mistake, our progress in other aspects has been quite smooth, if not surprisingly.
"Right now, let's focus on the ground below the capital and the peripheral worlds of the Imperium. As long as we can dig out 'that thing' deep below the ground in time, and with the support of all the new warlords and Sector Masters at the periphery of the Imperium through the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, we will be able to attack the four Kurfürst's territories from the front and back and force them to come to the capital for a strategic battle!
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