The enemy's eyes were like two enormous swirls, and the flames caused by the explosions around could not raise the slightest ripple inside. Surrounded by black flames, she darted at Li Yao nonstop like tentacles. After all, she looked a hundred times more hideous and evil than when Li Yao played the Black Wind King.
Gulu! Gulu! Gulu! Gulu!
Weird sounds were echoing from Wuying Qinxin's abdomen, as if her internal organs had turned into magma that supported the last bit of vitality in the dry body.
Looking at the enemy's hollow and evil face, Li Yao suddenly had a weird intuition — she was not Wuying Qinxin!
Just like how Jin Yuyan had replaced his body with the "Soul Transfer Technique", it was not Wuying Qinxin who was lurking inside her head and manipulating her incomplete body, but another soul that was more mysterious, powerful, and even … familiar.
While Li Yao was thinking hard, "Wuying Qinxin", under the control of the crystal wires, slowly extended her bare wrists and clapped her hands hard.
If her two hands were still there, they would certainly be clapping loudly.
However, her two hands had been completely worn out, and even the bones were showing. Naturally, they could not make any sound.
But she could not care less. With a rigid smile on her face, she controlled the two bloody arms and made the gesture of "clapping hard".
The silent applause spread out in the burning darkness, making the scene even more creepy.
"You are not Wuying Qinxin!"
Faced with such a weird picture, even Li Yao could not keep calm anymore. Fully alert, he gnashed his teeth and asked, "Who are you exactly?"
"Marvelous!"
After clapping for a long time, the enemy did not answer his question directly. Instead, she said in a high-pitched voice that sounded like a crow, "Vulture Li Yao, your speech in the headquarters of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors was truly marvelous. You did the best job of bluffing and bluffing. No wonder the magnates at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium were all fooled by you. I almost couldn't help but applaud and cheer for you on the spot. How many years has it been since I last saw such a shameless Cultivator like you? If there had been two more Cultivators like you in the Star Ocean Republic years ago, I wouldn't have won my cause so easily! "
"I?"
Thinking quickly, Li Yao grimaced and put on a bitter face.
When he observed the black flames of spiritual energy flowing out of Wuying Qinxin's body more carefully, he discovered that they were indeed condensing into a magnificent throne above her head after floating for a while.
An extremely domineering and ferocious figure, like a black dragon baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, was vaguely entrenched on top of it.
"Blackstar the Great!"
Li Yao almost found it hard to believe his eyes. "It's you again? How is it possible? Weren't you staying in the capital to reorganize the imperial guards? How did you —"
"This is the mysteriousness and magnificence of the Divinity Branching Stage. Perhaps you will never understand it."
Wuying Qinxin — or Wuying Qi — sniffed and said, "My soul naturally stayed inside Li Linghai's body to manage the situation in the capital, but I split part of my soul into Wuying Qinxin's body and hid next to Jin Yuyan so that I could control the situation in the Seven Seas Space Zone at any time.
"How important are the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the free coin? Do you really think that I would let go of them and allow Jin Yuyan to be independent?"
It was not until then that Li Yao realized that Wuying Qi must've hijacked Wuying Qinxin's body through some sort of "remote manipulation".
No wonder Wuying Qinxin's combat ability was so high all of a sudden that she did not even care about the damage to her body even if it meant that her limbs were broken.
It was because she was Wuying Qi's puppet in the first place, and she had lost her own self-awareness. Even if the body was completely destroyed, Wuying Qi probably would not be hurt much.
No, Li Yao estimated that Wuying Qi did not even need to "hijack" her at all. As long as he revealed his identity to Wuying Qinxin, Wuying Qinxin would've sworn loyalty to him without any hesitation, not to mention that she was merely a carrier.
As for the crystal wires that were connected to Wuying Qinxin's body, they must've been transmitted by Wuying Qi's soul through the Spiritual Nexus that covered a hundred Sectors. That was the only way to trigger such intense waves of spiritual energy, wasn't it?
Li Yao had been beaten black and blue by Wuying Qi before and almost lost half of his life. No, it was because he had beaten Wuying Qi up before. Therefore, he would never forget the features of Wuying Qi's soul waves even in his dreams. He was certain that such a powerful and intimidating aura couldn't have been duplicated by anybody else.
However, if Wuying Qi had been controlling Wuying Qinxin and knowing Jin Yuyan and Qi Yuanbao's whole plan, it did not make sense at all!
Why did Wuying Qi indulge and even instigate Qi Yuanbao to assassinate Jin Yuyan?
Wuying Qi couldn't have foreseen the arrival of Li Yao and Li Jialing. If it weren't for Li Yao, Jin Yuyan would've been assassinated, and the Seven Seas Grand Market would've been in chaos at this moment. The confidence of the warlords and local magnates at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium would've been lost in the battle of Seven Seas.
So to speak, did Wuying Qi want the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors to lose the battle and even be completely annihilated by the four families?
However much Wuying Qi disliked the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the free coin, he and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors were in the same boat. The operations of the reformists in many fields counted on the free coin as "lubricant" too. The capital and the Seven Seas Space Zone were interdependent. If one of them was destroyed, the other would be doomed too.
Therefore, Li Yao couldn't figure out what Wuying Qi was playing exactly even if he wanted to dig through his skull.
"Do you feel that your head is in a mess? That's right! "
Wuying Qi said with a smile, "After the messy war, do you still not understand that the real universe and the Imperium are exactly as messy as this?
"Everybody is selfish and thinks only for themselves. Everybody wants to preserve their strength and instigate other people to take risks. The four families are exactly the same. At this moment, the so-called 'alliance of a million starships' has jumped to the Seven Seas Space Zone for almost two days, but they still haven't been able to gather the loose sand and are still struggling in the swamp.
"On the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors' side, on the other hand, everybody is scheming against each other. Everybody is thinking about their petty interests. Nobody is really willing to sacrifice for their 'ideology' and 'beliefs'.
"Both the leaders of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and the coalition fleet of the four families must've felt a headache and lamented their helplessness when faced with such subordinates who were as stupid as pigs, as greedy as dogs, as sordid as wolves, and as cowardly as rabbits, right?
"In the past, I had to command countless forces such as the four families and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors to fight against the entire chaotic universe!
"Vulture Li Yao, tell me. Faced with such a chaotic universe, how can we not use some ruthless methods? How can we not kill so many people and make their blood flow into rivers?"
To this moment, Li Yao was still unaware of Wuying Qi's real purpose. Rolling his eyes quickly, he secretly sent a message to Li Jialing while he asked, "Our enemy is not each other but the entire boundless universe. Dongfang Wang, the former prime minister of the Imperium, once said that too. However, I still don't understand. What are you up to exactly, Your Majesty? Judging from your confidence, you seem to be certain of your victory, and you can take care of the four families easily even without the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors? "
"Did you know, Vulture Li Yao, you have a very bad habit, which is that your eyes are too active when you are thinking quickly?"
Wuying Qi said casually, "Also, when you started calling me 'Your Majesty' or 'you', you were calculating faster and faster.
"Just drop your dirty tricks. It's useless. I have already jammed all the spiritual waves within a thousand meters nearby. Not a single message will be sent out. It's not easy for me to meet the 'Black Wind King' who is loyal to the Imperium. Why are you in such a hurry to leave?
"As for the four families, hehe. I have never considered them a big deal since the very beginning. What I'm going to do is not as simple as destroying the four families but also completely uprooting the soil where the four families grow. I will crush all the corrupt officials, the royal family, and the interest groups and rebuild a new Imperium that is open, fair, and just, where all the Immortal Cultivators have lofty ideals and are willing to die for the civilization of mankind! Only such a new empire will have enough power to set sail and explore … an even vaster universe! "
Wuying Qi controlled Wuying Qinxin's broken limbs to dance crazily and spurt out blood nonstop like crimson fireworks.
"Cut the crap. Aren't you the biggest corrupt official, the royal family, and the interest groups yourself? A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. You made a 'good start', and the people below are just following your example! "
Li Yao rubbed the goosebumps on his body hard and spat hard. Deeply attracted by one of Wuying Qi's words, he asked subconsciously, "Sail and explore a vaster universe? What … What does that mean?"
"Huh?"
Wuying Qi keenly captured Li Yao's shock. Slightly surprised, he said, "I didn't know that you knew about the extraterrestrial lands too. I'm more and more curious about the 'Black Wind King' now."
"What … What did you say?"
Li Yao felt that dense black fog had covered his head, making it hard for him to breathe. "What is the 'extraterrestrial lands' that you mentioned?"
"Do you want to know everything? Then, stand by my side sincerely. When you realize how vast the universe is and how insignificant and perilous the civilization of mankind is, you will realize how hilarious the disagreement between the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators is."
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