Li Yao's fingers were deeply embedded in his hair that was as messy as a bird's nest. His eyes sunken, he said, "Give me half a day. I'll certainly figure out the whole thing and find Blackstar the Great's loopholes. He must have loopholes because he was not prepared to be exposed so quickly. He was forced to take action in advance because of 'Silver Fox' Li Jiande. Also, he could not have foreseen that I would show up in the Seven Seas Grand Market and save you. In other words, the plan that he is implementing right now is the 'backup plan of the backup plan'.
Jin Yuyan sighed and said, "Go ahead. But look at the holographic map. The Thunder Fleet has sent a message to Yun Xuefeng's main fleet. The battle is about to begin."
Greatly alarmed, Li Yao turned around abruptly and stared at the red and blue spots on the holographic map for a long time. Without saying anything, he left the command center quickly.
Covered in coldness, he returned to his "Palace of the Black King" as quickly as possible.
The most advanced communication facilities in the place allowed him to reach out to Boss Bai at any time and share most of the real-time data of the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs", allowing him to monitor the space battlefield from a clearer and deeper perspective.
In the dark and quiet communication room, the small room was illuminated by the fluorescence from dozens of 3D light beams, as if it were a twisted and illusionary secret realm beyond reality.
Sitting cross-legged at the center of the light beams, Li Yao simply allowed the streams of information to slide past his face and body like a waterfall.
He seemed to have returned to the moment when he entered the Blood Demon Sector by himself and figured out what was on Jin Tuyi's mind.
His soul seemed to be placed on the surface of a lake that had been frozen for thousands of kilometers. He listened to the cracking sounds of the ice and the cold lake water spurting out like magma.
As time went by, the situation on the space battlefield changed again and again. It was too dazzling for the eyes to follow.
Lei Chenghu truly deserved to be known as the "God of War". He was even better than Boss Bai in terms of fleet command and space battles. The Thunder Fleet commanded by him was truly like a tide made of thousands of thunders — a tide that was alive and infuriated!
The moment the Thunder Fleet jumped to the Seven Seas Space Zone, Yun Xuefeng was caught unprepared.
Perhaps Lei Chenghu realized calmly that it was impossible to hide the organized jump of such an enormous fleet for long. Therefore, he simply exposed a few spiritual waves voluntarily, pretending that he was a regular garrison fleet of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors that had come to reinforce in a hurry.
Yun Xuefeng, after detecting the "common reinforcements" that were not far away from him, immediately sent out a branch fleet including an Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship to annihilate them.
It should be said that Yun Xuefeng's decision was well-behaved and did not make any mistakes. For a reinforcements that were not large in scale, a branch fleet commanded by an Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship was more than enough to annihilate them.
It was a pity that Yun Xuefeng had run into Lei Chenghu.
The competition between Yun Xuefeng and Hu was without suspense since the beginning.
In the next three hours, Lei Chenghu taught everybody in the sea of stars what the art of command was, what the coordination of thousands of cannons was, and what the soul of the army of the Imperium was that was fearless of death and bold enough to engage in a close battle with the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship.
It also made the officers and crew members on the arrogant Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship realize why their fleet was still not a 'super' or an 'ace' despite the enormous' Doomsday Warship '.
A hundred high-speed attack warships surrounded the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship like a hundred streaks of brilliance. Like a pack of wolves around a clumsy buffalo, no matter how many fatal fireworks the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship shot out, they brushed past the high-speed attack warships at a close distance, wasting tremendous spiritual energy and ammunition for nothing.
When the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship finally hit a few high-speed attack warships, under the cover of the latter, quite a few Colossi that belonged to the Thunder Fleet invaded the body of the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship.
At this moment, the arsenal warships, the shield warships, and the interference warships that were escorting the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship were divided, surrounded, and swallowed by other starships of the Thunder Fleet.
When the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship was ripped open from the inside to the outside with infinite materials and flames spurting out, its destruction was already inevitable.
Lei Chenghu announced his arrival with the destruction of a Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship, which raised a huge commotion on both the enemy's side and his own side.
The defenders seemed to have been injected with a highly effective cardiac stimulant. Their morale that had hit rock bottom soared to the maximum again.
The determination that the attackers had gathered after a long time collapsed in the next moment, just like the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship that had been blown apart. It turned into dazzling fireworks and vanished into thin air.
What was most dreadful was not Lei Chenghu's toughness but his enormous influence and prestige.
Lei Chenghu had been in the military of the Imperium for almost two hundred years. He annihilated the space pirates at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium in the early years and reached agreements with many worlds. Later, he led the soldiers of his hometown to the frontline and resisted the army of the Holy League. Then, he led the charge in the Imperium's counterattack and conquered the enormous Third Battle Area with only a bunch of defeated soldiers. He was more distinguished than ever. He was also a model for all the Immortal Cultivators and fulfilled the moral standards of all the Immortal Cultivators.
Even his enemies, who hated him and even wanted to kill him, had to admire his integrity and even called him "the last Immortal Cultivator of the Imperium".
The participation of such a "God of War" in the battlefield was a much greater psychological blow for the attackers than the destruction of a Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship.
Just like Jin Yuyan said, Lei Chenghu was a very special warlord from the peripheral worlds of the Imperium himself. He shared a lot of common interests with the warlords and local magnates who made up more than ninety percent of the attackers.
In the past two hundred years, Lei Chenghu had fought side by side with those warlords countless times and even saved their lives on the most dangerous battlefields. In the Imperium's counterattack not long ago, Lei Chenghu commanded the troops of a lot of warlords to expand the territory of the Imperium, too.
Even right now, a lot of Immortal Cultivators from the peripheral worlds of the Imperium were mixed in the Thunder Fleet. They were essentially brothers from the same world. How could they possibly fight the war?
None of the warlords from the peripheral worlds of the Imperium could afford to attack "God of War" Lei Chenghu's fleet.
Furthermore, as long as Lei Chenghu coughed, countless bottom-level young officers who worshipped him would be willing to join his side and be at his disposal!
It was definitely not good news for Yun Xuefeng and the other Immortal Cultivators of the four families.
In the meantime, it was not good news for Li Yao and the other Cultivators, either.
If the situation went on as it was, even if the battle of Seven Seas was won, the biggest winner would only be Lei Chenghu and Wuying Qi behind him. The "balance" among the Immortal Cultivators that Li Yao intended to achieve was absolutely impossible.
Even Boss Bai was sending messages to Li Yao crazily.
"What's going on exactly? Why did chaos break out in the Seven Seas Grand Market all of a sudden? Why did Lei Chenghu's fleet suddenly jump to the Seven Seas Space Zone?
"Damn it. The Thunder Fleet is so strong. As expected of the Deep Sky Fleet, the strongest fleet in the expedition army of the Imperium that has been baptized in two hundred years of bloody battles. It has swallowed an Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship so quickly!
"Our Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs has only been gathered for three months. Even with the help of the super artificial intelligence, we might not be a match for the Thunder Fleet.
"Hey, hey, hey. Li Yao, who are we helping right now? If we continue pretending to be 'loyal subjects' and stand on Yun Xuefeng's side, we will soon have a collision with the Thunder Fleet!
"Yun Xuefeng is going crazy. Really. The guy is already looking at me in a weird way. I estimate that he will push us out to resist the Thunder Fleet if he loses a few more branch fleets!
"What should we do exactly? Should we turn on Yun Xuefeng, stab him in the back, and stand on Lei Chenghu's side? But which side is Lei Chenghu on exactly? He is a pure Immortal Cultivator and the most stubborn kind!
"One moment of carelessness, and we will become the common enemy of Yun Xuefeng and Lei Chenghu. That … That's not going to be a good joke!"
Li Yao sent a message to Boss Bai. "Give me an hour. I'll give you an answer. Until then … just hang in there. Boss Bai, I believe in you. You can do it!"
Li Yao simply cut off the communication with Boss Bai, allowing himself to analyze and deduce calmly in the cold swirls of his thoughts.
In the green fluorescent light, there was only himself condensed from blood. He sat opposite him, holding his cheeks with his hands as he pondered with him. It was as if there was a strange mirror in front of him.
"Wuying Qi's mental attacks are truly impressive. They are different from all the deep hypnosis, psychological cues, and soul shocks that we've seen before."
The mental devil said slowly, "I've carefully analyzed the mark that he implanted into our souls through the explosion of our souls and discovered that it involves the modification of the deepest level of the soul. It is a very advanced brainwashing technology that is rarely seen in the techniques of human beings."
"Rarely seen in the techniques of 'human beings'?"
Li Yao caught the key keenly. "So, you've seen it before?"
"It's hard to say if it's the same, but we have indeed seen similar modifications in the brain scans of the Pangu and the Holy League."
The mental devil said uncertainly.
In the "Kunlun relic", a primeval relic discovered by the Xing Yao Federation, Li Yao executed a living Pangu. Later, the excavation team found a lot of highly-decayed and withered bodies of the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan.
Below the Land of Eternal Night in the Ancient Sages Sector, in the Nuwa warship, and in the underground palace of the Pangu, there were a lot of well-preserved "fresh bodies".
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