Inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid in reality …
Li Yao's slightly closed eyelids shivered. He slowly opened his eyes, as if the whole night was frozen in them.
There was still a trace of confusion on his face, as if he had just had a long and deep dream. He rubbed his temples and thought in a daze. He even scratched his skin hard, leaving red marks on it, as if he wanted to tear his skin apart and reveal a brand new him.
Then, he saw Wuying Qi who was standing not far away from him.
Wuying Qi was like a black mountain that blocked his entire vision.
Li Yao's eyebrows were furrowed, and two powerful forces were clashing hard in his heart.
His eyelids, lips, and fingers were all cramping crazily.
A moment later, he uttered vague grunts from his throat and fell on one of his knees, submitting to Wuying Qi.
"Li Yao, this is the effect of 'enlightenment'. How about it? It didn't destroy your thinking ability and free will, did it?"
Wuying Qi asked casually.
"… No."
Li Yao blushed. Thinking carefully for a moment, he said, "I am still a Cultivator who adheres to the path of the Cultivators and loves my hometown. I still believe that the lives of so many people should not be sacrificed recklessly when there are better choices, but — but —"
"But right now, we don't have a choice. While Your Majesty's solution seems cruel, it's the least bad, most effective, and most likely to succeed of all the solutions.
"Therefore, 'I am a Cultivator' and 'I will support Your Majesty' are not contradictory at all. If I were a real Cultivator who cared about the interests of mankind to the greatest extent instead of my hypocritical moral obsession, I would've supported Your Majesty! If I didn't support Your Majesty, I would've been a fake Cultivator who was as scummy as the fake Immortal Cultivators, if not even more despicable!
"Everything I said was a conclusion that I reached with a very clear and rational head. It was definitely not manipulated by any force, nor was it 'evil brainwashing'. I was merely convinced by Your Majesty's logic."
The more Li Yao talked, the more determined and calm he became, as if he had really dissected his brain with a scalpel.
"Hahahaha. It's great that you think so, Li Yao!"
Wuying Qi laughed. "That's right. The so-called 'brainwashing' is just reasoning in a more advanced and efficient way. How can it be evil and dreadful?"
"If Your Majesty's massive enlightenment on the ace fleets of the four families is the same way to make them understand the logic —"
Li Yao said solemnly, "I swear to the heavens that I will support Your Majesty with my life!"
"Huh …"
Wuying Qi narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Yao. He suddenly found it strange and asked, "Why is your face so red and sweating?"
"I'm … excited!"
Li Yao touched the sweat on his neck and looked at him. "Just now, Your Majesty showed me the future of the new Imperium and even the civilization of mankind. What a magnificent fleet, what a glorious civilization, and what a happy people. After I saw it, I couldn't have been more excited. I almost couldn't wait to travel to the golden age in the future. Ah, Your Majesty, ah, the Imperium, ah, ugh … ugh … ugh …"
Li Yao suddenly held the ground and vomited hard. He almost vomited out his stomach acid.
Wuying Qi was stunned. "Li Yao, why are you doing this?"
"I … I don't know. I only feel that the world is swirling, and I can't help it."
Li Yao looked at Wuying Qi and couldn't help but vomit acid again. He was rather embarrassed. "It's probably because too much information flooded into my brain at the same time. Does the enlightenment technology have such a side effect? I'm counting on Your Majesty to enlighten me. "
Wuying Qi was silent.
Of course, the enlightenment technology had all kinds of uncanny side effects. Not just the nausea and vomiting, it wouldn't be strange even if one's brain exploded on the spot.
Also, Li Yao's soul was very strong and weird in the first place, and Wuying Qi could basically sense it. Therefore, Wuying Qi did not know what kind of side effects would be caused by the intense collision of their souls.
Concussions would lead to vomiting in the first place. This should be one of the lowest side effects, right?
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty. I'm fine. I'll get used to it after some vomiting. Ugh …"
His face pale, Li Yao held his belly and said, "Let's not bother about the trivia. I have a lot of things to tell you, including the overall plan that I'm going to implement and the traps that I've set up, Your Majesty. But first of all, let me help Your Majesty capture the other two rebels first. I hope that Your Majesty can give them a chance to correct their mistakes and 'enlighten' them so that they can enjoy the unprecedented understanding like I did!"
…
Running crazily in the maze-like caves, Li Jialing held back his heartbeat that was tearing his chest apart and did not dare to look back at the stormy barrage of bullets. Suddenly, his left foot stepped into a crack in his carelessness. After a crack, his ankle was immediately cracked. He was in so much pain that he burst into tears, but he did not dare to stop and rolled into a downward branch until he reached the darkness at the end. It was not until a long time later that he finally had the courage to moan.
"Sister Long —"
He called Long Yangjun in the point-to-point communicator. "Where are you? I can't hold on any longer. The entire Crystal Suit Legion is chasing me!"
"I'm in the mine seven hundred meters on your left. But it's very dangerous here. Don't come any closer!"
Long Yangjun gnashed her teeth in the secret communication channel. "Wuying Qi, the thousand-year-old ghost, has so many experts under his command, and they are all fearless of death. They are all determined to die together with the enemy the moment they attack. They are completely different from the cowardly guys of the four families. I'm trapped here, too!"
"I wonder what's going on with Brother Yao."
While spraying quick-freeze gel and high-density bone-growth drugs on his swollen ankle, Li Jialing said in desperation, "Wuying Qi has already crawled into the Gold Crystal Pyramid and stayed with Brother Yao for quite a few hours. What are they doing in there? Will Brother Yao be fine?"
"Rest assured. The good guys don't live long, but the scourge can. Your Brother Yao won't die so easily!"
Long Yangjun grunted, as if she had been hit by an enemy. "However, if the 'scourge' doesn't come out and figure out a solution, the two of us' good guys' won't live long!"
While they were talking, they suddenly heard a thunderous explosion deep below the ground, as if the core of the planet had collapsed.
They thought that it was the explosion of a super crystal bomb, but the explosions were incessant like tides. They were getting louder and louder, and the quakes were more and more intense.
"It's an earthquake. A massive earthquake?"
Li Jialing and Long Yangjun, who was hundreds of meters away, both changed their expressions.
The geological structure of this area had been torn apart and destroyed by the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God time and time again. Right now, it was riddled with holes by Wuying Qi's Imperial Guards.
Such an intense earthquake immediately caused the collapse of the tunnels and the mines. Billions of tons of rocks fell from the sky, completely changing the appearance of the underground world.
Even though most of the Imperial Guards stayed in the safe area that had been carefully calculated in advance, some of them still left the safe area to chase after Li Jialing and Long Yangjun. They were too many and too big a target, but they were not strong enough individually. Therefore, they were all smashed by the rocks and left a mess.
Li Jialing and Long Yangjun were both above average experts, and they were not trapped by the rocks for now. However, the drastic changes around them and the quakes that seemed to be incessant still made their faces extremely awful. They thought of a possibility at the same time.
The Gold Crystal Pyramid had been activated!
Li Yao failed to stop Wuying Qi's plan after all. The large-scale brainwashing with the solar storm had already begun!
Right then, a third voice entered their secret communication channel, which was Li Yao's extremely calm voice.
"Where are you hiding?"
Li Yao asked.
"Brother Yao!"
Li Jialing was both surprised and delighted. "You've escaped? Where are you? What happened in the Gold Crystal Pyramid?"
"There's no time to explain. I'm here."
Li Yao sent them a coordinate that was not far away from them. "Let's meet here. I'll tell you everything later."
"Okay!"
Li Jialing did not suspect anything and immediately ran to Li Yao.
"Wait …"
Long Yangjun, however, grew suspicious. "Li Yao, is there anything wrong with you?"
"No. I did have a lot of problems a few hours ago, but they're all gone now. Trust me, I've found a solution. It's highly risky, but it's worth a try."
Li Yao said, "You'll understand when you see me."
"But …"
Long Yangjun was still hesitating.
Li Jialing, on the other hand, hopped to the coordinates that Li Yao gave him and searched for Li Yao in the middle of the smoke.
Very soon, he found a black shadow in the dense smoke.
"Brother Yao!"
Li Jialing walked to him quickly. He did not realize that something was wrong until he saw the hair behind the guy's head that was dancing crazily like tentacles. But there was no time. His mother, no, a certain dark existence that had been lurking inside his mother and controlled her, slowly revealed a face that was full of mysterious smiles from the mist.
It was Blackstar the Great, Wuying Qi.
"Hiss …"
The blood all over Li Jialing's body and his nerves were completely frozen. He gasped in desperation.
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