Below the ground of the capital planet, inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid …
"Hehe. Hehehehe!"
Soul-Stirring laughter burst out of Wuying Qi's throat. Brilliant red stripes gradually popped up on his body that was almost swollen, as if he were soaked in weird blood and fire.
His long red hair pierced into the back of the head and limbs of the bald demons like strings that controlled puppets, increasing their speed and agility by at least three times.
A hundred bald demons fought Long Yangjun in turns. More demons, whose minds had been taken over by the tenebrum energy, popped up from the black fog with their rigid limbs.
Even though Long Yangjun was not affected by the tenebrum energy, the wounds on her body still significantly weakened her combat ability. She was mired in a vicious cycle.
"Are you done or not?"
Long Yangjun vomited blood and waved the crystal sword that could break at any moment. She roared at Li Yao without looking back, "How long will it take to repair the Cosmos Rings?"
"Soon! Soon!"
Every finger on Li Yao's hands was shaking so hard that they were almost falling apart. Finally, he bypassed the spiritual trap that Wuying Qi set up. Taking a long breath in relief, he shouted, "Give me another half a minute.
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when Wuying Qi waved his long hair. Thousands of strands of hair were condensed into crimson vipers and darted at his eyes!
Li Yao felt that his eyes were hit by dozens of lightning bolts. He subconsciously turned his head and blinked.
Exactly in the blink of an eye, his hands were stung by Wuying Qi's bloody hair, and the Cosmos Rings were knocked out of his hands.
Li Yao secretly cursed and hurried to grab the Cosmos Rings. At the price of dozens of deep wounds on his arm, he finally did not let the two Cosmos Rings fall into Wuying Qi's hands but into his own.
However, all the maintenance tools were broken and blown away by Wuying Qi's long hair to all directions.
"This is —"
Dumbfounded, Li Yao was even less able to resist the scourge of Wuying Qi's blood waves in his panic. The thirty-six bloody handprints condensed out of the void hit his chest one after another, making him retreat more than ten steps before he was blown away like a kite whose string had been cut, smashing into the wall brutally.
The remaining strength of the thirty-six bloody handprints did not disperse. They seemed to have turned into thirty-six venomous scorpions that crawled into Li Yao's limbs, internal organs, and veins, gnawing his flesh and even his soul brutally.
He felt that his every pore had turned into a mouth that was spurting blood crazily, and the blood all over his body was moved out of his body in only half a second.
What was even more dreadful was that Wuying Qi's body, which was enshrouded in the bloody aura, caught up with the thirty-six bloody handprints and blinked to Li Yao.
With a hideous smile beaming out of his eyes, Wuying Qi raised his right arm that was full of red stripes. The red stripes dashed out of his skin and entangled with each other in midair, condensing into a sophisticated and extravagant blade.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
The bloody saber seemed to have its own life. The edge of the saber was mocking Li Yao as if it were some sort of soul-stirring song, drawing out the last drop of blood deep inside Li Yao's heart.
"I'm screwed!"
Li Yao's head went blank. He couldn't think of a solution at all.
The Gold Crystal Pyramid couldn't be stopped, the solar storm was escalating infinitely, and Boss Bai and Lei Chenghu's fleet was jumping to this place without knowing anything. They were as doomed as the billions of residents living in the capital.
The only solution was to kill Wuying Qi and stop the Gold Crystal Pyramid!
However …
Li Yao glanced at Long Yangjun. She was still stalled by dozens of bald devilized people, who were exhausting her strength with their lives fearlessly. Without the enhancement of the Colossus, it was impossible for her to finish off a hundred experts who had gone berserk and were charging at her immediately.
On Li Yao's side, there was one last step to be done in the maintenance of the two Cosmos Rings, but all the maintenance tools had been knocked away by Wuying Qi. Li Yao himself had been beaten up by Wuying Qi too. How could he focus on the maintenance when the enemy was looking at him covetously?
This time, Li Yao had really used up all of his tricks. He could only watch as this strange blood-colored demonic saber chopped down.
"Die now!"
Seeing that Li Yao's eyes were still rolling crazily, like a rat that was still looking for a gap to survive when it was about to be killed, Wuying Qi did not waste any time talking to him, even though he knew more secrets and offered more tempting conditions. Wuying Qi focused all his strength on the fiend saber and then —
The most unbelievable thing happened!
The rigidity that appeared on Li Yao just now appeared on Wuying Qi abruptly!
He had obviously summoned all his tenebrum energy and slashed the saber at Li Yao's carotid artery, but the saber that was connected to his arm simply stopped in midair. Cracking noises were even echoing deep inside his shoulder blade and his arm, indicating that the bones of his shoulder blade and arm were broken. He was still unable to move at all, as if he were a statue.
"What's going on?"
Li Yao looked at Wuying Qi in a daze. He did not even have time to wipe the cold sweat on the tip of his nose.
Wuying Qi did not feel the pain of the broken bones in his right arm at all. His face was full of contradictions, hesitation, and struggle.
It was as if the frozen surface of a lake had shattered, and the lake water hidden under the layer of ice gushed out, creating circles of ripples full of life.
His legs that were as solid as rocks were shivering slightly. Wuying Qi partly lost control of his body. His eyes, in particular, were rolling quickly in different directions. It was both weird and appalling.
It was as if two different forces were hiding inside his body. One of them was trying to execute Li Yao quickly, while the other was trying to spare his life at any cost!
The ends of his blood-red hair were gradually becoming translucent like a frozen waterfall. Also, the shocking whiteness was still spreading toward the roots of his hair and his brain!
"No …"
Wuying Qi howled in fury and regret again from his throat.
"No!"
The second howl, however, turned into a voice that was both familiar and strange. It pierced out of his chest, heart, and throat like a snow-white longsword!
"This is …"
The voice made Li Yao's pupils constrict violently. He immediately realized what was going on. "It's the queen. It's Li Linghai, Queen of the Imperium!"
Huala!
Li Yao felt that a thunderbolt had exploded in his head and cleared all his doubts.
He understood why Wuying Qi did not dare to use the Blood God's unparalleled strength recklessly even though it was under his control!
His inference just now should be correct. There was a deep gap between Wuying Qi, who was an Immortal Cultivator, and the Blood God, who was a Demonic Cultivator. The two of them used each other's beliefs, but there were irreconcilable contradictions too.
When he entered the Gold Crystal Pyramid for the first time, Li Yao asked Wuying Qi if he had killed the Blood God, his teacher, and Wuying Qi did not deny it back then.
However, assuming that Wuying Qi had really killed the Blood God, Li Yao estimated that he must've paid a price. Perhaps something of the Blood God was left in Wuying Qi's remaining soul, and he wouldn't be able to live such a comfortable life after all.
However, Li Yao forgot one factor — Li Linghai!
Wuying Qi was not controlling his natural body right now but was living inside Li Linghai's body. It was sort of an incomplete possession state.
Under normal circumstances, he could've hypnotized or even suppressed Li Linghai's soul and made Li Linghai work as his puppet obediently.
However, Li Linghai was a super expert close to the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage herself. When Wuying Qi had to split part of his remaining soul to control what the Blood God left behind, would he have left a precious opportunity for Li Linghai so that her free will could surface?
That was the greatest obstacle that prevented Wuying Qi from using the legacy of the Blood God at will!
It was also the direct reason why Wuying Qi — or Li Linghai — behaved so weirdly at this moment!
"No … No … No!"
Wuying Qi — or Li Linghai — was like two conjoined twins that had been deeply melted. They controlled half of their faces and squeezed out half of their fury, half of sadness, half of brutality, and half of regret.
His left hand clutched his right hand that had gone out of control, and his fingers dug into his wrist like scorching pincers, almost tearing his hand apart.
His left leg tripped his right leg, too, preventing him from approaching Li Yao. Li Linghai, with his long hair half red and half white, jumped weirdly.
"Your Grace, is it really you?"
Deeply moved by Li Linghai's courage and determination, Li Yao clenched his fists, but he did not know how he could help Li Linghai. He could only shout at the top of his voice, "I know that this is definitely not your original intention. You were intimidated and deceived by Wuying Qi. I believe that the real you is not so cold and heartless as to destroy the entire capital!
"I believe that you really want to renew the Imperium and rejuvenate the center of the cosmos. I also speculate that Wuying Qi is threatening you with your children. That's why you have been forced to become his accomplice.
"However, look at everything around and what Wuying Qi has done. He is not a real reformist at all. He only wants to turn the Imperium from a country of Immortal Cultivators into his own country. That way, the Imperium will only be worse than it is right now!
"If he is threatening you with the lives of your children, there is even less need for you to be scared of him. Li Jialing is now caged in the tank behind you, and your other children should be inside and outside the royal palace, right? If the solar storm escalates infinitely, all your children will be killed. None of them can escape.
"If you want to save your children, you have only one choice — do whatever you can to drive him out of your head!
"Wake up, Your Grace. Wake up! Right now, the fate of all your children, us, and the Imperium is really up to you to decide! I still remember what you said to me when we met for the first time. You were describing the magnificence of the brand-new Imperium to me so confidently. Even I, as a Cultivator, was deeply attracted by your ideas at that time. That was really your belief, wasn't it? You were not lying to me, were you? You were still the Li Linghai from a year ago or even a hundred years ago, weren't you?
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