In the memory palace, deep inside the volcano, a gate that was blocked by magma was slowly opened, revealing a base that had been sealed for ten thousand years. Countless glittering mechanical skeletons surfaced from the hot streams of magma and dragged the young Wuying Qi, who was almost burnt, into the base for shocking and unbelievable modifications. A lot of artificial organs were implanted into his body, and black armor was embedded on the surface of his body.
The whole base was silent, except for the mechanical skeletons, which were moving stiffly like clockwork puppets.
"This place is actually a recruitment base for the 'Human Expedition Army'. It is responsible for providing fresh blood for the Expedition Army. Even a weak person can be modified into a well-trained elite warrior in a short amount of time after they enter this place, not to mention the trainers who already have the foundation in the first place."
Wuying Qi 3.0 explained, "The so-called 'Human Expedition Army' is the name that the Blood God gave to his rebels. In the magnificent war ten thousand years ago, the Blood God's rebels and the Supreme Emperor's troops not only fought to the end on the space battlefield but also fought for the reinforcements on the surface of various planets. They even envisioned that the war would last ten thousand years. Even if all their troops were wiped out and their bodies and souls perished, their ideology would still be passed on, and they would continue fighting.
"This' enlisting base 'was born against such a background. The Blood God envisioned that even if the Star Ocean Imperium and its' Human Expedition Army 'were gone, and nobody knew about them anymore, as long as somebody discovered the existence of the' enlisting base ', they would be able to absorb his legacy and become a new-generation warrior of the Human Expedition Army.
"Therefore, a lot of unmanned, automatic, and semi-permanent designs have been adopted in this' recruitment base '. A lot of mission modules have also been injected into it. Even if only one warrior of the human expedition army is born again, they will be able to carry out the missions step by step, discover and wake up more' recruitment bases', raise more warriors, and reorganize the human expedition army in the end."
Li Yao nodded his head, deep in thought. The Blood God's idea was similar to Professor Mo Xuan's "Tinder Plan". It was even similar to the Blood Stripe Virus's "civilization takeover" in the past.
The war between the Blood God and the Supreme Emperor was not limited to one place but lasted tens of thousands of years.
Even if the two of them had perished together ten thousand years ago, as long as the Blood God's enlistment base could survive for a long time and raise new warriors for the expedition army ten thousand years later, the Blood God would have won.
"I'm very lucky. This' recruitment base 'is hidden deep inside the volcano and relies on the heat of the magma to maintain the most basic operation. Because the energy is endless, it is still as bright as new after ten thousand years. All the puppet instructors inside are also intact."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "Also, nobody has approached this' recruitment base 'in the past ten thousand years. I was the first one. So, the' recruitment base 'granted me a high clearance and the military rank of colonel in the expedition army, making me a senior officer of the expedition army.
"The puppet instructors healed my wounds and trained me according to the Blood God's methods. The fifty puppet instructors were supposed to correspond to ten thousand recruits, but I was the only one of them at that time. The fifty iron skeletons left a deep impression on me."
Behind Wuying Qi 3.0, the young Wuying Qi, who had been modified beyond recognition by the black organs and the armor, began the inhumane training under the supervision, whipping, and savaging of the fifty iron skeletons.
Even Li Yao, who was best known as a "training maniac", was scared and sweating hard after witnessing Wuying Qi's training subjects in the past.
"I stayed in the depths of the volcano for three whole years. It was truly an unforgettable three years!"
Wuying Qi 3.0 said coldly, "After three years, I've been reborn and am completely different from the past. I've basically finished my 'recruit period'.
"Of course, I want to go back and take revenge, but on one hand, I am alone. Even though I am an elite warrior of the expedition army, it is impossible for me to compete with two Sectors, countless crazy ordinary people, and the evil Chiyou Cult. On the other hand, I have also received a new war mission.
"Orders must be obeyed. Under the covetous eyes of the fifty iron skeletons, I had no choice but to leave my home for the sea of stars with the iron skeletons on a small shuttle!"
The picture in the memory palace suddenly changed. The volcano, the recruitment base, and the entire Martial Meritocrats Sector were gone, replaced by the boundless sea of stars. Wuying Qi 3.0 and Li Yao floated in the darkness like two glimmers of light.
A shuttle the size of a needle slowly passed before their eyes, leaving a long helical trace behind.
"At first, I thought that I was going to carry out a regular mission, which was to search for the coordinates of other recruitment bases, open the recruitment bases in various Sectors, recruit more recruits, and reorganize the 'Human Expedition Army', as I've been trained countless times."
Wuying Qi 3.0's voice was shivering. It was obvious that what happened years ago had left a deep impression on him. "I didn't know that my mission was much more advanced than that. After a long journey of a hundred years of hibernation, when I was woken up, I found that I had sailed to an unknown place deep in the sea of stars, and before me was the debris of an enormous starship. It was' Doom ', the flagship of the Blood God!"
In front of Wuying Qi 3.0 and Li Yao, a pile of broken remnants of starships slowly surfaced from the dark universe.
It was more like a space fortress that had been carved into the shape of a human head than a starship, except that it was riddled with holes. The three enormous holes almost tore the space fortress apart, making it look like a screaming skull.
Even though it was just a memory, even though thousands of years had passed, even though it was the vacuum of space, Li Yao could still "hear" the screams of the space skeleton.
Although there were no celestial bodies nearby as references to measure the size of the space fortress, Wuying Qi's shuttle was as insignificant as a speck of dust in front of it.
Putting himself in Wuying Qi's shoes, Li Yao imagined that he had accidentally become a warrior of the "expedition army of mankind" at the end of his life in the most desperate moment, and that he was about to meet the commander-in-chief of the expedition army after crossing billions of stars to the darkest place of the universe. Such suffocation was indeed indescribable.
Under the guidance of Wuying Qi 3.0, Li Yao slowly entered the space fortress through the holes that looked like "eye sockets" from the young Wuying Qi's perspective.
The space fortress was truly like a decayed human head. There was nothing inside. The shuttle drifted in the darkness for a long time before it reached a magnificent space that looked like a palace. On the empty obsidian floor, there was nothing but an enormous pool of blood.
What was weird was that this place had no temperature, pressure, or air. It was no different from the cold vacuum outside. Also, it had been at least nine thousand years since the destruction of Doom. Yet, the freshest blood was still surging in the enormous blood pool!
The horrifying picture deeply attracted both young Wuying Qi and Li Yao who was watching nearby. Even though the blood in the blood pool was surging out and condensing into a raging giant shadow in midair, they never thought of running away.
"This is the last bit of the Mad Armageddon's Dharma body."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "It is said that the Supreme Emperor and his strongest clone, the Blood God, fought each other on the capital planet ten thousand years ago. Both of them were heavily wounded, and the Supreme Emperor had to hibernate in the Gold Throne where time was almost frozen, while the Blood God fled to the sea of stars and went missing.
"As a matter of fact, as the Supreme Emperor's clone, the Blood God was slightly weaker than the Supreme Emperor. After the battle, the Supreme Emperor fell into a deep sleep for ten thousand years. Naturally, the Blood God was more seriously wounded. Not only was his body reduced into a pool of blood, but even his soul was also sealed in the pool of blood, unable to escape. It took him almost eight thousand years to recover some of his strength. He was able to summon the enlistment bases everywhere in the sea of stars and ask the new-generation warriors of the expedition army to look for their commander.
"When I entered the enlistment base, it was exactly when the Blood God managed to wake up. Therefore, I was the first and only warrior of the new generation of the expedition army who heard the summons and came to serve."
Looking at the shivering, hideous shadow of blood, Li Yao recalled the battle between the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God ten thousand years ago. He was so fascinated that he almost wished that he could travel back in time and experience the destructive battle in person!
"At that time, although I was completely disappointed in the ordinary people, and I was determined to avenge the ordinary people of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and even the entire universe, abandoning the path of the Cultivators completely, and I received three years of training in the expedition army of mankind, the formidability of the Blood God, the strongest Demonic Cultivator in the past, was still deeply etched in my heart. I was highly vigilant and conflicted about him."
Wuying Qi 3.0 recalled and said, "At first, I thought that I was dying. The Blood God must've summoned me here to enjoy my fresh body and turn it into a container for his remaining soul."
Li Yao couldn't help but ask, "Just like what you're going to do to Li Jialing?"
"Wrong. That's what Wuying Qi 2.0 is going to do to Li Jialing."
Wuying Qi 3.0 smiled and said, "However, the Blood God can't do that. He's certainly not a merciful man. However, half of his soul has been shattered by the Supreme Emperor and haunted by the Supreme Emperor's power for ten thousand years. It's barely possible for him to possess someone else.
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