"You're raising bandits for your own sake!"
Li Yao couldn't help but sniff again. "I knew that the Holy League and the Imperium were two sides of the same coin. They were two poisonous flowers that grew out of the rotten corpse of the Star Ocean Republic. I just don't understand how you defeated the Holy League time and time again and became a famous general of the Star Ocean Republic with your position and strength at that time."
"It's very simple. Because not all the people of the Holy League were restored to their factory settings."
Wuying Qi 3.0 explained, "Although more than 90% of the people of the Holy League were restored to their factory settings and pledged their loyalty to the Pangu that went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, some of them still accepted my soul mark and regarded Wuying Qi 2.0 as their target of loyalty.
"However, the soul mark had always existed in their bodies in a certain way. Even they didn't know it until it was activated.
"Once it was activated, they became the most loyal and clandestine spies that I planted in the Holy League.
"Although there were only a few percent of them, they could leak the intelligence about the Holy League to me incessantly, including the configuration of warships, marching routes, and commanders. They could also sabotage the Holy League at critical moments.
"With such ace spies and the war abilities that I inherited from the Blood God, I was naturally invincible!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded. Never in his wildest dreams would he have thought that the truth would be like this.
"Just like that, I built up my strength in the war against the Covenant Alliance and weakened the Star Ocean Republic in secret. Then, when the time was ripe, I overturned the decayed, declining country of Cultivators and established my own hegemony — the hegemony of the Immortal Cultivators!
Wuying Qi 3.0 said casually, "You may be wondering why I didn't destroy the Holy League when I established the hegemony of the Imperium of True Human Beings when the Holy League was no longer of any use to me. After all, with the help of a few percent of spies and the most prosperous and powerful planet at the center of the cosmos, I should've been invincible, right?
"Yes, I thought so too at that time. Even though the Holy League had developed to a dominating level, I still didn't consider it a big deal because I thought that the few percent of spies were enough to help me destroy the Holy League at any time.
"At that time, I had another enemy that was more important. Guess who it was?"
After a long silence, Li Yao said, "… The Mad Armageddon."
"That's right. The establishment of the Imperium of True Human Beings was part of my deal with the Blood God. His strength would help me get the supreme hegemony, and I would establish a glorious expedition army with the hegemony to explore the extraterrestrial lands beyond the black wall."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "However, Wuying Qi 2.0 did not want to fulfill his promise. He was even more scared that the Blood God would realize his betrayal when the Holy League appeared.
"During the decades when Wuying Qi 2.0 rose, the Blood God had been sleeping and didn't know what I did. However, nobody could've guessed the consequences of the Blood God's awakening. Nobody knew if a second 'new-generation warrior of the expedition army' would listen to the summons and find the Blood God.
"Therefore, Wuying Qi 2.0 had no time to care about the Holy League that could be destroyed at any time. Instead, he concentrated all his strength and killed his teacher, the Mad Armageddon, first!"
Behind Wuying Qi 3.0, the blood gradually fell apart and condensed into a new picture.
Countless starships and Immortal Cultivators returned to the debris of Doom under the command of Blackstar the Great. They found what remained of the Mad Armageddon and woke up the sleeping fiend.
Wuying Qi reported what he had done in the past decades to the Blood God under the pretext of asking the enemy to inspect his troops. Then, he found the Blood God's most vulnerable moment and launched a battle to slay the fiend!
Even though the illusions made of blood were interpreted in an extremely abstract way, Li Yao still felt the soul-stirring battle clearly.
"I prepared carefully for decades and gathered the strongest Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium. I also prepared countless primeval treasures and super warships."
There was still deep fear in Wuying Qi 3.0's voice. "I was only dealing with part of the Blood God's remaining soul, but he almost turned the tables. Everybody was killed, and most of the starships were destroyed. Even I, his' true disciple ', was almost annihilated before I finally destroyed him.
"Li Yao, do you really think that I can't do anything about the noble families that have been passed down from the Star Ocean Republic to the point that the four Kurfürst families today are too powerful to be dealt with?
"Hehe. What noble families? If it weren't for the Blood God, I would've executed every single one of them and eliminated all the potential trouble. The 'four Kurfürst families' wouldn't have shown up at all!
"It was a pity that the battle against the Blood God consumed the elites who were loyal to me and fought with me for decades. I was also heavily wounded and didn't have much time left. As a result, I was neither able to deal with the remnants of the noble families nor launch a destructive war before the Holy League grew stronger.
"I knew that I was dying, but I was unwilling to die just like that. So, I devoted all my attention and resources to the search for the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. My fatal wounds were left by the Blood God, and there were no drugs in the entire universe that could cure them. Perhaps only the origin of the Blood God, or the power of the Supreme Emperor, could save me and help me grow into a stronger being, a dual heir of both the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God.
"If that's the case, both the remnants of the noble families and the newly-risen Covenant Alliance will be insignificant problems.
"Just like that, at the end of my life, I set off again with all the intelligence about the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum on the shuttle that led me to the Blood God years ago. After all the difficulties, I finally found the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
"It was a pity that I found it too late. My body was almost withered, and I was about to turn into a pool of pus like the Blood God in the past. My soul was more feeble than ever. Even though I had the key to the core of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, it was impossible for me to open the final gate.
"I could only hibernate and erase all my traces. I entered a long sleep and hid myself, waiting for the 'destined person' to come. A thousand years later, Li Linghai and the guy from the Holy League arrived … You already know what happened later."
After listening to Wuying Qi's long and tortuous life, Li Yao truly had a lot of mixed feelings.
Wuying Qi was indeed an unpardonable devil, but his life was truly like a magnificent river that was full of soul-stirring tides.
Although he knew that the guy might not tell the truth, Li Yao still couldn't help but ask, "Now, you're about to die. What do you think of your life? Do you regret it?"
After a long silence, Wuying Qi 3.0 shook his head and said, "By 'regret', I mean that I made the wrong choice when I had a choice. However, for me, Wuying Qi 2.0 a thousand years ago couldn't have understood the Blood God at all, who regarded the multiverse as a battlefield and the rise and fall of a civilization as a wager. Even if it were repeated a hundred times, I would still betray him and pursue power in the mortal world for the rest of my life.
"However, today, a thousand years later, after tasting the highest power and the most shameless betrayal, after trampling on all the rules of the world, after tasting the most intense feelings, and after owning all the wealth that the mortals could only dream of, I gradually evolved from 2.0 to 3.0. Indeed, I began to understand and acknowledge the Blood God in the past.
"Even when I was carrying out the Next Sun Plan, when I was fighting you in 2.0, I kept asking myself what I was doing. Was it really so interesting to fight the insignificant ants for the insignificant power? To regard the Next Sun Plan as a means to reclaim the supreme power instead of a new beginning for the glory of the civilization, was it really not buying the casket and returning the pearls? Even if I became the emperor of the Imperium again and ruled the Imperium for ten thousand years, so what? Could I really find the meaning of my existence?
"So, at that moment, I had an epiphany and ascended to a new level. The legacy of the Blood God was finally fully unlocked, and I realized the meaning of my existence. I rose from 2.0 to 3.0!
"Right now, I'm dying fast, but like I said just now, I've found the meaning of my life. This journey has come to an end without regrets. The only thing I can do now is to find a suitable person to pass on the legacy that the Blood God gave me. That person is you. That person can only be you, Li Yao."
Wuying Qi 3.0 smiled like a great teacher or a loving father. He extended his gray arm to Li Yao, as if he were going to touch Li Yao's cheek kindly.
Li Yao was creeped out by his actions. He took a big step back and said, "Hey, hey, hey. You can talk, but don't touch me, okay? What's your so-called legacy? "
"First of all, the modification and usage of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. I believe that you'll need it very much in your future journey."
Wuying Qi 3.0 smiled. "Also, the Sunspot Plan is the key to your victory over the Holy League. It's my greatest trump card. Don't you want it?"
"Sunspot Plan?"
Li Yao blinked quickly. "What's a sunspot? A sunspot, or a chess piece of Blackstar the Great?"
"Whatever you think."
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