However, that was none of Li Yao's business.
He did not care who would be the new emperor of the Imperium. After all, any member of the royal family would only be a puppet on the table, and it was Lei Chenghu, Jin Yuyan, and the rest of them who really controlled the power. Right now, as "Vulture Li Yao, the Black Wind King", he was one of the most influential persons in the Imperium. He did not have the title of Kurfürst, but he had the prestige of a Kurfürst.
Li Yao was more concerned about the reconstruction of the capital planet and the modification of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
The solar storm was no small matter. Although Li Yao turned off the Gold Crystal Pyramid in time before it reached the tipping point, the aftermath of the storm still ravaged the surface of the capital planet. Together with Wuying Qi's death and the chaos of the Imperial Guards, the entire capital was mired in chaos and anarchy.
The chaos of such an enormous planet could not be pacified by a couple of fleets in a couple of days.
A couple of months after the battle in the capital, the severe sequelae caused by the solar storm still plagued the entire capital planet.
Countless people lost their homes and ended up as disaster victims. Some people were even suffering from the radiation disease and showing all kinds of fatal symptoms. Some people even looted under the banner of the reformists in the name of "eliminating the remnants of the Kurfürsten". It was quite a headache for the leadership of the reformists led by Lei Chenghu.
They might not have cared about the lives of the ordinary people on the capital planet, but the capital was the base of the reformists and the source of their legitimacy. How could they allow the capital planet to be in chaos?
A very ironic thing happened.
In order to pacify the chaos in the capital as soon as possible and to ship the assets of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors to the capital planet for the disaster victims at the highest efficiency, and to unite the fleets of the expedition army, the Imperial Guards, and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, they had to count on the state-of-the-art crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus to achieve a high degree of automation.
Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion were the best candidates for such a mission.
Lei Chenghu was naturally wary of the brand-new "virtual monsters" and was unwilling to cooperate with Li Yao.
However, just like he had to accept Li Yao's identity as the "master of the Gold Crystal Pyramid", he barely had a choice this time.
The remaining forces of the four families had already supported a new emperor. Despite the consecutive defeats, they were deeply rooted after all, and they were still in control of dozens of heavy industrial planets that were of paramount importance. If they were given a year and a half to catch their breath, who could tell whether or not they would assemble a second army and make a comeback?
The reformists had to seize every second to integrate all their forces and launch a full-scale attack on the territory of the four families with the momentum of the victory in the battle of Seven Seas and the battle of the capital. That was the only way that they could unite the Imperium.
However, the main fleet of the goddamn Holy League was still lurking in the darkness. Perhaps it was waiting for the reformists' army to march into the territory of the four families and attack the heart of the Imperium when the two parties were engaged!
Lei Chenghu did not have much time left, and the situation was far from clear. No matter how wary he was of Xiaoming, Wenwen, and Li Yao, the "shameless Cultivator", he had to deepen the cooperation with them and accomplish the great cause of "renewing the Imperium" in his mind with the help of the information lives and the Xing Yao Federation.
Therefore, more and more of the most advanced super crystal processors of the Imperium were under the command of Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion, forming part of their mental network.
With their computational ability and data analysis ability significantly improved, Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion accomplished the tasks of rebuilding the order on the capital planet, reorganizing the ace fleets of the four families, establishing the logistics routes between the newly-conquered areas, the capital, and the Seven Seas Space Zone, establishing the triangle between the expedition army, the capital, and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, and so on.
The potential that the two little fellows and A Boxing Champion showed shocked Li Yao, Lei Chenghu, and all the insiders.
Of course, not everybody was aware of the existence of the information lives yet.
For those who did not know the truth, they felt that the reformists' recent actions had resolved a lot of complicated problems with unbelievable efficiency and speed as if they were assisted by the gods.
The only thing that slightly reassured Lei Chenghu was that Li Yao did not intend to swallow the Gold Crystal Pyramid alone. Although the ten-kilometer radius around the pyramid was set as a "demilitarized zone" where no troops were allowed to enter, the leadership such as Lei Chenghu could still visit and study it as long as they did not carry any super magical equipment.
Seeing Li Yao's series of modifications on the Gold Crystal Pyramid, including the space for the future research institute and the museum, Lei Chenghu had to admit that if he could not control the Gold Crystal Pyramid, Li Yao would probably be the best candidate to control the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
Another piece of good news was that Li Linghai made it through after all and did not die in the battle.
Of course, after being possessed by Wuying Qi for so many years, and because of the solar storm and the mental recoil in the Next Sun Plan, her body and soul were more feeble than ever. She had to rest in a special ward in the military hospital of the Imperium for a long time.
Her damage was on a genetic level. No matter how much she nursed her body, it was impossible for her body to return to its peak state. She had two choices now. She could either completely disperse her power and live a peaceful life as an ordinary person until she had one foot in the grave.
Or, she could risk transferring her soul into an artificial body and become a spectral Cultivator. Perhaps she could recover some of her previous glory through the arts of the spectral Cultivators.
Of course, transforming into a spectral Cultivator was very risky. Even with the protection of the best doctors, Meditation Healers, and magical equipment specialists, it was still possible that her soul would be destroyed.
Thankfully, it was not in a hurry. After all, the odds of success of transforming into a spectral Cultivator would be higher if her soul was stronger.
Li Jialing had also been staying in the military hospital of the Imperium to accompany his mother day and night. He also studied his body that had been corrupted by Wuying Qi 2.0.
He believed that the mother and son who shared a special relationship must have a lot to talk about.
As for how to deal with Li Linghai, the leadership of the reformists had different opinions too.
Although she played a rather dishonorable role in the battle of the capital, she was on one hand the leader and even founder of the reformists. The forces of the reformists had all been recruited by Li Linghai. The "Deep Sea Fleet", the fundamental force of the reformists, had also been built by Li Linghai.
Although the Thunder Fleet had replaced the Deep Sea Fleet as the strongest legion of the reformists, a war could not be won by one fleet after all. Lei Chenghu still had to consider the thoughts of the leaders of the Deep Sea Fleet. If he had to deal with Li Linghai seriously, would he have given the impression that he was purging Li Linghai's subordinates?
On the other hand, Li Linghai did a lot of things because he did not have a choice. Since the founding emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings was involved, it was impossible for Li Linghai to resist Wuying Qi in terms of law and strength. If it were anybody else, or even Lei Chenghu himself, they would have to completely surrender to Wuying Qi if they were possessed by Wuying Qi.
Besides, Li Linghai still knew a lot of secrets, including the excavation of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum that concerned the fate of the Imperium. Her help was necessary.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the leadership of the reformists, led by Lei Chenghu, decided to dilute Li Linghai's negative influence in the Next Sun Plan. They would not put her on trial in public but simply ask her to retire behind the scenes. That would be the end of the whole thing.
Naturally, everybody was happy about the result. Even Li Yao took a long breath in relief, feeling that it couldn't have been better.
Three months after the battle of the capital …
Li Yao had mostly digested Wuying Qi 3.0's legacy in his brain.
He also had a deeper understanding of how to control the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
An enormous super-remote communication base took shape at the edge of the Empyreal Terminus Sector under the supervision of Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion. It sent the detailed reports of the battle of Seven Seas, the battle of the capital, and the battle between Li Yao and Wuying Qi to the Xing Yao Federation at the edge of the cosmos, including the existence of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. It also asked the parliament of the Federation to make a decision on how to deal with the relationship between the Federation and the Imperium.
The information highway that connected the center of the cosmos and the edge of the cosmos was about to be established!
…
At the edge of the cosmos, in the Land of Eternal Night on the planet of the Ancient Sages Sector, the Xing Yao Federation …
The Land of Eternal Night today was not as desolate and dangerous as when Li Yao first set foot on it with the experts such as the Three Saints and Four Rapscallions.
The meteorologists and professional engineering teams from the core worlds of the federation had reshaped the place. Through the modification of the magnetic field, the reinforcement of the atmosphere, and other measures, they had established vigorous' thermal continents' on the ice field where the wind was so cold that every drop of water would turn into ice. The glittering, bustling, and warring scenes were exactly the epitome of the federation's rapid development today.
In only a couple of years, the Federation had undergone drastic changes again.
The surrender of the Black Wind Fleet brought a series of brand-new technologies and knowledge systems to the Federation.
The specialists and scholars from the five Black Wind Sectors also provided a new perspective for the Federation to explore the Kunlun relic and to transform the primeval technologies.
The development of Boneyard, the joining of the Ancient Sages Sector in the Federation, and the joint defense of the three old Sectors and the four new Sectors in the battle to defend the Federation made the entire Federation more united than ever.
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