Li Linghai was now the empress dowager of the Imperium of True Human Beings. She should call herself "I", but in front of everyone in the room, she still considered herself as the former leader of the reformists and did not disguise her brilliance that was dim but still unparalleled.
While talking, she displayed the troop allocation and defense status of the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector.
Once upon a time, the Empyreal Terminus Sector used to be the most solid fortress at the center of the cosmos. Almost every inch of the interstellar space was armed to the teeth.
It was a pity that in the battle when the ace fleets of the four families attacked the Empyreal Terminus Sector, all the defense lines except for the capital were occupied and destroyed. Later, the solar storm further destroyed the defense lines that were riddled with holes. In the half year that followed, the reformists were too busy consolidating the forces to repair the defense lines that were destroyed.
Right now, the capital was in the special period where its defense was the weakest in the past thousand years.
If Lei Chenghu mobilized the most elite fleets to the four families' territory and engaged with the last fleets of the four families, the capital would indeed be too weak to withstand the assault of the main fleet of the Holy League.
"That's it?"
Looking at the defense map of the capital, Li Yao was deep in thought. "So, the ultimate target of the Holy League is the capital? I remember that Marquis Liaohai once said that the Holy League has been an uncreative, abnormal country since it was born. It lacks the vitality that a normal society should have. After a thousand years of stalemate, they have reached the limits of collapse and have to fight the Imperium to the death.
"Let's say that the Holy League's target is really the capital, and let's say that they conquer the capital, so what? It must be noted that, because of the uniqueness of a country, most of the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium will never surrender to the Holy League. Even if the capital is conquered by the Holy League, the other Sectors will not give up resistance and will still fight to the last soldier on the last planet of the last Sector. Even the four families will not bow to the Holy League. The war will certainly last for decades if not a hundred years.
"If the Holy League is really on the verge of collapse, it won't change anything even if we take over the capital. Do you think they can maintain their aggressive attacks for hundreds of years?"
"So, this is what I told you before. I suspect that the ultimate goal of the Holy League is not the capital, but the entrance to the Supreme Emperor's tomb."
Li Linghai said, "The main force of the Holy League occupied the Thick Soil Sector unexpectedly in order to disrupt us and create chaos in the expedition army. The chaos in the expedition army was also an opportunity for them to attack the capital. However, the surprise attack on the capital was not their ultimate goal, but only to attract our attention to the expedition army and the capital. Then, they could seize the space zone where the entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum is. It's more or less here."
A few strange maps of space zones popped up on the 3D light beam. Among the sparse clusters of stars, a few interconnected dotted lines and vague light spots were marked.
"The entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum is like a 'ghost island' that appears on the surface of the sea periodically. It drifts in the sea of stars, appearing and disappearing now and then. It has been one and a half years since it last appeared. If my calculation is correct, in three months to half a year, it will appear here, at a certain point between the Danxia Space Zone, the Thousand-Bird Space Zone, and the Hades Capital Space Zone.
Li Linghai said, "Based on the pattern in the past, the entrance will be stable for a long time, possibly even a year and a half. If the Holy League really wants to sneak into the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum for any secret purposes, this will be the best opportunity in the past hundreds of years.
"I believe that you all know that the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum is not just a place where the Supreme Emperor was buried but also a place where countless primeval experts are buried. The Holy League, on the other hand, is not a normal country at all but a fanatical organization that worships the primeval experts. For those fanatics, it doesn't matter whether or not the Supreme Emperor is conquered. As long as they can wake up all the primeval experts, their purpose will be achieved!"
Everybody felt a chill on their back after hearing what he said.
The so-called tactical deduction was based on the premise that both the enemy and the ally were normal people. Faced with a bunch of inhumane lunatics, who knew what their ultimate purpose was?
"I'm still confused. How can the entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum be so unpredictable?"
Frowning, Li Yao pointed at the map and said, "The three space zones of Danxia, Qianniao, and Youdu almost span two Sectors. The range of each of them is too huge! Also, three months to half a year later. Is it three months or half a year? Why do I feel that the location of the entrance to the mausoleum is so mysterious? It's almost like the clumsiest fantasy novel. Can you, well, explain it in a more common and reasonable way? "
"Of course. Although the entrance to the mausoleum is mysterious, it is not unexplainable by objective laws and space laws. We just have to break the framework in our head and understand it from a higher dimension."
Li Linghai took out a piece of paper and a black and red pen from somewhere. He shook the paper and said, "Let's assume that this piece of paper is a universe."
Then, she forcefully crumpled the white paper into a ball, turning it into a perfectly round paper ball.
"Now, it has become a high-dimensional universe."
She opened the pen cap again and drew a black circle on the paper ball with the black oil pen, which circled around the paper ball and connected the end of the circle. "This is the trajectory of a certain object in the high-dimensional universe at a uniform speed. Li Yao, look at the trajectory. It is very clear and regular, isn't it? As long as you know that the object is at a certain point on the black circle right now, you can calculate where it will be in the next second. For example, if I draw a red dot here on the black circle, it will always move along the black circle, right?"
"Yes."
Li Yao observed carefully. It was a problem that even an elementary school student could calculate. It was similar to the circumference and diameter of a sphere, but he still didn't understand what Li Linghai meant. "So?"
"So —"
Li Linghai smiled and unfolded the paper ball that had been crumpled into a ball again. Almost all the lines were removed, and it became a piece of white paper again.
No, it was not a piece of white paper but scattered black spots. Those black spots used to be part of the black circle.
But right now, they were scattered and messy without any pattern, as if they had been scribbled on by a child.
The red dot, on the other hand, appeared on one of the black spots by itself.
"What about now?"
The empress dowager looked at Li Yao. "Assuming that the speed and the law of the red dot remain unchanged, can you still tell me which black spot it will appear on next?"
Li Yao was lost for words.
Of course, he couldn't say it.
But he more or less understood what Li Linghai meant.
"Do you understand it now? The entrance of the mausoleum is like this red dot. It is not without its own stable law, but it does not follow the law of our three-dimensional universe but the law of a certain higher dimension."
Li Linghai said, "When the law of such a higher dimension is projected into our three-dimensional universe, it is like the black circle on the paper ball turning into the seemingly randomly distributed black spots on the paper.
"At first glance, the entrance of the mausoleum of gods is indeed unpredictable and unpredictable. It is in complete violation of the law of operation of our universe. It is almost like a place that only appears in the clumsiest fantasy novels. But in fact, it has a pattern. It is just that it is difficult for us to extract the pattern precisely because we are just ants on the white paper.
"Thankfully, the Blood God and the Supreme Emperor obtained some of the research files on the entrance of the mausoleum in the primeval era and grasped part of the formulas to deduce the pattern. That's why I was able to roughly estimate the range of the next black spot.
"Yes. As early as the primeval era, the top experts of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan were already highly interested in the entrance of the mausoleum. At that time, it was certainly not a 'mausoleum' but a super jump point. Who knows?"
"A super jump point?"
Li Yao asked, "What's that?"
"A general space jump is like this."
Li Linghai folded the paper in half, reducing its size by half.
"A super space jump, or a 'multiple space jump', is like this."
Li Linghai folded the paper in half, in half, in half again, in half again, in half again, until it was only the size of her fingernail.
"That means …"
Li Yao thought quickly and immediately understood what was going on. "If we can fold space repetitively, we will be able to jump to a much greater distance than we can imagine.
"Or rather, with our current space jump technology, we will be spinning in the tiny pond of the Pangu universe no matter how we jump. But once we find a 'super jump point', it will be possible for us to jump out of the goddamn 'black wall' and into the multiverse outside, right?"
Everybody was shocked after hearing that.
"Maybe."
Li Linghai said, "All in all, the mausoleum must be extremely mysterious and weird, far beyond the imagination of us and the primeval civilizations. That's why so many top experts chose it as their burial place. If your guess is correct, it will be very reasonable. It is exactly because the mausoleum is a super jump point that leads to the multiverse outside of the black wall that the top experts of the primeval era are guarding it at all costs and not allowing anybody to jump out through it!"
Everybody was even more creeped out by Li Yao and Li Linghai's words.
"Everything is just your speculation, Your Grace. It will be best if we can verify it with the intelligence of the Holy League."
Lei Chenghu frowned hard and sighed. "Without specific intelligence, we will still have to fight in the mist of darkness. Right, Black Wind King, what's the response of the Xing Yao Federation? Can you send reinforcements to help us annihilate the rebels of the four families?"
"About that …"
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