White air spurted out of the lump of meat. There was no telling whether it was out of fury or deep suspicion. Then, it withered like a bag riddled with holes.
"Ahhh!"
Behind Li Yao, 'Xia Yuren', the president of the 'Holy Light Academy', however, uttered a high-pitched shriek. She secretly took out more than ten silver, glittering syringes and stabbed them into her carotid artery, eyebrow, temple, and Baihui, injecting a lot of drugs with suspicious components into her brain!
For a moment, her eyes became almost transparent.
Like the most powerful "holy light", it flowed out of her eyes in the form of magma and interweaved on her face.
Soon, her entire face was like red-hot steel. First, it turned orange, then milky white. Her facial features were about to melt in the terrifying "Holy Light."
"Repent, you devil!"
She shrieked, "In the glory of the gods!"
From her "eye sockets" that had deeply collapsed into two white holes, hundreds of pale electric arcs spurted out and enshrouded Li Yao's head instantly!
Li Yao's brain was suddenly cracking, and blood was spurting out of his eyes, nose, and mouth.
"Ahhh!"
The "heretic children" who were observing the battle were all anxious and clenching their fists.
This was the first time they had seen "Zhou Xiuyun", the person in charge of the Devil's Child Project. They did not know how strong Zhou Xiuyun was, but they knew very well how powerful their president, Xia Yuren, was.
Other than being an excellent brain researcher, Xia Yuren was also a Meditation Healer with tremendous mental power. In the past, as long as she was alone, without the help of any magical equipment or facilities, she could have spread the holy light into the brains of thousands of students, allowing them to hear the voice of the gods and see the illusions presented by the holy light. She could even make the students confess the secrets in their hearts without them knowing it and repent for their sins.
Her eyes seemed to be able to see into the heart of every student. Her voice contained inviolable power. Her gesture was so perfect, holy, and perfect. In the eyes of the students, President Xia was the person closest to the gods except for the Ultimate Benevolence Masters.
In the past few years, no one had ever seen Xia Yuren's spiritual power surge to such an extent.
Even though they were just bystanders, they could sense that the mental power that Xia Yuren released was scraping their cerebral cortex like sharp scalpels, giving them excruciating headaches. They even vaguely felt that they were haunted by extraterrestrial devils and had to repent immediately.
However, Li Yao was the one who bore the brunt of the attack. His brain was completely enveloped by the lightning-like Holy Light, but he didn't seem to feel anything. He continued to advance step by step towards Xia Yu.
"Is this your trick?"
Enshrouded in electric arcs and holy light, he said coldly, one word after another, "You are just a puppet. You do not have a soul and will of your own at all. Why are you talking about 'mental power'? The brainwaves that you release are powerful, but they do not have the temperature that a normal intelligent life should have. They are just emotionless, meaningless, and powerless waves. Even if you stimulate your brain cells to burn crazily with all kinds of strengthening drugs, it will be useless, because your brain has been dead for a long time. Right now, it is just a frozen ocean and an empty grave! "
"That's impossible …"
Xia Yuren's entire face was almost melted together with her brain. "Holy Light!"
"Let me show you what real mental power is!"
Li Yao bellowed, "What matters is not the intensity of brainwaves, the vibration frequency of your brain cells, or even your spiritual root, level, or Cultivation. What matters is your courage, your feelings, and your hot blood that can ignite all your brain cells. That is the most precious and powerful mental power for human beings that is enough to tear apart the universe!
In the middle of his roar, Li Yao's eyes turned crimson, both like boiling magma and a swirl that was filled with thousands of crimson lightning bolts.
When he uttered the last word, the crimson lightning bolts roared out from his eyes, shattering his opponent's pale electric arcs, tearing apart the so-called "Holy Light" that enveloped him, and fiercely shooting into Xia Yu's eyes!
Xia Yuren's eyeballs immediately turned as red as Li Yao's.
The redness, like zigzagging bloodstains, soon spread to her entire face, like cracks on a spider's web.
"Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh! "
The Principal of the Holy Light Academy, Xia Yuren, who had always been calm, elegant, and serene, who would not change his expression even if a planet collapsed in front of him, finally held his head and let out a miserable wail.
Very soon, bloody flames spurted out of her facial orifices. The flames congregated and turned her head into a burning, melting candle. After only half a minute, her entire head was boiling, burning, and turning into ash.
"This is …"
The 'children of heretics' were all dumbfounded. Even Chu Zhiyun, who was the calmest among them, couldn't help but pretend to be dumbfounded and appalled.
Since Li Yao blew up dozens of decks and cabin walls inside the floating fortress, they had been aware of Li Yao's formidability.
However, no matter how they prepared themselves and how they let their imaginations run wild, they did not expect Li Yao to be so strong.
He … He had blown up their president's head while he was talking and laughing!
Right now, other than them, Zhou Xiuyun, the director of the Devil's Child project, was the only one who was still standing nearby.
Zhou Xiuyun's reaction, however, was very strange.
She did not resist stubbornly like Qiu Yuanjia and Xia Yuren, nor did she intend to run away. She simply stood aside and observed Li Yao's battle carefully, as if she were trying to collect every detail of Li Yao's battle habits and patterns.
"You are the only one left."
Li Yao warmed up his wrists unhurriedly and turned to Zhou Xiuyun. "Why didn't you attack or run away?"
"I can't beat you, and I can't run away. I'm no match for you."
Zhou Xiuyun's face was casual and even mixed with vague curiosity. However, the 'curiosity' did not seem to be her own expression but the feelings revealed by the existence that was manipulating her in the darkness. "You are one of the best experts of the Imperium of True Human Beings. You are best at individual battles and decapitation tactics. In terms of 'individual threat level', you rank in the top three in our database. I, on the other hand, am just a Meditation Healer who is more interested in brain studies. Faced with such an expert like you, it is meaningless to resist or run away."
"How outrageous! Unforgivable!"
Li Yao raised his eyebrow and said hideously, "Is my 'individual threat level' only 'top three'? Are you kidding me? How did your intelligence work? Who are the other two people?"
"…"
Zhou Xiuyun was stunned for a moment again, as if she were not used to Li Yao's rambling style. It was not until three seconds later that she was back on track again. "Just kill me. You can even destroy the floating fortress and the entire 'Devil's Child Project'. You and I both know that it will be useless, too.
"I'm just a tiny cell in the gods, a tiny ripple caused by the will of the gods, a projection left behind by the light of the gods on everything in the world. If you kill one of me, there will naturally be thousands of me who will be reborn in the grace of the gods and continue to fulfill the mission of the gods, the sacred covenant.
"The 'Devil's Child Project' is just one of the countless brain and human nature research projects in the Holy League. All our experiment data has been directly uploaded to the gods through the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and can be recovered easily at any time.
"So, what's the point of killing me and destroying this place?
"But you, on the other hand —
"I don't know what kind of delicate method you used to allow your soul to arrive at this place across billions of stars, but whatever technology you adopted, such a long-distance projection must've consumed a lot of your soul, spiritual energy, and mental power. It must've been very risky, wasn't it?
"Perhaps you were planning to carry out stealthy espionage with such technology, but I don't know why you were so stupid as to go on a killing spree. The more people you kill, the more seriously your soul and spiritual energy will be consumed. Your body and your mind will be drained, and the more unstable the long-distance connection will be.
"You have killed so many people, but a lot of Purgers are still coming from the floating fortress. Even if you can control the entire floating fortress and annihilate them, so what? There are still a lot of our legions and fleets in the thousands of kilometers nearby. They will surround this place and annihilate you at any moment. At the very least, they will lock onto you and not allow such an evil extraterrestrial devil to invade our sacred body.
"Hehe. So, just kill me. My life and half of the 'Devil's Child Project' in exchange for the soul of an important subject of the Imperium. What do you think, Black Wind King Li Yao?"
There was not the slightest fear of death on Zhou Xiuyun's face. Instead, she was filled with the emptiness of great enlightenment and the joy of returning to the embrace of the gods.
Li Yao, however, sighed.
"There's one thing that you haven't figured out. I'm not trying to kill you, Qiu Yuanjia, Xia Yu, and the rest of you."
Li Yao said, "It's because the real you are already dead. Right now, somebody is merely manipulating your bodies and turning you into a bunch of crazed resurrected corpses.
"One cannot die twice. So, I don't want to kill you. I only want you to rest in peace.
"You were already dead. The moment you became the first-generation Devil's Child in the embryo state before you were born, the real you was already dead.
"It must've been very painful. As the first-generation Devil's Child, you were savaged brutally when you were still a baby. Other than the physical torture, even your mind was twisted and castrated. You never even had a chance to grow and blossom.
"In the end, not only were you modified into what 'they' imagined, even your daughter could not escape from such a sad fate. She was reduced to a tool to be manipulated, modified, and tortured. She was an 'experiment subject'.
"Tell me, have you really forgotten all of this unforgettable pain?
"Have you lost the ability to feel pain, or have you slashed it brutally the moment you felt pain so that you could deceive yourself and everybody else by pretending that the pain did not exist?
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