"Well …"
Li Yao asked carefully, "You're not angry, are you?"
"No."
The mental devil's voice was mixed with sorrow, forbearance, and helplessness and desperation. "I'm not angry."
"Are you really not? But why do I feel that you are not in the right mood? Also, you changed the fuel output mode of the floating fortress and transferred the last bit of liquid crystal fuel that was supposed to be delivered to the power units to the attack units, as if you were going to die together with them without caring about anything else. "
"Fine," Li Yao said. "I know that I was wrong. I was too reckless, hot-blooded, and reckless. Even if you are truly angry, it's understandable. Don't hold your anger in. Why don't you scold me or even beat me up? That will make me feel better, okay?"
"That will be unnecessary."
The mental devil said coldly, "I'm really not angry."
"You must be angry."
Li Yao said, "Don't be like that. I swear that I'll change!"
"Change my ass! It's been more than a hundred years. What have you changed?"
The mental devil suddenly burst into fury. "I said that I'm not angry. Stop yelling here and preventing me from blowing those scumbags into minced meat. I'm not angry. I'm not f * cking angry! I'm! Angry! Ahhh! "
BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! The last bit of fuel and ammunition left in the floating fortress was boosted to the maximum by the mental devil's overwhelming fury. Like a star that had passed its prime years and entered the declining phase of its dying struggle, it suddenly expanded hundreds of times and turned into a red giant!
The crimson pillars of light congregated into a torrent of destruction. All the crystal suits, crystal tanks, shuttles, and battle puppets in the dozens of square kilometers nearby were either scrapped in spluttering noises or burnt or exploded on the spot into nothingness if they were hit by the torrent or even the ripples!
The people of the Holy League did not expect that Li Yao could blow out such an unbelievable destructive power at the last moment when he was running out of ammunition. The legions that had lunged at him in a dense battle formation immediately fled. Even the warships that tore apart the clouds and approached from the sky turned around and flew higher, fearing that they would be affected by Li Yao's fury.
Li Yao's soul took the opportunity to dash out of the floating fortress and soar into the sky, trying to shoot out of the atmosphere.
As long as he escaped to the vacuum of space without the interference of the atmosphere, it would be more convenient for him to 'swing' back to his shell thousands of lightyears away.
However, the moment his soul dashed out, the clouds were suddenly ripped apart, and almost a hundred dense rays of light shot over from beyond the clouds, piercing through the strengthened alloy plate of the floating fortress precisely and raising a series of shocking explosions inside and outside the floating fortress.
The floating fortress lost a lot of materials in the explosions. Its shell was deeply dented, like an apple that had been gnawed by a dog.
The magical equipment units inside, including Li Yao's soul that was about to jump out, were also under the intense scourge of electric arcs and spiritual waves, as if they had been hit by hundreds of lightning bolts at the same time.
Hardly had Li Yao's soul dashed out of the floating fortress when he felt that hundreds of burning thorns had tied up his ankles, calves, thighs, waist, and spine, dragging him back hard.
Then, it was the most unforgettable agony that he would rather die.
It was as if his bone marrow had been replaced with sulfuric acid. It was literally 'pain to the bone marrow'!
"It's the orbital fleet!"
Li Yao shrieked in excruciating pain. "The enemy's fleet stationed in the orbit of Black Castle has been attracted to us, too. Hehe. They really think highly of us!"
The saturation bombardment of an entire orbital fleet was undoubtedly more ferocious and denser than the attack of the ground troops.
The barrage tore apart the sky and stirred the clouds incessantly like a meteor shower, making the floating fortress unable to raise its head. It was collapsing and collapsing at a visible speed.
The ammunition had run out, the fuel had run out, the spiritual shield had completely perished, and the defense ability was plummeting. It would collapse in the next second.
Explosions, explosions. Explosions were happening everywhere inside the floating fortress. Fireballs thousands of degrees in temperature were roaming inside the cabins and pathways like ferocious beasts, reaping the lives of all the magical equipment units and crew members mercilessly.
Li Yao felt that he was a patient of 'Lou Gehrig's disease'.
The only difference was that the duration of the disease had been shortened by ten thousand times.
He was gradually losing control of the floating fortress, which was the only thing that he had right now.
At first, the crystal cameras everywhere in the floating fortress were burnt up or blown up. The thousands of pictures that popped up in his soul died out one after another. There was nothing but darkness in front of his eyes. He had been deprived of all his' vision '.
Then, the hidden antennas and the sensor chips embedded on the shell of the floating fortress were all wasted in beeping noises, too, making it impossible for him to sense the vibration of the power units of the enemy's starships hundreds of kilometers away or the temperature of the enemy's burning barrels. He had lost his' hearing 'and' touch '.
In the end, as the crystal processors broke down one after another after being overloaded, the active space of his soul was compressed, too. His computational ability plummeted, as if he were mired in a swamp. His brain was filled with black mud, and his thinking became more and more rigid and feeble.
"Damn it …"
Li Yao tried to maintain the feeble waves of his soul, as if he were breathing hard. "Am I, the best expert of the Pangu universe, really going to fail in such an inconspicuous place? My strength is fading, my soul is burning up, and my senses are deprived. Is … is this the taste of death? Hey, are you scared of death? "
"Not really," the mental devil said.
"At the very least, I will be separated from you if I die."
"…" Li Yao.
"However, it's not so easy to kill me!"
The bloody fire of the mental devil was obviously dimmer than ever, but when it was about to die out, it burst out the last sparks under the boost of overwhelming fury and infinite killing intent.
At this moment, it had finally unleashed the desire for slaughter that originated from the Blood Stripe Virus. Even Li Yao was infected by it. He stopped thinking about what would happen in the next second and focused only on how he could annihilate all the targets in his sight in the next second!
"Exactly!"
Li Yao burst into laughter. "I am 'Vulture Li Yao'. You want to kill me with just a bunch of walking dead? Go back and train yourself for another ten thousand years! "
Zi! Zi!
Zi! Zi! Zi! From the broken remains of the floating fortress, which used to be the main gun, a helical ripple that was mixed with crimson and bright gold suddenly darted out toward where the railguns in the sky were densest.
One pillar of light was against a thousand pillars of light, but they were on par with each other. Even the dark clouds in the sky were burnt red, as if an enormous volcanic eruption was taking place above the clouds!
Quite a few gargantuan starships appeared in the clouds and slowly fell like dead whales. The heads of the starships were full of marks that had been pierced through by his furious flames.
The enemy's previous uniform rays of destruction were somewhat disrupted by his counterattack, too. There was a moment of stagnation.
In any case, he had persisted for long enough. Chu Zhiyun, Thangka, and Little Tiantian should be safe now, shouldn't they?
For some reason, Li Yao suddenly recalled the scene where Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and seven other Cultivators died hand in hand on the train on the Grand Desolate Plateau in the Heaven's Origin Sector more than a hundred years ago in the Xing Yao Federation.
The battle at the edge of the uninhabited area of the planet Black Castle was very similar to the scene back then.
He suddenly understood what Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and the other Cultivators felt back then.
Cultivators were not scared of death, and those who were scared of death did not become Cultivators. But were Cultivators really not scared of death?
Perhaps, everybody was scared of death, but some of them knew that death was not the end. As long as they passed on their most precious things before they died, not just genes but also certain things that were derived from genes but were more important than genes.
Li Yao's soul, which was gradually dispersing, spread out a curved ripple that looked like a vague smile, just like the smiles on the faces of the seven Cultivators when they charged at the beast tide without hesitation more than a hundred years ago.
…
Almost a thousand kilometers away, deep inside the uninhabited area where the mountains were rugged and full of caves …
The young people looked at the burning clouds on the horizon for the last time before they crawled into the ground.
It was deep into the night, but the burning clouds constituted the most splendid view that they had ever seen in their lives. It looked like the gods were having a fierce battle in the sky.
Thangka was woken up by something wet and cold on his face.
When his self-awareness gradually surfaced from the abyss and was condensed again, he found that he was in Chu Zhiyun's arms, and it was Chu Zhiyun's tears that were dripping on his face.
"Well …"
Thangka blinked hard. "Am I dreaming? What is this place? Have we … escaped? Grandpa Yao, where is Grandpa Yao? "
"You're awake?"
Chu Zhiyun sniffed hard, but she could not stop her tears from running out. "This is not a dream. We've finally woken up from the nightmare that we've been having for more than ten years. Descending three hundred meters from the cave is a shelter. Unless they lift the entire crust of the planet in the hundreds of square kilometers nearby, they won't be able to find us.
"Yes, we're safe now.
"However, Lord Li Yao, we don't know what happened to him, either. The area he was in seemed to have been bombarded by the near-earth orbit troops. We don't know what changes will happen to his soul in such an environment where the temperature and the spiritual and magnetic reactions are extremely complicated. Will he be able to escape in time? Will … Will he die?"
"Ah!"
As if struck by lightning, Thangka's eyes were aching, too. "He said that everything was fine. He said that everything was under his control and that he could rescue us and escape easily!"
"Maybe. Maybe he's already escaped."
Chu Zhiyun struggled to smile. "Thangka, you still owe us an explanation. What's going on between you and this Master Li Yao? What kind of person is he exactly?"
"Well …"
Thangka lowered her head. "I don't know how to explain it, either. I don't know much about him. I only know that he is a good man, and a shameless, cunning, and good man at that. So, he won't die just like that.
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