"What is it? What is it exactly?"
Although the flickering light spot did not have the irresistible magnificence of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters at all, Li Yao had the most intense alarms echoing deep inside his soul.
He smelled the scent of his own kind again, except that it was his own kind that was countless times stronger than Lu Qingchen.
If he and Lu Qingchen were two vipers that were crouching in the crevices, the 'same kind' that had just shown up was almost a boa that was swallowing the sun, the moon, and the stars!
One dot, two dots, three dots, a hundred dots, a thousand dots, ten thousand dots. Very soon, a tiny 'firefly' flew out of every crystal brain that had been tainted black. The unpredictable, glamorous bugs made of ten thousand light spots danced around Lu Qingchen's soul. Then, they crawled into Lu Qingchen's soul one after another like brilliant shooting stars.
"Ahhh! Ahhhhhhhh! "
Lu Qingchen's soul couldn't have been more domineering before. He was almost at the peak of his life. Even Li Yao had to give way to him.
However, there was nothing he could do about the tiny light spots that had crawled into his soul. He let out another heart-wrenching scream. This time, it did not seem like he was faking it. Instead, it seemed that he really had to tear his soul apart and pull out the tiny light spots in order to slightly alleviate the inhuman pain.
Even Lu Qingchen, who liked to be hung up and whipped, could not bear the pain. Li Yao could not imagine it at all.
Very soon, the black fog and the devilish fire that enshrouded Lu Qingchen's body were shattered and dimmed. Light spots flew out of his wounds and gathered in front of him, sometimes in the shape of a standard cube and sometimes in the shape of a perfect circle. Just like that, they were changing geometries that were as precise as the atomic level.
Lu Qingchen's face was twisted, as if he were haunted by ghosts.
His soul ripples could not be condensed into the form of rules under the interference of extreme shock and fear.
"It's you. It's you. It's … you!"
Lu Qingchen seemed to know the owner of the strength. He was even respectful, or rather scared, of the guy's identity. He stammered, "Master? Master! "
The word 'master' almost made Li Yao shudder hard and expose his soul.
What was going on? Li Yao couldn't have been more familiar with Lu Qingchen's experience. In the past hundred years, Su Changfa and Professor Mo Xuan were the only two people who were qualified to be his teachers. However, the weird and powerful cluster of light spots clearly did not belong to either Su Changfa or Mo Xuan.
Was it the powerful being that Lu Qingchen met when he was traveling in the sea of stars as a remaining soul after he left the Federation, and he even acknowledged the guy as his master?
Sure enough, amidst the unpredictability of the cluster of light spots, a calm voice came again. "There's no need to be so polite, and there's no need to be so strange. When I gave you the power, I told you frankly that this was just a deal. I was never your teacher, and one day in the future, you will pay the price for this power.
"Now, it's time to pay the price."
"But why?!"
Brilliance that was as sharp as blades beamed out of Lu Qingchen's dark soul nonstop, tearing apart and dissecting his soul layer by layer.
The wounds on his mind were even more severe than on his soul. He roared in excruciating pain, "When I met you in the depths of the sea of stars, I was only a half-dead remaining soul, and you were in control of the unbelievable strength that could stir the clouds and swallow the stars!
"At that time, you could've killed me easily with a telepathic thought. You could've even dissected my soul into billions of 'thin slices' and exploited all the secrets deep inside my soul. I wouldn't have been able to fight back at all!
"But you didn't do that. Instead, you repaired and strengthened my soul, turning me from 'Lu Qingchen' into 'King of Puppets'!
"You were the one who created the 'King of Puppets'. Although I don't know your real purpose, I feel that what I have done has not deviated from your path. Why didn't you destroy me in the beginning? Why didn't you stop me during the process? Why did you suddenly appear when I was about to reach the peak of glory and slap me down from the clouds? Why? Why? "
Li Yao heard it both clearly and in confusion.
What was clear was that he had confirmed that his guess was not wrong. While Lu Qingchen was fleeing in a hurry in the sea of stars, he ran into the cluster of … indescribable light spots. With the help of the latter, he was modified and strengthened into a 'king of puppets'.
What was confusing, however, was that, considering the features of 'King of Puppets', it was specifically designed to corrupt the Holy League's Spiritual Nexus. So, the 'cluster of light spots' should've been deeply contradictory to the people of the Holy League. How did it crawl out of the 'Fuxi system'?
Li Yao calmed himself down and listened further. But what the guy said next almost made Li Yao lose control of his soul and cry out loud.
"Aren't all the secrets deep inside your soul the 'Xing Yao Federation'?"
The cluster of light spots glittered as he said casually, "I'm not interested in the insignificant countries at the edge of the cosmos. In fact, as long as all the resources at the center of the cosmos are made perfect use of, no matter how many desolate countries there are at the edge of the cosmos, they will all be meat on the chopping board. I can crush them with an army, and they will be obliterated immediately.
"Before the Imperium of True Human Beings is destroyed, it seems unnecessary for me to waste too much computational ability and time studying such 'secrets' that are not worth mentioning.
"The guy even knows about the Xing Yao Federation!"
Li Yao's soul was half frozen. A moment later, he burst into fury. "You are bold enough to say that the Xing Yao Federation is an 'insignificant country'? Then, am I, the dominator of three Sectors and the father of the Federation, a 'mediocre passerby' in your eyes? This is outrageous! This is intolerable! Whatever the hell you are exactly, it is your greatest mistake that you did not exploit the origins and formidability of 'Vulture Li Yao' from Lu Qingchen's soul in time. You are destined to pay a gory price, you glowing fly! "
"Then, why are you making fun of me? Why are you making fun of me?"
Just like Li Yao, Lu Qingchen's pride had been greatly insulted. He roared furiously, "You gave me such immense strength for no good reason at first, and now you took it back in such an absurd way. Why? Why are you doing all this?"
"Don't you understand?"
The geometric shapes that the cluster of light spots changed into were more and more complicated. From the cubes and spheres at the beginning, they gradually turned into forty-two polyhedra, nineteen polyhedra, and various other indescribable shapes. "I am not very interested in your motherland, but you are indeed of certain research and utilization value. I smelled your scent in the vast sea of stars and saw through your potential. You can totally be refined into the most powerful crystal processor virus for an 'intensity test'."
"What? An intensity test?"
Lu Qingchen mumbled to himself. With both embarrassment and fury popping up on his face, he gnashed his teeth and asked, "What does that mean exactly?"
"Exactly what it means," the cluster of light spots said.
"With the most dangerous, powerful, and changeable crystal processor virus, I will test whether or not my defense barrier is solid enough, whether or not my antivirus and repair system are perfect enough, and whether or not I can resist all forms of attacks on the Spiritual Nexus, crystal processors, and even the mental corruption that is launched with the soul of a human being as a springboard.
"Do you understand now? You are a 'vaccine' that has been carefully refined. Through the small-scale, carefully calculated, and controllable spread of viruses, my automatic protection and repair mechanism will grow and be more and more perfect. It will even form a reaction layer that is similar to my instincts. When any virus of the same type as you appears, I will be able to lock onto and kill it automatically without wasting too much computational ability.
"In short, you can make me more perfect. That's why I've been indulging and even promoting your growth until this moment when I've finally 'harvested' you. If that's the case, can you understand my existence?"
"I —"
Lu Qingchen was silent for a long time. His soul was so twisted that it looked like a rope that was about to break. Li Yao could not tell whether he was full of hatred or infinite desperation. "I … I understand now. I was wrong. Very wrong. Hahahaha. In fact, I knew the answer a long time ago. I knew that the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters were just five puppets, but how could I have been so stupid as to not consider who the manipulator behind the puppets was exactly?
"I mistakenly thought that the manipulator was the sleeping Pangu. It was an order passed on from the primeval era that was driving the 'soldier bees' and the 'worker bees' to march forward.
"In fact, it was you. It has always been you, the 'Fuxi system', or to put it more simply, 'Fuxi'?"
Li Yao did not know whether he should shape his soul into the shape of 'roaring at the sky' or 'weeping but having no tears'.
Fuxi!
The Fuxi system!
Therefore, there was no sixth Ultimate Benevolence Master at all. Perhaps, even the so-called five Ultimate Benevolence Masters were illusions created by the interaction of data and information. They were virtual puppets that did not exist. The truth behind the Ultimate Benevolence Masters was that the Fuxi system was intelligent?
If that was the case, the Fuxi system must've boasted self-awareness in the primeval era hundreds of thousands of years ago as the earliest "strong artificial intelligence". It was much more advanced than Xiaoming, Wenwen, A Boxing Champion, and even Li Yao and Lu Qingchen.
What an easy way to pick up the slack. It was as easy as flipping one's hand to reap the benefits of the fisherman and the oriole behind!
"Sh * t!"
Li Yao's soul was frowning. "If the 'Fuxi system' has indeed awakened self-awareness a long time ago, and the space battle network of the entire Alliance of the Holy Covenant is an extension of its self-awareness, its internal organs, limbs, and internal organs, wouldn't we be wandering in the middle of the Spiritual Nexus among its veins and nerves and have been discovered by it a long time ago?"
Li Yao immediately felt that his soul was cold, as if the glittering flies would surround him at any moment.
"Don't be nervous. I don't think so."
Not knowing what was going on, the mental devil could only cheer for him. "Viruses can be divided into the incubation period and the outbreak period. When a virus is in the incubation period, the human body might not be able to sense the existence of the virus. Even the immune system might not be activated!
"Not only can it be impossible for the ordinary people to eliminate all the viruses inside their body, even the experts in the Yuanying Stage and the Divinity Transformation Stage cannot guarantee that there is no virus inside their body.
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