"Yes, Father!"
The eldest son's entire face turned crimson, and his pores were instantly enlarged. He drew out his saber and held it in his hand. Looking around at the men of sacrifice behind him, he bellowed, "Everybody, the situation has deteriorated to such an extent. It's time for us to change our approach. Let's do it!"
"Wait —"
A Death Warrior who was hiding in the deepest part of the shadows, dressed in a light green fish-scaled battle suit, with skin as translucent as jade and an extremely powerful aura, pushed the crowd aside and walked out. He stared at Song Bugui and asked rudely, "Fellow Song Bugui, before we act, let me ask you one last time on behalf of everyone — Have you really won the two elders Song Chenglong and Song Feibao over?"
The mysterious and strong Immortal Cultivator was named Yun Zhongyan. Technically speaking, he was not a man of sacrifice for Song Bugui's group but a guest that Song Bugui had recruited at a high price. The guy was a loser in the internal conflicts of the Yun family. It was said that he had killed almost a hundred experts of the Yun family cruelly before he fled. He was a wanted criminal that the Yun family had put a huge bounty on. In desperation, he fled to the territory of the Song family, only to be discovered by Song Bugui by accident.
Song Bugui saw his hidden potential and thought that he was a rare commodity worth hoarding. Instead of handing him over to the Yun family or the Song family, he secretly hid him, helped him to conceal his identity and disguise himself. He even spared no expense to take out a large amount of resources to help him cultivate, so as to make up for the lack of high-end forces in his small group.
Yun Zhongyan worked hard, too. In only decades, he had advanced to the peak of the Yuanying Stage. He could be called a 'top-tier expert' in the entire center of the cosmos.
Song Bugui and Yun Zhongyan were basically partners. One of them offered money, and the other offered manpower. They were not just a master and a man of sacrifice.
Song Bugui had kept a lot of such disobedient guests with unparalleled skills. He had always treated them with respect and attracted them with benefits. It was impossible for him to force them into a mutiny.
Besides, Yun Zhongyan's concerns were quite reasonable, too.
As the flagship of the Turnaround Fleet, it was impossible for the Song family to hand it over to Song Bugui without any defense. At this moment, two elders of the Song family were stationed in the workshop right next to them. One of them was at the peak of the Yuanying Stage, and the other was even in the Divinity Transformation Stage. More importantly, both of them had Colossi!
From their standpoint, they were naturally loyal to the Song Family Head and Song Lixing, and not Song Bugui.
However, the two Elders were purely from the Combat Department. They knew nothing about arranging troops and fighting against large armies, so they didn't come out to cause trouble.
Song Bugui had gone through a lot of trouble to recruit a peak expert of Yuanying as his guest. It was already the limit of his luck and capability. Naturally, it was impossible for him to conjure a Colossus out of thin air.
The two Colossi were the key to the success or failure of the mutiny.
If the two Elders had supported Song Lixing and the leader of the Song family as usual, Song Bugui would've been annihilated very soon even if he could control the bridge and the highest coalition meeting. On the other hand, it was exactly because Song Bugui told all the men of sacrifice and the guest that he had persuaded the two Elders to 'join the cause' with the two Colossi that the men of sacrifice and the guest were bold enough to mutiny.
"Of course, Fellow Cultivator Yun, you wouldn't still not trust me when the time comes, would you?"
Song Bugui raised his eyebrow, as if he had just heard the most absurd joke in the world. "The lives of the thousand people in my family all depend on the mutiny. Of course, I've contacted Elder Song Chenglong and Elder Song Feibao. Otherwise, am I asking to be killed?
"Rest assured. Everything will go as planned. Fellow Cultivator Yun, you will lead the men of sacrifice and the guest to attack the coalition meeting and try to seize the bridge. I'll go to the two Elders of the Song family and their Colossi and try to occupy the warehouses of crystals, fuel, and ammunition as quickly as possible. In half an hour at most, we will be able to completely control the flagship.
"After the job is done … Lei Chenghu is a man of his word. He will certainly keep his promise to give you the Colossus that he promised!"
"That'll be great!"
The moment she heard 'Colossus', Yun Zhongyan's eyes glittered. Gritting her teeth, she unsheathed the saber on her waist and activated the Crystal Suit inside her Cosmos Ring. She waved her saber and shouted, "Brothers, wealth is right ahead of us. Let's kill them!"
…
In the highest coalition meeting, the ignorant nobles were still blaming and attacking each other or yelling at the silent communication magical equipment in a hurry to reach out to the collapsed fleets under their command. They did not notice that a lot of invisible, highly-concentrated venomous gas was being released from the ventilation ports in the four corners of the room.
It was not until a few nobles felt dizzy and crimson spots gradually appeared in front of their eyes that they finally rose in shock, only to stagger and fall to the ground.
"What's going on?"
"Not good. It's venomous gas!"
"Somebody is releasing venom. Hurry —"
Before they could put on their crystal suits, the door had already been blown open by a strange force. Together with the broken pieces of the door, hundreds of powerful Thunder-Palms flew in. After a series of deafening explosions, the entire conference room was filled with dragon-like electric arcs. "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Such electric arcs were not enough to rip apart the Immortal Cultivators' strong bodies, but they were enough to knock them out and seriously disrupt the functioning of the Cosmos Rings, interrupting them from retrieving the Crystal Suit and other magical equipment.
Hua! Hua! Hua!
In the sounds of armor rolling, Yun Zhongyan, the traitor of the Yun family, led a large batch of men of sacrifice who were armed to the teeth and marched in like infuriated rhinos. A storm of bullets of spiritual energy blew the few guards into the wall, turning them into clusters of blood and flesh.
One of the unlucky nobles of the Yun family subconsciously jumped to his feet and tried to escape, only to be slashed in half by Yun Zhongyan's head after a shriek!
"Vice Marshal Song has given the order that nobody is allowed to leave this room in case of desertion and the morale of the troops. Whoever disobeys the order will be executed!"
Yun Zhongyan stomped on the unlucky guy's internal organs that were flowing all over the floor. He stabbed his saber into the table casually and tore open his breastplate, revealing the fatal crystals that were stuffed inside, at the dumbfounded nobles in the room. "We are all tied up with the marrow crystal bombs of the highest purity. If you pigs and dogs dare to move, we will all die together!"
…
On the narrow, long pathway leading to the workshop, Song Bugui and his son were in a hurry.
"The older, the wiser. I finally understand that you've been holding back for so many years just to soar into the sky today!"
His eldest son was full of admiration. "I didn't know that you were so resourceful, father. Not only have you reached out to Lei Chenghu and reached an agreement with him a long time ago, you have even won the support of the two elders of the family who are stationed on the flagship and have Colossi. Everything is under your control, father. I've been kept in the dark for a long time!"
Song Bugui walked forward quickly and said without looking back, "You are my son. Why would I keep anything from you? To be honest, I haven't reached an agreement with Lei Chenghu, nor have I won the two elders over to our side. Song Chenglong and Song Feibao, the strongest warriors on the flagship, don't know the first thing about them yet! "
"What!"
His eldest son was so scared that he almost fell to the ground. "Father, what do you mean? Father!"
"Look at how cowardly you are."
Grabbing his eldest son's collar, Song Bugui continued walking toward the workshop at the same speed. "Even you are as cowardly as a mouse. If we hadn't made such a decision, how could the men of sacrifice and the guests have risked their lives to follow us?"
"But — but — but —"
Dumbfounded, his eldest son almost couldn't catch his breath. "The two elders don't know that we are going to mutiny at all. What — what do we do next?"
"What are you panicking for?"
Song Bugui sneered. "Aren't we going to tell them now?"
While they were talking, Song Bugui had already strode into the workshop with his eldest son.
Inside the maintenance workshop, two gargantuan Colossi had been fully equipped and ready to go, like two mountains that were full of blades.
The Crystal Suit that fought together with the Colossi had also finished loading and testing the fuel and ammunition, like battle sabers that could be unsheathed at any moment.
The two elders of the Song family, who had profound cultivation and unrivaled martial arts, paced back and forth anxiously with their hands behind their backs. As top martial artists, although they did not participate in the strategic decision-making at the fleet level, they still vaguely sensed that something was wrong with their intuition.
"Vice Marshal Song, you've come at the right time. Why has the starship suddenly slowed down? Also, the connection between us and the highest coalition battle council has been cut off, too. What's going on exactly? Has the enemy's daring team snuck in?"
Seeing that there was no one beside Song Bugui except for the trembling eldest son, the two elders did not think much of it and asked casually.
"It's a mutiny."
Song Bugui looked around at the two elders and the hundreds of vigorous disciples around them. Neither servile nor overbearing, he said calmly, "I've already controlled the bridge and the engine compartment. I've sent a message to Lei Chenghu. The uprising has started."
"What!"
The two elders of the Song family widened their eyes at the same time and looked at Song Bugui blankly.
They had seen battlefield uprisings before, but a battlefield uprising like Song Bugui's alone was too … ridiculous!
Song Bugui kicked his eldest son to the ground, and then he also knelt down and said loudly, "Elders, I just ordered someone to secretly destroy the engine room, which caused the power of our starship to be reduced by at least 50%. It can't be repaired in 24 hours, and the enemy will definitely catch up with us.
"Besides, I also sent a large number of men of sacrifice to occupy the highest joint operation meeting. If anything goes wrong, my men of sacrifice will die together with all the officials and the marquises.
"Also, I have already sent the communication password of the entire army, the vibration frequency of the spiritual shield, and other key data to Lei Chenghu, which is why we were defeated so easily!
"Elders, there are only three choices in front of you.
"You can either chop off the heads of my son and me right now, and then try to clean up the defeated soldiers in person and have another battle. I only hope that your commanding ability is as good as your invincible combat ability!
"You can either kill me and vent your anger, and then run away. I hope that you can find another starship that is faster so that you can escape back to the Jade Tripod Planet, no, the Yellow Dragon Sector, successfully without being caught by the hundred Colossi of the enemy!
"You can either join me in a battlefield uprising. In the secret letter that I sent to Lei Chenghu a few days ago, I pointed out that the two of you are firmly on my side, and you are the greatest contributors to the battlefield uprising. Lei Chenghu, Marquis Liaohai, is a man who loves the Imperium and considers the big picture. He will not mistreat you even if he has to stabilize the soldiers.
"Come on. Come on. Here are the heads. Please decide quickly whether to cut them or not!"
Song Bugui tore open the collar of his marshal uniform. His strength was so great that he tore off a few buttons that were engraved with the triple-star lightning insignia and rolled all over the ground with clanking sounds.
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