"You are bluffing after all!"
Li Yao's soul, which was getting thinner and thinner, emitted the brilliance of a hydrogen flash and sent a powerful roar to Fuxi. "You have not completely melted Lu Qingchen and achieved the so-called 'perfect upgrade'. There are still incompatibilities between your database and his soul!
"Also, also —
"I don't know how long we've been fighting in this virtual Chaotic Universe. In my mind, billions of years seem to have passed in the blink of an eye, but in the real world, at least three to five days, or even half a month, have passed, right?
"Now, have you conquered the capital yet?
"I'm afraid you haven't. If you had completely captured the Imperial Capital, you would've been impatient to show me that despairing scene and further attack my Dao Heart. Since you didn't do that, it means that you haven't succeeded and the Imperial Capital hasn't fallen yet!
"A couple of days ago, or even a couple of weeks ago, you showed me that your fleet was about to break into the orbit of the capital planet. You even bombarded the capital planet on a massive scale, forcing mankind to surrender in such a cruel way. But right now, after so many days, human beings still haven't surrendered and are still fighting!
"Since so many human beings are still fighting, how can I give up hope? If you haven't calculated the time of the battle, how are you so sure that you can calculate the outcome of the battle?
"So, stop bragging. You'll never be able to conquer the Imperial Capital. You'll never be able to defeat the humans!"
Li Yao's soul finally released the last "tentacle" in the continuous "hydrogen flash" and pierced into the light cluster on his opposite side brutally.
After a moment of dazzling brilliance, he saw that he had hacked into the Fuxi's command system and the billions of surveillance cameras again. Through the main perspective of the Fuxi fleet, he saw everything that was happening on the space battlefield!
He saw that, although the Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet that were defending the capital had been torn apart by the Fuxi fleet, and many starships were fighting on their own, they did not intend to surrender or run away at all even though they had only one starship left and all the ammunition had been used up. Instead, they poured the last bit of fuel into the engine compartment of the starship and crashed at the enemy with the most dazzling exhaust flames. Their bodies that were made of iron were the last bullets.
He saw that a lot of starships of the Imperial Guards entered the cruel boarding battles and hand-to-hand combat after running out of ammunition. The overwhelming Crystal Suit and space shuttles attacked the five Supreme Fortresses of the Fuxi fleet like raindrops.
Stimulated by the siege and having nowhere to run, the Immortal Cultivators finally displayed the demeanor of their ancestors a thousand years ago. In animalistic roars, they marched into the densest area of the Holy League and detonated their super-compressed crystal reactors, dying together with the enemy.
When blood spread out hundreds of square meters in an avalanche and splashed on the face of every member of the Holy League, the people who had been brainwashed so many times that their nerves were almost burnt finally put on confusion and fear on their faces.
Li Yao also saw that colorful ripples were spreading out in the vast space zone around the Empyreal Terminus Sector now and then, and small fleets, or even just one starship, were showing up.
They were reinforcements!
They could not be the large-scale reinforcements of Lei Chenghu, Bai Xingjian, or the Xing Yao Federation. They were not even main-force warships or super arsenal warships but only destroyers and half-armed business ships. They should be the reinforcements from the dozens of Sectors and the Seven Seas Space Zone nearby.
It seemed that, however idiotic and selfish the Immortal Cultivators were, they had realized that they would be interdependent if the lips were gone. It was true that there was no room for compromise with the people of the Holy League. If they were not annihilated in the capital, it would only be a matter of time before the other Sectors fell.
They would rather die than be reduced to puppets without feelings, memories, and self-awareness. That was perhaps the bottom line of all human beings, wasn't it?
It was needless to mention the capital planet.
Yes, the Fuxi fleet had indeed controlled part of the orbit of the capital planet and carried out a brutal bombardment on the surface of the planet through the orbit. The death rays tore apart the atmosphere like a storm, and countless glorious metropolises were burnt to the ground.
But the people of the Imperium did not give in. Their leader, the highest command center in the royal palace and the emperor, was still issuing orders and making effective resistance. The emperor who had just ascended the throne did not flee in panic. He was even unwilling to go to the second command center below the ground. Instead, he stood in the sky of the royal palace in the Crystal Suit and the Colossus every day, guarding against the bombardment from the orbit in person.
The so-called orbit bombardment seemed to be able to transform the gravity of the planet into the sharpest weapon from the high altitude, but it was actually very costly.
That was because the bombardment side could only count on the starships. However magnificent the fleets were, they were just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire planet.
The defending side could drain the entire planet of its resources and deplete the attacking side. Although there was a risk that the entire planet's magnetic field and atmosphere would be destroyed, the release of this risk would take at least a few decades or even a hundred years. It would not be effective in a short period of time.
As a matter of fact, in most of the battles where the attackers occupied a planet through orbit bombardment, it was always the attackers who made threats and the defenders who surrendered voluntarily.
If the defenders were determined not to surrender until the last drop of blood was shed, it would be barely possible for the defenders to occupy the entire planet instantly.
It was true that Fuxi had projected tremendous commandos into the assault cabins, and those commandos were also the toughest slaughter machines that feared no death.
However, the Immortal Cultivators who unleashed the pride of human beings to the maximum would not back off in the face of death either.
Both of them were killing machines, but killing machines with souls and killing machines without souls were different.
Through Fuxi's perspective, Li Yao saw Li Jialing soaring above the capital in a streak of golden brilliance. He couldn't help but feel that it was a long time ago.
He remembered that when he first met his dear little brother, he was still a confused young man who had nothing but strength but lacked willpower and goals.
After only a few years, not only had he received Wuying Qi's heritage and made rapid progress, but more importantly, he seemed to have found his goal and a precious belief.
Now that his younger brother had grown so much, Li Yao, as a big brother, could not let his younger brother down. He had to create a greater room for growth for his younger brother, for the Immortal Cultivators who had just been transformed and were developing in the right direction, and for all mankind who were about to embrace peace!
"Jialing, I didn't know that you could be such an emperor.
"What is it exactly that has supported you to persist to this moment under the bombardment of the Fuxi fleet?
"You must not have given up hope and your trust in Brother Yao, and you still believe that Brother Yao will show up in front of you, right?
"Even if it is only for your trust, for the brilliance that the Immortal Cultivators unleashed at the last moment that belongs to mankind, and for the great title of 'the best expert in the universe of Pangu', I will never fail!"
Boom!
Li Yao's belief, his soul, and his will were completely melted, turning the unpredictable "Hydrogen Flash" into a fire that seemed to be real, which continued sweeping the core of Fuxi's mind.
Suddenly, his soul sank, and he saw a brand-new and very familiar picture.
He saw "himself".
More precisely speaking, it was his fleshly body that was stored in the hibernation cabin in a mysterious state.
Yes, what appeared in the picture was the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, his "Soul Launch Room", which was now the place where Xiaoming and Wenwen controlled the Spiritual Nexus and the crystal processors in the capital. It was the "central nerve" of the defense line of the capital.
Xiaoming and Wenwen were both frowning and cramping in the nerval interaction liquids. They seemed to be caught in an immeasurable nightmare.
"Not good!"
Li Yao's heart suddenly tightened.
He did not have a real body right now, and he was essentially a "parasite" attached to Fuxi. He could only observe the real world through Fuxi's perspective.
Since even he could see the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, Xiaoming, Wenwen, and himself, it meant that Fuxi had completely torn apart the firewall that Xiaoming and Wenwen set up and hacked into the surveillance cameras at the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. Not just the surveillance cameras, but the super crystal processors at the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid, including Xiaoming and Wenwen's brains!
As he expected, before Li Yao realized what was going on, he sensed that thousands of balls of lightning were rising at the same time and blowing into the bottom of the Gold Crystal Pyramid along the invisible Spiritual Nexus in spluttering noises.
The super crystal processors that Xiaoming and Wenwen had set up burst out enormous sparks at the same time, before they were burnt into black debris.
Xiaoming and Wenwen moaned feebly in the nerval interaction liquids, with blood flowing out of their eyes, nostrils, ears, and mouths.
From the command center of the royal palace to the mainframe crystal processors of the military bases, from the cities on the ground to the underground towns and the underground shelters, from the asteroid bases that were still struggling to hold on to the defense fleets in the orbit that were broken, the Spiritual Nexus that belonged to the Imperium's army was paralyzed. The lights went out, the commands were disrupted, and the cooling systems of the power units failed, resulting in frequent explosions. They were like caged beasts whose senses had been deprived!
"That explains a lot. I was wondering why the capital had such a solid defense system, which is entirely different from the firewalls in the past thousand years in the intelligence that I collected earlier."
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