"Speak more clearly."
Li Yao asked, "How do you resurrect him?"
"Something seemed to have been unfrozen in the air, and some indestructible existence was shattered instantly. All in all, the waves of my soul were hundreds of times more intense than before. All the people of the Holy League who followed me felt that their hearts and pulses were a hundred times more intense, too. Some of them whose Cultivation was not high enough were even vomiting blood and dancing crazily in confusion," Lu Qingchen said.
"Although I did not have a body of flesh and blood, I still had a very weird feeling. It was like the cells inside everybody's body had been awakened, boasted their own thinking and self-will, and were about to be dissected from the body."
For some reason, Li Yao thought of the dinosaur that had fallen to the ground abruptly.
After the dinosaur fell, a large group of butterflies flew out of its body and danced in midair.
The scene seemed to contain a sign of horror. It hovered in Li Yao's head and could not be dismissed for a long time.
"When my men and Ding Ling Dong's explorers were at loggerheads, we heard deafening explosions and quakes outside, as if … a great snow mountain that had been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years suddenly encountered a rare high temperature. The snow dozens of meters thick was all melted, and the flood was spreading out unstoppably."
Lu Qingchen continued, "By the time we sensed that something was wrong, it was already too late. The silver brilliance and gray fog on the ferocious beasts and the guards had dispersed. They regained the ability to breathe and kill. Also, they occupied the streets and alleys and the broken walls of the City of Silver. Even the midair was locked onto by flying swords and acid. Anyone or any ferocious beast would be attacked by at least fifty kinds of magical equipment and techniques in less than three seconds after they flew into the sky.
"This is truly a case of 'when the city gate is on fire, the fish in the moat will suffer'. Although the primary target of the two parties is not us, their magical equipment and techniques are so powerful that they can easily destroy a skyscraper or raze an entire block. It is impossible for us to completely avoid the scourge of the barrage of cannons.
"Those ferocious beasts had completely lost their rationality and only kept the most primitive instincts of killing. They did not care about the difference between us and the guards. For the guards, having nowhere to run, they had already gone berserk. As long as the target did not exist on the identification system, they would attack them immediately.
"You must've seen it too. Most of the ferocious beasts were transformed from the guards. In other words, this was not just a fierce battle of attack and defense but also a terrifying plague on a large scale. Until the last guard was transformed into a ferocious beast, the slaughter would not stop.
"Under such circumstances, Ding Ling Dong and I did not have the time to attack each other. Instead, we were blown apart by the barrage that came out of nowhere. Our first thought was to run away from the wretched place as quickly as possible.
"However, as I said just now, this place was a highly unstable discontinuity of space. Perhaps we accidentally triggered a certain trap, and the entire City of Silver was falling apart like an iceberg that was drifting away from the North Pole. Even the exit that seemed to be right next to us was blocked by invisible barriers. After a series of dazzling changes, the streets would turn into high walls, and the high walls would turn into tunnels. We were completely lost in the mysterious, ever-changing maze, unable to find the way we came from.
"I even suspected that the flow of time here was different from that outside. The spiritual and magnetic interference here was so serious that all my time magical equipment was damaged. There was no distinction between day and night, either. So, I did not know how long I had been here.
"In the long escape and battle, my subordinates were all killed by the ferocious beasts. I ran out of supplies, too. My Colossus reached the limits of fatigue, and its spiritual energy ran out. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken advantage of it so easily."
"That explains a lot."
Thinking quickly, Li Yao corroborated every word that Lu Qingchen said with everything that he had seen.
Perhaps Lu Qingchen had ill intentions, but his words were highly trustworthy. He might have been hiding something, but he probably did not intentionally lie.
Even so, Li Yao was still confused by a lot of details. "Wait. Do you know the cause and effect of the battle? At the very least, do you know who the parties involved in the battle were? In my opinion, most of the attackers were ferocious beasts, and the defenders were the coalition army of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. It did not seem to be a civil war. "
"It did not seem to be," Lu Qingchen said.
Lu Qingchen said, "When those guys were just resurrected, a lot of people on the attackers' side did not lose their sanity or turn into ferocious beasts because of the virus. They still maintained the appearance of the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan. In other words, it was a war between the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan against the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan.
"This is truly bizarre. A bunch of members of the Pangu Clan and a bunch of members of the Nuwa Clan are killing another bunch of members of the Pangu Clan and another bunch of members of the Nuwa Clan. This is truly unbelievable at the end of the primeval war.
"However, who knows? There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. If it is for the greatest interests, such as the secrets of the creator of the black wall, even the mortal enemies can become good brothers who fight side by side with each other, just like you and me."
"Stop. Don't flatter yourself. In the battle against the Fuxi Empire, I've already learned the consequences of fighting side by side with you."
Li Yao frowned and said, "Let's put that aside for now. There's something else that is very important. Have you seen the Supreme Emperor? Even his dead body or the evidence of his existence?"
"No." Lu Qingchen smiled bitterly.
With a bitter smile, Lu Qingchen said, "With everything coming to this point, do you still not understand that the so-called 'mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor' is just a ridiculous, exaggerated story? The Supreme Emperor did not establish any splendid mausoleum here at all, nor did he leave an invincible army to accompany him in death. It is easy to understand that, when the Star Ocean Imperium was on the verge of collapse, even someone as strong as the Supreme Emperor could not have given himself a grand funeral. He did send tremendous engineering troops and explorers to this place, and he even established a very large forward base. But everything was corroded as time went by, and it eventually perished into nothingness.
"If the Supreme Emperor did enter the center of the relic, the City of Silver below our feet, perhaps he would've been killed by the claws and teeth of the ferocious beasts or vaporized by the magical equipment of the guards, just like my subordinates. Or rather, he might've turned into a ferocious beast, too. What about the one that you just executed? "
"Well —"
Li Yao found it hard to believe that the legendary Supreme Emperor, the best expert in the history of mankind, would end up in such a miserable state.
Also, what was the relationship between the Supreme Emperor and the primeval relic? Where did his unparalleled techniques come from?
"Don't be nervous. It's just a joke."
Lu Qingchen said with a smile, "It's a blessing in disguise. The only good news is that human beings seem to be immune to such a terrifying virus. You've seen it yourself. Whether it's the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Houyi Clan, the Kuafu Clan, the Zhurong Clan, or the Gonggong Clan, the carbon-based intelligent lives of the primeval age will be infected the moment they touch the blood of the infected people or the mist that bursts out. They will mutate from intelligent lives into ferocious beasts in just a few minutes.
"But for human beings, even the weakest explorers, nothing will happen to them even if they are splashed by the blood of the ferocious beasts. There are always exceptions, but more than 95% of people are absolutely immune to the virus.
"If the Supreme Emperor is still alive, his immunity must be stronger than that of ordinary people. He must still be hiding in some unknown corner deep inside the City of Silver, right?"
"That seems to be the case."
Li Yao was slightly relieved.
Human beings were immune to the Ferocious Beast Virus. It was perhaps the first good news that he had heard since he entered the primeval relic.
However, being immune to the virus infection did not mean that they were immune to the violent attacks of the ferocious beasts. They had to find a way to stop the chaos here and escape with all their secrets!
"You mentioned 'cooperation' just now."
Li Yao said, "So, do you have a way to get out of here?"
"It will be very difficult," Lu Qingchen said.
Lu Qingchen said, "In fact, my suggestion is that we simply find a place to hide. The City of Silver is a super city built according to the size of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. The sewers, ventilation tubes, and crystal cables here are astonishingly large in size, too. We can absolutely find a secret sewer and hide in it for a while. Isn't that what you're best at?
"These ferocious beasts may seem huge, but they have obtained such a large mass out of thin air. To drag their bodies that weigh more than ten thousand tons to engage in high-intensity battles, the energy consumption per second is astronomical. From my analysis and observations over the past few days, the lifespan of the ferocious beasts is not long. It can even be calculated in 'days' or 'hours'. They are like … disposable consumables, used to carry out suicide missions and perish together with the enemy.
"So, as long as we hide for another ten days to half a month, perhaps all the ferocious beasts and guards will perish together. We will be able to become the masters of the City of Silver without any effort.
"Of course, of course, there are also risks in doing so. We don't know if the creator of the black wall has left behind any more lethal magical equipment in the depths of the City of Silver. It's not a planetary-level magical equipment, nor a Stellar-level magical equipment, but a 'Universal Annihilation' magical equipment. If the ferocious beast tide is too severe and the trigger conditions for such a doomsday magical equipment are met, the creator of the black wall will wipe out all the carbon-based intelligent life in the Pangu Universe. That would be terrible."
Li Yao could not help but gasp hard.
Although Lu Qingchen's words were not entirely without alarmism, on second thought, it was indeed a possibility that could not be ruled out.
"If you are unwilling to wait for your doom and control the fate of yourself and all mankind in the hands of others, there is only one way."
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