A bizarre but joyful picture appeared in front of Li Yao's eyes.
In the thin artificial thin oxygen layer of the asteroid belt, deep inside the dark and cold mine, a child whose eyes were glittering with golden light was mingling with a group of half-human, half-demon, half-human, half-machine, half-demon, half-machine, half-demon, and half-machine children.
Just like the adult miners, they had shouldered the burdens of life too early and allowed the whips and shackles to be deeply embedded into their flesh. Under the threats of berating, whipping, and death, they grew as stubbornly as weeds and cockroaches.
In the rare leisure time, the child whose eyes were glittering with gold brilliance gradually became the leader of all the children. He led the children to collect the broken remnants of mining magical equipment deep inside the mines and repair and modify them into all kinds of bizarre new magical equipment. He also led the children to deal with the supervisors and the owners of the mines in various ways, fighting for more food and rest by whatever means possible.
Too mature brilliance that did not belong to his age or even this era was shining in the eyes of the young man.
The new magical equipment that he crafted with the remnants of the obsolete magical equipment was even far beyond the scope of 'mining magical equipment'. Even the crystal tanks that the supervisors were on could be pierced through easily.
Gradually, when he and his companions turned from children to teenagers, and then from teenagers to young adults, they were no longer a tray of loose sand. Instead, they were completely gathered into an iron fist, a saber, an army, and a bunch of furious, lawless thugs who were willing to die together with all the stars in the universe!
"When I gradually grew up in the asteroid mine, the storm of resistance also swept to every world under the reign of the demon race from the center of the cosmos. Resistance groups and rebels even appeared in our asteroid mine. However, the resistance groups and rebels at that time were still of a very low level. They were more like civilians who roared when they could not hold it back but did not know what to do after the roar."
The picture that the gravekeeper presented was gradually stained with intense blood. "Like other miners, my foster parents joined the resistance group and took part in an enormous strike. At that time, the resistance group lacked a clear goal and ideology, and they did not intend to overthrow the reign of the demon race with violence at all. They only hoped to negotiate with the owners of the mines to reduce the astronomical mining quota and to improve the working and living environment of the miners to reduce the death rate. Nothing more.
"My naive foster parents and uncles thought that such conditions, which were not outrageous, would certainly be accepted. At the very least, there would be room for negotiation.
"But they far underestimated the despicableness, cruelty, and shamelessness of the rulers. Or rather, they did not know at all how oversensitive and ferocious the rulers were when they were faced with the surging tide of resistance that was like a frightened bird.
"In the face of the miners' request for negotiation, the mine owner first pretended to agree, saying that he needed time to discuss the terms one by one, temporarily appeasing the miners. However, this was a delaying tactic. When the fully armed army arrived at the asteroid mine, the mine owner immediately turned hostile and launched a bloody massacre.
"More than half of the miners, including my foster parents, were butchered.
"My friends and I joined the resistance, too. However, faced with the well-trained professional warriors and the arsenal warships that boasted ferocious firepower, my half-awakened abilities and the messy naturally-endowed techniques of my friends were of no help at all.
"I remember that I tore apart dozens of biochemical beasts with my bare hands. Because of the excessive exhaustion of my soul, my brain almost spontaneously combusted and automatically triggered the protection mechanism of my body, and I passed out."
In front of Li Yao's eyes, an unbelievably passionate picture was unfolded.
The young man with bright gold eyes had grown a layer of short hair on his lips. His face was gradually showing its edges, too. A sturdy skeleton was gradually taking shape, too.
The bulging muscles all over his body when he was infuriated were even more exaggerated than the reactive armor of the Crystal Suit. It truly seemed to be an armor made of flesh and blood outside of his normal body.
The hair on his head that was standing up like iron needles was dancing crazily. He jumped up and down on the surface of the asteroid in fury, searching for traces of biochemical beasts and demon experts everywhere. Although the barrage of bullets poured at him like a storm, he could not care less about it at all. He moved as fast as lightning in the gaps of the bullets and approached the enemy step by step.
Li Yao saw with his own eyes that he blew up the hardest bone armor of a biochemical beast more than ten meters tall with his bare hands.
Then, he saw that he was swinging the enormous body of a demon beast that weighed dozens of tons and rushing here and there like a natural hammer, smashing all the demons that failed to dodge in time into meat pies.
When all the demons on the battlefield regarded him as a monster and bombarded him with all their firepower, he was still able to run dozens of steps against the intense firepower before he finally staggered and fell to the ground. His blood that contained bright gold colors had long wetted the entire asteroid.
"I was very lucky," the gravekeeper said.
"If it were the ten thousand years in the middle of the 'Great Dark Age', when the reign of the demon race was at its peak and the social structure was relatively stable, a monster like me would've been sent to the most advanced biochemical laboratories to be sliced and studied.
"But at the end of the Great Dark Age, the reign of the demon race had long collapsed. The demon emperors and the demon gods were all on their own and only cared about their immediate interests.
"Our mine owner lost about half of the miners in this massacre to suppress the uprising, and the mining base was in a mess. We don't know when it will be able to resume production. The daily economic losses are astronomical, and he is in so much pain that he wants to die.
"The amazing abilities that I demonstrated in the battle illuminated his eyes. He thought that he was a rare commodity. Not only did he not kill me, he even carefully treated and nourished me. Of course, he did not forget to implant dozens of 'foolproof' barriers inside my body, either.
"After a series of operations, my friends who survived and I were sold to an arena at an unbelievably high price.
"It was a place named 'Death Valley'. It was perhaps the bloodiest, darkest, and stinkiest place in the thirty thousand years of the Great Dark Age.
"I fought all kinds of nightmarish beasts in the 'Death Valley' and participated in the cruel and perverted competitions. While I was being polished by blades, mountains of corpses, and oceans of blood, I gradually recalled a lot of things, including the methods to train and build war machines, the tactics to command ground troops and fleets, how to boost morale, and how to operate astronomical resources … All in all, every time I was heavily wounded and my soul was seriously exhausted, something would pop up in my head uncannily, something that helped me be reborn and improve by leaps and bounds.
"Other than my old friends, I also got to know a lot of gladiators. After years of consecutive victories, I became the uncrowned king of all the gladiators. They had similar backgrounds to me, and they all had blood feuds with the rulers of the demon race. They were absolutely irreconcilable enemies.
"Once again, I rebuilt my army.
"This time, I will not allow myself to fail again. Never!"
Dozens of flashing pictures were popping up in front of Li Yao's eyes.
In the pictures, the young man whose eyes were filled with gold brilliance was wearing a hideous armor made of ferocious beasts and holding a bloodstained serrated saber. Faced with the ferocious beasts or the war machines that were made of iron, he leapt high fearlessly and slashed them down heavily. In the glamorous scenes where broken limbs were flying, and flames and electric arcs were spluttering, he gradually grew into a real young man.
After every delightful slash, when the golden-eyed young man landed on the ground, more and more gladiators would stand behind him. In the end, there was really a murderous army gathered around him.
"I taught the wisdom and techniques that I awakened in my trance to the gladiators next to me. I gave them advice and made improvements based on their features. I also built our own arms in secret with the debris of all the magical equipment around me. Before the master of Death Valley discovered it, an army of human beings that had not been seen for tens of thousands of years had already taken shape."
There was intense mockery in the voice of the gravekeeper. "When the master of Death Valley discovered that my strength could not be suppressed by the dozens of seals, it was already too late. I showed up next to his bed directly and blew up his head before he had the time to jump up from his bed.
"I'm afraid that you know what happened next.
"I started with an army of gladiators and won every battle. I crushed all the fleets of the demon race that came to annihilate us. Gradually, I united all the rebels and resistance groups and became the well-deserved leader of the rebels. In only a hundred years, I overthrew the reign of the demon race, completely tore apart the 'thirty thousand years of the Great Dark Age', and reunited the entire sea of stars!"
Splendid battlefields popped up in front of Li Yao's eyes. The rise of the Supreme Emperor in only a hundred years was condensed into half a minute, which was even shorter.
In half a minute, he witnessed with his own eyes how the army of gladiators under the Supreme Emperor's command seized the enemy's arsenals, how they occupied the crystal mines one after another, how they developed and produced the first batch of Crystal Suits, how they carefully built the space warships that exclusively belonged to the human Cultivators, and how they won the unstoppable victories one after another.
It was not that the Revolutionary Army had never encountered desperate situations where they were at the end of their rope and were ambushed from all sides, but every time, the Emperor would use an unbelievable method to turn the tide and counterattack. In the end, the enemy, who was confident of victory, would throw away their armor and be utterly defeated.
The many victories dumbfounded Li Yao and amazed him. He found it unbelievable however he thought about it. It was not like 'with the help of a god' but because the Supreme Emperor was a god and the 'destined one' of the Pangu Universe. Nothing could've stopped his rise and progress!
Li Yao had once thought that his miraculous rise was a 'legend'.
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