Inside the maintenance channel, Ding Ling Dong and the other two were sitting cross-legged. Mists of light flowed out of their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth like flowing water. They hovered around their bodies unhurriedly and seeped into their bodies through their pores, nourishing their limbs, veins, and nerves. Gradually, they flowed to the top of their heads, completing a great cycle.
They had all taken a lot of Flowing Brightness Crystals and were absorbing the immense spiritual energy inside crazily. Their wounds were finally under control.
Right then, the warship shivered slightly. Brightness beamed out. The wall of the maintenance channel was emitting soft, ivory brilliance, too.
"Come on down!"
Li Yao's calm voice came over from the communication channel. A structural design of the maintenance channel was sent to their crystal processors.
"What's going on exactly? This is a starship!"
Standing in the engine compartment in a daze, the four of them looked around for a long time and finally realized what was going on.
"Exactly."
Li Yao smiled. "The name of this starship is Sparkle. It is a multipurpose exploration starship. We are saved this time!"
'Dummy' Ba Weiqi, however, shook his head hard and said worriedly, "That's not necessarily true. The skills to drive a warship are very complicated and definitely not easy to control. In our hands, it will be like a few barbarians who have been given a shuttle. They don't know how to drive it at all!"
"Vulture, you haven't been in Occult Orbs Fellowship for long. You might not know.
"Before, Occult Orbs Fellowship had excavated a lot of magical equipment, armed shuttles, and even remnants of small starships from the Star Ocean Imperium.
"However, most of the magical equipment was too precise. It would take the specialists a year and a half to figure out the basic mechanism of the magical equipment, and another year and a half to practice it. Even then, they might not be able to activate and control it successfully!
"Even if the starship is intact, who is it? Where can we find someone who knows how to control it?
"In the entire Heaven's Origin Sector, there is no one who can manipulate it. Even Golden Core Stage Cultivators and Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators can only stare at it helplessly!
"Now that we are inside it, the best we can do is to avoid being crushed by the giant rocks for a while. It will be even harder for us to get out than to climb to the sky!
"That's true!"
Leng Ziming and Yan Yangtian nodded and sighed.
They were all experienced Orb Patrollers who had unearthed countless magical equipment. He knew how difficult it was to manipulate the super magical equipment of the Star Ocean Imperium.
Only Ding Ling Dong was still looking at Li Yao with bright eyes.
For some reason, she saw a strong sense of confidence on Li Yao's face.
Li Yao scratched his head and said calmly, "That's right.
"Don't worry too much about that. I once spent a year learning how to manipulate such a starship."
"What?"
The three people who were sighing seemed to have been struck by lightning. They were all dumbfounded. He stared blankly at Li Yao, as if he had suddenly turned into a three-headed, six-armed demon beast that was baring fangs and brandishing claws.
He specifically spent a year on it. Have you ever learned how to operate a starship?
Are you kidding me?
Piloting a starship was not riding a flying sword. Even if he really wanted to learn it, who would teach him such a technique, and what materials would he use to practice it?
Besides, who would be so bored as to learn such a skill to slay a dragon?
Before joining Occult Orbs Fellowship, Vulture Li Yao, what were you, a monster, for?
They stared at Li Yao for a long time. Then, they looked at Ding Ling Dong suspiciously and in shock.
Hey, who is your boyfriend exactly? Why does he know how to operate a starship from the Star Ocean Imperium? That's unbelievable!
Ding Lingdang wrinkled her nose and smiled.
"Don't look at me. We've never interfered with each other's training. I don't know how many techniques he knows, either.
"However, even if he tells me that he can even manipulate a piece of stellar magical equipment, I won't be surprised. I'll believe him one hundred percent.
"That's exactly what my man, Vulture Li Yao, is like!"
Everyone was rendered speechless. Then they became excited.
Yes, it didn't matter how he trained himself. What mattered was that they now had hope!
Led by Li Yao, the five of them went to the cockpit.
On their way, Li Yao told them Gao Xingce's last words and his deduction.
It was not until then that they realized such a dreadful scheme had been hiding on Boneyard.
Also, for thousands of years, such a soul-stirring and soul-stirring battle had been taking place in the depths of the silver ocean ten thousand meters below the ground.
"Senior Gao Xingce was truly a role model for Cultivators. From him, I seem to understand why the Star Ocean Imperium overthrew the demon race's thirty thousand years of reign and dominated the sea of stars in only a thousand years!"
Inside the cockpit, Ding Ling Dong, Ba Weiqi, Leng Ziming, and Yan Yangtian bowed to Gao Xingce's body respectfully.
"As a result, the questions that have been haunting me for a long time have all been answered."
Leng Ziming analyzed calmly, "When we first arrived on Boneyard, I always felt uneasy. I felt that everything was going too smoothly.
"We found so many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures the moment we arrived. Also, there was not the slightest trap or barrier around Skeleton Dragon's residence. Not just us, even a bunch of Refinement Stage Cultivators could enter it easily. It didn't look like the nest of an unparalleled deadly demon at all.
"Skeleton Dragon let us in on purpose so that we could break the barrier and set him free!"
"Not good!"
"The exploration squad of the demon race is still outside. They will certainly break the barrier without caring about anything!"
"We have to get out and stop them as soon as possible!"
"Vulture, how long will it take for Sparkle to be fully activated?"
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts had been connected to the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle. A lot of information was transmitted into his brain every second, turning into thousands of data and thousands of structural designs.
Li Yao's computational ability was maximized. His eyeballs were shivering rapidly, and his face was flushed. White smoke was popping up from his messy hair. Breathing heavily for a moment, he said,
"At least ten sets of power rune arrays and four sets of anti-gravity rune arrays have to be repaired in order to maintain the operation at the minimum standard. Other than that, the drill of mystic rays has to be further repaired in order to help us dig out of the rock stratum. The Rogue Meteorite has to be upgraded and modified, too. Otherwise, we won't be able to compete with the demons even if we go out without a weapon.
"Besides. Our Crystal Suit is mostly damaged. We still have some time to repair it.
"The four of them together will take at least sixty-five hours and forty-eight minutes!"
Leng Ziming frowned.
"Sixty-five hours. That's almost three days. That's too long. There are too many uncertainties! "
Yan Yangtian, however, said,
"Almost three days. It's not necessarily too late. Don't forget that two Star Teams are patrolling outside besides us, including Team Thunder Soul, which is the strongest of them all!
"Let's put ourselves in their shoes. If I were a demon, I wouldn't do it before all the Star Teams were annihilated. I would take the risk and open Skeleton Dragon's cave.
"Logically speaking, there must be a lot of traps and barriers in the cave of such a ferocious demon. To get the secret treasures inside, we must pay a bloody price and suffer heavy losses.
"If we open the cave rashly before the enemy is annihilated, it is very likely that we will be working for others. With the selfish nature of the demons, why would they do such a stupid thing?
"So. I estimate that the demons will definitely explore the undersea town first and clean up the periphery. On the other hand, they will set up a lot of traps. We will wait for the arrival of the Star Teams. After confirming that there is no threat, we will open the cave.
"Three days. We still have a chance!"
Li Yao also said, "That's right.
The few of you haven't recovered from your serious injuries yet. It's useless to rush out now. It's better to take advantage of the three days to heal your wounds. I don't know what you are doing now. How is your recovery? "
Ding Ling Dong said,
"The three of us forcibly activated our spiritual seeds. We released strength comparable to that of a Yuanying expert. Our bodies were seriously injured. We are very weak right now.
"But thankfully, none of us were mentally deranged. Besides, our veins and nerves have been greatly expanded after the stimulation of the spiritual seeds. With the help of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures such as the Flowing Brightness Crystal, our capability will definitely soar after we recover!
"As long as Team Blue Bronze doesn't perish this time, I'm confident that we will all be as strong as Jin Dan in ten years, or even five years!
"However, in three days, we will only be able to recover to the Building Foundation Stage at best. It will be impossible for us to recover our peak combat ability!"
In the seed explosion state, the potential of a Cultivator would be stimulated infinitely. When the Cultivator unleashed strength that was two levels higher than himself, it was an unavoidable side effect that his body couldn't bear.
Ding Ling Dong and the other two were only physically weak and temporarily weakened. They were neither mentally deranged nor suffered irreversible internal injuries. They were already unbelievably lucky.
It would be too much to ask them to recover their peak combat ability in only a few days.
"If so, the Ares Extension and the Rogue Meteorite will be piloted by me. You should focus on your training and try to improve your capability.
"We will avenge our captain in three days!"
…
In sixty-five hours, the starship that had been sleeping for thousands of years would be restored to its peak combat ability!
The intensive maintenance work began!
In order to buy as much time as possible, Li Yao scanned Sparkle from top to bottom and dismantled most of the magical equipment and components that would not be of any use in the short term. With the assistance of the mustard-level maintainers, he repaired the parts that were in urgent need of repair.
After all, he didn't need Sparkle to sail for ten thousand years.
All he needed was to burst out the most dazzling exhaust flames in a few days!
His attitude toward the Rogue Meteorite was the same.
There were still more than ten cannons large and small on Sparkle. Although they were all damaged, most of the scraps were still usable. Li Yao dismantled them and modified them in the maintenance cabins on the starship before he installed them on the Rogue Meteorite.
The anti-air cannon was not of a high level. The techniques it contained were essentially the same as the crystal cannons in the Tian Yuan Realm, except that they were more delicate and detailed.
Li Yao didn't have any requirements on the longevity and stability of the cannons. All he needed was to ensure that they could survive one battle. Therefore, many parts of the cannons could be simplified and modified crazily. He even used the ancient refining techniques of the Hundred Smelting Clan forty thousand years ago to fix the defects.
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