"I won't die," Li Yao said softly.
He seemed to be making a promise to Ding Ling Dong, but he also seemed to be murmuring to himself.
His hands were moving faster and faster, and his face was calmer and calmer. But his voice was resolute and unstoppable, like a falling meteorite.
"I promise you that I won't die. I will only … be away for a while!
"It won't be long before I come back. I will return to the Tian Yuan Realm on a piece of stellar magical equipment and fight with you and everybody else!"
"Leave?"
Everybody was dazed.
Ding Ling Dong was confused for a moment. Suddenly, a lightning flashed in her heart. She exclaimed, "Li Yao, you …"
Li Yao licked his dry lips. The last crystal wire was connected. A brand-new circulation of spiritual energy began!
The last of his spiritual energy was poured into the 'space jump system' crazily!
The enormous teleportation array at the center of Sparkle suddenly glittered. Colorful brilliance spurted out of the spiritual stripes and rune arrays, which were rippling like rainbows!
As a multipurpose exploration starship, the space jump system installed on Sparkle far exceeded its own needs. It was supposed to be installed on a main-force warship more than three thousand meters long.
Normally, as long as the teleportation range was 50% fixed, Sparkle and all the objects within five meters would be teleported to millions of lightyears away.
Whenever Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of enormous size were discovered in a foreign land, which could not be separated and stored in the storage space, they could be installed on the shell of Sparkle and teleport back to the base together with the teleportation range increased to 60%, 70%, or even higher.
But right now, Li Yao did not care about anything else. He increased the teleportation range to 120% by force!
As a result, with Sparkle as the center … Everything within a hundred-meter radius would shatter the void. Crossing the sea of stars!
Teleporting from the three-dimensional world to the four-dimensional world and then compressing it back was an extremely dangerous situation.
Even on a warship whose shell was still intact, the Cultivators with abundant spiritual energy might suffer from the so-called 'sequelae' after a space jump.
It was the sequela of teleporting!
At this moment, Skeleton Dragon was unprecedentedly weak. In order to resist the drill of mystic rays, it must have used up more than half of its strength. Li Yao did not believe that it could be safe and sound after a crazy space jump with its body!
In all likelihood, its body would be torn to pieces by the endless storm of stars!
Even if he was lucky enough to survive, because Li Yao did not have a Star Map, he did not enter the teleportation location.
In other words … Sparkle would be randomly teleported to any point within the maximum jump distance!
No matter where they were teleported to, the galaxy was vast. They would all leave the Tian Yuan Realm.
This was Li Yao's final plan after being forced into a desperate situation!
A lot of spiritual energy was supplied to the space jump system. The drill of mystic rays and the power rune arrays were significantly slowed down. The pressure on Skeleton Dragon was greatly reduced, and Sparkle was pushed out of the body faster and faster.
At first, it was wild with joy and laughed strangely, thinking that Li Yao was exhausted and had given up resisting.
A moment later, he felt a trace of extreme danger!
On Sparkle … The mustard-level maintainer magical equipment, which looked like liquid metal, was flooding to the broken parts of its arms. It was trying to fill the holes without caring about anything.
In the meantime, a lot of super sticky foam that was used to block the cracks was spurting out of the cabin.
It did not seem to be repairing. It was more like they were trying to trap its nine arms inside Sparkle.
As an unparalleled deadly demon from forty thousand years ago, Skeleton Dragon's computational ability was unparalleled, too. With the tiny clue, it had figured out a fatal possibility!
In a moment, Skeleton Dragon shrieked in shock and fury. Its mental attack pierced through the shell of the starship and pierced into Li Yao's brain like countless icicles, capturing a few crazily jumping thoughts.
In 0.1 seconds, Skeleton Dragon completely understood Li Yao's plan.
"What are you doing?"
"This warship is already riddled with holes. It cannot support a space jump at all. It will definitely be torn into pieces!"
"Even if we are lucky enough to succeed, you don't have a star map. We will be teleported to the desolate depths of the universe, far away from the stars, planets, and world fragments. We will be trapped in the boundless, dark universe without any materials or energy!"
"Stop it. Stop it now!"
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. Then he put on a brilliant smile.
"So, you are scared of death, too."
Li Yao spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood. He shook his head, which was almost exploding because of the excruciating pain, to make the blurred picture in front of his eyes clear again. His hands did not slow down at all, but his fingers were almost broken. He set all the parameters and finished the final operation!
"No. Don't turn on the teleportation array!"
Skeleton Dragon roared. The redness at the core at the center of its body constricted into an egg-shaped light cluster no larger than a human heart. It bounced violently and shot out thousands of red threads!
The red threads, like thousands of bloody electric arcs, darted out abruptly and dodged the drill of mystic rays. Ignoring the shell of the starship, they invaded the cockpit and pierced into Li Yao's brain without any trouble.
"Ahhh!"
Li Yao's eye sockets were bulging. His feet were off the ground, as if he had been lifted high into the air by the red electric arcs. His pupils were almost turning 180 degrees around. His eyes were completely white, and his hands and feet were cramping violently!
Skeleton Dragon burned its soul crazily and released the most powerful mental attack, not caring that it had yet to recover from its heavy wounds, trying to control Li Yao's body directly!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Li Yao's joints let out teeth-numbing cracking sounds. His arms were bent in an extremely unnatural manner. No matter how he resisted, inch by inch, he was still inching closer and closer to the operation interface, trying to cancel the jump parameters that he had just set.
Li Yao's brain seemed to have been swept by a tsunami made of blood. Countless voices were echoing from the deepest part of the bloody swirl.
"Stop it!"
"Stop it now!"
"You will be killed!"
There was a rough male voice, a shrill female voice, a young child's voice, and an old man's voice that was mixed with coughing … Hundreds of millions of voices gathered together, and it was filled with a soul-stirring and irresistible power.
"Yes. That's it. Cancel the teleportation and jump into Skeleton Dragon's arms with me … "
Wang Ji's giant face was twisted to the extreme. He floated in front of Li Yao again and grinned hideously.
Li Yao breathed heavily. Every bone in his body was trembling. His hands were completely out of his control as they gently touched the light screen.
Skeleton Dragon's soul was hundreds of times more powerful than Li Yao's soul. It was not something that an insignificant Building Foundation Stage Cultivator like him could resist.
A notification popped up on the light beam. Do you want to cancel the random space jump?
Right then, Skeleton Dragon's mental attack had already infiltrated into the deepest part of Li Yao's brain.
It was a giant, glittering golden tree. But it was emitting unparalleled, inviolable strength!
It was the enormous soul left by Ou Yezi that Li Yao hadn't digested and absorbed yet!
Skeleton Dragon's mental attack was like an icicle piercing into a burning flame. It collapsed instantly!
"What is this?"
Skeleton Dragon shrieked in shock. He couldn't understand why a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator's brain contained soul power that was even more powerful than that of a Yuanying Cultivator!
Inside Li Yao's head, billions of bewilderment voices turned into billions of screams, as if countless ghosts were attacking him. They were all gone in the blink of an eye!
Li Yao shuddered and came back to himself.
Skeleton Dragon came back to itself and launched another mental attack. But it was too late.
Li Yao's eyes, which were as clear as water, reflected many tall, magnificent figures.
He remembered that before his spiritual root was awakened, Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and the other Cultivators had charged at the demon giant made of the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes without hesitation in order to protect him and the ordinary people on the crystal train.
He remembered all the Cultivators and the soldiers of the Union Army who fought bloody battles in the Battle of Green Tarn and the Battle of Seven Cities.
He also remembered that when he just entered Sparkle, Senior Gao Xingce had forgotten everything. He had forgotten who he was. He had even forgotten his wife and son. But he had never forgotten his final destiny.
All those people seemed to be behind him. Smiling at him, they turned into streaks of brilliance. They helped him resist Skeleton Dragon's mental bombardment.
"Ding Ling Dong, I feel that I have not truly awakened and become a real Cultivator until this moment."
Li Yao smiled and spoke casually in the communication channel.
"Li Yao, I will wait for you. Even if it takes ten years, fifty years, or even a hundred years, I will wait for you! Even if you are teleported to the end of the galaxy, I will wait for you! You will come back. You must come back! "
Ding Ling Dong sobbed and shouted without caring about anything.
"How dare you! How dare you! Don't! Don't! "
Skeleton Dragon struggled, twisted, and tore, trying to separate itself from Sparkle. But its nine arms had pierced deep into Sparkle. Thanks to the crazy maintenance of the mustard-level maintainers, it was melted into Sparkle and sank into the ground like a foot in mud.
How could it extricate itself in such a short time?
Because of the shock of its soul, Li Yao seized the opportunity and stabbed Sparkle again. The drill of mystic rays pierced into Skeleton Dragon's body brutally. Skeleton Dragon's struggle just now was in vain!
"CRACK!"
During the struggle for control of Skeleton Dragon's body, Li Yao's right hand's finger bones, arm bones, and scapula were all broken and dangling to the ground.
But he regained control of his left hand for now. It darted out and tapped on the light beam as quickly as lightning.
Space jump, activated!
For a moment, Sparkle and Skeleton Dragon, who was entangled with each other, became illusionary. More than ten shadows overlapped each other and dispersed into thin smoke.
"Ahhhhh!"
Horrified, Skeleton Dragon's three arms were broken at the roots under the tremendous strength. It screamed in excruciating pain.
There was no time.
The front half of Sparkle had almost crawled into Skeleton Dragon's body. Billions of starry brilliance spread out from the teleportation array and enshrouded Skeleton Dragon, forming a shining crystal ball more than a hundred meters in diameter. It began to revolve rapidly.
The incomparably magnificent scene caused the minds of many cultivators to waver.
They could hear Skeleton Dragon's miserable screams, roars, and even cries and begs for mercy. They could also hear Li Yao's violent coughs and heavy breathing in the communication channel.
After only several seconds, the shining crystal ball had been revolving to the maximum. Its brightness was a hundred times brighter than before.
There was nothing but whiteness in front of the Cultivators' eyes. They couldn't see anything anymore.
After a deafening explosion, Li Yao seemed to have drilled a hole in the whole world!
When they opened their eyes again, Sparkle and Skeleton Dragon were both gone.
All that was left were the broken pieces of the Flowing Light Crystal Ball, which floated in the seawater like countless shining and colorful feathers of a vulture, gradually dissipating.
The scene was etched in the eyes of every Cultivator and would never be erased.
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It's not a big contribution. It's just a small contribution.
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