There was no telling how long it had been.
Li Yao felt that he had turned into a drill that was moving forward helically in the sticky darkness.
After every turn, he would move forward by one centimeter. After another turn, he would move forward by one centimeter. Just like that, he kept moving forward, forward, forward, forward, until he broke through the thick darkness and saw vague brightness in front of his eyes.
Before his consciousness could fully take control of his brain, he heard a rustling sound in his ears. It sounded like countless little mice were talking.
"The techniques of the Star Ocean Imperium are too powerful. We've grasped 95% of the runes used in the power rune array. But look at the superimposed model of the Star Ocean Imperium. The same runes and the same energy intensity are dozens of times more powerful than ours!
"The mustard-level maintainer magical equipment is marvelous, too! The Tian Yuan Realm has only just begun to explore the mysteries of the mustard-level. Although we can craft mustard-level magical equipment that is thousands of times smaller than sand, we can't carve so many rune arrays on them to grant them such powerful restorative abilities!
"A treasury. This Sparkle is an infinite treasury! If we can decipher it completely, the standard of refining in the Tian Yuan Realm will be pushed forward by at least thirty years! "
The voices turned into noises in Li Yao's turbulent brain. He felt that his head was going to explode. He didn't realize what they meant at all.
Li Yao blinked his eyes hard. Every time he blinked, the blurred picture in front of his eyes became clearer and clearer. After a hundred blinks, he finally realized that he was staring at the ceiling of the cockpit that was full of cracks.
Sparkle was still there!
"I'm not dead? I'm still on the cockpit? Sparkle didn't explode, either? "
The pictures floated to the surface of the water like fish. Li Yao recalled everything.
He remembered that more and more meteoroids pierced through the cockpit, brushed past him, and smashed the mainframe crystal processor into smithereens.
He punched at the nebula storm and the meteoroid shower nonstop. But they all hit nothing but vacuum.
In the end, a golden meteoroid the size of a fist rushed close and hit his chest brutally …
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. He hurried to check his chest.
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was already on the brink of destruction, but a lot of silver brilliance was still inside the cracks on the chest. But it had been repaired in time by the mustard-level maintenance equipment.
His sternum ached faintly, and he was sure that it had been shattered a lot. There was also a shocking bruise on his chest, as if he had been burned by purple flames.
Li Yao was puzzled. How could the golden meteorite's destructive power be so weak that it couldn't even penetrate his body?
That was really strange!
There was also a lot of silver powder on the skin of his chest. There were even some small silver fragments that pierced deeply into his chest. Fortunately, they didn't penetrate deep into his flesh, so it wasn't very painful.
It looked like some kind of silver metal object had exploded in his chest and helped him block the attack.
"It's the Soul Gathering Pendant! My Soul Gathering Pendant is gone!"
Li Yao felt that the space above his neck was empty. He extended a spirit thread to sense the pendant hanging on his chest. He disappeared without a trace.
Three years ago, when he had just entered the Grand Desolate War Institution, he had failed the test of the super-compressed crystal reactor. An earth-shattering explosion had been triggered. Almost all the teachers and students of the Refining Department had perished. Not a single spectral cultivator had been transformed. The only thing left on the scene was the half-melted remains of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
However, Li Yao sensed weird spiritual waves from the remains of the Crystal Suit a year and a half later. It was not until then that he learned that not everybody had been obliterated. Some of the teachers and students had escaped to the interior of the crystal reactor at the last moment and avoided the fate of being annihilated. But they had also turned into Phantom Entities, a life form that was even weirder than ghosts!
Phantom Entities were ghosts in the form of two-dimensional fragments. They had no self-awareness. They had no memories. The only thing they had was the unwavering determination that they would never give up!
From that day on, Li Yao made a promise to the Phantom Entities that he would help them recover their memories and self-awareness one day. He would help them remember who they were exactly. He would help them unfold themselves from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and turn them from Phantom Entities into spectral Cultivators who could train themselves again!
The obsession of the Phantom Entities was the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Therefore, Li Yao had refined a 'Soul Condensing Pendant' and hidden the Phantom Entities inside. He had hung the pendant around his neck and experienced battle after battle with the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit together with him!
Although the reactions of the Phantom Entities were more and more intense during the fierce battles, they had never made the critical leap.
The dead could not be resurrected. It was extremely difficult to gather the scattered soul again!
But as it turned out, the Soul Condensing Pendant had blocked the meteorite and saved his life.
However, the Hollow Spirit Bodies that were hidden in it, including his teachers and senior brothers, were probably all gone, their Divine Souls annihilated.
Li Yao sighed. He extended his hand, trying to touch his chest, but his wound was pulled. He couldn't help but exclaim in pain.
Squeaking noises that sounded like mice came over again.
"He's awake! Li Yao is awake! "
"Excellent. How long will it take for the medical cabin to be repaired?"
"65% has been repaired. But many rune arrays haven't been analyzed yet. More studies are needed!"
This time, Li Yao heard everything clearly. He couldn't help but feel creeped out.
Sparkle, which was supposed to be empty, was drifting in the depths of the sea of stars, but so many weird noises were coming over. Some of the noises sounded familiar.
To make matters worse, the owners of the noises knew his name!
Li Yao was immediately soaked in cold sweat. He bellowed, "Who's there? Who's talking? "
"Shua!"
Brightness beamed out of the cockpit. Five clusters of round liquid metal wriggled close like five adorable animals. Four of the smaller clusters surrounded one of the larger clusters in the middle.
They were all mustard-level maintainers of Sparkle. But they seemed to have their own consciousness now.
The five clusters of liquid metal flowed slowly. A small piece protruded out of each cluster and stretched out until it turned into a metal membrane that was almost transparent.
The membrane vibrated at a high frequency and uttered sounds that could be heard by human ears.
The largest cluster of liquid metal began to 'talk'. There was even a hint of amusement in its voice. "Mr. Li Yao, you're finally awake? We didn't dare move you just now, fearing that we might cause more serious damage to you. How about it? If you feel that you can still move, let's go to the med bay! "
The more Li Yao listened, the more familiar he found the voice to be. Although it was mixed with sharp metallic noises, he had definitely heard the slightly hoarse voice somewhere before!
The liquid metal said again, "Although we can communicate with you directly with our souls, it will consume too much energy. Our souls have just been unfolded from the two-dimensional form, and they cannot withstand the wind and rain. So, we'll communicate with you in such a way. Can you understand us?"
Two-dimensional unfolding … Two-dimensional unfolding …
Li Yao's eyes bulged wider and wider. Thousands of lightning bolts were spurting out of his eyes. He couldn't help but raise his head and roar.
He recognized the owner of the voice!
Once, for countless days and nights, he had listened to the teachings of the owner of the voice through the teaching videos and learned a lot of valuable knowledge from the owner of the voice!
A man with disheveled hair and bloodshot eyes seemed to have appeared above the cluster of liquid metal. He was waving his arms and legs like a lunatic!
It was Professor Mo Xuan, the well-deserved leader of the grassroots refiners of the Heaven's Origin Sector, who had challenged all the elites on his own, led the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution to launch Project Mystic Skeleton, and eventually sacrificed himself for his cause. He was the former dean of the department, Professor Mo Xuan!
"Professor …"
Li Yao's eyes were red. He couldn't have been more excited. "You — you've finally reverted from the state of Phantom Entities to that of a spectral Cultivator? That's great, that's great! "
"Me too. Me too!"
The four clusters of liquid metal, which were slightly smaller, began to vibrate in a hurry.
"My name is Shi Tengfei. I used to be a senior. I'm best at the refinement and research of power rune arrays!"
"My name is Gao Yang. I'm a senior, too. I like to study all the magical equipment and techniques related to teleportation arrays!"
"My name is Hua Yuanjia. My research focuses on defense rune arrays and spiritual shields. My dream is to craft the most powerful spiritual shield in the Tian Yuan Realm!"
"My name is Xiong Qili. I study material science and structural planning. To put it simply, I study the refinement and assembly of super-large magical equipment with the most suitable materials and the most delicate structures!"
"The four of us are the legendary four experts of the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution and the Four Kings of the grassroots refiners in ten years!"
Li Yao couldn't help but chuckle.
He had read about the combination of the 'Four Kings' in some notes and files of the Refining Department. They were indeed the four most outstanding students of the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution before him. Although they were not comprehensive, they were very strong in their respective fields of study.
It was with their help that Project Mystic Skeleton had been so close to success.
It was a pity that none of them were experts in the field of crystal reactors, which led to the tragedy.
He didn't expect that they would all survive in the form of Phantom Entities and regain their self-awareness and memories!
Although he was at the end of the sea of stars, knowing that so many professors and senior brothers were with him, he was no longer fighting alone.
It was such a great feeling!
"Mr. Li Yao, thank you. Truly, thank you for everything you've done for us and the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution."
Professor Mo Xuan's metal membrane was shaking nonstop as he said solemnly.
"Junior Brother Li Yao, thank you!"
"Although our senses are very weird when we are in the state of Phantom Entities, and we can't perceive specific things all the time, we can only receive some information fragments now and then.
"But when you are in the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, we can feel your burning fighting will in every battle!
"It is precisely this kind of will that constantly nourishes us, protects us, and prevents us from vanishing into thin air with the passage of time. In fact, it even becomes stronger and clearer!"
"Until just now, when your fighting will suddenly expanded to more than five times its previous size. It was like the explosion of a powerful bomb that helped us unfold instantly!
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