Li Yao scratched his hair in embarrassment and changed the topic.
"Have you fully recovered your memories and self-awareness? I remember that you were not the only Illusionary Entities in the Soul Condensing Pendant. Have all the other Illusionary Entities … vanished? "
Mo Xuan sighed.
"Spectral Cultivators are a mysterious life form of pure spiritual energy in the first place. Illusionary Entities are a hundred times more mysterious than ghosts. From human beings to ghosts, from ghosts to Illusionary Spirits, and from Illusionary Spirits to spectral Cultivators, everything that happened to us was too unbelievable. We can hardly describe our own situation.
"We've all regained our self-awareness, but our memories are frozen at the moment of the explosion of the crystal reactor and the long period of time when we were Phantom Entities. Everything is mottled and fragmented like bubbles in the ocean. It's hard for us to piece them together.
"After we became Illusionary Entities, we lost our self-awareness and memories. The only thing we retained was our thinking and computational ability, as well as our obsession with magical equipment.
"Maybe it was because of our obsession, our thinking, and our computational ability that our souls were not completely obliterated.
"As for now, I'm afraid that we are not spectral Cultivators yet, because real ghosts can leave their puppets and float freely in the air as long as the environment is suitable."
Li Yao nodded. He once searched for Wei Qingqing's remaining soul on a battlefield. At that time, Wei Qingqing's soul was floating in the air.
For a ghost cultivator, a metal body was just a piece of clothing. They could change it as they pleased.
In the end, Wei Qingqing chose a Crystal Jade Bird as her shell.
Mo Xuan mumbled.
"I only remember that I was floating in a dark ocean vaguely. There were countless translucent, octagonal, glittering numbers, lines, runes, and structures in the seawater. They were spinning, bouncing, and colliding rapidly. Subconsciously, I was deducing, thinking, and drawing new structures with all my computational ability.
"I didn't know. I didn't know why I was calculating those things, either. What exactly was I calculating? I only had a vague feeling that it was my most important mission. If I stopped calculating, I would be completely gone in the next second. "
"So did we!"
"Us too!"
The Four Heavenly Kings began to clamor again.
"Then, as if a hole had been poked in the dark sky, countless golden rays pierced through the clouds. When the light shone on me, I instantly remembered who I was. "
Mo Xuan continued, "My soul was recondensed, but my thoughts were in a mess. I didn't know where I was, and I was swimming toward the golden light by instinct."
"These golden lights seemed to have an endless suction force that sucked me into the golden hole in the sky."
"Then, my soul sank. I felt that I had been stuffed into a new body by brute force. Countless spiritual and magnetic waves of weird natures were dashing between my soul and my body. Tightly entwined, making the two inseparable. "
"It was not until a long time later that I realized that I had been melted with the mustard-level maintainers, or rather, the warship!
"The same goes for Gao Yang and the other three."
"I discussed with them for a long time, relying on the mottled memory pieces in the past. I roughly knew that I had been existing in the form of Phantom Entities in the past few years. But we were discovered by you, Mr. Li Yao, and you took us with you. In the end, for some reason, we encountered an unusually powerful nebula storm and a meteor shower. "
"Under the impact of your soaring fighting will and the foreign magnetic waves in the nebula storm, we regained our consciousness. But we were different from regular ghosts. More things were mixed in."
"It sounds quite incredible."
"However, it is extremely rare for a Phantom Entities to be unfolded in reverse. It can only happen after billions of coincidences."
"Maybe, some special energy contained in the nebula storm and the meteor shower created our current form. Haha. Maybe we shouldn't be called spectral Cultivators but 'star spirits', the spirits of the stars!"
"In the beginning, we had almost a hundred companions, but most of them perished under the erosion of time. Some of them did not survive the outbreak of the nebula storm and perished in the dark sea of stars.
"However, the Phantom Entities exist in a very different form from human beings and ghosts. The most precious thing about us is our computational ability and our way of thinking.
"Before the rest of the Phantom Entities perished, they had copied their computational ability and their way of thinking onto our mental model in an indescribable way.
"You may consider it as them entrusting the tinder of wisdom to us so that their will and destiny could be passed on in such a way!"
"Yes. Right now, I feel that my computational ability is dozens of times stronger than before. A lot of profound puzzles can be solved easily. Algorithms that used to take me several hours to figure out now take me only a few seconds to come up with the optimal solution!"
Gao Yang condensed two arms that looked like matchsticks out of the liquid metal and waved his hands and feet.
"Me too. Me too. Before I turned into a Phantom Entities, I was considering the optimization of 235 common power rune arrays. But right now, hehe. I've designed more than 325 brand-new optimization plans for 74 of them in less than ten minutes!"
Shi Tengfei wriggled in excitement, too.
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. He finally understood everything. "So, it was you who repaired Sparkle?"
The nebula storm had passed. It was peaceful outside. Although the bridge was still riddled with holes, it was no longer shaking violently and had been sealed. The temperature and the oxygen content had returned to normal, too.
Countless runes were bouncing on a few light beams, indicating that more than fifty magical equipment units were being examined.
Sparkle had been stabilized.
Mo Xuan smiled. "Yes. Death was dreadful, but when we discovered that we were melded with a powerful warship of the Star Ocean Imperium and became its' soul ', the exhilaration that we felt was unparalleled. As a refiner, you must've felt it, too!
"We immediately started studying every corner of the warship. We discovered that it was on the verge of collapse at the first moment. Therefore, we carried out crazy maintenance with the immense computational ability accumulated in the Phantom Form. After all, the warship survived the bombardment of the nebula storm and the meteoroid shower!
"Right. We're really curious. What happened to the Heaven's Origin Sector after we 'died'? How did you get the starship? Why is it empty and devoid of any passengers except you? "
"You are a refiner and the user of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. Anyway, you shouldn't be the one to pilot a warship. Aren't there many capable Warship Connoisseurs in the military?
"What is this place? A new Greater Thousand World? "
"Although we don't know the distance, according to our observation, the stars here are at least ten times dimmer than the sun of the Tian Yuan Realm, which is not enough to support a world of Cultivators. Therefore, this place should be a desolate and barren wasteland. Why did we travel to a wasteland?"
The perception of Phantom Entities about the outside world was different from that of ordinary people. When Mo Xuan and the rest of them were in the Phantom Form, they could only sense Li Yao's intense soul waves and his calculations, ideas, and questions about the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
As for the rest of what had happened … But they knew nothing about it.
It was exactly like how Li Yao couldn't perceive what was happening to them at that time.
Li Yao thought for a long time and briefly told them what had happened after the explosion of the Refining Department, including the invasion of the Blood Demon Sector, the MP Crystal Suit, Occult Orbs Fellowship, and the exploration of Boneyard.
Although he left out a lot of complicated details … The five spectral Cultivators were still awed by his words.
Xiong Qili, one of the 'Four Kings', extended a long, narrow arm of liquid metal. He patted Li Yao's shoulder heavily and said, "You chose to jump to the depths of the sea of stars in order to eliminate Skeleton Dragon? Mr. Li Yao. You are so cool! "
Hua Yuanjia smiled, too. "We were told that there was a guy among the freshmen whose goal was to challenge the Refining Department of Deep Sea University and claim the 'Holy Land of Refiners'. We thought that he was just an idiot with a big mouth. We didn't know that he was … a real hero!"
Li Yao coughed awkwardly.
Hero?
He never knew that he could be related to these two words.
Thinking about the changes that had happened to him in the past few years, he found it unbelievable.
When he was in high school, Fiend Blade Peng Hai had come to Chixiao No. 2 High School for the first time.
At that time, he had wanted to be a Cultivator, too. But his biggest motivation was that he had heard that Cultivators such as Peng Hai could live in villas, drive luxury cars, and have beautiful girls throw themselves at them. It was not difficult for him to earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions a year.
However, on the crystal train north to the Grand Desolate Plateau, the image of the seven Cultivators standing side by side and sacrificing themselves generously was deeply etched in his spiritual root, allowing him to awaken his spiritual root the next day and embark on the path of Cultivation.
After that, he had been training nonstop for the purpose of refining the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. He had only been trying to make a name for himself in the Federation. He had never thought of being a hero.
But after the battles of Verdant Tarn City, the War of Seven Cities, and the battles of Occult Orbs Fellowship, he had witnessed the bloody battles of countless Cultivators and ordinary people. After he had made the choice of life and death, his mindset had changed without him knowing it.
But on Boneyard …
He had read Senior Gao Xingce's diary and 'seen' the catastrophe that was about to befall the Tian Yuan Realm from Skeleton Dragon's mental attack.
He had no other choice.
Li Yao confirmed again that he was not a hero, and he never wanted to be a bullsh * t hero.
It was just that he hadn't changed his original intention of becoming a cultivator.
A Cultivator like Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, Guan Xiong, Gao Xingce, and so on.
Li Yao's eyes suddenly shined.
He said, "Now, you know everything. The six of us are floating somewhere in the sea of stars on a ragged starship.
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