Three hours later, the two devilish warships, which had been delayed for a long time in the super sandstorm, staggered to the southwest coastline of the Silver Continent.
Because of the sandstorm, they were one and a half hours later than expected. They lost track of the target many times on their way and did not lock onto the target again until twenty minutes ago.
On the demonic energy detector, a streak of brightness extended straight to the ocean and disappeared into the depths of the surging seawater.
Judging from the dispersion of the demonic energy, the target must have dashed into the ocean half an hour ago.
It was an awkward moment.
If the target had no backup and only relied on diving, they would not have been able to run far in half an hour. They might have been able to catch up with the target if they cast a net.
However, judging from the target's careful planning, it was hard to believe that the target had not hidden one or two pieces of high-speed magical equipment at the bottom of the ocean.
Elder Nether Spring, Despot, and the other experts of the Nether World Watch stared at the boundless ocean, deep in thought.
Although he had suffered a lot of setbacks on his way, Elder Nether Spring's fury was entirely concealed. There was not the slightest emotion on his face.
"Go back!"
Elder Nether Spring suddenly raised his voice.
"What?"
Despot was dazed. "Are we going to let the target escape just like that?"
"With the cunningness of the target, if he was determined to escape, he must've set up more traps and reinforcements at the bottom of the ocean. There is no way that we can catch up with him!"
Elder Nether Spring said quickly. "But I'm more worried that the target is merely luring us away!
"Right now, most of the elites of the Nether World Watch have been brought out by us. The only one left in the Mausoleum of Chaos is Swirl, who is heavily wounded!
"What if the target's purpose was not to escape but to distract our attention so that he could come back and rescue the Fire Ant?"
Despot sucked in a breath of cold air, his solid carapace slightly trembling.
"If that is the case. Then, we still have a chance to capture him! "
Elder Nether Spring's hideous smile seemed to have been branded on his face!
…
To the north of the White Silver Death Desert, thousands of kilometers away from both the turbulent area and the Mausoleum of Chaos. A black shadow stuck close to the desert and rushed toward the Mausoleum of Chaos at lightning speed, drawing a huge arc in the air.
It was exactly Li Yao.
If it was purely for the sake of escaping, he wouldn't have needed to waste so much effort.
His plan was exactly as Elder Nether Spring had speculated. It was exactly because he was the bait that Elder Nether Spring and the elites of the Nether World Watch were lured to the west coast of the White Silver Death Desert. It would've been best if they could be lured into the coastal area to search.
As long as he could buy half a day, it would be enough for him to return to the Mausoleum of Chaos and rescue the Fire Ant!
If they were lucky, they would be able to capture a devilish warship and rescue the captives. Then, they could plan their next move slowly.
Just
Li Yao's lightning-fast figure trembled slightly in his embrace. He stopped abruptly.
He knelt on one knee in the desert and took off his glasses. Spitting out the sand in his mouth, he took out a thin metal plate engraved with colorful cloud patterns from his pocket.
At this moment, the thin sheet was vibrating faintly under the activation of the array.
"He saw through it?"
It was a minor surveillance procedure that Li Yao had arranged.
When he was fleeing to the west coast of the White Silver Death Desert, he had sprinkled almost a hundred pieces of magical equipment that could detect demonic energy in the desert. The silver magical equipment was the size of marbles when they were scattered into the White Silver Death Desert. It was impossible to tell them apart at all. They would be completely covered by the quicksand in one day.
Like the crystal bombs, the magical equipment had been built by him in the past three days. He had jumbled them up with the Cosmos Rings and the materials in the Mausoleum of Chaos. Their usage was quite simple. As long as they sensed intense demonic energy passing by, they would release extremely feeble spiritual waves and activate the reception rune array in his pocket. They would vibrate feebly.
In the White Silver Death Desert, which had no interference, the transmission distance could be thousands of kilometers.
The reception rune array had vibrated for the first time half a day ago when Elder Nether Spring caught up with him.
But right now, the reception rune array was vibrating for a second time.
It meant that another streak of intense demonic energy had passed by the magical equipment.
Elder Nether Spring's elites had all been deployed. It was unlikely that he would send out a second batch of reinforcements.
The only possibility was that Elder Nether Spring had sensed that something was wrong and returned in time.
"What a troublesome opponent!"
Li Yao secretly frowned. He opened his hands and unleashed almost a hundred streams of spiritual gas. Using the desert as a piece of paper, he began to calculate quickly.
After a series of complicated calculations, the result was that, even if he accelerated to the highest speed, there was only a 7.1% chance that he could rescue the Fire Ant before Elder Nether Spring returned to the Mausoleum of Chaos.
Li Yao was unwilling to face an infuriated Elder Nether Spring and hundreds of elites of the Nether World Watch on his own.
It's a shame that I failed to make the right move. But thankfully, I did gain something.
Li Yao smiled and licked his dry lips. He retrieved the ancient magical equipment that he had retrieved from the depths of the Mausoleum of Chaos half a day ago from his Cosmos Ring and tossed it in his hand.
The ancient magical equipment looked like a brain made of agate and blood diamonds. However, it was only the size of an apple and fit perfectly in his hand.
Li Yao had seen similar magical equipment in Ou Yezi's memory pieces.
The magical equipment named 'Hidden Star Box' was an upgraded version of jade chips. It could store tremendous information and telepathic thoughts and even build vivid illusions.
Many ancient experts liked to inject their life essence and most intense telepathic thoughts into magical equipment such as the Hidden Star Box before their death so that they could leave their legacy for their descendants.
It was sort of a special 'will'.
Li Yao had discovered the item in the crystal pool at the center of the Mausoleum of Chaos. He believed that it must have been Chaos' 'will'. Also, at that time, he had observed that Swirl's heart was beating faster, and her blood was flowing 11% faster than it had been one minute ago. Therefore, he knew that the item must have been Elder Nether Spring's real purpose.
That was why Li Yao had ambushed Swirl in the back and stolen Chaos' 'will'.
Judging from Elder Nether Spring's behavior and speech, it is very likely that the central purpose of his operation is exactly that!
But I wonder, what kind of secrets are stored in Chaos' 'will'?
Maybe I will be able to figure out what Elder Nether Spring really wants after I crack the secrets in the 'will'!
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao was enshrouded in vague spiritual energy as he slowly sank into the quicksand. He dived deeper and deeper until he was dozens of meters below the desert.
Bo! Bo! Bo!
After he reached the place, Li Yao was finally able to release his spiritual energy blatantly. The liquid spiritual energy pushed away the sand around like an expanding seawater, creating a round space two meters in diameter.
Li Yao sat cross-legged in the middle of the space. The Hidden Star Box that looked like agate was floating in front of him. He snapped his fingers, and almost a hundred dismantling tools that were as thin as hair flew out of his Cosmos Rings.
Since the Hidden Star Box is meant to be passed on to future generations, it can't be completely blocked. There must be a certain secret technique to open it.
Although I don't know the secret technique, it shouldn't be a problem for me to crack it by brute force as long as I am careful.
Li Yao was a specialist of ancient magical equipment. 'Chaos' might be more knowledgeable than him in the arts of poison, but when it came to the arts of refining and cracking magical equipment, how could he be a match for him?
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. His fingers seemed to be pulling hundreds of invisible threads as he manipulated almost a hundred needles to scan the Hidden Star Box quickly!
A gray mist immediately enshrouded the Hidden Star Box. After cracking noises, glamorous redness appeared on the surface of the Hidden Star Box. Deep inside the 'brain' made of agate, sparks were vaguely jumping, as if the sparks of one's thoughts were being ignited.
Sweat was leaking out of Li Yao's forehead, but it was vaporized by his hot skin before it flowed out. The tiny hole was filled with vague mist.
In the mist, the brilliance emitted by the Hidden Star Box was even more hazy. Outside of the 'brain' the size of an apple, a new brain of mystic rays the size of a normal human brain was formed.
Where the rays intersected, they were like synapses of neurons where the fire of telepathic thoughts was flickering.
It's done!
After a crack that sounded like a marble falling to the ground, a bloody diamond that looked like an eyeball slowly protruded out of the center of the Hidden Star Box.
A streak of scarlet mystic rays darted out of the bloody diamond and darted toward Li Yao's brain.
Li Yao had been possessed multiple times. He was not surprised at all. He had performed thorough examination on the Hidden Star Box a long time ago, eliminating the possibility that an old ghost from forty thousand years ago was hiding inside and trying to possess him.
Besides, even if an old ghost did possess him, there was no telling who would swallow whom in the end!
Therefore, Li Yao leaned forward without any hesitation and bathed his spiritual root in the mystic rays!
Hum!
Suddenly, a long and strange sound came from the depths of his brain. Countless chaotic emotions filled his brain cells.
Li Yao had never felt such complicated feelings before. They contained both the most intense love and the most violent hatred. They contained both the strongest hope for the future and the darkest desperation for the whole world.
The complicated feelings were multiple times more intense than when Ou Yezi was possessed. He could not help but exclaim in a low voice.
Then, the light and shadow around him interweaved, and the sand was all gone. He seemed to have passed through a channel of time that lasted forty thousand years and appeared in a splendid temple that was surrounded by divine clouds!
The hall seemed to be floating in the middle of the clouds. It was boundless. Countless majestic statues with fierce eyebrows, sage-like demeanor, three-headed, six-armed, and axes were standing around it. Around every statue, mystic rays were soaring into the sky like thick pillars that were holding up the sky.
On an enormous board that was dozens of meters long, three bold words were engraved with overwhelming spiritual energy.
The Ultimate One Sect!
"The Ultimate One Sect was one of the most brilliant sects at the end of the age of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago. It was said that it controlled almost a hundred Sectors in its heyday, with millions of Cultivators and countless mortal countries that were subordinate to the Ultimate One Sect. Billions of mortals listened to the command of the Ultimate One Sect!
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