Five days later, on the ocean three hundred kilometers to the west of Void Turmoil City …
A devilish warship that was disguised as a gray whale surfaced without a sound and spurted an enormous pillar of water into the gray sky.
Inside the devilish warship, Li Yao observed the situation in Void Turmoil City through the biochemical eyes that were hidden inside the pillar of water.
Naturally, it was impossible for him to see the details clearly from three hundred kilometers away. He could only sense the chaotic magnetic field and the burning demonic flames in the sky of Void Turmoil City.
The city had just gone through a great battle. It was still shrouded in gloom and surrounded by the Coalition Army of Demons.
The ocean up ahead was guarded by the elites of the Sea Clan in the Coalition Army of Demons. The devilish warship of the Blade of Chaos did not dare draw any closer and could only escort Li Yao to this place.
What happened next would be up to him alone.
Li Yao turned down other people's offers to go with him.
On one hand, the three tactical squads of Skyfire had not been trained yet. They had to seize every second to train themselves in order to deal with the more important mission that was to come.
Besides, sneaking into Void Turmoil City, which had been occupied and besieged by a great army, and bringing one person out was not necessarily a mission where more hands were needed.
With Li Yao's capability right now, unless the person was a comrade on the level of Fire Ant, anybody else would only add to his trouble.
If a mission could not be accomplished by him, it would be futile even if he brought a hundred or so people with him!
"President."
Standing behind Li Yao, Yuchi Ba said respectfully, "The general layout of Void Turmoil City, including the hundreds of secret channels in the sewers when we built the city, has been stored in your crystal processor. With the secret channels, you will be able to appear anywhere in Void Turmoil City without alarming anyone. Of course, you will have to pass through the undersea defense line guarded by the Sea Clan first."
"Got it."
Li Yao nodded. "You will wait for me here. Keep an eye on the situation in Void Turmoil City. If everything goes well, I will be able to bring Jin Xinyue out in half a day. If there is any trouble, then you will come back after one, three, or seven days. Go to the three meeting points and meet me there. If you don't find me at any of them, then there's no need to wait any longer. Just return to the Realm of Mystery Shadow. Jin Xinyue and I will figure out a way. "
Swoosh!
Li Yao pressed the index finger and the middle finger of his right hand against his forehead and retrieved the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit from his Cosmos Ring.
The newborn Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit enveloped him like thick, black liquid and solidified instantly. The seemingly withered muscles and shell expanded nonstop, spurting out intense demonic energy that was even condensing into black spirals around the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. Everybody on the devilish warship could not help but shudder.
If an ignorant cultivator were to see such a scene, they would definitely feel as if they were facing a great enemy, thinking that the peerless Demon King had descended!
"It's still too exaggerated. What a blunder this time!"
Li Yao frowned.
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was being modified. A lot of biochemical materials had been added to make it develop into a perfect combination of a Crystal Suit and a biochemical beast. Such an approach had significantly improved the performance of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. But it raised a problem that Li Yao had never considered before.
The problem was that the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, which was covered in a lot of living cell materials, could not be stored in a Cosmos Ring!
Generally speaking, Cosmos Rings could not be used to store living creatures.
It was because most of the Cosmos Rings worked by compressing the molecular structure of a three-dimensional object into a 'four-dimensional crystal' with a higher 'density' through the superfolding principle. When it was time to retrieve the crystal, it would be decompressed in reverse. The 'four-dimensional crystal' was unfolded in a three-dimensional space.
For example, a newspaper was too big when it was unfolded. If it was too difficult to carry, crumple it into a ball. If the ball was squeezed, it would be easy to stuff it into a tiny space.
It was exactly how the 'two-dimensional plane' was compressed into a 'three-dimensional crystal'.
When it was time to read it again, the 'paper ball' would be decompressed, flattened, and restored to the two-dimensional plane.
It was not hard to imagine that, when a newspaper was crumpled and unfolded, its surface would be full of creases. On the microscopic level that was invisible to the naked eye, a lot of fibers would have been broken.
It was the same for the storage of Cosmos Rings. During the compression and decompression, the materials would suffer minor damage.
For the lifeless objects, such minor damage could be ignored and their original characteristics and functions could be maintained, just like a crumpled newspaper could be read and stored normally.
However, the cells that boasted high activity, especially the brain cells that were used to think, could hardly resist such damage.
Countless experts of both the human race and the demon race had studied the topic of storing living creatures in Cosmos Rings.
However, the best result of their research after tens of thousands of years was that some of the cells could maintain the minimum activity inside the Cosmos Ring under the protection of special rune arrays.
Li Yao had once stored a lot of food in his Cosmos Ring with special preservation rune arrays. The freshness of the food and the spiritual energy contained in it could be guaranteed for several years. It was exactly the application of such technology in real life.
There was still a long way to go from 'food' to real life.
It was especially so for the brain cells, which were the most mysterious and vulnerable part of a living creature. Once they were 'folded' and 'unfolded', even if their appearance did not change at all, the nerves in the brain might be seriously damaged.
It was the reason why biochemical beasts could not be stored in Cosmos Rings. After all, the core of a biochemical beast was the biochemical brain. Even though the biochemical brain did not have self-awareness, it had to be highly active all the time in order to cope with the astronomical computation of information.
Thankfully, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was not a biochemical beast. Its core was still the crystal processor with high performance.
In order to stuff the brand-new Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit into the Cosmos Ring, Li Yao, the Fire Ant, and the other specialists had come up with all kinds of whimsical approaches, only to end in failure.
In the end, it was the Fire Ant who came up with a solution.
Although the Cosmos Ring could not store living creatures, it was not a problem for it to store dead bodies.
Since ancient times, countless Cultivators would throw their bones, cores, and other materials into their Cosmos Rings after they hunted animals or demon beasts. When they excavated spiritual herbs or wood, they would throw them into their Cosmos Rings casually, too. No one had ever heard that the performance of the materials would be any different when they were retrieved.
It was a good sign that the storage of the Cosmos Ring was different. The integrity of the cells would not be compromised.
Many Crystal Suits were directly made of a lot of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Even the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. After the battle on Boneyard, a lot of materials stripped from Skeleton Dragon had been applied to the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Other than the hard bones, the materials were extremely flexible. At that time, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit could be used freely in the Cosmos Ring, too.
Therefore, Li Yao and the Fire Ant reached the conclusion that, as long as the activity of the cells was kept to a minimum, as long as the brain cells were not involved, it would be possible to avoid any damage during the 'folding' and 'unfolding' of the Cosmos Ring.
The Fire Ant had done research in that regard a long time ago. He had even developed a cell suppressant based on his speculation. After it was injected, the activity of the cells would be greatly reduced, and they would be in the state of 'hibernation' or 'suspended animation'.
The Fire Ant intended to store the biochemical beasts in the Cosmos Ring in such a way, which would greatly improve the portability and flexibility of the Cosmos Ring.
However, the 'hibernation drug' would cause great damage to the brain cells. The biochemical brain would not be able to be 'unfrozen' after it was' hibernated '. He could not make any improvements however he experimented. Therefore, he had to give up.
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit did not rely on the biochemical brain. There was no such problem. After the 'hibernation drug' was injected, the strengthened cells on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit would enter the state of 'hibernation'. The activity of the cells would be reduced to the minimum, and they would be able to withstand the damage during the 'folding' and 'unfolding'.
After the biochemical beasts were retrieved from the Cosmos Ring, they would be injected with the activation drug, which would make the mitochondria inside the hibernation cells burn crazily and restore their activity!
In such a way, the storage problem of the brand-new Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was more or less solved!
Although 'hibernation' and 'activation' would take one to two seconds, the time of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was very short. He was a bit slow in the ever-changing battlefield, but after careful analysis, Li Yao realized that he was wrong. Li Yao still believed that the performance of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit would be greatly improved in exchange for a few seconds. It was acceptable.
After all, it was a piece of new technology and magical equipment that had just been invented. It was inevitable that there would be all kinds of problems. However, the problems could be resolved through the improvement of the technology. With the keenness of a refiner, Li Yao was very optimistic about the future of the brand-new magical equipment.
The only thing that dissatisfied him was that, when the activation drug was used to awaken the biochemical cells attached to the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, the mitochondria inside the cells would burn furiously and unleash demonic energy incessantly. Visible black swirls were even condensing around him. It was too eye-catching!
Before, Jin Dan would sing at the top of her voice whenever I increased my capability to the maximum.
But right now, every time I summon the Crystal Suit, I have to unleash overwhelming demonic energy!
On one hand, I have to listen to the creepy music. On the other hand, I have to listen to the demonic energy that feels like a volcanic eruption. It is exactly like the arrival of the 'Big Devil' in the movies. It is too ostentatious and unbelievable. It does not fit my low-key personality at all!
It was already beyond Li Yao's expectation that the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit could be improved so much after only half a month. He could only put up with the minor flaw for now and dive into the depths of the ocean in the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Five hundred meters, one thousand meters, three thousand meters … He was in a world of darkness where he could not even see his own fingers.
In front of Li Yao's eyes, a series of changes of performance parameters were displayed on the light beam of the crystal processor. In the meantime, the active cells on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit directly transmitted the external pressure to the depths of his brain through the biochemical nerves.
The two different processing methods told him the influence of the pressure of the ocean at the same time.
He was both like a piece of high-precision diving magical equipment and a fish living in the deep ocean. His speed of analyzing and processing information was more than 30% higher than before. He could even sense the influence of the feeble ocean currents and the dangerous hunters lurking in the darkness! — —
This chapter was specially written after a reader raised a question about whether the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was a living object or a dead object after being modified and whether it could be stored in a Cosmos Ring.
It might not have much to do with the main plot, but it was indeed a very important technical question. If it was not explained, it would contradict the previous statement, and the entire theoretical edifice would collapse abruptly.
Therefore, I hope that you will not complain that this chapter is too long. Old Cow had a bit of an obsessive-compulsive disorder, too. If he did not solve the problem after discovering it and simply ignored it, he would never be able to convince himself.
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