Chapter 1917: The Question Before Departure
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Long Yangjun chuckled and kicked hard while holding her stomach. “You are so funny. If I were not occupied in the search for my real destiny, I wouldn’t mind staying in the federation to hang around with you at all!”
Li Yao coughed hard. “What is the aning of that? Besides, what do you want exactly? You can still find your destiny in the federation!”
“Forget it. I cannot even explain my own identity. Although I’m willing to trust you, I cannot stop other Cultivators from growing suspicious and hostile toward !”
With a casual smile, Long Yangjun said, “Besides, the edge of the cosmos is too small a place. I would like to visit a vaster world and see how the civilizations of mankind function in the Imperium of True Human Beings and the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, what the people there are guarding, and what kind of future they are fighting for. Only then will I be able to find my real destiny, won’t I?”
Li Yao felt lost. “Are you going to the Imperium?”
“Of course. Even if the power from Pangu and Nuwa does flow in my body, it is just the power of two bottom-level commanders at a minor base at the edge of the cosmos. It is far from enough to unravel all the mysteries,” Long Yangjun said carefully, “If mankind is really the most perfect ‘tool’ or ‘carrier’ created by Pangu and Nuwa, what exactly happened at the last years of the prival war that made both Pangu and Nuwa disappear and left only human beings to themselves?
“Also, what is the most perfect form of mankind exactly? Is it supposed to be what we look like right now?
“According to the Pangu Clan, if we cannot control our ambitions and desires, we will likely destroy the universe or be wiped out by the will of the universe. The forr is easy to understand, but what is the will of the universe? Is it so sort of rhetorical device or a real power that is of a higher level than the Pangu and the Nuwa civilizations?
“I want to know the answers to these questions and all the questions that I am not aware of yet. Such answers cannot be found in the Star Glory Federation. I must go to the Imperium of True Human Beings at the center of the cosmos!
“You know that I did not hesitate to camouflage myself and sneak into the library in the royal palace of the Great Qian Dynasty in order to find an answer. As it turned out, I discovered the secrets about the Nuwa warship in the depths of the Land of Eternal Night.
“According to the people on Firefly and the captured Immortal Cultivators, inside the capital of the Imperium of True Human Beings in the Empyreal Terminus Sector, there is a royal library of an enormous scale and storage. It has been passed on from the age of the Star Ocean Imperium to this day. The secrets of the past tens of thousands of years are all kept inside.
“In that case, why can’t I do what I did again and sneak into the royal library of the Imperium of True Human Beings to find out the truths exactly like ‘Eunuch Wang Xi’ in the past? Chances are that I will find sothing unexpected!
“Also, what is the truth about the Supre Emperor, who led the civilization of mankind out of the ‘Great Dark Age’, and the Mad Armageddon, his strongest clone who was corrupted by the extraterrestrial devils? Do they know part of the secrets about the prival wars and can help
resolve my puzzles and illuminate my way ahead?
“Everything can only be found out at the center of the cosmos. So, this journey is inevitable for !”
While Long Yangjun was speaking, the picture beca blurred again.
It was obvious that the ‘teleporter’ she was in had accelerated to an unbelievable speed or was even flying in a way that was beyond ‘speed’.
“However…” She put on a sweet smile. “Since I have received trendous support from you all the way here, my gratitude will not be just an empty promise. I already reminded you many tis after we entered the Pangu laboratory and told you a lot of truths. Right now, I will answer one last question from you. Cherish the opportunity and think carefully what you are going to ask!”
Li Yao could not help but clench his fists. Without any hesitation, he said, “Fine. I want you to tell
if you intentionally led ‘Sha Yue’ into the factory of giant crabs in order to create a reborn mber of the Pangu Clan and stimulate the recovery of your mories.”
Long Yangjun was slightly dazed. She frowned and said, “You have only one precious opportunity, and you chose to ask such an insignificant question?”
Li Yao gnashed his teeth. “This is not an insignificant question. It is very important to . Believe , it is of paramount importance for you, too!”
Long Yangjun chuckled and asked back, “What if I say ‘yes’?”
Staring at him, Li Yao declared, one word after another, “The exploration operation is highly dangerous. Everybody prepared to sacrifice themself before they entered the Pangu laboratory. If it’s due to an accident, we’ll have nothing to say even if all of us are killed. However, if you intentionally led one of our teammates into the dangerous area for your own purpose, I will find you, kill you, and avenge ‘Sha Yue’ even if I have to chase you to the center of the cosmos!”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. You do have so intimidating aura today, Monster Li!” Long Yangjun covered her mouth and laughed, not scared of Li Yao’s threat at all. She replied dutifully, “Although I do not have any evidence and cannot convince you to believe , it really was an accident.
“At that ti, when I was ‘revisiting’ the familiar place, the two powers inside my head were in serious conflict, causing my brain to be an utter ss. Besides, the black mist that could block the search of telepathic thoughts were too dense for
to take care of each and every mber in the exploration team.
“If I had done it on purpose, ‘Sha Yue’ wouldn’t have been the only victim. I could’ve released a few more giant crabs to create more ‘reincarnations’ of the Pangu Clan. In that case, we would’ve been able to capture so of them alive for studies, wouldn’t we?
“However, now that you’ve pointed it out, I can admit frankly that I actually considered if I should sacrifice the lives of a few explorers in order to simulate the mories deep inside my brain. However, after debating with myself for a while, I eventually abandoned the thought. Do you know why?”
“Why?”
“If I say that it was for our friendship and I was concerned that we would no longer be friends if I did that, would you believe ?”
Li Yao felt goosebumps rise all over his body. Rubbing his arms hard, he said, “We are both adults more than a hundred years old. Would you please stop saying such disgusting things?”
Long Yangjun laughed and said, “If you think that it is too disgusting, allow
to give you a taphor that is easier to understand. Let’s say that you et a round-faced, silly retard with a runny nose on the street. He looks careful and solemn and is holding a rainbow lollipop as if he were protecting his entire world. Let
ask you, could you bear to kick the retard to the ground and snatch his lollipop to smash it into pieces?”
Li Yao looked as if he had swallowed a fly. “What kind of cr*ppy taphor is that? Of course I wouldn’t do that. Why would any normal person do that?”
“That’s right. In my eyes, Cultivators like you are the retards of the universe. The so-called shining points of humanity, friendship, trust, hope… all those bright things are like the most vulnerable lollipop that you hold in your palm carefully.”
Long Yangjun sighed.
“In the past few years, you, the retard, have been trusting
and treating
as a real friend, believing that I could also turn into a real Cultivator although I was a ‘monster’ from the Ancient Sages Sector with a mysterious background. If I lied to you and manipulated you at the last mont, or even intentionally caused the miserable death of so innocent people, it would be like a retard sincerely offering
a beautiful, delicate and wonderful lollipop in a silly smile, but I slap him right in the face and take the lollipop from him and smash it into pieces.
“Tell . How guilty would I feel, and how could I ever bear to do that?”
Li Yao was dazed for a long ti and still failed to figure out the answer. “Are you complinting
or insulting ?”
“I’m complinting you, of course!” Long Yangjun said solemnly. “Although it’s true that you are a retard, in the past few years, you have taught
to care about the community of retards without you knowing it. In the past, I did not have any sense of guilt, and I would not hesitate to do anything. I did not care about any people other than myself. Therefore, your tutelage was very effective!”
Li Yao ignored the mockery in Long Yangjun’s words and sohow believed what she said.
Looking at his face, Long Yangjun could not help but smile again. “Fine. In case you bla
for not being grateful enough, the minor question just now will be complintary. I’ll give you another opportunity for one last question. Think about it carefully this ti!”
“Okay!” This ti, Li Yao truly thought hard for a while. “I would like to know the relationship between the so-called ‘chaos’, or the ‘extraterrestrial devils’, and mankind.
“When I had a fierce fight with Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan and Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen, they told
that human beings are a type of extraterrestrial devil. At that ti, I thought that they were rely trying to confuse
and disturb my mind.
“However, after collecting the last words of the commanders of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan, and even sensing the information sent by the remaining soul of the commander of the Nuwa Clan, I began to feel that the theory might be real.
“But it doesn’t make any sense. If human beings are a type of extraterrestrial devils, what about the possession of the extraterrestrial devils? Can thousands of extraterrestrial devils occupy the sa shell?
“Also, extraterrestrial devils are very strange, too. So of them boast strong thinking abilities, so have only the simplest self-awareness and instincts, and so are utterly ignorant as groups of basic waves.
“I am completely confused right now. Are human beings extraterrestrial devils or not? If they are, why are most people relatively calm and rational most of the ti, and why are they out of their mind and filled with the desire to kill after they are corrupted by new extraterrestrial devils?”
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