Chapter 2303 When One Is Dying
It all happened too fast. The Gold Vulture, which seed to have been hit brutally all the ti, suddenly opened its mouth, spitting out a cluster of bloody mist that pierced at the face of the “Heavenly Crystal” like a blade that could tear everything apart!
The two parties were very close to each other, and the Gold Vulture’s movent was very fast. Caught unprepared, the Heavenly Crystal was hit in the forehead precisely!
The materials that the Heavenly Crystal was made of were not any regular tals but the cores and skeletons of dozens of kinds of prival beasts after they were squeezed together deep inside the crust and refined by the high temperature and pressure for millions of years. They were extrely rare even in the prival battlefield where the debris of the Colossus could be found anywhere.
The bloody mist’s physical form was rely just “Neltharion”, a training model of the Star Ocean Imperium. Naturally, it was impossible to break in.
However, just because Neltharion could not penetrate into it did not an that the ntal devil could not invade it.
With the creepy laughter that was getting louder and louder, the ntal devil turned into a raging phantom, trying to crawl into the Heavenly Crystal through the gaps on it.
However seemingly flawless the Colossus was, there were bound to be joints and gaps on it as long as it could move agilely.
The ntal devil’s body suddenly exploded into thousands of bloody threads, exploring the weakness of the Heavenly Crystal inch by inch!
Long Yangjun finally exclaid in shock.
Even though she had foreseen that Li Yao had more trump cards, she did not expect the trump cards to be as effective.
Li Yao bellowed and cooperated with the ntal devil. While Long Yangjun’s mind was greatly disrupted by the ntal devil, tidal exhaust flas surged out of the back of the Gold Vulture, blowing apart the fault behind him completely. Despite the heavy pressure of the ocean, he unleashed the terrible montum above the speed of sound and crashed into the Heavenly Crystal brutally!
BOOM!
This ti, it was the Heavenly Crystal that was blown to the other side of the fault by the Gold Vulture and swallowed by the furious flas. Li Yao’s attacks did not stop when the entire fault collapsed as a whole and buried the Heavenly Crystal into it.
Soon, the ntal devil and the Heavenly Crystal dashed out from the two sides of the fault.
The Heavenly Crystal was no longer as brilliant and colorful as it was a mont ago. It was now mottled, with narrow, long red lines vaguely slithering below the crystal shell like tapeworms.
The ntal devil, on the other hand, stood on Neltharion and glared at Long Yangjun.
“Do you still want to fight?” said Li Yao coldly.
“Hu... Hu... This is more like it. This is what ‘Vulture Li Yao’ should do!”
Long Yangjun panted hard but chuckled in a low voice. “So, this is your secret weapon. I think I’ve seen it from sowhere? Right, this little guy was there when we dealt with Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan in the Star Glory Federation. How cute. Is it your second soul?
“I did not expect that you had trained your second soul to such a terrifying level. Except for the lack of a real entity, its combat ability is as good as any regular expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage, and its weirdness is significantly greater than them. What is it exactly? So sort of underdeveloped version of the ‘Divinity Branching Stage’?
“No wonder you’d been playing weak all the ti. You intended to trick
with your second soul. That was indeed in line with your style. Thankfully, I knew that you were sordid and shaless since the very beginning, or I might’ve really been hit. Hehehehe!”
“Allow
to introduce you.”
Li Yao said emotionlessly, “This is indeed my second soul nad ntal devil. ntal devil, this is Long Yangjun. You should get to know each other.”
“I won’t. I hate this sexless, creepy monster!”
The ntal devil sniffed at Long Yangjun. “Hey, I do not object to you at all if you want to kill this stupid idiot. But this body is mine. If you dare to break one hair on it, I will certainly fight you until I die!”
“How interesting. It seems that your second soul has developed an independent character!”
Long Yangjun chuckled. “No, it is much more than a second soul. I’ve slled sothing more ancient and distant from it. It seems to have co from sowhere far, far away beyond the three thousand Sectors a long, long ti ago. At the very least, I cannot feel too much of the air of Pangu and Nuwa in it.”
Li Yao was sowhat surprised. The “Blood Stripe Virus”, the ntal devil’s antecedent, was indeed from an extrely distant space zone beyond the three thousand Sectors.
Li Yao did not even know if the Blood Stripe Virus’ hotown and the world that the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, and mankind lived in were in the sa universe.
“That explains why you look so familiar. So, we share similar identities and experiences!”
Long Yangjun continued with a smile, “I am a mber of the Nuwa Clan, but I was corrupted by the forces of the Pangu Clan. You are a human being, but you have been corrupted by the ntal devil. We are both carrying double destinies and bloodlines. No wonder you and I feel like old friends at the first eting.”
“We do?”
The ntal devil stared at Long Yangjun in wariness. “What is your sche? What do you want exactly?”
With a smile, Long Yangjun retreated the Heavenly Crystal on her body. She was simply wearing a regular anti-pressure crystal suit. Opening her arms, she showed that she did not have any hostility.
Li Yao sneered, “You’ve had enough fighting?”
“Since you boast such a weird and powerful second soul, it is impossible for
to take down the both of you at the sa ti. It is possible that your second soul will invade my brain and cause serious damage when I kill you. Even my body might be heisted.”
Long Yangjun admitted straightforwardly, “In that case, why do I need to waste my ti and energy? Like I said earlier, this is not a life-and-death battle but just a way for us to bond since we haven’t seen each other for a long ti.”
Pondering for a mont, Li Yao said, “Fine. Now that my trump cards have all been put on the table and seen clearly, you can finally tell
what you want now, can’t you?”
“I don’t want anything in particular. I’m just traveling at the center of the cosmos to get a closer look at this world as well as myself.”
Long Yangjun said, “However, during my journey, I have indeed discovered so interesting things. Do you rember that I told you to be wary of Queen Li Linghai last ti?”
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. “Why? Have you discovered any important evidence?”
“I wouldn’t say evidence, but it is nonetheless very interesting.”
Long Yangjun suddenly changed the topic. “Do you want to et Dongfang Wang? He is about to die. Also, his soul is withering together with his body, and there is even no chance for him to turn into a spectral Cultivator. As the saying goes, ‘when a man is dying, his words will be wise’. What he says at the end of his life will perhaps be very reasonable and interesting!”
“What?”
Li Yao was slightly shocked. “Dongfang Wang is with you? And he is dying? Why?”
“Because his brother’s secret research institute was destroyed and the supply of his ‘soul nutrition liquid’ was cut off!”
Long Yangjun said, “Don’t look at
like that. That was the biggest secret between the two brothers. I did not know it at all until you exposed the whole issue. After Dongfang Wang’s unavoidable failure, he told
everything. If he had told
sooner, everything perhaps would’ve been different!”
Thinking for a long ti, Li Yao still found it hard to believe. “A pri minister of iron and blood is about to die just like that? He seems... too weak from the beginning to the end!”
“It is exactly because he is the pri minister of iron and blood that he is so weak and he dies so fast.”
Long Yangjun made a statent that sounded utterly unreasonable. Then she asked back, “You should know how many worlds, planets, starships, Immortal Cultivators, and civilians are under the effective control of the Imperium of True Human Beings, right?”
Li Yao nodded his head. He knew the series of boring astronomical numbers, but he knew nothing more.
“If you were the pri minister of the Imperium, are you confident to manage the hundreds of Sectors, thousands of resource planets, millions of starships, and billions of people and Immortal Cultivators, not carrying out their greatest potentials but only ensuring the normal functioning of the enormous system?”
Long Yangjun asked, “Or maybe, another question. If a pri minister of the Imperium is really capable of doing that, how much computational ability will it consu? And how much soul power and vitality will he have to burn?”
Li Yao had never considered the question before.
He was never good at managent and administration but preferred gratifying battles and erratic refining work.
But as Ding Lingdang’s husband, he knew very clearly the complicated questions and the tough dilemmas that Ding Lingdang was faced with every day when she was only managing the ten or so worlds at the edge of the cosmos.
The questions and challenges that the pri minister of the Imperium was faced with were certainly a hundred tis more than those of the Speaker of the federation!
Every human being had their limits. Not just an admin-type Immortal Cultivator in the Divinity Transformation Stage; even if they were in the Divinity Branching Stage or even higher levels and had the help of countless super crystal processors, they would still feel overwheld when they were faced with the vast universe.
“Do you understand it now? The Imperium is simply too huge. Anybody who intends to govern the entire universe on their own will inevitably burn up their head completely, just like all the chips inside a crystal processor will be burnt up when it performs a mission that is too complicated and enormous.”
Long Yangjun said, “Besides, Dongfang Wang is not a common pri minister but a ‘warti pri minister’ and a ‘pri minister of iron and blood’. Under his leadership, the Imperium started a supermassive war that was unprecedented in the past five hundred years. Although he was not a commander in the frontline, as the helmsman of the entire Imperium, he had devoted inestimable efforts, energy, and even vitality into the war.
“I didn’t know it until a long ti later after I got in touch with Dongfang Wang, but the seemingly majestic ‘pri minister of iron and blood’ had long been exhausted by the Imperium’s counterattack. By logic, his soul should’ve been drained, and his body should’ve been crippled. He only managed to sustain himself with the ‘soul nutrition liquid’ provided by his brother.
“But the ‘soul nutrition liquid’ had side effects too. The most important one of all was that the dosage requirent would be higher and higher. At first, one dosage a day was enough. But later, even ten dosages a day were insufficient to moisten the dried brain cells.
“It was also an important reason why Dongfang Renxin’s secret research institute did not close even when the situation in the capital was so intense. It couldn’t be helped. Dongfang Wang could not live without the dication.
“Once the dication was cut off, his body conditions imdiately deteriorated. He had collapsed on his own even before your attacks—collapsed by the entire universe and by his own ambitions.”
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