Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

After saying that, Li Yao felt that Li Lingfeng’s entire “domain” trembled, like a furiously burning planet suddenly collapsing inwardly. It was obvious that he had been greatly shocked.

“Do you work for the queen?”

Li Lingfeng’s telepathic thoughts spread out in the most disordered way.

This is it!

Li Yao was overjoyed.

He was only bluffing Li Lingfeng with the highly absurd conclusion, which he inferred based on the incomplete information he learned, especially Li Jialing’s look and his foster father’s last words.

But considering Li Lingfeng’s anxious reaction, his deduction was probably true!

The mysterious young man Li Jialing was truly the son of his foster father and Queen Li Linghai. Yet he somehow fell into the hands of Li Lingfeng, the queen’s brother, who then built the young man into a secret weapon specifically to deal with the queen!

Yes. In that case, everything would make sense!

Had it not been for Li Jialing’s special identity, there would have been no reason for Li Lingfeng to invest so many resources on the young man or tell Li Jialing so many secrets.

What could’ve served as a better weapon to strike a mother than her son who was filled with hatred and misunderstanding?

“What do you think?”

In a moment, hundreds of malicious ideas popped up in Li Yao’s head. He laughed. “Of course I work for the queen. Otherwise, do you really think that the abjectly poor and devastated Cultivators are capable of raising an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage and retrieving a Colossus of such a performance?

“Li Lingfeng!

“The queen has learned everything you did. So, she sent me here in advance to sabotage your entire plan!

“Now, your scheme is bankrupted, and you have lost the game entirely. Just wash your neck and wait to embrace the infinite wrath from the queen!”

Li Yao’s telepathic thoughts pierced into the Tempest God’s spiritual residence like the sharpest flying swords.

Li Lingfeng’s flames of spiritual energy retreated crazily. It was obvious that he was greatly deterred by Li Yao’s roar.

For a moment, he was indeed deeply suspicious of his own plan.

However, in the next second, the quintessence of the prime generation of the Li family realized that he was tricked!

No matter what, the secret was the greatest weakness of his dear sister and the almighty queen of the Imperium. She would absolutely, absolutely, absolutely not tell it to anybody else.

It was even less likely for her to tell the secret to an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage, because it would be terribly difficult to kill the informant to keep his mouth shut after the job was done, even with the power of the queen.

“You are bluffing me?”

Li Lingfeng burst into fury, but there was no time!

During the moment when Li Lingfeng was shocked and wavering, the thorny veins on the Tartarean Colossus expanded at least three times like the most ferocious dragons waking up. A lot of the thorny veins were torn apart, spurting out intense mists of blood.

The black wings on his back were also splitting and extending, like clusters of black lotus flowers that were flourishing.

From the saber, which was made of the spine of a primeval beast, on his highly-raised arms, furious flames and overwhelming tides were rolling out, and the crimson brilliance from the saber was almost piercing through the entire universe!

Li Yao’s most fatal skill had been prepared in the moment!

His head was filled up by the scenes where he challenged the tornado in the super thunderstorm area deep inside the Grand Desolate Plateau when he wore his crystal suit for the first time.

He recalled the unparalleled sense of comfort and gratification when he slashed the tornadoes that were enshrouded in electric arcs and as crazy as dragons into halves without considering his own life!

At the moment, Li Yao’s domain expanded to the limits and completely swallowed Li Lingfeng’s domain.

The entire world was brimming with the crazy resonation of Li Yao’s heart, soul, and saber!

It was almost like the stars in the entire universe had turned into his notes, and the whole sea of stars was simmering under the boost of his battle hymn!

The domain in the thousand square meters around was entirely occupied by the auras of Li Yao’s blade and the determination of marching forward unstoppably despite the blockage of tornadoes!

“Returning to my experience at the beginning, the luxurious and upgraded version of the Thunderous Tornado Saber, the blade that executed the tornadoes, is going to kill you!”

Li Yao and the Tartarean Skeleton were completely melted. Countless octagonal, ancient, and shiny runes deep inside the Tartarean Skeleton fell apart, sending out a destructive force that swept across the Tempest God on the opposite side overwhelmingly!

BOOM!

A red-and-blue enormous ball of light was raised in the collision of the two Colossi. The thousands of ripples spreading out shoved away all the starships nearby!

Regardless of whether they belonged to Cultivators or Immortal Cultivators, all the starships’ spiritual shields and force field twisting systems were shrieking aloud.

The spiritual shields of many starships that had been too seriously damaged were even wasted, and their shells were uttering blood-freezing sounds of metal contortions when the overwhelming spiritual energy was dumped on them directly.

For the starships whose spiritual shields still managed to sustain, all the light beams were flashing crazily in all sorts of colorful stripes, as if they had been caught in an extremely crazy nightmare.

When the dazzling light ball finally dimmed, all the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators saw the scene that they would never forget for the rest of their life.

The “battlefield” below the two Colossi, or rather, the shell of “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky”, now had an enormous crater more than five kilometers in diameter after the blow. All the cabins and metal structures in the giant crater had been wasted and reduced into a gargantuan swirl. The metal scraps inside the swirl had been melted by the high temperature, only to be consolidated quickly into glittering pearls that were shot to all directions randomly.

The Tartarean Skeleton suffered heavy damage.

In order to launch the unstoppable, tornado-slaying attack, its shoulder joints, elbow joints, and ankle joints were all broken.

The saber had been cut apart from the middle too, and only one-third of the weapon was still grasped in the hand.

To pursue the highest damage, Li Yao did not bother to consider defense at all. In the dreadful counterattack of the Tempest God, the Tartarean Skeleton was riddled with holes. The broken internal parts were exposed to a lot of critical parts. Fuel, lubricants, and stabilizers were spurting out crazily, as if the internal organs of the machine were erupting out together with the flesh and the plasma!

However…

Li Lingfeng’s “Tempest God” was in no better condition.

The previously dazzlingly glamorous shell was not filled with damage deep to the bones. All kinds of silver, glittering liquids were surging out, condensing into shiny little balls in the vacuum.

Brilliant sparks were haunting all the joints. Several fingers were even cramping uncontrollably, which suggested a major fault in the neural connection system between the Colossus and its user.

What was most devastating of all was that Li Yao’s half-broken saber was deeply embedded in the face of the blue Colossus, so deeply that almost half of the head of the Tempest God had been chopped off.

The previously graceful and inviolable demeanor of the Colossus was entirely gone. It couldn’t have looked more ugly and distressed, without the dignity of the Tempest God at all.

“How… How is it possible?”

All the Immortal Cultivators were greatly shocked.

It was not exaggerating to say that their whole world was about to collapse!

The Divinity Transformation Stage had surpassed the limits of normal humans and embarked on a journey to the real world of the legendary deities and devils. In the hearts of the common soldiers, they were the living embodiments of “invincible”.

It was even more so for the battle-type experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage.

The admin-type, the research-type, or the culture-type experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage might boast their own marvelous techniques, create an unprecedented enterprise, command thousands of starships, and establish a study that would influence the future generations for the next ten thousand years.

But their causes and studies were mostly too esoteric and indirect. It was not easy for regular people to understand the immensity of their strength.

The battle-type experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage were different.

The destructive force, as well as the most primitive sabotages and slaughters, could be displayed right before their eyes in reality and perceived by every nerve ending of every soldier.

Most of the soldiers that Li Lingfeng brought for the mission of “Dying Light” belonged to his personal troop, which was founded and supplied on his own. They were loyal to him and only listened to his own command. Even other people of the Li family could not tell them what to do.

It was not hard to imagine the unwavering loyalty and belief the soldiers had for him.

Li Lingfeng was a god in their hearts, someone who could bring them from victories to triumphs, and from triumphs to eternality!

But right now…

At first, the game which was supposed to be an easy win turned into a chaotic war.

Then, his own base was conquered. “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” was turned upside down, and the massacres were even streamed to the public. It was almost like smacking Li Lingfeng’s left cheek and right cheek in turns.

At this moment, in a head-on clash that was devoid of all tricks, the invincible “god” in their hearts was slashed right in the face by the enemy, and the broken blade was deeply embedded in the head!

The saber was not just slashed on Li Lingfeng’s Colossus, but also on the faces, hearts, and souls of all the Immortal Cultivators!

“Ugh…”

Many of the Immortal Cultivators moaned in pain, finding it hard to believe that there was such an insane and tough Cultivator as Li Yao in this world!

“Ahh!”

Li Lingfeng pulled the broken saber out of his head, where a black, ugly wound was left behind, from which abundant metal scraps were bursting out. He looked even more wretched than before.

He had gone insanely mad, and the flames of spiritual energy each higher than the last erupted again. But there was nothing he could do to eliminate Li Yao’s awe-inspiring attack just now.

“The man is truly… outrageously strong!”

Inside the Tartarean Skeleton’s spiritual residence that was almost boiling, Li Yao vomited blood and grinned in self-mockery.

Li Lingfeng truly deserved to be one of the best in the prime generation of the Imperium and an experienced expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage.

In terms of their Colossi’s levels, Li Yao’s “Tartarean Skeleton” was an original good sealed deep inside the Nuwa warship for more than a hundred thousand years. It should be more advanced than Li Lingfeng’s “Tempest God”.

In terms of timing, Li Yao launched a full-strength strike after a long preparation, after throwing out a great secret to disturb Li Lingfeng’s mind.

Li Lingfeng, on the other hand, only managed a hasty counterattack when he was in the disturbance.

Li Yao had taken advantage of every detail. It was already the best situation he could’ve created. However, even in the mutual attacks where he had all the advantages, the two parties were still evenly matched, and the Tartarean Skeleton even suffered greater losses.

Judging from how the Tempest God was jumping and down, roaring in fury, it was not hard to say that the attack did not affect the enemy critically.

But it was impossible for Li Yao to perform a second attack anytime soon.

“The enemy turns out to be so strong. It can’t be helped. It appears that I have to burn my life and soul crazily to perform my secret ultimate skill!”

Li Yao swallowed a mouthful of blood. With his eyes constricting into the side of needle tips, he shrieked, “Run!”

It was indeed thrilling to run immediately after ambushing someone in the Divinity Transformation Stage!