Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1151
"I have combined the personalities of Mo Xuan, Su Changfa, the star child, and many others into a unified personality, but you have split Li Yao's personality in half, each boasting human emotions and thinking patterns!
"The living, transformation, and melding methods of energy life forms are indeed unpredictable and splendid!"
Chapter 1782: Brothers Together! |
"Cut the cr*p!" Li Yao and the mental devil both gnashed their teeth and simultaneously declared, "Let's fight!"
This was a virtual world where imagination, computational ability, and soul power were the only things that mattered. As his soul surged out, Li Yao's body that was half in fire and half in blood expanded crazily, too, until it was almost the same size as the Fighting God!
The fire in his right hand and the blood stripes in his left hand condensed into two enormous blades that looked like sickles. Shrouded in devastating auras, he attacked the Fighting God. The enormous blade left such a long trace behind that it seemed capable of slashing a planet in half!
However—
From the end of the elbows of the Fighting God, two enormous blades that looked like sickles extended out, too, and vibrated at a frequency of more than ten thousand times per second. The four enormous blades collided and shook hundreds of thousands of times within a moment, leading to an overwhelming ocean of shadows and the shrieks that were utterly unbearable for human ears!
The enemy seemed to boast prophetic abilities. Every sharp, unpredictable attack from Li Yao and the mental devil was blocked in advance. On the other hand, the erratic moves that it utilized were always one step ahead of Li Yao's defense. After only several seconds, hundreds of wounds were slit all over the body of Li Yao and the mental devil. However, it was not blood that ran out of the wounds but deep gold and dark red soul power.
Li Yao's soul was fading quickly and being absorbed by the enemy!
"Give up, Li Yao!" The silver ball that was observing the battle from far away smiled casually. "This hyper spirit is the most perfect battle artificial intelligence. Its database stores the essence of more than a million clips of battle videos, which allows it to simulate the classic tactics of all the super experts in the federation over the past hundred years. Naturally, as the Ultra-Level Federal Hero, you were an important target of studies for the artificial intelligence!
"All your public battle and training videos have been included in its database. It knows every detail of your combat pattern and can even simulate it perfectly!"
Hardly had the silver ball concluded his sentence when the Fighting God suddenly took a step back. With ripples spreading out of its body, new plate armor and patterns appeared on it, turning into an enormous Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
It made a few causal moments. The more Li Yao looked at it, the more familiar it appeared to him. He almost felt like he was looking at a mirror!
"*sshole!"
Li Yao and the mental devil were utterly dumbfounded.
The silver ball smiled and said, "Your attacks have all been seen through. You can never defeat it!"
"Bullsh*t!"
Li Yao's eyes were bloodshot, and flames of spiritual energy were surging out, rolling into almost a hundred Triple-Headed Six-Barreled Vulcan Machine Cannons!
But the silver brightness on the enemy's body was wriggling and soon changed into remote attack weapons identical to what he had!
"Ahhh!"
The two parties opened fire at the same time. Stormy bullets swept across the entire battlefield. Li Yao and the Fighting God were both caught in the turbulence of destruction. It was the purest head-on clash of computational ability and soul power!
Although it was a virtual world, the two parties had to 'imagine' hundreds of thousands of bullets, render their power, and calculate the trajectories of the bullets when they attacked the enemy. Even for the brains of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator or super crystal processors with a performance of billions of floating-point operations per second, it was still a huge burden!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Bullets of the two parties collided in the void. This place was not truly space. When the colorful blasts were spreading out, deafening explosions were triggered, too.
The explosions bashed Li Yao's temples time and time again like iron fists, making his head dizzy and his heart pound. It was even difficult to breath!
Damn it. His soul power was growing weaker and weaker!
Things were not going to work out in such a way. He was not faced with a living enemy right now. The enemy's computational ability likely comprised a hundred super crystal processors that were connected together. As for its 'soul power'…
It was looted by the silver ball from the countless people who were trapped in the crystal worlds without them knowing it. Even the twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector were among the victims!
Li Yao looked at the wires that were connected from the crystal worlds to the silver ball. According to the pace of the battle, they were shivering, expanding, and shrinking. Then, he immediately understood what was going on.
The silver ball constructed illusions through the Spiriters' Realm and absorbed the soul power of the prisoners stealthily. Then, it poured the computational ability into the Fighting God to fight with him!
He was fighting the computational ability of a hundred super crystal processors and the soul power of countless victims, including the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector. The enemy had also grasped his combat pattern. How could he expect to win such a battle?
"Then, there is only the last resort now!"
Staring at the crystal worlds behind the silver ball, Li Yao's eyes were burning with blood red fire.
His body that was riddled with holes glowed. Although it was reduced to half the original size, it became much more swift and agile. Turning into a long, narrow streak of brilliance again, he zigzagged in the middle of the storm of bullets and rushed forward as fast as he could.
In the middle of the brightness, an enormous blade that could rip the universe apart was shining and slashing at the Fighting God overwhelmingly!
"Huh…" The Fighting God sneered in contempt. Switching from the remote shooting pattern to a melee combat pattern, it drew out an equally enormous and glamorous silver saber from the most unbelievable angle and slashed upward!
According to the routes of the attacks, the two sharp soul blades should have collided without any surprise and become yet another clash that purely cost soul power.
However, Li Yao and the mental devil retracted the saber at the last moment and merely ran into the auras of the enemy's blade with their fleshly body. Even the eyes that were in different colors were bulged wide as they searched for the best route when the auras dived into the body!
Shua!
The saber from the Fighting God cut through Li Yao's body without meeting the slightest hindrance. It entered from his skull and chopped his body in half right from the middle precisely!
Li Yao cried miserably. Due to the heavy wound on the soul, black smoke was popping up.
But as a result, the part of soul that was 'Li Yao' and the part that was the 'mental devil' were completely separated, too!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Bloody mist and light flames were surging out from the two halves of the body. They were becoming thinner and more lackluster, but the broken bodies were becoming more complete, too. In the end, like geckos whose tails were cut, their bodies were renewed!
"Li Yao No. 2!" Dozens of enormous bloody wings extended out of the back of the mental devil, and every wing was unfolded to the maximum. It opened its hands and stood in front of the Fighting God, while it roared desperately, "I will block this stupid giant. Go and do what you must!"
"Mental devil…" Li Yao could not have been more moved. "But why am I 'Li Yao No. 2'? Even if you are not a mental devil but my other personality, at least I should be 'Li Yao No. 1', right?"
"…Ass*ole, if you don't stop, I will really help them to beat you up!"
"Copy that," Li Yao said. "Hang in there. I'm going to dig out the internal organs of this scumbag!"
"Hooooo!" The Fighting God, realizing that it had been fooled, roared in utmost fury. The storm of bullets and blade auras were even denser than before. "The Grand-Unified Spiritual Nexus is our future. Why can't you understand?"
But all the attacks were blocked by the mental devil with the blood red wings. Countless feathers were shot out while it was screaming miserably, but those feathers also floated in the vacuum and turned into red mist that blocked the attacks of the Fighting God.
"Cyberspace is just a bubble, and biotechnology is the future, scumbag!" The mental devil screamed miserably in the excruciating pain. "Now is the time. Go, Li Yao No. 2. Don't forget my share when you blow up the scumbag!"
This time, Li Yao did not linger on the issue of who was 'No. 1' and who was 'No. 2'. Instead, he gritted his teeth to summon all his soul power, sprinting at the silver ball like a shooting star that was exploding on the way!
Everybody was only best in their specialty. What was loaded in the database of the silver ball were the methods to hack the Spiritual Nexus and control crystal processors. It was impossible to carry an enormous battle database.
Naturally, the silver battle was unwilling to directly compete with Li Yao. While sneering, it retreated further into the darkness.
But as it turned out, Li Yao's target was not its real body at all. This time, Li Yao and the mental devil's teamwork finally paid off. Before the enemy realized what was going on, Li Yao had broken the connection between it and one of the crystal worlds!
"Oh? Are you hoping to break the Spiriters' Realm and release your partners?" The silver ball was slightly dazed. Then, it immediately realized what was going on and burst into mocking laughter. "Idiots. They are all dwelling deep within the Spiriters' Realm, unable to free themselves from the multiple illusions! Those illusions are all constructed targeting their weaknesses and lusts, like the most complicated mind maze. How can you break them so easily?"
Li Yao did not bother with its trash talk at all but simply threw whatever remained of his soul power at one of the crystal worlds after condensing it into a flashing spear!
Boom!
Under the scourge of the light spear, the crystal world seemed to have suffered a barrage of the main guns of a starship. It was shaking abruptly, with cracks popping up on the surface!
However, those cracks were recovering at a visible speed, and Li Yao had lost the strength to launch another strike of the same strength!
"Did you see that? It's useless!" The laughter of the silver ball was even more sarcastic. "Now that I have brought all of you to this place, I naturally have the confidence…"
Its laughter came to an abrupt end.
While the cracks on the outside of the crystal world were recovering nonstop, it was shaking at a higher and higher frequency, as if it were an enormous egg that contained a primeval beast, and the egg was falling apart!
Yes. The victim trapped in this particular crystal world was Long Yangjun, the elite warrior from the Nuwa Civilization!
Chapter 1783: All Illusions, Break Apart Now! |
Li Yao had spotted the illusions where Long Yangjun was trapped with a quick glimpse.
It was made of many pictures, including splendid palaces, eye-catching halls, bloody fights among the common folk, and power struggles in the court.
In the illusionary world, Long Yangjun was wearing a robe that was painted with a raging dragon. She had indeed become king of the world, holding the greatest power in the world.
But it was not right!
Long Yangjun was different from the other experts of the Ancient Sages Sector.
The rest of them were invaded by the extraterrestrial devil when their brains were completely exposed to the tides of the four-dimensional space during the space jump. Their soul had been deeply infiltrated for more than twelve hours.
Twelve hours was enough for the extraterrestrial devil to change all kinds of illusions to figure out their desires and weaknesses and corrupt them accordingly.
But Long Yangjun had been lost in the Spiriters' Realm a moment ago together with Li Yao. The extraterrestrial devil did not have the slightest inkling as to her real identity yet. All the information that it knew about Long Yangjun was from the narration of the other experts of the Ancient Sages Sector.
It meant that to this moment, the extraterrestrial devil still considered Long Yangjun to be Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, a powerful eunuch of the Great Qian Dynasty in the Ancient Sages Sector!
The multiple virtual worlds that the extraterrestrial devil had prepared for Long Yangjun were all founded on the identity of 'Lead Eunuch Wang Xi', offering her what she liked most. It had nothing but power struggles, coups, mutinies, usurpations, and such.
If it were a real powerful eunuch, they likely would have found such a world too attractive to get away from.
However, it could never have occurred to the extraterrestrial devil that 'Lead Eunuch Wang Xi' was just an ostensible identity for Long Yangjun and a camouflage of hers to find her real identity. What she really cared about was the God-Sealing War hundreds of thousands of years ago and her mysterious destiny!
Such a virtual world that was specially prepared for 'Lead Eunuch Wang Xi' was definitely not anything that Long Yangjun was interested in.
However, during his brief observation, Li Yao noticed that Long Yangjun seemed to have truly devoted herself to the lousy game and was enjoying herself very much. She appeared to have forgotten what was going on outside.
But it did not make sense. With the intensity of the soul of an elite warrior from the Nuwa Civilization, there was no reason for her to succumb so quickly.
Therefore, Li Yao immediately realized that Long Yangjun was acting for the extraterrestrial devil, too!
She must have realized that she was trapped in the Spiriters' Realm from the very beginning, but she could not figure out a thorough solution for the time being. So, she simply eased the vigilance of the extraterrestrial devil with such a gesture. In secret, she was accumulating her strength, trying to break the barrier in one attempt!
Li Yao had no choice but to take the wild gamble by trusting Long Yangjun!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The 'crystal ball' that was confining Long Yangjun shook more and more violently. Every light and shadow that it reflected seemed to have a Long Yangjun who was staring at the outside. Her eyes were as sharp as golden daggers that were even mincing the darkness of the outside world apart!
The cracks that were gradually recovering under the collision of Li Yao's soul appeared again after a brief impasse. They extended forward and connected each other, turning into an unstoppable spider web!
"Hooo!"
Sensing that the virtual world here was more and more fragile, the distant Fighting God howled crazily, planning to approach and stop it.
However, the mental devil, which was riddled with holes and had lost all its feathers, with barely the shape of a human, stood before it time and time again, shouldering the thunderous attacks from the enemy!
The pain of the soul being torn apart by brute force was insufferable for normal people. With only fifty percent of the intensity of Li Yao's original soul, the mental devil was supposed to be no match for the 'Fighting God' at all. However, it simply harassed the enemy like sticky candy. While vomiting blood and laughing crazily, it shouted at the top of its voice, "Li Yao! Li Yao! Li Yao!"
"What the hell are you screaming about?" Li Yao had exploited the strength of the other half of his soul, too, when he turned into a streak of brightness and crashed into the crystal world time and time again. He was blown apart and thinner than ever after every collision, but he was always condensed again before he gritted his teeth and launched yet another unreasonable charge!
"Long Yangjun, can you hear me? I'm right here. Come on and save me!"
He delivered the telepathic thoughts of shrieks into the crystal world through the cracks.
"Aya!"
Right then, Li Yao heard the most twisted scream from the mental devil behind him.
He turned around to check, only to discover that the mental devil had been completely ripped apart by the Fighting God. Most of the fire of its soul had entire perished. The last flickering light that looked like butterflies fled toward Li Yao and merged into his body, shivering.
The two half souls of the dual personalities were combined again. The mental devil spoke feebly inside his soul. "Brother, I can only do so much!"
Li Yao laughed miserably. He was not in any better condition than the mental devil. Looking at the Fighting God charging at him like the wind, he was not even able to perform a dodge or block. His computational ability, imagination, and soul power were all running out.
The fists that were brimming with stings and hooks grew larger and larger until they filled the entire world in the end. Perhaps because his soul was getting weaker and smaller as time went on, the relative size of the Fighting God seemed to be growing ever larger, until it almost became a giant that towered hundreds of meters tall!
Li Yao watched the coldness shining on the stings of the fists, unable to do anything about it. His soul was about to be ripped into shreds by the sharp stings when the crisp sound of something breaking apart echoed right behind him. It was followed by a deafening explosion, as if the energy of the whole galaxy blasted over his shoulder, past his ears, blowing up the fist as well as the entire right arm of the Fighting God!
"Aoooooo!"
The Fighting God roared in shock and fury and retreated hundreds of meters away. Silver foam flowed out of its right arm that had already been blown apart, but the arm did not heal until a long time later!
When Li Yao turned back, he found Long Yangjun standing in the dark void in her crystal armor, and smoke was still popping up from the most sophisticated and glamorous crystal cannon on her right arm!
Li Yao was almost crying in joy. He never had such a strong urge to hug a woman other than Ding Lingdang!
