Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 820
"In the meantime, the Sand Primitive shamans and the celebrants of the Chiyou Cult slowly seized the power of the Martial Meritocrat civilization in the civil war step by step. Most of the citizens of the Martial Meritocrat Sector had been bewildered by them!
"At this moment, the Sand Primitive natives finally ripped apart their disguise and revealed their true faces!
"The space gate that connected the Martial Meritocrat Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector was activated to the maximum. Large batches of warriors of the Sand Primitive Sector marched into the Martial Meritocrat Sector on the shabby starships and crushed the vulnerable fortresses of the expiators like burning tides!
"The high, mighty, handsome, omnipotent Cultivators kneeled in the dust, beheaded, hanged, and minced!
"Their family and children were enslaved, their sects were burnt to the ground, and the lineage of their bloodlines and their techniques were cut off!
"Even the firmest expiators in the Committee of Equal Human Beings failed to escape their doom. They were executed for all kinds of crimes that they didn't commit. Their heads were cut off amid the cheers and applause of thousands of people!
"Just like that, the once glorious Martial Meritocrats civilization was destroyed by the childishness, cowardice, and weakness of the Cultivators! The Chiyou Cult became the final victor of the war. Almost all the Cultivators were annihilated and butchered!
Behind Su Changfa, pictures of turmoil, battles, massacres, incineration, and ordinary people lunging at the Cultivators with their hideous faces appeared.
Screams, cries, roars, laughter, and prayers were echoing from the stereo broadcast rune arrays nonstop.
In the end, the splendid and prosperous Martial Meritocrats civilization ended up as a dark, desolate wasteland!
Below the wasteland were the piles of bones of countless Cultivators.
Above the wasteland, however, were the zealots of the Chiyou Cult, in their barbaric and ignorant ways, with a state of mind that was incompressible for normal human beings, burning the classics of Cultivation, breaking any idols other than Chiyou, and detonating the headquarters of every Cultivation sect—they were eliminating all traces of the Cultivators at a visible speed!
Although he had known the outcome since the beginning, Li Yao could not help but feel deeply sorry when he did see it.
To be honest, the destruction of the previous two civilizations, namely the Curly Dragon civilization and the Medicine Fork civilization, did not trouble him too much.
He believed that it was because of the 'technological issues' that they were ruined in the end and that their destruction had nothing to do with the path of Cultivation per se.
However, the destruction of the Martial Meritocrats civilization, the contradiction between the Cultivators and the ordinary people, and especially Su Changfa's declaration that individuals of different species could never understand each other indeed touched Li Yao more or less.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong but could not tell exactly what it was for the time being.
After all, the materials were the 'brainwashing tutorials' that the Imperium of True Human Beings must have carefully compiled. The presentations of the three civilizations were in a logical order, with the first two being the groundwork for the third. At first glance, theory was indeed convincing and flawless, and it was not something that he could refute immediately.
Li Yao thought for a moment and suddenly realized that Su Changfa was not telling the whole story yet. He frowned and asked, "Senior Su, you mentioned just now that 'almost all the Cultivators' were annihilated? So, some of the Cultivators did escape from the Martial Meritocrats civilization?"
"Not some, but one." Su Changfa smiled and said unhurriedly, "The young Cultivator was the youngest son of the chairman of the Committee of Equal Human Beings. He had received the most extreme brainwashing education since childhood and had absolutely no doubt about the expiators' theories!
"Since his spiritual root was awakened and he became a Cultivator, he had dedicated his life to the most glorious cause in the entire universe, or to wit, to be at the service of all ordinary people like a cow or a mule.
"In the thirty years of civil war, he was a tough warrior on the expiators' side. He was as peaceful and warm as a spring breeze when he was with the ordinary people, but he was as cold and ruthless as a blizzard when he was faced with the liberals of the Cultivators. He made great contributions to the victory of the civil war and thereby became the youngest member of the Committee of Equal Human Beings!
"He was too deeply poisoned to be rescued. After the 'final solution' was raised by the ordinary people, and even his father, the chairman of the Committee of Equal Human Beings, was planning to stand up to resist, he was still obstinate enough to leak his father's plans to the ordinary people and made yet another contribution for the final fallout of the expiators!
"Hehe. The young Cultivator had truly done everything that he could for the ordinary people!
"As the saying goes, you don't thank somebody else for saving your life; you express your gratitude with real actions. He had done such a great favor to the ordinary people that the ordinary people, feeling that there was no way they could return it, threw him into a highly active volcano and watched him being swallowed by the burning magma!"
Li Yao could not help but sigh again.
Any extremely belief would turn out to be a disaster in the end. The young Cultivator was truly pathetic, pitiful, shameful, and detestable!
"Senior Su, did the young Cultivator have a high Cultivation? After he was swallowed by the magma in an active volcano, did he survive?"
Hearing that question, Su Changfa smiled knowingly. "He was a young man. How high could his Cultivation have been? After being soaked in the magma for more than ten minutes, even the strongest spiritual shield was about to be exhausted. Most of his body tissue was about to be melted by the magma, and death was already knocking the door!
"However, the time of his doom hadn't come yet. Nobody realized that a relic from the Star Ocean Imperium was actually hidden in the deepest part of the active volcano!"
Chapter 1255: Blackstar's Revenge (2) |
Shocking images were popping up in the Grand Illusionary Land behind Su Changfa.
In the first image, a bunch of excited, crazy ordinary people were raising a young man, who was impaled on soul-suppressing nails and bound by icy chains, and marching to the crater of a volcano.
It could be vaguely seen that the young man's bloodstained face was written with regret, misery, and pain, which was an obvious contrast to the insanity and delirium of the ordinary people around him.
It appeared that, at this moment, the young Cultivator's belief in the path of the Cultivators had finally, completely crashed!
The second image was captured from the young man's perspective. He seemed to be falling rapidly into a bottomless abyss.
Above him was the round crater. In the middle of the smoke, a circle of hideous heads were watching him dropping into the magma in entertainment and satisfaction.
In the third image, the young man was struggling in the magma. Most of his spiritual energy was locked, and his limbs, face, and torso were corroded by the magma nonstop into ash and nothingness!
The young man's screams pierced Li Yao's soul through the broadcast rune arrays. Li Yao felt that his blood was freezing and could hardly bear to watch it any longer.
In the fourth image, the young man, whose limbs were shortened and whose internal organs were serious damaged, finally got rid of the bondage of the chains and the barrier magical equipment. Driven by his survival instincts, he crawled to the place where the temperature was relatively low. Finally, he found a mysterious rune array on the half-frozen wall!
In the fifth image, the young man was in the middle of a silver, shining secret chamber that had calligraphic, complicated rune arrays on the walls. He was enveloped in colorful mystic rays, too.
It seemed that this place was the relic of the Star Ocean Imperium!
However, after the colorful mystic lights integrated, they sank into a black color that resembled the night sky!
The young man was so seriously eroded by the magma that the poisonous heat had deeply invaded his bones and cells and even corrupted his soul. It was impossible for him to repair the cells.
His crippled body and face that could not have been more twisted were delivered into a crystal suit that was as dark as ink!
It was a crystal suit, an artificial body, and a life-sustaining system for him!
Hu… Hu… Hu…
As the black monster slowly stepped out of the mystic rays, hoarse breaths that were uncannily deep and depressing echoed from the broadcast rune arrays!
It sounded like, because he had inhaled too much magma and sulfur in the volcano, his lungs were forever burning with infinite wrath!
Li Yao was secretly alarmed.
Although it was just an illusion that the Grand Illusionary Land had created, he could still sense that the young man's crashed belief was quickly condensing into something different and much stronger under the motivation of hatred and fury!
The young man brought so much pressure to Li Yao that he almost could not help but summon the whole strength of the Nascent Soul Stage to resist it!
However, he vaguely had a feeling that, even if he activated the maximum strength of the Nascent Soul Stage, he still would not be able to compete with the black monster!
And it was still just an illusionary shadow!
Li Yao swallowed hard. He was more baffled than ever.
To build such an effect in the Grand Illusionary Land required a very precise simulation system made of magical equipment at the cost of tremendous crystals.
Why were the Immortal Cultivators doing that?
If it was just for brainwashing, were the stories of the previous three civilizations not enough?
Who was the young man, the last survivor of the Cultivators of the Martial Meritocrats Sector, really?
"The young Cultivator found a relic of the Star Ocean Imperium from the depths of the active volcano. He activated the medication equipment inside and stuffed his broken body into a special black suit, managing to save his life."
Su Changfa seemed to have overlooked the bafflement on Li Yao's face and continued unhurriedly according to his own pace.
"However, the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector were both occupied by the Chiyou Cult. The relic of the Star Ocean Imperium was not of a high level, either. It was just a tiny base where a small scout starship with not much firepower was stored.
"Fighting the entire Chiyou Cult with a small scout starship would definitely be madness!
"Besides, for the young man at that time, what he loathed most was not the Chiyou Cult at all, nor the Sand Primitive natives, but the ungrateful, depraved ordinary people!"
Li Yao understood it now.
What the young man found must have been a small starship that was similar to Sparkle. Such starships were highly automatic and could even cruise on their own, but they did not have a high combat ability. Their main purpose was exploration and reconnaissance.
A Sparkle was naturally far from enough to compete with all the people in two Sectors.
"The young man had no choice but to run away. With the extraordinary performance of the starship from the Star Ocean Imperium, he successfully avoided the hunting of the Chiyou Cult and dived into the depths of the sea of stars!"
Su Changfa's voice was mixed with a hint of untamable excitement.
"Starting from the moment he escaped from the Martial Meritocrats Sector into the universe, the naïve, childish, and idiotic Cultivator in the past died, but a brand-new existence broke out of the cocoon and was born!
"The young man killed his past self. He also gave him a new name, Wuying Qi, as a reminder for himself not to forget the great hatred and humiliation that he and all the other Cultivators had suffered in the Martial Meritocrats Sector!
"Wuying Qi swore that he would return to the Martial Meritocrats Sector one day and seek his vengeance in ways a hundred times crueler!"
Li Yao swallowed hard again.
It appeared that the ordinary people of the Martial Meritocrats Sector and the Sand Primitive Sector would not meet good ends, either.
"A very advanced hibernation system was installed in the small starship of the Star Ocean Imperium that Wuying Qi discovered. In the long journey, he entered long dormancies through the hibernation system and would not be awoken by the crystal processor until valuable relics and worlds were detected so that he could explore and travel.
"In such a way, he trained himself in the boundless sea of stars and polished himself in the craziest methods!
"As for Wuying Qi's history of training in space, where exactly he went to and what benefits he got, debates have remained unabated.
"Some say that he was once in the Sectors controlled by the demons. He was even captured and ended up being a slave. But after games of wisdom and bravery, he successfully escaped.
"Some say that he visited a world governed by the demonic Cultivators and even went to the home of the extraterrestrial devils. On the battlefield of the extraterrestrial devils, he fought millions of devils and successfully tamed countless of them!
"There's even another theory stating that Wuying Qi once explored the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor, the strongest expert of mankind in the past and the founder of the Star Ocean Imperium. Not only did he receive the Supreme Emperor's legacy, he also found a few volumes of the Book of Revelation!"
"Ah!" Li Yao's heart was pounding again.
The Book of Revelation, which stored the essence of the Pangu civilization, was actually found by Wuying Qi?
Li Yao was more and more curious about the young man who was locked in a black shell!
"All in all, with the hibernation system, and through his adventures in multiple Sectors, Wuying Qi finally reached an unbelievable level after wandering in the sea of stars for hundreds of years.
"At that time, navigated by the broken star maps he retrieved from different Sectors, he finally arrived in a new Sector and encountered another civilization of mankind that was led by Cultivators!"
Behind Su Changfa, a star map that was dozens of times vaster and more prosperous than the Martial Meritocrats civilization popped up.
Interconnecting transportation routes and dense light spots that represented habitable planets formed a glittering and lively ocean. A torch seemed to be burning furiously in the dark, bleak space!
Li Yao could not help but grow suspicious in his heart.
Didn't the guy say that he would tell the stories of the destruction of three civilizations? What's a fourth civilization doing here?
However, Li Yao vaguely had a feeling that Curly Dragon, Medicine Fork, and Martial Meritocrats were just appetizers. The fourth civilization was Su Changfa's real focus and the key point of the 'true path of immortality'!
"It was not until he reached this particular civilization of mankind that Wuying Qi finally understood that there is no limit in the universe! He had thought that the Martial Meritocrats civilization was the strongest, most advanced force of human beings in the universe. He had never expected that the force at the center of the universe, after absorbing the heritage of the Star Ocean Imperium, included dozens of resourceful core Sectors. Its influence radiated to the hundred Sectors nearby. There were indeed as many experts and warships as drops in an ocean. It was truly an invincible civilization!
"For such a civilization that spanned multiple Sectors, it was certainly inappropriate to name it after a certain Sector. Since they claimed that they were the 'rightful successors of the Star Ocean Imperium', and they adopted a parliamentary republic regime under the lead of the Cultivators, the country had been named the 'Star Ocean Republic'.
"The Star Ocean Republic was unquestionably the strongest country in the entire universe at that time!
"Wuying Qi's hometown was already occupied and tarnished by people whom he loathed the most. He had also been travelling alone in the cold universe for hundreds of years. Everywhere he went, he had been fighting against demons, devils, and monsters with his wisdom and courage, risking his life. Occasionally, when he ran into another civilization of human beings, they were either uncivilized or catching their last breath like the Curly Dragon civilization and the Medicine Fork civilization. He was already too exhausted to move any farther.
"Naturally, Wuying Qi was fascinated by the opulence and advancement of the Star Ocean Republic. He decided to stay in this place, partly to learn the advanced techniques, technology, and magical equipment of the Star Ocean Republic, and partly to establish his own force so that he could march back to his hometown one day!
"The Star Ocean Republic was a superpower at that time. All the distinguished persons in the Sectors nearby yearned to join it.
"The Star Ocean Republic was quite open, too, and did not reject anyone who had special skills.
"Wuying Qi's Cultivation was extremely high, and he brought many secret treasures with him. Soon, he was embraced and granted citizenship of the Star Ocean Republic.
"Wuying Qi's hometown had been ruined, but he considered the Star Ocean Republic to be his 'second hometown'. He sincerely hoped to integrate into the country and fight for the prosperity of the civilization of mankind!"
[ol][li data-annotation-id="f6e211ee-566d-4a80-ab2c-97417e282422"]'Wuying' means 'Martial Meritocrats'.[/ol]
Chapter 1256: Blackstar's Revenge (3) |
"The Star Ocean Republic?"
Li Yao listened unemotionally and chewed on the name.
The 'strongest country in the universe' called itself the 'rightful successor of the Star Ocean Imperium', too?
