Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao’s senses penetrated into the cold floor like the roots of an enormous tree through his eyes, palms, and abdomen, spreading out to the dozens of spaceports around.

In the perception of his soul, the entire “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” gradually turned into a transparent, crystal castle.

The starships docked in the various spaceports of the “crystal castle” caught his attention.

When starships were activated, they were bound to spurt out dazzling flames of light and release intense spiritual waves, which could not escape the senses of Li Yao who was at the Divinity Transformation Stage.

Every starship was as clear as an ant under the scorching sun. Their trajectories to the sea of stars were captured clearly by Li Yao.

In only an hour, almost all the starships docked in “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” were launched to the battlefield in space to crush and besiege the coalition fleet of Starlight.

The only things left in the spaceport were the civil carriers and small barges, but they were filled with fuel and ready to be activated too.

The battles in the space were always protracted and could not be resolved in a day or two. By Li Yao’s estimation, even though the enemy was as untrained as Starlight, it was impossible to catch all the rats and cockroaches that were running amok without ten days to half a month’s hunting and blocking.

In other words, the interior of “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” couldn’t have been more weakly defended.

Most of the elites, including Li Lingfeng, had marched to the sea of stars and were engaged with the coalition fleet of Starlight. It was definitely impossible for them to retreat in a hurry.

Right now, according to the feedback of Neltharion, which was maneuvered by the mental devil, there was only approximately one-tenth of soldiers left in “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky”, as well as the experimenters and the specialists of information processing. Wuying Lan was supervising everything.

Right. There were also the young people of the major families of Immortal Cultivators who had not reached the age of real battles yet but came to the place for visits with their seniors.

“There are miracles in this world. Real miracles!”

Taking a deep breath, Li Yao slowly rose to his feet.

The map of the entire “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” and the sabotages that he was about to commit revolved rapidly deep inside his brain, making the furiously-burning flames in his crimson eyes even more intense and fierce.

Looking at the surveillance cameras around him, Li Yao said in silence, “Are you ready? You must ensure that the connection between the beehive prison and Wuying Lan’s control center is cut off and replaced with false images. Can you do that?”

“I’m already aware of that. You can stop chattering!”

The mental devil’s lazy voice came over. “I am now more or less in the Divinity Transformation Stage too, and I have absorbed the pieces of tenebrum energy from the extraterrestrial devils and the abundant legacies from Professor Mo Xuan. This is just a minor issue in hacking a crystal processor. Do you have to make it so complicated?

“However, I do need to remind you that Wuying Lan is a smart guy. He’ll notice that something is wrong in five minutes at most.”

“Five minutes are enough!”

With a smile, Li Yao rose abruptly and strode out of the dark corner blatantly.

Although the spaceport that was specially designed for the civil carriers was rather remote, a team of heavily-armored Immortal Cultivators was still guarding it. At this moment, “Manjusaka, the City in the Sky” had entered the highest alert state. All the irrelevant personnel had been driven to the designated areas. Under the pale light, Li Yao’s body that was surrounded by flames of spiritual energy was particularly eye-catching.

“Who is it?”

The guards of Immortal Cultivators were slightly dazed. They all bellowed and aimed their guns at Li Yao while they dispersed and surrounded him quickly in the shape of a sector. “Don’t move! Lay down your weapons and receive examination!”

Looking at his empty hands, Li Yao grinned and walked to the lift of the beehive prison unhurriedly while baring his white and sharp teeth.

“Freeze! Freeze! Freeze!”

The Immortal Cultivators all sensed the strength of Li Yao’s body that felt like an awakening volcano. Their veins were all protruding, and their hearts were beating fast. They couldn’t have been more anxious.

They meant to report to their superior, only to discover that background noises were echoing from their communication channels at the same time, as if a certain weird force had disrupted and blocked their abilities to send messages to the outside world.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Li Yao moved forward one step after another, as heavily as if he were stomping on their faces and their hearts.

“I told you to stop!”

Soaked in cold sweat, the leader of the Immortal Cultivators in the front roared furiously to cover his fear. Instead of waiting for Li Yao to respond, he pulled his trigger brutally and commanded, “Shoot!”

Da! Da! Da! Da! Da! Da! Da!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The destructive mystic rays weaved into a net, and the powerful crystal bombs exploded one after another. All the Immortal Cultivators roared crazily and vented their fury and fear without any restraint. Dozens of fiery lines congregated into a colorful, quickly-expanding light ball!

After the Immortal Cultivators had emptied dozens of magazines and crystal boxes and finally calmed down under the coarse roars of their commander, the light ball made of spiritual energy and metal scraps did not disperse but continued expanding like a fiend that was alive.

A man whose long hair was moving quickly even though there was no wind and whose body was enshrouded in bloody flames was vaguely seen standing at the center of the light ball. The man even showed them the most horrifying smile that they had ever seen in their entire life.

“Run!”

The smile made the pupils and hearts of all the Immortal Cultivators shrink to the size of needle tips. Their first order from their nerve endings to their brain cells was to escape as quickly as possible.

However, before they were able to put what they thought into action, they sensed a torrent of weird waves coming at them like invisible tides. Then, their crystal processors uttered cracking noises, and crazy stripes began to dance on their light beams. Their crystal suits had all been paralyzed!

The magical equipment that their lives depended on became interrogational instruments that condemned them to death. Their crystal suits were squeezed hard by giant, invisible hands and collapsing nonstop, crumbling their bones and flesh. All of their blood and their mucus were darting out of the gaps of their crystal suits.

“Ahhhhh!”

It was certainly not an enjoyable feeling to have the crystal suit deeply embedded into the body or the skull be crushed by the helmet. The Immortal Cultivators let out excruciating moans and began to cramp crazily.

Huala!

At the last moment when they were about to explode alive from being crushed by their crystal suits, all the crystal suits suddenly fell apart and dispersed from their bodies like metal butterflies!

All the Immortal Cultivators breathed deeply in a hurry, appreciating the preciousness of their lives with the intense desire for survival beaming out of their eyes.

In the next second, the desire for survival in their eyes turned into the most agonizing desperation, because they saw that the scraps of all the crystal suits were condensed into a bizarre boa dozens of meters long, which became the tentacles of the weird man. Carrying the flames of the spiritual energy of the weird man that felt like a volcano eruption, they smashed at them brutally again.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

The twelve Immortal Cultivators were almost blown up alive by the metal tentacles at the same time. Their broken bodies were whipped away to the walls far behind, turning into devastating blood signatures that informed the world of the arrival of a real Cultivator!

Li Yao did not bother to look at the bloody mists that were floating in midair. With his left hand behind his back, he opened his right hand and lifted it. The tentacles made of the scraps of the twelve crystal suits immediately flew to midair and gathered into an enormous metal ball.

Ripples of spiritual energy flooded out of Li Yao’s right arm nonstop, which enshrouded the metal ball and triggered spluttering red electric arcs around the metal ball, making it revolve at a high speed.

When the electric arcs were glittering and revolving most intensely, Li Yao opened his hands and pushed the metal ball out, which hit the gate between the spaceport and the beehive prison precisely.

BOOM!

The gate was blown apart, revealing the pitch-dark channel behind. Earsplitting alarms suddenly began to ring, but they sounded unbelievably thin in the vast, profound sea of stars.

Li Yao blew at his palm softly and pushed forward to the beehive prison with his hands in his back.

However, something seemed to be missing. He couldn’t help but feel that he hadn’t completely enjoyed himself.

What exactly am I missing?

Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao began to consider carefully.

…

The beehive prison was peaceful and quiet.

Although a heated battle was going on in the space, and the play on the Land of Sins had also reached the climax, they obviously had nothing to do with the beehive prison.

Hundreds of thousands of dangerous prisoners that received various sorts of modifications were still caged inside the cells that were made of superalloys and composite tempered glass dutifully under the suppression of the magnetic shackles of “Dragnet”. Every second, hundreds of spiritual puppets and almost ten tough-looking alert squads patrolled the area without leaving any blind angle.

The remaining jailors and guards were able to sit in the control room comfortably as they monitored the status of the giant array while appreciating the exciting “slaughter stream” and bursting into laughter at the Cultivators’ bewilderment and devastation.

Suddenly—

BAM, BAM! BAM, BAM! BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM!

The music that sounded like thunders from hell echoed from all the broadcast rune arrays in every corner of the beehive prison at the same time. Like a flood that had broken the dam, they savaged every part of the prison and the eardrums of every prisoner!

“What is going on?”

All the jailors and guards jumped to their feet at the same time. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they stared at the broadcast rune arrays at the corner.

They had never heard such angry, violent, shocking, flagrant, and alluring music before.

If music could be compared to starships, what they were hearing must be a super heavy main-force warship.

Every drumming and every beat of the music was like the barrage of the main guns of the warship!

Bam, bam, bam! Boom, boom, boom! Bam, bam, bam!

The mind-blowing and soul-stirring “heavy” music was still going on and successfully attracted the attention of all the prisoners, who could clearly sense the extremely dark and violent music that was a depiction of their daily life. It was the pain that they had been bearing and the sound that they wanted to shout out hysterically, which hadn’t been heard by anyone!