Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

The Fighting God, the strongest battle artificial intelligence produced by the extraterrestrial devil, finally broke free from the seal of Long Yangjun’s amethysts and charged at Li Yao with thunderous roars. The tentacles that were packed with stings and hooks were about to cover Li Yao overwhelmingly!

However, half a second before the hundred tentacles formed a cage of destruction, Li Yao burnt up the last bit of his soul power and dashed out in dazzling flames of light like a crimson shooting star!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

He collided with a series of crystal worlds brutally like an angry cannonball!

The crystal worlds that had been corrupted and controlled by Long Yangjun were already as fragile as glass. They broke apart at first touch, and the pieces of the crystal worlds that exploded were splashing out, triggering a chain reaction, as if a colorful, shining storm of crystals was sweeping across the entire dark void!

The explosion of every crystal ball was a tiny ‘big bang’. Everything in the virtual world—including the mountains, rivers, clouds, stars, pavilions, horses, and various kinds of people—was expelled!

Countless crystal storms interweaved into a turbulence that consumed the entire fundamental level of the Spiriters’ Realm. All the virtual worlds fell into chaos after they were torn apart. They were melted and mixed up into a mess!

The previously cruel warring worlds were connected to the peaceful Peach Blossom Paradise. The vintage world of ancient Cultivators, which was a duplication of the real world forty thousand years ago, was melded with the most advanced futuristic world, with a burning space battlefield in the sky where countless starships were exploding and crashing and a prosperous city on the ground where countless ‘people’, true and false, were stunned by the sky that was falling toward them!

The shouts and screams on the battlefield, the laughter and singing in the Peach Blossom Paradise, and the obstreperous complaints in the modern metropolis… the joy, anger, sadness, excitement, fright, tranquility, and all the other emotions of mankind turned into surging ripples inside the turbulence. Including Li Yao, Long Yangjun, the twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector, Heiye Lan, the vegetative patients accepted by Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital in the past few decades, and the staff who worked and lived in District 01 only to be swallowed by the liquid metal in the end—everybody’s soul was struggling and floating in the turbulence comprising feelings and soul pieces, sharing and melding with one another!

Li Yao felt that his soul was about to be completely torn apart and transformed into part of the enormous turbulence.

He was unable to resist such an enormous force and could only shout at the top of his voice, “Yan Liren! Han Baling! Ba Xiaoyu! Master Bitter Cicada! Qi Changsheng! Where are you? Wake up now! Hurry!”

Hardly had he concluded his sentence when the most brilliant and unstoppable sword auras that seemed powerful enough to slash apart the universe appeared at the depths of the turbulence that was swallowing the dark void!

Perhaps it was Li Yao’s imagination, but the whole turbulence seemed to be revolving at a lower speed after the sword auras showed up!

Accompanying the sword auras, the short Yan Liren jumped out with a head like a wax gourd. He floated above the turbulence, completely melded with the sword auras!

After another clear and firm enchantment, Master Bitter Cicada’s handsome face that could make any man jealous enough to punch it slowly surfaced from the depths of the turbulence!

“Sword Maniac! Master!”

Before Li Yao had the chance to be excited, Master Bitter Cicada looked around and dived back into the turbulence.

Very soon, almost ten streaks of brilliance flashed out from the center of the turbulence and turned into the magnificent experts of the Ancient Sages Sector!

The twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector were gathered at the most fundamental layer of the Spiriters’ Realm!

Despite their life experience and their wisdom, they had just been through the most bizarre and stunning dreams, in which their soul and mental power was absorbed by the extraterrestrial devil without them knowing, and they were now faced with the turbulence caused by hundreds of virtual worlds breaking apart and crashing into each other. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they did not know what was going on at all!

When they saw that Li Yao’s face was swollen and bleeding and could barely be distinguished, they were even more surprised!

“Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, what is this place? What’s going on? Why is the fire of your soul so weak that it may die down any moment?” Master Bitter Cicada asked in a hurry.

“Well…” Li Yao’s head was in utter chaos, making it impossible for him to formulate a concise and appropriate explanation.

“Li Yao!”

A deafening roar echoed from the turbulence not far away. Long Yangjun was blown out by the roar, and the crystal armor all over her body almost completely fell apart while she was still flying. She vomited blood and drifted randomly like a kite whose string had been severed. Had it not been for the rest of them stopping her in time, she would have fallen to the other side of the turbulence with her soul entirely torn apart!

She was in no better condition than Li Yao. In order to shatter all the virtual worlds, they had almost burnt up their souls!

Chiliu! Chiliu! Chiliu!

With blood-freezing wriggling and expanding sounds, the enormous body of the extraterrestrial devil slowly emerged from the deepest part of the turbulence.

At this moment, it was no longer as delicate, elegant, and solemn as when it was the ‘silver ball’ a moment ago.

Sharp thorns had grown out of its surface that had been as smooth as mirror previously. The silver ‘flagella’ around its body were longer and thicker and being waved in a much crazier way. Ripples were spreading out from the center nonstop, as if it were a weird brain full of wrinkles that was emitting weird yet powerful forces to the outside world!

Virus! It was truly like a virus that had been magnified billions of times under a microscope, a virus that was fatal enough to corrupt the entire universe!

“Li Yao! You sure are bold to destroy my decades of hard work! You sure are bold to destroy the Spiriters, the last hope for mankind! I am going to destroy you! I’m going to destroy all of you. None of you will get away!”

“Li Yao?” The experts from the Ancient Sages Sector did not have the first clue about what was going on, but the highly sensitive name ‘Li Yao’ made all of them constrict their pupils hard. “Is he referring to Monster Li, the legendary Vulture Li Yao, dominator of three Sectors’?”

“Most likely. It seems that we have indeed been noticed by Monster Li Yao and trapped in a terrible scheme since the moment we appeared in the Star Glory Federation!”

“Damn it. Was Li Yao behind the illusions that we went through just now? This monster’s wisdom is truly as profound and immeasurable as ocean!”

“But what is this peculiar, abnormal sea urchin? It seems to hate Monster Li’s guts. It is also roaring in our direction. Is—is Monster Li right behind us?”

Everybody was greatly alarmed. They turned around to check, only to find nothing behind except for the people who were struggling in the crystal turbulence.

“Well…” Li Yao raised his hand, somewhat awkwardly. “Fellow Cultivators, in fact…”

“Li Yao! Li Yao! Li Yao!”

The extraterrestrial devil was still roaring ear-splittingly down below. The Fighting God had landed near it at some point and was bound by the thousands of flagella and tentacles. They were melded!

As it was melded with the ‘Fighting God’, the real body of the extraterrestrial devil experienced yet another shocking change. Its body continued expanding and became even more hideous. The tentacles were thickening, and the front ends of the tentacles broke apart and blossomed like chrysanthemum, turning into bloody mouths with sharp tusks inside!

“Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, we are in the middle of a crisis!” Ba Xiaoyu the Beggar gnashed his teeth. “A tiger is before us, and a wolf is behind. Judging from the intense killing intent spreading out from this crazy devil, its soul intensity is at least above the Divinity Transformation Stage and still on the rise! That mysterious Monster Li must be lurking around us with his unknown ill intentions. Whatever you want to say, you can wait a moment and spit it out later!”

“In fact, that is exactly what I want to say.” Li Yao made up his mind. “In fact, Monster Li is not lurking ‘around’; he is lurking right among us. Well, the truth is, I am the legendary Vulture Li Yao, dominator of three Sectors!”

“…” Ba Xiaoyu.

“…” Yan Liren.

“…” Master Bitter Cicada.

“…” Heiye Lan and the other experts.

Everybody looked at him with the utmost astonishment, especially his face that was so engorged and deformed that even his mother would not have recognized him.

“Are you really serious?” Ba Xiaoyu asked.

“I am very serious.”

“Why didn’t you tell us sooner?”

“Because I am a man who likes to keep a low profile and despises fame and fortune. I sincerely hoped to make friends with you, fellow Cultivators. I was afraid that you would keep your distance from me after learning of my high and noble identity. If so, you would definitely restrain yourselves when we were hanging around. Wouldn’t that be a bummer?

“Please don’t look at me like that, fellow Cultivators. Although I am indeed the legendary hero of the federation, the dominator of three Sectors, the father of ‘Civilization’, and for some people, the founding father of the New Federation, I am in fact very modest and approachable. Don’t feel that there is any gap between you and me. There is no such thing. In my eyes, everybody is the same!”

The experts of the Ancient Sages Sector all struggled to swallow the revelation.

“I am suddenly so disappointed in the Star Glory Federation,” Ba Xiaoyu said gloomily.

“Me, too.” Han Baling nodded heavily, too.

“The legendary dominator of three Sectors and the founding father of the Star Glory Federation is this guy?” Qi Changsheng looked at Li Yao in disbelief, with intense suspicion and disappointment in his voice.

“There’s no time for more explanations. Whatever misunderstandings, disappointment, and dissatisfaction you may have for me or for the Star Glory Federation, let’s talk about it later!

“All in all, the thing down below is an extraterrestrial devil. It is the mastermind of the whole scheme! Right now, Long Yangjun has forced it to reveal its true self and locked onto it. It has nowhere to run and no way to conceal itself. As long as we take it down, we will be able to break the entire illusionary world and return to reality!

“Otherwise, we will all be trapped in the Spiriters’ Realm forever until our souls and mental power are drained. Then, we will remain its slaves for the rest of our lives!”