by <unknown>
Shua!
A bluish mystic ray shot out of the top of the light beam projector and formed Li Yao's and Jin Xinyue's 3D images in midair.
Of course, it was the Jin Xinyue who had washed away all the disguises and regained her original face.
Jin Tuyi's eyes were twitching violently when he saw the girl who was identical to his daughter except for the lack of a pair of wings.
However, he did not talk, nor would it make any difference. Such a light beam projector did not support communication functions and could only play the videos that were recorded in advance.
"Father!" Jin Xinyue's 3D image suddenly greeted him in a delightful voice. "I know that thousands of questions are rolling over on your heart right now. Believe me, if you give us half an hour, we will totally be able to explain everything to you!
"First of all, to make you believe that it is your daughter, Jin Xinyue, who is speaking right now, we have stored one of my hairs and a droplet of my blood in the Red Ball. I believe that you must have your ways to determine whether or not they are real!
"Then, allow me to introduce to you a Cultivator from the Heaven's Origin Sector. He is Vulture Li Yao, Senior Li. Now, he is also my master and will be the only one in my life!
"No matter how implausible that video clip is to you, please at least give us half an hour. It is of paramount importance for everybody in the Blood Demon Sector, the Heaven's Origin Sector, and the Flying Star Sector!"
Jin Tuyi took a long, long breath. Holding the knife, he listened calmly.
Li Yao coughed and said, "Senior Jin, I am Vulture Li Yao, the Cultivator who left the Heaven's Origin Sector from Boneyard ten years ago. I believe you must've heard my name before. Also, I am the one who has been raising trouble in the Blood Demon Sector.
"In a moment, I will briefly explain everything that has happened in the past ten years, including the details of the Imperium of True Human Beings and the scheme that is going on in the Blood Demon Sector right now.
"I believe that you will certainly make a sensible judgement after you hear my introduction with your wisdom!
"If you grow suspicious, if not interested, about everything after you listen to my introduction, you are welcome to contact us through the point-to-point communicator.
"Yes, we are current at a certain point within a hundred kilometers of you. Perhaps you can summon all the forces of Heavenly Path City to chase after us, but I suggest you do not rush into anything.
"We went through all the trouble to arrive in Heavenly Path City, and we do not intend to run away so easily. Even if you want to capture us, at least wait until we have said everything we must say!
"However, we cannot speak to each other directly because the point-to-point communicator for miners will release feeble spiritual waves when it is activated. The spiritual waves can be captured very easily to locate the two parties engaged in the conversation.
"We are not sure whether or not those around you are trustworthy. If the supervisor of the whole scheme learns that we have already reached out to each other, we don't know what actions he will take.
"Therefore, this is what we are going to do next.
"Over the past couple of days, we have wandered in the lower district of Heavenly Path City and found a hundred suitable locations where we planted tremendous crystal bombs.
"At midnight, the crystal bombs will be detonated one after another. Spiritual energy will be blown into the sky like fireworks and condensed into enormous characters.
"On the surface, we will be sending over the simplest information to you in such a violent way because there is no way that we can sneak into the Pantheon of Demons and we are left with no choice.
"But our real purpose is to create an area that is dominated by sweeping spiritual waves in the sky of Heavenly Path City through the 'firework bombs', which have quite a long duration. The sky will be a mess!
"At midnight, when the fireworks bombs are detonated, you will be able to contact us through the point-to-point communicator. By then, the feeble spiritual waves that the point-to-point communicator releases will be drowned in the intense spiritual waves caused by the fireworks bombs, like a spark that is hidden in an overwhelming wildfire. Only in such a way can we escape others' attention!
"Now, please listen to me carefully, and make sure that you are in an absolute safe place where you can talk to us without interference around midnight.
"This is very important. The future of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector will depend on your decision!"
Jin Tuyi put his hands on the bridge of his nose, which looked like a saber. He listened to Li Yao in complete tranquility for half an hour. His facial expression did not change at all even when Li Yao was talking about the most soul-stirring twists. Even Elder Nether Spring's Spore Stratagem did not raise the slightest astonishment in his eyes.
Half an hour later, Jin Tuyi returned everything to the Cosmos Ring and hid the Cosmos Ring by his chest. Then, he released a stream of intense demonic energy to obliterate the feeble spiritual waves caused when the light beam projector was functioning.
Jin Tuyi opened the door of the relaxation room and walked out. He waved his hands impatiently to the guards who were greeting him. "I am going to have a three-hour deep sleep. Nobody is to disturb me for anything during the period!"
Chapter 986: Secret Dialogue! |
With a great war drawing near, although it was midnight, Heavenly Path City was still as bright and raucous as the day.
Countless devilish warships and large flying demon beasts were landing and taking off from the ports around Heavenly Path City amid earsplitting jetting and screeching noises.
The Mirage Falcons, Ghost Jellyfish, and Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes were monitoring the hundred square kilometers nearby dutifully. Countless Flying Spirit Eyes were glittering in the darkness as if thousands of fireflies were hovering in the sky of the city.
In every place of Heavenly Path City, many pairs of eyes were receiving pictures through the remote brainwaves. In the pictures, every corner of the city was in order and peace.
Suddenly—
BOOM! CRACK!
From somewhere in the messy, chaotic lower district of Heavenly Path City, a dazzling fireball suddenly broke out!
A moment later, a streak of brightness darted into the sky, leaving a long tail behind, before it burst out into the most glamorous colors.
The colorful spots of light condensed a giant, shining word in the dark night sky.
WE
As the stripes gradually condensed into letters, the intense spiritual waves spread out, stirring up the pool of frozen water and raising a shocking tsunami in all the defense forces of Heavenly Path City!
Earsplitting alarms were echoing nonstop. Three devilish warships made an emergency take-off. Countless demons were roaring and running to the ports, activating even more devilish warships. The Mirage Falcons, Ghost Jellyfish, and Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes suddenly accelerated. All the conspicuous defense arrays dropped their camouflage and bared the sharpest fangs!
BOOM! CRACK!
The second batch of crystal bombs was launched into the sky and exploded into spectacular fireworks. The fire interweaved into the second word.
ARE
After the few words 'WE ARE HERE FOR PEACE' were shot into the sky one after another, the entire Heavenly Path City was in a mess. Soldiers were marching into the lower district, looking for the source of the crystal bombs. However, in the lower district, which was crowded and disordered, their intrusion was only causing greater panic and confusion.
New crystal bombs, however, were still being launched toward the sky one after another, filling the entire sky with intense spiritual waves. In the end, mysterious colors that resembled an aurora filled the sky.
The troops responsible for the defense of Heavenly Path City were almost on fire in anxiety!
In the chaos, barely anybody noticed that an extremely
feeble spiritual wave was sent out of the commander-in-chief's residence.
Like a streak of smoke and a shivering, unpredictable shooting star, it darted toward the ground, somewhere in the depths of Heavenly Path City.
Li Yao had finally reached out to Jin Tuyi, purportedly the highest leader of the Blood Demon Sector and the commander-in-chief of the coalition army!
Somewhere in the lower district of Heavenly Path City, in a dark, shabby, half-underground room, Li Yao could not help but waved his hands in excitement when Jin Tuyi's tall and slender body slowly appeared on the point-to-point communicator. He shouted in the bottom of his heart, Hooray!
However, reaching out to each other was only step one.
The biggest problem at hand was how to convince Jin Tuyi!
The intense waves caused by the exploding crystal bombs above his head covered the existence of such a communicate route perfectly, but they had brought tremendous interference to the dialogue, too.
In the picture, Jin Tuyi was warped by the waves that looked like snowflakes every now and then, making him even more unpredictable and mysterious.
Jin Tuyi stared at his daughter for a moment before he turned around and observed Li Yao.
There was not astonishment or fury after he saw that his daughter had turned from a demon into a human being. There was not worry or anxiety that he should have for Elder Nether Spring's scheme. There was not anger toward Li Yao, a Cultivator from the Heaven's Origin Sector who had raised a great disaster in the Blood Demon Sector. Instead, the only thing on his face was nonchalance that was almost too tranquil.
"Senior Jin!"
Li Yao had to seize the time to persuade Jin Tuyi before all the fireworks bombs exploded, or at least plant a seed of suspicion in his heart. "Have you seen the video that we sent over? Believe me. It is exactly the demon race's origin! Human beings and demons are essentially the same. There is no reason we should perish with each other! Look at your daughter Jin Xinyue. After absorbing excessive Divine Blood of Chaos, her cells have been completely restored to the original state, and she has transformed into a human being!
"As for me—"
Li Yao extended his left hand and burnt his cells, with the glittering crystal protruded out of his palm. "Although I am a Cultivator, I am able to utilize techniques such as 'Cell Obliteration Cannon'! This is all undeniable evidence that can prove everything I've said!"
"Exactly, Father!" Jin Xinyue raised her voice. "This is really me. I have turned from a demon into a human being. There must be a great plot in all this! My big brother tried to kill me with the Mirage Falcons. He even had the help of the elites from the Nether Spring Kingdom, the Kingdom of Lion Butchers, and the Sea Dominator Kingdom! Did you know about it?
"If you did not know all about it, or even anything about it, it is very obvious that your intelligence network, your most trusted subordinates who serve as your 'eyes' and 'ears', has been compromised by Elder Nether Spring!
"Everything we said is true! You must believe us!"
Jin Tuyi looked at them peacefully for a long time before he said slowly, "It was indeed very thoughtful of you to come up with the idea of hiding a Cosmos Ring into a Star Spot Red Fire Oyster and delivering it to me through all the examination procedures. With the appreciation of your marvelous approach, I was patient enough to watch your video, and I decided to waste some of my precious time to talk to you.
"However, if such jibber-jabber is everything that you want to tell me, it will be still too much a waste of my time.
"Same-origin theory? Turning from a demon into a human being? Interesting. Very interesting.
"But so what?
"Even if the same-origin theory is true, and demons were truly transformed from human beings forty thousand years ago, even if you are truly my daughter Jin Xinyue who has changed into a human being after absorbing certain drugs, what can any of that prove?
"Is it enough to prove the existence of the Imperium of True Human Beings or the validity of the Spore Stratagem? Is it enough to prove that Elder Nether Spring is associated with the scheme?
"No. You can prove none of that!"
Jin Xinyue was rather anxious. "Father, please wait for our explanation—"
Jin Tuyi interrupted her coldly. "Even if you are really my daughter Jin Xinyue, so what? To avenge your birth mother, you killed your stepmother, which almost caused the division of the two greatest noble families of the Gold Crow Kingdom.
"You conspired with my seventh son to kill my ninth son, and then conspired with my eldest son to kill my seventh son. You also sold secret intelligence of the Gold Crow Kingdom to the Kingdom of Lion Butchers and false intelligence of the Nether Spring Kingdom to the Sea Dominator Kingdom.
"After your scheme was discovered, you even killed a princess of the Sea Dominator Kingdom. Did you know that the Sea Dominator Kingdom has been our hardcore ally?"
Jin Xinyue coughed hard and failed up come up with a reply.
"By the way," Jin Tuyi said casually, "you didn't cover you trace well when you murdered the princess of the Sea Dominator Kingdom. It was me who wiped your ass for you.
"If you only did such things, I could still try to hold myself. After all, among all my blood descendants, I always thought most highly of you, other than my eldest son. Although your methods were still too naïve and flawed, your brutality was enough.
"However, you were also secretly planning to kill me, weren't you? How would you like to explain that?"
Dumbfounded, Li Yao looked at Jin Xinyue.
Jin Xinyue opened her hands. "After killing my stepmother and doing so many clandestine things, of course, I was scare that you might find out, and it's not like I would wash my neck clean and wait for you to kill me when you learned everything and burst into fury trying to avenge your most beloved wife.
"Naturally, I had to make preparations in advance. Although the attempts might have been futile, they were still better than waiting to be killed. Is there anything wrong with that? I didn't know that you were so broadminded, Father, and that you could pretend that you did not know you wife had been killed by your daughter!"
Li Yao remained silent, having nothing to add.
"Therefore," Jin Tuyi said casually, "if I state that you surrendered to the Star Glory Federation a long time ago because you feared that your crimes would be exposed and because you wanted to realize your ambitions, and you are now here to perform a strategical deception in order to postpone the date of the final war, you will not be able to refute such a possibility, will you?
"As for the fact that you turned into a human being from a demon, it was perhaps because of some new technique developed by the Star Glory Federation.
"As far as I know, the Heavenly Capital Medical School and the First Federal Military Medical University in the Star Glory Federation boast quite a high potential in biochemical technology, cell mutation, and the relative fields. It is not entirely unbelievable to think that they made a breakthrough that the Blood Demon Sector hasn't made yet in a certain aspect."
Jin Xinyue blinked for a long time, unable to come up with a rebuttal.
Li Yao vaguely found that Jin Tuyi was taking the initiative of the conversation. He hurried to interrupt, "Senior Jin, whether you believe in Jin Xinyue or not, at the very least, the changes that have happened to me and her prove the correctness of the 'same-origin theory'. They also suggest that demons and human beings can be transformed into each other. Then, why do we have to fight against each other to the point of mutual destruction?"
Jin Tuyi smiled casually. "What does the war have to do with our race? Over the past forty thousand years, the number of Cultivators killed by Cultivators is at least ten times larger than the number of Cultivators killed by demons, and dozens of times more demons have been killed by the claws and teeth of demons than those killed by the flying swords of the Cultivators! Even if I accept the same-origin theory and acknowledge that we belong to the same species, so what? Does it have anything
to do with the war between us?"
Li Yao was dazed. He had thought that the trickiest part was to convince Jin Tuyi of the 'same-origin' theory. It did not occur to him that the guy would accept theory so quickly and the real problem would actually be something else.
Jin Tuyi continued. "Did you believe that, since the Divine Blood of Chaos can turn demons back into human beings, it can terminate the war between us and bring the valuable peace?"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao nodded. "It's indeed what I thought."
Jin Tuyi laughed. "Then, would you like to turn into monkeys, the ancestors of human beings hundreds of thousands of years ago?"
Li Yao gritted his teeth. He realized what Jin Tuyi meant.
Jin Tuyi's smile gradually turned into cold brilliance. He moved closer to the camera and said, one word after another, "If you are not willing to turn into a monkey, what makes you think that demons will be willing to turn into human beings? What do you think 'human being' stands for? Is it really an honorable, glorious identity that is worth being proud of?"
Chapter 987: Three Sectors in One, Invincible in the Universe! |
Li Yao hurried to interject. "We are not talking about honor but survival! The Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector are on par with each other. If the war proceeds, we will both be dragged into the abyss of doom. Neither demons nor human beings will be able to laugh to the end! If we fight each other, the Imperium of True Human Beings will take all the advantage! When the expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings marches here, I won't be able to be a monkey even if I want to!
"Senior Jin, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, you have the future of the entire Blood Demon Sector on your shoulders. Think about the possibility I just described. Do not let all the demons of the Blood Demon Sector die in your hands!"
Jin Tuyi was amused. He shook his head and said, "I do find it a bit unbelievable right now. How did such a childish man like yourself come up with such a flawless infiltration plan while ensuring that all the details are immaculate?