by <unknown>
The most incredible scene took place!
When the first ray of sunlight illuminated the ring of the Flora God Planet on the Flora Satellite IX's side, the previous silver, bordering on transparent, ring was suddenly glowing in thousands of colors. All the colors were the richest, most brilliant, and most vigorous!
It was like ten thousand running rivers of different colors suddenly crashed into each other and congregated into the most magnificent river of all colors, which was rushing unstoppably toward their heads!
Yes, it was not an illusion. The colors were really charging at the two of them!
There was no telling what minerals exactly were stored inside the ring of the Flora God Planet. After reflection, the sunlight became a colorful ocean of light after it reached the Flora Satellite IX.
The Flora Satellite IX, which had been pink in the beginning, was immediately enshrouded in lights, shadows, and clouds. It was truly a paradise.
Li Yao and Ding Lingdang, soaked in the ocean of light made of billions of colors, stared at each other in silence below the glorious sea of stars and the grand planet ring.
No female creature could withstand the shock of such brilliance.
Ding Lingdang's eyes were more or less wet. She extended her hands clumsily, trying to snatch the unpredictable rays of light, mumbling, "It's so beautiful. I didn't know that there was such a beautiful place in the Heaven's Origin Sector. It's much more enjoyable than the world fragments! How did you find such a gorgeous place?"
"My foster father told me."
Looking at the brilliance that was erupting the depths of the planet ring, Li Yao smiled. "A long, long time ago, he once locked himself in his room after he was drunk and took out a picture of a woman. He wept in great sorrow while he stared at the picture. I accidentally noticed him crying through the window. So, I asked him what was going on and who the woman was.
"Not only did he tell me nothing, he also beat me up brutally. As far as I can remember, he barely beat me.
"However, he regretted it after he beat me up. Although he didn't tell me the woman's identity, he told me about this place.
"He told me that the Flora Satellite IX was the most beautiful place in the entire Heaven's Origin Sector every time this year and that if I met a woman that I loved, I should try to bring her to this place and joy the ocean of light made of millions of colors."
"Your foster father…" Ding Lingdang was at a loss. "I often hear you talking about him. What kind of person was he exactly?"
"I don't know."
Li Yao's eyes looked hazy. A self-contradictory combination of slovenly and handsome, lazy and persistent, popped up in his head. The red spot at the center of the guy's forehead was so scorching that Li Yao could not help but move his eyes. He shook his head and said, "When I was little, I always considered him to be an old drunkard who never got a chance to realize his ambitions. But now… the more I think about him, the more immeasurable he appears to me! Maybe one day, after everything about the Imperium of True Human Beings is settled, I will set off and search for his story."
"It will certainly be an interesting story." Ding Lingdang held Li Yao's hand. "If we can blow up the Imperium of True Human Beings, I will go with you."
The two of them looked at each other in a smile and stopped talking. Narrowing their eyes, they enjoyed the brief ocean of light.
After less than twenty minutes, because of the angle and the orbits of the sun, the planet, and the satellite, the ocean of light slowly ebbed, and the ring of the Flora God Planet regained its silver color.
However, the brilliant ocean of light that was etched into their brains would never fade away.
"You—" Li Yao looked at Ding Lingdang but hesitated.
"You want to ask me about the Patriots Front, don't you?" Ding Lingdang said straightforwardly. "It's almost done now. I thought about establishing a party in the beginning, but after studying the regulations, I discovered that the rules and requirements to establish a party are too many. The timing is still not right. So, I registered a fund named 'Patriots Front' for now and threw all my savings from the past twenty years into it. It will just be participating in activities as a fund for the time being."
"Then…" Li Yao scratched his head. "How do you plan to move further and recruit… the 'new patriots'?"
"It's simple!" Ding Lingdang said. "I plan on calling for a press conference in a few days. I will declare to everybody in the federation that I, Ding Lingdang, do not trust the demon race very much and that I have established an organization named 'Patriots Front' to supervise the integration between human beings and demons in case they have ill intentions. Anyone sensible who is suspicious about the demons is welcome to join me and build up the organization!"
Li Yao frowned. "So simple and straightforward?"
Ding Lingdang glanced at him. "It's not like we only met today. Do you not know that I always like the simple and straightforward approaches?"
"Well… don't move your hands yet. Under such circumstances, isn't it a little bit too eye-catching for you to name your organization Patriots Front? People are definitely going to reproach you!"
Ding Lingdang snorted. "So what? Do I look like someone who cares about what other people say?"
"In fact," Li Yao said, "Brother Guo has told us the whole thing. You know that Lu Zui intentionally provoked you, so why bother?"
Ding Lingdang sneered. "Of course it is provocation. I felt that something was wrong on my way home. Lu Zui was an almighty Cultivator in the high level of the Nascent Soul Stage, and he had been working in the Secret Sword Bureau for two hundred years. That old fart should have been more than cunning, yet he stammered and was lost for words in front of me? It was simply impossible!
"However, no matter what he was thinking exactly, he wasn't wrong. The century of integration of human beings and demons will not be easy. Some Sword Grabbers are obliged to stay in the darkness as the last defense line!"
Li Yao sighed. "You don't believe that the integration of human and demons will go well?"
Ding Lingdang shook her head solemnly. "Wrong. I don't believe that human beings and demons 'can' be integrated."
Narrowing his eyes, he snatched Ding Lingdang's hand, which was moving on his body. "It appears that there is a minor disagreement between our beliefs, isn't there?"
"Exactly!" Ding Lingdang smiled aggressively. "Also, our beliefs are both very firm, and neither of us is likely to convince the other."
Li Yao's eyes were deeper and deeper. "Then, we are left with no choice but to have a competition of beliefs, right?"
Ding Lingdang licked her full, red lips and bared her sharp teeth. "A competition? Fellow Cultivator Li, I've waited for you alone for ten years. Are you shameless enough to say 'a' competition?
"Let me tell me. We're either having no competition or doing ten!"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. "Ten?"
"What? Is your belief not firm enough and you feel that you are incapable?"
"Says whom? My belief is as tough as iron and invincible. I am just worried that your belief is too naïve to have seen the ferocious beasts and the surging tides and will suffer a crushing defeat after only several rounds!"
"Hey, stop bragging about yourself. It's not like I have never seen your belief before. Ferocious beast? Hahahaha. What a great joke! Let me tell you, even a real ferocious beast will be savaged and suppressed under my belief!"
"Excellent, Ding Lingdang. You have succeeded in infuriating me. Come, let's see whose belief is going to suppress and whose belief is going to be suppressed until it is begging for mercy!"
Boom!
Flames of spiritual energy rushed out of their back like hurricanes at the same time and soared hundreds of meters high. In their excitement, all the flames were condensed into the shapes of the raging animals.
Dragons, lions, tigers, wolves—everything could be seen.
However, the animals formed by Li Yao's spiritual energy were al
l male, while those condensed by Ding Lingdang's were all female.
"Aooo!"
"Hoooo!"
"Hiss!"
The dragons tied each other up, the lions rolled together, and the tigers mauled each other. A pink mist was raised on the surface of the Flora Satellite IX because of the overwhelming spiritual energy. Li Yao and Ding Lingdang disappeared into the mist, too.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deep inside the mist, dull noises as if a meteor shower had hit the satellite were erupting. The feeble earth of the Flora Satellite IX could not withstand the heavy bombardment every second. The rocks rose up high, and the dust turned into smoke. The smoke popped up into the sky in the form of a mushroom and did not disperse for a long time.
Centered at the spot of the 'competition of beliefs', a new crater more than one kilometer in diameter was slowly taking shape!
Chapter 1175: Latest News |
"We are about to broadcast the latest news on the peace negotiations between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector.
"After the full ceasefire in the Dark Desolate Domain between the federal army and the coalition army of demons, the special envoys of the two parties have finally settled the framework of the peace agreement after eleven rounds of negotiations.
"The content of the peace agreement is as follows. The Blood Demon Sector will admit the failure of the war, punish the war criminals, and compensate for the material and mental losses that the war has caused the Heaven's Origin Sector. The scale of the coalition army of demons will be reduced by thirty percent in one year and to half its current size in three years. In the next ten years, it is forbidden from producing or researching on super heavy biochemical beasts more than a hundred meters long. The existing super heavy biochemical beasts must be installed with localization chips and control rune arrays to ensure their manipulability.
"The Nine Voids, the corresponding area of the Dark Desolate Domain in the Blood Demon Sector, will be classified as a special military area, which will be under the control of the federal army and the fleet of the Flying Star Sector.
"In the meantime, the Pantheon of Demons will open more than 150,000 key technologies, especially the ones in the field of biochemistry, to the Heaven's Origin Sector. In return, the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector will introduce more than three thousand fields of crystals and spiritual energy to the Blood Demon Sector.
"The Peace Supervisors—consisting of the specialists, soldiers, and experts of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector—will be watching over the disarmament of the coalition army of demons and helping the experts of the demon who retire from the army find a job. In the decades to come, the Peace Supervisors will be responsible for handling the problems occurring during the integration of the three Sectors.
"In light that the Demon God Virus is still savaging the Blood Demon Sector and has swallowed most of the villages and towns in the south, in the humanitarian spirit that we were the same forty thousand years ago, a medical team of an enormous scale is ready to set off from the Heaven's Origin Sector to the epidemic area to deal with the plague!
"Miss Jin Xinyue, the new Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens of the Blood Demon Sector, will arrive in the capital city soon and officially hand over the instrument of surrender, as well as the soil that is soaked with Jin Tuyi's blood, to the federal government.
"According to the tradition of the Blood Demon Sector, it is a gesture of total submission!
"Five hundred and fifteen years after the Star Glory Federation was founded, the dawn of peace has illuminated the vast land for the first time. The war between the federation and the demon race has finally been put on hold now. We are now embraced by a new road that is leading to the sea of stars!"
…
"The official peace agreement hasn't been signed by the two governments yet, but the communication in the general public is already on fire.
"It is told that the Skyfire from the Blood Demon Sector, the Glorious Sunlight Group from the Flying Star Sector, and the newly-rising Double Dragons Union of the Heaven's Origin Sector have signed a trilateral cooperation agreement for the universal development to come.
"The Valley Rain Planet at the edge of the Dark Blue Space Zone of the Flying Star Sector is a resource planet that boasts tens of thousands of rarely-seen minerals. In the past, because of the harsh environment and the harassment of space pirates, it was not developed efficiently.
"Right now, the Glorious Sunlight Group has received the exploitation rights for the planet. The Glorious Sunlight Group, Skyfire, and the Double Dragons Union will develop the Valley Rain Planet together.
"The bottom-level demons in the Blood Demon Sector who have lost their homes because of the war and the virus outbreak will be the main force for the first phase of development along with the soldiers in the coalition army of demons who are about to be sacked.
"The development of the Valley Rain Planet will be a great experiment. The three parties will locate and settle the problems that occur during the development, thereby laying a solid foundation for the brand-new pattern in the universal exploration in the future!"
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"Another piece of breaking news from space. Recently, the specialists of the federal observatory discovered that unusual, large-scale spiritual waves have been bursting out on the Flora Satellite IX for several days in a row. Electromagnetic radiation, invisible light, and the materials of the satellite itself have been spurting out like a volcanic eruption. It seems to have been scourged by a tremendous meteor shower for several days!
"Such a rarely-seen astronomical phenomenon has never been observed on the Flora Satellite IX or any other celestial bodies in this galaxy.
"According to the crystal cameras that have been projected to the orbit of the Flora Satellite IX, dozens of craters have been discovered on the surface of the Flora Satellite IX. The deepest of them is several hundred meters!
"Other than that, around some of the craters, more than ten actinoid canyons that are too deep to measure have been detected, too.
"After comparing to the observation of the Flora Satellite IX in the past, it has been determined that the canyons have recently been generated just like the craters.
"According to the specialists of the federal observatory, the phenomenon of a large-scale meteor shower striking a certain satellite consecutively for several days is a low-odds event even in the entire universe.
"The occurrence of such a rarely-seen phenomenon may have something to do with the integration of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector. It is a sign that the integration of the two Sectors have entered a new phase where not just the Heaven's Origin Planet and the Blood Demon Planet but also all the other planets and satellites in the two galaxies will be involved. Eventually, a new Sector with dual galaxies that are deeply connected will be generated.
"A joint exploration team made of the specialists from the federal observatory and the Astronomy Department of Deep Sea University is now preparing to set off to the Flora Satellite IX soon. They will observe the craters and canyons at a close distance to determine the real cause of the event."
…
The enormous light beam floating in the sky of the capital city was playing the latest news, but a deep, black limo passed through the light beam.
Blocked from the cockpit, in the fully-enclosed carriage, Jin Xinyue looked at Li Yao with a smile.
Although the news said that the newly-appointed Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens would not arrive in the Heaven's Origin Sector until several days later, Jin Xinyue had in fact come early to the capital city, ready for the last round of negotiations with the leadership of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector.
Considering the subtle situation between the two Sectors, it was quite possible that some other extremists were lurking. If they went to assassinate Jin Xinyue at the critical moment, there might be
bad influence. Therefore, the news was just a smoke screen.
Li Yao welcomed her as a special envoy of Speaker Jiang Hailiu. He was also responsible for her safety together with Guo Chunfeng.
Naturally, Li Yao was the best candidate for the mission. With him there, even an entire army might not be able to harm Jin Xinyue.
"Master, it's been only several months. I didn't expect that you would do so many shocking things in the Heaven's Origin Sector again."
Since the two of them were alone, Jin Xinyue was not putting up her front as the Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens anymore. She bowed to Li Yao respectfully. Observing him carefully for a while, she said earnestly, "However, you seem to have lost some weight, and you appear to be a bit lethargic. With all due respect… your face is yellow, and your flesh is emaciated, master."
"Am I?" Li Yao touched his cheeks, which had become hollow, and said in a low voice, "It is perhaps because the competition of beliefs I had with someone else recently was too exhausting."
"Who is this person? You have been worn out despite the firmness of your belief, the magnificence of your soul power, and the brilliance of your spiritual fire?"
Jin Xinyue was greatly shocked. She could not help but make a suggestion.
"Master, over the past year, you've been fighting in the Blood Demon Sector and the Blood Demon Sector. You've survived many life-threatening situations and had head-on clashes with too many top experts. Your body and your soul must have already been fatigued! Right now, everything has basically been settled. You should take a good rest and stabilize your new level. Even if you want to hold a competition of beliefs, why do you need to rush into anything? I think it will be better if you concede for now and challenge them later after you've recovered!"
"You are too young to understand this. The thing about the 'competition of beliefs' is that you must stride forward and suppress them destructively. How can you concede?"