2131 In the Thunderstorm!
The thunderstorm was simply too chaotic and intense and echoed deep inside Li Yao’s soul like ten thousand vortexes, which significantly disrupted his senses.
However, in the meantime, it provided perfect protection for his telepathic thoughts, making it impossible for the two parties who were engaged in the fierce fight to notice him.
Through the pouring rain and the rumbling thunders, Li Yao gradually painted a fuzzy, mottled picture inside his head.
The eight starships that Li Lingfeng brought were patrolling and searching like tyrannosaurs that were as huge as mountains.
However, from the dark corners, a hundred “velociraptors” marched out. They should be assault warships, hunting warships, and full-terrain armed shuttles designed for the battles within the atmosphere. Breaking apart the formation of the “tyrannosaurs” with their blow, they bit the critical parts of the “tyrannosaurs” brutally!
Li Lingfeng did not anticipate that he would encounter a second enemy other than Li Yao in such an unpopulated, forsaken world as the Sand Primitive Sector. He wanted to command the starships to float beyond the atmosphere, but there was already no time!
Everything had its own advantages and disadvantages. The main-force starships that could be three to five kilometers long were indeed awesome in the vacuum of the space, but in the atmosphere with high gravity, high friction, and disordered spiritual energy, their shortcomings, including the enormous weight, the weak anti-gravity units, the clumsiness in turning, etc., would all be exposed.
The enemy’s small starships, on the other hand, seemed like the cutting-edge models that were designed most recently. Despite their small size, their firepower was no less impressive. Also, they had come in full preparations, and their first round of barrage already ripped apart the plate armor of Li Lingfeng’s starships, raising a series of dazzling fireballs.
This is a planned attack!
Li Yao thought to himself, This is definitely not an accidental encounter, but a fatal attack launched by a mysterious new force, which had been monitoring and following Li Lingfeng all the way, until Li Lingfeng was separated from his main troops and recklessly asked the main-force starships to cut into the atmosphere!
Li Yao’s telepathic thoughts were concealed and made to appear as the waves of lightning in the thunderstorm as he continued searching the battlefield. Very soon, he locked onto Li Lingfeng’s coordinates.
The man’s Colossus “Tempest God” had unleashed the most devastating tides of spiritual energy that were even more eye-catching than a volcano eruption. Naturally, Li Yao couldn’t have missed him.
However, Li Lingfeng did not have any opportunity to deal heavy damage to the enemy’s starships because his opponent was another Colossus!
What’s happening? Another Colossus? And one that is even stronger than Li Lingfeng’s “Tempest God”?
Li Yao’s heart was racing, and he was breathing fast. He felt that all his pores were stinging as if somebody were stabbing needles at him.
If the spiritual energy that Li Lingfeng was spurting out right now was like the infinite magma erupting out of a volcano, the Colossus that was fighting him right now was like a boundless ocean that was filled with the most horrifying swirls.
However much magma erupted from the “volcano”, it would be completely swallowed by the swirls without leaving any drop after it flowed into the ocean!
Of course, Li Lingfeng just had a fierce battle with Li Yao, and the shock and unsteadiness of his mind was inevitable after his decades of hard work was destroyed.
Also, the power units of his Colossus had been sabotaged by Li Yao, which resulted in the plunge of his speed. They were all the advantageous factors for him.
However, based on the collisions of the spiritual energy from the two Colossi, Li Yao estimated that, even if Li Lingfeng were at his peak state and his Colossus were just maintained with absolutely no damage and that he had the most sufficient supplies, he still would have been no match for the mysterious enemy.
Are you kidding me? My combat ability right now is more or less at the middle level of the Divinity Transformation Stage. I don’t have a slight chance of defeating Li Lingfeng in a head-to-head battle. So, he must be at least at the high level of the Divinity Transformation Stage.
But right now, the mysterious enemy is beating Li Lingfeng up as easily as eating a pie, which means that the mysterious enemy is at least at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Stage, or even higher—
Li Yao swallowed hard and did not dare to think any further.
While the mysterious enemy’s target was Li Lingfeng right now, Li Yao was in the Imperium of True Human Beings where everybody was a potential foe after all. He did not think that the mysterious enemy had come here to rescue him.
Now that the enemy had been monitoring and following Li Lingfeng, they certainly had witnessed everything he did in the Martial Meritocrats Sector, and they knew that Li Lingfeng jumped to the Sand Primitive Sector in such a hurry just in order to capture him and Li Jialing. Then here came the question. Would the enemy let go of him and Li Jialing after they took down or captured Li Lingfeng alive?
“This is bad!”
Li Yao’s face suddenly turned extremely awful.
He was absolutely confident to survive from the hands of Li Lingfeng, who had more ambitions than capabilities and who was only slightly stronger than himself.
However, the new mysterious enemy gave him the feeling of a viper—a viper that was as thick as a boa and could turn into a dragon to swallow the world at any moment. It was someone much more sophisticated than Li Lingfeng!
While Li Yao was thinking quickly on countermeasures, Li Lingfeng had already failed!
Li Yao sensed that his “Tempest God” spurted out a cluster of most dazzling spiritual energy first, as if a supernova were rising from the ground and blossoming to the maximum abruptly.
Then, it collapsed at a visible speed, as if it were reducing from a supernova into a black hole. Nothing could be sensed anymore!
Generally speaking, it was the sign that a Colossus had been completely blown up.
However, Li Yao captured Li Lingfeng’s intentions keenly—the guy was about to escape!
The Immortal Cultivators’ starships that Li Lingfeng brought crashed at the mysterious enemy’s Colossus relentlessly. While they were obviously no match for the mysterious enemy, they did manage to postpone the enemy for a few minutes.
Taking advantage of the precious time, Li Lingfeng retreated his Colossus into the Cosmos Ring and put on a stealth crystal suit quickly just like Li Yao did a moment ago, diving into the thunderstorm and disappearing into the disordered spiritual waves!
“Let’s go!”
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao rose suddenly. “We have to find Li Lingfeng!”
“What?”
Li Jialing was dazed, finding it hard to believe his ears. “Find Li Lingfeng? Wouldn’t we be feeding us to him? Also, it seems to be a mess out there. How can we find him?”
“We are not feeding us to him, and we do not have a choice right now.”
Li Yao sighed and said with a bitter smile, “As to how we can find Li Lingfeng, that is not a problem, because he is secretly sending out spiritual waves to all directions. He is expecting us!”
Concealing their spiritual energy and scent to the minimum, Li Yao and Li Jialing moved soundlessly in the thunderstorm like the ghosts of two loaches.
Very soon, they discovered Li Lingfeng who was staggering forward in the bolts of lightning and storms.
A few days ago, Li Lingfeng was still intimidating and awe-inspiring, giving the feeling that everybody was under his control. He was truly like a powerful, unparalleled expert.
But the Li Lingfeng right now, although not having many wounds on his body, was brimming with fear and panic, which were flowing out of every gap on his crystal suit. He couldn’t have looked more wretched, like a wild dog whose tail had been cut off.
Witnessing such drastic changes on him in only a couple of days, even Li Yao had to feel sorry for him although he was an enemy.
“He seems to be suffering from very serious internal injuries.”
Li Jialing said affirmatively, “If we join our hands to ambush him, there will be a good chance to take him down!”
“Wait a moment. I don’t think Li Lingfeng is our primary problem anymore.”
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao made the call. “Let’s talk with him first. There are many secrets about you that we have to dig out from his mouth, don’t you agree?”
Li Yao and Li Jialing showed up in the storm, one in the front and the other in the back, staring at Li Lingfeng who was not far away like two shadows without real entities.
Li Lingfeng sensed their existence immediately. Quivering, he wiped his helmet that had been covered in icy rain.
In a triangle, the three of them confronted each other in silence in the middle of the roaring winds and the pouring rain.
In the next moment, Li Lingfeng made an unexpected move. He touched a rune array on the left temple of the helmet, retreating the helmet into the crystal suit!
As a result, his entire head was exposed to Li Yao and Li Jialing without any protection.
It was a gesture of submission, or friendliness.
Li Yao chuckled in a low voice. “Lord Li has been wounded, and very badly? Do you need any healing drugs? I happen to have some.”
The lightning illuminated the bleak land, and Li Lingfeng’s face indeed couldn’t have looked more awful. Ignoring Li Yao’s mockery, he gnashed his teeth. “Didn’t you want to die together with me? This is your opportunity. If we attack each other right now, we will truly be holding each other to death. Come on. The choice is yours. If you want to fight, let’s fight!”
Huala! Huala!
Lightning struck next to Li Lingfeng, showing unprecedented determination on the face of the unworthy man of a noble family.
Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao locked onto every muscle and every pore on Li Lingfeng’s whole body without leaving any chance for him. He asked very cautiously, “Who is chasing you right now? That is a really patient hunter!”
Li Lingfeng sniffed. “It seems that you have sensed the enemy’s magnificence and brutality too, after the eight starships that I brought over were completely wasted. You are too scared to not respond to my call and show up, right? ‘When a mantis is capturing a cicada, a sparrow is lurking behind to take them both’. Yes, this is exactly a reoccurrence of such an ancient but fatal trick. However, are you really a ‘cicada’? Tell me who you are exactly!
“And you—”
He turned his eyes to Li Jialing and stared at him resentfully, declaring, one word after another, “Why did you betray me?”
Li Jialing’s pupils were constricted to the minimum. His body shook slightly but was quickly stabilized. Opening his hands, he said casually, “I am an Immortal Cultivator. Betrayals are anything but unusual for us, right? Do I need a reason?”
“You—”
Li Lingfeng’s eyes almost bulged out of the sockets as he mumbled, “You do not have the slightest idea who you are and what you are faced with. You are truly idiotic and asking to be killed!”
“Then, just tell him frankly!”
Li Yao suddenly thought of something. He said, “Tell Li Jialing who he is, who his parents are, and who the mysterious enemy is that is chasing you right now!”
After a brief silence, when he simply allowed the raindrops to hit his face hard until it was covered in dents, he finally said a name in the end, “LI LINGHAI!”