by <unknown>
Wuying Qi's soul was more heavily wounded than ever. It was almost as swollen and devastated as his body.
If Li Yao's attack could last one minute—no, half a minute—it would be possible for him to blow up Blackhole's Heart's breastplate and grab Wuying Qi out of the spiritual residence.
But pitifully—
Shua!
The dull noises of bombardment came to an abrupt halt. Arsonist suddenly tripped itself over.
Its arms had been completely shattered in the bombardment of infinite meteorites and could not bear Li Yao's fury anymore.
Li Yao was so crazy that he had blown up the fists of the Colossus!
Huchi! Huchi! Huchi! Huchi!
Li Yao breathed heavily. His every muscle was quivering, and his every cell was almost drained.
For someone in the Divinity Transformation Stage, they had to pay a dreadful price to suppress someone in the Divinity Branching Stage, even if the latter was just a remaining soul.
Now, Li Yao had used up his strength, and it was time for him to pay the debt.
Apart from the seriously ruined arms, the fuel of Arsonist had almost been drained too. It was impossible for him to activate the Ultra-Galactic Cannon.
Wuying Qi, however, still had the last bit of strength left.
As the defender, he had consumed less spiritual energy than the attacker did.
The effect of Drunk Deity had been weathered through too. He could sense that every drop of blood in him was boiling again.
"Hehe. It seems that…"
Wuying Qi smiled again, and the iron claws of Blackhole's Heart clutched Arsonist's broken arms. "… There's nothing you can do now!"
"Who told you that? I've got one last move!"
Li Yao gritted his teeth, and a piece of round magical equipment that had infinite holes like a beehive was summoned. It spun quickly around Arsonist and Blackhole's Heart.
Wuying Qi was stunned. "This is…"
"A super awesome stereo!"
Li Yao spat a mouthful of blood and laughed. "You didn't see this coming, did you? This is my ultimate move—singing!"
"Singing?"
Wuying Qi couldn't have looked more complicated.
"That's right. Nobody has ever defeated me in my song, and no one has ever not been touched by my passionate singing. I've encouraged people to fight with me with songs countless times, and this time, I will wake up my dear brother, Li Jialing, with a soul-stirring song. We brothers will work together to blow up your head!"
Glamorous light emanated from Li Yao, making him look like a superstar who was performing before the whole universe. A deafening prelude burst out from the stereo and spread into the ears of Wuying Qi, or Li Jialing, under the boost of Li Yao's spiritual energy!
"Jialing, do you hear me? Don't sleep anymore! Come and sing with me! Brother Yao has written this song for you. Aren't you here to rescue your mother? You're almost there. Li Linghai has got rid of Wuying Qi's control. She's waiting to reunite with you!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao opened his mouth. His chest bulged high, as if ten thousand crystal bombs had exploded inside. As if a volcano was unleashing the most passionate fire, a powerful and soul-stirring song spread out. "Mom is the best in the world. Nothing can compare to the happiness in mom's arms…"
Chapter 2651: The Punch of the Most Powerful Soundwaves! |
Li Yao's brain-penetrating singing flooded into Wuying Qi's remaining soul.
Blackstar the Great had been through tens of thousands of battles in the past thousand years. He even managed to negotiate with and trick the Blood God, who used to be the greatest devil in the universe. However, he had never seen anything as outrageous as this!
Two things that happened today were beyond his wildest imagination.
The first thing was that his almost faultless Next Sun Plan was disrupted by Li Yao with the most disgusting pictures.
The second thing was that Li Yao was such a terrible singer. He had never heard such horrible singing!
"Stop! Stop now!"
Wuying Qi felt that abnormal bubbles were popping up from the depths of his brain, making his soul explode. He held his head and could not control the Colossus at all. He could only roar, "What song is this? It's torturing! Stop! I told you to stop!"
"That's impossible. Even the darkness and coldness of the whole universe cannot stop my fiery song!"
Li Yao kept singing with a low voice, "Mom is the best in the world. Where can you find happiness except in mom's arms?"
The singing was louder and louder, and it was more and more earsplitting and unpleasant. Bright gold blood flowed out of Wuying Qi's eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. His long hair that just turned crimson was showing gold too. Even his bloodshot eyes were emitting gold. A certain power was waking up inside the body and trying to break free.
"That's impossible…"
Wuying Qi roared in pain, "How… How can my cause be defeated by an insignificant song? It's impossible!"
"You still haven't realized what's going on? What defeats you is not the song, but the feelings of mankind. The thing that you and the Covenant Alliance ignored is the most precious and powerful weapon. It's what makes a human a human, and what makes a civilization a civilization!"
Moved by his own song, Li Yao shed hot tears too. He roared at Li Jialing who was suppressed by Wuying Qi's soul. "Jialing, do you hear my song? I'm singing this to you on behalf of your mother. She just told me a lot of things that she wanted you to hear!
"She said that she was wrong. She regretted many things, especially the bad things that Wuying Qi forced her to do, but there were two things that she didn't regret; to fall in love with your father and to give birth to you!
"She said that she loved you very much. She never met you because she feared that Wuying Qi would notice you. She said that she would 'dispose of' you because she wanted you to flee and live a peaceful life elsewhere!
"She said that she was deceived and threatened by Wuying Qi with all her children and that she had no choice except to work with Wuying Qi. However, not a day went by that she did not regret and fear. She felt that she did not deserve to be your mother. That's why she covered herself with a cold shell after she met you so that her passionate love could be disguised!
"She said that the biggest wish of her life was to hear you call her 'mother' and to hold you in her arms so that she could rub your hair!
"I'm definitely not lying to you. Although those were not her exact words, it was absolutely her meaning between the lines. I've merely restated it in my own way.
"If you want to hear her exact words, if you want to listen to her in person, just wake up, get your body back, and kill this scumbag!"
Wuying Qi and Li Jialing's body cramped violently.
Ten thousand gold, red, and black electric arcs were wandering crazily on the body, making him jump up and down. The struggle was a hundred times more intense than the battle between Wuying Qi and Li Linghai.
His fur was now red and now black, until a gold fire arose and burned up all the hair. He then recovered the appearance of a human being.
Tears of blood with gold glimmers flowed from his eyes. Screaming black air was spurting out of all his pores, as if an evil power was being pressed out of his body.
"That's impossible! You're in the Nascent Soul Stage at best. How can you defeat a soul in the Divinity Branching Stage?"
Wuying Qi and Li Jialing's face was now resolute, now angry, now confused, and now panicked. "How can you possibly get rid of my suppression?"
"Idiot, souls might have different levels, but feelings, the noblest of all things, do not. Even if you can control all the stars in the universe, you cannot completely deprive a son of his love for his mother!"
Li Yao took another deep breath. Exploiting the spiritual energy in every cell, he gathered it in his chest and his throat. His neck was three times thicker as he sang like a crystal bomb, "Jialing, let me upgrade my battle song and give you another hand!
"Under the silent stars in the sky, the kid is missing his mom. The blinking stars remind him of his mother's tears…"
"Pu!"
In Blackhole's Heart, Wuying Qi spewed out a mouthful of blood and black gas, and his chest collapsed at a visible speed.
"Stop singing. I'm begging you, please stop…"
He had lost the domination and madness of Blackstar the Great, and he was screaming like a dying old man.
"Li… Li Yao, I really think you should stop singing!"
Long Yangjun could barely keep Heavenly Crystal steady not far away. "Your mental attack is seriously interfering with me too. I find it impossible to lock onto the target. I-I'm about to throw up too. Do you really not know what a bad singer you are? You're causing as much damage to enemies as you do to allies!"
Li Linghai, who was meditating and recovering, slightly rolled her eyes. Her eyelashes were shivering, and her brainwaves were in a mess under Li Yao's song. There was no telling whether she was moved or she was simply disgusted.
"I… I… Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
His vocal cord was almost ruined by the two songs. Li Yao, failing to catch his breath, coughed hard. He could barely stand his song too.
"I told you to stop!"
Wuying Qi was already dying, but he reignited a dark fire when Li Yao vomited blood and blew up the super awesome stereo around Arsonist with the last bit of strength in Blackhole's Heart!
However, the broken stereo and the pieces of the broadcasting rune arrays were gathered on Arsonist's broken arms. Centered at the elbows, they turned into two clusters of high-energy metal torrents!
Boom!
Li Yao activated the power that was tearing his chest apart and closed his arms, combining the two torrents. His spiritual energy, his blood, his strength, his willpower, his soul, and his life were all sealed in. The torrents were immediately heated to thousands of degrees, and the emotions in them were even hotter.
"Mom!"
Li Yao's song burst out to a whole new level. The whole Gold Crystal Pyramid was shaking under his song and his emotions, causing infinite rune arrays to echo.
The song and the echo allowed the torrential emotions to soar to the ground, to the sky, and to the universe through the Gold Crystal Pyramid, before they burst out in the ears and the minds of all the people in the Empyreal Terminus Sector who had been maddened.
"Mom!"
Both the cruel and heartless Immortal Cultivators and the Demonic Cultivators who were killing crazily had mothers who gave birth to them and raised them.
Even if they became notorious and unforgivable villains later, they all had beautiful and precious memories with their mothers when they were crying toddlers and innocent kids.
The memories might be what was known as humanity.
The sun, another mother who raised lives and civilizations, was still releasing light and heat selflessly. She also brought the radiance of humanity to everybody on the capital planet and in the space battlefield who were on the verge of collapse.
For a moment, all the frantic people stopped slaughtering and sabotaging and listened to the song in the deepest part of their hearts.
"Oh, mother!"
Li Yao poured the loudest song into the metal torrents and bombarded it at the center of Blackhole's Heart's chest. "Mother in candlelight!"
Boom! Crack!
The breastplate of the legendary Blackhole's Heart was finally pierced through by Li Yao's punch of soundwaves.
The destructive mental power immediately filled the spiritual residence and cleansed Li Jialing's body… and eardrums.
Wuying Qi and Li Jialing burst out a devastating scream. His fingers were buried in his hair, and his body bent into a bow that was about to break. Infinite black fire and bloody fog squirted out.
His eyes turned into stubborn gold again, filled with the determination and fury of a young man.
The black fire and bloody fog, however, circled around him and formed a blurry gigantic shadow that was still struggling.
The shadow was exactly Wuying Qi's remaining soul.
He had been pushed out by Li Yao's song and Li Jialing's willpower again!
Chapter 2652: The Palace of Memories Near Death |
"Stop… Stop singing!"
Li Jialing waved his hand at Li Yao, with pain and weakness all over his face. "It's me, Brother Yao. I'm perfectly fine now and have completely taken my body back. Please stop singing!"
"Jialing!"
Overjoyed, Li Yao hurried to stop. "Alright, alright, I'll stop singing. To be honest, I can't tolerate my singing anymore either…"
The twisted shadow made of blood and black fog, however, struggled to crawl back into Li Jialing's body.
However, Li Jialing's willpower was gathered into a gold fire that prevented Wuying Qi's second invasion. He was even swallowing Wuying Qi's remaining soul.
Possession was always dangerous. Once the owner of the body was awakened, they would likely swallow the power of the possessor. Li Yao had exactly absorbed Ou Yezi's memories and power in such a way.
"You want to go back again? Not a chance!"
Li Yao had gone through all the trouble to push Wuying Qi's soul out. He certainly would not allow Wuying Qi to return to Li Jialing's body. He simply gathered his mental power into a gigantic hammer and smashed Wuying Qi's remaining soul. "Get this!"
Boom!
As if a gigantic bell had been knocked, Li Yao's soul and Wuying Qi's had such an intense collision that visible ripples spread out.
There was a gap between their soul power, but Li Yao's soul was protected by his original body, whereas Wuying Qi's soul was exposed to the air. Their collision was like an armored train crashing a common shuttle. It was not hard to imagine which of them was more wounded.
Li Yao's soul was knocked back into his brain, but Wuying Qi's soul was shattered like a cloud under the wind and could not regather at all.
Li Jialing's brainwaves that were released nonstop were also cutting the cloud like sunlight.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Wuying Qi had never been as desperate. His broken soul twisted and struggled. He tried to regather but was cut by Li Jialing. He tried to flee but was stopped by Li Yao.
Long Yangjun also seized the opportunity to launch the last strike. A hundred tiny crystal needles were darted into his remaining soul.
"I…"
The insane man of the time had finally reached his end. "I" echoed for a long time in the remaining soul, but he could not continue at all. It seemed that he would soon be dead for good.
However, the floating cloud suddenly constricted into a hundred round and deep drops, exactly like what Li Yao had seen in his illusion.
"Not good!"
Li Yao's face changed greatly, as he thought of the most horrifying possibility.
Since the Next Sun Plan failed, Wuying Qi had suffered consecutive setbacks and lost all chances of a comeback now.
However, he still had one last option, which was to detonate his last mental power and to die together with Li Yao and Li Jialing.
Back in the Seven Seas Grand Market, he had remotely controlled Wuying Qinxin to blow up her head, which nearly killed Li Yao. Also, he did not have a real head right now, but his remaining soul was much more powerful than Wuying Qinxin.
"Watch out!"
Li Yao reacted quickly and stood before Li Jialing. His soul was far more powerful than Li Jialing's. There was no reason why he would let his little brother take the blow of Wuying Qi's suicide attack.
Boom!
Before Li Yao was able to cover Li Jialing, the hundred black water drops where the power of Wuying Qi's remaining soul was focused had exploded into a black storm that swept across everything!
Li Yao, in the lead, was involved in the turbulence of Wuying Qi's violent consciousness. He sensed Wuying Qi's soul, belief, and memories like a tiny boat floating amid the surging tides.
Reality disappeared again. He was embraced
by the memory pieces that were even more real than reality, as if he were visiting different worlds.
They were Wuying Qi's memories.
Wuying Qi's memories pierced through Li Yao's head like scorching bullets, allowing Li Yao to experience his life from his perspective. It was exactly like when he accepted Ou Yezi's memories.
He saw that he was inspecting a boundless fleet from a gargantuan space fortress. At the head of every starship in the fleet was the lightning trident emblem of the Imperium of True Human Beings, which was as new and vigorous as the rising sun.
It should be the first grandeur parade when the Imperium of True Human Beings was just established. It was also one of the pictures that Wuying Qi remembered most deeply.
Then, the fleet and the fortress were gone, and the memories were rewound to a long, long time ago into the infinite darkness. He was drifting like a broken boat, but he chanced upon the remains of a horrifying ship. From the remains, a fire of blood rose and smiled at him creepily.
"This must be the Blood God."
Li Yao read Wuying Qi's memories and thought, "This was when Wuying Qi encountered the Blood God in space. It was a life-changing moment for him. He certainly can't forget that."
Then, Wuying Qi's memories went all the way back through infinite colorful or mottled pictures, until it was frozen on a gloomy, rainy day.
It was a pouring storm outside, but thousands of mobsters who were as frantic as beasts were holding torches high in the rain.
The mobsters, as if possessed by extraterrestrial devils, lunged at him while howling.
The next picture was rather blurry, because Wuying Qi's eyes were full of tears and were covered by a pair of warm but rough hands.
"Mom, I was wrong. I was really wrong!"
Li Yao heard Wuying Qi scream regretfully, "I shouldn't have trusted the ordinary people. They were kind because they did not have power. Once they have received uncontrollable power, they can be even more brutal than us!
