Chapter 602: Exposure

Bang!

Two blue lightsabers clashed in the air, emitting a booming sound. The clash between the lightsabers flashed with brilliant light.

Lu Ke held the hilt with both hands, panting, sweat constantly streaming down his forehead, extremely strained. The Master Yoda opposite him, however, was much more relaxed.

"Your training is almost complete, although it didn't reach my expected goal," Master Yoda said with some regret. "However, your father has already arrived, and you probably have no mood to continue training. So you should go."

"I..." Lu Ke opened his mouth, wanting to say he could still continue, but recalling his performance, his face flushed red.

"Go." Yoda, who had originally hoped Lu Ke would say something to deny it so he could use the opportunity to let Lu Ke continue training, felt a wave of disappointment. But after the disappointment came joy; Lu Ke, after all, had not said anything insincere.

Thinking about it, Master Yoda felt conflicted himself. On one hand, he hoped Lu Ke would be insincere and stay to train; on the other hand, he didn't want Lu Ke to be insincere, because being insincere meant he had misjudged Lu Ke before. These two conflicting thoughts meant that no matter which one Lu Ke chose, he was destined to be conflicted.

"I'm leaving." Lu Ke respectfully bowed to Master Yoda and then left without looking back.

"Another one gone." Yoda sighed. "It will return to peace here again. Perhaps, it is time for me to go out and see."

Yoda put away the lightsaber in his hand, used the hilt as a cane, supported it on the ground, and left slowly.

In the woods, just as Lu Ke was heading in the direction he had originally seen, Ye Nan suddenly blocked his path.

"Ye Nan, how are you? You volunteered to deal with the Dark Lord. I was worried for quite a while."

Seeing Ye Nan suddenly appear, Lu Ke was happy. Counting carefully, he hadn't seen Ye Nan for three days. He had been worried and afraid during these three days; after all, Ye Nan's opponent was the Dark Lord.

"No need to worry." Ye Nan came to Lu Ke like a ghost, his palm sticking to Lu Ke's head with lightning speed, and powerful mental power instantly invaded Lu Ke.

"You..." Lu Ke widened his eyes, wanting to question Ye Nan why he was doing this. But the increasing fatigue made him unable to speak at all. He had to slowly close his eyes, all his questions accumulating in his heart.

"Sure enough, this old guy poured all his training and knowledge into Lu Ke in just three days. Truly a good teacher." While carefully extracting the knowledge from Lu Ke's mind, he sighed. He sighed that Master Yoda guarded against him like a thief, guarding everything tightly.

"If I didn't have some tricks, I'm afraid I would have returned empty-handed this time."

"You will not return empty-handed, but your head will be separated from your body." Master Yoda's voice suddenly sounded. The lightsaber in his hand extended, filled with murderous intent.

"So it's Master Yoda." Seeing Master Yoda come over, Ye Nan was not surprised, but instead carried a faint mockery. "You'd better not come over. If you do, I can't guarantee I won't turn Lu Ke into an idiot."

At such a close distance, it would be strange if Yoda didn't come here. Of course, this was also because he had long discovered Master Yoda was here.

"Lu Ke and you have such a good relationship, yet you would strike such a cruel blow. You are truly sinister and vicious," Master Yoda said angrily, but because of this, he was held back and dared not act rashly.

"How am I sinister and vicious?" Ye Nan spread his hands, helplessly saying, "To protect him, I deliberately slowed down, just for fear of destroying his memory. But if you make a move, I will extract his speed at the fastest possible rate. Whether he can survive and not become an idiot then is not something I can know."

"You..." Master Yoda was almost so angry he wanted to curse, but when the words reached his lips, he took them back. "Very well, I will give you time. I hope you can cherish your last moments and repent for your sins."

"Sins? What sins do I have?" Ye Nan played dumb even more. "Tell me about them."

"You are a person of the Sith Emperor, a pretender." Master Yoda said coldly, "I had already prophesied you, but I thought the interference of the Dark Force might make the prophecy inaccurate, so I didn't strike to kill when I first met you. Later, the relationship you showed with Lu Ke made me think I had prophesied wrong. I didn't expect the prophecy to be correct; you truly have the heart of a wolf."

"Heart of a wolf?" Ye Nan laughed playfully. "So what if I have the heart of a wolf?"

"The Galactic Empire will surely be overthrown by the Republican Army, and you will surely die without a burial place," Master Yoda said with a firm expression. "The Sith Emperor oppresses the people, leading to constant rebellions everywhere. This is enough to prove the cruelty of the Sith Emperor. The cruel will surely be overthrown; this is an eternal truth."

"What does his being overthrown have to do with me?" Ye Nan found it a bit funny. It seemed this Master Yoda took him for a running dog of the Sith Emperor. But this idea was wrong, and he felt it necessary to correct it.

"My relationship with the Sith Emperor is merely an equal one."

"An equal relationship?" Master Yoda pondered for a moment, looking at Ye Nan in disbelief. "You are from another civilization."

In the Galactic Empire, no one dared to say they were equal to the Sith Emperor; only people from other civilizations dared to say they were equal to the Sith Emperor.

The universe is so vast, and civilizations are countless. Although the Galactic Empire is powerful, it is not the top-tier kind.

"If it weren't so, how would I dare to negotiate directly with the Dark Lord and let him wait for four days?" Ye Nan said with a smile. Since he had decided to leave, there was no need to continue disguising his identity. Some things could be spoken openly.

"Negotiate with the Dark Lord?" Master Yoda was surprised again.

If Ye Nan had told him at the beginning that he was negotiating with the Dark Lord, he wouldn't have been surprised. After all, at that time, he thought Ye Nan was a pretender and a person of the Sith Emperor, so negotiating with the Dark Lord was the most normal thing.

But Ye Nan had made it clear from the beginning that he was not a running dog of the Sith Emperor, but instead claimed to be from another civilization, and then negotiated with the Dark Lord. This was a very dangerous signal, because it meant the two civilizations had a tendency to form an alliance.

"No, I must solve him here." Master Yoda made up his mind.

Although he had been living in seclusion here and had no contact with the outside world on the surface, he still cared very much about the resistance army outside. Although these resistance armies were suppressed by the Empire, they had also won a few battles, which greatly boosted morale. If other civilizations allied with the Galactic Empire at this time, it would be a devastating disaster for the resistance army.

"Kill him, destroy the alliance, and perhaps even make the two civilizations turn against each other, leaving the Sith Emperor besieged from both sides."

In an instant, Master Yoda made his decision. He wielded his lightsaber and flew fiercely toward Ye Nan.

"Don't you even want your own disciple?" Ye Nan extended his left hand, aimed at Master Yoda, and the Dark Force immediately roared over, grabbing Master Yoda fiercely and pushing him back forcefully.

"Dark Force?" Master Yoda widened his eyes suddenly. "Don't you have the ability to sense the Force?"

"I cannot sense the Force, but not being able to sense the Force does not mean I cannot use the Force," Ye Nan explained with a smile. "Whether the Dark Force favors me and actively exchanges with me, or I forcibly extract the Force with mental power, both allow me to manipulate enough Force."

"Although extracting the Force with mental power consumes too much." Ye Nan did not say this sentence.

Having obtained all the techniques, he almost understood what the Force was.

It was very simple. The Force itself is a power that exists in the universe. It is a power combined from the magnetic fields emitted by living and non-living bodies. It's just unknown why this power is divided into Light Force and Dark Force.

However, since it is a power, and a real power, Ye Nan naturally had a way to control it. He first forcibly sensed the Force through his own mental power, captured the traces of the Force, stripped the Force from living and non-living bodies, and then supplied it for his own use.

The advantage of this method is that the Force can be called upon at any time, but the disadvantage is naturally that it consumes too much mental power. If he were his true self, it wouldn't matter, but he was only a clone, and a clone that was unknown how far away from his true self.

"The Dark Force favors you." Master Yoda widened his eyes again, like a bull bulging its eyes. "Never heard that the Force would favor people."

The Force can lure people, leading to the fall of Jedi Knights, but to say that the Force would favor someone and actively exchange with that person, allowing him to control it, this is absolutely impossible. In the history of Jedi Knights, such a thing has never happened.

"It hasn't happened before, doesn't mean it won't happen now. Just like when the first generation of Jedi Knights had their power questioned, I think people at that time were probably as ridiculous as you."

Ye Nan looked at Master Yoda with a smile, constantly provoking him. "History is always repeating itself. Although the inducements have changed, the stupidity of life itself makes them unable to see their own stupidity, and instead, they are smug and proud of history."

"What did you say?" Master Yoda had never been insulted like this. He exploded with anger. "Boy, today I will show you what the wisdom of an old man is." (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 603 =====