Chapter 378

Whoosh! Li Yuan's gaze was sharp, and with a movement of his body, he charged into the dark cave.

Just as he stepped into the cave's perimeter.

Hum~ The circular passage, less than two meters in diameter, instantly became as bright as day, leading straight to the deepest part.

Li Yuan stopped abruptly and turned his head to look at Demigod Baishan, who was standing at the cave entrance: "Senior Baishan, are you not coming in?"

Demigod Baishan was about to speak.

"He cannot enter." A low voice sounded, and instantly a large amount of light gathered, forming the phantom of a white-robed old man in the passage.

"Elder Yun." Li Yuan recognized the other party.

"Elder Yun." Demigod Baishan also said: "Since you have appeared, you should explain the reason to Li Yuan."

Elder Yun nodded and looked at Li Yuan: "Follow me. I will tell you as we walk."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Elder Yun's phantom flew in front, and Li Yuan followed behind. The two of them were not flying very fast.

"Leaders within the civilization, and even Demigods, occasionally leave the dimensional plane along plane passages to roam the starry sky gaps between planes," Elder Yun said: "Even the Master, in these hundred-plus years, aside from occasionally heading to the Jiushan World... also occasionally headed to the starry sky gaps."

Li Yuan listened. In the vast mortal domain, there existed a large number of starry sky gap regions among the many dimensional planes.

Like the Ancient Burial Immortal Domain, it was located in a starry sky gap region.

The gods who descended in the past, those god wars, were all fought and slaughtered in the starry sky gaps.

"Those imprisoned Demigods in the many bases on Flying Star are starry sky lifeforms captured by the Master," Elder Yun said.

Li Yuan suddenly understood. So that was it.

Starry sky lifeforms?

He had seen similar descriptions in the Divine Domain classics. In the vast starry sky, many strange lifeforms would be born.

These lifeforms were mostly born powerful, but they were difficult to reproduce, and most found it hard to find others of their own kind.

"The path of cultivation cannot be strengthened by mere quiet meditation. The Master's strength improvement also came from experiencing many trials," Elder Yun said: "But where is there absolute safety in life-and-death roaming? Therefore, before every adventure, the Master left behind many contingency arrangements..."

"After Fang Da returned from the Nine Leaves World... he had the Master confirm one thing: even at the most dangerous moment, the Seven Star Civilization would not be completely exterminated; at most, it would endure some trials," Elder Yun said.

"Therefore, the Master decided to head to the Jiushan World to begin his final and most critical roaming," Elder Yun said in a low voice: "After all, to protect the civilization, the Master had already delayed for a long time, waiting for a long time."

"The Master had long been yearning to go."

Li Yuan's heart stirred.

The time Alliance Leader Dongfang left was exactly when the Principal became a Demigod and succeeded as Deputy Alliance Leader.

"It is just a pity." Elder Yun shook his head slightly and sighed.

Li Yuan was silent.

It was a pity that in this life-and-death roaming, Alliance Leader Dongfang had fallen.

"Although the Master is dead, the many treasures left behind will still be effective," Elder Yun stopped his steps: "But one must have sufficient permission to be qualified to enter the base. Like Demigod Baishan, if he dared to force his way in, he would be killed."

"Qualifications?" Li Yuan thought to himself.

Deputy Alliance Leader?

"Many bases on Flying Star require the Alliance Leader to have permission to enter and control," Elder Yun said: "This base on Blue Star requires a Deputy Alliance Leader to enter and control."

Li Yuan immediately recalled the reason Demigod Baishan mentioned earlier about holding a meeting in the Starfire Realm.

The purpose was to formally elect a new Alliance Leader and Deputy Alliance Leader.

This caused a trace of doubt in Li Yuan's heart.

Even if Alliance Leader Dongfang had Demigod slaves in the Ten Thousand Demon Civilization, would those Demigod servants necessarily leak the news after gaining their freedom?

What if the news hadn't leaked?

Secondly, the probability of there being a traitor among the Tier-One Star Lords was very small, but there were dozens of Demigods; were there any who had been secretly controlled by soul-mind?

After all, Alliance Leader Dongfang and Li Yuan could soul-mind control other powerhouses, so there might similarly be powerhouses within the Seven Star Civilization who were soul-mind controlled.

Most importantly, was the process of 'public recognition by a Demigod' in the Starfire Realm absolutely necessary?

In short, because his status was extremely high and he understood many things, Li Yuan had points of confusion.

But both Fang Da and Elder Yun had repeatedly confirmed that Alliance Leader Dongfang had fallen, so Li Yuan could only accept reality.

"Regardless."

"Prepare for the worst." Li Yuan muttered to himself: "If the Ten Thousand Demon Civilization doesn't come to attack, so be it. If they do come to attack... then I can only fight with all my might!"

A moment later.

Li Yuan followed Elder Yun to the deepest part of the passage, where there was a vast hall.

At just one glance, Li Yuan saw the super-large spherical instrument in the center, faintly floating in the middle. The sphere's diameter definitely exceeded one hundred meters, and it flickered with countless complex flowing lights, brilliant and colorful. It was definitely the most precise technological creation he had ever seen.

"This is?" Li Yuan held his breath.

"This is the host of Blue Star's virtual network," Elder Yun said in a low voice: "It is also one of the Seven Star Civilization's three major virtual network hosts, a Tier-Six host."

"This level of virtual network host, even in the Divine Domain, is considered extremely high-end, sufficient to become the core of a civilization," Elder Yun said quite proudly.

"The core of the virtual network?" Li Yuan was shocked.

He immediately recalled what Gu You had said before, that he had tried to invade Blue Star's virtual network and ended in failure.

At the time, Gu You had speculated that Blue Star's virtual network host was very high-end.

Now it seemed it was true.

"Dozens of years ago, in 2007, the Master roamed the Jiushan World again... and finally brought back three virtual hosts," Elder Yun looked at Li Yuan: "They were deployed on Flying Star, Blue Star, and Heavenly Sea Star respectively."

Li Yuan couldn't help but nod. The virtual network was only opened in 2009.

With the virtual network, the efficiency of resource allocation and martial arts genius selection for the entire Seven Star Civilization had significantly improved again.

"This virtual host is controlled by me. You just need to know it is here," Elder Yun said: "I brought you here mainly to have you recognize the 'Guardian Legion' here as your master."

"Guardian Legion?" Li Yuan's heart stirred, understanding that this was the true hidden trump card.

Whoosh!

Crossing past the virtual network host that was constantly flickering with flowing light, Li Yuan passed through this hall, turned through a corridor, and passed through a ripple of light screen that could isolate spiritual sense probing.

Li Yuan suddenly discovered that there was actually another mysterious hall here.

This domed hall was even more vast; its height alone exceeded eight hundred meters, and the ground diameter exceeded two kilometers... There was definitely no such magnificent building on Blue Star.

The entire hall was gray and gloomy, and the light was very dim.

"Hmm?" Li Yuan saw at a glance that in the center of the hall, ten figures were standing in perfect unison.

Each figure was about three meters tall, wearing heavy black battle armor, each holding a huge divine sword, heads lowered and eyes closed, expressions cold, faintly emitting a powerful aura... At first glance, they were humanoid lifeforms.

But Li Yuan had already confirmed they were not true lifeforms.

"【Target is Level 45, no life characteristics, cannot be killed to obtain spiritual nourishment】"

"【Target is Level 45...】" Li Yuan immediately deployed his Divine Palace probing.

It was basically the same as the Divine Palace prompts he received for the three thousand peak Flying Heaven puppets he already controlled.

"Peak Demigod puppets?" Li Yuan couldn't help but say, feeling shocked in his heart.

Demigod-level puppets!

For every major level higher a puppet's strength was, its value skyrocketed. After all, puppets were fearless in the face of death, absolutely obeyed orders, and could be preserved for a very long time, unlike normal cultivators who still needed to go into seclusion, cultivate, and so on.

A single peak Demigod-level puppet could not be bought even with thousands of Divine Crystals.

But Alliance Leader Dongfang had actually left ten in the Blue Star base? How many Demigods were there in total on the entire Blue Star?

"Yes!"

"These ten puppets are the Guardian Legion the Master left on Blue Star," Elder Yun said in a low voice: "The ten of them working together, combined with the planet's Source Power Array, even if a peak Demigod powerhouse descends, they have the confidence to defeat them... As long as it is not a god, they can basically block them."

"This!"

"This is the trump card defensive measure the Master left for his home planet," Elder Yun said: "There are forty such puppets in total."

"Ten on Blue Star, ten on Heavenly Sea Star."

"And twenty on Flying Star," Elder Yun looked at Li Yuan: "In the past, the Master controlled them and authorized me, so I could guard the planet as long as I secretly manipulated them simply... but the crisis faced now is most critical on Flying Star."

"The Master has fallen, and they have all become masterless puppets, which I find difficult to control."

"Therefore, you need to recognize the twenty peak Demigod puppets on Blue Star and Heavenly Sea Star as your master, and then bring them all to Flying Star."

"By then, Flying Star will have forty peak Demigod-strength puppets participating in the battle, which is enough to make Flying Star's defensive power surge by a large margin," Elder Yun said.

Li Yuan's eyes lit up, and his heart became excited.

Heavens!

Forty peak Demigod combatants? How many peak Demigods were there in the entire Seven Star Civilization now?

Even in the Ten Thousand Demon Civilization, there were only about a hundred peak Demigod powerhouses.

Instantly, Li Yuan felt the hope of holding the entrance to the Demon Mountain Star Realm rise greatly.

"Li Yuan, you must also remember," Elder Yun said: "These Demigod puppets also have flaws. One is that their realms are not high enough; they rely on strength and speed to erupt with such powerful combat power. Therefore, they are best at frontal combat, but if they fight against opponents with extremely high law comprehension, they are easily toyed with by the enemy."

Li Yuan listened earnestly.

"Second, they have a Source Power Array core in their bodies, which can continuously convert heaven and earth source power for their own use. Currently, their 'energy storage' is full, but this is accumulated over a long time. Their conversion speed is less than one percent of a true Demigod," Elder Yun said: "And in Demigod-level combat, energy consumption is extremely fast... If the time is slightly long, their energy storage will be exhausted, and they will need to use Divine Crystals as an energy source."

"Forty peak Demigod puppets, if they consume Divine Crystals at the same time... the consumption is very astonishing."

"Therefore, do not deploy them easily," Elder Yun said.

"Understood." Li Yuan nodded.

Although the consumption of Divine Crystals was high, it was definitely a trump card and a killing move.

Time passed.

"Recognize as master." Under Elder Yun's help, Li Yuan recognized each Demigod-level puppet as his master one by one.

For such powerful puppets, the difficulty of recognizing them as master was much higher than that of the thousands of Flying Heaven-realm puppets.

Fortunately, Li Yuan's soul was strong enough to withstand it.

After a full half hour.

All recognitions were completed.

"Master." The ten Demigod-level puppets opened their eyes at the same time, their gazes sharp and filled with killing intent.

"You have a Cave Heaven magic treasure, put these puppets away," Elder Yun said in a low voice: "Hurry up, you still have many things to do."

"It has been over an hour since the Master's soul lamp went out."

"The longer the delay, the higher the probability that the Ten Thousand Demon Civilization will gather Demigods to attack," Elder Yun said.

"Yes." Li Yuan nodded and waved his hand, putting the ten Demigod-level puppets into the Ancient Divine Palace.

Immediately, he turned into a streak of light and flew outwards along the passage.

Elder Yun's phantom stood in the hall just like that, until he sensed Li Yuan's aura disappear.

Whoosh!

An invisible ripple swept past, and a golden-clothed figure about three meters tall appeared.

"Elder Yun." The golden-clothed figure bowed respectfully.

"You are the only one left. Are you confident in holding Blue Star?" Elder Yun looked at the golden-clothed figure.

"I am," the golden-clothed figure said in a low voice.

(End of chapter)