The interior of the triangular starship was completely different from that of an ordinary starship. It did not have a normal cabin or tunnel. After the connecting cabin of Songqing Spaceship opened, Ding Meng was directly teleported to a special space. Upon closer inspection, it was similar to the command center of Divine Arrow Spaceship. They were all facilities in the shape of streamers. The main control panel was a thin rectangular light model suspended in the air, delicate and elegant.
Julie stood alone by the main control panel and looked at Ding Meng with a smile. "Welcome aboard Scorpion."
Ding Meng looked around. "Is it named after the twelve constellations?"
Julie did not hide anything. "Yes, the Black Handprint has twelve such starships in total. They are Horizontal, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpion, Archer, and Scorpion. This is the strength of the Black Handprint."
Ding Meng looked at her in surprise. "I believe what you said."
Julie walked up to him slowly. "Are you surprised why I told you our background?"
Ding Meng smiled. "Steamed Bun has meat but not the folds. I'm afraid the Black Handprint's strength is far greater than this, right?"
"But what I said is the truth!" Julie stared at him.
Ding Meng laughed in spite of himself. "I'm really not used to you staring at me like this."
Julie also smiled. "That's because I'm honest. If we want to recruit people, we not only have to show sincerity, but also treat them with sincerity."
Ding Meng glanced at her. "Since when did the Black Handprint want to recruit me?"
Julie said, "Recruitment is beyond our reach, and cooperation is out of the question. However, my father has always wanted to meet you, but unfortunately, he didn't have the chance. This is an accidental encounter."
Ding Meng said, "Yuwen Liang, Zhang Tianyang, and Beiming are all generals of the Imperium. Why are you looking for them?"
Julie looked around. "Haven't you noticed that there is no one on my starship?
We've always been in need of people, and the three of them were undoubtedly very good candidates. Unfortunately … if I'm not wrong, the three of them should have been killed by you, right? "
Ding Meng sighed. "To be honest, do I look like a bloodthirsty centaur?"
Julie also sighed. "Tell me the truth, are there any fewer people who have died in your hands?"
This was a complicated question that was difficult to answer. For a moment, the atmosphere was a little gloomy. Ding Meng simply changed his words, "I remember you appeared on Rainforest Planet No.5 six years ago, but you didn't appear in the temple in the end."
Julie smiled and said, "Can't you guys just activate the Divine Light Energy? Why do I have to go to the temple?"
Ding Meng immediately understood. Although the black handprint did not appear in the end, they definitely did not lose out in the temple incident. Perhaps they even gained a lot of benefits. However, Ding Meng also knew that Julie would definitely not take the initiative to tell him the details.
At this moment, Julie stretched out her hand and gently swiped. A screen immediately appeared in the air. The screen showed that the Scorpion Starship had arrived above a black asteroid.
Ding Meng's first impression of this extremely black planet was that it was the Gray Plain Planet of the Silent System. The Silent Land of Entropy was hidden in the eternal darkness.
However, Ding Meng did not ask any more questions. Instead, he asked, "This is Divine Light Technology, right?"
Julie nodded. "Yes!"
Ding Meng said, "You guys are obviously related to the Demons, but you guys know how to use Divine Light Technology. I'm really curious!"
Julie smiled. "I know you have this question. Don't worry, my father will answer it for you."
Ding Meng probed, "Your father is on this planet?"
Julie explained, "This is the Black Handprint Planet. It's 3,500 light-years away from the Sacred Brilliance System, still within the main star system."
Ding Meng was shocked again. "That wormhole just now teleported a distance of more than 3,000 light-years?"
Julie nodded and said, "To put it bluntly, the power of the Demon Race is so exaggerated. Do you think that the forbidden temple is not even worth mentioning?"
Ding Meng could only keep his mouth shut. The strength of the Demonic Sky Empire had once again exceeded his understanding.
The Scorpion Starship gradually descended to the surface. Ding Meng acutely noticed that the ground was covered in black sand and rocks. There was an inverted triangular crater in the middle of the ground. Its size was exactly the same as the Scorpion Starship.
The landing method of the starship was very strange. The sharp nose of the starship was inserted into the crater, and the other side of the tail was flush with the ground, filling up the crater perfectly. Even if one looked down from the sky, it would be difficult to notice anything unusual. This was obviously carefully designed.
Walking out of the connecting cabin, Ding Meng found an extremely primitive elevator parked at the entrance of a tunnel. It was like a simple two-person lift in a mining area, slanting downward.
The tunnel was extremely long, and the elevator had been operating for more than half an hour. Their current position was probably deep in the earth's core.
When the elevator stopped operating, Ding Meng spread out his psychic vision and discovered that this was a very vast and complicated underground palace. Countless passages crisscrossed, and countless palaces were stacked on top of each other. The surrounding walls were mostly made of stone, supplemented by a small amount of bones. He could not tell what kind of creature's bones it was.
Whether it was the walls or the passages, many places were engraved with strange symbols and runes. These were definitely not the patterns of the Mou Xing Civilization. Instead of calling this an underground palace, it was more like an interstellar ruin. Because from the various traces of decay, this place had been abandoned for a long time.
Could this be the headquarters of the Black Handprint?
This was completely different from the Black Handprint that Ding Meng had imagined to be run amok by Demons with superb hacking skills.
After passing through a long corridor, a light finally appeared in front of them. Upon closer inspection, it was a huge three-dimensional map of the Sacred Splendor Star System. It was drifting in an ancient and spacious palace.
Not far from the map was a stone chair, on which sat a skinny old man. The old man was so thin that he was skin and bones. His face was sallow, and his cheekbones were protruding. He wore a black robe, and his face was ordinary but weathered.
In Ding Meng's perception, the old man was very weak, as if he was in the final stages of his life and could collapse at any time.
Julie stepped forward and bowed slightly. "Father!"
Ding Meng was shocked. Could this be the mysterious and omnipotent Black Handprint helmsman — the Fifth Lord?
The Fifth Lord struggled to get up. He first nodded slightly at Julie, then smiled at Ding Meng.
When he didn't smile, one would think that he was just a weak and sickly old man who lived in this dark underground, his life full of loneliness and dullness.
However, this smile gave one the illusion that this was clearly a friendly and amiable neighbor. Although his face was old, his eyes shone with the vitality of a young man and the wisdom of an old man.
Ding Meng asked tentatively, "The Fifth Lord?"
The Fifth Lord said, "We finally meet, Ding Meng. It's a bit of a pity that I didn't get to meet my young friend Xin Jie."
Ding Meng suddenly sighed.
The Fifth Lord smiled. "Is it because my appearance is different from what you imagined?"
Ding Meng nodded. "Indeed!"
The Fifth Lord asked with interest, "Then in your imagination, what should I look like?"
Ding Meng pondered and said, "I always feel that you're a very mysterious person, and you give people a very scary feeling."
The Fifth Lord smiled again. "Mysterious is acceptable, but you shouldn't think that I'm scary!"
Ding Meng asked, "Why?"
The Fifth Lord stretched out his thumb and index finger and gently flicked it into the air. A light spot immediately entered the star map, and the map instantly changed into a three-pronged star map that emitted a huge wave of energy.
"You …" Ding Meng was shocked beyond words. "The energy of this Divine Light … You … You're the Great Elder of the Mou Xing Royal Family?"
The Fifth Lord nodded. "The real Fifth Lord died a long time ago. I'm just borrowing his body as a host …"
His words were understated, but Ding Meng's shock at this moment was unprecedented, because only he knew how difficult it was to achieve this.
It was not easy for the Mou Xing Spiritual Body to survive, and it required a lot of luck to attach itself to a host. Finally, the conditions to transform into a human were extremely harsh. Most importantly, Ding Meng had already sensed the Fifth Lord's casual flick. The Fifth Lord was not inferior to him, but he could not estimate how powerful he was.
At this moment, he finally believed what Julie said before. If the black handprint really wanted to deal with him, his soul would have been destroyed long ago, and dying a few hundred times would not be enough.
The Fifth Lord seemed to have guessed his thoughts. "We are of the same race, but we are not. We are not friends, but we are not enemies either."
This was very difficult to understand, so Ding Meng simply asked, "It seems that the Great General brought your Spiritual Body out of the Forbidden Land is true."
The Fifth Lord said, "At that time, the Great General's strength was similar to yours, but he was still destroyed by the Demons."
Ding Meng was moved. "Are the warriors of the Demons that powerful?"
The Fifth Lord said, "It's not that the warriors are that powerful, but that the Demon Sky Empire is that powerful. Otherwise, how could the Mou Xing Kingdom be destroyed?"
At this moment, Julie stretched out a slender finger and lightly flicked it at the star map. A black line was injected into the mirror image, and the three-pointed star changed into another mirror image.
This was a devil's mask, and no words could describe this face. It was as if the most clumsy craftsman had used a red-hot soldering iron to rudely grind a human face. Even the ugliest devil in hell was not as terrifying as this face. Even for a master with a strong heart like Ding Meng, he felt very uncomfortable with just one look. It immediately made him feel irritable, violent, bloodthirsty, and disgusted with all kinds of negative emotions. He would want to kill anyone he saw, rob anyone he saw, and ravage any beautiful woman he saw. Even if a small fish was placed on the ground, he would want to stomp it to pieces.
This feeling was very unpleasant, and Ding Meng took a deep breath to suppress it.
Julie waved her hand again, and it seemed like she had retracted the energy. The mirror image of the mask turned back into the star map, and the palace regained its blue luster.
Ding Meng had broadened his horizons today. Although the current Julie was not as strong as him, the gap between them was very small.
Ding Meng seemed to have realized something. "You're not the real Julie!"
Julie smiled. "That's right. Back at the Black Gold Base, you had severely injured her. In the end, she still died."
Ding Meng said, "You're the host of another Spiritual Body?"
Julie smiled. "Do you want to know who I am?
Don't be surprised! "