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Lu Yin saw what Hui Zhu had done, and his gaze darkened. It had been hiding this all along. If Shen Fei hadn't heard the intelligence, Lu Yin would still have been kept in the dark.
Even the Luck Dao cared about that warship. To avoid drawing the attention of Outer Heaven, they would rather send a Main Sequence member who hadn't taken part in the war, and waste time observing the warship's attacks. That was enough to show how much they valued it.
Hui Zhu had actually dared to hide this from him.
There was no longer any reason for it to exist.
He had kept Hui Zhu alive because he needed it to control the Imperial Ship. Hui Zhu had also claimed that its life was linked to the Imperial Ship: if it died, the ship would go dark forever.
Lu Yin didn't believe it, but he didn't want to take the risk either. After all, the Imperial Ship's last remaining Cognitive Weapon was important. But as time passed, that weapon mattered less and less. It wasn't powerful enough to be used on more formidable battlefields. Back then, Butterfly Ancestor had only been at the peak of the Second Dao Law, with her limit approaching the Third Dao Law. But on the battlefield in Outer Heaven now,
even those who had reached the Third Dao Law couldn't decide the outcome.
The Cognitive Weapon was no longer important, but the Technology Civilization behind the Imperial Ship was exceedingly important.
This Cognitive Weapon wasn't the strongest weapon of the Technology Civilization. The fact that they had created a Cognitive Weapon in the first place made them highly unusual. Their ability to calculate the workings of the universe was what mattered most, and that was what the Luck Dao valued.