Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Chapter 751 - Chapter 760

Chapter 751 - Never to Regret

"His mother's death was the straw that broke the camel's back. He went mad and planned to kill his father no matter what!

"Obviously, his assassination failed. Also, his father was inhuman enough as to beat him to 'death' brutally and even threw his body into the random stinky gutters of Capital Nest!

"However, it was not Bai Wuxin's doom yet. Three days later, he woke up in the gutter and survived stubbornly!

"In the years that followed, Bai Wuxin lived in the darkness of the bottom level of Capital Nest and was constantly polished by the cruel rules of Spider Den. While his capability soared, his talents were awakened, and his brain developed an extremely high computational ability, and he could keep clam at any time.

"By accident, he joined a pirate gang.

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"Bai Wuxin did not mean to become a space pirate. Never for one moment had he forgotten his mother's teachings. Also, he hated all the space pirates and was desperate to seek revenge from his father!

"He was merely taking the opportunity to leave Spider Den.

"He made it.

"The pirate gang he joined was engaged with an enemy in space and battered before they started their hunting job.

"Bai Wuxin found a chance to steal an escape capsule and left the pirate gang. He was saved by a fleet of carriers in the end.

"From then on, Bai Wuxin used a different name and buried his past deeply. He travelled in the universe and worked in multiple organizations and Exo Societies, until he met the Great Horn Exo Society and a wounded, sloppy man one day.

"The two of them both loathed the space pirates. So, they became best friends and teamed up to slay the space pirates."

Bai Kaixin was silent for a long time when he got to this part. In the end, he took a long breath and bit his pale lips hard, before he gnashed his teeth, his voice shivering. "However, no matter how many space pirates he killed, Bai Wuxin never had enough capability to challenge his father, because his father was... Bai Xinghe, the Pirate Potentate!"

Bai Kaixin finished his story and looked at Lei Dalu, his eyes red.

Lei Dalu scratched his hair hard, his dandruff flying crazily like snowflakes.

Pondering for a long time, Lei Dalu rubbed his cheek as if he had a toothache, before he said, "Old Bai, think on the bright side. Nobody gets to choose their parents. Besides, it might not be as bad as you think..."

"Not as bad as I think?" Bai Kaixin finally burst into fury. Tears all over his face, he roared, "Bai Xinghe is my father. Tell me, how can it be any worse?"

Lei Dalu blinked slowly and then replied delightedly, "For example, Bai Xinghe being your father is better than Fengyu Zhong being your father, isn't it?"

Bai Kaixin was dumbfounded.

His facial expression suggested that he was going to either spit right in his best friend's face or lunge forward and bite him hard.

Lei Dalu chuckled and said, "If so, why did you sneak into Spider Den? Right now, Bai Xinghe is at total war with the Temple of Immortals. He is definitely no match for the Immortal Cultivators. Since you hate his guts, isn't his death what you desire most?"

Bai Kaixin's countenance suddenly changed. Intense confusion appeared on his face, as he mumbled, "Because when Bai Wuxin grew older and even cracked one of the jade chips left by his mother, he found that there were a lot of suspicious points about the whole event. Everything he believed in was probably false!"

Lei Dalu frowned. "A jade chip?"

"It was a jade chip in the shape of a pendant, the only belonging that his mother left him," Bai Kaixin said. "Before, Bai Wuxin always regarded it as a normal charm. But when he grew up and advanced into the Building Foundation Stage, he sensed the telepathic thought stored deep inside the jade chip. It was not until ten years later that he cracked the barrier on the pendant and found out the information inside the jade chip.

"Inside the jade chip was his mother's diary, from the day when she was captured by the space pirates to a few days before her death.

"The diary smashed the 'facts' that Bai Wuxin had firmly believed in into smithereens!

"In the diary, Bai Xinghe only forced his mother to crack and repair the ancient crystal processors in the underground chamber and... did not rape her.

"Everything that happened later, including the birth of Bai Wuxin, was at his mother's own will!

"In the beginning of the diary, his mother mentioned that she felt that Bai Xinghe was different from other space pirates and a great secret that kept him living in suffering seemed to be concealed in the bottom of his heart. Maybe, there was still conscience in him, and he was not as cruel and merciless as he appeared to be.

"Her purpose in the beginning was simple, too. She knew that there was no way that she could get out of the place. If by any chance she could approach Bai Xinghe, get to know him, influence him, and even change his mindset, maybe the man would commit fewer murders in the future.

"If Bai Xinghe killed one less person because of her, that would be her last contribution to the Cultivators.

"However, when the two of them really started communicating with each other, nobody could say for sure where their feelings and emotions were heading. It is safe to say that even they had forgotten what was on their mind in the beginning and what their purposes were.

"Anyways...

"In the diary ten years later, Bai Wuxin's mother left a conclusion for her son. She told her son that, when her son grew up, learned the whole thing, and viewed the relationship between his parents in retrospect, he might find it unacceptable, appalling, or even ugly and disgusting. But no matter what he thought—

"She did not regret it.

"For all those years, she had never regretted staying with Bai Xinghe!"

Bai Kaixin had tears all over his face again. He sobbed for a long time before he continued his story. "His mother's diary raised a tsunami in Bai Wuxin's head.

"His mother was an expert in crystal processors, possessing immense computational ability. Although women tend to be silly when they are in love, Bai Wuxin did not believe that his mother hadn't calmed herself down after so many years.

"Since his mother stated that she never regretted it, there must have been true love between Bai Xinghe and her.

"Then, regarding his mother's abrupt death...

"At this moment, Bai Wuxin, as a grown-up now, reviewed everything that happened years ago and found a lot of uncanny points.

"Firstly, Bai Wuxin was only a teenager when his mother was killed. With Bai Xinghe's cunningness, if he were the real murderer, how could he have left so much evidence that even his son could discover?

"Secondly, with Bai Xinghe's Cultivation, it was impossible that he beat his son to death 'accidentally'. If he wanted his son dead, how could he have let him survive in the end?

"Thirdly, Bai Wuxin had been living in an underground greenhouse before the accident and barely experienced any difficulties in daily life. He was not a battle-type Cultivator, either. Yet, he lived safe and sound for years in Capital Nest, where the death rate was astonishingly high. Whatever dangers he was in, he could always resolve them in ways that he could not even tell himself. In the end, not only was he alive, he also learned a lot of new stuff, and his capability soared. He even possessed basic combat skills!

"Fourthly, it was quite uncanny that the pirate gang was defeated by its enemy when he left Spider Den and he managed to steal an escape capsule in the chaos to run away.

"If all these things were lucky coincidences, then Bai Wuxin must have saved the world in his previous life!"

Lei Dalu listened attentively and suddenly commented, "Therefore, you suspected that there was the other side of the story.

"For example, Bai Xinghe captured an expert in crystal processors during a hunting job. He happened to have a batch of ancient crystal processors that he was desperate to decrypt. Therefore, he spared the expert's life.

"Maybe in the beginning, he was merely exploiting the expert's value. But a secret chamber, a lonely man, a lonely woman... Who can say for sure what chemical reactions happened between them?

"In the end, the two of them formed a small family deep underground. It was perhaps the only safe house for a great bandit such as Bai Xinghe who lived in storms of blood all the time.

"More than ten years later, their child gradually grew up. But his 'wife', the expert in crystal processors, was killed!

"Bai Xinghe rose to the top abruptly in only a hundred years. Naturally, he had a lot of enemies. And in places such as Spider Den, his enemies wouldn't care about morality at all!

"In the end, his wife was killed by one of his enemies.

"Besides his grief, Bai Xinghe was shocked to another terrifying reality. His son would never be safe if his son was kept on Spider Den!

"Since his enemies could kill his wife, they could of course kill his son.

"Therefore, he had to find a way to send his son away from Spider Den!"

In a trance, Bai Kaixin mumbled, "There are many space pirates on Spider Den who send their family to the outside world. Why did he resort to such an extreme approach?"

Lei Dalu's lightheartedness was entirely gone. His eyes were as cold and clean as the water in a brook while he said, "There's no reason you could not think of something that even I could think of. It's just that you don't want to admit it.

"Bai Xinghe was the Pirate Potentate, the man in the spotlight all the time. Even if he sent his son to the outside world, it was likely that his enemies could find his son again. Therefore, he simply took the opportunity and made a scheme. He pretended that he had lost his mind and beat his son to death!

"It was even possible that the 'evidence' that associated him with his wife's death was likely to be handed over to his son in a certain way by him intentionally for the purpose of infuriating his son. In such a way, his son would definitely cross the line without caring about anything else. He would have a perfect reason to eliminate his son.

"After that, all the space pirates would know that he killed his own son. His enemies naturally wouldn't consider his son a target any longer.

"However, it was only the secondary purpose.

"More importantly, he hoped that the relationships between his son and Spider Den, the space pirates, and himself, the most infamous bandit alive, could be severed once and for all. All the connections should be wiped out!

"Maybe, his wife's death taught him a good lesson. He did not wish for his son to embark on the road of space pirates like him. He hoped that his son could be a man who walked in daylight, a good man who had nothing to do with space pirates and even loathed them, and a Cultivator... a real Cultivator from his wife's stories!"

Bai Kaixin finally collapsed. He covered his face and shook his head hard, before he murmured, "I don't know... I don't know... I don't know..."

Lei Dalu sighed and said, "You've come to Spider Den for an answer, haven't you?"

Chapter 752 - Secret Training Room!

Covering his face, Bai Kaixin said through the gaps between his fingers, "In fact, I should've come earlier. I notice several suspicious points a long time ago and vaguely guessed the answers.

"But I didn't dare. I did not have the courage!

"I was scared that my guess was wrong and that Bai Xinghe was really an inhuman animal who killed his own wife and son!

"I was even scared that everything had been faked by him. He did not kill his own wife. Everything was meant to send his son away from Spider Den to a place where his son could live a good, peaceful life. If so—

"How was I supposed to face him?

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"He was an unpardonable space pirate with blood all over his hands. There was no reason why I should let him go.

"But in the meantime, he was my father. If he had really never done anything wrong to me and my mother, could I kill him personally?

"Therefore, I've been hesitating and debating with myself all these years. I couldn't make up my mind. So, I simply buried the whole thing deep down in my heart. I pretended that I knew nothing of it!

"I was too timid, and even shameless, was I not?"

Lei Dalu plucked his beard hard but gave no reply, so Bai Kaixin continued, "When the Temple of Immortals rose and the Immortal Cultivators showed up, I stopped thinking about confronting him, because everybody thought that the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators were the same thing. I thought that Bai Xinghe was an Immortal Cultivator, too.

"In the debut of the Immortal Cultivators, the Great Horn Exo Society was their target. They meant to destroy all of us!

"If Bai Xinghe did send me out of Spider Den intentionally years ago, he must have known that the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society was his son, Bai Wuxin!

"But the Immortal Cultivators started the battle anyway!

"It was evident enough that, whether I knew the answer or not, he did not care about me. My life and death did not mean a damn thing to him.

"After I figured it out, I was no longer in a dilemma. I felt less sad when I did not have any expectation.

"It was not until the news that Bai Xinghe and the Temple of Immortals were on bad terms and would go to war came over that I realized that the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators might not necessarily be the same thing!

"Old Lei, you were right. The odds of Bai Xinghe's success in the war against the Temple of Immortals are slim. If he is killed, I won't know the answer for the rest of my life!

"That was why I decided to sneak into Spider Den without thinking about anything else. I want to ask him face to face whether or not my mother was killed by him and I was delivered out of Spider Den on purpose!"

Lei Dalu uprooted a grey hair suddenly. His eyes were clearer than ever before as he grinned. "Old Bai, you are not telling the whole truth. In fact, the answer has already been obvious since the moment Bai Xinghe started a total war against the Temple of Immortals. There is no need to ask.

"You left the Great Horn Exo Society and snuck into Spider Den because... you want to save your father, don't you?"

Bai Kaixin was speechless. He was dazed for a long time, before he lowered his head deeply and said, "With the crimes that Bai Xinghe committed, he should be punished, after a trial of justice by the Cultivators and the victims, instead of being killed by the Immortal Cultivators."

Lei Dalu patted his good friend's shoulder and said, "Alright. I totally got you, buddy, but why are you so sure that Bai Xinghe fled to the underground fortress after he was heavily wounded? And where can we find him?"

"I lived in the depths of the underground fortress from the day I was born," Bai Kaixin said. "This is my home. Of course, I knew a lot of secret tunnels.

"In the diary that my mother left, some of the information about the underground fortress was recorded, too, including the locations of Bai Xinghe's secret bases.

"He will definitely come to this place when he is too heavily wounded and has nowhere else to run because..."

After pausing for a moment, Bai Kaixin's voice became clear and tough again. "Because this place is his home!"

...

In the meantime, inside the palace of stars, Li Yao listened to Bai Xinghe's story quietly and concluded, "Therefore, in order to keep the secrets of the Star Prier's House to yourself, you killed your wife to shut her mouth, and in your fury, you killed your own son, too. But your son was lucky enough to survive and escaped from Spider Den after a series of coincidences, only to become Bai Kaixin, the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society in the end.

"Now, you are too old, and your attitude has changed. You feel sorry for your son and you want to save him?

"Boss Bai, do you believe such a flawed story yourself?"

Bai Xinghe was rendered speechless.

"When you mentioned that you killed your wife, you looked to the top right corner, and your pupils expanded slightly. These are both signs of lying," Li Yao said. "It is not strange that you were lying. In fact, I wonder if you have ever spoken truth.

"But when you were lying before, even the tiniest muscle on your face wouldn't twitch. I was never able to notice anything abnormal.

"Based on that, I think it's safe to say that even killing your wife in your imagination was insufferable for you.

"Your wife must not have been killed by you. Your enemies, or somebody else, did it, right?

"Now, I finally understand why you waged a war at the Immortal Cultivators without caring about the cost.

"Two years ago, in the first battle of the Cultivators, they targeted the Great Horn Exo Society and meant to kill your son. If I hadn't shown up in time, there was a good chance that Bai Kaixin would've become dust in the universe.

"You paid such a high price to help your son out of Spider Den far away from space pirates so that he could live a good, peaceful life, even at the cost of your son hating you for the rest of his life. It was clear that you loved your son profoundly.

"The Immortal Cultivators, on the other hand, chose your son as their target and almost killed him. Naturally, you burst into fury and were determined to destroy the Temple of the Immortals without caring about the consequences even at the cost of your own life."

Ruthlessness beamed out of Bai Xinghe's eyes, as he said coarsely, "You talk too much!

"I have confessed everything now. Will you help me or not?"

When 'not' came out of his mouth, the floor ten square meters around Bai Xinghe's feet turned into ruins completely. It was pressed down more than half a meter by his spiritual energy!

For a moment, dust filled the palace.

"I will! Of course, I will!" Li Yao replied unhesitatingly.

Both Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin were his friends. When he was trapped on Iron Plateau, the Great Horn Exo Society, knowing that the planet was a 'forbidden area for Cultivators', had still marched to Iron Plateau at great risk in order to save him.

Right now, their life was endangered. How could Li Yao stand by and watch?

However, Li Yao found something confusing. He asked, "Boss Bai, I've been in touch with Bai Kaixin for a while. His strategies and computational ability are as good as yours. Although he is not a battle-type Cultivator, he certainly has the capability to protect himself after all these years of struggle.

"Besides, right now, he is with Lei Dalu, who is a Cultivator in the Core Formation Stage.

"Over the past year, the Great Horn Exo Society has been a close partner of the Glorious Sunlight Group. We have produced a batch of powerful crystal suits for their use. They should be both carrying the crystal suits and other magical equipment with them.

"Their identity hasn't been seen through by the Immortal Cultivators yet. They shouldn't be in too much danger right now. Why are you in such a rush?"

Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "It is not the Immortal Cultivators that I'm scared of, but the traps in the fortress, which are already activated!"

"What?" Li Yao was bewildered. "Is it possible? Like you said, the traps from ten thousand years ago should've been damaged already. You couldn't have installed new traps. What's there to be activated?"

Bai Xinghe hesitated for a moment. Glancing at his son on the light beam, he made up his mind and said, "The traps deployed by Yan Xinjian!"

Li Yao was dazed. "The supreme space pirate, Yan Xinjian, who defeated the coalition fleet of the Cultivators and established 'Ten Sword Rules' five hundred years ago?"

Li Yao suddenly thought through many things.

It was said that Yan Xinjian was the first space pirate to enter the core area of the underground fortress.

Also, according to Bai Xinghe, Yan Xinjian was the first to discover the Star Prier's House. He had activated the defense rune array on Spider Den with the super crystal processors, which caused a major problem for the incoming coalition fleet of Cultivators and eventually forced them to retreat.

Rumor on Spider Den had it that Bai Xinghe was the successor of Yan Xinjian's knowledge!

If it was Yan Xinjian, it was quite possible that large-scale traps could have been established underground.

The title of 'supreme space pirate' did not come from nothing. When the coalition fleet of the Cultivators had just been defeated, Yan Xinjian's power reached the peak on Spider Den. He took the opportunity to perform purges on Spider Den by eliminating the dissidents and driving away the disobedient. All the while, he collected tremendous resources and wealth!

At that time, Yan Xinjian's prestige on Spider Den was ten times higher than Bai Xinghe's today!

It was also told in some tales that Yan Xinjian reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage only several decades after defeating the coalition fleet of the Cultivators. He was the well-deserved best expert of the Flying Star Sector at that time!

Yan Xinjian had enough manpower and resources to fully modify the underground fortress and deploy multiple traps, before executing all the workers and sealing the news when all the jobs were done.

However...

Li Yao frowned. "Why was Yan Xinjian setting up traps down here?"

"Because he established a secret training room in the deepest part of the underground fortress," Bai Xinghe explained.

Li Yao was baffled. "A secret training room ten thousand meters below the ground? Why?"

"Because he was planning to break into the Divinity Transformation State, something nobody had ever done in the five thousand years after the apocalypse!"

A Divinity Transformation Cultivator!

Li Yao gasped. He quickly thought through the whole thing and shouted excitedly, "I got it!

"Since Yan Xinjian was the first to discover the Star Prier's House, naturally, he learned the truth of the apocalypses through the legacy of Liu the Prier.

"It was clear to him that he might be struck by an apocalypse when he broke into the Divinity Transformation Stage from the Nascent Soul Stage. But the apocalypses all required a process of 'perception' and 'activation'.

"That was why he built a secret training room ten thousand meters below the surface. He was going to hide here while he attempted to break through to the Divinity Transformation Stage!

"Such a plan had two merits.

"Firstly, blocked by the rock stratums as thick as ten thousand meters, the spiritual energy he released when he was breaking the threshold of the Divinity Transformation State might have escaped the attention of the 'minor apocalypses' that were floating in the universe. In such a way, the 'minor apocalypses' that were meant to exterminate the experts would not be activated!

"Secondly, even if a 'minor apocalypse' was truly activated, it might not be able to pierce through ground and exterminate him!"

Chapter 753 - A Five-Hundred-Year Battle!

Bai Xinghe nodded and quickly replied, "Correct. In order to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage, Yan Xinjian levied and looted on Spider Den. He annihilated a lot of pirate gangs with the excuse that they violated the 'Ten Sword Rules' before collecting all their resources. Naturally, he made a lot of enemies. There were even more who behaved nicely and obediently but were in fact merely scared of the tremendous soldiers under his control.

"It was not a small task to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage from the Nascent Soul Stage. Three to five years were already rarely seen. During the breakthrough, the Cultivator needs to be totally focused. They have absolutely no time or energy to care about other affairs.

"If Yan Xinjian did not show up on the ground for several years, his power would definitely be assumed, and the reign of iron and blood built by him would collapse. When other space pirates learned that he was hiding below the ground doing his training, they would definitely do anything they could to sabotage his endeavor to enter the Divinity Transformation Stage.

"During the period when a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator broke into the Divinity Transformation Stage, it was like a caterpillar in a cocoon waiting to become a butterfly. It was the most vulnerable time of their life. They had to pass through all kinds of difficulties and were prone to heavy wounds or mental derangement at any time.

"If his enemies suddenly marched into his training room when Yan Xibei was mentally deranged, it was not hard to guess what would happen next.

"Therefore, in order to advance into the Divinity Transformation Stage successfully, Yan Xinjian made full preparations. Not only did he establish a secret training room ten thousand meters below the surface, he also set up multiple lethal traps based on the original fortress.

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"Yan Xinjian created 'Ten Sword Rules' when he governed Spider Den. He was quite merciful to his prey in space, but to the space pirates on his side, he was cruel and ruthless and would butcher them easily.

"Many space pirates at that time complained about his petty kindness. Hundreds of years later, many people in the world of Cultivators still hold him in high regard, insisting that he at least had a certain mortal standard.

"But they did not know that Yan Xinjian was so tough on the space pirates and performed purges every once in a while partly in order to accumulate wealth and resources quickly, which were necessary for his breakthrough into the Divinity Transformation Stage, and partly, as well as more importantly, to execute all the insiders with the purges as the disguise.

"After everybody who knew the secret training room and the underground traps was wiped out, Yan Xinjian 'died abruptly'!

"But in reality, he secluded himself underground for the breakthrough into the Divinity Transformation Stage!"

Li Yao was hooked and couldn't help but ask, "If so, the anecdote should be a top secret. How do you know it?"

Bai Xinghe smiled and said, "I found some of Yan Xinjian's notes from the super crystal processors of the Star Prier's House. He set the notes to be automatically unlocked and readable three hundred years after he entered the secret training room.

"If somebody entered the Star Prier's House and activated the super crystal processors within three hundred years, not only would they have no access to the notes, all the traps in the underground fortress would be triggered immediately and destroy everything!"

Li Yao thought through the whole thing very quickly.

Whether the breakthrough to the Divinity Transformation Stage succeeded or failed, the answer would be revealed within a hundred years.

If Yan Xinjian successfully advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage, he should have ended his seclusion in several decades. By then, he could always modify or delete his notes, and he could have governed Spider Den again as the 'best expert of the Flying Star Sector'.

If he did not turn on the super crystal processors three hundred years later, there was only one possibility, which was that he was dead.

The breakthrough from the Nascent Soul Stage to the Divinity Transformation Stage was a risky process. Even without the influence of the apocalypses, the success rate was no higher than 10%. Yan Xinjian probably left those notes in order to leave his legacy for the latecomers. Many high-level Cultivators would do similar things for total strangers when they were striving to enter a higher level.

"The notes that I received marked the secret training room and the locations of the traps in great detail," Bai Xinghe said. "It also recorded part of Yan Xinjian's secret arts and techniques. However, according to the notes, most of Yan Xinjian's magical equipment and techniques were stored in his secret training room. He hoped that those who were fortunate enough to read the notes could open his secret training room and become his real successor!"

Li Yao suddenly beamed with joy. "So, you are indeed Yan Xinjian's successor!"

Bai Xinghe sneered and shook his head. "No, I am not. I did not open Yan Xinjian's secret training room."

Li Yao was dumbfounded.

The secret training room of a Cultivator in the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage equaled to his treasury. There must have been immeasurable benefits hidden inside. Yet, Bai Xinghe, the space pirate who made his living from others' fortunes, chose not to open it?

"Why?"

Bai Xinghe replied coldly, "Because I didn't believe in Yan Xinjian.

"When I was young, I once considered the 'supreme space pirate' as my role model and went through a lot of trouble to collect information about him.

"After cross-checking the files and the notes he left, I felt more and more alarmed as I studied deeper.

"On the surface, all the files stated that Yan Xinjian ran away from Heavenly Saints City and ended up on Spider Den because his wife cheated on him. The man burst into a fury and slew countless people.

"However, as I studied the files carefully, I found anomalies and came to a different conclusion.

"Yan Xinjian's wife might have cheated on him, or she might not have. It doesn't matter. What mattered was that Yan Xinjian was likely to have received a map, or at least the scraps of a map, of the underground fortress of Spider Den earlier.

"Otherwise, how could Yan Xinjian, as an outsider, find the entrance to the core area of the underground fortress in only one and a half years, when the local space pirates on Spider failed to find it for hundreds of years?

"Therefore, his wife cheating on him was probably only his excuse. In such a way, he could escape to Spider Den without raising the suspicion of the space pirates!

"It was even possible that the battle of Spider Den was manipulated by him in person, too!

"Think about it. Yan Xinjian ran to Spider Den alone. However capable he was, would the ferocious, disobedient space pirates really listen to his command?

"Only when the coalition fleet of the Cultivators approached could the value of him, the man who was most familiar with the starships of the Cultivators, be maximized. That was why he was granted with the temporary right to command many pirate gangs on Spider Den!

"Yan Xinjian gradually rose to power during the protracted war. All the space pirates who objected to him or doubted him got killed in the bloody battles.

"After years of war, the Cultivators were finally defeated and retreated without a victory, but the space pirates suffered equally heavy losses. Many pirate gangs were wasted or crippled. The best experts among space pirates were mostly killed. The one who got the most benefits was Yan Xinjian!

"He turned from a desperate deserter into the supreme ruler of Spider Den!

"The world of Cultivators and Spider Den were both tricked by him while knowing nothing of it. The man was indeed cunning and strategical!

"Would such a terrifying man really pass on his legacy to latecomers?

"Naturally, normal people may think that, since Yan Xinjian was likely to be killed, his last words might not be harmful. It was not a strange idea that the deceased left some benefits for the latecomers so that they could pass on their will.

"But was Yan Xinjian normal people?

"I did not dare take the risk. In my life, I was never scared of anybody, even when I was surrounded by Cultivators, outnumbered ten to one. But after learning of Yan Xinjian's doings, I felt goosebumps all over my body.

"My intuition told me to keep as far away from anything related to Yan Xinjian as possible!

"Therefore, although I discovered Yan Xinjian's secret training room, and I knew that his legacy and secret treasures were probably hidden inside, I gritted my teeth and made up my mind that I would not open it for the rest of my life!"

Cold sweat appeared on Li Yao's forehead as he heard the story.

It was definitely true that none of the people who left their names in history and whose influence lasted to this day were easy to deal with.

If Yan Xinjian were really behind the curtain of everything, the resolution and schemes of the 'supreme space pirate' were indeed appalling.

Li Yao couldn't help but recall the residence of Skeleton Dragon on Boneyard.

At that time, Skeleton Dragon was also luring the new generations with secret treasures for the purpose of breaking the barriers and returning to the world!

Although Yan Xinjian was probably long dead, who could say for sure what was on the mind of the old monsters in the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage?

It was possible that the notes he had left in the super crystal processors were really bait to fool the latecomers into opening the secret training room!

However, Yan Xinjian must never have foreseen that, after hundreds of years of waiting, it was another man who was as resolute as himself named Bai Xinghe who discovered the notes, and that he could refrain from succumbing to such huge temptations!

Maybe, this was a five-hundred-year battle between the 'supreme space pirate' and the 'Pirate Potentate'!

"So, you did not open Yan Xinjian's secret training room but merely took control over the traps he made? That explains a lot. You have indeed never deployed any traps below the ground. The Immortal Cultivators would never even think that they will be faced with the most terrifying traps designed by the supreme space pirate himself!" Li Yao said.

Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "Not the Immortal Cultivators, but us. The traps have been activated. Nobody is going to run away!"

Li Yao was dumbfounded. "When did you activate the traps?"

"I didn't have to," Bai Xinghe replied. "The trigger system of the traps is very complicated. By taking the total weight of everybody in the underground fortress, the heat and spiritual waves they emit, the waste gas they breath out as well as other factors into account, after a series of precise calculations, as long as the trigger system determines that a lot of intruders have entered the core area, especially the main warehouse at the bottom level, all the traps will be activated immediately!

"Therefore, the traps have been activated now. Nobody is going to stop them!"

Li Yao blinked fast. "Why can't I feel anything?"

Bai Xinghe sighed and said, "Do you remember the Nether River that we leapt across seven days ago? The Star Prier's House uses the water of the river as its source of energy. Yan Xinjian's traps are based on the Nether River, too.

"Once the traps are activated, the critical parts around the Nether River will be blown up immediately. The route of the Nether River will change, and the water will pour into the underground fortress and devour it!"

Chapter 754 - Return of the King!

Hardly had Bai Xinghe concluded his explanation when the entire Star Prier's House started shaking slightly. Li Yao stuck his hands to the ground. Spiritual energy surged out of his palms as he sensed the surroundings carefully. He did detect that spiritual energy of the water class was roaring in various directions. Even the steam in the air was more irked than usual.

The color of Bai Xinghe's face changed, and he said in a hurry, "There's no time. I'll explain to you later while we are on our way!"

Li Yao hesitated for a moment and tossed the Cosmos Ring that stored the Dragon King Battlesuit to Bai Xinghe.

After changing into the Dragon King Battlesuit, Bai Xinghe threw a Cosmos Ring to Li Yao, too, saying that it would be needed soon.

Bai Xinghe set the super crystal processors to run automatically. The two of them exited the Star Prier's House from the way they had entered, except that they bypassed the Lustful Rock Spider's hunting range and zigzagged down a brand-new branch.

Bai Xinghe was carrying a mini crystal processor that was connected to the super Cultivators remotely. It could display the real-time picture that the thousands of crystal cameras captured. However, the transmission of telepathic thoughts was intermittent because of the complicated terrain in the underground fortress. They could only stay close with Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu. As for Bai Wulei, Fengyu Zhong, the Black King, and the other Immortal Cultivators, they were not able to monitor them constantly.

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While they were on their way, the shaking became more and more violent. In the beginning, a slight shiver would only occur every twenty seconds or so. But now, a great earthquake would take place every other second.

Bai Xinghe ran forward fast as he explained, "Yan Xinjian spent decades resetting the parameters of the crystal processors in the main control room of the underground fortress. There was nothing strange upon first inspection, but an extremely sordid backdoor actually had been concealed.

"When the traps are activated, the entrance and the exit of the underground fortress will be immediately detonated. But other than them, all the other channels, including the gates, tunnels, ventilation tubes, and maintenance tubes, will be fully opened and cannot not be closed off with the crystal processors so that the flood can pour in without any obstacles!

"The flood is not terrifying per se. Many crystal suits can fight underwater. For the experts who have Cultivated to a certain level, they can live a long time by holding their breath and resorting to their 'inner cycles'.

"However, there are countless horrifying beasts inside the river. Those we met when we leapt across the Nether River are just one kind of them. The hundreds and even thousands of other beasts did not have the ability to soar hundreds of meters into the sky. That was all.

"The beasts have lived in the Nether River for thousands of years. By absorbing the mother lodes below the ground, they continue mutating and strengthening themselves. They have strong senses about spiritual energy just like the Lustful Rock Spider and feast almost exclusively upon spiritual energy!

"When the intruders in the underground fortress encounter such a drastic change, they will certainly put on their crystal suits and trigger their spiritual energy. If so, they will be perfect prey for the beasts in the water!

"Moreover—"

Bai Xinghe narrowed his eyes and said, "A lot of high-purity crystals, such as 'Thunder Stones' and 'Sunlight Stones', are stored inside the warehouse of the underground fortress. Those crystals are as stable as rocks in dry air. However, once they meet water, intense chain reactions will be triggered. A huge amount of spiritual energy and heat will be emanated instantly as they turn into powerful bombs!

"Hehe. It was indeed an excellent move for Yan Xinjian. Since this is a fortress, important war assets such as the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones are not weird at all when they are piled up in this place!

"The intruders would never have dreamt that the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones, which are stored in the driest, special warehouses and blocked by drying rune arrays, will be submerged by a flood!

"The flood and the explosion of the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones will block the upper half part of the underground fortress immediately.

"The important persons of the Immortal Cultivators are all concentrated in the bottom half of the fortress. They will have absolutely nowhere to run to when they realize what is going on!"

Sweat covered Li Yao's forehead. Yan Xinjian's schemes were indeed sordid.

It was impossible to destroy the entire underground fortress. However, drowning half of the fortress by pouring the river into it, together with the explosion of the crystals and the underwater predators, was going to be a major headache for the intruders.

Pondering for a moment, Li Yao asked, "Such traps might be sufficient for those in the Refinement Stage and in the Building Foundation Stage, but I wonder whether or not they are effective for those in the Core Formation Stage and in the Nascent Soul Stage."

"That is exactly why I am hiding here," Bai Xinghe explained. "After I discovered Yan Xinjian's traps, I thought of building the traps into my last trump card. Therefore, I performed major modifications on the Star Prier's House and sealed it again. Moreover, I deployed water-driving rune arrays around the house and stored tremendous food, compressed air, and water-driving magical equipment inside.

"In the meantime, I spent ten years digging a secret tunnel leading to the outside of the underground fortress from the Star Prier's House. The front end of the tunnel exceeded the block range of the fortress. I built a one-way teleportation array there that could transport people out!

"My plan was simple. When the river poured into the underground fortress, I would stay in the Star Prier's House and have a good rest while I observed the fight between the Immortal Cultivators and the underwater beasts.

"When the Immortal Cultivators had soaked in water for one day or two and were exhausted in the battles against the beasts, I would sneak out with the water-driving magical equipment and assassinate my targets.

"The underground fortress has a complicated terrain, and I am familiar with the environment here. Having had several days of good rest and knowing the location of every one of them, I could avoid the strongest experts and attack the lone, weak ones.

"With my capability in the Nascent Soul Stage and the chaos of the situation, it should not be a problem to slay a few people in the Core Formation Stage. By any luck, I could assassinate Fengyu Zhong or the Black King if I had the opportunity!

"Whether I could successfully assassinate the important persons of the Immortal Cultivators or not, I would return to the Star Prier's House without any hesitation and then leave the underground fortress through the secret tunnel!"

Li Yao thought for a moment and suddenly blurted out, "When a tiger leaves a mountain, the monkey calls itself the king."

Bai Xinghe chuckled and sneered. "Do you think Boss Bai is a monkey? But you are not wrong. Compared with the powerful Temple of Immortals, I am indeed a monkey.

"However, when I reappear on the surface, the 'tigers' of the Temple of Immortals will still be struggling to survive in the underground fortress!

"The traps might not be enough to kill the Black King, Fengyu Zhong, and Bai Wulei, but the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators in the Refinement Stage and Building Foundation Stage will definitely suffer heavy losses!

"Then, just think about it. All the space pirates who distinguished themselves in the final battle between me and Fengyu Zhong and proved themselves loyal to the Temple of Immortals were permitted to enter the underground fortress. Then, what kind of person would be left on the surface?"

Li Yao took a long breath and replied, "All the space pirates loyal to the Temple of Immortals have come deep below the ground. Those left on the surface will either be the pirate gangs that were defeated and battered because they are loyal to you or those who were not really willing to contribute to the Temple of Immortals' cause during the last battle!

"The final battle between Fengyu Zhong and you was like a filter that directed all the hardcore lackeys of the Temple of Immortals underground. Those who were left on the surface are definitely not the most loyal ones even though they were lackeys, too!"

"Exactly," Bai Xinghe said. "That is the key of my entire plan.

"As the saying goes, a cake is sour when it is not divided evenly. I publicized the news that a lot of secret treasures of the Star Ocean Imperium are buried inside the underground fortress since a long time ago. Even a pig on Spider Den should be familiar with the rumors and fantasizing the wealth, not to mention the space pirates.

"The space pirates left on the ground are destined to not be trusted by the Temple of Immortals in the future. They can only wait and watch other pirate gangs looting trophies underground and probably swallowing them one day when those pirate gangs are strong enough!

"Tell me, what would those space pirates think?

"It is needless to say that the pirate gangs defeated and loyal to me are probably waiting for their death now. As long as there is a slim chance of survival, they will definitely try their best!

"Alright. That would have been the basic situation when Boss Bai, the Pirate Potentate, returned to the surface.

"The Temple of Immortals would have no leaders, and their core persons would not be able to break out of the underground fortress in a fortnight.

"Besides, with the flood and the explosions, and because of the blockage of the thick rock stratums, no news would be leaked out. I would be the only one who could tell them what happened below the ground.

"Just like that, when I showed up in front of everything and claimed that I had killed all the key persons of the Temple of Immortals in the underground fortress, preferably with the Black King's or Fengyu Zhong's head, do you think there would be anybody on Spider Den who would not obey me?"

Li Yao thought for a moment and cursed. He mumbled, "The king has returned!"

Bai Xinghe smiled and said, "Half a month would be more than enough for me to carry out a brutal counterattack!

"By then, even if the Black King or Fengyu Zhong could break out of the underground fortress, so what? Everything would already have changed!

"Hehe. What I was going to lose was the Abyss Pirate Gang, whose loyalty was questionable, but what I was going to get was the whole of Spider Den! Isn't that a fair deal?"

"It's a pity that you never calculated that your son would appear out of nowhere," Li Yao said.

Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "Indeed, I didn't. What a fool. I haven't seen him for decades. Right now, I seem to be doomed for sure. Why did he come here?

"Is it possible that he grew suspicious about his past and wanted to know the truth before I was killed?"

Li Yao recalled Bai Kaixin's eyes that were forever filled with vague sorrow and yet were as sharp as a frosted blade. He shook his head and said, "Boss Bai, you can't see the big picture because you are in the game. Bai Kaixin is such a smart guy. Do you think he does not know the truth to this day? In my opinion, he figured everything out a long time ago.

"He did not come for an answer; he came to save you."

Bai Xinghe suddenly stopped running and blurted out, "I am a battle-type Cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage, and he is an admin-type Cultivator in the Building Foundation Stage. Do I need him to save me? What makes him think that he can save me?"

"The fact that he is your son," Li Yao said.

Bai Xinghe was dazed for almost ten seconds. He suddenly burst into laughter. The aura of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator fully burst out and nearly knocked Li Yao over.

"Yes. I should've realized it earlier. He is here to save me. My son is here to save me!

"But right now, let your old man save you first!"

Chapter 755 - Fierce Flood!

Inside the main warehouse at the bottom level of the underground fortress, Bai Wulei looked at debris, remains, and the rusted scraps of magical equipment that had been piled up like a hill, dumbfounded.

Powerful crystal suits of the Star Ocean Imperium appeared to be hanging on the sixty shelves that were dozens of meters high. However, with the slightest touch, all the crystal suits crumbled into crazily flying iron dust as if they were made of sand.

Bai Wulei coughed heavily because of the stimulation of the iron dust. He coughed while he bellowed, "It's impossible! How could there be only such a pile of garbage? The old man said that magical equipment that could equip tens of thousands of Cultivators was hidden in his place!"

He rushed crazily inside the warehouse madly and explored the weapons and magical equipment one area after another. It was a pity that his finger seemed to be blessed with a destructive ability all of a suddenly. All the weapons and magical equipment he touched were shattered and collapsed into debris.

"How can this be?" Bai Wulei was about to cry. He gnashed his teeth and said, "It's unreasonable. The old man already presented countless techniques and magical equipment he took from the underground fortress in order to boost morale. At that time, I asked him what about ourselves when we were offering so many secret treasures to other people.

"In the end, the old man burst into laughter and declared that what he had taken out was only one tenth of all the treasures. The real good items were still below the ground!

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"How is it possible?

"There must be something wrong. There must be another warehouse. There must be!"

Bai Wulei waved a seemingly glamorous flying sword. But after one slash, it broken into more than ten pieces, suggesting that it was more fragile than glass.

Fengyu Zhong, Master Hidden Fog, who was the previous leader of Black Spider Tower, and Dark Empyrean, who was the real 'Black King', all frowned and stared at the wall, deep in thought.

The spacious warehouse was wreathed in a vague black mist, as if streams of demonic aura were leaking in through the wall.

Fengyu Zhong asked respectfully, "Black King, what do you think?"

Since Dark Empyreal had launched an attack in the Nascent Soul Stage toward Bai Xinghe in front of everybody, there was little point in him concealing his identity any longer. Getting rid of the low profile as one of the 'Eight Blades of Black Spider', he stood confidently, surrounded by a daunting, decisive aura. He replied calmly, "It appears that we have all been fooled by Bai Xinghe. The old, cunning Pirate Potentate was merely bluffing.

"There are not as many secret treasures of the Star Ocean Imperium as he claimed. Even if there were, most of the magical equipment and the weapons would already be rusted and damaged.

"Those he brought to the surface were just about everything. That old fox!

"However..."

Dark Empyrean, the Black King, narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "It suddenly occurs to me that, although most of the weapons and magical equipment on our way here are seriously damaged, there are a great number of war assets, especially high-purity crystals such as the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones. Their volume seems to far exceed the need of a regular war."

Hardly had he concluded his sentence when the color of his face changed abruptly. He drew a rune quickly and held it in his palm while he murmured a spell. Then he opened his hands suddenly!

A black bug immediately flew out of his hands and flew far away in a streak of blackness.

A moment later, Fengyu Zhong's nose flapped as he sniffed the air. He observed with a solemn face, "Something is indeed not right. The moisture of the air has increased all of a sudden. The spiritual energy of the water class is very active right now!"

"Not good!" Dark Empyrean seemed to have sensed something. His face turned extremely pale as he shouted loudly, "Hurry and leave!"

...

The middle level and the upper level of the underground fortress had changed entirely.

Over the past ten thousand years, the multiple earthquakes, especially the super earthquake affected by the apocalypse five thousand years ago, had already riddled the fortress with holes everywhere.

The traps that Yan Xinjian had devised neatly, through a few insignificant explosions, altered the route of the Nether River precisely, turning the Nether River into a raging dragon that invaded the fortress. The hair, claws, and teeth of the dragon were running into the fortress through the countless fractures on the top half of the fortress!

In a moment, the underground fortress turned into a swamp!

The unstoppable flood was roaring in every pathway like ferocious beasts, smashing everything in its way.

Countless space pirates were consumed by the flood before they realized what was going on. They were bashed into the wall hard by the rushing torrent. Despite the protection of their crystal suits, they were vomiting blood with their internal organs torn apart.

The flood alone was not terrifying, but most of the warehouses inside the underground fortress were packed with high-purity crystals such as the Thunder Stone and the Sunlight Stone.

Those extremely unstable crystals did not even need to meet water directly to explode. As long as the moisture of the air increased to a certain level and the spiritual energy of the water class in the air was active enough, they would detonate instantly!

As a result—

Explosions were taking place everywhere inside the underground fortress. Countless warehouses and pathways collapsed before they were swallowed by the flood. The space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators inside were buried and suppressed by the fireballs and billions of rocks that were cascading down on their heads without even having the opportunity to scream.

For the areas that were not affected by the explosions of the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones, when they were drowned by the flood, the eccentric beasts living inside the Nether River crawled into the fortress along with the currents.

Those eccentric beasts had been living in absolute darkness for thousands of years. They could only perceive their prey through spiritual energy.

In order to keep away from their enemies, most of them had evolved with the ability of converging their spiritual energy, too.

Right now, the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators who had triggered their spiritual energy instead of concealing it in the emergency were like butterflies in a dark night. They became the most appealing prey for the eccentric beasts.

There were floating eccentric beasts that were emitting dim lights like jellyfish, fish-type beasts that had sharp tusks and could bite through the toughest super alloys, and insect-type beasts that both looked like water snakes and giant centipedes with flagella and tentacles wriggling all over their bodies to name a few.

Hundreds of eccentric beasts were swimming, sneaking, and searching in the water, exchanging greedy and cruel information with each other.

Even the mortal enemies gave up the idea of hunting each other for now because more delicious prey was right in front of them.

Swoosh!

A floating eccentric beast that looked like a transparent jellyfish lunged at a space pirate who was struggling inside the flood. The boneless body of the beast opened like a bag and covered the space pirate's head as fast as lightning. The soft tentacles groped for the gaps in the victim's crystal suit and injected the fatal venom into it.

Hiu!

Hundreds of 'goldfish' that had the sharpest teeth congregated into a cluster of deadly gold as they charged at an Immortal Cultivator who had suffered internal injuries during the strike of the flood. Their teeth bit his crystal suit hard. After being ripped for a moment, the crystal suit was creaking and about to crumble at any moment!

Hu!

The insect-type beasts that looked like enormous centipedes spurted corrosive body liquids as they swam forward. The dark green body liquids quickly spread out in the water and enshrouded two Immortal Cultivators, who did not know what was going on silently, like faint mist.

"Ah!"

"Ah! Ah!"

"What is this? What is this damn thing?"

Screams were echoing nonstop inside the communication channel of the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators. Countless people were killed before they sensed where their enemy was!

...

Inside a secret tunnel, Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu were moving forward prudently. Suddenly, Lei Dalu's nostrils widened, and his ears twitched. He leaned against the wall and listened carefully for a while, before he mumbled, "Something's wrong."

Bai Kaixin turned nervous. "What is it? This road is very inconspicuous. The Immortal Cultivators shouldn't be able to discover it."

"It doesn't sound like the Immortal Cultivators," Lei Dalu murmured. Then he suddenly shouted, "Not good. Run quickly!"

"What's going—"

Before Bai Kaixin finished his sentence, he had already heard a boom far away from them, as if something had exploded, which was followed by the earsplitting noise of a flood that was pushing close to the two of them unstoppably.

Bai Kaixin was lost, too. "What's happening?"

Huala! Huala! Huala!

As if the horn of the God of Water had been blown, a tide rounded the corner and was rushing close.

"What are you waiting for? Run now!"

Lei Dalu snatched Bai Kaixin's elbow and ran as fast as he could!

...

Li Yao and Bai Xinghe had snuck into the river. Everything they saw raised the deepest fear deep down their heart.

It was a pathway that had just been savaged by the flood and the eccentric underwater beasts.

Endless debris was floating in the dirty water. There was no telling whether it was originally crystal suits or the magical equipment inside the underground fortress. Occasionally, there were empty crystal suits stuck in a strange position, as if waving at the bottom of the pathway. When Li Yao drew close and observed, he often discovered that there were only skeletons inside the crystal suits, if there was anything at all.

They were the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators who had been attacked by the eccentric beasts. Not even their bodies remained.

Li Yao and Bai Xinghe were both aware of the toughness of the underwater beasts. They both switched their crystal suits to stealth mode and tried to reduce the spiritual energy being emitted as much as possible, while they continued forward in the water purely with the strength of their muscles and bones.

Right now, a huge bunch of space pirates and Immortal Cultivators had triggered their spiritual energy to the maximum due to anxiety. They were more eye-catching prey than the two of them. Therefore, it did not matter very much even if some of their spiritual energy leaked out.

They had been engaged with a lot of eccentric beasts on their way, too. If the shoal was not large enough, they would eliminate the beasts as quickly as possible. When it was too large, they would simply turn off the last bit of their spiritual energy output and pretend to be two cold, iron shells.

Since the eccentric beasts had been living below the dark underground for generations, most of their optical organs had retrograded, and they could only perceive their surroundings with spiritual energy. Li Yao and Bai Xinghe did not run into any trouble when they passed the blind predators. However, the ugly appearance of the beasts caused goosebumps all over Li Yao's body.

"The two of them are running toward the core area of the underground fortress."

While there were no eccentric beasts nearby, Bai Xinghe triggered the light beam again and watched. There was worry in his voice as he said, "Not good. According to their current route, it is likely that they will run into the main force of the Immortal Cultivators!

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"We have to save them before they meet the main force of the Immortal Cultivators and bring them back to the Star Prier's House before we all run away from here together!"

Chapter 756 - To Kill, To Save!

Right now, the lethal flood was gradually invading the middle level and the bottom level of the underground fortress from the top level of it.

Many space pirates and Immortal Cultivators had noticed the incoming flood and sealed the entrances and exits of the rooms by force, but the blockage was not waterproof. It was not long before they were crushed by the pressure of the flood.

However, the underground fortress was enormous in scale and complicated in terrain. It was not entirely drowned by the flood so quickly.

Bai Kaixin had grown up in the underground fortress. Naturally, he knew that countless brutal beasts lived within the Nether River. Therefore, Lei Dalu and him did not head upwards against the flood but downwards to avoid the flood and search for a possible shelter.

The main force of the Immortal Cultivators led by the Black King, on the other hand, was marching upward, trying to flee as quickly as possible!

"Not good!"

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At a turn of a pathway, Lei Dalu suddenly stopped and released his telepathic thoughts. He sensed for a moment and said coarsely, "I've sensed that quite a few experts are releasing their aura blatantly and unstoppably as they are making their way upwards. There are at least two experts in the Nascent Soul Stage, two at the peak of the Core Formation Stage, and another ten or so in the lower levels of the Core Formation Stage!"

Bai Kaixin pondered for a moment and replied, "They must be the main force of the Immortal Cultivators. Fengyu Zhong, Bai Wulei, the Black King, and their lot!"

They looked at each other in bewilderment. Although they had disguised themselves and snuck into the pirate gangs amid the chaos, they were not real space pirates after all. It was quite possible that the experts in the Nascent Soul Stage would see through them quickly.

Besides, with the chaos below the ground, it would not be unusual if those selfish Immortal Cultivators captured them to use as cannon fodder.

"Let's go back and find another way!"

The two of them made up their mind quickly and turned around, having no desire to meddle with the Immortal Cultivators at all.

...

Not far away from them, inside the main corridor of the underground fortress, the Black King suddenly stopped and said coldly, "Wait. Something is not right!

"I just sensed that somebody scanned me with their telepathic thoughts not far away.

"It was not odd that somebody scanned me. It is odd, however, that the man turned and ran away in a different direction after he saw me. Judging from the speed of his escape, the man is probably in the Core Formation Stage!

"We are all allies here. Why is he running away from us? There must be something wrong with them!"

Fengyu Zhong frowned and said, "Black King, I think it's more important that we get out of here as quickly as possible, isn't it?"

The Black King sniffed and glared at him. "Why do you think a flood is savaging the underground fortress and there are explosions everywhere? Chase and catch those people!"

Fengyu Zhong was dazed for a moment and immediately realized what was going on. Endless brutality beamed out of his eyes as he went after where Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin had disappeared together with Master Hidden Fog, Bai Wulei, and the elites of the Immortal Cultivators that were with him.

...

"They have encountered the Immortal Cultivators!"

Eight floors above them, Bai Xinghe cursed and stopped converging his spiritual energy. Together with Li Yao, he activated the power rune arrays to the maximum, as he accelerated his speed to the highest. The two of them darted to the lower floors along with the flood like two undercurrents.

Shua!

Countless eccentric beasts were ignorant enough to attack them while they were on their away, only to be blown into clusters of blood by Bai Xinghe's spiritual energy.

After descending four floors, they were even met with almost twenty dizzy space pirates. Having no time to disguise their identities, they simply put on the most brutal appearance and slashed their way forward!

Hiu!

Li Yao's Feathered Dragon Saber turned into hundreds of inconspicuous fish in the dirty, black water. They were ten times more dangerous than they were in the air. They snuck into the gaps of the crystal suits of almost ten space pirates, cut opened their main artery, reached their heart and blew it up. They then broke out of the space pirates' bodies again and returned to Li Yao.

The Feathered Dragon Saber turned from black to crimson immediately.

Bai Xinghe was even more insane. Eager to rescue his son, he fully exerted the unbelievable capability of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator. Dragon balls of tremendous size were appearing and disappearing on the seven dragon heads of the Dragon King Battlesuit. The space pirates who were caught by them were not left with an intact body.

Explosions were echoing two floors below, but the shaking was not violent. It did not seem to be the result of the Thunder Stones and the Sunlight Stones exploding but a fight.

Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin must have engaged with the Immortal Cultivators!

The color of Bai Xinghe's face changed, and he was about to dash downward, only to be stopped by Li Yao.

"Boss Bai!"

Li Yao pointed at the space pirates killed by him.

The crystal suits of those space pirates were basically intact, except for the tiny holes on the wrists, thighs, or the necks. Nobody would notice anything wrong when the crystal suits were disguised without looking at them carefully.

Bai Xinghe immediately realized what he meant. He selected two corpses approximately their size together with Li Yao and replaced the Dragon King Battlesuit and the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit with the dead bodies' crystal suits, before the two of them continued rushing downwards.

The two floors were a fairly large warehouse area. They had not been drowned by the flood yet, and the water only reached everyone's waist.

When Li Yao and Bai Xinghe arrived, they discovered that almost twenty Immortal Cultivators were attacking Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin together.

Among the Immortal Cultivators, Fengyu Zhong and Bai Wulei, as well as a few experts of the Eight Blades of Black Spider, were present.

With Lei Dalu's and Bai Kaixin's capability, they could not resist the enemy at all.

The Immortal Cultivators meant to capture them alive and feared that they might detonate themselves. That was why they had managed to hold out for a few minutes.

Li Yao and Bai Xinghe looked at each other before approaching the enemy quietly, one from the left and the other from the right.

They were both wearing the crystal suits of space pirates, with the battle emblem of the pirate gang they were in on their chest. Right now, the Immortal Cultivators were in a hurry to capture the Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu alive and did not pay much attention to them. They thought that Bai Xinghe and Li Yao were merely other space pirates who considered the place a shelter.

"Bai Wulei?" Li Yao suggested the target of their attack inside the communication channel.

"Fengyu Zhong!"

Bai Xinghe was truly the Pirate Potentate. He planned to take down an expert in the Nascent Soul Stage at first try!

"Okay!" Li Yao replied without any hesitation.

Bai Xinghe's strength was slightly higher than Fengyu Zhong's, and when he was in an outburst, he could boast the combat ability of the Nascent Soul Stage briefly. If the two of them joined their hands and ambushed the enemy without alarming him, it was very likely that Fengyu Zhong would be heavily wounded!

Fifty meters... Forty meters... Thirty meters...

The two of them pretended that they were here to help and drew closer and closer to Fengyu Zhong.

Right then, Bai Kaixin suddenly screamed.

One of the Eight Blades of Black Spider had stabbed a flying sword that was almost transparent deeply into the left side of his chest!

The flying sword seemed to be a piece of extremely vicious magical equipment. When the edge of the sword entered Bai Kaixin's body, it started pumping his blood and spurting it out from the hollow grip of the sword!

Seeing that his only son was heavily wounded, Bai Xinghe shivered and gasped uncontrollably. The aura beyond the Core Formation Stage spread out of his body all of a sudden!

Fengyu Zhong was also a cunning and vigilant man. He sensed that anomaly immediately and was greatly alarmed. Leaving the two prey that were about to fall into his hands aside, he retreated a hundred meters and hid behind the countless Immortal Cultivators. He shrieked, "There's something wrong with the two newcomers!"

Li Yao cursed within his heart. At this point, there were no other options. He threw dozens of crystal bombs out. With the brilliant fireworks for cover, he and Bai Xinghe completed air changes instantly!

"Kill them!"

Li Yao lunged at the Immortal Cultivators like a tiger attacking lambs. After a few zigzags, a few Immortal Cultivators who were relatively weaker were chopped in half instantly!

"It is... you!"

Fengyu Zhong was both shocked and scared. Although the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit looked completely different from when it had been at the periphery of the Iron Plateau Space Zone after multiple upgrades, Fengyu Zhong still grasped the unique aura of the crystal suit keenly!

"It is more important to save them. Don't fight for too long. Their reinforcements will arrive at any moment!" Bai Xinghe shouted in a hurry inside the communication channel.

His capability was slightly higher than Fengyu Zhong's, and Li Yao's capability was slightly higher than Bai Wulei's.

However, other than Fengyu Zhong and Bai Wulei, their enemies also included Master Hidden Fog, the previous leader of the Black Spider Tower, and the multiple experts of the Eight Blades of Black Spider, who were adept at stealth and assassinations and boasted a higher combat ability than that of normal Cultivators in the same level. It would not be easy to kill them all.

Besides, Bai Xinghe had vaguely sensed that Dark Empyrean, the real Black King, was running close at a high speed.

When the Black King arrived and they were surrounded by a large batch of Immortal Cultivators, there was no way that they could survive.

When the attempted ambush failed, it was smart to run away quickly. Before Lei Dalu realized what was going on, Bai Xinghe had already placed Bai Kaixin on his shoulder and shouted at him, "Follow me!"

Lei Dalu was dazed. Naturally, he had recognized the famous 'Dragon King Battlesuit'. The fact that the Pirate Potentate was standing right before him made the captain who earned his living by hunting down space pirates quite uncomfortable.

Li Yao slashed another Immortal Cultivator in half and detonated almost a hundred crystal bombs in a row, turning more than half of the warehouse into a forest of flames, before he went back to Lei Dalu like a rabbit and patted his shoulder firmly. "Captain, I'll explain to you later. Just run quickly!"

Lei Dalu gasped when he realized who was talking and said, "Li Yao?"

Discovering that this little brother of his seemed to appear in the most unbelievable places under the most unbelievable identities every time, Lei Dalu was dumbfounded.

Last time, it was Sand Scorpion, the best warrior of Iron Plateau. This time, he got even crazier and became a lackey of the Pirate Potentate?

Li Yao said in a hurry, "Advisor Bai was hit by 'Back Teeth Heart Tangling Sword'. If it is removed by force, the entire heart will be dragged out. We have to find a safe place and destroy the traps inside the sword first!"

"Alright!"

Lei Dalu thought quickly and realized that, no matter why Li Yao had shown up in this place, Bai Xinghe would not mean any harm to Bai Kaixin.

Before the flames of the explosions died down, the three of them, carrying Bai Kaixin, escaped the way where they had come and ran out of the siege of the Immortal Cultivators!

Half a minute after they fled, the Black King charged into the warehouse with a large batch of Immortal Cultivators!

Seeing the mess and the wounded who were screaming in the water, the Black King was gloomy.

After hearing Fengyu Zhong's report, the Black King's face remained unchanged as he said seriously, "It was indeed Bai Xinghe's scheme. But I wonder why he showed up without any reason!

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"They can't run far away carrying a heavily wounded ally. Run after them. Stop Bai Xinghe whatever the cost!

"Right now, the upper level of the fortress is completely blocked. There is no way that anybody can get out within the next ten days. We have to capture Bai Xinghe and elicit everything from him!

"My methods are not easy to shake off. He cannot be in his peak state right now. Go after him!"

Chapter 757 - A Truth That Nobody Believes

In a warehouse that had been swallowed by the flood, there was an empty space around five meters in diameter in the center. In the middle of the space was a deep blue ball that was floating and emitting electric arcs.

It was a water-driving ball. With the mechanism of ionization, it could create and maintain a waterproof space for half an hour.

Bai Kaixin's upper half body was naked. His face was as pale as paper. With the help of the anti-gravity rune arrays, he floated three inches from the ground, with a translucent flying sword that looked like a fishbone atop his heart.

Coldly shining thorns were all around the flying sword. Just one look at them was enough to make one's heart beat fast.

Li Yao manipulated dozens of metal threads that were thinner than his hair with his telepathic thoughts and extended them into the hollow grip of the flying sword. After groping carefully for a while, he completely destroyed the traps inside the flying sword after a click sound.

The spurting blood came to a sudden stop.

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Li Yao took a long breath in relief. He wiped off the sweat on his forehead and said to Bai Xinghe and Lei Dalu, "The traps have been destroyed. The sword will not absorb blood from Advisor Bai's body any longer. However, I'm not a doctor. The flying sword is really too close to the heart. It's impossible to remove it here. Let's see what we can do after we get to the Star Prier's House."

Bai Kaixin was lackluster, and his lips seemed to be dyed with chalk. He stared at Bai Xinghe and did not move his eyes away even when Li Yao was destroying the traps.

Bai Xinghe was in a trance. His face grew old at a visible speed, as if the sword was not stabbed in his son's chest but his own.

Shivering, Bai Kaixin extended one of his fingers.

Li Yao and Lei Dalu both turned to Bai Xinghe. They both knew what Bai Kaixin meant. He meant to ask Bai Xinghe a question, one that he had guessed the answer to but would like to hear it from Bai Xinghe's mouth anyway.

Bai Xinghe was silent for a long time. He opened his mouth slowly, his voice so coarse that it seemed to come not from his throat but from his broken heart. "Although your mother was not killed by me, I was to blame for her death! If I didn't force her to stay on Spider Den, she wouldn't have been killed. She wouldn't have!

"It was me who got her killed. It was me!"

Bai Xinghe collapsed to the ground in grief, mumbling. Faced with his heavily wounded son, he lost his demeanor as the Pirate Potentate completely.

Bai Kaixin finally learned the answer. There were tears in his eyes, but the sorrow that had occupied his face for decades faded away all of a sudden as if it had been blown away by a spring breeze.

For the first time, Li Yao discovered that Bai Kaixin was quite a handsome man when he was not wearing a bitter expression.

He shook his hands slightly and allowed his father's rough hands to hold them, before he closed his eyes with a smile in relief.

"The flying sword had been broken. We must head back to the Star Prier's House. The Immortal Cultivators are coming close to the area we are in. They will find us shortly!"

Bai Xinghe treated Bai Kaixin's wounds simply. Then, he asked Li Yao to fix the lower bottom half of the flying sword, while he chopped off the part of the flying sword that was out of Bai Kaixin's body. The only thing left on Bai Kaixin's chest was a slight bulge.

Then, he put a special waterproof suit on Bai Kaixin. Then he carried him and deactivated the water-driving ball. The four of them swam toward the Star Prier's House.

From the surveillance cameras, they could tell that the main troops of the Immortal Cultivators were surrounding them.

The experts above the Core Formation Stage were not something that the underwater beasts could deal with. They would only be slightly harassed by the beasts, but nothing more.

"Hurry up!"

Bai Xinghe was in the lead. They made their way in the flood that was devoid of any light and returned to the Star Prier's House.

After half an hour's journey, they gradually drew close to the Star Prier's House.

However, there was no road forward.

The entire pathway had collapsed due to an intense explosion. Debris and rocks had completely blocked it.

"Well—" Li Yao frowned. When they went down, the pathway had been perfectly fine. He did not expect it to have been destroyed so quickly.

"Is there another way?" Lei Dalu asked.

"Yes!" Bai Xinghe replied.

He glanced at the picture on the mini crystal processor, only to smile bitterly and added, "There are two other ways that we can take, but they are both occupied by the Immortal Cultivators now!"

"Then we can only dig through the pathway!"

Lei Dalu stuck his hands to the debris and rocks before he bellowed and exerted his strength. An enormous rock in front of him was immediately crushed into powder.

However, more rocks slowly fell down and took up most of the space that he had just emptied.

"Let me have a try!"

With Li Yao's telepathic thoughts and his surging spiritual energy, the Feathered Dragon Saber dispersed again and reformed into a giant black drill.

The drill of mystic rays on Sparkle was a piece of powerful magical equipment from the Star Ocean Imperium. Li Yao had killed Skeleton Dragon with the drill of mystic rays and had been particularly fond of the magical equipment ever since then.

Because of his insistence, when the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was being modified, a small drill of mystic rays had been created and embedded with the Feathered Dragon Saber.

Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha!

The drill made of the Feathered Dragon Saber revolved rapidly, surrounded by brilliance electric arcs and mystic rays that were illuminated the dark water of the river. Soon, a large space was drilled out.

However, the pathway was extremely long, and the tectonic structure above was very unstable. Despite the marvelous tool in Li Yao's hand, he had to work carefully and push forward at a very low speed.

While he drilled forward, Lei Dalu stabilized the pathway behind him. Bai Xinghe watched them in silence while holding Bai Kaixin.

When another twenty meters was drilled through inside the pathway, half of the empty space had a collapse again. Bai Xinghe suddenly said, "You guys take your time to drill forward here. I'm going to investigate the Immortal Cultivators' progress."

Li Yao and Lei Dalu were both dazed for a moment. They both realized what Bai Xinghe was going to do.

Bai Kaixin's eyes shone in the dark water. In response, Bai Xinghe smiled and pressed somewhere behind his son's neck, making his son close his eyes as he fell into a deep sleep.

Shua!

Bai Xinghe took off the Dragon King Battlesuit and stored the crystal suit into one of his Cosmos Rings before he threw the Cosmos Ring to Li Yao. In the meantime, he put on the 'Blood River Battlesuit' that he had worn during the second confrontation with Li Yao!

"Li Yao, consider the Dragon King Battlesuit a gift of mine. It would be a shame if the crystal suit fell into the hands of the Immortal Cultivators," Bai Xinghe said casually. He patted the Blood River Battlesuit on his body and declared, "The crystal suit on my body is enough."

"Boss Bai!"

Li Yao's heart was filled with a mixture of emotions. He did not know what to say.

Bai Xinghe put his son down carefully and touched his forehead for the last time. He waved his hands and vanished into the darkness.

From then on, Li Yao could only talk to Bai Xinghe through the communication channel.

"The latest map of the underground fortress, including the parts that Yan Xinjian changed and the location of his secret training room, has been sent into your crystal processor," Bai Xinghe said. "It is a little gift that I offer you. You are a worthy opponent, Li Yao."

Li Yao gnashed his teeth. "Are you really going, Boss Bai?"

"Is there a second option?" Bai Xinghe asked casually. "I'll give you half an hour. You must break through the pathway within half an hour and get my son out of the place. Otherwise, I won't let you go even if I die and become a ghost!"

Li Yao was silent.

Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly and said gloomily, "I've been lying to you about something. If I don't tell you the truth now, I think I will not die in peace. Just consider it a story if you find it too hard to believe.

"Do you remember how I came to Spider Den?"

Li Yao was dazed. "Is it all false?"

"Everything in the beginning is true," Bai Xinghe mumbled. "We encountered a space storm, ended up in an unknown space zone, were saved by somebody else, and got caught in desperation later. My parents planned to kill our lifesavers so that we could keep ourselves alive... That part is true.

"But then I lied!

"At that time, I was already seven, and I already knew a lot of stuff.

"When my father said, 'Out of two, one will live' and 'If I don't kill him, he will kill me', although I didn't know what he meant, I did sense the soaring killing intent from his tone and his facial expression.

"It was something that I'd never sensed from my father before.

"I was so scared that I cried. I held my father's legs and asked what he was going to do exactly and whether or not he was planning to do something bad.

"I said to my father—'Father, you are a Cultivator; Cultivators don't do bad things!'

"Maybe my father was moved by these words. He was dazed for a long time and suddenly held my mother, both of them crying. He cried and screamed, 'I don't deserve to be a Cultivator!'

"The two of them cried for a long time and gradually calmed down. They agreed that, if they did such things to their lifesavers, who had offered them such great help, they could barely be called humans any longer, much less Cultivators.

"Therefore, they decided that they would try to repair the communication magical equipment with all the remaining resources on the starship one last time. If it didn't work out, they would see what they could do the next day.

"However...

"That night, while they were working hard to repair the communication magical equipment, our lifesavers assaulted us!"

Li Yao couldn't help but cry out, "Say what?"

Bai Xinghe's voice was as cold as that of a ghost, as he said, "Our most trusted lifesavers ambushed us. Everyone on board, including my parents, was killed by them. I only got away from the disaster because my parents put me into an escape capsule in advance and launched it. Then, I was fished up by the space pirates.

"Hehe. My father was right. Out of two, one will live. If I don't kill him, he will kill me. I was the one who got them killed. I killed my own parents!

"If—if I hadn't stopped him, maybe it would have been us that made it to the end, and I wouldn't have fallen into Spider Den and ended up being an inhuman, lawless space pirate!"

"Why did you lie to me in the beginning?" Li Yao asked solemnly. "What could you get by telling such a lie?"

"Because," Bai Xinghe said gravely, "I meant to make you believe in me at that time, and you certainly wouldn't have believed the truth!"

Li Yao found it curious. "Why?"

"Because—"

Bai Xinghe's voice sounded like he had gone mad. "Do you know who our 'lifesaver' was?

"Haha. Hahahaha. The one who rescued us first but also pulled the trigger first, slew everyone on board, and looted all the resources on our starship in the desperate situation was the former leader of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood, the CEO of the Grand Illusionary Group, the crownless king of the Flying Star Sector, and the unquestionable leader of the Cultivators—Xiao Xuance!"

Chapter 758 - Boss Bai!

The name 'Xiao Xuance' was like an eruption of thunder that broke out inside Li Yao's brain.

It was also like a bolt of lightning that connected all the pieces together!

When Li Yao and Professor Mo Xuan had discussed whether or not there could be something wrong with the Grand Illusionary Soldier Project, they had met an unanswered question, which was Xiao Xuance's motive.

Logically, as the crownless king of the Flying Star Sector and the leader of all Cultivators, Xiao Xuance did not seem to have any motivation to overturn the Flying Star Sector.

The theory that he was trying to change from the 'crownless king' into the 'crowned king' did not seem very satisfactory.

However, if Xiao Xuance had been baptized by the 'dark forest' more than a hundred years ago and killed countless innocent fellow Cultivators and ordinary people for his own survival, then...

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Li Yao was instantly soaked in cold sweat. Everything was explainable now!

Bai Xinghe took his long silence for suspicion and smiled bitterly. "You don't believe it, do you? That's right. Nobody is going to believe it! Although Xiao Xuance hadn't advanced into the Nascent Soul Stage a hundred years ago, he was an expert in the Core Formation Stage, the elder of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood, a man worthy of respect in the world of Cultivators. He punished the outlaws and helped the weak, like any noble man would do!

"When he first rescued our starship, he might not have been vicious at all. He thought that reinforcements were coming very soon. He even offered the resources on his starship to us for free.

"Several of the wounded crew members on our starships were treated on his starship. Some of them were even treated by him in person at the cost of his own spiritual energy.

"At that time, my parents couldn't stop complimenting him. Cultivators from the six major sects of Heavenly Saints City were truly different. That was exactly what an elder of a great sect looked like!

"Hehe. Maybe that was partly why my parents hesitated later.

"It never occurred to them that, however great the sect a person hails from is and however chivalrous they are, they do not have a second option when they are trapped in the dark forest.

"Out of two, one will live. If I don't kill him, he will kill me. The logic is very simple. Since my parents could think of it, Xiao Xuance definitely could, too."

Li Yao took a long breath and asked, "Are you sure it was Xiao Xuance?"

Bai Xinghe laughed bitterly. "I was already seven at that time, and I admired the celebrities in the world of Cultivators. When my parents told me that he was an expert from the six sects of Heavenly Saints City, naturally, I bore his name in mind. How could I be mistaken?

"When I was sold to Spider Den, inside the dark fortress that was full of traps, there was not one moment when I stopped reciting the name 'Xiao Xuance' in my mind!

"Revenge! Revenge for my parents!

"Seeking revenge from Xiao Xuance was the only motivation to keep me alive in the darkness underground!

"It was a pity that I chose a wrong path.

"If I wanted revenge, I had to be stronger. However, there was only one way if I wanted to be stronger, which was to be a space pirate—the strongest, the cruelest, and the most brutal space pirate!

"When I became a space pirate, I had to kill people, a lot of innocent people. I had to pour the blood of the innocent on my unpardonable, inhuman soul!

"After repetitive plundering, slaughtering, and betraying, I became stronger and stronger, but I also became more and more desperate.

"You see, I found that the gap between me and Xiao Xuance was too huge. It was impossible for me to become stronger than him no matter how hard I tried!

"When I became a well-known brutal bandit on Spider Den, Xiao Xuance became the leader of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood.

"When I established the Abyss Pirate Gang and rose to power on Spider Den, Xiao Xuance became the CEO of the Grand Illusionary Group and controlled most of the Spiritual Nexus!

"When the Abyss Pirate Gang became the most powerful organization on Spider Den and I became the Pirate Potentate, Xiao Xuance became the crownless king of the entire Flying Star Sector and the leader of all Cultivators!

"Haha. Hahahaha. The Pirate Potentate. Sounds cool and awesome, doesn't it? But it is just insignificant crap in front of Xiao Xuance. When I leave Spider Den, I am a rat that everyone spits and stomps on. How am I qualified to fight against Xiao Xuance?"

"Why didn't you state the truth?"

"Who would believe it?" Bai Xinghe responded. "When I sorted through the truth and my voice was loud enough, I had already become an infamous space pirate. Who would believe my story when I didn't have the slightest proof?

"Nobody would believe the truth that I told, but Xiao Xuance would certainly notice it and realize that I was the only survivor of the disaster decades ago!

"He would certain try everything he could to deal with me!

"As the CEO of the Grand Illusionary Group, he had more than half of the Spiritual Nexus under his control. It would be more than easy for him to delete, add, or forge information!"

Li Yao was silent.

It was also why he had never proposed his assumptions on the Spiritual Nexus.

He was afraid that, wherever he posted a thread of the 'truth', it would be deleted instantly, and Xiao Xuance would trace it back to him without any trouble!

"Now, do you understand why I would rather die before I become an Immortal Cultivator?" Bai Xinghe sighed. "Yes. I firmly believe in the Dark Forest Theory, but my parents died because of the Dark Forest Theory. I cannot regard the Dark Forest Theory as the ultimate Dao for me!

"However, although I'm against the Immortal Cultivators, it is impossible for me to embrace the world of Cultivators.

"Hehe. Even Xiao Xuance, the leader of all Cultivators, could easily cross the line of the Cultivators and butcher the innocent when he was trapped in the dark forest.

"After everything he did, he could still keep it as a secret and rise to power in the world of Cultivators until he became the leader of it.

"Then, what is the difference between the Immortal Cultivators and the Cultivators?

"Maybe, righteous and evil, Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators, are just the same thing in the dark forest. The same thing..."

Bai Xinghe's voice was intermittent, becoming weaker and weaker.

Because of the savaging flood and the serial explosions, the communication between the two parties was gradually cut off.

"No. Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators are absolutely different!" Li Yao clenched his fists hard, declaring in such a high voice that it even shocked himself. The fury that he had been suppressing in his mind after he heard the Dark Forest Theory from Bai Xinghe seven days ago fully burst out. "The so-called Dark Forest Theory is just Liu the Prier's own invention after all!

"I don't believe that such a simple theory can depict the truth of the entire universe!

"The universe cannot be so dark!

"Even if it is, are there really no opportunities to change it at all?

"Let me tell you, Boss Bai. Even if the odds are just one billionth, I, as well as all the real Cultivators, will set the dark forest into eternal flames!"

There was nothing but white noise in the communication channel. Bai Xinghe's voice was gone for such a long time that Li Yao thought that the communication had been cut off.

But the Pirate Potentate last words came over in the end.

"I wish you luck. I truly do."

...

In the depths of the underground fortress, inside an empty warehouse, wearing the Blood River Battlesuit, Bai Xinghe released the immense spiritual energy of the Nascent Soul Stage without any disguise.

Stimulated by the surging spiritual energy, the bloody stripes on the surface of the crystal suit seemed to come to life and emitted a boiling aura of blood in various directions.

In front of Bai Xinghe, Bai Wulei, Fengyu Zhong, Master Hidden Fog, the Black King, Eight Blades of Black Spider... Hundreds of experts among the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators all focused their attention on the great enemy.

It was like a tiger being surrounded by a pack of wolves. The wolves knew that the tiger was dead for sure, but none of them had the courage to lunge at the tiger first.

Bai Xinghe glanced over the Immortal Cultivators on the spot and stopped at Bai Wulei, his true disciple. A deep voice came from his cold helmet, as he said, "Bai Wulei, things have gone too far between you and me. I only want to ask you one question.

"Was Meng Yue killed by you?"

Bai Wulei was silent for a moment. Then he laughed and sneered, "Yes. Your wife was killed by me!"

His tone absolutely unchanged, Bai Xinghe asked, "Why?

"I never wronged you after I recruited you as my disciple. Not only did I teach you countless techniques and secret arts, you were also promoted to a high position in the Abyss Pirate Gang despite your young age. I was treating you like my own son.

"Right now, the Temple of Immortals has showed its muscles, and you have your own supporters. It is not strange that you betray me.

"But decades ago, the Abyss Pirate Gang was like the unstoppable rising sun. Why did you kill my wife at that time?"

"Treated me like your own son? Do you really think I was a fool?" Bai Wulei replied coldly. "Look at your real own son Bai Wuxin. How did you treat him?

"You built a greenhouse below the surface when he was born and kept him insulated from the ugliness of the world of space pirates. I don't think he had even killed a hen when he was fifteen, had he?

"What about me?

"It's true that you taught me your techniques and secret arts, but you were merely treating me as a tool!

"You taught me how to kill people when I was six. You taught me how to disguise, how to plot, and how to betray when I was eleven!

"Hehe. Why didn't you teach your own son any of that? Why didn't you ask your own son to butcher one starship of people after another together with you? Why?

"Why did I kill your wife, you ask? It's simple. I was jealous. I was jealous of everything that Bai Wuxin had. I envied that he could grow up innocently and carefreely in the garbage heap called Spider Den, as if he had been born in a f*cking noble family of Cultivators!

"Such a life was something I had never relished and would never have the opportunity to!

"What I could not get, Bai Wuxin could never get. I must destroy his everything. Simple as that."

Bai Xinghe nodded. "Understood. For decades, I've always thought that my enemies killed Meng Yue because they were coveting the secrets inside the underground fortress. I was investigating the wrong line of thought all along. It never occurred to me that you were involved.

"But it is still not late to have learned the truth now."

Bai Xinghe stepped forward in midair as if there were invisible stairs before him, approaching the hundreds of Immortal Cultivators.

The color of Bai Wulei's face changed greatly as he shouted loudly, "Bai Xinghe, with everything reaching this point, just give up. You don't stand a chance!"

Bai Xinghe smiled, before he suddenly vanished into thin air.

Then, a thunderous roar suddenly echoed in the void.

" Call me Boss Bai! "

Chapter 759 - Bandit and Dog

The ears of all the Immortal Cultivators were humming, as if two sharp blades had pierced into their brains through their ears. Their heads were dizzy, and they were seeing all kinds of illusions. All of a sudden, Bai Xinghe seemed to have thousands of clones that were charging right to their face and even into their crystal suits.

"Ahhh!"

Many Immortal Cultivator who were weaker screamed in abject fear, even though they were not wounded, and launched their strongest attacks toward the illusions.

Thousands of streams of golden brilliance burst out of the void, as if a hundred small suns had risen up slowly. Even if they shut their eyes tightly, they could not stop Bai Xinghe's sharp sword aura from breaching their defenses and sweeping into their brains!

Fengyu Zhong shrieked. Every bronze ghost face on the Hundred Faces Battlesuit opened its eyes, which were shedding blood, and screamed miserably.

The screams spread out in midair like ripples, outlining a fuzzy shadow of blood.

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"There he is. Stop him!"

The Black King's black crystal suit turned into a cluster of black fog, which turned into hundreds of weird bats.

The black bats crowded toward where Bai Xinghe was at.

BOOM! BOOM!

The hundred black bats were engaged with Bai Xinghe's bloody shadow.

The head-on clash between two experts in the Nascent Soul Stage made the entire warehouse shake violently. Countless cracks were growing on the walls and the dome. Flooding water spurted in along the cracks, stabbing and stirring everything like billions of swords of water!

The hundred black bats suddenly dispersed. Fengyu Zhong took the opportunity to activate Devil's Cry, his long spear. Hundreds of ghost faces interweaved into a sharp aura and pierced forward. Bai Xinghe grunted, and the bloody shadow twisted and disappeared all of a sudden!

Before the Black King and Fengyu Zhong had the chance to catch their breath, Bai Wulei suddenly cried miserably behind dozens of Immortal Cultivators who were protecting him!

Everybody was greatly shocked. Their attention had been focused on the battle between the three Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators.

They had never thought that Bai Xinghe would attack Bai Wulei while he was fighting hard against two experts in the Nascent Soul Stage.

"It's a decoy. A bloody incarnation!"

The Black King was gloomy. He did not find out until this moment that the 'Bai Xinghe' who exchanged three moves with him just now was merely a puppet condensed by blood. In the face of his full-strength strike, the puppet had been scattered into broken pearls of blood.

The real Bai Xinghe, on the other hand, had snuck behind the Immortal Cultivators and grabbed Bai Wulei's head!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The helmet made of super alloys was as vulnerable as rotten wood in Bai Xinghe's hands. After a slight press, it was already shrinking in size.

Bai Wulei felt that a surging river was flooding into his body from the top of his head. He had no strength to counterattack at all.

His two eyeballs were about to be squeezed out of their sockets. His screams were even more miserable than those of the hundreds of ghost faces on Fengyu Zhong's crystal suit combined!

Bai Xinghe grinned hideously. "Even your betrayal is a fiasco. Why bother living?"

While talking, he exerted his strength. Dozens of thunderbolts seemed to be echoing inside his palms. After a 'pa' sound, Bai Wulei's head together with his helmet was crushed into the size of an apple. Bone and metal was mixed together, and blood was spluttering everywhere. The scene could not have looked gorier!

The headless corpse twitched briefly in midair for a moment, before it fell into the flood helplessly. The water current was quite rapid. There was no telling where the dead body had ended up to after a short moment.

Within a breath, Bai Xinghe had killed a Cultivator in the peak of the Core Formation Stage with such cruel methods right in front of two experts in the Nascent Soul Stage!

Everybody was so shocked at Bai Xinghe's approach that they did not know what to say.

Deep laughter that resembled that of a wounded lion echoed inside the Blood River Battlesuit.

Crimson balls of blood were leaking out of Bai Xinghe's crystal suit as if it were his skin. Heated by his spiritual energy, the bloody was vaporized into a mist, and the mist dissolved into red aura that extended to every corner of the warehouse!

LUM DUM! LUM DUM! LUM DUM!

Hundreds of bloody auras were fluctuating in the air along with the rhythm of Bai Xinghe's heartbeat.

Everybody's soul was shivering together with Bai Xinghe's heart.

Very soon, the bloody auras formed various bloody flying swords, which span around Bai Xinghe slowly.

"He... is burning his life and soul without caring about anything!"

The Black King and Fengyu Zhong both felt their heads going dizzy. It did not feel like a Cultivator no taller than two meters was appearing above their head, but an overwhelming giant of blood hundreds of meters tall!

Both the Black King and Fengyu Zhong regretted believing in Bai Wulei easily and being fooled underground.

Unless there were absolutely no choices, they would definitely rather not have a head-on battle with a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator who had gone mad in such a narrow space!

"Stall him!" the Black King said coldly to Fengyu Zhong in the communication channel. In the meantime, his telepathic thoughts surged out as he gave commands to his subordinates around to form a battle array.

"Boss Bai!"

Fengyu Zhong immediately understood what he was being asked to do. He shouted, not very confident of his declaration, "What are you struggling for with everything coming this far? Just give up already!

"We are all lawless bandits here. Are you pretending that you are a hero now that you are going to be killed?

"You and I are the same. We don't have any choice other than joining the Temple of Immortals!

"Faced with the great Dao of immortality, I guarantee that the grudge between us will be cleaned once and for all!"

Bai Xinghe smiled. He extended his right hand and opened it.

The bloody stripes on the Blood River Battlesuit seemed to be a living thing. They flowed along his arm and gathered in his hand, forming a bloody saber.

As more and more blood flowed out of his veins, the saber became ever longer, and the ripples on the surface of the saber were echoing with his heartbeat.

Gazing at the tip of his saber, Bai Xinghe said casually, "You and I are different."

Fengyu Zhong burst into laughter. "What's the difference? Did you kill fewer people than I did? Cut the crap! You are destined to be a hateful space pirate, and you think you can correct your wrongdoings before your own death?"

The tip of the bloody saber drew a curve on the battle array of the Immortal Cultivator that was about to take shape. Bai Xinghe glanced at Fengyu Zhong and curled his lips up. He said, "I am a ruthless, unforgivable bandit. And you—

"You are just a dog."

...

The pathway was almost dug through.

Li Yao's spiritual energy was running out. The size of the drill was a third smaller than in the beginning. He felt that his ribs were aching. While catching his breath, he suddenly sensed the intense spiritual waves below him that felt like a volcano eruption.

It was the most brilliant moment that a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator could present when they burnt their life and soul and released everything they had!

"Boss Bai..."

Li Yao did not know how he should comment on the Pirate Potentate at all. Of course, he was an unpardonable bad man, but the guy had also offered the Dragon King Battlesuit to him. Moreover...

Suddenly, Li Yao's body was stiffened. He cursed silently.

I was fooled again.

Bai Xinghe gave the Dragon King Battlesuit as well as the map of the underground fortress to me, including the location of Yan Xinjian's training room, and volunteered to cover our retreat. He also told me the past of Xian Xuance and him...

Everything he did was meant to persuade me to fight against Xiao Xuance and avenge him!

Bai Xinghe knew that, as the Pirate Potentate, even if his plan worked out and he successfully escaped from the underground fortress, he would not be able to compete with Xiao Xuance even if he had all the resources and manpower of Spider Den under his control. If anything, he would only be seen as a greater villain and end up being another medal on Xiao Xuance's chest!

Therefore, he handed over the 'mission' to me!

He knew that 'Sand Scorpion', the owner of the Glorious Sunlight Group, is my other identity, and I have a lot to do with Iron Plateau, which means that I can summon tremendous resources and manpower!

He also inferred from the style of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit that another mysterious organization is backing me!

Therefore, it is possible that I can achieve the purpose that he could not!

The cunning bandit was afraid that I would not take the bait. He lured me with the Dragon King Battlesuit and Yan Xinjian's training room first and made me feel that I owe him. Then he told me the story between Xiao Xuance and him and revealed Xiao Xuance's real face to trigger my sense of justice.

Then he sacrificed himself to buy us more time, which is another favor that I owe him!

Damn. Everything he did was in order to make to go against Xiao Xuance!

So soon as I had the idea of 'telling Xiao Xuance's secret to public' and Xiao Xuance discovered even a hint of the plot, he would certainly try to kill me to shut my mouth. By then, I and the forces behind me would have to start a total war against Xiao Xuance!

Li Yao was amused. Boss Bai was indeed Boss Bai. At the last moment of his life, he established his final scheme!

However, Li Yao decided to take the bait willingly.

Xiao Xuance, you might have had no choice in the desperate situation after the cosmic storm a hundred years ago.

But right now, the great explosion in the Skyhill Sword Seminar, the countless victims on Iron Plateau, the arrival of extraterrestrial devils in Heavenly Saints City... Everything you did has crossed the line!

If you were really behind everything, I will most certainly unveil your real face. Even though you are in the high level of the Nascent Soul Stage, I will execute you whatever the cost!

Huala!

The pressure was suddenly gone. The drill of mystic rays dug through the last bit of the debris. An empty hallway appeared again!

"Captain, hurry and stabilize the last section. Let's not get sloppy at the crucial moment!"

While Lei Dalu was strengthening the last section of the pathway, Li Yao turned back and picked up Bai Kaixin, who was still unconscious.

At that moment, Li Yao finally figured out why Bai Xinghe had given the precious crystal suit and the map to him instead of his own son.

He loved his son and did not wish his son to be involved in the dangerous swirl related to Xiao Xuance.

Huala! Huala!

The flood was still striking. The pathway that had just been stabilized was showing signs of collapse again. Rocks and rebars began falling again.

Li Yao tried to cover Bai Kaixin with his body, but rocks weighing hundreds of tons buried his feet when he was about to crawl out of the pathway.

"Captain, get him!"

Li Yao threw Bai Kaixin to Lei Dalu. Then he unsheathed the Feathered Dragon Saber and removed the rocks on his legs bit by bit.

He did not dare to detonate the rocks with his spiritual energy, because he was worried that the gap resulting from the explosion might make even more rocks fall from the ceiling.

Right then—

Crack!

An ominous crack echoed above Li Yao's head. The flood suddenly turned dirty.

"Not good!"

Li Yao's pupils shrank violently. Before he had the chance to shout a warning, he sensed that an immense strength had pressed down.

A great mountain seemed to have collapsed and smashed at his head!

Li Yao had no choice but to bellow. His spiritual energy burst out in the mud and flood like a bomb.

It was like quenching one's thirst with poison. Although some of the space was cleared, more rocks and debris were falling off above his head!

Li Yao could not tell which direction he was heading in. He could only follow the glimmering light in front of him subconsciously. The pathways behind him collapsed one section after another, until it was entirely twisted and broken.

When everything was stabilized again, Li Yao turned around and found that the channel he had gone through all the trouble to dig out had vanished. What he was faced with was scattered rocks.

Chapter 760 - No Way Out

Li Yao's head was dizzy. He was surrounded by absolute darkness. The warehouses and pathways nearby had been entirely blocked, but new gaps and hollows had also been created by the violent quakes. The flood was squeezed and twisted during the collapses and gave birth to rapid undercurrents, swirls, and bubbles!

The area he was in was both like a maze and swamp. It had been entirely reshaped in the tremors just now.

The furious spiritual energy was spinning around him quickly like ten thousand swirls. Even when he fully released his telepathic thoughts, they were devoured by the swirls, and he could not perceive the surroundings at all.

There was nothing but blank noise in the temporary communication channel. The communication between Lei Dalu and him had been entirely cut off!

It seems that I will have to find another way out. Thankfully, I have the map of the underground fortress. Although the area has collapsed, it is unlikely that the entire underground fortress has been destroyed. There is bound to be a way out.

While Li Yao was pondering, his breath suddenly halted for a moment. His intuition told him that a great danger was coming his way, as if—

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A high mountain was crashing at him at a high speed from below the ground!

Gritting his teeth, Li Yao blinked backwards more than a hundred meters in the flood that looked more like mud now.

Another collapse took place here and buried the area where he had been standing earlier. An enormous black shadow appeared out of the broken rocks!

The shadow was dozens of meters long. More than half of it was buried inside the rocks. What was exposed to the air were five thick limbs that were covered in thorns. The lumpy shell of the shadow made it looked no different from a giant rock. However, blood-freezing redness was beaming out of the joints of the shell, which looked like the patterns of a deadly beast.

The translucent, complex eye of the shadow glittered suddenly like clusters of crystals like an enormous spotlight. Li Yao was enshrouded in the thick brightness.

Li Yao spat and finally realized why there would be such uncanny, large-scale collapses.

It was the work of the Lustful Rock Spiders, the enormous beasts lurking on the upper level of the underground fortress!

Even Bai Xinghe, a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, would rather not mess around with them and simply concealed his spiritual energy when he was passing through their hunting range.

It seemed that the changing of routes of the Nether River and the serial explosions in the underground fortress had affected the habitat of the Lustful Rock Spiders too.

Maybe the place it had been lurking in was not appropriate for his survival, or perhaps it had sensed the tremendous spiritual energy spurting out from the fortress and decided to have a good meal. Whatever the reason was, the big monster had sneaked down to the lower level of the fortress, too!

The Lustful Rock Spider was naturally blessed with earth-escaping techniques. The thick rock stratums would not be enough to stop them at all!

"In a head-on clash, the brave one wins. Bring it on!" Li Yao bellowed.

With the chaos in the environment, if he were pushed somewhere else by the Lustful Spider Rock, chances were that the way leading to the Star Prier's House would be entirely blocked.

He had to kill the monster no matter what and find a way to the Star Prier's House!

The Feathered Dragon Saber had not resumed the form of a saber yet and remained a drill. A huge amount of spiritual energy was flowing out blatantly, making it looked like a burning torch.

Li Yao gritted his teeth, ready to have a great battle with the Lustful Rock Spider!

Right then, the rocks above his head fell down crazily again, and a giant pillar of thorns revealed itself!

The giant pillar was a limb of another Lustful Rock Spider!

A second Lustful Rock Spider crept out of the rocks!

The majority of the second Lustful Rock Spider was buried inside the rocks. Only a tiny bit of its body was exposed to the air. There was no telling how large it was.

However, the limb that it extended out just now was almost twice as thick as those of the first Lustful Rock Spider!

Cold sweat was pouring off Li Yao's head.

"Huh. In fact, those who suit their actions to the situation are wise. A tactical retreat when necessary is a smart move under certain circumstances."

The first Lustful Rock Spider remained absolutely still while it stared at Li Yao with its complex eyes.

Li Yao suddenly felt that something was not right.

After scanning the surroundings with his telepathic thoughts, Li Yao discovered that the defensive paint on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was mostly gone, and the flexibility of the super alloys was quickly diminishing!

In other ways, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was turning into a rock quickly!

"Petrifying mystic rays!"

Li Yao shuddered heavily.

From the ancient classics he had read, Li Yao knew that a lot of beasts of the earth class in the primordial era, when the universe had just been created, boasted terrifying techniques that could pour spiritual energy of the earth class into the body of other creatures in weird forms through mystic rays and take away their vitality, transforming the victims into stone-like objects.

Those objects were also known as fossils!

The scholars in the world of Cultivators had excavated a lot of fossils, including many strong dinosaurs. Some of them were naturally made, but some others were impossible to have been made in a natural environment from a geographical standpoint. The latter were the masterpieces of the deadly beasts.

Li Yao did not realize that the Lustful Rock Spider could also trigger petrifying mystic rays. It was perhaps because they were the descendants of the primordial beasts and had passed on in the depths of the underground for billions of years!

Huala! Huala! Huala!

Before Li Yao came back to himself from his surprise, another hundred Lustful Rock Spiders that were smaller in size crawled out of the rocks.

The new Lustful Rock Spiders were about the size of Li Yao. They were fast and agile. Wherever Li Yao could enter, they could enter without any trouble, and for the places that Li Yao could not enter, they could still enter through their earth-escaping techniques!

There was only one thought in Li Yao's brain.

Run!

It seemed that the Lustful Rock Spiders belonged to the same clan. Since their habitat had been destroyed, their entire clan had migrated to look for a new home.

During a migration, it was reasonable that abundant food needed to be stored first.

Hiu! Hiu!

Two small Lustful Rock Spider charged at him, one from the left and the other from right.

Li Yao raised his hands and threw out two crystal bombs, blowing the two Lustful Rock Spiders into pieces.

When he took a breath in relief, thinking that the Lustful Rock Spiders were too fragile, he discovered that the body liquids of the Lustful Rock Spiders would significantly reduce the hardness of his crystal suit when they stained it. The vulnerability of his crystal suit soared as it was doused in the gray bodily fluids, further petrifying!

Damn. They are essentially self-detonating bombs!

Li Yao was caught off guard. One of the power rune arrays of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit had been corrupted by the body liquids of the Lustful Rock Spiders when they exploded. It soon turned into a rock and stopped providing any impetus.

No wonder even Bai Xinghe was not willing to deal with these insects!

Without any hesitation, Li Yao released another hundred crystal bombs, not to trigger explosions, but to freeze the flood in front of him with the tremendous frost rune arrays inside the bombs.

Crack! Crack!

The ice was shattered by the Lustful Rock Spiders within one second. A soul-stirring pursuit was happening in the absolute darkness!

Li Yao could only cry for help. He could not tell where he was and simply rushed forward crazily in the maze-like underground fortress.

When he was slow for several seconds, a few Lustful Rock Spiders would catch up with him, and he would be involved in a harassing battle.

The small Lustful Rock Spiders did not boast high combat abilities, but they would detonate themselves automatically when they were heavily wounded. Their spluttering body liquids were like quick-drying concrete. A tiny speck was enough to seal one of the rune arrays on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.

The two giant Lustful Rock Spiders, on the other hand, would only show up after a long while.

Every time Li Yao took a breath in relief and thought that he had gotten rid of them, the two Lustful Rock Spiders would suddenly leap out from the rocks and stir up everything around Li Yao!

Bai Xinghe had mentioned that the Lustful Rock Spiders searched for the enemy with spiritual waves. If there were no spiritual waves, they would not be able to detect anything.

Li Yao had the idea that he could risk taking off the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and concealing all his spiritual energy. Then, he could pretend to be an ordinary person and hide in a corner.

But after hesitating for a long time, he did not have the courage to do so.

Right now, the Lustful Rock Spiders were right behind him, darting petrifying mystic rays at him nonstop. He had only managed to resist their attack with his spiritual shield and his crystal suit.

If he retreated his crystal suit and converged his spiritual energy, turning himself into an ordinary person, his own skin would probably end up become rock when it was scanned by the petrifying mystic rays!

It is not going to work out if I simply keep on running!

Maybe because Li Yao had blown up two Lustful Rock Spiders, or maybe because the spiritual waves from the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit were more intense than those of the other crystal suits, the Lustful Rock Spiders chasing after Li Yao would not let him ago.

After he slayed more than thirty Lustful Rock Spiders, more rune arrays on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit turned into rock, and the specifications of the crystal suit plummeted.

Li Yao gritted his death. He would be killed sooner or later if he kept running about like a headless chicken.

He had the map of the underground fortress, but the problem was that he did not where he was.

Calculate now!

Li Yao drew the routes that he just ran and compared them with the multiple pathways inside the underground fortress.

He was going in straight lines most of the time, which did not have many features. The crystal processor outputted seven coordinates he could be at after analysis.

Having no other choices, Li Yao could only turn around and circled around at the risk of being corrupted by the Lustful Rock Spiders.

After running three laps, he finally collected enough features to locate his precise coordinates in the map.

I'm now in the southeast corner at the bottom of the underground fortress. There's a long way to go to the Star Prier's House. I basically have to cross the entire fortress.

Besides, the Lustful Rock Spiders are right behind me. Even if I'm lucky enough to make my way to the Star Prier's House, I might not be able to get rid of them.

It will be a major disaster if those bastards rush into the Star Prier's House!

The last thing Li Yao wanted was for the Star Prier's House to be destroyed, not only because Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin were probably hiding in the Star Prier's House treating their wounds, but also, and, more importantly, because the three hundred super crystal processors of the Star Prier's House could search for the coordinates of the other Sectors. They were the only hope for him to return to the Heaven's Origin Sector.

He could not lose them no matter what!

Therefore, until he got rid of the Lustful Rock Spiders, he could not draw close to the Star Prier's House.

Is there any place nearby where I can keep myself away from the Lustful Rock Spiders?

Li Yao glanced over the important locations on the map of the underground fortress. Finally, his eyes stopped at location at the deepest part of the underground fortress, which had been clearly added most recently.

Li Yao discovered that he was close to Yan Xinjian's secret training room.