After he returned to the shuttle on Firefly, Li Yao was still thinking about his meeting with Bai Xingjian just now. Gradually, he put on a subtle smile.
What an interesting guy. Although he is still a bit impatient, with the help of such a great general, Jin Xinyue will be closer and closer to her dream, won't she?
However, I have a feeling that I've seen him somewhere before. That's really weird!
Li Yao was about to search his deep memories and compare Bai Xingjian with the people who had left a deep impression on him when he suddenly heard weird cracking noises. He raised his head, only to discover that 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren was shivering next to him. His teeth were clattering nonstop, and appalling brilliance was beaming out of his eyes.
Li Yao was slightly dazed. "Fellow Cultivator Yan, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. I'm just excited. Very excited!"
Yan Liren chuckled from deep inside his throat. Licking his lips, he said, "I didn't expect that I would run into such a worthy opponent in the era of modern Cultivators where huge armies and fleets are more important!"
Li Yao was dazed. He looked at Long Yangjun and noticed the confusion in each other's eyes. "Who are you referring to, Fellow Cultivator Yan? We've scanned the assault team members behind Bai Xingjian. Some of them are Yuanying, but they shouldn't be so unbelievable, right?"
"Hehe. The few pieces of garbage behind him are certainly not worthy of my attention. I was referring to Bai Xingjian himself!"
Yan Liren took a deep breath. With disbelief beaming out of his eyes, he mumbled, "Although I only looked at him once, I'm certain that he is an unparalleled expert that I have never seen before in my life and that he is the most worthy person to be killed in my life!"
"What!"
Both Li Yao and Long Yangjun were greatly shocked.
Li Yao had practiced sword techniques with Yan Liren for three months. It was needless to mention Long Yangjun. When she was still 'Lead Eunuch Wang Xi', she and Yan Liren had a yearly sword competition.
Both Li Yao and Long Yangjun were experts of the present age. However, Yan Liren had never been so excited when he had a sword competition with them. It was obvious that his evaluation of Bai Xingjian's combat ability was even higher than theirs!
Long Yangjun and Yan Liren were quite close, so close that the Purple Pole Sword Sect was almost classified as a eunuch. Naturally, she knew that, despite Yan Liren's arrogance, he was never one to exaggerate.
As the 'best expert' of the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector, he was also one of the most vicious experts of all the experts of the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector!
"Brother Yan!"
Long Yangjun pondered for a moment and said, "What do you mean by 'never seen before'? Leaving the Three Saints and Four Rapscallions aside, you have met Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators. You even had a competition with them. Although they have lost their fleshly bodies and become spectral Cultivators, is this Bai Xingjian stronger than the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators? Has he already reached the peak of the Yuanying Stage and even advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage? "
Yan Liren shook his head slowly and said, one word after another, "I never judge people by their level. With the advanced 'Soul Converging Techniques' and 'Soul Hiding Techniques' in this era, it is not difficult to hide one's real Cultivation. Therefore, I don't know whether or not Bai Xingjian is in the Divinity Transformation Stage, and I don't care.
"I only know that he is dreadful, so dreadful that for a moment just now, I almost wanted to draw my sword and kill him without caring about anything! Also, I sensed very clearly that even if I had drawn my sword at that time, I might not have been able to kill him. Instead, I might have been slain by him! Yes. He was all by himself. The Exos behind him were just a disguise. He could've killed me on his own!
"Ever since I grasped my sword arts, I've never had such a feeling before. Even when Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, two spectral Cultivators in the Divinity Transformation Stage, were standing right in front of me, I never had such a feeling of uncertainty! Is this what 'fear' feels like? Wonderful. Wonderful. What a wonderful feeling of fear!
"Training! Now that such a dreadful opponent exists in this era, my heart of training has been completely activated! I have a feeling that, as long as I can fight Bai Xingjian to my heart's content without being killed, my sword arts will certainly reach a higher level and become a real sword that can slaughter the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators! "
Yan Liren shook his head, completely dwelling in the world of sword arts. He narrowed his eyes and gestured with his fingers, imagining the soul-stirring battle with Bai Xingjian in his head.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun were left dumbfounded, with the words' you've got to be kidding me 'written all over their faces.
With a grave expression, Long Yangjun said, "… If even Brother Yan says so, is it possible that what I sensed just now was not an illusion?"
"Hey, hey, hey. Are you serious?" Li Yao asked. "Even you sensed it, but I didn't know anything about it at all?"
"No. You must've misunderstood, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture."
Long Yangjun shook her head and said, "Neither you nor I have Brother Yan's keen senses of sword arts. I did not notice that the seemingly helpless fleet commander boasted such terrifying combat ability. I only vaguely felt that something was not right about him. His gnashing of teeth, his impatience, and his' choking 'expression were a bit — a bit …"
"Please don't say that he was acting."
Li Yao said coldly. In terms of acting skills, he had never been convinced by anyone before. "I observed his every micro-expression carefully, too. He was entirely showing his true feelings. He was definitely not pretending!"
Long Yangjun nodded. "I know that his feelings were real, but such feelings seemed … slightly different from real feelings in the general sense.
"Let me put it this way. Suppose that you are playing a game, and you encounter setbacks in the game, or you simply lose the game, you will be frustrated, upset, or even angry. Those are all your true feelings. Nobody can say that such feelings and your performance are fake, can they?
"But getting to the bottom of it, however real such feelings are, they are just a game after all!
"That was the feeling that Bai Xingjian gave me. If the Great White Fleet did have a scheme and intended to completely control Firefly, it would be of paramount importance to Jin Xinyue and the Xing Yao Federation, if not life and death. At the very least, it would greatly affect Jin Xinyue's election!
"But Bai Xingjian gave me the feeling that he was just playing a game, as if the rise and fall of Jin Xinyue's faction did not matter at all, and that he was just playing with Jin Xinyue casually!
"That's exactly my feeling. It's hard to believe. So, I've been thinking about it just now and thought that it was just my imagination. But now that Brother Yan has said so, this Bai Xingjian … is truly worth paying attention to!"
Li Yao took a deep breath. Tides were surging in his heart.
He absolutely trusted the judgment of Long Yangjun and Yan Liren, the two experts.
Therefore, what happened in the garage of 'Infinite Fire' just now was not him showing off and giving Bai Xingjian a hard time but Bai Xingjian deliberately going easy on him.
He had been … played by Bai Xingjian!
"Damn it!"
"What kind of person do you think Vulture Li Yao is? Since I began my career, I've fought hundreds of bloody battles and bragged too many times. I've always been the one playing the pig to eat the tiger. I didn't expect that I would be the one playing the pig to eat the tiger one day!
"A * shole. Whatever your background is exactly, and whatever your purpose is when you are lurking around Jin Xinyue, it is outrageous of you to play such a trick in front of me!"
The more Li Yao thought about it, the colder the back of his head became.
Judging from Tang Dingyuan's introduction and the files about Bai Xingjian that he had collected just now, the guy should be a disobedient, arrogant, and impulsive man.
However, was it possible for a 'disobedient, arrogant, and impulsive man' to hide his real combat ability for a hundred years?
Even Yan Liren was wary of his combat ability, and Yan Liren was an unparalleled sword Cultivator at the peak of the Yuanying Stage!
A battle-type expert who was at least in the Yuanying Stage had never been seen in action during his hundred years of growth?
Or could it be that the souls of everyone who had seen him in action had already been destroyed?
"Is the guy really a disobedient, impulsive, and violent man?"
"Did he really leave the Burning Prairie Fleet because he had conflicts with his boss?"
"Did he really suffer mental derangement and suffer a major drop in his Cultivation? Did he only reach the beginning level of Yuanying with Jin Xinyue's countless resources?"
"Did Jin Xinyue choose Bai Xingjian, or did Bai Xingjian … choose Jin Xinyue?"
"Did Jin Xinyue know his real capability? Or did she really consider him a subordinate that she could command at will?"
Li Yao could not help but hold his arms. He suddenly felt that his little disciple was very dangerous!
Right then, Li Yao's portable crystal processor buzzed softly. It was Cui Lingfeng's private line!
"Speaker, the situation on the Great White Fleet's side has been brought under control. Their commander, Bai Xingjian, understands the situation very well. I don't think that he will act recklessly."
Li Yao thought for a moment and decided not to tell Cui Lingfeng about Yan Liren and Long Yangjun's discovery, mainly because he could not explain it. With Yan Liren and Long Yangjun's apparent capability, how could they have seen through an unparalleled expert close to the Divinity Transformation Stage?
Also, the issue concerned the safety of his little disciple. As her master, he certainly could not sit by and do nothing. He would certainly have to take action in secret.
Cui Lingfeng, however, shook his head and said, "Let's put the Great White Fleet aside for now. Ding Zhengyang just told me a lot of things, including tremendous intelligence about Lu Qingchen and the CFIA. However, compared to what I am about to say, those things are not worth mentioning at all.
"According to Ding Zhengyang, the Black Wind Fleet is in dire need of a suitable jump point and a space gate so that they can stab into the softest abdomen of the Xing Yao Federation. To achieve their purpose, the spies that they have infiltrated into the Federation have corrupted the leadership of the Federation together with the CFIA. It seems that one of the leadership of the Federation has been transformed into an Immortal Cultivator."
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. "Leadership? How high?"
"Of course, Ding Zhengyang does not know the specific position and who the person is," Cui Lingfeng said.
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