"What!"
Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong were both confused. Li Yao couldn't help but shout, "Hasn't Boss Bai been dead for more than a hundred years? We saw it with our own eyes years ago. Also, didn't Bai Xingjian crash into Black Swirl with Infinite Fire and explode at the same time? Even his body was nowhere to be found …"
While he was talking, Li Yao was dazed himself. Lightning was bursting out of his head nonstop.
Yes. Bai Xingjian, the commander of the Great White Fleet, was too weird. Leaving everything else aside, it was highly unusual that he boasted a combat ability that even 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren was somewhat wary of!
He was no more than a hundred years old at best, and he was the highest commander of such an enormous fleet. He was so busy that his feet hit the back of his head every day. It was impossible for him to be dwelling in the world of swords like a lunatic like Yan Liren. How could he boast such a high combat ability?
Didn't he also suspect that there was something fishy about his death a little earlier?
Bai Kaixin picked up a new bottle and held it in his arms. Taking a deep breath, he mumbled, "You're right. That's why I wanted to ask you about it. After all, you, Lei Dalu, and I witnessed my father's last battle on Spider Den in person. Also, you spent almost ten years in the 'Supreme Residence of Yan Xinjian', the space pirate known as' Dignity Xinjian '. You received Yan Xinjian's heritage and grasped the mysteries of the' superlative height of the Core Formation Stage '. To some extent, you are sort of Yan Xinjian's disciple …"
"Wait."
The more he listened, the more confused Li Yao became. "Aren't we talking about Boss Bai? Why is it related to Yan Xinjian?"
"You'll know when I finish," Bai Kaixin said.
"I want to confirm something with you first. In Boss Bai's last battle below the ground of Spider Den years ago, neither you, I, nor Lei Dalu witnessed his death in person, right?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense.
In the underground fortress on Spider Den years ago, he and Boss Bai were in the same team, and Bai Kaixin and Lei Dalu were in the other team. After the four of them met, all the mysteries were unraveled. However, they were still faced with the collapse of the underground fortress and the hunting of the Temple of Immortals, Black Spider Tower, the Immortal Cultivators, and hostile space pirates.
There was no road to heaven and no door to the earth. They were surrounded from all sides. The underground world was on the verge of collapse. It was truly a situation of certain death.
In the end, to protect his son Bai Kaixin's's safety, Bai Xinghe, who was his father's father and distracted by the enemy's attention......
However, they didn't see the scene of Boss Bai's death with their own eyes. Everything was just speculation.
Even if he did die in battle, it was unknown whether his remnant soul had been completely annihilated.
Seeing that Li Yao nodded, Bai Kaixin's voice was even more shivering. "Then, I want to ask you something else. Has Yan Xinjian's remaining soul perished? Is it possible that part of his unsubstantial remaining soul escaped with you when you crawled out of the 'Supreme Residence'? Are you sure about that?"
Li Yao blinked his eyes quickly. He was even less certain about the matter.
Yan Xinjian was the strongest expert at the edge of the cosmos in the 'pre- Federation' era. His starship maneuvering abilities and his individual combat abilities were appalling. He was even the first maniac who tried to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage in the few Sectors nearby in the past five hundred years.
It was a pity that he grew up in a relatively isolated and ignorant age. He did not have the information exchange, resources, and advanced training facilities that the Federation had today. He did not have the experience and methods to defend against the attacks of 'minor apocalypses', either.
Also, there were too many distracting thoughts inside the man's soul. In the end, he failed to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage. His soul fell apart into hundreds of remaining souls, which were sent to hundreds of mice and slowly perished in the sunless underground world.
By the time Li Yao opened the 'Supreme Residence' that he used to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage, the remaining souls that were attached to the mice had mostly withered. They were as mottled as paintings that had been eroded by wind and sand.
After almost ten years of training, Li Yao felt that the tiny 'clones of Yan Xinjian' were degenerating faster and faster. Most of them had turned into common mice, but as for whether or not any of them had escaped, it was still a question …
Li Yao suddenly remembered that, when he left the Supreme Cave Residence, a mouse that still had some intelligence seemed to have escaped together with him, but there was no telling where it had gone after that.
Li Yao could not help but ask, "Are Bai Xinghe and Yan Xinjian related to each other?"
"Maybe. There are more," Bai Kaixin said.
"There was a third person among them, a young man named 'Mouse Bai'. The young man was an orphan on Spider Den. There was no telling whether he was a space pirate or a descendant of the 'hostage' who had been kidnapped. All in all, he was just an insignificant character between a servant and a slave.
"When Spider Den was taken over, we discovered a lot of such children. To some extent, they were the most miserable victims of the space pirates.
"Until we found solid evidence that they had committed any crimes, we naturally would not discriminate against the children. At that time, the Flying Star Sector was in dire need of manpower. Many of the children received formal education and distinguished themselves in the fleets of the New Federation in the future.
"But Mouse Bai's life almost came to an end when we took over Spider Den. At that time, he seemed to have fallen from a high place and hit his head hard. He was in a coma for a long time and was almost thrown into the pile of dead bodies to die on his own.
"But he did not die in the end. He crawled out of the pile of dead bodies and joined the Burning Prairie Fleet by accident. Eventually, he grew into the most distinguished fleet commander of the Federation, and he was Bai Xingjian of the Great White Fleet!
"Falling from a high place, falling into a coma, coming back from the dead, and shining brilliantly. Li Yao, do the few phrases remind you of anything?"
Li Yao thought quickly and immediately understood what was going on. "Reincarnation in someone else's body? Possession and rebirth?"
"Exactly," Bai Kaixin said.
Bai Kaixin said, "I'm very suspicious that, although my father's fleshly body was shattered, his soul was not entirely obliterated. Although most of Yan Xinjian's remaining soul perished, part of his soul managed to escape!
"The Pirate Potentate and the Supreme Space Pirate, whose souls are so powerful and 'like-minded', will have a mysterious attraction, won't they?
"The strength of either of their remaining souls alone was not enough to reincarnate in someone else's body. But the two remaining souls were entangled weirdly into a brand-new soul, which then entered the body of the young man 'Mouse Bai' who was already dead. Then, 'Bai Xingjian', a powerful being who had been reborn from the dead, was born!"
"Bai Xingjian … Bai Xingjian … Bai Xinghe plus Yan Xinjian?"
Li Yao finally understood the significance of the name. He was greatly enlightened.
In such a case, Bai Xingjian's unbelievably strong capability could be fully explained.
Bai Xingjian plus Yan Xinjian, the two most dreadful space pirates in the past five hundred years, were indeed qualified to make Yan Liren's sword dash a hundred thousand kilometers away.
Li Yao was quite amazed, but Ding Ling Dong found it hard to believe. "Brother Bai, isn't it too bizarre and shocking? Everything is just your assumption. Do you have any more solid proof?"
"Of course I do. Does their commanding style count?"
Bai Kaixin said. "The commanding style of a fleet commander is like the features of his fingerprints and retina. It is always unique and can only be imitated by other people but not completely replaced.
"In both Yan Xinjian's and my father's era, the crystal processor technology was quite advanced. They also passed down the data files of some classic battles.
"Before, Bai Xingjian hid eighty percent of his capability and intentionally changed his commanding style. Therefore, most people did not think in that direction.
"But in the battle, he completely tore off his disguise and revealed the magnificent combat ability of the Divinity Transformation Stage. It also allowed us to collect a lot of his real battle style and the traces of his fleet. After dissecting them into parameters and comparing them with the files left by Yan Xinjian and Bai Xinghe, the match was more than ninety percent. The only difference was that he had significantly upgraded and evolved based on Yan Xinjian and Bai Xinghe!"
Li Yao nodded his head hard. "It's very possible. No genius commander can jump out of nowhere. He was already famous during the war against the Uranian Ring Sector. His unpredictable and skillful style is indeed not something that a general commander can boast."
"Also …"
After a long silence, Bai Kaixin said, "He talked to me on the phone before he left. We talked a lot, and he vaguely admitted his identity.
"After hearing what he said and recalling what happened when he was trying to break into the Yuanying level fifty years ago, I — I'm ninety-nine percent certain that he is my father, Boss Bai!"
Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong looked at each other and asked at the same time, "Fifty years ago?"
All in all, I believe that Bai Xingjian is the combination of the souls of my father Bai Xingjian and Yan Xinjian, the supreme space pirate. However, in the first fifty years, 'Boss Bai' and 'Yan Xinjian', two incompatible parts, existed inside his body. Let's call them two different personalities for now. The personality of 'Yan Xinjian' hated my guts for some reason and wanted to kill me very much. Naturally, the personality of 'Boss Bai' tried to stop him.
"Fifty years ago, when Bai Xingjian was trying to break into the Yuanying level, 'Yan Xinjian's' killing intent finally reached the maximum, and the contradiction between the two personalities completely broke out. In the end, the personality of 'Boss Bai' defeated the personality of 'Yan Xinjian' and saved me as well as himself.
"In fact, I've been suspicious ever since that incident. What I said just now was something that I gradually figured out in the long years that followed. However, before I had a chance to talk to him and ask him everything …"
Ding Ling Dong asked in a hurry, "Why didn't you ask him?"
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