Boss Bai's hope did not come to fruition after all.
The Immortal Cultivators of the Flying Rainbow Fleet were completely intimidated by Li Yao's attack. They were all frozen where they were, and their legs were too weak to stand on their feet. They did not even have the courage to run away, much less attack the "Arsonist" who seemed to have arrived from nowhere.
Also, with the pervasive corruption of Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion, their entire command and cooperation system had been minced apart, turning every starship into a lone island in the boundless sea of stars, which was no different from an iron coffin floating in the vacuum.
The arrival of "Kleptomaniac" and "Heavenly Crystal", the two Colossi of Boss Bai and Long Yangjun, were the last two straws that broke the camel's back.
If there were only one Colossus, it might have been possible to defeat it with intensive firepower. But faced with three Colossi, the Flying Rainbow Fleet, which had lost the command center and been mired in chaos, could not resist at all.
Unable to fight or escape, all the remaining starships of the Flying Rainbow Fleet emitted pale brilliance that gradually condensed into circles, like the bubbles that dead fish spat out. It was the universal flag of the Imperium that represented surrender.
In the end, instead of the one hour that Boss Bai proposed, the brief encounter was over in only half an hour. It was safe to say that it was ended by Li Yao's attack!
The losses of the Big Bai Pirate Gang and the Cultivators' fleet were much smaller than expected, but they had unexpected gains. Other than the tremendous starships of the Flying Rainbow Fleet, what was more important was a piece of exhilarating news — Li Yao was here!
Everything that Li Yao did in the Land of Sins, especially the shocking performance of destroying "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", had been spread across the entire Imperium through the pervasive Spiritual Nexus.
Although many people did not know his name, even on the most remote resource planets and in the darkest mines, the name of the "super Cultivator" was being transmitted. Some people even worshipped him as the legendary Cultivator who had resisted the Imperium for a thousand years.
The core members of the fleet of the Cultivators had all been rescued by Li Yao from the Martial Meritocrats Sector in person. Naturally, they knew part of the truth and were full of appreciation and admiration for Li Yao.
It was needless to mention the core members of the Big Bai Pirate Gang. They were all members of the Federation. How could they not know the logic of "dominator of three Sectors and father of the Federation"? Besides, the picture where Li Yao descended from the sky with more than ten Colossi in the battle against the Black Wind Fleet was still vivid in their minds!
"Li Yao! Li Yao! Li Yao! "
The name and the shocking attack just now almost raised the morale of the Big Bai Pirate Gang and the fleet of the Cultivators by ten times. It was no exaggeration to say that, as long as they were led by Li Yao, they would not hesitate to attack the most elite fleet of the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium!
The celebration of the double victories reached the climax when Alloy Virus, A Boxing Champion, Stainless Mouse, and the ragged carrier that Li Yao was on arrived at the spaceport of the Blue Sky Market. The whole port was ignited by Li Yao's arrival.
Of course, Li Yao's appearance, which was almost identical to Boss Bai's, raised quite a bit of shock.
However, the atmosphere of shock was soon broken by countless children who ran past Li Yao with flowers and balloons in their hands and lunged at Boss Bai.
"Grandpa Bai, thank you for saving us. Thank you for saving our parents!"
"Grandpa Bai, you are a hero. You and Brother Li Yao are both the most awesome superheroes!"
"Grandpa Bai! Grandpa Bai! Grandpa Bai! "
The children scrambled to crawl to Boss Bai, who was dumbfounded, twisted, and creepy. Some of the cute kids even pouted, trying to stamp Boss Bai's face with their saliva.
"What a touching scene!"
Li Yao smiled heartily when he saw that. Then, he took a long breath in relief. "I've finally made the right bet again!"
While the children crowded to Boss Bai, Li Yao naturally had his own supporters — Han Te and Coloured Glaze, the two little guys who were gradually growing up.
"Grandpa Yao!"
"Grandpa Yao!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze were about to lunge at Li Yao, but Han Te beat them to it and hugged Li Yao.
"You're finally back, Grandpa Yao!"
Han Te was both excited and thrilled. Hot tears spurted out of his eyes. "We're told that you snuck into the Immortal Cultivators in the capital and experienced a lot of soul-stirring things. Coloured Glaze and I were really worried about you, fearing that something might've happened to you.
"But now that I think about it, haha. It's impossible. Grandpa Yao is so awesome. How could anything happen to you?
"However, Grandpa Yao, how did you slash with your saber? It was too dazzling, unbelievable, and awesome, wasn't it? Can you tell me? Aya, I suddenly feel that saber training is not a bad and promising job. How should I choose between saber training and cannon shooting? Speaking of which, for a gifted genius like me, I can practice both saber and cannon shooting at the same time, can't I? "
Li Yao listened to Han Te with a smile. It was great to know that the kids who had narrowly escaped from the Land of Sins had come to Boss Bai's place safe and sound.
However, what was wrong with Coloured Glaze? Why was she hiding nearby and seemingly upset?
"Coloured Glaze —"
Li Yao waved his hands at the girl and asked curiously, "What's wrong with you? Are you not happy to see Grandpa Yao? Why are you not coming over?"
"No, of course I'm happy to see Grandpa Yao. I just don't want to see the annoying Han Te!"
Coloured Glaze pouted, her eyes red, and complained to Li Yao pitifully, "Grandpa Yao, Han Te bullied me!"
"Huh?"
Li Yao blinked quickly. Looking at the Coloured Glaze and then at Han Te, his face gloomy. "Han Te, you and Coloured Glaze should've supported each other after you left your hometown. How could you bully her?"
"Grandpa Yao, I'm innocent!"
Han Te raised his hands high and cried, "I didn't bully Liu Li at all. I haven't seen her for a long time. Today, we finally met, and after a brief chat, she stomped her feet and ran away in fury. How could I have had the time to bully her?"
"Exactly!"
Coloured Glaze glared at Han Te with her hands on her hips. "You have no time to bully me, but you have time to bully those big sisters, don't you?"
"You're being completely unreasonable!"
Han Te turned his head to Li Yao, too. "Grandpa Yao, please be our judge …"
Li Yao scratched his head and realized what was going on, but there was nothing he could do. "Han Te, you can come to me if you have any super schemes, apocalyptic crises, or problems to save the universe, but there's nothing I can do about the bullying between young men and women. Hahahaha. Although Grandpa Yao is a married man, it was my wife who pursued me years ago. So, I'm still very inexperienced in that regard …"
…
On the other side of the port, A Boxing Champion was also searching in the crowd with almost fifty spiritual puppets.
Although Xiaoming and Wenwen looked no different from the children that Li Yao saved, A Boxing Champion still found them in the crowd because of their unique brainwaves.
A cold iron puppet, suppressing the excitement of discovering its own kind, appeared before the two little fellows and released friendly spiritual waves to them.
"Hello, I am A Boxing Champion. We've met in the space battlefield just now."
"Hello, Master A Boxing Champion. I am Xiaoming, I am Wenwen. We are Li Yao's children. We are the children of mankind."
After a moment of communication, the two little fellows climbed onto the broad shoulders of the iron puppet and walked to the depths of the port.
Those unique existences seemed to have a lot of information and data to communicate.
…
Not far away, Long Yangjun was roaming in the port with her hands behind her back, looking at the warships that were as magnificent as mountains.
The emblems of Li Wuji's fleet, the Flying Rainbow Fleet, or the twenty-eight pirate gangs were painted on the heads of most of the warships, but they were like docile animals that had been tamed and obeyed the command of the space pirates of the Federation and the Cultivators of the Imperium.
So many starships had been gathered for maintenance and upgrade in the Blue Sky Market for a month under the command of Boss Bai, with the "vanguards" such as Li Yao and Long Yangjun, and with Xiaoming and Wenwen's fully strengthened command chain and counterattack abilities, Long Yangjun believed that such a luxurious coalition fleet was definitely capable of defeating any elite force of the Imperium.
Although it was not enough to resist the reformists or the four families, it was at least a critical bargaining chip in the game between the two parties.
Not long ago, when they charged at the army of the Immortal Cultivators unhesitatingly in the furious flames of the Great Iron Plants below the ground of the capital, they did not expect such drastic changes to happen so quickly.
"Li Yao …"
Long Yangjun combed her long hair and said with a smile, "It's true that I don't have to worry that nothing exciting is going to happen when I'm with such an interesting guy like you!
"Is Blackstar the Great the last enemy in this game? What exciting things are going to happen next?"
…
The celebration in the port lasted more than three hours. It was not until the Cultivators, the space pirates of the Federation, and the people who had just been rescued were gradually evacuated to suitable places.
The holographic picture of the space battle just now, especially the glamorous scene where Li Yao decapitated the flagship of the Flying Rainbow Fleet, was played in front of the captives again and again, destroying the last resistance of the captives.
Some of the captives who had been tempted before were greatly shocked when they learned that the Big Bai Pirate Gang had swallowed the Flying Rainbow Fleet with the exhausted soldiers. They were deeply awed by Boss Bai's commanding skills and Li Yao's ultimate combat ability.
In the world of Immortal Cultivators, strength was everything. Right now, Li Yao and Boss Bai were experts that they had never seen before. They did not have a second choice except to submit and follow them dutifully.
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