Looking at the octagonal runes that were hanging down from the sky, Li Yao secretly wiped his sweat, too.
He was indeed quite lucky. Bai Xinghe was heavily wounded, and a lot of his internal organs were exposed to the air. It must have taken him quite a while to pass through the sewage treatment tank. That was why he was delayed.
Since he had the Ice Butterfly Powder, he did not waste one second and caught up with Bai Xinghe in the blink of an eye.
If he had been three to five minutes later, Bai Xinghe might have escaped through the secret teleportation array!
Judging from the complexity of the rune arrays carved on the teleportation array and the energy level of the crystal that Bai Xinghe had inserted, it was a mid-range teleportation array that could teleport a person more than ten kilometers away.
The nest was so big, spanning more than ten kilometers. Who knew where he would escape to!
Li Yao stared at the teleportation array and said, "Boss Bai, don't forget that we can't be more than a hundred meters away from each other. Therefore, it's better that we enter the teleportation array at the same time."
Bai Xinghe smiled and formed a gesture. His telepathic thoughts and spiritual energy flowed into the teleportation array.
A deep blue, cone-shaped pillar of light was immediately triggered inside the teleportation array.
Bai Xinghe gestured for Li Yao to enter.
Li Yao took a deep breath and raised his wariness to the maximum. Together with the strongest bandit on Spider Den, he stood below the blue pillar of light.
Being so close to the Pirate Potentate, although Li Yao still had his trump cards and was fully prepared, he still felt that it was hard to breathe.
Bai Xinghe chuckled in a low voice. "A Cultivator in the high level of the Building Foundation Stage, adept at the arts of explosion, and so meticulous in planning, has never been heard of before? Even if my young friend Bloody Vulture is new to Spider Den, he should've been quite famous in space.
"But I wonder what kind of face is hidden below the name 'Bloody Vulture'?"
Li Yao was greatly shocked. Knowing that Bai Xinghe had grasped the flaw in his mind, he was even more alert than before.
Bai Xinghe was not waiting for him to say anything. The blue brilliance was so intense that they seemed to be in the middle of some sort of thick blue liquid.
Li Yao was in a trance. He had already appeared in a different space.
It was a dry cave, surrounded by the dry remnants of the underground plants. Other than the teleportation array that they were standing on, there was only a zigzagging gap that led to an unknown destination.
The two of them walked out of the teleportation array. Bai Xinghe waved his hand casually, and spiritual energy spurted out crazily. The teleportation array was completely destroyed.
Therefore, even if Fengyu Zhong and the others could find the teleportation array on the other side, they would not be able to use the teleportation array to reach this place.
Li Yao looked around. They had jumped a dozen kilometers at most. Looking at the surroundings, this should be …
In the underground world of Spider Den!
Li Yao thought of something and asked, "Is this the underground fortress of Spider Den?"
"This is just one of the entrances to the underground fortress," Bai Xinghe said casually. "I started when I was seven. I will explore this fortress as a 'treasure hunter'. I know every maze in this place like the back of my hand. I am even more familiar with it than my own bed. Is there a better place to be my last nest than this place? "
Li Yao found it strange. "If you can deploy a teleportation array, why don't you teleport us to the control center of the underground fortress directly? Is it to keep it a secret? "
Bai Xinghe smiled and said, "The fortress of the Star Ocean Imperium is not as simple as you think. At the core of the underground fortress of Spider Den, according to the direction of the mother lodes below the ground, a marvelous array has been deployed. It can block all the space jumps in the outside world, including Ye Yang.
"It is like an invisible iron shell. It has enveloped the entire underground fortress. It is impossible to teleport into it directly. We can only walk in on our own.
"It is also to prevent the enemy from showing up in the depths of the fortress through certain mysterious teleportation techniques.
"Let's go."
Bai Xinghe shrank his head. He squeezed into the zigzagging gap in an awkward posture.
Li Yao frowned.
For some reason, since he tracked Bai Xinghe down, everything seemed to be under his control.
But the sense of danger in his heart was getting more and more intense.
Countless pictures and sounds turned into dancing butterflies and danced crazily inside his brain. They were about to condense into a mottled picture when they suddenly collapsed at the last moment!
Seeing that Bai Xinghe was gradually disappearing into the gap, Li Yao sensed that the crystal bomb was still inside Bai Xinghe's stomach obediently. Therefore, he made up his mind and crawled into the gap, too.
The gap was exactly the size of a human's head and limbs. Once they squeezed in, they would not be able to move their limbs or their head at all. They could only move forward slowly with the micro-manipulation of the power rune arrays.
After wriggling for more than half an hour, the gap gradually widened, and they were able to crawl on all fours.
After crawling for more than ten minutes, they found a metal tube with a tiny crack on it.
Through the crack, they crawled into the metal tube. Five minutes later, the two of them appeared in a dim metal pathway.
The suffocating air seemed to have been stagnant for ten thousand years. If one grabbed the air and twisted it, their hands would be full of rust.
Li Yao glanced around and suddenly said, "Wait a moment, Boss Bai. Did the map of the underground fortress and the Spider Key to all the traps really fall into Bai Wulei's hands together with your broken hand?
"Or rather …
Li Yao finally understood where his uneasiness came from. "Is there really such a map and such a thing as the Spider Key?"
Bai Xinghe laughed in a low voice again, which echoed in the dark pathway that was filled with rust. "Of course there are. Don't take the people of the Temple of Immortals for fools. There is no telling how long they have been planning carefully. Even my most trusted first true disciple has been turned into a traitor. I have truly failed. What else can I say?"
"But this path is not the main channel of the underground fortress. It is a shortcut that I discovered on my own. They won't discover us if we take this path.
"The underground fortress is made of countless mazes. It is even larger than a hundred nests. The space pirates have spent hundreds of years exploring it, but they still haven't finished exploring it. Are you still worried that Fengyu Zhong and Bai Wulei will run into them?"
While talking, Li Yao walked forward. Soon, he took out a small bottle from his pocket, squeezed out two drops of bright gold ointment, and smeared them on his eyelids. Then, he threw the bottle to Li Yao.
"Smear it on your eyelids. It's good for you."
Li Yao straightened his arm and put the bottle as far away from him as possible. Then, he caught a few streams of air with his left hand and sniffed them carefully.
As a refiner who had acquired a lot of knowledge about ancient materials in the Heavenly Refining Tower, he knew a thing or two about most of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
The bright gold ointment did not seem to be poisonous. The Land of Rebirth was ready to attack and run.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao closed his left eye and used five seconds to get used to the combat mode with his right eye. Then, he opened his facial cover and smeared a drop of bright gold ointment on his left eyelid.
"Shua!"
The moment the cool ointment leaked into his eyelid, countless gold threads immediately popped up in the dark pathway in front of Li Yao's eyes!
The gold threads were swimming, hovering, and entangling in midair like snakes in the ocean. Occasionally, dozens of gold threads would condense and blossom like a blossoming chrysanthemum. Then, they would suddenly split apart and shoot out like electric arcs at an unbelievably high speed!
Li Yao vaguely felt that the activity of the gold threads followed a certain pattern. But after calculating for a long time, he discovered that it was too complicated, and the calculation cost of the trajectories was astronomical.
Closing his left eye, Li Yao observed with his right eye that was not smeared with the ointment. The pathway was still empty. There was nothing there.
Li Yao was secretly shocked. It had to be some sort of defense array. He did not know that it was still functioning after ten thousand years.
The techniques of the Star Ocean Imperium were truly unimaginable!
"This is just an insignificant defense measure in the underground fortress," Bai Xinghe said. "This is the safest shortcut that I carefully selected. In other directions, there are countless traps and rune arrays, too!
"After ten thousand years, after the passage of time and the intense geological movements, less than one in ten of the remaining traps are still functioning.
"If it were ten thousand years ago, when the fortress was just built, it would have been impossible to break into this place without sacrificing tens of thousands of Cultivators!"
Li Yao threw the bright gold ointment back to him and said, "Lead the way."
Bai Xinghe was somewhat surprised. "You only applied one eye?"
"One eye is enough," Li Yao replied.
What a joke. He would never apply Bai Xinghe's ointment on both of his eyes.
Should Bai Xinghe have done something to the ointment, he would at least have a chance to fight if he kept one of his eyes!
Bai Xinghe did not say anything. He suddenly turned into a streak of brightness and dashed into the array of gold threads.
The swimming gold threads were twice as fast as before when they sensed that intense spiritual energy was approaching.
But Bai Xinghe seemed to have known the pattern of the gold threads since a long time ago. He moved and dashed inside the array of gold threads at ease.
One moment, he stuck to the ground like a dry leaf, the next moment, he was moving on the walls like a lizard, and the next moment, he was clinging to the ceiling. After only a few leaps, he had dashed dozens of meters away.
Li Yao stared at his route without blinking his eyes. Then, he dashed into the array of gold threads, too.
The dark pathway seemed to have no end. The places where the gold threads were floating alone were almost a thousand meters long. Li Yao could keep up with Bai Xinghe at first, but as they went on, the gold threads became denser and denser. Bai Xinghe's movement became more and more unpredictable, too.
Li Yao had only applied the bright gold ointment that allowed him to see the array of gold threads in his left eye. Therefore, his judgment about the direction and the trajectory was not entirely correct.
When he was about to break out of the array of gold threads, his Crystal Suit accidentally touched one of the gold threads.
In the next moment!
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