Hiu!
Li Yao retreated ninety-nine meters in a hurry. One more meter, and the crystal bomb inside Bai Xinghe's stomach would be detonated immediately. Still not reassured, Li Yao opened his hands and condensed four spiritual shields in front of him. Then, he released almost a hundred crystal bombs that would explode the moment they touched the four shields, which floated in midair and constituted a triple wall of bombs!
After finishing all the arrangements quickly, Li Yao finally caught his breath.
Bai Xinghe was dazed for a moment, as if he were surprised. "My young friend Bloody Vulture …"
"Don't move. Don't talk. Let me think for a minute!"
Li Yao bellowed. Every cell inside his body was vibrating crazily, as he was prepared for the highest battle. The butterflies of thoughts that were flying in his head were gathering and dispersing, leaving only spots of phosphorescence.
Ever since he caught up with Li Yao, Li Yao had felt that something was not right. However, Bai Xinghe had been behaving dutifully all the way. Also, the traps deep below the ground had distracted Li Yao's attention and made him overlook the warning signs in his heart.
But right now, Bai Xinghe's unusual behavior of introducing the secrets from ten thousand years ago to him for no good reason made the warning signs that had been drowned resurface and echo in his head.
Something is not right. My intuition tells me that I must've overlooked something very important. That's why I was so scared on my way here!
Recall every detail about Bai Xinghe in detail!
Li Yao activated all his computational ability and divided every second since Bai Xinghe showed up into almost a hundred pictures and analyzed them frame by frame.
It was as if the butterflies of thoughts that were fluttering madly in his brain had all been fixed. Every pattern of the butterflies of thoughts was constantly magnified. Everything was clear!
When the different patterns on two of the butterflies of thoughts flew to the center of his brain at the same time, Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. He realized the source of his uneasiness!
In the first picture, Bai Xinghe kicked Luo Jinhu to the ground on the carrier of the Tiger Teeth Pirate Gang. He said in disdain, "Cut the crap! As long as the price is right, you won't even blink if you sell your entire family! Similarly, if you give me a suitable price, I guarantee that I will sell your parents to a brothel today! You are a f * cking space pirate who kills and loots, and you are still pretending to be chaste? You are quite loyal! "
The second picture is different. There was no picture, but the voice that Li Yao heard was Bai Xinghe's devastating scream after he was ambushed by the chief true disciple. "Bai Wulei, you betrayed me!"
This scream was truly filled with shock, anger, hatred, and despair!
Also, Li Yao had read 'Stormy Sword', Fengyu Zhong's notebook, in which there were biographies of Bai Xinghe. He wrote down the process of his rise to fame.
Bai Xinghe rose abruptly from a lowly treasure hunter to the Pirate Potentate. He had betrayed at least three or four bosses who were "as close as father and son", and betrayed ten or twenty brothers who were "blood-sworn allies"!
'Stormy Sword' was a textbook for space pirates that Fengyu Zhong had written for his son, Fengyu Ming. It was a very private book. There was no need to slander Bai Xinghe on such matters.
Therefore, Bai Xinghe, who had risen to fame through schemes, betrayals, and betrayals, saw clearly that there was no friendship among space pirates but only mutual exploitation among them. Even if he had been betrayed by his disciple, how could he have uttered such desperate, painful, and shocked screams?
If … His screams were fake, or at least there was an element of it. What did that mean?
Li Yao thought quickly and put himself in Bai Xinghe's shoes.
If he were the heavily wounded Bai Xinghe, and there was an unknown teleportation array deep below the Red Steel Crystal Suit Center, and he was trying to get there as quickly as possible to escape …
Shua! Shua! Shua!
As Li Yao tracked Bai Xinghe, every gap and intersection that he encountered on his way popped up in his brain again.
He constructed a transparent structural diagram of the escape route and quickly calculated the time it would take for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to complete this route.
Five seconds later, he reached a conclusion that froze all the blood in his body.
"You were waiting for me."
Li Yao mumbled, "I didn't catch up with you. You were waiting for me next to the secret teleportation array on purpose!"
Bai Xinghe's voice was as gentle and mellow as before, like the everlasting spring breeze. "My young friend Bloody Vulture, what did you say?"
Li Yao took a deep breath. Staring at the changes of every power rune array on Bai Xinghe's body, he gnashed his teeth and said, "According to my calculation, even if Fengyu Zhong was right and you were heavily wounded and only in the Building Foundation Stage, you could've entered the teleportation array half a minute before I arrived!
"Through the teleportation array, you would've appeared at the entrance of the underground fortress in a few seconds. As long as you destroyed the teleportation array behind you, it would've been impossible for me to find you!
"If you were really running for your life without bothering about anything, there was no reason why you would've been delayed for half a minute!
"The only reasonable explanation was that you slowed down on purpose because you were waiting for me, or rather, someone who might catch up with you!"
Bai Xinghe smiled casually and clapped his hands. "My young friend Bloody Vulture is indeed a thoughtful man to have risen to fame in the circle of space pirates in only one month. Although it took you some time to realize it, it is still very impressive."
Crisp noises echoed in the spacious Star Prier's House when the armor on his palms collided, mixed with a hint of mockery.
Li Yao's heart seemed to have been swallowed by a black hole. He found it difficult to breathe.
While Bai Xinghe was clapping, he realized something that was impossible!
The crystal bomb that he forced Bai Xinghe to swallow was gone!
Since the very beginning, Li Yao had been releasing part of his telepathic thoughts that tied up the crystal bomb tightly. Even when he was passing through the hunting area of the Lustful Rock Spiders, he did not withdraw the telepathic thoughts at all!
According to Li Yao's calculations, there were only two ways for Bai Xinghe to play tricks.
Firstly, through the wriggling of his muscles and internal organs, he could push the crystal bomb from his stomach to his throat in half a second and shoot it out!
Secondly, he could secrete highly acidic gastric juices from his stomach and corrode the detonation rune arrays of the crystal bomb!
Li Yao himself could even corrode, melt, and swallow iron when he activated the 'Swallowing the Whale'. Li Yao was a Yuanying expert. Li Yao was more cautious than Bai Xinghe. Assuming that Bai Xinghe had the same ability and that the speed of the gastric juices was ten times faster …
Even so, it would take him at least one second to succeed!
Li Yao, on the other hand, only needed one second to detonate the crystal bomb!
Therefore, ever since he confirmed that the crystal bomb was inside Bai Xinghe's stomach, Li Yao had been following him without any worries.
But out of his expectation, the crystal bomb had disappeared weirdly in less than five seconds!
Li Yao's forehead was immediately soaked in cold sweat.
Bai Xinghe did not spit out the crystal bomb. If he corroded the crystal bomb with his gastric juices, some debris would be left. But Li Yao sensed nothing. The crystal bomb had simply vanished from the world without a trace!
Bai Xinghe was still standing ninety-nine meters away. He chuckled calmly, like a kind old man who was looking at a panicked child who had caused trouble.
But Li Yao sensed that cold wind was blowing behind him, as if Bai Xinghe was standing right behind him and staring at the back of his head!
Bai Xinghe's aura was in two places at the same time. It was definitely not something that a heavily wounded Cultivator in the Building Foundation Stage could do!
"My young friend Bloody Vulture, you are indeed very smart. But maybe because you are too smart, you tend to overlook things that are right below your nose."
Bai Xinghe said unhurriedly, "You created a 'mutual deterrence' with a crystal bomb? It was indeed a clever move! However, it couldn't have been easier to crack. "
Li Yao was soaked in cold sweat. He gnashed his teeth and said, "No. The crystal bomb must still be inside your stomach. You are tricking me!"
Bai Xinghe smiled in disdain. His back, which had been hunched because of the pain just now, was straightened bit by bit.
Illuminated by the dim starlight, his body looked even more magnificent, tall, and terrifying!
"I've traveled in the sea of stars for a hundred years. Do I need to trick a junior like you? The solution to the mutual deterrence is very simple. It is not worth mentioning at all!
"Space pirates such as you and me often carry more than one Cosmos Ring. Also, in order to fool other people, many Cosmos Rings are hidden everywhere on our bodies, including inside our bodies when they are swallowed.
"I have a Cosmos Ring in my stomach in the first place.
"I merely wriggled the wall of my stomach and activated the Cosmos Ring so that I could absorb your crystal bomb.
"Naturally, there is a small world inside the Cosmos Ring that is countless lightyears away from the Flying Star Sector that we are in right now. Therefore, the crystal bomb was immediately detonated the moment it was absorbed into the Cosmos Ring.
"However, the best that could happen was that the items inside the Cosmos Ring were destroyed. I was not harmed at all!
"Do you see it now, my young friend Bloody Vulture? There has been a fatal loophole in your mutual deterrence since the very beginning!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded. On second thought, he realized that he had indeed neglected the loophole …
No. Not neglected. To activate a Cosmos Ring, one had to summon spiritual energy, make certain gestures, and perform certain spells!
It was also the reason why most Cosmos Rings were made into the shape of rings and worn on the finger. It was for the convenience of the gestures!
For example, when Li Yao touched the center of his eyebrows with his index finger and middle finger of his right hand, it was a special gesture that was the fastest way to retrieve the Crystal Suit from a Cosmos Ring!
But Bai Xinghe could complete the gesture of activating a Cosmos Ring just by wriggling the wall of his stomach?
Did he have to be so unbelievable?
"Therefore, the mutual deterrence has been broken. Your wounds are not as serious as they seem. It is more than easy for you to kill me, a Cultivator at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage."
Li Yao smiled miserably. "It seems that I've been caught in a trap of my own making.
"Boss Bai, the only way to keep you in check has failed, and you did not attack at the beginning. You are trying to buy yourself more time. I believe that you must be slightly wounded and want to recover before you attack.
"Right now, you need to treat your wounds, and I don't want to die so soon. Can I ask one last thing of you, Boss Bai?"
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