Li Yao's heart was beating fast. He wondered if Bai Xinghe would be fooled.
Under normal circumstances, such ambitious and ruthless characters would not be like the villains in the stories, who would give a long-winded speech before they succeeded in their schemes.
However, Bai Xinghe could have absorbed the crystal bombs into his Cosmos Ring and taken action immediately, but he did not do so.
Moreover, after he arrived at the nest, he even tried to talk about the secrets from ten thousand years ago to buy himself more time.
Li Yao could only conclude that Bai Xinghe was truly wounded and was in the middle of treatment. If he attacked right now, he would have to pay a price that he did not want to pay.
Li Yao wanted to buy himself more time, and Bai Xinghe wanted to buy himself more time, too. Li Yao might be able to elicit something that Bai Xinghe would not talk about under normal circumstances.
Spiritual energy surged out of Bai Xinghe's body and released at least the spiritual energy of the Core Formation Stage. He attracted a piece of weird magical equipment that looked like a metal ball from hundreds of meters away and stuck it to his abdomen.
The magical equipment hummed and released a streak of green brightness, which covered the wound on his abdomen softly.
Intense vitality immediately came from Bai Xinghe's abdomen. It was obvious that he was being treated.
Bai Xinghe breathed in the most comfortable way. He smiled casually and said, "Although the plan of mutual deterrence has some fatal loopholes, I appreciate it very much. You can ask me a few questions for its creativity, but I can't guarantee that I will answer them."
"Alright."
Li Yao did not want to give Bai Xinghe too much time for treatment. He immediately asked, "You knew that Bai Wulei would betray you? Is this all part of your plan? "
Bai Xinghe pondered for a moment and shook his head slowly. "I knew that somebody would betray me, but I didn't know who it was.
"It has been almost a hundred years since I rose to become the Pirate Potentate.
"The Abyss Pirate Gang has been the biggest pirate gang on Spider Den for decades."
"Although the Temple of Immortals only surfaced one year ago, their branch 'Black Spider Tower' has existed for almost a hundred years. Therefore, the Temple of Immortals has been operating in the dark for at least a hundred years.
"It's impossible that they didn't notice my rise and the glory of the Abyss Pirate Gang in the past hundred years.
"Therefore. As long as the people of the Temple of Immortals are not idiots, they couldn't have started infiltrating the Abyss Pirate Gang only one year ago. Their infiltration must've started decades ago. "
"There must've been spies of the Temple of Immortals in the Abyss Pirate Gang a long time ago. Many of them were even Immortal Cultivators before they joined the Abyss Pirate Gang.
Li Yao thought quickly and realized what was going on. "Therefore, the super fierce battle between the old and the new Pirate Potentates was a huge one. Your purpose is not to kill Fengyu Zhong but to dig out all the Immortal Cultivators who have been lurking in the Abyss Pirate Gang for decades? "
Bai Xinghe nodded. "Yes. That's one of my purposes."
Li Yao pondered for a moment and murmured to himself, "From the very beginning, including the Galactic Hero's Meeting that was held with great fanfare. Everything is part of your plan. You suspect everyone. Including his chief disciple, Bai Wulei! "
"But if you were really suspicious of everybody, why did you tell Bai Wulei the map of the underground fortress of Spider Den and the Spider Key to control the fortress?"
"Wait."
Li Yao bulged his eyes. "You pretended that you regarded Bai Wulei as your successor. You trusted him so much that you even asked him to be in charge of the actual operations of the Abyss Pirate Gang and told him everything. Where did you hide the map and the key? In the end, you intentionally cut off your hand and delivered the Cosmos Ring where the map and the key were hidden to him …
"Then, Bai Wulei, Fengyu Zhong, the Black King … the Immortal Cultivators, as well as all the space pirates who betrayed you, would enter the underground fortress with the map and the key!
"Then, perhaps, the entire underground fortress would be blown up after a boom, wouldn't it?"
Bai Xinghe was silent for a long time. Then he sighed gloomily and said, "My young friend Bloody Vulture, it's a pity that you showed up at the wrong time. Otherwise, I would've had the urge to recruit you as my disciple."
Li Yao laughed dryly. "That will be unnecessary. Nothing good will come of being Boss Bai's disciple."
Ignoring his mockery, Bai Xinghe said casually, "However, you are still wrong. I did not regard my first true disciple as a chess piece. I really regarded Bai Wulei as my successor who would inherit the Abyss Pirate Gang after I perished.
"This is nothing more than a small test."
"If Bai Wulei passed the last test, he would've been safe and sound, and the Abyss Pirate Gang would've been truly under his control.
"It's a pity that he was too hasty!"
Li Yao rolled his eyes and frowned. "No. No. If you had suspected Bai Wulei and pretended to be wounded, how could you have been so badly wounded that you dallied to kill me, a Cultivator at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage?"
Bai Xinghe sensed that the wound on his abdomen was healing faster, and that his strength was returning to his body. His Cultivation was recovering quickly. He smiled and said, "Bai Wulei's ambush was not out of my calculation. But I missed one thing despite everything I calculated.
Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "What is it?"
"Master Hidden Fog, the previous leader of Black Spider Tower, is not the Black King of the Temple of Immortals," Bai Xinghe said.
"What!"
Li Yao was dumbfounded again. Hellsword was not the Black King, and the previous leader of Black Spider Tower was not the Black King, either? Then, who was the Black King exactly?
Bai Xinghe explained in a tone of appreciation, "At first, it was said on Spider Den that the lone wolf Hellsword was the Black King. I didn't believe it. I knew Hellsword's capability very well. He might be able to fight one-on-one battles, but to manipulate an enormous organization? He was not capable of that.
"Therefore, I investigated in secret in person. The evidence I found showed that Master Hidden Fog, the previous leader of Black Spider Tower, was the Black King.
"Black Spider Tower is the most important branch of the Temple of Immortals. Or rather, one of them is in the light, and the other is in the dark. They are essentially one. It makes sense that the leader of Black Spider Tower is one of the four kings of the Temple of Immortals, right?
"Therefore, when Master Hidden Fog, Fengyu Zhong, and Bai Wulei attacked me together with several experts of the Eight Blades of Black Spider, I was not surprised at all. I focused most of my attention on Fengyu Zhong and Master Hidden Fog, the two Yuanying experts.
"When Bai Wulei ambushed me from behind, Fengyu Zhong and Master Hidden Fog launched their strongest attacks, too.
"That was my plan. He pretended to be injured and took the opportunity to escape. He escaped to the underground fortress and fought the final battle there! "
"But …
"Master Hidden Fog's attack was unexpectedly weak. It did not look like the strongest attack of a Yuanying expert at all. He was in the high level of the Core Formation Stage at best, except that his aura was impressive.
"On the contrary, on my left side, an assassin of the Eight Blades of Black Spider named 'Yama Tian' suddenly unleashed an attack that was even more powerful than Fengyu Zhong's!
"In the blink of an eye, Yama Tian's Cultivation increased. He was at least in the middle level of the Yuanying Stage!
"I've been collecting files about the Eight Blades of Black Spider for a long time. I've studied the battle videos of every one of them more than ten thousand times. I know their posture, the trajectories of their attacks, and their habitual movements in battles like the back of my hand.
"Therefore, the moment we met, I concluded that he must be Yama Tian, one of the Eight Blades of Black Spider. He was an expert in the Core Formation Stage. Therefore, I didn't take him seriously at all.
"Therefore … This time, I was truly heavily wounded! "
Li Yao was sweating hard. "Are you suggesting that an unparalleled expert in the middle level of the Yuanying Stage has been pretending to be an expert in the Core Formation Stage and acting as one of the Eight Blades of Black Spider?"
"Exactly."
Bai Xinghe nodded. "Yama Tian took part in the battle of Heavenly Saints City as one of the Eight Blades of Black Spider. Judging from the situation right now, he did not take part in the battle but was commanding in person in the frontline!
"Hellsword is not the Black King. Master Hidden Fog is not the Black King, either. This seemingly inconspicuous Eight Blades of Black Spider is the real Black King and the one who controls Black Spider Tower! "
Li Yao was fascinated by the story. He had to admit that the schemes and defenses of the Temple of Immortals and Bai Xinghe were indeed splendid!
Thinking for a moment, Li Yao asked again, "How did you know that I would catch up with you? Why did you wait for me?"
Bai Xinghe chuckled in a low voice. "I wasn't sure that you would catch up with me, but it was quite weird that you suddenly jumped out to stop me.
"I believe that there must be a reasonable reason behind any strange behavior."
"After a brief analysis, I inferred that you might've planted a piece of magical equipment such as a tracker on me when we passed each other.
"My head is worth a lot of money. It's not strange at all that someone wants to keep it for themselves."
"Although I searched my body carefully and found no tracker, I might as well give it a try. After all, I had plenty of time. Fengyu Zhong wouldn't be able to find me in ten minutes.
"I was prepared to bet on the possibility that you would catch up with me in five minutes. Even if you didn't, I wouldn't lose anything.
"But as it turned out, you caught up with me in half a minute!"
Li Yao smiled bitterly. He did not know that his every move had been within Bai Xinghe's calculations.
But there was still one thing that he did not understand. "Why did you have to wait for me? What can I do?"
"You can," Bai Xinghe explained.
Bai Xinghe explained. "I was hit by the Black King's attack. My internal organs were seriously damaged, and my capability was reduced to the Core Formation Stage. There were certain risks when I was flying above the Nether River. Should I be attacked by hundreds of boas and hundreds of Night Saber Bats and fall into the Nether River in one moment of carelessness, I would be in big trouble.
Li Yao was greatly enlightened. "My arrival happened to share the burden with you. Half of the Nether River Serpents and the Night Saber Bats would've been occupied. The odds of you passing through the underground Nether River safely were greatly increased!"
Bai Xinghe smiled. "Very correct. The pressure brought by fifty Nether River Serpents and a hundred Nether River Serpents is entirely different. If the situation was not favorable, I could've ambushed you and made you fall into the Nether River, where you would become the food of the apocalyptic beasts. Then, I would've taken the opportunity to escape.
"Originally, I was heavily wounded, and I could only barge in by force, but my young friend Bloody Vulture was so kind-hearted and helpful that you jumped out of your own accord to be my 'life-saving talisman'. How could I bear to reject your kindness?"
Li Yao sighed. "That explains a lot. Boss Bai was right. I was indeed asking for my own death. I couldn't blame anyone else! But there's still the most important question. I can't die without knowing the answer. "
There was nothing else.
Li Yao had no more questions.
While the two of them were asking and answering questions, Li Yao had been focusing on healing his wounds and improving his Cultivation. But Li Yao did something else.
He pretended that he was deeply attracted by Bai Xinghe's explanation and approached him for the sake of the conversation.
Right now, the distance between the two of them was no longer 99 meters but 67.2 meters.
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