The two sentences pierced into Li Yao's heart like two sharp icicles.
Li Yao felt that his heart was constricted. His thoughts seemed to have drifted to the depths of the sea of stars a hundred years ago, where two broken, rusted starships that looked like ghost ships were buried together with Bai Xinghe's story.
Bai Xinghe stared at him coldly and said casually, "The Flying Star Sector is a vast place. Natural disasters such as cosmic storms happen every day in the boundless sea of stars. Too many people have been affected by the natural disasters and are now in a shortage of resources. I don't believe that such a tragedy only happened to my parents. More people must've been mired in the 'dark forest' like the Fire Stealer and my parents!
"When a Cultivator tore apart the boundaries of a Cultivator when they had no other choice, it would be difficult for them to return to a normal society.
"Even if they hide everything, they will live in fear and trepidation for the rest of their life after they return to a normal society.
"No matter how lofty the throne he sits on, how enormous the forces he controls, and how tyrannical his strength is, once the slightest clue is found, he can only lose his reputation and fall from the clouds to the abyss."
"No sect, no town, no normal society can tolerate such a thing."
"There is only one place in the entire Flying Star Sector that can accept them, which is Spider Den!
"Now, do you understand why the space pirates are like weeds that can never be wiped out?"
Li Yao took a deep breath. "That explains a lot. Then, what about the Immortal Cultivators?"
"It's very simple," Bai Xinghe said.
"Human beings, no matter how heinous their deeds are, will never be pardoned. They will always try to find a reason for their inhumane deeds.
"Let the high and mighty Cultivators of the past. Let the honorable and righteous Cultivators admit that they are cowardly, shameless, and murderous bandits?
"It's even more unbearable than killing them!
"When Liu the Prier was alive, it was already the last years of the Star Ocean Imperium. The civil war was still raging. In the midst of the war, his research value was not discovered.
"Although the Flying Star Sector was Liu the Prier's hometown, in the past hundreds of years, only a few people had heard of him. Everyone has only vaguely heard about his research, and they don't have a deep understanding of him. "
"Five hundred years ago, Yan Xinjian, the Supreme Space Pirate, came to Spider Den. In order to deal with the attack of the joint fleet of the cultivation world. I accidentally discovered some relics left by Liu the Prier during the excavation of the underground fortress. "
"From then on, the law of the dark forest gradually spread among the leadership of the space pirates.
"The space pirates are acting as if they have found an ultimate treasure.
"If the universe is really a dark forest where the strong prey on the weak and survival of the fittest. Then, what they did. There's a reasonable explanation. "
"It's not me who's wrong, it's the entire universe!"
"The universe has always been like this. Everything we do is in accordance with the laws of the universe!"
"We have great power. We represent the direction of evolution. Of course, we are more qualified to survive than those weak ordinary people. We are more qualified to use the enormous resources!"
"The precious resources in the sea of stars will be a complete waste if they are consumed by ordinary people. Only when they are in our hands can we break the limits of evolution with the resources and make the civilization of mankind stronger, strong enough to survive in the dark forest!
"Therefore, it is perfectly justifiable, reasonable, and necessary for us to seize the resources of the ordinary people because we are brand-new human beings who are born of human beings but surpass the old human beings. New human beings who are stronger, fiercer, and more ruthless are the only direction that the civilization of mankind can move forward!
"This is the ideology of the Immortal Cultivators."
Li Yao took a long breath in relief.
After hearing that, most of the questions that had been haunting his mind were answered.
He thought through everything carefully, but there were only one or two details that he had not figured out yet. "Is it a coincidence that the underground fortress of Spider Den overlapped with Liu the Prier's center of apocalypse studies?"
Bai Xinghe smiled. "Of course not.
"Soon after Liu the Prier deduced the law of the dark forest in this place, the Armageddon Rebellion arrived. Bewildered by the extraterrestrial devils, the Blood God, the commander-in-chief of the expedition army of the Star Ocean Imperium, rebelled and turned into the Mad Armageddon!
"The civil war of the Star Ocean Imperium broke out. The flames of war soon swept across the Flying Star Sector. The vast sea of stars had no place to accommodate a quiet research center anymore.
"At that time, the situation was quite chaotic. Many Sectors lost contact with the Empyrean Terminus Space Zone where the Supreme Emperor was located. The military stationed in the Flying Star Sector prepared for the worst and established quite a few permanent fortresses that were buried deep below the ground. Spider Den was one of them.
"The Star Prier's House was requisitioned by the military. The reasons were simple.
"Firstly, there were three hundred super crystal processors with high computational ability in the Star Prier's House.
"Liu the Prier inherited his father's wealth. He was also obsessed with academics. Therefore, he devoted all his belongings to the Star Prier's House. The three hundred crystal processors that he purchased, although all of them were civil models, had a higher computational ability than many military crystal processors after adopting unique algorithms.
"The three hundred super crystal processors were a huge fortune. How could the military turn a blind eye to them? Therefore, they were used to control part of the defense rune arrays and magical equipment.
"Secondly, although the Star Prier's House was mainly devoted to the studies of apocalypses, it was essentially an observatory that could monitor the situation in space.
"After some minor modifications on the space monitoring array in the Star Prier's House, it could be applied to the air defense network to monitor the situation in the entire Spider Den Space Zone. If the rebels marched in, they could be locked onto in advance.
"Therefore, the Star Prier's House became the air defense center of the underground fortress.
"It was a pity that the air defense center was not of much use until the Supreme Emperor and the Mad Armageddon were both heavily wounded.
"However, Yan Xinjian, the Supreme Space Pirate five hundred years ago, discovered the Star Prier's House and activated part of the defense rune arrays on the surface of Spider Den with the crystal processors there. In the battle to defend Spider Den, the incoming fleet of the Cultivators suffered a lot!"
Li Yao nodded quickly.
Bai Xinghe's every word matched the files that he knew perfectly. He was not lying to him.
If that was the case, it did not make any sense at all!
Li Yao's eyes suddenly turned sharp and stared at Bai Xinghe's face. "Boss Bai, thank you for your frankness. A lot of my questions have been answered. It seems that you are sincere about cooperating with me.
"However, there is one thing that has been bothering me for a long time.
"Boss Bai, you believe in the Dark Forest Law, don't you?"
Bai Xinghe nodded. "Yes. I have no doubt about the Dark Forest Law."
Li Yao continued. "Also, do you admit that you are a space pirate who has committed all kinds of crimes?"
"You don't have to be so polite," Bai Xinghe said casually. "Even if you say that I am shameless, inhuman, and worse than animals, I will still admit it."
"Then, it is very strange."
Li Yao scratched the metal chin of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and mumbled, "You are a space pirate who has committed all kinds of crimes, and you believe in the Dark Forest Law. Then …
"Why are you not an Immortal Cultivator?
"Come to think of it, isn't it very weird?
"With Boss Bai's background, experience, and position, you are almost a natural, hardcore Immortal Cultivator. It is the greatest waste of the circle of Immortal Cultivators that you are not an Immortal Cultivator!
"But why is it that, not only are you not an Immortal Cultivator, you are also in such a mess with the Temple of Immortals, an organization of Immortal Cultivators?
"Some say that you fell out with the Temple of Immortals because you were not willing to submit to other people. I've thought about it carefully, and it doesn't make sense.
"During Boss Bai's rise, you worked as other people's lackey and lackey countless times. You even worshiped quite a few people as your godfathers. But in the end, you were still killed when you deserved it.
"According to Boss Bai's personality, if you are only dissatisfied with your position as one of the four kings of the Temple of Immortals, the most reasonable thing to do should be to join the Temple of Immortals first, eliminate the dissidents step by step, and fight for power until you become the leader of the Temple of Immortals, right?
"Besides, the four kings of the Temple of Immortals do not seem to be related to each other.
"Yan Xibei, the Mountain King, is in charge of the affairs on Iron Plateau. Dark Empyrean, the Black King, is in charge of Black Spider Tower. The other two kings should have their own domains, too.
"Even if you join the Temple of Immortals, Boss Bai's independence will not be affected.
"Then, why exactly did Boss Bai fall out with the Temple of Immortals and even sacrifice the entire Abyss Pirate Gang?"
Li Yao still remembered that he met Luo Jinhu on the carrier of the Tiger Tooth Pirate Gang for the first time. The conversation between Luo Jinhu and Bai Xinghe was still echoing in his ears.
Judging from Bai Xinghe's words, the contempt for the Immortal Cultivators did not seem to be entirely fake.
Now that Li Yao thought about it carefully, there seemed to be some vague sorrow behind the contempt.
Bai Xinghe was silent for a long time, as if his sore spot had been touched.
Li Yao said, "So, my guess is correct.
"Even if you are not lying, you must've been hiding something. Something very critical that concerns the real purpose of your scheme to lure the Immortal Cultivators into the underground fortress!"
Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "My young friend Li Yao, I underestimated you again. I've rarely met such a formidable opponent as you in the past decades!
"You're quite right. It seems that I should be an Immortal Cultivator. Since the heavens have arranged such a path for me, it will be intolerable if I don't become an Immortal Cultivator.
"However, this is often the case in the world. You know that a certain path is right, but you have reasons why you are unwilling to walk on it.
"However, the reasons have nothing to do with you.
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