Bai Kaixin said in a shivering voice through the gaps of his fingers, "In fact, I should've come a long time ago. I noticed the suspicious points a long time ago and guessed the answer.
"But I didn't dare. I didn't dare!
"I was scared. I was scared that I was wrong and that Bai Xinghe was truly an inhuman animal who killed his wife and son!
"However, I'm more scared that everything is just an illusion. He did not kill his wife. Everything he did was to send his son out of Spider Den so that he could live a clean, honorable life. Then …"
"How should I face him?
"He is an unpardonable space pirate. His hands are stained with blood. I have no reason to let him go.
"But he is my father, too. If he did not do anything wrong to me and my mother, could I kill him in person?
"Therefore, for so many years, I've been hesitating and conflicted. I couldn't make up my mind. So, I buried the issue in my heart and pretended that I knew nothing about it!
"I was cowardly, if not shameless, right?"
Lei Dalu scratched his beard hard and did not reply.
Bai Kaixin sniffed and continued. "After the rise of the Temple of Immortals and the Immortal Cultivators, I gave up on the idea even more. At first, everybody thought that the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators were the same thing. I thought that Bai Xinghe was an Immortal Cultivator, too.
"The first battle that the Immortal Cultivators launched after they surfaced was to annihilate the Great Horn Exo Society with us as their target!
"If Bai Xinghe had intentionally sent me out of Spider Den years ago, he must've known that the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society was his son, Bai Wuxin!
"But they still tried to kill me!
"It meant that, whether he knew the answer or not, he did not care about me at all. He didn't care about my life or death at all.
"After thinking it through, I gave up completely. I didn't feel so sad when there was no more expectation.
"Until two months ago. When the news that Bai Xinghe and the Temple of Immortals were on bad terms and that a war would break out at any moment came over, I realized that the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators were behind it. They were not necessarily on the same side!
"Old Lei, you were right. Bai Xinghe's war with the Temple of Immortals did not bode well for him. I will never know the answer! "
"That's why I snuck into Spider Den without bothering about anything. I wanted to find him and ask him if he killed my mother and sent me out of Spider Den on purpose!
Lei Dalu plucked a strand of his white beard. His eyes were unprecedentedly clear as he grinned and said, "Old Bai, you are still hiding something. In fact, since the moment Bai Xinghe declared war against the Temple of Immortals, The answer is as clear as day. There's no need to ask anymore. "
"You left Great Horn and snuck into Spider Den because you want to … save your father, don't you?"
Bai Kaixin was rendered speechless. He was dazed for a long time before he lowered his head and said, "Bai Xinghe deserves to be punished for his crimes. However, he should be given a fair trial by the Cultivators and the victims. He definitely shouldn't have died in the hands of immortal cultivators. "
Lei Dalu patted his brother's shoulder and said, "Alright, now that you mention it, I completely understand. But how are you so sure that Bai Xinghe will escape to the underground fortress after he is heavily wounded? Where are we going to find him? "
"I've been living in the underground fortress since I was born," Bai Kaixin said. "This is my home. Naturally, I know a lot of secret tunnels.
"Also, my mother recorded some information about the underground fortress in her diary, too, including a few secret nests that Bai Xinghe set up.
"I assume that if he is really heavily wounded and has nowhere else to go, he will definitely come to this place, because …"
Pausing for a moment, Bai Kaixin's voice became clear and tough again. "This is his home!"
…
At the same time, inside the Star Prier's House …
Li Yao listened to Bai Xinghe's story quietly and concluded, "Therefore, in order to keep the secrets of the Star Prier's House to yourself, you killed your wife and your own son in your fury, too. But the boy was lucky enough to survive. He even escaped from Spider Den after a series of coincidences and became Bai Kaixin, the advisor of the Great Horn Exo Society in the end?
"But right now, you are old, and your mentality has changed. You feel sorry for your son and want to save him?
"Boss Bai, do you believe such a flawed story?"
Bai Xinghe was rendered speechless.
Li Yao said, "Just now, when you talked about killing your wife, your eyeballs were obviously rolling to the upper right side, and your pupils were slightly dilated, too. That is a sign that you are lying.
"It is not strange that you are lying. After all, there is never a word of truth in your mouth.
"But before, when you were lying, the tiniest muscle on your face did not twitch at all. There was no way that I would have noticed anything wrong.
"From this, it can be seen that even if it's in your imagination, pretending to kill your wife is still a very uncomfortable thing for you."
"I don't think that your wife was killed by you but by your enemy or somebody else, right?
"Now, I finally understand why you waged a war against the Immortal Cultivators without caring about the cost.
"Two years ago, the Immortal Cultivators' first battle was against the Great Horn Exo Society. They were going to kill your son. If I hadn't shown up in time, Bai Kaixin might've been burnt into ashes in the sea of stars.
"You paid such a huge price to send your son away from Spider Den so that he could get rid of the space pirates and live a clean life even if he hated you for the rest of his life. It is obvious that you love your son very much!
"The Immortal Cultivators targeted your son and almost killed him. Naturally, you burst into fury and tried to destroy the Temple of Immortals without considering the consequences, even at the cost of your own life!"
Brutality beamed out of Bai Xinghe's eyes. His voice was hoarse. "You talk too much!
"Now that I've told you everything, are you going to help me or not?"
When the word 'I' was out of his mouth, the ground within ten square meters around Bai Xinghe's feet exploded into smithereens after a boom. It had been pressed down by his spiritual energy by at least half a meter!
For a moment, the dust was everywhere and rubbing against each other, turning into furious hot currents!
"Of course I will!"
Li Yao replied without any hesitation.
Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin were both his friends. Besides, when he was trapped on Iron Plateau, the members of the Great Horn Exo Society had marched to Iron Plateau to rescue him despite knowing that Iron Plateau was a forbidden area for Cultivators.
Right now, they were in trouble. How could Li Yao stand by and do nothing?
However, Li Yao was confused. "Boss Bai, I've been in touch with Bai Kaixin for a while. His strategies and computational ability are not as good as yours. He's not much worse than you. Although he's not a battle-type cultivator, after so many years of fighting, he's still capable of protecting himself. "
"Besides, he is with Lei Dalu right now. Lei Dalu is a Core Formation Stage Cultivator after all.
"Over the past year, the Great Horn Exo Society has cooperated with the Glorious Sunlight Group. We have produced a batch of powerful Crystal Suits for them, too. The two of them should be carrying powerful Crystal Suits and magical equipment with them.
"Right now, their identities haven't been revealed by the Immortal Cultivators. They shouldn't be in any danger. Why do you look so anxious?"
Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "I'm not scared of the Immortal Cultivators. I'm scared of the traps in the underground fortress. Right now … the traps have been activated!"
"What!"
Li Yao was dazed. "That doesn't make sense. The traps from ten thousand years ago must've been damaged even if they were left behind. Also, you couldn't have set up new traps. How could the traps have been activated?"
Bai Xinghe hesitated for a moment. He glanced at his son on the light beam and made up his mind. "Yan Xinjian must've set up the traps!"
Li Yao was dazed. "Yan Xinjian, the supreme space pirate who defeated the coalition fleet of the Cultivators five hundred years ago and founded the 'Ten Sword Rules'!"
Lightning was striking inside Li Yao's heart.
According to the legends … Yan Xinjian was the first space pirate to enter the central area of the underground fortress.
Also, according to Bai Xinghe just now, Yan Xinjian was the first to discover the Star Prier's House and activate the defense rune arrays left on Spider Den with the super crystal processors. That was why the coalition fleet of the Cultivators suffered so much. They returned in failure.
Also, it was rumored on Spider Den that Bai Xinghe had discovered the secrets of the underground fortress by following one of Yan Xinjian's notes that he had accidentally found.
Some even said that Bai Xinghe was Yan Xinjian's heir!
If it were Yan Xinjian, it was quite possible that he had set up enormous underground traps.
The title of 'supreme space pirate' was not just a title. It was not a joke. When he had just defeated the coalition fleet of the Cultivators, Yan Xinjian's influence and strength on Spider Den had reached the peak. He took the opportunity to purge the entire Spider Den, eliminating the dissidents and eliminating the disobedient ones. He also took the opportunity to collect tremendous resources and wealth!
At that time, Yan Xinjian's prestige on Spider Den was ten times higher than Bai Xinghe's today!
Furthermore, according to some legends, after Yan Xinjian defeated the coalition fleet of the Cultivators, his capability soared to the peak of the Yuanying Stage after only several decades. He was the well-deserved best expert of the Flying Star Sector!
Yan Xinjian had enough strength and resources to completely modify the underground fortress and set up multiple traps. After everything was done, he killed all the builders and blocked the news.
However …
Li Yao frowned. "Why did Yan Xinjian set up traps below the ground of Spider Den?"
"Because he established a secret training room in the deepest part of the underground fortress," Bai Xinghe replied.
Li Yao was confused. "A secret training room ten thousand meters below the ground? Why?"
"Because he wanted to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage and become the first Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator of the Flying Star Sector in the five thousand years after the apocalypse!"
Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator!
Li Yao gasped. Thinking quickly, he waved his fists and exclaimed in excitement, "I get it now!"
"Yan Xinjian was the first person to discover the Star Prier's House. Naturally, he learned the truth of the apocalypse from the things that Liu the Prier left behind, too!
"He was very clear that Yuanying was likely to be struck by the apocalypse when they were trying to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage. However, the apocalypse had a process of 'sensing' and 'activating'!
"Therefore, he established a secret training room ten thousand meters below the ground so that he could try to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage in secret!
"There were two advantages to such an approach.
"Firstly, with the blockage of the rock stratum ten thousand meters thick, the spiritual energy that he unleashed when he tried to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage would not necessarily be sensed by the 'minor apocalypses' floating in the sea of stars. The 'minor apocalypses' that would strangle the experts would not be activated!
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