The name 'Xiao Xuance' was like three thunderclaps that Li Yao's brain was humming. GBP
It was also like three bolts of lightning that twisted into a long line and connected the countless fragments together!
When Li Yao and Professor Mo Xuan were speculating whether or not there was anything wrong with the Grand Illusionary Soldier Project, they had run into a dilemma about Xiao Xuance's motives.
By logic, Xiao Xuance was already the uncrowned king of the Flying Star Sector and the leader of all the Cultivators. He did not seem to have a strong motive to overthrow the Flying Star Sector.
Just going from the "uncrowned king" to the "crowned king" was too much of a motivation.
However, if Xiao Xuance had been baptized in the Dark Forest more than a hundred years ago and killed innocent fellow Cultivators and ordinary people in order to survive, then …
Li Yao instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Everything made sense now!
Bai Xinghe took his long silence as suspicion. He smiled bitterly and said, "You don't believe me, do you? Indeed, no one would believe it! More than a hundred years ago, although Xiao Xuance had not advanced into the Yuanying Stage yet, he was already an expert in the Core Formation Stage and an elder of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood. Everybody in the world of Cultivators knew that he was a hero who rooted out traitors and punished evildoers!
"When he saved our starship, maybe he didn't mean any harm. At that time, he thought that help would come soon. He even offered the resources on his starship for free for us to use."
"Even quite a few wounded people on our starship were treated on his starship. Some of them were even treated by him at the cost of his spiritual energy.
"At that time, my parents couldn't stop praising him. The Cultivators from the six sects of Heavenly Saints City were indeed different. That was the demeanor of a righteous sect!
"Hehe, perhaps later on. My parents' hesitation is also related to this, right? "
"It's just that they never thought that no matter how righteous and righteous they were, once they fell into the Dark Forest, they would have no other choice. There is only one ending. "
"Only one of us can live. If I don't kill him, he'll kill me. If my parents can think of such a simple logic, Xiao Xuance can, of course, think of it too."
Li Yao took a deep breath and asked, "Are you sure it's Xiao Xuance himself?"
Bai Xinghe smiled bitterly. "At that time, I was already seven years old, and I admired the heroes of the world of Cultivators. My parents told me that he was an expert of the six sects of Heavenly Saints City. Naturally, I would remember his name firmly in my heart. How could I possibly remember wrongly? "
"After I was sold to Spider Den, in the sunless underground fortress that was riddled with traps, I kept repeating the name 'Xiao Xuance' in my head!
"Revenge! I want to avenge my parents! "
"Revenge on Xiao Xuance is the only thing that keeps me alive in the darkness below the ground!"
"It's a pity. Hehe, I've taken a wrong path! "
"I want revenge. They had to be strong, but there was only one way to be strong on Spider Den, which was to be the strongest and fiercest space pirate. The most brutal space pirates! "
"When you become a space pirate, you have to kill. You have to kill a lot of innocent people and water yourself with the blood of the innocent. You have to destroy your humanity! "
"After plundering, slaughtering, and betrayal, I became stronger and stronger, but I also became more and more desperate.
"Because I discovered that the gap between me and Xiao Xuance was too huge. However hard I tried, I could never be stronger than him!
"I became a well-known bandit on Spider Den, and Xiao Xuance became the leader of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood!
"I established the Abyss Pirate Gang and began to rise on Spider Den. Xiao Xuance became the CEO of the Grand Illusionary Group and controlled more than half of the Spiritual Nexus!
"After I commanded the Abyss Pirate Gang and became the strongest force on Spider Den, I became the Pirate Potentate. Xiao Xuance was already the uncrowned king of the Flying Star Sector and the leader of all Cultivators!
"Haha. Hahahaha. The Pirate Potentate sounds awesome and dominating, doesn't it? But in front of Xiao Xuance, it is still a bunch of insignificant scumbags. As long as I leave Spider Den, I will be a rat on the street that everybody wants to beat. How am I qualified to compete with Xiao Xuance? "
"Why didn't you tell the truth?" Li Yao asked.
"Who would've believed it?"
Bai Xinghe asked back. "When I sorted out the truth and was capable of telling it, I would've become a notorious space pirate. Who would've believed what I said without any evidence?
"If I told the truth, nobody would've believed it, but Xiao Xuance would've noticed it. He would've known that I was the only survivor of the disaster years ago!
"He would've tried everything he could to deal with me!
"As the CEO of the Grand Illusionary Group, more than half of the Spiritual Nexus is under his control. It would've been a piece of cake for him to delete, add, or fabricate any information that he wanted!"
Li Yao was silent.
It was also the reason why he had never mentioned his speculation on the Spiritual Nexus.
He was afraid that, no matter where he posted the 'truth thread', it would've been deleted instantly, and Xiao Xuance would've tracked him down!
"Now you know why I would rather die than become an Immortal Cultivator, don't you?"
Bai Xinghe sighed. "It's true that I believe in the law of the dark forest. But my parents were killed by the law of the dark forest. How can I regard the law of the dark forest as my 'belief'?
"However, although I'm an enemy of the Immortal Cultivators, it's impossible for me to side with the Cultivators, either.
"Hehe. Even Xiao Xuance, the leader of the Cultivators, could've easily broken the boundaries of the Cultivators and slaughtered the innocent when he encountered the dark forest.
"After everything he did, he could've hidden everything and climbed up in the world of Cultivators until he eventually became the leader of the Cultivators.
"Then, what's the difference between the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators?
"Perhaps, good and evil, Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators, are the same in the dark forest. They're the same …"
Bai Xinghe's voice was intermittent and getting lower and lower.
In the scourge of the flood and the serial explosions, the communication between the two of them was gradually cut off.
"Different. The Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators are definitely different!"
Li Yao clenched his fists. He had no idea why his voice had been so loud since seven days ago. After Bai Xinghe explained the law of the dark forest, the fury that had been accumulating in his heart burst out completely. "What law of the dark forest? It's just Liu the Prier's personal opinion after all!
"I don't buy it. Such a simple theory is enough to outline the truth of the entire universe!
"The universe can't be so dark!
"Even if it is so dark, is there no chance of change at all?
"Let me tell you, Boss Bai. Even if there is only one billionth of a chance, I, and thousands of other real Cultivators like me, will do. We will set this dark forest ablaze! "
Static echoed in the communication channel. Bai Xinghe's voice was gone for a long time. It was not until Li Yao thought that the communication had been cut off that the Pirate Potentate's last words came over.
"I wish you success. Really. I wish you success."
…
Deep inside the underground fortress … Inside an empty warehouse, Bai Xinghe was wearing the Blood River Battlesuit. He was unleashing the enormous spiritual energy of the Yuanying expert blatantly.
Under the surging spiritual energy, the bloody stripes on the surface of the Crystal Suit seemed to be alive and were triggering boiling blood.
In front of Bai Xinghe …
Bai Wulei, Fengyu Zhong, Master Hidden Fog, Dark Empyrean, Eight Blades of Black Spider … Almost a hundred experts among the space pirates and the Immortal Cultivators were on high alert, as if they were faced with a great enemy!
They were like a pack of wolves. They had surrounded a ferocious tiger. Although they knew that the tiger was dead for sure, none of them dared to lunge at him first.
Bai Xinghe glanced over all the Immortal Cultivators and finally fixed his eyes on Bai Wulei, his true disciple. A low voice echoed from below the cold helmet. "Bai Wulei, now that we've come this far, I only have one question for you.
"Did you kill Meng Yue?"
Bai Wulei was silent for a moment. Then he laughed in a high-pitched voice. "Yes. I killed your wife!"
Bai Xinghe's tone remained unchanged. He asked calmly, "Why?
"I believe that I did not do anything wrong to you after I recruited you as my disciple. Not only did I teach you countless techniques and secret arts, I also gave you a high position in the Abyss Pirate Gang at a young age. I treated you as if you were my own son.
"Right now, the Temple of Immortals is very powerful, and you are fully fledged. It is not strange that you betrayed me.
"But decades ago, when the Abyss Pirate Gang was rising unstoppably like a rising sun, why did you kill my wife at that time?"
"You treated me as your own son?" Bai Wulei said coldly. "Do you really think that I'm a fool?
"Look at your real son, Bai Wuxin. How did you treat him?
"You built a greenhouse for him below the ground when he was young, not allowing him to get in touch with the ugliness of the world of space pirates. I'm afraid that he hadn't even killed a chicken when he was fifteen, had he?
"What about me?
"That's right. You've taught me all the divine abilities and secret techniques, but you've only treated me as a tool!"
"I was only six years old, and you taught me to kill. I was only eleven years old, and you taught me how to disguise, scheme, and betray!
"Hehe. Why didn't you teach those things to your real son? Why don't you let your real son join you in slaughtering the boatloads of people? Ah!
"Why did I kill your wife? It's simple. I was jealous. I was jealous of everything that Bai Wuxin had. I was jealous that he could grow up innocent and carefree in the swamp that was Spider Den, like a son of a f * cking noble family of Cultivators!
"Such a life is something that I have never enjoyed before, and will never enjoy in the future!
"What I cannot have, Bai Wuxin will not be able to have, either. I will destroy everything that he has. It's as simple as that."
Bai Xinghe nodded. "Got it. In the past decades, I thought that it was because my enemies coveted the secrets in my underground fortress that Mengyue was killed. I've been investigating in the wrong direction and never thought that it was you.
"But it's not too late to realize it now."
Walking in midair, Bai Xinghe approached the hundred Immortal Cultivators as if he had crossed a nonexistent staircase.
Bai Wulei's face changed greatly. He shouted, "Bai Xinghe, with everything coming to this point, just surrender. You don't have a chance!"
Bai Xinghe smiled and suddenly vanished.
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