Chapter 711: Two Tigers on One Mountain

Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97

Li Yao was dumbfounded.

Theoretically speaking, the leader of any pirate gang could be addressed as 'Boss Bai' as long as their surname was Bai.

However, over the past few decades, there had been only one Boss Bai on Spider Den. None of the other s.p.a.ce pirates dared to call themselves 'Boss Bai'. They did not even have the courage to call themselves 'Brother Bai'.

Li Yao did not expect that Bai Xinghe, whose legendary life had left a deep impression on him a moment ago, would attack the carrier he was on so quickly.

Confused, Li Yao blurted out, "Isn't Boss Bai on our side? We are all working for the Temple of Immortals. Why is he a.s.saulting us?"

It was not unusual for s.p.a.ce pirates to attack each other when they encountered in the s.p.a.ce. But it mostly happened when a pirate gang had just finished a job and their trophies attracted other pirates' attention.

The carrier Li Yao snuck in, on the other hand, was commanded by the Temple of Immortals and had just finished the a.s.sault on Heavenly Saints City. It had been cruising in stealth mode and had not robbed anybody. Naturally, there were no valuable goods on the stars.h.i.+p.

What was wrong with Bai Xinghe? Why did he do such a thing so close to Spider Den, everybody's home camp?

Li Yao thought that the question he raised was perfectly reasonable. But the panicked s.p.a.ce pirate grew suspicious the moment he heard the question. He eyed Li Yao up and down and asked, "Who are you?"

Li Yao frowned. He had been seen through.

Li Yao sighed. Spiritual energy surged out of his body and condensed into an invisible giant hand, which grabbed the s.p.a.ce pirate's throat and raised him into the air.

The s.p.a.ce pirate was quite weak. Now that he was choked by the hand, his face immediately turned black, and his eyeb.a.l.l.s were rolling crazily. However, he could not scream or cry for help.

Li Yao dragged him back to the maintenance room and threw him to the ground heavily.

After a click, Li Yao locked the door with his spiritual energy, and he eyed the man coldly. He did not release his throat until he was almost in a state of shock.

The s.p.a.ce pirate squirmed and coughed loudly like a half-dead lobster.

Li Yao extended one of his fingers. Invisible spiritual energy turned into a sharp cone on his fingertip and poked the man's chest softly, as he asked, "I will ask questions, and you will answer them. If you tell the truth, I will spare your life."

The s.p.a.ce pirate was quite a quick-minded guy. Feeling the throbbing pain on his chest, he knew that his kidnapper was not someone he could deal with. He quickly nodded and said, "Don't kill me. Whatever you want to know, senior, I will tell anything!"

"The situation was quite a mess when the stars.h.i.+p left Heavenly Saints City," Li Yao said. "Other than members of the Tiger Teeth Pirate Gang, some of the s.p.a.ce pirates from several other gangs were evacuated to this stars.h.i.+p, too.

"It's impossible that you know the hundreds of s.p.a.ce pirates. Why did you grow suspicious about me? Is there anything wrong with the question I asked?"

The s.p.a.ce pirate breathed heavily for a while and felt like crying. "Everybody on Spider Den knows that Boss Bai and Fengyu Zhong, who only rose to fame recently, do not see eye to eye with each other.

"Two tigers cannot live on the same mountain, and two kings cannot rule Spider Den at the same time.

"Before, 'h.e.l.lsword' Zhuang Ziyou, the other Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator on Spider Den, had many conflicts with Boss Bai, too. They reached a deal in the end. h.e.l.lsword would be a lone wolf and never establish his own pirate gang. In return, Boss Bai would provide a huge number of resources for h.e.l.lsword every year.

"With such a deal in place, the two s.p.a.ce pirates in the Nascent Soul Stage were at peace again.

"But it is different for Fengyu Zhong. He has always been ambitious, and now with the support of the Temple of Immortals, he has swallowed quite a few pirate gangs over the past year. His strength is ten times higher than before. Naturally, clashes between Boss Bai and him are inevitable.

"Although the two of them had not begun fighting yet when we left Spider Den, it was perfectly normal for them to lose patience and decide to attack the other party. Therefore, it is quite abnormal that you were so surprised.

"Your second question is even more weird."

Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "I said everybody was working for the Temple of Immortals. Isn't it so?"

"Of course not." The s.p.a.ce pirate smiled miserably. "Everybody on Spider Den knows that other people work for Boss Bai. Boss Bai does not work for anybody."

Li Yao was dazed. He pondered for a moment and realized that he had been wrong about something all the time.

From the moment he first came into contact with the Immortal Cultivators, s.p.a.ce pirates had been their accomplices. Fengyu Zhong was personally involved in the Immortal Cultivators' first scheme and was a loyal dog for them.

In the battle of Heavenly Saints City, a lot of s.p.a.ce pirates had partic.i.p.ated and helped with the transportation.

Therefore, Li Yao had the impression that all the s.p.a.ce pirates were partners of the Immortal Cultivators.

But it appeared now that s.p.a.ce pirates and Immortal Cultivators were not necessarily on the same boat.

At the very least, Bai Xinghe, the 'Pirate Potentate', did not seem to be a guy willing to bow to somebody else, according to his life experience.

Thinking for a moment, Li Yao asked, "Is Boss Bai in a bad relations.h.i.+p with the Temple of Immortals? What are their conflicts?"

The s.p.a.ce pirate replied helplessly, "What can the p.a.w.ns such as us know about the specific conflicts? But over the past year, there have indeed been a number of rumors saying that Boss Bai does not like the Immortal Cultivators of the Temple of Immortals, who jumped out of nowhere."

Li Yao was going to ask the reason, but he swallowed the question and realized that he was being silly.

An emperor would not allow somebody else to covet his empire. Who was Bai Xinghe? He was the underground emperor of Spider Den!

As the Pirate Potentate, Bai Xinghe suddenly discovered that an enormous organization was lurking right under his nose. It had ill intentions and concocted various evil plans.

Li Yao felt that it was alarming enough if he were Bai Xinghe.

"Didn't the Temple of Immortals try to buy over Boss Bai?" Li Yao asked.

The s.p.a.ce pirate quickly replied, "Maybe. But Boss Bai buys other people. How can anybody buy Boss Bai? In short, over the past year, Boss Bai has not thought highly of many things that the Temple of Immortals did. It is said that they had conflicts in secret many times. The Temple of Immortals' full support for Fengyu Zhong had a lot to do with those conflicts, too."

Li Yao pondered for a moment and thought everything through.

For such a distinguished man as Bai Xinghe, it was extremely difficult to buy him. The price would be very high, and even if he was bought, it would be hard to manipulate him. n.o.body could antic.i.p.ate if he would swallow the Temple of Immortals instead.

Therefore, the Temple of Immortals decided to bring up their own 'Pirate Potentate'.

In the past, Fengyu Zhong was also a well-known brutal bandit in the circle of s.p.a.ce pirates. But he did not have his own docks or crystal suit centers. In other words, he was only among the best ones in the middle cla.s.s of s.p.a.ce pirates.

Such people were the most ambitions and the easiest to buy over. As long as he was promised Bai Xinghe's position as the new ruler of s.p.a.ce pirates when the endeavors succeeded, he would be the most loyal warrior for the Temple of Immortals and do what he was ordered to wholeheartedly.

Naturally, it hurt the interests of Bai Xinghe, the inc.u.mbent 'Pirate Potentate'. The conflicts between the two parties were not strange at all.

Li Yao sorted through all the information in his head and asked a few more questions.

However, the man was a p.a.w.n in his pirate gang in the first place, and he had been away from Spider Den for almost half a year for the mission. Therefore, he did not know the latest situation on Spider Den. Li Yao's questions proved futile.

"Last question. Answer it honestly, and I will not kill you." Li Yao did not give him time to think. He asked straightforwardly, "How many ordinary people have you killed?"

The s.p.a.ce pirate was dazed for a moment. His eyeb.a.l.l.s rolled to the up.

It was a micro-expression suggesting that he was recalling and counting.

It also meant that he had killed ordinary people.

Li Yao's lips curled. His eyes turned cold.

The s.p.a.ce pirate shuddered and shouted crazily, "You said you wouldn't kill me! You said you wouldn't kill me!"

Scratching his chin, Li Yao smiled. "Do I look like someone who honors his words?"

Five minutes later, Li Yao appeared among the overlapping wires of spiritual energy above the cabin that stored the escape capsules.

Unless absolutely necessary, Li Yao did not want to run into s.p.a.ce in an escape capsule, especially at a moment when Bai Xinghe's stars.h.i.+ps were possibly patrolling nearby.

The explosions gradually died down, and the carrier became stable again.

Li Yao hid himself and released Neltharion silently. He attached half of his telepathic thoughts to Neltharion and commanded it to fly along the pathway in stealth mode.

It was obvious that every zone of the carrier had been taken over by another group of s.p.a.ce pirates.

The intruders were well-trained and looked sharp. Intense killing intent was flowing out of their eyes. It was not simply boldness on the surface, but a toughness deep to the bones indicating that they did not care for the lives of other people or their own.

Faced with the intruders, the s.p.a.ce pirates on the carrier did not have the courage to fight back at all. They all sat in the corners of each cabin with their hands on their heads.

Li Yao thought of something. The intruders were likely from Bai Xinghe's Abyss Pirate Gang.

Right then, a large batch of s.p.a.ce pirates crowded toward the bridge.

Since Neltharion was no larger than a finger and it was in the stealth mode, it followed the s.p.a.ce pirates into the bridge easily.

In the middle of the bridge, there were two s.p.a.ce pirates, one standing and the other on his knees.

The standing pirate was wearing colorful casual clothes. He was slightly bold, and his hawk nose protruded forward high. A blinking, eye-catching pendent in the shape of a spider was hanging on his neck.

It seemed that he was not here for a fight, but for a vacation.

He stared at the s.p.a.ce pirate who was kneeling before him in pure boredom. There was pity and scorn in his indifferent eyes.

The s.p.a.ce pirate who was on his knees was wearing a glamorous coat made of bear hide, with a bear head sewn onto its shoulder. He could not have looked more intimidating.

Yet, sweat and tears covered his face. He was going to move forward and hold the other person's leg, but he did not have the courage and simply cried. "Boss Bai, I was wrong. I was really wrong. Please do spare me!"

The two words 'Boss Bai' nearly made Li Yao's heart skip a beat.

He did not know that the legendary Pirate Potentate would a.s.sault the carrier in person. No wonder the bridge had been taken over so easily.

If he had known that Bai Xinghe, a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, was in this place, Li Yao would never have dared to send Neltharion in.

However, it was easier to come in than to get out. The cabin door had been closed. Members of the Abyss Pirate Gang was everywhere. Li Yao did not dare to move at all, fearing that Bai Xinghe would discover him.

He could only hide Neltharion in a corner and eavesdropped anyway.

Li Yao knew the s.p.a.ce pirate who was begging on the ground. He was Luo Jinhu, the owner of the carrier and the captain of the Tiger Teeth Pirate Gang.

The man was an expert in the beginning level of the Core Formation Stage. His name was on the wanted list of Heavenly Saints City for his countless crimes.

However, such a brutal bandit in the Core Formation Stage was like a stray dog whose three legs had been broken before Bai Xinghe. He was crying buckets and could not have looked more miserable!