Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1560
"Lightning" did not even begin to describe the speed of his attack. Even if Li Yuanzhen had not suffered the dual scourges of the illusions and the venom, he wouldn't have been able to dodge the astounding finger at all!
Li Yuanzhen was in such pain that veins were almost breaking out on his forehead. Out of his natural instincts, he was already controlling his right fingers to retrieve powerful magical equipment from his Cosmos Rings. He had realized that the Boss Bao standing before him was certainly not a filthy rat that had crawled out of a gutter, but a terrifying monster that was too overwhelming for him to estimate at all.
Even though he summoned his magical equipment, it might not be enough to kill the enemy, but there would at least be noises that would let the soldiers outside know that a shocking battle was going on inside the warehouse.
But even such a tiny wish fell out in the excruciating pain.
Boss Bai grabbed his right hand where the Cosmos Rings were worn and closed it unhurriedly. His right hand immediately turned from half solid to a mess of fluids. All his bones and his flesh were crushed although they were still enveloped by a tiny layer of skin.
Li Yuanzhen's tears were running out in pain. It was not entirely because of the pain but more of a biophysical reaction because of the extreme fear.
Even so, he still gnashed his teeth to perform the final counterattack. Folding his right leg like a saber, he kicked Boss Bai's lower abdomen brutally.
Bam!
Having no time to respond, Boss Bai was hit precisely.
Li Yuanzhen was overjoyed. He was about to launch a flood of continuous counterattacks when he felt that the feedback of his knee was weird.
It did not seem to have crashed into flesh and broken the bones, but instead, it seemed to have broken into a certain highly attractive gel, which dispersed all his spiritual energy into nothingness.
"Ah—"
Li Yuanzhen was too shocked to react anymore.
Boss Bai, on the other hand, did not give him even 0.01 seconds to react either. Sniffing, he kicked the guy back.
Li Yuanzhen felt that a full-speed starship had just crashed into his groins.
His entire reproductive system had been reduced into broken cells and enchylema.
It was a soul-stirring attack—literally "soul-stirring".
Li Yuanzhen opened his mouth and vomited a mouthful of plasma that was mixed with broken bones, which spurted out like a weird spring before he completely dried and collapsed like a balloon that had lost the air.
Expressionlessly, with thirty percent boredom, Boss Bai twisted Li Yuanzhen's neck by 180 degrees.
Then, he stuck to the man's back and exerted his strength, giving the high and mighty noble a chance to see his own ass clearly.
"How… dare…"
Li Yuanzhen's eyes were protruding violently, and the veins that were deeply buried in his face were all breaking apart. He couldn't have looked more awful.
The tough vitality of the Immortal Cultivators made him able to talk after he vomited the broken bones and flesh in his throat, but before he finished his sentence, Boss Bai had already opened his fingers and stabbed them deeply into the guy's face like burning iron sticks, crunching his entire skull.
BOOM!
Violent white flames flooded out of Boss Bai's fingers and palms and pierced through Li Yuanzhen's broken skull, destroying the brain tissues and the soul that was hidden inside. Very soon, the deputy leader of Li Wuji's fleet was burnt into ashes.
Then, Boss Bai yawned so hard in his dullness that even his tears were almost squeezed out.
While whistling the weird tunes of space pirates, he raised his wrist to check the time and the progress in other procedures. Then, right next to Li Yuanzhen's ashes, he retrieved a human-shaped spiritual puppet from his Cosmos Ring.
The spiritual puppet was of a similar height and size to Li Yuanzhen.
Boss Bai activated the spiritual puppet and pointed at the operation menu on the breastplate of the puppet quickly. An amazing scene happened. Gentle brilliance flowed out of the gaps of the spiritual puppet and completely enshrouded the puppet until it became a vivid, cubic "skin" that was exactly Li Yuanzhen's appearance!
Under Boss Bai's remote control, the spiritual puppet that was pretending to be Li Yuanzhen stood up and stepped forward rather rigidly.
This was exactly a "stand-in" spiritual puppet, which was designed to increase the sense of participation during the remote meetings.
If it was close or detected by spiritual energy, it would naturally be seen through easily.
However, if it was only observed from far away, maybe it could fool other people, at least for ten to twenty minutes.
Right then, door knocks echoed from outside.
"Come in."
Boss Bai said casually.
The adulation, arrogance, and aggressiveness that had covered his face since days ago were entirely gone. Although he was still an emaciated, hideous man, his eyes were like the clearest mirror absorbing all the stars in the universe before washing them with his own ambitions and reflecting them ten times more brightly. His brilliant eyes and his hideous face were a major contrast, which further added to his captivating, idiosyncratic charisma.
Even if he were a rat, he would be a super-alloy rat that could bite a hole in the three-dimensional universe.
If Li Wuji and the many leaders of space pirates had seen his current face earlier, they would die before they "cooperated" with such a Boss Bai.
The gate of the warehouse was slightly opened, and two soldiers of the Big Bai Pirate Gang strode in.
No, they were not "soldiers". They were the notorious pirates who had fought the Black Wind Fleet the hard way with Boss Bai and jumped to the Imperium from the federation to bring disasters to this land!
"Boss, the few guards have been taken care of. All the preparations are done too. The traps will be closed as soon as you command."
The two seasoned bandits from the Star Glory Federation, however, couldn't hold back their excitement.
"What's the hurry? The stew is in the pot now, and it's not getting anywhere."
Boss Bai glanced at them and said casually, "If you are excited by such a minor incident, wouldn't you have a heart attack when we loot the royal palace of the Imperium of True Human Beings or the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum? There's no need to be anxious. Bring me my battle robe first."
Taking a deep breath, one of the two space pirates from the federation stepped forward and held a tacky colorful shirt and a pair of beach pants with both hands, saying respectfully, "Boss, here's the battle robe!"
"Alright."
Boss Bai took off the leather coat and the messy clothes on his body and put on the fancy shirt and the short pants. Then, he said, "And my boots."
"Boss, here are your battle boots!"
The other space pirate brought over a pair of blue-and-white flip-flops—ones that were commonly seen in the public bathhouses.
After Boss Bai put on his clothes, he finally wiped his mouth with a smile of satisfaction.
"Boss, should we bring you a cup of ice juice of tropical fruits and vegetables?"
His two subordinates asked considerately.
"No. Give me a cup of oolong tea. Make it strong."
Boss Bai sniffed and said, "It is too unchallenging to deal with those morons. They are not even as good as the tough guys of the Black Wind Fleet. How boring."
"That's right!"
His subordinates grinned.
He stepped out of the warehouse, with unpleasant noises echoing from his shoes nonstop. Looking at the Blue Sky Market ahead of him where nobody knew that the god of death had arrived, he waved his hands and said, "There's nothing we can do now. Let's go and teach the idiots at the center of the cosmos a lesson about what real 'space pirates' are!"
Chapter 2453: The Unparalleled Freedom |
At this moment, the leadership of the other twenty-eight pirate gangs apart from the Big Bai Pirate Gang were partying together.
Many of them were stoned. Even those who were not drunk were also blushing and staggering; their basic wariness gone. They did not realize at all that the members of the Big Bai Pirate Gang were fewer and fewer.
From the hundred docks and ports around the Blue Sky Market, the starships, which belonged to the Big Bai Pirate Gang and which seemed to be in dire need of maintenance due to the fierce battle just now, turned their turrets in silence and aimed the powerful cannons at the other pirate heads as well as the soldiers of Li Wuji's fleet.
"Huh. Where… Where are the people of the Big Bai Pirate Gang?"
However inert they were, when the warriors of the Big Bai Pirate Gang gradually disappeared, leaving only the flag of a white mouse that was shaking its bottom, a lot of space pirates could still realize that something wasn't right.
Looking at each other in bewilderment, they all felt sharp icy cones stinging their spines.
The liquor that they just poured in all turned into cold sweat, leaking out of the pores all over their bodies.
"Not good!"
Finally, some of the experienced pirates exclaimed desperately, "We're tricked! Disperse now!"
It was a shame that they were exactly like Li Yuanzhen just now, and it was too late when they realized they were tricked.
At this moment, beyond the manmade atmosphere above the Blue Sky Market and in the deep space, twisted waves were spreading out as the starships ripped each other apart.
In the bleeding space, Li Wuji's fleet suffered the critical strike from "Fist King" Lei Zonglie, and the first miserable firewall just burst out.
At the central square in the Blue Sky Market, destructive explosions broke out among the atrocious space pirates too.
The first explosions did not come from the giant cannons on the docks and ports, but from the wine buckets everywhere around them.
Most of the wine buckets had a hidden layer at the bottom where crystal bombs were hidden. Just now, when the soldiers of the Big Bai Pirate Gang carried those "powder keg" right before their eyes openly, nobody noticed anything wrong.
Some of the larger buckets that were delivered in the last few rounds only had the deep red wine on the top layer, and the main body of the buckets was entirely filled with crystal bombs. After chugging three buckets of wine liquor with Boss Bai in the beginning, nobody was interested in the hard liquor anymore, and none of them ever tried to tear apart the wine buckets and see what was inside.
All the buckets were rolling around the party randomly. Some were even used by the space pirates as tables or chairs. Who could've thought that those buckets were actually life-enders?
At this moment, when all the wine buckets exploded at the same time, it was like ten thousand fireballs had crawled out of the ground, swallowing all the pirate heads!
The first crystal bombs that had been detonated were mainly in two types. The first type was naturally the explosive bombs and incendiary bombs with a high damage. However, the more sordid ones were the interferential bombs that boasted extremely powerful sabotaging abilities. Once they were detonated, they could unfold an extremely violent, chaotic magnetic field in the space nearby, preventing most magical equipment, particularly the space magical equipment, from functioning. To be more specific, they could temporarily block the release and retrieval of the Cosmos Rings!
Of course, many advanced Cosmos Rings with powerful performances could still operate steadily without being affected.
But such advanced goods were clearly not something that those pirates could afford.
Having come here for a celebration dinner, the pirate heads naturally had no reason to be fully-armed. They had hidden all their crystal suits and attack magical equipment in the relatively common Cosmos Rings.
The batch of interferential bombs that Boss Bai had arranged paralyzed their Cosmos Rings for one to three minutes.
It was a fatal delay!
Many pirate heads were blown apart in the first second, their limbs flying everywhere in the midair and burnt into ashes in the furious flames.
Most pirate heads were already sozzled, and the circulation of spiritual energy was extremely slow. It was already remarkable if they still had half of their combat ability left. How could they resist such overwhelming flames?
What was even more dreadful was that ominous thunders echoed from the sky before they put out the fire on them. The warships of the Big Bai Pirate Gang docked at the periphery of the Blue Sky Market had insanely aimed all their cannons at the central square of the Blue Sky Market, launching a merciless blanket bombardment again and again.
The common cannons on the regular warships could easily have a caliber of half a meter to one meter. The advanced cannons were even more astonishing.
When tens of thousands of tons of bombs fell on the top of the many space pirates like a storm, their power was beyond imagination. It was an out-and-out cataclysm.
They might have been melted into garbage even if they were wearing crystal suits, not to mention that they had no chance to retrieve their crystal suits at all and could only resist it with their bodies of flesh and blood and the unsteady spiritual shields that were condensed in a haste. It was simply irresistible!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Big Bai Pirate Gang let out a firepower that was fiercer than in any battle they had before. One couldn't help but worry that the whole Blue Sky Market would be destroyed in the barrages.
After several rounds of bombardments, the ground of the central square was lowered by half a meter. There were no traces of the past left at all, and the only things that could be found were the overlapping craters.
"Ahhh… Ahhh… Ahhh…"
Many "things" that did not look like humans at all were writhing in fire among the craters, letting out screams from the surging smoke.
Huala! Huala! Huala!
From the depths of the smoke, the sounds of clattering crystal suits came over, like the laughter of the god of death.
With a smile of iron and blood, Boss Bai gradually emerged from the smoke.
His left hand was placed on his back, and he was holding a cup of iced oolong tea in his right hand. He moved in the middle of fire and smoked with a pair of blue-and-white slippers as if he were taking a walk in the gentle breeze after enjoying a delicious lunch. He couldn't have looked more easy and comfortable.
"Boss Bai! Boss Bai!"
In the central square that had almost been melted into a pool of magma, several space pirates in ragged clothes with a blackened skin, whose nerves had been ripped apart by the blasts, staggered at Boss Bai like ghosts seeking their revenge.
Boss Bai did not even bother to look at them. Airwaves that were even more violent than the blasts of the barraging cannons surged out of his body, as if an invisible god of slaughter were rising to the sky, and slapped down on behalf of his hands. He did not even move his little finger when the few pitiful wretches were pressed into meat pies.
"Brothers…"
Boss Bai narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath of the scorching and stinky air. Smiling, he declared, one word after another, "Let's wash this place with blood!"
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
Countless warriors of the Big Bai Pirate Gang in heavy crystal suits with five times more ammunitions, who were not armed to their teeth but to their nose and hair, leaped out of the smoke and split apart to Boss Bai's two sides like iron torrents. They charged into the smoke ferociously, reaping the lives of the lucky survivors ruthlessly.
The pirate heads, having suffered the series of traps and strikes, were already ninety percent dead. How could they have been a match for the federal space pirates who had been well-prepared?
To make things worse, they had the support of Boss Bai, an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage, who would go forward and slaughter anyone with the slightly more exuberant spiritual waves. Which pirate head could possibly escape from him?
"Why?"
One of the pirate heads, who was toasted by Boss Bai enthusiastically a moment ago, waved his burning arms and screamed in confusion, "We have obviously surrendered to you and elected you as the commander of the National Protection Army. Why are you still killing all of us? Why?"
"Hehe. Are you obeying me sincerely, or are you pushing me out as a shield and a scapegoat?"
Boss Bai said with a smile, "It's true that I'm very interested in your starships and the experienced, skillful sailors and artillerymen on them, but their bosses are of no use to me and will only add to my trouble.
"Besides, the National Protection Army? F*ck the National Protection Army! It's just the cannon fodder for the four families. I would rather be sh*tted on than be humiliated as such!"
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when he withdrew a burnt saber from a crater and slashed the pirate who was on fire into two pieces.
"Boss Bai, what… what is your Cultivation?"
Another brutal-looking pirate charged over fearlessly and roared, "I don't buy it. Are you not in the Nascent Soul Stage?"
"I haven't been in the Nascent Soul Stage since three hundred years ago."
Boss Bai cut through the man's heart in one attack before crumbling his hair remotely. He then sighed at the mist of blood and said casually.
"You've lost your mind, Boss Bai, you've truly lost your mind!"
The third pirate head, seeing that Boss Bai was tough enough to kill two of the most ferocious pirates more easily than squeezing two bugs, was too shocked to attack Boss Bai and get himself killed. He simply shouted to cover his fear, "You pissed off the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors by sweeping across the Blue Sky Market for the four families first, and then you are swallowing us right in front of Marquess Youngchun. You are asking to be killed, you'd better consider the consequences, you—"
"Captain Zhao, you're wrong about one thing."
Boss Bai said, as if it were not a big deal, "I am not swallowing you right in front of Marquess Youngchun. I'm planning to devour Marquess Yongchun's fleet too. As a matter of fact, they are the main dish, whereas you are just appetizers. If my purpose were to swallow the small fries like you, such trouble would've been highly unnecessary!"
