Chapter 717: 717
Chapter 717: Fake It Until You Make It!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Recently, Spider Den had been particularly lively . Scumbags in every corner of Flying Star Sector had gathered in this place . Niu Youyi, the black market merchant, told Li Yao a concise summary of the events that had taken place over the past year, and it seemed he had told a lot of people about the events before .
More than a year ago, the Temple of Immortals suddenly revealed itself . Not only were the Cultivators greatly shocked, most space pirates were caught unprepared, too .
In the beginning, Bai Xinghe did not start on bad terms with the Temple of Immortals, because he knew that the Temple of Immortals must have prepared a lot of schemes during their hundreds of years of hiding in darkness . Besides, most of the personnel of the organization was still lurking . It was not time to take action yet .
Therefore, he pretended to be a guy who tried to defend his position and yet did not have enough strength . He was very stubborn about the Temple of Immortals' recruitment on the surface, but he kept a close relationship with Black Spider Tower, a branch of the Temple of Immortals . A lot of his business operated through the channels of Black Spider Tower . When people of the Temple of Immortals reached out to him and invited him to join it, he did not turn down the offer, although he did not agree on the spot, leaving room for negotiation .
When the Temple of Immortals supported Fengyu Zhong to be the second king of space pirates in order to marginalize him, he burst into fury and planned multiple operations targeting Fengyu Zhong .
However, the operations were all unsuccessful and crushed by Fengyu Zhong easily .
As a result, he gave Fengyu Zhong and people of the Temple of Immortals the impression that he was 'just so-so' .
For the Temple of Immortals, they did not want to completely alienate Bai Xinghe .
After all, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse . Since Bai Xinghe had been running his business on Spider Den for almost a hundred years, he had grasped immeasurable resources and subordinates in secret . It would have done nobody any good if they were determined to eliminate Bai Xinghe .
The best solution was to boil the frog in warm water . On one hand, they made various promises to Bai Xinghe and even tempted him with the title of the fifth king of the Temple of Immortals . On the other hand, they fully supported the rise of Fengyu Zhong in order to gradually reduce Bai Xinghe's power . When Fengyu Zhong was as influential as Bai Xinghe among the common space pirates, there would be no other alternatives except to lower his head .
Over the past year, the strategy proved to be very successful .
Bai Xinghe gave other people the feeling that he was too old and no longer the striving young man he used to me . He treasured his accomplishments over the past decades too much and did not dare fight a head-on battle with the ambitious latecomer Fengyu Zhong . At the same time, he was greedily negotiating with the Temple of Immortals on every detail as to his position, power, and resources after he joined the Temple of Immortals, as if he would really become the fifth king of the Temple of Immortals as long as the Temple of Immortals agreed to his conditions!
As a result, many pirate gangs that supported Bai Xinghe gradually took Fengyu Zhong's side .
Even within the Abyss Pirate Gang, many space pirates who built the enterprise from scratch together with him gradually became involved in the Temple of Immortals, too .
Bai Xinghe seemed to know none of it . He was still making ridiculous plans one after another and even gave people the feeling that he was trying to win the Temple of Immortals' favor against Fengyu Zhong .
Later, everybody on Spider Den would learn his newly-drafted plan the moment he announced it .
After several times of failure, Bai Xinghe seemed to be intimidated . He completely backed off and became more unfriendly than ever, as if he had abandoned all hope .
He did not make a move when Fengyu Zhong secluded himself for one month to break into the Nascent Soul Stage .
"Boss Bai is really old now, and the Temple of Immortals is too strong!"
For a moment, all the space pirates were whispering in secret .
If it were one year ago, nobody would even have dared to think about that, much less whisper about it .
However, none of the space pirates knew that Bai Xinghe had not taken any real action yet .
The man who could spend a fortnight in the underground world of Spider Den and melt the darkness into his blood knew clearly that, even though Fengyu Zhong was advancing into the Nascent Soul Stage in seclusion, the strength of the Temple of Immortals on Spider Den was still much higher than his .
He stood no chance of winning if he acted now .
He had to wait no matter what .
He knew that the Temple of Immortals would not lurk on Spider Den forever . No matter how they planned to overthrow the Cultivators, they would have to mobilize most of their strength into space to fight against the Cultivators .
His guess was correct .
The battle of Heavenly Saints City was the largest operation since the Temple of Immortals revealed itself . It required even more manpower and resources than the battle of Iron Plateau did .
The Immortal Cultivators who belonged to the Temple of Immortals, the assassins of Black Spider Tower, and the space pirates who joined Fengyu Zhong's side gradually moved on to Heavenly Saints City for the mission over the few months .
The intelligence network under the control of Black Spider Tower was also fighting hard with the 'Immortal Slayers' sent by the Cultivators, trying to dig out spies that were hiding inside the Temple of Immortals such as 'Apollo' .
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