Chapter 878: The Human Noob (2)
“What?” Li Xiaofei was shocked.
He had clearly sealed this entire area with his sword-wings, and completely locked down both time and space. Yet somehow, Wei Xiaotian still managed to escape?
No. It wasn’t an escape. Wei Xiaotian had left long ago. What remained had only been a projected clone, a mere illusion. It had simply been too late by the time Li Xiaofei realized.
Wei Xiaotian, once the God General Angrus, had long mastered a duplication technique that bordered on the divine. From the very beginning, not once had Li Xiaofei been able to distinguish the real Wei Xiaotian from his clones. This time was no exception.
“When?” Li Xiaofei asked himself, searching his memory.
Perhaps it had been when he was on the verge of exploding from the Blood-Drinking Sword’s overwhelming energy and had entered that trance-like state of epiphany and oblivion. Wei Xiaotian must have departed then.
Li Xiaofei fell into deep thought.
Gradually, pieces began to fall into place. Delta, the Death God’s Eye, had been manipulated by Wei Xiaotian. He had used Sikong Xue and her daughter to lure the Reaper giant into Stargate Base, and then exploited the Blood-Drinking Sword to eliminate him completely.
Recalling the scene where Wei Xiaotian had used that ancient secret art to break down and replicate Delta’s nine forms, only to finally devour him. Li Xiaofei came to a chilling realization, Wei Xiaotian’s true goal from the beginning had been to analyze and obtain the very essence of Delta, a being born of the Reapers. And he had succeeded.
That meant the intel the military received, about the top Eden figures meeting with Delta at Stargate Base, had likely been deliberately leaked by Wei Xiaotian himself. Furthermore, traces of figures like Zheng Daoyuan, the Thousand Ghosts, and Nie Yucheng, the Eternal Night, had also been intentionally exposed, orchestrated by Wei Xiaotian to mislead both Xiao Shi Battle Division and Li Xiaofei.
He had used Zheng Daoyuan to spread false intelligence and mislead the military’s operation. Though many Eden and Reaper spies had been captured, it had ultimately failed to prevent the meeting.
He had used Nie Yucheng to bait Li Xiaofei directly, buying just enough time for his grand plan to fall into place. From beginning to end, this entire cat-and-mouse game, this war at the top of the food chain in the Xiao Kuang Star Region, had unfolded exactly as Wei Xiaotian had calculated. Everyone, Li Xiaofei, the military, and even the Emperor's weapons themselves, had been mere pawns in his hand.