<h4>Chapter 999: Why Don’t You Just Ask Him?</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>flycrane01 <strong>Editor: </strong>Millman97
Li Yao could not have admired Jin Tuyi more. “I don’t know why your father kept it a secret to all the other demon emperors. Perhaps it was because the struggle for power among the demon emperors of the four major demon kingdoms was too fierce. Since neither the Gold Crow Kingdom nor himself could not be called the strongest, he would certainly lose the initiative of the whole n.
“But there is an exnation that I think is more likely. Your father is a very proud man from the bottom of his heart. He despises the simple and straight tactics that the Kingdom of Lion Butchers and the Nether Spring Kingdom have adopted, which is to sweep across everything on the continent after invading the Grand Deste teau through the Dark Deste Domain. He feels that all the other demon emperors are idiotic teammates. Therefore, the Red Tide n, which requires absolute confidentiality, could not be known or carried out by them!
“Your father wants to win the war and conquer the Heaven’s Origin Sector by himself!”
Li Yao recalled Yan Xibei, the schemer on Iron teau of the Flying Star Sector.
Jin Tuyi and Yan Xibei seemed to be the same type of person. They both wanted to reverse the situation purely on their own.
To some extent, Li Yao was such a type of person, too, was he not?
It was exactly because they belonged to the same type of person that Li Yao had guessed what was on his mind precisely.
“However,” Li Yao continued, “although the Eye of Blood Demon was ready, your father was still facing another issue, which was the mobilization of the army when the Red Tide n was implemented.
“To assault the capital city of the Star Glory Federation, the soldiers and the strategical assets required couldn’t have been few. It was very difficult to keep the rendezvous of a million soldiers and almost all the demon kings and demon emperors a secret!
“Therefore, to cover up the real Red Tide n, your father threw out the seemingly intimidating but in fact deeply wed ‘false Red Tide n’. He misled everybody by talking about the ‘secret wormholes and counterattack bases of the Far East Demon Kingdom’.
“As a result, even if the Star Glory Federation discovered that the elite troops of the Blood Demon Sector were being gathered in an unusual way, they would only concentrate all the forces on the eastern coastline, hoping to resist the enemy at the border of the nation. They were determined to stop the coalition army of demons from going on a rampage in the important cities in the southeast of the nation!
“But they did not know that the coalition army of demons would notnd on the beaches or attack the major cities. Instead, the army would be directly teleported into the heart of the capital city!
“The capital city of the Star Glory Federation is not only the political center of the nation but also an important base of training and magical equipment production. Of the top five hundred sects of the federation, more than two hundred and twenty are headquartered in the capital city. The capital city also boasts thergest warehouses for crystals and factories to produce crystal suits, as well as four of the Nine Elite Universities!
“Should be capital city be taken by force, it would certainly be a major blow for the federation!”
Li Yao took a deep breath. The glimmers in his eyes were bouncing nonstop as he envisioned the coalition army of demons sabotaging the capital city of the federation, which was wreathed in furious mes.
Squinting, he mumbled, “Everything is set except for some luck. Your father hasin low for decades until today when all the favorable conditions have appeared!
“Firstly, after years of melding, the distance between the Heaven’s Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector is much shorter than ten years ago. Enough cracks have been crushed on the thin ‘eggshell’ to make the Eye of Blood Demon y its role and teleport all the troops to the capital city of the Star Glory Federation precisely.
“Secondly, the failure of the Battle of Dawn forced the diehards who favored continentalism to back off for now. Your father was finally elected as themander-in-chief of the coalition army of demons and authorized to mobilize all the resources and troops of the Blood Demon Sector!
“Thirdly, the arrival of the Flying Star Sector made the Blood Demon Sector more united under your father’smand than ever. He now has even more reasons tounch the false Red Tide n!
“Perhaps, everybody will think that the so-called Red Tide n is nothing but an insanest attempt of a gambler who has lost all his leverage.
“But they do not know that the ‘gambler’ who seems crazy on the surface in fact boasts the calmest, most meticulous mind. The ‘national war’ is definitely not ast attempt when there are no other choices but a shocking attack which has been carefully calcted and thoroughly nned for decades!”
Jin Xinyue listened so attentively that her pupils shrank violently when she heard ‘shocking attack’, as if a sword had really pierced through her heart!
Li Yao sighed. “As a citizen of the federation, I feel quite fortunate that such a formidable enemy as your father was born in the Gold Crow Kingdom, which was only mediocre among the four major demon kingdoms, instead of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers or the Nether Spring Kingdom, which were much stronger. I feel fortunate that he was not elected as themander-in-chief of the coalition army of demons until today.
“If he were the master of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers or the Nether Spring Kingdom, if he were themander-in-chief of the coalition army of demons twenty years ago, perhaps the Star Glory Federation would be no more at this moment!”
Li Yao finished his speech and licked his lips in great satisfaction. His eyes seemed to have pierced through Jin Xinyue and reached the sky of Heavenly Path City a hundred kilometers away.
He felt that he could see the man who was lurking in themander-in-chief’s residence, the most terrifying demon he had ever seen!
Entertaining!
It was truly entertaining to spar with such an expert!
Jin Xinyue frowned harder and harder. She felt that there was a swirl in her head that was about to swallow all her braincells.
Before her head waspletely befuddled, she extended her hands and shed them in midair!
“Wait! Wait, wait. Wait, wait!
“Master, you are talking so vividly and impressively as if you have been following my father over the past decades and witnessed everything in person!
“But on second thought, I realized that it is nothing but your spection, Master, which is not supported by any valid proof!”
“Good point!” Li Yao nodded and replied solemnly, “Everything I said just now is purely fictional. I was merely telling a story.”
Jin Xinyue gawked at him, speechless.
“However,” Li Yao continued, “although it is fictional, I deduced everything by choosing the most usible possibilities based on the given information. It was not entirely made up.”
“That is the problem,” Jin Xinyue said. “Let’s say that you’ve chosen the most usible possibility in every step of your deduction. But ‘possibility’ is just a ‘possibility’ after all. Even if every possibility has a 5% error from the truth, when dozens of ‘possibilities’ are multiplied, the error will be still be shockingly huge. Are you even 50% sure about your entire extraption?”
“Not exactly.” Li Yao shook his head. “I was only 30% confident about everything I said just now. That is why I paid a trip to Heavenly Path City on purpose and confirmed with my father.”
Jin Xinyue was dazed. “You did? How could you have confirmed with my father? It is not like you can ask my father directly.”
“Yes, I can.” Li Yao nodded matter-of-factly. “That’s exactly what I did.”
Jin Xinyue stood on her feet. “Excuse me?”
Li Yao turned on a light beam and reyed the conversation with Jin Tuyi a moment ago. “Take a look carefully.”
Jin Xinyue craned her head close, bulged her eyes, and stared at her father on the light beam.
In the picture, Li Yao was shouting with the utmost fury and anxiety, “You are nning to ask part of the main force of the coalition army of demons and a great amount of cannon fodder to pretend that you are marching on a full scale from the regr route, namely the Dark Deste Domain to the Grand Deste teau and then to the Giant de Pass. But it is actually a fake army. They are not the real main force but decoys!
“Your real n is to teleport the elite troops of the coalition army and all the demon emperors to the offshore counterattack bases left by the Far East Demon Kingdom in the past through the Eye of Blood Demon before you stab into the heart of the federation, right?”
Shua!
Jin Xinyue froze the picture and reyed the clip again. She mumbled, “That is exactly what you asked, master. You mentioned the Eye of Blood Demon to my father directly!”
“Of course!” Li Yao said. “I am always outspoken, and I ask everything I don’t know about. What’s there to be shy of?”
“However—”
Jin Xinyue held her breath and continued watching, only to discover that Jin Tuyi did not even bother to blink. His every facial nerve seemed frozen, and there was absolutely no change in emotions. He said casually, “Don’t try to elicit anything from me. I will not talk about any detail of the war n.”
Jin Xinyue narrowed her eyes, with a circle of golden brilliance glittering and spinning around her pupils rapidly, while she focused her attention on the video clip and watched it multiple times.
“My father didn’t give a response!
“I know that an expert such as Master must be adept at reading micro-expressions. When I was in the Pantheon of Demons, I also learned how to determine whether or not somebody was telling the truth by examining the twitching muscles on their face, the ergement and reduction of their pupils, the frequency of their breath, and even the speed of their sweat being secreted.
“But as a demon emperor, my father had perfect control over his every muscle. I am very certain that, after master threw Eye of Blood Demon toward him, his micro-expressions did not change at all. His face and his body were like a frozenke where there were no ripples at all.
“Therefore, what kind of answer have you read from my father’s unchanged face that confirms your deductions, Master?”
Li Yao smile slyly. He held his arms and enjoyed Jin Tuyi’s frozen face on the light beam one more time. He shook his head. “Same as you, I read nothing.
“Your father deserves to be the expert of experts. His maniption over the muscles on his face was incredible, and his micro-expressions werepletely under his control. Even the shivering of his eysh and the tiniest movement of his pupils were highly controble for him.
“From his face, I would either read nothing or read a wrong answer or a misleading one that he released deliberately!”