Chapter 410

Chapter 410: The Giants’ Inference

Time flew by. After successfully conquering the Bone Spike Tribe, a large tribe, the expeditionary army entered a phase of integration and rest.

The army practiced training in the Bone Spike Tribe while also examining the surrendered tribes, selecting elite forces to supplement the expeditionary army.

For those tribes that refused to surrender, they only sent small-scaled armies to conquer them.

After migrating to the blood-colored planet, Yi Chen’s sphere of influence finally began to rise rapidly.

Originally, the sphere of influence covered 510 million square kilometers, but after conquering the Bone Spike Tribe, it increased to 530 million square kilometers, continuing to rise due to the surrender of numerous small and medium-sized tribes.

Once the expeditionary army completed its integration and unified the entire region, Yi Chen’s sphere of influence stopped at around 630 million square kilometers.

His talent bonus increased from five hundred times to over six hundred times.

The speed of comprehending the principles of heaven and earth significantly accelerated.

In outer space, inside the flying treasure, the communication stone in Yi Chen’s storage ring began to tremble slightly.

His divine consciousness entered the storage ring.

He took out the communication stone.

“Your Majesty, Morris’s subordinate only needs to make one more Space Jump, and they will arrive in the galaxy in about half a day.”

As the communication stone connected, the voice of the Shadow King echoed.

“Great, I’ll head over immediately. Meet me at the teleportation array!”

Yi Chen didn’t hesitate and immediately ended his comprehension of the principles of heaven and earth.

What was coming could not be avoided, so he decided to eliminate all of Morris’s subordinates.

He quickly controlled the flying treasure and returned to the base.

Then, using the teleportation array, he instantly arrived at the second teleportation array in the galaxy.

The Shadow King kept a close watch on Morris to avoid any unexpected situations, so he couldn’t come to receive him.

However, one Shadow King was already there waiting ahead.

“Your Majesty!”

Upon seeing Yi Chen arrive, the Shadow King immediately knelt on the ground, showing utmost respect.

“There’s no need to be so formal. Let’s depart!”

Yi Chen waved his hand. He was faster than others in the same level of the Shadow Clan, even faster than those who were a whole major realm above him.

However, compared to the level eighty Shadow King, even with continuous use of the Teleportation Technique, he still fell short.

“Understood!”

The Shadow King immediately led Yi Chen at full speed toward the Shadow King’s location.

In just over half an hour, they reached near the Shadow King.

The Shadow King then arrived to take over, using his concealment ability to envelop Yi Chen as they proceeded to Morris’s side.

At this moment, with more than ten hours still until the large battleship arrived, Morris and the giants from the Federal Parliament and the Federation Military waited at the coordinates for the battleship’s Space Jump.

The giants from the Federal Parliament and military had to arrive early to greet them.

After all, if the human federation wanted to make the Tree-Dwelling Tribe a vassal race, they needed to display an attitude befitting a vassal race.

Anyone from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, even if not an Envoy, deserved careful service.

As for Morris, he originally did not need to come.

Those arriving were all his subordinates.

There was no need for him to personally welcome them.

However, with nothing else to do, and knowing that these subordinates were quite useful, being friendlier would ensure they worked harder.

Both Morris and the giants from the Federal Parliament and military felt their hearts burn with excitement as the time approached.

“I wonder what the average cultivation level of the Great Flame Kingdom has risen to now!”

One military giant couldn’t help but sigh softly.

“It should have reached the fifth or sixth level of the Spirit Consciousness stage. After all, Yi Chen collected a vast amount of Comprehension Stones and various spirit materials to enhance cultivation levels from the first interest payment he took from us.”

Another military giant quickly responded, “With the population of the Great Flame Kingdom, it’s entirely possible to have one Comprehension Stone per person. With no limits on comprehension and materials for refining various Boundary-Breaking Pills and Enhancement Pills, it would be hard to progress slowly.”

“I’m really curious about what new skills were taught during the Sixth Skill Teaching.”

“What’s there to be curious about? During that time, Yi Chen must have been very busy studying defensive formations and skills or abilities to pass through large Defense Systems to quietly take all the citizens of the Great Flame Kingdom away from the exile planet.”

“Yi Chen really had no time to research any new skills, so there wouldn’t be any new skills taught. It should just be improved versions of the Chaos Technique, Cloud Treading Technique, and Heaven-Slashing Technique.”

“Probably so. I wonder where Yi Chen took the Great Flame Kingdom to hide!”

“Among the Envoy’s subordinates, there are masters from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe good at tracking and searching. I’m sure this mystery will be unveiled soon.”

“If we truly manage to find Yi Chen and successfully force him to sign an agreement with us, we must definitely have him set up a large defensive formation around all the Space Fortresses first.”

“With this large defensive formation, plus the defensive system of the Space Fortress, even the strongest members of all tribes would find it difficult to break through the fortress’s defenses in a short time.”

“Most importantly, the large defensive formation also has the ability to conceal perception. Plus, with the Space Fortress’s super large scanner, it could easily venture alone to various star systems, ambushing the strongest members of tribes or destroying their army camps.”

“Indeed, combining the Space Fortress with a large defensive formation is like adding wings to a tiger, completely covering all weaknesses!”

The military giants grew more excited as they talked.

Yi Chen, knowing what the military giants were discussing through the Shadow King, could only feel regret.

He definitely had no time to set up a large defensive formation for the human federation’s Space Fortress.

The military giants could imagine the effects and power of the Space Fortress combined with a large defensive formation.

But that was just daydreaming.

It was impossible to achieve.

As time passed by the hour with Morris and the giants from the human federation anxiously waiting,

The large battleship finally sent word that it was about to begin its Space Jump.

In less than ten minutes, powerful energy fluctuations began to appear at the Space Jump coordinates.

Morris truly spared no expense this time.

He gathered his subordinates, and although their number was not large—only about three hundred—all were elite forces, with strength realms between level one hundred sixty and one hundred ninety.

He managed to mobilize all the high-end combatants he could.

Of course, they were all private forces from his territory.

Although he had a considerable position in the foreign affairs department and a number of strong subordinates there, most of them found various excuses to refuse to come.

Especially two strong fighter level subordinates, who outright refused without even offering an excuse.

The reason was simple: his control over those from the foreign affairs department was not strong.

If one or two subordinates ignored his orders, he could still punish them severely.

However, if they all decided to disobey together, he would be at a loss.

And they had collective reasons to resist.

The foreign affairs department was the place where rumors of a conflict between this star cluster and the Tree-Dwelling Tribe were most rampant.

As members of the foreign affairs department, they felt a strong aversion to coming to this star cluster.

Even when Morris encountered trouble in this star cluster and needed their help, they were even less willing to assist.

Plus, because of Morris’s sharp tongue, he had little prestige.

When the members of the foreign affairs department conspired together, they decided to refuse collectively.

While this frustrated Morris, it didn’t affect his good mood.

Because among his subordinates in his territory, there was one Tree-Dwelling Tribe member who excelled at tracking and searching.

Even if the foreign affairs department’s subordinates came, they would only add a few more hands to aid, which wouldn’t help much.