Chapter 516

Chapter 516: Deliberately Stalling for Time

"Master!"

Upon receiving Yi Chen’s notification, Marquises Moses rushed to the outer space of the blood-colored planet, prostrating himself near Yi Chen’s flying treasure.

Yi Chen’s divine consciousness enveloped Marquises Moses: "There is about one more day until the Undying Race’s assassination team arrives. Wait here to intercept them."

"Yes!"

Marquises Moses was astonished.

He could not understand how Yi Chen knew that the Undying Race’s assassination team would arrive in roughly a day.

This information was classified among the High-ranking Leaders of the Undying Race.

Even with his status, he only knew about it but was unaware of the specific members of the assassination team, as well as their timing and location.

He could also not fathom how, judging from Yi Chen’s earlier divine consciousness, this master had seemly advanced a level, reaching over one hundred thirty levels.

The last time, he was clearly only just over one hundred twenty levels.

How could there be such a significant increase in just over a year?

However, after previously following Yi Chen, he understood that this strongest member of humanity seemed to dislike being disturbed by his subordinates.

If there were any doubts, it was best to keep them inside and never voice them.

Inside the flying treasure, Yi Chen paid no further attention to Marquises Moses and continued his training.

At present, the life planets ruled by the Great Flame Empire, along with those under the control of the Black Tiger Tribe, had surged to a total of forty-one.

His domain of power now exceeded four hundred billion square kilometers.

His talent bonus had also skyrocketed to forty thousand times.

His training speed was astonishingly fast.

Having just broken through to True Immortal Stage Three, only six or seven days later, he had once again advanced to True Immortal Stage Four.

A day later, a grand palace was flying towards the blood-colored planet.

This palace stood hundreds of meters tall and covered an area of several dozen square kilometers.

In the vastness of space, it was insignificant.

But in the entire Tianling Star Cluster, it was renowned as the most impressive flying treasure.

Of course, this was excluding Yi Chen’s flying treasure.

Yi Chen’s flying treasure was also shaped like a palace.

And due to constant improvements and enhancements, its area had reached millions of square kilometers.

Although it appeared to be just a small palace, when magnified to the extreme, it could rival an ultra-large city.

Across the entire star cluster, Yi Chen’s flying treasure was the largest and most impressive.

If one did not consider the flying treasures of the Shadow Clan’s High-ranking Leaders and Morris, his flying treasure was also the fastest and had the strongest defense in the entire star cluster.

The large palace flying toward the blood-colored planet was not moving very quickly.

This was also one of the biggest drawbacks of this palace-shaped flying treasure.

Its owner was the Undying Race’s Marquises Hippo.

Marquises Hippo was the second-in-command of the Undying Race in the Tianling Star Cluster, with strength only inferior to Duke Farah.

He was also the person in charge of this operation.

However, in the Tianling Star Cluster, Duke Farah’s influence was overwhelming.

The second-in-command was merely the second-in-command.

His power and status could not even compare to Duke Farah, and he could only be considered the strongest general under Duke Farah.

Moreover, he could not influence the positions or strategies of the Undying Race in the Tianling Star Cluster.

Because of this, for thousands of years, as his territory continued to shrink and the demands for resources and treasures increased, Marquises Hippo harbored great dissatisfaction with Duke Farah.

The giant palace was built by him as a flying treasure to showcase his might and increase his intimidation in his territory.

If he had a long-distance mission, he possessed faster flying treasures.

He used the giant palace as the flying treasure for this operation, while continually finding various excuses to delay, primarily to apply pressure on Duke Farah and express his grievances.

Unfortunately, Duke Farah maintained his initial attitude.

No matter how his Marquises and earls expressed their dissatisfaction, he kept urging them on.

The Marquises and earls under him acted in ways that superficially complied with him while dragging their feet and wasting time.

He was also stalling for time.

He was determined to delay until the Undying King and Duke Bolai decided their victor.

At most, he would occasionally paint a picture for his Marquises and earls, dreaming with them about the future after the Undying King and Duke Bolai established their identities, maintaining stability within the Undying Race, and marching to reunite the entire Tianling Star Cluster.

But evidently, the Marquises and earls were not convinced.

Even if they successfully reunited the entire Tianling Star Cluster, these Marquises and earls would merely regain their previous territories.

The resources and treasures they had to contribute to Duke Farah to win over Duke Bolai, and the military forces dispatched to support the Undying King, could not be immediately reclaimed; they needed a long time to accumulate again.

More importantly, they would miss out on this rare internal struggle of the Undying Race and lose the opportunity to soar to great heights after successfully choosing their sides.

However, not being convinced was one thing; it was another matter entirely that these Marquises and earls dared not directly force Duke Farah to choose a side.

"It is said that Duke Bolai has secretly signed an alliance agreement with the human federation, only waiting for Duke Bolai to defeat the Undying King before consolidating the Undying Race and joining the human federation to divide the entire star cluster."

"What a missed opportunity! I wonder what Duke Farah is thinking? Clearly, Duke Bolai is in a position of advantage, yet he is still reluctant to side with Duke Bolai."

"What else can he think? His strength realm has reached a point where he cannot advance further. Even if he helps Duke Bolai defeat the Undying King and becomes the new Undying King of our Undying Race, he would only gain more resources and treasures."

"It’s very difficult for him to enhance his strength realm any further. If he were to obtain some incredible treasure to elevate his strength, it might not even be a good thing."

"You must understand that Duke Farah is already a Powerful Entity ranked near the top of our Undying Race. Advancing his strength realm would only attract suspicion and suppression from the Undying King."

"So, no matter how we hint or protest, Duke Farah remains unmoved."

"Unless a tremendous opportunity arises that allows him to become a strongest member and compete for the position of Undying King, he has no interest in advancing further; he only wants to maintain his ruling status in the Tianling Star Cluster."

"From his perspective, that makes sense. The unfortunate thing is that we are stuck, watching a tremendous opportunity right before our eyes, yet we are unable to participate."

"Indeed! If given the choice, I would definitely choose to stand with Duke Bolai. Once Duke Bolai becomes the new Undying King, even without merit, there would be ample rewards of territory and resources."

"Once the Undying Race completes its consolidation and joins the human federation alliance to share the entire star cluster, the benefits and opportunities gained will be unimaginable. We might even have a chance to rise to become ruling dukes through strength and merit."

Inside the palace, the Marquises and earls were full of complaints.

This operation was on a grand scale.

Including Marquises Hippo, there were a total of six Marquises and thirty-five earls participating.

Along the way, these Marquises and earls continuously voiced their grievances.

Even if some of them might have been completely bought out by Duke Farah, no one seemed to care.