Chapter 531

Chapter 531: Duke Farah’s Confusion

Ten days after the expeditionary army successfully captured the stronghold of the Swift Tribe, Yi Chen was training in his flying treasure, striving to break through to the eighth level of the True Immortal Stage.

He received a report from the Military Department.

The eleven life planets of the Swift Tribe were now fully under the control of the expeditionary army.

Along with the report came a new short- and mid-term plan.

Before launching an attack on the stronghold of the Spirit Heart Tribe, the War City had already developed a short-term development plan while also researching and designing a mid-term development plan.

This mid-term development plan had now been successfully finalized.

Yi Chen glanced over it and felt that the mid-term plan set by the War City was a bit too conservative.

According to the War City’s plan, they aimed to conquer about twenty surrounding races within five years.

The total number of life planets involved was around two hundred and thirty.

Given the current strength of the expeditionary army, this plan actually seemed somewhat aggressive.

After all, the Great Flame Empire currently occupied only over fifty life planets.

What’s more, these life planets only nominally belonged to the rule of the Great Flame Empire.

To fully integrate and take control of them would require a long time to digest slowly.

Expanding the sphere of influence fivefold within five years, based on the current foundation, was undoubtedly a daunting challenge.

Yi Chen viewed the War City’s plan as not only unambitious but actually overly cautious.

This was because the Great Flame Empire had officially entered a period of rapid expansion.

Just like the conquest of the Swift Tribe, even without the army of the Black Tiger Tribe, the newly conquered elite army of the Spirit Heart Tribe could completely crush and conquer the Swift Tribe.

Having the army of the Black Tiger Tribe simply made the process faster.

The Great Flame Empire was now capable of utilizing war to sustain war; after defeating and conquering one race, they could quickly master and employ that race’s army to conquer others.

With the Great Flame Empire’s current strength and reputation, combined with the local Black Tiger Tribe’s name, the resistance faced while conquering other races would only continue to diminish.

Additionally, a crucial point was that with the Cave Paradise, the average strength of the citizens of the Great Flame Empire was rising day by day.

Moreover, the limit of the Third Generation Cave Paradise could reach the peak of the Human Immortal Stage.

Those top geniuses could even break through to the first level of the Xuan Immortal Stage due to their natural talent.

The Human Immortal Stage equated to level 100 strong fighters.

With the Third Generation Cave Paradise, the Great Flame Empire would be able to cultivate over a million strong fighters.

Each of them could surpass stronger enemies, even in battles against higher-level opponents.

The army of humanity was gradually becoming the main force, sweeping through the entire Tianling Star Cluster with an unmatched presence.

As the average strength of the army of humanity slowly closed in on this level, the expansion speed of the Great Flame Empire would undoubtedly increase significantly.

This was a factor that the War City had not considered.

Of course, the War City could not take this into account.

Because only Yi Chen knew when the ninth Skill Teaching would take place.

Not to mention, there would also be the ninth and tenth Skill Teachings.

Yi Chen quickly agreed to the mid-term plan, without reminding the Military Department that this plan seemed somewhat conservative.

Because any plan can be adjusted at any time.

When the development and expansion speed of the Great Flame Empire exceeds expectations, the Military Department would certainly revise the plan.

While agreeing to this mid-term plan, Yi Chen also sent a message to the Military Department to handle the follow-up matters as soon as possible.

A month later, he returned to the base of the Great Flame Empire to participate in the ninth Skill Teaching.

The High-ranking Leaders in the Military Department were even more excited than when they successfully occupied the major life planets of the Swift Tribe.

This was because these High-ranking Leaders were nearly all top geniuses.

Their strength realm had already reached Crossing Tribulation Stage One a month ago.

They had been waiting for the ninth Skill Teaching to arrive so they could progress further and continue to elevate their realms.

Only with Yi Chen conducting the ninth Skill Teaching, transmitting the Chaos Technique of the Crossing Tribulation Stage, could they continue to enhance their realms.

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"The Swift Tribe was conquered by the Nika Tribe too?"

In the blood pool, Duke Farah, who was training, finally received the news of the Swift Tribe being conquered by the Nika Tribe half a month after their stronghold was breached.

His head suddenly buzzed with confusion.

He vaguely sensed that something was amiss.

In just a few years, the speed at which the Nika Tribe rose was truly astonishing.

Especially in the past year, it had progressed to a level that took him by surprise.

Whether it was uniting all the life planets of the Black Tiger Tribe, forcing the Spirit Heart Tribe to surrender, or aggressively conquering the Swift Tribe, he estimated that these were not tasks that could be completed in a short time.

Yet, the Nika Tribe had managed to achieve all of that in just about six months.

And this was under the condition that he had sent out an assassination team.

This was clearly irrational.

It made him begin to question how much of the information provided by Marquises Moses was true.

Initially, he had sent Marquises Moses to investigate information on the Nika Tribe.

Marquises Moses reported that the tribe chief of the Nika Tribe did not possess particularly strong talents; the reason they could quickly unite the entire blood-colored planet was due to the help of a migrating race that had fled from the Angelic Galaxy.

Duke Farah did not suspect anything at that time.

He had heard of such a race, which was indeed skilled in long-range attack ability.

Moreover, the Angelic Beings, under Jiang He, were being relentlessly defeated by the human federation, leading vassal races to not want to perish alongside the Angelic Beings and secretly migrate to other star systems, which was quite normal.

Since the Nika Tribe had simply quickly unified the blood-colored planet, it did not seem like a major event but merely something worthy of attention; thus, he did not think much of it then.

However, from the current perspective, everything was different.

In less than six months, the Nika Tribe consecutively conquered the Black Tiger Tribe, Spirit Heart Tribe, and Swift Tribe, which was clearly beyond the capabilities of a small migrating race.

Unifying the entire Black Tiger Tribe was still somewhat plausible.

After all, the Black Tiger Tribe had been disorganized for many years; despite their overall strength being considerable, they had often been plundered and attacked by the weaker Swift Tribe, growing tired of the chaotic situation where each tribe fought alone.

The Nika Tribe, being part of the Black Tiger Tribe, had a high chance of quickly unifying them with proper planning.

However, forcing the Spirit Heart Tribe to surrender entirely and strongly conquering the Swift Tribe seemed far-fetched.

While these two races might not compare to the unified Black Tiger Tribe in strength and definitely could not match the Black Tiger Tribe and the migrating race, not being able to win does not mean they would completely surrender.

The possibility of the Spirit Heart Tribe entirely surrendering could perhaps be attributed to some unexpected reason or clever scheme.

But the strong conquest of the Swift Tribe was enough to indicate that the Nika Tribe’s strength was indeed formidable enough to quickly defeat a race.

Looking across the entire Tianling Star Cluster, the only race capable of defeating the elite army of the Swift Tribe within a few days was the Undying Race.

This suggested that the Nika Tribe’s strength had likely reached a level that could compete with the Undying Race of the Tianling Star Cluster.

This completely surpassed the strength of the Nika Tribe reported by Marquises Moses after investigations.

The only explanations for this discrepancy were either that Marquises Moses failed to uncover more core information, or that he had been bribed by the Nika Tribe to provide him with false information, thereby helping the Nika Tribe bide their time.