Chapter 705

Chapter 705: Extracting Memories

In fact, it was just as Yi Chen had suspected.

Finding the weakest area for the breakthrough saved only a few seconds.

But those few seconds were crucial, allowing the elders of the Time Tribe to avoid encountering the Shadow King from beginning to end.

They were perfectly avoided.

After receiving the news, the Second Elder of the Time Tribe had no idea what to do next.

The main reason was that he could not confirm whether the two strong fighters who had snatched the treasure had indeed escaped.

From start to finish, no Time Tribe warrior had come across anyone breaking through.

Adding to this, the escapees silently passed through the defensive barriers rather than directly breaking through them, which was unlike the Time Tribe or the Boljin Tribe.

It was possible that a powerful being from a race skilled in stealth and escape methods had to return urgently due to important matters within their tribe. Unable to leave because of the Time Tribe’s blockade of the entire star field, they had no choice but to sneak away.

After thinking things over, the Second Elder of the Time Tribe gritted his teeth and decided to continue searching.

Otherwise, if they encountered this situation and rashly lifted the blockade of the entire star field, it would lead to strong fighters from the Boljin Tribe and Time Tribe leaving easily with the treasure, and he wouldn’t even know how to cry about it.

Searching throughout the entire star field continued and even intensified.

The various Sentinel teams, upon encountering powerful beings from different tribes, initially ensured that the other party did not have foreign traits, and if their realms and targets were different, they would not bother further.

Now, they needed to verify the identities of each other within the various tribes before they could leave.

Meanwhile, after speeding for more than an hour, the Shadow King finally found a Deserted Star to stop on Yi Chen’s command.

"Make that powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s soul more damaged, leaving only a breath of life to give to me, and remember to keep him in a sleeping state."

As Yi Chen set up the defensive formation, he communicated with the Shadow King.

"Understood!"

The Shadow King nodded.

This Tree-Dwelling Tribe soul was found inside a space-type treasure.

The soul was damaged and had fallen into a deep sleep.

Judging by the strength of the soul, it likely belonged to another powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Yi Chen had been too busy focusing on raising his realm to prepare for leaving the blockade and had not had the time to address this soul before.

Now that he had successfully escaped, it was natural to clear up the background of this entity.

Following Yi Chen’s instructions, the Shadow King injected an energy wave into the treasure.

Instantly, this energy tore through the sleeping soul within the treasure, causing this already damaged soul to become even more shattered, on the brink of collapse.

This heavy blow also awakened the soul.

He was Xilite.

Sensing the situation outside the treasure, Xilite was greatly alarmed and wanted to escape from the item.

The Shadow King unleashed another wave of energy, blocking him.

Then, delicate waves of energy continuously attacked Xilite’s soul.

Level 220 Xilite possessed power far beyond that of the Shadow King, who was only level 207.

However, Xilite, having only his soul, was utterly defenseless before the Shadow King.

Moreover, Xilite’s soul was severely damaged.

Under the relentless energy attacks from the Shadow King, Xilite’s already shattered soul quickly fell back into a coma state.

On the brink of collapse, he was barely hanging on.

Once the Shadow King confirmed that Xilite’s soul was so severely damaged that even if it woke up, it couldn’t threaten Yi Chen, he finally handed the treasure over to Yi Chen, who was already beginning to set up the teleportation array.

Yi Chen took the treasure and simply tossed it into his storage ring.

When he discovered that the storage ring couldn’t hold such a treasure that contained sentient beings, he threw it into the Map of Mountains and Rivers instead.

Once the teleportation array was ready, he immediately returned to the flying treasure.

He activated the teleportation array while inside the flying treasure.

In the next second, he arrived at another teleportation array within the Time Star Cluster.

No problems!

This time, it was a complete escape from the blockade zone.

All in all, it took only about two months, which was absurdly shorter than Yi Chen had expected.

The greatest cost was the consumption of one-third of the luck he had painstakingly gathered over a long time.

However, the benefits were enormous.

The treasure was invaluable to Yi Chen.

In addition to the treasure, he also gained the entire belongings of Marfa and Xilite, both level 220 powerful beings from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, as well as a large number of powerful treasures and immortal materials provided by the Intelligence Department of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe for the two of them.

He could definitely say he returned fully loaded.

After successfully confirming that the teleportation array functioned well, Yi Chen didn’t rush to leave. Instead, he took out the treasure containing Xilite’s soul from the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Entering his divine consciousness into it, he confirmed that Xilite’s soul was in a coma state, and began to attempt to invade Xilite’s soul.

The result was far more challenging than Yi Chen had anticipated.

Even though Xilite had lost his physical body and his soul was on the verge of collapse and in a coma, it was not easy for Yi Chen, who was only level 160, to rapidly force his way in.

Fortunately, he only had difficulty with the quick invasion.

He was able to gradually seep in.

After spending more than ten minutes, Yi Chen successfully penetrated Xilite’s soul.

Then, he activated the Soul Searching Technique and tried to extract memories from Xilite’s soul.

This task was also significantly more difficult than extracting memories from a physical body.

Extracting memories from a physical body simply required invading the brain and using the Soul Searching Technique to pull information from the neurons in the brain.

Conversely, extracting memories from a soul required the Soul Searching Technique to slowly invade the area where the soul stored memories and extract information from the entire area.

For the former, the memories were scattered, and breaking into each neuron was relatively easy.

For the latter, the memories were concentrated, and it was necessary to break through the whole area where the memories were stored, making the difficulty increase by hundreds or even thousands of times.

After several hours of effort, Yi Chen’s divine consciousness finally invaded the area within Xilite’s soul that stored memories, successfully extracting all his memories.

After going through several hours of toil, he finally completed this significant accomplishment.

Though it was a bit troublesome, the harvest left Yi Chen very satisfied.

Xilite’s memories not only confirmed his suspicions and identified that this soul indeed belonged to another powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, but also provided him with a wealth of information from the Intelligence Department of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

The most crucial information was about the spies and insiders within the Time Tribe.

Xilite and Marfa were the heads of the Intelligence Department of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe within the Time Tribe.

All the detailed information about the insiders and spies that the Intelligence Department had developed among the Time Tribe was under their control.

Obtaining Xilite’s memories was almost equivalent to getting hold of all the insider and spy information from the Intelligence Department of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe within the Time Tribe.

Yi Chen was a kind-hearted person.

He suddenly felt that taking a time law-type treasure away from the Time Star Cluster, especially considering the tremendous cost that the Time Tribe had incurred to blockade the star field, was a bit unfair to the Time Tribe.

It was necessary for him to give the information about the insiders and spies of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe in the Time Star Cluster back to the Time Tribe as compensation.