Chapter 197
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Chapter 197: Common Interests
According to the Intelligence Organization’s scouts, as the Western Army continues to advance, they will reach the edge of the endless ocean in just a few hundred kilometers.
Along the coastline, there are numerous islands.
These island groups are home to many members of humanity, as there are no powerful fierce beasts on them.
However, on one of the islands, there is a human tribe called the Sea Breeze Tribe, which accidentally discovered a special spirit mine underwater.
Carrying this spirit mine boosts the favor of marine fierce beasts.
With these spirit mines, the Sea Breeze Tribe has tamed many marine fierce beasts and started conquering one island after another, showing signs of becoming the ruler of the entire ocean.
This news is undoubtedly a great joy for Yi Chen.
The Flame Mountain Tribe desperately needs more people.
Currently, their population is just over one hundred thousand.
According to the Intelligence Organization’s members, the human tribes on these islands have at least several hundred thousand people.
If they could all join the Flame Mountain Tribe, the tribe’s population would definitely increase several times.
A population surge would lead to an increase in troop strength for the four armies, greatly boosting their expansion speed.
For Yi Chen, these several hundred thousand humans are extremely tempting.
As for the Sea Breeze Tribe, which controls many marine fierce beasts, Yi Chen does not see them as a threat.
Compared to the benefits, this level of difficulty is trivial in his eyes.
With his training speed and strength improvement rate, any powerful opponent or enemy is merely a matter of time to overcome.
He plans to take some time and visit the seaside to see how strong the marine fierce beasts have become.
In a good mood, Yi Chen continues to review the documents.
Most of them are sent from the Political Council, detailing the progress of the Royal City’s construction, various developments, and some serious cases and their resolutions.
Further on, another document from the Intelligence Organization appears in his divine consciousness.
In the south, in a mountain range that covers an area five or six times that of the Flame Mountain range, a tremendously powerful flying fierce beast is battling everywhere, trying to unify the entire mountain range.
Yi Chen can’t help but show a thoughtful expression.
As the four armies expand, the obstacles they face seem to be growing larger.
The two documents were only eight days apart.
The Intelligence Organization’s members have found two powerful forces one after the other.
Combined with the data from the Political Council regarding fierce beasts that the four armies could not overcome, it appears that as their territory expands, the distribution of powerful fierce beasts in the surrounding areas increases.
The difficulty of expansion is rising.
Based on the information from the Intelligence Organization and the Political Council, the farther they expand, the more powerful fierce beasts there are.
Furthermore, strong forces like the Sacred Water Tribe are also increasing.
In Yi Chen’s eyes, this power is actually a great opportunity, especially the Sea Breeze Tribe’s influence.
Their continuous expansion indirectly helps him extend his own power.
If he can defeat and absorb the Sea Breeze Tribe, it would mean he could take in hundreds of thousands of people at once, and the vast influence of the Sea Breeze Tribe would also merge into the Flame Mountain Tribe.
Even the forces established by those powerful fierce beasts, if conquered by the Flame Mountain Tribe, would also allow for a large-scale absorption of territory, saving a significant amount of time for expansion.
To Yi Chen, these powers are helping him quickly gather the population of humanity and expand his influence.
However, there are pros and cons.
The benefits are clear, but there are also drawbacks.
The most pressing concern is that these areas of influence may expand toward the Flame Mountain Tribe.
With more and more powerful fierce beasts, leaving them unattended presents a threat.
Relying solely on his personal strength, no matter how strong he is, would make him just a temporary firefighter, treating symptoms rather than the root cause.
He needs to improve the tribe’s overall strength, and even boost their high-end combat power.
Significantly enhancing the combat power and self-defense ability of the Flame Mountain Tribe is the fundamental solution.
Undoubtedly, the Military’s think tank has successfully guessed Yi Chen’s thoughts this time.
In Yi Chen’s view, the average strength of the tribe is more important than his personal strength.
The combination of the Tuition Plan and the suppression plan has produced some results.
Yi Chen’s attention has been successfully diverted to how to enhance the average strength of the Flame Mountain Tribe and even that of the top geniuses.
But it only produced limited effects.
Yi Chen also understands that with strong forces nearby, he cannot completely neglect his own strength.
There is no way; with such high talent, even with top geniuses piling up resources, they cannot catch up in a short time.
He can only enhance his own strength to raise the combat power ceiling of the Flame Mountain Tribe, acting as the last line of defense.
His strength and realm are strong enough to at least ensure the survival of the Flame Mountain Tribe.
The Military is unaware that the implementation of the Tuition Plan and the suppression plan is like quenching thirst with poison.
The reason Yi Chen values improving the average strength of the tribe’s members more is that his greatest core interest is to expand his area of influence and gain greater talent bonuses.
The higher the average strength of the tribe’s members, the faster the expansion, and the greater the additional talent bonuses gained.
The continuous increase in these additional talent bonuses not only makes it easier for Yi Chen to create powerful skills but also accelerates his training speed frighteningly.
Whether it’s the Tuition Plan or the suppression plan, both indirectly help Yi Chen to accelerate the acquisition of higher additional talent bonuses.
“Jin Hu, tell Bai Ruo Xin to come over with the new spirit mines and spirit materials collected over the past month!”
After pondering for a moment, Yi Chen decides to assess the situation further.
“Yes!”
Jin Hu suddenly stands up and rushes toward the tribe base.
In the live room, the remaining viewers instantly perk up.
The viewers who shifted their cameras to other areas also rushed over when they heard the news.
Everyone wanted to know what changes Yi Chen had undergone in just over a month.
They only waited for five or six minutes.
Bai Ruo Xin arrived at the door.
Before she could knock, Yi Chen used his divine consciousness to open the door.
He then closed the defensive formation.
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“My heavens, it’s only been a little over a month, and the scanner shows that Yi Chen’s spirit power intensity has already reached the fourth level of Spirit Law?”
“Indeed, Yi Chen’s training speed cannot be judged by ordinary standards. At the very least, the Spirit Law stage cannot be measured by common sense.”
“In just over a month, he has consecutively risen three small realms, equivalent to three levels.”
“If he maintains this strange pace of improvement, it will only take a year or two for him to reach the level of a fully developed fierce beast.”
“At this rate, forget about the sixth new skill transmission being far off; even the fifth new skill transmission may become a bit risky.”
“God bless, the Military’s plan must take effect. The newly allocated spirit mines and spirit materials are useful to Yi Chen.”
The live room viewers finally saw Yi Chen after more than a month.
Upon seeing him, they sighed continuously.
As they had anticipated, Yi Chen had been focused on training throughout this time.
Moreover, his training speed remained at that bizarrely high rate.
All the viewers silently prayed that the Military’s plan would successfully redirect Yi Chen’s attention.
They hoped he would stop isolating himself in his room for training.
That speed was terrifying!
If he continued to improve at this super-speed, even the fifth new skill transmission might face uncertainties.
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“Chief!”
Bai Ruo Xin was clearly the only one who felt completely at ease in front of Yi Chen.
She closed the door behind her.
Without hesitation, she took out a jade box for spirit materials and several metal boxes made from spirit mines from her storage ring.
The former contained over forty kinds of newly discovered spirit materials from the past month.
The latter held more than ten types of newly discovered spirit mines.
“The quantity is quite substantial!”
Yi Chen felt pleasantly surprised.
Throughout the past month, he had been fully immersed in the joy of enhancing his realm.
He only checked the documents from the Intelligence Organization and the Political Council every ten days or so.
He hadn’t bothered to test each newly collected spirit material or spirit mine.
This was because the two batches of Enhancement Pills he refined had already covered the consumption of tribe members for over half a year.
In comparison, he was more eager to break through to a higher realm and see if he could create a skill to enhance fortune or refine a “Cave Paradise.”
The improvement of his strength deepened his understanding of the principles of heaven and earth, making him increasingly aware of the importance of fortune.
If he could truly create a skill to enhance fortune, it would bring unparalleled benefits.
“A Cave Paradise” would help him control and manage the tribe members, improving their limits and training speed.
Both options would provide him with immense advantages.
Just until recently, he changed his mind and decided to explore for other ways to accelerate the tribe members’ training speed.
After all, he would never pass on the skill to enhance fortune.
Such a skill could severely disrupt the ecological balance and even pose tremendous risks within the Flame Mountain Tribe.
Initially, the effects would definitely be minimal, and it might not even provide him with noticeable improvements personally.
The same applies to “Cave Paradise”; even if he reached the level to refine it and found the corresponding auxiliary materials, the average strength of the tribe members would have to break through to the Ninth Level of Spirit Law first.
The greatest value of this treasure lies in helping ordinary tribe members break through their talent limits and advance to the Spirit Consciousness stage and beyond.
Both aspects offer long-term benefits and can be postponed for a while.
What he didn’t expect was that in just over a month, there were quite a few newly discovered spirit materials and spirit mines.
Moreover, all of them were above third-grade.
Because the top geniuses from the four armies could already identify first and second-grade spirit materials and spirit mines by divine consciousness.
The characteristics of first and second-grade spirit materials and spirit mines are provided in the documents from the Political Council.
However, not much of it is useful.
