Chapter 348
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Chapter 348: Join the Excitement Together
With the plan finalized, the five strongest members of the Angel Alliance no longer hesitated.
The Wind-Walking Emperor controlled the Starry Gourd and swiftly arrived at the edge of the coverage of the large Defense Systems.
What they found surprised them.
The Federation Military had indeed reactivated the energy shield of the large Defense Systems.
They all flew out of the Starry Gourd.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
With just one wave of attacks, they successfully broke through the energy shield, which lacked sufficient energy.
They entered back into the Starry Gourd, and according to their original plan, the Wind-Walking Emperor did not control the Starry Gourd to leave the coverage area of the large Defense Systems.
Instead, he hovered in place, waiting patiently.
After just a few minutes, the energy shield reactivated.
They felt completely at ease; undoubtedly, Yi Chen was within the coverage area of the large Defense Systems and had not escaped into the vast starry sky.
At the very least, the Federation Military thought so.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t reopen the energy shield without having any stored energy.
“Let’s start searching from the outside and gradually tighten the encirclement!”
The Frost God Emperor reminded, “This way, half a day will be enough for us to search the perimeter of the large Defense Systems, making it easier for the Soul Emperor to search when he arrives.”
“If the Soul Emperor finds Yi Chen, it will also be near the exile planet, so being on the outside will allow us to break through the energy shield and leave first.”
The Wind-Walking Emperor nodded and controlled the Starry Gourd to fly quickly around the inside of the energy shield.
The five strongest members activated their Perception Ability to the maximum.
His Perception Ability, along with the Starry Gourd, moved rapidly inside the large spherical energy shield.
After about ten hours, having circled hundreds of times, they could almost confirm that there were no traces of Yi Chen or the flying treasure within the hundred thousand kilometers inside the energy shield.
The reason they said “almost confirm” was due to the possibility of Yi Chen carefully entering the area they had searched.
However, from their perspective, this possibility was very low.
The main reason was that Yi Chen’s perception range was not as large as theirs, and he couldn’t detect the presence of the Starry Gourd, which moved extremely quickly.
Under these circumstances, unless Yi Chen had incredible luck, it would be very challenging for him to enter the area they had already searched.
Under the control of the Wind-Walking Emperor, the Starry Gourd tightened the search radius to forty thousand kilometers around the exile planet.
The result, of course, was still nothing.
Yi Chen was nowhere near the exile planet.
He, like all the Federation citizens, was watching the excitement on the screen.
The difference was that after noticing the disappearance of the five strongest members of the Angel Alliance, the Federation citizens assumed they had given up and left after the excitement ended.
But Yi Chen knew the excitement wasn’t over yet.
Because the Shadow King’s avatar transmitted information to his other self, the Military Headquarters received news that the Soul Clan’s Soul Emperor suddenly attacked the battleship group to block their path.
From the looks of it, this Soul Emperor also seemed to intend to join the excitement at the exile planet.
Throughout the entire star cluster, Yi Chen found himself facing enemies everywhere.
He hadn’t provoked anyone; he had been quietly training and creating skills on the exile planet, yet everyone wanted to kill him, capture him, or control him.
This feeling made Yi Chen very unhappy.
If it weren’t for the Tree-Dwelling Tribe looming above, he would have let his little brother, the Shadow King, crush them all.
However, the Soul Emperor’s move changed Yi Chen’s plan of just watching the excitement.
He decided to join in the fun and test the Luck Technique’s silent effect using the Soul Emperor as a cover.
Although the Luck Technique was not yet completed, its silent function had improved significantly compared to before.
If even extracting the Soul Emperor’s luck got detected, then the chances of drawing the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s third envoy’s luck would likely also be discovered.
He immediately had his avatar contact the Shadow King’s avatar, asking the Shadow King to come pick him up.
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"Damn it, the Soul Emperor is actually heading to the exile planet?"
"How is this possible? The Soul Emperor should have focused on breaking out by defeating the fleet, expanding his control area, or escaping to other star systems."
"What do we do? With the Soul Emperor’s strength realm and a large number of Soul Kings around him, Yi Chen cannot possibly evade his search."
At the Military Headquarters, the leaders of the Parliament and the Military all looked pale.
They never expected that not only would the five strongest members of the Angel Alliance suddenly enter the cosmic storm zone to attempt to kill Yi Chen right when the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s third envoy arrived, but even the Soul Emperor would take action at this moment, catching the surrounding Soul Clan’s fleet off guard.
Over the past year, the Soul Emperor had repeatedly tested the fleet’s control capabilities.
Again and again.
So much so that the fleet had grown accustomed to the Soul Emperor’s tests.
With the powerful scanning ability of the Large Battleships, once they detected the Soul Emperor’s movements, the entire fleet immediately contracted its defense lines, switching to an aggressive stance to suppress him. Although they couldn’t injure the Soul Emperor, they could block his escape routes.
In the initial months, the fleet was still quite tense, as the Soul Emperor was powerful, and if he broke through their ranks, they would undoubtedly lose many battleships.
But as time went on, once they confirmed that the Soul Emperor could not break into the fleet, they gradually relaxed.
As long as the Soul Emperor couldn’t break through the fleet, there wouldn’t be a big problem.
The most he could do was to escape the encirclement using his immense strength.
If that were the case, in the vastness of space, the fleet could attack with full force, putting the Soul Emperor in an even more passive position.
After all, this was the Milky Way.
And the human federation’s monitoring capability far exceeded that of any other race.
If the Soul Emperor planned to escape to other star systems, the Federation Military would slowly seek opportunities to destroy him and the Soul Clan.
If they didn’t find him, they would allow the Soul Emperor to flee to other star systems.
Should the Soul Emperor plan to attack and occupy other life planets, in order to prevent panic and anger among the entire population of the federation, the Federation Military would spare no effort, even mobilizing all Space Fortresses, to annihilate him and the Soul Clan.
The relationship between the two sides was in a fragile balance.
While the Federation Military could do nothing to the Soul Emperor, they could certainly destroy the Soul Clan. However, since the Soul Clan was residing on life planets, the Federation Military was unwilling to obliterate the entire life planet alongside them.
Spreading such news would create a significant negative impact.
Because on that life planet, there were still over five billion members of humanity.
The Federation citizens were unaware that all five billion members had their consciousness erased.
Conversely, while the Soul Emperor could use his immense strength to break through the fleet’s blockade, he had no way to wipe out an entire fleet, nor was he willing to risk escaping to other star systems.
The Soul Emperor suddenly broke out of the battleship fleet’s encirclement.
The commander of the fleet immediately dispatched battleships to check the life planet.
Upon finding that the life planet was filled with humans who had their consciousness erased and no trace of the Soul Clan, the first thought was that the Soul Emperor had taken the entire Soul Clan, wanting to escape to other star systems while the Federation Military’s attention was focused on the five strongest members of the Angel Alliance.
The Federation Military shared the same thought.
They ordered the entire galaxy’s monitoring system to be activated to the maximum, commanding the battleship fleet to give chase, while also mobilizing a Space Fortress to see if they could find an opportunity to eliminate the Soul Emperor and the Soul Clan.
No one expected that the Soul Emperor would not flee to other star systems or attack other life planets, but instead head straight for the exile planet at full speed.
This left the leaders of the Federal Parliament and the Military completely puzzled.
The Soul Emperor killing Yi Chen was entirely unnecessary. The Soul Clan couldn’t even take care of their immediate troubles, let alone tackle this distant worry.
Controlling Yi Chen as a hostage and using him to threaten the human federation would only force the federation to call upon the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s powerful beings to act, making it easier for them to appear.
It would have been much better for the Federation Military to keep their attention focused on the five strongest members of the Angel Alliance, escape from the Milky Way, and hide in a smaller star system to develop in secret.
Yet, the Soul Emperor unexpectedly headed straight for the exile planet.
