Chapter 71
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Chapter 71: A Bit Overconfident
On the exile planet, in the Flame Mountain range, heavy snow fell.
Yi Chen rushed through the air, accompanied by a tribe member who was delivering a message.
The biting cold howled by his ears, sounding like rolling thunder.
Below, a vast expanse of white made it difficult to distinguish the shapes of mountains and forests.
Only after flying out of the Flame Mountain range did the situation improve slightly.
Under the guidance of the messenger, Yi Chen soared to the southeast.
Upon reaching the edge of a snow-covered forest and spotting the warriors of the Yanhuang Tribe, he finally descended.
It had taken just over an hour in total.
As Yi Chen descended from the sky, Guli and all the warriors were left speechless.
"The Chief! It’s the Chief! He flew down from the sky!"
Once a warrior regained their senses, they fell to their knees in the snow, worshipping fervently.
Instantly, all the tribe members, including Guli, lay prostrate on the ground.
Indeed, deities existed in this world.
Whether the divine being from the Yunxia Tribe was truly a god was uncertain,
But their own Chief was undoubtedly a divine presence.
"Guli, how are your injuries?"
Yi Chen’s gaze shifted to Guli, who lay on the ground, tightly wrapped in various animal skins.
"Reporting to the Chief, it’s just some superficial wounds. They look serious, but with some rest, I’ll be fine," Guli quickly explained.
Yi Chen nodded, "Please provide more details."
Guli gathered his thoughts and explained the entire situation in detail.
Currently, the Eastern Army has more than two hundred and twenty warriors.
Among them, eleven had already broken through to the first level of Spirit Law.
They also controlled around six or seven hundred fierce beasts, including a few at level twenty.
Their strength was undeniably formidable.
Even if they scattered their forces, they could crush everything in their path.
It was only when they neared this large forest that the Eastern Army encountered trouble.
The powerful fierce beasts within the forest had all been conquered by the divine being of the Yunxia Tribe, obeying the commands of humanity.
The Eastern Army’s strength was not inferior to the fierce beasts in the forest.
However, as they aimed to conquer the entire Yunxia Tribe without damage, they hesitated to attack with full force, leaving them at a disadvantage.
Even so, the Eastern Army faced attacks from the Yunxia Tribe. Relying on the speed advantage of the Cloud Treading Technique, they managed to escape disaster.
Seeing the standoff continue, Guli bravely decided to infiltrate the Yunxia Tribe alone, intending to assassinate their deity and destroy the faith of the tribe members in one blow.
However, she did not even catch a glimpse of the Yunxia Tribe’s deity before divine lightning struck from the sky.
Even with her speed, the relentless lightning severely injured her, and she barely escaped.
"You sure are bold, daring to assassinate a deity?" Yi Chen couldn’t help but tease.
In the entire Flame Mountain Tribe, Guli was the only one he considered a friend.
Moreover, she was a friend from the time he had just begun to rise.
After not seeing each other for over half a year, a sense of fondness inevitably arose.
"I was scared back then too. If I weren’t, I wouldn’t have failed to even meet the deity of the Yunxia Tribe," Guli admitted honestly.
Making the decision to assassinate the Yunxia Tribe’s deity took a lot of courage.
After all, it was about killing a god.
In the past, she had doubts about the reality of deities.
The high priest often chanted about how the deities could protect the tribe, yet every winter, many tribe members still starved or froze to death.
The deity the high priest spoke of had never appeared.
But Yi Chen’s arrival made her firm in her belief that true deities existed in this world.
At least ninety percent of the deity from the Yunxia Tribe was real.
Killing a god!
Even just thinking about it made Guli tremble with fear.
But she had to do it.
She remembered that after Yi Chen became the chief of the Flame Mountain Tribe, the high priest stopped promoting and performing rituals for other deities.
In the entire Flame Mountain Tribe, there was only Yi Chen as a deity.
Though Guli was strong and robust, she was not lacking in intelligence.
She understood that the high priest’s actions were surely at Yi Chen’s command.
And Yi Chen’s actions clearly indicated that he did not permit the existence of other deities.
Since the Yunxia Tribe had a deity, sooner or later, a divine battle would erupt between them and Yi Chen.
She was willing to be a forerunner for Yi Chen and attempt to assassinate this deity.
If she failed, at least she could gauge the deity’s approximate strength for Yi Chen.
She approached that assassination with the resolve to die.
Only with such a determination to die could she overcome her fear of killing a god.
"Let’s go! Take me to kill the god!"
Yi Chen laughed.
"Great! I will gather all the warriors right now."
Guli nodded without hesitation.
She had a strong and blind admiration for Yi Chen.
Since the deity of the Yunxia Tribe couldn’t defeat him, they surely weren’t a match for Yi Chen.
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"Is Yi Chen too confident?"
"Yeah! It feels a bit overconfident."
"Guli and he are on the same level, both at the first level of Spirit Law. Compared to Guli, his only advantages are the complete version of the Heaven-Slashing Technique and the new skill."
"The new skill allows one to fly in the air, which does enhance the power of the Heaven-Slashing Technique. But on the flip side, Guli was heavily injured without even seeing the deity of the Yunxia Tribe."
The audience in the live room suddenly felt tense.
Everyone thought Yi Chen was a bit overconfident.
"Well, it’s good that with Yi Chen’s speed, even if he can’t win, he should be able to escape. But the entire Eastern Army might suffer heavy losses."
"Perhaps. Guli could escape because she infiltrated the Yunxia Tribe to assassinate. After being attacked, she only had to worry about her own escape."
"Right now, Yi Chen is leading the entire Eastern Army. If they come under attack and Yi Chen tries to save someone, it could delay his escape."
"God, please protect Yi Chen and keep him safe."
Many timid viewers began to pray for protection.
Because they all knew what kind of being the deity of the Yunxia Tribe was.
A level 30 Thunder Bee King!
According to the Military’s rating system for fierce beasts, a level 20 beast possesses strength comparable to that of a top genetic warrior, requiring mechs to defeat.
A level 30 beast has strength comparable to elite mechs.
It takes a top mech or several elite mechs to kill it.
Moreover, the higher the strength of the beast, the greater its intelligence.
This Thunder Bee King was as intelligent as humans.
However, unlike humans who can pass down knowledge, its insights and experiences were limited to the large forest.
According to the footage from space battleships, hundreds of years ago, when the Thunder Bee King was just born, it was discovered by a tribe member of the Yunxia Tribe and brought back to the tribe by chance.
As the Thunder Bee King’s strength grew, its owner became the chief of the tribe, conquering the entire large forest alongside it.
When its owner died, the Thunder Bee King lost its bond and could no longer be restrained.
The Yunxia Tribe could no longer control other fierce beasts in the forest through the Thunder Bee King. In fact, they faced the risk of the Thunder Bee King causing rampant destruction or even killing if it was in a bad mood.
After decades of glory, with a population booming to five or six thousand, the Yunxia Tribe entered a dark age.
It wasn’t until more than ten years later, when the tribe’s population dwindled to less than a thousand and rare favorite foods became increasingly scarce, that the Thunder Bee King finally woke up.
It re-conquered the powerful fierce beasts in the large forest and let the tribe members take command.
In return, the Yunxia Tribe was responsible for collecting the foods it liked and bringing them to it.
As time passed and the Thunder Bee King accumulated enough experience, it became increasingly skilled at controlling the Yunxia Tribe.
It even learned the human language and understood how to select loyal tribe members to become chiefs or high priests.
A hundred years ago, it made the high priest elevate it to a divine status, becoming the only deity of the Yunxia Tribe.
It also stopped appearing before the tribe members, so no one besides the past high priests knew its true identity as a fierce beast.
This powerful and cunning fierce beast controlled the entire Yunxia Tribe. If it encountered a strong enemy, it could very well turn the tribe members and fierce beasts into cannon fodder.
Unless they disregarded the lives of the tribe members and launched a full-scale attack, even using top mechs or multiple elite mechs might not be enough to kill it.
And according to analysis, Yi Chen’s strength was roughly comparable to that of an ordinary mech.
There was almost no chance of victory; whether he could survive would depend on whether he could make a tough call to abandon the soldiers of the Eastern Army and escape on his own at a crucial moment.
