Chapter 578

Chapter 578: Deliberately Delaying Time

“Notify Mares to slowly tangle with the strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe and try to buy some time. Don’t let him bring the Time Tribe warrior over so quickly,” Yi Chen ordered.

“Understood!”

Seeing Yi Chen’s resolve, the Shadow King said no more and quickly took out the communication stone to inform Mares.

After receiving the notification, Mares found it hard to understand why Yi Chen wanted him to do this.

However, he had already decided to be as accommodating to Yi Chen as possible, so he could only follow orders.

The Shadow King then led Yi Chen, moving silently and unnoticed.

Through the video clip transmitted by the Shadow King’s Perception Ability, Yi Chen quickly pinpointed the location of the strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe.

He activated the Luck Technique.

A surge of green luck rushed toward his Qi Sea like a tidal wave.

With the improved Luck Technique, the speed of luck extraction significantly increased.

Compared to the speed when he was at level 130, extracting Mares’ luck, it had increased at least tenfold.

“This is not the Tree Star Cluster. You’re blocking my way without any reason. Are you planning to attack and rob me?”

The strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe had no idea that his luck was being rapidly extracted.

He had maximized his Perception Ability, trying to locate the Large Battleship.

With his Perception Ability, he could easily penetrate the defensive shield of the Large Battleship and discover that this massive vessel was simply made from ordinary high-quality spirit mines.

He originally had no interest in flying treasures made from such high-quality spirit mines.

However, he recently received a notification from the Time Tribe instructing him to closely monitor a specific type of flying treasure.

If discovered, he was to find a way to control it.

The image of this flying treasure was just like the one he sensed earlier.

So, he took control of his flying treasure and flew towards the Large Battleship.

He did not expect that within this rather low-quality but larger flying treasure, there would actually be a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Fortunately, this Tree-Dwelling fighter was at a similar level to him.

He remained determined to find a way to control that flying treasure.

According to the information from the Time Tribe, if he could control that flying treasure and extract the source of its power and where it came from, he would receive a high reward.

Therefore, if there was only one powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, it was worth a shot.

It would be even better if he could defeat him.

By the rules, he would need to give half of the reward to his tribe and half to the Time Tribe warrior he had contracted with.

This meant he could take home about one-fourth of the reward.

Still, that was a substantial reward.

If it turned out that he couldn’t win, he would have to call in the Time Tribe warrior for assistance, which would leave him with only one-eighth of the reward.

There were quite a few as well.

What surprised him was that the huge flying treasure actually disappeared into thin air.

No matter how much he maximized his Perception Ability, he could not find out where this flying treasure was hiding.

“Am I blocking your way to rob you?”

Mares almost laughed out of anger at the strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe.

Fortunately, he remembered Yi Chen’s instructions.

He quickly suppressed the anger in his heart.

Since the other side was being unreasonable, he might as well drag things out a bit to complete Yi Chen’s task.

He sneered and said, “My being here has nothing to do with you. The point is that when I sensed your flying treasure, I worried about colliding with it, so I intentionally changed the direction of my flying treasure. Why did you change direction as well?”

“Is that your flying treasure?”

The strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe was a bit surprised.

According to the video clip and information provided by the Time Tribe, this type of flying treasure should belong to an unknown race.

Moreover, if it really was Mares’ flying treasure, he should have absorbed it into his body before arriving.

But from his sensing, it was only after Mares arrived that the flying treasure suddenly disappeared.

There was no doubt that Mares was deceiving him.

Furthermore, as a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, its flying treasure should at least be made from mid-grade immortal mines.

How could he possibly use high-quality spirit mine to craft a flying treasure?

“So what if it is?”

Mares retorted.

“It’s nothing! I’m just a bit curious. A powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe has fallen to the point of using high-quality spirit mine to craft a flying treasure?”

The strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe didn’t care whose flying treasure it was; he only wanted to know where it was now.

While he carefully searched with his Perception Ability, he casually chatted with Mares to divert his attention and delay time.

“I’m a bit short on resources and treasures recently, so using high-quality spirit mine to craft a flying treasure is all I could do. Is that a problem?”

Mares quickly found common ground, chatting aimlessly with the strong fighter from the Ka Yue Tribe.

They exchanged remarks, engaging in sharp debate, both intentionally delaying time.

The difference was that the Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter delayed time to use his Perception Ability to find out where the Large Battleship was hidden.

Mares was delaying for reasons he didn’t even know, purely to complete the task assigned by Yi Chen.

Time passed minute by minute.

In just over ten minutes, Yi Chen, using the improved Luck Technique, had extracted more than half of the Ka Yue Tribe warrior’s luck.

Finally, the Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter gave up.

He thoroughly used his Perception Ability to search all possible areas, yet he still could not find traces of the Large Battleship.

So he chose to stop searching.

As long as he could defeat and capture the Tree-Dwelling warrior in front of him, he could force him to reveal where that flying treasure was hidden.

Just as Mares was about to say something trivial, the Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter suddenly made his move.

Scales on his body shot out like silver-gray bullets, aimed directly at Mares.

Mares had long been on guard against the possibility of an attack. Seeing the sudden move from the Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter, he felt no surprise.

Branches from his body suddenly extended rapidly.

The branches spread out and quickly wove together to form a defensive net covering an area of over ten square kilometers.

Pow! Pow! Pow!

The dense gray scales collided with the defensive net. While they pierced through many branches and leaves, not a single one succeeded in completely breaking through the defensive net before they were all exhausted.

“No surprise that you are a powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe; you indeed have some strength!”

The Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter said darkly.

The scales that had been shot out were visibly healing and regrowing on his body at great speed.

“So move aside quickly, or don’t blame me for being rude to you!”

Mares remembered Yi Chen’s task and didn’t attack the Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter, still trying to delay time.

The Ka Yue Tribe strong fighter, however, was unwilling to wait any longer.

He ignored Mares, and the pair of antennae on his head suddenly intertwined.

In the next instant, a massive bolt of lightning appeared above Mares.

This lightning had a diameter of three to four kilometers.

It formed almost instantly.

Then, it struck down straight at Mares.

The terrifying energy fluctuations made even the residual force compel the distant Shadow King to retreat several thousand kilometers.

Fortunately, Yi Chen’s Luck Technique allowed him to cover any target in its range, no matter the slight shift in position; it wouldn’t affect his Luck Technique at all.