Chapter 618

Chapter 618: How Long Can We Hide?

While the two were chatting, a honeycomb-shaped flying treasure passed through the opened hatch, leaving the large battleship and heading toward the target planet.

Inside the flying treasure sat six members of the Swift Tribe.

The Swift Tribe is one of the smaller races that have allied with the human federation.

Their strength is average, but they are skilled in illusion magic, able to transform into various racial forms.

Many Swift Tribe members have been recruited by the human federation into the military, responsible for collecting intelligence on the major races in the star cluster.

In this large-scale search for Mares, the Federation Military has also gathered many Swift Tribe members to participate.

Their goal is to facilitate entry into various life planets to track down clues about Mares and gather relevant information.

Not long after the flying treasure departed, while Jiang Chuanshan and his adjutant continued their idle chatter, a small shadow quietly moved beside Jiang Chuanshan and reached the corner of the command room.

Energy was input into a communication stone, and a message was sent out.

This message quickly circulated through layers of hierarchy and reached the high-ranking leaders of the Great Flame Empire’s Intelligence Organization.

After indecision among the leaders, the message was forwarded to Bai Ruo Xin, the head of the Intelligence Organization.

“Your Majesty, the Intelligence Organization has sent word that a large battleship searching for Mares is trying to investigate the relationship between the Great Flame Empire and the Great Flame Kingdom.”

Bai Ruo Xin didn’t hesitate and immediately notified Yi Chen, who was in meditation: “The area this large battleship is responsible for is precisely within the territory that our Great Flame Empire controls.”

“Several months ago, the Intelligence Organization sent many intelligence personnel from the Shadow Clan to specifically monitor the movements of this large battleship.”

“In these months, this large battleship has attempted multiple times to send people onto our Great Flame Empire’s life planets, but they were all scared off by the strong beings arranged by the Intelligence Organization.”

“This time, they are again attempting to send scouts into the life planet of the Flowing Horse Tribe, which the military is currently attacking.”

“We cannot make a decision primarily because scaring off this large battleship using the same method again is uncertain. The Captain of this large battleship may choose to report his suspicions to the Commander of the battleship fleet.”

“If we directly destroy this large battleship, the Commander of the fleet will surely dispatch ships to investigate the matter!”

“Whichever plan we choose, the final result can only temporarily delay time.”

Yi Chen frowned slightly but soon relaxed.

It was only a matter of time before they could no longer hide.

Fortunately, with the Shadow King’s rising realm, the threat from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was continuing to decline.

For now, the goal was to hide as long as possible.

When hiding becomes impossible, there would be no need to panic.

After a brief consideration, he made a decision: “Notify the Intelligence Organization to create an accident and destroy this space battleship. If the Commander of the fleet searching the Tianling Star Cluster sends ships to investigate, then find a way to send powerful beings to scare them off, continuing to delay as long as possible.”

“Understood!”

Bai Ruo Xin immediately grasped what to do. She promptly took out her communication stone to contact the high-ranking leaders of the Intelligence Organization to relay Yi Chen’s decision.

Upon receiving the message, the Intelligence Organization executed the command right away.

Several strong members of the Swift Tribe set out from the vanguard after receiving the mission.

The flying treasure of the Swift Tribe had not yet entered the atmosphere when it was attacked by a powerful being. In an instant, it was destroyed.

Soon, the scanner on the large battleship also detected the presence of a powerful being from the Swift Tribe.

They wanted to avoid the confrontation, but their previous luck had run out.

Although the strength of the powerful being was not very high, its speed was incredibly fast.

The large battleship turned around to flee, but before it could accelerate to light speed, it was attacked. The entire large battleship only had time to send a distress signal to the battleship fleet before it was completely destroyed.

Of course, if Jiang Chuanshan tried to share his suspicions with the Commander of the battleship fleet, the Shadow Clan, which had been guarding him, would also strike first and kill him.

After receiving news about the destruction of the large battleship, the Commander of the battleship fleet did not think much about it.

Although the area he was responsible for was only the Tianling Star Cluster and not very large, thousands of large battleships sent out occasionally faced strong beings and got destroyed.

Besides sending a battleship to investigate the incident and confirm whether it was related to Mares, there were no other options available.

In the presence of powerful beings, even large battleships found it difficult to resist; they could only choose to flee.

Moreover, this was with the substantial performance improvements brought by the weapon refining technique.

Otherwise, a single large battleship encountering a strong being would not even hope to escape.

……

Following the swift advance of the vanguard led by Guli, the other two vanguards successfully forced the Yan Whale Tribe and the Flying Fox Tribe to surrender in the scheduled time.

The Great Flame Empire added more than fifty life planets to its territory.

The three vanguards entered a brief rest period, regrouping while waiting for the newly formed army to gather, preparing to launch an attack on the second target involving several races.

……

As the three races surrendered one after another, the life planets controlled by them were incorporated into the territory of the Great Flame Empire.

Yi Chen’s talent bonus significantly increased as a result.

His training speed also accelerated.

When the vanguard of the Great Flame Empire officially deployed to the second target involving several races, his realm also rose to the second level of the Tao Immortal Stage.

Meanwhile, Thomasen, who was sent to gather information about the Soul-Loss Star, returned to the flying treasure.

After carefully studying the information collected by Thomasen, Yi Chen wasted no time and promptly controlled the flying treasure, officially entering the Soul-Loss Star, heading straight for the Bloodthirst Coliseum built on the planet.

According to the information Thomasen collected over the past few days, there were currently only two level two hundred and twenty powerful beings on the entire Soul-Loss Star.

One belonged to the Bloodthirst Coliseum and was its person in charge.

The other was a strong being who came to the coliseum to relax.

With no level two hundred and thirty powerful beings on the Soul-Loss Star, Yi Chen faced minimal risk.

The Shadow King had now reached level one hundred and ninety-seven and was rapidly advancing.

Additionally, with the treasures refined from Tai Ning Stones, the Shadow King’s current stealth techniques meant that unless someone was very close, even a level two hundred and twenty powerful being from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe could not sense the Shadow King’s presence.

As long as no one could sense the Shadow King’s existence, it meant that despite any unexpected situation, Yi Chen could quickly leave the Soul-Loss Star using the Shadow King’s stealth abilities.

Of course, the information gathered by Thomasen was not guaranteed to be completely accurate.

There was still a possibility of one or more level two hundred and thirty powerful beings from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe or other races hiding their aura and coming to relax at the Bloodthirst Coliseum.

However, the likelihood of that was not very high.

Moreover, Yi Chen was confident in his fortune and did not believe he would be unfortunate enough to encounter such a situation.

If he were unwilling to take such a small risk, he would have no way to gather the materials necessary for refining the Fourth Generation Cave Paradise.