Chapter 716

Chapter 716: Success Achieved

"Boses, it’s your turn!"

Yi Chen signaled Boses to step forward.

"Okay!"

Boses nodded excitedly and instantly appeared in front of Yi Chen.

Yi Chen cast the control over time on Boses.

Once again, it was a tenfold slowdown in the flow of time, and it did not weaken at all, despite Boses being a level 220 strong fighter, which was six major realms higher than Yi Chen.

As Yi Chen had predicted, when Boses mobilized his energy to dispel the influence of the laws of time, the effect immediately dropped from tenfold to only around fifteen percent.

Even so, it left Boses and the others dumbfounded.

Even with a gap of six major realms, the difference felt like that between a powerful opponent and an ant.

The latter, even without activating the defensive shield and leaving vulnerabilities open for attack, could probably remain indifferent.

Yet, with a six major realm gap, it still managed to reduce the opponent’s flow of time by fifteen percent, effectively slowing the speed and reaction of a target six major realms higher by that same amount.

This master was simply defying the heavens.

Having successfully confirmed the control over time skill used on Boses and meeting expectations, Yi Chen then notified Titan Bo to conduct a test.

Although Titan Bo was also at level 220, he and Boses were quite similar in realm.

However, Titan Bo’s understanding of the laws of time far exceeded that of Boses, allowing him to dispel the influence of the laws of time even more skillfully.

In the same level scenario, Boses could reduce the effect to fifteen percent when fully exerting himself against the laws of time.

In contrast, Titan Bo could reduce it to about seven percent.

That was a full tier above Boses.

Yi Chen then tried to accelerate the flow of time for all three of them, and as he had judged, all three could achieve a tenfold speed without actively dispelling the laws of time.

Just like a treasured artifact.

And even stronger, because the effect of the treasured artifact lasted only one day, while Yi Chen’s control over time could last for three days.

The only drawback was that Yi Chen’s control over time almost stemmed from his understanding and research of the treasured artifact, making it more like a copy of the artifact.

To truly surpass it, Yi Chen needed to master deeper laws of time in the future.

Additionally, this also meant that the effects of his control over time could not stack with those of the treasured artifact.

"Finally got it done!"

Yi Chen secretly sighed in relief. After more than a year of effort, he had created this new skill.

This took far longer than he had anticipated and was much greater than the time he had previously spent creating new skills.

Keep in mind, this was based on the tenfold acceleration from a treasured artifact.

Without that, it would have taken over ten years to develop the control over time skill.

With the skill completed, the next step was to create the Fourth Generation Cave Paradise.

Yi Chen calculated for a while and decided to start by creating the law seals related to the laws of time.

He intended to integrate the effect of accelerating the flow of time into the formations and then find a way to incorporate these formations into the Fourth Generation Cave Paradise.

He even planned to include them in the First, Second, and Third Generation Cave Paradises.

In this way, the average speed of the citizens could increase tenfold.

With his control over time, Yi Chen could use one day as if it were ten days.

Originally, it would take him three to four days to create a law seal, but now it could be done in just eight to nine hours.

However, since he needed many law seals, it was not something that could be completed in a short time.

Yi Chen did not stay in the Map of Mountains and Rivers any longer; he returned to the flying treasure.

While creating the law seals, he also took the time to understand the current development and expansion speed of the Great Flame Empire.

In the blink of an eye, over a month passed.

While Yi Chen was still working on the law seals, he received some excellent news.

The military of the Great Flame Empire successfully unified the entire Tianling Star Cluster.

As a result, nearly one hundred thousand life planets and hundreds of billions of beings in the Tianling Star Cluster were now under the rule of the Great Flame Empire.

Yi Chen truly became a ruler of a star system.

The Great Flame Empire finally earned the title of an empire.

After successfully unifying the Tianling Star Cluster, the Great Flame Empire quickly got back on track after more than ten days of celebration.

All soldiers entered the Cave Paradise to cultivate and swiftly improve their strength realms.

The Political Council took over all affairs, issuing policies to help the various tribes in the Tianling Star Cluster gradually restore peace and accept the rule of the Great Flame Empire.

The elite armies of various tribes entered a long period of rest to prepare for the Great Flame Empire’s future conquest of other star systems.

On the other hand, because the dominant races actively relinquished control of the life planets, the human federation’s rapid expansion continued.

They even conquered the much broader Frenzied Galaxy, with life planets in multiples compared to the Great Flame Empire unifying the Tianling Star Cluster, much earlier.

While the Great Flame Empire was in a phase of consolidation, striving to integrate the entire Tianling Star Cluster and maintain its stability, the forces of the human federation, relying on their strong foundation, officially invaded the Yufeng Star System and swept across its various life planets.

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In the outer space of the Tianling Star Cluster, thousands of enormous flying treasures shuttled through the vast starry sky.

These flying treasures resembled sailing ships in shape, each over twenty kilometers long and more than ten kilometers wide, comparable to the medium-sized battleships of the human federation.

Each flying treasure accommodated over a million members of the Green Scale Tribe.

With over two thousand flying treasures, the total population of the Green Scale Tribe exceeded two billion.

They moved in a large, dense formation.

Yet, in the vast expanse of the starry sky, they appeared small like dust.

All Green Scale Tribe members’ eyes were filled with resentment and worry.

This was a path of migration with an uncertain future.

The Green Scale Tribe is one of the powerful races in the Tianling Star Cluster.

They occupy over a thousand life planets, with a total population exceeding one trillion.

The internal struggle within the Undying Race and Duke Farah’s contraction policy gave the Green Scale Tribe hope for unifying the Tianling Star Cluster.

Especially with the rise of the Great Flame Empire and the complete withdrawal of the Undying Race from the Tianling Star Cluster, the High-ranking Leaders and tribe members of the Green Scale Tribe felt excited, believing an opportunity to expand their influence had arrived.

However, the strength of the Great Flame Empire far exceeded the Green Scale Tribe’s expectations.

It was even a hundred to a thousand times stronger than the Undying Race.

At the very least, even if the Undying Race launched an attack against the Green Scale Tribe, it would be hard to completely defeat them in just ten to twenty years.

But the army of the Great Flame Empire flattened the Green Scale Tribe’s stronghold in just a few days.

The captured leader of the Green Scale Tribe and many High-ranking Leaders had to announce the tribe’s surrender.

The Great Elder of the Green Scale Tribe, who was gathering troops and resources on other life planets, upon receiving the news, chose not to stay and wait for the Great Flame Empire’s army to take over.

In a moment of excitement, he decided to self-proclaim as the leader and led a group of tribe members to migrate as a whole.

They planned to move to other star systems and start anew.

Unfortunately, while the idea sounded good, the reality was rather harsh.

The newly appointed leader of the Green Scale Tribe believed that with a large elite army and resources in hand, migrating to small star systems would surely grant them a position far better than accepting someone else’s rule.

However, he underestimated the difficulties of interstellar migration.

Various cosmic storms and cosmic rays caused them significant losses.

Especially the Space Pirates made the leader of the Green Scale Tribe very troubled.

His original plan was that during the migration, if they found any life planets between star systems, they could act as Space Pirates and empty the resources of those planets.

However, in reality, they couldn’t find any life planets between star systems and instead faced numerous attacks from Space Pirates over the course of a year.

These Space Pirates were not too strong; at least, even the level 130 leader of the Green Scale Tribe could single-handedly wipe them out.

But the Space Pirates were elusive and used strange tactics.

They would often retreat quickly after a hit, stealing and running away.

It was hard to guard against.

Furthermore, the long migration path, with no clear future in sight, caused the tribe members’ morale to plummet.

Internally, contradictions and conflicts began to arise.

Some flying treasures were controlled by the strong, secretly returning to the Tianling Star Cluster.

If things continued this way, the entire Green Scale Tribe could collapse before even reaching the other small star systems.