Chapter 815

Chapter 815: Cooperation of the Three Races

It was only an hour later that the leader of the Time Tribe contacted the Chief of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Both the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe agreed to meet in three days to discuss cooperation.

For the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe, all important information data was in the hands of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

In three days, they wouldn’t be able to collect any useful information.

However, three days later would only be a meeting to discuss cooperation.

If the conditions offered by the Tree-Dwelling Tribe were good enough, agreeing to them first would be fine; they could investigate slowly afterward.

If the conditions were unsatisfactory, they could delay while conducting their inquiries.

Regardless, the strongest member of humanity posed a considerable threat just by being able to ambush the elder team.

It was better to resolve it if possible.

Three days later, the Chief of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, the leader of the Time Tribe, and the leader of the Reincarnation Tribe used equipment from the human federation to begin their long-distance discussions about cooperation.

To the surprise of the leaders of the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe, this negotiation went unusually smoothly.

The Tree-Dwelling Tribe made significant concessions.

Although the Chief of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe firmly refused to provide their large-scale long-distance troop transport capability to the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe, this had already been anticipated by the high-ranking leaders of both tribes.

The real key was that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was willing to sign a non-aggression pact, which even included that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and its vassal races would not expand outward.

In the first round of negotiations, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe agreed to set the duration to one hundred thousand years.

In the second round, they further conceded, raising the duration to one hundred fifty thousand years.

Finally, in the thirteenth round of negotiations, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe made their final concession, agreeing to a commitment of non-aggression for twenty years, ensuring that neither the Tree-Dwelling Tribe nor its vassal races would expand outward.

This was undoubtedly a huge surprise for the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe.

The primary reason these two dominant races allied was their fear of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s large-scale long-distance troop transport capability.

For two hundred thousand years, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe would give up expansion, which meant that they would have enough time to find a way to break the deadlock or even gain the ability for large-scale long-distance troop transport themselves.

Right now, there was an opportunity.

The Great Flame Empire also possessed large-scale long-distance troop transport capability; however, it had far fewer Large Battleships than the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Moreover, the citizens of the Great Flame Empire were all members of humanity.

As long as they could control the citizens of the Great Flame Empire and the Large Battleships, along with two hundred thousand years, they could fully train and manufacture a vast number of Large Battleships and crew.

Therefore, the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe straightforwardly proposed to divide the Great Flame Empire.

This was also the reason why the two sides couldn’t reach an agreement on their cooperation.

The Tree-Dwelling Tribe had only one requirement: they must kill the strongest member of humanity and either seize or destroy the citizens of the Great Flame Empire and all Large Battleships.

The rest, including various top-tier resources and treasures extorted from the Great Flame Empire, even that precious item relating to the laws of time, could belong to the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe.

In return, the thoughts of the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe were the same.

The valuable resources and treasures that Yi Chen obtained from the three dominant races through ransom were beyond price.

The spatial-type treasure was truly a priceless item.

However, compared to the large-scale long-distance troop transport capability, it still fell short by a large margin.

After a tugging negotiation that lasted five or six days, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe finally made some concessions.

They agreed that the Great Flame Empire and its few Large Battleships would belong to the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe, while all the various resources and treasures of the Great Flame Empire would go to the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

In the end, both sides reached a cooperation agreement that satisfied them.

The Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe had the opportunity they desired to gain and cultivate the large-scale long-distance troop transport capability.

Meanwhile, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe appeared to keep conceding, but they actually achieved their goals.

The Tree-Dwelling Tribe, who first proposed taking the citizens of the Great Flame Empire, was really just retreating to advance.

What they truly wanted were the various Cave Paradises refined by Yi Chen.

These Cave Paradises would greatly enhance the average cultivation level of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Additionally, they would allow the Tribe’s geniuses to grow faster in the early stages.

Even if the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe spent two hundred thousand years successfully cultivating the large-scale long-distance troop transport capability, their overall strength would still be far below that of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

With the Cave Paradises and two hundred thousand years, the overall strength of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe would experience an unimaginable surge.

If the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe truly agreed to let the Tree-Dwelling Tribe gain the Great Flame Empire and divide all the resources and treasures, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe would have refused.

Besides that, the Time Tribe and the Reincarnation Tribe were unaware that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was preparing something they overlooked, which was even more important.

That was that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe possessed high-quality immortal materials and treasures that could reshape spirits.

With these treasures, after eliminating Yi Chen, the strongest member of humanity, they would only need to collect a fragment of Yi Chen’s broken soul to help him reform his spirit.

This meant the Tree-Dwelling Tribe could secretly control this strongest member of humanity.

Then, they would attempt to use Yi Chen to create higher-level Cave Paradises, cultivating a batch of absolutely loyal subordinates within the human federation, similar to the Great Flame Empire, and form a powerful long-range attacking army.

If they succeeded, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe would become unimaginably strong.

As the various details were finalized, the leaders of the three races and the high-ranking elders began to sign the contract through the communication stone.

After successfully signing the contract, they began their formal actions.

The three races reassembled the elder team and then gathered in the designated area.

At the same time, they sent elders to contact the strongest members of the large races in the Golden Cloud Star Cluster, proposing secret support and help to ambush the Great Flame Empire’s army.

The negotiation team from the three races in the Great Flame Empire continued their discussions, but this was merely a distraction to confuse Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire.

Unfortunately, this secret cooperation among the three races could not escape Yi Chen’s notice.

To prevent leaks regarding their secret collaboration, the three races implemented very strict precautions.

The lowest level of participants was a level 200 strong fighter.

And all the strong fighters involved, even those at level 230, were completely unaware of the reason and mission for their mobilization from start to finish.

The communication stones and various resources of those involved were all required to be submitted and then redistributed among a new batch of resources that did not include communication stones.

Even among the elders of the three races, only the top few possessed communication stones to contact others.

Because of this, during this secret cooperation, even the Shadow Kings from the three races were totally in the dark, without even a hint of what was going on.

The Great Flame Empire’s Intelligence Organization uncovered the news because the military was accustomed to preparing for potential problems.

They had already prompted the intelligence organization to send in Shadow Kings, Shadow Generals, and Shadow Captains to stay close to the leaders of the major races in the Golden Cloud Star Cluster.

Although the elders from the three races only contacted the leaders of those large races in the Golden Cloud Star Cluster and instructed them not to leak any information, those leaders understood that the three races planned to join forces against the Great Flame Empire.

Thus, the Shadow Kings hiding beside them were also fully aware of the situation.

With this alone, they could basically infer the thoughts and plans of the three races.