Chapter 828

Chapter 828: Only One Left

After drawing all three races’ elders and the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe into the Map of Mountains and Rivers, Yi Chen’s divine consciousness entered the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Inside, chaos erupted.

The three races’ elders fought independently, attacking wildly at their surroundings.

However, the result was just them hitting each other.

In this moment, the thirty or so three races’ elders who were the first to be drawn into the Map of Mountains and Rivers were already injured.

With a thought, Yi Chen led the Shadow King, Boses, and Titan Bo into the Map of Mountains and Rivers together.

“Kill them all except for the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe!”

Yi Chen shouted as he charged towards the Second Elder of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

The Shadow King led Boses and Titan Bo to attack a Time Tribe elder.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In a situation where they could not sense each other’s presence at close range, the scene turned into one-sided slaughter.

Even the Shadow King and his companions were almost invincible.

In just over ten minutes, the eighty or so level 240 strong fighters, besides the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe, were completely wiped out.

Yi Chen waved his hand.

The illusion formation then closed.

The Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe’s Perception Ability instantly returned.

He could easily sense the shattered bodies and soul fragments of the three races’ elders.

“I surrender! I am willing to lead the high-ranking leaders and people of the Cracked Shell Tribe in total surrender.”

Feeling Yi Chen and the three others, the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe did not hesitate and immediately prostrated on the ground.

He was utterly frightened.

With more than eighty three races’ elders gathered together, they were undoubtedly powerful across the entire super star cluster.

He did not know how Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire had risen.

But he understood clearly that in just over ten hours, they found the hiding place of the elder team of the three races.

In just over ten minutes, they annihilated all eighty-level 240 three races’ elders.

This strength was something even the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, Time Tribe, and Reincarnation Tribe, the three dominant races, could not achieve.

Yi Chen and the Great Flame Empire’s strength was definitely greater than that of these three dominant races.

“A wise choice!”

Yi Chen spared his life, wanting him to lead the Cracked Shell Tribe to surrender.

Once the Cracked Shell Tribe was successfully conquered, the Great Flame Empire’s expansion speed would rise to a new level.

After all, the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe was a level 240 strong fighter.

In terms of realm, he surpassed both Boses and Titan Bo.

With the help of the Shadow King and his companions, even the High-ranking Leaders of the large races could solve things without Yi Chen’s assistance.

This way, even if he did not take action, no race could resist the expansion of the Great Flame Empire.

“Your Majesty, the strong fighters brought by the elder team of the three races, as well as the leaders and High-ranking Leaders of the Cracked Shell Tribe and the tribes allied with them, are all in this space-type treasure.”

The Shadow King quickly located the premium space-type treasure.

Yi Chen took the treasure in his hands and let his divine consciousness enter it.

He then released the leaders and High-ranking Leaders of the Cracked Shell Tribe and the allied tribes.

The hundreds of level 230 and level 220 strong fighters remaining were to have their fortunes drained before he killed them all.

He ignored the shock of the various tribe leaders and High-ranking Leaders, leaving the Map of Mountains and Rivers and swiftly reaching the nearest teleportation array with his teleportation ability.

Through the teleportation array, he arrived at the teleportation array near the Cracked Shell Tribe’s base.

When he released the Cracked Shell Tribe and the tribes’ leaders and High-ranking Leaders from the Map of Mountains and Rivers, the Leader of the Cracked Shell Tribe had already introduced himself.

The tribe leaders and High-ranking Leaders had tacitly agreed to surrender as a whole.

After leaving the Shadow King and the others behind, Yi Chen alone used the teleportation array to return to the Great Flame Empire’s base.

Spending over ten hours, he killed all the level 230 and level 220 strong fighters, having drained their fortunes. Yi Chen began to focus on his cultivation.

Half a day later, news that over one hundred large, medium, and small tribes, including the Cracked Shell Tribe, had surrendered to the Great Flame Empire spread throughout the Golden Cloud Star Cluster.

Soon, it spread from the Golden Cloud Star Cluster to the entire super star cluster.

The great tribes of the super star cluster finally realized that, besides the three dominant races—the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, Time Tribe, and Reincarnation Tribe—another powerful tribe had emerged, formidable enough to be unimaginable.

Moreover, this tribe expanded even more fiercely and quickly than the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

In just a few months, they could launch a round of expansion, with each expansion cycle comprising tribes conquered far exceeding the previous one.

At least thus far, the first four cycles of expansion had all shown geometric increases.

In the Golden Cloud Star Cluster, everyone felt a sense of insecurity, completely unsure how to resist the expansion and invasion of the Great Flame Empire.

The other races in various star clusters faced similar difficulties.

They did not realize that not only were they feeling a strong sense of crisis, but the three dominant races—the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, Time Tribe, and Reincarnation Tribe—were now experiencing an indescribable panic.

They had completely lost contact with the elder team of the three races.

This meant that the elder team, which included over a hundred level 240 strong fighters, hundreds of level 230 strong fighters, and over two thousand level 220 strong fighters, might all have become captives.

They had to prepare a huge ransom.

The tribe leaders and elders felt a severe headache.

They sensed that the expansion speed of the Great Flame Empire had reached a level they could no longer suppress.

The main reason was their inability to restrain Yi Chen, the strongest member of humanity.

Day after day…

The tribe leaders and elders waited for the Great Flame Empire to notify them about the ransom while discussing strategies and plans.

But after waiting six or seven days without any notice from the Great Flame Empire regarding the ransom, their anxiety grew.

They had not actively sought out the Great Flame Empire to inquire about the captured elders, hoping that the empire would propose the ransom first; this way, they could understand the empire’s demands.

If the ransom conditions put forward by the Great Flame Empire were within their acceptable range, they would not haggle or waste time negotiating.

They would quickly pay the ransom and have the elders brought back.

Conversely, if the ransom surpassed expectations, they could still wield some initiative to negotiate.

Why was the Great Flame Empire not stating its ransom demands?

After waiting another four or five days, without any response from the Great Flame Empire, the tribe leaders decided to send the negotiating team left at the Great Flame Empire’s base to inquire with the High-ranking Leaders of the Political Council.

The response they received left them dumbfounded.

The Great Flame Empire directly denied having encountered the elder team of the Alliance of Three Races.

This meant that the Great Flame Empire had no intention of using these elders and strong fighters as bargaining chips to demand ransom as before.

The tribe leaders and High-ranking Leaders could only instruct the negotiating team to apply some pressure.

But the result remained the same.

Whether through gentle or hard means, the Great Flame Empire consistently replied that they had not seen the elders and strong fighters of the three races.

No ransom was needed.

No threats were cared about.