Chapter 132

August 12th, morning, Fire Oak Tribe.

At this very moment, the atmosphere within the Fire Oak Tribe was quite tense.

The reason was simple: an hour ago, the Fire Oak tribal chief, Chi Oak, received a warning from the Wang Ting that the Chen Guo intruder was advancing toward their Fire Oak Tribe and was about to arrive.

At the same time, their King, Chi You, also gave a suggestion: the Chen Guo thief was extremely cunning, and it was suggested that Chi Oak gather the tribe's elites to besiege and kill him with all their might. At the same time, Red Scale Lord Chi You also notified them that he had already sent reinforcements, led by Wang Ting General Chi Dian, expected to arrive in two hours.

Upon receiving this news, Chi Oak immediately ordered the entire tribe to be on alert and gathered the elites within the tribe.

Besides him, who was at the seventh layer of Refine Star, there were two experts at the sixth layer, five at the fifth layer, eight at the fourth layer, and twenty-nine at the early stage of the Refine Star Realm.

Among the five major tribes, the strength of their Fire Oak Tribe could be considered relatively strong.

But at this moment, Chi Oak also had his worries.

At this time, would the Wang Ting sending a large army over have ulterior motives?

The reason was simple: the fact that the Great King's Divine Soul was controlled by Chen Guo was public knowledge.

Now that they were betraying Chen Guo, Chen Guo would definitely not let the Great King go when the Star Gate recovered in three months.

Then, before the Star Gate recovered, the Great King would definitely support Prince Chi Meng to ascend to the throne.

However, before supporting Prince Chi Meng to ascend, would the Great King clear obstacles for the Prince?

This was what Chi Oak was worried about.

Such things had been constantly staged in the Fire Radiant Star Domain for thousands of years.

Just like when a new beast king ascends, he will definitely kill all the cubs of the old beast king.

But the enemy from Chen Guo also had to be dealt with.

"Chi Fu, Chi Cang, you two take twenty Refine Star Realm warriors each and patrol the tribe without stopping. If you discover the enemy, report it immediately. Also, if the Wang Ting's army arrives, notify me immediately as well," Chi Oak ordered.

"Yes!"

Immediately, Chi Oak's two sixth-layer Refine Star subordinates took the elites and went to patrol the entire tribe.

Originally, Chi Oak had received the gathering order, but now, there was no need to gather.

Just sitting in the main hall of the tribe, even with four guards at the early-to-mid stage of Refine Star standing at the door, a sense of inexplicable unease still lingered in his heart.

An indescribable sense of danger lingered in his heart.

But he just could not find out where the danger was coming from.

The anxious Chi Oak could only associate this instinctive sense of danger with Chi You clearing obstacles for Prince Chi Meng.

And just as Chi Oak was pacing and circling anxiously in their tribal main hall, in the shadow of the pillar directly facing the tribal main hall, Xu Jin was sitting cross-legged there, silently observing the main hall.

Back when he was at the Jin Shan Dao Academy, Xu Jin had tried the level of his stealth Star Technique.

At the same time, channeling the three major Star Patterns of Clear Soul, Hidden Storage, and Concealed Image, and then channeling the basic Star Technique Star Mist, he could achieve stealth, even in broad daylight.

And the strength of the stealth effect depended on the strength of the Divine Soul power.

When testing at the Jin Shan Dao Academy earlier, the Refine Star Realm instructor did not notice anything within ten meters, while Ning Yuchan, whose cultivation was at least at the ninth layer of Condense Star, needed to be within twenty meters to discover his existence.

At that time, Xu Jin's Divine Soul Star was only at the fourth layer of Refine Star.

Now, Xu Jin's Divine Soul Star was already at the sixth layer of Refine Star.

So after arriving at the Fire Oak Tribe, Xu Jin cast the stealth technique and walked into the Fire Oak Tribe openly.

Now, it had already lasted for two quarters of an hour.

Not only did he hear the communication and arrangements of Chi Oak and the others, but he had even found the treasury of the Fire Oak Tribe.

Xu Jin was thinking at this moment, should he capture the bandits by capturing the king first?

The Fire Oak tribal chief, Chi Oak, had a cultivation at the seventh layer of Refine Star, but at his door, there were only four guards at the Refine Star Realm. Except for one who was at the fourth layer of Refine Star, the other three were all at the second or third layer.

The threat was not great.

But the other two patrol teams were threats.

After thinking about it, Xu Jin did not rush to act, but followed and observed the two teams patrolling the tribe's safety from afar.

The entire station of the Fire Oak Tribe was not large, about five li long and three li wide.

At a normal walking pace, patrolling a circle took half a quarter of an hour.

A quarter of an hour later, Xu Jin calculated the time and distance. When the two patrol teams had left the entrance of the tribal main hall for two hundred breaths, about the farthest distance from the main hall, Xu Jin moved instantly.

The Swift Lightning Star Pattern was channeled, the Flying Fei Xing Bu burst, and the sonic boom sounded suddenly.

Before the four Refine Star Realm guards at the door realized what was happening, they saw a blur flash by.

Almost in an instant, Xu Jin appeared before the Fire Oak tribal chief, Chi Oak.

A punch was thrown instantly.

Chi Oak was worthy of being a tribal chief; the moment he heard the sonic boom, his protective Star Light was channeled instantly, and almost instinctively, he also punched at the blur of Xu Jin that appeared before him.

On his fist, flames were swirling!

Fire fist against iron fist!

Star Radiance exploded violently!

Chi Oak's eyes widened suddenly.

He saw that under one punch from the attacker opposite him, his fire fist, including his fist and arm, was directly blasted into meat paste!

The next instant, he groaned and retreated like lightning.

But Xu Jin rushed up as if his shadow were attached to his body, and threw another punch.

It was another punch injected with thirty percent Star Qi!

With one punch, he pierced through Chi Oak's chest and directly blasted his heart.

As blood splattered everywhere, the four Refine Star Realm guards roared and rushed over one after another.

Xu Jin turned around, flicking his ten fingers continuously.

In an instant, twenty Star Arrows were fired.

As for the elite at the fourth layer of Refine Star, Xu Jin sent an extra Earth Explosion Technique.

Then he was broken through and killed by seven ordinary Star Arrows that arrived almost simultaneously!

Five kills!

Xu Jin easily dug out five Star Cores, found more than twenty third-tier Star Jade Tablets from Chi Oak's bosom, threw them into the Arena of Battle casually, then found a water vat, simply rinsed off the blood on his body, and only then flashed away instantly.

Five breaths later, the two patrol teams arrived one after another.

Terror was written on the face of every Red Scale warrior.

Right within their tribe, their tribal chief, an expert at the seventh layer of Refine Star, and four elites at the Refine Star Realm were killed, and their Star Cores were dug out; how could they not be terrified!

Just as they were discussing countermeasures, the alarm sounded loudly.

It was coming from the direction of their Fire Oak Tribe's treasury.

"Poor ghosts!"

Inside the treasury, after easily finishing off one Red Scale warrior at the third layer of Refine Star and four at the late stage of Forge Star, Xu Jin rushed into the treasury.

But what made Xu Jin feel depressed was that except for a small amount of Star Weapons and a large amount of grain, there was not a single Star Jade Tablet.

Too damn poor!

He had wanted to make a big fortune.

Xu Jin left quickly, then hid in the shadow of a tower a hundred meters away from the treasury, and saw forty Refine Star Realm experts rushing over quickly, then filing into their tribe's treasury.

Seeing this, Xu Jin sneered.

There was a reason why he hid here.

The treasury gate of the Fire Oak Tribe was very heavy, the kind with a small gate inside a big gate.

The small gate only allowed two people to enter and exit side by side; at this moment, only the small gate was open.

The moment Xu Jin saw the majority of the forty Refine Star Realm experts rush into the treasury, he instantly burst with the Flying Fei Xing Bu, rushed to within ten meters of the treasury gate, and flicked his ten fingers continuously.

In just two short breaths, Xu Jin fired at least a hundred Star Arrows.

The eighteen early-stage Refine Star Red Scale warriors outside the gate did not even see the enemy clearly before they were all killed by Xu Jin.

The Red Scale warriors inside the treasury wanted to rush out, but were bombarded by Xu Jin at the small gate of the treasury.

It was simply a living target.

Kill one as one comes.

If two come, blast both with both hands.

Blocking the gate and exterminating them!

Finally, after five elites were finished off by Xu Jin blocking the gate, the experts inside reacted and directly blasted the treasury gate open, only then rushing out together.

But by the time they rushed out of the dust, the enemy had already disappeared.

Fear was written on the face of every Refine Star Realm enemy.

In just a few breaths, twenty-three of the forty Refine Star Realm elites had died in battle, and seventeen remained.

"What should we do?" "Call for reinforcements, call for reinforcements from the Wang Ting immediately!"

"No, we should find a place to hold our ground first!" The two experts at the sixth layer of Refine Star had a disagreement.

And Xu Jin, in the shadow of a building two hundred meters away, was waiting quietly for the next chance to strike.

After the next strike, this wave of enemies should be completely wiped out!

Twenty breaths later, the two experts at the sixth layer of Refine Star reached a consensus to go to the tribe's fortress to defend, and then call for reinforcements from the Wang Ting.

But just a few breaths after they turned to leave, Xu Jin suddenly appeared behind them, and again, a dense rain of Star Arrows covered them.

Under the bombardment of over a hundred Star Arrows, except for the two experts at the sixth layer of Refine Star and one at the fifth layer, everyone else was killed, and one Red Scale warrior at the sixth layer of Refine Star was seriously injured.

The price was that Xu Jin took an attack head-on with his arm shield!

And then, it was none of their business!

Ten breaths later, Xu Jin, who had finished the battle, casually swallowed a One-Essence Three-Yuan Star-Returning Pill, set their treasury on fire, and left the Fire Oak Tribe quickly.

Casting the Flying Fei Xing Bu, after running wildly for a hundred li, Xu Jin found a place to completely restore the eighty percent of Star Qi consumed in his Middle and Lower Star Palaces.

Afterward, he continued to cast the Flying Fei Xing Bu, heading straight for the next target tribe—the Fire Departure Tribe.

Xu Jin's selection of targets was also very skillful.

From Fire Return Mountain to the Fire Oak Tribe, and then to the Fire Departure Tribe, if you draw points on the map, you can draw a straight line.

That is to say, if the reinforcements were heading toward Fire Return Mountain first, then they must be directly behind the Fire Departure Tribe.

And as the Fire Oak Tribe called for reinforcements, the reinforcements rushing toward the Fire Oak Tribe would inevitably be behind the Fire Departure Tribe, which was Xu Jin's target at this moment.

At least for now, the reinforcements of the Red Scale tribe were still behind him.

In the next quarter of an hour, Xu Jin frantically cast the Flying Fei Xing Bu without regard for consumption, running wildly for two hundred li, and arrived at the Fire Departure Tribe.

This was also a major advantage of Xu Jin.

Other cultivators, even Red Scale warriors at the early or middle stage of Refine Star, would not dare to cast the Flying Fei Xing Bu continuously for a quarter of an hour like him.

They could not afford the consumption.

This consumption was actually quite large for Xu Jin as well.

But the problem was, Xu Jin had the Innate Star Body without Leakage, recovering fast enough.

In this quarter of an hour, Xu Jin cast the Flying Fei Xing Bu continuously, accumulating over a thousand times, consuming fifty percent of the Star Qi in his Middle Shang Xinggong, but within this hour, the Star Qi in his Middle Shang Xinggong had automatically recovered by ten percent.

The consumption was somewhat replenished.

Besides that, the effect of casting the Flying Fei Xing Bu was different.

Xu Jin's current Flying Fei Xing Bu, combined with the Swift Lightning Star Pattern, could flash a hundred meters away in one go, so he could run wildly for two hundred li in a quarter of an hour.

But other Red Scale warriors, even those at the middle-to-late stage of Refine Star, would flash sixty or seventy meters at most.

To be honest, Xu Jin really hoped they would abandon the main force and chase him alone; then Xu Jin would be happy.

Undoubtedly, Xu Jin had created a time difference.

Even if the reinforcements arrived not long after Xu Jin left the Fire Oak Tribe, the time difference Xu Jin created would be at least one hour.

For a main force at the Refine Star Realm to cover two hundred li, it would take at least one hour.

In fact, when Xu Jin arrived around the Fire Departure Tribe and found an uninhabited place to start recovering Star Qi, Chi Dian had just led the elites of the other four tribes he had gathered and arrived at the Fire Oak Tribe, which had been slaughtered by Xu Jin.

Of course, what Xu Jin slaughtered were all elites at the Refine Star Realm.

As for those at the Forge Star Realm, Xu Jin did not have that time and energy.

Slaughtering them, for Xu Jin, who was short on time now, was purely a waste of Star Qi.

Now, even a warrior at the peak of the Forge Star Realm of the Red Scale tribe was destined to be killed in seconds by a Star Arrow.

Like the first or second layer of Refine Star, with Xu Jin's current cultivation at the late stage of Forge Star, it took two Star Arrows; for the third layer of Refine Star, two Star Arrows were not enough, and three were a bit of a waste.

Above the third layer of Refine Star, it would take a bit more effort.

Of course, Xu Jin was so powerful because there was a root cause.

Nine times of marrow cleansing had allowed Xu Jin to possess Star Qi similar to that of an ordinary cultivator at the late stage of Forge Star even before he had forged stars.

When forging stars, Xu Jin's Middle and Lower Star Palaces were both super-grade forged stars, all over three inches.

Forging stars with low-grade Star Cores, the Star Qi is twice that of the seventh layer of Meal of Mist; forging stars with mid-grade Star Cores, the Star Qi is three times that of the seventh layer of Meal of Mist; forging stars with high-grade Star Cores, the Star Qi is four times that of the seventh layer of Meal of Mist; and for supreme-grade forged stars, the Star Qi is five times that of the seventh layer of Meal of Mist. Then what about super-grade forged stars? It should be six times!

And most Red Scale warriors were low-grade or mid-grade forged stars. Not to mention the Star Qi gap at the seventh layer of Meal of Mist, just the gap during star forging, Xu Jin's Star Qi was already twice or even three times theirs.

Not to mention that the foundation at the seventh layer of Meal of Mist was even more different.

Theoretically, Xu Jin's Star Qi was about ten times that of an ordinary cultivator.

Besides that, the powerful bonus of the sixth layer of Refine Star of the Divine Soul Star, not to mention anything else, it would be difficult for Xu Jin not to be strong!

Inside the Fire Oak Tribe, Chi Dian's face was livid!

After circling the entire Fire Oak Tribe, all the Refine Star Realm experts from the tribal chief Chi Oak downward had died in battle.

Forty-five Refine Star Realm experts, not a single survivor!

This enemy was even more powerful and terrifying than he had imagined!

Chi Dian could not help but glance behind him; behind him, the elites of the other four tribes had already gathered, including four tribal chiefs.

There were one at the eighth layer of Refine Star, four at the seventh layer, six at the sixth layer, twelve at the fifth layer, and twenty at the fourth layer.

These were the elite forces of the other four tribes.

Of course, Chi Dian believed that the elite forces of these four tribes were definitely more than this; they must have elites left behind in their tribes.

But these forces should be enough to deal with this Chen Guo genius.

"My lord, be quick, we cannot drag this on anymore!"

Among everyone, the Fire Departure tribal chief, Chi Departure, was the most anxious.

Because the Fire Departure Tribe was quite far from the gathering point, they gathered quite quickly. Later, finding that the target was attacking toward the Fire Oak Tribe, the Fire Departure tribal chief, Chi Departure, had an extra thought and did not rescue directly, but prioritized rushing to the gathering point.

Regarding this, Chi Dian could not have any criticism, because Chi Departure had perfectly executed the King's order.

But at this moment, it was hard to say.

Whether Chi Departure's previous actions were a blessing or a curse was really hard to say.

If Chi Departure had directly supported the Fire Oak Tribe, it was possible to slay the enemy with the Fire Oak Tribe, or it was possible to die.

But Chi Departure was really anxious at this moment.

Because the Wang Ting reported urgently that the Heart of the Red Scale showed that the target had already killed toward the Fire Departure Tribe.

But Chi Dian also had his own thoughts.

He had already seen that if he led the large army to the Fire Departure Tribe at this moment, the result would still be eating dust.

He could only eat dust behind the target's tail forever.

He must change tactics.

Otherwise, he, Chi Dian, might really have to watch one tribe after another being slaughtered, and then he would truly become a sinner of the Red Scale clan.

So where would this Chen Guo genius's next target be?

After looking at the map for a while, Chi Dian locked onto the target—the Fire Origin Tribe.

This Chen Guo genius's next target should highly likely be the Fire Origin Tribe, which was closest to the Fire Departure Tribe.

Then, he only needed to go to the Fire Origin Tribe to wait for the rabbit, find the enemy, and then besiege and kill him.

Upon hearing that they were going directly to the Fire Origin Tribe instead of rescuing the Fire Departure Tribe, the Fire Departure tribal chief, Chi Departure, immediately refused, looking like he wanted to take the tribe's elites and leave to rescue alone.

Chi Dian pointed at the corpse of the Fire Oak tribal chief, Chi Oak, and said, "If you take these people back now, it's highly likely you're just delivering your head! If you want to be like Chi Oak, then go!"

With one sentence, Chi Departure was frightened.

Chi Departure could be a tribal chief, and he was not stupid!

"But, my lord, my only son is still in the tribe; can we go to our Fire Departure Tribe first?" Chi Departure begged.

"Do you think I don't want to! But you want to look at the Fire Oak Tribe; by the time we rush over, your Fire Departure Tribe will have long been slaughtered, and then, we will keep traveling, keep watching the five major tribes all being slaughtered by him?

You must believe in this general's strategy!"

Once these words were spoken, Chi Departure was not anxious, but the other three tribal chiefs were!

This possibility was really very high.

A few breaths later, the Fire Departure tribal chief, Chi Departure, looked at the distant Fire Departure Tribe helplessly, and then followed Chi Dian toward the Fire Origin Tribe, looking back every three steps.

He only had one son, but his life was more important.

He was still in his prime; sons could be born again in the future!

And just as Chi Dian led the crowd of Refine Star elites to turn toward the Fire Origin Tribe, Xu Jin, whose Star Qi had just recovered, swaggered directly into the Fire Departure Tribe.

There was a reason why Xu Jin was so arrogant.

Because Xu Jin had just scouted clearly that this Fire Departure Tribe was very empty.

There were still twenty-nine experts at the Refine Star Realm, but most of them were at the early stage of the Refine Star Realm.

Besides that, there was still one expert at the sixth layer of Refine Star, one at the fifth layer, and seven at the fourth layer.

Along the way, Xu Jin swaggered, Star Arrows flying, heading straight for the tribal main hall of the Fire Departure Tribe.

(End of chapter)