fynovel Chapter 268 Princess of Crimson Flame Star, Zhu Jingxi
Chapter 268 Princess of Crimson Flame Star, Zhu Jingxi
Chapter 268 Princess of Crimson Flame Star, Zhu Jingxi
Looking down from the sky, Chen Lie saw a middle-aged man in his early forties looking at him from a low hillside in the Kunlun Mountains.
He piloted the strange beast to fly to the opposite side of the middle-aged man.
The moment he approached the middle-aged man, Chen Lie sensed the surging innate energy within the man's body.
This person is a ninth-level Grandmaster who has cultivated to the point of mastering innate primordial energy.
A ninth-level martial artist can alternate between Yuan Qi and Qi, transforming innate Qi into innate Yuan Qi, and then into internal energy, allowing them to survive in the starry sky. On planets with a mass not exceeding 80 trillion tons, they can briefly achieve aerial flight.
The mass of Earth is approximately 60 trillion trillion tons.
"I'm a special admission student from Blue Star University participating in military training. Who are you?"
Chen Lie knew that this middle-aged man must be a top-level powerhouse on Blue Star, so he didn't hide it.
"A specially admitted student from Blue Star University?"
The middle-aged man found it strange and asked, "What are you doing here instead of participating in military training, being a special student at Blue Star University?"
Also, how did you manage to control this flying beast?
"I heard that the beast infestation on Earth is serious, so I came to take a look."
The reason I can control this strange beast is because I possess a special secret technique for controlling extraterrestrial creatures.
"I didn't expect that among this year's special admissions students at Blue Star University, there would be someone so concerned about the situation in the Northwest. Which province of Blue Star are you from?" the middle-aged man asked.
"Dongchuan Province!"
"Dongchuan Province?"
The middle-aged man found it strange. Although he did not know the specific martial arts index ranking of Dongchuan Province, he was well aware that Dongchuan Province was a barren and backward province on Blue Star.
"You still haven't answered me who you are."
The middle-aged man said, "You don't know me?"
I am the Commander-in-Chief of the Northwest Front Army, Commander of the Expeditionary Force.
"An expedition?"
Chen Lie seemed to have heard the name on the TV show Blue Star Times, but he couldn't remember the details.
"You're a specially admitted student at Blue Star University, and you've witnessed firsthand the dire situation of the beast infestation in the Kunlun Ruins of Northwest China. Tell me, what are your thoughts on the future of Blue Star?"
"My opinion?" Chen Lie said bluntly, "I think that if the beast infestation in the Northwest is not alleviated, there will only be one outcome: Blue Star will be doomed."
Shi Yuanzheng frowned immediately and reprimanded, "You're a young man; since you had the courage to come to Kunlun Ruins, why are you so dejected and pessimistic?"
"This has nothing to do with whether I'm depressed or pessimistic; I'm just stating a fact," Chen Lie said.
"Hmph, do you think that Earth is destined to perish?"
You dared to ride a strange beast alone to the Kunlun Ruins cave. I thought you were a brave person, but I didn't expect you to be so scared by the beast!
"If all the young people on our planet were like you, what future would our planet have?" Shi Yuanzheng sneered and reprimanded.
"You're really something else. I'm just telling you the truth, but you don't want to hear it, so why are you asking me?"
I estimate that there are probably tens of millions of strange beasts accumulating in the Kunlun Mountains in the northwest of Blue Star, and more than 10,000 strange beasts emerge from this cave every day.
Even if the army can eliminate 10,000 alien beasts a day, it can only offset the alien beasts that emerge from the caves every day. The number of alien beasts is constant, numbering in the tens of millions.
Unlike humans, higher-level beasts often exert bloodline suppression on lower-level beasts, causing the lower-level beasts to cooperate with or even follow the actions of the higher-level beasts.
The strange beasts around Kunlun Ruins are currently in a relatively peaceful state, fighting each other independently without any unified action.
If one day, several master-level beasts gather together and rampage, then thousands upon thousands of beasts will soon respond, and a beast tide will erupt in an instant. Once the beast tide is formed, if it cannot be extinguished immediately, it will only get worse.
Imagine tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of monstrous beasts charging wildly towards the northwest defense line. Could the defense line withstand that?
Shi Yuanzheng remained silent for a long time before finally asking, "How did you know that the strange beasts would form a beast tide?"
"In every news report from the Blue Star Times about the Northwest Front, when a Grandmaster-level alien beast attacked, weren't there hundreds of low-level alien beasts following behind?"
"That's utter nonsense. You're just going to conclude that the beasts will eventually form a beast tide based on the fact that a few hundred low-level beasts follow each time a master-level beast attacks the front line?"
"Since the strange beasts emerged from the caves of Kunlun Ruins, decades or even centuries have passed, and yet there hasn't been a single beast tide?"
Chen Lie said, "This is just a factual deduction."
"Be realistic? According to your assumption, Earth is doomed to perish, right?"
What's your name?
Shi Yuanzheng looked at Chen Lie with an unfriendly expression.
"Why do you want to ask my name? Do you want to hold me accountable?" Chen Lie retorted.
Shi Yuanzheng snorted coldly: "Even if you don't give your name, I'll still find you."
"Brother, you asked me what I thought before I said these things. I told you my thoughts according to your wishes, and you're not happy about it, but you still want to settle scores with me later?"
Isn't that a rather unethical thing to do?
"Am I a dishonest person?"
Shi Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage. He reached out his hand to Chen Lie, and immediately a huge suction force appeared in Shi Yuanzheng's palm, pulling Chen Lie off the back of the strange beast.
Faced with a ninth-level Grandmaster, Chen Lie knew he had no power to resist, so he went with the flow and was grabbed by the collar and held in Shi Yuanzheng's hand.
"Judging from your robust health, you must have been a genius. I never expected you to be so unworthy of being cultivated."
"To say I am beyond redemption? I only came to this conclusion from an objective perspective regarding the scourge of the alien beasts."
Ask yourself honestly, with so many strange beasts, and ten thousand more constantly emerging from the underground caves every day, do you really think Earth's future is promising?
"Even so, as a citizen of Earth, you should be protecting your home and country. How can you be so passive in responding?"
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"Did I say I was being passive? I came here to see just how severe the beast infestation on Earth really is!"
Shi Yuanzheng snorted coldly and loosened Chen Lie's collar.
The flying beast controlled by Chen Lie's mental power took advantage of the interruption to Chen Lie's mental power operation and flew away instantly.
Upon seeing this, Chen Lie said, "The beast I was controlling has run away. You'll have to take me back later!"
"I can take you back, but since you're so pessimistic about the future of Blue Star, tell me why. Do you think Blue Star is destined for destruction?" Shi Yuanzheng said.
Chen Lie shook his head and said, "I'm not saying that Blue Star will definitely perish. What I'm saying is that Blue Star will have a hard time solving the problem of alien beasts by relying on its own local strength."
"You mean, we should use extraterrestrial power to solve the beast problem on Earth?"
"That's right." Chen Lie nodded.
"Blue Star's interstellar diplomacy is almost the worst in the Canglan Star Region. It has no connections with the major planets in the central part of the Canglan Star Region and it is impossible for it to ask extraterrestrial forces to take action."
"That's not necessarily true. As long as Blue Star produces a super genius who becomes a high-ranking figure in the Canglan Star Region, he can naturally mobilize extraterrestrial forces to help Blue Star."
Shi Yuanzheng scoffed and said, "You're thinking too simply. Your so-called super genius should at least be in the top twenty of the Canglan Star Region's genius list, right? Even the most outstanding genius on our Blue Star is still a long way from the top twenty of the Star Region's genius list."
Such a super genius might appear on our planet, but it would be a once-in-a-century occurrence.
Blue Star has only been in the martial arts era for a little over a hundred years.
It's better to hope that someone on Earth can break through to the tenth level of Celestial Master or the ninth level of Spiritual Power Grandmaster than to hope for the emergence of such a super genius, so that such a powerful person can go deep into the underground cave to find out more.
As long as no more strange beasts emerge from the underground caves, even if the Kunlun Mountains are home to tens of millions of strange beasts, the problem can be gradually resolved.
Chen Lie remained silent in response to this statement. He couldn't very well say that he had foreseen the future and that even a Grandmaster like Yu Jietian couldn't solve the problem of the strange beasts emerging from the underground cave.
Seeing that Chen Lie remained silent, Shi Yuanzheng ignored him and instead watched the burrow below the hillside from which strange beasts were emerging.
He murmured, "The frequency of high-level alien beasts emerging from the underground caves is increasing. If this trend continues, if Blue Star cannot produce a tenth-level martial artist within twenty years, the situation will be truly precarious."
After standing on the hillside for a while, Shi Yuanzheng turned to Chen Lie and said, "Let's go, I'll take you back!"
Without waiting for Chen Lie's reply, he grabbed Chen Lie's clothes and began to fly through the air.
Ten minutes later, Shi Yuanzheng dragged Chen Lie to a high plain where an airship was parked.
As soon as I landed, a three-star general came to greet me.
"Commander, you're back. And this is—" The three-star general looked at Chen Lie.
"Take a special admission student from Blue Star University who is participating in military training with us back to the military camp," Shi Yuanzheng said.
"yes!"
Although the three-star general found it strange that the specially recruited students participating in military training were here, he did not ask.
After boarding the airship, Chen Lie sat quietly in the back seat without saying a word.
The airship took off and sped toward the northwest defense line.
About ten minutes later, the airship passed through the vast sea of beasts and landed in the army camp inside the defensive line.
As soon as the airship landed, Shi Yuanzheng was the first to get off.
At this moment, a military general stepped forward.
"Commander, I have an important report to make."
Shi Yuanzheng asked, "What is it?"
"Through the introduction of a candidate for governor of Blue Star, a guest from beyond the stars, Crimson Flame Star, wishes to meet you."
"Oh? People from Crimson Flame Star? Where are they?"
"I'm currently waiting in the waiting area. I wonder if I'll be able to see you?"
"Why not see him? Let this guest from outer space come over!"
"yes!"
Shi Yuanzheng glanced at Chen Lie inside the airship and said to the three-star general next to him, "Tell this kid how our frontline troops fought against the alien beasts, how many victories we achieved without casualties, and how many alien beasts we eliminated on average each year."
After saying that, they took him back to the military training area.
"clear!"
The three-star general replied.
Shi Yuanzheng glanced at the airship again and walked to the playground in the distance.
After Shi Yuanzheng left, the Samsung general turned to Chen Lie and asked, "Young man, who are you? What is your relationship with Commander Shi?"
"It's nothing, we just met by chance," Chen Lie said.
"Nonsense, it's alright, would the Commander-in-Chief take you to the Kunlun Ruins underground caves?"
"I went there myself!" Chen Lie said.
"Even grandmaster-level martial artists might not be able to reach that place, so what level are you at?"
"Fine, think what you want."
The three-star general said, "The commander-in-chief instructed me to give you a briefing on the victory news from the Northwest. Be alert, I'm about to begin."
After saying that, the three-star general talked about how many strange beasts the front-line army eliminated each year, how many great victories they had achieved, how tens of thousands of elite troops crossed the front lines to fight against the strange beasts, and how many times the army returned without suffering any losses.
After speaking for more than ten minutes, the three-star general asked Chen Lie some questions. After learning that Chen Lie was indeed just a special recruit from Blue Star University participating in military training, he said, "You are a special recruit from Blue Star University participating in military training. Today is a good day to broaden your horizons."
"Oh? What kind of perspective?" Chen Lie asked immediately.
"A genius from Crimson Flame Star, who is on the genius list of Azure Blue Star Region, has come to pay his respects to Commander Shi."
This genius is said to be a member of the royal family of Crimson Flame Star.
"royal?"
"In the eastern part of the Canglan Starfield, there are five inhabited planets, including Blue Star. Among the five inhabited planets, Crimson Flame Star has the strongest overall strength."
The system of Crimson Flame Star is similar to that of our Blue Star hundreds of years ago; it was a feudal dynasty, and as such, it naturally had a royal family.
"I see."
Chen Lie nodded, but inwardly he disagreed.
Meeting royalty from a planet is supposed to broaden your horizons? That's bullshit!
The royal family members of a planet number in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. If someone doesn't fare well among the royal family members of Crimson Flame Star, they might not even live as well as a provincial-level genius on Blue Star.
At this moment, outside the airship, a beautiful and dignified young woman walked gracefully into the military camp's training ground.
Her hair was styled in a high bun, and her headdress and clothing were exactly like those of a noble lady from an ancient dynasty on Earth hundreds of years ago.
"Zhu Jingxi, the twelfth princess of the Great Yan Dynasty on Crimson Flame Star, greets the senior grandmaster."
When the young girl arrived in front of Shi Yuanzheng, she nodded slightly in greeting.
"So you're the Princess Lingyan, bestowed the title by the Emperor of Crimson Flame Star?"
Shi Yuanzheng glanced at the girl and said, "No need to be polite. You are a royal genius that Chiyan Star relies on. Very few members of the Chiyan Star royal family are granted titles. In terms of status, you may not be much lower than me."
"You are a senior, and Jingxi is just a junior. A junior should treat a senior with respect," the girl said calmly.
Shi Yuanzheng nodded slightly and said, "I heard you asked our Blue Star candidates to introduce me. Is there something you need from me?"
"Jingxi was entrusted by the Emperor of Great Yan to ask the Commander-in-Chief of the Blue Star Army to send Blue Star troops to Red Flame Star to help Great Yan quell the rebellion and wipe out the bandits."
In exchange, we are willing to ask our royal ancestor, a Grandmaster-level expert, to help us delve into the Kunlun Ruins of Blue Star and explore the mysteries of the Blue Star's strange beasts. 'We'll ask for his help,' the girl said calmly.
Shi Yuanzheng was taken aback upon hearing this, and then replied, "It's no use asking me about this matter. You need to ask the global governor of our Blue Star to issue a decree."
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