Chapter 257 – The Difficult Problem
Translated by: YX
Edited by: XRCO, Earl, Natsuriayuko and De Andre
This is a report regarding the Lupus Constellation. Based on our analysis, this is the travel route we have formulated.” Pipa said softly.
Magic Flute sympathised with how seriously ill Pipa was. His heart was filled with sadness. Recently, Bell’s mood had been down. After analyzing and confirming that the drop of blood was of no use, it was a huge blow to Bell while Pipa was indifferent from the start.
Everyone was very friendly to the two ladies. After Sai Lei heard of Pipa’s condition, she cried profusely. Even Bing, with a heart of steel, had also started to treat Pipa much more courteously.
Even though Bell’s mood was down, she did not forget her task at hand.
She was definitely a professional informant. Every bit of information regarding the Lupus Constellation was immediately picked up by Bell. But Bell’s actions later caught everyone by surprise.
Bell dumped the shockingly large amount of information to Pipa.
Only now did people realized this. The already frail Pipa, who seem to be able to be toppled by a gust of wind, had such a keen analytical ability. All the large chunks of information that were given to her were efficiently analyzed. She was not inundated by them. Instead, she evaluated each of the individual pieces of information and was able to deduce a verbal report on what they should do next.
Pipas shockingly formidable analytical abilities caught the attention of Sai Lei and Bing.
Sai Lei immediately passed the bronze fort blueprint to Pipa. Within days, Pipa produced a detailed report for Sai Lei. Sai Lei was so delighted that she rushed up to hug Pipa and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Pipa, who was not expecting such a reaction, was embarrassed by it.
At the same time, Pipa had became an adviser to Bing. Till now, only the two of them were responsible in advising the group on their plans ahead.
Despite not having any relevant experience, Pipa, who had read tons of books, possessed a vast amount of knowledge in her brain and had been analyzing information for long periods of time, was given all the trivial issues by Bing. This enabled Bing to focus his entire attention on establishing his training facility.
Within a short period of time, the frail Pipa managed to garner the respect of everyone.
To help Pipa recover was now the top priority of the entire group.
Now, the top fighters were gathered in the Three Spirit City. With Blind Chord Old Man, his Mute Servant, Magic Flute and Bing all gathered, this group did not just possess ordinary prowess. With two billion Star Coins on hand, a Machine Grandmaster Engineer overseeing the entire operation and a professional informant and analyst, it was a medley formation of powerful people.
The bronze fort plan was swiftly executed.
The least busy among all was Magic Flute since he was now a messenger between Tang Tian and the Three Spirit City.
Once Tang Tian received information from Magic Flute, he would analyze it with Crane. Ling Xu was never patient in these kinds of matter. And since the previous defeat to Tang Yi, Ling Xu had never let that go and had been practicing hard every single day since.
And his training partner was Tang Yi himself.
Tang Yi did not have much intelligence, and it was probably good for them since he would just execute Tang Tian’s orders without hesitation. During practice, he did not show any mercy, forcing Ling Xu to the brink of exhaustion.
It definitely felt different when having professionals such as Tang Tian and Crane to oversee the entire operation, since they were the ones formulating the plans after the analysis of information. Unlike the previous time when Tang Tian was left clueless due to the unreliable information gathered, now the information from the Lupus Constellation was both reliable and accurate.
“The Lupus Constellation is in a mess now.” Even though Bell had forewarned him about this issue, Tang Tian was still taken aback by the news of it.
The Lupus Constellation was now termed as the place of all evils.
The Lupus people was naturally cold, savage and cruel. Of all the constellations in Southern Sky’s 42 Constellations, the Lupus Constellation was the most barren of all with almost no civilization. There were no merchant roads and wars raged constantly, which had left it isolated from the outside world.
The Lupus Constellation was barren of any resources, which was similar to the Corvus Constellation. However, the Corvus Constellation was vast but sparsely populated while the population is much more dense in the Lupus Constellation. Another reason why so many people feared the Lupus people was due to their ability to reproduce in short succession. Due to the lack of space in the Lupus Constellation, the population was very dense and hence it was much more chaotic than the other constellations.
The Lupus Constellation had countless evil forces, but the three biggest forces were Silver Moon, Heaven Hook, and Feudal Martial.
Each of the forces were helmed by a Heaven Road’s List Martial Artist. Each of the forces were prominent in the constellation and had powerful troops under their command. Because they were constantly waging wars with each other, they managed to suppress each others prowess in the process.
Silver Moon’s leader was Kang De; Heaven Hook’s leader was Huai Bai Hua; Feudal Martial’s leader was Wu Tie Yu. All three of them were Heaven Road’s List Martial Artists. Kang De was ranked 9256; Huai was ranked 9278; Wu was ranked 9293. They were ranked extremely close to each other as their strengths were nearly equal.
Within each force, there were also Heaven Road’s List Martial Artists. Silver Moon was the strongest, possessing five such fighters. The other two forces had four such fighters.
Even though the Lupus Constellation is small in size, it possessed 15 Heaven Road’s list martial artists, much more than that of the Corvus Constellation. Even though Lupus Constellation had such powerful fighters, they did not have the desire to expand to other territories. Most of the people in the constellation naturally possessed unique blood meridians that were born within them. This blood meridians require special items to awaken its power.
This special item was the Awaken Blood Spring.
Every Awaken Blood Spring was precious. The reason why the three forces were able to dominate the Lupus Constellation was due to their powerful skills and also because they possessed the Awaken Blood Spring.
The Awaken Blood Spring only existed on the Lupus Constellation. These springs were as red as blood. They were the reasons people in the constellation could activate their inner blood meridians.
“Very powerful.” Crane was shocked. In comparison, the Heavenly Crane Constellation is much weaker.
Till this day, the Heavenly Crane Constellation did not possess any Heaven Road’s List Martial Artist. The 15 fighters that resided in the Lupus Constellation were all that was needed to exterminate the entire Heavenly Crane Constellation. Crane knew that to restore the Crane Sect, he had to restore Heavenly Crane Constellation as well. He had already passed down the secret to obtaining the Crane power to the sect, but to restore the sect, it won’t be an easy task.
Tang Tian was not concerned by Crane’s issue, “We can just fight our way through.”
“Our aim is to reach the Xiqing Village. From there, we can access the starry door to reach the Cetus Constellation.” Crane said, “This means that we have to face each of the three forces at least once. The people on Lupus Constellation are always hostile towards outsiders. They will not show mercy.”
“Hey, Little Crane, are you scared now?” Tang Tian stared at Crane, disappointed at what he had just said.
Crane replied, “I just wanted to be prepared for the next battle.”
Tang Tian clenched his fist and said in a loud voice, “Whoever dares to block our path will be defeated by us. I might not be very intelligent, but when it comes to a fight, I am not scared of anything.”
He looked proudly back at Crane, “Little Crane, I am currently ranked on the Heaven Road’s List at 9637!”
Besides Tang Tian, Ling Xu and Crane were also ranked on the list. Crane was ranked 9771 while Ling Xu was ranked 9789. Ling Xu was disappointed that he was ranked the last out of the three of them, as he had put in a ton of effort in training.
“It is unfortunate.” Crane said, “The Lupus Constellation has 15 Heaven Road’s list martial artists, and 13 of them are ranked higher than you. What’s more unfortunate is that out of these 13 people, there are the three big powerhouses as well.”
“Tsk! Relax. I will definitely be able to defeat them when we battle!” Tang Tian said angrily, “I am going back to train!”
Tang Tian entered the new barracks and was concentrated on training.
Beside the necessary tasks that were needed to be completed, Tang Tian spent the rest of his time training without much rest. There were a lot of issues that Tang Tian could not help due to his lack of intelligence, but what he could not do, he made up for it with more training.
He was not afraid of a fight because he was now putting in much more effort than the others.
With the help of the Southern Cross Constellation and with such a powerful Spirit General, there was no reason to not put in his utmost effort.
Training was uninteresting and tedious, especially those high-level trainings. However, Tang Tian got used to all of it. Despite possessing the Heavenly Light Pellet Crane, Tang Tian did not rest on his laurels and continued training hard. After having the Star Rocks, Tang Tian’s started to pick up significantly on his training.
Improvement could be see in Tang Tian’s [Air Shield Strike technique] and [Wind Concealment] technique.
Tang Tian practiced his Air Shield Strike technique in a specialized training room. In the room, there were countless rocks that were drifting around, as if it was a sea of rocks. These rocks moved randomly and at very fast speed. Tang Tian had to use the Blood Rush Shield to block all of the projectiles that were flying towards him.
This training room was called the Heaven of Falling Rocks. It was specially used to train defensive techniques. It offered three levels of difficulty. This training room was introduced to Tang Tian by Tang Yi since he was familiar with the grounds of the recruit barracks.
The first time Tang Tian entered into the Heaven of Falling Rocks, he was shocked by the oncoming projectiles of large rocks.
On the first day, Tang Tian suffered injuries to his entire body, including a bruised nose after coming out of the Heaven of Falling Rocks. According to Tang Yi, the blade shield soldiers from Ophiuchus Constellation, who were in the encampment last time, were able to complete it when the difficulty was two ranks higher than what Tang Tian had experience.
Tang Tian knew what he needed to do without Tang Yi needing to say anything more.
Tang Tian, who was about to rest, after hearing what Tang Yi said, decided to go back into the Heaven of Falling Rocks to train again.
Even though the Purple Gold Grade Spirit Card was expensive, the power accumulated within the card was much more than that of the Gold Grade Spirit Card. With the help of the card, Tang Tian was able to speed up his training progress much faster. Even if Tang Yi did not say those words, Tang Tian would still have gritted his teeth and went back to train even harder. By saying those words, it ignited Tang Tian even more.
Tang Tian still felt that he was part of the Southern Cross Army. Every time Bing talked about the Ophiuchus soldiers, it was often derogatory. Tang Tian could not believe that he was not even up to par with the Ophiuchus soldiers.
Tang Tian finally managed to complete the easiest difficulty after three days.
It was almost immediately that the medium difficulty of the training destroyed the initial high hopes of Tang Tian. For the next five days, no matter how hard he tried, he was still unable to persevere for more than an hour.
It was already the sixth day.
Bang!
A large rock the size of a tray clashed onto Tang Tian’s shield. After that blow, Tang Tian impenetrable shield defense suddenly had a gap that allowed incoming rocks to attack him. He knew that he was in trouble, but did not have the time to react. Several rocks came flying towards him.
Bang Bang Bang!
Tang Tian did not know how many blows he had taken as he burst out from the Heaven of Falling Rocks.
His expression turned copper green.