Chapter 5343, Collecting Resources


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    On the deck, Blood Crow casually tossed two Space Rings to Yang Kai.


    Yang Kai caught them and examined them. One Space Ring was quite ordinary. It didn’t have anything particrly eye-catching, containing the normal amount of wealth a Feudal Lord would possess.


    The other Space Ring, on the other hand, was quite eye-catching.


    [This guy… was loaded!]


    The second Space Ring was filled with all kinds of resources, enough to dazzle even Yang Kai. Although Yang Kai had already seen marvelous things and mountains of treasure before, he couldn’t help but be shocked by the wealth of this Feudal Lord.


    The Feudal Lords he had met before weren’t nearly this rich.


    Blood Crow rified, “Those don’t belong to him. The first Space Ring was his, and the second one was taken from the ck Ink Nests.”


    “What do you mean?” Yang Kai raised his head and asked. He had some guesses, but nothing conclusive.


    Blood Crow belched before continuing, “This guy came from the Royal City and was tasked to collect the resources from the ck Ink Nests. Let’s put it this way, the ck Ink Nests in the periphery belong to individual Feudal Lords. These Feudal Lords will send out their subordinates to mine for resources. A part of these resources will be used by themselves to produce ck Ink Strength and expand the defence line, while the rest will be kept aside. The Royal City periodically sends people to collect these remaining resources.”


    Yang Kai finally understood the gist of the matter.


    Right now, resources were extremely important to the ck Ink n. Whether it was for expanding the defensive line, or re-supplying the Mid-Rank ck Ink Nests or even the High-Rank ck Ink Nest, they all required massive amounts of resources.


    Even though the ck Ink n had amassed a tremendous amount of resources over the millennia, since they were trapped in the Royal City, they had to find a way to replenish their reserves.


    And that source was the mining done by the ck Ink nsmen in the outer ring!


    [No wonder the Feudal Lord suddenly came here alone. It turns out that he was here to collect resources. Judging by the items in the second Space Ring, he must have gone to many other ck Ink Nests.]


    “What else?” Yang Kai asked.


    Blood Crow answered, “There are about 20 or 30 people in charge of collecting resources like him, all of them scattered in different directions. As you know, the ck Ink n’s defence line is quite wide, and quite a distance out from the Royal City, so they need so many people to carry out this task. The Territory Lords won’t bother to do something as tedious as this, so that leaves the Feudal Lords.”


    Yang Kai lightly nodded. It was understandable.


    Moreover, this should not be the only reason. The Territory Lords were also afraid of Old Ancestor Xiao Xiao and had no idea when she would suddenly appear to attack. They would feel much safer in the Royal City than outside on their own.


    If a Territory Lord ran into Old Ancestor Xiao Xiao while away from the Royal City, they would just die in vain.


    “Interesting!” A grin appeared on Yang Kai’s face as he suddenly thought that he could make good use of this opportunity.


    Originally, he had nned to use the same method asst time to take down the two adjacent ck Ink Nests. But doing so entailed too many uncontroble variables. Luck yed quite a big role in them seizing this ck Ink Nest unnoticed.


    If they yed the same trick again and again, and for some reason, the ck Ink n became vignt, the risk of being exposed increased dramatically.


    But this new information had given Yang Kai a chance to employ another method.


    He could just pretend to be a Feudal Lord sent by the Royal City to collect resources.


    Yang Kai turned to Shen Ao and ordered, “Send a message to Chai Fang and Ma Gao. Tell them to stop sneaking around outside ande here. Also, try to contact Yao Kang Cheng and have them withdraw as well.”


    “Yes!” Shen Ao quickly took out some Space Beacons and sent the messages.


    Holding the Space Ring in his hand, Yang Kai started stroking his chin, pondering. When Bai Yi and the others saw his eyes darting around, they immediately understood that he was scheming something, so they didn’t disturb him.


    Soon after, Shen Ao raised his head and reported, “Chai Fang and Ma Gao have sent their replies. They will arrive in half a day, but I still can’t get in touch with Yao Kang Cheng.”


    Yang Kai furrowed his brow. Yao Kang Cheng’s actions were bordering on recklessness, but since he could not get in touch with him, Yang Kai could only hope that everything was going smoothly for him and his Squad.


    “You guys stand guard outside in turns. Meanwhile, I’ll keep on the lookout in the central area,” Yang Kai ordered before entering the ck Ink Nest.


    On the deck, Blood Crow patted his stomach before turning around and returning to the cabin as he still needed to properly refine the Blood Essence he consumed. A chill ran down everyone’s spine at the sight of this.


    Half a dayter, Yang Kai, who was keeping an eye out from inside the ck Ink Nest, vaguely sensed a foreign body intruding the ck Ink Nest’s detection range and immediately sent a message, having the rest of Dawn go on high alert.


    But shortly after the first disturbance, Yang Kai felt another body intruding on the defence line.


    Yang Kai knew that it was the Old Turtle and Profound Wind Squads.


    As he had expected, a team of people stealthily made their way over shortly after.


    Their leader was none other than Chai Fang.


    Chai Fang was quite smart. He knew that the Warship would be too conspicuous, so just like Dawn, he put away the Warship and took everyone below the Seventh-Order into his Small Universe when they entered the perimeter. He only arrived with a few Seventh-Order Masters.


    Bai Yi, who was guarding the entrance, had already noticed them and guided them inside.


    When he saw Yang Kai sitting by the ck Ink Pool, Chai Fang couldn’t help but be in awe. He immediately cupped his fist and congratted, “Brother Yang, this Chai admits defeat!”


    Their Squad had also been wandering around the periphery for many days. They too were thinking of taking down a ck Ink Nest and hiding inside the ck Ink n’s defence line.


    But it was easier said than done. Although the Old Turtle Squad was quite strong, it was still difficult for them to silently capture a ck Ink Nest.


    On the other hand, Dawn had aplished just that. Needless to say, Yang Kai deserved the most credit for seeding in this difficult task. No one was his opponent in the same Realm, so he could quickly crush a Feudal Lord, which was critical to moving about undetected.


    “That’s very kind of you.” Yang Kai continued, “Please wait a moment, the Profound Wind Squad will be arriving soon.”


    Chai Fang lightly nodded and led his Squad to Dawning Light. After thinking about it for a moment, he also let out his Squad members from his Small Universe.


    Unlike Yang Kai, whose Small Universe had a robust foundation, his Small Universe felt slightly bloated after keeping so many Open Heaven Masters inside. If he were to run into an enemy and be forced to fight, Chai Fang would have some trouble circting his World Force, which would lead to a sharp drop in his strength. Under such circumstances, he just might lose a fight he should have easily been able to win.


    The Profound Wind Squad also arrived in a short while. Everyone had gathered except for the Snow Wolves. After asking around, Chai Fang, and Ma Gao finally learned that Yao Kang Cheng had led his Squad deeper into the ck Ink n’s defence line.


    This made them feel a bit uneasy. Although there were no ck Ink Nests in the inner ring of the defence line and it might be harder to be detected, there was always a chance. If they ran into arge group of ck Ink nsmen, things could be quite dangerous for them.


    Nheless, things were out of their hands as they could not reach them.


    Without mulling over it much, Chai Fang went straight to the point, “Brother Yang, why have you summoned us here? What orders do you have?”


    Yang Kai answered, smiling, “I don’t dare to give you orders, but I do need your help.”


    Ma Gao nodded after hearing this, “Brother Yang, if there’s anything you need, feel free to speak. Since we are all tasked with scouting, we should naturally help each other.”


    “Then I’ll cut to the chase. It’s like this, I’ve observed from the outside that, although the ck Ink n ispletely invested in constructing this defence line using the ck Ink Strength, because they have expanded it too much too quickly, it’s not very tight. As long as we can capture three adjacent ck Ink Nests, we can blind the eyes of the ck Ink n and Great Evolution Pass will have a chance to quietly sneak past and head to the Royal City unnoticed.”


    While speaking, he tapped the floor, “This is the first one. We will need to take down two more nearby, but Dawn needs to remain here in case anything goes wrong. So, I need your help to capture the other nests.”


    Ma Gao and Chai Fang nced at each other before nodding theirpliance. The former added, “Since Brother Yang has summoned us here, surely he must have some kind of n, right? What do you want us to do?”


    Yang Kai started exining, “I do have a n. Originally, I was nning to use the same trick I used to capture this nest, but now I have a better idea. Previously, a Feudal Lord came here…”


    Next, Yang Kai exined what happened with the recently arrived Feudal Lord.


    Ma Gao raised his brow, “Collecting resources…”


    Chai Fang was not all brawns and no brains, rather he was quite sharp, so he immediately understood what Yang Kai had in his mind, “Brother Yang wants to disguise himself as a person collecting supplies and openly approach the other two ck Ink Nests?”


    Yang Kai nodded, “Rather than sneaking around and possibly raising the opposite party’s guard, it would be better to act boldly.”


    “Indeed, I’m sure that it would never ur to the ck Ink nsmen on guard that the person approaching them so tantly actually had ill intentions towards them.” Ma Gao agreed, “But Brother Yang, there is still a problem. ording to what you said, the one collecting the supplies was a Feudal Lord. If you were to disguise yourself, you can at best disguise yourself as a ck Ink Disciple, which would still be suspicious.”


    Yang Kai had disguised himself as a ck Ink Disciple more than once. Apart from him, no one else could do this because they did not possess ck Ink Strength, but Yang Kai was different. His Small Universe even had a ck Ink Nest inside, so it wasn’t difficult for him to withdraw some ck Ink Strength.


    Yang Kai exined with a smile, “About 20 to 30 people are collecting supplies, and I don’t think that all of them would be Feudal Lords. If some ck Ink nsman asks, I have an excuse. So long as I can get a chance to approach the Feudal Lord overseeing the ck Ink Nest, we’ll already be halfway to sess!”


    For Yang Kai, the only problem was how to approach the ck Ink Nest. As long as he could get close to the ck Ink Nest without raising any rms, the rest was easy. When he led his Squad here, he hadpletely disregarded the ck Ink nsmen in the vicinity and charged straight into the ck Ink Nest as he was afraid that the Feudal Lord in-charge of the nest would sound the rm.


    Fortunately, the other party was a bitx, probably never having expected a Human to be so courageous as to directly charge into his ck Ink Nest.


    But Yang Kai couldn’t ce his hopes on the carelessness of others for the next two ck Ink Nests. It was better to have everything under his control.


    The ck Ink n troops stationed at every ck Ink Nest were quite strong, with more than one Feudal Lord standing guard. Since Yang Kai needed to focus on dealing with the Master of the ck Ink Nest, he needed help to take care of the other ck Ink nsmen.


    Since Dawn had to stay here, he was left with no choice but to ask for the Old Turtle and Profound Wind Squads’ help.


    “Since Brother Yang has considered things thoroughly, we will cooperate with you. As for how we should act, I hope Brother Yang has nned everything,” Ma Gao quickly agreed.


    “But of course,” Yang Kai had formted aplete n and quickly exined it to them.


    Ma Gao and Chai Fang kept nodding again and again when they heard the n. They found it to be quite feasible. It would be a piece of cake to take down the two adjacent ck Ink Nests if all went well. In fact, if they had enough manpower, they could capture as many as they wanted.


    But if they captured too many, they might expose some ws. So, it was not necessarily a good thing to take things that far.


    After a brief discussion, Yang Kai got up and stated, “We shouldn’t dy. I’ll leave now, everyone, wait for my signal.”


    Ma Gao and Chai Fang nodded before exhorting, “Brother Yang, be careful.”


    Yang Kai waved and flew out of the ck Ink Nest, heading straight towards the adjacent region.