Chapter 921: Present (1/2)

Sam captured the remaining two Astral Plane cultivators to get some information. He placed them in thunder prison and while Yanwu munched on the corpses and the rest of the beasts helped him by gathering those corpses.

He then went to a quiet place to meditate a bit as he went through his observations of the new changes in his body.

The Golden lungs he has are a definite result of the Golden Sun crow bloodline. He knew that much and now he can breathe fire like a normal bodily function with minimal energy.

Apart from that, he saw the real advantage of those lungs in the previous battle. The fire elemental fusion and light elemental fusion are consuming way less energy than normal. It reduced by almost fifty percent and even the bloodline technique is taking way lesser energy than normal.

These are really great advantages. He can easily outperform his opponents. Now all that was left is the other remaining bloodline art of the Golden sun crow bloodline which uses the lungs directly and if he finished that, he would be getting a better and almost complete understanding of the function of these lungs.

After making sure he made all the observations, he took his gun and went to meet the two hostages they got. Sam wanted to save the leader's soul at least so that they can get some memories, but there are barely any bones left and the brain is an important component in conducting the soul necromancy.

There is no way they could perform it.

So, he can only resort to these two people.

Sam inserted one finger into the muzzle and shot them first to give them a demonstration on what would happen.

A finger getting crushed, is not exactly a pain that could be tolerated easily.

And they sing like little birds after that demonstration.

They gave plenty of useful information and Sam kept them up the whole night as he listened to it carefully.

The Solar Fragments' next plan is to send a similar force, but this time there would be more middle-stage cultivators, more late-stage cultivators and it is possible for a few peak stage Astral Plane Initiation cultivators to come and their leader might be Initial Stage cultivator of Astral Plane Pre-transcendence.

Sam is a bit surprised. Because the maximum limit is a middle-stage of Astral Plane Pre-transcendence.

So, he asked about why they are not sending a person of that stage and the answer is simple. They thought it would be an overkill and they don't have too many Middle-stage Pre-transcendence stage cultivators to spare.

They cannot afford to send one to such a sure-win battle at least in their minds.

Then Sam proceeded to ask the remaining questions about the strategy and such and he finally understood why they failed this miserably.

This is all because of Hou Yi. That guy severely downplayed Sam's prowess and means. All he did is give them a gist of how he had different bloodlines and beasts at his disposal. He didn't care about Sam's influence, he didn't care about his inventions and he didn't care about his meticulousness.

In Hou Yi's opinion, Sam is a lucky brat and that is what he projected to these people which made them feel a bit relaxed and opted for such a loose strategy.

They sent the Consummate stage cultivators to create some chaos and since Sam's headquarters is in the western continent, they thought it would take some time for him to get a hold of this situation.

And they are sure that they are best in the Consummate realm compared to all of Sam's subordinates and confident in their hiding skills.

On top of that, they didn't think that Sam would search for them himself or send other Astral Plane cultivators, all they had to do is stay there for a week.

And then comes the scout batch. They are not only responsible for making deals with the major powers, but they are also responsible for scouting some of Sam's important locations and attacking them so that they would inform the first batch of the main force.

If the scouts are in a good situation, the main force will split up and if they are in a bad situation they will play more of a defensive game and inform the same to second main force as soon as they came.

If it was the first case, they would just finish this off in a week and come back to the space tunnel and when it opened they would go back to the other side.

Sam was really surprised by how ignorant the Solar fragments are to attack him like that and how petty and brainless Hou Yi can be.

Because of his personal evaluation of Sam, he lost a perfectly good tribe.