571 Signal to Assemble for Invasion and That Plan (1/2)

China. In the country's most secretive Dragon team base, Leopard Li tore through the base in a fluster. He was the younger brother of the incumbent premier, Tyger Li, and also the assistant to the leader of the Dragon team. He always looked stoic, but now, he appeared unusually nervous. He ignored all the greetings he received as he rushed to the command tower of Dragon team base.

Inside the command tower, there was an old man seated at the seat of command.

The old man was obviously extraordinary. He was more than two meters tall and had an imposing build. He wore a white short-sleeved t-shirt and a blue colorful beach pants. He wore flowery slippers at his feet, pretending to look 'fashionable'. It did not seem to match his age that filled his head with white hair.

His facial features were cut sharp. One could still see signs of an extraordinary handsomeness in his youth. However, on the left side of his face, there was an ugly blade scar that went from his eyes down to his mouth, making him look rather threatening. However, the most noticeable feature was that he had a scarlet-red goatee!

”Greetings, Chief!”

Leopard Li gave a standard military salute. Although he was gripped by anxiety, he did not abandon military etiquette.

The red-goateed old man had once led troops to fight the calamity fiends for eight years at the dimensional juncture. He had sent the calamity fiends retreating and was thus, conferred the military rank of marshal. He was the most revered soldier in China. Now, he was the supreme leader of Dragon team and his strength was similarly ranked among the best in China. Even S Class heroes deferred to him. People called him Marshal Red Goatee.

”Oh, Little Li, you came just in time.”

Marshal Red Goatee stroked his goatee as he said with a smile. ”I just saw the particulars of the ten rookies from the organizations. That little guy named Shi Xiaobai is quite interesting. Not only did he kill eight Level Lords, he even cleared the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower. You might not know, but back when I was at the Psionic Mortal Realm, I could only flee when I encountered the few Level Lords. I failed when I reached the seventh level. This punk is actually more excellent than I was at his age. Haha, I really need to meet the punk. Speaking of which, this year sure is a bumper harvest. There's Bunny Cao, Chen Lingcun, and Mù Yaotian from the academic faction. From the organization faction, there's Shi Xiaobai, Speechless Li, and Sunless Ye. They are all geniuses not seen in a hundred years. To think that all of them appeared in the same generation. Interesting. Truly interesting.”

”It's truly a bumper harvest that doesn't happen in a hundred years. In the past three decades, the only generation that can compare to them is the one with One-Pun, Hisith, Groundless Cao, and Wei Ta.”

Leopard Li suppressed his anxious emotions for he knew the marshal hated gomers who messed things up. As such, he patiently listened to Marshal Red Goatee finish his musings before forcing himself to say calmly, ”Chief, the investigation on the two ancient trees you ordered have been completed.”

Yesterday, the Li family's Crown Prince Manor had suddenly produced a strange tree that could not be chopped or burned. Not even a single leaf could be plucked off. The tree grew at incredulous speeds, and later, another inverted tree appeared that had the sky as its soil. The two trees were growing at speeds noticeable to the naked eye. One towered towards the sky while the other drooped down towards the earth. Only when both crowns met in midair did they stop growing.

This strange phenomena was unprecedented. The special ops organization, Dragon team, was established to investigate and resolve mysterious matters, so they were naturally responsible for this case. After a day, they finally had a result.

Marshal Red Goatee's smiling expression instantly turned stern. ”Brief me.”

Leopard Li took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, ”We haven't made any headway with the towering tree, but for the other tree, according to the analysis of the shape of its leaves, the color of its bark, and the splitting of the branches, we are 90% certain that this strange inverted tree is… the Transcendence Holy Tree!”