A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 2288 - 1544: The Demise of the Buli Tribe

After this, Duanmu Huai took the three back to the Tribunal.

The three were quite surprised by the environment here. After all, they came from ancient times, an era without magic or high technology. Just looking at the magnificent decoration of the Tribunal and the vast Galaxy outside, they were also greatly shocked.

Their arrival brought an interesting touch to the Tribunal.

For example, Wan Wan, the social anxiety sufferer, immediately started mingling everywhere, sweetly calling everyone sister or brother, leaving everyone at a loss. For example, Ann, after greeting Wan Wan, came over to Duanmu Huai in confusion, asking why Wan Wan would affectionately call her sister when they were neither related nor like Bambi, the little girl.

Duanmu Huai had to explain to Ann that in Wan Wan’s world, calling someone sister or brother doesn’t necessarily imply a blood relation or large age difference; it signifies closeness like siblings. After hearing Duanmu Huai’s explanation, Ann’s eyes lit up.

"Wait a minute, so does this mean I can also call Greiya my sister? Hehehe... that’s not bad... as a little sister, I could act spoiled towards sister, Greiya... hehehe..."

Then Ann, with a mischievous smile and drooling, went to find Greiya.

There was nothing Duanmu Huai could do but silently pray.

As for the Little Dragon Girl, the first thing she did upon arriving at the Tribunal was have a match with Mianmu Zuoniao.

Perhaps martial artists like to spar; strictly speaking, in the Tribunal, the ones with an actual style inheritance were only Mianmu Zuoniao and Little Dragon Girl, one using Police Observation Swordsmanship, the other inheriting Ancient Tomb Sect’s Jade Maiden Swordsmanship. So the two quickly had a contest.

In terms of Sword Technique, Little Dragon Girl was naturally more skilled, but Mianmu Zuoniao was crazy, each move aimed toward mutual destruction, life-and-death combat. Little Dragon Girl had never seen such a style and didn’t know how to handle Mianmu Zuoniao — she couldn’t exactly just cut Mianmu Zuoniao down with a sword.

But fortunately, there was one move that only Little Dragon Girl knew, which Mianmu Zuoniao didn’t, or rather which only people from the martial world knew, and people from other worlds didn’t.

And that was --- acupoint!

Indeed, when Mianmu Zuoniao charged forward, Little Dragon Girl directly switched sword moves, and with a reverse hand, performed an acupoint strike. Poor Mianmu Zuoniao had no idea such a bizarre technique existed globally, completely unprepared, thus determining the winner.

In the martial world, the technique Duanmu Huai most wanted to learn was acupoint. You see, in novels and movies, just a simple acupoint would knock someone unconscious, or fix them in place. Duanmu Huai even heard Wan Wan say that the Demon Sect had some acupoint methods, which once performed, could make people lose their minds, unable to resist falling into love.

Isn’t this much easier than hypnosis, time stop, or drugging?! That’s why rapists in the martial world are all acupoint experts, isn’t it?

Unfortunately, several girls all said Duanmu Huai couldn’t learn acupoint because his hands were too big, his fingers nearly the size of their small fists. Such a strike wouldn’t be acupoint but Beidou Divine Fist, one that causes immediate explosion upon impact. Left with no choice, Duanmu Huai had to abandon the idea.

Even though this acupoint move amazed the Tribunal crowd, they couldn’t learn this acupoint Technique for now. Firstly, it requires True Qi, and secondly, while human body structure might be similar, alien body structure and acupoints certainly couldn’t be according to human bodies, so this move was only effective against humans themselves with limited application.

As for Wang Yuyan, Duanmu Huai took her to the library to study Martial Arts Heart Methods with others, bringing along Ling’Nu, Lani, and Frieren.

After all, Ling’Nu’s ninjutsu counts as a martial art, so there are some connections there.

The three showed keen interest in these Martial Arts Heart Methods.

As Duanmu Huai said, whether it’s Ling’Nu, Lani, or Frieren’s world, they all have similar ways of enhancing their physique, just that their methods are pure, straightforward, and brutal, concentrating or overlaying energy. The advantage is simplicity and directness; anyone can use it with adequate energy. But the drawback is the great aftermath, causing significant damage to the body, perhaps even irreversible.

Although inner strength in the martial world isn’t particularly powerful, this method of enhancing oneself through so-called meridian circulation to form a fixed system is unheard of in other worlds. For instance, to people from other worlds, energy is like a ball, directly activated as-is.

But now, they are surprised to discover that this ball can be decomposed, rearranged, and that different combinations could produce different effects and efficacy—this instantly captured Lani and Frieren’s interest, both diving headlong into research.

Ling’Nu was more interested in Qinggong. After some experimentation and comparison, Duanmu Huai realized there’s still a difference between Qinggong and ninjutsu, mainly differing in direction. Using gaming terminology, Qinggong primarily focuses on evasion, while ninjutsu focuses on concealment.

Thus, female ninjas resemble assassins or killers, hiding to deliver a fatal strike, less potent in direct duels compared to warriors. If caught by a crowd, only death awaits them.

Qinggong is mainly used for dodging attacks, meaning even if surrounded, using Qinggong ensures the opponent misses... And for Ling’Nu leading the female ninja, learning a set of Qinggong would naturally be advantageous.

Conversely, ninjutsu isn’t much use to martial artists like the Little Dragon Girl in the martial world. Unless they are thieves, lowlifes, those practicing stealth assassination, few would focus on studying methods of concealing oneself.

After settling here, Duanmu Huai also listened to Mary’s report on the elimination operation of the Bu Li.

How should I put it... it is quite interesting.

Originally, following Duanmu Huai’s approach, he would simply issue an extinction order on the Bu Li’s planet, and Mary thought the same way at first.

However, after preliminary scouting, Mary had to change her mind.

Because the Bu Li and Foxmen are inhabitants of the same planet, although most Foxmen have escaped the clutches of the Bu Li, some are still enslaved as their slaves.

If it were Duanmu Huai, he would simply say, "It’s a necessary loss," and clear them out altogether. But Mary’s approach is clearly different from Duanmu Huai’s, as she felt she should rescue those Foxmen before issuing the extinction order on this planet.

So Mary adopted another tactical method.

She first pressed the army’s borders, completely blockading the entire Bu Li planet, creating the appearance of wiping out the Bu Li. Due to the loss of their leader, the Bu Li were originally chaotic among the tribes. With Mary’s move, these Bu Li instead resolved to unite and resist the Tribunal.

And this is exactly what Mary hoped to see.

Because Mary discovered through investigation that this tribe would unite in perfect coordination during resistance against external enemies, abandoning all factors dragging their feet. Thus, she deliberately used this method to force them to unite again without a leader. Sure enough, after uniting to resist the Tribunal, the Foxmen, seen as useless by the Bu Li, were set aside.

However, the Bu Li are not fools; the Tribunal’s notifications are known to all, and they know clearly they won’t be classified as "Humans," but the Foxmen might be classified as Subhumans. Moreover, Duanmu Huai had previously issued an extinction order. To avoid the Tribunal’s strategic deception, the Bu Li gathered the remaining Foxmen for custody, even transforming some Foxmen into Bu Li to augment their combat power. Others were used as hostages to threaten the Tribunal.

Yet despite this, Mary still didn’t change her plan, dispatching Night Guards to attack Bu Li’s tribe strategically, oppressing them to the maximum extent.

Of course, when the Bu Li found that the Tribunal seemed truly indifferent to the Foxmen, aiming to wipe them out completely, these cunning wolves immediately switched tactics, charging towards the Tribunal with full force.

Then, Mary judged that the timing was ripe and deployed air-dropped cabins to forcibly occupy the Foxmen’s gathering place, evacuating all Foxmen, and decisively issued an extinction order on that planet.

Of course, some Bu Li tried to disguise as Foxmen with a strange potion to slip through, but under Mary’s Golden Pupil, naturally, it was unsuccessful, and they were caught and eliminated directly.

However, this action didn’t conclude perfectly. Perhaps due to Mary’s immense pressure, some Bu Li outside attacked Immortal Boat Luofu, attempting to rescue the Bu Li leader Hu Lei imprisoned by Immortal Boat Luofu. However, since three Immortal Boat Generals were present, their plan failed, and Hu Lei was completely destroyed for certain reasons.

Although the Generals expressed that this loss was insignificant, Mary was somewhat uneasy.

"Well done."

After reading Mary’s report, Duanmu Huai nodded in satisfaction. Although if it were him, he wouldn’t care about the Foxmen enslaved by the Bu Li and would treat them as necessary losses. But he didn’t mind Mary wanting to do so, as Mary possesses a Golden Pupil, making it impossible for the Bu Li to succeed with any tricks before her.

In short, as far as the Tribunal is concerned, as long as the result is good, the process doesn’t matter.

"Hoo..."

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s compliment, Mary also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this was her first time independently commanding an operation and making decisions. Although Mary thought she hadn’t overlooked anything significant, it wasn’t until she heard Duanmu Huai’s affirmation that her heart finally settled.

"That’s good... By the way, Mr. Duanmu."

"Hmm?"

"Immortal Boat sent an invitation saying they plan to celebrate the elimination of the Bu Li and the rescue of those Foxmen. They plan to host a celebration and invite the famous interstellar star Miss Nightingale to perform. Should we attend?"

"Anyway, we have free time."

Regarding Mary’s report, Duanmu Huai didn’t object.

"Let’s go have a look."