Chapter 1111 Refusal?

Qi Long's round of ruthless attacks were ineffective and were easily blocked by Lin Yang.

However, this exchange also allowed Qi Long to understand most of Lin Yang's domain concept.

"Troublesome." Qi Long excitedly licked his bottom lip. Fighting with different types of domain realm masters was his favourite pastime.

"Now it is my turn, take this." Lin Yang suddenly clenched his right hand. Qi Long then felt he was confined and couldn't move.

"That is probably dimensional confinement." After analyzing the attack, Yang Mingzhi's eyes brightened. This technique was considered to be the most well-known dimensional element attack. Back in the day, dimension element domain realm masters used this technique to conquer the world with no equals.

"However, this technique is useless against Qi Long." Li Lanfeng and Qi Long fought many times before. He knew very well about the uniqueness of Qi Long's domain concept.

After he said that, they saw Qi Long escaping out of his opponent's confinement.

This scene stunned Lin Yang. Lin Yang, of course, wasn't arrogant enough to think that there wasn't anyone who could escape from his dimensional confinement, but those people would use overwhelming amounts of domain energy to break apart the dimensional confinement and escape. However, Qi Long didn't do that and Lin Yang didn't feel that his dimensional confine was destroyed. It still existed, but it was as though his dimension was disgusted by his opponent and voluntarily spat him out.

This was the first time he had seen something like this. How did his opponent do that?

Could it be his opponent's domain concept possessed this specialty to make other domain concepts be disgusted by him? Lin Yang seemed to have realized something and his expression became even more hardened.

If his dimension element was a known special domain that had the strongest offenses, then Qi Long's unknown domain concept would be considered an extremely special domain concept.

"Actually, I never understood Qi Long's domain concept." Yang Mingzhi sighed. That was why up until now, Qi Long's domain still didn't have a category assigned to it.

"However, his concept is really hated by all other domain concepts. Can we call it the concept of disgust?" Luo Lang said earnestly.

"Doesn't sound like a good name," Li Yingjie pouted and said. If someone dared to give such a bad name to his domain concept, he would definitely get angry.

"Regiment commander, you and Leader Qi had fought many times, have you not discovered anything about his domain concept?" Liu Furong didn't believe that Ling Lan knew nothing about it.

Everyone looked towards Ling Lan. They wanted to get the answer from their all-knowing Boss.

Ling Lan gave a half-smile as she looked at everyone. Then, she slowly said, "The concept of Qi Long's domain, of course, isn't like what is shown on the surface as disgust. If you guys were to think in that direction, then you would be walking down the wrong path and never find out the truth."

Everyone looked at their Boss with burning desire in their eyes, hoping that Boss could be more specific.

"I still haven't studied it thoroughly, but it mostly related to the concept of language." Ling Lan tossed out an answer that everyone never imagined

"The concept of language?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Simply put, if Qi Long didn't want something to happen, it wouldn't happen. It can be simply known as the concept of refusal." Ling Lan's answer enlightened everybody. It was no wonder they couldn't do anything to Qi Long. That was because Qi Long always refused the outcome of losing.

"Then, why wouldn't Qi Long refuse Boss?" Luo Lang asked with many questions in his mind.

"You idiot. Boss is just too strong for his concept to work. Just using his strength from his domain would destroy Qi Long. Even if he could refuse anything, he would still have an upper limit." Li Yingjie had a look full of disdain. Between all leaders in Lingtian, he only looked down on this Luo Lang. Of course, that was before Luo Lang's other personalities took over

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Ling Lan glanced at the two of them with a slight smirk on her face. "Yingjie's right, but... one session of month training for you. Luo Lang, add another month to your punishment as well."

"Holy sh*t!" Li Yingjie suddenly realized he got dragged down with Luo Lang.

Seeing Luo Lang smile at him with a huge grin on his face, he finally realized that honest-looking people were more evil than anyone else in the world.

While everyone was watching Qi Long and Lin Yang's battle in excitement, Little Four, who was in Ling Lan's mindscape, had an expression of confusion on his face.

"Boss, didn't you say the concept of refusal derived from the concept of language that I told you wasn't necessarily correct? Why did you tell them that?" Wasn't this purposely misleading?

"A trump card can only be a trump card when those around you don't know what it is," Ling Lan replied nonchalantly.

"..." Little Four seemed to understand, but also seemed to not understand. Did not telling those people meant that his Boss didn't actually trust them?

Feeling Little Four's concerns, Ling Lan reached out with her hand and patted his little head. She then continued, "This isn't something about trusting or not trusting, I'm just afraid that it would all be for nothing if I told them. If that was the case, I might as well let them be wrong at the very beginning."

"Then, what is Qi Long's actual domain concept? Boss, please tell me." Little Four looked at Ling Lan with puppy eyes, hoping Ling Lan could give him the answer. As an intelligent entity that knew everything in the world, if he couldn't find out the truth, he wouldn't be able to eat or sleep for quite a while.

"You want to know?" Ling Lan smirked. Ever since she broke through to the imperial realm, her ego had been set free. The heavy pressure she originally had on her shoulders decreased with her capabilities increasing.

Little Four nodded his head furiously. Ling Lan flicked her finger at his forehead and said, "Don't want to tell you."

"Boss!" When Little Four discovered that he got played by Boss, his little face instantly puffed up. His reddened face looked like he had been deeply wronged which made Ling Lan feel a slight itch, so she quickly reached out her right hand and softly rubbed his face.

"Boss, you're bullying me!" Little Four's little face was sad.

"I like you, so that's why I need to bully you. Dumby Little Four." Ling Lan flicked her finger at his forehead again. This Little Four didn't know that even if others wanted her to bully them, they wouldn't be qualified for it.

Seeing Little Four with tears in his eyes while looking so pitiful and sad, Ling Lan could only give up on her love of bullying him. She comforted him and said, "Alright, I'll stop teasing you. As compensation, I'll give you a hint."

The warm tears in Little Four's eyes were immediately sucked back in. He was full of energy as he looked at his Boss, waiting for her to explain to him. He didn't even look like he was sad at all. After following Ling Lan for so long, Little Four was no longer the simple and naive Little Four. Pretending to be simple-minded or naive was easy for him. The student had finally surpassed the master.

"If there's a result, then there must be a reason," Ling Lan said one sentence. Little Four didn't understand it at all. However, Ling Lan didn't continue to say anything else so Little Four knew that the hint was only just that.

'What does it actually mean?' Little Four was in deep thought.

Outside the mindscape, Lin Yang didn't retreat when he saw his dimensional confinement was completely ineffective. He put his two hands together. Right as he did that, the space around Qi Long began to crack open. One crack, two cracks, three cracks... countless cracks.

"Dimensional Tear."

The area of effect techniques of dimension elements were determined by the research institute as a sure-kill and unblockable technique. Everyone from Lingtian knew that with Boss around them, Qi Long wouldn't get hurt, but they still worried for Qi Long's safety.

Chapter 1112 Actual Rank: Major General!

The area Qi Long stood was completely torn up by the dimensional tear.

Everyone from Lingtian immediately had worried expressions on their face. They all turned to look at Ling Lan unconsciously, and they saw Ling Lan standing there calmly, without moving one bit.

'Qi Long is fine!' This was what everyone deduced by Ling Lan's action or rather inaction.

Everyone was quickly relieved of their worries for Qi Long. If Boss didn't act, it meant Qi Long definitely wasn't in any life-threatening danger.

Bang!

The sound of flesh hitting directly on flesh resounded in the air.

A silhouette was sent into the air and then smashed onto the ground. After it rolled on the ground a few times, it leaped back on his head.

Lin Yang stood firmly. His right hand wiped the drip of blood from his lips as he glared at his previous location with a look of surprise.

At that location, Qi Long was calmly standing there with no injuries. He showed an honest smile on his face with a hint of an apologetic look as he cupped his fist and said, "Pleasure, Regiment Commander Lin."

The dimension element sure-kill area of effect technique he used was actually useless against Qi Long. Rather than helping him, it instead gave Qi Long a chance to get close to him and hit him. He lost in a strange way, and he was speechless from it. What made Lin Yang feel even more annoyed was that he still didn't know what Qi Long's domain concept was.

"Leader Qi is indeed quite amazing. I've experienced it first hand." The leader of Team 03 was indeed very strong. Then, were the team leaders of Team 01 and 02, the two major generals, even stronger?

The way everyone looked towards Lingtian was no longer like how they looked down on Lingtian at the very beginning. Instead, it was the look of fear. They didn't think that such an inconspicuous and newly advanced titled super mecha clan was actually such a terrifying existence. With just their physical skills, Lingtian Mecha Clan was already on a similar tier with the legendary mecha clans. However, mecha clans were called mecha clans because mecha piloting was much more important than just physical skills. Now these other clans only hoped that the mecha piloting of the mecha operators from Lingtian Mecha Clan were not as strong as their physical skills.

"It was I who took advantage of you, Regiment Commander Lin. The information from the Military Research Institute helped me quite a lot with regards to your dimension element. Plus, Regiment Commander Lin held back as well and didn't use any technique outside of the information available in the database," Qi Long said apologetically. The honest looking face he had quickly wiped the dissatisfaction from the faces of many leaders from Slaughter Mecha Clan.

"In the end, it's still Leader Qi's domain concept that's extraordinary..." Lin Yang knew well that even if he had used techniques outside of the information available in the database, he probably still wouldn't have been able to do anything to Qi Long. His domain concept was too strange and abnormal to fight against.

Thinking about strange and abnormal, his gaze moved towards the side of Lingtian. Li Lanfeng was as abnormal and strange as Leader Qi Long. Although Qi Long didn't seem to be too abnormal... Lin Yang still felt that the domains he had seen were actually not the real manifestation of their domain concepts.

Suddenly, his gaze narrowed because he saw a young man who wasn't there before appear beside Li Lanfeng.

The difference when compared to other people beside Li Lanfeng was that this person had a white and blue cloak draped over his body. He was clearly different from all the others but looking at him now, he could easily be neglected by sight. However, once someone were to see him, they would definitely no longer be able to neglect this person's existence.

Lin Yang suddenly stopped moving. When the people behind him noticed that he was looking in a specific direction, everyone's gaze followed in the direction he was looking at.

Qi Long saw their Boss appear and instantly excitedly shouted, "Boss!"

Ling Lan's eye twitched. She had already punished them so many times for calling her that, so how could these guys still not remember it?

"One month of training!" Ling Lan said coldly.

"Yes, regiment commander!" Qi Long accepted the punishment with a big smile on his face.

It seemed like she needed to increase the difficulty of the month-long training session, in case these guys take it as a fun activity and not punishment.

Qi Long and Ling Lan's conversation proved the identity of this young man.

Lin Yang and the others would never have guessed that such an underwhelming individual was the regiment commander of such a strong clan like Lingtian. Their regiment commander wasn't a veteran mecha operator like they had thought previously. He also wasn't a well-known individual who was at their prime. Instead, their regiment commander was just someone who didn't catch anyone's eye. He was just an unknown and average young man.

"Regiment Commander Ling!" As the second seat commanding officer of Base Nebula, Lin Yang had managed to find out that the regiment commander of Lingtian had the surname Ling.

Ling Lan nodded. "Regiment Commander Lin."

Afterwards, she looked towards Yu Wei and the other regiment commanders and greeted them all.

As expected, Lingtian had already gotten hold of the information on the mecha clans in the Base Nebula or at least they were familiar with the mecha clans that came to visit.

Li Lanfeng was quite smart at times like this. He walked up and took off Ling Lan's cloak which showed the insignias on Ling Lan's chest and shoulders.

"Major General!" Everyone's eyes narrowed.

Yang Mingzhi and Liu Furong were major generals. Although this information stunned them, they could still accept it. After all, these two individuals were already in their 40s to 50s. Plus, they were famous figures for quite a long time. With their military merits and achievements, advancing to the rank of major general was the natural course of their career. However, Ling Lan was different. Ling Lan was too young to be a major general. He was at most 25 years old. In the history of the Federation's military, other than General Ling Xiao who had advanced to major general at that age 20 years ago, there wasn't a second person in existence who could be on par with him.

Even those people who had god-like backgrounds and vast connections still needed to wait until they were at least 35 years old to have a chance of advancing to the rank of major general, and that rank would also just be a pseudo rank.

This Regiment Commander Ling was however a real major general! Was the Federation going to have another General Ling Xiao appear?

The bright looks on everyone's faces had a hint of speechlessness. They were stunned by the fact that Ling Lan was able to advance to the rank of major general at such a young age.

"Major General Ling, please forgive our rudeness." Lin Yang definitely didn't believe that the military would play around with a real military rank. Especially if there were these many powerful individuals gathered here all at once.

Perhaps this super clan was created by the military in secret in order to take over for Proud Wind Mecha Clan. They were probably coming into the spotlight now because this clan had reached a point of maturity. Lin Yang and the other individuals thought about this in unplanned unison.

"No matter. I welcome it," Ling Lan replied plainly. "The friendship between soldiers are all formed through battle."

These words relieved everyone on the scene. The way Lin Yang, Yu Wei and the other regiment commanders also looked at Ling Lan with more acknowledgment. It seemed that Regiment Commander Ling wasn't a lucky individual who rose to the top in one step. Only those who had experienced the brutality of war knew the real meaning of brothers-in-arms.

In reality, they were only in admiration of Lingtian Mecha Clan's power, not the individuals from Lingtian Mecha Clan. Before this, Lingtian could be considered to be allied forces, but not their brothers-in-arms.

The seemingly two similar words actually had very different meanings. Allies were people who would help out when they have extra manpower. However, once the situation went out of the scope of their abilities, they would only just watch from the side. Only acknowledged brothers-in-arms would put their lives on the line and fight with each other side by side.

Without a doubt, Ling Lan's words allowed these regiment commanders to have a good impression of Lingtian. They were no longer refusing the fact that Lingtian was here which would allow Lingtian to quickly meld in the base.

Of course, if Lingtian wanted to have real camaraderie with the mecha clans in Base Nebula, there was still a long road ahead of themselves. Lingtian needed to at least experience a bloody battle with the clans for that to happen. It was just as Ling Lan had said, the friendship between soldiers was created through battle.

Chapter 1113 Knight!

Four months had passed since Lin Yang, Yu Wei and the other mecha clans visited Lingtian. In these four months, the entire Base Nebula knew that Lingtian Mecha Clan, the clan that was taking the place of Proud Wind Mecha Clan, was very powerful.

There was even gossip that Lin Yang, Yu Wei and the other regiment commanders had returned after losing all of their fights. However, because Lingtian, Slaughter, Piercing Arrow and the other clans didn't officially announce the results of the challenges, most people believed it to be just a rumor. Lingtian was probably very strong, but definitely wasn't strong enough to that extent.

However, what couldn't be denied was that Lin Yang, Yu Wei and the other regiment commanders all silently accepted the reality that they had lost the challenges which proved Lingtian's strength. This silent acceptance also made most of the people in Base Nebula temporarily put off the idea that Lingtian didn't have the qualifications to substitute Proud Wind Mecha Clan in terms of defending the base.

After all, it was a world of mechas. Although physical skills were the basic fundamentals for a mecha operator, what showed the real power of a mecha clan was still based on the piloting capabilities of the mecha operators. Thus, if Lingtian wanted to be accepted by all the mecha clans with the Base Nebula, their mecha operators must prove that their mecha piloting were strong enough.

It was because Lingtian was taking over for the Base Nebula's first ranked mecha clan, Proud Wind Mecha Clan, so the launching port that originally belonged to Proud Wind Mecha Clan would naturally be given to Lingtian. Yu Huan was also kind enough to provide Lingtian more launching ports and logistics personnel, such as JMCs and mecha hold logistics. However, Ling Lan kindly refused his offer.

Ling Lan needed a fully functional and coherent mecha clan and her own mecha clan didn't lack these resources. Thus, she didn't want to waste time to develop new recruits from outside sources. Furthermore, Ling Lan wanted to completely