Chapter 866: Chu Yili
The follow-up investigation progressed swiftly. Since the Blazing Flame Grand Venerable’s secret scheme against Chu Xiang had been exposed, the Merchant Alliance found itself in the wrong and was forced to make numerous concessions. As a result, the Chu Family received extensive compensation for their losses.
Even so, the old family patriarch, Chu Zhongtian, remained deeply dissatisfied and caused an uproar at the Merchant Alliance headquarters. In the end, even the military of the Xiao Kuang Star Region had to intervene to mediate the situation.
As part of the resolution, twenty young talents from the new generation of the Chu Family were granted positions in the military operations department of the Xiao Kuang military district, receiving rather favorable posts.
Among them was a young man named Chu Yili. He was assigned to the combat forces on one of the frontline planets, Planet Nock. Planet Nock was a land of sweeping sandstorms and an extremely harsh natural environment. The planet had never hosted life since its formation. Only cosmic lifeforms could survive there.
Due to the presence of a natural spatial anchor point located ten thousand kilometers northwest of the planet, Nock held immense strategic value. It was a battleground constantly contested by the Reaper faction and the human race of the galaxy.
Ever since the Xiao Kuang Legion had been stationed in the region, Planet Nock and its surrounding space had witnessed hundreds of thousands of battles. The number of lives lost in this sector had exceeded ten billion.
At present, the humans still held the upper hand around Planet Nock. The Xiao Kuang Legion’s second main combat division, the Xiao Shi Battle Division, was hailed as the iron-blooded soul of defense. They had held the line at Planet Nock for one hundred and fifty-six years, forging an unbreakable front with blood and bone.
However, Planet Nock had not been at peace lately. Reaper spies, along with agents from Eden, had become increasingly active. It was a sign that a major war was brewing. Chu Yili was brought to the Canglan Mountain defense line and temporarily assigned to the reserve unit of the rapid response team, Meteor.
The Meteor Team was ranked among the top ten rapid response units within the entire Xiao Shi Battle Division. It had a full strength of one hundred members, ten of whom were non-combat personnel. The average cultivation level of the combatants was the Three Origin Realm.
Among them, the three deputy captains and the combat commissar were all at the Five Dragons Realm. The team captain had reached the Six Gods Realm. The reserve unit consisted of fifty people. They were mostly young individuals with decent strength but little to no battlefield experience. Whenever a full member was injured or lost, a replacement would be selected from the reserves.