supreme deity

Chapter 712 Shock
While Lin Rui was studying martial arts with the War Spirit Ring, the news that Lin Hao, the Duke of Song, was appointed as regent was spreading widely throughout Tianji Star and even within the Earth Federation.

When Yi Duxing received the news, he was in a warship in space, meeting with Zang Shaochen and Yang Lingxiao, chairman of Taiyi Group, to discuss the current situation.

There are many factions within the Changsheng Society. The three of them were originally giants, but now they have to come together under Lin Tianchen's continuous attacks and hunting.

"Lin Tianchen is actually nothing to be feared. Although he possesses the Abyssal Divine Artifact and has the combat power of a Super Divine Envoy, he is not without flaws."

Yi Duxing drank the tea brewed for him by the Dead Eye Demon and said calmly, "The truly terrifying ones are Lin Rui, who is behind Lin Tianchen, and the twin goddesses under his command. The deterrent power of these three siblings is too great, and their potential is also terrifying. Those immortal-level people who make peace with him are really raising a tiger to harm themselves."

With the intimidation of Lin Rui and the Gemini Goddesses, who dares to be an enemy of Lin Tianchen?
The current situation is that all forces in the Federation have to be cautious even if they want to secretly lend a helping hand to them.

What's more, Lin Rui's talent is indeed something that makes people extremely fearful.

With only the seventh realm, he is already a "strong senator" and can even fight against the gods.

When he reaches the eighth realm, and one or two colonization bloodlines are implanted into him, what will happen? That guy might even reach the super divine envoy level.

"I've fought Lin Tianchen twice. He's said to be a super-divine envoy, but he's actually pretty weak. He's nothing special!"

Zang Shaochen frowned slightly: "This Lin Rui is the real enemy of the Changsheng Society. I heard that the Forest Freight Company has placed an order for the civilian conversion of two retired battleships and four retired cruisers in East Asia. The size of its escort fleet will soon reach two squadrons.

And then there's 'Fire Bear,' Bader Martinez, who has officially joined the Forest Group as Vice Chairman of Forest Freight Company and Director of Marine Combat. He shared his employment contract on his personal homepage, promising a monthly salary of 50 billion federal coins, plus stock dividends, various mission bonuses, and subsidies. All in all, it could reach 200 billion. I don't understand, where did Lin Rui get all that money? His family doesn't own a bank!"

After Zang Shaochen escaped from prison, he began to organize his "Star Wolf Pirate Fleet".

He pulled back the three squadrons he had placed under the Extremely Evil Pirates Group, and used his own reputation and the financial resources of the Changsheng Society to poach people from various pirate groups.

So far, the 'Star Wolf Pirate Fleet', together with the two squadrons that escaped from the Second Fleet Group, has grown to eight squadrons.

This pirate fleet sounds powerful, but in fact it is the result of Zang Shaochen taking out all his savings and getting a lot of sponsorship from the Changsheng Society.

They only had eleven battleships, and each squadron was seriously short of warships, and even more so, they lacked powerful masters.

After hearing this, Yang Lingxiao couldn't help but sneer secretly, thinking that this person was chased by Lin Tianchen and had to hide in space, but he was still mumbling that Lin Tianchen was nothing special?
However, Lin Rui's rapid growth in strength also made him worried.

The 'Fire Bear' Bader Martinez was one of the three councilors who signed a divine contract with Lin Rui and withdrew from the Changsheng Society. He probably thought that he would be employed by the Forest Group anyway, and the Forest Group's treatment was good and its strength was also very good, so he simply joined the Forest Group.

A monthly salary of 200 billion federal coins is indeed very high, which is 2400 billion a year.

The net profit of a company with a market value of 3 trillion yuan is just this much, and it still has to bear business risks and be responsible for its own profits and losses.

This 'Fire Bear' is also a strong councilor, good at using various high-tech equipment.

This person is a martial artist who practices martial arts. The two conceptual powers he mainly cultivates, 'indestructibility' and 'strengthening', can also be used on the combat robots around him. The more combat robots he has around him, the stronger he is.

A few years ago, 'Firepower Mad Bear' had fought against Yang Lingxiao once, and competed with Yang Lingxiao, whose strength was close to that of a divine messenger.

Yang Lingxiao couldn't help but be worried. If the Changsheng Society hadn't signed a ceasefire agreement with Lin Rui and temporarily stopped the fighting before Purgatory, he would have moved the company's headquarters to other base cities.

"Why can't they afford it? Forest Group has 150 Great Song Star Port shipping licenses, 50 of which are for rental and 100 for private use. Within the Great Song, there are also forces under the Hidden Crown Prince that provide him with a large amount of affordable goods.

I don't know their exact income, but I can only estimate that the Forest Group's net profit per month alone could reach 2000 billion federal coins, and this is based on the fact that the Forest Group mainly deals in various daily necessities."

Yang Lingxiao smiled bitterly and said, "The one with the higher income is the Ruifang Group. Their skincare and health products are already very popular, and now the various medicines they have released are also making inroads throughout the federation. This month's net profit should be able to reach 9300 billion.

I still don't understand whether it's Lin Rui's own extraordinary talent or he has a top pharmaceutical team under his command. In short, the patents and drugs that our pharmaceutical companies transfer to Ruifang Pharmaceutical are slightly improved and revamped by them, turning decayed into miracles and greatly increasing their efficacy.

Oh, and there are also colonial suits. The colonial suits of Ruifang Group have been guaranteed by that 'Goddess of Law'. Now the top brass of the Song Dynasty only recognize the colonial suits provided by Ruifang Pharmaceutical."

"So high?" Zang Shaochen's face changed drastically when he heard that.

He estimated that the income of Lin Rui's two consortiums was very high, but he didn't expect their income to be so high.

Neither Ruifang Pharmaceutical nor Forest Group releases their financial reports to the public, but Zang Shaochen has no doubt about Yang Lingxiao's estimate.

Yang Lingxiao's Taiyi Biological Group is involved in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and transportation, and has deep connections and industry experience in these areas, so his estimates are definitely well-founded.

Zang Shaochen found it incredible that those Internet companies that were highly praised by the financial community did not expand as fast as Lin Rui's two consortiums.

Zang Shaochen looked puzzled and asked, "How far do you want to see Lin Rui's power expand? Can't you strike down his sales network and hospitals? I remember that the Changsheng Association had plans in this regard, why did it end in failure?

Even though the Changsheng Society is now bound by the armistice agreement, there are other forces within the Federation, such as the Shenzhao Army and its armed transport fleet. Are the Evil Pirates and the Starlink Pirates just going to watch?"

"The Forest Group's fleet has always been in lockstep with the Sky Fox Interstellar Trading Company, operating together. Linghu Mingde's true form is in charge, leaving the two pirate groups helpless. Now, Lin Tianchen has been promoted to commander of the Second Fleet Group, focusing on overseeing their fleet." Yi Duxing continued drinking his tea. "The total gross weight and total volume of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals are very small, so he handed over Ruifang Pharmaceutical's goods to several large logistics and transportation companies in East Asia.

As for Ruifang's sales network and hospitals, they weren't profitable, but Lin Rui still worked hard to manage them. He insured them, with a monthly premium of 1200 billion federal dollars, jointly underwritten by the seven largest insurance companies in the federation.

Zang Shaochen was stunned when he heard this, and then cursed in his heart: "Shit."

The operators of these seven large insurance companies are all top bosses in the Earth Federation, and the lowest ones are quasi-god-level bosses like Yang Lingxiao.

What’s worrying is that the ‘financial emperor’ Yi Duxing also has some shares in these companies.

However, Lin Rui controls such a large distribution network that he has unparalleled influence on the pharmaceutical companies in the Ninth Base City.

"Look at this again."

At this time, Yang Lingxiao placed a small porcelain bottle with extremely exquisite and elegant packaging in front of the two people. "This is called 'Ruifang Weisheng Dan'. It's a new health product launched by Ruifang Pharmaceutical. It can also be considered a skin care product. If you haven't heard of it, you can look it up online."

Yi Duxing glanced at the small porcelain bottle and then smiled bitterly.

He had known about this 'Ruifang Life-Promoting Pill' for a long time.

After Zang Shaochen searched online, his face changed drastically.

This 'Ruifang Life-Promoting Pill' is a new health product launched by Ruifang Pharmaceutical. Its functions are: first, health preservation, which is said to enable a person's body organs to achieve the best effect, thereby prolonging life and eliminating illness; second, skin care, which can moisturize the skin from the inside out and make the person look radiant.

The health-preserving effect of this medicine can be used once every three to five months, but its skin-care effect can only last for about 5 days. If used with other skin-care products from Ruifang Pharmaceutical, the effect will be better.

Therefore, this thing has been sold like hot cakes in the fourteen base cities of the Federation. Due to insufficient supply from Ruifang Pharmaceutical, the current black market price has risen to 5 federal coins, more than four times the official price of 10800 federal coins.

"The entire financial industry is eagerly awaiting the listing of Lin Rui's two companies, so Lin Rui's current power is already difficult to directly challenge—"

In fact, Yi Duxing cares more about the Ruifang Colonization and Biological Research Institute under Ruifang Pharmaceutical.

This research institute not only gathers many top biological talents, but also has received nearly two trillion federal dollars in funding from the East Asia and Security Bureau in the past year, and continues to purchase various top-level colonization materials from the market.

However, this research institute is located deep in the base of Forest Ruifang Group. It is heavily guarded and has watertight security. There are also the Gemini goddesses in charge. A forced attack is definitely not a good idea.

Yi Duxing and many people within the Changsheng Society, as well as the Atlantic FBI and other forces, have arranged capable personnel to investigate and infiltrate the Ruifang Colonization Biological Research Institute, but this still takes time.

Yi Duxing thought about this and shook his head slightly, his voice solemn: "Besides, due to the armistice agreement, it is difficult for us to focus on Lin Rui. This will only add fuel to the fire and increase casualties. So instead of thinking about how to defeat Lin Rui, it is better to set our sights on Lin Hao--"

"Lin Hao?" Zang Shaochen murmured. "Cut off his wings and arms first? That's feasible. These two are now supporting each other, one inside and one outside. Using the Great Song Star Port trade to clamp down on the major shipping companies in the Federation is indeed very tricky."

"This is also Purgatory's request, and the several great dynasties of Tianji Star are also happy to see it happen. The Song Dynasty's star port income is increasing day by day, making all parties on Tianji Star very wary, especially Purgatory. They are willing to pay a very high reward for this—"

As Yi Duxing was speaking, he received an urgent email on his terminal bracelet.

He opened it and took a look, and his expression suddenly changed.

Across from him, Yang Lingxiao also received a message from his intelligence director, his face pale as a sheet: "Duke Lin Hao of the Song Dynasty has been appointed Regent."

An hour ago, Yang Lingxiao had learned that Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty had attacked the Demon-Suppressing Forest and rescued the immortal dragon sealed in the Demon-Suppressing Forest.

However, he did not expect that the Eastern Abyss would choose Lin Hao as regent.

Zang Shaochen's expression was also extremely grim: "In other words, the Song Dynasty's imperial seal has fallen into Lin Hao's hands?"

This is extremely bad news.

Now Lin Hao not only takes charge of the affairs of the Song Dynasty, but also obtains the power of the imperial seal.

How powerful is the national treasure? The emperors of the Song Dynasty, even if they only had the seventh realm of cultivation, were also super divine envoy-level fighters in the vicinity of Luojing.

Their strategy to attack Lin Hao was about to fail before it even began.

Yi Duxing also frowned, thinking that the Changsheng Society would never allow the power of Lin Hao and Lin Rui to continue to grow wildly.

However, since Lin Hao has been appointed as regent, many of his methods will no longer be used, and they must change their strategy.

　I will update one chapter first and resume normal updates tomorrow.

　　
　
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