The Outer Battlefield, Third Battlefield, 016 Barracks Base.
Inside the master bedroom of a detached villa, No. 08563245.
Ye Muxuan slowly opened his eyes. A flicker of confusion and helplessness passed through his clear gaze.
He lay quietly on the comfortable, soft bed, waiting for that familiar dream to come again!
He was trapped in the same dream! He had almost forgotten whether this was the eightieth, ninetieth, or hundredth time!
In the dream, he was born on a continent in a Universe Secret Region. The continent was a million kilometers across. Not only did it hold his people's tribe, but powerful Ferocious Beasts also threatened their survival. As the legitimate son of the Mu Tribe's chief, Seventh Young Master Xuan had followed the tribe's elders in hunting Ferocious Beasts from childhood, and had mastered the art of the hunt.
His tribe was called Mu, and by custom, Seventh Young Master Xuan was also known as Muxuan.
Of course, he only gained this formal name after surviving one hunt after another and finally advancing to the Universe Rank!
Xuan had reached the Universe Rank in a mere hundred years, which at last brought the Mu Tribe to the Council of Elders' attention. The name Muxuan appeared on the Council of Elders' conference table for the first time!
Muxuan was the chief's legitimate son, the Seventh Young Master, and the Mu Tribe's greatest genius. But among the Council of Elders, which gathered the most talented members of the Human Race from tribes across the continent, he was not especially remarkable!
Yet after nearly thirty percent of the thousands upon thousands of geniuses had fallen over the course of a hundred years, Muxuan became one of the fastest cultivators among those who remained. In just three hundred years, he advanced to the ninth stage of the Universe Rank. A hundred years later, he survived a life-or-death battle with a Ferocious Beast, and before long became a Domain Lord, setting a new record for the tribe's Elders!
Reaching the Domain Lord level just five hundred years after his birth was a new record for the Human Race's cultivation across the entire continent in the Secret Region! Muxuan was hailed as the greatest genius among the tribes of the Human Race—and the youngest Elder in the Council of Elders!
At this point, he was summoned by the Council of Elders' Grand Elder!
The Grand Elder was a Mythical Rank figure who had protected the tribespeople for over a million years! There was only one Grand Elder on the entire continent, yet he alone held back the two strongest Ferocious Beasts, allowing the Human Race to thrive and multiply!
After that, Muxuan vanished from the continent. No one knew where he had gone! All that remained was the golden record, preserving the mark of his past and his glory!
Of course, this was only the first half of Ye Muxuan's dream! The second half of Muxuan's life continued!
After accepting the Grand Elder's charge, Muxuan left the continent alone, departed the Secret Region, and entered the vast reaches of space. Over the next five hundred years, he killed Star Pirates and was hunted by them; he saved people and was saved in turn. He weathered a cosmic storm, narrowly escaped death, and struggled to survive. He also had fortuitous encounters and obtained treasures.
Five hundred years later, he successfully advanced to the ninth stage of the Domain Lord level. At last, he entered the Outer Battlefield!
A ninth-stage Domain Lord was an Overlord in any star system, a local emperor. He could even establish a low-tier Universe Kingdom. But on the Outer Battlefield, he was only a little stronger than the Universe Rank cannon fodder!
He counted as mid-level cannon fodder!
The most numerous fighters on the Outer Battlefield were Domain Lords and World Lords! Immortal Deities might not be everywhere, but there were certainly plenty of them! As for the Universe Rank, it was the minimum requirement for entering the Outer Battlefield!
The Outer Battlefield was full of opportunities, and its life-or-death trials were excellent for honing one's skills. When Muxuan first arrived, he naturally joined a Cosmic Army led by an Immortal Deity. He personally witnessed several Universe Rank ninth-stage soldiers advance to the World Lord Level in just a few thousand years! That was almost unimaginable in the outside world!
The Outer Battlefield also proved an excellent place for Muxuan to hone himself. He had outstanding talent, and the cultivation inheritance he'd received in his tribe was merely decent, yet he had reached the Domain Lord level in just five hundred years and the ninth stage of the Domain Lord level in a thousand. Now, with life-or-death trials and cultivation manuals he could exchange for with Military Merit through the Military System, he broke through the Domain Lord level and became a World Lord in just a hundred years!
Over the next ten thousand years, he reached the Peak World Lord level!
But advancing from World Lord to Immortal was the first major threshold on the path of cultivation. Only by becoming Immortal could one truly ignore the passage of time and endure for eternity!
Once he had met the army's service requirement, Muxuan had already accumulated abundant battlefield experience. He therefore chose to fight alone. During his nearly 120,000 years on the Outer Battlefield, he spent close to 100,000 years wandering by himself. Still, on 016 Barracks Base, and even across the entire Third Battlefield, many World Lords and some Immortals knew him. He was one of the very few World Lord Generals among the millions of World Lords at that barracks base!
A World Lord capable of killing Immortals!
Defeating an Immortal head-on as a World Lord was already incredibly difficult. Killing one was harder still!
Several Elite Squads with Peak Immortal Army Lords had once invited Muxuan to join them, even offering him the treatment of a deputy captain!
But in the end, Muxuan turned them all down!
During more than a hundred thousand years of wandering alone, Muxuan had survived over a thousand life-or-death crises! He had watched wave after wave of army soldiers grow from green recruits into veterans, or retire. More often, they fell in battle!
In the end, while competing with a Monster Race World Lord for a treasure worth 800,000 Hunyuan Units, Star Gravel Sand, Muxuan was struck by a Soul Attack. Who could have guessed that the Sky Wolf Race World Lord—who had always followed the Fighter path, and was a Peak World Lord with combat strength approaching that of an Immortal—would use a Soul Attack!
Though his desperate last counterattack killed the Sky Wolf World Lord, Muxuan was left on the brink of death. He used two Life Fruits, treasures reputed to be a World Lord's second life, capable of saving someone from even the gravest injuries, yet he still showed no signs of recovery!
He forced himself to have his Intelligent Optical Brain return him to the barracks base. Once he reached the villa assigned to him, Muxuan lost consciousness!
And then Ye Muxuan was trapped in this consciousness, reliving everything again and again. He had no idea how many times it had happened.
From doubt, surprise, excitement, and eager anticipation, to waiting expectantly, then confusion, frustration, resentment, bewilderment, and numbness—Ye Muxuan had forgotten how many times this was. He could no longer figure out what these endless repetitions of an unknown scene were supposed to mean!
Muxuan's life, from birth until he finally lost consciousness, had spanned roughly 130,000 years. In this world, that was only a brief scene. To Muxuan, a Peak World Lord with a lifespan of tens of millions of years, it might not have passed in the blink of an eye, but it certainly wasn't long!
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