After making a few minor adjustments to the plan, Ye Muxuan set the matter aside, satisfied that he had everything under control. He glanced over the active scanners and, finding no targets worth noting, accelerated the ship. Within three seconds, it had reached a near-light speed of 250,000 kilometers per second, hurtling through the vastness of space!
He checked the latest Star Map. From his current coordinates, the destination was more than 30,000 light-years away. If he stayed in the Original Universe, even traveling at the speed of light would take over 30,000 years! So once his scanners had confirmed there were no noteworthy targets within a hundred million kilometers, Ye Muxuan promptly entered the Dark Universe!
At 35 times the speed of light, the Machine Race Spaceship could cross the more than 30,000 light-years of the Original Universe in less than an hour in the Dark Universe. A little over forty minutes later, the ship was ejected back into the Original Universe, arriving in the target region!
The Moli Star System was a medium-sized system roughly 100,000 light-years across. Near its edge lay a small star system about one light-year in diameter, consisting of celestial bodies orbiting a star. It contained twelve planets, along with numerous dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, clouds of gas, and dust. Three habitable planets were scattered along its orbital paths.
A silver-white, pyramid-shaped spacecraft appeared abruptly in space. Having just emerged from the Dark Universe, it was still at a standstill, floating quietly among the stars.
As soon as he returned from the Dark Universe to the Original Universe, Ye Muxuan activated both the large scanner and his own smaller one!
The scanners showed only one World Lord Level presence within a radius of a hundred million kilometers!
Ye Muxuan's gaze settled on a small asteroid less than a million kilometers away, roughly six or seven hundred kilometers in diameter. He frowned slightly.
Destroying an asteroid was no challenge for Ye Muxuan. The problem was that the Planet Destroyer Cannon aboard the Machine Race Spaceship was far too powerful! One shot would obliterate the asteroid—and probably everyone inside it, along with their World Rings and anything else they carried.
Then he would have no evidence.
Space rippled before Ye Muxuan, and an E4 Rank Alloy Spaceship appeared alongside the Machine Race Spaceship. It was one of the many ships in the Sky Wolf Race World Lord's World Ring. In every respect, it was far inferior to the three E9 Rank Spaceships Ye Muxuan had kept for himself. Its only weapons were three D9 Rank Railguns, enough to bully asteroids but not even blow apart an ordinary planet over ten thousand kilometers in diameter!
Nine Phoenix operated one of the D9 Rank Railguns aboard the ship. After charging for thirty seconds, it fired a dazzling beam a hundred meters across. The beam streaked through space for about three seconds before striking the asteroid!
Without a sound, the asteroid first shattered, then the compressed energy detonated, turning it into a flash of light and cosmic dust!
The blast exposed a deep-purple, fish-shaped spaceship at the asteroid's core!
"E9 Rank!" Ye Muxuan nodded slightly from the Machine Race Spaceship's control room. The Railgun's shot had taken three seconds, enough time for him to stow the E4 Rank ship and board the Machine Race Spaceship.
The D9 Rank Railgun clearly couldn't breach an E9 Rank ship's hull. Compared to high-grade spaceships like these, even planets and stars were relatively fragile!
The moment the E9 Rank ship emerged, it began to flee. Anyone capable of destroying an asteroid over six hundred kilometers across in a single strike had to be at least a World Lord! Worse, the ship's own scanners couldn't detect where the enemy was!
The small scanner concealed Ye Muxuan and the Machine Race Spaceship, while the large scanner easily tracked the E9 Rank ship's direction. Under Nine Phoenix's control, the Machine Race Spaceship charged straight after it!
The fish-shaped E9 Rank ship needed about ten seconds to accelerate to light speed and enter the Dark Universe—a very respectable speed. But Ye Muxuan's Machine Race Spaceship took only three seconds to reach light speed!
And because the E9 Rank ship was fleeing blindly, it was only a little over 800,000 kilometers from Ye Muxuan. The angle of their approach was narrowing the gap even further! Just 2.6 seconds later, the fish-shaped E9 Rank ship had barely noticed the incoming craft when the Machine Race Spaceship slammed into it!
"Boom!"
The deep-purple, fish-shaped E9 Rank spaceship silently came apart in space, reduced to wreckage by the impact. Two World Lord Ninth Order Plant Lifeforms had just appeared when a brilliant, icy blade flashed. It cut through the massive vines the two Plant Lifeforms had joined together in defense, split their alloy armor, pierced their Force Armor, and struck a lean man!
The slash had broken through the combined defenses of two World Lord Ninth Order Plant Lifeforms, cut through their alloy armor, and cleaved through their Tier 5 Force Battle Suit. Even after all that, it still split the Origin Bead of a World Lord Fifth Order!
The lean man stared at the sudden blade. His predatory, wolf-like eyes flickered with confusion, disbelief, and fear before his consciousness sank into endless darkness!
The Origin Bead shattered. The World Lord died!
From the moment Ye Muxuan brought out the E4 Rank ship and began charging its Railgun, it took three seconds to destroy the asteroid, 2.6 seconds to smash the E9 Rank ship, and 0.1 seconds for the slash that killed a World Lord Fifth Order and two World Lord Ninth Order Plant Lifeforms. The entire battle took 5.7 seconds!
This was a World Lord who had survived more than a hundred thousand years on the Outer Battlefield! A World Lord General of the Outer Battlefield! One of the strongest World Lords, said to be capable of killing Immortals head-on!
Compared to warriors like them, World Lords in the Universe Kingdoms were laughably green. Even an experienced Domain Lord from the Outer Battlefield could have killed this man with careful planning!
On the Outer Battlefield, especially for a lone fighter like Ye Muxuan, wasting even 0.1 seconds in a fight could mean death!
When a World Lord died, his Internal World collapsed automatically, scattering its countless possessions across space. Ye Muxuan swept through them with his World Force, gathering everything—including the World Lord's corpse—into an empty World Ring. A moment later, he boarded the ship and took off. Three seconds later, it reached light speed and entered the Dark Universe, leaving behind empty space and a few scattered fragments that still vaguely resembled spaceship wreckage!
By the time the dead World Lord's organization and backers realized they couldn't reach him, hundreds of years had passed!
After all, even a simple retreat to comprehend the laws could keep a World Lord in seclusion for hundreds or thousands of years!
In the Dark Universe, inside the quiet room of the Machine Race E9 Rank Spaceship, Ye Muxuan sat cross-legged. He had already set a new destination: Cangniao Planet in the Seventh Battlefield. From there, he would travel through the God Kingdom Transit Station to Longyan Planet in the Ninth Battlefield! In this era, the World Lords and Immortals on the Outer Battlefield who had exchanged for a chance to study at the Initial Universe would all gather there!
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