Inside the Machine Race Spaceship, in a quiet room, Ye Muxuan laid out everything that had spilled from the World Lord's Internal World when it collapsed, along with all the World Lord's World Rings and Space Rings, inside a brand-new World Ring. A quick glance was enough for him to roughly estimate their value.
The World Lords in a Universe Kingdom were only at the Fifth Order, and not only were they pitifully weak, they were pitifully poor as well! Everything the man had left behind added up to only six or seven Hunyuan Units. It was all the sort of stuff Ye Muxuan couldn't be bothered to sort through!
"You and I had no personal grudge. I did this only because of a promise. Someone offered me a reward I couldn't refuse." Ye Muxuan looked at the World Lord's corpse before him, as if explaining himself to it. Then a Silver Robot over a meter tall appeared in front of him. Red light shone from its eyes as it scanned the corpse.
"Scan complete. Identity confirmed! Mo Xing, World Lord Fifth Order, confirmed deceased. Your master's commission is complete. Do you confirm collection of the reward?" The Silver Robot's mechanical voice echoed through the World Ring's space.
"Confirmed!"
"Command confirmed! Please accept the reward your master left behind!" A hollow opened in the Silver Robot's chest, and a World Ring appeared inside it.
Ye Muxuan took the World Ring. It was an ultra-small World Ring containing only a Silver Tablet.
"Commission complete. Command complete. Initiating self-destruct sequence. Self-destruction estimated in three seconds!"
"Three... two... one..."
Under Ye Muxuan's calm gaze, the red light in the Silver Robot's eyes flickered faintly, then went out.
Just as expected. Ye Muxuan had known this would happen all along!
A hundred years ago, by a twist of fate, he had saved a dying World Lord on the Outer Battlefield—the kind of man even a Life Fruit couldn't save. He had been a newcomer, not even a few years into his time on the Outer Battlefield, and had already found himself in mortal danger. That was when new arrivals were most likely to die!
Ye Muxuan had survived on the Outer Battlefield for over a hundred and twenty thousand years, fighting alone for more than a hundred thousand of them. He had seen this sort of thing many times, so he wasn't surprised. He didn't even need to feel sad—not necessarily because he felt nothing, but because there was no need!
Before he died, however, the World Lord had entrusted Ye Muxuan with a task: go to the Moli Star System in the Crimson Star Sector and kill a World Lord named Mo Xing. His reward would be his greatest treasure: Locke Divine Water!
Ye Muxuan didn't want to know how the World Lord had obtained something like this, why he hadn't used it to cultivate a powerful Plant Lifeform to aid him, or why he would give the Divine Water to Ye Muxuan.
The point was, now that he was retiring, all he had to do was kill a World Lord along the way!
He accepted the reward, killed a World Lord, then took the Locke Divine Water to cultivate a Plant Lifeform and improve his chances of survival. That was all. Good or evil, allegiance or otherwise—none of it mattered.
Of course, if things went badly and the World Lord had other powerful fighters by his side, or some hidden trump card, and managed to kill Ye Muxuan, then it would only mean that Ye Muxuan had been outmatched.
He examined the ultra-small World Ring in his hand, then made it recognize him as its master.
Inside the World Ring was only a Silver Tablet. Within it lay a small stretch of land a hundred li across, with a lake at its center! Ye Muxuan sent his World Force into the cold lake water to sense its properties. His gaze lowered, and at last he slowly nodded.
Locke Divine Water! The World Lord hadn't lied to him! And the lake held an enormous quantity of it, worth at least tens of millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions or billions of Hunyuan Units!
This was his second goal after becoming Muxuan—and the easiest one to achieve! He wanted to cultivate Sword Leaf Grass, but with his current wealth, even spending every last coin wouldn't amount to much. At most, he could raise it to the World Lord Level! But with all this Locke Divine Water, he could try to cultivate the strongest 81-Leaf Sword Leaf Grass. He could even try his hand at a World Lord Level Cloud-Touching Vine with the strongest 360 main vines!
He placed his Sword Leaf Grass in this world and had his Intelligent Optical Brain monitor its growth at all times. Then Ye Muxuan put the Silver Tablet in his own World Ring and paid no further attention to the remaining items.
The Crimson Star Sector in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom was an enormous distance from Longyan Planet on the Outer Battlefield—nearly a hundred billion light-years away! After all, Longyan Planet wasn't in the Seventh Battlefield, but the Ninth Battlefield. In theory, the Outer Battlefield was really the battlefield beyond Human Territory! The four Peak Races—the Human Race, Machine Race, Monster Race, and Bug Race—occupied the finest territory in the entire Primal Universe. Even the Crystal Race and Prison Race, though also counted among the Peak Races, could only occupy territory of lesser quality.
A battlefield known as the slaughterhouse of the races couldn't be placed inside the territory of any Peak Race. That left no choice but to select a Universe Secret Region outside the territories of all the Peak Races.
As for the lifeforms living in the secret region? Hah!
As usual, Ye Muxuan's spaceship would first travel to Cangniao Planet, then enter the Seventh Battlefield through the God Kingdom Channel. From there, he would use Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach the Ninth Battlefield. Then it would be a short trip to Longyan Planet!
He was a World Lord who had exchanged for a cultivation slot in the Initial Universe for World Lords, so he was qualified to use Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach his destination.
It would be over three years before he returned to Cangniao Planet. After taking care of everything, Ye Muxuan once again sent his consciousness to the Origin Land of the Universe!
He was ready for the Incomplete Entity in his consciousness to strike out with another Blade Ray. After all, the Origin Will hadn't locked onto him last time! Besides, he couldn't abandon his cultivation over something like this. But, unexpectedly, nothing happened this time!
It was as if the Incomplete Entity weren't even there in his consciousness!
But only a second later, Ye Muxuan—who had been sitting cross-legged and had just breathed a sigh of relief—opened his eyes again. Surprise and elation flashed in them!
He discovered that after his consciousness descended into the Origin Land this time, his perception of the laws had become vastly clearer, and his speed of comprehending the Origin Law had increased once more!
The World Lord Level was already the easiest stage in an entire cultivation career for comprehending the Origin Law—not even the Immortal, Venerable, or Universe Master levels could compare! That was because World Lords could send their consciousness directly into the Origin Land of the Primal Universe!
If the clarity with which he sensed the Origin Law of Wind through his Domain as a Domain Lord had been 1, then after he advanced to the World Lord Level, it had become 300! One day at the World Lord Level was enough to equal a year as a Domain Lord! After receiving the Origin Law's recognition, the clarity with which he sensed the Law of Wind had reached at least 10,000! And now, it was at least 200,000! It had increased more than twentyfold again!
This increase was astonishing! Neither Muxuan's nor Ye Muxuan's experience and knowledge had ever encountered anything like it! Even the Military System's internal treasury held no treasures that could aid him in this way!
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