Harvest and Surprises

Inside the Machine Race Spaceship, within a quiet room, inside a brand-new World Ring, Ye Muxuan took out all the items from the World Rings and Space Rings belonging to that World Lord, along with everything scattered when his Internal World collapsed, and placed them there. A single sweep of his gaze was enough to roughly estimate their value.

A World Lord within a Universe Kingdom, and only a World Lord level 5 at that—not only was his strength pitifully weak, but his net worth was also pitifully low! All the items he left behind added up to only six or seven Hunyuan Units, the kind of loot that Ye Muxuan didn't even bother to organize!

"I have no personal grudge against you; this was merely for a commission. 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 the dead, and then a silver robot over a meter tall appeared in front of him. Its eyes glowed with red light, scanning the corpse.

"Scan complete, confirmation successful! Mo Xing, World Lord level 5, confirmed dead. Commission completed. Do you wish to confirm receipt of the reward?" The silver robot emitted a mechanical voice that echoed within the space of the World Ring.

"Confirm receipt!"

"Command confirmed! Please receive the reward left by the employer!" A hollow cavity appeared in the silver robot's chest, and a World Ring appeared within it.

Ye Muxuan took the World Ring. It was an ultra-small World Ring containing only a single silver tablet.

"Commission completed, command executed. Program entering self-destruct mode. Estimated self-destruct in three seconds!"

"Three... two... one..."

Under Ye Muxuan's calm gaze, the red light in the silver robot's eyes flickered slightly before finally extinguishing!

There were no surprises; Ye Muxuan had known it would be this way.

A hundred years ago, he had chanced upon a dying World Lord on the Outer Battlefield. It was the kind of injury that even a Life Fruit couldn't save—a newcomer who had only been on the battlefield for a few years and had already encountered a life-or-death crisis. This was the period when the mortality rate for newcomers was at its highest.

Having survived on the Outer Battlefield for over 120,000 years, and having fought alone for over 100,000 of those, he had seen such things many times. In truth, Ye Muxuan was not surprised. There was no need for sadness; it wasn't that he didn't feel it, but rather that it was unnecessary.

However, before that World Lord died, he had entrusted him with a task: to go to the Moli Star System in the Crimson Star Sector and kill a World Lord named Mo Xing. The reward was his greatest treasure: Locke Divine Water!

Ye Muxuan didn't want to know how that World Lord had obtained such an item, nor how he had failed to cultivate a powerful Plant Lifeform to assist him after obtaining it, and he certainly didn't want to know why he had chosen to gift the divine water to him.

Regardless, now that he was retiring, it was just a matter of killing a World Lord while he was at it.

He accepted the reward, killed a World Lord, and then obtained the Locke Divine Water to cultivate his Plant Lifeform, increasing his own survival capabilities. That was all there was to it; it had nothing to do with good or evil, nor with sides.

Of course, if it were truly unfortunate and this World Lord had other powerhouses by his side, or possessed some unknown trump card that led to his own death, then that would simply mean his own skills were inferior.

He examined the ultra-small World Ring in his hand and then bound it to himself.

Inside the World Ring, there was only a silver tablet. Inside that was a small landmass about a hundred miles in radius, with a lake in the center! Ye Muxuan's World Force permeated the cold lake water, sensing its properties. His gaze dropped, and he finally nodded slowly!

Locke Divine Water! That World Lord hadn't lied to him! Moreover, judging by the total amount of Locke Divine Water in this lake, it was worth at least tens or hundreds of millions of Hunyuan Units, perhaps even billions!

This was his second goal after becoming Muxuan! And it was the easiest one! He wanted to cultivate the Sword Leaf Grass, but relying on his current assets alone would be useless even if he went bankrupt; at most, he could only cultivate it to the World Lord level! But with this Locke Divine Water, he could attempt to cultivate the strongest 81-Leaf Sword Leaf Grass, or even have a chance at the strongest 360-Main Vine World Lord Rank Cloud-Touching Vine!

Placing his Sword Leaf Grass into this world and letting the Intelligent Optical Brain monitor the cultivation progress at all times, Ye Muxuan stored the silver tablet in his own World Ring; he no longer cared about the rest of the items!

The Crimson Star Sector of the Ganwu Universe Kingdom was extremely far from Longyan Planet on the Outer Battlefield—nearly a hundred billion light-years away! After all, Longyan Planet was not in the Seventh Battlefield, but in the Ninth Battlefield. Theoretically speaking, the Outer Battlefield was actually a battlefield outside the territory of the Human Race! The best territories in the entire Primal Universe were occupied by the four peak races: the Human Race, Machine Race, Monster Race, and Bug Race. Even the Crystal Race and Prison Race, which were also peak races, could only occupy inferior territories.

The battlefield, known as the "race meat grinder," naturally could not be placed within the territory of any peak race, so it could only be located in a Universe Secret Region outside the territories of the major peak races.

As for the lifeforms living in the secret regions? Hah!

Following the old rules, Ye Muxuan's spaceship would first go to Cangniao Planet, then enter the Seventh Battlefield through a God Kingdom channel. Once at the Seventh Battlefield, he would use God Kingdom teleportation to reach the Ninth Battlefield, and from there, Longyan Planet would be very close!

He was a World Lord who had redeemed an Initial Universe (World Lord Rank) Enlightenment Quota, so he was qualified to use God Kingdom teleportation to reach his destination.

There were still over three years of travel before returning to Cangniao Planet, so after handling all these matters, Ye Muxuan once again descended his consciousness into the Origin Land of the Universe!

He had prepared himself for that incomplete entity in his consciousness to slash out another Blade Ray! After all, the Origin Will hadn't locked onto him last time! And he couldn't give up his cultivation just because of this! But unexpectedly, it didn't happen this time!

It was as if that incomplete entity didn't exist in his consciousness at all!

However, just a second later, Ye Muxuan, who had let out a sigh of relief while sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes again, a flash of surprise and wild joy in them!

He discovered that after this descent of his consciousness into the Origin Land, the clarity of his comprehension of the laws had increased significantly, and his speed in comprehending the Origin Law had improved once again!

The World Lord level was inherently the easiest stage in one's entire cultivation career to comprehend Origin Laws, surpassing even Immortals, Venerables, and even Universe Masters! This was because World Lords could allow their consciousness to descend directly into the Origin Land of the Primal Universe!

If his clarity in comprehending the Origin Law of Wind while using his domain ability during the Domain Lord stage was 1, then it had been 300 when he first entered the World Lord stage! One day at the World Lord stage was enough to equal a year as a Domain Lord! And after receiving the recognition of the Origin Law of Wind, his clarity in comprehending the wind laws was at least 10,000! But now, it was at least 200,000! It had increased by more than twenty times again!

This level of improvement was astonishing! In the experience and knowledge of both Muxuan and Ye Muxuan, such a thing had never existed! Even the internal treasury of the Military System did not contain such auxiliary treasures!