Rebirth

Ye Muxuan lay on the bed, eyes wide open, staring blankly.

One second, two seconds...

One minute, two minutes...

One hour, two hours...

Having experienced what might have been eighty or ninety cycles of a long, drawn-out period spanning over a hundred thousand years—at least, to a young man in his teens or twenties who had last been able to walk freely, this was perhaps hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of years, a truly vast and endless amount of time—Ye Muxuan, lying on the bed, had become so numb that he no longer had any concept of whether this was one or two seconds, one or two minutes, or one or two hours!

However, what was the point of just lying there?

As this thought finally emerged through the numbness, and realizing that he had not entered that cycle of dreams for some time, Ye Muxuan slowly sat up.

He raised his eyes, taking in an environment that was unfamiliar yet somewhat recognizable. His gaze lowered; his battle armor was still stained with long-dried blood, and his entire body reeked of a foul, bloody scent.

He stretched out his hand, clenching his slender fingers into a fist before releasing them. After doing this a few times, feeling the vast and surging energy within, Ye Muxuan closed his eyes and took a deep breath, with the illusion that he had almost sucked the air out of the surrounding space!

In reality, let alone a World Lord, even a Star Rank or Universe Rank warrior could traverse the Starry Sky with their physical bodies, having long since transcended the realm of needing oxygen to survive!

He exhaled that breath in a long, slow stream, as if venting out all the various emotions accumulated over those hundreds of thousands or millions of years!

Opening his eyes again, he could see the pillars of sunlight shining in through the window, and through the glass, he could even see millions of World Lords in the hall of the Barracks Base not far away!

This time, he had not fallen into that repetitive dream!

Ye Muxuan stood up. Having repeated this dozens of times over millions of years, he was no stranger to this body! The only difference was that in those previous dozens of times, he had been like a secondary personality, clearly sensing everything but unable to control anything. But now, he could sense that he was the sole master of this body!

As for the original Mu Xuan, it seemed that after being severely wounded by that soul attack, his soul and consciousness had slowly dissipated during the time Ye Muxuan was trapped in the repetitive dreams!

Or rather, the process of Mu Xuan's consciousness dissipating was exactly what Ye Muxuan had experienced as the repetitive dreams!

Ye Muxuan looked down, examining the blood-stained battle armor from his final battle. The armor was covered in cracks, so he tore it off with his bare hands, taking the opportunity to remove all his clothing as well.

Walking into the indoor pool in another room, Ye Muxuan stood under the water, letting the clear water automatically cascading from above wash the scent from his body! It was as if he were washing away those nearly a million years of emotions!

Without any lingering feelings, Ye Muxuan's heart was like an ice mirror. Having endured dozens of repetitive dream cycles, the nearly million-year ordeal that would have driven anyone mad had forged his state of mind into something cold and sharp!

After washing clean, Ye Muxuan returned to the master bedroom, draped a large bath towel over himself, and stood before the massive floor-to-ceiling window, his gaze fixed on the Barracks Base hall nearby.

There, millions of World Lords resided, along with an equal number of Domain Lords, and a small portion of Universe Rank warriors and Immortals!

His gaze lowered; the floor-to-ceiling window outlined Ye Muxuan's silhouette, reflecting the mottled sunlight streaming in from behind him.

"Villa 08563245, one Set Meal 05726, and change the beverage to Type 6127." Looking at his reflection in the window, Ye Muxuan's voice rang out quietly in the villa.

"Understood, Master!" The villa's built-in intelligent system responded instantly.

About ten minutes later, the villa door opened, and a robot brought in the meal Ye Muxuan had requested. It was a Smart Robot; if it had been any other living being, they would have been killed by the Barracks Base's intelligent system for trespassing without the villa owner's consent!

Within the Barracks Base, unless a Venerable guarding the Outer Battlefield from the human camp fell and the entire base was overrun, one was absolutely safe!

The Type 6127 beverage was actually a type of liquor. It was a tiny bottle, the size of a palm, yet it required ten thousand Military Merit points to redeem within the Military System! And an ordinary World Lord was worth one hundred thousand Military Merit points!

Mu Xuan himself had not been fond of alcohol, so he had never redeemed it, but Ye Muxuan was different. As a newborn soul, he needed a touch of mental stimulation.

Feeling the liquor wash over his mouth and taste buds, experiencing that cool, nourishing sensation, Ye Muxuan finally felt the reality of being alive!

Sitting in the living room, Ye Muxuan calmed his mind and sensed the massive amount of items within his World Ring.

He was Mu Xuan, yet he was not Mu Xuan! And from now on, he would no longer stay on the Outer Battlefield!

Inside the World Ring were all the spoils Mu Xuan had gathered during his hundred-thousand-year journey on the Outer Battlefield! Of course, some of the most important items were stored in his Internal World, but Ye Muxuan now brought them all out and placed them into the World Ring.

The various spoils of war and items redeemed from the Military System were massive in quantity! The number of spaceships alone exceeded one hundred million! However, the vast majority were C-Rank Spaceships, which were nothing but cannon fodder on the Outer Battlefield! They looked numerous, but in reality, they were worthless.

The various weapons, battle armors, and other items he had collected were also piled messily in the World Ring.

Secret Techniques, weapons, battle armors, spaceships, Auxiliary Plant Lifeforms, and Auxiliary Metal Lifeforms—these items constituted the greatest expenses for a powerhouse, usually accounting for half or even seventy to eighty percent of their net worth! After killing an Alien Race, Secret Techniques could not be obtained, and Auxiliary Life Forms would die along with their masters, but weapons and armors could still be recovered.

Of course, there were also various strange and miscellaneous spoils.

For over a month, Ye Muxuan did not leave the villa, instead organizing everything. The most valuable items, such as those redeemed from the Military System's treasury—items that might not even be found at auctions in Universe Kingdoms—as well as some spoils Mu Xuan had obtained over the years, such as the "Star Gravel Sand" worth eight hundred thousand Hunyuan Units, were kept. He had more than one such treasure, along with small trinkets Mu Xuan had cherished, all of which were stored in his Internal World.

As for the remaining massive amount of items, aside from some necessities, rare items seldom seen in the outside world, or materials difficult to purchase with money, he placed them into a new World Ring. He had an Intelligent Optical Brain estimate the value of the rest and then contacted the acquisition personnel within the Military System to sell them off.

Within the Barracks Base, a massive number of Universe Warriors entered and a large number chose to retire every day, so Ye Muxuan's actions were not unusual. At most, the internal personnel coming to collect the items would assume Ye Muxuan was planning to retire.

However, Ye Muxuan had already been a free agent for over a hundred thousand years, and choosing to retire was his right; the internal personnel had no reason to comment on that.