Palace Treasures

Ye Muxuan and his group entered the hall, meeting the gazes of over a thousand people, and found a corner to sit down. Many were sizing up the thousand-plus powerhouses in the hall, though quite a few simply sat with their eyes closed in contemplation. Upon learning that these thousand people had obtained their spots through internal auctions within their respective Universe Kingdoms, many of the one hundred and twenty powerhouses present lost any desire to interact with them.

On the path of the strong, those worthy of respect are the true powerhouses, the pillars standing at the peak. To put it bluntly, any one of the hundred World Lords from the Outer Battlefield could be plucked out, and if any of the eight or nine hundred World Lords in this hall faced them, being killed in an instant would be the least of their worries. Even Li Zheng—don't let his inability to withstand Ye Muxuan's second blade fool you—could actually slaughter more than half of these eight or nine hundred people on his own. If it were a super World Lord like "Thunderbolt Spear" Zhendan, who had once killed an Immortal Deity head-on, he could slaughter all these World Lords by himself.

While a change in quantity can lead to a change in quality, these mere eight or nine hundred World Lords were simply not enough to matter to a super World Lord like Zhendan. So, why should they deserve more than a passing glance from these people?

As for the World Lords who could afford to buy spots at the auction, they either had the backing of an Immortal or had encountered their own fortuitous opportunities. A spot for the Outer Battlefield required military merits worth 20,000 Hunyuan Units, and the auction price would only be higher. Each Universe Kingdom only received one spot per era, and auction prices had once doubled, soaring to nearly 50,000 Hunyuan Units. And for a World Lord—even though Li Zheng and Ye Muxuan could casually pull out treasures worth hundreds of thousands of Hunyuan Units—a normal World Lord would consider themselves wealthy if they possessed a hundred.

As for the Immortal spots, they were even more expensive.

Therefore, these World Lords from the Outer Battlefield looked down upon the World Lords who had obtained their spots through internal Universe Kingdom auctions. Likewise, these World Lords with powerful backgrounds looked down upon the group of lone wolves hailing from the Outer Battlefield.

Amidst an atmosphere of mutual disdain, seven days passed quietly, and the final three teams arrived as scheduled.

In the hall, two distinct circles—one large, one small—stood clearly separated, each with their own topics of conversation, vaguely confronting one another. At this moment, a man in a deep purple battle robe with a pair of crystalline curved horns on his forehead appeared abruptly.

Ye Muxuan looked up suddenly!

His intuition told him that several items far more terrifying than his own soul-type Heavy Treasure had appeared right beside him. The aura emitted by any one of these items was like an abyss, capable of easily swallowing everyone present!

Ye Muxuan's gaze locked directly onto the man in the purple battle robe who had appeared in the hall; the source of those several items emitting terrifying auras was right there.

As his gaze locked onto the man in the purple battle robe, Ye Muxuan's heart sank, his pupils constricted, and fine beads of sweat broke out on his forehead.

This man in the purple battle robe was clearly standing right there in the hall. Yet, in his perception, this person seemed like a virtual projection, as if he were in another dimension, making it impossible to perceive his existence at all.

"Is this the list of people heading to the Initial Universe this time?" A cold, indifferent gaze swept across the hall; apart from Ye Muxuan, no one else noticed his arrival.

"Yes! Kingdom Lord!" A tall, thin man with red eyes and a black robe appeared abruptly in the hall, answering the purple-robed man respectfully.

"Let's go." The purple-robed man's gaze was indifferent, and his figure vanished.

"Yes! Kingdom Lord!" The tall, thin man in the black robe raised his head, his dark red eyes sweeping across the hall. The slightly released pressure of his Immortal divine power caused the entire hall to tremble slightly.

"Everyone, follow me." His dark red eyes scanned the room, and his Immortal divine power permeated the space, suppressing the hundreds of Immortal Deities present.

In the hall, there were only twenty Immortals who had exchanged military merits for their spots, ten of whom were Marquis Rank and ten of whom were Army Lords. As for the Immortals who had come via the internal Universe Kingdom auctions, there were as many as three hundred and seventy-three, and among them, forty-nine were actually Marquis Rank.

Within the Universe Kingdoms, the ratio gap between Army Lords and Marquis Rank was far greater than on the Outer Battlefield.

And this tall, thin man with red eyes and a black robe was suppressing all fifty-nine Marquis Rank and three hundred and thirty-four Army Lords present by himself.

Even the Marquis Rank Immortals were suppressed to the point of having no power to resist, let alone Ye Muxuan and his fellow World Lords, even though there were over a thousand of them.

Everyone stood up consciously and followed behind the tall, thin man with red eyes, walking toward the lawn outside.

A few minutes later, the thousand people saw a pitch-black, three-story peaked palace on the lawn, and they looked at each other in bewilderment.

Some of these people had been here for only two days, while others had been here for several months, and they had definitely never seen a palace on this lawn before. Yet now, such a massive palace had appeared.

Among the crowd, only Ye Muxuan had his mouth slightly agape.

He roughly knew what this was.

A palace-type treasure!

Although he didn't know if it was a Heavy Treasure or a Supreme Treasure, it was something that could rival or even surpass soul-type treasures of the same level.

He hadn't expected that existence to possess such a treasure; he was definitely a Venerable of immense strength, or perhaps even an Overlord.

Ye Muxuan lowered his head slightly, not daring to let his gaze fall upon the tall, thin, black-robed, red-eyed man.

"Everyone, World Lords to the first floor, Immortals to the second floor." The tall, thin man in the black robe glanced at the thousand people in the field, and his figure vanished quietly. Even with Ye Muxuan's comprehension of the Laws of Space, he only vaguely sensed a very subtle spatial fluctuation.

This was while he was right beside him, at a distance of no more than a few dozen meters; if it were any further, he definitely wouldn't have sensed the spatial fluctuation at all. This tall, thin, black-robed, red-eyed man's comprehension of the Origin Laws of Space was even beyond Ye Muxuan's imagination.

Even a tiny movement from any of the thousand people would cause a massive commotion, but this was the headquarters of the Virtual Universe Company, their base camp. If there was any place in the Primal Universe that could make Ye Muxuan feel safe, this was at least in the top three. Others might not know, but Ye Muxuan was very clear that the starry river above their heads might not be the real starry sky of the Primal Universe, and there was more than one Universe Master presiding over this place.

Therefore, Ye Muxuan did not hesitate in the slightest and was the first to walk toward the palace.

The World Lords from the Outer Battlefield were almost entirely led by Ye Muxuan, even though he hadn't spoken a word. But after that battle four years ago, when even "Blade Maniac" Li Zheng, who had cultivated the Extreme Wind Secret Canon to the eighth level, had lost, and even "Rain Sword" Kong Yan and "Thunderbolt Spear" Zhendan had privately admitted their inferiority, which of the other World Lords would dare to cause trouble?