Many things in this treasury could be bought with money. Some could be purchased with a mix of Military Merit and money, while others could only be obtained with Military Merit! What was more, some items not only required Military Merit, but could only be purchased by the person who would use them, and reselling them afterward was strictly forbidden!
For example, the top item under the "Special" category: a quota to study the Initial Universe!
Yes, on the Outer Battlefield, one could use Military Merit to redeem a quota to study the Initial Universe!
Each era, the Military System issued a number of quotas, divided into World Lord and Immortal levels!
These quotas were among the most strictly restricted items in the Military System. They could only be redeemed with the enormous amount of Military Merit one had earned personally, only by a Human Race member for their own use, and only if they had served long enough on the Outer Battlefield!
And this was Ye Muxuan's goal!
He—or rather, Muxuan—came from a Universe Secret Region. Even after spending over a hundred thousand years at Peak World Lord, he still had no hope of becoming an Immortal! So, once he learned through various channels and means that this quota could be redeemed, he began preparing for it.
He had prepared for a full fifty thousand years!
Ye Muxuan's gaze fell on the screen before him. In the expanded list, the quota to study the Initial Universe (World Lord Level) (17/100) was clearly displayed!
There had been 100 quotas this era, and 17 remained!
The number of World Lords on the Outer Battlefield exceeded a hundred million, and Muxuan certainly wasn't the only one eyeing this quota! Nor was he the only World Lord capable of affording it! But very few World Lords were truly willing to make up their minds and take action. Even so, only 17 quotas remained this era!
After all, a World Lord-level quota cost a full 2 billion Military Merit. Converted to money, that was a staggering 20,000 Hunyuan! Here on the Outer Battlefield, an Alien Race World Lord General whose status and strength matched his was worth 10 million Military Merit. In other words, he would have to fight 200 life-or-death battles against opponents as strong as himself—and survive all 200—to have a chance at obtaining a quota!
An Ordinary Immortal in a Universe Kingdom was worth only around 10,000 Hunyuan in total! And even if one obtained a quota and entered the Initial Universe, there was no guarantee of becoming an Immortal! It was merely a chance to improve one's odds of breaking through to Immortality!
And there were only a hundred years left until the quotas refreshed for the next era.
Ye Muxuan looked at the screen before him, then tapped the top line with his finger.
"Ding! Warrior Muxuan, would you like to spend 2 billion Military Merit to redeem one 'Initial Universe (World Lord Level) study quota'? Please confirm!"
"Confirm redemption!"
"Ding! Confirmed! Warrior Muxuan has confirmed the redemption of one 'Initial Universe (World Lord Level) study quota'! Verifying Warrior Muxuan's eligibility..."
"Verification in progress. Please wait..."
"Verification complete! The 2 billion Military Merit was earned by Warrior Muxuan himself. Warrior Muxuan is eligible to redeem the quota. The redemption has been recorded, and the Military Merit has been deducted. Remaining Military Merit: 183,550,000."
"The spacecraft bound for the Initial Universe will arrive at Longyan Planet at the appointed time. Warrior Muxuan, please monitor your Virtual Universe messages and arrive at Longyan Planet within the allotted time!"
Ye Muxuan closed the screen before him and glanced to the side, where his remaining Military Merit—nearly 200 million—was displayed. It was everything he had accumulated over more than fifty thousand years, plus what he'd earned by processing most of his spoils over the past month. This remaining amount of Military Merit was no small sum; converted directly into money, it was worth nearly 2,000 Hunyuan!
Even an Immortal whose total wealth exceeded 10,000 Hunyuan might not have 1,000 Hunyuan in cash! After all, cash and net worth were not the same thing!
For the strong, cash made up only a tiny fraction of their wealth. Unless they were deliberately raising money, most of their assets would be converted into Secret Techniques, spacecraft, armor, weapons, Auxiliary Plant Lifeforms, and the like. Few experts would foolishly keep a large amount of cash sitting around.
Cash that couldn't increase one's strength was of limited use!
Muxuan's current net worth was already far greater than that of an average Immortal!
Ye Muxuan opened another list and began searching carefully.
The Military Treasury was mainly divided into the categories of "Weapons," "Armor," "Spacecraft," "Detectors," "Auxiliary Lifeforms," "Materials," and "Special."
Categories like weapons, armor, and spacecraft were further divided into various types and levels. The weapon category alone included long weapons, short weapons, Spirit Reader weapons, shields... Common options included Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5 Force Weapons, as well as the Nine Great Controller Godly Weapons. Spacecraft ranged from C Rank to F Rank, from pure metal to alloys, from standard designs to all sorts of strange shapes, from Human Race to Machine Race vessels, and even Biological Spaceships of every quality. Almost any expert, from Universe Rank to Immortal, could find something suitable, as long as they had enough Military Merit and money!
Muxuan's current weapon was a Grade 5 wind-attributed Force Weapon, the Wind Shadow Blade. The armor he'd been wearing had been damaged in his final battle against a Sky Wolf Race World Lord, so he was now using another suit of armor.
If he really became an Immortal, these items naturally wouldn't be good enough for him. But that was for later; entering the Initial Universe merely gave him a chance to improve his odds of becoming an Immortal. Ye Muxuan's main goal for now was an Auxiliary Lifeform—especially one to help the Plant Lifeform he already had, which had reached Peak World Lord!
Plant Lifeforms consumed vast resources, but once they grew powerful, they were well worth the cost, significantly increasing one's combat strength!
Among Plant Lifeforms, the most popular choice for most experts was the "Cloud-Touching Vine." This defensive Plant Lifeform also had a little offensive capability. The Moyun Battle Armor formed by a Cloud-Touching Vine provided better defensive protection than a Force Armor of the same level!
In the treasury, a young Cloud-Touching Vine cost little to redeem—only 10,000 Military Merit, or 100 billion Universe Coins. That was just one-tenth of a Hunyuan, and roughly the price of a Domain Lord Ninth Stage's life!
The Plant Lifeform Ye Muxuan currently had was a Cloud-Touching Vine, and it had already been cultivated to World Lord Ninth Stage, with 108 main vines! Back then, cultivating the Cloud-Touching Vine from Domain Lord to World Lord had cost him a full 52,000 Hunyuan worth of precious materials! He had poured nearly all his gains from more than sixty thousand years of fighting into it!
That was how his defense and ability to survive had improved so greatly, allowing him to stand up to an Alien Race Immortal in a head-on fight!
But evolving a World Lord-level Cloud-Touching Vine to Immortal Level would cost several million Hunyuan, even without using the optimal method. That was far beyond what he could afford right now.
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