Sword Leaf Grass

So now he needed to cultivate another plant lifeform with powerful offensive capabilities to strengthen his arsenal. With his current finances, he could at least try cultivating a World Lord-level plant lifeform.

And... Ye Muxuan's mind flashed back to the person he had failed to save a century ago. His eyes lowered, then shifted to the other options.

He scanned Heavenly Profound Vine, Gold-Shattering Grass, Bright Sun Grass, Star-Eating Grass... Each had a detailed description, and at last his gaze settled on one plant lifeform.

Sword Leaf Grass!

A Sword Leaf Grass cultivated to the World Lord level had at least nine leaves, an average of thirty-six, and a maximum of eighty-one! Once an 81-Leaf Sword Leaf Grass successfully broke through to Immortal, it could rival a Peak King Level powerhouse, easily kill an Initial King, and heavily wound a High King! Even the weakest 9-Leaf Sword Leaf Grass, upon breaking through to Immortal, could rival a High-level Marquis and easily kill an Ordinary Immortal!

Its prospects seemed extremely promising, but two major drawbacks limited the Sword Leaf Grass's price. The first was the cost of cultivation. Even raising the weakest nine-leaf Sword Leaf Grass to the World Lord level required a fortune of over a million Hunyuan Units. That kind of investment would generally be enough to cultivate an ordinary Cloud-Touching Vine to Immortal!

The second was that before reaching Immortal, Sword Leaf Grass was practically worthless! Even the strongest World Lord-level Sword Leaf Grass, with eighty-one leaves, couldn't match the support capabilities—or even its greatest strength, its attack power—of a Cloud-Touching Vine with 256 main vines!

When buying auxiliary plant lifeforms for their juniors, those super powerhouses would rarely purchase one that required tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions, of Hunyuan Units to cultivate, unless they were exceptionally doting. And those with that kind of wealth were already so powerful that Sword Leaf Grass could offer them little help!

So Sword Leaf Grass was either sold as a seed, with only a rare few buyers raising it into a seedling, or cultivated to Immortal, becoming a super plant lifeform capable of killing an Initial King!

Of course, cultivation could fail along the way, wasting tens or even hundreds of billions of Hunyuan Units. That wasn't uncommon. After all, Immortal-level Sword Leaf Grass was worth the gamble!

Those two major drawbacks meant that a Sword Leaf Grass seedling cost only 3,000 Hunyuan Units, or 300 million Military Merit, to exchange for in the treasury! By comparison, a juvenile Star-Eating Grass, also famous for its attacks and strangulation, cost 300,000 Hunyuan Units! It also required a certain level of status to buy—without the right connections, it wasn't available at all!

Ye Muxuan lowered his eyes and exchanged for Sword Leaf Grass, along with the various precious resources needed to cultivate it to Universe Rank. The total cost came to tens of thousands of Hunyuan Units.

He didn't have enough Military Merit on its own, so he combined it with money for the exchange. It cost him 1,200 Hunyuan Units and 180 million Military Merit, leaving him with only 3,550,000 Military Merit.

"Beep! 180,000,000 Military Merit deducted. Remaining Military Merit: 3,550,000! 1,200 Hunyuan Units deducted from personal account. Balance: 457,864 Hunyuan Units! 24,567 Hunyuan Units deducted from personal account. Balance: 433,297 Hunyuan Units."

"Beep! Soldier Muxuan, you have exchanged for one Sword Leaf Grass seedling. Your exchanged items will be delivered to 016 Barracks Base within three hours. Please be ready to receive them!"

Ye Muxuan looked at the money left in his account. This was all the cash he had on hand; the rest had already been converted into various resources! Of course, he still had a few extremely precious treasures he hadn't sold. The Star Gravel Sand alone was worth 800,000 Hunyuan Units, and his other items were worth over a million combined. If he really needed money, he could also sell his F3 Rank all-metal spaceship for a million Hunyuan Units, but he'd only do that in an emergency. It wouldn't be easy to buy it back afterward. As for the few million Military Merit he had left, Ye Muxuan paid it no mind. Even if converted into money, it would amount to only a few dozen Hunyuan Units—not enough to interest him.

He still had 430,000 Hunyuan Units in his account. That was a fortune even for a World Lord, and it would make him wealthy compared with most Immortals. But compared with the auxiliary plant lifeform he was about to receive and cultivate, the amount was nothing!

The Sword Leaf Grass had cost 3,000 Hunyuan Units, but simply raising it to Universe Rank would cost nearly ten times that. By Domain Lord, it would probably take hundreds of thousands of Hunyuan Units, and by World Lord, more than a million!

Fortunately... he had access to a treasure trove that no one else could reach at present. All he had to do was complete an entrusted task!

Ye Muxuan glanced at the many videos pushed by the Virtual Universe Company. They were among the most popular videos of the past decade or so. Then he had his Intelligent Optical Brain update its Star Map database.

The Star Map of the universe wasn't fixed. Every star was constantly revolving, and its star system moved along with it. Perhaps after countless eras, the Star Map would be utterly unfamiliar!

At present, only the Human Race's Virtual Universe could regularly update the Star Map for the entire Primal Universe!

The Intelligent Optical Brain ran incredibly fast, no slower than a human Immortal and even surpassing one in some ways. But the star-system coordinates and other data for all the Universe Kingdoms under the Human Race were still vast and complex. It took a full two hours before the Intelligent Optical Brain announced that the update was complete!

Ye Muxuan browsed the updated Star Map. At last, he moved his gaze from a Universe Secret Region in the Qianyan Star Sector of the Mingyou Universe Kingdom to another location.

Ganwu Universe Kingdom, Crimson Star Sector, Moli Star System...

"Nine Phoenix, how long would it take to reach the Crimson Star Sector of the Ganwu Universe Kingdom as quickly as possible?" Ye Muxuan asked, looking at the Intelligent Optical Brain perched on his shoulder like a little bird.

"Master, you can travel through the God Kingdom Channel to the Seventh Battlefield, then use your God Kingdom as a transit point. Through Divine Kingdom Teleportation, you can go directly to Cangniao Planet in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom. From the Dark Universe entry point on Cangniao Planet, your Machine Race spaceship can reach the Crimson Star Sector in about three years!"

The Primal Universe was simply too vast. Divine Kingdom Teleportation didn't take much time, but even the fastest spaceship Ye Muxuan currently owned—a Machine Race E9 Rank spaceship—could travel only thirty-five times the speed of light in the Dark Universe. It would still need three years to make the trip! That meant the distance between the Crimson Star Sector and Cangniao Planet was over a billion light-years!

And that was only the distance within the Ganwu Universe Kingdom, nowhere near the distances between the various Universe Kingdoms.

That was how fast a Machine Race E9 Rank spaceship could travel. If he used a Human Race spaceship, the best he could buy with his current status would probably be an ordinary E9 Rank model. It might manage only three to five times the speed of light in the Dark Universe, or ten times at most. Just the journey could then take decades!

"Master, military personnel have arrived at the door!" Nine Phoenix, the Intelligent Optical Brain hovering by Ye Muxuan's shoulder, reminded him.

Ye Muxuan exited the Virtual Universe, left the living room, and walked to the villa's front door. Three soldiers in standard military armor were already waiting there.