Heading to the Crimson Star Sector

Seeing the door open, the three men stepped forward. The black-armored man in the lead spoke, "General Ye Muxuan, these are the items you purchased from the Military System's internal treasury. Please confirm they are correct and sign for the delivery."

Ye Muxuan's gaze fell upon the Ultra-small Space Ring in the black-armored man's hand. He nodded, reached out, and retrieved two silver boxes—one large and one small—from the ring. After opening them to inspect the contents and confirming they were the Sword Leaf Grass seedlings and various cultivation resources he had purchased, he closed the boxes and said, "Everything is correct. These are the items I redeemed!"

"Delivery complete. We'll be taking our leave!" The lead black-armored man nodded at Ye Muxuan, turned, and left with the other two.

There are no fools among those who serve within the Military System, and Ye Muxuan was extremely famous among the millions of World Lords at Barracks Base 016. While there were many World Lords who could be called World Lord Generals in every barracks—roughly one in every few hundred peak World Lords—those like Ye Muxuan, who could kill an Immortal Deity head-on without relying on teammates, numbered fewer than ten in the entire Third Battlefield, let alone at Barracks Base 016. Serving in the Military System meant one didn't need to curry favor with others, but there was no reason to offend a terrifying figure capable of killing Immortals while still at the World Lord stage. If such people were trapped as World Lords and perished when their lifespans ended, that would be one thing, but once they broke through to become Immortals, they could easily reach the peak of the Immortal Military Lord level, or even be directly granted the Marquis Rank.

Ye Muxuan turned and walked back into the living room, the villa door closing automatically behind him. He opened one of the boxes, revealing the Sword Leaf Grass seedling inside.

Unlike the gourd-vine-like appearance of the Cloud-Touching Vine, the Sword Leaf Grass seedling looked at first glance like a sharp sword. Its rounded rhizome resembled a hilt, with root hairs hanging below like a sword tassel, swaying gently. A single leaf extended upward from the rhizome, shaped like a blade. Its entire body shimmered with a silver-white luster, and one could faintly perceive a subtle sword intent lingering around the leaf.

Whether it was the Cloud-Touching Vine or the Sword Leaf Grass, both were quite famous auxiliary plant lifeforms in the universe. There were perfect cultivation methods for them from the initial stage all the way to the World Lord stage, and as long as one didn't try to break their natural shackles, the probability of failure was basically zero; the only difference lay in the amount of resources invested. Ye Muxuan was naturally aware of this, so while redeeming the seedlings, he had also spent tens of thousands of Hunyuan Units to purchase the essentials required to cultivate them up to the Universe Rank.

He took the necessary items out of the box and began the first stage of cultivating the plant lifeform. Initial cultivation was all about establishing a master-servant bond, which required feeding it blood. With Ye Muxuan's World Lord-level life genes, combined with the items he had specifically purchased for the initial cultivation, the Sword Leaf Grass fell into a deep slumber after consuming his blood and bonding with him.

The potency of the initial cultivation materials was too strong for a newly sprouted plant lifeform to digest in a short time, so Ye Muxuan put the Sword Leaf Grass away and integrated it into his body.

The next step was to travel through the God Kingdom channel to the Seventh Battlefield, and then use the God Kingdom Transit Station there to teleport directly to Cangniao Planet.

The Seventh Battlefield, ranking in the top three for mortality rates across all the Outer Battlefields, possessed a comprehensive strength even greater than that of the Third Battlefield! However, as a World Lord General who had been fighting in the Outer Battlefields for over 100,000 years, Ye Muxuan's status was not low. Simply teleporting through the God Kingdom Transit Station alongside retired soldiers only required some paperwork and wasn't particularly troublesome. Thus, just three days later, Ye Muxuan appeared on Cangniao Planet.

Passing through a tunnel over 3,000 kilometers long, Ye Muxuan arrived at the spaceship docking point. All ships departing from Cangniao Planet launched from here!

He took a relatively ordinary E9-Grade Alloy Spaceship from the five ships in his World Ring. After receiving clearance, the ship accelerated, surging from the docking point toward the atmosphere. In just over ten seconds, the ship broke through the atmosphere and entered the starry void of space!

The ship flew at sub-light speed through the cosmos for several hours. Once the onboard detectors confirmed there were no targets of note within a 100-million-kilometer radius, Ye Muxuan stowed the E9-Grade ship and brought out the silver-white, pyramid-shaped Machine Race Spaceship!

Whether in terms of maneuverability, defensive shields, or the ship's own offensive capabilities, the Machine Race ship far outperformed any other vessel in his possession! Furthermore, this ship was equipped with three Planet Destroyer Cannons and nine E9-Grade Laser Cannons!

"Nine Phoenix, head to the Crimson Star Sector!" In the starry void, the silver-white pyramid-shaped ship floated silently. In the control room, looking at the image of a creature with nine giant bird heads floating on the screen before the console, Ye Muxuan issued his command.

"Yes! Master!" Spreading its flame-like wings, the Nine Phoenix, with its nine heads resembling those of a phoenix, began to pilot the Machine Race ship!

"The ship has taken off! Target sector set! The ship is accelerating, expected to enter the Dark Universe in three seconds!"

"Start the countdown!"

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One..."

"The ship has entered the Dark Universe and is accelerating..."

"Accelerating... the ship has reached 3 times the speed of light..."

"...5 times the speed of light..."

"...15 times the speed of light..."

"...The ship has reached 35 times the speed of light and has stabilized. Estimated arrival at the target sector is in three years and one month!"

Once the ship reached 35 times the speed of light, it stabilized. Ye Muxuan left the control room; having the Intelligent Optical Brain control the ship was sufficient. As for space pirates... no space pirates would have the guts to rob a ship traveling at 35 times the speed of light in the Dark Universe!

Ye Muxuan had converted another hall in the ship into a quiet room, decorated in an elegant and grand style.

Ye Muxuan sat alone in the quiet room, closing his eyes to rest his mind. After a long while, he stood up and took out a brand-new, large World Ring!

This was where he had stored all the spoils of war from his final battle—the one where he had pushed through the crisis of falling into a deep sleep to unleash his strongest self-created blade technique, splitting the Sky Wolf World Lord in two. He hadn't carefully inspected the loot yet, having simply stored it all in this World Ring.

Including the corpse of the Sky Wolf World Lord, all of that Sky Wolf's assets were here!

After all, the barracks base was a place with many eyes, and he didn't want others to know he had obtained that "Star Gravel Sand," as he didn't intend to sell it yet.

Strictly speaking, compared to that Sky Wolf World Lord, Muxuan's strength was still at a disadvantage! Muxuan could sense that although he held a higher advantage in secret techniques, the Sky Wolf World Lord clearly possessed superior life genes! His own gene level was standard, while that Sky Wolf World Lord likely had a life gene multiplier close to six times!

This meant that in terms of base power, he was at a nearly six-fold disadvantage!

Fortunately, however, his self-created secret technique was powerful enough to not only bridge that gap but to reverse it! And that was why the Sky Wolf World Lord had died!