An Opportunity

Rubbing his fingers over the brand-new, large silver World Ring, Ye Muxuan lowered his eyes. The next moment, he vanished.

Inside the World Ring, Ye Muxuan hovered in midair. Before long, his gaze was drawn to a crystal sphere about ten meters in diameter beside the bisected corpse of the Sky Wolf Race World Lord. Its ancient, immense aura made even Ye Muxuan's heart tremble.

Ye Muxuan stepped down beside the sphere, staring at it intently as he examined it. A hint of puzzlement appeared between his brows.

He had fought on the Outer Battlefield for over a hundred thousand years and had struggled for his life hundreds, nearly a thousand times. His knowledge and experience were certainly no small matter. Yet neither his own knowledge nor anything he had seen or heard had ever told him of such a thing. He had not even seen anything like it in the Military System's internal treasury.

But this profound, immense aura could only belong to a treasure!

After thinking it over for a long while, an image suddenly flashed before Ye Muxuan's eyes: the Sky Wolf Race World Lord's unwillingness to accept his death in their final battle—and that strange Soul Attack.

Compared with the Human Race, the Monster Race had many powerful World Lords whose life Gene Multipliers were high. Most had multipliers of two or three; members of the Eighteen Royal Clans of the Monster Race usually reached five or six, or even ten. So it wasn't that the Monster Race had no strong Spirit Readers, but there were definitely few of them. Most followed the Fighter path.

After all, whether they were Controllers or Illusionists, Spirit Readers placed greater emphasis on amplifying their Spiritual Force.

As one of the Eighteen Royal Clans of the Monster Race, the Sky Wolf Race had a natural base multiplier of six and was especially outstanding among Fighters.

The puzzlement in Ye Muxuan's eyes quietly faded, replaced by a flicker of surprise and doubt.

Muxuan might have lacked the experience to understand, but Ye Muxuan had a guess. If he was right, then this sphere was the greatest reward he had gained in over a hundred thousand years on the Outer Battlefield—and an extraordinary opportunity he might not encounter again, even after another million years of fighting.

Ye Muxuan touched the sphere with his fingertip. World Force coiled around it, and the sphere transformed into a streak of light that shot straight into his brow and merged with his body.

Ye Muxuan sat cross-legged inside the World Ring. At the center of his brow, where three vertical Secret Patterns had once entwined like an eye, a tiny point of light appeared, then vanished.

An immense, profound aura rose from Ye Muxuan without the slightest concealment, completely overwhelming his World Lord aura. An aura surpassing that of an Ordinary Immortal suddenly spread throughout this world.

It was as if a Marquis Immortal had appeared there!

After a long while, Ye Muxuan opened his eyes. He could barely contain his excitement and joy!

A Soul-type Heavy Treasure! Two Secret Patterns! This was a Top-tier Heavy Treasure!

As far as Ye Muxuan knew, Heavy Treasures fell into three categories. Ordinary Heavy Treasures had only one Secret Pattern, while those with two were Top-tier Heavy Treasures! The third category consisted of set Heavy Treasures with immense power!

If there was one drawback, it was probably that this Soul-type Top-tier Heavy Treasure's greatest ability was to protect the soul. It wasn't that it had no functions related to Soul Attacks or illusion attacks, but they were practically powerless!

That was why the Soul Attack unleashed by the Sky Wolf Race World Lord in their final battle had failed to destroy Muxuan's soul!

A World Lord with a Heavy Treasure could sweep aside all experts below the level of Marquis Immortal, provided they could successfully activate its first Secret Pattern!

But if this really had been a Heavy Treasure capable of Soul Attacks, the Sky Wolf Race World Lord probably wouldn't have been given it by an elder!

Ye Muxuan knew enough to understand that the Sky Wolf Race World Lord could never have obtained a treasure like this through his own ability. Unless he had taken it as spoils after killing an enemy, like Ye Muxuan had, the only possibility was that an elder had bestowed it upon him!

Top-tier Heavy Treasures were coveted even by Universe Venerables, those super experts who swept across the starry universe. If this treasure's existence were exposed, Ye Muxuan wouldn't be surprised if a Venerable secretly came after him!

So he had to keep it secret!

Until he had at least Peak King Level strength, or even Limit King Level strength, he absolutely couldn't reveal that he possessed a Heavy Treasure—let alone a Soul-type Heavy Treasure!

Even if it was only a Heavy Treasure that protected the soul and had no other functions!

Having unexpectedly gained a Heavy Treasure, and a Soul-type one at that, Ye Muxuan was in high spirits. Even the corpse of the Sky Wolf Race World Lord looked much more pleasing to him now!

As for the remaining items, having obtained a Heavy Treasure, Ye Muxuan didn't think much of them. He merely glanced at the dark red World Ring the Sky Wolf Race World Lord had left behind, then sent World Force surging toward it. Since the Sky Wolf Race World Lord was already dead, Ye Muxuan opened the World Ring with ease.

Inside, Ye Muxuan hovered above a world, looking down at the countless items filling it.

It was a medium-sized World Ring. Though not especially large, its crafting material was inferior even to that of the best World Ring Ye Muxuan owned. By his estimate, even an Immortal Expert at King Level couldn't break it unless they deliberately attacked it. A World Ring of this grade was worth over ten million Military Merit—or several hundred Hunyuan—in the Military System's internal treasury!

But with a Heavy Treasure already in hand, Ye Muxuan no longer cared much for these spoils. He simply had Nine Phoenix leave a few Smart Robots behind to sort and tally them, while he himself left this world.

Inside the spaceship, Ye Muxuan appeared in the quiet room. He held the dark red World Ring in his palm and refined it as well. After all, it was even better than the one he had been using—a World Ring fit for an Immortal Expert.

Sitting quietly in the room, he calmed his thoughts. Three days later, Ye Muxuan opened his eyes, and only then did he finally suppress the joy in them.

Inside the World Ring, the Smart Robots had made a rough inventory of all the items. Their preliminary estimate put the total value of the spoils at nearly three million Hunyuan Units.

That was certainly more than an average Immortal's entire fortune. Even at the peak of Ye Muxuan's strength, his wealth had been slightly less.

But now it all belonged to him. And with a Heavy Treasure in hand, facing spoils worth nearly three million Hunyuan Units again left Ye Muxuan completely unmoved.

After all, even the lowest-grade Heavy Treasure was worth over ten trillion Hunyuan Units—and was still almost impossible to buy!

As for Top-tier Heavy Treasures capable of protecting the soul, some Venerables could exchange one for an ordinary Supreme Treasure!

Through dozens of reincarnations in his dreams, Ye Muxuan had gained a clear understanding of his own strength—and an even clearer sense of the astonishing power Immortals wielded to pluck stars and seize moons. To them, stars were nothing more than toys! A Venerable could even overturn space and throw time into chaos! If beings like that politely asked to trade with you, at least they still had some conscience!

Having once again resolved never to reveal that he possessed a Heavy Treasure before he was strong enough, Ye Muxuan firmly suppressed the thought. Only then did he begin studying the Soul-type Heavy Treasure!