Aboard a spaceship, Ye Muxuan drank wine and gazed at the enormous Barracks Base in the distance, which looked like a brilliant work of art. The ship received a signal, and the base began drawing it in.
Rescuing the Elite Squad after receiving the Immortal captain's distress call—and saving Mei—had been pure coincidence. He had been fighting in the Starry Sea for a thousand years and had just been on his way back to the Barracks Base. It was simply convenient. As for seeing Mei and thinking of his Sixth Senior Sister, that was just a bonus. After all, his Sixth Senior Sister didn't know that Shadow Blade Marquis was her junior apprentice.
Back on his own small island, Ye Muxuan relaxed in his loose, soft robe. He walked barefoot along the beach, his feet sinking into the fine sand as wave after wave rolled in, wet his calves, then receded.
"Hey, Shadow Blade! How many days are you resting this time?"
A voice came from not far away. Ye Muxuan looked up and saw a middle-aged Ape-man Race Immortal, a burly man with golden down covering his face, calling out to him.
"Lei Jin, want to come over for a drink?" Seeing the Ape-man Race Immortal, Ye Muxuan invited him over. Marquis Lei Jin was a High-level Marquis and a member of a King-level squad.
The name he'd made up, Feng Xuan, wasn't conspicuous, and no one connected him with Muxuan, the World Lord genius from the Primal Region. In recent centuries, however, the title Shadow Blade Marquis had gradually gained some renown among the Human Race's Marquises on the Ninth Battlefield. The Starry Sea in particular didn't have many Marquises to begin with; there were fewer than a hundred across the four camps combined. As a High-level Marquis,