The Bloody Military Merit Policy

In the Third Outer-Region Battlefield, at Barracks Base 001, a dark, spindle-shaped spacecraft departed without attracting anyone's attention.

This ship was Shadow Sound, belonging to Kailun. Its hull was constructed entirely from F-grade metal, rendering it completely immune to attacks from below the level of an Immortal, and it could reach a maximum speed of 30 times the speed of light in the dark universe.

Inside the ship, Qin Cang, Lan Ying, Lie Feng, and the others were drinking and chatting, consuming bottle after bottle of liquor brought from the barracks. Facing this group of comrades, Qin Cang was in high spirits; after all, he had always been a lover of fine wine. Throughout his ten-thousand-year cultivation career, aside from fighting, his greatest hobbies were drinking and enjoying gourmet food.

As for the squad he had joined, because Kailun was also a fan of drinking, several members had been influenced by him to develop a deep fondness for the stuff. They would drink a few cups whenever they were idle, which suited Qin Cang perfectly.

Back in the days when he was training in Chaos City, Qin Cang and Blood Blade King had felt like kindred spirits, drinking together every few days. Even the rare wines that Blood Blade King had collected over countless years had been significantly depleted by the two of them.

Generally speaking, people who love to drink also enjoy collecting fine wine. Blood Blade King had even established a company managed by his subordinates, with its primary business being the trade of alcoholic beverages. He didn't care about the profit at all, as long as they could source various specialty wines from across the universe.

In the ship's lounge, Qin Cang was examining Kailun's F-grade vessel. Although it wasn't built entirely from F9-grade metal, it was still quite extraordinary for an Immortal Army Lord.

Of course, the ship's lounge was constructed using pure F9-grade metal and could even be detached separately. This not only greatly enhanced the ship's defensive capabilities but was also extremely effective for cost control. Even for Qin Cang's own ship, Flowing Light, the interior lounge was built separately using G-grade materials. Both of them shared the same philosophy for ship construction, just with different materials.

Judging solely by the value of this ship, Qin Cang gained a clearer understanding of Kailun's strength.

After all, in the universe, one's strength must match one's treasures. If one possesses powerful treasures without sufficient strength, it only invites pursuit from stronger individuals and brings about unprovoked disaster. This was the reason why Chaos City Lord and Demon Wing Venerable had repeatedly instructed him not to expose the Holy Sun Spear and the Huangyan Battle Armor unless absolutely necessary.

With Qin Cang's current strength, if he were to expose these two great treasures, it wouldn't just attract a few Kings to hunt him down; even the powerhouses across the entire Outer-Region Battlefield would come searching for information about him. Even if he left the Outer-Region Battlefield, this pursuit would not cease, and it might even draw the attention of Kings within the Human Race. While Human Race Venerables might refrain from acting out of respect for Demon Wing Venerable, alien Venerables would have no such scruples; there were never a shortage of powerhouses willing to take risks for the sake of treasures.

By then, unless Qin Cang hid away until he was strong enough to protect these two items, there would be no peace for him.

After all, the supreme treasures of the Ancestral God Sect sat right there, yet no one dared to snatch them. Even the Thousand Treasure River of Chaos City Lord and the palace of Demon Wing Venerable were placed there, yet no one dared to contend for them. Strength is the foundation of everything.

Inside the ship, the members were laughing and talking.

"Cao Benqi, what is your military quota? Every new recruit who joins the Outer-Region Battlefield is assigned a military quota. You are absolutely not allowed to retire until you have completed it. Moreover, a person's military quota reflects their strength to a certain extent. Mine is 300 million, what is yours?" Lie Feng asked. It was clear he was still trying to probe Qin Cang's strength indirectly. Since they couldn't spar, he could only ask about the quota. After all, this was determined by the Virtual Universe; could there be any judgment of strength more accurate than that?

"My military quota is one billion. It feels alright; I should be able to complete it," Qin Cang replied with a smile. There was no need to hide this, and besides, this was only the military quota visible on the surface.

"One billion? That's so much!

Normally, the military quota for a World Lord is between 1 million and 1 billion. Even though our entire squad consists of World Lord generals, the highest quotas are only the 300 million that Lie Feng and I have. Kuin and Gu Shi have quotas of 200 million. I never expected that you, as a new recruit just arriving at the Outer-Region Battlefield, would have a quota of 1 billion!

This is the first time I've ever seen a World Lord with a 1 billion military quota. Just based on this quota alone, little Lie Feng, take a sister's advice and stop thinking about sparring with Cao Benqi. You definitely won't be able to beat him, and doing so would only be asking for humiliation," Lan Ying said, looking at Cao Benqi with a grin.

Even Kailun was shocked to learn that Qin Cang's military quota was as high as 1 billion. After all, the maximum military quota for a World Lord was only 1 billion. Did that not mean that, in the assessment of the Virtual Universe, Qin Cang's strength had already reached the limit of a World Lord?

One must know that for most ordinary World Lords, the military quota was only 1 million.

Likewise, killing an ordinary World Lord only yielded 100,000 in military merit.

Killing an elite World Lord warrior only yielded 1 million in military merit.

Killing a World Lord general yielded a relatively higher amount, a full 10 million in military merit.

This was in the case of a solo kill; if one killed in cooperation with others, the military merit would be split, and one would only receive a portion.

However, one should never think about trying to cheat. With the Virtual Universe in place, everything within the Outer-Region Battlefield was uploaded and verified in real-time; there was absolutely no opportunity to deceive the system.

At the same time, military merit could be used to exchange for all kinds of treasures. Many items that were extremely precious within human territory could be exchanged directly through the military merit system of the Outer-Region Battlefield.

More importantly, these treasures were also open to alien races!

As long as you could kill enemies on the Outer-Region Battlefield and accumulate enough military merit, you could exchange for anything, whether it be ships, weapons, or various rare secret techniques.

Even treasures like the Evolution Heart of the Machine Race, which the Machine Race strictly forbade from leaving their territory, could be exchanged for on the Outer-Region Battlefield. It was just that the price was extremely high and the quantity was scarce. Often, one might not be able to buy them, but it was a fact that every so often, a few Evolution Hearts would appear on the list of the military merit exchange treasury.

This was true not just for the Human Race, but for all four major races. They would all place a portion of their core resources into the military merit treasury of the Outer-Region Battlefield for exchange. This point was what attracted countless races to join the military systems of the four major camps to fight, all for the sake of obtaining inheritances and rare treasures not available within their own races.

It was under such large-scale combat that the Outer-Region Battlefield became the place in the universe that produced the most Universe Venerables and Immortals, bar none.

Whether it was the four major races, the various affiliated races, or the races from other camps in the universe, since the opening of the Outer-Region Battlefield, almost every Venerable had joined one camp or another to fight.

It could be said that a Venerable who had not fought on the Outer-Region Battlefield had an incomplete cultivation career.

Of course, this was limited to ordinary life forms. Those heaven-defying special life forms were not allowed to enter the Outer-Region Battlefield. After all, such life forms were too special and powerful, and could not be treated as ordinary Immortals at all.

Even a special life form with a life gene level only dozens of times higher would be a dimensional strike in a place like the Outer-Region Battlefield.

Once such a life form was discovered entering the Outer-Region Battlefield, it would be expelled by the four major races, or even killed on the spot!

It was precisely under these rules that the strongest individuals on the Outer-Region Battlefield were only at the limit of the King level. Powerhouses who reached the invincible King level were not allowed to appear on the Outer-Region Battlefield unless it was for certain special campaigns.