10 Trillion Military Merit

"Pato, have you finished sorting through the spoils from hunting the Sky Wolf?" Qin Cang asked. He had told Pato to sort them out on the way back, and with an Intelligent Life handling the task, it should have been done long ago.

"Heh, Master, this Sky Wolf was terribly poor. There really wasn't much worth keeping." Pato sounded disappointed. He hadn't expected a member of the Demon Race Royal Family to be this impoverished.

According to the records, the Demon Race's royal and imperial members were supposed to be rolling in wealth. How had this Sky Wolf ended up so poor?

"He was only at the Immortal Army Lord Peak level and hadn't even developed an undying body. That shows how poor his talent was. He couldn't get his hands on the Demon Race's good stuff, either. Tell me what we did get." As far as Qin Cang was concerned, the spoils weren't the most important thing. His battle with the Sky Wolf had taught him far more.

His battles over the years had proven that although claw techniques suited him fairly well, they still weren't as good a fit as spear techniques.

With his Law Comprehension, and both his claw weapons made from G-Grade Metal, he had still struggled to deal with the Sky Wolf. Even if he unleashed the full power of both claws, at most he could hold his own against an ordinary Marquis Immortal. He certainly couldn't suppress one.

Over the past century, however, he had focused on cultivating claw techniques mainly to understand the essence of the Path of the Beast God through them and find a route toward the Fusion Law. He had made considerable progress in that regard, and could try incorporating it into his spear techniques later. That was what mattered most.

Of course, if he wanted to make greater progress in the Fusion Law, he would be better off going to the Ancestral God Sect. After all, apart from the Starry Sky Behemoths, the Ancestral God Sect was the most adept at the Path of the Beast God. As far as Qin Cang knew, no Venerable in the Human Race who cultivated the Fire-Space Beast God Path had achieved much. They had generally been unable to advance in the Time Law, so they had turned to studying the Path of the Beast God instead.

As for anyone who had started out cultivating the Fire-Space Beast God Path and reached the Venerable level that way, there didn't seem to be a single one.

The most complete guidance the Human Race currently had for the Path of the Beast God involved fusing the Light Law and the Time Law. After all, Star Prison Devil Lord's strength was there for all to see. There was even a Chaos Stele he had left behind in Chaos City. That powerful figure had been just half a step away from becoming a Universe Master. Sadly, he still hadn't broken through by Luo Feng's era. Instead, a junior named Tian Shi had caught up with him and reached the same level.

The other seven Paths of the Beast God were all incomplete. Even by Luo Feng's time, the highest-level secret manual for the Gold-Space Beast God Path had come from one of humanity's affiliated races. That was enough to show that the Human Race truly lacked talent in the Path of the Beast God.

If things were still like that in Luo Feng's era, they were all the more so now. The Human Race had plenty of secret techniques, but nearly all of them had been created based on the Path of Time and Space or the Eight Lower Laws. Guidance in the Path of the Beast God had always been a weak point. Even though Xueluo World was under humanity's control, they still had to consult secret techniques from other races for the Gold-Space Beast God Path.

That was why the Human Race was eager to obtain a complete secret technique of its own for the spatial branch of the Path of the Beast God. When Qin Cang showed talent in the Path of the Beast God, they had hurriedly given him the Huangyan Claw and guided him in cultivating Seven Kills of Burning Sky. Unfortunately, the creator of Seven Kills of Burning Sky had only been a King. It could guide someone into the path, but it could never lead to great achievements.

While Qin Cang was deep in thought, Pato laid out the various spoils from their century of hunting.

"Master, after all these years of killing, the Sky Wolf was still our most important haul. From him alone, we got a pair of hammer-type Origin Force weapons made from F-Grade Metal, as well as a spaceship made from F9-grade Metal. There wasn't much else of value.

"The hammers could probably fetch around 200,000 Hunyuan Units. The spaceship is pretty good, too. It's made entirely of F9-grade Metal, but the Mystic Patterns inside are extremely crude, and its technology is very basic. The Demon Race is a bit lacking in technology. It could probably sell for about three million Hunyuan Units. As for the armor, Star-Eater destroyed it, so it's practically worthless.

"Add the detector and other things in his Space Ring, along with the spoils from the World Lords we hunted, and our total earnings from this trip come to around 3.5 million Hunyuan Units. That's far too little. The Sky Wolf really was poor. He was an Immortal Army Lord Peak, yet he had so little. And those World Lords don't even count. They might as well have had nothing."

Qin Cang was taken aback by Pato's summary. He had prepared himself for the Sky Wolf to be poor as soon as Pato said so, but he still hadn't prepared enough. A member of the Demon Race Royal Family, an undying being, and this was all he was worth?

Normally, someone like that should have been worth at least ten million Hunyuan Units. But after killing him, Qin Cang had practically gotten nothing but a spaceship.

In truth, Qin Cang couldn't blame anyone. Skolls had made a habit of sending his spoils back to the Barracks Base every so often, or selling them for cash so he could enjoy himself. Skolls knew his talent was limited and that he wouldn't improve, so he figured he might as well enjoy life.

This time, he had come out to hunt shortly after leaving the Demon Race's Barracks Base. He had almost no spoils on him—basically just the spaceship and the pair of hammers.

"Forget it. 3.5 million Hunyuan Units is still money. Contact the Virtual Universe Company and sell it all. Every little bit helps," Qin Cang said indifferently.

He could have earned more by selling to private buyers, but that would mean contacting them himself, and it wouldn't bring in much more. There was no point in going to all that trouble. If it were worth tens of billions of Hunyuan Units, he would contact private buyers.

Besides, the 3.5 million Hunyuan Units weren't the most important thing to him. Completing the Military Merit mission the Virtual Universe had officially assigned him was.

The Sky Wolf might have been poor, but his strength as an Immortal Army Lord Peak was undeniable. The Military Merit System on the Outer-Region Battlefield valued him at one billion Military Merit. Qin Cang's official Military Merit target was one billion, and after killing the Sky Wolf, he had completed the official mission.

Now Qin Cang could act alone and complete the mission the company had truly assigned him: 10 trillion Military Merit!

That was right. This was Qin Cang's real mission on the Outer-Region Battlefield: 10 trillion Military Merit. It meant that the company expected him to kill a Peak Marquis while still at the World Lord Level. And the mission required the kill to be made by his human body alone. Star-Eating Grass could assist, but it couldn't be the main attacker. The Crowned Python Clone was completely out of the question.

However, the mission didn't restrict his use of other treasures. He could use his Huangyan Battle Armor, Holy Sun Spear, and so on.

Qin Cang thought all these restrictions were reasonable. After all, the Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass and the Crowned Python Clone each had genuine King-level combat strength. The company's intention was for him to rely on his powerful Law Comprehension and secret techniques to hunt Marquis Immortals, not to use Star-Eating Grass and the Crowned Python Clone to bully them. That would defeat the purpose of tempering himself.

The World Lord Level was a time to comprehend laws and refine secret techniques, and battle was the best way to do that.

Qin Cang was very confident that he could complete the mission. According to the database, every genius rated as one in a million eras received the same mission on the Outer-Region Battlefield: 10 trillion Military Merit.

Every Human Race genius who had completed the mission as a World Lord using nothing but their own Law Comprehension and secret techniques had later become a renowned powerhouse—at least, those who had survived. They were generally among the strongest Kings, and some had even become Venerables.

The Human Race's predecessors had done it, and Qin Cang believed he was no worse than them. He could complete this mission too—and do it faster and better.

The Virtual Universe worked very efficiently. It didn't take long for someone to arrive. As a World Lord from the Primal Secret Region, Qin Cang had high priority. They collected his spoils, and the 3.5 million Hunyuan Units were paid on the spot.

Once the spoils had been dealt with, Qin Cang checked the time. It was almost time to meet Lan Ying and the others, so he headed toward the place they had reserved.