Swallowed Star: I Am the Flame Emperor!
Chapter 47

10 Trillion Military Credits

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"Pato, have you finished organizing the spoils from hunting the Sky Wolf?" Qin Cang asked. He had already instructed Pato to handle it on the way back; given the efficiency of an intelligent life form, it should have been completed long ago.

"Hehe, Master, this Sky Wolf was too poor; there really wasn't anything good." Pato sounded somewhat disappointed. He truly hadn't expected that a member of the Demon Race royal family could be this destitute.

According to the data, the Demon Race's noble and royal families should all be dripping with wealth, so why was this Sky Wolf so poor?

"He was only at the peak of the Immortal Army Lord level and hadn't even cultivated an Undying Body, which shows how poor his talent was. He couldn't get his hands on the Demon Race's good items anyway. Tell me quickly what you found." For Qin Cang, the loot wasn't the most important thing; rather, the battle against the Sky Wolf had provided him with significant gains.

Through his combat over these years, it had been proven that while claw techniques were quite suitable for him, they were still inferior to spear techniques.

Relying on his own law insights, and even with dual-claw weapons forged from G-grade metal, he had found it quite strenuous to deal with this Sky Wolf. Even if he unleashed his full power with both claws, he could at best contend with an ordinary Marquis, and he absolutely could not suppress one.

However, during these hundred years of practicing claw techniques, he had primarily focused on comprehending the essence of the Beast God Path within them and searching for a path to fuse the laws. He had gained quite a bit in this regard, and he could try to integrate these insights into his spear techniques later; that was what mattered most.

Of course, if he wanted to make greater progress in fusing laws later, it would be better to go to the Ancestral God Sect. After all, apart from the Starry Sky Behemoths, the Ancestral God Sect was the most proficient in the Beast God Path. Within the Human Race alone, as far as Qin Cang knew, no Venerable who cultivated the Fire-Space Beast God Path had achieved much; they mostly turned to study the Beast God Path only because they could not make progress in the Time Laws.

And it seemed there wasn't a single person who had cultivated the Fire-Space Beast God Path from the very beginning until they reached the Venerable level.

Currently, the most complete guidance for the Beast God Path within the Human Race was the fusion of the Light and Time Laws. After all, the strength of the Star Prison Devil Lord was plain for all to see, and there was a Chaos Stele left behind by this person in Chaos City. This big shot was only half a step away from becoming a Universe Master, but unfortunately, he never broke through even by the era of Luo Feng, and instead, a junior named Tian Shi caught up and stood on equal footing with him.

Beyond that, the other seven Beast God Paths were not very complete. Even in the era of Luo Feng, the highest-level secret manual for the Gold-Space Beast God Path was actually obtained from an affiliated race of the humans, which shows that the humans indeed lack talent in the Beast God path.

This remained true until the era of Luo Feng, let alone now. Although the Human Race had many secret techniques, they were almost all created based on the Space-Time Path or the eight lower laws. Guidance for the Beast God Path had always been a shortcoming. Even though the Human Race held the Xueluo World, they still had to refer to the secret techniques of other races for the Gold-Space Beast God Path.

Therefore, the Human Race was currently very eager to have its own complete secret technique for the Space-line Beast God Path. When Qin Cang revealed his talent for the Beast God Path, they couldn't wait to bring out the Huangyan Claw and guide Qin Cang to practice the Seven Kills of Burning Sky. Unfortunately, the creator of the Seven Kills of Burning Sky was ultimately only a King; it was fine for guiding a beginner, but it was impossible to achieve great success with it.

Just as Qin Cang was deep in thought, Pato listed the various spoils obtained from the hundred-year hunt.

"Master, after so many years of killing, the main loot is still this Sky Wolf. From this Sky Wolf alone, we got a pair of hammer-type force weapons forged from F-grade metal, and an F9-grade metal spaceship. Apart from that, there is nothing valuable."

"That pair of hammers can probably sell for about 200,000 Hunyuan Units. This spaceship is not bad; it is made entirely of F9-grade metal, but the various secret patterns inside are extremely crude, and the technological content is very low. The Demon Race is indeed a bit lacking in technology; it can probably only sell for 3 million Hunyuan Units. As for the armor, it was destroyed by the Star-Eating Grass and is worthless."

"Adding in the detectors and other items in the space ring, as well as the spoils from the World Lords we hunted, the total profit from this trip is about 3.5 million Hunyuan Units. It's really too little. This Sky Wolf is truly poor; for a dignified peak Immortal Army Lord, he had so little. I won't even mention those World Lords; they were no different from having nothing."

Hearing Pato's summary, Qin Cang was stunned. He had already prepared himself mentally when Pato said the Sky Wolf was poor, but he hadn't expected it to be this bad. A dignified Demon Race royal Immortal, and he only had this much net worth?

Generally speaking, a guy like this should have a net worth of at least ten million Hunyuan Units, but by hunting him, he essentially only got a spaceship?

In reality, one couldn't really blame Qin Cang. Skolls was in the habit of sending his various spoils back to the Barracks Base every so often, or selling them directly for cash to enjoy himself. Skolls knew his talent was limited and he couldn't progress, so he might as well enjoy life.

This time, he had just come out of the Demon Race Barracks Base shortly before being hunted, so the spoils on him were pitifully few, consisting basically of only a spaceship and a pair of hammers.

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

Although he could earn more by selling to private buyers, he would have to contact them himself, and it wouldn't be worth that much more; it really wasn't worth the trouble. If it were billions of Hunyuan Units, he would have contacted a private buyer.

Moreover, for him, the 3.5 million Hunyuan Unit profit was not the most important thing; completing the military merit mission officially assigned by the Virtual Universe Company was what mattered most.

No matter how poor this Sky Wolf was, his strength as a peak Immortal Army Lord was real. In the military merit system of the Outer-Region Battlefield, he was worth 1 billion military merits, and Qin Cang's official mission was exactly 1 billion. After hunting this Sky Wolf, the official mission was completed.

Next, Qin Cang could choose to act alone to complete the task the company had truly set for him—10 trillion military merits!

That's right, this was Qin Cang's true mission quota on the Outer-Region Battlefield. 10 trillion military merits meant that the company expected him to be able to hunt a peak Marquis at the World Lord stage. Furthermore, the premise of this mission was that it must be killed by his human clone alone; he could have the Star-Eating Grass provide support, but it could not be the main attacker. As for the Crowned Python Clone, he shouldn't even think about it.

However, this mission did not restrict the use of other treasures; the Huangyan Battle Armor, the Holy Sun Spear, etc., could all be used.

Even with so many restrictions, Qin Cang thought it was normal. After all, the Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass and the Crowned Python Clone were both genuine King-level combat powers. The company's intention was for him to rely on his powerful law insights and secret techniques to hunt Marquis Immortals, rather than letting him use the Star-Eating Grass and Crowned Python Clone to bully them, which would lose the meaning of the training.

At the World Lord level, it was all about comprehending laws and honing secret techniques, and combat was the best way to hone them.

Qin Cang was extremely confident in completing this mission. According to the database, every genius rated as appearing once in ten million epochs had the same mission on the Outer-Region Battlefield: 10 trillion military merits.

And every human genius World Lord who completed this mission relying solely on their own law insights and secret techniques became a famous powerhouse in the days to come, basically becoming the top tier among Kings, and some even became Venerables.

If those predecessors of the Human Race could do it, Qin Cang believed he would be no worse than them. He could do this task as well, and he would do it faster and better than them.

The Virtual Universe Company had high work efficiency, and they sent someone over in no time. As a World Lord of the Primal Secret Region, his priority was still very high. After they took away Qin Cang's spoils, the 3.5 million Hunyuan Units were settled on the spot.

After the matter of the spoils was handled, he checked the time and realized the time he had agreed to meet Lan Ying and the others was approaching. Qin Cang stepped forward and headed toward the pre-arranged location.

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