Starting the Mission

The first stage of the Dragon Rock Battlefield mission required surviving for only ten years.

Most people who came to complete the mission chose to leave as soon as they finished the first stage. The final mission, however, was much more difficult.

Zhang Dong moved and flew toward the vast, boundless land.

"The Dragon Rock Battlefield is essentially a gigantic continent meant to serve as a base for the Cosmic Army to raise troops."

As he flew, Zhang Dong recalled the mission details and some information from the original work. He needed to survive in the Dragon Rock Battlefield for ten years or obtain a Glory Medal.

This continent was different from the Blood Luo Continent. It had no resources like Blood Luo Crystals and served only to raise troops, so its structure was much like Jin World's.

Star Level, Cosmic Level, and Domain Lord cultivators were all required to join the army.

The army fought long-term wars to forge more powerful warriors. Normally, Cosmic Level cultivators had to survive three years in the army before they could apply to leave and join the army on the Outer Domain Battlefield.

"Getting through the atmosphere of the Dragon Rock Battlefield would probably be a real struggle for an ordinary Cosmic Level cultivator."

It took Zhang Dong half an hour of flight just to reach the outer cloud layer. The clouds were incredibly thick. Cosmic Level cultivators could force their way through with their strength, but it would consume a tremendous amount of energy.

With his strength as a First-Class True Intent demigod, however, it was effortless. He flickered forward, parting a vast mass of clouds, and reached the continent a few minutes later.

The continent's gravity was terrifying. Although it was smaller than the Blood Luo Continent, its gravity was nearly just as strong.

After all, continents spanning hundreds of billions or even trillions of kilometers—or even light-years—were inherently unscientific. They could exist only in Cosmic Secret Realms.

You needed at least Star Level strength to fly here.

Zhang Dong wore blue armor and carried a golden longblade on his back. As far as the eye could see, an endless primeval forest stretched out before him.

"Surviving in the army for ten years would be no easy feat for the previous owner of this body." Zhang Dong certainly had no intention of staying that long.

If he wasted ten years here, he might have mastered several secret techniques on Boundary Heart Continent and advanced his Pole True Intent to the second stage.

So Zhang Dong was considering the ultimate mission: obtaining a Glory Medal.

Earning a Glory Medal required an enormous amount of military merit. Those who completed the final mission almost always spent decades, or even over a century, slowly accumulating enough.

Whoosh!

In the Primordial Universe, there weren't so many restrictions on speed, and Zhang Dong flew extremely fast, able to instantly burst to one-tenth the speed of light.

He covered thirty thousand kilometers in a second—that was already Realm Lord-level flight speed.

Before long, Zhang Dong reached a city nearly a hundred thousand kilometers in diameter. He concealed his aura, slowed down, and pretended to be an ordinary Cosmic Level cultivator as he entered through the main gate.

Every city in the Dragon Rock Battlefield had a recruitment office.

The continent was so vast that even crossing it at the speed of light would take a long time. That was why Cosmic Level and even Domain Lord Level cultivators were transported by spacecraft.

Zhang Dong went straight to the recruitment office. With his First-Class True Intent, his detection range was immense. Nothing in this area could escape his notice.

It was a gigantic building hundreds of kilometers tall, even more imposing than the City Lord's Mansion. Yet the only person at the entrance was an old man in a white robe.

"Hello, I'd like to apply to join the army," Zhang Dong called softly.

The old man in charge of recruitment looked up at him and asked in a hoarse voice, "You want to join the army? You came at just the right time. We only need two more people before we can set off."

Zhang Dong nodded, then went inside. After walking down a corridor, he reached a hall and waited quietly.

More than nine hundred Cosmic Level warriors were already inside. Whenever they gathered a thousand, they set off for the nearest military garrison.

"Hey, newcomer, what's your name?" A burly man in green armor walked over and casually patted Zhang Dong on the shoulder.

Zhang Dong didn't say a word. He couldn't be bothered to talk to these native Cosmic Level cultivators. They had no value, no potential, and nothing he could admire.

When Zhang Dong remained silent for a long while, the burly man grew annoyed. His voice dropped as he demanded, "We're all going to join the army, so—"

He didn't get to finish. Zhang Dong merely swept him with a cold glance, and he fell silent.

A First-Class True Intent demigod received a tremendous boost in every aspect. The will he wielded was more than an ordinary Cosmic Level cultivator could withstand.

Zhang Dong only wanted the man to shut up. A single intimidating glance was enough.

"When did someone like him show up in Lifeng City?"

"Hua Nuo was actually intimidated by him. I wonder what trick he used. Damn."

"Does anyone know him?"

The Cosmic Level warriors murmured among themselves, but they all found Zhang Dong's face unfamiliar.

That was only natural. Not everyone was born in a city. Most people lived in the wilderness, then traveled widely. Once they reached Cosmic Level, they joined the army at the nearest location.

Zhang Dong was quite lucky. It took just one day for them to gather a thousand people.

Rumble!

Once the group was assembled, two metal doors opened with a thunderous crash at the very top of the hall, revealing a deep-black spacecraft.

The thousand Cosmic Level warriors lined up and entered the spacecraft one after another.

"Even with Cosmic Level strength, the lives of humans in Cosmic Secret Realms are far worse than those of humans in Universe Countries."

Zhang Dong felt a pang of emotion. The native Cosmic Level cultivators were extremely curious after entering the spacecraft, looking around and touching everything.

Normally, humans from Secret Realms could enter the Virtual Universe once they reached Cosmic Level, but each continent had a different administrator, and the entry requirements weren't always the same.

For example, the Dragon Rock Battlefield required Domain Lord Level strength.

In the outside world, powerful Cosmic Level cultivators could claim entire star systems as their territory.

The spacecraft set off. It first entered the upper atmosphere, then gradually began to accelerate. It wasn't a high-grade spacecraft, so it would take quite some time to reach sublight speed.

"At this speed, it'll take half an hour to reach the nearest army garrison."

Zhang Dong closed his eyes and thought things over. He knew very well that behind these various armies stood the administrators of the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.

The Seventh Divine General in the outside world couldn't perform a temporal rewind, but it certainly wouldn't be difficult for him to gather information.

Zhang Dong planned to reveal his talent so he could join the Virtual Universe Company's Core Layer. It would be difficult for him to join any faction during his early days on Boundary Heart Continent, so the resources of the Primordial Universe were especially important.

But he couldn't reveal his talent too quickly. It was best to take things step by step.

It would be believable for him to kill a couple of Domain Lords in the Dragon Rock Battlefield. But if he showed Realm Lord strength, or even greater power, being that monstrously talented might not be a good thing.

A tree that stood above the forest would be battered by the wind.

As he thought, the spacecraft reached the military garrison. Before them stretched a mountain range nearly a hundred thousand kilometers long, formed by countless connected encampments.