After that, he didn't linger. He returned straight to his ship and left.
Thunder Prison Marquis stared in the direction Yan Ning had gone, unable to come back to himself for a long time.
"Sir..."
An Immortal Army Master flew over.
"What do we do next..."
Only then did Thunder Prison Marquis come to his senses. He took a deep breath. "Secure the battlefield immediately and count our casualties. Gather all the equipment and resources the Demon Clan left behind."
He looked down at the many spoils below and gave a wry smile. "This Demon Flame Marquis really is generous."
After all, the combined possessions of so many Undying were a considerable fortune, even to a Marquis-level powerhouse.
Yet Yan Ning hadn't even given them a second glance. He had taken only the most important World Rings and left.
"Sir, Demon Flame Marquis..."
Another Undying hesitated before speaking.
"Peak King."
Thunder Prison Marquis declared firmly, awe glimmering in his eyes.
"He definitely has Peak King strength!"
The surrounding Undying gasped at his words.
Peak King—an existence standing at the very pinnacle of the Immortal Realm!
There weren't even a handful of powerhouses like that across the entire Fifth Outer Domain Battlefield.
"No wonder he could badly wound Blood Fang Marquis with one slash and kill so many Undying at the same time."
An Immortal Army Master murmured.
"And Blood Fang Marquis was a Peak Marquis who had burned his divine body, at that!"
Thunder Prison Marquis turned toward the human warriors securing the battlefield and raised his voice. "Keep your spirits up! We survived this only because Demon Flame Marquis arrived in time to save us. Remember this debt!"
"Yes, sir!"
The soldiers answered in unison.
Meanwhile, Yan Ning had already left the battlefield. He stood aboard his ship, checking his kill record.
"Forty-nine Undying. Not bad."
He murmured to himself.
"But I'm still a long way from my goal."
Yan Ning took out one World Ring after another. They were all spoils he had won over the years by hunting Alien Race Undying on the Outer Domain Battlefield.
"Smart Optical Brain, tally my total spoils."
He gave the order calmly.
"Calculating..."
The Smart Optical Brain responded at once.
"Calculation complete, Master."
A light screen unfolded before Yan Ning, listing his gains in detail:
Estimated Hunyuan Units: 13,527,689 G-class materials: 42 pieces F9-class materials: 387 pieces Various secret manuals: 128 volumes Special treasures: 9
"Over thirteen million Hunyuan Units."
Yan Ning nodded slightly.
"Not bad."
After that, Yan Ning continued his slaughter.
Search. Kill. Search. Kill.
Yan Ning's ship streaked through the dark starry sky. The detector suddenly blared an alarm. "Three Immortal Level Demon Clan members detected."
"Just a warm-up."
He spoke softly as he drew his War Blade.
Three days later, his battle record updated: 102 Undying killed.
Year ten.
In a shattered star belt, Yan Ning fought seven Mechanical Clan Undying alone.
"Yan God Codex—Skyburner!"
The mechanical cores melted in the flames, and his kill count climbed to 183.
Year thirty.
Deep inside a Zerg Mother Nest, Yan Ning was covered in blood.
Beneath him lay a Zerg Mother Queen of breathtaking beauty.
"The ninth Mother Queen."
He panted, gazing at the Zerg nest reduced to scorched earth.
Kill count: 497/10,000
Year sixty.
Undying killed: 728.
Year ninety-five.
Kill count: 998/10,000.
Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, he had spent a hundred years on the Fifth Outer Domain Battlefield.
For a hundred years, he had constantly hunted Undying, and at last his kill count had passed a thousand.
He could be said to have never let up for even a moment.
Wherever there were Alien Race Undying, he was there.
Any Undying who crossed his path was as good as dead.
In all those hundred years, only two Alien Race Undying had escaped his hunt.
Both were Sealed King Undying.
A Sealed King who burned his divine power and fled at full speed was extremely difficult to catch, even for him.
So he had simply let them live. The mission only required him to kill Undying, after all.
There was no need to waste time and divine power on two of them.
After a hundred years of slaughter, Yan Ning's name spread like wildfire across the Fifth Outer Domain Battlefield.
"Have you heard? That Demon Flame Marquis..."
"Shut up! He's Demon Flame King now!"
Several Alien Race Undying spoke in hushed voices, their eyes full of fear.
"They say he's killed more than a thousand Undying in a hundred years."
"More than that! Three Sealed Kings from my race fell to his blade!"
Among the human camp, Demon Flame King's name was even more renowned.
The first lesson new recruits learned was how to send a distress signal. In the Yanyue Star Domain, sending one through the Virtual Universe meant they were absolutely safe.
"Where Demon Flame King goes, the Alien Races flee! The Undying can't even escape!"
That saying had become an ironclad rule of the battlefield.
Demon Flame Marquis seemed particularly fixated on Alien Race Undying. Whenever he spotted one, he would chase it down and kill it without fail.
One day, Yan Ning's ship docked on a desolate planet for a rest.
He sat in the ship's control room, his fingers tapping lightly on the metal armrest with a crisp sound.
After a hundred years of fighting, he had killed more than a thousand Undying, but his goal of ten thousand still seemed far away.
"Too slow."
He muttered.
The Smart Optical Brain projected a star map, marking the various Alien Race gathering places across the Fifth Outer Domain Battlefield.
A glint suddenly flashed in Yan Ning's eyes. His finger stopped over the area marked as a Zerg Mother Nest.
"Smart Optical Brain, pull up the detailed information on Immortal Zerg Mother Queens."
He gave the order in a deep voice.
The light screen immediately displayed a series of data:
[Zerg Mother Queen: Immortal Level] [Ability: Mass-produce Immortal Zerg Warriors] [Average production every hundred years: 50–100 Immortal Level Zerg Warriors]
"Just as I thought."
A dangerous curve lifted the corner of Yan Ning's mouth.
"Rather than hunt Undying all over the starry sky, I should focus on Immortal Zerg Mother Queens and Immortal Zerg Warriors."
Immortal Zerg Warriors were Undying too!
Over the past hundred years, he had hardly ever gone after Zerg Mother Queens. That was because Zerg Mother Queens, especially Immortal Zerg Mother Queens, were extraordinarily powerful.
Most of them had Sealed King strength.
He had previously thought they weren't worth the time.
But now that he thought about it, that made no sense. Weren't they machines for mass-producing Undying?
He sprang to his feet, and his golden armor automatically covered his body. "Plan a route immediately. Find the most suitable Zerg Mother Queen to enslave. Also, notify me at once whenever there's news of a Zerg Mother Queen!"
"Understood, Master."
Excitement glimmered in Yan Ning's eyes.
He could already picture enslaving a Zerg Mother Queen specifically for his use.
Then he could have her keep making babies for him—no, producing Immortal Zerg Warriors.
Then he could kill them.
A production line of giving birth, killing, giving birth, killing.
Damn, even capitalists weren't this cruel.
Several more years passed.
On the Fifth Outer Domain Battlefield, near the Yanyue Star Domain, at the edge of the Corrupt Poison Star Domain.
Four human Undying floated back-to-back in the void, divine power surging around them. Their faces were grim.
"Damn it! How did we run into a Zerg Mother Queen?"
A man in Silver Battle Armor gritted his teeth. The spear in his hands had already snapped in two.
"Watch out for her spiritual bewitchment!"
The only female Undying in the group shouted a warning. Blood had already seeped from the corners of her eyes.
"My soul-defense treasure can't hold on much longer!"
Opposite them, a voluptuous figure stood suspended in midair.
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