"All right, Master. Your application has been submitted. Once it passes review and the military merit points have been deducted, the item will be delivered through the military's highest-security channel. Estimated delivery time: within three standard hours."
Hearing that the exchange had succeeded, the weight finally lifted from Lin Yi's heart.
Then he sat cross-legged, quieted his mind, and focused on bringing himself into peak condition.
Two and a half standard hours later.
The door to the meditation room slid shut silently behind him, cutting off all the noise of the outside world.
Lin Yi stood where he was. He didn't begin cultivating right away, first calming the slight ripples in his thoughts.
Just half a standard hour ago, he had experienced a handover whose level of security had been somewhat unexpected.
When Xuanji had informed him that the [Momentary Bloom] he had exchanged for had arrived through the military's highest-security channel and was awaiting his personal acceptance, he had assumed it would be escorted like the other treasures he'd received in the past, by a Star Domain Rank powerhouse.
However, when he left the fortress and entered the transport ship's handover room, isolated by multiple force fields, he discovered that the person waiting there was not an elite Star Realm Army officer in a crisp uniform, as he'd imagined, but a middle-aged man dressed in a simple gray robe.
Yet he merely stood there, and it was as though he himself were the core of an independent universe.
World-Deriving Rank!
Lin Yi's heart tightened.
"Lin Yi?"
The gray-robed man smiled faintly. His expression was gentle, yet carried an innate air of authority. "I'm Yantu. I'm responsible for delivering this extraordinary item you exchanged for."
Suppressing his surprise, Lin Yi calmly bowed. "Sorry for the trouble, Senior Yantu. I'm honored