Bumblebee, Transformation (I)

"Bumblebee, what's going on?"

Qi Yuan quickly asked through his thoughts.

"Mysterious pull. Very important. When rift appears, capture."

Bumblebee, the Star Traveller Metal Life, was still quite limited in intelligence and could only convey extremely vague thoughts.

After communicating for quite some time, Qi Yuan finally roughly understood what it was trying to say.

"You mean there may be something extremely important to you beyond the spatial rift, and when the rift appears again, you can try to draw it over and capture it?"

"Yes, Master!" Bumblebee immediately sent over a jubilant thought.

Qi Yuan was immediately somewhat puzzled.

What could it possibly be that would make Bumblebee sense it even through a spatial rift?

Although Bumblebee was an exceedingly rare Metal Life, it was only at the Star Traveller level and was still essentially in its infancy. How could it be connected to something beyond a spatial rift?

His thoughts raced, but in the end, he first tactfully declined Brother Qian's kind invitation.

"Thank you for looking out for me, Brother Qian. I have other matters to attend to, so I won't be traveling with everyone for now. Brother Dong Yu, give me your Virtual Universe ID. We can contact each other through the Virtual Universe later to discuss dividing the profits from the treasures."

"Uh..."

Dong Yu hesitantly looked at Qi Yuan. "I can give you my Virtual Universe ID, but forget about dividing the profits. We didn't contribute anything when we fought for those treasures."

"Still, Brother Yuan, are you sure you want to act alone? I'd guess quite a few people around here have their eyes on you right now."

Qi Yuan lightly waved his hand.

"Don't worry. Even if I can't beat them, I'm still confident I can escape. All right, I'll be leaving first. We'll contact each other through the Virtual Universe later."

With that, he gave Dong Yu, Brother Qian, and the others a slight nod before turning into a streak of lightning and vanishing into the distance.

"Heh heh, Brother Dong Yu, it seems your friend doesn't quite trust Old Qian."

Watching Qi Yuan's departing figure, Brother Qian, whose entire body was covered in azure scales, grinned and revealed a somewhat self-mocking smile.

"Ah, Brother Qian, don't overthink it!"

Dong Yu hurriedly defended Qi Yuan. "Brother Yuan probably really does have some special matter to handle. You know how the Virtual Universe Company often assigns tempering missions to its talented members. They likely received similar requirements for this Secret Realm ruin exploration."

"Perhaps."

Brother Qian's gaze flickered continuously.

After parting ways with Dong Yu and the others, Qi Yuan sped away at full speed.

After carefully avoiding the battlefields where Universe Level powerhouses were engaged in fierce combat, he soon arrived at an edge area of the spatially weak region.

"The place where your senses were strongest earlier is here?"

Qi Yuan confirmed this with Bumblebee in his mind.

"Yes, Master," Bumblebee answered firmly.

After receiving the confirmation, Qi Yuan hesitated slightly, but ultimately made up his mind.

As if wandering without purpose, he flew toward a nearby uninhabited fragment of land. The instant he landed, a mass of Golden Liquid immediately fell from beneath his feet and rapidly burrowed deep into the ground.

Within that Golden Liquid, a silver-white Space Ring was tightly wrapped.

Yet after doing all this, Qi Yuan did not pause in the slightest. He directly left the spatially weak region, turning into a streak of lightning as he swiftly fled into the distance.

After incorporating a trace of the Artistic Conception of the Origin Law of Lightning into his Movement Technique, his speed reached a terrifying level. In what was almost an instant, he disappeared beyond the horizon.

"Hm? He really left?" Brother Qian, who was with Dong Yu, was slightly surprised.

The group of Universe Level powerhouses who had previously fought Qi Yuan over the Golden Paper also immediately looked in the direction he had departed.

"Damn! That guy is too shrewd. He actually just ran off with the treasure!"

"Holy shit, he's so fast. Even if we wanted to chase him, we probably couldn't catch up!"

"Forget it. Let him have his luck. It's only one treasure. Let's keep waiting here."

The spatial rifts in this area had already erupted four or five times, and nearly every time, they had brought out dozens or even hundreds of all sorts of strange items.

Therefore, no one was willing to abandon the large number of treasures that could appear here at any moment just to pursue Qi Yuan relentlessly.

Inside a mountain cave tens of thousands of kilometers away from the spatially weak region.

After confirming that he had escaped everyone's detection, Qi Yuan immediately lightly turned an emerald-green bracelet on his wrist.

At once, his height began to increase rapidly, soaring until he was nearly two and a half meters tall. The muscles all over his body became knotted, and a thick beard appeared on his face.

Even his life aura changed slightly in the end, becoming somewhat obscure and indistinct.

The emerald-green bracelet was called the Fraud Bracelet. It was a fairly practical little item he had obtained by using one precious return opportunity before heading to the Secret Realm ruins.

Its effect was to slightly alter the user's vital characteristics, and no one below the World Lord level could see through it. It was quite useful for Qi Yuan's current situation.

Once the changes to his body and characteristics were complete, Qi Yuan stored his distinctive Ice Blue Battle Armor and Soul Extinguishing Saber in his World Ring, replacing them with an ordinary black Force Battle Suit and combat saber.

Only then did he leave through another exit of the winding cave and quickly head back toward the spatially weak region where Universe Level powerhouses had gathered.

The spatially weak region.

The previous round of treasure competition had just come to an end.

After a brutal slaughter, at least seventy or eighty Universe Level powerhouses from the various major factions had fallen in total.

These were not cannon fodder at the planetary or Star Traveller level, but powerful Universe Level existences who could normally suppress an entire galaxy.

Such a large-scale fall of Universe Level powerhouses would likely cause no small upheaval in the situation across the entire Eternal Empire.

However, although the casualties were severe, the gains of the various factions were absolutely immense.

For example, relying on their superior numbers, the Eternal Empire's imperial family had seized more than half the treasures in one sweep!

Among them was even an Immortal Divine Weapon whose value was impossible to measure!

That was a powerful treasure capable of stirring the hearts of even the Eternal Empire's two Holy Lords!

The other three major organizations and the various Realm Lord family factions had gained somewhat less, but they had still made a fortune.

After all, among the treasures that had emerged from the spatial rifts earlier, even the lowest-grade items were at the level of Cosmic Crystals!

After the bloodshed and harvest, the Universe Level powerhouses of the various major factions began dividing up territory again according to their respective strength, waiting for the next spatial rift to open.

Those at Universe Level eighth or ninth rank, the strongest among them, naturally occupied the core area of the spatially weak region. This was also where the most treasures appeared whenever the spatial rifts opened.

Those who were weaker could only be squeezed into the peripheral areas, serving as mere placeholders for territory.

At the very edge of the entire spatially weak region, a burly first-rank Universe Level warrior nearly two and a half meters tall, dressed in a black Force Battle Suit, seemed to have just arrived and quietly landed on a meteorite fragment of land.