Finishing his communication with Lord Rong Bing, Li Che soon received a virtual message from his own lord.
The Immortal Military Lord did not recount her grievances with the other Immortal Military Lord in excessive detail, only stating that it involved a precious treasure of extremely high value, with an amount totaling at least several million Hunyuan Units.
Li Che simply glanced over the information briefly before tossing it aside, not taking the matter to heart.
Although the human race was united enough, internal conflicts certainly existed, especially at lower tiers. Having a few enemies occasionally was not surprising.
Once he inherited the legacy of Li Che of the Mountain Sea Realm, these Immortal Military Lord-level disputes would not amount to much in his eyes.
"It's time to tally the wealth accumulated over these years. Since I got used to using military merits in the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, it's about time I procured some Hunyuan Units after coming out."
"Swish!"
Murmuring to himself, World Force surged between Li Che's fingers and palms, and a dense mass of items materialized out of thin air from the open space before him.
Looking closely, those were one bizarrely shaped accessory after another-there were rings, badges, necklaces, bracelets, beast teeth, feathers, scale armor, carbapaces, crystal chips, pearls... at least over ten thousand pieces, each with its own distinct characteristics, and every single one flowing with rich World Force.
Without a doubt, these were all World Items carrying small worlds, representing Li Che's battle spoils from over 50,000 years in the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
In the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, wealth was often divided into two parts.
Whenever an enemy was slain, the act of killing an alien enemy itself granted military merits, while the battle spoils could either be chosen to be exchanged for military merits for use within the Extraterrestrial Battlefield military merit system, or retained independently to be sold at the bank.
After fighting in the Extraterrestrial Battlefield for more than 50,000 years, just how many World Lords had died at his hands?
Li Che had long since forgotten the exact number.
Over these years, roughly a small half of his battle spoils had already been exchanged for military merits for daily use, while the other large half had been singled out by Li Che, prepared to be cashed out after his retirement.
He had come to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield as a Universe-Level Warrior around the age of two hundred, achieved the rank of Domain Lord around seven hundred, reached the World Lord rank around sixteen hundred, and attained the ninth-level World Lord status around twenty-nine hundred.
Under the reinforcement of his various clone legacies, the progression speed of Li Che's comprehension was astonishing. Even though he deliberately suppressed his Gene Origin Force to avoid exposing his gene multiplier, his combat power remained terrifyingly strong.
Starting from around twenty-seven or twenty-eight hundred years of age, there were basically very few people in the World Lord circle who were Li Che's match. Ordinary World Lord Warriors could not even survive a single move in Li Che's hands, elite World Lord warriors found it extremely difficult to last five moves against him, and only World Lord Battle Generals could exchange blows with Li Che when he was at the seventh-level World Lord stage.
Over the span of 50,000 years, Li Che had fought against the Demon Race, the Machine Race, large and small races affiliated with the two peak races, as well as certain Starry Sky Beasts, the Prison Race, the Crystal Race, the Zerg, and others that had barged into the battlefield looking for benefits-he had even killed pretty much all of them.
By the second epoch, once Li Che's strength reached the Elementary Immortal Military Lord level, his primary prey became the alien World Lord battle-general-level experts. The battlefields he participated in grew increasingly dangerous, and during the course of executing hunts, he casually killed even more ordinary alien World Lords.
After the third epoch, Li Che continued to progress and successfully slew an Immortal Military Lord from a race affiliated with the Demon Race with his own hands during the war, becoming certified as a Military Lord-level World Lord by the military system.
By that stage, Li Che couldn't be bothered to carefully inspect the battle spoils of those ordinary World Lord warriors who were not recognized by the origin laws. He usually just swept them away casually-some were exchanged for military merits, while others he kept for himself.
In fact, by the late second epoch, the combat power of an Intermediate Immortal Military Lord that he displayed did not represent Li Che's full strength. By that time, his Life Gene Level had already reached 9 times from inheriting his clone legacies, and his erupted combat power was far more formidable than imagined.
However, Li Che always fought with a gene level around 1.5 times that of a normal human. A 9-times gene level already surpassed the imperial families within the Demon Race; if aliens truly discovered it, that would spell genuine trouble.
Fortunately, even without ever displaying his full strength, he had still accumulated profound wealth.
"Beep, beep!"
"Scan complete, sir. These World Items total 129,512 pieces. According to the Virtual Universe Company's sales standards, world belt-sized items are calculated at 0.3-3 Hunyuan Units, and world ring-sized items at 0.5-10 Hunyuan Units. All evaluated at the lowest price, the total value is approximately 59,954 Hunyuan Units."
Bai Yue activated the spaceship's own scanning function, sweeping across the mountain-like pile of World Items before Li Che, her powerful computing capability yielding a result in an instant, and she spoke respectfully.
"Mm, factoring in some of the higher-grade World Items among them, the total value should be around 100,000 to 200,000 Hunyuan Units. Not bad."
Li Che nodded. He wasn't surprised by this volume of World Items. In a place like the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, the last thing lacking was World Items. This stuff was extremely convenient for carrying legions or rescuing people, making it a rigid demand; even Immortals would carry a bunch of world rings around with them.
The consensus within the World Lord circle was that only penniless bums used their inner worlds, while wealthy brothers with a little money all used World Items; their portability and the characteristic of being transferable were both extremely important.
"Sir, the item scanning program and valuation process inside the World Items are relatively complex and comprehensive, and the estimated time required is rather long. Shall we begin?" Bai Yue's standard smile remained unchanged on her face as she continued to inquire.
"No need. Leave the specific estimations to the Universe Galaxy Bank later. When I killed their masters, I already looked at the things inside these items. Most of them are poor ghosts, and their entire net worth combined doesn't even add up to twenty Hunyuan Units. There are no special treasures,"
Li Che fished a vibrant purplish-red scale out of the pile of accessories, toyed with it slightly, then tossed it back into the pile of accessories, shaking his head as he spoke.
Take the Demon Race, the Prison Race, Starry Sky Beasts, and those various large and small vassal races-they did not have a convenient virtual universe network and bank like humans did. The World Lords of many races simply stored universe crystals inside spatial rings, and then packed the spatial rings using their inner worlds or world rings, carrying all their wealth with them in this simple and brutal manner.
Evaluating the wealth of such World Lords was very troublesome, as the prices of various Demon Race, Machine Race, and alien byproducts were always fluctuating, and Li Che couldn't be bothered to let his own intelligence personally inspect them.
"The truly precious ones are the wealth of these alien Immortals." He reached out and tapped Bai Yue's head, World Force surging as yet another small pile of World Items slid out from his fingertips.
It was apparent that the quality and grade of these world rings were much sturdier than the World Items of the World Lords, and even the ring styles were more advanced and exquisite.
"Help me scan the wealth inside these rings. The wealth of seven alien Immortal Military Lords-two of them seem close to becoming Marquises."
Pity, the ones Li Che had slain were all alien military-lord-level Immortals without immortal bodies. The reason was very simple: it was because Li Che lacked an efficient method to obliterate divine power. Anyone with an immortal body, even if they couldn't beat him head-on, wouldn't stubbornly drag things out with Li Che.
This was a gap in the essence of life. Li Che was still within the realm of flesh-and-blood life; without becoming an Immortal, it was fundamentally impossible to give birth to divine power within his body, and naturally he had no way to annihilate the immortal divine power of others.
As for utilizing divine power venom to eradicate immortal divine beings?
Suffice it to say, the value of those poisons capable of obliterating divine power was absurdly high. The Extraterrestrial Battlefield military merit system where Li Che was located did possess some lower-tier divine power toxins and law toxins, but the prices were often exceptionally exorbitant. Li Che had indeed bought some, but he had always kept them preserved as a trump card and hadn't used them for daily routines.
"Understood, sir!" Bai Yue nodded, taking the order.
Li Che gazed at the World Items piled up into a mountain, a glimmer of anticipation flashing within his eyes.
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