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The atmosphere inside the lounge cabin gradually softened as food and wine were brought out one after another. Laughter replaced the tension of battle, and the lingering weight of parting was diluted by the clinking of glasses.
Bai Yue flipped his palm. A world ring hovered quietly above it.
He looked at the familiar faces before him—comrades who had fought shoulder to shoulder through life-and-death battles—and spoke frankly.
"These spoils of war came from the Monster Race I killed earlier. To me… they don't have much practical value. But for all of you, they'll be far more useful."
Silence fell.
After a brief pause, Captain Black Yuan nodded decisively.
"Everyone, take them. For Walker, these really are low-tier items."
With that, he was the first to extend his consciousness into the world ring. One by one, the others followed.
"Damn… that's a lot of treasures."
"Let me see—mixed-origin units, secret technique fragments, even damaged Undying equipment."
"This alone is worth tens of millions of mixed-origin units."
"…That's equivalent to several epochs of gains for us."
No one pretended otherwise. On the Outside Territory Battlefield, resources were survival, and survival meant strength.
After everything that needed to be said had been said, Bai Yue stayed and drank with them for another round. When the wine was almost gone and the mood had settled, he finally stood up.
"Brothers and sisters," Bai Yue said calmly, "we've fought side by side through life and death. When we all leave the Outside Territory Battlefield in the future, we'll meet again. For now… I'll take my leave."
"Be careful," Black Yuan said solemnly.
"Without an Undying body, once you fall into a truly dangerous situation, escaping won't be easy."
Fengliu Fei smiled and blinked. "I'm counting on clinging to your leg one day, you know."
Bai Yue smiled faintly.
Blessings were exchanged. No excessive sentimentality—everyone here understood that separation was normal.
Whoosh.
Bai Yue stepped out of the spaceship hatch and into the boundless void.
With a wave of his hand, an E9-class saucer-shaped cosmic spaceship appeared. He boarded it smoothly.
Two E9-class spaceships—one belonging to the Black Yuan Team, the other to Bai Yue—flew in different directions, quickly vanishing into the depths of the starry sky.
From this moment onward, Bai Yue truly began walking alone on the Outside Territory Battlefield.
Of course, completing the Virtual Universe Corporation's life-and-death trial was only one of his objectives.
The other goal—never forgotten—was to trace the origin of the Sky Horn Ant's corpse.
Bai Yue was certain that the mystery behind it was no less profound than the Chaos Laws themselves.
During his years in the Blood River Star System, he had deliberately gathered intelligence related to the Three Thousand Black Hole Domain.
Because this region lay at the outermost edge of the Ninth Battlefield, countless cosmic legions—from Universe Rank to Undying—had fought here for eons. Almost every area had been explored repeatedly, making information relatively easy to obtain.
Moreover, with Bai Yue's authority within the Virtual Universe, he could access a great deal of confidential data.
Yet even after repeated cross-verification with Long Kui, no trace of information related to the Sky Horn Ant appeared.
Still, Bai Yue did not abandon the investigation. He instructed Long Kui to continuously monitor relevant data streams and report any anomalies immediately.
Deep down, he had not expected to find decisive clues in the outer regions of the Ninth Battlefield anyway.
As early as the Garbage Star Region, the Virtual Universe System had already performed probability calculations.
Although the outer regions contained far more wreckage and remnants, it was precisely because of this sheer quantity that the Virtual Universe Corporation's records were the most complete there. If nothing showed up through comparison, the likelihood of finding answers later was extremely low.
After separating from the team, Bai Yue moved steadily from the far end of the Blood River Star System toward its central black hole.
Along the way, he advanced in bursts—stopping, scanning, moving again. His detector ran at full power, combined with his domain secret technique, thoroughly sweeping every area he passed.
He found no trace of the Sky Horn Ant.
But his military merits continued to rise.
That left him feeling both amused and helpless.
At first, Bai Yue persisted stubbornly. But when this methodical search dragged on for twelve full years, and he realized he was still wandering along the rear edge of the Blood River Star System, he finally relaxed his approach.
Twelve years.
In the vast universe, it was nothing.
Yet for Bai Yue, those twelve years quietly changed him.
When he first left Primordial Chaos City, he had been eager, ambitious, and hungry to make a name for himself in the universe.
Now, drifting alone among countless stars, that impatience had gradually been worn away.
The universe was too vast.
Galaxies stretched endlessly. Nebulae shimmered with incomprehensible beauty. Ancient ruins floated silently, bearing witness to civilizations that had risen and fallen long before the Human Race ever existed.
For twelve years, Bai Yue had scarcely rested—constantly flying, scanning, advancing.
And yet, the regions he had traversed were merely a tiny corner of the Blood River Star System.
The smooth journey of a transmigrator, coupled with rapid growth, had once made him subconsciously believe he was already standing high above others.
Reality corrected him mercilessly.
He was not omnipotent.
He was, at best, someone who had just stepped out of a well and caught a glimpse of the sky.
Places that the original work mentioned only in passing were locations countless beings would never leave in their entire lives.
Some truths could only be understood through experience.
Time, indeed, changed many things.
After settling his mindset, Bai Yue once again embarked deeper into the Ninth Battlefield—continuing his trials, and continuing his investigation into the Sky Horn Ant.
Just days earlier, Luo Feng, who had cultivated in the Blood Luo World for eighty years, finally returned to the Highest Beginning Mystical Region.
The two of them even exchanged a call.
Later, the four-person Earth team gathered once in the Virtual Universe, talking about how each of them had changed over those eighty years.
Because of the time flow difference between the Primordial Universe and the Primal Universe, Bai Yue's stay of over twenty years in Primordial Chaos City translated into more than sixty years in the Primal Universe.
Adding in his preparations and the time spent battling in the Ninth Battlefield—eighty years had passed in the blink of an eye.
Everyone had changed.
Aside from Bai Yue, the greatest transformation was Luo Feng.
Half a year after returning from the Blood Luo World, Luo Feng successfully passed the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge.
Bai Yue withdrew his consciousness from the Virtual Universe.
Looking through the spaceship's external-view simulation, he gazed at the sea of stars and the massive central black hole of the Blood River Star System. His eyes were calm, resolute.
The spaceship accelerated, disappearing from the Original Universe and entering the Dark Universe, racing straight toward the system's core.
Several days later, spatial fluctuations rippled near the event horizon of the Blood River Star System's central black hole.
An E-class spaceship emerged.
The hatch opened, and Bai Yue flew out, storing the ship into his space ring with a casual wave.
Black holes—among the most terrifying celestial bodies in the universe—were avoided even by ordinary Undying beings. Without mastering an Undying body, being dragged in meant certain death.
But the Three Thousand Black Hole Domain was different.
The black holes here contained stable passages at their cores, linking directly to the inner Lian Xing Continent.
Of course, this "safety" applied only to those above the Undying Rank.
Even Sector Lord War Generals, if they failed to reach the spatial passage in time, would be torn apart by the black hole's gravity—life cores shattered, death inevitable.
Following information obtained from the Virtual Universe Network, Bai Yue steadily approached the event horizon.
This was the boundary beyond which even light could no longer escape.
As he drew closer, an invisible gravitational force wrapped around his body, tearing and pulling relentlessly.
By now, Bai Yue's human body gene level had reached 383 times. His physical strength surpassed that of many ordinary Undyings. This degree of gravity posed no threat to him.
With a thought, the Absolute Space secret technique activated, stabilizing the space around his body.
Under the black hole's pull, his speed increased continuously, plunging toward the core.
Unlike the spatial distortion experienced in universe passages, this descent made time feel sluggish—as if even his thoughts lagged behind reality.
After an indeterminate duration, Bai Yue finally reached the black hole's core.
Before him appeared a dazzling, multicolored passage.
Having already studied the situation thoroughly through the Virtual Universe, Bai Yue stepped forward without hesitation.
The next moment—
He crossed into the inner region of the Ninth Battlefield.
The Lian Xing Continent.
[ today was a shit , no maybe this whole week was quiet shit for me as many of you people know i made this account and patreon account so i can earn some money to buy some headphones i had the money but well i thought i will buy myself a new phone and new headphones why because both are not in one piece literally .
on other note i had to pay my fees by this month so almost all the money i had been saving went there and now i am broke again then but thats ok money comes and goes but the fuckery google and claude did today is making me insane i bought the "pro" version of claude and it was not that special then i thought maybe i can get a refund but google is screwing me over on that front i cant open claude support for some reason
DAAMMMMIT i could have eaten out 4 time with that money these assholes are sprinkling salt over my wounds (╥﹏╥) why am i writing this because i want bitch about my life to people who don't know me so they can't bitch back to me]
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