Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 124 Thousand Islands

In the blink of an eye, Qi Yuan's team had been venturing into this Stardust region for more than half a year.

The Star-Earth region, designated as number 2078102, is not a particularly powerful combat zone in the Ninth Battlefield.

Generally speaking, the strongest group wandering around here is at the level of the Bahrain squad.

As long as they are careful not to get surrounded by several alien squads at the same time, they are basically not in great danger in this area.

The team cautiously ventured out in their spaceship. If they encountered a formidable enemy, they would retreat early. If they encountered one they could handle, they would approach stealthily and strike quickly, just like before, and leave swiftly after the battle.

In the initial battles, Qi Yuan and Noah, the two new recruits, will be given special attention. While ensuring their safety, the team members will try their best to create more opportunities for them to fight.

Gradually, after several battles, the two recruits adapted to the rhythm of the extraterritorial battlefield and quickly integrated into normal team combat.

Especially Qi Yuan, with the strength he demonstrated, he could kill every alien realm lord enemy with ease, and he was no less than the strongest among a group of realm lord veterans, Poison Bee!
Moreover, because he killed enemies so quickly, later on, it even came to the point that other veterans had to 'steal heads' from him!

Amidst the fragmented and dust-filled void, a fierce battle is taking place.

On one side of the battle was a human squad led by an immortal god, and on the other side was a demon squad composed of four-hoofed, scaled beasts.

hiss hiss hiss~~~
A massive crystal sword, over three meters long and wreathed in dazzling lightning, darted across the battlefield like a thunderbolt.

puff!puff!puff!
With a flash of lightning, three of the four-hoofed, scaled beasts fighting the human team had their bodies pierced instantly, their life cores shattered, and a large number of items appeared in the void in an instant.

The lightning crystal greatsword circled once, then instantly turned and charged towards the other side of the battle.

"Damn it, Yuan, don't come any closer! We can handle this ourselves. Go help the captain!"

Over there, the team members who were coordinating the attack on the other four four-hoofed, scaled beasts widened their eyes upon seeing this, and they all hurriedly transmitted their messages:

"Yes, yes, you should go help the captain!"

"You've got the skills of a pro, don't try to steal my kills."

"I came to help out of kindness, but I was still looked down upon."

Qi Yuan manipulated the lightning crystal giant sword to spin around in the air in a wronged manner, but then charged directly towards the four-hoofed, scaled beast that was fighting Bahrain on the other side and had reached the level of an immortal god.

This scaled beast was nearly twice the size of its companions, with a body length of over thirty meters!
Its body is covered with a layer of silver armor that looks like mercury. The armor is so thin that even the patterns on the scales are visible.

However, this armor was extremely strong defensively, and it withstood the flaming spears of the immortal god Balin many times without being damaged.

"Chi~"

The crystal giant sword, crackling with blinding lightning, shot towards the four-legged beast and instantly pierced its silver armor!
Sizzle~~~
The lightning crystal greatsword was forcefully blocked by the silver armor. However, the violent lightning and some more hidden, invisible energy contained within the greatsword instantly spread, causing the four-legged beast's body to become slightly paralyzed and its movements to become somewhat sluggish.

"Hahaha, good job!"

The immortal god Balin laughed loudly, and with a large amount of immortal divine power poured into his hand, the fiery spear that seemed to melt away seized the opportunity to stab the four-legged beast heavily.

"puff!"

This powerful attack instantly annihilated a large portion of the immortal god's divine body. If it weren't for the demon race's immortal god's size advantage, this attack would have been enough to severely injure it and bring it close to death!

"Ah, despicable, despicable humans! With such strength, why don't you go to the Thousand Islands Domain? Why come to the Stardust Region? Shameless, cowards!"

The four-legged mythical beast, an immortal deity, retreated and fled, roaring with fury.

In his view, the other party clearly possessed the strength to roam the Thousand Islands Domain, yet he came to the Star Dust District instead. It was like a grown giant bear insisting on fighting a group of bear cubs—pure bullying!

However, even with his furious roar, the outcome was already predetermined.

Under repeated blows and bombardments from the lightning crystal greatsword and the flaming spear, its divine body was rapidly annihilated and depleted, and its aura plummeted.

Finally, with a furious roar filled with endless resentment, the immortal beast spirit whose divine body had been greatly depleted chose to self-destruct!
Rumble~~~
The powerful blast instantly swept in all directions, and Bahrain, which was closest to the blast, was thrown away.

The surrounding starry sky was torn open with enormous chasms, and countless fragments of space formed torrents. Even the incredibly solid meteorite fragments around were shattered and melted, turning into even finer dust particles.
Fortunately, the rest of the team were fighting against those alien races at the realm lord level and were a little further away from this place, so they were not greatly affected. However, they were all shaken and staggered.

Qi Yuan, being far away and constantly on guard, was not significantly affected.

"This guy is really decisive. Luckily, I've been on guard."

Balin steadied himself in the void. As an immortal god, he was wearing immortal-level armor and had retreated rapidly at the moment of the explosion. Therefore, although he appeared to be thrown away, he did not actually suffer any real damage.

At this moment, the veteran World Lords who had recovered from the explosion took the opportunity to kill the last two World Lord enemies.

Under Captain Balin's orders, the group quickly cleaned up the battlefield and then boarded the spaceship and sped away!

Just a few minutes later, several groups of alien races arrived here.

"Our ally is dead."

"The murderer escaped very quickly."

"According to the distress message we received, it seems to be that human team again. Damn it, why is such an elite team causing trouble here instead of going to the Thousand Islands Domain?"

"Unite! Unite and wipe them out!"

Several alien squads were secretly exchanging information.
In the spaceship.

The members of the Bahrain team gathered in a rest cabin made of F9-grade metallic sulfurous mother stone, and they were all excitedly drinking and having a good time.

"Hahaha, I never expected to kill an immortal god this time. The loot from just this one immortal god is more abundant than from more than ten of our previous battles!"

Even the immortal god Balin was extremely excited.

Even for an elite squad like theirs, the feat of killing immortal gods is rare. After all, the immortal gods who roam the outer battlefields not only possess numerous trump cards, but they are also incredibly slippery.

If things go wrong, they would rather self-destruct parts of their bodies than not escape immediately.

After all, even severe injuries are better than death.

Therefore, successfully killing an immortal god was definitely a great achievement worth celebrating for the team members!

"Haha, we owe it all to Yuan this time. If he hadn't kept that immortal god occupied, we might not have been able to keep him here!"

Bahrain smiled and looked at Qi Yuan.

The giant lightning crystal sword that Qi Yuan controlled contained the power of lightning and time, which could effectively paralyze and slow down the opponent's physical reactions. This allowed him to take the opportunity to severely injure the immortal god and force him to self-destruct.

"Haha, yes, all thanks to Yuan!"

Poisonous Bee also laughed and spoke up.

"Brother Yuan is so amazing, I love you to death!" Xue Mei blinked her crimson eyes, and even upgraded her way of addressing Qi Yuan.

"Hehe, the main reason is that the alien immortal didn't take me, a realm lord, seriously at first. If he had been on guard and had fled in advance, the outcome would have been hard to say."

Qi Yuan smiled modestly, but he felt quite at ease.

After breaking through to the Realm Lord level and obtaining the Three Pure Ones' clones, his cultivation entered a phase of rapid advancement, changing almost every day.

Having reached the final sprint stage of the Lightning Law, and with the Time Law soaring ahead and surpassing others, coupled with his conscious attempts to combine the 'Secret Book of Lightning' and the 'Array of Time', his true combat power has exploded, rapidly advancing to an astonishing level.

What he showed in the previous battle, while not exactly the tip of the iceberg of his full strength, was definitely something he was holding back.

"Haha, no matter what, your skills are undeniable!"

Bahrain first offered a compliment, then smiled and looked at the crowd.

"Now, besides me, the team also includes Poison Bee and Source, who can unleash combat power comparable to immortal gods at crucial moments. In addition, Noah has grown extremely fast and can now adapt well to the pace of the extraterrestrial battlefield. There is no point in staying here any longer."

"Huh? What does the captain mean?"

Each veteran had piercing eyes.

“My idea is that we set off today and head straight to the Thousand Islands Domain. That’s the best place for us to hone our skills and fight!” Balin nodded with a smile.

"Haha, so we're finally going back to the Thousand Islands!"

"Great! The Thousand Islands region is the best place to quickly accumulate military merits. In this Stardust region, just finding the enemy takes up a lot of time!"

"My military merits are almost used up, I need to earn more military merits quickly!"

Upon hearing Bahrain's words, the veterans all appeared very excited.

Even Xue Mei, the newest member of the team, has been venturing into the outer battlefields for over a thousand years.

Through countless trials and tribulations, they not only improved their strength to the level of 'World Lord Warriors', but also completed their respective military merit quotas and became free individuals.

However, the veteran members of these elite squads were clearly not content with mediocrity. For their own goals and pursuits, they chose to stay and continue fighting to earn more military merits.

It's important to know that every soldier who completes a military merit mission can exchange it for treasures through the military merit system.

Many of these treasures are things that cannot be accessed from the outside world.

Even without exchanging for treasures, every 10 military merits can be exchanged for one Hunyuan unit. If you can accumulate 1 billion military merits, that's 10 Hunyuan, which is enough to rival the entire wealth of an ordinary immortal god!

If they were to develop peacefully within human territory, they might never earn 1 Mixed Yuan Units in their entire lives.

However, in the battlefields beyond our borders, as long as one dares to fight and has the ability to fight, it may only take tens of thousands of years to easily accumulate such wealth.

Crisis and opportunity coexist; this has always been the case.

"Thousand Islands Domain"

Upon hearing this, Qi Yuan, who was sitting to the side, also showed a look of interest in his eyes.

He had three main objectives in coming to the battlefield outside the region:
One is to see if I can find a few 'wild' world lord-level geniuses with decent aptitude to be my apprentices, so that they can help me quickly advance my understanding of the laws and obtain the return rewards.

Secondly, it involves honing combat skills, transforming rapidly increasing understanding of the laws into actual combat power, creating and testing one's own secret techniques, and so on.

Third, we will accumulate a batch of rare resources that are suitable as system gifts in the future.

The first objective, at least, already has a direction to strive for—

In his own team, there are two outstanding talents with basic return multipliers of 52x and 53x respectively. However, he may need to put in more effort to persuade them to willingly become his apprentices.

As for the latter two objectives, they both require certain conditions from the opponent.

Most of the alien teams they encountered in the Starry Sky region were at the level of World Lords. Very few were led by immortal gods. Not only were their strength limited and their battle frequency low, making it difficult to hone their skills, but the resources they obtained from them were also extremely ordinary and limited.

But the Thousand Islands Domain is different.

According to Bahrain and other veteran team members, every team that dares to venture into the Thousand Islands must have an immortal deity in their ranks.

Moreover, the density of powerful individuals there is extremely high. As long as you want to fight, you can find an opponent almost anytime. Even on those few 'islands' in the core of the Thousand Islands Domain, there are quite a few Marquis-level experts!

That kind of area is the ideal place for Qi Yuan to fight and hone their skills, and to seize resources!

(End of this chapter)