Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 127 A Century
After the battle ended, the Bahrain team quickly cleaned up the battlefield and then boarded their spaceship to leave.

Inside the spaceship, all the team members were extremely excited.

Their first battle in the Thousand Islands Domain was a resounding success, completely annihilating an elite alien realm lord squad, including the alien immortal god who was also killed!

The gains from such a battle were absolutely substantial!

Military merits alone—just killing that alien immortal god—contributed a full 1 million military merits!
Of course, since it was a joint kill, under the supervision and judgment of the military merit system, the 1 million military merits were distributed among the three people.

Captain Balin was the main force in killing the alien immortal, and he alone received 65% of the military merit, which is 6500 million.

The puppeteer, Poison Bee, immediately used the 'swarm of bees' to severely injure the alien immortal, causing its strength to decline. In addition, by assisting in entangled the opponent, he obtained 25%, which is 2500 million.

Qi Yuan, on the other hand, only received 10%, or 1000 million military merits, because he was only an assistant.

However, compared to the military merits gained, the large amount of items obtained from killing the alien elite squad was even more of a pleasant surprise for everyone.

The enormous shield in the hands of that alien immortal alone was worth nearly two thousand Chaos Units. Adding in other miscellaneous items, it alone contributed seven or eight thousand Chaos Units in the harvest!

This is an absolutely rare 'big hit'!

"Haha, I guess this immortal hasn't been back to the supply base for a long time, otherwise he wouldn't have accumulated so much wealth. This is a real bargain for us!"

Even the captain, Bahrain, was laughing heartily!

After the excitement subsided, all the spoils were quickly distributed according to everyone's contributions.

The team naturally had a set of tacit rules regarding the distribution of spoils.

For example, when cooperating to kill enemies, the one who ultimately "gets the kill" will receive slightly less in terms of spoils because they have gained most of the military merits.

For example, if a team member has a strong need for a certain loot, it will be given priority during the allocation process.

The reason why the members of the elite team have been able to survive thousands of years of life-and-death trials together is not only because of the feelings and trust cultivated over the long years, but also because of the tacit understanding and rules in such subtle ways!
The resounding success of the first battle greatly encouraged everyone!

After a short rest and a review of the gains and experiences from the battle, the team immediately began their second hunt!
In the second battle, they once again targeted an elite squad led by only one alien immortal. Using the same method, the poisonous bees first used a swarm of bees to launch a surprise attack from afar, severely damaging the opponent. Then, the group rushed in together to surround and kill them.

Unfortunately, the second immortal from another race he encountered was extremely decisive. Upon realizing he was outmatched, he immediately risked self-destructing 5% of his divine body, using the impact of the explosion to escape far away and quickly reach near the speed of light.

In the end, they only killed 6 alien races who were considered world lords, so their gains were mediocre.

In the third battle, they aroused the enemy's alert before they even got close, forcing the squad to engage in combat.

Ultimately, after killing five world lord-level aliens, the team had no choice but to withdraw from the battle prematurely due to the rapid arrival of enemy reinforcements.

In the fourth battle, however, they were the ones who were hunted down.

Two elite alien teams, having joined forces, used their more powerful detectors to stealthily approach their target and then instantly destroyed their spaceship.

Fortunately, they had been staying in a rest pod made of F9-grade metallic sulfurous rock mother, which prevented them from being directly and severely damaged.

In this battle, the opposing team's two elite squads converged, led by two immortal gods. Many of their alien realm lords were also at the level of realm lord generals, making it extremely difficult for the squad members to deal with them.

Fortunately, the team had two top-tier Realm Lord warriors, Qi Yuan and Du Feng, who were comparable to ordinary immortal gods. With their full power, they quickly killed a large number of alien Realm Lords, ultimately forcing the two alien immortal enemies to retreat unwillingly.

The fifth time.
The sixth time.
There is no shortage of enemies in the Thousand Islands region.

Meanwhile, Qi Yuan's squad, stationed on island number 2932, gradually began to operate in a more regular manner.

When they want to fight, they travel by airship to areas where different races mingle, carefully seeking out suitable opponents to hunt.

After one or two hunting battles, they will return to the human camp's stronghold where allies gather to rest for a period of time.

Firstly, it's to relieve the tension in my mind and recover from the injuries and divine power in battle. Secondly, it's to digest the gains from each battle and further comprehend and improve my strength.

Even after becoming 'free agents', these squad members continued to venture into this extraterritorial battlefield. Accumulating military merits and resources was only one aspect; more importantly, they wanted to further unleash their potential under this high-pressure environment and seek opportunities for advancement!

Therefore, training and reflection in between battles are also essential.

Qi Yuan was the same.

With the return system combined with the Taiqing clone's 'educating' ability, his understanding of the laws progressed extremely quickly. Therefore, the Yuqing clone, who was venturing into the outer battlefields, focused more on how to transform these insights into actual combat power.

Before reaching the Realm Lord level, one can learn other people's secret techniques and purchase some standard psychic weapons and Force weapons.

However, once you reach the Realm Lord level, as your understanding of the laws improves, you will need to gradually create your own secret techniques, and even your own weapons.

After all, everyone's understanding and emphasis are different. Only the secret techniques and weapons created according to one's own situation are the most suitable for oneself and can bring out stronger combat power.

Aside from fighting alongside his squad, Qi Yuan spent his rest time researching and trying to create secret techniques that suited him.

For many, learning a secret method is already incredibly difficult, let alone creating a completely new secret method from scratch.

Fortunately, Qi Yuan had been studying the 'Secret Manual of Thunder' and the 'Array of Time'.

These two sets of texts do not directly record any particularly powerful secret techniques, but they contain something more important than any secret technique—

The basic formations and patterns recorded in the two sets of classic texts are equivalent to basic characters and the basic rules for combining characters.

Once you've mastered these, the difficulty of using these words and combination rules to create and combine them into the complete 'secret technique' you want will naturally be greatly reduced!

Based on his profound understanding of the laws, Qi Yuan used the essence of the Thunder Manual and the Time Array as his guiding principles, combined with his own characteristics, and constantly experimented and explored to try to create a 'unique secret technique' that suited his own style.

To this end, he also purchased a large number of basic secret techniques through the Vault of the Virtual Universe Company. These basic secret techniques were not expensive, costing only tens or hundreds of units of Chaos Yuan, with the most expensive costing only a few thousand units of Chaos Yuan, all of which were within his authority.

These secret methods don't involve very advanced levels, but they are more than enough to verify understanding and broaden one's horizons.

Through repeated research, experiments, and real-world combat, Qi Yuan's concept for the secret technique quickly took shape and gradually became more refined.
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time flies.

For many powerful individuals who venture into the outer battlefields, it is common for them to spend thousands or even tens of thousands of years on a single journey.

A century has passed since Qi Yuan joined the Bahrain team to adventure together.
Over the course of a century, more than 90% of that time was spent in the Thousand Islands Domain, amidst countless battles and carnage.

Over the past century, Qi Yuan's squad has gone out to fight and battle thousands of times!
In these thousands of battles, some were when they actively hunted down other alien teams, some were when they were targeted and attacked by other aliens, and some were sudden encounters or chaotic battles that broke out when they received calls for help from allies!
With such frequent battles, it was impossible for every one to go smoothly; they had also encountered many critical situations.

For example, there was a time when they were surrounded by allies summoned by the alien enemy because the battle lasted a little too long.

Five teams of alien races, each led by an immortal god, arrived in a very short time. Together with the original team, a total of seven alien immortal gods launched an attack on them!
That battle was extremely fierce. Two of the three strongest puppets of the Poison Bee were destroyed, and Captain Balin's divine body also suffered considerable damage.

Although Qi Yuan exerted almost all his strength, his basic power was only three times that of a peak ordinary realm lord, while the immortals who had ventured into the outer battlefields possessed divine power hundreds of times greater.
Dealing with those world lord-level alien races would be a piece of cake for him, but when it comes to true immortal gods, he's a bit out of his depth.

Moreover, those immortals have their souls fused with every cell, possessing immortal divine bodies. Even if Qi Yuan desperately shatters them once, they can quickly recover.

With his extremely high understanding of the laws, he was able to protect himself in front of a group of immortal gods from other races. However, it was extremely difficult to truly suppress and seriously injure an immortal god.

Just when the team was almost driven to the brink of despair, and Qi Yuan was about to reveal the trump card of Yuqing's clone's 'time stop' to help the team escape, allies from the human camp finally arrived. After a chaotic battle, they were able to help them escape the battlefield.

After this battle, the squad returned to Barracks Base 031 and recuperated for more than a year before fully recovering.

It was after this battle that Qi Yuan's desire to improve his strength became even more urgent.

If at first he only thought of following the elite team to 'get by' and incidentally 'hook up' with the two high-probability geniuses in the team.

But through repeated battles and life-or-death crises, he gradually integrated into the team and truly regarded his teammates as friends and partners.

The moment between life and death is when friendship and true feelings are most easily formed. Although Qi Yuan is a transmigrator and has a somewhat detached attitude, he is not a truly emotionless outsider.

Over the course of a long period of time, he and his comrades-in-arms naturally developed a deep bond.

He was just two clones on the battlefield outside the domain, so it didn't matter if they perished. But if his teammates perished, they would really be dead.

Therefore, if he has enough strength to help these teammates at crucial moments, it would be something he would be happy to do.

Driven by his own pursuit of strength and this inner desire, Qi Yuan naturally became more and more focused on his cultivation and comprehension.

He comprehended the laws of nature, delved into the secrets of lightning and the "Array of Time," read various fundamental texts, explored and researched secret techniques suitable for himself, and then verified and improved them through numerous battles.
In this structured life, Qi Yuan's strength increased at an extremely rapid pace.
(End of this chapter)