"We only just returned this time and plan to rest for a few days."
"You can use this period to make some preparations."
"In ten days, we will set out for the Shattered Star Region."
Jingyi Marquis reminded Luo Fan.
Luo Fan nodded in response.
After that, everyone sat together and chatted for a while longer.
Most of the time was spent with the other squad members sharing their experiences with Luo Fan.
…
Ten days passed very quickly.
During these days, everyone basically stayed inside the hall.
For Immortals, ten days was an extremely short period of time.
This return was merely for a brief rest.
During that time, Jingyi Marquis left twice.
He mainly went to sell the spoils the Demon-Hunting Squad had obtained earlier.
Soon, under everyone's lead, Luo Fan arrived at a spaceport.
The area was packed with dense rows of spacecraft.
Most of these were E-grade ships.
However, the Demon-Hunting Squad's ship was not among them.
Jingyi Marquis took out a spacecraft from his World Ring.
Luo Fan recognized it at a glance.
It was an F3-grade spacecraft.
The ship was constructed from Golden Soul Silver Mother metal.
Its maximum speed was only a little over twenty times the speed of light.
Among F-grade ships, it was considered relatively cheap.
Its value was less than one million Hunyuan Units of universe currency.
Seeing Luo Fan examining the ship, Jin Yuan Marquis walked over with a smile.
"Iceblade, don't look down on this ship just because it's an ordinary F3-grade vessel. There's more to it than meets the eye."
As he spoke, he revealed a mysterious smile.
He did not explain immediately, deliberately keeping some suspense, and directly led Luo Fan into the ship.
Soon, Jin Yuan Marquis brought Luo Fan into the ship's lounge.
The moment Luo Fan entered, he noticed something unusual.
To his surprise, the lounge was actually constructed from Starfall Iron.
Starfall Iron was a G-grade metal.
Although the lounge was quite small and could barely seat ten people,
even the tall and slender Wind Sword Marquis could not fully straighten his body inside.
Even so, the cost of this lounge alone was ten or even a hundred times higher than the value of the entire ship.
At this moment, Jin Yuan Marquis said with a grin,
"Well?"
"You noticed it, right?"
"This lounge was something our Demon-Hunting Squad saved up for a long time to purchase."
"We really felt the pain when we built it back then."
Luo Fan also knew that spacecraft on the Extraterritorial Battlefield were very easily damaged.
Especially on battlefields involving Marquis-level Immortals.
Marquis-level Immortals could easily destroy F-grade metals.
But G-grade metals were a different matter.
Even among King-level Immortals, destroying G-grade metal was extremely difficult.
With a lounge built from G-grade metal, it was possible to prevent sneak attacks from experts with powerful detection abilities.
Many people on the Extraterritorial Battlefield did the same.
Otherwise, a spacecraft would be lost in every battle.
High-value ships could cost several million Hunyuan Units each.
Even Marquis-level Immortals would feel the pain of such losses.
If it was only an F3-grade ship, it was still acceptable.
Some squads even used E-grade ships and built an F-grade metal lounge inside.
However, this was relatively rare on the Eleventh Battlefield.
That was because the Eleventh Battlefield was much larger than the others.
To reach destinations quickly, a faster ship was required.
At this moment, Jingyi Marquis and the others also walked in.
He looked at Luo Fan and said,
"Iceblade, you should already know the information about the Shattered Star Region."
"This time, we will first coordinate a bit on the outskirts of the Shattered Star Region, then enter the inner area together."
Luo Fan nodded to indicate his understanding.
Jingyi Marquis had mentioned before that their target this time was the Shattered Star Region.
The moment Luo Fan heard it, information about the Shattered Star Region automatically surfaced in his mind.
The Shattered Star Region was located within the Eleventh Battlefield.
It was roughly one million light-years away from Garrison Base 066.
At the speed of this ship, it would take about two days to reach it.
The Shattered Star Region was mainly occupied by ordinary Immortal squads and Marquis-level Immortal squads.
In the core area, there were even a small number of King-level Immortals.
However, those King-level Immortals usually acted alone.
The entire Shattered Star Region spanned several hundred light-years.
Originally, this area of space contained a large number of planets.
They were shattered during battles.
Later, the area was ravaged by spatial storms.
In the end, it formed what was now known as the Shattered Star Region.
The outskirts of the Shattered Star Region were mainly occupied by ordinary Immortal squads and a small number of relatively weaker Marquis squads.
Stronger Marquis squads generally entered the inner region.
Because of the spatial storms that passed through, spatial-type treasures were sometimes produced there.
Luo Fan also looked up information on experts active in the Shattered Star Region.
Because this area was not far from a Demon Race garrison base,
many Demon Race members and their subsidiary races operated here.
Previously, the Demon-Hunting Squad had been hunting Demon Race experts in this region.
At this moment, Jin Yuan Marquis suddenly remembered something and looked at Luo Fan.
"By the way, Iceblade, what is your military merit quota?"
"As a new recruit, the Virtual Universe military merit system should have informed you, right?"
The others also turned their attention to Luo Fan.
After arriving at the Extraterritorial Battlefield, only after completing one's military merit quota could one retire.
Military merit was mainly obtained by killing enemy experts.
The stronger and more talented the enemy, the more military merit was gained from killing them.
There were also other ways to obtain military merit.
For example, completing officially released missions or providing important intelligence.
A higher military merit quota generally represented higher talent and greater strength.
Luo Fan glanced at them and said calmly,
"My military merit quota is one trillion."
"How much?"
"Are you sure you didn't read it wrong?"
"How could it be that high!"
The squad members all exclaimed in shock.
This quota was terrifyingly high.
Military merit was not easy to obtain.
Killing an ordinary Domain Lord granted one hundred thousand military merit.
Killing an elite Domain Lord granted one million military merit.
Killing a Domain Lord Commander granted ten million military merit.
Killing an ordinary Immortal granted one hundred million military merit.
Killing a high-level or peak Immortal Army Commander granted one billion military merit.
Killing an entry-level Marquis granted ten billion military merit.
After that came high-level Marquis, peak Marquis, entry-level King, high-level King, all the way up to peak King.
Killing a peak King granted ten quadrillion military merit.
From entry-level Marquis to peak King, for every small increase in strength, the military merit reward increased tenfold.
King-level Extreme and King-level Invincible were even higher.
One trillion military merit meant that Luo Fan needed to kill one hundred enemies of the same level.
That was one hundred entry-level Marquises, or ten high-level Marquises, or killing a single peak Marquis expert.
Military merit quotas were generally determined based on the authority level one had upon first entering the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
Usually, the quota required killing ten to one hundred enemies of the same level.
The higher the talent and strength, the higher the quota.
Someone like Luo Fan, who needed to kill one hundred same-level enemies before being allowed to retire, was extremely rare.
At this moment, Jin Yuan Marquis looked at Luo Fan with a very strange expression.
"Iceblade, were you targeted by someone?"
Although he knew this was completely impossible,
a quota of one trillion military merit still shocked him.
After all, even Jin Yuan Marquis himself had never accumulated one trillion military merit.
In reality, for experts above the Immortal level, killing an opponent of the same level was extremely difficult.
Especially after reaching the Marquis-level Immortal stage and gaining an immortal body.
To kill a same-level opponent alone was almost impossible without suffering losses.
Because once they realized they were weaker and could not escape, these Immortals would burn their divine power.
After burning divine power, attack strength would instantly increase by a thousandfold.
This was an explicitly stated setting in the original work.
How terrifying was a thousandfold increase in attack power?
To withstand such attacks, one would also need to burn divine power.
For ordinary Immortals, once divine power was burned, the rate of consumption was extremely fast.
In the end, even if the opponent was killed, one might lose more than fifty percent of their divine power.
Recovering it could take several million years.
Therefore, killing a same-level opponent was extremely difficult.
To kill an entry-level Marquis without losses, one generally needed at least peak Marquis-level strength.
In some cases, even King-level strength was required.
Thus, after Immortals entered the Extraterritorial Battlefield, it usually took them a very long time to complete their military merit quotas.
Moreover, most of the time, they hunted enemies weaker than themselves.
At this moment, everyone looked at Luo Fan with very strange expressions.
In their eyes, Luo Fan might have to stay on the Extraterritorial Battlefield for tens of millions of years.
Jin Yuan Marquis sighed softly.
He said nothing more, simply patting Luo Fan on the shoulder in consolation.
The others also looked at Luo Fan with varying degrees of sympathy.
This made Luo Fan feel both amused and helpless.
However, he did not bother explaining.
In reality, Ice Peak Lord had given him an even higher quota.
He needed to complete one hundred trillion military merit before he could leave the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
That meant killing one high-level King or ten entry-level Kings.
If they knew this, they would be even more shocked.
In truth, this was not particularly difficult for Luo Fan.
When the Space Worm avatar went all out, its base strength could reach eighteen million times amplification.
In a direct head-on battle, killing a high-level King was not a problem.
The issue was that Luo Fan's comprehension of the Space Origin Laws was still too low.
If the opponent chose to flee, he had no way to stop them.
Although the Space Worm avatar could use wormhole traversal over long distances, it was still slower than instantaneous teleportation.
High-level Kings had mastered at least one profundity of the Space Origin Laws.
…
Soon, two days passed.
The members of the Demon-Hunting Squad finally arrived at the Shattered Star Region.
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