Chapter 96: The Qiu Jia Hou Clan

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had gone by.

"In just over an hour, we will arrive near the Yanji Continent!"

In the rest room of the starship, Captain Xuan Konghou swept his gaze over the team members, his voice quite stern: "The Yanji Continent is the most dangerous combat zone within the entire expansion range of our Camp 026 base. Although it cannot compare to extremely dangerous places like the Star Tower or the Twin Vortex Domain, it is still fraught with hidden dangers and extremely perilous. Therefore, everyone must absolutely not be careless in their actions from now on!"

"Rest assured, Captain!" The members of the Xuan Kong Team all nodded and responded in unison.

At this moment, Xuan Konghou looked at Lu Qingshan again and then earnestly instructed: "Lei Bao, you are a newcomer, and this is your first time coming to the Yanji Continent, so you must be even more careful during the operation!"

"Although you are an Immortal Marquis with an indestructible body, those Immortal Army Lords are not without threat to you. Just like some Immortal Army Lords of the Mechanical Race, if they possess powerful mechanical weapons, it is even possible to kill an Immortal Marquis!"

"I understand!" Lu Qingshan nodded quickly and said.

He had already checked a great deal of information about the Outer Battlefield before.

If we only count the four peak races...

The Insect Race has the fewest experts, but every single one is extremely terrifying. If resources are sufficient, even an Insect Race Empress at the Domain Lord level can pose a certain threat to an Immortal Marquis, and the strength of an Immortal-level Insect Race Empress is even more terrifying. After all, for an Insect Race Empress to break through to Immortality, she generally needs to reach the law comprehension level of a Marquis. Therefore, the Insect Race Empresses have no division between Army Lords and Immortal Marquises; every Immortal-level Insect Race Empress can be called the most terrifying existence on the Outer Battlefield.

The experts of the Mechanical Race are known throughout the Outer Battlefield for their powerful mechanical weapons. Although powerful mechanical weapons often require great strength to operate, if an Immortal Army Lord of the Mechanical Race wields terrifying mechanical weapons, they are fully capable of posing a huge threat to an Immortal Marquis. Therefore, after encountering an expert of the Mechanical Race, it is impossible to immediately judge the opponent's strength! Of course, the detectors of any Mechanical Race expert far exceed those of experts at the same level, making it quite difficult to detect them.

The experts of the Meng Yao Zu are known throughout the Outer Battlefield for having the largest numbers and the strongest individual strength! Especially the members of the royal families and the Wang Zu of the Meng Yao Zu often possess massive divine bodies. Once they engage in combat with such Meng Yao Zu experts, it is difficult for anyone at the same level to be their match. If one is not an expert several levels higher than the opponent, one should break away from the battle as soon as possible after encountering them; otherwise, the longer the fight drags on, the more disadvantageous it becomes for oneself.

As for the experts of the Human Race, their strength is relatively ordinary. It is only because of the Human Race's powerful heritage that they are slightly stronger than experts of the same level from those powerful races, or even ordinary races. However, the Human Race has the existence of the Virtual Universe, making support and joint actions incredibly swift. Even the Mechanical Race, with the most powerful technology, is far from comparable to the Human Race in this aspect.

Of course, the greatest strength of the Human Race lies in their comprehension! Perhaps at lower levels, there is no obvious gap between them and many alien races, but as strength continuously improves, the gap caused by comprehension becomes even more obvious.

Just as in the original work, the two strongest beings of the Human Race in the universe, Yuan Zu and Ju Fu, were all outstanding figures among their peers. Yuan Zu could even suppress the entire Universe Sea with his own presence! In addition, the Human Race also has three fifth-tier Universe Masters: Hun Dun, Hei An, and Peng Gong, as well as a large number of fourth-tier Universe Masters such as Lord Bingfeng, Long Xing, Xu Jin, Huang Jian, and Qingdong.

At this moment, Xuan Konghou introduced to Lu Qingshan again: "The Yanji Continent is mainly divided into the main continent and the continental fragments floating around the main continent. I believe you have already learned about this through the star map before. The diameter of the main continent of the Yanji Continent reaches 1.8 light-years. There are experts like clouds there; basically, every team is led by an Immortal Marquis, and there are even some Immortal Kings. It can be said to be extremely dangerous!"

"The continental fragments floating around the main continent of the Yanji Continent are called fragments, but that is relative to the entire Yanji Continent. In fact, the smallest fragment has a diameter of millions of kilometers, and the largest fragment has a diameter reaching trillions of kilometers. Precisely because of this, a large number of alien experts are lurking in these land fragments!"

"Our Xuan Kong Team usually operates on the main continent of the Yanji Continent. However, since Lei Bao you have just joined our team, everyone needs to go through a few battles to build synergy. Therefore, this time we will first go to Island Number 9527, the place known by most experts as 'Lonely Wolf Island'!"

"According to the information we gathered from experts of other camps, there are about a hundred Immortal Marquises and one Immortal King on Lonely Wolf Island. For our team, this should be considered a relatively safe place for training! After we have experienced several battles and our coordination becomes more tacit, we can head to the main continent of the Yanji Continent!"

"Captain, I understand!" Lu Qingshan nodded quickly and said.

Every team needs a period of adjustment after adding new members. He was like this when he was at the Domain Lord level, let alone an elite Divine Spirit team like this.

Precisely because of this, the Xuan Kong Team decided to temporarily go to Lonely Wolf Island for a period of adjustment before heading to the main continent of the Yanji Continent.

"Then we will get to see the strength of Lei Bao!" The illusionist of the Chi Mei Race, 'Nightmare', said softly, a hint of expectation hidden in her purple eyes.

After all, for her, the more experts in the team, the safer they will be when venturing into the Outer Battlefield.

"I also want to see how powerful an Immortal Marquis at the initial level with an allocated military merit quota of one trillion is?"

Ju Xiang also said with a smile: "I wonder if he can compare to Tie Xue Hou?"

At this moment, the gazes of the other members of the Xuan Kong Team all turned towards Lu Qingshan, some questioning, some curious, some expectant...

Lu Qingshan only smiled slightly and did not pay too much attention.

Half a day later, the starship finally performed a universe jump and returned to the Primitive Universe, obviously having arrived in the area where Lonely Wolf Island is located.

After all, returning to the Primitive Universe from the Dark Universe requires coming to a complete stop, so there is no need to search for universe jump points as one does when jumping into the Dark Universe.

"Be cautious, don't be careless!"

As soon as the starship returned to the Primitive Universe, Captain Xuan Konghou hurriedly reminded: "We have now arrived at Lonely Wolf Island. From now on, we may encounter attacks from alien experts at any time, and battles may occur at any moment!"

"Rest assured, Captain!" Ju Xiang of the Yan Boluo Race said with a loud laugh: "My war blade has been thirsty for a long time and wants to drink the blood of alien experts!"

At this moment, Vice-Captain Tie Xue Hou walked up to Lu Qingshan and said with a smile: "Lei Bao, you don't need to be too nervous. We have all come from being newcomers. If we encounter trouble, everyone will help solve it together!"

Lu Qingshan nodded with a smile.

He did not feel nervous at all; his only feeling now was excitement and expectation!

"Finally, I can fight to my heart's content!" Lu Qingshan thought silently.

Now he finally understood why so many Immortal Divine Spirits in the transportation department, knowing they might perish on the Outer Battlefield, still applied to go to the Outer Battlefield.

After all, compared to the excitement on the Outer Battlefield, the work in the transportation department is simply too boring.

Lu Qingshan has only worked in the transportation department for over a million years, let alone those Immortal Divine Spirits who have worked for tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years.

Fortunately, Lu Qingshan now possesses the ability of clones. While his main body engages in boring work, his second clone can fully hone itself on the Outer Battlefield.

Next, the members of the Xuan Kong Team traveled at high speed through the void in the starship, avoiding floating obstacles as much as possible.

"The maximum diameter of Lonely Wolf Island reaches five hundred billion kilometers, and it naturally hides many enemies!"

Xuan Konghou said with a smile: "We just need to fly the starship over Lonely Wolf Island while using detectors to explore the surroundings. We will definitely be able to find suitable targets!"

"The Captain's detector was exchanged for five hundred billion military merits back then, making it extremely valuable. Even many peak Immortal Marquises are reluctant to spend so many resources to buy a detector!"

Shadow said with a smile: "Precisely because of this, the Captain's detector has given us a huge advantage on the Outer Battlefield. Often, before those alien experts discover us, we have already discovered them!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan nodded slightly.

Any expert venturing into the Outer Battlefield can use their accumulated military merits to exchange for various treasures.

And under normal circumstances, every one hundred thousand military merits can be exchanged for one Hunyuan unit.

The Captain's detector cost five hundred billion military merits, which converts to five million Hunyuan units. This amount is already comparable to the entire fortune of an Immortal Marquis at the initial level.

Of course, any expert daring to venture into the Outer Battlefield will have a substantial fortune, but five million Hunyuan units is still considered quite precious.

In the original work, Luo Feng only spent ten million Hunyuan units to ask a peak Immortal King to teleport him.

"Actually, while we are detecting aliens, if those alien experts' detectors are also precious, they can similarly detect our probing!"

Xuan Konghou said with a smile: "However, most alien experts are very poor and probably cannot bear to buy precious detection instruments. So generally, they only react after we launch an attack!"

Hearing Xuan Konghou's words, Lu Qingshan also nodded slightly.

A good detector can indeed give one the advantage of the initiative.

And once a detector is not as advanced as an enemy's detector, one will undoubtedly fall into a disadvantage. Sometimes, one cannot even discover where the enemy is and can only defend passively.

Of course, as long as one does not truly attack, relying solely on the detector to probe makes it difficult to perceive the enemy's specific strength. Therefore, even if an alien enemy is discovered, it is possible to kick a steel plate.

The starship advanced continuously at sub-light speed, while Captain Xuan Konghou's detector constantly scanned the surrounding environment.

Five days later...

"Captain, there is a combat fluctuation forty million kilometers to the front-left!" the cold-faced 'Leng Xin' suddenly said.

"Oh?"

After hearing Leng Xin's warning, everyone turned to look at the screen in the void.

"It must be a powerful one from the Insect Clan camp fighting a powerful one from the Mechanical Clan camp!"

Captain Xuan Konghou quickly said, "It seems that Immortal High Commander of the Mechanical Clan camp, Immortal, can no longer hold on and will likely self-destruct soon. That Mechanical Clan Marquis-level Immortal is quite strong; perhaps he has already crossed into the Marquis High Immortal realm!"

"Captain, should we go over and take a look?" Vice-Captain Tie Xue Hou said.

"Forget it!" Captain Xuan Konghou shook his head and said, "By the time we arrive, the battle will likely be long over. Moreover, that Marquis-level powerhouse from the Insect Clan camp is not someone to trifle with. We had better not invite trouble upon ourselves!"

Hearing this, everyone in the Xuan Kong Squad quickly abandoned this target and continued searching for traces of other alien powerful ones.

Not until two months later did the Xuan Kong Squad finally discover a suitable target.

"Captain, target found!"

Jing Tao Hou smiled and said, "Over thirty million kilometers away from us, there are fluctuations from three Immortal Gods, and besides that, more than ten Realm Lords!"

"Three Immortal Gods? Devouring them will be no difficulty at all!" Shadow also said eagerly.

"I think we should all be a bit more careful!"

The cold-faced Leng Xin said seriously, "Immortals who dare to venture onto the Yanji Continent are mostly confident in themselves; perhaps they have some trump cards!"

"They are just three Immortals!"

Ju Xiang even said in a deep voice, "Even if there is a Marquis-level Immortal among them, they pose no great threat to us! Besides, we haven't fought for so long; I'm about to suffocate! Captain, let's move!"

"Then let's move!" Captain Xuan Konghou gave the order, quickly deciding the fate of that alien squad.

With the strength of the Xuan Kong Squad, dealing with three Immortal Gods and more than ten Realm Lords indeed held no possibility of failure!

Soon, the starship turned directly and moved closer toward the direction where that alien squad was located.

Moments later, Lu Qingshan and the others arrived in the starship at a distance of less than one million kilometers from the enemies.

"Slow the starship down and stop temporarily."

"The detector has already observed the exact appearance of this target. These are all the members of the target; everyone take a careful look!"

Captain Xuan Konghou waved his hand, and a new screen quickly appeared in mid-air. The screen displayed more than a dozen images, and beside each image was detailed information such as height and skin color.

Among these images were men and women; although their appearances were not quite the same, it was clear they all belonged to the same race.

It could be seen that the bodies of these aliens were entirely composed of rock, their figures looking like turtles, with a pair of blood-red eyes on their ferocious heads, and their bodies covered in thick armor.

"It is the Qiu Jia Hou race from the Meng Yao Zu camp!" Tie Xue Hou said with a smile.

As a core member of the Universal Mercenary Alliance, he naturally could gather specific information on these aliens.

Soon, Tie Xue Hou smiled and introduced to everyone, "The Qiu Jia Hou race surpasses peers of the same realm in defense, but lacks flexibility; they are a rock-type alien race with very obvious strengths and weaknesses!"

"Alright, everyone, get off the starship!"

Captain Xuan Konghou quickly ordered, "We will sneak over quietly and try not to be discovered by these aliens; otherwise, if they flee immediately, it will be very troublesome for us to annihilate them all!"

"Yes!" Lu Qingshan and the others responded one by one.

Immediately, the entire Xuan Kong Squad quietly left the starship.

After Captain Xuan Konghou casually stored away the starship, Lu Qingshan and the others quickly flew toward the direction where those Qiu Jia Hou powerful ones were located.

On the other side, inside a cave within a huge mountain range, there stood an ancient palace.

The detector in Captain Xuan Konghou's hand far surpassed the detectors held by these Qiu Jia Hou powerful ones, so while Lu Qingshan and the others were flying toward them, they did not detect any danger at all; instead, they continued to gather together celebrating.

"Brothers, let us together congratulate Third Brother on successfully breaking through to become an Immortal!"

One of the Qiu Jia Hou Immortals raised his cup and invited, "Back then, over a hundred of us brothers came to venture in this Outer Battlefield. Until today, ninety-two have perished, but we also have three who broke through to become true Immortal Gods. This is absolutely something worth celebrating!"

"Yes! Those enemies who destroyed our tribe back then only had three Immortal Gods!"

Another Qiu Jia Hou Immortal said likewise, "As long as one more of our brothers successfully breaks through to become an Immortal, we can return to take revenge. At that time, we will surely make them pay blood for blood!"

"Pay blood for blood!"

"Pay blood for blood!"

All the Qiu Jia Hou Immortals shouted excitedly.

"It is a pity that Big Brother has already perished!"

The Qiu Jia Hou Immortal with the strongest aura waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then said in a deep voice, "Back then, Big Brother led us to escape the pursuit of that Red Blood Tribe, even bringing us to this Outer Battlefield where opportunities are endless. Ultimately, he perished in the hands of powerful ones from the Mechanical Clan camp to protect us. We must absolutely not forget him!"

"Rest assured, Seventh Brother!"

The Qiu Jia Hou Immortal who spoke first immediately replied, "We all will definitely remember Big Brother! After we return home and build a new tribe, we must enshrine Big Brother in the Holy Temple, so that everyone in the tribe knows the contribution he made to the tribe!"

"Good!"

The Qiu Jia Hou Immortal whose aura was the strongest immediately said, "We will rest here for half a month first, then continue setting out to search for new prey!"

"Yes!" The other Qiu Jia Hou people around responded one by one.

In the void, Lu Qingshan and the others had approached to a distance of less than one hundred thousand kilometers from that group of Qiu Jia Hou powerful ones.

Such a short distance could be crossed by an Immortal God in the blink of an eye.

"Stop!" Captain Xuan Konghou transmitted his voice directly.

Everyone hurriedly stopped, hovering in mid-air just like that.

Fortunately, the detector was shielding the Qiu Jia Hou people's detection, so there was no need to worry about being discovered by the enemy.

"Everyone, don't rush!"

Captain Xuan Konghou smiled and transmitted his voice: "I think the enemy's strength this time isn't too great. In my opinion, let's leave this battle to Lei Bao, so we can witness his power! What do you all think?"

"Captain, the opposition this time has three Immortals!"

The giant elephant of the Yan Boluo tribe spoke quickly: "If they join forces, they should be able to hold off one Marquis-level Immortal without much trouble. But if they scatter and flee later, it will be very difficult for us to annihilate them all!"

"This problem isn't hard to solve!"

Captain Xuan Konghou smiled and said: "The rest of us will simply disperse to all four directions to keep watch before Lei Bao makes his move. They definitely won't be able to escape!"

"I agree!" Tie Xue Hou was the first to nod and say.

"I agree too!"

"I have no problem!"

The members of the Xuan Kong team all voiced their opinions one after another.

Captain Xuan Konghou's gaze quickly turned to Lu Qingshan: "Lei Bao, what do you say?"

"I have no problem!" Lu Qingshan nodded quickly and said.

He truly wanted to know just how far his current strength could take him in a real life-and-death battle!

With the plan already set, the members of the Xuan Kong team quickly sprang into action.

First, Captain Xuan Konghou and the others dispersed to all four directions to prevent the enemy from escaping, and then Lu Qingshan directly transformed into a streak of light, flying rapidly toward the location where the Qiu Jia Hou tribe's experts were.

During the flight, the Purple Thunder Sword quickly appeared in Lu Qingshan's hand.

"Go!"

Lu Qingshan casually waved his hand, and a dazzling purple sword light instantly shot rapidly toward the direction where the Qiu Jia Hou tribe's experts were gathered.

(End of this chapter)