Swallowing the Stars: Analyzing All Things

Ninth battlefield, 072nd barracks base.

The massive military base floated in the void, enveloped by a semi-transparent, colorful energy shield. As the light flowed, it kept out all the deadly dangers in the universe.

Ripples occasionally appeared on the surface of the energy shield, indicating that a spaceship was slowly entering the base via signal docking.

The spaceship passed through the energy shield and docked at the designated spot.

Wow~

The hatch opened.

The legion warriors filed out, and a realm lord commander stood at the front of the line, holding a light screen that displayed the evacuation and resettlement plan that had just been issued by the legion command.

"Everyone, listen to my command!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached all the soldiers' ears: "According to the legion's orders, proceed with the diversion now."

"Those who choose to remain on the extraterritorial battlefield and move to other war zones, stand still and wait for the unified arrangements of the military system. Those who choose to temporarily withdraw from the extraterritorial battlefield and return to the Space Kingdom, follow me."

A slight commotion arose in the ranks, which then split into two groups. About 30% of the group chose to stay, mostly veterans eager to earn greater military merits in the war.

Lin Yan and the vast majority of other soldiers followed a Realm Lord through a portal of light, and after passing through a long corridor, arrived at the teleportation hall in the core area of ​​the military base.

The teleportation channels were arranged in a row, each one kilometer high. Lin Yan was in the queue, and with a flash of white light, he was standing in a completely different hall.

Danlinxing.

One of the eight major logistics bases within the territory of humankind.

This is a fixed transport point for the space army, and a transit station for countless soldiers traveling from the heart of the territory to the battlefields beyond.

The outer battlefield serves as a buffer zone between the territories of the four dominant races, and also as a training ground for the elites of each race.

The four dominant races have been locked in fierce battles here year-round, exhausting each other and attracting countless other races to come.

From all of humanity's territories, it is impossible to reach the battlefields outside those territories in one step.

Therefore, the human race established eight logistics bases as transit hubs connecting various extraterrestrial battlefields. Danlin Star is one of them, responsible for connecting with the ninth and eleventh extraterrestrial battlefields.

Inside the teleportation hall of Danlin Star's front line.

Led by the staff, Lin Yan followed a passage to a huge hall at the end.

This grand hall is thousands of miles in diameter, with 17 spatial water curtain-like passages in the center. At this moment, tens of thousands of people are gathered in the hall, all waiting for the next opening of the teleportation passages.

"This is……"

"A spatial passage leading to the Lanyou Universe Kingdom."

Lin Yan walked to one of the water curtains. This water curtain passage was a kilometer wide and a kilometer high, with a soft blue light emanating from its edges.

Time passed slowly.

"Buzz—"

Suddenly, a low humming sound echoed through the hall.

The seventeen water curtains lit up simultaneously, the blue light at the edges intensified, and the surface of the water curtains began to ripple violently.

The spatial passage has been opened.

Tens of thousands of people in the hall stood up at the same time, and the crowd surged toward their respective teleportation channels like a tide. Lin Yan stood up and stepped into the water curtain marked "Lanyou Universe Kingdom" with the flow of people.

Lin Yan only felt a blur before his eyes.

He was already standing in a huge teleportation hall, where sunlight poured down from the transparent crystal dome, warm and bright.

Lanyou Universe Kingdom.

He is back.

……

Lan Youxing.

This emerald green planet, silently suspended in the void, serves as the premier administrative planet of the Lanyou Universe Kingdom, gathering the nation's most abundant resources and power.

Various powerful forces stand here, and countless spaceships shuttle back and forth in the airspace above the planet, like flocks of birds returning to their nests.

It's on the north side of the planet.

A magnificent palace stands atop the mountain.

The palace was entirely made of a milky-white stone, which gleamed with a warm luster under the sunlight, and the logo of Virtual Universe Corporation was engraved on the huge main gate.

Virtual Universe Company, Lanyou Branch.

Lin Yan walked out of the palace's main gate, his steps unhurried and his expression calm, but his eyes seemed even more profound.

"The Yilan family..."

He looked up at the distant horizon, recalling the name that had kept him on the run for hundreds of years, a fleeting glint of coldness in his eyes.

They did not linger on Lanyou Star.

After Lin Yan's departure application was approved at the Starport, he boarded a spaceship and headed to Ningxuan Kingdom. The spaceship left Lanyou Star and accelerated directly to the speed of light to enter the dark universe for travel.

……

Inside the spacecraft control room.

Lin Yan began to sort through the intelligence that he had asked Fatty Cat to gather in advance. The light screen unfolded in front of him, and dense information appeared.

Ningxuan Kingdom is a medium-sized universe kingdom under the jurisdiction of Lanyou Universe Kingdom. This kingdom is located on the edge of Lanyou Kingdom and has neither precious mineral resources nor a strategic geographical location.

This is a typical case of someone who is "unloved by both parents".

The strongest being in the entire Ningxuan Kingdom is an immortal deity who resides in the divine kingdom year-round and rarely appears in public. It is said that he once served as the military commander on the battlefield outside the realm.

"The Yilan family."

Lin Yan's gaze lingered on the screen. This family could only be considered a small family in the vast universe, so it only required a small amount of effort to find out their general information on the virtual universe network.

The Yilan family is not considered a prominent family in the Ningxuan Empire, because the strongest member of the family is merely an old patriarch at the ninth level of the universe level.

But in this remote and impoverished star field, a ninth-tier cosmic-level being is enough to dominate the area.

This family was founded 11 years ago.

Established by the first patriarch Yi Lan, after Yi Lan failed to break through to the Domain Lord level, he was succeeded by the current patriarch Yi Lanyi. In addition to Yi Lanyi, a ninth-level cosmic-level expert, there are seven other cosmic-level elders.

With over 100,000 years of operation, the Yilan family has deep roots and a complex network of relationships. The family's territory includes more than a thousand inhabited planets, and tens of thousands of elite family members at the Hengxing level.

Lin Yan closed her eyes.

Memories buried deep within begin to surface.

He remembered Uncle Chen's cultivation room, the old man who had taken him in and raised him, and the withered finger that touched his brow, guiding him to cultivate the secret technique for the first time.

"Xiao Yan, your talent surpasses mine."

Uncle Chen's voice was hoarse but gentle, "Cultivate diligently, and you will surely become a stronger person than me in the future."

Lin Yan remembers that dusk.

The old man sat quietly in the cultivation room, his life force fading like a layer of gray mist, enveloping the entire room. He took out a silver-white feather from his spatial ring.

"This thing...be careful."

The old man personally handed the Mirage Feather to Lin Yan, his voice so soft it was almost inaudible, "It is a key to a realm master's world, allowing entry into that realm master's world. Furthermore, if one can decipher its secrets..."

Uncle Chen was the old man who raised him.

He is also a rogue martial artist at the ninth level of the universe level.

Before Uncle Chen died, no one dared to easily harm Lin Yan, but after his death, he was no longer able to protect Lin Yan. In order to protect Lin Yan, Uncle Chen directly lured away the invading enemies.

Lin Yan successfully escaped.

For hundreds of years, they wandered, struggling on the brink of life and death, and even fought on foreign battlefields more than a hundred years ago.

And now...

He is back.

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