Swallowing the Stars: The cheat system only comes when I'm almost a god?

Looking at the two brothers who were solemnly apologizing below the stage, Lin Yuan's face did not show coldness and arrogance, but instead a peaceful smile appeared.

He nodded slightly: "You two are too kind."

In the military, everything is based on strength. It is common for comrades to spar and challenge each other. Only by encouraging each other can we make progress together.

There's no need to dwell on past minor conflicts.

Lin Yuan's gaze swept over Nan Xing and Nan Yue, then looked at Huan Ling Hou and the other team members, his tone serious and earnest: "From now on, in the Huan Ling Squad, we will be comrades-in-arms fighting side by side, and we will need your continued support."

He chuckled lightly: "My strength is barely enough, but I withdrew from the extraterritorial battlefield after accumulating enough military merits when I was a realm lord, and it has been millions of years since then. In terms of experience, I am far inferior to everyone else, and I will need your guidance in the future."

These words not only demonstrated Lin Yuan's magnanimity but also implied a warning.

More importantly, he characterized the previous conflict as a military exchange and focused on future teamwork.

This approach maintained the dignity of the individuals who were considered strong while also preserving the team atmosphere, allowing everyone to secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Upon hearing this, Nanxing and Nanyue felt a complex mix of emotions. They were relieved to have escaped a calamity, genuinely impressed by Lin Yuan's magnanimity and vision, and regretful for their previous shortsighted behavior.

The two quickly clasped their hands in a fist salute again, their voices much more sincere: "Thank you for your magnanimity, Lord Ye Fan! We will remember your teachings and will certainly follow your example in the future!"

"Mm." Lin Yuan nodded with a smile.

"Good! Brother Ye Fan!" Huang Liman finally found his voice. "You blasted away the tigress's Meteor Annihilation with your iron fists... I, Huang Liman, am completely convinced!"

Freya was still lost in the aftermath of defeat, and didn't even bother with the term "tigress" that she hated hearing most of the time. She just sat quietly to the side.

"If you have any questions in the future, feel free to come to me. Huang Liman will answer them to the best of his ability!"

He was the biggest in the squad. This six-meter-tall giant was pounding his chest with his big hands, and it looked no different from the impact of a battering ram, making Lin Yuan worry that the other party might inflict internal injuries on him.

My thoughts were wandering, but I couldn't ignore the other party's gesture of goodwill.

Lin Yuan said in a deep voice, "Thank you. I'll have to trouble the vice captain from now on."

Huanxin finally snapped out of her daze, her face flushed with excitement, and her eyes were filled with admiration as she looked at Lin Yuan: "So...so amazing! Brother Ye Fan's punch just now was like he shattered the galaxy!"

She and Freya were best friends and had even sparred in private, but in the earlier moves, they were basically evenly matched, and neither of them could defeat the other quickly.

But whenever Freya used the Meteor Annihilation technique, her will became frighteningly firm, and even her strongest illusion technique, which could affect even a peak Marquis level expert, could not harm her.

Yet Ye Fan, with his strength at the initial stage of the Marquis rank, managed to defeat her. This was truly... she couldn't find the words to describe it.

Huanling Hou took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, took a step forward, and said in a steady voice, "Ye Fan was right before, in the military camp, strength is everything."

He looked around at all the team members: "I hereby announce that from this moment on, Ye Fan has officially joined the Illusion Feather Squad. Welcome him!"

Snap snap snap snap snap snap snap!

A round of enthusiastic applause erupted. This time, unlike the previous feigned applause, everyone was genuinely moved. Huanxin and Huangliman even clapped until their hands turned red.

……

"Alright, that's enough!" Huanlinghou clenched his fist and looked at everyone with a serious expression. "Now let's talk about the distribution of spoils after Ye Fan joins the team."

"Cough cough..."

The group coughed for a while, then turned their heads away, some looking up at the virtual sky with a sigh, others studying the patterns on the floor tiles.

This is why they were unwilling for the team leader to recruit new members.

The Phantom Feather Squad's strength ranks among the top in the entire Ninth Battlefield's Marquis-level circle, and with a King-level expert willing to rescue them at any time, their previous wealth accumulation rate was stable.

In their view, if they cannot recruit a peak Marquis with similar strength to Huanling Marquis, then the newcomer is simply there to steal their profits.

Even though Ye Fan had demonstrated his strength, it did not change their minds. After all, having another high-ranking Marquis would not significantly improve the team's strength. They could only roam the Xuan Yan Continent and dared not enter higher-level combat zones.

Lin Yuan remained silent. It was best to wait for the captain to reach a consensus within the team before intervening, as interrupting now would damage Huanling Hou's prestige.

Moreover, his main purpose in coming to the extraterritorial battlefield was to hone himself, and he did not value wealth as much as others. As long as the final ratio was not too outrageous, he could accept it.

"You're all so quiet, look how scared you are!"

No matter what Huanling Hou said, everyone else pretended not to hear.

"Fine, I recruited Ye Fan myself, so I'll set an example first." He shook his head helplessly and said, "When distributing the spoils later, I'll take 10% from my captain's share and give it to him, and you guys can just chip in another 10%."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Captain."

Huang Liman's smile was honest and kind, but Huanling Hou only wanted to kill him at this moment. If it weren't for the fact that the team's future spoils could be sold to a high-priced buyer, why would he have to bleed so much?

And what happened? The team members, each focused on their own interests, almost stopped recognizing themselves as their captain!

He thought to himself, "Damn it, looks like I'll have to find a way to teach these arrogant and unruly guys a lesson, or they'll start treating me like I don't exist!"

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Before he could come up with a way to discipline the team members, Huanxin's voice made him smile bitterly.

He took over the Illusion Feather Squad for his younger sister's sake; with him looking after her, Illusion Heart would have a greater chance of surviving on the extraterrestrial battlefield.

But he didn't expect that he had been too protective of his younger sister. Now she has completely given up thinking and doesn't consider anything other than fighting. She is unaware that the immortal gods related to her have a near-saturated demand for treasures on the Xuan Yan Continent.

As for finding other buyers on your own?

Immortals who are not from the core of the five major powers are basically poor. Even if people from the holy lands of various universes offer a price, they are very stingy. It is better to hand over their military bases to the barracks in exchange for military merits than to sell them to them.

"Little sister, you really need to be more careful!" Marquis Huanling thought to himself, speechless. "You're happy that your brother is footing the bill? It's all for the benefit of us siblings!"

In contrast to his silence, the other team members were much happier, especially the brothers Nanxing and Nanyue.

It is said that spoils of war are distributed based on specific contributions in battle, but in most cases, each person's contribution on the battlefield is basically proportional to their own strength, so the distribution of spoils of war for the Phantom Feather Squad is also based on strength.

Captain Huanling Hou takes 30%, the strongest under him, Hupo Hou Freya, takes 25%, Vice Captains Huangliman and Huanxin each take 15%, and the remaining 15% goes to the two brothers.

Since Hu Po Hou was defeated by Ye Fan, his spoils of war will definitely be the highest among those below the captain, or at least on par with Freya.

If the captain hadn't spoken, they would have been under a lot of pressure, but now that he had taken the lead, the rest of them could resolve the issue by contributing a little bit each—it was perfect!

……

Two weeks later, the Phantom Feather Squad finally returned to the 039 Barracks Base.

In addition to picking up Lin Yuan, they also needed to process the spoils of war accumulated over the past three hundred years, so after discussion, they decided to rest at the base for three months.

That day, Lin Yuan was browsing posts about extraterrestrial battlefields through the virtual universe, trying to accumulate more survival experience before actually entering the battlefield, when Huang Liman's demonic laughter rang out from outside the door.

"Hahaha! Brother Ye Fan, open the door quickly, I've come to have a drink with you."

He reluctantly got up to open the door, only to see Huang Liman, who was over six meters tall, standing outside the villa.

Entering the reception room, Huang Liman laughed heartily: "Brother Ye Fan, come and try this 'Burning Star Brew'. I spent thirty Hunyuan Units to get this bottle. It was just delivered to the barracks base by the Virtual Universe Company."

The other party took out a bottle of wine. The bottle was small and exquisite, but this was only in terms of the size of the Desolate God Clan. From Lin Yuan's perspective, the bottle of wine was bigger than his entire body!

"I'm not used to drinking." He quickly shook his head, then flipped his hand and took out a metal can from his world ring: "This is the most popular drink near the Glorious Universe Kingdom in recent years. Its sales rival those of fine wine. Would the vice-captain like to try some?"

Upon opening the metal can, the sweet aroma of milk instantly overpowers the smell of alcohol, and the "Beasts" emblem on the can gleams faintly.

Huang Liman frowned at him: "What kind of behavior is it for a grown man to drink milk! We're on the front lines of battle in the outer realms..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yuan suddenly flicked his finger, and a silver light flashed, and the jade-white milk column precisely entered Huang Liman's mouth.

"Cough! You..." The other person's dark face turned bright red, and his Adam's apple bobbed twice before he suddenly stopped.

Huang Li smacked his lips, savoring the taste, and muttered, "I must say... the flavor is quite rich."

He silently stuffed the Star-Burning Wine back into his world ring, then took the half-person-high milk bucket from Lin Yuan's hand: "Let's get down to business. The captain asked me to give you a general overview of the Ninth Battlefield."

"I'm all ears." Seeing that the other party had been captivated by the Beast Milk, Lin Yuan said with a smile.

The milk rippled on the rim of the metal cup. Huang Li poured half a cup down before speaking: "The Ninth Battlefield has only recently opened, and there are many opportunities, which has attracted many powerful individuals. Currently, the total number of King-level experts in the entire region exceeds 100,000, ranking first among the nine battlefields."

Lin Yuan exclaimed in surprise, "So many! Our human race only has around 100,000 kings in total. The other three top races should have about the same number. Are the extras from weaker races?"

"That's right!" Huang Li nodded: "The number of King-level experts who entered from the four top races is less than 10,000. The rest are from the Human Alliance and its affiliated races."

He said with a solemn expression, "Although these people are not as strong as the King-level experts of the four top clans due to their racial background, encountering them would be a catastrophic disaster for the Marquis-level team."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan asked in confusion, "Didn't the captain say he could summon a King-level expert to help us? Do they think they can kill us in front of our human race's experts?"

"Originally, with the power of the Illusionary King, we were indeed able to dominate the Ninth Battlefield, but that's no longer the case..."

Huang Liman suddenly became sentimental, and the meaning behind his words made Lin Yuan curious.

"How so?"

"That was about 400,000 years ago..." Huang Liman suddenly lowered his voice, "We witnessed the fall of Lord Purple Lightning!"

The milk cup creaked in his hand. "He and the Azure Dragon King of the demon race discovered the Dream Crystal one after the other. It could slightly break the limitations of the genetic level, allowing their strength to increase again. So the two of them broke out in a great battle, and the aftershocks alone crushed three elite teams nearby."

"We were on the edge of the battlefield, but because of the spatial blockade created by the two of us, we couldn't escape at all!"

The veins on his neck bulged. "So we issued a distress call, but even though Illusion King clearly possessed the ability to teleport, he didn't provide timely support. In the end, he came with several powerful kings from the human faction."

"It's obvious he's scared!"

"I'm afraid I'm no match for the Azure Dragon King either!"

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