Not only in the Lyra Empire, but among all the advanced civilizations, the leyline source spirit is the most precious thing, and the only way to obtain this thing is the only way.

Only habitable planets with heaven and earth aura can collect earth vein source spirits.

But!

Once a planet loses its leyline source spirit, the planet is completely finished, and it will be completely barren - what does this mean?

Take the Lyra Empire as an example, there are billions of habitable planets in the entire Lyra system, but they will never collect leyline source spirits on their own territory, and no one will do this kind of dry and fishing, otherwise they will lose their shelter, which is no different from drinking water to quench their thirst.

Then, they can only send a fleet to the deeper universe to collect, in the process, not to mention the consumption of a lot of manpower and energy, and it is likely to conflict with other empires, fleets with the same purpose, and even lead to the complete destruction of the entire fleet.

In those ownerless cosmic spaces, the war that broke out for the earth's leyline source spirit was repeated every day.

As you can imagine, the leyline source spirit is absolutely extremely precious.

It is not only the leyline source spirit that is precious, but the kind of equipment that helps the martial artist improve his strength with the help of the leyline source spirit will also consume a lot of energy every time he uses it.

In short, this is the most practical thing in a higher civilization.

Of course, if you have a prominent family background and a deep background, you can obtain this precious thing from your family with the help of the shadow of your ancestors.

However, for those who have no power or power, there is only one other way to get it - either to buy it for money, or to exchange it for merit.

In advanced civilizations, money is energy crystals, and it is also an extremely important resource, if you can give enough money, you can exchange it for the leyline source spirit. Or, you have served the country and become an official official, and you have made certain meritorious deeds, and you can exchange a certain number of leyline source spirits according to the size of your merits.

But Qin Yan's purpose is really to improve his strength?

Of course not!

He was even eighty percent sure that he would not be able to improve his strength with the help of the leyline source spirit, the reason was very simple - using the leyline source spirit to improve his cultivation was similar to the divine blood pool in Zhongzhou Shenling, because of the nature of his energy, he had changed from the true yuan to the power of the stars, so the earth's vein source spirit was likely to be useless to him at all.

However, the reason he had found was so good that even Eller would not doubt it.

"To improve your strength, you must use the leyline source spirit, and there are only two ways to obtain the leyline source spirit."

Eller frowned and said, "It's too difficult to buy with money, this thing is too small in quantity and very expensive. The key is that with your current cultivation, if you want to improve to a level, the Earth Vein Source Spirit required is also extremely amazing, and it will be astronomical money. ”

"I understand." Qin Yan nodded.

"Meritorious service is the fastest way, but within the empire, it is difficult to have a way to obtain meritorious merit - this is the rule, the more dangerous the place, the more likely it is to obtain meritorious service, have you thought about it?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"One thing I have to tell you is my background."

"Oh?"

"My father was a prince of the Lyra Empire, but I am not a descendant, do you understand what I mean?"

"I see......"

Of course, Qin Yan understood what he meant, and nodded: "Because your talent is very high, you have been focused on training, and you are still favored by His Royal Highness the Prince." However, because of this status, in a small place like Fixes, although you have a lot of right to speak, you can't do much in the most important position in the real high-level, such as the military. ”

"That's right." Eller smiled self-deprecatingly.

"And?"

"A descendant of the world, but he has a fairly good talent and has been vigorously cultivated, what do you think other descendants will do?"

"Envy, jealousy, hatred."

"It's a very apt word, it's true, but with my father here, they don't dare to do anything to me."

Speaking of which, Qin Yan understood that he had inadvertently met Eller this time, and although he solved the problems that happened on the Filx Star, it was a blessing in disguise for him to enter the military.

The matter on Filkes is so big, the news will definitely reach the ears of many people, and his friendly relationship with Eller will also be exposed.

Once he enters the military, Eller will not only be able to help him, but will get him into trouble. Because some people don't dare to do anything to Eller because of the prince, they can pour out their anger on Qin Yan - he is an out-and-out substitute for death.

"So, I'm not in favor of you entering the military."

Eller raised his eyebrows and said, "If you were with me, no one would be able to do anything to you, but joining the expeditionary force is different. ”

The Lyra Empire is divided into many types of troops, including the Imperial Capital Garrison that guards the Gyeonggi Strongland, the Defenders scattered on various planets, and the Border Defenses stationed in the wormholes on the border of the Lyra Galaxy. In fact, these armies rarely encounter danger, and even the border defense armies rarely encounter battles, after all, knowing that this is the territory of the Lyra Empire, few people will foolishly force their way in.

However, the expeditionary force is different!

This army is not within the territory of the Lyra Empire, but travels to unexplored universes to collect particularly valuable minerals, energy, and leyline source spirits.

Every country has an expeditionary force, all with the same purpose, in order to obtain more resources, each country has invested far more strength in the expeditionary force than other branches of the military, and the expeditionary force has always been the largest military branch of all countries. Of course, it is impossible for all expeditionary forces to march towards a certain star system, and a large number of fleets are scattered, scattered in large areas of the starry sky with small units as the center, and search for as many star systems as possible.

When all countries are casting their nets, it is inevitable that expeditionary forces from different countries will meet.

If they meet when they don't find resources, it's relatively better, and unless there is a disparity in strength between the two sides, they generally won't fight.

But!

Once a planet with resources has been found, or when one party arrives in a star system, other countries are already mining the resources......

In this case, war will definitely break out!

What do resources represent?

Take the Lyra Empire as an example, although there are a lot of resources in the territory, but these resources are limited, and they must not be exploited frantically by drying up the water, so that most of them rely on the resources brought back by the expeditionary force: building warships requires various metal and mineral resources, driving large military and civilian equipment, energy resources are needed, and warriors need earth vein source spirits to improve their strength - these are all resources.

It can be said that resources mean a country, whether the people's livelihood can be maintained normally, the army can operate normally, and whether the warriors can be promoted quickly.

Those who have more resources have the world, and those who have no resources have to wait for death, and resources represent everything!

It is precisely because resources are most directly related to the prosperity and survival of a country that wars for resources are also the most cruel.

As a result, the expeditionary force became the easiest to establish meritorious service, and at the same time the most dangerous.

Meritorious service is more just a matter of honor and status for the military on earth, while meritorious service in a higher civilization is more practical.

Honor.

Status.

Strength.

It can be said that as long as you can build enough merits, you can exchange for most of the things you want, which is the quickest way to improve your strength!

"Eller, in my opinion, whether you are the son of the world or whether you are a concubine, these identities are not important, the important thing is that we are friends."

Qin Yan could see that Eller really didn't want to join the army, and it was indeed for his own safety: "So I understand your worries, but you also said that dangers and opportunities coexist in the expeditionary force, and this is the fastest way to improve." As for some people who want to be against me...... Hehe, first of all, I'm not the kind of person who is bullied, and secondly, my strength is still so weak that anyone can step on it, don't worry. ”

What he was worried about was the danger from the outside, the intrigue and deliberate suppression within the army, and he really didn't take it seriously.

Over the years, he has been accustomed to this kind of infighting, and with it comes the means to deal with it.

If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend anyone, but if anyone offends me...... It's the other party who should be blessed with themselves!

With the current strength of him and Hou Qing, even in the Tianqin Empire, they are also top existences: although it is said that there are strong people in the Tianqin Empire, there are absolutely few people in the Tianwu Sevenfold Heavens, how can they be so easy to encounter? And a master of that level is not something that can be easily mobilized by a mere son, right?

If it's just Eller's brothers, he really doesn't pay much attention to it: the yin guys, he asks himself if the intrigues are not weaker than others, and the hard ones, those guys are really not necessarily his opponents.

"In a short period of time, even if the news here reaches the ears of my brothers, it will be difficult to reach the expeditionary force, and there will be no problems in a short time."

Eller hesitated for a moment, then took out a small metal instrument, handed it to Qin Yan, and said, "If you join the army in my name, the news will spread much faster. My mother comes from a small family, this is a token of my mother's family, you can go to the 7th Squadron of the 1375th Fleet of the Expeditionary Force, where my uncle is the squadron leader. ”

"Why are you helping me like this?" Qin Yan did not shirk and accepted the token.

"You said we were friends."

“……”

"Of course, it's not all."

Finding that Qin Yan didn't speak, just looked at him fixedly, Eller chuckled, "You're a mysterious guy, and your talent is too strong. I have a hunch that you're going to be a blockbuster in the near future...... Well, I confess, I want to get friends who are strong enough, because I want to get a higher status. I think it's an investment, even if we're friends, of course -- you might think that it's a friendship with too much interest, but the truth is, we're not at the point where we're in a relationship. ”

Confess.

Direct.

If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely give this thing a variety of bright names, such as friendship, such as acquaintance at first sight, and so on.

But Eller didn't do this, he told Qin Yan so bluntly: There is not much friendship between them for the time being, he did it for a purpose, it was for investment, and he hoped that if Qin Yan became stronger, he could help him obtain more benefits in turn.

Similarly, ordinary people are definitely unhappy with this kind of answer, but Qin Yan laughed: "Okay! Joyfully! I think we're likely to become even better friends in the future. ”

"I think so too." Eller smiled reservedly.