Night Orchid.
Yelan, a strange plant that blooms only during the polar night, resembling an orchid.
Its petals, when ground into powder, can stimulate the brain’s latent potential; its stamens and leaves can be refined into a secret elixir that enhances star energy; even its roots and stems contain various miraculous properties.
It can be said that every part of the Yelan is a treasure, making it one of the most precious cash crops in the Prime Universe.
And it is precisely because of Yelan that the Yun family has risen over a century to become a mighty clan dominating a star region.
Yet now, everything has collapsed……
Yun Ruoxi looked at the bottle in her hand, filled with powder ground from Yelan petals.
In the empire, this powder had a beautiful name.
It was called Stardust Frost.
And this single bottle in her hand was worth the price of a destroyer.
The Overlord handing this to her was not a simple display of wealth, but a blatant demonstration of power.
He had completely taken control of the Yelan family and occupied the land that birthed these miracles.
This was a conqueror’s naked show of dominance over the defeated.
At this thought, Yun Ruoxi’s fingertips trembled, barely able to hold the cold golden vial.
She suddenly raised her head, gritting her teeth and snarling, “Who?” Who has submitted under the Overlord!
“Haha, if one day you ever leave the war camp, you’ll naturally know the answer.” The Overlord dodged the question, only mockingly raising his chin at her.
“Don’t waste this Stardust Frost, you know. I heard you suffered severe mental trauma in the war camp, so I specially brought this for you. With your current status, I doubt you could afford a bottle even in a thousand years!”
The Overlord’s twisted sense of humor was something Yun Ruoxi was well acquainted with, but each time it made her nauseated by how repeatedly her dignity was trampled upon.
“Thanks for your kindness, Overlord.” She finally accepted the Stardust Frost.
One thing the Overlord wasn’t wrong about—her current status meant she definitely couldn’t afford this bottle on her own.
Unless she was willing to spend tens of thousands of popularity points to redeem it.
“Planning to secretly save it and use it later?” The Overlord’s tone suddenly turned cold, slamming his hand heavily on the table!
The pressure from a high-level star energy user poured down like an avalanche.
Bang!
The overwhelming presence crushed Yun Ruoxi completely.
She could not resist at all, her face pressed painfully against the icy tabletop as she let out a low whimper.
“That’s enough, Overlord, she’s still a student in the war camp.” Instructor Behemoth spoke gravely, breaking the tension.
Surprisingly, though the Overlord’s strength and fame far surpassed Behemoth’s, he seemed to fear something and coldly snorted as he withdrew his pressure.
Behemoth paused for a moment, then coldly ordered, “Take it. That is an order.”
“Yes.” Yun Ruoxi struggled to straighten up and poured the Stardust Frost onto raw meat.
As the former little princess of the Yelan family, she had actually never ingested any Yelan products before.
Because Yelan’s effects were powerful, only officially recognized star energy users could use them.
And she was not yet a star energy user.
Reckless consumption could easily lead to overdose and injury.
The Overlord, Instructor Behemoth, and the others could not be unaware of this, yet they still forced her to take it here.
Unless…… they wanted to test her with the Stardust Frost, to see if something would reveal itself from her.
And the only suspicious thing about her seemed to be her mysterious bloodline.
Yun Ruoxi thought this was probably the right answer.
The biggest difference between her current self and the original storyline was that back then, she unexpectedly showed signs of awakening a star energy bloodline, which is why the Overlord hated her, extracted the bloodline, and sent her to the war camp.
But now, not only had she not fallen into ruin from losing that bloodline, she had gradually become stronger in the war camp.
This obviously defied logic.
The Overlord had also said she was not an ordinary star energy user and that her bloodline seemed problematic.
Her Yelan blood had already been extracted, so what remained was only the mysterious bloodline.
Sure enough, this was the lingering effect of the altered storyline, and now she had to do everything she could to hide her past.
[System, can the mysterious bloodline within me be sealed?]
[Cost: 20,000 popularity points. Seal initiated.]
[Seal.]
The moment the command was issued, Yun Ruoxi suddenly felt as if something inside her body vanished, leaving her heart hollow, as though losing something precious.
The mysterious bloodline……
She suppressed this strange sensation and, in front of everyone, bit into the raw meat coated with Stardust Frost, chewing fiercely.
The petal powder melted instantly on her tongue, leaving only a faint, elegant floral fragrance lingering between her lips.
As the medicine took effect and entered her bloodstream, Yun Ruoxi began to feel dizzy, as if countless fine needles were probing her brain.
She struggled to lift her head.
The world before her eyes began to distort, turning a deep crimson.
Suddenly, her nose and ears burned, and hot blood gushed simultaneously from both.
Yun Ruoxi could no longer endure it and “crash,” toppled from her chair.
She fell into complete unconsciousness.
Instructor Behemoth exchanged a glance with Xiaguang, who stood and gently carried Yun Ruoxi out.
The alloy door opened and closed behind them.
Behemoth looked toward the Overlord, whose expression was dark and unreadable.
“Overlord, are you satisfied now?”
“Even the Star Pirate King, the war camp’s finest student, should not meddle repeatedly in war camp affairs.”
“Hmph!” The Overlord snorted coldly, his gaze darkening. “Little Behemoth, are you threatening me?”
The atmosphere around the oval table immediately tightened unbearably.
But Behemoth seemed completely unfazed by the Overlord’s stare and calmly continued, “This isn’t a threat, but advice.”
“We’re on the same side, so you should know who stands behind us. Some rules aren’t broken by strength alone; you should know that better than anyone.”
“Isn’t that right?”
“Heh.”
The Overlord did not reply but abruptly rose, kicking his chair aside and shouting into the shadows,
“Let’s go. The food at the Sacred Hand Association is awful. I’ll take you all out for a feast!”
As his words fell, five or six star pirates, dressed differently but all radiating immense pressure, silently emerged from the shadows.
They coldly or mockingly stared at the instructors, and one even made a throat-slitting gesture toward them.
Utterly reckless!
Thud thud!
The crowd immediately flocked around the Overlord and strode out.
“Behemoth, about what the Overlord said……”
Instructor Liyue, a slender man with crocodile scales covering his body, suddenly hesitated and spoke.
“Let’s just pretend nothing happened. The Overlord has gone mad over that matter.” Behemoth let out a rare sigh.
“He’s getting crazier but also stronger. Even with restrictions from above, he’s probably about to lose control.
“Then why was he allowed to leave back then?” Liyue, who seemed to know the situation well, continued to ask.
Except for him, the other instructors had only been promoted for decades and didn’t understand what “back then” meant, looking on curiously.
Behemoth coldly laughed and said,
“When you can shatter a planet with your bare hands in madness, even the Supreme Council has no choice but to compromise.”