Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 213 Time-related Treasures and Entering the Primal Star

“Master, in this period of time, we have received a total of 672 requests for customized treasures, of which 102 have been completed. We have also received 3651 requests for leased treasures, of which 2142 have been issued.”

The voice of Xiao Ai, the intelligent life assistant, rang in Qi Yuan's mind.

In fact, what he was carrying with him at this moment was only an auxiliary AI created by Xiao Ai. The real Xiao Ai main AI was currently merging with a special body prepared for it by Qi Yuan, as well as a 'Heart of Evolution'.

Once it has completely integrated its intelligence with its special body and evolutionary heart, it can evolve from an intelligent life form into a true 'mechanical race' and possess the ability to cultivate autonomously.

Qi Yuan may also have the opportunity to gain a special 'mechanical race disciple'.

"Master, through the leasing of treasures, we have now acquired 792 rare materials, 3843 valuable materials, 19623 common materials, and 83641 kinds of biological samples such as special blood, scales, and feathers," Xiao Ai's auxiliary intelligence continued to report.

"Hmm, sounds like you've had a pretty good harvest."

Qi Yuan smiled slightly, but his mind was already racing with thoughts.

Through several perfect critical strikes and the accumulation of skills he had acquired over the years, he had amassed a large number of ordinary treasures.

He only had a handful of disciples, so he wouldn't need many of the treasures. The vast majority of those treasures either sat gathering dust in his world ring or were only used for melting down and breaking them down into materials.

Destroying a treasure to melt down materials is a huge waste, not to mention the effort involved. Some special materials simply cannot be extracted and have to be scrapped.

Now, with the opening of the Primordial Star, it is precisely the time when many human cosmic venerables are in dire need of using precious treasures.

Therefore, before the Supreme Conference began, when Qi Yuan heard the Chaos City Lord lament the scarcity of supreme treasures, a special thought arose in his mind—

They sell or lease large quantities of ordinary treasures that they don't need to those cosmic venerables at low prices, in exchange for resources they need, such as some refining materials, some special biological samples, and so on.

After all, the universe is vast, and it would take an unknown amount of time to collect these things on one's own.

These cosmic venerables have mostly lived through ancient times, and they have collected a great many good things, some of which are so rare that they may not even be found in the human race's treasure trove.

In this way, he can use some unused treasures to exchange for materials and biological samples that he needs, while those cosmic venerables can also obtain, or temporarily possess, the treasures they want at a more affordable price. It is naturally a mutually beneficial arrangement.

As for whether taking out so many treasures at once would attract a lot of attention, with his current strength and the fact that his main body carries the Eternal True God-level palace treasure 'Qiyuan Tower' to guard the divine kingdom, he is full of confidence and naturally does not care about these things.

Moreover, he was actually providing convenience for the entire human race. As long as the higher-ups of the human race weren't stupid, they naturally wouldn't take the initiative to investigate and make him unhappy.

And spending one's own time to refine supreme treasures for those cosmic venerables for free is certainly not truly free.
Firstly, by helping these cosmic venerables refine supreme treasures, and by repeatedly practicing the refining process and combining and applying secret runes, one's own refining skills and the combined application of law runes are greatly honed and stimulated.

Secondly, those cosmic venerables who want him to refine supreme treasures naturally have to hand over some of their treasured precious materials to him first. And Qi Yuan has the return system in hand, so as long as there is enough time, the number of these rare materials that have passed through his hands can at least increase by dozens of times.

The materials used to forge supreme treasures are all incredibly precious. Those cosmic venerables accumulate countless epochs to gather enough materials to forge even one supreme treasure.

Qi Yuan only slightly helped them refine some ordinary treasures that were not difficult for him, and he had the opportunity to earn dozens of times more in precious materials, so he naturally made a fortune!

It may seem like you're getting the crafting done for free, but in reality, the rewards you reap are quite substantial!
"Unfortunately, the cooldown interval for the system's return attempts is calculated based on the time of the original universe, so the time acceleration of the Azure Palace has no effect on it."

Qi Yuan sighed silently to himself.

The Azure Palace, which is the elegant pavilion he is currently in, resembling a carving of emerald jade, is a special 'time-related' treasure that he recently obtained through the system's return function.

This treasure possesses no offensive, suppressive, or defensive power; its only effect is to maintain a certain degree of time acceleration.

[The Azure Palace is a time-related treasure with abundant energy. It can support a Universe Lord to cultivate at a thousand times faster, or a True God to cultivate at a hundred times faster.]

The cosmic ruler who has complete control over the laws of space and time can create treasures such as the 'Time Palace' or 'Time Chamber' through special means.

In the 'Time Palace' and 'Time Chamber', time flows faster than outside. Ten years of cultivation inside might only amount to a month outside.

However, treasures like the 'Time Palace' are extremely difficult to create, and the Time Palaces that the Lord of the Universe can create are generally only ten or dozens of times faster, and anything over a hundred times faster is considered extremely rare.

Maintaining the Temple of Time also consumes a tremendous amount of resources.

Because maintaining 'time acceleration' is inherently against the laws of spacetime, and the more powerful a cultivator is, the higher the price they have to pay when cultivating under time acceleration!
The Time Palaces created by the Lords of the Universe are generally extremely energy-consuming to maintain immortals cultivating within them. They can barely sustain a Universe Venerable's accelerated cultivation within them, but as for a Lord of the Universe, an ordinary Time Palace cannot even withstand a Lord of the Universe cultivating within it. It might be directly crushed by the corrective power of the spacetime rules!
Even the strongest universe in the universe wouldn't dare to maintain a universe master within it for an extended period of time to accelerate their cultivation!
Moreover, the evolution of the universe is an incredibly long process, and battles are the best way to hone one's skills, so very few people stay in one place and bury themselves in arduous training.

However, because Qi Yuan needed to study the path of fusion laws and analyze and explore the methods of divine power enhancement and evolution, each of these tasks required a lot of time. Therefore, he made some targeted preparations and attempts. After obtaining a large number of precious materials by renting treasures, Qi Yuan selected a batch of extremely rare and suitable materials to create a top-level Time Palace that could allow immortal gods to enjoy a thousand times the acceleration of time within it!
Then, this top-tier Time Palace was given as a gift to Mireya, the fourth disciple who also needed to spend a lot of time studying the art of 'arrays'. With a base multiplier plus a critical hit multiplier of over ninety times, and a final return multiplier of nearly six thousand times, it was only with this 'Azure Palace' that could maintain her, the Lord of the Universe, to accelerate her cultivation within it!
It was thanks to this 'Azure Palace' that Qi Yuan was able to refine over a hundred treasures in such a short time in the outside world, including many special treasures such as domain-type and set-type treasures that were extremely complicated to refine!
Moreover, this is under the premise that he needs to time the system cooldown period to 'copy' some precious materials; otherwise, the process would only be faster!

"Ten years have passed. Tomorrow is the day the Primal Star opens. Although I don't have much need for the treasures on the Primal Star, I still have to go and witness such a grand event involving billions of races and countless powerful beings in the universe."

"Hmm, let the Taiqing clone stay in Chaos City and strive to meet the needs of these Universe Venerables as soon as possible, while the main body can wander around."

Qi Yuan thought for a moment and quickly made up his mind.

One day later.

In the vast starry sky, about 10 billion light-years away from human territory, there are no planets, only storms formed by electromagnetic fluids.

Wearing ancient dark gold armor and carrying a black and white divine sword, Qi Yuan looked ahead and immediately saw the huge vortex in a storm of electromagnetic fluid.

The entire vortex is about 10 billion kilometers in diameter, radiating endless dazzling and brilliant light, which completely distorts the surrounding space. The pressure generated by this vortex channel alone would crush even immortal gods into nothingness.

"This is the Primal Star Passage!"

Qi Yuan said softly.

Whoosh!
He took a step and immediately entered the magnificent passage. As he flew deeper into the passage, the oppressive force grew stronger and stronger.

"Boom~~~"

Amidst the tremors, distortions, and roars caused by the oppressive force, Qi Yuan vanished directly into the depths of the passage.

"call!"

When Qi Yuan reappeared, he was already in the sky above a vast expanse of land.

The vast land stretches endlessly, with ancient mountains and forests spreading across it, existing for countless ages.

An extremely powerful pressure descended upon Qi Yuan, so strong that it was enough to reduce an ordinary immortal god to nothingness!

There were 10081 original stars, each the same size, with a diameter of about 1 billion kilometers!

The spatial fluctuations on the entire primordial star completely ceased, and the terrifying pressure caused the space itself to tremble, making it impossible for divine kingdoms to teleport.

Unable to teleport! Unable to teleport to a divine realm!
With a diameter of only 1 billion kilometers, it may not seem large to super strong individuals, but because teleportation and divine kingdom transfer are impossible, traveling through it by flying alone would inevitably take an extremely long time.

This is why, once ambushed and a battle breaks out, it is extremely difficult to escape unless one's strength far surpasses that of the enemy or one possesses a supreme treasure such as a palace or domain.

This is one of the reasons why the Lord of the Universe falls every time the Primordial Star is opened.

……

"This primordial star is truly amazing. Where did all these treasures come from? Were they born on the primordial star itself, or were they transferred from somewhere else?"

Qi Yuan, filled with curiosity, flew directly into the distance.

Normally, cosmic venerables and cosmic overlords who roam the original planet would choose to carefully conceal their tracks by using special environments such as mountains and forests, but with Qi Yuan's strength, he naturally had nothing to worry about.

Flying aimlessly forward, vast forests were quickly left behind, and a desolate wasteland came into view.

for a long time--

"boom!"

A surge of energy traveled a long distance and reached Qi Yuan, causing him to look up.

The Primordial Star is a treasure trove, teeming with riches. The appearance of major treasures... is relatively quiet; some top-tier sets of major treasures might cause a minor stir, but the appearance of a 'Supreme Treasure' will definitely cause a stir!
The greater the commotion, the higher the level of the treasure; some treasures even emerge from the ground, containing hidden treasures, and so on...

"Huh, this fluctuation should be from a supreme treasure. Looks like I'm pretty lucky; I've just entered and already encountered such a treasure."

(End of this chapter)