Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 169 A Treasure-Level Refiner, Entering the Second Level of Water and Sky
"Boom boom boom——"

The phantom of the water beast god repeatedly raised its hooves and slammed them down, once again pressing the rock giant against the starry sky.

Before long, the aura emanating from the rock giant began to weaken.

It is obvious that although the rock giant has a relatively large divine body, it was still damaged by the continuous ravages of the beast god's phantom and by the self-destruction of its left hand once, and even the self-destruction of half of its left arm once.

The damage to his divine body has exceeded 10%, which has affected his strength.

Once the divine body loses more than 10%, the more the divine body is lost, the weaker the immortal god's strength will become.

The weaker one becomes, the less able one is to resist, and the faster one's divine body is damaged, thus entering a vicious cycle.

It's no exaggeration to say that when the opponent is an Immortal of the rank of Marquis or above, and you fight to the bitter end, the difficulty of annihilating 10% of the opponent's divine body at its peak is definitely higher than annihilating the opponent's divine body after losing 10%.

half an hour.

"Rumble--"

A dazzling, earthy-yellow light suddenly burst forth, bringing with it a torrent of spatial fragments, and the phantom of the Water Beast God collapsed once more.

But this time, the battle was over.

Seeing that victory was hopeless and he could only be tortured, the rock giant, who had reached the peak of the Immortal Lord level, directly self-destructed all the remaining divine body.

Gazing at the dazzling light rising in the distance, Lu Jin couldn't help but smile.

However, remembering his own shortcomings, the smile on Lu Jin's lips immediately disappeared.

In reality, thanks to his perfect genes and hundredfold amplification, he possesses the power foundation of a million times that of a peak ninth-level World Lord.

Compared to such a powerful foundation, his understanding of the laws is still insufficient, and his secret techniques are still not up to par.

The first level of "Frost Beast God" is said to be a top-tier secret technique, but this technique was not created by him, and it cannot be perfectly executed.

If he were to unleash the first level of "Frost Beast God," even if its actual power didn't drop to the level of an ordinary secret technique, it wouldn't be much stronger than an ordinary secret technique of the highest grade.

After all, the first three levels of "Frost Beast God" are all within the scope of top-level secret techniques, while the power of the second and third levels is much stronger than that of the first level, which shows that the first level is just a relatively ordinary top-level secret technique.

If the actual power of a relatively ordinary top-tier secret technique is further reduced, wouldn't it become the bottom-tier even if it doesn't drop in level?

"System, simulated battle, just give me a low-level Immortal title."

Lu Jin spoke to the training ground's intelligent system.

"Chi chi chi——"

In the distant starry sky, countless rays of light converged and condensed into a gigantic figure.

What appeared to be a giant wolf, over ten kilometers long, with a ferocious head, exposed fangs, and emerald green eyes that radiated a savage and bloodthirsty intent. Its body was covered with steel needle-like blue fur.

Lu Jin: "."

No, I said I could just pick anyone at the initial level of a marquis, and you assigned me to the Sirius Clan?

Although they are both at the initial stage of immortality and have been granted the title of Marquis, their races are different, and the difference in their strength is not ordinary.

As one of the eighteen royal families of the demon race, the members of the Sirius Clan are born with six times the life force gene.

The volume multiple is equal to the cube of the height or body length multiple.

In other words, under the same divine body level, the Sirius immortal, who is ten kilometers long and has six times the life genes, has about 7500 billion times the total divine power of an ordinary human immortal who is two meters tall.

Such a high multiple of divine power means that there is practically no way for immortals of the same level to survive.

"Frost Beast God, freeze!"

Lu Jin braced himself and accepted the challenge. The 36 Azure Heaven and Yellow Spring Pearls surrounding him shot out, and the phantom of the Water Beast God descended, pouncing towards the Heavenly Wolf Immortal, who was at the initial stage of the Marquis level, opposite him.

A few minutes later, Lu Jin's consciousness withdrew from the virtual universe and continued to engage in cultivation.

As for the previous battle?
At first, the two sides were able to fight back and forth.

Even though the Heavenly Wolf Immortal, who was at the initial level of the Marquis title, had six times the life force and possessed six thousand times the power of a peak Realm Lord, his actual attack power was still somewhat inferior to his due to his significantly lower understanding of laws and secret techniques.

At most, the opponent is an extremely tanky tank, while he is very fragile.

However, thanks to "Frost Wings" and the G-rank flying wings "Azure Netherworld Wings", it doesn't matter if you're fragile, as long as you don't get attacked by the opponent.

But when the opponent burned its divine power and its strength increased a thousandfold, Lu Jin was immediately crushed by this celestial wolf.

Of course, Lu Jin was also aware that even if it were an ordinary initial-level Marquis, once the divine power was burned, he would definitely be no match for him in the virtual universe, so he was not discouraged.

The reason he sought out this humiliation was simply to verify his own strength and personally experience the true power of being a Marquis and Immortal.

水空融合法则第一重，法则感悟方面能对标通天桥第15和16层，第二重对应第17和18层，第三重对应第19和20层。

He is currently at the first level of perfection, and his understanding of the laws is comparable to the 16th level of the Tongtian Bridge, which is considered to be at the high level of the Marquis level.

The insights gained from the high-level conferment of a marquis title are comparable to those gained from secret techniques, and form the foundation for a hundred times the power of a peak ninth-tier World Lord.

In terms of overall strength, in the virtual universe, his power is comparable to that of a low-level Marquis who has not burned his divine power.

In reality, with the 10081-fold strength boost from perfect genes, excluding the factor of immortality, the original's strength would be comparable to a Marquis level with 10 times the genetic power of burning divine power, or a regular King level without burning divine power.

Of course, if the opponent possesses powerful treasures, extraordinary secret techniques, amplification techniques, special talent techniques, etc., their actual strength needs to be calculated separately.

On the other side, Thunder Island, the Frost Temple.

On the throne, the King of Tianshuang watched with great interest the battle video of Lu Jin fighting against an Immortal in the manor's training ground.

The King of Tianshuang has always kept a close eye on his disciples.

As one of the most powerful beings in the universe, and the son of the Ice Peak Lord, he is one of the top ten executives in the Virtual Universe Company, possessing very high authority within the Virtual Universe.

When Lu Jin applied to the training ground's AI to expand its area, it was this AI that granted Lu Jin increased permissions.

Seeing Lu Jin being overwhelmingly crushed by the newly ascended Marquis-level Heavenly Wolf after burning his divine power, the Heavenly Frost King couldn't help but smile.

By the end of the video, the King of Tianshuang Kingdom had a better understanding of Lu Jin's current strength.

In the eyes of the Heavenly Frost King, Lu Jin's current strength is in a mediocre state.

Surpassing the Immortal Military Lord, but weaker than the initial Marquis level, even considering the life gene factor of a hundred times.

After all, in the real battle, any immortal who has reached the rank of Marquis will burn their divine power, causing their strength to increase a thousandfold.

Therefore, even if Lu Jin in reality had a hundred times the life gene, he would still be no match for a low-level immortal like a Marquis.

What the King of Tianshuang didn't know was that his disciple was no longer a hundred-fold gene, but a 10081-fold perfect gene.

A low-level title of Marquis, achieved by burning divine power?
As long as it's at an ordinary level and not exceeding the standard, he could kill it even with a G-level immortal weapon.

Inside the Hall of Time.

After creating her own pinnacle secret technique in the 800th year of the Time Palace, Zi Ni Chang turned her attention to the art of treasure refining.

In the 1200th year of the Time Palace, after her treasure-refining skills reached the peak of G-level and she could easily refine top-grade G-level immortal divine weapons, Zi Ni Chang began her first attempt to refine a powerful treasure.

More than a thousand years later, after consuming countless materials,

In the 2,300th year of the Time Palace, Zi Ni Chang lived up to Lu Jin's expectations and successfully crafted her first treasure.

At this moment, another human expert has been added to the list of top-tier treasure refiners!
Breaking through the G-level and entering the treasure level in a thousand years is a remarkably fast pace.

However, given that it has a complete lineage and the alchemist is a top-tier cosmic overlord, this speed seems quite normal.

After all, for a top-tier cosmic overlord, such a treasure is no exaggeration to be considered a child's toy.

"Impressive! No wonder you are the chief treasure refiner of our Heavenly Court!"

Looking at the heavy treasure sword covered with profound laws and secret patterns that flew out of the Qiankun Cauldron, Lu Jin gave Zi Nishang a thumbs up.

Zi Ni Chang can forge powerful treasures, which means that when he goes out to fight, he will be able to equip himself with a full set of powerful treasures.

"I'm glad you don't blame me for ruining so many materials."

Zi Nishang said with a smile.

Chief Refiner of Treasures in Heaven?
Currently, she is the only one in the Heavenly Court who has embarked on the path of treasure refining.

"It's not a rare treasure material, so don't worry about it."

Lu Jin waved his hand dismissively and said.

Other alchemists need to use high-grade materials to refine powerful treasures.

However, when Zi Nishang uses the Qiankun Cauldron to refine precious treasures, she doesn't need to use precious treasure-grade materials. She can simply refine G-grade or F-grade metals using the Creation Fire of the Qiankun Cauldron.

As for even lower-grade metals?

That's unnecessary, since refining materials in the Qiankun Cauldron also takes time.

In any case, F-grade metals are sold without limit within the Hongmeng Alliance.

As for G-grade metals, Zi Ni Chang, with her four-star privileges, can purchase them in large quantities, as long as she provides enough Hunyuan units and the Hongmeng super power platform has stock.

"What will you say about the precious treasures that are refined in the future?"
Although the Hong Alliance is mainly composed of humans, there are far more members of other races, and they all look like demons and monsters. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to sell such valuable treasures to them?

Zi Nishang said to Lu Jin.

In Zi Nishang's view, although they are both in the Hongmeng camp, humans and alien races are still different.

Even among humans, let alone other races, she subconsciously divided them into two categories.

One type is someone whose appearance is not much different from hers, while the other type is someone whose appearance is very different.

Lu Jin nodded and said, "Sell, of course I'll sell!"

However, these precious treasures are rare items and cost extra.

Generally speaking, it takes ten times the amount of crafting materials to have a crafting master craft a treasure.

Calculate the material cost excluding the Qiankun Cauldron factor. If the buyer purchases it using precious materials, charge them 15 times the material cost.

If payment is made in mixed units, you will charge 30 times the material cost.

Accepting only premium materials isn't a viable solution; mixed units are also necessary, since G-grade and F-grade metals require mixed units to purchase. Rather than having to exchange premium materials for mixed units later when funds run out, it would be better to allow the purchase with double the amount of mixed units.

Furthermore, if one can purchase treasures using mixed units, there will be even more potential customers.

After all, some experts have difficulty obtaining precious materials, but they can easily obtain a large number of mixed units.

"Isn't this too expensive?"

Upon hearing that the industry standard was 10 times the material cost, while she would collect 15 times, and that if she purchased in mixed units, it would be as much as 30 times, Zi Nishang hesitated and said.

Lu Jin waved his hand: "It's not expensive. The supply of major and supreme treasures in the universe is far less than the demand. There are plenty of experts who need major treasures, so it's normal for prices to rise."

It's true that the material cost is 10 times the industry standard, but if you don't have a certain status and position, the alchemist might not necessarily make it for you.

There are no barriers to entry on his end; all you need to do is pay 15 times the material cost or 30 times the money.

Even if you don't like the finished product, it's not impossible to negotiate a custom order at an extra cost.

"That's fine."

Zi Ni Chang nodded, then asked, "By the way, are you in a hurry to use this powerful treasure? If not, I plan to refine it for you when my skills are better. Even among ordinary powerful treasures, there is a significant difference in quality."

"No rush, let's wait until I reach the second level of the Water-Space Fusion Law before we talk about it."

Lu Jin shook his head.

His original plan was to raise his understanding of the laws of fusion to the second level before leaving the Time Palace.

The fusion of laws has reached the second level, equivalent to the 17th level of the Bridge to Heaven, which is the peak level of the Marquis title.

With perfect genes and a hundredfold amplification, his strength will be a hundred times greater than that of a peak Marquis without burning divine power.

If a full set of powerful equipment is added, the original body of a ninth-level Realm Lord at the peak would definitely have the combat power of a King, and might even be able to hunt down a King-level Immortal.

After all, the burning divine power of an ordinary initial-level king is only a hundred times stronger than the original body at that time. With precious weapons, precious armor, precious wings, domain treasures, etc., it should be enough to make up for this gap.

In the 2,500th year within the Palace of Time, the Origin of the Universe descended, and Lu Jin gained recognition from the Origin Law of the Upper Space. Faint silver starlight marks appeared between the eyebrows of his main body and all his clones and incarnations.

The scope acknowledged by the fundamental laws is quite broad.

From the lowest level of Marquis to the highest level of King, and even those who are only at the combat power level rather than the life level of Invincible King, as long as they have not become a Universe Venerable, they can all be classified as having obtained the recognition of the superior origin law.

However, the difference is that the initial stage of being a Marquis is a preliminary recognition of the superior origin law, while the peak stage of being a King, which is only one step away from being a Venerable, and the strongest King among the Kings, the Invincible King, have not only gained recognition of the superior origin law, but also mastered the three great mysteries of the superior law.

If the three profound mysteries of the superior laws can be integrated together to form a complete superior law.

Then one can become a Time Master who has mastered the laws of time, or a Space Master who has mastered the laws of space.

The initial level of understanding of the laws of being granted the title of Marquis corresponds to the 15th level of the Bridge to Heaven.

Previously, Lu Jin's understanding of the Water-Air Fusion Law was at the first level of perfection, corresponding to the 16th level of the Bridge to Heaven.

However, a complete set of laws of integration is far more powerful than a single, complete set of laws of superiority.

This explains why Lu Jin's fusion law comprehension was comparable to the 16th level of the Tongtian Bridge, but after cultivating in the Time Palace for five hundred years, he only just gained recognition from the origin law of the upper space.

In the 2,700th year within the Palace of Time, Lu Jin completely comprehended the fundamental law of water. The small portion of the Blood God Child avatars that originally comprehended the fundamental law of water all turned to comprehend the fundamental law of space.

If it were an ordinary person, upon comprehending the lower-level fundamental laws, the fundamental laws of the universe would descend upon them, and they would directly step into immortality.

However, if it were a genius realm lord who had not been cultivating for long, they certainly would not dare to continue comprehending a lower-level origin law when their progress in comprehending the lower-level origin law was already very high.

To avoid accidentally comprehending the lower-level laws and automatically entering immortality, thus losing the comprehension advantage of the realm lord stage.

After all, a World Lord-level life form, under the resonance of the world's power, can allow its consciousness to enter the origin of the universe and obtain extremely high efficiency in comprehending the laws.

Once one reaches the Immortal level, their body transforms into a Law God Body, which will have a repulsive effect on other attribute Laws.

Unless one has already gained the recognition of the fundamental laws of other attributes, the efficiency of comprehending the fundamental laws of other attributes is far lower than that during the realm master period.

But Lu Jin didn't have this concern.

Do you think you can achieve immortality just by understanding the lower-level laws?
I want to eat fart!
Compared to Luo Feng before he entered immortality in the original work, his original core is exactly the same, and his inner world is also trillions of kilometers in diameter.

It can be said that unless an ultimate secret technique can be created to break through the shackles of the original core.

Otherwise, even if he wanted to break through, he wouldn't be able to; there's simply no possibility of him breaking through accidentally.

In the third thousand years within the Time Palace, Huang'er gained recognition from the fundamental laws of space.

Two thousand five hundred years later, in the Time Palace, following Huang'er, Lü'er, Qing'er, Lan'er, and Zi'er successively gained recognition from the superior primordial laws.

At this point, all seven of Hong'er's companions had gained recognition from the superior fundamental laws.

As for Hong'er and Cheng'er, who had already gained recognition from the superior fundamental laws, they were unable to formally comprehend the mysteries of the superior laws because their previous understanding of the superior laws was not very deep, and because the mysteries of the superior laws were very difficult.

The ten thousandth year within the Palace of Time.

On this day, within the inner world of a certain Blood God Child, a secret technique from the second volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space"—Blood Transformation—was mastered.

Inside the Time Palace, the aura of the Water-Void Fusion Law emanating from Lu Jin became even stronger.

'Ten thousand years, seven levels of the Beast God Path, a hundred years to enter the first level, nineteen hundred years to reach the first level of perfection. A full eight thousand years to cross from the first level of perfection to the second?'

Opening his eyes, Lu Jin silently complained to himself.

Sure enough, burying yourself in cultivation doesn't lead to high efficiency.

There's a reason why the Virtual Universe Company requires its core members at the Realm Lord level to undergo trials in extraterrestrial battlefields or cosmic secret realms.

Only true life-or-death battles can forge the strong.

Even if it's a cheater, a cheater who has been tested by blood and fire is much better than a 'stay-at-home' cheater.

Similarly, precisely because of this, although the Temple of Time can greatly accelerate time, few geniuses know how to use it.

This is not only due to the high price of the Time Palace and the fact that geniuses are short of money and cannot afford the operating costs of the Time Palace, but also because the cultivation efficiency within the Time Palace is low.

Lu Jin glanced at Zi Nishang, who was still refining a powerful artifact in the distance inside the Time Palace, but did not go forward to disturb her. He continued to cultivate the secret techniques in the second volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space".

Two months later inside the Time Palace.

"Wow—"

The mouth of the Qiankun Cauldron was filled with precious light, and a heavy treasure spear covered with mysterious patterns was freshly made and then taken into Zi Nishang's hands.

"Ni Chang, how's your treasure-refining skill coming along?"

At this moment, Lu Jin stepped forward and asked.

"Among treasures of the same level, palace-type treasures are the most difficult to craft, but I was able to refine ordinary palace-type treasures of the highest quality hundreds of years ago."

"I've been trying to forge top-tier treasures for years, but unfortunately..."

As she spoke, Zi Nishang shook her head.

According to the classification of treasures by billions of races in the primordial universe, major treasures are divided into two levels: ordinary major treasures and top-level major treasures.

Generally speaking, treasures of the Soul, Domain, and Palace categories are no less valuable than other types of treasures of a higher level.

Just like ordinary palace treasures, their value is no less than that of top-tier treasure weapons or top-tier treasure armor.

Even many top-tier treasure weapons or armor are not as valuable as ordinary palace treasures.

However, for treasure refiners, ordinary palace treasures that seem to be more valuable are actually easier to refine than top-tier treasure weapons or armor.

Because efficacy is efficacy, and grade is grade.

Under the same level, soul-type, domain-type, and palace-type treasures are more difficult to forge than other treasures such as weapons, armor, and wings.

However, the difficulty of upgrading is not as great as the difficulty of crafting higher-level treasures.

Of course, this excludes a very few exceptions.

Just like the four series of armor derived from the supreme treasure, the Calamity Armor—Soldier, General, King, and Emperor—no other treasure refiner in the universe, apart from the Mountain Master, has been able to successfully replicate them.

Lu Jin asked, "What about sets of treasures?"

Aside from the value and effects of soul-type, domain-type, and palace-type treasures, which can be categorized according to the next higher level.

Set-type treasures can also give the treasures higher value and power without changing their level.

For example, the Sword River Luo, which was introduced in the original work, consists of nine divine swords and a compass.

A single compass is a common treasure of the domain category, and a single divine sword is only of the common treasure grade.

However, once all nine divine swords and the compass are gathered, the Sword River Luo becomes a top-tier treasure in the realm, and its attack power is comparable to that of a peak treasure.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Zi Ni Chang's treasure-refining skills are strong enough, even if she can only refine ordinary treasures, she can still make the ordinary treasures she refines exert the power of top-level treasures, or even supreme treasures, by refining sets of treasures.

Zi Ni Chang nodded and said, "Okay, but the current method for crafting set treasures I have is relatively limited in terms of enhancing power. You can tell me your specific requirements."

I will do my best to refine the set of treasures you requested into top-tier treasures.

After a moment's thought, Lu Jin said, "To avoid others making the same connection, different bodies require different styles of treasures."

The true self is the controller; the equipment should be dark blue and inscribed with the secret runes of the laws of water and space.

You can upgrade your psychic weapons, armor, and wings according to the existing Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs sets, and then refine them into three sets of precious treasure sets, plus a high-level three-piece set.

The Water Kirin clone follows the path of a martial artist, and its equipment is blue and gold in color, also inscribed with the secret runes of the laws of water and space.

In the future, the Water Kirin clone will fight in its beast form, and its weapon will be made from four claws. Together with the armor, it will be crafted into a set of precious treasures and paired with a flight wing set.

For soul-type treasures, I have the top-tier Ice Pearl, and for advanced three-piece sets, I only need the Domain Treasure and the Palace Treasure.

The Time Dragon clone follows the path of the Controller, so the equipment should be white and gold. Since you don't know the Law of Time, you only need to inscribe the runes of the Law of Light.

The telekinetic weapon is made into a sharp cone-shaped set, paired with a heavy armor set, plus a high-level three-piece set.

The Blood God Child, in his incarnation, follows the path of a martial artist, requiring his equipment to be blood-red. He only needs to inscribe spatial law runes, making it as bloody as possible.

The weapon should be a battle sword, paired with a set of heavy armor, plus domain treasures and palace treasures.

There won't be a second chapter today, Cardin.
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