Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 192 Tiangong Pavilion Expands into New Businesses
Inside the Lingxiao Palace in the Great Luo Heaven, Lu Jin summoned Zi Zhenfeng, the head of the security department of Yanhuang Company.

"I've met the master!"

Zi Zhenfeng said respectfully.

Lu Jin said, "Notify Xuanhuang Heaven that the Heavenly Court is recruiting one million soldiers and one thousand commanders."

The leader must accept the enslavement of the soul, which is stated clearly during recruitment. The recruitment is based on the principle of voluntariness, and those with strong comprehension and high contribution are given priority.

Soldiers will not be subject to enslavement; those with exceptionally strong cultivation talent will not be accepted; those with good character and high contribution rates will be given priority.

The leader is a future celestial general of the Heavenly Court, and is required to have strong comprehension, mainly for the purpose of creating ultimate secret techniques in the future.

Soldiers are the future heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly Court. The requirement that they not have strong cultivation talents is to avoid stifling any potential super geniuses.

If he was originally destined to be a true god, but after refining a lower-level law godhead and a higher-level law bead, his upper limit was locked, and he became no different from an ordinary person, wouldn't he have suffered a huge loss?
"Yes, Master."

Zi Zhenfeng bowed and replied.

"Okay, go ahead and get busy. Get it done within a month."

Nodding, Lu Jin waved his hand.

He possesses 94 lower-level divine sparks of various systems, still tens of thousands short of the million mark.

No problem, just buy some Immortal Corpse to reach a million.

First, distribute lower-level divine titles to the million quasi-celestial soldiers and unlock various secret techniques to encourage competition among them. Later, rank them based on their strength.

Those ranked at the top in strength will be trained to become kings, those in the middle will be trained to become marquises, and those at the bottom will be trained to become peak or high-level immortal military lords.

As for the very bottom few? They can only be the initial-level Immortal Military Lords.

Even if the Heavenly Court grows stronger in the future, the Heavenly Soldiers who are phased out of the combat ranks will not be useless.

Since the goal is to make the Heavenly Court one of the six major powers of the human race, its industries will inevitably spread across the 1008 universe kingdoms of the human race.

They can then be sent to various branches, industries, and resource regions to serve as management personnel.

Moreover, as his own strength increased, Lu Jin no longer cared whether the immortality he created with the divine spark of law was a servant's body.

The reason for enslavement in the past was mainly to provide insurance and avoid getting into trouble.

However, we still need to be cautious about the planned 1,000 generals.

After all, if he were to create a cosmic venerable from a higher level of divine law, he would certainly not be a primary, intermediate, or advanced cosmic venerable, but rather a cosmic overlord.

A hundredfold increase in extreme amplitude, a hundredfold increase in life genes, and so on, will all be arranged.

It can be said that as long as they can create their own ultimate secret technique, and as Zi Ni Chang's treasure-refining skills improve further, enabling them to refine ordinary treasure sets comparable to high-grade treasures, the future Heavenly Court's Venerable-level Heavenly Generals will all possess the strength of cosmic overlords.

'Higher-level Law Godhood.'

With his fingers lightly tapping the armrest of the throne, Lu Jin pondered where to obtain the corpse of the Universe Venerable in order to acquire a higher-level Law Godhood.

Should Zi Ni Chang be made an assassin?
By crafting multiple sets of top-tier treasures that are more valuable than ordinary treasures, or by exchanging top-tier treasures of the Soul, Domain, and Palace categories, one can obtain the ordinary high-level treasures that are standard equipment for cosmic overlords.

In addition, there is a top-tier cosmic overlord divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers, a secret technique with a hundredfold limit amplitude, and a peak secret technique that is standard for high-level and lower-level cosmic venerables.

Nowadays, Zi Ni Chang can deal with Universe Venerables below the Overlord level without much effort.

After thinking it over, Lu Jin decided to try other approaches first.

If that doesn't work, then send Zi Ni Chang, the master of treasure refining, to be an assassin.

The primordial universe is vast, with countless remote and secluded corners. It preys on those with no connections and doesn't need to worry about attracting any trouble.

In any case, from the perspective of obtaining a higher-level divine status, hunting down a low-level cosmic venerable is the same as hunting down a top-level cosmic overlord.

He's no match for other top cosmic overlords, and even cosmic overlords might not be able to defeat him, but for the Weakling Venerable, that's definitely no problem.

The Purple Rainbow Kingdom, inside the Palace of Time.

“Ni Chang, you opened the Tiangong Pavilion in Hongmeng City, why don’t you start a corpse collection business?”

After handing over the more than nine hundred precious fishing tools to Zi Ni Chang, Lu Jin said to her.

When Zi Nishang joined the Hongmeng Alliance and became a four-star member, she soon opened a shop called 'Tiangong Pavilion' that sold G-grade immortal divine weapons after obtaining the right to open a shop in Hongmeng City. Now, she also occasionally sells ordinary treasures.

There is a power called 'money power'.

As long as you can afford the price, let alone the corpse of a Universe Venerable, even the corpse of a Universe Lord, there will definitely be penniless powerhouses who will send it to you.

"Collecting corpses? Aren't there countless corpses in the garbage star field?"

"We don't accept trash, we only accept the corpses of cosmic beings."

"A cosmic venerable one? How much should I ask for?"

"The most ordinary treasure is worth 1 treasure point, and all the corpses of universe venerables are worth 10 treasure points. Moreover, only the corpses of universe venerables from weaker races outside the Hongmeng camp are eligible."

Customers who obtain Treasure Points by selling the corpse of the Cosmic Venerable can purchase or customize Treasures from the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

Purchases are welcome; anything available in the Heavenly Craft Pavilion will be sold. For custom orders, only top-tier treasures will be accepted; please do not accept orders for ordinary treasures.

The price of a Cosmic Venerable's corpse, which costs 10 Treasure Points, is actually not that high.

After all, top-tier treasures of the highest quality, such as those of the Soul, Domain, and Palace categories, can be worth tens of thousands of treasure points, which is a normal price.

If a top-tier palace-type treasure could be exchanged for hundreds or thousands of high-level divine sparks, Lu Jin would probably be laughing in his sleep.

Similarly, 10 Treasure Points per item is already quite expensive.

A most ordinary treasure only costs 1 treasure point, and 10 treasure points are equivalent to 10 most ordinary treasures.

Moreover, for the cosmic venerables, the corpses of other cosmic venerables are useless to them; they might as well sell them and exchange them for treasures.

Lu Jin was certain that once the news of Tiangongge's corpse collection service spread throughout Hongmeng City, some Universe Venerables would be willing to take action, especially those Universe Venerables who were skilled in dealing with souls.

There was a reason why Lu Jin only wanted the corpses of the Cosmic Venerables from the weaker races.

Unlike immortal gods, if a cosmic lord is in the race, regardless of their specific strength, a cosmic lord will be resurrected after their fall.

If he were resurrected prematurely, the corpse he received would be unable to be decomposed to extract the most important superior law godhood.

He needs to avoid the possibility that the corpse has already been resurrected by the Lord of the Universe through time reversal.

Furthermore, since Tiangong Pavilion is located within Hongmeng City, the Universe Venerables who join Hongmeng are definitely not within the scope of corpse acquisition.

Such things that are detrimental to unity cannot be done. After a pause, Lu Jin continued, "If a customer is a Human Universe Venerable, when inquiring about the possibility of borrowing, they can borrow 100 Treasure Points under the witness of the Virtual Universe System, but these Treasure Points can only be used within the Heavenly Craft Pavilion."

The first corpse of a Cosmic Venerable that was sold to the Heavenly Craft Pavilion will be considered as interest on this loan, which will be repaid within the next epoch.

Among the human race, there are quite a few cosmic venerables who lack readily available treasures.

For such Venerable Ones, providing them with loans first to enhance their strength also allows them to better provide the corpses of Venerable Ones from other universes.

In any case, human beings who are cosmic sovereigns can be resurrected by the universe lord after their fall, unless they are enslaved by their souls or in a few special circumstances.

Tiangong Pavilion is a long-term, unlimited buyer of the corpses of Universe Venerables. There are places where you can work and earn money, so there's no fear of them not being able to repay their debts.

Even if you are unfortunately enslaved by other powerful individuals, you will only lose 100 treasure points at most, which is nothing.

In Lu Jin's view, the fact that Tiangong Pavilion had launched this corpse collection service was a win-win situation for everyone, except for the alien universe venerables who were being hunted. It was a win-win situation for him, as well as for the universe venerables of the human race and Hongmeng.

He purchased the corpse of an alien venerable, obtained a superior law godhood, and cultivated a cosmic overlord-level celestial general.

Human and Hongmeng Venerables can hunt down alien universe Venerables with diligence, targeting the weakest among them. They can quickly amass a large amount of treasure points and acquire a set of top-tier treasures.

As for the deceased alien cosmic venerable one?
Since they're all from different races, who would care?

Anyway, Lu Jin wouldn't care.

Otherwise, wouldn't all the billions of beings within the Heavenly Frost Universe Kingdom have prayed for him in vain?

In order to do bad things with a clear conscience, Lu Jin had made preparations in advance.

Upon hearing this, Zi Ni Chang rolled her eyes and said, "There are quite a few Universe Venerables in the clan. Even if only a small portion is being loaned, I still can't come up with that many Treasure Points worth of treasures."

Moreover, if the other party only buys lower-priced common treasures, their inventory of treasures is far from sufficient.

Lu Jin waved his hand dismissively and said, "It's alright. If we don't have enough treasures in stock, we won't lend them out for now. If we don't have enough ordinary treasures, we'll list them as out of stock and let them buy high-value treasures."

Moreover, while we lack ordinary heavy treasures, our clan's treasure trove is not lacking. You can exchange quality for quantity with the clan.

A single top-tier treasure in a specific domain is worth as much as thousands of the most ordinary treasures, significantly saving you time and effort.

Furthermore, this situation won't last long. Once you obtain a higher-level divine title, I'll arrange a few Venerable-level apprentices for you.

With the Time Palace's thousand-fold acceleration and your guidance, I believe it won't be long before the Heavenly Court produces a steady stream of top-tier treasure refiners. From then on, you will truly be the Heavenly Court's chief treasure refiner.

Cosmic Venerables cultivated using the divine essence of superior laws can quickly accumulate life genes and amplitude secret techniques with resources. All they need to do in the future is create their own secret techniques.

But the creation of laws will eventually come to an end. Those who have no need for and are unable to comprehend the laws will either kill people or give up.
That can't!
Every single one of you, go and work hard as treasure refiners!
"That's a possibility."

Zi Nishang raised her eyebrows slightly, then asked, "Since treasures are in short supply, shall I refine some treasures first?"

After a moment's thought, Lu Jin nodded.

Although the ultimate secret technique is the standard equipment of the universe overlord and the top universe overlord.

However, it is not a simple matter for a cosmic overlord to create the ultimate secret technique; it requires a great deal of time and effort.

Even if the Time Palace accelerates time a thousandfold, it still won't be something that can be done in a short time. We can put the secret techniques aside for now.

Just then, Fatty's voice rang in Lu Jin's mind: "Master, Virtual Universe Company has sent an email to King Lingxiao."

"what's up?"

Lu Jin asked.

"You'll understand once you've seen it."

As Fatty spoke, a projection screen appeared in front of Lu Jin, displaying the contents of the email.

— [Warning: Recently, an unknown powerful figure set up a trap in the Fifth Domain Outer Battlefield, using treasures to lure a large number of immortals into falling into the trap, causing the demon race to lose nearly 200,000 king-level immortals, of which more than 10,000 were at the peak of king level or above, and the vast majority of them have been enslaved by their souls.]

May our immortal race, during their trials, remember to be cautious and prudent to avoid being deceived. See the attached page for details.

Seeing this, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows.

As expected, when it comes to intelligence capabilities, if the human race is second to none in the original universe, no other force can claim to be number one. They quickly grasped the extent of the demon race's losses.

"Playing this big?"

Zi Nishang, standing to the side, said to Lu Jin with some surprise.

When Lu Jin was about to take away those nine hundred-plus treasures from his inventory, Zi Nishang knew that Lu Jin was going to make a big move.

But she never expected that Lu Jin would go to such lengths.

Fortunately, Lu Jin was skilled at disguise; otherwise, if the news were leaked and the demon race found out, it would be quite normal for the demon race's universe lord to come knocking on their door.

Lu Jin shook his head and said, "They're so-so. They look numerous, but they're basically useless. At best, they're just high-level cannon fodder, and they might not even be cannon fodder in the future."

In Lu Jin's view, being granted the title of King or Immortal is nothing more than a minor player used to boost morale, and it's only useful in the early stages.

When the world of Jin arrives in the future, that will be the time when the Heavenly Court will grow rapidly.

After all, there are too many experts in the Jin world. The Lord of the Universe is just a 'tribal militiaman', the True God is just a 'tribal militia captain', and the Void True God is just a 'tribal chief'.

To put it bluntly, the most powerful Chaos City Lord in the Virtual Universe Company right now can't even become a militia captain.

Not long after, in the virtual universe, inside the inner city of Hongmeng City.

Inside a shop with a sign that reads "Tiangong Pavilion" above its entrance, a woman who had reached the Immortal level, possessed striking good looks, and had a red rhombus-shaped crystal between her eyebrows, was resetting the business scope displayed on a virtual screen in the shop's lobby.

—[Effective today, the Tiangong Pavilion's existing business of selling precious treasures will remain unchanged, the business of selling G-grade immortal divine weapons will be cancelled, and a new business will be added.]

We offer unlimited long-term acquisition of the corpses of Cosmic Venerables from weaker non-Hongmeng groups, regardless of their strength. The acquisition price is always 10 Heavy Treasure Points or one hundred trillion Chaos Units.

Each 1 Treasure Point is equivalent to the value of a most ordinary Treasure.

You can use the Treasure Points issued by the Heavenly Craft Pavilion to purchase or customize treasures within the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

Currently, our store has listed one hundred various treasures, available while supplies last. The next batch of treasures will be replenished irregularly.

Customized treasures are limited to top-tier treasures of the Soul, Domain, and Palace categories.

'boom--'

The moment Tiangongge updated its business scope, many customers in the store were immediately shocked.

Bonus chapter for May (13)

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