Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 230 Exiting the Virtual Universe Company, Treasure Vault Exchange
In previous years, before Zi Nishang's treasure-refining skills had reached a level sufficient to refine top-grade ordinary palace treasures.

The Heavenly Craft Pavilion within the Hong Alliance once undertook the task of refining ordinary supreme treasures of the domain, soul, and palace categories.

However, she didn't take on the task of refining treasures very often. Once her skills improved and she was able to refine ordinary supreme treasures of the top-grade level, such as those of the domain, soul, and palace categories, Zi Nishang had the Heavenly Craft Pavilion close down this business.

Once one's treasure-refining skills reach the pinnacle of ordinary supreme treasures, one naturally turns to refining top-grade supreme treasures for the heavenly generals under one's own Heavenly Court.

During the period when he was taking on treasure refining orders, Venerable Guiyi was unable to raise enough money for materials. By the time he did, Zi Nishang had stopped accepting treasure refining orders, so he missed the opportunity.

"What kind of supreme treasure do you want to refine?"

Lu Jin asked.

"If there were any top-grade ordinary soul treasures of the fire element, that would be even better."

"Return to Oneness is a Venerable One," he said with a smile.

Similar to secret techniques, treasures also have the issue of compatibility.

For most powerful individuals, a supreme treasure will accompany them for countless years, or even forever.

The usage time is extremely long, and it also requires a lot of money. If given a choice, one would definitely want to pursue a treasure that perfectly suits their own needs.

However, there are far too many powerful individuals who lack supreme treasures. The supreme treasures currently available in the clan's treasury may not necessarily meet the needs of these powerful individuals.

This has led to the high demand for treasure refiners who can precisely craft treasures according to customer requirements.

Lu Jin said, "That's quite a coincidence. I brought a batch of treasures with me to the Initial Universe to exchange for at the clan's treasury. Among them is a top-grade ordinary soul treasure of the fire element. You can exchange it at the treasury later."

Upon hearing this, Venerable Guiyi's face immediately lit up with a smile, and he said, "Brother Lu, please go in. Don't keep the city lord waiting."

Lu Jin: "."

Stepping into the quiet courtyard, time and space shifted, and Lu Jin appeared in a vast and desolate world.

Looking around, the Chaos Ruins, which was filled with corpses in the original story, no longer had any trace of corpses.

The numerous corpses of powerful alien races that should have been in the Chaos Ruins were packaged up by the Chaos City Lord as support for an outstanding junior and sent to Zi Ni Chang, and then ended up in his hands.

At this moment, a surge of chaotic energy appeared ahead, and a burly figure, three meters tall, wearing incredibly complex and ancient dark red battle armor, battle boots, and a scaly tail, walked over, exuding a terrifying aura.

The burly figure had two fiery red horns on his forehead and strange, mysterious patterns on his face, making him look very fierce, but his eyes were as calm as the ocean.

His fierce face and gentle eyes gave him an eerie feeling.

"Lu Jin".

The Lord of Chaos City said with a smile.

"I've met the city lord."

Lu Jin bowed and said.

"Unexpectedly, the little guy who was only at the cosmic level hundreds of years ago has now stepped into the cosmic venerable realm."

The Lord of Chaos City sighed with emotion, then asked, "I wonder what type of secret technique you possess that is your strongest talent?"

Based on the wondrous peach that Zi Ni Chang took out, and the life genes that Lu Jin revealed, which were about ten thousand times greater, the Chaos City Lord deduced that Lu Jin possessed perfect genes.

Perfect genetic life forms below the level of true gods all possess the strongest innate secret techniques bestowed by the original will of the primordial universe.

If the strongest talent technique that Lu Jin obtained is of the attack type, then it doesn't matter what Lu Jin's understanding of the laws is like.

With his top-tier cosmic overlord divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers, as long as his treasures don't hold him back, and after activating his strongest secret technique, his strength can at least reach the level of a top-tier cosmic overlord, comparable to the most ordinary cosmic lord.

After all, a top-tier overlord's divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers could be cut down by an ordinary universe lord even if it stood still and let them attack.

"It is called Chaotic Tide, and it can be used for both physical and soul attacks."

Lu Jin said.

"Chaotic Tides? Excellent!"

The Lord of Chaos City laughed heartily.

Since Lu Jin's strongest talent technique is an attack-type technique, it means that the Virtual Universe Company has gained another top-tier universe overlord whose strength has reached the level of a universe master.

After a satisfied smile, the Lord of Chaos City asked, "Your strength has surpassed the realm of a Universe Venerable. Humans who reach this level usually guard a region. Do you have any plans?"

"Lord of the city, I have a request, and I hope you will grant it."

As he spoke, Lu Jin conjured a world ring, which landed in front of the Chaos City Lord.

Raising an eyebrow, the Chaos City Lord channeled a wisp of divine power into the World Ring to investigate and claim ownership.

"Ok?"

The Lord of Chaos was startled. He saw that the World Ring contained 500 familiar things, the very same wondrous peaches that Zi Ni Chang had sold to him.

Including himself, there are currently five universe lords in the virtual universe. Counting his two clones, there are a total of seven universe lord divine bodies.

Virtual Universe Company can obtain genetic treasures with a value within ten thousand times the normal level; it's just a matter of how much it costs.

With these 500 miraculous peaches, as long as they are handled properly, they can be consumed only after the life genes have increased ten thousandfold.

The other four universe masters within the company, his main body and Qianbaohe's clone, are all fully capable of achieving perfect genetic life and possessing a massive divine body of over 90,000 kilometers!
"Lu Jin, these peaches are very important to the company. What do you want?"

"You didn't accept it immediately?" the Chaos City Lord asked in a deep voice.

Lu Jin cupped his hands and said, "City Lord, I once obtained the inheritance of a force called 'Heavenly Court' before the Great Cataclysm."

One of the requirements for this succession is the reconstruction of the Heavenly Court; I hope the City Lord will allow me to withdraw from the Virtual Universe Company.

Upon hearing this, the Lord of Chaos City was stunned.

The most dazzling genius of my Virtual Universe Company in this era, no, it can even be said to be the most dazzling peerless genius in the history of humankind, wants to leave my Virtual Universe Company.

If it were anyone else, the Lord of Chaos City would surely be furious.

My Virtual Universe Company invested so much in training you, and you say you want to start your own business?

But Lu Jin is different.

Honestly, compared to other core members within the company, Virtual Universe Company hasn't really given this exceptional talent any special treatment.

Aside from the influence of the Heavenly Frost Kingdom's ruler, Lu Jin simply obtained the rights that ordinary members of the Primal Secret Realm could enjoy.

Furthermore, Lu Jin's own strength, Zi Ni Chang's likely strength as a universe master, and the 500 wondrous peaches in front of them that were extremely important to the virtual universe company made the Chaos City Lord completely speechless.

After a moment of contemplation, the Lord of Chaos City said, "Since the inheritance you received has this requirement, I grant your request."

Moreover, compared to your contributions to the community, the resources you use in the company are negligible, and you don't need to use these wonderful peaches as the price for leaving the company.

However, these peaches are very important to the company, so the company will purchase them at 20 Treasure Points each, totaling 10000 Treasure Points.

Did Lu Jin make any contributions to the community? Of course he did.

Eliminating powerful members of opposing forces is the most direct contribution a race can make.

In terms of battle record, even when he was still at the Realm Lord stage, King Lingxiao's record on the extraterritorial battlefield surpassed that of any immortal god of the human race.

Not to mention that Lu Jin's clone also secretly carried out many earth-shattering things, such as plundering most of the demon beasts in the demon race's territory, extorting the demon race, and blackmailing the mechanical race.

As for the purchase price of 500 Wonder Peaches for 10000 Treasure Points, it's actually not too expensive.

10000 Treasure Points can't even buy a single top-tier domain treasure, but it can help all the universe masters within the company achieve perfect genes, and their divine bodies can expand to more than 90,000 kilometers. In truth, the Virtual Universe Company has made a huge profit.

Lu Jin shook his head and said, "City Lord, this is a token of my appreciation, please don't refuse it."

If the city lord feels apologetic, after the Heavenly Court is established, you can transfer the ownership of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom by the Virtual Universe Company to the Heavenly Court.

For Virtual Universe Company, ownership of the Universe Nation is actually not worth much.

It doesn't matter which faction owns the property; what matters is that this cosmic nation is located in a star sector that is human territory, and that the countless life-bearing planets within its borders are inhabited by humans.

"Qianwu Universe Country?"

The Chaos City Lord was taken aback. Was it not the Heavenly Frost Universe Kingdom?
Lu Jin nodded: "My hometown is in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom."

"Okay, I'll give the order when the time comes."

The Lord of Chaos City nodded, not paying attention to these minor details, and asked again, "I wonder if the Heavenly Court has a Lord of the Universe?"
The Lord of the Universe controls time and space, and can reverse time and space to revive life.

"Among our human race, only those forces with at least one Lord of the Universe presiding over them can be considered truly powerful; the rest are insignificant."

“Ni Chang has become the master of the universe.”

"When was the Heavenly Court established?"

"Within a hundred years."

"At that time, high-level executives from my Virtual Universe Company, as well as Giant Axe Arena, Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, Cosmic First Bank, and Cosmic Galaxy Bank will be present to offer their congratulations."

Lu Jin said, "City Lord, there is something that the clan's higher-ups need to know."

The Lord of Chaos City asked, "Oh? What is it?"

Lu Jin said, "Before it is officially established, the Heavenly Court will hunt down a demon race cosmic lord to establish its prestige and inform the race in advance so as not to catch them off guard."

How can a young swordsman with exceptional martial arts skills, fresh out of the gate, quickly make a name for himself?
This is simple: just take down a veteran of the martial arts world and climb to the top by stepping over his corpse.

As long as one of the demon race's universe lords is killed, all the human experts will believe that the Heavenly Court is qualified to change the original five-power structure into six-power structure.

"Are you sure?"

Chaos City Lord asked.

"Have."

Lu Jin was full of confidence.

Without top-tier palace treasures, apart from the Nine Nether Lord with his enormous divine body, which universe lord could withstand the repeated bombardments from a top-tier sixth-order being?

Moreover, unlike the true god, who would be punished by the origin of the universe for killing the lord of the universe within the primordial universe.

But there's no punishment for a Lord of the Universe killing another Lord of the Universe. A short while later, Lu Jin left the Chaos Ruins and headed to the clan's treasury located in a side hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

The gates to the clan's treasure vault are usually closed. To enter the vault to offer treasures or exchange items, one must apply in the virtual universe.

"Rumble--"

Lu Jin had already applied and been approved. As soon as he arrived at the side hall where the treasure vault was located, the bronze gate, which was about a hundred meters wide, slowly opened.

Upon entering the hall, the bronze doors closed once more.

Looking around the entire side hall, the interior is quite spacious, with only a stone slab about 100 meters in diameter placed in the very center.

Once the treasure is placed inside the stone plate, the virtual universe system can conduct a detailed examination of it through the stone plate to determine its specific value.

"Shh!"

Lu Jin flipped his hand, and a large, earth-yellow seal with a heavy aura appeared in his hand, which then fell into the stone plate.

"Om-"

With a buzzing sound, strands of cyan silk threads rose from the stone disc, enveloping the entire seal and beginning a detailed inspection.

Soon, a gentle voice rang out: "An unknown earth-type ordinary domain treasure, offered to the clan, will grant 23 treasure points."

Lu Jin, are you willing to offer this treasure to your tribe and name it?

Lu Jin said, "It's dedicated to the clan; as for naming it, forget about it."

"Click——"

The center of the stone disc suddenly split open to both sides, and the earth-elemental treasure shaped like a seal slowly fell below under the control of an invisible force. Then the stone disc returned to its original state.

"This is a detailed form for exchanging the tribe's precious treasures."

A gentle voice rang out again, and a hazy, enormous gray form appeared in the air above the hall.

The form displayed four large categories: Treasures, Valuable Treasures, Materials, and Special Resources.

Lu Jin said, "It's a supreme treasure."

"Shh!"

The form changes, and five options appear at the top from left to right: Common Treasure, High-Grade Treasure, Top-Grade Treasure, Peak Treasure, and Ultimate Treasure.

On the far left, from top to bottom, there are also many options: melee, ranged attack, mental attack, armor, sealing, palace, soul, domain, and special.

Lu Jin said, "Check the highest-grade palace treasures in the treasury."

The form refreshed and listed numerous palace-type treasures in descending order of value.

Upon seeing the 'Heavenly Divine Thunder Palace,' a high-level palace treasure worth 650 treasure points, located at the very top, Lu Jin's face darkened.

As expected, the human race is not wealthy. Not only are there no supreme palace treasures available, but even top-tier palace treasures are out of stock.

The highest grade consists of only two high-grade palace treasures, including the 'Heavenly Divine Thunder Palace'. The rest are ordinary palace treasures.

Indeed, even a top-grade high-level palace treasure can withstand a material attack from a fifth-order universe lord. Even if it's not a top-grade item, a high-level palace treasure is still suitable for universe lord level experts.

Such a treasure is naturally not something that the not-so-wealthy human race would leave idle.

It's no exaggeration to say that all the treasures in the clan's treasury that are suitable for the Lord of the Universe are superfluous.

After all, the human universe masters all come from the five major powers. If there are good things in their treasure vaults, even if they don't have enough treasure points, they will borrow from universe masters with whom they have good relationships to exchange for them.

Shaking his head slightly, Lu Jin said, "Check the ultimate treasure weapon."

There were no top-tier palace treasures available; only high-grade palace treasures were left, and they weren't even top-quality items. Naturally, Lu Jin lost interest in exchanging for them.

With the Bodhi Tree that can greatly enhance one's comprehension, Zi Ni Chang will soon become a high-level treasure refiner. In the future, she will be able to produce her own treasures, so exchanging for high-level treasures like the 'Heavenly Thunder Palace' will be meaningless.

The form refreshed again, and two ultimate treasure weapons appeared.

Compared to top-tier palace treasures, peak-tier weapons are relatively easier to obtain.

After all, ordinary top-tier palace treasures are more expensive than ordinary peak-tier treasure weapons. Those who can afford top-tier palace treasures must also have peak-tier treasure weapons.

However, those who possess supreme treasure weapons may not necessarily possess top-tier palace treasures.

Moreover, aside from the giant axe, none of the many human universe lords could kill a universe lord who possessed a top-tier palace treasure.

Lacking even the skill of murder and robbing, relying solely on luck to find treasure makes the task incredibly difficult.

These two supreme treasure weapons are a pair of black and white hammers and five colorful divine pearls.

Lu Jin glanced past the black and white hammers and then looked at the five colorful divine beads.

—【The Five-Colored Divine Light Beads are five different divine beads with different attributes: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

A single divine bead is a top-tier, supreme-grade psychic weapon. Five divine beads combined form a complete set, with effects comparable to a top-tier, peak-grade psychic weapon, valued at 5000 treasure points.

'5000 Treasure Points?'

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow.

Even a common top-tier supreme weapon costs around a thousand supreme treasure points, so this Five-Colored Divine Light Pearl is not cheap.

However, there's a reason for the high price; the impartiality of the Clan Treasury Intelligent System is still trustworthy.

Instead of exchanging directly, Lu Jin said, "Check the Origin-type Treasures."

Compared to top-tier supreme weapons, the primordial treasures were Lu Jin's biggest purpose in coming to the clan's treasure vault, apart from the top-tier palace treasures that were in short supply.

It is true that the Immortal Transformation Pool can produce divine liquid, but the production efficiency is only one hundred million times that of a perfect genetic standard divine body recovery amount, and it is not affected by factors such as time acceleration.

Even if all the divine source liquid produced were poured into the lotus pond of Lingxiao Palace, it would still be impossible to provide the massive amount of energy needed for the 36 lotus plants to grow into true god treasures in a short period of time.

After all, this is a true divine treasure, and the energy that each lotus bead needs to absorb is absolutely astonishing.

In the Devouring Starry Sky, under the same life level and life gene multiple, the amount of divine power restored by a great god body compared to that of a small god body, although not a multiple of their volume, can be equal to a multiple of their height or length.

The Nine Nether Sea, a cosmic-level sea, has a maximum diameter of 12 light-years. However, due to its low density, it is equivalent to a height of 1.2 light-years in human form.

Compared to the cosmic lord whose divine body spans over 90,000 kilometers, the Nine Nether Sea, when expanded to its limit, has a divine power recovery efficiency that is more than a hundred million times greater.

In other words, the 12-light-year-diameter Universe Lord-level Nether Sea Avatar has a slightly higher output of divine power recovery than the Divine Source Liquid produced by the Immortal Transformation Pool.

However, the production of divine source liquid in the Immortal Transformation Pool is not affected by other factors, while the Nether Sea Avatar is affected by time acceleration and the Origin Treasure.

With a time acceleration of a hundred times and a divine power recovery efficiency increased by at least a thousand times, if these two factors are present, a Nether Sea clone expanded to its limit can recover at least the amount of divine power equivalent to 100,000 Immortal Transformation Pools.

There are seven Nether Sea clones in the Heavenly Court, and through the Demon Refining Pot, the massive amount of divine power restored by these seven Nether Sea clones can be realized in the form of Universe Lord-level Life Source Crystals.

Through three twelve-petaled lotus platforms, 12 supreme treasures of the domain type, 12 supreme treasures of the soul type, and 12 supreme treasure armors can be cultivated every ten thousand epochs. It also depends on the Nether Sea clones of Hong'er and her seven companions.

"Shh!"

The form refreshes, revealing many of its most precious and original treasures.

The grade of a Primal Treasure is linked to the main material used in its crafting. For example, a Primal Treasure crafted using lower-level Law Hearts such as the Heart of Gold, the Heart of Wood, or the Star of Thunder is considered an ordinary Primal Treasure.

Those crafted with the Heart of Time and the Heart of Space are high-level primordial treasures.

Those crafted using the Heart of Metal-Void Fusion, the Heart of Thunder-Time Fusion, and other fusion laws are top-tier primordial treasures.

Lu Jin flipped through the list and found that the prices of primordial treasures were very stable.

The price of ordinary primordial treasures with the eight lower-level law attributes is uniformly 100 treasure points.

As long as one possesses the laws corresponding to the Primal Treasure, the efficiency of absorbing divine power of that system from the Sea of ​​Primal Laws of the Universe can be increased a thousandfold by using ordinary Primal Treasures.

Just like a gold-type ordinary primordial treasure refined with a gold heart, suitable for gold-type immortals, space lords and universe masters who have mastered the laws of gold.

Without mastering the laws of metal, one cannot use ordinary metal-based primordial treasures.

Both high-level primordial treasures with superior law attributes are priced at 1000 treasure points, and their divine power recovery efficiency is increased ten thousand times.

For example, a high-grade primordial treasure of the space system, refined with the heart of space, is suitable for space venerables, space-side beast god dao universe masters and time-space dao universe masters.

The Time Venerable and the Time Side Beast God Path Universe Master are unable to use high-level primordial treasures of the space system.

As for the top-tier primordial treasures refined with the Heart of Fusion Laws, perhaps the Human Race Universe Master possesses them, but they are scarce in the treasure vault.

Although top-tier primordial treasures are in short supply, there are plenty of high-grade and ordinary primordial treasures.

There are five spatial realms and four temporal realms, totaling nine high-level primordial treasures, and more than one hundred ordinary primordial treasures with eight lower-level law attributes.

In addition, Lu Jin also discovered that the Primal Treasures could be rented in addition to being purchased, with a minimum rental period of one era.

The minimum rental fee for a common original treasure is 1 treasure point.

The minimum rental fee for a high-level Origin Treasure is 10 Treasure Points.

The rented Origin Treasures have usage restrictions; they cannot be taken out of the Initial Universe and can only be used within the Initial Universe.

If nothing unexpected happens, this rental service is specifically designed for those cosmic venerables who are short of money.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

Then, Lu Jin waved his hand, and hundreds of treasures fell into the huge stone plate in the hall, including the top-grade ordinary soul treasure of the fire element that Venerable Guiyi wanted.

After exchanging for more than 700 ordinary treasures of varying quality and type, Lu Jin had accumulated 15212 treasure points.

Lu Jin said to the Treasure Vault AI: "Exchange for the pinnacle treasure, the psychic weapon 'Five-Colored Divine Light Pearl', nine high-grade primordial treasures, and twelve ordinary gold-type primordial treasures."

A gentle voice rang out: "The Five-Colored Divine Light Pearl is worth 5000 Treasure Points, the nine high-grade Origin Treasures are worth 9000 Treasure Points, and the twelve ordinary gold-type Origin Treasures are worth 1200 Treasure Points, for a total of 15200 Treasure Points. Would you like to exchange?"

Lu Jin nodded and said, "Confirmed."

The ultimate treasure, the psychic weapon 'Five-Colored Divine Light Pearl', was prepared for Zi Ni Chang.

The nine treasures were either of the highest origin of time or space. He himself owned one of the space element, Zi Ni Chang could choose another one, and Hong Er and the other seven could each choose another one.

(End of this chapter)