Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 280 Blood Sea Magic Gold

Energy is conserved. All other things being equal, the divine power required to transform the essence of things is necessarily less than that required to create something from nothing.

Since the Netherworld Blood Sea clone possessed almost limitless divine power, Lu Jin decided to try converting his free Blood Sea water into refining materials using his Creation Divine Power.

If all goes well, given the size of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, why would we have to worry about a lack of precious materials in the future?
In any case, with the skill of the Mountain Recluse in refining treasures, even unfamiliar materials can be mastered quickly.

Furthermore, the treasures refined from them will be able to perfectly utilize the inherent properties of the materials themselves.

'Wow—'

As the divine power was activated and the divine energy was consumed, Lu Jin saw the sea of ​​blood water that appeared in front of him shimmer with a faint crimson glow.

A crimson glow spread, and the volume of the sea of ​​blood rapidly shrank, transforming into a solid state.

Before long, the crimson light subsided, and the blood-red sea of ​​water, which was originally about a meter in diameter, transformed into a tiny, crystal-clear, crimson metallic particle the size of a needle tip.

Seeing this, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow and put the tiny, blood-red metallic particle into his external storage space.

Subsequently, Lu Jin's original form was taken out from the Hall of Ascension and handed over to Zi Ni Chang, a master of treasure refining, to identify the material's grade.

Lu Jin didn't care about the conversion ratio between the Blood Sea Water and the materials used for refining treasures.

With the Netherworld Blood Sea clone having a diameter of 12 light-years, plus the 100,000-fold increase in divine power recovery speed from the Origin Treasure, even if the transformed volume is only one trillionth of that, it is still a massive amount.

What he cares about is the grade of the materials used for refining treasures.

"The specific properties of the metal are not yet clear, but it can be used as the main material for refining ordinary treasures."

After carefully examining the area with divine power, Zi Ni Chang said.

"Common Supreme Treasure Main Material?"

Lu Jin couldn't help but frown slightly.

In terms of level, the divine body of a true god is made of the same material as the most powerful treasure.

According to this calculation, as the avatar of the Netherworld Blood Sea, the master of the perfect gene universe, the divine body level should correspond to the main material of the pinnacle treasure.

'Insufficient expertise in this area?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

Similar to modifying life genes, he also uses the power of creation to transform the divine bodies of others. In the early stages of comprehending the "Miro Supreme Diagram", he could only transform the divine bodies of ordinary life into divine bodies with a single-digit gene level.

However, when his life gene mastery is raised to the level of perfect gene, he can easily transform an ordinary gene god body into a perfect gene god body.

Thinking this, the Blood God Child incarnate beside the Blood Sea within the Divine Kingdom used the World Ring to collect a large amount of Blood Sea water.

He then went to the Lingbao Hall and retrieved a portion of all the supreme-grade refining materials from the Heavenly Court. Afterward, he entered the Huaxian Hall and, with the blessing of the Bodhi Tree's enlightenment, conducted relevant research.

Since there are numerous Blood God Child incarnations, assigning only one Blood God Child incarnation to conduct material research will not significantly affect the original cultivation plan.

Time flies, 1000 years after the beginning of the primordial universe.

On the battlefield beyond the borders, the human race and the Universal Alliance are locked in fierce combat, with numerous prodigies rising to prominence and earning great renown.

However, the vast majority of these prodigies who made a name for themselves on the battlefields beyond the realm belong to the human race.

While there are indeed geniuses belonging to the Universal Alliance, they are extremely rare.

According to rough statistics from both sides, the number of immortal gods belonging to the Universal Alliance in the eleven extraterrestrial battlefields is hundreds or even thousands of times greater than that of the human faction.

However, the human race managed to make up for this numerical disadvantage of hundreds or thousands of times with the quality of individual animals.

To be precise, it was made up for by the genius realm lords and immortals who belonged to the Heavenly Court and the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court.

The Venerable One, who was stationed in the extraterritorial battlefield of the Universal Alliance, discovered that the vast majority of the immortals belonging to the Heavenly Court were no less powerful than the King-level immortals, and a large proportion of them were close to the King-level invincible, with only a few being less powerful than the King-level immortals.

What the outside world doesn't know is that the 'immortals' belonging to the Heavenly Court on the extraterritorial battlefield are actually divided into two types.

One method involves using the common soul-type treasure 'Heart of Annihilation' to disguise oneself as an immortal genius realm master.

Another type is Lu Jin, who specifically cultivated a near-invincible king using special resources such as high-level law beads to stabilize the situation on the battlefield outside the domain.

With his extremely high understanding of superior laws, the former was not only a realm lord but also capable of easily slaughtering the vast majority of immortal gods.

For example, 'King of Illusions', 'King of Thunder Blades', etc.

Unfortunately, limited to the level of Realm Lord, they cannot burn divine power. Without powerful treasures, these talented Realm Lords of the Heavenly Court are still quite far from being true powerhouses among the immortal gods.

As for the latter, it is a quick and easy method.

A lower-level divine spark, at least one higher-level divine spark of profound significance, a bloodline source crystal with ten times the gene value, two ordinary treasures (one for offense and one for defense), the amplification secret technique "Innate Dao Body," plus a top-level secret technique that is not difficult to create, makes one truly close to being invincible and a king.

These hastily acquired near-invincible kingship levels have no potential for improvement other than in terms of secret techniques.

Unless they can create their own immortal-level peak secret technique and receive further training from the Heavenly God Palace, they will only ever approach the level of King-level Invincible in their entire lives.

But the Universal Alliance was unaware of these things. All they knew was that the Heavenly Court had many immortal powerhouses who were close to being invincible and could be crowned kings.

However, what the countless immortals of the Universal Alliance fear most are not the immortals under the Heavenly Court, but the World Lord-level and Immortal-level Mother Queen of the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court.

All the World Lord-level Queens of the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court have millions of World Lord-level peak King Warriors under their command. A single combined attack can annihilate ordinary King-level high-ranking immortals and severely injure King-level peak-ranking immortals with weak divine bodies.

The Immortal Queen is even more terrifying, commanding tens of thousands of Immortal Warriors, none of whom are below the limit of the King-level, and many are close to the King-level Invincible. Even many of the King-level Invincible are active in the extraterrestrial battlefield.

What's even more terrifying is that after the Zerg transformed into the Human race's Hundred Flowers Royal Court, Zerg warriors with soul attack abilities actually appeared.

This is definitely bad news for the vast majority of the Universal Alliance members who are short of money but possess immortal souls.

Especially the Universal Alliance's near-invincible kingship and invincible kingship.

They possess great treasures, but when it comes to soul-related treasures, they are absolutely one in a hundred.

After all, the value of a soul-type treasure is comparable to several top-tier treasures, and even many cosmic venerables cannot afford it.

In addition, the queens of the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court have gone mad for some unknown reason, targeting any member of the Universal Alliance they encounter on the battlefield outside the domain.

Unless they are unable to defeat them, they will either turn to ashes or become soul slaves.

The reason is simple: the queens of the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court are desperate for money.

Legion warriors, nurtured by massive loans, can comprehend the higher-level laws of enlightenment once they accumulate enough points.

These two factors alone have led many World Lord-level and Immortal-level Mother Empresses who are stuck at their bottlenecks to go to the extraterritorial battlefield to earn money through the military merit system and by killing enemies and seizing treasures.

Even after enslaving the powerful immortals of the Universal Alliance, many of the Queen Mothers kept a few by their side as guards, while the rest were sent to the Heavenly Court's Nine Heavens to work and earn money in the Divine Source Tower.

It can be said that as long as one has money, with the help of the superior law enlightenment diagram in the Heavenly Court's Immortal Ascension Hall and all the mother queens in the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court, becoming a cosmic venerable is not an unrealistic dream.

To be honest, it's only because the Universal Alliance is so massive, bringing together the vast majority of powerful races in the original universe, plus a large number of ordinary and weak races, that it simply couldn't withstand the enormous losses on the extraterritorial battlefield.

In terms of scale, the number of immortal gods who fall every day on the current extraterritorial battlefield is at least a hundred times greater than during the chaotic battles of the four major races in the past.

Of course, while the two camps fought fiercely on the battlefield outside the region, they fought relatively little outside of it.

With most of the respectable races in the universe having joined the Universal Alliance, the original universe appears more harmonious overall, and the struggles between cosmic lords and above have significantly decreased compared to the past.

That could be considered an outstanding contribution to universal peace?
At this moment, in the Hall of Ascension in the Great Luo Heaven, in a quiet room where a complete diagram of the Enlightenment of the Space Laws was hanging.

"Teleportation, blockade, strangulation, hahaha~, it worked, it really worked! Those four hundred billion Chaos Units weren't wasted!"

With divine power, he outlined three incomplete spatial runes, which then merged into one, transforming into a complete rune pattern permeated with the fluctuations of spatial laws. King Zhenyan was extremely excited.

"boom--"

The next moment, the fundamental laws of the universe descended, and the five-colored vortex symbolizing the immortality of the Venerable One rapidly condensed, with a large amount of divine power and seawater pouring down.

After the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court became the seventh major power of the human race, the Heavenly Court opened up the qualification for comprehending the superior law enlightenment diagram to the six major powers of the human race.

However, the fees are different for members of the Heavenly Court and non-members of the Heavenly Court.

For members of the six major forces not affiliated with the Heavenly Court, the price for comprehending the Upper Law Enlightenment Diagram is as follows: 1 million Chaos Units per day for Realm Lord level, 1000 billion Chaos Units per day for Immortal level, and 10 Treasure Points per day for Universe Venerable level.

As for those belonging to the Heavenly Court, a Realm Lord level requires 1000 million points to comprehend for one day, an Immortal level requires 100 billion points to comprehend for one day, and a Universe Venerable requires 1 Treasure Point to comprehend for one day.

Members of the Heavenly Court can exchange points for Hunyuan units at a 1:1 ratio. Those with Immortal or higher authority can also exchange Hunyuan units for points at a 1:1 ratio.

In other words, the price for non-Heavenly Court members to comprehend the teachings is ten times that of Heavenly Court members.

Lu Jin admitted that this kind of enlightenment is quite expensive, and unless you are the best of the three stages, you basically don't have the financial means.

However, on the other hand, if a Realm Lord can't produce 1 million Chaos Yuan, an Immortal can't produce 1000 billion Chaos Yuan, and a Universe Venerable can't produce 10 Heavy Treasure Points, it's clear that their strength isn't very high and their talent is relatively limited.

Even if one breaks through to a higher level by using the Enlightenment Diagram of Higher Laws, one will only be a minor, insignificant figure in the future, so there is no need to lower the threshold.

Besides, you want to make money?
Those who reach the Immortal level, go work at the Divine Source Tower!
Immortal gods have infinite lifespans, and one day they will be able to collect them all.

Furthermore, the qualification to comprehend the Dao Enlightenment Diagram of the Upper Laws of the Immortal Ascension Hall follows a mechanism of refunding excess and supplementing deficiency.

Previously, King Zhenyan submitted an application to the Heavenly Court's Hall of Ascension to Immortality. After his turn came, he prepaid a one trillion Hunyuan units in advance to obtain the qualification to comprehend the Dao Enlightenment Diagram of the Ten-Day Time and Space Laws.

Currently, I have actually spent three and a half days comprehending the teachings. If I break through and immediately apply to end my comprehension and leave the meditation room, it will only count as four days.

Of the one trillion mixed units prepayment, 6000 billion mixed units will be directly refunded.

Of course, if the True King of Derivation fails to break through by the end of the tenth day and continues to comprehend, then his comprehension price will not be 1000 billion Hunyuan units per day, but will double to 2000 billion Hunyuan units per day.

Furthermore, the Heavenly Court's Hall of Ascension to Immortality will not ask the True King himself for the price of 2000 billion Chaos Units per day, but will directly ask the Virtual Universe Company where the True King resides.

This point was already agreed upon with the six major powers when the Heavenly Court opened the Upper Law Enlightenment Diagram in the Hall of Immortality.

Meanwhile, on the fifth floor of the Hall of Ascension.

'Zhen Yan has broken through?'

Sensing the arrival of the fundamental laws of the universe, Lu Jin's gaze traversed space and landed in a quiet cultivation room on the second floor of the Immortal Ascension Palace.

Then, Lu Jin's gaze fell on Luo Feng of the Demon Slayer Clan, who was studying the Enlightenment Diagram of the Higher Time Law on the first floor of the Immortal Ascension Hall. Luo Feng had already comprehended the three great mysteries of space, and even the three great mysteries of the Higher Time Law, having grasped two of them, only lacking the final one.

If Luo Feng can comprehend the final mystery of time and integrate the three mysteries of one of the superior laws, thus mastering a complete superior law, he can directly become the top cosmic overlord of the spacetime path.

It can be said that Venerable Zhenyan has taken two more steps than his disciple: one step towards immortality, and one step towards becoming a Venerable.

But it won't be long before Luo Feng completes a multi-level leap, leaving the newly broken True Evolution Venerable far behind.

Turning his gaze away, Lu Jin looked at the Blood God Child avatar who was studying the materials for refining treasures.

At this moment, the Blood God's incarnation was using a fist-sized piece of blood-red metal as a reference, activating the Divine Power of Creation, attempting to transform a large mass of blood-red water that had appeared in front of him into the ultimate treasure material 'Blood Sea Demon Gold'.

Blood Sea Demon Gold is a refining material named by Lu Jin himself. It can be divided into five levels from low to high: ordinary, high-grade, top-grade, peak, and supreme, corresponding to five levels of supreme treasure materials.

Early on, when he was researching materials for refining treasures, Lu Jin used his magical powers to transform the water of the Blood Sea into ordinary treasure materials.

Apart from the ordinary grade, the remaining four grades of Blood Sea Demon Gold are all refined from a large amount of ordinary grade Blood Sea Demon Gold through the Qiankun Cauldron.

Since no attribute changes were made during the conversion, the treasure materials and the Blood God Child incarnation share the same origin.

Theoretically speaking, a treasure crafted from Blood Sea Demon Gold would be the most suitable for the Blood God Child's incarnation in terms of attributes.

'It's more difficult than I imagined. Millions of years of research have only yielded results so far, allowing us to transform it into top-tier treasure materials.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

More than five million years ago, Lu Jin was able to transform the Blood Sea Water into top-grade Blood Sea Demon Gold within the Immortal Ascension Palace.

After hitting a bottleneck, he turned to studying other top-tier materials for refining magical artifacts.

More than four million years ago, he was able to transform the waters of the Blood Sea into any top-tier refining material he had ever come into contact with.

It's not even limited to the water of the Blood Sea; it can be created out of thin air. The only difference is that it greatly increases the consumption of divine power, making it less cost-effective than using the water of the Blood Sea as a raw material for conversion.

However, even after more than four million years of research, the materials for ultimate treasures remain an unknown.

Perhaps in the next moment, or perhaps it will be a long time from now.

'Wow—'

As divine power surged and supernatural abilities were activated, a detailed transformation began. The sea of ​​blood that appeared before him began to shimmer with a slightly eerie crimson glow.

Under the crimson glow, the volume of the sea of ​​blood rapidly shrank.

Before long, a huge mass of blood-red water transformed into a tiny, translucent, blood-red metallic particle the size of a grain of rice.

Is it a positive error or a negative error?

Holding a tiny grain of Blood Sea Demon Gold, no bigger than a grain of rice, and carefully examining it with divine power, the Blood God Child's incarnation secretly thought to himself.

From the perspective of divine power, Lu Jin could only see that the newly transformed Blood Sea Demon Gold particles at his fingertips still had some subtle differences in internal structure compared to the peak Blood Sea Demon Gold.

Although it was clearly transformed based on the structure of the peak Blood Sea Demon Gold, the actual product inevitably has some errors.

Fortunately, errors have two sides, because the peak Blood Sea Demon Gold, which serves as a reference, is not absolutely perfect.

Some errors can result in the converted Blood Sea Demon Gold having inferior performance compared to the peak Blood Sea Demon Gold, and the greater the error, the lower the material grade.

However, some 'errors' can optimize the material structure of the peak Blood Sea Demon Gold, making it closer to the supreme Blood Sea Demon Gold, resulting in a product that is stronger than the reference product.

The next moment, two streams of divine power shot out from the fingertips of the Blood God Child's avatar, respectively entering the Blood Sea Demon Gold Particle and the Peak Blood Sea Demon Gold.

Immediately afterward, Lu Jin's mind raced, and he channeled a wisp of divine power into the Kunlun Mirror, activating the God's-eye view exploration mode.

Looking at the two beams of light, one large and one small, that appeared from God's perspective, with the smaller beam being slightly stronger in terms of energy fluctuation, Lu Jin couldn't help but smile.

Materials possess conductivity; materials with the same properties but of higher grade naturally have better energy conductivity.

When the same intensity of energy is injected into a material with better energy conductivity, the resulting energy fluctuations will naturally be stronger.

By comparing the intensity of the energy emitted, one can determine which material is of a higher grade, even if it is only slightly higher.

Of course, this method is not applicable to all refining materials; it is only applicable to Blood Sea Demon Gold.

Subsequently, within the Netherworld God Realm, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone stirred its mind, causing a massive amount of blood sea water to rise.

"Whoosh whoosh-"

After the size of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone shrank to an insignificant fraction, a mass of crimson seawater with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers rapidly gathered above the Blood Sea.

'Wow—'

With the activation of the divine power of creation, the blood-sea mass, with a diameter of hundreds of millions of kilometers, shimmered with a brilliant crimson light, and then rapidly shrank.

Before long, the crimson light dissipated, and the crimson seawater, which was tens of millions of kilometers in diameter, had transformed into a peak blood sea demon golden sphere with a diameter of thousands of kilometers, resembling a crimson crystal.

With the materials for the ultimate treasure in place, Lu Jin, inside the Immortal Ascension Hall, immediately took out the token given to him by the former Mountain Guest to make contact.

Old Deng, it's time to refine the treasure!
Nearly a hundred billion light-years away from the human realm, in a space-time created in the void, lies a secluded palace courtyard.

Beside a stone table in the courtyard, an old man dressed in blue armor with transparent horns on his head was meditating with his eyes closed.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, a figure appeared out of thin air in the courtyard.

Suddenly, a glint of light appeared, and the old man in blue armor opened his eyes.

Upon seeing the newcomer, the old man's sharp eyes lost their gleam, and a hint of helplessness appeared on his slightly aged face.

"Don't scare this old man with your unpredictable appearances."

"The mountain dweller said irritably."

"How could that be? Senior is unfathomable. If we really talk about strength, I'm probably no match for you."

Lu Jin said with a smile.

Not mostly, but definitely.

Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse; this old man in front of me has a much stronger foundation than him.

"Nonsense! Where are the materials? Let me take a look."

The mountain dweller wouldn't reveal his secrets, so he changed the subject.

With a thought, Lu Jin conjured up the peak Blood Sea Demon Golden Sphere, which had a diameter of over a thousand kilometers.

"Good heavens, so many top-tier treasure materials?"

After the divine power penetrated and probed, the mountain dweller couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Lu Jin bowed to the guest sitting on the mountain and said, "A set of treasures with effects comparable to the best and strongest treasures, including a battle sword, armor, and domain. Ideally, it would also have the functions of changing color and shape. I would like to ask you to go to the Heavenly Court to refine it. I beg you, senior."

"You're not being fair, making so many demands?"

Looking at the enormous, peak-level Blood Sea Demon Golden Sphere, the Mountain-Sitting Guest did not immediately agree.

Lu Jin said generously, "The extra Blood Sea Demon Gold is yours."

With the Netherworld Blood Sea clone's 12-light-year size, plus the 100,000-fold increase in divine power recovery speed from the top-tier primordial treasure, producing such a peak Blood Sea Demon Gold Sphere every second would be no problem at all.

'Blood Sea Demon Gold?'

The Mountain-Sitting Guest raised an eyebrow and said, "Are you sure, kid? A treasure set that combines a sword, armor, and domain would probably only require a third of this material."

Lu Jin nodded: "Confirmed."

'Looks like this kid has a ton of materials for refining magical artifacts.'

The mountain dweller thought to himself, then asked, "Why must it be refined in the Heavenly Court?"

"Our Heavenly Court has a time acceleration of ten thousand times."

Lu Jin naturally wouldn't mention that his Qiankun Cauldron could replicate the treasure-refining process of a treasure refiner.

The mountain dweller narrowed his eyes slightly: "You wouldn't be thinking of suppressing me, would you?"

"I, Lu Jin, only deal with enemies, never with my own people."

Lu Jin said with a serious expression.

"Okay, I'll trust you this once."

With that, the Mountain Dweller put away the Peak Blood Sea Demon Golden Orb.

As the reincarnation of a god-king, he has many methods at his disposal, so he is not afraid of Lu Jin using the most powerful treasures of the Zhenfeng type to deal with him. At most, he will only suffer considerable losses.

Then, with a thought, Lu Jin activated the Divine Kingdom Teleportation Light, teleporting him and the Mountain-Sitting Guest back to the Netherworld Divine Kingdom.

Before long, Lu Jin led the Mountain Guest to the main hall of the Great Luo Heavenly Palace.

The main hall of the Tushita Palace has now been enhanced by Lu Jin with a time acceleration of ten thousand times, and the Qiankun Cauldron with four legs, two handles, and eight sides is placed inside.

"Senior, please use the Qiankun Cauldron to refine it."

Lu Jin pointed to the Qiankun Cauldron standing in the center of the hall.

"This cauldron is quite extraordinary!"

After taking a look around, the mountain dweller couldn't help but say something.

Although there is no substantial evidence, in the professional eyes of the mountain dweller, the Qiankun Cauldron with four legs, two handles, and eight sides is very likely to have reached the level of a god-king.

(End of this chapter)