Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 99 Crossing the Threshold of the Fundamental Laws of Water
Let's start with a simple design for now, and begin construction once the detailed plans are finalized.

Lu Jin, who had never been an artist or architect, thought to himself.

As the ruler of the Heavenly Realm, Lu Jin possesses numerous powers when he is within the Heavenly Realm, one of which is the ability to create all things like a Realm Lord.

Unlike the realm lord, he does not need to consume his energy in this evolutionary process.

Of course, energy is conserved and requires no cost, but that doesn't mean that energy truly appears out of thin air.

Lu Jin also realized that his own cheat software was very thoughtful.

Perhaps considering his weak strength, which prevented him from affording the energy consumption of using high-level treasures, they would find a 'sucker' who wouldn't complain to foot the bill for any treasure that required a lot of energy to use.

Without a doubt, this 'scapegoat' who will not complain is the origin of the primordial universe.

It is like the Kunlun Mirror, which connects to the sea of ​​fundamental laws of spacetime in the universe.

When using the Kunlun Mirror to travel through space, the energy that Lu Jin himself injects into the Kunlun Mirror is merely a trigger; the energy consumed during space travel is directly paid for by the original source of the universe.

The same applies to the Great Luo Heaven, which has already retreated into the origin of the universe.

All the energy consumed, including the creation of the Southern Heavenly Gate, the evolution of all things and buildings within the celestial realm, was paid for by the original source of the universe.

Of course, while the primordial origin of the universe can continue to pay the bill, there are certain limitations to this behavior.

It's like a water pump; the stronger the pump, the more power it has, and the more water it can pump in the same amount of time.

Once the speed at which one can "pluck" wool reaches a certain limit, in order to "pluck" more wool faster and better, one needs to improve one's own abilities.

Flying through the air to the condensed white jade palace, Lu Jin canceled the effect of his supernatural power: Disguise, and transformed back into a water unicorn.

He then continued to upgrade the level of his Water Kirin clone using the Cosmic-level Life Source Crystal, while simultaneously comprehending the fundamental laws of water by comparing them with the law threads manifested in the Great Luo Heavenly Dome.

Two days later.

Within the Great Luo Heaven, the Water Qilin clone once again stuffed a handful of cosmic-level life source crystals into its mouth, blinking its enormous, azure eyes as it gazed at the threads of the water's fundamental laws that appeared in the sky.

Water is both strong and gentle; it can nourish all things, yet it can also overturn the universe.

Suddenly, a philosophical saying that Lu Jin had seen before, when he was still learning about the classics of the past and had not yet mastered the Force, came to mind.

'boom--'

It sounded like the gentle murmur of flowing water, or like the raging torrents of a thousand feet high. Wisps of the primordial laws of water emanated from the water unicorn avatar.

At this moment, less than half a month after its birth, the Water Qilin avatar, a special life form based on the law of water and space fusion, stepped into the threshold of the fundamental law of water.

The clone and the original share the same soul consciousness. The water qilin clone's mastery of the water law has crossed the threshold of the origin law, which means that Lu Jin's original mastery of the water law has also reached the level of crossing the threshold of the origin law.

Those who have crossed the threshold of the lower-level fundamental laws, such as stellar-level martial artists or mentalists, can already be considered geniuses at the star sector level (universe nation level)!
Strictly speaking, Lu Jin cannot be considered a stellar-level being, since his original core level has reached the peak of the ninth rank of the universe.

But you have to understand that it has only been less than two years since he first cultivated his genetic energy!

All I can say is that those who use cheat codes are simply unreasonable.

As for the realm of water?

Although Lu Jin didn't deliberately try to improve, his understanding of the Law of Water had deepened, and his domain had already reached the ninth level.

Three more days passed.

Within the Great Luo Heaven, the Water Kirin clone, which had refined over 120,000 cosmic-level life source crystals, expanded the small black hole nebula within its sea of ​​consciousness and dantian into a vortex galaxy with eight spiral arms.

The telekinesis and the Force materialized, forming a spiral galaxy with eight cantilevered arms.

This means that the Water Kirin clone has raised its mental power and primal force cultivation to the peak of the ninth level of the universe.

Ordinary martial artists or mentalists who have just entered the first level of the universe can raise their Origin Force cultivation to the peak of the ninth level of the universe simply by stacking up their level with universe-level life source crystals, which only costs 512 crystals.

However, the life gene level of the Water Kirin clone is 120 times that of ordinary cultivators of the same level, so the resources required to upgrade its level are naturally 120 times that of ordinary cultivators of the same level.

From the initial entry into the first level of the universe to the peak of the ninth level of the universe, 61440 universe-level life source crystals are required in terms of primal force alone.

The dual cultivation of Force and Psychic Power results in 122880 particles.

This is enough to push 240 martial artists who have just entered the first level of the universe to the peak of the ninth level of the universe.

Thankfully, he had a cheat code; otherwise, with the Water Kirin clone consuming 240 times the resources of a martial artist of the same level, Lu Jin would be worrying about where to gather so many resources right now.

Having reached the peak of the ninth level of the universe, the Water Kirin clone did not rest and began to comprehend the laws of space.

It's good that the lower-level laws have crossed the threshold of the fundamental laws, but the mastery of the higher-level laws must also keep up.

After waiting for most of the day, through careful observation and sensing, Lu Jin deduced the approximate gestation time of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone—100 years!
Needless to say, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone will definitely not be able to emerge in the short term.

However, the actual gestation period certainly wouldn't be 100 years.

After all, the gestation period of about 100 years is only calculated based on his current peak ninth-order strength in the universe.

After the Genius Battle ends, the human's true form will reach the cosmic level, and the original core level will be raised to the peak of the ninth level of the Domain Lord. At that time, the time it takes for the Netherworld Blood Sea clone to be conceived in the inner world will naturally be greatly shortened.

The virtual universe, the tenth day of the Heavenly Frost Auction, is also the last day of this year's Elementary Heavenly Frost Auction.

"A total of 50 batches of auction items, totaling 5 pieces, have all been auctioned off!"

The succubus woman said with a coquettish laugh, "Next, we will reach the final climax of this auction - the auction of 100 highlight items."

These 100 final lots are all either unique or incredibly valuable, and each one has a starting price of zero!

Lu Jin made very few bids during the auction these past few days.

Apart from the two Silverwo clan metal lifeforms, Lu Jin only made three moves.

Two of them were the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon and the Ice Soul Sword. Although the human body already possessed them, the Water Kirin clone did not yet have suitable equipment.

The other was two fifth-tier telekinetic flying weapons: the Water Cloud Shuttle.

Similar to the Dark Cloud Shuttle used by Luo Feng in the original work, but the Water Cloud Shuttle's attributes are water and space.

It's not that everything else auctioned at the auction was junk except for these three items; it's just that he didn't need them.

For example, D-grade mechanical race battle suits that can withstand attacks from domain lords, other attribute controllers' telekinetic divine weapons and martial arts divine weapons, precious resources for cultivating plant life, etc., are all useless to him.

"Next is the first and final item. To be auctioned first among the 100 final items, this item is definitely one of the top three most valuable items in this auction—a fruit of the Ancient Tree of Herris!"

The succubus woman shouted, and at the same time, an image of a golden fruit appeared on the large screen beside her. The fruit was not large, only about the size of a fist, but under the simulation of the virtual universe, it exuded a strong aura of law.

"One fruit from the Ancient Tree of Herris. Consuming it will enhance one's talent in cultivating the Law of Metal. Starting bid is 0. Auction begins now!"

The succubus woman smiled and looked at the area where Lu Jin was sitting.

It wasn't that I was specifically looking at Lu Jin, but rather that the area where Lu Jin lived consisted of clients with account levels of at least four stars from both major banks.

The fruit of the ancient Heris tree is expensive, and three-star customers cannot afford it.

'To enhance one's talent in cultivating the Law of Metal?'

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow, but didn't seem to care.

Even if the law attribute were not suitable, he would not make a move to buy it, even if it could enhance his water law talent.

In terms of efficacy, how could the fruit of the Heris Ancient Tree compare to the peach of immortality?
As for giving it to someone else, well, let's save our breath.

Aside from the resources he could produce himself with the Demon Refining Pot, the only people he would be willing to spend money to buy other resources to cultivate, and whose level was below Immortal, were his uncle Li Yunqian and his maternal grandfather Li Dawei's family.

However, their cultivation talent is at best only average. Rather than spending money to buy other resources to nurture them, it would be better to give them a Godhood of Law in the future.

As his relative, all I need to do is lie still, eat and play as I please, and wait to be carried to success by him in the future.

After a fierce bidding war, the fruit of the Ancient Tree of Herris was finally sold to an immortal deity for 8800 Chaos Units.

"Next up is the second and final item – the Destroyer Beast, one of the twelve peak bloodlines of the Starry Sky Beasts!"
Of course, this was not a living Destruction Beast, but the corpse of a Destruction Beast that had reached the peak of the ninth level of the Realm Lord.

Auction begins now, starting price is 0!

As she spoke, a projection image of the corpse of a gorilla-like behemoth covered in blue fur appeared on the large screen next to the succubus woman.

Judging from the projected images and informational materials, the corpse of this behemoth is very well preserved, with only a penetrating wound more than ten meters in diameter on its head.

On the corpse of an ordinary living being, a penetrating wound with a diameter of more than ten meters is already quite large, and in fact, the size of most humans is far smaller than that.

However, on the corpse of a Destroyer Beast, which has reached the peak of the ninth level of the Realm Lord and whose size can generally reach more than 600 kilometers, this level of wound damage is completely negligible.

The moment Lu Jin saw the projected image of the Destroyer Beast's corpse, his eyes lit up.

As one of the twelve peak bloodlines of the Starry Sky Beasts, the Destroyer Beast possesses ten times the level of life genes, with attributes of lightning and time, and has the innate secret technique: Time Freeze.

However, Lu Jin was not concerned with the attributes and innate secret techniques of the Destroyer Beast, but rather with its tenfold life gene level.

As long as this Destroyer Beast is not resurrected by reversing time and space, once he wins the subsequent auction and enters the Demon Refining Pot, he will be able to obtain a Bloodline Source Crystal with ten times the life gene level.

This immediately opened up Lu Jin's mind.

In the vast universe, there are quite a few cosmic behemoths with peak bloodlines. Strictly speaking, behemoths like the Golden Horned Beast and the Destroyer Beast are not actually that valuable.

Compared to live animals or eggs, corpses are even less valuable.

The two major banks would even take orders for the corpses of genius realm masters, so there's no reason why they wouldn't sell the corpses of star beasts with peak bloodlines.

Moreover, the lower the grade of the corpse, the cheaper it will be.

At this moment, Lu Jin couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

If he had thought of this earlier, he would have first bought some giant star beast corpses with peak bloodlines, then given them to plant life forms at the peak of the ninth level of the realm lord, and then cultivated these plant life forms into immortal-level plant life forms through immortal-level life source crystals.

The name of the Destroyer Beast is very famous, and even if it is just a corpse, there are still quite a few bids in the auction hall.

In less than half a minute, the price of the corpse of the ninth-level peak Realm Lord Destroyer Beast was raised to more than 1500 Chaos Units.

What value does the corpse of the Devastating Beast have?
Because it possesses ten times the genetic potential, and the corpse is large enough, it could be used to manufacture bloodline potions if the appropriate technology and equipment are available.

However, while bloodline potions are expensive, they are only available to the weak.

Moreover, having corpses is not enough to create bloodline potions; technology and equipment are the key.

More than 1500 Chaos Units, which is more than the bank deposits of many immortal gods.

After all, assets are assets and deposits are deposits; they are not the same concept.

As for collecting genetic material to create clones?

A mere ten times the life gene, plus a talent secret technique, is not considered heaven-defying. In the universe, life forms with the secret technique of creating clones will generally not create clones of the Destroyer Beast.

Picking up the auction token, Lu Jin entered a number.

Immediately, the bidding price displayed on the large screen in the center of the auction hall rose directly from more than 1500 Hunyuan units to 1800 Hunyuan units.

"Everyone, 1800 Hunyuan, is there anyone with a higher level?"

After scanning the room and seeing that no one else was bidding higher, the succubus woman began the countdown: "Countdown 10, 9... 3, 2, 1! Congratulations to guest number dsx00126, you have obtained the corpse of this ninth-tier peak Realm Lord Destroyer Beast!"

Having successfully photographed the corpse of the Destroyer Beast, Lu Jin nodded to himself.

Exchanging 1800 Mixed Yuan Units for a Bloodline Source Crystal with ten times the level of Life Gene, plus some World Lord-level Life Source Crystals, is an incredibly profitable deal.

Moreover, unlike the corpses of genius realm masters, there are quite a few star beasts with peak bloodlines.

Aside from the special case where the corpse itself is a clone, the probability of being resurrected after death by reversing time is very low.

Time passed, and the auction was drawing to a close.

"Next up is the 99th and final item of this auction—the Soul Artifact: The Soul-Suppressing Bell."

This is a secret soul technique that combines offense, defense, and illusion. It's now up for auction, starting at 0!

As she spoke, an introduction to the Soul-Suppressing Bell, a secret soul technique, appeared on the large screen next to the succubus woman.

'Only those at the peak of the Marquisate level can comprehend the highest-level laws and master all the advanced ordinary secret techniques?'

After carefully reading the introduction to the secret technique, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow.

It may be called an ordinary secret technique, but it is actually quite extraordinary. After all, it was created by a genius world lord or an immortal who has been granted the title of Marquis.

The reason it sounds so bad is entirely because all the secret techniques in the universe are classified into the following levels: 'low-level, ordinary, top-level, peak, ultimate, and strongest'.

Bonus chapter for April (5/8)

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