Swallowing the Stars: Eternal Glory

Chapter 80 The Qianwu Auction (Part 2)
Reflecting on the current situation on Earth, Lu Jin fell into deep thought.

Just two days ago, the Cosmic Galaxy Bank transferred the payment.

With his previous savings, his bank account balance surged to 26.3 trillion cosmic coins, equivalent to 263000 mixed units.

The price of a galaxy, depending on the number of life-bearing planets within it, generally ranges from hundreds of billions to trillions of cosmic coins.

Purchasing 36 scattered star systems and 26.3 mixed units is basically enough, and there's even a surplus to buy a 'Radiant Weapon'.

However, this 'Iresia Territory' is a territory composed of 36 adjacent star systems. The average price of each star system is much higher than that of scattered star systems. The average price of each star system is definitely higher than 1 Mixed Yuan Unit, which he cannot afford.

'I'll check with the Cosmic Galaxy Bank later to see if I can buy a galaxy.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

Before the Great Nirvana, due to its modern weakness and short period of revival, China had not yet become the world's leading power again, and there were many Chinese who admired foreign things and fawned on foreigners.

In today's changing world, with powerful cosmic civilizations and weak Earthly civilizations, there are naturally many Earthlings who idolize foreign civilizations.

Furthermore, in the eyes of all Earthlings, the top four strongest individuals represent a significant lead.

Lu Jin, the patriarch of the Lu family who leads the HR Alliance; Luo Feng, the hero; Hong, the master of the Extreme Martial Arts School; and Lei Shen, the master of the Thunder Martial Arts School.

Lu Jin and Luo Feng are both Chinese, Hong is a Chinese living abroad, and even Thor has half Chinese ancestry.

This is a good thing for the Chinese people.

Because the strong set the rules, and those who set the rules of the world are either Chinese or have Chinese blood.

Not to mention that the rules set by these four powerful figures will give special favor to Chinese people, they will never discriminate against or exclude Chinese people.

But people on Earth who are not of Chinese descent might not see it that way.

Perhaps these four powerful figures are fair and wouldn't openly discriminate against non-Chinese people.

However, the followers under these four powerful figures who wield considerable power are not necessarily so.

The most obvious example is the HR Alliance, which is now under the control of the Lu family.

Previously, the league's top leadership was mostly white, but now, while there are still some white people, Chinese people make up the vast majority of the leadership.

After Lu Jin's strength reached the top in the world, the old man who stepped down as the head of the family took over the control of the HR Alliance.

In the old man's view, if you are not of one mind with the Lu family and do not resolutely support the great Speaker Lu Jin, then you are an enemy of the Lu family.

Since they are enemies, why keep them around?

The reason they didn't use a knife directly was because they didn't want to tarnish Lu Jin's reputation.

In addition, Luo Feng brought back some virtual universe consciousness sensing helmets and anonymous accounts from the universe, and also gave a few to the leaders of major forces on Earth.

The existence of civilizations far more advanced than those on Earth in the vast universe is no secret among the high-ranking officials of various countries.

Lu Jin was certain that if he announced an opportunity to immigrate to another planet, and even covered the travel expenses, it would be a huge success.

Most foreigners who crave freedom would surely eagerly sign up to leave Earth and become extraterrestrials.

The reason is quite simple: apart from the factor of "worshiping foreign things and fawning on foreigners," it's similar to how most Chinese people find it difficult to accept foreigners ruling the world.

It is difficult to accept that the Chinese people rule the earth, yet we lack the means to resist militarily, and the universe is so prosperous.

Immigrating to other planets naturally became the choice for most foreign people.

At this moment, Barto, in the center of the auction hall, shouted: "The territory of Iresia, with its 36 star systems, is enough to form the foundation for a family's legacy for countless years. It can be a base for training warriors or a star system for training slaves. Everyone, start bidding! Starting price—20 Chaos Units! Each bid must be at least 0.1 Chaos Units!"

At the same time, a line of numbers appeared on the large screen next to it—'20 Mixed Units'.

The next second, the prices displayed on the big screen kept refreshing.

In less than half a minute, 25 Mixed Yuan Units and 30 Mixed Yuan Units became '35 Mixed Yuan Units'.

However, after reaching 35 units of mixed elements, the rate of increase began to slow down.

36 Mixed Units 37 Mixed Units 37 Mixed Units
Ultimately, the price displayed on the big screen settled at 45 units.

"45 Mixed Yuan Units, countdown three seconds, 3, 2, 1!"

Barto, who was presiding over the auction, shouted and announced: "Congratulations to the guest with the number kso192437, you have won the bid for the territory of Iresia and become the master of these 36 star systems!"

“接下来，拍卖会即将正式开始，倒计时：59、58、575、4、3、2、1！”

"Wow—"

As the one-minute countdown ended, the center of the auction hall became dazzlingly bright, its brilliant light illuminating the faces of the hundreds of thousands of powerful figures within.

Barto announced with great enthusiasm: "The annual Dry Witch Auction is now officially open!"

"These are the first batch of auction items. Your auction tokens will show the 1000 items that will be auctioned soon. Guests who wish to bid, please be prepared to place your bids."

"Now for the first item—100 young plantlets of the Plant Life Bloodthorn!"

"As we all know, plant life is the best partner on the journey of the strong, and will never betray you."

"And the Bloodthorn is an extremely aggressive plant life form, adept at devouring flesh and blood life forms."

"100 Bloodthorn Saplings of Plant Life, each with a starting price of 100 billion Cosmic Coins! The top 1000 bids will win the best-cultivated Planetary Bloodthorn Sapling!"

Lu Jin ignored the plant-like Bloodthorn and used the black token in his hand to check the auction items for any trace of the Radiant Divine Weapon.

Fatty's database does contain information about Bloodthorn.

In terms of sheer aggression, Bloodthorn surpasses Cloudvine.

However, one of the most important advantages of the 'Moyun Vine' is something that most dominant plant life forms cannot match.

That is, the Moyun vine is a plant life form that combines offense and defense.

Although the attack and defense of the Moyun Vine are not top-notch, from a comprehensive perspective, the cost of cultivating a Moyun Vine is far lower than cultivating two plant life forms of equal level, one with attack and one with defense.

It was precisely because the Moyun Vine is both offensive and defensive, and has a high cost-performance ratio, that Lu Jin chose to cultivate the Moyun Vine.

Even if we consider cultivating another plant life form specializing in attack in the future, we will only consider the Star-Eating Grass, which has a maximum potential of reaching the peak of the King level and is known as the 'most resilient offensive plant life form'.

Of course, this will have to wait until he becomes successful.

After all, Star-Eating Grass is very expensive. Not counting the exorbitant cultivation costs later on, Luo Feng in the original novel spent nearly 30 Mixed Yuan Units just to buy a single young plant.

Moreover, this was Luo Feng at the time, who possessed the identity of a member of the Virtual Universe Company's Original Secret Realm.

If it did not have this identity, the price of a young star-eating grass plant would certainly be higher.

Even with the five major powers monopolizing the distribution channels, you can't buy Star-Eating Grass even if you have money.

(End of this chapter)