Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 540 Dark Palace Bounty

"Isn't there any other way?"

Chen Yuan asked, "If the Flamewind Guild won't work, what about the Thunder Merchant Guild?"

The Thunder Chamber of Commerce, established by the Thunder Ancient Kingdom, is roughly equivalent to the Flame Wind Guild in both status and function.

"The Thunder Merchant Guild is the same," the waiter replied with a smile, unhurriedly. "Or rather, any force on the Origin Continent treats the God King's legacy with the utmost vigilance."

"Normally, unless a certain force encounters extreme difficulties, it will not have the idea of ​​selling its heritage."

"Moreover—even if you wanted to sell it, it wouldn't be something you could just buy with cosmic sand. You'd most likely need to complete an extremely difficult task before you'd receive a legacy as payment."

"We in the Flamewind Dark Palace have missions like this, but they are very far from Lingyue Kingdom and require extremely high strength. At least the Chaos Realm is needed to have any hope of completing them."

"————" Chen Yuan fell silent again. He carefully recalled the plot of the original work and found that it was indeed the same as what the other party said.

In the original story, Luo Feng killed the Blood Cloud Divine Lord who had broken through to the Chaos Realm. Overjoyed, Marquis Jiujiang was willing to release a less important volume of the Divine King's inheritance, the first volume of the "Nine Refinements of the Void Secret Manual".

Even obtaining a Void Dao inheritance that doesn't belong to this source world, and is not even the first volume of which may reach the God King realm, is so difficult. So you can imagine how difficult it is to obtain those popular Daos.

The divine king inheritances that Luo Feng later cultivated were obtained through merit after joining the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom.

Before becoming a guest elder of Yanfeng, even Luo Feng had difficulty obtaining a suitable inheritance, which shows the extent to which the Origin Continent controlled resources.

"Is there really no other way?" Chen Yuan couldn't help but repeat.

He painstakingly smuggled himself to the Origin Continent in order to obtain the inheritance, but he ended up with nowhere to go. What was the point of his smuggling then?

Does time flow slowly here?

"terribly sorry."

The waiter shook his head regretfully, then thought for a moment and said, "If the Divine Lord is indeed not short of money, he can put up a bounty in the Dark Palace. The Flame Wind Guild's influence extends to the major cities of various countries, which can spread this news quickly."

"If we encounter sects or lone wolves who are extremely short of money, we might choose to sell them."

"Of course, the complete set of God King inheritance is very expensive, so please be prepared, God King."

"In addition, some of the bounty missions in my Dark Palace also offer inheritance as a reward, but the journey is long and the requirements for strength are extremely high, requiring at least the strength of a Chaos Great Sage to complete."

The waiter smiled and said, "These are all the ways to obtain the God King's inheritance. God Lord, you may consider them."

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That's what they said, but judging from the waiter's expression, he clearly didn't think Chen Yuan met any of the conditions.

After all, whether in terms of wealth or power, a mere Eternal God is clearly not up to the standard of obtaining the God King's inheritance.

"A bounty? —"

Chen Yuan fell into deep thought. To be honest, he wasn't very satisfied with either of these two methods, mainly because of the time constraints.

It should be understood that every day that passes on the Origin Continent marks the passing of an era in the Primordial Universe, and neither posting a bounty nor completing a bounty mission can be accomplished in a day or two.

If it really takes that long, he might have already broken through to the Chaos Ruler level. Wouldn't it be faster and more convenient to find a way to become a guest minister of the two ancient kingdoms?

"Well, let's try our luck first. Maybe we'll run into someone who's short on cash?"

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan said, "Then put up the bounty for me—wait, shouldn't I join the Dark Temple first?"

"Yes," the waiter smiled and said, "However, the threshold for joining the Dark Palace is not high. At the level of a Divine Lord, one can join without any review or fees."

"Okay, apply."

Therefore, Chen Yuan joined the Yanfeng Dark Palace under the code name "Shiyuan" and obtained a communication token, which allowed him to accept and issue any bounty, as well as purchase intelligence.

He first looked at the relevant bounty missions with the reward of "the inheritance of the God King".

【1. Escort: Protect the Void True God Yan Jiuqing from leaving the Southern Flame Kingdom and safely arriving at the capital of the Eastern Mountain Kingdom. Upon completion, you will receive the Origin Fire lineage inheritance, "Nine Strikes of Origin Fire".】

[Mission Highlights: Due to certain reasons, the Southern Flame God King has issued a kill order against Yan Jiuqing's sect. Yan Jiuqing is currently hiding somewhere in the Southern Flame Kingdom. Once he leaves, he will be hunted down, and there is a certain probability that he will encounter the Southern Flame God King himself.]

[2. Assassination: Kill the heinous villain Xi Yao Dasheng, preventing him from reincarnating. Upon completion, you will obtain the Life Body Inheritance "Primitive Life Body"]

[Key points of the mission: The target, Xi Yao, is at the mid-stage of the Chaos Realm, but his ability to survive is comparable to that of a peak expert. To completely kill him, a peak Chaos Realm expert skilled in the Great Dao of Cause and Effect must intervene, or a God-King level will must use a secret technique of will to have any chance of success.]

【3. Guarding: Guarding the Soul Crystal Mountains for ten thousand epochs————】

Chen Yuan frowned as he read through all the dozen or so bounties. He found that some short-term bounties required at least the peak of the Chaos Realm, and even long-term suppression missions required the Chaos Realm.

Unfortunately, he didn't meet any of the requirements for these tasks.

Besides, even if he were strong enough, he wouldn't accept any missions, because even short-term missions would take at least several hundred days, which is too long.

"The spacetime suppression on the Origin Continent is too strong. Before unfolding the virtual universe, I need to teleport here. Relying on slow flight is too inefficient."

Chen Yuan shook his head slightly. If there were a virtual universe network, he could take on some missions with his teleportation ability, such as the escort mission that rewards "Nine Strikes of Origin Fire".

The Source Fire lineage is one of the eight major branches of the Boundless Great Dao. It possesses about 30% of the information, and if it has the relevant inheritance, it could be optimized to create the Eternal Chapter.

Unfortunately, setting up a virtual universe network also takes a considerable amount of time, and by the time he meets the requirements, the mission will probably be long over.

Having temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​accepting the bounty, Chen Yuan said to the waiter, "Put out the bounty for me."

"Acquire all branches of the Life Path other than Blood and Spirituality, and all branches of the Destruction Path other than the Dark Heaven lineage, as well as other Paths —"

The waiter noted down these requirements and then said, "If you want to post a bounty, you need to pay a deposit in advance."

"How much do you need?"

"As per the Divine Lord's request, we'll tentatively set the value at one-tenth of the inheritance's worth," the attendant said. "An ordinary Divine King's inheritance is worth approximately ten thousand merits in the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom," so one-tenth is one thousand merits.

"Converted to cosmic sand, that's 3 million."

"A deposit of 3 million?" Chen Yuan nodded. This price was roughly the same as the proportion he remembered. It seemed that Yanfeng Club had not taken the opportunity to raise the price.

but----

"Wow, that's really expensive." He clicked his tongue inwardly, meaning that the value of a complete inheritance was equivalent to 30 billion cosmic sands.

He currently has 70 trillion Origins of the Great Dao remaining, which is only 700 million units of cosmic sand, not even enough to buy a single inheritance.

Of course, directly converting the source of the Great Dao into cosmic sand is the most foolish thing to do. If it were converted into some rare and precious treasures, the profit would be several times to more than ten times.

The more precious the treasure, the higher the premium.

Because the Origin Continent has now entered its final stage, the number of treasures produced has decreased significantly compared to the earlier and middle stages, so the purchase price of various treasures is getting higher and higher.

However, to command a premium of ten or even dozens of times, the resources would need to be at least at the God-King level. Since Chen Yuan has not yet opened the God-King level treasure room of the Sacred Weapon Gate, he does not have any treasures of that level on hand.

As for Chaos-level resources, the premium is generally between three and nine times. The best treasure Chen Yuan has is called "Nine-Bend Huajing", which can be used as an auxiliary material for God-King level spatial treasures. The premium is only about seven times.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan said, "How about using treasures as collateral?"

"Of course," the waiter smiled. "The Flamewind Guild would be more than willing to part with any treasure, and we will certainly offer the Divine Lord a reasonable price."

So Chen Yuan converted all his energy reserves into Nine-Bend Huajing and placed it in front of the waiter: "That's all. After selling them all, keep 3 million as a bounty deposit, and exchange the rest for cosmic sand."

"this----"

Gazing at the mountain of dazzling crystals before him, the waiter's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but swallow hard: "So many Nine-Bend Crystals, is the Divine Lord planning to sell them all?"

I misjudged him.

He never expected that an Eternal God-King could actually produce a treasure worth billions of cosmic sands.

These resources alone exceed the wealth of most Chaos Great Sages. Who knows if the other party has even more treasures?