Swallowing the Stars: Equipment Slots, Starting with a Genius Battle

The gaunt Venerable changed the subject, his tone becoming somewhat conciliatory: "Your Highness Ye Feng's strength is truly astonishing; he has few rivals within this Immortal Temple."

I have come here to ask Your Highness to... exercise restraint during your exploration and refrain from causing too much damage to the temple.

After all, this is considered an important secret resource area for our company.

Ye Feng suddenly realized.

It turns out that the reason was that he was worried he had been too aggressive in "scraping the ground" and had damaged the foundation.

He frowned slightly.

Since we've come all this way, why should we leave empty-handed?

He had already used the Blood Crystal to nurture his innate Beast God avatar, and the Beast God statue was something he was determined to obtain!

All actions are within the company's training rules, and even a respected person cannot stop them without a reason.

"I'm here to complete a training mission, to explore treasures and inheritances. The entire Blood Luo World is a mission field, and the mission rules do not prohibit attacking the Immortal Temple." Ye Feng looked at the gaunt Venerable, his tone calm yet firm.

When it comes to his fundamental interests in terms of growth resources, Ye Feng will naturally not back down. Even if a Universe Venerable intervenes, it won't work. Don't blame him for being rude.

"Your Highness has misunderstood!" The Immortal Palace Master quickly explained, "I don't mean for you to give up the exploration, but I hope that Your Highness will avoid unnecessary destruction as much as possible when acquiring the materials."

Ye Feng simply smiled calmly.

What he is going to explore next is the Immortal Temple at the center of the Blood Luo World, where immortals are as numerous as clouds. Once they start fighting, they will definitely go all out. Does he expect him to be timid and hesitant?

That's not playing with your own life.

Seeing that Ye Feng remained unmoved, the Palace Master said helplessly, "How about this, I'll have 'Marquis Zhenluo' take you to the Temple's treasury. You can choose any 10 treasures to take with you, how about that?"

He really didn't want to antagonize this prince with his powerful background and terrifying potential.

However, if Ye Feng, who possesses the strength of a king, is allowed to act freely, the temple will lose countless immortal gods and suffer immense damage.

He has been operating here for many years, and the order is stable with a steady output of Blood Crystals, which greatly benefits his acquisition of resources within the company.

I really don't want Ye Feng to ruin things.

"That Prince Ye Feng is really something. Wouldn't it be better to just stay a genius in the Primal Secret Realm? Why does he have to increase his strength so quickly? Why even mention being made a king?"

The Immortal Palace Master thought to himself.

"Ten pieces? Too few. At least 100 pieces." Ye Feng shook his head and started bargaining.

"100 items?!" The Temple Master of the Immortal Temple's face stiffened. "That's absolutely impossible! 20 items, that's my bottom line!"

Ye Feng thought for a moment and nodded: "20 pieces it is."

With his current talent and status, he could easily obtain resources at the Immortal stage once he left the Blood Luo World, and he wouldn't even bother with the resources in the Immortal Temple's treasury.

His real target was the remaining 14 Beast God statues!

Ye Feng seemed to remember something else and casually added, "Also, I need 1 million Blood Crystals."

His expression was as if he were asking for a tiny, insignificant bonus.

Having learned from Taiyun's previous experience, he made a more "bold" estimate of the Blood Crystal reserves in the Immortal Temple.

The gaunt Venerable's face twitched visibly: "Your Highness Ye Feng! That's Blood Crystal! Even releasing just one is enough to make King-level Immortals envious and fight over it! 100 million? Impossible! I'll give you a million at most!"

"8000 million." Ye Feng remained expressionless.

"1000 million! This is the absolute minimum!" The Palace Master practically spat out the number through gritted teeth, his heart aching with pain.

"Okay." Ye Feng smiled.

The Palace Master reluctantly tossed out a spatial ring: "Inside are 1000 million Blood Crystals. Marquis Zhenluo will come to pick you up shortly and take you to the treasure vault to choose 20 treasures. Once Your Highness has made your selection, please leave as soon as possible."

Ye Feng naturally nodded in agreement. Having received such a great benefit, he was content to stop while he was ahead and would not deliberately offend a cosmic venerable.

……

Half a day later, Ye Feng regained his true appearance and, accompanied by Zhenluo Marquis, once again arrived at the Immortal Temple.

This time, he arrived at the treasure vault door on the 9888th floor deep within the temple without any hindrance.

"Your Highness Ye Feng, you may choose any 20 treasures from the treasury. If you need anything, just call me; I will be waiting outside."

The Grand Elder of the Temple, Marquis Zhenluo, was extremely respectful towards Ye Feng.

We can't be disrespectful; this is the 'master' personally appointed by the Palace Master to be served with utmost care.

Ye Feng nodded and strode into the automatically opening treasure vault door.

After passing through a passage, the view suddenly opened up. Ancient stone pillars stood tall, and within the light-filled domes atop them were displayed treasures radiating powerful auras: divine longswords engraved with blood-red patterns, jet-black giant axes wreathed in tangible malevolent energy, ferocious beast-head armor, heavy warhammers, sharp spears... There were thousands of such items, each at least at the level of an immortal divine weapon!

What made Ye Feng's eyelids jump even more was the mountain of Blood Crystals deep inside the treasure vault!

Twelve blood-red crystal mountains, each a thousand meters high, stand majestically within the specially designed space of the treasure vault, radiating a terrifying and powerful bloodthirsty energy!

The number of Blood Crystals contained in any one of them is probably well over a hundred million!

Yes, all the countless world cities and domain lord families in the Blood Luo World can obtain some Blood Luo Crystals. And the Blood Luo Crystals they obtain are all distributed by the Immortal Temple. You can imagine how many Blood Luo Crystals the Immortal Temple possesses.

"Tsk..." Ye Feng sighed inwardly.

Previously, when facing Taiyun, their perspective was too narrow.

This time, facing the Lord of the Immortal Temple, a cosmic venerable arranged by a virtual universe company, he exerted all his strength, demanding a staggering 1000 million. Now it seems his ambition was still too small.

The sight before him made his newly acquired 1000 million Blood Crystals seem insignificant.

Ye Feng shifted his gaze from the Blood Crystal Mountains and quickly scanned the displayed divine weapons. Most of these were remnants of a great war millions of years ago; the truly top-tier treasures had long been divided up by the temple's higher-ups, and what remained could only be considered "ordinary goods."

He randomly selected six weapons, each with a different shape and a relatively strong aura.

"Let's go and take a look at the other parts of the temple," Ye Feng said to Zhenluo Hou outside the door, his tone relaxed.

A barely perceptible stiffness flashed across Zhenluo Hou's face; Ye Feng's target was clearly not these "common items" in the treasure vault.

He then communicated with the temple master through divine power.

After a moment, he respectfully said to Ye Feng, "Your Highness, please follow me."

The two arrived at the top floor of the temple—the magnificent main hall for the worship of the beast god.

In the center of the hall stands a colossal statue of a beast god, towering a thousand meters high and exuding an aura of endless desolation.

In a side hall below the main statue, 14 translucent animal god statues, each about 30 centimeters tall, are quietly displayed on a jade platform.

They come in all shapes and sizes; some are pouncing, some are tearing the sky with their claws, and some are lowering their heads to gather their strength...

Each one is crystal clear, with faint golden patterns flowing inside, exuding a unique yet mysterious aura of law.