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With Lu Yunhe's lightning-fast kill speed, the Dragonfire Sword could be sold directly in the shop without needing further repairs. This also means that the old man would make hundreds of billions of Black Dragon Coins in pure profit with a single transaction, faster than he could kill someone.
Seeing Lu Yunhe deep in thought, the old appraiser remained silent. Anyone who came to them to sell goods either had a problem with them or the goods themselves had a problem; otherwise, other shops would have offered higher prices under normal circumstances.
As the old appraiser had suggested, Lu Yunhe, not wanting to cause any more trouble, took out another pile of items: "Let's appraise these things too."
"no problem!"
Upon seeing this, the appraiser's eyes lit up, and he instantly knew that the deal was done. After some investigation, all the items were valued at a total of 5430 billion Black Dragon Coins, which brought the total to 5500 billion.
"That's quite a lot!"
Lu Yunhe watched as his previously depleted Galaxy account balance suddenly increased by another number, but he felt no emotion.
As a long-time cosmic-level figure and slave trader, Hongyu's total assets are definitely more than this. Because he killed too quickly, he couldn't get the money in the Galaxy Account, nor could he get the slave assets, planetary assets, and so on under his command.
For low-level cultivators, most of their assets are actually fixed assets, with life-bearing planets accounting for a particularly high proportion.
After all, their lifespan is relatively long, so buying a few life-bearing planets and slowly producing life is definitely not a bad deal.
Inside the Treasure Pavilion, Lu Yunhe instantly spent another 2000 billion Black Dragon Coins, purchasing a large amount of cultivation materials. The quantity was a bit excessive; after all, Ultraman's clone didn't have the Golden Horned Beast to guide him along the optimal metal growth path, so he could only go for the "quantity over quality" approach, forcing it upon him.
I also bought some items that can be used to give life to plants, so I can give them to the Divine Tree clone later.
After purchasing a large amount of supplies, Lu Yunhe spent another 1000 billion Black Dragon Coins before leaving Qiulong Star to make up for the remaining shortage of slaves, including some second-tier Stellar Warriors.
Lu Yunhe, who didn't want to fish anymore, bought a transport spaceship and had Delacion pilot it, leaving Qiulong Star together with the Black Dragon spaceship.
After spending a lot of money, Lu Yunhe's Galaxy account only had 2500 billion left, which, according to the plan specified by Delacion, wouldn't last long.
"Qiulongxing, let's explore it properly next time!"
Lu Yunhe glanced back at the dragon star behind the spaceship, planning to wait until he reached the cosmic level before emerging from seclusion, since it wouldn't take more than a few years anyway.
Once he reaches the cosmic level, his strength will undergo a qualitative leap. At the same time, his earning speed will reach a completely new level, so there's no need to take risks at the stellar level.
After leaving Qiulong Star, Lu Yunhe flew through the dark universe for a few days before landing in an uninhabited star system. Although the Black Dragon Mountain Empire controlled more than eight thousand star systems, to be precise, it only controlled the life-bearing planets and some resource planets discovered within them.
The universe is simply too vast; the Milky Way alone contains hundreds of billions of star systems. It is simply unrealistic to try to bring it under complete control.
However, intelligent life itself is a special asset, and it would be a waste to simply ignore it.
Therefore, the empire deliberately allowed the trade of planets, which gave rise to a group of space adventurers who went out of their way to find life-bearing planets in star systems, either to rule or to sell them, which indirectly promoted the development of space civilization.
"almost!"
Lu Yunhe randomly selected an uninhabited star system marked on the map. After discovering no trace of civilization, he began to separate the divine tree clone and plant it on a barren planet.
Then a plant as large as a mountain appeared on this barren planet, with 100,000 pupae-like objects hanging from its trunk, barely wrapped in branches.
The secondary space is similar to the World Ring; it's fine to live in, but it can't be used for cultivation, let alone absorbing primordial energy from the universe. Therefore, cultivation with White Zetsu must be done in the primordial universe.
Chapter 53 Mechanical Spaceship
"I'm starting my closed-door cultivation!"
Lu Yunhe calculated that Ultraman's clone is currently at the third stellar level, and it is estimated that it will take nearly 100 years to reach the cosmic level. (The combined time for stellar levels 1-3 is only 1.5 years, which can be ignored.)
The sun can provide a double training buff, while purchased resources can increase training speed by about five times. However, absorbing resources takes a lot of time, and the body will eventually reach saturation. After all, Ultraman clones don't have an internal world to absorb resources from.
With the addition of starlight and resources, the growth rate is equivalent to 10 times, and it would take less than ten years to cultivate to the cosmic level. In the Treasure Pavilion, Lu Yunhe purchased a large amount of cultivation materials, enough to sustain him for seven or eight years.
However, this only accounts for the Ultraman clone's own training speed; the majority of the progress actually comes from the Divine Tree clone.
One hundred thousand White Zetsu, ranging from the first to the second rank of the Stellar Realm, can cultivate for one day in a way that is equivalent to a first-rank Stellar Realm martial artist cultivating for over a hundred years. This is an extremely exaggerated number.
Even though the Divine Tree's clones cannot fully contribute to growth due to their different sizes, it still far surpasses the speed at which Ultraman clones can cultivate by spending money.
"The old plan remains the same: first, focus all our efforts on supporting the cultivation of the Divine Tree clones. Once one clone breaks through to the cosmic level, the breakthrough time for the rest of the clones can be significantly reduced."
However, the advantage of the Divine Tree clone is only somewhat useful for those below the Domain Lord level. Even if Lu Yunhe captures a World Lord level powerhouse in the future, he will not make the Divine Tree clone into a White Zetsu, because that would be too much of a loss, let alone enslaving an Immortal level or even a Universe Venerable.
Meanwhile, energy-based growth breakthroughs can only reach the Realm Lord level. Starting from the Immortal level, realm breakthroughs fall on the comprehension of laws, at which point the Divine Tree clone will have to completely change its class.
"It's alright. There's no good beginning without a good end. The Divine Tree clone should just stay in the support role!"
Lu Yunhe pondered, while at the same time, all the clones began to cultivate quietly. He wondered who would break through first; it certainly wouldn't be the human main body. Relying on their own cultivation, the genius battle had begun, and even the human clones might not be able to reach the fourth level of the Stellar Realm.
……
Unbeknownst to them, the various clones had also been quietly cultivating for half a year.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a total mass greater than all the other planets combined, and even its largest moon is larger than Mercury.
At this moment, on one of Jupiter's dozens of moons, which has a diameter of over 2000 kilometers, a dark golden behemoth over 800 meters tall stands on the moon's surface like a mountain peak.
The asteroids in the asteroid belt were too small. After swallowing several thousand of them with the spacetime dimension, the golden dragon clone set its sights on Saturn's dozens of moons.
In order to avoid triggering a chain reaction, the Golden Dragon clone did not choose to devour the largest satellites, but instead chose to devour a mid-level satellite.
Actually, the golden dragon's clone was probably most envious of Jupiter, which has a diameter of over 10 kilometers, but after thinking about it, it decided against it. The universe is vast, and there's no need to devour it within the solar system.
He possesses a golden dragon avatar in the space-time realm, enabling him to travel through space at any time.
Buzz!
Pulled by the spacetime boundary, the satellite beneath the golden dragon's avatar was gradually devoured, and countless pure spacetime energies were fed back to the golden dragon's body through the spacetime boundary.
Click, click, click!
The golden dragon clone's dark golden body was constantly flashing with lightning, and its already enormous body grew even taller, quickly exceeding one thousand meters.
Stellar!
After devouring the satellite beneath its feet, the golden dragon clone successfully broke through to the stellar level. Its body, resembling a demon god of destruction, did indeed possess some of the grandeur of a cosmic behemoth.
"So fast!"
The golden dragon clone was somewhat surprised. With a genetic level 100 times higher, its growth rate was not necessarily ten times slower than that of the Ultraman clone, but at least several times slower, given the energy accumulation required.
However, unexpectedly, in just half a year, the Golden Dragon clone had already broken through to the stellar level, which can only be said to be due to the extremely high quality of the spacetime magnetic field.
As a unique life form in the universe, it is highly likely that there are no resource routes in the universe that can promote the growth of the Golden Dragon clone, but it is not necessary either, as the spacetime magnetic field is the best growth energy.
Of course, the most important thing is saving money. Supporting even the most advanced races in the universe can bankrupt someone, let alone unique life forms.
Unlike Ultraman's clones, the Golden Dragon clone, having reached the Stellar level, hasn't changed much in terms of size and strength, nor has it awakened any special talents.
Because the Golden Dragon—Goldras—is also known as the Time-Space Pendant, having such a time-space talent is enough.
"The Space-Time Boundary!"
The golden dragon avatar, having broken through the stellar level, enveloped itself in a spacetime barrier and began flying towards Earth's location. The Spacetime Boundary spaceship was fast, highly stealthy, and easily maneuverable.
Earth – Bermuda Area!
A colossal, silvery-white pyramid hangs in the sea, reaching an astonishing height of 1200 meters. It is also the first relic of an ancient civilization on Earth.
But on this day, an uninvited guest stumbled into this desolate place.
A monster, whose size was no less than that of a pyramid, suddenly squeezed out of space. Instantly, the spacetime boundary with extremely high priority suppressed the space in this area, and the spacetime magnetic field that was born also crushed the distorted magnetic field emitted by the silver pyramid.
"A spaceship of the Machine Race!"
The golden dragon's avatar's large eyes gazed at the pyramid before it. This was an immortal-level mechanical race spaceship, and remarkably well-preserved. Furthermore, due to the unique nature of the mechanical race, after the original owner's death, simply inserting an intelligent computer inside the spaceship would allow them to take control.
However, it's truly shameful that a spaceship belonging to the Immortal-class Mechanical Race has internal defensive weapons that can't even handle cosmic-level threats.
Recalling the original story's operation, the golden dragon clone shook its head slightly, saying that it had been neglected for years and lacked sufficient energy replenishment.
Before leaving, Ultraman's clone showed no intention of breaking through, since in the original story, only a cosmic-level being could pass through the laser channel, and even if he obtained this mechanical spaceship, he wouldn't dare to use it in space.
The Golden Dragon clone didn't care about the laser channel inside the mechanical spaceship. Even though he only had the strength of a first-level star, he didn't think that a cosmic-level attack could break his spacetime boundary.
As for the issue of body size, the real body can hide in the space-time realm, leaving only a space-time projection outside.
However, for the current Golden Dragon clone, there was no need to force its way in. The powerful spacetime barrier had already completely enveloped this area and was frantically pulling against the mechanical spaceship.
"As expected of the ultimate E9 mechanical spaceship, it's harder for me to devour an asteroid!"
Feeling the pulling force of the mechanical spaceship, the golden dragon clone didn't care. The opponent was just a rootless duckweed and couldn't possibly withstand the devouring of the space-time boundary.
Chapter 54 Time-Space Bubble
call out!
Just as the golden dragon clone began to devour the mechanical race's spaceship, Lu Yunhe's main body on Earth also rushed over.
"What a massive size!"
Lu Yunhe, who had just arrived, couldn't help but marvel at the golden dragon clone's body, which resembled a world-destroying behemoth. Unlike the divine tree clone, which was only large in size, the golden dragon clone was filled with a sense of destruction, truly a world-destroying behemoth.
If the Golden Dragon's clone appears on Earth in the future, it simply means that humanity is doomed! Not only humanity, but the Earth itself will be swallowed up into the dimension of time and space.
However, Lu Yunhe's purpose in coming here this time was not to see the golden dragon's clone, but for this mechanical race spaceship.
Yes, this mechanical race spaceship was actually prepared for Lu Yunhe's human body. Both the Golden Dragon clone and the Ultraman clone have the ability to travel through the universe, so they do not need this spaceship.
Lu Yunhe pondered that if the inheritance of Meteorite Star did not appear before the Genius Battle, he would take this spaceship to leave Earth first, and then ask someone to break Hu Yanbo's secret technique when he got first place in the Genius Battle or was sent to an overseas position at the Domain Lord level.
As for Luo Feng, the protagonist of the original work, Lu Yunhe didn't care, because the two's growth paths did not conflict. He didn't need the Golden Horned Beast, nor did he really want to acknowledge the Star Tower as his master.
Just as Lu Yunhe was pondering, the mechanical race's spaceship had already been swallowed up by the golden dragon's clone and entered the spacetime realm, thus disappearing from the ruins of Earth's first civilization.
Due to the spatial magnetic field, it is impossible for humankind with current technology to discover what happened here, and we are completely unaware that yet another relic on Earth has disappeared.
Once you enter the spacetime realm, no matter what kind of machine race or immortal spaceship you have, you'll be at the mercy of the dragon.
"Original body!"
After devouring the mechanical race's spaceship, the golden dragon's avatar also looked at Lu Yunhe and threw the latter into the spacetime realm as well.
In an instant, Lu Yunhe appeared in front of the towering pyramid, surrounded by scattered asteroids, among which a moon from Jupiter was the largest.
"Entering the spacetime realm for a short period of time is fine, but if it takes too long, you will become part of the spacetime realm."
The golden dragon clone warned, then directly cast Time Stop on the space where the mechanical race's spaceship was located, and in an instant, the space completely froze.
At the same time, the two horns on the head of the golden dragon clone lit up, and a spacetime bubble appeared on Lu Yunhe's body. As part of the spacetime realm, the bubble could ignore the time freeze spell.
The golden dragon clone can be projected into the outside world using spacetime projection, but it can't be done inside the spacetime realm. Its body is larger than a spaceship, so it's impossible to fit inside. Moreover, it doesn't have the ability to grow bigger or smaller, so only the human body can do it.