Chapter 334: The Passage of Time — A Token of Trust

Above a vast grassland on Primitive Star No. 06837.

At this moment, high above this vast grassland, eight figures of varying sizes were madly slaughtering one another.

These eight figures came from three different factions: three Cosmic Venerables from the Nine Domains Alliance, two Cosmic Venerables from the Crystal Race Alliance, and three Cosmic Venerables from the Meng Yao Zu Alliance.

The reason they were fighting above this vast grassland was entirely because a precious treasure was being born right beneath them.

However, they were all only High Rank Cosmic Venerables in strength, and with the three factions entangled together, it was naturally very difficult to determine a victor for the moment.

Only after the treasure below was fully born would one of their sides have a chance to take the emerging heavy treasure away!

"You Nine Domains Alliance trash!"

At this moment, a Cosmic Venerable of enormous build from the Meng Yao Zu Alliance roared angrily: "You think you alone can snatch the supreme treasure?"

"Blazing Wrath Venerable!"

A Venerable of the Nine Domains Alliance immediately roared furiously: "You're nothing but relying on your massive divine body — what do you amount to in pure strength?"

"If you want to snatch the supreme treasure, let's see if you have the ability!"

"Hmph!" Blazing Wrath Venerable gave a cold snort and said no more.

Although his massive divine body gave him a slight edge in battles against cultivators of the same tier, it also made him a target.

For example, right now, although the three Cosmic Venerables of the Nine Domains Alliance and the two Cosmic Venerables of the Crystal Race would occasionally clash with each other, most of the time they tacitly coordinated their attacks against the Meng Yao Zu side.

"Those Nine Domains Alliance and Crystal Race bastards are simply too detestable!"

Blazing Wrath Venerable immediately transmitted his voice to his two companions: "The treasure is almost fully born now. I'll hold them off in a moment — you two, grab the treasure quickly!"

"Don't worry, Blazing Wrath!"

"This treasure will definitely be ours!"

The two Meng Yao Zu Venerables immediately transmitted back.

But just at this moment…

Whoosh!

A streak of purple-gold flowing light flashed in the distance, and everyone immediately recognized the newcomer's identity.

It was a figure roughly two hundred meters tall, clad in purple-gold battle armor!

A two-hundred-meter divine body was already considered fairly large, but compared to Blazing Wrath Venerable's towering form of over ten kilometers, it was hardly worth mentioning.

Yet upon seeing this person appear, the eight High Rank Cosmic Venerables who had been fighting all changed expression, so much so that they couldn't even spare a thought for the treasure about to be born.

"It's the Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe of the Human race!"

"It's that madman from the Hong Alliance!"

"Run! If we're caught by that madman Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe, we won't be able to leave even if we want to!"

The newcomer was none other than Lu Qingshan, who had long since risen to fame throughout the cosmos!

And upon noticing Lu Qingshan's figure, the five Cosmic Venerables of the Crystal Race and Nine Domains Alliance didn't hesitate at all — they instantly retreated rapidly in the opposite direction, not even caring about the treasure about to be born.

"Blazing Wrath, let's go!"

The two Meng Yao Zu Cosmic Venerables hurriedly transmitted to Blazing Wrath Venerable: "Once we're held up by that damned Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe, we'll be in for it!"

"Damned Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe!" Seeing Lu Qingshan appear, Blazing Wrath Venerable couldn't help cursing inwardly.

He was quite familiar with Lu Qingshan — he had even run into him in a Cosmic Secret Realm before.

Only back then, Lu Qingshan's strength could barely be considered to have just stepped into the High Rank Cosmic Venerable realm, and was no match for him; in the end, Blazing Wrath had relied on his superior strength to snatch the treasure that had just been born;

But now, Blazing Wrath Venerable's own strength hadn't improved much, while Lu Qingshan had already earned a mighty reputation throughout the entire Primordial Universe — even ordinary top-tier Cosmic Overlords were unwilling to tangle with him.

"This treasure is about to be fully born — retreating like this really is hard to swallow!"

Gazing at the treasure about to be born, Blazing Wrath Venerable ultimately let go of his greed. After cursing inwardly once, he and his two companions rapidly retreated in the opposite direction.

"Damned alien races, lucky you ran fast!"

Seeing how the many alien powerhouses immediately retreated upon encountering him, Lu Qingshan also felt quite helpless.

Still, being able to collect a treasure that had just been born was already pretty good for him.

If the treasure had fully been born before he arrived, it would have long since been snatched by other powerhouses, and no matter how fast he came, it would have been useless.

Hum!

After a wisp of divine power seeped into the heavy treasure that had just been born, Lu Qingshan quickly completed the master-acknowledging process.

"A top-grade heavy treasure armor — contributing it to the race should net about two hundred heavy treasure points. Not bad!"

After receiving the information transmitted from the heavy treasure, Lu Qingshan couldn't help sighing inwardly: "What a pity — as time goes by, fewer and fewer treasures are appearing on this Primitive Star!"

One must know that by now, more than a million years had already passed since the establishment of the Northern Frontier Alliance.

Back then, after the six superpowers had joined forces to deal with the Northern Frontier Alliance for a period of time, they had all chosen to give up one after another, and the Northern Frontier Alliance thus managed to firmly establish its foothold in the Primordial Universe, becoming the ninth superpower of the Primordial Universe.

And because of this, in the days to come, Lu Qingshan naturally could no longer wantonly attack the powerhouses of the Northern Frontier Alliance as he had before.

Moreover, as his fame in the cosmos grew ever greater, many powerhouses with insufficient life-preserving abilities would voluntarily retreat upon encountering him. For him to amass a large fortune in a short time by killing other powerhouses as he had before was naturally no longer possible.

Fortunately, the Primitive Star was still in its opening period. Even without dealing with other powerhouses, simply seizing the treasures born on the Primitive Star was already very worthwhile for Lu Qingshan.

Furthermore, Lu Qingshan still possessed the advantage of his Endless Divine Sea avatars. Other powerhouses, if they lost too much divine power, would need precious treasures to recover it, or would need secluded cultivation to recuperate — but Lu Qingshan could keep his true body in perfect condition at all times.

Because of this, his true body could naturally continue to roam the Primitive Star.

However, as time went by, the treasures appearing on the Primitive Star had also begun to grow fewer and fewer.

In the past, scenes of heavy treasures being born on the Primitive Star were extremely common, ordinary supreme treasures weren't considered rare, and high-grade supreme treasures would even appear from time to time.

But now, whether heavy treasures or supreme treasures, the probability of their birth was already far lower than when the Primitive Star had first opened.

Still, this was a perfectly normal thing.

After all, each opening of the Primitive Star lasted a thousand eons, so it was naturally impossible for treasures to keep appearing endlessly.

The will of the Primordial Universe's origin also controlled the number of treasures born. During each opening of the Primitive Star, the treasures born at the beginning were the most numerous and also the most precious, and as time went by, the treasures likewise grew fewer and fewer.

Otherwise, if a single Lord of the Universe monopolized a Primitive Star, even obtaining just one high-grade supreme treasure every ten thousand years, over a thousand eons they would still accumulate wealth equivalent to nearly ten thousand supreme treasure points.

And during this past period of time, quite a few precious treasures had also appeared on the Origin Star, and even the most precious supreme treasure had already emerged.

During the thousand eons that the Origin Star was open, things like top-grade domain-type supreme treasures, top-grade soul supreme treasures, top-grade flying palace supreme treasures, and peak weapon supreme treasures would generally appear many times.

It's just that most of these supreme treasures were incomplete, and would generally appear scattered in different places.

And during the thousand eons that this Origin Star was open, a super supreme treasure that surpassed many supreme treasures would also appear, generally being peak domain-type, peak flying palace-type, or peak soul-type supreme treasures, and even among super supreme treasures of the same tier it was extremely precious.

Although such a super supreme treasure couldn't compare to those ultimate supreme treasures, it was enough to drive countless forces in the primal universe mad.

Fifty thousand years after this opening of the Origin Star, on Origin Star number 02687, the universe's origin suddenly descended — the origin essences of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, time, and space all descended upon this Origin Star at the same time.

At that time, the entire Origin Star number 02687 seemed to fall into a shackle, and even universe overlords found it very hard to move. And at the same time, a towering divine palace emerged into the world on that Origin Star.

The time it took for that towering divine palace alone to break out of the earth lasted nearly a hundred years, so countless powerful beings had long since gathered there.

After the towering divine palace had fully emerged, a black stone stele also appeared in front of the divine palace. The stele bore ancient secret patterns, and any powerful being could understand the information contained within at a single glance…

"The Radiant Divine Palace has emerged, the stone stele has appeared. Once the stone stele vanishes, one or more Radiant Stones will appear at random times and locations across the 10,081 Origin Stars! There are thirty-six Radiant Stones in total. They look very ordinary, but the commotion when they emerge can rival the emergence of a high-grade supreme treasure!

Once all thirty-six Radiant Stones have fully emerged, the Radiant Divine Palace will open. Only powerful beings who hold a Radiant Stone may enter; as for other powerful beings who dare to trespass, they will be annihilated without exception!"

In the one hundred and eighty thousandth year of the Origin Star's opening, the Radiant Divine Palace opened, and the many powerful beings holding Radiant Stones also entered one after another.

After a bout of fierce contention, the most precious treasure from this opening of the Origin Star fell into the hands of Jin Fu, the founder of the human race!

With the human race's strength, they were naturally able to keep this super supreme treasure, but it was inevitable that they would be envied by many alien powerful beings because of this matter, and thus receive some targeting;

Coupled with the earlier breakthrough of the Lord of Qingluan, powerful beings of the human race were often jointly ostracized by other alien powers when competing for treasures on the Origin Star, especially by the three major forces: the Bug Race, the Meng Yao Clan, and the Machine Race.

Of course, at most they would just be somewhat ostracizing — it was absolutely impossible for them to start a large-scale war at any cost like they had against the Northern Frontier Alliance before.

After all, the illustrious might of the human race in the universe was forged upon the bones of countless alien races!

"The treasures appearing now have clearly dropped a lot in quality!"

After putting away the treasure he had obtained, Lu Qingshan couldn't help sighing in his heart: "I'm afraid that in a while longer, even top-grade heavy treasures won't appear too easily on this Origin Star!"

"Although my harvests over these years can be considered not bad, most of them were slowly accumulated by relying on the endurance of my Endless Divine Sea clones. As for opportunities like those precious supreme treasures emerging, I haven't encountered a single one!"

You should know that during the Origin Star's opening, besides the super supreme treasure obtained by the human race, some treasures of the next tier down had also appeared.

Things like some top-grade supreme treasures, when they emerged, would also have divine palaces guarding them, and similarly one would need a token to enter.

Lu Qingshan had roamed this Origin Star for such a long time, yet hadn't encountered a single one.

"But one can't be too greedy!"

Lu Qingshan thought secretly in his heart: "Over these recent years I've also accumulated quite a bit of wealth. Adding in the harvests from the very beginning, it's probably already over 160 treasure points!"

"Once I accumulate for a while longer, then sell this Nine Dragon Hegemon Armor on me, I estimate I could exchange it for a set of top-grade supreme treasure weapons and armor!"

"Although this rate of resource accumulation cannot compare to the abnormal prowess of Luo Feng in the original work, it is already quite astonishing compared to other powerful beings; after all, many Universe Lords only wield top-grade supreme treasure weapons and armor!"

You should know that even for a peak race like the human race, after a powerful being breaks through to the universe lord realm, the race would only bestow resources equivalent to one top-grade supreme treasure weapon, let alone those powerful races that only have one universe lord.

For universe lords like that, not only would they not receive any resources, they would instead have to make many contributions to the race.

Moreover, in the universe, the more precious a supreme treasure is, the rarer it is.

In the human race, even a universe overlord, if they could accumulate wealth of over a hundred treasure points, could completely exchange it for a top-grade supreme treasure armor in the race's treasury.

But if other powerful beings within the Hong Alliance wanted to exchange for a top-grade supreme treasure armor, not to say they had no chance at all, but they would inevitably have to pay a greater price than the human race's own powerful beings.

As for other alien races in the universe, even if they took out several hundred supreme treasures to trade with the human race, the human race still wouldn't trade with them.

After all, the more top-grade the resources, the rarer they are. Other universe lords could obtain large quantities of ordinary supreme treasures, and naturally the universe lords of the human race could as well.

Therefore, the human race's treasury was not really lacking in ordinary supreme treasures, high-grade supreme treasures, and so on — what it lacked were top-grade supreme treasures, peak supreme treasures, and even ultimate supreme treasures!

Moreover, exchanging precious treasures to those alien races would also raise the strength of those alien powerful beings — wouldn't that be lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot for the human race?

……

Initial Universe, Hun Dun Chengzhu.

Just as Lu Qingshan was sighing in his heart, two figures radiating astonishing auras quickly descended from high above in front of the City Lord's residence — they were precisely Lord Feiyu and Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe, who had once roamed the Cosmic Secret Realm together with Lu Qingshan.

Among them, Lord Feiyu was the fourteenth disciple of Lord Bingfeng, and also one of Lu Qingshan's senior brothers, while Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe was the ninth disciple of Hun Dun Chengzhu.

Although the two of them were only high-grade universe venerables, because they were disciples of universe lords, both their strength and status exceeded those of ordinary high-grade venerables.

"Finally safely returned to the race!"

Lord Feiyu quickly sighed with a smile: "Jin Fu, after roaming that Origin Star for so many years this time, the two of us can also be considered to have reaped quite a harvest!"

"Indeed!"

Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe likewise said with a smile: "After contributing the treasures to the race this time, I estimate the two of us can each receive at least over two thousand heavy treasure points!"

"Exactly!"

Lord Feiyu directly nodded and said: "The harvests really are great during the Origin Star's opening period. If it were normal times, we wouldn't know how long it would take to accumulate over two thousand heavy treasure points!"

"Alright, let's first go contribute the treasures to the race's treasury!"

Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe quickly said: "And while we're at it, let's appraise those few treasures whose information we don't know!"

"Good!"

Lord Feiyu nodded slightly, then hurried to the human race's treasury together with Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe.

The quiet ancient hall was very spacious, with only the cyan stone disk in the center being very conspicuous.

Lord Feiyu and the other quickly placed the harvests from roaming the Origin Star this time onto the cyan stone disk in front of them. In no time at all, the two of them had received over four thousand heavy treasure points.

"Next are these three treasures!"

Lord Feiyu looked at the three treasures in his hand, then said to Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe: "We've roamed the universe for so many years and still don't know the information on these three treasures — perhaps we'll have an astonishing harvest this time!"

"Hopefully so!" Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe likewise nodded and said.

Soon, Lord Feiyu placed the three treasures on the cyan stone disk in front of him one after another.

The first treasure was a precious material called 'Curl Cloud Pearl' worth three hundred heavy treasure points. After seeing the value of the Curl Cloud Pearl, both Lord Feiyu and Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe were very happy — after all, for high-grade universe venerables, three hundred heavy treasure points was already a large sum of wealth, and even split between the two of them they could each get one hundred and fifty heavy treasure points.

The second treasure was relatively ordinary — a fairly precious refining material called 'Light Ultimate Transformation Crystal' worth 22 heavy treasure points. For Lord Feiyu and Jin Fu Zifeng Zunzhe, who had already obtained a large harvest, it could only be considered better than nothing.

As for the third treasure, it was a cyan-colored metal about the size of a fist. The surface of this metal had 108 facets, each one perfectly smooth.

After the blue-green metal landed on the stone plate, a large number of threads immediately enveloped it.

A moment later…

A gentle voice sounded again in the ears of the two Zunzhes, Feiyu and Jin Fu: "One Azure Light Stone, one of the tokens of the Azure Light Hall. Offering it to the clan will earn you 1000 Treasure Points. Are you willing to offer this treasure to the clan?"

"A token of the Azure Light Hall?"

Upon hearing the gentle voice, the eyes of Zifeng Zunzhe Feiyu and Zifeng Zunzhe Jin Fu immediately lit up.

Then Zifeng Zunzhe Feiyu and Zifeng Zunzhe Jin Fu exchanged a glance, and Zifeng Zunzhe Feiyu immediately said: "Not willing!"

(End of this chapter)