Chapter 373: Gifting Treasures

"Killing strong opponents really is the way to big gains!"

Seeing his Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points surge, Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh with emotion.

This time's three hundred-plus Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points mostly came from Lord Xuetian, and that was only because Lu Qingshan had already traded a top-tier Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapon to Lord Flint.

If not for that, the harvest from Lord Xuetian alone would have exceeded three hundred Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points.

"Still, it can't be said entirely that way!"

"It should be said that the more precious treasures one obtains, the greater the harvest! And precious treasures are usually held by the strong, or contested by the strong, making them all the harder to obtain!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan immediately waved his hand and sent the God-Slaying Formation Diagram radiating golden light from his body onto the cyan stone platform ahead.

He did this of course not to contribute the God-Slaying Formation Diagram to the human race's treasury, but to verify its value.

Cyan threads could be seen rising and coiling from the cyan stone platform ahead, quickly wrapping the God-Slaying Formation Diagram completely for inspection.

Immediately after, that gentle voice sounded once more in the side hall: "The main component and three formation implements of the top-tier domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao 'God-Slaying Formation Diagram' — contributing them to the race will yield 890 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points. Lu Qingshan, are you willing to offer this treasure to the race?"

"I'm not willing!" Lu Qingshan quickly shook his head and said.

Hearing Lu Qingshan's answer, the cyan light surrounding the God-Slaying Formation Diagram immediately dissipated, and Lu Qingshan waved his hand again to retrieve the God-Slaying Formation Diagram.

"That price is still acceptable!"

Casually storing the God-Slaying Formation Diagram, Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "By my estimate, the might of this God-Slaying Formation Diagram now only ranks mid-tier among high-grade domain-type Supreme Treasures, equivalent to a high-grade domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao worth about four hundred Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points. The human race treasury's offer of 890 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points is already quite good!"

One must know that a domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao worth 890 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points already counts as a top-quality item among high-grade domain-type Supreme Treasures, on the same level as Lord Tianlang's Tianlang Palace.

Moreover, once Lu Qingshan collects the other components of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram, its offered price will surely continue to rise.

For example, if Lu Qingshan spends about thirty Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points to collect a new formation implement, the exchange price of this God-Slaying Formation Diagram might well increase by one or two hundred Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points.

Therefore, slowly collecting the other formation implements of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram is absolutely far simpler than exchanging a top-tier domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao from the human race treasury.

If Lu Qingshan were to contribute this incomplete God-Slaying Formation Diagram to the human race treasury now, that would be far too much of a loss.

"Three hundred-plus Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points — even for a Universe Lord, that's not a small sum!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "But if one wants to exchange for a peak Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao, even the cheapest peak Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapon is far from enough!"

In the human race treasury, even the cheapest peak Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapon requires 1045 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points to exchange.

As for peak Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao longswords, the cheapest also costs 1100 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points.

Right now, all of Lu Qingshan's wealth combined is only a little over a thousand Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, and the most precious treasures among them are the God-Slaying Formation Diagram just obtained, and the Chaos Ruins Tower given to him by Lord Bingfeng.

These two treasures alone are already worth nearly fifteen hundred Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points.

Next, Lu Qingshan quickly began exchanging for treasures.

First were one high-grade Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapon and one high-grade Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao armor, costing 9 and 13 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points respectively;

Then one ordinary Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapon and one ordinary Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao armor, costing 2 and 4 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points respectively;

Two high-grade Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao weapons — a battle saber costing 9 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, and a long spear costing 8 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points;

After that were three ordinary palace-type Supreme Treasures, costing 22 and 24 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points respectively.

Finally, he spent 6 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points to exchange for resources that would raise a Universe Zifeng Zunzhe's life gene level to the hundred-fold limit.

These treasures alone cost Lu Qingshan a total of 80 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points.

After this, Lu Qingshan spent another 58 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points to exchange for some special resources that could raise his own life gene level from fifteen hundred times that of an ordinary life in the universe to two thousand times.

It was not that he didn't want to continue exchanging for resources — to exchange for resources that raise the life gene level from two thousand times to four thousand times, a full 545 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points are required.

With Lu Qingshan's current remaining wealth, he can no longer continue to exchange for such a batch of resources.

Moreover, Lu Qingshan still needs to exchange for the other formation implements of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram from other powerhouses, so naturally he must keep some resources in hand.

After successfully exchanging for all the treasures, Lu Qingshan quickly boarded his spaceship and left the Primordial Universe, then returned to his divine kingdom.

Lu Qingshan's divine kingdom.

Whoosh!

With a wave of Lu Qingshan's hand, the many treasures capable of raising the life gene level immediately appeared before him.

Hum!

After divine power spread out and wrapped and fused all these treasures, Lu Qingshan's life gene level quickly began transforming once more.

In barely a short moment, Lu Qingshan's life gene level was raised by these precious treasures to two thousand times that of an ordinary life in the universe.

At the same time, Lu Qingshan once again felt the sensation of 'hunger' emanating from his divine body!

Having long been prepared, Lu Qingshan's mind moved, and the divine power in the endless divine sea below immediately surged into his true body in a steady stream.

After Lu Qingshan's true body absorbed enough divine power, his height also surged to five hundred kilometers.

Sensing the vast divine power within him, Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh: "A divine body five hundred kilometers tall — among Universe Lords, this counts as a fairly normal size!"

After his moment of joy, Lu Qingshan quickly thought of his second avatar and the endless divine sea avatar below, and then began to feel somewhat vexed again.

In fact, only now did he truly come to appreciate the 'hardship' of being a Universe Lord!

Like Luo Feng in the original work, who reached the perfect 10,081-fold life gene level while still a Universe Zifeng Zunzhe, and who also possessed many precious Supreme Treasures bestowed by Zuo Shanke, naturally could not appreciate just how difficult it is for a Universe Lord to raise his strength.

But for Lu Qingshan now, just for his main combat true body alone, to raise his strength he must diligently cultivate and create more powerful secret arts, spend vast resources to raise his life gene level, and also find ways to obtain more precious Supreme Treasures, among other things.

And after the true body is built up, the second avatar has to go through the whole process again!

"It seems being a Universe Lord isn't easy either!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "I possess the ability to create avatars, and I have the backing of a peak race like the human race, yet it's still this hard — let alone the leaders of those powerful races!"

"For them to smoothly step into the third tier, the simplest way is probably to create the strongest Universe Lord secret art, just like Lord Flint!"

"After strength is raised, the speed of accumulating resources will also be faster, and then one can slowly raise one's life gene level, exchange for peak Supreme Treasures, and so on!"

Among the three conditions for becoming a third-tier Universe Lord, any single one is extremely difficult.

First is creating the strongest Universe Lord secret art — this requires long time and astonishing comprehension, and lacking either makes it impossible to create, just like Yan Di in the original work, who was stuck at the peak of third tier for endless eons, yet even by the time Luo Feng began to rise, had still not created the strongest Universe Lord secret art;

Then there is raising the life gene level to nearly ten thousand times — in fact, just raising the life gene level to the universe's ordinary life peak of eight thousand times already costs nearly two thousand Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, let alone nearly ten thousand times;

But this condition also has one advantage — in the early stage one can spend some resources to slightly raise one's life gene level. For example, raising it from one hundred times to one thousand times only costs 66 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, and raising it from one thousand times to two thousand times only costs 188 Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao Points, and so on. The early-stage consumption is relatively low, so one can take it slow;

As for the ultimate peak treasure weapon, although it requires far fewer resources than boosting one's life gene level by nearly ten thousand times, it demands that all those resources be produced at once!

Especially for cosmic lords with little background, to obtain a peak treasure weapon, besides pushing themselves to the limit, they need even more resources to exchange for it from the super factions behind it—such as the current Firestone Lord, who is preparing to exchange for a peak treasure weapon.

After a brief sigh, Lu Qingshan quickly left his divine realm, carrying the many treasures he had exchanged from the Human Clan's treasure vault.

…

In the residence of Lei Huan Zifeng Zunzhe, on the Virtual Universe Company's universal headquarters continent.

After Lu Qingshan stepped into the residence, he soon noticed that in the hall, besides Lei Huan Zifeng Zunzhe, there were several of Lei Huan Zifeng Zunzhe's disciples who had reached the Hei Fengwang level—including Ji Ji Ji Dianwang, Tong Ye Wang, Qing Lin Wang, and two other Hei Fengwang disciples who had joined Lei Huan Zifeng Zunzhe after Lu Qingshan.

Seeing Lu Qingshan enter the hall, all of Lei Huan Zifeng Zunzhe's disciples stood up involuntarily.

"Wanjie Mojin Zhi Zhu!"

"Wanjie Mojin Zhi Zhu!"

"Master… Wanjie Mojin Zhi Zhu!"

After seeing Lu Qingshan, all these senior and junior brothers showed signs of restraint—even Ji Ji Ji Dianwang and Tong Ye Wang were no exception.

Tong Ye Wang, in particular, had intended to address Lu Qingshan as "Younger Brother," but upon hearing others use his honorific title, he could only follow suit.

After all, Lu Qingshan was now a Cosmic Lord of the highest stature—even Cosmic Zifeng Zunzhe treated him with great respect, let alone they, mere Hei Fengwang Immortals.

"Senior Brother, Senior Sister!"

Lu Qingshan turned to look at Ji Ji Ji Dianwang and Tong Ye Wang, then smiled and asked: "When I was still an Immortal Army Lord, you both helped me plenty—why are you so restrained now?"

Hearing this, Ji Ji Ji Dianwang immediately smiled: "It's just that you've become a pillar of our Human Clan now—if we still called you as before, it would surely be inappropriate!"

"That's right!" Tong Ye Wang nodded in agreement.

"What's inappropriate about it?"