Chapter 388: Exchange of Treasures, Exploration

In a remote region of the universe, within the territory of the powerful Kujian tribe.

The Kujian tribe possesses two Cosmic Lords, and their leader, Kujian Lord, even created the strongest secret technique among Cosmic Lords; his strength remains formidable compared to other Cosmic Lords of the Prime Universe, so the Kujian tribe holds a high status within the Prime Universe.

At the edge of the Kujian tribe's territory, on an ordinary life planet, a figure clad in purple-gold battle armor suddenly appeared out of thin air—Lu Qingshan, who had arrived via Divine Nation teleportation and instantaneous movement.

"The lifeforms of the Kujian tribe are indeed quite peculiar!"

Lu Qingshan gazed at the varied Kujian tribesmen and silently marveled: "Though they are rock-based lifeforms, they possess souls—I wonder whether the Kujian tribe gained more or lost more from this!"

For ordinary powerful beings, lacking a soul means losing one weakness: no risk of soul possession, nor being destroyed or enslaved through soul attacks.

Yet certain rare transmissions in the universe require lifeforms with souls to receive them.

Those without souls gain certain advantages but forfeit certain opportunities.

"Hu Ya, you must strive!"

In one corner of this life planet, a Star-level Kujian man encouraged his child: "Strive to rank in the top ten in this examination and go train in the Shengcheng—your entire family will be proud of you!"

"Don't worry, Father!"

The Kujian man, equally Star-level in strength, vowed confidently: "I will definitely make the top ten and train in the Shengcheng—even the Sacred Temple!"

Clearly, a grand event was underway on this life planet.

Star-level prodigies eagerly competed, hoping to enter the top ten and earn the right to train in the Shengcheng.

"Lord of Wan Jie!"

As Lu Qingshan casually scanned the Kujian inhabitants of this planet, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

Lu Qingshan turned to look.

A figure clad in pitch-black battle armor was strolling through the cosmic void outside—its pace seemed slow, yet it was impossibly swift.

On this life planet, neither the Domain Lord nor any of the sophisticated detection instruments could detect the slightest trace of the figure.

"Kujian Lord!"

Seeing the figure, Lu Qingshan immediately spoke: "I didn't expect you'd choose to meet me within your own Kujian territory!"

"Still, your Kujian tribe's system for cultivating young prodigies is remarkably refined; given time, you might even produce a third Cosmic Lord!"

"Then I gladly accept your auspicious words, Lord of Wan Jie!"

Kujian Lord smiled quickly: "In truth, when it comes to cultivating tribal prodigies, your Human Tribe is the best in the entire Prime Universe!"

"Especially your Virtual Universe, scattered across all territories, unites countless lives of your Human Tribe and optimizes resource utilization to the utmost!"

"Our current method of cultivating tribal youth actually draws inspiration from your Human Tribe's approach—yet we lack a Virtual Universe, so our examinations must be confined to small regions."

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but smile.

The Virtual Universe truly offers immense aid to the Human Tribe.

Currently, communication technology in the Prime Universe falls into two categories: most tribes rely on virtual worlds built by intelligent life; the other is the Human Tribe's Virtual Universe.

The Virtual Universe is a supreme technique created by the Human Tribe's pioneer, Yuan Zu, fundamentally different from the virtual worlds constructed by intelligent life.

Those virtual worlds collapse entirely if the intelligent life responsible for their construction fails.

But the Human Tribe's Virtual Universe is different—even if the mechanical race Cosmic Lord serving as its processing core perishes, the Human Tribe can simply replace it with another intelligent being.

Moreover, virtual worlds built by intelligent life have strict coverage limits; even the most technologically advanced Mechanical Tribe can only cover one or two star regions at most (equivalent to a single Cosmic Nation in Human Tribe territory).

"Sometimes I even consider leading the Kujian tribe to join your Hong Alliance!"

Kujian Lord sighed again: "Then my Kujian tribe could also use your incomparably convenient Virtual Universe!"

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan smiled quickly: "If Kujian Lord you are willing to join our Hong Alliance, the Human Tribe would welcome you with open arms!"

"No, thank you!"

Kujian Lord waved his hand dismissively, then continued: "Not long ago, after the Northern Alliance was formed, the Black Lotus Lord of the Black Lotus Clan invited me to join—but I refused."

"Though your peak tribes and even peak factions control vast resources, their rivalries are fierce."

"My Kujian tribe relies solely on me and Kujian Ling—if either of us falters, whether my tribe can even survive in this universe becomes uncertain."

Hearing this, Lu Qingshan spoke immediately: "Since Kujian Lord you have no intention of joining our Hong Alliance, let's get straight to the matter at hand."

"Agreed!"

Kujian Lord waved his hand, and a flickering ancient bronze lamp instantly appeared in his grasp.

The ancient bronze lamp was entirely green, marked clearly by the traces of time, yet its lamp oil appeared exceptionally clear, ripples constantly spreading within it, emitting intermittent light even without a wick.

"This is the artifact of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram held by the Ci Huan Alliance!"

Kujian Lord gazed at the bronze lamp and sighed: "When the Prime Star opened, it was seized by a Cosmic Overlord of the Guai Shui Clan, then passed to Guai Shui Lord."

"After I learned of this, I paid a heavy price to exchange for it from Guai Shui Lord."

"These two high-grade treasures were also obtained by me during my time on the Prime Star."

Kujian Lord's mind moved, and beside the bronze lamp appeared a silver spear and a blood-red battle knife.

"Now they belong to you, Lord of Wan Jie!"

As soon as he spoke, Lord Kujian waved his hand, sending the bronze lamp and the other two treasures to Lu Qingshan.

He did not fear Lu Qingshan would renege and seize all the treasures.

For this was not a time for roaming the universe to seize treasures—it was a prearranged exchange.

A single component of a top-tier palace treasure was valuable to ordinary Cosmic Lords, but to the entire Human Tribe, it was negligible—hardly worth risking the Human Tribe's reputation.

"This is already the ninth component!"

At this moment, Lu Qingshan paid no attention to the silver spear or blood-red battle knife—his entire focus was fixed on the bronze lamp.

For during this period, most of his wealth had been spent exchanging for other components of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram.

After exchanging numerous treasures and life-gene-enhancing artifacts from the Human Tribe's treasury, he had only over a hundred Treasure Points left.

Each subsequent component of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram cost between thirty and forty Treasure Points.

During this period, he had exchanged for five components of the God-Slaying Formation Diagram from other forces of the Prime Universe, spending over one hundred seventy Treasure Points alone on these.

Fortunately, during this period, Lu Qingshan had acquired a portion of resources by reviving clan cosmic Venerables.

Although those cosmic Venerables might not have been able to afford the cost of revival upon their initial resurrection, this cost was temporarily borrowed by the entire human race, so each time Lu Qingshan revived a cosmic Venerable, he received the corresponding Ordinary Zhibao Points.

If not for this, he would likely have needed to borrow Ordinary Zhibao Points from Lord Bingfeng to exchange for the obsidian tower component from the human race's treasure vault.

Of course, as Lu Qingshan's mind raced through various thoughts, he swiftly waved his hand and retrieved the obsidian tower component he had previously exchanged.

"Lord Jiu Guang, this is the obsidian tower component held by our human race!"

Lu Qingshan quickly waved his hand, sending the newly retrieved black tower-tip artifact before Lord Jiu Guang.

"It's this one!"

Looking at the black tower-tip artifact before him, Lord Jiu Guang could not help but show signs of excitement.

One should know that when he first obtained the main components of the Obsidian Tower, it was already during the opening of the Primordial Star that occurred over twenty billion eons ago.

Since then, he had been constantly thinking about gathering all the main components of the Obsidian Tower.

Now, after a span of over twenty billion eons, during which the Primordial Star had opened twice more, he had finally collected all the components of this Obsidian Tower.