Chapter 1305: Tallying the Harvest! Ye Lan's Method!

Inside the luxurious living room.

Eva waved her small hand, and a fist-sized crystal drifted out from a spatial ring.

The crystal was a deep starry-sky blue, with countless stars seemingly swirling within, emitting an unsettling energy fluctuation.

"A3-grade resource 'Star Core Crystal'!

An extremely rare material formed with an exceedingly low probability when a star collapses.

It can be used to forge weapons or battle armor.

Just this one Star Core Crystal alone is worth at least 900 million cosmic coins!"

Eva said excitedly.

"900 million cosmic coins? That's a great start."

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up.

He hadn't expected that just a few hours ago he'd gotten a great start, and now here was another one.

"Let's keep tallying and see what other good stuff there is."

"Got it!"

With Eva's help,

Xu Jingming and Ye Lan still spent a good half hour or more before sorting through all the loot.

The Star Radiance rank demons' collections were mostly shabby — over a hundred spatial rings combined,

the valuable items were only worth around 100 million cosmic coins.

"These low-rank demons are too poor — over a hundred spatial rings and only this much." Ye Lan was a bit disdainful.

Even just 20 Star Radiance high-rank experts from the Holy Land of Noah could probably scrape together 100 million cosmic coins.

"After all, they're just Star Radiance rank cannon fodder demons.

But fortunately, the harvest from the Star rank spatial rings was decent.

Adding in the Twin Demons' spatial rings, the total harvest comes to about 1.6 billion cosmic coins."

Xu Jingming pulled Ye Lan into his embrace, and amid her startled yelp, grabbed a certain firm, full place.

No helping it — he was born liking big ones.

Moreover, he'd already grown fond of this softness that could sink inward......

"This harvest... is indeed not bad."

Ye Lan's breathing grew rapid, but she showed no sign of refusal as she spoke with some difficulty.

"This is still considered little!"

Little Eva in midair put her hands on her hips and said proudly:

"S-rank fought two matches in the Abyss Arena and earned a full 20.6 billion cosmic coins!"

"What?! 20.6 billion cosmic coins?!"

Ye Lan's beautiful eyes widened, her red lips slightly parted.

The shock even overpowered the strange sensation coursing through her body.

But she quickly reacted: "Is it the prize money from the Abyss King Promotion Tournament?"

"That's right."

Xu Jingming eased up his grip a little and said with a smile:

"The first match earned 1.5 billion in prize money; the second was a bit less, but still 5.6 billion cosmic coins."

Since Ye Lan was now one of his own, naturally he wouldn't keep hiding it from her.

"I'd long heard that contestants in the Abyss King Promotion Tournament get prize money, but I never expected it to be this much."

Ye Lan exclaimed softly, then fixed Xu Jingming with a burning gaze:

"And at that time in the promotion tournament, you hadn't yet revealed your full strength."

The battle with the Twin Demons just now was Xu Jingming's strongest form.

"Because I hadn't met an opponent who could make me use my demon form." Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"Fair enough."

Ye Lan's slender waist squirmed restlessly.

She adjusted her sitting posture before speaking with emotion:

"With your current strength, once the Cosmic Genius War begins later, you'll definitely achieve a result good enough to enter the core layer of the Eternal Star Alliance."

"Not necessarily — the cosmic human domain is vast; who knows how many prodigies are still hidden out there."

Xu Jingming shook his head and said steadily.

The cosmos was simply too vast; he didn't yet have the confidence to crush all prodigies.

If he could cultivate the third level of the Purple Nightmare Demon Physique and gain the Twin Demons' clone ability,

then his strength would once again receive a tremendous boost.

But thinking of the records in the Purple Nightmare Demon Canon regarding the third level of the Purple Nightmare Demon Physique,

Xu Jingming couldn't help but furrow his brow slightly.

According to the records above, at his current Star Radiance rank, it was simply impossible for him to cultivate the third level and gain the Twin Demons' clone talent.

"Jingming, what's wrong?"

Ye Lan, sensing Xu Jingming's movements slowing, raised her little head and asked in confusion.

"Thinking about cultivation issues."

Xu Jingming, who had come back to his senses, added a bit more force.

"Mmm~~"

Ye Lan let out a soft sigh, her lovely face flushing slightly, a sultry voice echoing through the room:

"Why not voice it and discuss it? My strength may not match yours, but my cultivation experience should be greater."

She spoke the truth.

She had spent decades within the Noah Sanctuary.

She had encountered nearly every cultivation issue possible at the Starlight Stage.

"I'd forgotten about that."

Xu Jingming realized it too—he hadn't named the Purple Nightmare Scripture, only said simply:

"I want to cultivate a combat technique, but its requirement is the Star Stage, and I currently cannot meet it."

"Star Stage?"

Ye Lan tilted her head, her expression turning slightly serious: "Sometimes, the requirements listed in combat technique manuals aren't true."

"As far as I know..."

She straightened her slender waist, speaking slowly like a teacher.

Yet her round, firm buttocks sat squarely in Xu Jingming's lap.

Added to his large hand resting somewhere on her body, the scene looked decidedly improper...

"Forbidden lesson!" Little Eva watched the scene with interest from midair.

It reminded her of the strange video titles she'd seen back on Blue Star, from the Cherry Nation.

A few minutes later, Xu Jingming roughly understood Ye Lan's reasoning.

Her logic was simple.

The difference between the Star Stage and the Starlight Stage lies in two things: qi-blood and spiritual force.

The other is the gap in life tier: the maximum lifespan at Starlight Ninth Stage is ten thousand years; at Star First Stage, it's one hundred thousand years.

That is the gap in life tier!

If the requirement for this combat technique refers to the latter.

Then there's no choice—you must wait until you break through to the Star Stage before cultivating it.

If it refers to the former, then raising your qi-blood and spiritual force to the Star Stage threshold will suffice.

"The manual doesn't specifically mention life tier."

Xu Jingming mused aloud.

"Then you can first try raising your qi-blood and spiritual force to the Star Stage threshold—see if you can cultivate the technique."

Ye Lan turned her violet eyes, brimming with warmth, toward him:

"Generally speaking, a normal Star Stage cultivator has qi-blood and spiritual force above eight billion points each."

"Eight billion..."

Xu Jingming's gaze flickered; silently he murmured "Deep Blue" and opened his system panel.

【Physique】: 4.04 billion qi-blood (+)

【Spirit】: 3.98 billion H (+)

【Body Forging】: Purple Thunder Heaven Tattoo (T7, Seventh Layer +)

【Spirit Refining】: Star Core Meditation Method (T7, Seventh Layer +)

"My current qi-blood and spiritual force are around four billion each—I'm still three billion short of seven billion.

But my Body Forging and Spirit Refining techniques haven't reached their maximum layers; my current qi-blood and spiritual force aren't even my limits!

If I combine them with some heavenly treasures and earthly essences, I might yet raise both core attributes to eight billion!"

Xu Jingming quickly grasped this.

Ye Lan's method is worth trying!

If it succeeds, he will gain an incredibly powerful clone ability!