Chapter 237: Self-Created Divine Technique

After signing the contract, Lin Qing was officially cooperating with the Ten Thousand Stars Group.

"Pleasure doing business."

The black-clad young woman smiled as she examined the two-handed greatsword Lin Qing had just forged, saying, "Perfect. The Lower Auction will be held in a year. I'll have my subordinates plan it to be the finale. As a Divine Artifact from the Star God destined to be sought after, the first one brought to auction must fetch a high price, right?"

"Pleasure doing business."

Lin Qing nodded, then looked at the Council elders around him and said, "Thank you all for watching for so long."

"It's nothing."

"What is there to thank? Mr. Jingguang is too polite."

"It is also our honor."

The Council elders all smiled warmly in response.

After all, they could project their consciousness into the Second Universe Network; whatever they could enjoy in reality, they could enjoy there too. They were merely paying slight attention while watching, which counted for nothing.

"Mr. Jingguang." The black-clad young woman flipped her hand, produced a strange prismatic crystal, and handed it to Lin Qing, saying, "This is the residence the Group has arranged for you in Xianlian Shengxing City, a manor at Number 12 Huanyu Avenue."

Lin Qing nodded slightly and took it.

He had no concept of what "a manor at Number 12 Huanyu Avenue" meant.

But the Council elders were somewhat surprised. As the most central district of Xianlian Shengxing City in the Bai Ta World, Huanyu Avenue was closest to the Origin of the Secret Realm; the value of that manor was terrifyingly high.

Theoretically, it was priceless; even ten billion Void Coins could not buy it.

Even if it was merely the right of residence, the treatment was astonishing.

In the past, Star Gods who cooperated with the Group and could only forge single-colored Divine Artifacts never received such treatment.

Clearly, the Council Chairman believed this Mr. Jingguang was worth treating this way.

"Then I will continue forging Divine Artifacts," Lin Qing said. "Do you have more materials?"

"So eager?" the black-clad young woman asked in confusion.

"No need to waste time," Lin Qing said. "I'll forge some more Divine Artifacts and gather ten billion as soon as possible."

"Ten billion?" the black-clad young woman asked.

"I want to enter the Endless Deep Pool," Lin Qing said.

"The Endless Deep Pool, ah..." The black-clad young woman understood, then asked, "Are you entering to comprehend and cultivate, or to seek treasures?"

"Just to comprehend," Lin Qing said.

"Oh, then ten billion is enough."

The black-clad young woman nodded slightly. "If you are seeking treasures, entering the core of the Endless Deep Pool requires a greater price; such opportunities generally only appear at the Higher Auctions."

Lin Qing did not care about any treasures; he simply wanted to become a Void Being as quickly as possible.

He still possessed a five-colored Divine Artifact on his person; if he had the chance later, selling it would ensure he never lacked money.

"It's good that you like forging," said the tall gray-haired woman, 'Caslock', walking over and speaking softly. "However, your own cultivation must keep up, otherwise you cannot forge Higher Divine Artifacts."

Lin Qing couldn't help but ask, "Ms. Caslock is a Void Sovereign. I heard your Divine Core is currently four-colored?"

"Yes." Caslock nodded slightly.

"I heard that once a Void Sovereign masters the complete Void Rules, theoretically, their Divine Core can evolve to the Chaos Color," Lin Qing said.

Caslock looked at him and shook her head. "As expected of someone from the Sacred Land. Not all Star Gods are as strong as the Star Gods of your Sacred Land. The difficulty of evolving a Divine Core to the Chaos Color is far greater than ascending to the Void Level in other Divine Offices."

"Oh?" Lin Qing said. "I haven't experienced Divine Core evolution yet. Is the difficulty very high?"

Caslock fell silent for a moment, then spoke slowly. "Very high. Star Gods are not only individually exceptional in strength, but their status is also very high; every civilization will protect them to the utmost. That my Divine Core could evolve to four colors is already the Ten Thousand Stars Group doing its utmost."

Lin Qing understood.

Indeed, the struggle between Star Gods mainly involves dealing with the forces protecting them.

"A Divine Core can only evolve to the next level by absorbing four Divine Cores of the same color," Caslock said, shaking her head. "Theoretically, among tens of thousands of Star Gods, only a few are born with Chaos Color Divine Cores."

She looked at Lin Qing and said, "Let alone the Chaos Color; as long as your three Sacred Lands do not emerge, Star Gods possessing five or six-colored Divine Cores are already considered the most terrifying Void Sovereigns."

Lin Qing pondered thoughtfully.

"In short, if you want to personally forge High-Level Divine Artifacts, become a Void Sovereign first," Caslock said casually.

"I understand," Lin Qing nodded slightly.

This stage of being a Star God is destined to be very long; there is still a long road ahead.

Twenty-four years later.

Lin Qing had continuously forged twelve more single-colored Divine Artifacts for the Ten Thousand Stars Group before finally stopping.

Most of the time was spent refining Essence of the Life Class; his limit was refining over two hundred portions of Essence at once. Over twenty-four years, he had refined over twelve hundred portions of Life Class Essence.

Forging the single-colored Divine Artifacts afterward took little time, but communicating with the Universe each time was the baseline.

His luck was truly bad.

Every Divine Artifact forged was auctioned by the Ten Thousand Stars Group. Before the last batch of three Divine Artifacts was even finished, he had already received the auction proceeds for the first ten Divine Artifacts.

The first Divine Artifact sold for 190 million Void Coins, also the most expensive one sold.

Mainly, some factions wanted to curry favor with this newly emerged Star God, so they deliberately offered high prices.

As for the subsequent nine Divine Artifacts, the final transaction prices did not exceed 130 million Void Coins.

In total, the ten Divine Artifacts sold for 1.37 billion Void Coins.

The Divine Artifact tax was as low as 5%, the Ten Thousand Stars Group took 10%, and Lin Qing finally received 85%, just over 1.165 billion Void Coins.

The material costs for the other ten Divine Artifacts were also worth tens of millions, bringing his savings to over 1.2 billion Void Coins.

With his current savings, he had sufficient confidence to bid for a spot at the Endless Deep Pool auction, and could even buy some other auxiliary treasures; he just needed to wait for the next Lower Auction to open, and he didn't mind waiting a bit longer.

As for the last three Divine Artifacts, Lin Qing had prepared them for himself and did not intend to auction them.

After successfully forging the last batch of three Divine Artifacts, he finally left the Divine Artifact Workshop and returned to the manor the Ten Thousand Stars Group had given him.

……

"No wonder this is the place closest to the Origin of the Secret Realm in a Level Two Civilization."

Inside the cultivation chamber of the manor, Lin Qing looked up at the stable, torn rift in the sky above, able to sense the various fluctuations of space with extreme clarity and observe the various changes within space.

Although he was not a native Void Creature and could not fully merge with the Origin of the Secret Realm, sensing and observing at close range still offered considerable help.

The Blood Cauldron King's clone sat cross-legged nearby, carefully sensing and contemplating.

"If we had the Wonder 'Endless Deep Pool,' it would be even faster..."

Lin Qing secretly anticipated. Relying solely on his own contemplation of the Void, even with the superior condition of being closest to the Secret Realm's Origin, and even with the Black Flame Clone, it would still take hundreds of thousands of years before he could possibly master the true form of the Void.

But if he contemplated the true form of the Void revealed by a Wonder, directly grasping the outline of the Void's true form, it would be like having a professional textbook placed before his eyes; he wouldn't need to slowly organize and summarize it himself, so naturally it would be much faster, and he could even advance it directly!

"In a few months, the next Low-Level Auction will begin; by then, the Ten Thousand Stars Group just needs to help me bid on a slot," Lin Qing thought silently.

There was no need for him to participate personally.

For this kind of auction, if the Ten Thousand Stars Group acted on his behalf, the cost would be lower; anyone else wanting a slot would see the Ten Thousand Stars Group competing and naturally dare not contend.

"In these twenty years, although I myself haven't made much progress, the Blood Cauldron King's clone has improved quite a bit..."

Lin Qing glanced at the Blood Cauldron King's clone beside him, then flipped his hand; a silver-white, cube-shaped Divine Artifact, a dark-green large cauldron, and a strange Divine Artifact resembling a biological heart immediately flew toward the Blood Cauldron King.

The Blood Cauldron King's clone accepted these three Divine Artifacts and immediately began infusing them with mysterious energy within his body to establish ownership.

"Creating Divine Skills from the true form of the Void oneself is indeed difficult..."

Lin Qing sighed silently, "Over these years, the Blood Cauldron King's clone and the Black Flame Clone have been constantly contemplating, yet they have only conceived three moves; moreover, since the difficulty of these three Divine Skills is so high, only by advancing them directly could they be successfully cultivated..."

Divine Skills, being purely theoretical abilities, he could directly help his clones advance; as long as he understood them, the clones understood them too.

!

But to advance, it must be theoretically possible to succeed.

Normally, to create a Divine Skill oneself, one must first conceive the theory, then slowly verify the theory; only when it is theoretically possible for oneself to realize it is it possible to cultivate it successfully.

But even if some theories have the possibility of realization, they remain merely theories; the actual probability of successful cultivation is infinitesimal.

This requires slow trial and error to find theories with greater possibility, making the difficulty naturally terrifying.

And what about Lin Qing?

He did not need the subsequent trial and adaptation phase; as long as he could conceive a theory, and as long as the theory was viable, the Entropy Reverser Panel would display it.

Any skill displayed on the Entropy Reverser Panel was a future that could be realized!

As long as there was even a tiny possibility, he could advance it directly!

Therefore, he only needed to conceive the theory.

The Blood Cauldron King's clone had only become a Void Creature for over twenty years, yet had already created three single-aspect Divine Skills!

"Fortunately, the craft of forging Divine Artifacts is purely experiential skill; this kind of debt is best repaid..."

Over these years, Lin Qing's process of forging Divine Artifacts was actually repaying debts; this kind of debt could be cleared for one item simply by forging it perfectly once.

After clearing the debt, he had incidentally advanced the three Divine Skills conceived by the Blood Cauldron King's clone, and indeed, all succeeded.

"However, according to my conception, these three moves should also form a Combined Divine Skill; even if they don't reach the perfection of a World God, they should at least possess the power of a normal Combined Divine Skill..."

Lin Qing felt somewhat helpless, "Where exactly did the conceived combination method and technique go wrong?"

There was no way.

Divine Skills already required integrating the mysteries of space, and Combined Divine Skills required truly fusing several Divine Skills together, causing a qualitative change in power.

This difficulty was extremely high.

Even merely conceiving a viable theory remained highly difficult.

Many Void Creatures spent tens of millions of years without creating a single Divine Skill, showing just how exaggerated the difficulty was.

"However, with only single-aspect Divine Skills, whether a Combined Divine Skill is created or not makes little difference."

Lin Qing revealed a faint smile.

The Blood Cauldron King's clone originally possessed strength nearly at the eleventh layer of the Yu Xingyuan; now, after creating three single-aspect Divine Skills, his strength had already reached the twelfth layer of the Yu Xingyuan!

Plus the three Life-attribute Divine Artifacts coordinating with the Divine Skills...

"Voom..."

The Blood Cauldron King continuously infused energy, causing his own Divine Skills to form unique secret runes within the three Divine Artifacts; once the origin of the Divine Artifacts took shape, he immediately began carefully sensing the compatibility between these three Divine Artifacts and the three Divine Skills.

"Attack Divine Skill 'Extreme Origin,' compatibility with the Divine Artifact is approximately 67%."

"Defense Divine Skill 'Blood Emperor Cauldron,' compatibility with the Divine Artifact is approximately 91%."

"Domain Divine Skill 'Heart Tide,' compatibility with the Divine Artifact is approximately 79%."

Lin Qing quickly calculated the compatibility between the three Divine Artifacts and the three Divine Skills, nodding slightly, "Not bad; only the attack-type Divine Skill is slightly lacking, but it still has 67%."

Regardless, with these three Divine Artifacts at his side, the Blood Cauldron King's clone had already crossed into the thirteenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan in strength!

Generally, a Void Creature mastering three-aspect Divine Skills might not even possess such strength.

After all, the Blood Cauldron King's clone had a gene index double that of an average Void Creature, and with three Divine Skills, his strength was naturally even greater.

"Now, even if a Combined Divine Skill is created, the Blood Cauldron King's clone's strength in reality won't increase much..."

Lin Qing silently shook his head: "Unless there is a set of Divine Artifacts, but..."

One Divine Artifact can only enhance one Divine Skill.

Even with several more Divine Artifacts, they would not form a single whole.

Only a united set of Divine Artifacts could elevate the power of a Combined Divine Skill by one level.

However, high-grade Divine Artifacts were already rare; let alone sets of Divine Artifacts.

As far as Lin Qing knew, the inherited Divine Artifacts possessed by the Bai Ta Civilization were only single items.

"Inside the tomb of the Vacuum Great Grave, there must be sets of Divine Artifacts..."

Lin Qing pondered silently, then used the Heart of Limitlessness to check the eligible disciple girl once more.

He couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Forty years old, and still a Primordial Lifeform?"

The image that floated into his mind was still that of a frail girl sitting silently in a wheelchair.

With the average talent of a Level Two civilization, becoming a Primordial Lifeform is the baseline; becoming one in one's teens is quite normal.

But... now that she is forty, even becoming an Ultimate Star Lifeform would be normal.

Yet that girl is still a Primordial Lifeform?

"The residents of Xianlian Shengxing City shouldn't have such poor talent."

Lin Qing pondered, "There must be some special reason behind this..."

He could sense that the girl was several thousand li away from him; judging by the distance, although that location wasn't the central district of Xianlian Shengxing City, it was still within the inner area.

Even if she wasn't at the highest level of the Bai Ta civilization, she must surely be someone of considerable background.

"I'll see about it after I become a Void Lifeform. I've waited decades; there's no rush for this little while."

Lin Qing temporarily pushed the matter aside and continued to cultivate in peace.

The successor of the Void Great Tomb can be found later; what matters most right now is to steadily increase one's strength.

At the auction several months later, the Myriad Stars Group successfully secured Lin Qing's spot in the Endless Deep Pool, spending only 980 million Void Coins.

Lin Qing also ceased his cultivation and prepared to enter the Endless Deep Pool.

(End of this chapter)