Chapter 381: The Generous Gifts from the Senior and Junior Brothers!

"So many?"

Lin Qing was slightly stunned; he curled a pocket of independent space-time in his palm and hurriedly stored all these treasures within it.

Light King said casually, "The gifts from your junior brothers, who are also my registered disciples, are mostly quite ordinary; only those from Qiongguang and the other two are more precious. Your eight senior brothers all made remarkably generous offerings."

Lin Qing nodded slightly while listening, and at the same time, his consciousness swept over this huge pile of gifts, instantly discovering that every single treasure had left behind a voice transmission or even a visual recording.

Immediately after—

when he investigated the first gift, his entire body froze, and his mind went completely blank.

The reason he looked at this gift first was that he had already seen it before.

Universe Tree branches!

The key wasn't one or two, but a full twenty thousand plus!

"Universe Tree branches? Twenty thousand plus?" Lin Qing was completely bewildered.

The Chaos Merchant Guild occasionally lists a single Universe Tree branch, and although it might not appear once in tens of millions of years, each time the starting value is two hundred billion credits!

Its value is almost close to the primordial bloodline of a Chaos creature.

Let alone twenty thousand plus!

This was simply an unimaginable matter, even making him somewhat disbelieving that these were all Universe Tree branches.

And the voice attached to this gift was a bold and resounding male voice:

"Haha, little junior brother, your talent is far better than mine. I am your eldest senior brother Jueshan Hong, with the title Dongyan Di Jun. I am a bit tight on funds recently; little junior brother, do not despise it."

Listening to this, Lin Qing felt somewhat dazed.

This eldest senior brother produced twenty thousand plus Universe Tree branches in one go, yet he still said... he was tight on funds?

Although his future self in the future timeline was also a direct disciple, by the time he became a direct disciple, more than thirty million years had passed since then; the gift from the eldest senior brother was not Universe Tree branches, but a chaotic strange treasure used for survival.

"Master."

Lin Qing couldn't help but ask, "Did the eldest senior brother really give me twenty thousand plus Universe Tree branches? And he said he was a bit tight on funds?"

"He recently created a secret technique with a very high ceiling, requiring many treasures, so he is indeed a bit tight on funds."

Light King nodded slightly, then said, "Given the tolerance of the Perfect World within your body, I estimate that after absorbing the essence of over twenty Universe Tree branches, you will reach your current tolerance limit. As for the remaining twenty thousand plus, you will only be able to absorb them cleanly after you master two space-time laws and your internal world expands again."

"But... these are a full twenty thousand plus Universe Tree branches," Lin Qing couldn't help but say. "When Like Yu Gong invited Xiao Ying Bo, he only gave one Universe Tree branch, right?"

"Like Yu Gong definitely possesses far fewer Universe Tree branches than your eldest senior brother."

Light King said casually, "Moreover, to him, Xiao Ying Bo is just a small figure, so of course he would not give away too many."

"Where did the eldest senior brother get these?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

"Luck," Light King smiled. "When the Yu Xingyuan invaded the Main Universe, many branches of the Universe Tree detached and fell into the Yu Xingyuan. Back then, after your eldest senior brother killed a Yu Xingyuan Monarch, he obtained a large quantity of Universe Tree branches."

He shook his head and said, "Your eldest senior brother also heard that your talent is astonishing and that you have the potential to become a Duke, which is why he was willing to part with so many Universe Tree branches."

"I see..." Lin Qing understood.

"The essence of these Universe Tree branches is quite effective for expanding the internal world," Light King said. "With these Universe Tree branches, if you become a Duke in the future, you will have an advantage."

Lin Qing had also heard—

that although the internal world expands after absorbing the essence of Universe Tree branches, there is an upper limit.

This limit is roughly twice the volume of the internal world.

That is to say, if the Perfect World absorbs enough essence from Universe Tree branches, the internal world can increase by the size of another Perfect World.

Of course, although the larger the world, the stronger the combat power, it is not the case that doubling the world's volume doubles the combat power.

According to Lin Qing's understanding of the research, the combat power of an Eternal Divine Body mainly depends on how much energy the internal world can unleash.

Inside the internal world, it is like there is a massive energy aggregator constantly venting outward through the world membrane, and the upper limit of the power output of this energy transmission depends on the area of the world membrane.

When the diameter of the internal world doubles, the volume becomes eight times the original, but in reality, the area of the world membrane is only about four times the original, so the energy output power of the internal world is four times the original.

Therefore, compared to the diameter of the internal world, an Eternal Peak expert is thirty-eight times that of an ordinary Eternal existence, and the basic energy explosion is an advantage of over a thousand times!

The total energy reserve has an advantage of tens of millions of times!

The essence provided by one Universe Tree branch only expands a world with a diameter of over ten billion kilometers; given the size of the Perfect World, it indeed requires the essence of over twenty Universe Tree branches.

"After absorbing Universe Tree branches and the internal world doubles in size, I estimate my strength can still increase by fifty to sixty percent..."

Lin Qing could calculate the effect these Universe Tree branches would bring in his mind.

When strength reaches a certain height, even Eternal Peak experts possess Eternal Supreme Treasure sets, combined divine techniques, and even secret techniques created by the Lords of Divine Nations; there are almost no shortcomings in any aspect, and the gap between them is very small.

At this point, having a strength that is fifty to sixty percent higher is a huge advantage.

"And this World Treasure? Could it be the legendary World-Suppressing Heavenly Pillar?"

Lin Qing put away the Universe Tree branches and looked at another World Treasure that attracted him the most.

These were nine black stone pillars that looked utterly ordinary; the space-time near the stone pillars was extremely stable, with not even a single ripple appearing.

—This was a treasure that his future self in the future timeline had not obtained.

Perhaps because his future self in the future timeline did not perform as stunningly as he does now, the senior brothers' care was not as exaggerated as it is now?

"World-Suppressing Heavenly Pillar..." Lin Qing couldn't help but take a deep breath. "It is indeed the legendary World-Suppressing Heavenly Pillar..."

When he read the memories of the future timeline, he also acquired much knowledge learned by his future self in the Tian Guang Divine Nation's Library.

The function of the World-Suppressing Heavenly Pillar is just one—

as long as the nine World-Suppressing Heavenly Pillars are erected in the center and the eight extremities of the internal universe, the internal world can be completely stabilized!

The benefits of a stable world need no elaboration, and the most direct manifestation of its effect on combat power is doubling the upper limit of energy unleashed by the internal world.

For an Eternal expert, this is equivalent to doubling combat power!

Even the internal universe of an Ultimate Existence can be completely stabilized, and strength can similarly double!

Therefore, even an Ultimate Existence extremely desires to obtain such a treasure.

"Little junior brother, achieve the rank of Duke early, then become an Ultimate; if there is a matter, please help me."

When Lin Qing probed the Town-World Heaven Pillar, an image suddenly appeared in his mind: a man in a green robe with a stern expression, appearing somewhat dull and possessing an utterly ordinary aura.

This image contained only a few brief words; he did not even say who he was.