Swallowing the Stars: Cultivate to Become Stronger

"Don't you want to hear the reward I offer?"

Seeing Luo Shen refuse without hesitation, Jie Ying was stunned. Although he had thought that Luo Shen might refuse, he did not expect that the other party would be so straightforward and refuse without even hearing what he asked for.

Luo Shen shook his head.

As if he felt that shaking his head was not enough to express his determination, Luo Shen immediately explained: "I am an idle person. I have no doubt interfered with the conflict between powerful forces. I don't think my small body can withstand their revenge."

Seeing Jieying wanted to say something, Luo Shen waved his hand and said, "Don't tell me that I don't have to worry about retaliation."

"You are all second- and third-generation people from all kinds of backgrounds. To put it bluntly, you are all kneeling to the same ancestor. I am just an outsider. No matter how much they care about your life or death, they don't care about mine."

Jieying blinked his eyes.

Ever since Luo Shen said these words, he inexplicably felt that Luo Shen must have made the wrong choice from his perspective. Although this matter was somewhat difficult, if Luo Shen became the Lord of Chaos, there was still hope of accomplishing it. How could it be related to the forces behind him?
So he couldn't help but interrupt.

"Lord of the Abyss, are you overthinking this? I don't want you to fight with those geniuses of my family."

"no?"

Luo Shen looked at Jie Ying with some suspicion, and when he saw the other party nodded affirmatively, he felt a little embarrassed.

The plot is wrong.

Logically speaking, after the plot of the novel reaches this point, the protagonist should be invited to participate in a key battle, and then be involved in some conspiracy vortex, with assassinations every three days and murders every five days, until he becomes a big boss.

"So what is that thing you're talking about?"

Luo Shen said with some suspicion.

The ability he has demonstrated now, apart from his combat ability which is pretty good among the strong men of the same level, he doesn't think he has any other qualities that would be worthy of the attention of the people in the Yanfeng Guildhall.

After all, the Yanfeng Guild spans most of the Origin Continent. It has seen countless treasures, countless secret techniques, and countless powerful people. How could it not care about Luo Shen's inconspicuous methods?

"It seems that I was too abrupt."

Jieying thought for a moment, smiled bitterly and shook his head at Luo Shen, saying: "I didn't expect that the Abyss God King had such a big misunderstanding of me. Even if I tell him now, I guess he won't believe it, so let's not talk about it for now."

"When you get along with me for a long time and you know me better, I will come and invite you to come out of seclusion."

Luo Shen was stunned.

Just don't say it directly?
No, young man, do you know that if you stop talking halfway, there will be nothing left?

Fortunately, Luo Shen's greatest advantage is that he knows how to stop losses in time. If the other party is unwilling to talk, he simply won't listen, saving himself a trouble. Anyway, he doesn't have much time now, so there is no need to care so much about someone he is not very familiar with.

However, Luo Shen still felt sorry for the Ice and Fire Quenching, which he had only tasted once and that was an incomplete version.

Dear Binghuoque, I will not have the chance to taste you in the short term.

cough~
Since Jieying was unwilling to talk, Luo Shen simply put the matter behind him and said directly: "I came here today to collect the reward. The Liusha Valley gang has been destroyed in my hands. If I don't help you, you won't take the reward, right?"

Jieying waved his hand and said, "Of course not."

Although it felt a bit regrettable, and although Jieying had a high status in the Yanfeng Guild, the reputation of the Yanfeng Guild and the Dark Palace was very important, and he certainly couldn't break the rules for no reason.

"The Lord of God has indeed accepted the mission."

"However, according to the rules, the Lord God needs to take out the other party's body, or the remains of the body, or his main weapons and treasures. It's all fine. After all, the Dark Palace is not my one-man show. I hope the Lord God will forgive me."

Of course Luo Shen understood this.

We can't just issue a bounty just because of some rumors. If the news is wrong, then wouldn't the Yanfeng Guild have to pay for it? We can't do this business at a loss.

Therefore, necessary verification is still necessary.

However, Luo Shen was well prepared for this request. He immediately released the corpse of the master of the Quicksand Valley. The huge corpse almost occupied the entire room.

Fortunately, this place is based on the laws of space. Even if the corpse is huge, it can be scaled proportionally according to the size of the room, so there is no need to worry about bursting the room.

Jieying simply glanced at the corpse.

Immediately, a blue light shot out from his eyes, sweeping across the body of the Master of the Quicksand Valley.

After a moment, Jie Ying exhaled lightly, and with a flip of his right hand, a jade bottle immediately appeared in his palm. He immediately pushed it forward, and the jade bottle flew towards Luo Shen, saying, "Here is the bounty for the reward."

Luo Shen took the jade bottle and used his divine power to investigate directly.

The amount of cosmic sand inside was exactly the same as the number recorded when Luo Shen first accepted the task, except that the part that was supposed to be drawn by the Yanfeng Guild Hall had not been moved at all.

Luo Shen shook the hand holding the jade bottle in front of the other party and said, "What does this mean? Bribing me?"

Jieying laughed and said, "You are joking, Lord God. Even if you really want to bribe me, it is impossible to use only this little money. The value of Lord God cannot be measured by money."

Hearing this, Luo Shen waved his hands and said, "Don't dare to say that."

Compared to priceless treasures, Luo Shen still hopes to get more money, so that when he buys some materials he needs, he doesn't have to worry about his wallet not being thick enough and having to be stingy with his money.

Jie Ying did not respond, and continued, "If the Lord God has a large amount of cosmic sand that he does not need to use, he can deposit it in my Yanfeng Guildhall. My Yanfeng Guildhall provides storage services, which are absolutely safe, and can be exchanged at any Yanfeng Guildhall on the Origin Continent."

Naturally, this tiny amount of bounty was not something that Jieying would be interested in.

The other party’s real target is actually the massive treasure that Luo Shen obtained from the bandits in Liusha Valley after he killed them!
If there are any mechanical secret treasures, each one would cost tens or even hundreds of millions. Some of them are even more expensive than all the treasures Luo Shen has now combined, including the Yuan Embryo Abyss Blade.

The Abyss Blade is still just an embryo now. Only some secret methods of the Chaos Lord Realm are engraved on it. There is not a single secret method of the God King Realm at all, and it cannot be regarded as the main weapon of the God King.

Moreover, the secret techniques engraved on the Abyss Blade were all created by Luo Shen for himself. In Luo Shen's hands, it can unleash 200% of its power, but it will not have such an effect in the hands of other strong men.

Therefore, compared with the mechanical secret treasures of the same level, the current Abyss Blade is not too expensive.

Although Luo Shen won't sell it either.

However, Luo Shen chose to refuse directly. What was the difference between this and the bank in his previous life? Moreover, there was no interest. Most importantly, if the deposit business was normal, it would be fine. If those powerful practitioners died, all the cosmic sand stored in the Yanfeng Hall would belong to them. Of course, this was not the main reason why Luo Shen refused directly.

"I will use this bounty and the treasures I got from the Quicksand Valley to trade with you. I want to buy the materials on the list above. I will buy as many as I can until all the cosmic sand I have is used up!"

Luo Shen said.

"all?"

Jieying confirmed. Obviously, he didn't expect that Luo Shen would not keep any of it and directly exchange it for cultivation resources. Moreover, with just a glance, he could guess that this was the material needed for some kind of body refining practice.

However, the quantity is so huge that I am afraid it may not be used up even if one cultivates to the ultimate level of Eternal True God.

But there was no way that Yanfeng Club would refuse a customer's transaction, so after passing Luo Shen's list of requirements to outside members for collection, Jieying continued to chat with Luo Shen about life.

This free chat about life is just a literal chat about life.

As if he wanted to prove his attitude, Jieying did not bring up anything he wanted to say before in the subsequent conversation, but chatted with Luo Shen about meaningless topics.

Only after his subordinates delivered the things to Luo Shen did he leisurely return to his cave.

In the Chaos A Cave No. 99, in the inheritance space.

Even in his own cave, Luo Shen trusted the inheritance space more, not to mention that the inheritance space had the function of accelerating time. After a while, he would go to hunt down the leader of the resistance forces in the Food Country, and he didn't have much time to waste.

First, he threw the corpse of the Lord of the Quicksand Valley and the corpses of the five Eternal True Gods into the Origin World, providing space for the Abyss Clone to continue cultivating the world and giving birth to world beast warriors.

Afterwards, Luo Shen focused his attention on the materials needed for practicing the smelting method collected by the Yanfeng Guild Hall.

During his previous retreat, Luo Shen had already fully understood all the cultivation techniques required for the fourth and fifth levels of smelting. The reason he had never tried it before was simply because he did not have enough materials.

Now that we have enough resources at hand, we naturally have to start trying.

Cultivation takes no time.

When practicing the first three levels of the smelting method, Luo Shen did not feel it was difficult. Because he had a bird's-eye view, Luo Shen was able to successfully practice the first three levels easily.

However, starting from the fourth level, Luo Shen clearly felt that the difficulty of the smelting method had increased.

Although there was still no big obstacle for Luo Shen to cultivate to the fourth level at his current level, the time required was obviously increased, especially for Luo Shen's majestic and huge divine body. Every bit of progress required a large amount of materials.

During the practice, the large amounts of materials randomly piled up in various places in the inheritance space kept flying up and slowly merged into Luo Shen's majestic divine body. Under the influence of the burning divine power, Luo Shen's divine body was also strengthened little by little.

This was the first time that Luo Shen had practiced for more than a hundred centuries.

Fortunately, the inheritance space has the effect of accelerating time. When Luo Shen used it without considering the consumption, only fifty days passed outside. It's not that the flow of time cannot be faster, but the energy in the inheritance space is limited, and the degree of control Luo Shen can now do is only this fast.

One day, Luo Shen finally ended his secluded practice and walked out of the inheritance space.

"The fourth level, cultivation is successful!"

With Luo Shen's current divine body strength, combined with his extremely powerful divine body, even just a punch or a kick has great power, and can easily blow up an ordinary Chaos Lord. Luo Shen has the confidence in this.

Moreover, flexibility and speed have been qualitatively improved.

“It’s really a pleasure!”

There will not be this kind of pleasure of soaring strength in the original universe area, because there are too few resources in the original universe area that can enable him to make rapid progress.

After all, the original universe region belongs to a low-dimensional area, and it is indeed barren compared to the origin continent.

Don’t say anything else.

It would take an unknown amount of time to collect the cultivation resources that could support Luo Shen's practice of the fourth level of the smelting method in the original universe area. But in this continent of origin, as long as you have money, you can buy them!

"With my current strength, even without the help of the secret technique of will, I can no longer be considered a weakling among the Chaos Lords."

Luo Shen was thinking about his next move.

After all, the fourth level of the smelting method means that the first level of the Chaos Lord has been cultivated successfully. Combined with Luo Shen's super-perfect divine body, it seems so terrifying. If it were someone else, they would probably only be able to fight a Chaos Lord at the level of Quicksand.

"It will take more than a hundred centuries to cultivate the fourth level of the smelting method. If I want to cultivate the fifth level as well, not to mention that the resources I have may not be enough, the time required alone will probably be more than five hundred centuries, or even more!"

The time required for cultivation increases exponentially. The more powerful the secret technique or the more powerful the divine body, the more difficult it is to make progress.

The reason why Luo Shen cultivated the fourth level of the smelting method so quickly before was because Luo Shen used the inheritance space to accelerate. But now, the inheritance space can no longer accelerate time as recklessly as before in a short period of time. After all, the consumption of divine power in the inheritance space needs to be provided by oneself.

"If we don't need to supply the black hole of the World Beast Warrior, the source of divine power transformed from the chaotic airflow of the Origin Universe would be enough."

Luo Shen sighed.

Unfortunately, too much origin is needed to breed world beast warriors and enhance the strength of the world. Even if Luo Shen continues to supply it uninterruptedly, he can only upgrade the Abyss clone to the Chaos level and cultivate more than 100,000 Void True God-level world beast warriors and 180 Eternal True God-level world beast warriors.

In a place like Huyang City, nearly two hundred Eternal True God-level world beast warriors can completely crush all forces.

But if you want to create a stir in the entire Yu State, you are still a long way off.

"And the City Lord's Mansion is also asking me when I will take action. I guess the pressure from them is too great. I don't have time to practice leisurely. I should first deal with the leader of the resistance forces of the Food Nation, replenish the resources needed for the fifth level of the smelting method, and then continue to retreat."

With this in mind, Luo Shen came out of his retreat.

The voice was transmitted to Killua.

Killua, who had been waiting for Luo Shen to summon him, flew out of his residence, came to Luo Shen, saluted respectfully and said, "Lord God!"

During this period, Killua has been practicing the secret technique given by Luo Shen, and he feels that he has made great progress. This also makes him more enthusiastic when practicing. At the same time, his belief in Luo Shen is directly maximized.

Although he didn't know if he had the chance to become the Eternal True God, he was sure to be Luo Shen's lackey! (End of this chapter)