Swallowing the Stars: Ten Thousand Times Return for Taking on Disciples

Chapter 175 Reunion in Chaos City

Time flies, and another ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past decade, thanks to the insights and realizations of several disciples regarding the laws, Lu Qingshan's strength has been steadily improving.

In particular, the fundamental principles of the Earth element.

This is the law that Lu Qingshan has improved the fastest among all his understandings of. In just ten years, he has improved from less than one percent of the initial understanding to seventeen percent now.

This is naturally thanks to his disciple, Jemin.

Having used the Earth Element Fruit, Jieming's understanding of the laws has improved rapidly over the years. It will probably not be long before he can comprehend the fundamental laws of the earth element.

With the insights gained from ten years in Chaos City, coupled with the assistance of the Earth Element Fruit, the probability of success is still quite high.

"Jeremy is about to break through to immortality, so we should prepare other resources as well."

Lu Qingshan immediately instructed Nasus to exchange for eight auxiliary cultivation treasures representing the eight elements of metal, wood, water, earth, wind, thunder, and light from the company's points treasury. The prices were similar to those for the Earth Element Fruit, around 3000 points each. He bought ten of each, consuming a total of 30 million points.

In addition, there are the resources needed for the Star-Eating Grass to break through to Immortality.

The Star-Eating Grass that first followed him has now evolved to 500 vines. Lu Qingshan gave it another drop of the Fountain of Life, intending to let it evolve to 1,000 vines again.

The Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass is comparable to the peak of the King-Sealing stage, requiring far too many resources. Even if Lu Qingshan were to use up all his points, he still wouldn't be able to afford the resources needed to break through to Immortality with the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass.

Even with the Fountain of Life as the main aid, the remaining breakthrough resources would still require at least hundreds of billions of points.

Lu Qingshan prepared the resources for the later purchase of the Cloud Vine and Star-Eating Grass.

Over the years, with the help of Lu Qingshan's use of Locke Divine Water and numerous treasures, they have evolved to a state that satisfies Lu Qingshan, and now they are just waiting for resources to break through to the level of immortal gods.

A 216-vine Cloud Vine and a 300-vine Star-Eating Grass would require approximately 70 million points to successfully cultivate. If the most luxurious evolution method is chosen, even 100 million points might not be enough.

As Nasus placed orders for treasures, including numerous training packages, he continued to collect them.

Lu Qingshan spent money like water, and the balance in his points account gradually decreased. The points he had accumulated from conquering the Heavenly Bridge and the Illusionary Sea had long been exhausted. If it weren't for the 10 billion points given to him by the Qianwu Kingdom Lord, Lu Qingshan would have been penniless long ago. He wouldn't even have enough points to use for his own cultivation, let alone give gifts to his disciples.

"We still don't have enough money!"

Despite still having several billion points, Lu Qingshan felt it wasn't enough. These billions of points were only enough to buy the auxiliary treasure for the third level of the Time Body. He would need to find another way to break through with the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass.

Perhaps he should find a way to get rid of that Xuan Yu Liu Li fruit; 3000 billion Hun Yuan units would be enough to solve all his troubles.

Just as Lu Qingshan was carefully calculating his points, Nasus's notification sounded.

"Master, Lingyu is back, she's right at the door."

"Lingyu, she's finally back."

Lingyu has been back in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom for thousands of years. Her return at this time should be because she has completed the training arranged by the company.

He asked Nasus to open the door, and then went to the door himself.

"Lingyu".

Lu Qingshan's spiritual power swept over his disciple.

Ling Yu is now at the ninth level of Domain Lord and can break through to the Realm Lord realm at any time.

However, her information remained unchanged.

He's still a second-rate genius.

This dashed Lu Qingshan's hopes. He had been thinking that Ling Yu's talent would improve again after reactivating her bloodline and fusing with the Blood Crystal, and she might have a chance to become a first-class genius. But such thoughts were ultimately just wishful thinking.

"Teacher, long time no see."

Ling Yu smiled radiantly, and her alluring expression made Lu Qingshan slightly lose his composure.

"Lingyu, you've changed so much."

Lu Qingshan carefully examined his disciple.

Although I've seen it many times in the virtual universe, seeing it in person this time feels completely different.

"Yes, teacher, I am also troubled. I hope that after I break through to immortality, I can return to my original form."

Lingyu said with some distress.

"Don't say this out loud, or many people will be insanely jealous." Lu Qingshan stepped aside and said, "Come in and let's talk."

"Yes, teacher." Lingyu followed Lu Qingshan into the room.

After entering the room, Lingyu found a chair and sat down, taking out a spatial ring: "Teacher, this contains food that Lingxi asked me to bring for you. Some of it is new products from Suyuefang, and some is food she made herself. They are all well preserved. Teacher can keep them to enjoy later."

"Lingxi is such a thoughtful girl."

Lu Qingshan took the spatial ring and scanned it with his spiritual power, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

He discovered that this spatial ring was ridiculously large, comparable to many small world rings, and contained mountains of food, all of which were categorized.

"Has Lingxi been researching these things all these years?"

Lu Qingshan asked in surprise.

Lingyu looked quite helpless.

“Lingxi has no interest in cultivation. This time, under my supervision, she barely managed to break through to the first level of Domain Lord. In the past few thousand years, apart from cultivating her teacher’s Thousand Threads Soul Refining technique, she has devoted herself to researching these delicacies. Teacher, you may not know, but Suyuefang now has hundreds of branches on the Qianwu Continent. Many of the new products were developed by Lingxi herself, and she has prepared a portion of each one and kept it in her ring.”

Lu Qingshan put away the spatial ring.

"Fine, let's ignore her. Anyway, with your and my help in the future, Lingxi should have no problem breaking through to the realm master level. As for what happens after that, we'll figure it out later."

"Lingxi is too immature and has made things difficult for the teacher."

Lingyu felt somewhat ashamed. She had initially asked her younger sister to become Lu Qingshan's disciple mainly to seek protection for her. She hadn't expected her sister to be so unambitious, causing her teacher a great headache.

"No way. Apart from not liking cultivation, Lingxi is quite good in other aspects. She is very good at making food. With a disciple like her, we will never have to worry about not having good food."

Lu Qingshan smiled.

There's nothing wrong with liking to study cooking; it's just that there's no tradition of it in the primitive universe. If it were a world like the Origin Continent, there would be countless people who have become masters through the art of cooking.

The mortal enemy of the Mountain Guest, the ruler of the Food Kingdom, is already a second-level God King, yet he is still just a cook.

It is evident that there are still many things worth exploring in the art of cooking, and perhaps Lingxi is a hidden genius.

"Tell me about your experiences over the years."

Lu Qingshan stopped thinking about that little good-for-nothing Lingxi.

Lingyu sat upright and began to recount her experiences and trials over the years.

Destroy the Treasure Pavilion.

Eliminate a hideout base of an alien race.

Capture an immortal deity of the rank of Marquis.

She had also encountered the explosion of the Fire God Crystal. If the captain of the guards hadn't already reached the Marquis level and quickly taken her into his world ring, she probably would have perished.

Lingyu slowly recounted her experiences over the years.

“I never expected that the final task would involve investigating Lingyu Star.” Lingyu said with some sadness, “My sister and I lived together on Lingyu Star before our teacher, Yinyuehou, discovered us and took us to the Qianwu Secret Realm. At that time, the planet was called Lingpo Star, but it was later renamed Lingyu Star.”

"I never imagined that my uncle and his family, who took such good care of my sister and me on Lingpo Star, would be so cruel, committing countless bloody crimes in my name, but I knew nothing about it. I was even worried that they were not doing well, so I would transfer some money to them every year."

"How will you sentence this uncle?"

Lu Qingshan asked with a smile.

He felt that the executives of Virtual Universe Company were sick, always making these kinds of melodramatic scenes. Did they really not see the character of a genius in this kind of thing?

“I did not pronounce a verdict, but left it to the local primary civilization to handle.”

Ling Yu said frankly.

"The fact that you didn't pronounce the sentence shows that you couldn't bear to do it. Even if you gave that rudimentary emperor a hundred lives, he wouldn't dare to sentence them to death. At most, he would just imprison them for a few thousand years."

“The teacher is right… so the company gave me a very low score, barely passing. However, Lingyu is a selfish person and will not harm her family. Even if Lingxi becomes a female demon in the future, I will not betray my family for the greater good. I will only protect her and keep her safe.”

Lu Qingshan took out the last bottle of 'Starry River Dreams' and took a small sip.

He tried hard to imagine what Lingxi would be like as a female demon, but he couldn't, so he just smiled and said.

"Lingyu, you don't need to blame yourself. What kind of person you are is not important. It's enough for your master to know that you are my disciple."

(End of this chapter)