Swallowing the Stars: Eternal Glory

Chapter 96 Golden Leaves of the Ancient Tree of Kras (Part 2)

Ten days later, on Azure Star.

The Glorious spacecraft quickly ascended into the air, flew out of the atmosphere, and began its journey back to Earth.

Inside the spaceship's control room, the Radiant Guardian faithfully guards a World Ring in its hand.

The World Ring, within the castle.

After dismissing Luo Feng, Lu Jin opened the two silver boxes delivered by the personnel of the Virtual Universe Company.

The two boxes were opened, and inside were an exquisite jade box and a spatial ring, respectively.

The jade box contained a golden leaf from the ancient Kras tree that Lu Jin had purchased at the auction.

Inside the spatial ring was a three-meter-long, silver-white mechanical artifact—an E7-class RH-86 series laser gun.

This laser gun, though called a gun, is more accurately described as a cannon, with a barrel diameter that is terrifyingly large and sends shivers down one's spine.

At first glance, it looks a bit like a strangely shaped single-barreled rocket launcher.

When fully charged, this E7-class laser gun can complete its energy charge in 0.1 seconds.

Its power is enough to pierce through a planet, and even E7-grade metal materials cannot withstand it.

Without special treasures or methods, an ordinary seventh-level Realm Lord would be instantly killed if hit in the core by a single shot.

Lu Jin didn't have any other intentions in buying this E7-level laser gun.

The Time-Shattering Avatar will be born soon.

However, there is only one Radiant Guardian, and it needs to be kept as the main body's trump card.

Having money in my pocket and buying this E7-level laser gun will undoubtedly serve as a trump card for the future release of the Time Clone.

The innate secret technique 'Mastery of Time', combined with this E7-level laser gun, is enough to take down a trashy realm lord in a surprise attack.

Afterwards, Lu Jin put away the golden leaves of the Kras Ancient Tree and the laser gun, flew to the desolate mountains tens of thousands of kilometers away from the castle, and had Fatty summon Black First-Class Cosmic Slave.

Before long, 108 cosmic-level slaves arrived.

Except for a few slaves who entered a long drop cooldown period due to obtaining Immortal Weapons, all other slaves have already passed the drop cooldown period and can continue to be exploited.

"Owner."

The crowd bowed respectfully.

"Ah."

Lu Jin nodded and handed the spatial ring containing the golden leaves of the Kras Ancient Tree to Hei Yi, saying, "I'll be wearing this ring when I'm instructing you."

How can one golden leaf from the ancient Kras tree be enough?
Wouldn't they be able to get more points by using cheats?
Even if we don't expect the entire Krass tree to be transformed, at least we should get more golden leaves, right?
Anyway, it's just a matter of convenience. If it doesn't come out, I'll just take it a little later.

"Yes, Master."

Hei Yi bowed and replied, putting away his spatial ring.

Although he didn't understand what his master was up to, since it was his master's order, he should just obey it unconditionally.

Then, a new round of "wool-gathering" began.

Five days later, inside the World Ring.

"call out!"

In mid-air, under Lu Jin's control, a shard of a divine weapon flashed past at high speed and struck 'Meng Wusi', a fourth-order cosmic being.

Although the blade of the Radiant Divine Weapon was sharp, with his current strength, he was still unable to directly pierce through the fifth-tier Force Armor worn by Meng Wusi.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the Mengwusi was blasted into the ground far below by terrifying force, like a cannonball, kicking up a cloud of dust.

At the same time, within the smoke-shrouded crater, a golden light flashed, and a golden orb fell from Meng Wusi's body.

Upon seeing this, Lu Jin immediately sent a wisp of his consciousness into the external storage space to investigate.

When the thought touched the ball of light, the golden light dissipated and transformed into ten jade boxes, each containing a golden leaf from the ancient tree of Kras.

"Amazing!" Looking at the ten jade boxes, Lu Jin was overjoyed.

Excluding the six slaves whose cooldown period for obtaining Immortal Weapons had not yet ended due to the previous drop.

In five days, Lu Jin had taken advantage of all 102 remaining slaves who were taking turns carrying the golden leaves.

Previously, since there hadn't been any drops based on Golden Leaf, Lu Jin had thought that he wouldn't be able to get any Golden Leaf from this round of loot.

But to his surprise, the final Meng Wusi gave him a pleasant surprise, directly triggering a critical hit that yielded 10 golden leaves.

Although the increase in quantity from this critical hit is not significant, its value is considerable.

Based on the auction price of 8888 Mixed Yuan Units for Golden Leaf, this is equivalent to 88880 Mixed Yuan Units, which is higher than the wealth of most immortals in the universe.

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, Meng Wusi, who had fallen into the pit in the distance, took to the air again.

Thanks to Lu Jin's deliberate restraint, Meng Wusi, who was beaten, was not seriously injured.

"Alright, that concludes the guidance."

Lu Jin said to Meng Wusi.

"Yes, Master."

Meng Wusi breathed a sigh of relief, his mental energy surging out as he manipulated the spatial ring containing the golden leaf to fly to Lu Jin's side.

"Meng Wusi, you did a good job, here's a reward for you."

After putting away the spatial ring, Lu Jin smiled and praised Meng Wusi, then gave him a bottle of cosmic-level life essence.

The reason why Meng Wusi is currently able to reach the fourth level of the Universe Realm is that, in addition to Lu Jin providing his slaves with an unlimited supply of Universe Crystals for daily cultivation.

It's also related to the fact that every time he gets a treasure worth at least a fifth-tier top-grade equipment, he gives out a bottle of cosmic-level life essence as a reward.

Through self-cultivation and the rewards of cosmic-level life essence, the highest-ranking of his 108 cosmic-level slaves has already reached the fifth rank of the cosmic realm.

"Thank you, Master!"

Meng Wu was overjoyed and quickly expressed his gratitude.

As for where they performed well, well, they didn't know either, and there was no discernible pattern to it.

However, based on previous cases, they came to a conclusion.

—They get a reward as long as their master beats them to their heart's content!
Outside, in the void of the solar system.

'Wow—'

Ripples spread through space as the Radiant Spaceship traversed back into the primordial universe, then accelerated toward Earth.

Inside the World Ring.

Having finished her round of shopping sprees, Lu Jin is now preparing to try out the effects of the Kras Ancient Tree Golden Leaf.

Should we save it for when we hit a bottleneck?

That's how people with limited funds and resources use it.

For the wealthy who have plenty of money, and for Lu Jin who has special means to acquire Golden Leaf,

There's no need to worry about how many resources you've consumed in the early stages; the key is to improve your strength as quickly as possible.

Once I become a powerful being in the future, the rewards from killing even a powerful alien race will far exceed the resources I consumed during my early cultivation.

Just then, Fatty's voice rang in Lu Jin's mind: "Master, the Glorious has traveled back to the original universe and is about to arrive at Earth."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin nodded, found Luo Feng who was nurturing his divine weapon, and released him from the world ring.

Then, on the castle balcony, Lu Jin took out a golden leaf from the ancient tree of Kras.

He channeled his spiritual power into the golden leaf in his hand.

A few seconds later, the golden leaves of the Kras Ancient Tree emitted a dazzling golden light, which then converged and transformed into a golden stream of light that entered Lu Jin's body.

(End of this chapter)