Zerg Lord of the Devouring Stars

"Master, we can't dig anymore, someone has already burrowed underground." Hill's voice rang in Jiang Chen's mind.

"What?" Jiang Chen's eyes widened, and he immediately transmitted his voice to Wu Xintong and Fang He, "Someone's coming! Stay close to me, we have to rush out!"

"yes!"

"clear!"

Yuan Xintong and Fang He also became nervous.

Moyun Vine also quickly retracted, no longer caring about the other Thunder Stones, and completely retracted back into Jiang Chen's arm in the blink of an eye.

"Come on, stay close to me!" Jiang Chen gave the order.

Thanks to Hill's reconnaissance and the detection of the distribution of thousands of ninth-tier adventurers outside, they were able to escape with certainty.

"Now! Charge!" Jiang Chen shouted telepathically.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

Three figures emerged from the ground one after another, simultaneously searching for gaps among the thousands of people and weaving through the forest.

Fortunately, it was already difficult to use telekinesis to explore the inner world, and this was a forest area, which allowed them to move forward quickly by staying close to the forest.

"Look, there's someone over there!"

"They don't seem like our people."

"Quickly, chase after them!"

Immediately, hundreds of ninth-level Hengxing cultivators quickly chased after Jiang Chen and his two companions.

After chasing for a while...

Where are they?

"He ran too fast, and the forest is so big, he didn't know."

"Forget it, there are only three of us. We can only get a few Thunderstones. Let's go back and continue digging."

After chasing for a while, the group of over a hundred people realized they couldn't catch up, so they went back cursing and continued digging for thunderstone.

Jiang Chen and his two companions fled for tens of thousands of kilometers before finally stopping.

"Phew, we finally escaped." Fang He wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Yuan Xintong also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, we had the detector, otherwise we would have had to take out the spaceship to escape. Exposing the space storage device that can store the spaceship would have been quite troublesome." Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

"At the first excavation site, more than 38 Thunderstones were unearthed."

"At the second excavation site, nearly 36 Thunderstones were unearthed."

"Nearly 75 thunderstones were unearthed from the two sites."

Jiang Chen considered it for a moment and then smiled.

With a little more effort, it would be equivalent to finding a Fruit of Life, which is only worth 80 Thunderstones.

Time is truly precious these days.

It's not a windfall, it's gold lying in the ground!

Every minute and every second must be cherished.

With Hill's help, Jiang Chen and his two companions continued to fly towards the distant area.

Try to avoid the 200 million-strong army flying in from the entrance and continue mining Thunderstone.

This cycle of flying, digging underground, and then flying again—lasted for a full eight days.

"The 200 million-strong army has now almost occupied all the Thunderstone areas in the entire Realm Within a Realm."

"Digging now is too dangerous. Let's return to the core area and head to the castle to exchange for the treasure."

Jiang Chen laughed as he rushed out of a mountain range and flew towards the core area.

"Yes, Master." Wu Xintong and Fang He both had shining eyes, because they knew how much wealth they had made in the past eight days.

"The three areas we dug up together contain a total of 1089258 Thunderstones." Jiang Chen was extremely pleased.

"By the way, I should warn everyone, especially Mohanderson's team and Luo Feng's team, that they should stop now. Otherwise, even with the small detectors and laser guns I gave them, their chances of dying won't be small."

After flying for a while, Jiang Chenfei began to notify and warn the other two teams through the virtual universe.

Then, they continued flying towards the core area of ​​the realm within a realm.

Sure enough, as they embarked on their journey back to the core area, Jiang Chen and his team clearly discovered that every area marked on the rough map of the Thunderstone branch was now occupied by teams continuously mining Thunderstone.

This drastically reduced the chances of small teams like theirs, consisting of only a few or a dozen people, excavating Thunderstone.

"We're almost at the castle. We've been working non-stop for the past 16 days, so everyone must be exhausted. Let's rest here for a bit."

Jiang Chen and his two companions stopped in a forest not far from the castle to rest and recuperate, conserving their energy before returning to the castle.

"Master, we now have 108 million Thunderstones. What treasure should we exchange them for?" Fang He asked in confusion. "Should we exchange them for the Heart of the Star? It is said that when a life-bearing planet dies of old age, there is a certain probability that a crystal core that gathers all the remaining life force will be born in its core—the Heart of the Star."

"The Heart of the Stars is a rare treasure for martial artists, enabling them to evolve their bodies!"

"A D6-class railgun, a restricted-level treasure, you can't buy it even if you have the money but no connections," Wu Xintong suggested.

"No, let's exchange for the Fruit of Life first, then exchange for two Tier 5 weapons." Jiang Chen smiled and shook his head.

"The Fruit of Life? I've heard that even a World Lord-level expert can recover from an injury by eating the Fruit of Life?" Fang He asked in surprise.

"Master, isn't this what the Realm Lord takes?" Wu Xintong asked, puzzled.

Jiang Chen smiled slightly, offering no explanation.

The D6-class railgun is very large, and the projectiles need to be continuously accelerated inside the railgun, requiring about 30 seconds of preparation time.

Now that he has both the Mechanical Race spaceship and the Qingxuan spaceship, the weapons on those spaceships are far superior to his own.

The Heart of the Stars does promote physical evolution, but the speed is still too slow; it's good for ordinary martial artists. However, Jiang Chen's human evolution will not have a bottleneck, allowing for significant improvement and evolution.

Therefore, there's no need to waste Thunderstones to exchange for these two.

The Fruit of Life contains a large amount of life force. As long as the Realm Lord is not completely destroyed, even if he is seriously injured, one fruit can restore him.

The previously insane Unidentified Crystals possessed life force; these crystals could empower humans, plants, and...

Let animals evolve.

The "Fruit of Life," which is thousands of times more expensive than wood crystal, can also help humans, plants, and animals evolve.

It's equivalent to a high-grade wood crystal, thousands of times better. However, because it contains such powerful life force, it would explode if Jiang Chen took it, as he wouldn't be able to absorb its abundant life force.

However, only by being eaten by plants and animals with incredibly high cellular activity and enormous size can they absorb as much life force as possible to evolve.

For example, the cloud-patterned vine.

Jiang Chen's current Moyun Vine is at the seventh level of the Hengxing stage. Its limit is to spread out 36 main vines, and each main vine can also spread out many branching small vines.

At the same time, the maximum length of a single main vine can reach about 30,000 meters, and it also has an equally massive root system.

It can be said that even a life fruit with a life force tens of millions of times stronger than Mu Yajing's could not cause the entire Moyun Vine to explode!

Luo Feng's Cloud Vine is at the fourth level of the Eternal Star level. With the help of the Life Fruit, he could definitely break through to the Universe level in one leap.

Therefore, Jiang Chen's seventh-tier Hengxing Cloud Vine, relying on the Fruit of Life, can also break through to the cosmic level.

With the cosmic-level Moyun Vine as an ally, they could easily kill many team leaders and seize their spatial storage devices.

"If others don't kill me, I will be killed; this is the way of great struggle!"

Jiang Chen recalled his experiences along the way. If they hadn't run fast and had the detector, they would have been killed long ago. Now everyone is crazy about the Thunderstone and those treasures. It's not that you won't be killed just because you don't want to kill.

Everyone is competing!

The next morning.

When the white sphere of light high in the realm within a realm brightened, Jiang Chen and his two companions set off again for the core area.

The core area, the plains, Thunder Castle.

In the distance, in the heart of the Thunder Castle, a massive number of adventurers surrounded it, creating a truly spectacular sight.

They surrounded the entire city so tightly that it was impossible for anyone to sneak in.

The five factions have joined forces to block the road to Thunder Castle. Even if you have Thunderstone, how can you get in?

"We're surrounded and sealed off. Can we still go in and exchange for the treasures?" Fang He looked at Jiang Chen with concern.

"It's alright. We're now under the control of the Mingyu Demon of Sanfu Mountain, so we can go in. Follow me," Jiang Chen said with a smile, leisurely flying towards the entire blockade army.

"Stop!"

The vast army of adventurers was like an impregnable fortress. Among them, a burly man of the werewolf race stretched out his hand and shouted.

Jiang Chen and the other two landed and shouted at the same time:

"We are the demon servants of Lord Mingyu of Sanfu Mountain."

"drop."

The burly werewolf looked down at the smart computer screen on his arm, where simple information such as the portraits of Jiang Chen and the other two appeared.

After a brief comparison, the burly werewolf laughed heartily and said, "So you're a brother from Three Axe Mountain. The Three Axe Mountain men are over there."

"Yes, thank you." Jiang Chen smiled slightly.

Jiang Chen led the other two into the crowd.

The burly werewolf used telepathy to call out, "Wait a minute, do you have any Thunderstones for sale? We're willing to pay 50 cosmic crystals for one Thunderstone."

"Sorry, Lord Mingyu forbids buying and selling," Jiang Chen said telepathically, then smiled slightly and walked into the crowd.

The allied forces are stationed there, with a tight external presence but a loose internal presence.

Thirty-six serious guard teams stood outside, but inside, laughter and chatter filled the air. There were also many quiet transactions taking place.

The deal for Thunderstone.

After waiting for a while, Luo Feng and his two companions, along with Mohanderson and his group of five, arrived as agreed.

Of the ten people in total, only seven remained: five of Mohanderson's five men and five of his bodyguards. Three of the bodyguards had died!

"I didn't expect that the initial excavation of Thunderstone would be so intense, resulting in the deaths of three bodyguards." Jia Yi shook his head and gave a bitter smile.

"Yes, I almost died too!" Tripati's expression was still somewhat terrified. "I was seriously injured and on the verge of death. If it weren't for the Wood Crystal's healing, I wouldn't be back now."

"I think I understand now. People will stop at nothing to get Thunderstone. There will definitely be the fiercest competition soon, and that will be incredibly bloody!" Mohandson said in a deep voice.

"Yes, so we've discussed it. We plan to exchange the Thunderstones we have for some treasures, sell the rest of the stones, and then stay here and not go out!" Jia Yi nodded.

"Yes, one must know how to seize opportunities, but also when to back down from difficulties." Hong nodded slightly.

"Pfft, Thunderstone isn't cheap these days. That lion's head was really ripping people off. Look at this transaction over there!"

"Some people say that 100 or even 200 Cosmic Crystals can be exchanged for a Thunderstone!" Thor said excitedly.

"I just overheard someone buying and selling a Thunderstone for 300 cubic cosmic crystals," Sokolov remarked.

"Although cosmic crystals are very precious, they are nothing compared to those treasures," Luo Feng said.

"Yes, but now each Thunderstone represents those treasures, so it's understandable to pay a high price," Jiang Chen said with a smile. "It's just that some level nine Hengxing can't resist the temptation of money. 300 cubic cosmic crystals is equivalent to 10 billion Qianwu coins."

"How could a level nine cultivator of the ordinary constellation resist such temptation?"

"Haha, I almost couldn't resist the temptation." Thor chuckled heartily, stroking his bald head, and everyone was chatting and laughing.

Although cosmic crystals are precious, those treasures would fetch terrifyingly high prices if sold casually outside.

Ordinary Tier 3 Force weapons sell for 20 to 30 billion Black Dragon Coins.

A fourth-tier Force weapon can sell for nearly 100 billion Qianwu coins.

A fifth-tier Force weapon costs an average of nearly 100 billion cosmic coins, equivalent to nearly 100 million cubic cosmic crystals.

Even a domain lord would feel the pinch of buying a fifth-tier weapon. Compared to those fifth-tier weapons, the cosmic crystals used to trade thunderstones are like gold compared to iron.

"Let's go exchange for the treasures." Jiang Chen stood up.

Of the three teams, Jiang Chen only represented his own team.

Mohanderson's group was represented by Mohanderson, the former Third Speaker.

The three-person team of Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen, with Luo Feng as the representative.

Finally, Jiang Chen, Luo Feng, and Mohanderson, filled with excitement, walked one after another towards the castle.