Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 125 Contributing Treasures and Amazing Wealth

Residential area, mountain palace.

Inside the palace, the tall and imposing avatar of the Flame God sat cross-legged, with world rings and various treasures floating in front of him.

This is all that Shen Mu has gained over the years.

The most eye-catching one is the ancient bell, which is entirely purple and covered with dense, mysterious characters.

"It looks like we'll have to keep a low profile for a while."

Shen Mu planned to have the Yan God Clan clone stay in seclusion at the military base for a while.

Countless immortals outside the city are waiting for Shen Mu to leave the military base.

It's important to understand that the allure of powerful treasures for achieving immortality as a king is absolutely irresistible.

Fortunately, no one else is aware that the Purple Bell King's "Demon Sound Fire God Bell" is a top-tier treasure.

Otherwise, even powerful figures at the level of King of Kings or even Universe Venerables would covet it.

hum!

With a thought, Shen Mu released an invisible wisp of spiritual energy, which seeped into the purple ancient bell. He would refine it first.

"Boom..." A roar resounded in my consciousness.

An ancient message surged from the ancient bell into Shen Mu's sea of ​​consciousness.

The ancient bell contains a set of combat techniques called "Demon Sound Fire God Bell," which is an ultimate secret technique at the level of a cosmic sage.

It is a level higher than the combat secrets contained in Shen Mu's Torrent Spear, which only contains a set of secrets at the peak of the Universe Venerable level.

"To master the first level, one needs to have a high level of mastery of the Fire Law and a thorough understanding of spatial sealing. That's quite demanding."

Shen Mu's attainments in the Law of Fire are almost negligible; he has only just crossed the threshold of the Law.

Aside from the two major laws of water and space, Shen Mu's comprehension of the other eight laws is at this level.

Specifically, each law level, taken out individually, is equivalent to the law level of the top 100 during the Genius Battle.

The reason I was able to gain this understanding of the laws is because when I created my own secret technique, I browsed through the tens of thousands of secret techniques left behind by my teacher, the Lord of Ice Peak.

These tens of thousands of secret techniques encompass all ten laws. Shen Mu merely browsed and learned from the ideas behind creating these secret techniques, without deliberately cultivating them.

However, these secret techniques inevitably contain parts that explain the basic principles of the laws, and Shen Mu naturally gained some insights into the laws while browsing them.

There's nothing we can do; the talent for laws at the World Lord level is just that high. We have to understand.

"Mastering the Law of Fire is relatively easy, but comprehending the spatial sealing technique is a bit difficult."

The so-called mastery of the Law of Fire means that one is only one step away from fully comprehending the entire law; taking another step will bring one to the perfection of the law.

Given Shen Mu's current talent in the laws, this isn't a big problem. He can gain the recognition of the laws in 10 years, and master the Law of Fire in a hundred years.

However, if he could comprehend the spatial sealing, he would be out of luck. Shen Mu's direction in comprehending the spatial laws was teleportation.

His mastery of spatial laws is roughly at the level of the 18th level of the Bridge to Heaven, which can be considered a king-level understanding of the laws.

To comprehend any one of the three techniques—teleportation, sealing, or strangulation—is equivalent to the enlightenment of the 19th level of the Bridge to Heaven, which is considered the peak level of the King-level enlightenment.

The next step is to fully comprehend all three major changes, which is the insight gained from the 20th floor of the Bridge to Heaven and the limit of the Immortal Realm.

Shen Mu is still far from mastering teleportation, but with the advantage of the Azure Dragon clone teleportation technique, he has a chance to master it in another two thousand years.

If we were to start from scratch and fully understand a blockade, it would take at least four or five thousand years.

"This bell is indeed nice, but unfortunately it's not suitable for me. It would be better to sell it and exchange it for a more valuable item."

This purple bell is actually quite effective; it can reduce both physical and soul attacks by 90%.

The only pity is that it doesn't fit Shen Mu. It would be better to exchange it for treasure points and get a few treasures for each of my three clones.

After making the decision, Shen Mu no longer hesitated. He directly connected his consciousness to the virtual universe and chose to apply to return to Chaos City.

Fortunately, after returning to Chaos City, Shen Mu was able to go into seclusion and cultivate for a period of time.

His mastery of secret techniques is already quite high, but his understanding of laws is holding him back.

Being able to create a pinnacle secret technique at the World Lord level already qualifies one as one of the most outstanding beings in the universe.

As for creating the ultimate secret technique at the realm master level, that is basically impossible; the difficulty of the two is on completely different levels.

Even the secret techniques created by his own teachers, the Lord of Ice Peak and the Lord of Chaos City, the head of the Virtual Universe Company, when they were at the Realm Lord level, were only at the peak level.

Given Shen Mu's current status and authority, applying to enter Chaos City for secluded cultivation is not a problem; it was approved almost without any review.

"Let the Yan God Clan clone remain in the outer battlefield as a smokescreen, and let the Azure Dragon clone return to Chaos City with the treasure."

This time, upon returning to the original secret realm, Shen Mu directly used the Star-Eating Grass to perform the Divine Kingdom Teleportation, which was very convenient.

……

Two weeks later, the initial universe.

An endless, chaotic mist surged and billowed as a jet-black triangular spaceship sped through the air.

A moment later, the spaceship hovered above the entrance to Chaos City.

Click!

The spaceship hatch opened, and Shen Mu, dressed in a golden battle robe, flew out.

"Senior brother!"

Within Chaos City, a streak of red light flashed out and landed in front of Shen Mu, transforming into a sharp young man clad in Moyun Vine Battle Armor.

"It's been seven hundred years, and you've gotten more and more ferocious."

Shen Mu punched Luo Feng in the chest and said with a smile.

Luo Feng rubbed his chest and couldn't help but say, "Go easy, Senior Brother. When did you learn from Rong Jun to punch people first?"

Shen Mu laughed and said, "It seems that you have made considerable progress in your path of the Beast God over the past seven hundred years."

"I'm not far from mastering the Scale Armor Chapter." Luo Feng smiled.

For Shen Mu, it has been seven hundred years, but for Luo Feng, who has been staying in the initial universe, only two hundred years have passed.

This rate of progress is much faster than his original timeline.

"Let's go, it's been a long time, let's have a good drink."

Luo Feng nodded, and the two brothers transformed into a streak of light, disappearing into Chaos City.

……

After a brief reunion with Luo Feng, the two brothers returned to their respective cultivation journeys.

Shen Mu did not return directly to the Ice Mountain Palace, but instead chose to exchange the precious Purple Bell for precious treasure points.

To exchange treasures for valuable points, you first need to apply in the virtual universe. Only after the application is approved can you go to the Treasure Vault Hall in the Chaos City Lord's Mansion.

Because this ancient palace is usually closed and is blessed by the primordial power of the entire universe, even the Lord of the Universe cannot force his way in.

call out!

A golden streak of light flashed across the sky and landed in front of an ancient palace, revealing Shen Mu's figure.

"Boom..."

The ancient palace gates slowly opened, revealing a bronze gate over a hundred meters wide that was fully open.

As Shen Mu stepped inside, the palace doors closed once more. Apart from the Lord of Chaos City, no one could see what was inside the treasure vault, nor would they know the contributions of the donors or how many treasures they had exchanged.

The Treasury Hall was very spacious, with only a huge stone slab about 100 meters in diameter placed in the very center.

Once the treasure is placed inside the stone plate, the virtual universe system can perform a detailed inspection of it through the stone plate.

Shen Mu flipped his right hand, and a stream of purple light appeared, transforming into the ancient purple treasure bell, which was then placed on the stone plate.

hum...

Strands of cyan silk threads rose from the stone slab, enveloping the entire purple ancient bell, conducting a very detailed examination.

Suddenly a voice rang out in the side hall.

"The Demonic Sound Fire God Bell, offering it to the clan will grant 89 Treasure Points. Shen Mu, are you willing to offer this treasure to the clan?"

The notification sounded gently, because all those who offered treasures to the tribe were contributing to the tribe.

Because the same treasure, when offered to the tribe, will only receive the lowest value.

For example, Shen Mu's purple bell, when offered to the clan, can earn 89 treasure points.

Others might need to spend hundreds of Treasure Points to buy the Purple Bell.

The price difference is a contribution to the community.

These contribution points will be converted into actual cosmic crystals and various resources to cultivate numerous geniuses in the core layers of the five top powers.

"I wish to offer the treasure to my people."

As Shen Mu finished speaking, with a cracking sound, the center of the stone slab suddenly split open, revealing a black abyss to both sides.

The purple ancient bell was drawn by an invisible force and plunged into the black abyss. Then the separated stone discs closed up and returned to their original state.

"This is a detailed form for exchanging precious treasures from the human race."

The gentle voice rang out again.

Then a virtual projection appeared in mid-air above the main hall; it was a huge gray form.

The treasures that can appear here are all precious treasures that cannot be measured by Hunyuan units and points. They are roughly divided into four categories: supreme treasures, major treasures, materials, and special resources.

"Let's exchange for two defensive treasures first."

The avatar of the Flame God Clan is protected by royal armor, which makes it immune to material attacks with a power no greater than a million times that of a World Lord.

An attack with over a million times the power of a World Lord can be weakened by 90%, making it as effective as a defensive treasure against powerful beings below the level of a Universe Overlord.

Since the cosmic overlord could directly shatter the royal armor, it naturally had no weakening effect.

Shen Mu quickly identified two decent defensive treasures.

"The Ocean Cauldron, a common defensive treasure, is worth 8.6 treasure points."

"Ice Dragon Armor, a common defensive treasure, worth 9.2 treasure points."

Shen Mu immediately confirmed the exchange and then focused his attention on the weapon-type treasures.

The Torrent Spear is sufficient for close combat for the time being, but I still need a magic weapon for the Spirit Master class.

In the end, Shen Mu chose a high-level weapon treasure called "Wind and Snow Shuttle," which is suitable for water and space-related laws and can be divided into 10081 small swords.

The Wind and Snow Shuttle is worth 21.4 Treasure Points, plus two defensive Treasures, for a total of 39.2 Treasure Points.

"I have 49.8 Treasure Points left... Hmm, I'll auction off 1.8 Treasure Points for points and Primordial Units, then I won't have to worry about cultivation resources anymore."

It has to be a valuable treasure.

Although the official price is that 1 Treasure Point can be exchanged for 10 trillion Mixed Yuan Units, Mixed Yuan Units cannot be exchanged for Treasure Points.

At an auction, Shen Mu's 1.8 Treasure Points could easily fetch 25 trillion points or Mixed Yuan Units.

Shen Mu was quite short of money before.

Whether it's the Earthling's own cultivation of the amplitude-based secret technique of "Black Hole Evolution" or the expansion of the inner world, both require trillions of primordial units.

"Black Hole Evolution" is the highest-level combat manual publicly sold by the human race, although it is only priced at hundreds of billions of points.

However, to fully master all the secret techniques, the cultivation resources required would exceed hundreds of billions.

The most powerful amplitude-type secret technique, "Black Hole Battle Body," requires a large amount of precious resources to master, some of which cannot even be purchased with points.

It should be noted that the vast majority of cosmic masters do not possess a hundredfold amplitude; those who do are basically cosmic overlords.

Only his teacher, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom, was an exception. Even without armor, he was a high-level cosmic venerable, and with a full set of equipment, he would be considered a standard overlord.

Another aspect is the expansion of the inner world, which also costs money. This is slightly better; although it still requires a lot of treasures and materials, they can be purchased using Chaos Units and Points.

If it's simply about refining cosmic crystals to expand one's inner world, then it doesn't require much money.

However, the size of the internal world is estimated to be not very large, at most a million or tens of millions of kilometers.

To possess an inner world spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers or even larger, one needs to absorb and refine enough treasures to make the primordial core even harder.

The stronger the pronucleus, the larger the internal world it can contain.

The larger the inner world, the higher the number of clone genes that the clone technique can generate.

After exchanging the treasures, Shen Mu returned directly to his icy courtyard.

"How about we create a third clone first..."

Shen Mu currently has two clone slots remaining, one of which has already been selected to nurture the Nine Nether Sea clone.

Given the current size of Shen Mu's internal world, it's unlikely that the process will fail.

As for the other clone, it must at least be at the level of nurturing a World Tree.

Genes, secret techniques, and talents must all be top-notch.

The genetic hierarchy of the World Tree is self-evident; a World Tree of the Lord level starts with a thousand times more genes.

In terms of talent in the laws of time and space, those talents above these laws are two or three levels higher than the so-called "favorites of time" and "favorites of space".

Other lower-level laws' talents are also a level higher than those of the peak bloodline law's favored children.

In addition, it possesses a powerful secret technique for controlling space and time, the effects of which are almost identical to the space and time control of the Lord of the Universe.

Moreover, after the World Tree ascends to the level of a Universe Lord, its ability to control spacetime is stronger than that of other Universe Lords at the same level.

……

The world inside the body.

Melting snowmelt flows from the foot of the majestic glaciers, transforming into endless streams and waterways that spread throughout the vast continent.

Ultimately, these surging rivers flow from the continent into the boundless ocean with a diameter of over 100 million kilometers.

hum!

A ripple spread across the space, and Shen Mu's figure emerged.

"Let's try to create a clone of the World Tree first."

A world ring appeared in Shen Mu's palm, followed by a leaf from the World Tree that looked like jade.

This is a tattered leaf, part of which Shen Mu used to analyze the World Tree's innate secret techniques.

With a thought, Shen Mu sent a sharp glint across his palm, and the crystal-clear, emerald-green leaves of the World Tree split in two once more.

Shen Mu put one of the leaves away again, while the other leaf slowly rose up and eventually hovered in the center of his inner world.

"Innate Secret Technique - Clone!"

As Shen Mu's thoughts stirred, his entire inner world began to rumble, and endless world power began to converge wildly, enveloping the leaves of the World Tree and transforming into a giant water sphere.

A moment later, the entire water sphere suddenly roared.

Bang!

The next instant, the entire inner world trembled, and the huge water sphere exploded, transforming into endless world power that dissolved into the inner world.

"It seems that the internal world, spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers, is still not enough."

Shen Mu was not discouraged.

I didn't have much hope to begin with, so I'll wait and see how things go as my inner world continues to expand.

If all else fails, then wait for the Flame God Clan's clone to achieve perfect genes, and for its original core to be strengthened by the origin of the universe, directly reaching the universe's limit of 1 trillion kilometers.

At that time, Shen Mu can create whatever clone he wants, as long as the other party is a World Lord-level being, there will be no failure.

"The World Tree failed to be created, and we don't have the materials for the Blood Sea Avatar. Let's put the third avatar on hold for now."

The human race was unaware that the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds was not a unique avatar in the universe; this information was only discovered by Luo Feng during his exploration of the Nine Netherworlds in the original work.

After all, with a diameter of 12 light-years, the Ocean God Body was almost universally acknowledged by other powerful beings as the unique life form in the universe, and no one expected that the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds had created offspring.

"Let's expand our inner world first."

Shen Mu connected his consciousness to the virtual universe and anonymously put 1.8 Treasure Points up for sale, priced at 20 trillion Chaos Units.

If it were auctioned, it could fetch a higher price, but Shen Mu doesn't want to wait for the auction right now.

As soon as Shen Mu put it up for sale, it was bought by an anonymous Venerable in less than two minutes, and 20 trillion Chaos Units were credited to his account immediately.

"Okay, let's start spending money."

"Ice that never melts, the ultimate liquid of the netherworld, water that never boils..."

Shen Mu purchased a large number of water-attribute treasures, which will all be sent into his inner world to be consumed by the Heavenly Pool on the central divine mountain.

Shen Mu's Heavenly Pool is similar to the Golden Horn Boundary Stone of the Golden Horned Beast, which is used to devour and absorb various treasures to strengthen the original core.

On that day, various precious water-attribute treasures were delivered to the Ice Mountain Hall of the City Lord's Mansion, and Shen Mu personally signed for them.

(End of this chapter)