Repairing the Star Gazing Mirror

Zhang Yue has been incredibly busy these past few days.

Lin Zhen obtained some kind of secret manual, and then returned to his tent and refused to come out, leaving everything to him.

If Zhang Yue were a businessman, he truly couldn't understand Lin Zhen's current actions.

This kid is rich, but he's too extravagant. Apart from regularly placing some pre-filled equipment at the tent entrance, he's nowhere to be found the rest of the time. Moreover, Lin Zhen gave Zhang Yue a large sum of money!

Three hundred billion!

This 300 billion in cash was meant for Zhang Yue to use for acquisitions. Lin Zhen has even started collecting those strange coins now, both Silver Coin and Gold Coin, and he's also acquiring a rare White Crystal Coin. I don't know what use that thing is besides being pretty.

That's fine, it's not worth much money, but Lin Zhen started acquiring a large number of Star Artifact.

Many War God now possess Star Artifact, some even more than one or two. Some unused Star Artifact are difficult to sell for the time being, but Lin Zhen has begun to acquire them.

Lin Zhen accepts all kinds of items, whether they are low-grade, mid-grade, or top-grade. He mainly buys weapons, and he buys very few armors. The cheaper the better, and the more the better.

Zhang Yue had done the math: if Lin Zhen hadn't made such a massive acquisition, this stall could have earned as much as 50 billion a day!

However, under Lin Zhen's frenzied acquisitions, the 50 billion yuan earned every day was not only lost, but also 50 billion yuan was lost in the process!

Especially after this news spread, many experts from all over the world, at the level of War God or above, came here specifically to sell their equipment. On the busiest day, Zhang Yue even spent 110 billion on acquisitions!

The money was flowing out like water, making Zhang Yue's heart tremble. As far as he knew, Lin Zhen already had more than two thousand Star Artifact. He really didn't know what Lin Zhen wanted these Star Artifact for, since they couldn't be eaten or drunk.

Moreover, Lin Zhen's tent had been moved quite far away. Sometimes there was a fire there, and sometimes it was being blown around by the wind. Nobody knew what he was up to.

Recently, he heard that the Divine Cult seemed to be planning something big, with the Holy Son Yan Huang meeting with leaders from various countries around the world. He didn't know what they were discussing, but Zhang Yue didn't have a chance to tell Lin Zhen. He could only wait for Lin Zhen to come out.

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Lin Zhen has been extremely busy these past few days. Apart from completely memorizing the profound meaning of the fifth level of the Nine Heavy Spears River, the Overturning River, he hasn't even had time to cultivate. He's been doing something else.

Stars shift!

Lin Zhen far ahead. When humanity leaves the Solar System and ventures into interstellar space, the outside world will be even less livable.

For martial artists to cultivate and reach the pinnacle, talent and perseverance alone are not enough; they also need a lot of resources, which means money.

Although Lin Zhen has collected a considerable amount of interstellar currency, it is far from enough; he needs to develop the ability to make money.

So he finally began something he had been planning for a long time: Star Shift.

Repairing Star Gazing Mirror is called star transfer. Star transfer is not a simple matter. In interstellar space, there is a very lucrative but also very expensive profession called Star Transfer Master. Just like repairing Star Gazing Mirror, it involves Star Power Transfer from other Star Artifact into a discarded Star Artifact of the same level to complete the star transfer.

It's not necessary to transfer one out of ten Star Artifact. The higher the Star Transfer Master's level and the greater the transfer speed, the fewer Star Artifact will be required.

To become Star Transfer Master, one must first become Star Transfer Master Apprentice.

Apprentices are divided into four levels: third rank, second rank, first rank, and Star Transfer Master.

A third-grade Star Transfer Master Apprentice must achieve a passing score of three to one, meaning they must be able to use three Low-Grade Star Weapon to complete the Star Shifting process with one Low-Grade Star Weapon.

The ratio for the second-grade weapon is also three to one, but it involves the Star Shifting technique used to complete Mid-Grade Star Artifact.

The ratio for the first-grade weapon is still three to one, which means completing the star shift of Top-Grade Star Artifact.

The Star Transfer Master is responsible for completing the star shift of Top-Grade Star Artifact. The consumption ratio is three to one. If it is lower than this ratio, it is not considered qualified.

As for true Star Transfer Master, they can Sacred Artifact three to one time, and for Star Artifact -level Star Shifts, the success rate is almost one to one.

Currently, almost no one on Earth has the financial resources to do this, because star shifting is something that must be done from the bottom up. The success of Star Transfer Master is built on countless failed star shifts, so that they can gradually complete star shifts with fewer Star Artifact.

But Lin Zhen can. He has 400 billion in cash and his superb ability to infuse equipment. He can make money while acquiring other things, thus mastering the Star Shift technique.

However, Lin Zhen did not immediately begin the star transfer. He was familiar with the star transfer process. He already had Star Transfer Furnace, which was used to place the target to be transferred to the upper layer, then place the materials Star Artifact to the lower layer, and then use the powerful Flame Power to calcify them, and then Star Power Transfer to the upper layer.

He currently possesses a deep orange flame, which is at most capable of moving a mid-grade Star Shift Star Artifact. To achieve a higher level, he needs powerful firepower.

However, if he wants his firepower to be even stronger, he will need at least a large number of Quasi SS-Rank crystals.

He didn't have that kind of crystal, and it wasn't available for sale on the market, so he needed to resonate with the Wind Element, using the wind's power to make the fire even stronger.

Lin Zhen also acquired a lot of wind Element Crystal, and this time he was able to resonate with them and strengthen them.

Resonance wasn't difficult for Lin Zhen Lin Zhen, who possessed the Dark Star. He completed it in just two hours, as the Wind Element within his body could generate a wind force of up to level six.

But that wasn't enough. Lin Zhen absorbed a lot of A-Rank Element Crystal, raising the wind force within his body to level nine.

Level nine wasn't enough, so Lin Zhen absorbed some S-level crystals as well, ultimately bringing his wind force to level twelve.

A level 12 wind might sound strong, but Lin Zhen knew that it wasn't that strong. Yue Zhenhua's wind force reached level 15, which was the true power of a hurricane, but that required a Quasi SS-Rank crystal, which he didn't have.

The strongest winds on Earth can reach Force 18, which would be a devastating storm for humans, but it's nothing in interstellar space.

As Lin Zhen knew, there were levels above level 18. Level 21 storms were called Doomsday Storm, which could easily destroy all traces of the earth, even causing mountains to collapse and Continental Plate to drift.

Above level 21 are level 24 hurricanes, known as Star River Storm, which can even destroy asteroids.

Above level 24, one can reach level 27, which is called Space Storm and can sweep across a star system. Lin Zhen had only heard of it in legends.

Those things are too far away for Lin Zhen at the moment. His current level twelve wind force, even if it is reduced to a wisp and sent out, is enough for his current Star Shift.

After absorbing the Wind Element, Lin Zhen even tried absorbing and resonating with the Earth Element.

He also purchased some Earth Element energy crystals, both A-Rank and S-grade. As long as he could absorb Earth Element, Dark Star would have real soil and could materialize. He believed that his strength would definitely be able to make another breakthrough.

However, after trying, Lin Zhen was frustrated to find that because the Dark Star was already very condensed, lower-level powers could no longer be integrated.

In other words, if Lin Zhen wants to resonate and absorb Earth Element, A-Rank and S-grade crystals are no longer sufficient; he needs at least Quasi SS-Rank or even higher crystals to achieve this.

This discovery disappointed Lin Zhen somewhat. He should have absorbed the Earth Element earlier. He waited for a while to stabilize his realm, but something went wrong.

"Forget it, what we haven't absorbed yet, we haven't absorbed yet. We'll deal with it when we get some high-grade earth Element Crystal later."

Lin Zhen didn't dwell on the matter, but instead began the Star Shift.

The first thing he took out was a suit of armor he had obtained from Yue Feng. Its Star Power had been completely exhausted, and he placed it on the upper level of the Star Transfer Furnace. Ten Low-Grade Star Weapon were placed on the lower level.

With a flick of his wrist, flames appeared and were poured into the Star Transfer Furnace.

Then, with another wave of his hand, a gust of wind reaching force seven blew in, blowing continuously and causing the temperature of the flames to rise higher and higher.

The ten Low-Grade Star Weapon below began to emit a faint starlight and continued to move upwards.

Lin Zhen tried his best to stop the loss of Star Power with his Mental Power, but his attempt was somewhat clumsy.

Ten minutes later...

A burst of starlight swept across the scene, and all ten Low-Grade Star Weapon below were rendered useless.

"Phew! I failed, but it's okay. My skills aren't refined enough yet, and the coordination between firepower and wind power isn't very good. Most Star Transfer Master in interstellar space only have firepower and no wind power. After all, not everyone can master two elemental powers. I must lay this foundation so that I can become the best Star Transfer Master in the future. I must coordinate fire and wind power well. Anyway, I have plenty of Star Artifact, so I can afford to use them."

In the following days, Lin Zhen began to consume resources frantically, turning one Star Artifact after another into scrap, while his star shifting technique gradually became more proficient.

On the second day, Lin Zhen finally managed to repair the armor at the cost of ten Star Artifact.

With this breakthrough, Lin Zhen's subsequent progress went much more smoothly.

With the continuous wear and tear on a large number of Star Artifact, he managed to move one star with just five Low-Grade Star Weapon by the second night.

On the morning of the third day, he reached four items.

On the third night, he finally met the requirement of a three-to-one ratio, thus becoming a low-grade Star Transfer Master Apprentice.

However, Lin Zhen did not stop; he began to try using a Mid-Grade Star Artifact.

Lin Zhen consumed over a thousand Low-Grade Star Weapon and over six hundred Mid-Grade Star Artifact within five days!

However, his achievements were also enormous. By noon on the sixth day, Lin Zhen had repaired three to one Mid-Grade Star Artifact and two to one Low-Grade Star Weapon, making him a mid-grade Star Transfer Master Apprentice.

By the morning of the seventh day, he had consumed over a hundred more Top-Grade Star Artifact, a rate at which he spent money that was unprecedented.

And he finally completed the repair of the Star Gazing Mirror after paying a heavy price with a large number of Top-Grade Star Artifact!