Gu Ding, Who Slept Right After Eating
[The second update won't be until around 2 AM. Ugh, my sleep schedule is such a mess!]
The news that a five-star divine artifact was for sale at the Auction House was widely publicized the day after the Gu Ding Team left the Auction House.
Information spread rapidly on the SkyNet, and by the third day, almost everyone in the Great Boundary River knew about it. The news of the sale of the Five-Star Divine Artifacts not only spread in the Great Boundary River but was also disseminated into the Universe Sea.
Some powerful individuals who had previously passed through the Fei Me Universe Country or the Great Boundary River were able to directly access the information about the sale of the five-star divine artifacts through the SkyNet. Many powerful individuals flocked to the site.
Five-star divine artifacts are not common items, even at Auction House in the Universe Sea.
Some High-rank God desperately wanted to acquire this armor, as it would significantly increase their chances of successfully transcending their tribulations. The Heavenly Tribulation leading from a High-rank God to Peak-rank God is an extremely powerful one, capable of eliminating over 99% of powerful individuals. Obtaining this armor would greatly increase their chances of advancing from High-rank God to Peak-rank God.
Anyone who had been to the Oul Ruins guessed that the person who consigned this five-star artifact was likely a member of Gu Ding's team, or even Gu Ding himself. This was because, according to the Merit Points ranking, only seven people could afford to exchange for a five-star artifact. Of those seven, five were members of Gu Ding Team.
The other two are Sharp from the Freedom Alliance and Du Long, an Interstellar Pirate. However, the probability of these two obtaining a five-star divine artifact is low, because Low-rank God are essentially ineffective against divine artifacts of three stars or higher. Even if a Five-Star Low-rank God poured all of their divine energy into it, it would be impossible to meet the energy requirements of a Three-Star Divine Object, let alone a four- or five-star one.
A high-quality Four-Star Divine Object can contain over 80% of the divine source within the body of Peak-rank God deities. One can only imagine how terrifying the amount of divine source a five-star divine artifact can hold.
To some extent, in the hands of those lacking sufficient power, there isn't much difference between three-star or higher divine artifacts and one- One-Star Divine Object. This is because Low-rank God can fully utilize the effects of One-Star Divine Object, but activating a three- One-Star Divine Object or higher artifact requires tens of thousands of times more divine energy. Therefore, it's difficult to unleash its full power.
If one doesn't have many Merit Points left, the most common choice is to directly exchange them for cultivation resources. Exchanging for cultivation resources is the most direct way to improve one's strength. Billions of Merit Points are equivalent to hundreds of billions of Universe Crystal, and the resources that can be exchanged are enough to elevate one from Low-rank God all the way to High-rank God.
Of course, not everyone believed that the person who consigned this five-star divine item was a member of the Gu Ding Team, as news had already spread that the Gu Ding Team was no longer on Ju Fu Star. These people thought that since the Gu Ding Team was no longer on Ju Fu Star, it was unlikely that they had consigned it for auction.
However, some have pointed out that whether Gu Ding and his group are on Ju Fu Star or not has little to do with the auction of the five-star divine item, because the Auction House are directly transferred to Gu Ding and his group's accounts through the SkyNet network, and it is not necessary for them to be present at the Auction House.
These days, news about this five-star artifact and the whereabouts of the Gu Ding Team have become hot topics.
Gu Ding, however, remained unconscious for ten days and ten nights in Robert's domain before waking up.
When he awoke, the permanent enhancement effect of the "Myriad Devil Elephant Realm Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body was increased to three hundred times. What surprised Gu Ding even more was that the original upper limit of the temporary enhancement effect of the Giant Strength Realm one thousand times) had also been broken; now, the temporary enhancement effect of his Giant Strength Realm had been increased to two thousand times. The upper limit was still unknown.
"Although there was a slight accident during the process of consuming the Black Iron Dragon Blood Marrow, which gained sentience, it was still suppressed by the peculiar energy within your body. Moreover, not only has the cultivation effect of the Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body been enhanced, but even your physical strength has increased tenfold while that peculiar energy was repairing your injuries. It has directly reached the strength of One-Star Low-rank God."
"The 'Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body' can be renamed 'Dragon Elephant Emperor Body' because the original 1,000-fold temporary Combat Strength increase limit of the Giant Strength Realm has been raised to 10,000 times. The original 1,000-fold permanent physical enhancement limit of the Devil Elephant Realm has also been raised to 10,000 times. Moreover, I predict that this limit may be raised even further." The Sea Emperor seemed very optimistic. He once again projected Gu Ding's latest physical data.
Name: Gu Ding
Gender: Male
Age: 15
[Gene Level: Tier 13]
[Cell Comprehensive Index: One Star]
[Mental Strength Index: One Star]
[Divine Source Strength: Ten Stars]
[Fated Divine Power: Indestructible Golden Body (Part 1)]
[Divine Power: Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body (Devil Elephant Realm)]
Special Ability 1: Level 1 Advanced Berserk
[Special Ability 2: Level 3 High-Speed Regeneration]
Special Ability 3: Level 1 Advanced Damage Stacking (Curse Ability)
[Special Ability 4: Absolute Seal (Level 3 Taboo Power)]
[Derivative Ability: Weakening Shackles (Level 1 Taboo Power)]
[Special Ability 5: Level 2 Advanced Attraction and Repulsion Force]
[Special Ability 6: Three-Star Martial Dao Domain]
Special Ability 7: Destruction Flame
Special Ability 8: Devouring Flame
Special Ability 9: Starfire
Special Ability 10: Energy Clone
Seeing his latest data, Gu Ding was slightly puzzled. "I understand cell strength and mental strength index, and one star refers to One-Star Low-rank God. But what about ten stars for divine source strength?"
"The rating of divine source is somewhat similar to the rating of Combat Strength. Each major tier is seven stars, and anything above seven stars is accumulated upwards. For example, a typical One-Star Mid-rank God would have a divine source strength of about eight stars. Your divine source strength is roughly equivalent to Three-Star Mid-rank God," the Sea Emperor explained simply.
"How long was I unconscious?" Gu Ding suddenly remembered the Auction House.
"Ten days and ten nights is not a long time. Only half a day has passed in the outside world." Although the Sea Emperor said this, he did not really think so. He was a little worried that Gu Ding not wake up after being unconscious for so long.
"Luckily, I had Robert's territory, otherwise I would have missed the Auction House this time." Gu Ding grinned when he heard that he hadn't missed the Auction House.
"In Robert's domain, the Auction House won't start for at least ninety days. It's still a long way off." The Sea Emperor also felt that Robert's domain's time flow function could bring a lot of convenience to everyone's cultivation.
"Ninety days should be enough," Gu Ding nodded, taking out all the insect corpses from his Storage Space. These corpses were collected by Bigge. During the Insect Tide, Gu Ding had used fire to kill the insectoids, leaving no corpses behind. However, the insect beasts hunted by Bigge and his group all left corpses. Although Liliath also used fire, her fire directly annihilated the insect beasts' souls, having no effect on their physical bodies. There were millions of these insect beast corpses, which, after Tagore extracted their Insect Core, were all transferred to Gu Ding.
A massive number of insect and beast corpses instantly piled up into a mountain within Robert's domain. Gu Ding also sat down cross-legged, and the Devouring Flame surged forth, enveloping some of the insect and beast corpses. Under the influence of the Devouring Flame, a large number of insect and beast corpses transformed into blood and qi energy, returning to Gu Ding's body and joining the cultivation of the "Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body." The amplification effect of the "Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body" within Gu Ding's body was further strengthened.
What Gu Ding found strange was that this time the increase wasn't the permanent physical enhancement from the Devil Elephant Realm, but rather a temporary boost to Combat Strength reverting to the Giant Strength Realm. The two-thousand-fold increase in Combat Strength from the Giant Strength Realm began to rise again. Gu Ding was only slightly surprised, but didn't take this change to heart. In his view, whether it was a temporary boost to Combat Strength or a permanent enhancement to the physical body, it would increase his Combat Strength.
Within Robert's domain, time passed day by day. It took Gu Ding over ten days to absorb the more than two million insect corpses. Complete digestion took over twenty days. The two thousand times Combat Strength increase from the Giant Strength Realm was raised to three thousand times and then stopped, returning to the Devil Elephant Realm level. The three hundred times physical strength finally stopped at three hundred and seventy-five times. Gu Ding's internal energy was finally depleted.
Gu Ding also understood the relationship between the Devil Elephant Realm and the Giant Strength Realm of the "Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body". The Devil Elephant Realm is like a bucket, while the Giant Strength Realm is like the water in the bucket. Only when the bucket gets bigger will its capacity for water increase, but when the water is about to overflow, the bucket also needs to be expanded.
The insect corpses were all consumed, but Gu Ding still had Qi Blood Pill he had exchanged from the ruins, more than 1.5 million Qi Blood Pill, all of which were the essence of condensed Qi and Blood.
After adjusting his physical condition slightly, Gu Ding threw a handful of Qi Blood Pill into his mouth and continued cultivating.
Nearly twenty more days passed before Gu Ding finally opened his eyes from his secluded cultivation. After checking his condition, he found that his physical strength in the Devil Elephant Realm had increased by 500 times, and his Combat Strength in the Giant Strength Realm had increased by more than 4,500 times. Gu Ding nodded in satisfaction at these changes.
By this time, two and a half days had passed in the outside world. Most of the powerful individuals who had entered the ruins with Gu Ding, except for a few, had returned to Ju Fu Star with the Federal Government's spaceship.
At this time, the Gu Ding Team was also the subject of the most discussion from the outside world.
Gu Ding also learned about these things from the Sea Emperor, but he ignored them.
After stepping out of Robert's territory, Gu Ding immediately pestered Bigge to cook him a delicious meal. After eating, he returned to his room. He sighed, and after a moment, called out to the Sea Emperor, "I'm going to sleep. Wake me up if I'm not awake by the time the Auction House starts!"
After saying that, Gu Ding fell asleep immediately. The Sea Emperor timed how quickly he fell asleep; this time it took less than two seconds. (To be continued...)