Void Lifeforms were, without question, obscenely expensive.
They lived in the dark regions between galaxies. You had to leave the Milky Way Galaxy and travel hundreds of thousands of light-years before you encountered one.
They were everywhere out there, but the sheer distance guaranteed a steep price. Otherwise, the travel costs alone would never be recovered.
The journey was only part of it. Capturing a Void Lifeform was difficult too. Only civilizations in the Micro-particle Flourishing Stage were qualified to go, and even they had to import Unified Force Tools from more advanced civilizations to make the capture.
Less advanced civilizations could go as well, but their costs were extremely high, because capturing Void Lifeforms was dangerous.
The invisible, intangible creatures came in many varieties, some of them exceptionally vicious.
Civilizations with inadequate detection methods could suffer casualties without even knowing what had killed them.
Then came the taming, modification, and other processing technologies monopolized by advanced civilizations. After all that,
even the cheapest Void Lifeform cost a million Lang! Expensive ones went for over a hundred million...
They were luxury goods through and through. On the other hand, they were also something every rich person was expected to have.
Kabuli might own a four-million-Lang spaceship and look loaded, but he kept no Void Lifeforms.
How could a Void Lifeform be as useful as a spaceship? Raise one for a lifetime, and it still could not match a single shot from a ship.
He needed the ship for work, and it offered a high return. Unless he entered a Void Lifeform in competitions, keeping one was just for showing off.
Besides, managing Void Lifeforms took a great deal of expertise. If one died in his care, a huge sum would go down the drain.
It was the difference between collecting