Core of Time and Space

Opening the Chaos Mall, Huang Yu casually checked in.

Perhaps because his luck had been terrible the past two days, Huang Yu finally received something good today.

Congratulations, Lord! You have obtained 20 Black Gold Bamboo Seedlings!

Huang Yu clicked to view the Black Gold Bamboo's information, only then learning that it was a Rare Grade material.

Black Gold Bamboo

Quality: Rare

Description: A type of bamboo that grows in mountainous regions. During its growth, it absorbs metal elements from the soil as nutrients. Once mature, its entire body is distributed with alloy, making it light yet extremely rigid. With simple polishing, it can be used as a weapon...

Note: Within the growth range of Black Gold Bamboo, the richer the metal elements, the faster the Black Gold Bamboo will grow and reproduce!

If the growth environment contains a high-grade metal mine, the mature Black Gold Bamboo's grade will also increase accordingly!

He took out a bundle of Black Gold Bamboo Seedlings.

The seedlings looked little different from normal bamboo, except that their color was somewhat darker.

After thinking for a moment, Huang Yu tossed them to the butler behind him and had him plant the Black Gold Bamboo in that ordinary second-tier Iron Mine.

The output of the second-tier Iron Mine could no longer keep up with Huang Yu's needs.

Using it to cultivate Black Gold Bamboo was also a decent choice.

"Next, it's time for the discounted divine artifacts again!"

Huang Yu excitedly clicked the discount artifact and began browsing the products in the Chaos Mall.

He did not look through them in order.

Huang Yu entered "materials" into the search bar, and a pile of discounted materials immediately appeared before him.

He urgently wanted to find an Awakening Medium that suited him.

4x discount Common Grade material—Fine Iron, original price: 1 Soul Crystal/unit, current price: 0.4 Soul Crystals/unit

Current quantity: 100

100 units of Fine Iron at a 40% discount?

Huang Yu casually paid 40 Soul Crystals and cleared out the 100 units of Fine Iron.

He was currently short of materials like Fine Iron.

As Lord levels rose, the price of Fine Iron on the trading platform was also increasing.

The discounted Fine Iron was already much cheaper than the Fine Iron in the Lord's shop.

Even the smallest gain was still a gain. How could Huang Yu let it pass so easily?

The 100 units of Fine Iron were sent directly into the warehouse, and Huang Yu continued scrolling down.

2.5x discount Common Grade material—Kui Ox Hide. The Kui Ox was a giant grassland animal...

Current quantity: 20 sheets

Huang Yu paid 50 Soul Crystals and chose to purchase it.

Although he did not know what the Blue Mountain Workshop would become after its reconstruction,

Huang Yu still planned to stockpile the materials in preparation for future needs.

Considering the Blue Mountain Workshop's special nature, Huang Yu believed that the reconstructed Blue Mountain Workshop would still retain its Equipment Forging function.

Even if the Equipment Forging system shifted toward magic runes,

leaving these materials for Baili and the others to experiment and study was still an appropriate choice.

3x discount Fine Grade material—Golden Sheep Horn. Golden Sheep meat was delicious...

Current quantity: 20

Buy it!

Huang Yu paid 60 Soul Crystals, and 20 Golden Sheep Horns were sent into the warehouse.

1x discount Rare Grade material—Brilliant Gold Stone. Brilliant Gold Stone often appeared in the lairs of earth-element creatures. It contained abundant earth-element energy and was an outstanding material for Equipment Forging...

Original price: 150 Soul Crystals; current price: only 15 Soul Crystals!

Quantity: 50

The total value of 50 units of Brilliant Gold Stone was only 750 Soul Crystals. Under normal circumstances, that was merely the price of a single Rare Grade material.

No matter how he calculated it, Huang Yu felt it was worth it.

Buy it!

750 Soul Crystals were deducted by the Chaos Mall.

The 50 units of Brilliant Gold Stone were sent into the warehouse.

4x discount Perfect Grade material—Azure Mist Crystal. It contained dense wind-element and natural energy and was an excellent material for making magical equipment... Original price: 30,000 per crystal; current price: 12,000 Soul Crystals per crystal.

Current quantity: 20

Buy...

I can't afford it!

If he bought three Azure Mist Crystals, nearly all the Soul Crystals on Huang Yu would be used up.

He still had to find an Awakening Medium suitable for himself.

He could not waste them on this.

Huang Yu chose to skip it.

Buy, buy, buy.

Huang Yu spent nearly five thousand Soul Crystals purchasing materials of various grades.

Among them, there were 2 units of Perfect Grade materials.

8 units of Extraordinary Grade materials.

130 units of Rare Grade materials.

Fine Grade and Common Grade materials combined amounted to more than a thousand units.

His number of Soul Crystals had also fallen to 37,200.

As for the Perfect and Extraordinary Grade materials that appeared afterward,

although Huang Yu could afford some of them,

he still chose to give them up for the sake of a high-grade Awakening Medium.

Finally, after passing over various Perfect and Extraordinary Grade materials,

Huang Yu saw Epic Grade and Legendary Grade materials.

2x discount Epic Grade material—Chaos Stone Fragment. Used to forge equipment, it could awaken chaotic attribute abilities in the equipment. Used for awakening, it had a certain chance of granting a Chaos-type talent... Original price: 3 million Soul Crystals; current price: 600,000...

Quantity: 5

1x discount Epic Grade material—Feather of Good News. The feather of a creature not native to the Chaotic Continent, possessing abilities such as purification and healing... Original price: 1.9 million Soul Crystals; current price: 190,000 Soul Crystals...

Quantity: 1

0.01x discount Legendary Grade material—Demon Lord's Heart. The heart of a Demon Lord from the Abyssal World. Touching it meant instant death for anyone below the Extraordinary level... Original price: 55 million Soul Crystals; current price: 55,000 Soul Crystals!

Quantity: 1

Although he had expected it, Huang Yu still felt somewhat disappointed after seeing the prices and attributes of the three materials.

The ones he could afford were useless to him!

The ones he could not afford... he simply could not afford!

The cheapest Demon Lord's Heart was worth 55,000 Soul Crystals, and Huang Yu was confident he could gather enough before noon.

But what would he buy the Demon Lord's Heart for?

To commit suicide?

Touching that thing meant certain death below the Extraordinary level!

Helpless, Huang Yu looked toward the final item among the discounted materials with a sliver of hope.

It was also the highest-grade material.

0.1x discount Mythic Grade material—Core of Time and Space

The Core of Time and Space was a crystallized manifestation of the Laws of Time and Space. Each Core of Time and Space contained an endless space within it. Only a Divine Blacksmith had the ability to apply the Core of Time and Space to equipment...

Original price: 286 million; current price: 2.86 million!

This was the first time Huang Yu had seen a Mythic Grade material.

It was also the medium he most wanted for awakening his talent.

If he used the Core of Time and Space as the medium for talent awakening, then after advancing to the second tier, Huang Yu would very likely awaken a space-time-type talent!

That was a space-time-type talent!

The standard ability of a webnovel protagonist!

Just thinking about it made it insanely powerful!

But... 2.86 million Soul Crystals...

Even if Huang Yu worked himself to death for an entire day, he could not possibly gather 2.86 million Soul Crystals.

To him, the Core of Time and Space was something he could encounter at this stage but could not obtain.

"All you ever give me is stuff I can't afford!"

Huang Yu reluctantly shifted his gaze away from the Core of Time and Space.

The Chaos Stone Fragment and Demon Lord's Heart were out of the question.

The only one he had some hope of obtaining now was the Feather of Good News.

A hundred Spartan warriors sweeping through the forest for an entire day,

combined with the equipment produced by the reconstructed Blue Mountain Workshop.

Then he could go to the Chaos Mall and purchase some more goods.

Huang Yu still had a slight chance of gathering 190,000 Soul Crystals.