An Expedition to the Chaotic Star Domain

Time flew by, and another two or three years passed. Lei Dong's foundations had begun to stabilize, and development of the Chaos dimension had settled into a steady rhythm. After scouring every inch of the place, they were finding fewer and fewer scattered Chaos Crystals. The Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation was still drawing in spirit energy and refining it, bringing in a steady yield, but it was clear that the Chaos Spirit Qi was growing thinner by the day.

Still, with no one interfering, Lei Dong's side had obtained two thousand Chaos Crystals over those two or three years. More than half had already been distributed. Lei Dong kept only five hundred for himself as strategic reserves.

With so many resources poured in, Lei Dong's gains had naturally been substantial. Backed by the Heavenly Spirit Stones he kept acquiring through the auction house, he had never stopped developing the Cave Heaven Blessed Land he had temporarily placed in the Chaos dimension.

The sheer number of cultivators using it had increased the energy consumption of the Time Law inside the Cave Heaven Blessed Land tenfold. They had to replace one hundred and eight Heavenly Spirit Stones every year. Even so, Lei Dong had never stopped investing in it.

Heavenly Spirit Stones were precious, but next to Chaos Crystals, they were still far less valuable. When Lei Dong put the Chaos Crystals up for auction, several peak Mid Spirit Transmutation stage experts had bid with Heavenly Spirit Stones. In the end, the winner had been a remarkably low-key expert from the Mysterious Ice Domain, who had paid two hundred and thirteen Heavenly Spirit Stones.

It was clear that Lei Dong no longer begrudged spending Heavenly Spirit Stones. After all, if people across the world pooled their supplies, they could probably gather more