In the end, Liang Ji chose to sign contracts with Shan De Lou and Bai Cao Group, accepting their investments.
Shan De Lou specialized in spirit cuisine and was one of the foremost companies in that field. Its business spanned nearly every Main Star under the Star Alliance, and it possessed both a great reputation and formidable strength.
Bai Cao Group, meanwhile, specialized in medicinal pills. It was likewise a leader in the pill industry, with an inheritance stretching back who knew how many years, its pills sold throughout the Primordial Star Sea.
Whether spirit cuisine or medicinal pills, both consumed vast quantities of spirit plants, spirit beasts, Spirit Medicine, and the like every year. Thus, these two groups cooperated with numerous Star Lords and actively invested in newly ascended Star Lords each year, earning quite a good reputation among Star Lords.
As for why he had not chosen Sky Snake Mansion?
It was because he had no need for it. Liang Ji understood best why the Half-Demon Snake People of his Natal Star had mutated, and he already had a rough idea in mind for their future cultivation and advancement.
He neither needed nor wished for outsiders to study his Natal Star and Vassals, lest certain secrets be exposed.
After signing the contracts, the two companies swiftly transferred the first investment payment. Each gave him ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, for a total of twenty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
The terms Liang Ji signed with both companies were the most basic investment terms. The companies would invest in him for three years, providing ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones each year.
Once his Natal Star advanced to the Second Rank, he would supply the two companies at cost price for thirty years, and he would also need to give priority to planting and cultivating the spirit plants, spirit materials, and other goods they specified.
This was the most common basic investment contract on the market. Naturally, there were contracts with harsher terms, even contracts that amounted to selling oneself directly to the two companies, but Liang Ji had chosen none of them.
He had greater confidence in his own future and was unwilling to sell it cheaply so easily.
And since the Spirit Stones were in hand, naturally they had to be spent, exchanged for resources that could aid his cultivation and growth. Otherwise, left sitting there, they truly were nothing but a string of numbers.
Liang Ji logged onto the Star Net, opened the official website of the Treasure Basin, and began selecting the treasures he needed.
This Treasure Basin was one of the largest and most commonly used trading platforms on the Star Net. It was said that the Star Alliance held shares in it, and that it was run by several Wealth God cultivators of the Immortal Orthodox lineage.
Its goods were complete, and every type of merchandise and treasure had undergone specialized certification, ensuring clean origins and reliability.
"I already have the Essence of Breathing Soil, the Tianyi Jellyfish, and the Five-Colored Spirit Grain Spirit Root. To perfect and advance the Five-Element Origin of my Natal Star, I still need to purchase Essence Gold Mother Ore and a Spirit Fire Seed."
"Mm, one kind of Spirit Root is far too few. I need more varieties of Spirit Roots as well. That will help the Half-Demon Snake People awaken their bloodlines and intelligence, then advance to the first rank."
Liang Ji searched and picked through the Treasure Basin website, quickly settling on several Snake Fruit Spirit Roots, Sea Anemone Spirit Roots, duckweed Spirit Roots, lotus Spirit Roots, Blood Orchid Spirit Roots, and more.
"Vegetables alone won't do. They need meat too!"
He also selected fish, shrimp, crabs, birds, beasts, insects, and other Spirit Seeds containing Spirit Beast Bloodlines from the Treasure Basin website.
Finally, he selected free shipping and paid!
In no more than a moment, more than half of the enormous investment sum he had just received had been spent.
It was Liang Ji's first time spending money on such a grand scale, and he was unexpectedly so excited that he could not settle down.
He silently spat at himself.
The next day, the supplies he had purchased began arriving at his door one after another.
The supplies Liang Ji had purchased were all resources commonly needed during the early stages of a Star Lord's growth and development. Basically, they were all available on Sky Snake Star.
Especially the Spirit Roots used to cultivate the Half-Demon Snake People, such as Snake Fruit and Blood Orchids. Other star regions and Main Stars might not have them, but Sky Snake Star lacked them the least.
Because he had spent so much, the Treasure Basin was willing to pay for the Star Net's logistics teleportation service, allowing the supplies to reach Xiūshé City, where he lived, on the very same day.
The reason they were only delivered to his door the next day was simply to arrange a time with him.
Once the supplies were in hand, Liang Ji did not refine them directly at home. Instead, he brought them to school and, under the supervision of his homeroom teacher, Teacher Du, sent them one by one into his Natal Star to be refined and integrated.
This was in case anything unexpected happened while he was refining these supplies and treasures. Teacher Du would then be able to intervene directly and help him.
For Star Lords, the first year of cultivation—namely, the senior year of high school—was an extremely crucial stage for laying foundations, and it was also when the Natal Star was at its most vulnerable.
At this time, every crucial cultivation and growth process was best carried out under the watch of experienced and capable seniors or teachers, in case unforeseen accidents or changes occurred.
Liang Ji treasured his little life and was willing to heed advice.
Under Teacher Du's watch, Liang Ji activated the Starlight Treasure Mirror. Starlight shot forth and traced out a teleportation array, and he first placed the Essence of Breathing Soil into it.
Starlight flowed through the array, and the Essence of Breathing Soil vanished directly.
On his Natal Star, Dragon Soul Star, another meteor could be seen falling from the starry sky. As before, the Dragon Soul coiled around the star swallowed it first, refined it once, and then sent it into the Natal Star to merge into the earth.
Next came the Essence Gold Mother Ore, Tianyi Jellyfish, Snake Fruit, Blood Orchid, duckweed, Sea Anemone, and other Spirit Roots, along with the Spirit Fire Seed.
Last were the various Spirit Seeds containing Spirit Beast Bloodlines, including fish, shrimp, crabs, birds, beasts, and insects.
A meteor shower appeared over Dragon Soul Star. Every meteor was a kind of spirit material, and the Dragon Soul swallowed and refined them all before planting them into the star.
"Thank you, Teacher."
After refining all the spirit materials and observing his Natal Star to confirm there were no problems, Liang Ji thanked his homeroom teacher, Teacher Du.
Teacher Du shook his head and said, "I am your teacher. These are all things I should do."
"Liang Ji, now that the spirit materials in your Natal Star have been planted, its foundation has been initially laid."
"Next, you need to place more attention on your Vassals. Guide them to awaken their bloodlines and intelligence as soon as possible, then advance into first rank half-demons."
"In this regard, you can begin by guiding them to make and use tools, use fire, eat cooked food, and so on."
"Of course, you must also make use of the plants propagated by the Snake Fruit, Blood Orchids, Sea Anemones, spirit lotuses, and other Spirit Roots you planted."
"There are specialized courses on all these matters on the school's official website. You can watch more of them and learn."
"Yes, Teacher Du." Liang Ji nodded. "I'll remember."
After bidding Teacher Du farewell, he went to the school cultivation rooms to find Teacher Wang Hu, asked him some questions about body-tempering cultivation, then practiced the Ox Demon Great Strength Fist several times and asked for his corrections.
Time passed quickly. When he returned home that evening, he once again observed the condition and changes of his Natal Star.
His current Natal Star had already formed a First-Order Spiritual Vein and become a First-Order Star. Under the operation of the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, it normally maintained a time flow of several hundred years per day.
A day equaling a thousand years was the maximum time flow, opened only when necessary. For everyday use, a flow of several hundred years per day was already enough.
Liang Ji had only cultivated at school for half a day, yet more than a hundred years had already passed on Dragon Soul Star.
That morning, the spirit materials he had planted into the star had already begun showing their effects. Both the land and oceans of the star had expanded to varying degrees.
Lofty mountains rose up, filled with newly formed metal ore veins.
Rifts collapsed inward, their depths blazing with raging earthfire.
Plants and animals containing spiritual energy appeared in great numbers across the land, sea, and sky, multiplying and thriving.
The Half-Demon Snake People Vassals had already changed through several generations, their number reaching over three thousand. These half-demons carried the bloodline of the Void Demon Race and generally enjoyed long lifespans; once they awakened their bloodlines and intelligence and advanced to the first rank, their lifespans would only grow longer.
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