Research Materials

"Lin Qingyu, what are you doing? Even if you have money, you can't just throw it away like this!" Bata's tone was filled with confusion.

The materials on the list were all expensive. With Lin Qingyu's current wealth, it was impossible for him to buy them all in reality and have them meet the standards required for Potion Configuration. Even in the Virtual Universe, he could at most buy one of each material, which was not cost-effective.

But if he did not intend to configure potions and merely bought samples, then Lin Qingyu did have enough money. Yet that would be of no help whatsoever to his alchemist practice! He might as well buy materials in the Virtual Universe to practice with.

The materials and test questions for the alchemist assessment rotated, and each rotation involved less than one percent of the materials Lin Qingyu had purchased. Normally, few people would be so extravagant as to buy every material that might possibly appear all at once.

After all, the alchemist assessment had never required alchemists to use every material. They only needed to select familiar materials from among the vast selection. Lin Qingyu's actions were basically a waste of money.

"Don't worry. This is more cost-effective for me," Lin Qingyu said.

That was right. Even simulating Potion Configuration in the Virtual Universe cost money. Perhaps a single simulation only cost one percent of what it would in reality, but small amounts added up, and the final cost was still considerable.

However, Lin Qingyu had Will Space, whose simulation limit would only be higher than that of the Virtual Universe.

Moreover, one material could leave behind multiple Information Models in Will Space.

What was more, within Will Space, Lin Qingyu could deeply analyze the changes in all kinds of materials and intuitively understand the potion configuration process. It was more efficient than simulations in the Virtual Universe.

"Fine. Once you break through to the Star level, you'll be able to inherit the old master's account anyway. This little bit of money is nothing," Bata said, shaking its head. "But you can't waste money like this in the future."

In Bata's eyes, this little fuss before the Star level was nothing.

"Don't worry. I know what I'm doing," Lin Qingyu said.

The Curio Shop was highly efficient. If Lin Qingyu had requested a large quantity of materials, mobilizing them would indeed have taken some time. But this time, Lin Qingyu only demanded variety, not quantity. As the main store on Qiu Long Star, the center of hundreds of planets, it was easy enough to arrange.

About seven hours later, the attendants led Lin Qingyu through several doors and into a storage room.

A container five meters long, wide, and high sat in the center of the storage room.

"Mr. Lin, these are the materials you requested. Do you need us to transport them to a designated location?" asked the leading green-haired female clerk.

"No." Lin Qingyu directly used his Space Ring and put the entire container away.

In the universe, exposing a Space Ring was not a problem, as long as he treated it as having dimensions of ten meters in length, width, and height.

Although Lin Qingyu had purchased many types of samples, there was very little of each. A container with a volume of one hundred and twenty-five cubic meters was enough to hold all the materials.

Of course, these materials were not cheap at all. Including the Purple Light Dew that counted as a bonus, they had cost Lin Qingyu a total of 35 billion Black Dragon Coins.

It was not easy for an ordinary B-level Alchemist to earn that much money.

After collecting the goods, Lin Qingyu returned to the spaceship with the materials he had bought.

Lin Qingyu chose a cabin aboard the Black Dragon Mountain-81, dismissed all the slaves, opened the container, and used Mental Force to take out the items inside one by one.

The container held hundreds of thousands of materials and their storage devices.

"Ice Spirit Water, a B7 level material. One gram costs 15,000 Black Dragon Coins? That's expensive."

"Ophraica Amethyst, a restricted item. It seems this Curio Shop has quite a background."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. So Starlight Fruit can be preserved in slices? The technology is impressive, and it can retain the full effect. The storage device alone probably costs one-tenth as much as the Starlight Fruit, right?"

The information Bata had given Lin Qingyu was extremely detailed. Now, he examined the actual materials while reading through the information.

It had to be said that the Curio Shop had some capable methods. Many materials that were difficult to preserve had been stored securely by them, and keeping them for decades would not be a problem. However, the price of doing so was not low. Of the 30 billion Black Dragon Coins, around one-tenth had been spent on the equipment used to preserve these materials.

Of course, these materials might have been relatively precious on Qiu Long Star, but in the universe as a whole, they were nothing special. At the end of the day, they were merely B-grade materials. A powerhouse at the level of a World Lord could even create them directly out of thin air using World Power.

Lin Qingyu did not record the Information Models of these materials one by one. Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands of types of material, who knew how long it would take him?

Lin Qingyu could record a large number of materials at once, because the effective range of Will Space's abilities was his own perceptual range.

As long as he could sense something—whether through his five senses, Mental Force, or Domain—Will Space's abilities could take effect.

Therefore, he could directly sweep across all the materials with Mental Force, then record every one of them as Information Models.

"But the speed at which my consciousness operates still isn't fast enough!" The recording speed of Will Space was related to Lin Qingyu's own will and the speed at which his consciousness operated.

It was like when he had broken through to the Planetary level and gained his Domain. Most of his consciousness and will had been focused on fusing Origin Force and Mental Force, so he had only had time to record it once. Even now, his recording speed was merely ten times per second.

"If my will can continue to grow, then the recording speed can become faster as well. It seems I need to temper my will more," Lin Qingyu thought.

His will had already reached the level of an ordinary Undying. Under normal circumstances, it was certainly enough, but if he wanted Will Space to perform at its peak, this level of will was still far from enough.

Will was too intangible. Thus, most factions had no stable methods for tempering it. At most, they used "life-and-death trials" to temper their geniuses' wills amid the great terror between life and death.

Although the Virtual Universe Company had the Illusion Sea, it was not something Lin Qingyu could access at present.

However, Lin Qingyu did possess a stable method for tempering his will. It was Will Space.

He could actively train his will and the speed at which his consciousness operated by continuously increasing the precision of his perception within Will Space.

An improvement in will could also enhance the extent to which Will Space's ability, "Void Conception," could be used, making the speed of his thoughts even faster. Faster thought processing was beneficial for using the ability of True Deduction.

The several special abilities of his Will Space complemented one another.

He had purchased so many materials partly to obtain the qualifications of a cosmic alchemist, and partly to give Will Space sufficient materials to record and analyze.