Betting Your Life?
Deep within the Ganwu Secret Realm, on Linghu Island, Cultivation Room.
Tang Ping sat upright on the futon, his fingertips tracing across the virtual screen, first calming himself down to take stock of his gains this time.
After deducting protective items and cultivation materials purchased for oneself, the account balance is 747.9 Hunyuan Unit.
He paused, his gaze sweeping over the collection notification on the screen for "Fragments of Enlightenment into the Space-Time Laws," and immediately reserved 100 Hunyuan as reserve funds. This was crucial for his future breakthrough and could not be touched.
In this way, the remaining funds at your disposal are 647.9 Hunyuan.
The gift prepared for Luo Xiaoyu: a set of Force Meal Package that can help her reach the peak of the Universe Level, plus a "Dew Condensation Fruit" that nurtures the Water Origin Laws, totaling less than 0.1 Hunyuan.
Tang Ping looked at the string of tiny numbers and chuckled.
Resources below the World Lord Rank are indeed like mundane things in the eyes of truly high-level cultivators.
But the smile quickly faded.
He ran his fingertips along the edge of the light screen, a glint of clarity flashing in his eyes: if it weren't for the Fire Fox Clan backing him up, and Luo Feng's instruction to "go for it," even if he, a new student, turned the Ganwu Secret Realm upside down, he wouldn't have earned this fortune of nearly eight hundred Hunyuan.
"Power stands tall, money kneels. But in the end, it's strength that matters!" Tang Ping murmured softly.
In a world where the strong prey on the weak, this is never a joke.
Next was a return gift for Huo Wu.
Her status as a top-tier student brought her advantages; the fifth-tier battle armor called "Fire God Armor" was given away at a 30% discount because it was an internal gift from someone of the same rank, making it 3.5 Hunyuan.
After deducting this expense, the account balance is 644.3 Hunyuan.
This sum of money would drive ordinary World Lord Rank cultivators mad with envy, but Tang Ping searched through the resource library and couldn't find anything he urgently needed.
He doesn't need the starship for the time being, since he only wants to focus on cultivation recently; with the <Wind and Thunder Notes> by his side, his secret techniques are already top-tier among his peers; and unlike Luo Feng, he doesn't have the Golden Horned Beast, that "gold-devouring behemoth," to support.
After a moment's thought, he simply opened the registration page, quickly entered the information with his fingertips, and a new account named "Lay Flat Finance" was created.
After transferring 640 Hunyuan, he did not hesitate to have his smart assistant gradually increase its holdings of Luo Family Concept Stocks. The recent stock market volatility presented an excellent opportunity to buy at the bottom.
The remaining 4.3 Hunyuan can be used as daily pocket money.
Of course, in theory, his previous "Lay Flat Capital" had already done this business, and it was even acquired by Virtual Universe Company. In principle, he shouldn't be doing the same industry now.
That's a bit unethical.
However, firstly, Sun Ruowei may have forgotten or didn't care, so she didn't make him sign a non-compete agreement.
Furthermore, in the financial investment industry, what kind of competition is there? You can't just invest in whatever you want. Anyway, he's extremely bullish on Luo Family Concept Stocks.
As for morality? As long as I have no morality, no one can hold me hostage!
Hey-hey!
Once wealth is sorted out, the mind gradually finds peace.
Tang Ping collected his thoughts and turned his attention back to his own cultivation. A virtual panel appeared before his eyes:
[Realm: Universe Level 7] (260/10000)
[Willpower: Domain Lord Level 7 (890/100000)]
[Laws: Wind Laws (21020/10000000), Thunder Laws (21020/10000000)]
[Secret Technique: Wind-Thunder Brief Notes (22210/10000000000)]
[Weapon: "Misty Divine Weapon Level 3 (9600/10000)"]
Looking at the numbers on the panel, Tang Ping took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes. The energy flow in the room rose and fell with his breathing, completely calming the restlessness caused by the huge fortune in recent days.
Time slips away quietly during cultivation.
The Ganwu Secret Realm never waits for anyone. Tens of thousands of students compete in the tower and explore the realm every day. Grudges, love, and the cheers of breakthroughs intertwine to create the most vivid picture.
In this Cultivation Room on Linghu Island, there was only the faint sound of energy flowing.
Six months later, when Tang Ping opened his eyes again, there was a hint of Wind-Thunder in them. He had completely digested the inheritance of the Immortal Monument Forest, his comprehension of the Laws of Origin Wind-Thunder steadily improved, and his realm broke through to the Universe Level 8.
He stretched, his bones cracking slightly, and then took something out of his Storage Space.
It was a long, triangular prism-shaped crystal, its entire body a deep crimson like congealed blood, yet translucent like glass. The surface of the crystal was shrouded in faint ripples, each rise and fall like the beating of a heart, carrying a rhythm originating from the very source of life.
"Xueluo Crystal— " Tang Ping held the crystal, feeling its warm and strange texture on his fingertips, and couldn't help but exclaim, "So beautiful."
Exchanging the nameless Black Stone Tablet for a few Xueluo Crystal Luo Feng back then still seems like a sure-fire way to make a profit.
Although the secret technique on the stone slab can double the Gene Multiplier, it has only this one effect; the Nine Calamities Secret Technique is even more ethereal, and the subsequent process of obtaining the stone slab is fraught with danger.
In contrast, with ten Xueluo Crystal fused together, one can possess ten times the genetic potential!
"I don't have Luo Feng's luck in venturing into dangerous places. Steady advancement is the best way," Tang Ping thought to himself. He always believed in the principle of "never risking one's life if one can win without effort."
But soon, his smile faded.
He already knew the conditions for fusing the Xueluo Crystal.
The minimum requirement is World Lord Rank will. While this fusion is not life-threatening, the process is nothing short of torture, and those with insufficient willpower often collapse in excruciating pain. And his current willpower is only at the seventh level of Domain Lord.
If one did not consistently hone their character in the Deep Cold Cavern, they probably wouldn't even be qualified to touch it.
Tang Ping stroked the Xueluo Crystal, feeling its pulsating energy.
Suddenly, a bold idea popped into my head uncontrollably. "This fusion process itself is the best test of willpower—why don't we give it a try?"
"Try it my ass!"
Tang Ping chuckled, and the spiritual power emanating from his fingertips enveloped the dark red Xueluo Crystal, which he then neatly stuffed into his storage ring.
Although the Xueluo Crystal's baleful energy impact seems to have a "self-protection mechanism," automatically withdrawing its energy upon sensing the host's limit and preventing soul shattering, the phrase "theoretically" is always the most useless placebo in the face of dire straits.
What if?
If he falls, forget about the tens of thousands of Alien Race beauties waiting for him to "save" in the future; who will ensure the survival of human civilization on Earth Humans in the future? Will they rely on Luo Kedi?
Tang Ping would never touch such a life-or-death gamble unless he was driven to the brink.
The moment his thoughts settled, Tang Ping twirled his palm. The Star-Track Gilded Plate floated before his eyes, its palm-sized surface displaying intricate star patterns that swirled and flowed like living silver snakes.
He slowly closed his eyes, and a visible vortex of airflow immediately swirled around him. The bluish-white wind blades were as sharp as if they were cutting from the sky, and the purple-gold lightning arcs were as violent as if they were dancing dragons. The two intertwined and collided at the edge of the vortex.
"From ancient times to the present, it is all time." Tang Ping's mind sank completely into his sea of consciousness. The Divine Power in his sea of consciousness surged like a tsunami. The moment he established a spiritual connection with the Star-Track Gilded Plate, countless star map coordinates and star trajectories flooded into his mind like a tide.
The changes in cosmic phenomena and the birth, death, and flourishing of stars over millions of years flashed through his consciousness, as if he were personally experiencing a time-space journey spanning countless ages.
"Then what is time?"
As the wind swirled around his fingertips, Tang Ping deliberately slowed down his control over the Wind Origin. He no longer pursued extreme speed or unparalleled cutting power, but instead calmed his mind to feel the subtle trajectory of each wisp of air as it passed through the void.
They bypassed the alloy walls of the meditation room, passed through the energy shield of the floating island, and under the pull of different gravitational fields, exhibited drastically different flow speeds and directions.
This was not a characteristic of the wind itself, Tang Ping suddenly realized, it was the "time" that the wind passed through that quietly shaped it.
Just as water changes shape as it flows through riverbeds of different shapes, the wrinkles and ripples of time, through tangible forces like the wind, leave traceable marks in the universe.
He twitched his fingertips slightly, and a wisp of wind extended along the folds of time, vaguely "touching" the lingering resonance of molecular vibrations in the air of the meditation room that he hadn't noticed moments before.
He then turned his attention to the source of thunder.
The explosion of lightning never follows a fixed rhythm. A purple-gold arc of lightning suddenly exploded in the Wind-Thunder domain. In the one-thousandth of a second of the intense light, Tang Ping's Divine Power had already captured the complete process of the energy from its explosion to its peak and then to its dissipation.
He tried to guide the lightning arcs to flow across the star patterns on the Star-Track Gilded Plate. Each flash of the lightning arc precisely corresponded to the past position of a star in the star chart. This Star-Track Gilded Plate recorded not only the current celestial phenomena, but also the complete trajectory of the stars over millions of years, with each star pattern being a scale of time.
When the vibration frequency of the lightning arc perfectly matched the time span corresponding to a certain segment of star orbit, Tang Ping's mind seemed to be pulled into the river of time by an invisible force.
He "heard" the first flare eruption of that blue-white star ten thousand years ago; the intense energy fluctuations traveled through eternity and still carried awe-inspiring power.
He "saw" the moment a meteorite thousands of miles in diameter struck a gas giant a thousand years ago, the flames tearing through the atmosphere and the planetary storms caused by the shockwaves stretching for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
These images, long since vanished into the dust of the universe, resonated with the essence of thunder and the trajectory of time, appearing as clearly as a movie in his mind.
The wind's trajectory outlines the contours of time, while the frequency of thunder marks the scale of time.
Under the dual guidance of the Wind-Thunder Origin and the Star-Track Gilded Plate, Tang Ping's consciousness transformed into a speck of dust merging into the universe, completely abandoning the boundaries of "self" and integrating into the operation of the universe.
He was no longer an observer, but became a part of time, able to keenly perceive the slow flow of time as it approached a massive celestial body, like a stretched thread, each second becoming heavy and clear.
Those Superior Origin Law that once existed only in the legends of Immortal Expert, and those time mysteries that countless cultivators could not even glimpse in their entire lives, were no longer ethereal concepts, but had transformed into tangible fluctuations that resonated with his own Wind-Thunder primordial essence.
At this moment, Tang Ping truly felt the pulse of the universe, the most fundamental and supreme force supporting the operation of the entire world.
Although this is only the most rudimentary understanding, like a child touching the hem of an adult's clothes, it is still far from truly grasping the Time Law, not even scratching the surface. But this is already a breakthrough that countless powerful individuals would find difficult to achieve!
More importantly, this clearly proves that this Star-Track Gilded Plate has an unimaginable and enormous effect on his cultivation!
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