Purchase and Handover

"Good!"

Lu Yunhe nodded. He knew his requirements for the slaves were somewhat unusual, and for a slave merchant association in a small place like this, caution was indeed necessary.

However, as the person in charge was leaving, Lu Yunhe suddenly realized a problem: how was he supposed to take delivery of all these slaves? There were tens of thousands of them!

The Black Dragon Ship was not a transport vessel either. Its overall diameter was only 100 meters. Even if they were crammed in, its upper, middle, and lower decks could hold at most a few thousand people. That would be severely overloaded.

"If I can't transport them with the Black Dragon Ship, I'll have to use the Divine Tree's Affiliated Space!"

As Lu Yunhe pondered, a burly man with somewhat pointed ears walked in. The person in charge from earlier respectfully followed behind him.

"Mr. Lu, this is our association's director, Hong Yu. All slave business on Qiu Long Star is handled by him," the person in charge introduced.

"Hello, Mr. Lu." Director Hong Yu smiled. "Do you truly need twenty thousand Stellar Rank 1 warrior slaves at once?"

"What, your association doesn't have them? If you can't gather enough, don't waste my time." Lu Yunhe snorted coldly.

Ever since arriving at the Slave Market, he had been in a terrible mood. He could not be bothered to waste words with these people. The sooner this was settled, the sooner he would be out of sight and out of mind.

"No, no. It's only twenty thousand slaves. We can still gather them." Director Hong Yu shook his head, signaling for Lu Yunhe to remain calm. After all, twenty thousand slaves, and specifically Stellar Rank 1 warriors, was a very strange request.

Still, anyone able to conduct slave business on Qiu Long Star would naturally have some connections. It would just be a little troublesome.

"However, for a slave transaction involving such a large number of people, the association requires the buyer to pay half the amount as a deposit in advance. May I ask if Mr. Lu can accept that?" Director Hong Yu said with a beaming smile. Whatever the other party's purpose was, as long as he could pay, everything was negotiable.

Even if it truly was a scheme by a rival merchant association, Hong Yu had great confidence in his own cultivation. With his Cosmic level strength, there was nothing to fear as long as Qiu Long Star's master did not intervene.

"Fine!"

Impatiently, Lu Yunhe transferred 10 million Qianwu Coins to the slave merchant association's account, then hurriedly left.

"Director, that was 10 billion Black Dragon Coins, and he didn't even blink!" After Lu Yunhe left, the person in charge looked astonished. "And he neither asked for a discount nor bargained. I suspect there really is something fishy going on."

Under normal circumstances, any deal involving hundreds of millions of Black Dragon Coins would come with a discount and perhaps some bonus slaves. Yet the other party had not made a single request.

"There is indeed something strange!" Director Hong Yu looked somewhat puzzled at the 10 million Qianwu Coins that had arrived. Thinking of the delivery location Lu Yunhe had requested before leaving, his heart stirred slightly, and he began issuing instructions.

After leaving the Slave Market, Lu Yunhe went to Qiu Long Star's famous general goods store. Unlike the Treasure Pavilion, this place mainly handled bulk material transactions.

"Who would have thought I'd still have to sell things in the end?"

Twenty thousand Stellar Rank 1 slaves were worth 20 million Qianwu Coins, which happened to be all the funds in Lu Yunhe's account. Fortunately, he still had the materials he had scavenged from the Alien Earth Ruins, as well as the Black Iron Essence and Black Iron Mother from the Mars mine. They were worth quite a bit as well.

However, once he sold them, he discovered that those metals were completely worthless. Altogether, they only fetched a few million Black Dragon Coins. The most valuable item was instead the B-grade laser gun on Liutie's body. After selling everything piecemeal, he only obtained a total of 200 million Black Dragon Coins.

Half the funds were kept aside, since many things in the Virtual Universe also required money. With the other half, he bought quite a few Wood Gems and a cultivation resource called Crystal Yuan Stone. The former provided a large amount of life force and was suitable for most lifeforms, while the latter was more geared toward cultivating cosmic energy. Both were quite suitable for the Ultraman Avatar.

Half a day later, the slave merchant association contacted Lu Yunhe. They had already gathered twenty thousand Stellar Rank 1 warriors.

"Good, I'll be right there!"

With the resources gathered, Lu Yunhe had no desire to continue browsing. He immediately took Liutie and flew beyond Qiulong City.

After flying for some time, Lu Yunhe saw a large transport Spaceship at the place where he had first met Liutie.

Outside Spaceships entering Qiu Long Star had to dock at the spaceport, but many influential local figures could often bypass this restriction.

Outside the transport Spaceship, a full twenty thousand Stellar level slaves stood in neat formation, waiting for their new master to arrive.

Whoosh!

Lu Yunhe slowly landed beside Director Hong Yu and looked at the twenty thousand slaves before him.

"Mr. Lu, I have delivered this batch of slaves outside the city as you requested." Director Hong Yu looked at Lu Yunhe curiously. "Forgive my boldness, but what do you need this batch of slaves for?"

"That isn't something the slave merchant association needs to know, is it?" Lu Yunhe said flatly. "Just hand over the slaves."

"Fine!"

Seeing that Lu Yunhe did not wish to speak, Director Hong Yu did not press the matter and directly began transferring the twenty thousand slaves before them to Lu Yunhe. Because there were so many, the slave ownership transfer procedure took a little more time.

Under the operation of several staff members, a piece of metal was soon delivered to Lu Yunhe. "Sir, everything is done. The control chip terminals for all twenty thousand slaves are inside. You can operate them directly using the Intelligent Light Brain."

Slave Biological Chips were low-cost control chips invented by humanity based on Mechanical Race technology. Once a slave was implanted with a chip, they would be completely controlled. While retaining all their past memories, they would also become absolutely loyal to their master.

Unless one became a Domain Lord, it was nearly impossible to break free from the chip's control.

After the slaves had been fully handed over, Lu Yunhe transferred the remaining balance into the other party's Galaxy Account.

Having completed a transaction worth a full 20 billion Black Dragon Coins, even Hong Yu, a Cosmic level powerhouse, could not help but reveal a smile.

He might have money, but he had accumulated it bit by bit over time. It was not as though wealth fell from the sky the moment one became powerful. Moreover, while the powerful had money, they also had far more places to spend it.

"Goodbye!"

Once the transaction was complete, Lu Yunhe directly gave the order to leave. Still smiling, Hong Yu boarded the Spaceship and departed from the valley.

At that moment, the twenty thousand slaves looked nervously at their new master. Buying twenty thousand slaves at once most likely did not mean they would be used for anything good.

Lu Yunhe had nothing to explain to the nervous slaves before him. He directly ordered, "No one is allowed to resist!"

Wood Release - Flower Tree Realm Descent!

In an instant, trees appeared beside the slaves. They restrained them while spraying pollen to knock them unconscious. Though fear filled the slaves' hearts, under the effects of the Slave Biological Chips, they were utterly unable to resist and could only watch helplessly as they lost consciousness.

Then, a Space Gate appeared, sending all the unconscious slaves into the Divine Tree's Affiliated Space, including Liutie, the bandit.