Fire Grandfather

Huang Yayu followed him up to the second floor, her face brimming with smug satisfaction.

Lu Ren turned his head, somewhat surprised. "Is this a spatial folding formation, or the art of shrinking distance?"

The former folded a given area down to an extremely small size, using certain techniques and spells to create a stable folded space. The latter expanded something tiny, stretching an area one meter across into ten meters across, and so on.

After spending the day here, Lu Ren had come to understand that every inch of Border City was worth its weight in gold. This Bingjia Dao shop alone would cost at least a million Spirit Crystals to acquire.

Over a million Spirit Crystals...

Lu Ren silently glanced at the condensed Spirit Crystal Star within his Inner World Universe. If one liang of weight was equivalent to one Spirit Crystal...

Seeing Ao Li wildly rolling about atop the Spirit Crystal Star and greedily absorbing its Spirit Crystals, Lu Ren's heart ached at the sight of such wastefulness. This was all money! Besides, his Inner World Universe was a self-contained cycle. With this Spirit Crystal Star, his nascent universe could be greatly perfected. Given enough time, it might even use this Spirit Crystal Star as a source to produce new Spirit Crystals through the power of the universe itself.

Though that would take an exceedingly long time, it still gave Lu Ren something to look forward to.

After tossing the cursing Ao Li into a nearby planet and telling him, "We'll discuss this another day," Lu Ren spent an hour swiftly finishing the battle. He pulled up his pants and emerged from the Inner World Universe. Though the room had a bed, Lu Ren did not lie down on it. Instead, he pulled out a meditation cushion