What did a Personal Space nine hundred meters long, wide, and high amount to?
A staggering volume of 729 million cubic meters!
The famous Forbidden City from his previous life had covered only 720,000 square meters in total.
Lin Yuan's Personal Space was more than a thousand times its size. In theory, it could hold a thousand Forbidden Cities!
"How did it get this big?"
Alongside his shock and delight, Lin Yuan couldn't help feeling puzzled.
Only three months—ninety days—had passed. How could it have expanded so dramatically?
But he was exceptionally sharp, and the answer came to him in an instant.
"Could it have something to do with my breakthrough to Starry-Sky Warrior?"
His gaze fell on the seemingly inconspicuous line in the talent trait description: "Personal Space is deeply bound to the player and will double in size whenever the player breaks through to a new realm."
A breakthrough to a new realm?
Double in size?
This was a tenfold increase!
Lin Yuan grumbled, but he was genuinely delighted and gave it an emphatic thumbs-up in his heart.
As expected of a Golden Legendary Tier talent trait. Even something like a Personal Space was utterly outrageous.
How could any voidspace belt compare to a space this enormous?
A hundred billion?
Even ten trillion couldn't buy it...
"That saved me a hefty sum, at least."
Lin Yuan had browsed plenty of posts on the Star Warrior Forum and gained an understanding of the equipment and items newcomers needed after becoming Starry-Sky Warriors.
A Star-Iron Battle Weapon, a Full Combat Suit, a Stellar Communicator, a Personal Auxiliary Aircraft, Voidspace Equipment...
These five were essentially necessities.
A Star-Iron Battle Weapon boosted combat power!
A combat suit provided defense!
A Stellar Communicator could connect to the Star Warrior Network even in the Astral Realm, allowing users to look up information, communicate, and call for help!
A Personal Auxiliary Aircraft was another piece of advanced technology developed after the Era of Stellar Changes began. It assisted with flight, travel, and even escape. After all, First Realm and Second Realm warriors still couldn't fly and needed an aircraft's assistance.
Voidspace Equipment served as a spatial backpack. Its usefulness went without saying...
Of these, the most expensive were the Star-Iron Battle Weapon, combat suit, and Voidspace Equipment.
Most of the fifty-million Star Warrior Incentive Fund granted to newly advanced warriors would go toward those three.
Being able to save on one of them gave him a little more breathing room.
Lin Yuan considered it for a while and carefully compared the specifications before finally gritting his teeth and placing his orders.
"I can't skimp on the Star-Iron Battle Weapon or the combat suit. If I'm buying them, I'm buying the best."
The Deep-Blue Battle Sword had developed three cloud patterns during forging and was of perfect quality. Infused with star power, it could even cleave through the bodily defenses of a Two-Pattern Star Beast comparable to a Second Realm warrior. Even some less affluent Second Realm Starry-Sky Warriors used it, making it the best choice for a newcomer.
Twenty million it was. Bought!
The Type-I Combat Suit was defensive star-warrior equipment manufactured primarily from silver filament and flowing-silver iron. Incredibly tough, it could completely withstand fierce beast-level attacks and effectively defend against ordinary attacks from One-Pattern Star Beasts.
Ten million Azure Coins. Bought!
The Jet Skateboard Personal Aircraft was also constructed from a special alloy, with a new nitrogen system and various advanced technologies built in. It could fly nine hundred meters above the ground, reach a top speed of 600 km/h, absorb solar energy to recharge, and operate for up to twenty-four hours...
Tsk, tsk. This was another advanced technology that hadn't existed on Blue Star in his previous life, yet here it was utterly commonplace auxiliary equipment for Starry-Sky Warriors.
Lin Yuan glanced at its hefty eight-million price tag and bought it outright without hesitation!
Unlike the Wilderness Zone, the Astral Realm lay in the untamed lands farther beyond it, where no rail lines had been laid—in fact, laying them was impossible. This was no longer the old era, after all. The distances were too great and the dangers too high, so Starry-Sky Warriors had to make their own way there.
Ordinary Starry-Sky Warriors below the Third Realm hadn't mastered flight, and running there on foot was impractical. Naturally, they needed aircraft assistance, making this another necessity.
The Stellar Communicator was cheap by comparison. Three million even included a service card and 3,600 minutes of call time...
"I've really gotten carried away. Now even three million counts as cheap..."
Lin Yuan shook his head with a smile.
He had worked himself to the bone in the Wilderness Zone for a month to earn only three or four million—that showed just how outrageous a Starry-Sky Warrior's expenses were.
And this was only the most basic equipment. Plenty of other major expenses still awaited him...
"The law of conservation of earnings—the more you earn, the more you can spend."
"Should work the other way around too, right?"
Lin Yuan muttered to himself. With spending like this, he hoped a Starry-Sky Warrior's earning speed could keep up, or he really wouldn't be able to bear it.
In just a few minutes, forty-one million was gone.
Clearly, the Star Warrior Incentive Fund hadn't been handed out arbitrarily. It had practically been calculated around a newly advanced warrior's essential purchases, with the money earmarked for that purpose.
"Finally, I can also learn one Stellar Force Secret Art for free..."
All his equipment purchases were complete, and nearly everything could be delivered to his door within a day.
Lin Yuan clicked into another section—
Stellar Force Secret Arts!
What were Stellar Force Secret Arts?
Similar to the ancient martial combat techniques such as fist arts and sword arts that Lin Yuan had learned at school, Stellar Force Secret Arts were advanced applications of natal stellar force—"martial arts manuals" exclusive to Starry-Sky Warriors.
Star power was a genuine supernatural force, after all. Using it merely to overpower others with brute strength would be putting great timber to petty use.
Only by mastering Stellar Force Secret Arts could Starry-Sky Warriors fully unleash their strength. A single strand of star power could even erupt with the force of ten!
Thus, Stellar Force Secret Arts offered the greatest improvement to combat power for all Starry-Sky Warriors, but they were also the most difficult path.
The reason was simple: Stellar Force Secret Arts were advanced applications of star power, making them quite difficult to learn.
Without sufficient talent and comprehension, or some special opportunity, mastering a Stellar Force Secret Art would take an extremely long time.
Ordinary Stellar Force Secret Arts were manageable. Most people could still master them if they spent enough time studying.
But the higher a Stellar Force Secret Art's tier, the harder it was to learn.
Of course, its power would naturally far exceed that of ordinary Stellar Force Secret Arts as well.
"Since the Era of Stellar Changes began, the martial path of Human Civilization has flourished. Exceptional talents have emerged without end, creating many Stellar Force Secret Arts."
Lin Yuan browsed the marketplace's list of Stellar Force Secret Arts, his eyes shining with wonder.
Based on their learning difficulty, Stellar Force Secret Arts were broadly divided into four tiers: common, earth, sky, and Star-Shattering.
For most Starry-Sky Warriors, mastering one or two Common-Tier Stellar Force Secret Arts already provided a considerable boost to combat power and essentially made them skilled fighters within their realm.
Anyone who mastered an Earth-Tier Stellar Force Secret Art could easily fight two opponents of the same level alone and could be considered a genius.
A Sky-Tier Stellar Force Secret Art?
Only an exceedingly small number of people could comprehend one. Once they mastered it, they were essentially invincible within their realm—true heaven-blessed prodigies!
As for the highest tier, Star-Shattering...
The name alone made it clear that learning one was as difficult as ascending to heaven. Once mastered, it granted the power to shatter stars, a domain reserved for absolute powerhouses.
"Crescent Sky Rush: force-projection Stellar Force Secret Art, common tier. Usable with either a saber or a sword. Condense natal stellar force and unleash a crescent-shaped blade of force that tears apart everything in its path..."
"Price: 10 Contribution Points!"
"Mountain-Splitting Seal: energy-type Stellar Force Secret Art, earth tier. Condense natal stellar force into a gigantic palm seal. With a single seal unleashed, mountains crumble, the earth splits, and the seas surge across the land..."
"Price: 500 Contribution Points!"
"Void-Piercing Finger: penetration-type Stellar Force Secret Art, sky tier. Condense natal stellar force to achieve tremendous penetrating power and an exceptionally long range. At great mastery, a single finger truly can pierce the heavens and bore through the void..."
"Price: 20,000 Contribution Points!"
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