In the Dark Universe, a silver-gray spaceship sped through space at faster-than-light speed.
What surprised Qi Yuan was that the owner of the spaceship, who had bought all of them Lei Yuan Clan slaves, had never summoned them.
But that was fine. It gave him time to familiarize himself further with the system he had just acquired.
"The Disciple Return System can be triggered by imparting cultivation experience or gifting items."
"Item returns are easy enough to understand, but how do cultivation experience returns work? The cultivation experience I can teach my disciples is definitely something I've already mastered. What would be the point of returning it tenfold or even a hundredfold?"
"This return multiplier is quite impressive, though. On top of the base return multiplier, there is even a chance to trigger a critical reward of up to one hundred times. If I could take in a genius disciple with a base return multiplier of one hundred times, then trigger a Hundredfold Critical Strike, wouldn't that mean a ten-thousandfold return?"
That was simply irresistible!
If he could trigger a ten-thousandfold return every time, never mind cultivation realms and strength—he could just keep giving his disciples money and resources. Before long, he might become one of the wealthiest people in the Original Universe!
By then, what heavenly treasures would he be unable to buy? Wouldn't his cultivation soar like a rocket?
Of course, that was merely a bit of self-indulgent fantasy. There were still many restrictions when it came to actually putting it into practice.
First, the system's return function could only be triggered once a month, and the gifted item had to be something the disciple currently needed. Otherwise, it would affect the return multiplier.
Second, critical rewards presumably would not be so easy to trigger. The gift had to be something that could greatly move the disciple.
In other words, the gift could not merely be expensive; it also had to be suitable. It had to reach the disciple's heart.
Furthermore, items returned by the system could not trigger another return if they were gifted again. He would have to keep coming up with different things to give.
The time and effort this would require were easy to imagine.
Of course, beyond all that, the most pressing problem Qi Yuan faced was how to find a genius disciple with a high multiplier.
He himself was only Star Traveller Tier 2, and he had come from a primitive planet. Now, he had even become a slave controlled by a Biological Chip.
Unless someone was out of their mind, no high-multiplier genius would be willing to become his disciple.
No, that wasn't quite right.
His gaze swept over his surroundings—
As a figure akin to the martial arts "founder" of the Lei Yuan Clan, if he opened his mouth, those Planetary level clansmen around him probably would not refuse.
Moreover, quite a few of them had originally come from his own school.
"Let me see what kind of aptitude the Lei Yuan Clan has."
With a thought, he used the system's function to quickly inspect the Lei Yuan Clan members around him.
But the more he checked, the lower his spirits sank—
Target: Long Shan. Base return multiplier: 4x. Can be bound.
Target: Shen Buhai. Base return multiplier: 3x. Can be bound after becoming a disciple.
Target: Tang Hong. Base return multiplier: 3x. Can be bound after becoming a disciple.
Among the several hundred Planetary level Lei Yuan Clan members, the vast majority had base return multipliers of only three to five times.
The highest was barely eight times, not even reaching double digits.
"Not even one exceeds ten times. The Lei Yuan Clan's bloodline seems rather ordinary."
But he had no better choice at the moment. He could only pick the tallest among the short.
"Anyway, the system has no limit on how many people I can bind. I'll try it first!"
Qi Yuan's gaze roamed over the crowd before quickly locking onto a middle-aged Lei Yuan clansman at the edge of the group.
The clansman wore ragged cloth garments. He was thin and gaunt, with messy graying hair, looking like a sorrowful old farmer who had toiled in the fields for most of his life.
This man was the only one among the several hundred Lei Yuan Clan members whose return multiplier had reached eight times.
To be honest, Qi Yuan had been somewhat surprised when he learned that this man had the highest return multiplier among more than three hundred Lei Yuan Clan members.
After all, in the original owner's memories, this man's talent did not seem especially outstanding among the Lei Yuan Clan.
As one of the original owner's earliest disciples, the cultivation techniques and resources he received were no worse than anyone else's, yet his progress had been extremely slow.
Until the arrival of the visitors from beyond the stars, he had only just broken through to Planetary Rank 2. Not only had he ranked at the bottom among disciples of the same generation, but he had also been surpassed by many rising talents.
The only thing worthy of praise was that his foundation was exceptionally "solid." Though his progress was slow, he advanced steadily step by step. His combat techniques and Movement Technique were also unrivaled among his fellow genius disciples.
"Could this be a Lei Yuan Star version of the Clumsy Peak Great Emperor?"
"Whatever. There's no better choice for now, so I'll use you as a backup."
Having made up his mind, Qi Yuan swiftly sent a thread of consciousness toward the illusory panel in his sea of consciousness.
At once, the system's crisp notification sounded in his mind.
Target: Cang Fan. Base return multiplier: 8x. Meets disciple requirements. Bind?
After Qi Yuan chose to confirm, information regarding Cang Fan immediately appeared on the previously blank system panel:
Name: Cang Fan Race: Lei Yuan Clan Realm: Planetary Rank 2 Attribute: Lightning Cultivation Path: Martial Artist Base Return Multiplier: 8x
The panel's contents were extremely sparse and revealed no special information. Qi Yuan glanced over it a few times before exiting directly.
"I have a disciple now. Should I test the system's return function?"
After thinking for a moment, he temporarily dismissed the idea.
For one thing, he was utterly penniless right now. Other than imparting cultivation experience, he did not even have a "gift" with which to trigger a System Return.
For another, he had not forgotten his current identity.
As a slave controlled by a Biological Chip, every move he made was being monitored by his master. If he rashly displayed behavior inconsistent with a slave's identity, it would easily draw his master's attention.
Whether he was captured for research or executed outright, neither consequence was something he could bear.
"I'm too weak right now. I have to be careful—extremely careful. I absolutely cannot let anyone know that I can break free from the Biological Chip's control!"
"Stay steady for now. I'll look for an opportunity after the spaceship lands."
Lei Bao Star was a rather famous resource planet within the Eternal Starfield.
The entire Lei Bao Star was shrouded in dense thunderclouds all year round, and most of its surface lay within Lightning Storms as vast as oceans.
In such a harsh environment, even ordinary Planetary level martial artists could not remain for long without supplies.
Yet it was precisely because of this environment that Lei Bao Star produced an extraordinarily precious special resource—Thunder Crystal Ore.
Thunder Crystals refined from Thunder Crystal Ore could be used to forge Force Weapons or smelted with other metals into C-Grade Alloy. They were considered an extremely marketable metal ore in the universe.
Thanks to its abundant Thunder Crystal Ore reserves, a single Lei Bao Star was worth as much as more than a dozen Life Planets of the same scale.
This was an immense fortune that even Universe Level powerhouses would find incomparably tempting!
However, although Lei Bao Star's coordinates were no secret, not a single Universe Level powerhouse dared to truly set their sights on it.
The reason was simple: standing behind this planet's owner was the powerful Ortega Family.
Inside the spaceship cabin where the Lei Yuan Clan slaves were held.
Qi Yuan attempted to cultivate according to the cultivation method he had obtained from the original owner's memories.
Threads of cosmic energy continuously entered his body and, after further tempering, were refined into pure Gene Primary Energy.
But in Qi Yuan's eyes, this refinement speed was pitifully slow.
After completing another circulation cycle, he had no choice but to stop for the time being.
"The original owner's cultivation technique is far too low-grade. Without any cultivation resources to assist me, at this rate, breaking through to Star Traveller Tier 3 alone will probably take decades, perhaps even a century."
There was no helping it. The original owner's Lei Yuan Star had never connected with cosmic civilization. His so-called cultivation methods had all been obtained from the wreckage of an extraterrestrial spaceship that had happened to crash onto Lei Yuan Star. Being able to piece them together well enough to support a breakthrough to the Star Traveller realm was already quite decent.
Without a more complete cultivation method, it was uncertain whether he could even cultivate to the peak of the Star Traveller realm before his lifespan ran out.
"I have to find a way to obtain a more complete cultivation method."
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