System Update Successful, One Hundred and Fifty Billion Energy Points, Fusion and Deduction!

Lu Qingyun did not know the outcome of that Sacred War. He only knew that after it, Seventeenth Elder Lu Changming was rarely seen.

It seemed he had suffered some tremendous shock. He directly applied to the family to enter a certain Forbidden Zone in search of a breakthrough.

As for Lin Qingxue, after Lu Qingyun had someone retrieve all the resources from the Lin Family Treasury under her control, he simply sent her away and left her to fend for herself.

After all, she could barely be considered one of the younger generation's prodigies.

With a top-tier physique like the Green Lotus Sword Body, she naturally needed to temper herself in the Great Wilderness. Only then could she go farther.

As for resources... Lu Qingyun did not let her take even a single low-grade Wild Stone.

It was called tempering herself, yet she would still have resources on her? Wouldn't that be harming her?!

After all, she had brought him so many resources. By all reason and sentiment, he could not do something like that!

After taking inventory, Lu Qingyun truly had not expected that the Alchemy Lin Family's treasury had accumulated a full two hundred and thirty-seven bottles of Saint Grade Pills!

Although the Energy Points brought by a single pill were far inferior to those from a complete saint medicine—

—the sheer quantity still brought Lu Qingyun more than a hundred billion Energy Points!

Adding the natural gains from these past few days, Lu Qingyun now possessed the terrifying sum of one hundred and fifty billion Energy Points!

If he invested all of it into his cultivation, he would even dare to have a clash with Lu Changming, making the already heartbroken Lu Changming's heart shatter once more!

"I've never fought such a rich battle in my life!"

Lu Qingyun stared at the enormous number on the panel, his heart surging with excitement. But when he saw that the system was still updating, he forcibly suppressed the urge to add it all to Gui Xu Yin.

A small lack of patience ruins great plans!

The update bar was nearly full. He would wait until it was complete and see what new functions the system had, so that he could maximize the use of his Energy Points!

After a day of waiting, the system he had been eagerly awaiting finally finished updating.

A notification sounded in his mind.

[System updated to version 2.0. Two major new functions have been added. Please explore them yourself.]

[This system's currency module has been upgraded. Energy Points have automatically been converted into Fortune Points to facilitate breaking through to higher-level shackles. The exchange ratio is 1:100,000,000.]

[Additionally: given that the host's current realm has reached one billion, low-level energy storage items will no longer yield Fortune Points.]

"Open the panel."

With the command, an azure panel completely unlike the previous rudimentary one appeared before Lu Qingyun.

[Host: Lu Qingyun (Soul Bound)]

[Fortune Points: 1526 (Digits after the decimal point are no longer displayed)]

[Realm: Blood Moving Secret Treasury, one billion layers!]

[Innate Divine Abilities: Blood Burning (Realm doubles!) Spatial Comprehension (Minor control over the power of space) Blood Qi Furnace (Supreme offensive technique) Mend Heaven (Ultimate restoration)]

[Techniques: Gui Xu Yin (Second Layer, 0/1000), Void Desolate Heaven Technique (Tenth Layer, 0/1000), Void Breaking Heaven Sealing Order (Eleventh Layer, 0/3000), Creation Seizing Heaven Method (Ninth Layer, 0/200), Cosmic Chaos Art (Ninth Layer, 0/300)...]

[Corrupt Immortal Spiritual Charm (Not possessed): (0/1000)]

[New Function 1: Fusion (Fortune Points can be consumed to fuse and upgrade any techniques or divine abilities of the same type, breaking through their limits)]

[New Function 2: Deduction (Consume Fortune Points to glimpse the future of heaven and earth, and learn the beginning and end of all things)]

"Fortune Points?"

When Lu Qingyun saw that long string of zeros vanish, an inexplicable panic rose in his heart.

He had thought the system had no sense of fair play and swept away all the Energy Points he had painstakingly saved up.

Fortunately, the Energy Points were still there, merely accompanying him in another form.

After deducting one Fortune Point to raise his realm—

—Lu Qingyun examined it slightly and discovered that it had once again raised his Blood Moving Secret Treasury by one million layers, without any reduction. Only then did he relax.

As he advanced further, the limit of the Blood Moving Secret Treasury continued to rise.

Normally, breakthroughs should grow harder and harder, requiring ever more energy. That was only reasonable.

Yet for Lu Qingyun, one hundred Energy Points had raised his realm by one layer at the beginning, and even now, after reaching the Blood Moving Secret Treasury, it was still the same!

He did not need to think to know that the system had definitely been secretly pulling its weight.

Originally, even if the system had pulled some tricks and made one Fortune Point raise his Blood Moving Secret Treasury by only eight or nine hundred thousand layers, Lu Qingyun truly would not have said anything.

It was just normal loss. He could understand that.

But since the system was still being so honest, what was there to say? They were brothers!

But since they were brothers, what did it mean by low-level energy storage items no longer yielding Fortune Points?

Lu Qingyun frowned slightly, yet he found nothing unusual.

The rate at which he acquired Energy... Fortune Points was still the same.

After searching around for a while, Lu Qingyun finally found the mid- and low-grade Wild Stones in his previous storage ring—the ones that now felt utterly unfamiliar to him.

When he placed his hand on it and felt no reaction whatsoever, Lu Qingyun finally came to a realization. So this was where the restriction lay!

But... what did that restriction have to do with him?

The resources provided by the Lu Family were now, at the very least, top-grade Wild Stones. All manner of rare spiritual treasures were available in abundance!

How could he possibly waste time using those mid- and low-grade Wild Stones with their abysmally poor efficiency? Wouldn't that be a complete waste of time?

Besides, he was, at the very least, comparable to an Overlord-level powerhouse now.

In the Great Wilderness, which Overlord-level powerhouse cultivated with mid- or low-grade Wild Stones?

Even the most destitute True God would never use those impurity-riddled ores to contaminate their divine body.

Once he confirmed that it would not affect him, Lu Qingyun turned his attention to the two newly added functions.

The first, the fusion function, was not what Lu Qingyun needed most at the moment.

He did cultivate a great many cultivation techniques and divine abilities, but under his astonishing talent, they had in fact already begun showing signs of merging.

The Heavenly Eye he had stumbled into creating by sheer coincidence was one such example—extremely powerful and useful!

As for the second function, deduction...

This one was rather interesting. Lu Qingyun had not forgotten.

He had once been deduced by an unknown powerhouse. He had even spent three hundred million Energy Points because of it—equivalent to a full three Fortune Points.

He just wondered how that unknown powerhouse was doing now.

Lu Qingyun actually quite wanted to learn such a method.

Although his combat strength was not the least bit inferior to an Overlord-level powerhouse, in truth, he was ultimately just a nobody at the Blood Moving Secret Treasury. He relied entirely on his vast, abyss-deep reserves of blood vitality to crush everything with sheer force!

Things like the Cave Heaven Secret Treasury's ability to absorb and exhale vital essence, ensuring enduring combat power and an unceasing supply of strength, or the Nirvana Realm's shedding of the mortal shell, ultimate sublimation, and transformation into a True God's body—

he had none of those. Naturally, there were many methods he could not use either.

Deduction was one of them.

Without profound cultivation, how could one commune with the Heavenly Dao and grasp life and death in one's hand?

Still, matters that defied heaven like this usually came with countless restrictions.

So why was there no prompt on the system?

Could it be... there was no backlash, no heavenly punishment?

[Deducting the identity of the unknown powerhouse requires two hundred Fortune Points. Proceed with payment?]

"No, no, no!"

Lu Qingyun nearly reached out to jab the "no" option himself.

What the hell was this, asking for two hundred Fortune Points right off the bat? Converted over, wouldn't that be twenty billion Energy Points?!

What couldn't he do with that many points? Why would he spend them now just to learn someone's identity?

And what if he did learn it? Did he have the ability to defeat them now?

The person was still out there, and the system was still here. At the very least, he would wait until he had eight or ten thousand points on hand before considering whether this expense was worth it.

But... there really did seem to be no backlash. It simply required an enormous number of Fortune Points.

In that case...

"System, deduce the scene of my first death in the future."