Fusing Eye Techniques, Star Eye! Spending Little, Achieving Much!

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

On the panel, his Fortune Points had already reached a staggering three thousand!

Looking at those points, Lu Qingyun had no intention of continuing to save them up. He chose to convert them directly into strength!

No matter how many Fortune Points he had, they were still just numbers.

Only by using them on himself would they become something real!

"The Fortune Points required for Gui Xu Yin are too high, so I won't consider it for now. Destruction Sword Intent can be improved, but combat strength isn't a priority at the moment, so that can wait. Raising my realm could slightly increase the rate at which I obtain Fortune Points. But... before raising my realm, perhaps I should refine and consolidate everything I've learned."

After pondering for a moment, Lu Qingyun came to a decision.

To this day, he had yet to use the fusion function added in the system's last update.

Although Lu Qingyun believed that, under the effects of his peerless talent, he had already somewhat succeeded in fusing various cultivation arts and divine abilities on his own.

Using the system's function was still the safer choice.

After all, how could his own bitter cultivation compare to the reliability of adding points through the system?

What came from system point allocation was confirmed once and for all—never to regress!

"System, fuse all the eye techniques I've learned."

Lu Qingyun considered his eye techniques to have already been fused almost completely.

Perhaps that would reduce the Fortune Points required.

Yet when the system notification appeared, Lu Qingyun fell silent.

[Would you like to fuse all learned eye techniques? Cost: 1,300 Fortune Points.]

"Thirteen hundred? Fortune Points!?"

Lu Qingyun dearly wanted to curse. He seriously suspected that the system set its prices entirely based on how many Fortune Points he had!

What did thirteen hundred Fortune Points mean? One hundred and thirty billion Energy Points!

That was more than he had accumulated during the four years from his initial Rite of Passage to the Great Wilderness trial!

The Energy Points he had spent on eye techniques, when converted, did not even amount to one hundred and thirty Fortune Points.

And now it was asking for ten times that!?

"Do it! I'd like to see what exactly you can fuse them into!"

Lu Qingyun waved a hand grandly. His expression remained calm, but his heart was bleeding.

He had painstakingly saved up three thousand Fortune Points, and with one sweep of the hand, nearly half of them had flowed away.

He decided that if this fusion did not yield the improvement it should, he would search every corner of the system panel, find the report button, and bring the system's evil deeds before Heaven itself!

[Deducting 1,300 Fortune Points. Fusing 143 eye techniques, including Myriad Manifestation Origin Eye, Star Annihilation Eye, and Great Void Delusion Breaking Eye. During the fusion process, please find a safe location, keep your eyes tightly shut, and ensure the fusion proceeds smoothly.]

[Note: The fusion function may cause slight pain. This is normal; there is no need for concern.]

Seeing the string of notifications, Lu Qingyun's heart jolted.

He immediately—and very sensibly—retreated from the eleven-thousandth level of the Heavenly Stairway. At the lowest level, he found an unoccupied courtyard with restrictions and moved in.

Every giant city had been refined by the Lu Family Ancestor so that members of the Lu Family would have safe places to cultivate without being disturbed.

Thus, all he needed was to find any unoccupied courtyard, and his safety would be assured.

The fusion began. Within his mind, all kinds of eye-technique divine abilities glittered like stars, their Dao resonance flowing.

An invisible giant hand appeared, sweeping them down, seizing them, and forcefully kneading them together in a tyrannical and overbearing manner!

At that moment, the vertical eye on Lu Qingyun's forehead abruptly opened. Its icy gaze seemed to look down upon all living things beneath heaven!

But in the next instant, this eye—which Lu Qingyun had named the Heavenly Eye and regarded as an aid—instantly filled with blood vessels, turning scarlet!

Streams of crimson blood flowed out. That cold eye now seemed to possess intelligence of its own, struggling, panicking, desperately trying to break free from Lu Qingyun's forehead!

Its trembling grew more and more violent until it finally reached a peak.

Boom!

It exploded!!

In an instant, Lu Qingyun felt excruciating pain in his forehead, as though countless steel needles had pierced into his brain!

It was like a thick iron rod had been forcibly thrust into his brain matter and stirred around, throwing everything into utter chaos!

But soon, streams of cool energy entered his mind.

The mangled, bloody wound on his forehead began to heal, swiftly returning to normal.

The surrounding vital essence continuously poured into Lu Qingyun's eyes, seemingly remaking them.

If Lu Qingyun's consciousness had previously been like the surface of the sea amid a raging gale, then now that sea had become calm and still.

After a long while, Lu Qingyun sat cross-legged like an old monk in meditation, utterly motionless.

Throughout this time, Lu Qingyun seemed to be adapting to his new eyes.

Only after fully adapting to it did he slowly open his eyes.

There was no eye-light spilling out, no barriers pierced, no heavenly phenomenon shooting into the sky.

Those eyes were exceptionally calm, clean.

They seemed unchanged, but upon closer inspection, one would find tiny specks scattered around Lu Qingyun's pupils, like flecks of starlight.

"Star Eye, open."

The brand-new ocular art began to operate with incomparable naturalness.

In an instant, silver-blue light shone from Lu Qingyun's eyes. His gaze remained indifferent, yet his entire aura changed in that moment!

From an utterly unremarkable top prodigy, he directly leaped into an invincible being who sought defeat in this world, looking down upon all living things!

[Star Eye (Second Layer, 0/1500): Eyes as dazzling as stars, perhaps the ultimate ocular art in the world. You may try having a staring contest with Twin Pupils of the same rank... You are the one with the big eyes.]

"Seems... not bad."

After a moment of silence, Lu Qingyun gave this assessment.

In truth, how could it merely be "not bad"? It was clearly an incredible bargain!

Originally, the Heavenly Eye Lu Qingyun cultivated was not weak, but he had ultimately taken the wrong path.

There was no noticeable impact in the short term, but if this continued for long, it would inevitably cause no small problems.

Now, by spending these 1,300 Fortune Points, he had not only eliminated that hidden danger, but his strength had not weakened in the slightest—it had instead increased tremendously!

The original Heavenly Eye could at most affect True Gods.

But the Star Eye produced through fusion could stand shoulder to shoulder with Twin Pupils!

This was a genuine divine ability that could help him defeat those above his level!

And its value for money was absurdly high. How much did Twin Pupils cost? And how much did Star Eye cost?

They were completely incomparable, alright?!

"As expected, not a single function of the system is useless."

Lu Qingyun now understood this deeply.

It was called fusion, but in reality, it was an all-around upgrade!

Having tasted the benefits, Lu Qingyun immediately turned his attention to the cultivation technique section.

Originally, his main purpose in cultivating so many techniques was to increase the efficiency at which he gained Energy Points.

Things like boosts to combat strength were merely extras.

Looking at things now, if he fused his cultivation techniques, the rate at which he acquired Fortune Points should likewise increase!

"System, fuse all the cultivation techniques I've learned for me!"

[Fusing all cultivation techniques requires 23,567 Fortune Points. Insufficient host balance detected. Unable to fuse.]

The system's prompt was like a sharp arrow piercing Lu Qingyun's heart!

More than twenty thousand Fortune Points!

He had expected it to require many Fortune Points. After all, he had spent far more Fortune Points on cultivation techniques than on ocular arts.

But he truly had not expected it to require this much!!

"More than twenty thousand... Gui Xu Yin needs thirty thousand Fortune Points to rise to the fourth layer. If all these techniques, including Gui Xu Yin, were fused together, the result might not be worse than the fourth layer of Gui Xu Yin! Thinking of it that way... it's acceptable?"

Lu Qingyun silently ran the numbers, and the more he calculated, the brighter his eyes became.

This was the equivalent of spending less money to accomplish something greater!

That way, in the future, he might only need to upgrade the one cultivation technique obtained through fusion. Perhaps the Fortune Points required to upgrade that technique would be exceptionally terrifying.

But one thing was certain: it would at least require fewer points than upgrading those hundreds of cultivation techniques one by one!

In the long run, the benefits were plentiful!

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