Time Heart

The Thousand Treasures Pavilion was a treasure merchant directly administered by the You Mountain Empire. Its branches were spread across every major city in the empire, completely monopolizing its treasure market. Only the Thousand Treasures Pavilion was qualified to sell treasures to the public.

Within the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, one could find practically anything. From True God-level supreme treasures to all kinds of exceptionally rare and precious curiosities from the Origin Continent, even God King-level supreme treasures—so long as one could pay a sufficient price, one could almost certainly buy them.

The various branches spread throughout the nation held major auctions every ten thousand years, staggered from one another. Every auction was a grand visual feast, with dazzling auction items appearing on the stage, each one a rare treasure difficult to encounter.

Aside from the branch auctions, every Reincarnation Era, an even more frenzied grand auction was held in the imperial capital of the You Mountain Empire. It was said that every auction item there was enough to drive Eternal True Gods mad, and treasures that could make even Saint Realm experts covetous would occasionally appear.

The Thousand Treasures Pavilion's foundations were unimaginably deep.

The Thousand Treasures Pavilion in every city always had the greatest flow of customers.

The Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Azure City was a strange nine-story tower. From the outside, it looked no different from an ordinary building, only around a thousand kilometers tall and not particularly large in area. Yet the moment Luo Feng stepped inside, he felt as though he had entered an entirely different space.

This space was likely tens of millions of kilometers in diameter.

Tall display platforms stood in neat rows, some showing three-dimensional projections and others displaying actual items.

"There really are a lot." Luo Feng could not help sighing.

The items on the first floor were relatively ordinary and not very expensive. It was generally a place for Venerables and below, Lords of Laws, and True Gods to browse for treasures. Only the seventh floor and above truly counted as housing rare treasures, each item enough to move a Void True God. However, only Void True Gods and above could enter those floors.

Luo Feng did not linger to look around and headed straight for the ninth floor.

At the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, they looked first at aptitude and second at strength.

The higher one's aptitude, the higher the floor one could visit. The greater one's strength, the higher one could go as well.

The seventh and eighth floors were generally accessible only to Void True Gods and above, while the ninth floor was for Eternal True Gods and above. Of course, if one's strength was insufficient, aptitude could make up for it. So long as one could demonstrate sufficient purchasing power, one could likewise enter a higher floor.

The treasures on the ninth floor were all capable of moving Eternal True Gods.

Upon reaching the ninth floor, the space was much smaller yet more open, and there were almost no figures here.

There were not many items, only a few hundred by visual estimate. Actual objects were relatively scarce, with most being three-dimensional projections. Yet even those projections perfectly replicated their auras. If not for an Eternal True God's powerful discernment, one might have believed they were real objects.

Those projection techniques were all technological methods!

In the Primal Universe, the Machine Race's technology was already considered top-tier, but compared to the Origin Continent, it was still far inferior.

"They're all treasures. This supreme treasure..." Luo Feng was shocked. His gaze fell upon an arm-type treasure. Its aura was so powerful that it even approached that of the Chaos Golden Wings. Clearly, this was also an Eternal-level mechanical-stream treasure.

Which Eternal True God would not be tempted by something like this?

Luo Feng could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

This floor alone contained only a portion of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion's treasures. What level would the treasures at those auctions reach?

"Master, I want to devour many of these treasures directly." Even the usually shy Morosa could not help saying so.

"I don't have the money. Come on, let's look around first."

Luo Feng walked toward the nearest display platform.

On the ninth floor of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion, there was not even an attendant to provide introductions. The items were simply left there for customers to inspect themselves. There was no need for salesmanship; they were not afraid that customers would not want them. At the same time, they were not worried that anyone would dare steal or rob them. They simply put them on display.

"Primary Time Heart."

Luo Feng came before the display platform. The three-dimensional projection showed an olive-sized, elliptical, regular azure crystal. Its surface had countless tiny facets, each engraved with golden secret patterns. Faintly, the flow of time on the surface of this Time Heart seemed to differ from that of its surroundings.

"Star Sand River? Star Spirit Race? It's actually a Time Heart from the Star Spirit Race." Luo Feng caught the key terms.

The Duan Dong River lineage also had related records.

The Star Sand River was a wonder within the Origin Continent, as miraculous as the Sun Star and Taiyin Star. The Star Sand River was not an actual river; it merely looked like one, like a heavenly river suspended high in the void above the continent.

The Star Sand River was a trillion light-years wide in diameter, composed of countless bizarre spatial quicksands and planets, and hung high in the eastern part of the Origin Continent. The Star Sand River was endless. No one knew where it began or where it led. Its length was as unknowable as the vastness of the Origin Continent itself, impossible to record.

Within the Star Sand River, the spatial quicksand was the most bizarre. Some regions of spatial quicksand were deadly lands, with the weakest capable of annihilating True Gods and the strongest even capable of annihilating God Kings. Yet other regions carried planets within them, giving birth to the miraculous Star Spirit Race and even more wondrous treasures.

The Star Spirit Race was one of the most miraculous races on the Origin Continent. They were born as darlings of space, time, or even spacetime.

Every member of the Star Spirit Race was born from a planet within the Star Sand River, and a single planet could nurture only one Star Spirit. The moment they were born, they gained the recognition of the spatial origin, Time Origin, or both, and possessed the strength of a Lord of Laws. Upon adulthood, they became Void True Gods or even Eternal True Gods.

Once a planet gave birth to a member of the Star Spirit Race, it would enter that member's body and become their heart. As the member of the Star Spirit Race grew, this "heart" would gradually transform. Once the member reached the Eternal True God level, the heart would evolve into a Space Heart, Time Heart, or Spacetime Heart. Each possessed incomparable affinity with laws and origins.

For example, once one refined a Time Heart, the speed at which one comprehended the laws and Time Origin would increase by a thousandfold or even ten-thousandfold.

The more powerful the original owner of the Time Heart, the greater its benefits and the more valuable it was.

A Saint level Time Heart was enough to drive Saint Realm experts mad, while every God King-level Time Heart could set off a bloody storm and drive God Kings mad. However, killing a God King-level member of the Star Spirit Race within the Star Sand River was basically impossible, and God King-level Time Hearts were almost never seen.

Luo Feng looked at this Time Heart. Although it was merely Primary-grade, he was still deeply tempted.

After thoroughly comprehending the laws, one had to comprehend the mysteries of the origins. Most became Eternal True Gods only after comprehending all the basic laws and could not perceive the mysteries of the origins at all.

Those who became Eternal True Gods through comprehending the mysteries of the origins could be considered geniuses.

Therefore, anything that gave Eternal True Gods a chance to comprehend the mysteries of the origins would definitely be an extraordinary treasure. A treasure like a Time Heart would tempt any Eternal True God.

"This price... is truly ruthless." Luo Feng saw the listed price and immediately stopped entertaining the thought.

The price of this Time Heart was as high as 2,000 Qiankun units of Origin Crystals. One Qiankun was equal to one million billion cubic units of Origin Crystals, meaning this Time Heart cost two hundred thousand billion cubic units of Origin Crystals. Spending so much for a sliver of opportunity would make anyone hesitate, no matter how tempted they were.

What was more, Luo Feng had no money!

Luo Feng had plundered nearly all the liquid assets of the Meng'an Tribe, yet he had only around one trillion. That was not even one two-hundred-thousandth of the price of this Time Heart.

An ordinary Eternal True God generally possessed assets worth around one thousand Qiankun Units. Wealthier ones possessed between five thousand and twenty thousand Qiankun Units. Those with assets exceeding twenty thousand Qiankun Units were basically old monsters who had lived through an unknown number of Reincarnation Eras.

"I'll come back and buy it once I have enough money." Shaking his head, Luo Feng could only temporarily give up on this Time Heart.

Luo Feng walked over to the arm-type mechanical-stream treasure that had caught his attention upon entering.

"Star-Seizing Hand, an Eternal-level high-grade mechanical-stream treasure. An Eternal True God at the sixth rank or above who wields it is invincible in close combat beneath the Saint Realm."

The brief description nearly made Luo Feng stop breathing.

Invincible beneath the Saint Realm—what did that mean? It meant invincibility among Eternal True Gods. Only those who reached the ninth rank of Eternal True Gods could be considered invincible.

Luo Feng could now create sixth-rank Eternal True God blade techniques. Even with the God King embryo Blood Shadow Blade, he could only unleash top-tier seventh-rank strength. Yet an Eternal-level mechanical-stream supreme treasure could allow someone at the sixth rank to leap across three stages and reach the ninth rank.

One could imagine just how formidable the mechanical-stream treasure Star-Seizing Hand was.

"The fifth level of the Chaos Golden Wings should be able to achieve that as well," Luo Feng thought to himself.

The Chaos Golden Wings were also an Eternal-level mechanical-stream supreme treasure. The fourth layer of secret patterns was Thoughtless Universe, which could be activated at the Void level. Luo Feng believed that the fifth layer, which could be activated at the Eternal level, would grant him even greater strength. Yet to this day, he had still been unable to activate the fifth layer of secret patterns.

"How much is it..." Luo Feng looked toward the price.

108,000 Qiankun units of Origin Crystals!

When Luo Feng saw the price, he was dumbfounded. This was more than fifty times the price of the Time Heart. It was simply outrageous. Could an Eternal True God even possess such a fortune?

"Good thing I have the Chaos Golden Wings." Luo Feng shook his head and turned to leave.

He walked to the next display platform and looked at the price.

"Can't afford it."

"Can't afford it."

"..."

Luo Feng visited several display platforms in succession and discovered that the items were all absurdly expensive. The cheapest cost one thousand Qiankun units of Origin Crystals, while the most expensive was as high as two hundred thousand Qiankun units—yet it was merely a pitch-black metal fragment.

There were quite a few items for sale that could allow Morosa to evolve to the Saint level, but every one of them cost no less than two thousand Qiankun units. At such prices, Luo Feng would likely have to sell the Chaos Golden Wings before he could afford them.

"Truly expensive!" Luo Feng shook his head. He had thought that plundering some wealth from the Meng'an Tribe was not bad, but only after arriving here did he realize how utterly wrong he had been. This little money of his did not even compare to that of the poorest Eternal True Gods.

"If I'd known, I would have killed those Four Divine Heavens." Luo Feng felt some regret inwardly.

Only after arriving here did he realize how desperately short of money he was.

Once in the city, there were quite a few ways to earn money, but the fastest was still the popular "wager battles" in Azure City, which were somewhat like sparring matches. In a wager battle, the challenger set a stake and challenged another person. If the other party accepted, they could fight, and the victor won the corresponding stake.

If one won a hundred consecutive matches, one would be qualified to challenge the regional lord. The regional lord could not delay and had to accept the challenge as quickly as possible.