After nearly a century of mining, all the resources from the more than three thousand polluted planets involved in the battle had been transported back to the Blue Star Lineage.
This battle made Zhang Yang realize once again that technology was indispensable and had to be developed vigorously.
Over those hundred years, absorbing so many resources had fattened Zhang Yang's wallet.
Zhang Yang opened up a Hextech Realm and guided the technological heavyweights of the Mortal Realm to ascend there.
He allocated fifty thousand places, allowing some of the Mortal Realm's leading technological minds to ascend to the Hextech Realm with their entire families in tow.
Following the requests of the Technological Realm's Starfolk, Zhang Yang went on a shopping spree on the Cosmic Virtual Platform, purchasing large quantities of technological know-how and equipment.
Then he steeled himself and handed ten universe fragments to those technology fanatics in the Technological Realm.
He also sent over some Immortal Energy to strengthen their bodies.
Progress in genetic engineering was limited. At present, genetic modification could improve living beings' physical attributes and strength across multiple dimensions.
Zhang Yang named these concoctions Hextech Gene Potions and divided them into successive tiers according to the degree of enhancement they provided.
The gene potions had to be drunk one tier at a time. Otherwise, the user's body would explode, killing them.
Another issue was that these potions were expensive.
These potions were listed for sale on Blue Star's Heavenly Net and the Cosmic Virtual Platform, where they proved quite popular.
Zhang Yang also officially began selling treasures such as elixirs, refined artifacts, and talismans through the Cosmic Elders Council's marketplace.
The elixirs and Spirit Treasures crafted by the Grand Supreme Elder were particularly popular. They had to be auctioned off every time and could fetch astronomical