On a barren planet at the edge of the stellar system containing Sea Spirit Star.
A spaceship was docked there.
"Customer identity confirmed. Transaction authorized."
An electronic voice sounded.
A silver-haired middle-aged man handed Dongguan a Space Ring.
After claiming ownership, Dongguan extended his spiritual force into it to inspect the contents. "Everything is in order."
"In that case, we'll be leaving," the silver-haired old man said with a smile. "Esteemed customer, thank you for supporting our Virtual Universe Company. Thank you."
These were treasures Dongguan had ordered for cultivating the "Wishful Body," along with some other items.
The items ordered through the Skull Society had already arrived. These were treasures he had found at another recent Guchen Auction, which could assist his subsequent cultivation.
Although the Skull Society offered its own channels, everything there required mission points, especially certain precious items that demanded four-star and five-star points he currently had no way to obtain.
Thus, whenever he had time, he never missed a Guchen Auction. He had even attended two intermediate auctions, though there had been no high-level auctions.
Over the past century, he had never again seen a cultivation slot in the Initial Universe put up for auction.
The Virtual Universe Company's spaceship departed.
Dongguan walked slowly across the barren, freezing planet.
His consciousness sank into his Origin Core, where a world had finished taking shape.
It was a world of light. Lights of every color formed a wondrous, beautiful world, seemingly real yet illusory.
The main feature of that world was a circular continent with a radius of fifty thousand kilometers, surrounded by an ocean, and the world was still slowly expanding.
Interlaced crystals formed that continent, creating fantastic rainbows with the light above. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, black, and white-spots of every color