"Brother Qingshan!"
When Weilusi, standing nearby, saw Lu Qingshan turn his gaze to the wood bud crystals, he quickly introduced them. "With your current strength, I estimate that you would only need twenty wood bud crystals before you could attempt to break through to Star Level!"
"After you break through to Star Level, wood bud crystals can still help with cultivation, but they won't be very cost-effective anymore! With the patriarch's gifts, you now have ample funds, so I recommend Blue Stone Powder, which sells for five thousand Golden Lion Currency per gram!"
"One thousand kilograms of Blue Stone Powder can provide a Stellar Level One warrior with enough energy to cultivate to Star Level Ninth Stage. As for cultivation speed, that depends on how quickly the user absorbs energy!"
"Under normal circumstances, if you keep using Blue Stone Powder to cultivate, going from Stellar Level One to Star Level Ninth Stage takes roughly five hundred to a thousand years!"
"But treasures on the level of Blue Stone Powder are simply too expensive. Most Star Level experts can't bear to use them at all! Even if they do, they only use small amounts. Very few people can afford to keep using them! Your senior brothers and sisters, though, Brother Qingshan, normally cultivate with treasures on the same level as Blue Stone Powder!"
After hearing this, Lu Qingshan quickly nodded in understanding.
One thousand kilograms of Blue Stone Powder cost five billion Golden Lion Currency, while buying a Star Level Ninth Stage warrior slave only cost five billion Golden Lion Currency.
Moreover, Blue Stone Powder merely accelerated cultivation. Reaching Star Level Ninth Stage still took five hundred to a thousand years.
However, the disciples of Universe Level experts enjoyed extremely high status and abundant resources, so using treasures of this level to cultivate was quite normal.
But for Lu Qingshan, spending five hundred to a thousand years cultivating to Star Level Ninth Stage was simply too much of a waste of time.
So he quickly asked, "Big Brother Weilusi, are there any more precious treasures?"
"Of course there are!"
Weilusi quickly nodded and said, "The universe is incomparably vast. They say there are even treasures that let someone cultivate from Stellar Level One to Star Level Ninth Stage in just a few months, but even the patriarch might not be able to afford treasures like those, let alone people like us!"
"For you, Junior Brother, Blue Stone Powder offers the best value. As for treasures more precious than Blue Stone Powder, most offer relatively poor value. Just take a look for yourself!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Weilusi quickly displayed an illusory screen before Lu Qingshan, bearing introductions to several precious materials.
Silver Light Marrow: four hundred kilograms could allow a Stellar Level One warrior to cultivate to Star Level Ninth Stage, taking two hundred to five hundred years depending on talent. Its price reached eighty thousand Golden Lion Currency per gram, making four hundred kilograms worth 32 billion Golden Lion Currency;
Star Essence: one thousand pieces of Star Essence could allow a Stellar Level One warrior to cultivate to Star Level Ninth Stage, taking one hundred to two hundred years depending on talent. However, each piece of Star Essence cost as much as two hundred million Golden Lion Currency, making one thousand pieces worth two hundred billion Golden Lion Currency!
Only after seeing these incomparably precious resources before him did Lu Qingshan understand just how outrageously lavish Luo Feng had been in the original story, directly using Nutrient Solution worth ten billion Universe Coins to evolve his Earthling body!
Even through official exchange channels, a single Universe Coin could be exchanged for 3.3 million Golden Lion Currency.
Ten billion Universe Coins could theoretically buy several million Star Level Ninth Stage warriors!
And so, after repeated consideration, Lu Qingshan still decided to use Silver Light Marrow, priced at eighty thousand Golden Lion Currency per gram, to aid his cultivation.
More than thirty billion Golden Lion Currency was a considerable sum, but for Lu Qingshan, who possessed a domain, entering Universe Level should not be too difficult once he cultivated to Star Level Ninth Stage in the future.
Once he broke through to Universe Level, given how quickly Universe Level experts earned money, thirty billion Golden Lion Currency would no longer amount to much for him.
As for the more precious Star Essence, although the wealth he currently held could support his early cultivation, he had no money-making plans during his Star Level phase. Surely he couldn't go looking for support from his teacher Kanuo after spending all his money?
At this thought, Lu Qingshan quickly said to the beautiful attendant behind him, "I need twenty kilograms of Silver Light Marrow, one thousand wood bud crystals, one hundred tonnes of Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow, and one hundred thousand tonnes of purple light dew!"
Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow was a spiritual liquid that supplied Planetary Level warriors with what they needed for cultivation. Although its effects were far inferior to those of wood bud crystals, it was also extremely cheap, costing only 1,000 Golden Lion Currency per kilogram. Many Planetary Level warriors in the universe with some backing used it to accelerate their cultivation.
As for purple light dew, it was the same purple light dew Luo Feng had purchased in the original story. Around ten grams of purple light dew could allow a third-order martial apprentice on Xuanhuang Star to smoothly enter the warrior ranks-that is, become an Apprentice First Order warrior by the universe's standards. As for its price, it cost 10 Golden Lion Currency per kilogram.
"Brother Qingshan, what are you..."
After hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Weilusi looked very puzzled.
He understood the Silver Light Marrow perfectly well. Lu Qingshan was definitely buying it for his own use. He could also understand buying so many wood bud crystals. After all, Lu Qingshan had some relatives who had entered Planetary Level, and there was nothing wrong with helping one's relatives when one had sufficient wealth.
But what about the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and purple light dew?
In such enormous quantities, they were clearly intended for the other natives on Xuanhuang Star!
"Brother Qingshan, this isn't how you act as a Planet Lord!"
Weilusi quickly advised him, "You haven't even used those subjects under your rule to make money yet, and you're already spending so many resources on them!"
"You need to understand that you'll have plenty more things to spend money on next!"
"For example, buying various technological products, all the equipment needed to mine ore, space battleships, and so on..."
"By my estimate, that life-bearing planet under your rule will need at least several years before it can provide you with income. And the initial income certainly won't be much. Even tens of millions of Golden Lion Currency a year would be very good!"
"Although the patriarch bestowed quite a few resources on you, they certainly won't last long if you spend like this!"
"Big Brother Weilusi, it's my home, after all!"
Lu Qingshan quickly said, "Besides, once my fellow people grow stronger, they'll be able to earn me even more wealth in the future!"
"That's true enough!"
After hearing Lu Qingshan's words, Weilusi could not help nodding inwardly.
If he could become the lord of a life-bearing planet, he would certainly manage it carefully, all the more so when Xuanhuang Star was Lu Qingshan's home.
Moreover, the resources in Lu Qingshan's homeland were fairly good.
Earlier, while waiting for Patriarch Kanuo to arrive at Xuanhuang Star, Weilusi had also taken a spaceship to survey some of the other planets in Xuanhuang Star's stellar system. Several of those planets held rather astonishing reserves of A-grade metals, such as A3-grade gold, A6-grade Blue Gold, and A8 Grade Dark Iron...
A-grade metals were the most common metals in the universe to begin with. Every planet had metal deposits in greater or lesser quantities. Some were relatively easy to mine and could yield a profit, while others had relatively high extraction costs, making it impossible to earn money even if one insisted on mining them.
Within Xuanhuang Star's stellar system, there were several planets suitable for establishing mining bases. Once mining operations succeeded, they would bring Lu Qingshan an endless stream of wealth.