Time often possessed tremendous magic.
For instance, a life planet cost at least one trillion Golden Lion Currency.
But if its Planet Lord was willing to spend some resources developing it properly, a life planet could provide tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of Golden Lion Currency in wealth every year.
After ten thousand years like this, the Planet Lord would have accumulated enough wealth to buy another life planet.
Of course, ten thousand years was an extremely long time. Even Star Level powerhouses could only live for ten thousand years.
But for those long-lived powerhouses, life planets could provide an unending stream of wealth. The more life planets they owned, the faster they could accumulate resources!
Of course, a powerhouse's own cultivation, the development of the forces under their command, and so on also required vast amounts of resources.
But regardless, life planets were extremely important to most powerhouses.
For a Star Level warrior like Lu Qingshan to own a life planet was an extraordinarily fortunate thing, and something that inspired great envy.
And so, after selecting these cultivation resources, Lu Qingshan soon began choosing the other resources and treasures he needed.
Only after spending well over half a day browsing the Treasure Pavilion did Lu Qingshan finish purchasing the many supplies he needed under Weilusi's guidance.
They mainly included the following treasures:
A Tier 2 Force Battle Suit, worth 1.5 billion Golden Lion Currency;
A C2-grade Alloy Battle Suit, worth 500 million Golden Lion Currency;
A Tier 2 Origin Force weapon, "Mountain Suppression," worth 500 million Golden Lion Currency;
Twenty kilograms of Silver Light Marrow, worth 1.6 billion Golden Lion Currency;
One thousand Wood Bud Crystals, worth 100 million Golden Lion Currency;
One hundred tons of Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow, worth 100 million Golden Lion Currency;
One hundred thousand tons of Purple Light Dew, worth one billion Golden Lion Currency;
Three sets of easy-to-operate, fully equipped mining equipment, including various basic structures, mine carts, mining machines, and so on, worth three billion Golden Lion Currency;
Ten B-grade medium-sized space warships and fifty A-grade large interstellar transport ships, worth one billion Golden Lion Currency;
One relatively advanced intelligent Optical Computer and one hundred Auxiliary Optical Computers, priced at 800 million Golden Lion Currency;
One C2-grade, flying-saucer-shaped spaceship approximately one hundred meters in diameter, worth 500 million Golden Lion Currency.
Because Lu Qingshan had purchased so many resources this time, he soon drew the attention of this Treasure Pavilion's manager, an elderly man at Star Level Ninth Stage.
The manager not only received Lu Qingshan and Weilusi personally, but even offered numerous discounts.
Precious treasures such as Silver Light Marrow and the Tier 2 Force Battle Suit received a five-percent discount;
Resources such as space warships and mining equipment received a ten-percent discount;
As for commonplace goods like Purple Light Dew, which even ordinary people could afford, they received a twenty-percent discount.
"Esteemed customer!"
After Lu Qingshan finished stating his requirements, the elderly man from the Treasure Pavilion soon said with a smile, "The resources you've purchased are worth a total of 10.6 billion Golden Lion Currency. After the discounts, that comes to 9.72 billion Golden Lion Currency. You only need to pay 9.7 billion Golden Lion Currency!"
"Mm!" Lu Qingshan nodded slightly and soon transferred 9.7 billion Golden Lion Currency from his Golden Lion Empire Bank account to the Treasure Pavilion's account.
With the Treasure Pavilion operating across more than a hundred surrounding galaxies, Lu Qingshan naturally had no worries that the man would take his money without delivering the goods.
After confirming receipt of Lu Qingshan's transfer, the elderly man from the Treasure Pavilion immediately said with a smile, "Esteemed customer, please rest assured!"
"Our Treasure Pavilion absolutely has the most comprehensive selection of goods. Most of the resources you've ordered are in stock here on Purple Water Star. Only things such as Purple Light Dew, space warships, and mining equipment need to be sourced from other life planets!"
"However, as you requested, we'll transport all these resources to the coordinates you provided. They're expected to arrive in successive shipments within ten days!"
"No problem!"
Lu Qingshan soon nodded as he spoke.
This time, he had chosen different delivery locations. For treasures such as the C2 spaceship, Silver Light Marrow, and Tier 2 Force Battle Suit, the delivery address was naturally Purple Water Star, where he currently was;
But for large-scale resources such as mining equipment, Purple Light Dew, and interstellar warships, he had designated Xuanhuang Star as the delivery location.
Although Xuanhuang Star's cosmic coordinates were not yet on the cosmic star charts, Lu Qingshan had already provided the Treasure Pavilion with detailed coordinates, so they certainly would not deliver to the wrong place.
As for the issue of the Treasure Pavilion discovering Xuanhuang Star's interstellar coordinates, there was no need to worry at all. By then, Xuanhuang Star would already have long become a life planet under Lu Qingshan's name, and an establishment on the Treasure Pavilion's scale could not possibly covet an ordinary life planet that already had a lord.
At that moment, the elderly man from the Treasure Pavilion soon handed an exquisitely crafted card to Lu Qingshan, then continued with a smile, "Esteemed customer, this is our Treasure Pavilion membership card. We rarely issue these!"
"Our Treasure Pavilion has branches on many life planets. With this membership card, you can enjoy a five-percent discount on purchases at any Treasure Pavilion!"
After hearing the elderly man's words, Weilusi, who stood to the side, could not help showing envy on his face.
In fact, he also had a Treasure Pavilion membership card. But despite being a Star Level Ninth Stage powerhouse whose past spending at the Treasure Pavilion exceeded Lu Qingshan's by quite a bit, the membership card he had been given only offered a two-percent discount.
Yet Lu Qingshan had directly received a membership card offering a five-percent discount this time. The most important reason was probably that the Treasure Pavilion had guessed he owned a life planet.
After all, a Star Level who owned a life planet and an ordinary Star Level were two entirely different matters!
Weilusi, for example, was already outstanding among Star Level powerhouses. Not only had he roamed the universe for thousands of years, but he had even formed an adventurer team whose members were all at Star Level Ninth Stage.
But even Weilusi might not obtain wealth worth one hundred million Golden Lion Currency after ten years of adventuring in the universe!
And what about the lord of a life planet?
They only needed to develop the life planet under their name a little, without even having to manage it personally in their daily life, to obtain at least tens of millions of Golden Lion Currency in wealth every year.
As time accumulated, the gap between the two would often grow wider and wider!
And so, after purchasing his treasures at the Treasure Pavilion, Lu Qingshan went with Weilusi to the nearby slave market.
The slaves at this market mainly came from two sources. One was ordinary slaves raised by slave traders on their own life planets. The other was captives taken from the losing side in wars between major factions, who were very likely to be implanted with chips and reduced to slavery.
Lu Qingshan followed Weilusi around the slave market, then spent one hundred million Golden Lion Currency to purchase a batch of slaves.
However, the slaves Lu Qingshan purchased this time were primarily scientific and technical personnel, most of them at Planetary Level.
After all, Lu Qingshan next intended to develop Earth's technology, then send people to other planets near Xuanhuang Star to mine metal ores, as well as raise demonic beasts in its seas.
But to accomplish all this, what he needed most was scientific and technical personnel to lead the way.
He had originally also planned to purchase some Star Level slaves to protect Xuanhuang Star, but Weilusi stopped him.
And so, Lu Qingshan followed Weilusi around Purple Water City for another half day before they returned together to his teacher Kanuo's estate.