Chapter 59 The Difficulties and Changing Status of Cultivating the Cloud-Touching Vine
Heavenly Pillar Mountain Headquarters, within the World Lord World.
Mr. Lu Qingshan!
A team of elite warriors from Heavenly Pillar Mountain, dressed in standard battle uniforms, arrived at Lu Qingshan's residence and gently knocked on the door.
"Huh? It's finally here!"
Upon hearing the sound, Lu Qingshan, who was in the middle of cultivation, quickly smiled and then arrived at the gate of his residence.
Upon seeing Lu Qingshan, a hazy light emanated from the leader of this powerful team, a Universe Level expert, and then enveloped Lu Qingshan completely.
"Beep! Identity confirmed!"
"Mr. Lu Qingshan, these are the goods you ordered through our Heavenly Pillar Mountain internal system!"
After confirming Lu Qingshan's identity, the leading Universe Level expert quickly smiled and handed Lu Qingshan a silver metal box that they had been escorting.
"Thank you all!" Lu Qingshan reached out and took the silver metal box, then said with a smile.
Upon hearing Lu Qingshan's words, the leading Universe Level expert smiled slightly and then said again, "If Mr. Lu Qingshan has nothing else to say, then we will take our leave!"
"Okay!" Lu Qingshan nodded slightly.
Upon hearing this, the team, led by Universe Level expert and consisting of ten other Peak Star Level experts, quickly left Lu Qingshan's residence.
During the journey to the outside world, one of the Star Level members couldn't help but ask, "Captain, aren't you being a little too polite to Lu Qingshan?"
"Yes!"
Another Star Level genius chimed in, "Even when we were transporting resources to those Special Grade Elite, we never saw you being this polite, Captain!"
In fact, this elite team is considered to be among the most elite within Heavenly Pillar Mountain. Its members are all former Third Grade Elite and Second Grade Elite of Heavenly Pillar Mountain, and it is led by a Universe Level expert.
After all, the Second Grade Elite and Third Grade Elite within Heavenly Pillar Mountain are far inferior to the First Grade Elite in terms of talent. If nearly half of the First Grade Elite can break through to the Universe Level, then the probability of the Second Grade Elite breaking through to the Universe Level is only one or two percent. As for the Third Grade Elite, the probability of breaking through to the Universe Level is less than one in a thousand.
Heavenly Pillar Mountain typically trains these Second Grade Elite and Third Grade Elite for about three thousand years. If they fail to become First Grade Elite or break through to the Universe Level within such a long period, they will then need to take on long-term work tasks within Heavenly Pillar Mountain.
These work assignments are completely different from previous cultivation tasks. They generally involve working in various departments within Heavenly Pillar Mountain, where one is usually busy with all sorts of trivial matters, greatly reducing the time available for cultivation.
The Star Level members of this elite team were all previously Second Grade Elite- or Third Grade Elite within Heavenly Pillar Mountain. Even the Universe Level captain was in the same situation before, only later breaking through to the Universe Level through long-term work, which greatly enhanced his status and authority within Heavenly Pillar Mountain.
What do you know?
The captain, who had already reached the Universe Level, quickly spoke up, "I once heard from a friend that he had just attended the disciple-acceptance ceremony of the Heavy Mountain World Lord with his teacher, and the newly accepted disciple of the Heavy Mountain World Lord is none other than Lu Qingshan!"
"The status of World Lord's disciple far surpasses that of those Special Grade Elite! Just watch, Lu Qingshan probably hasn't been cultivating for long enough; he'll definitely become Special Grade Elite very soon!"
"Heavens! The Heavy Mountain World Lord actually accepted Lu Qingshan as his disciple?"
"If only I could become a disciple of a World Lord Level expert, I would definitely be able to break through to the Universe Level!"
"We struggle even to break through to the Universe Level, how could World Lord Level expert possibly look down on us?"
"Yes! I've heard that some of the top-ranked geniuses among the First Grade Elite are already capable of breaking through to the Universe Level at any time, but they're just holding off on it to enjoy the privileges and resources of the First Grade Elite!"
Lu Qingshan naturally had no way of knowing about the interactions between this elite team, but even if he did, he certainly wouldn't care too much.
At this moment, Lu Qingshan had already returned to the living room of the mansion with the silver metal box he had received.
This silver metal box is approximately one meter long, half a meter wide, and thirty centimeters high.
After carefully opening the silver metal box, Lu Qingshan quickly saw a plant about 20 centimeters tall, resembling a gourd vine. This was the Cloud-Touching Vine seedling that Lu Qingshan had purchased, costing him over 90 billion Golden Lion City.
With this young Cloud-Touching Vine, if one is willing to provide it with resources of the same level as Wood Bud Crystal, as long as the quantity is large enough, it can be allowed to break through to the Universe Level.
Of course, Lu Qingshan now possesses ample wealth, so he naturally wants to nurture these Cloud-Touching Vine seedlings even better.
After taking out the seedling of the Cloud-Touching Vine, Lu Qingshan made a knife with his fingers and cut a wound on his right arm.
Bright red blood flowed from the wound and dripped onto the young seedling of the Cloud-Touching Vine, where it was completely absorbed.
After absorbing a large amount of Lu Qingshan's blood, the Cloud-Touching Vine finally successfully recognized its master and became Lu Qingshan's partner in his adventures across the universe.
"The bond has been successfully established; the next step is nurturing!"
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly looked at another fruit inside the silver metal box, which was emitting a blood-red light.
If the 90 billion Golden Lion spent on purchasing the Cloud-Touching Vine seedlings was insignificant to Lu Qingshan, then the resources required to purchase this fruit radiating a blood-red light were a real pain to his throat.
This fruit, radiating a crimson glow, is called the Blood Spirit Fruit. It is a fruit that grows on the Blood Spirit Tree in a mysterious place in the universe, and it has a very magical effect on the evolution of plant seedlings.
More importantly, the Blood Spirit Fruit has a very gentle effect and will not harm the roots of the plant seedlings in the slightest.
Of course, the price of this Blood Spirit Fruit is also extremely high. Although it is far less than the fruit that Babata used to lay the foundation for the Cloud-Touching Vine in the original work, its price is still as high as 200 million Universe Coin.
After using the Blood Spirit Fruit to lay the foundation for the Cloud-Touching Vine, the Cloud-Touching Vine gained the potential to break through to the World Lord Level.
Of course, in order for Cloud-Touching Vine to successfully break through to the World Lord Level, a lot of resources will be needed for its subsequent cultivation.
We'll talk about the future later!
With a thought, Lu Qingshan quickly fed the incomparably precious Blood Spirit Fruit to the Cloud-Touching Vine seedling that had already completed the process of recognizing its master.
After consuming this incredibly valuable Blood Spirit Fruit, the Cloud-Touching Vine seedling quickly began its first evolution.
"The evolution of this Cloud-Touching Vine should last for about three days!"
After sensing the time required for this evolution from the budding Cloud-Touching Vine, Lu Qingshan had a thought, and the Cloud-Touching Vine immediately shrank and merged directly into his skin.
At this moment, Cloud-Touching Vine's consciousness treated Lu Qingshan as an infant would treat its parents.
"Once its evolution is complete, we can proceed to the next stage of cultivation!"
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly looked at the last remaining treasure in the silver metal box.
This is a unit, totaling one hundred Azure Light Fruit.
This Azure Light Fruit is a precious fruit used to cultivate spirit beasts and assist plant life. Just this one unit of Azure Light Fruit cost Lu Qingshan an astonishing 400 million Universe Coin, which is twice as expensive as that Blood Spirit Fruit.
Once Lu Qingshan's Cloud-Touching Vine completes its first evolution, it can consume the Azure Light Fruit to continue evolving. It will only take about fifty years for the Cloud-Touching Vine to successfully evolve to the Universe Level First Stage.
Of course, compared to the Lanke Fruit that Luo Feng bought for 180 billion Universe Coin in the original work, this Azure Light Fruit is definitely not worth mentioning.
However, the Lanke Fruit was never intended for use by Planetary Level or Star Level Cloud-Touching Vine!
In the original work, Hong's innately poor Cloud-Touching Vine was able to reach the Cosmic Level Third Order within three years after consuming Lanke Fruit;
If it were Lu Qingshan's Cloud-Touching Vine, after using one unit of Lanke Fruit, it would at least reach the Peak Universe Level.
Of course, in this vast universe, it's impossible for anyone to be as extravagant as Hong, using Lanke Fruit to cultivate the extremely poor Cloud-Touching Vine.
It's just that Hong had some affection for that Cloud -Cloud-Touching Vine; otherwise, he would have had a real chance to cultivate a Domain Lord Level Cloud-Touching Vine by spending over a hundred billion precious resources from the Universe City!
In short, there are countless ways to cultivate Cloud-Touching Vine *.
The more solid the foundation of the Cloud-Touching Vine seedling, the higher its future growth potential will be. However, the resources required to advance to each tier will also increase significantly.
If the foundation is not solid, the cultivation resources required before reaching the limit will be much less. However, after reaching the growth limit, the resources required to break through again will definitely exceed those of the solidly built Cloud-Touching Vine!
"Cultivating Auxiliary Lifeform forms is something that ordinary people can't do!"
After collecting the last unit of Azure Light Fruit, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "Just cultivating this Cloud-Touching Vine to the Universe Level First Stage cost me six hundred million Universe Coin. That's enough to buy a powerful Cosmic Level Fifth Order slave!"
"It means I have absolute confidence in reaching the Universe Level in the future, and I currently have no shortage of various cultivation resources. Otherwise, I really wouldn't dare to spend so many resources to cultivate this Cloud-Touching Vine!"
"Now that Cloud-Touching Vine has arrived, it's time to contact Teacher Kanuo and Yunshang!"
With this in mind, Lu Qingshan immediately connected to the Virtual Universe through the Auxiliary Intelligence Deep Blue consciousness.
In the mansion of Kanuo, on the Imperial Capital Star of the Purple River Empire.
At this moment, Kanuo's disciple, Huang Ziwei, was in the living room of the mansion, his face full of worry.
Previously, a super-large planet with abundant Purple Gold deposits was discovered near one of the inhabited planets under the control of the Kanuo Family. According to the unspoken rules of the universe, the development rights of this planet should belong to the Kanuo Family.
Unfortunately, the team that discovered this mega-planet was an adventurer squad from the Longkaqi Family, the second-largest family in the Purple River Empire.
It's important to know that Purple Gold is a B2 grade metal, and during the mining process, it's possible to also extract C2 grade Purple Gold Essence or even D2 grade Purple Gold Mother metal.
The Purple Gold gold reserves on that super-large planet, once fully developed, could be worth as much as dozens of habitable planets.
That's why the Longkaqi Family's adventurer team immediately reported the discovery of the super-large planet back to the family.
Upon learning of this, the Longkaqi Family quickly decided to purchase the inhabited planet near the super-giant planet from the Kanuo Family.
That life-bearing planet was originally quite ordinary, but its sudden purchase by the Longkaqi Family quickly attracted the attention of the Kanuo Family.
After some exploration, the Kanuo Family naturally discovered the Purple Gold deposits on that super-large planet.
The surrounding planets possess incredibly abundant Purple Gold deposits, so the value of that inhabited planet naturally skyrocketed. Even though mining Purple Gold is extremely difficult and takes a long time, the value of that ordinary inhabited planet still surged from 1.3 trillion Golden Lion Currency to 12 trillion Golden Lion Currency. However, the Longkaqi Family still wanted to buy that inhabited planet at the original price.
The Kanuo Family was naturally unwilling to accept this situation.
However, the power of the Longkaqi Family is indeed quite large. It is not only a branch of a Domain Lord Level family, but also has nine Universe Level powerhouses stationed within the Purple River Empire. Its strength can be said to far exceed that of the Kanuo Family.
Therefore, the reason why Kanuo and Huang Ziwei went to the Imperial Capital Star this time was to continue their exchanges with the Longkaqi Family.
After all, this is a fortune exceeding ten trillion Golden Lion Currency, which is extremely precious even for Universe Level powerhouse.
Just then, Kanuo suddenly returned to the mansion.
"Teacher!"
Upon seeing Kanuo, Huang Ziwei quickly stood up and asked, "How is the situation? Is the Longkaqi Family willing to back down?"
"I've already reached an agreement with the Longkaqi Family!"
Kanuo quickly spoke up, saying, " The Longkaqi Family is willing to spend 12 billion Heavenly Star Coin to purchase Weisitan Planet."
"This—how is this possible?"
Huang Ziwei was stunned by what Kanuo said.
It's important to understand that even if a massive deposit of Purple Gold were discovered near the Weisitan Planet, it would still require a long time and countless resources to develop.
In this scenario, a price tag of 12 trillion Golden Lion Currency for the Weisitan Planet would be quite good.
While the official value of 12 billion Heavenly Star Coin is equivalent to 12 trillion Golden Lion Currency, if you want to buy a life-bearing planet worth 1 trillion Golden Lion Currency, you would generally only need to pay 700 million Heavenly Star Coin.
This means that 12 billion Heavenly Star Coin are actually worth as much as 170 trillion Golden Lion Currency.
Given their far greater strength than the Kanuo Family, it's already incredible that the Longkaqi Family didn't haggle when buying the life-bearing planet from the Kanuo Family; how could they possibly raise the price voluntarily?