Time flies, and another ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past decade, thanks to the Law Comprehension of several disciples regarding the laws, Lu Qingshan's strength has been steadily improving.
In particular, the Earth Origin Law.
This is the one that Lu Qingshan has improved the fastest among all his Law Comprehension. In just ten years, he has gone from less than one percent to seventeen percent.
This is naturally thanks to his disciple, Jieming.
Having used the Earth Origin Fruit, Jieming's Law Comprehension has improved rapidly over the years. It will probably not be long before he comprehends the Earth Origin Law.
With the insights gained from ten years in Chaos City, coupled with the assistance of the Earth Origin Fruit, the probability of success is still quite high.
" Jieming is about to break through to Immortal; it's time to prepare the other resources."
Lu Qingshan immediately instructed Nasus to exchange for auxiliary cultivation treasures of the eight laws of Metal-Wood, water, earth, Thunderlight, and light from the company's points treasury. The prices were basically the same as the Earth Origin Fruit, around 300,000 points each. He bought ten of each, spending a total of 30 million points.
In addition, there are the resources needed for the Star-Eating Grass to break through to Immortal.
The Star-Eating Grass that first followed him has now evolved to 500 vines. Lu Qingshan gave it another drop of the Spring of Life, intending to let it evolve to 1,000 vines again.
The Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass is comparable to the Peak King, requiring far too many resources. Even if Lu Qingshan were to use up all his points, he still wouldn't be able to afford the resources needed to break through to Immortal with the Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass.
Even with the Spring of Life as the main aid, the remaining breakthrough resources would still require at least hundreds of billions of points.
Lu Qingshan prepared the resources for the later purchase of the Cloud-Touching Vine and Star-Eating Grass.
Over the years, with the help of Lu Qingshan's use of the Locke Divine Water and numerous treasures, they have evolved to a state that satisfies Lu Qingshan, and now they are just waiting for resources to break through to the Immortal God.
A 216-vine Cloud-Touching Vine and a 300-vine Star-Eating Grass would require approximately 70 million points to successfully cultivate. If the most luxurious evolution method is chosen, even 100 million points might not be enough.
As Nasus placed orders for more and more treasures, including numerous training packages, he continued his orders.
Lu Qingshan spent money like water, and the balance in his points account gradually decreased. The points he had accumulated from conquering the Heavenly Bridge and the Illusion Sea had long been exhausted. If it weren't for the 10 billion points gifted by the Ganwu Country Lord, Lu Qingshan would have been penniless long ago. He wouldn't even have enough points to use for his own cultivation, let alone give gifts to his disciples.
"We still don't have enough money!"
Despite still having several billion points, Lu Qingshan felt it wasn't enough. These billions of points were only enough to buy the auxiliary treasure for the Third Layer of the Body of Time. He would need to find another way to break through with the Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass.
Perhaps he should find a way to get rid of that Black Jade Glazed Fruit; 300 billion Hunyuan Unit would be enough to solve all his troubles.
Just as Lu Qingshan was carefully calculating his points, Nasus's notification sounded.
"Master, Ling Yu is back, she's right at the door."
" Ling Yu, she's finally back."
Ling Yu has been back in the Ganwu Universe Country for thousands of years. Her return at this time should mean she has completed the training arranged by the company.
He asked Nasus to open the door, and then went to the door himself.
" Ling Yu."
Lu Qingshan's spiritual power swept over his disciple.
Ling Yu is now at the Domain Lord Ninth Stage and can break through to the World Lord realm at any time.
However, her information remained unchanged.
He's still Second-Class Genius.
This dashed Lu Qingshan's hopes. He had been thinking that Ling Yu's talent would improve again after reactivating her bloodline and fusing with the Blood Luo Crystal, perhaps giving her a chance to become First-Class Genius. But such thoughts were ultimately just wishful thinking.
"Teacher, it's been a long time."
Ling Yu smiled radiantly, and her alluring expression made Lu Qingshan slightly lose his composure.
" Ling Yu, you've changed so much."
Lu Qingshan carefully examined his disciple.
Although I've seen it many times in the Virtual Universe, seeing it in person this time felt completely different.
"Yes, teacher, I'm also troubled. I hope that after I break through to Immortal, I can return to my original form."
Ling Yu said with some distress.
"Don't say that out loud, or many people will be insanely jealous." Lu Qingshan stepped aside and said, "Come in and let's talk."
"Yes, teacher."
Ling Yu followed Lu Qingshan inside.
After entering the room, Ling Yu found a chair and sat down, taking out a Space Ring: "Teacher, this contains food that Ling Xi asked me to bring for you. Some of it is new products from Crisp Moon Workshop, and some is food she made herself. They are all well preserved. Teacher can keep them to enjoy later."
" Ling Xi is so thoughtful."
Lu Qingshan took the Space Ring, scanned it with his spiritual power, and was somewhat taken aback.
He discovered that this Space Ring was ridiculously large, comparable to many small World Ring, and contained mountains of food, all of which were categorized.
"Has Ling Xi been researching these things all these years?"
Lu Qingshan asked in surprise.
Ling Yu looked quite helpless.
" Ling Xi has absolutely no interest in cultivation. It was only under my supervision that she barely managed to break through to the Domain Lord First Stage. For the past few thousand years, besides cultivating her teacher's Thousand-Thread Soul Refinement Refining technique, she has devoted herself to researching these delicacies. Teacher, you may not know, but Crisp Moon Workshop now has hundreds of branches across the Ganwu Continent. Many of the new products were developed by Ling Xi herself, and she has prepared a portion of each one and kept it in her ring."
Lu Qingshan put away the Space Ring.
"Fine, let's ignore her. With your and my help in the future, Ling Xi should have no problem breaking through to the Realm World Lord. As for what happens after that, we'll figure that out later."
" Ling Xi is so insensible, she's made things difficult for the teacher."
Ling Yu felt somewhat ashamed. She had initially asked her younger sister to become Lu Qingshan's disciple mainly to seek protection for her. She hadn't expected her sister to be so unambitious, causing her teacher a great deal of trouble.
"Not at all. Apart from not liking cultivation, Ling Xi is quite good in other aspects. She's especially skilled at making delicious food. With a disciple like her, we'll never have to worry about not having good food."
Lu Qingshan smiled.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying culinary arts; it's just that there's no tradition of it in the Primal Universe. If it were a world like the Origin Continent, there would be countless people who cultivate their culinary skills to become masters.
The mortal enemy of the Sitting Mountain Guest, the ruler of the Shi Kingdom, is already God King Second Level, yet he's just a cook.
It's clear that there's still much to explore in the art of cooking, and perhaps Ling Xi is a hidden genius.
Tell me about your experiences over the years.
Lu Qingshan stopped thinking about that little good-for-nothing Ling Xi.
Ling Yu sat up straight and began to recount her experiences and trials over the years.
Destroy the Treasure Pavilion.
Eliminate a hideout base of an Alien Race.
Capture an Immortal God of the Marquis Level.
She had also survived the explosion of the Fire God Origin Crystal. If the captain of the guards hadn't already reached the Marquis level and quickly taken her into his World Ring, she probably would have perished.
Ling Yu slowly recounted her experiences over the years.
"I never expected the final step of the mission would involve investigating Ling Yu Star." Ling Yu said with some sadness, "My sister and I lived together on Ling Yu Star before our teacher, Marquis Silvermoon, discovered us and took us to the Ganwu Mystic Region. At that time, the planet was called Spirit Soul Star, but it was later renamed Ling Yu Star."
"I never imagined that my uncle and his family, who took such good care of my sister and me on Spirit Soul Star, would be so cruel, committing countless bloodshed under my name, yet I knew nothing about it. I was even worried about them and would transfer money to them every year."
"How will you sentence this uncle?"
Lu Qingshan asked with a smile.
He wondered if the executives at Virtual Universe Company were crazy, always putting on these melodramatic displays. Did they really think they couldn't see the true nature of a genius through this kind of thing?
"I did not issue a verdict, but instead left it to the local, less developed civilization to handle."
Ling Yu said frankly.
"The fact that you didn't pronounce the sentence shows that you couldn't bear to do it. Even if you gave that rudimentary civilization emperor a hundred lives, he wouldn't dare to sentence them to death. At most, he would just imprison them for a few thousand years."
"The teacher is right... that's why the company gave me a very low score, barely passing. However, Ling Yu is a selfish person and wouldn't harm her own family. Even if Ling Xi becomes a female demon in the future, I won't betray my own family for the greater good. I will only protect her and keep her Pingping."
Lu Qingshan took out the last bottle of ' Three Thousand Dreams of the Star River ' and took a small sip.
He tried hard to imagine what Ling Xi would be like as a female demon, but he couldn't. He just smiled and said...
" Ling Yu, you don't need to blame yourself. What kind of person you are doesn't matter. It's enough for your master to know that you are my disciple."
(End of this chapter)