Su Yu’s expression remained calm.
“How can I become stronger without resources?”
“That’s true.” Lu Xinghe nodded, his expression gradually turning serious. “However, in the center of the starry sky, the fastest way to earn resources isn’t by fighting enemies on the front lines.”
Su Yu raised an eyebrow.
“Then what is?”
Lu Xinghe raised one finger.
“The Starry Sky Rising Star Tournament.”
“And the Realm Lord Divine Palace.”
A blazing light flashed in Lu Xinghe’s eyes, but reason quickly suppressed it.
“I mentioned the Realm Lord Divine Palace to you before. It’s an ancient ruin containing countless opportunities.”
“But the number of spots to enter the divine palace is extremely limited. The entire Great Chu Star Domain has only ten thousand spots.”
“To compete for these spots, the imperial family has decided to tie them to the ‘Starry Sky Rising Star Tournament,’ which is held once every century.”
“Only geniuses who place among the top ten thousand in the Rising Star Tournament will be qualified to enter the Realm Lord Divine Palace!”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu.
“With your talent, obtaining a spot shouldn’t be a problem.”
“But I have to pour some cold water on you in advance.”
“Since you’re participating in the Starry Sky Rising Star Tournament, with your current strength, it will probably be somewhat difficult for you to place in the top ten and obtain a complete black-hole-level cultivation technique.”
Su Yu did not argue. He simply listened in silence.
Lu Xinghe took a deep breath, his tone becoming especially solemn.
“The starry sky is vast.”
“It’s filled with as many geniuses as there are stars.”
“Although your Origin Blood is flawless, and you’ve comprehended Domain Spear Intent and mastered the Primal Chaos Infinite Origin Blood Art…”
“But you currently have only eleven drops of Origin Blood.”
Lu Xinghe stared into Su Yu’s eyes.
“Do you know what kind of monsters your opponents in the Starry Sky Rising Star Tournament will be?”
“Those imperial princes and heirs of reclusive clans have all been raised on oceans of resources!”
“The minimum threshold for participating in the Rising Star Tournament is over a thousand drops of Origin Blood!”
“That’s the peak of the planetary level!”
“Even the freaks ranked in the top ten…”
Lu Xinghe swallowed, his voice tinged with awe.
“The strongest among them can possess as many as one hundred thousand drops of Origin Blood!”
“That’s stellar-level combat power!”
“So…”
Lu Xinghe patted Su Yu on the shoulder, his tone softening.
“You don’t need to put too much pressure on yourself.”
“You definitely won’t be able to beat them.”
“After all, you’re only eighteen, while many of those imperial princes are participating only after suppressing their cultivation until the limit of ten thousand years of bone age.”
“You have nearly ten thousand fewer years of cultivation than they do.”
“For this opening of the Realm Lord Divine Palace, just treat it as an opportunity to broaden your horizons and go through the motions.”
Lu Xinghe smiled reassuringly.
“Even if you only place in the top one thousand, you’ll still receive a guaranteed reward of more than ten Star Origin Stones.”
“That’s far easier than risking your life on the front lines to complete missions.”
“For a potential stock like you, what you need most right now is to accumulate a solid foundation.”
“When you reach the next Rising Star Tournament, that will be the time for you to truly shine.”
More than ten Star Origin Stones.
In other words, more than ten meteors.
Su Yu shook his head inwardly.
Too few.
To others, ten thousand years was an insurmountable chasm.
But to him, as long as he had enough Star Origin Stones, ten thousand years meant nothing.
Su Yu did not say any of that aloud.
He nodded.
“I understand.”
“When does the tournament begin?”
“It should be in about three months,” Lu Xinghe replied.
Three months.
There was plenty of time.
Su Yu turned his gaze back toward the miniature starry sky around them.
“Commander, I’d also like to choose two more cultivation techniques.”
Lu Xinghe froze.
“Didn’t you already take the Primal Chaos Infinite Origin Blood Art?”
“That cultivation technique focuses on vital energy and the physical body,” Su Yu explained. “I also need a spiritual cultivation technique and a spear-based divine ability.”
Lu Xinghe suddenly understood.
Indeed.
Su Yu’s innate spiritual strength was as high as fifty points. Failing to cultivate a spiritual technique would be a terrible waste of his gifts.
Besides, without a divine ability, he would be at a serious disadvantage in battles across the starry sky.
“All right.”
Lu Xinghe waved his hand grandly.
“I promised you before. The treasury of the Seventh Legion is now completely open to you.”
“Choose whatever you like.”
Su Yu spread out his spiritual power once more.
This time, he had a clear objective.
Before long, he found the transparent crystal he had noticed earlier.
The Void Condensation Art.
It was an incomplete black-hole-level cultivation technique specifically designed to temper spiritual power.
Its theoretical amplification reached as high as 5,500 times.
With a thought from Su Yu, the transparent crystal fell into his hand.
Next, he began searching for a spear-based divine ability.
Divine abilities were different from cultivation techniques.
Cultivation techniques provided foundational amplification, while divine abilities were killing moves that unleashed power in an instant.
Su Yu’s spiritual power swept across jade slips one after another.
At last, it stopped on a dark-golden fragment of a spearhead.
The Starfall Spear Art!
This was a minor divine ability with tremendous destructive power.
Once activated, it could fuse all the vital energy and spiritual power in the body into a single falling star.
In an instant, it would erupt with terrifying destructive power dozens of times greater than one’s limit!
Combined with Domain Spear Intent, its might could absolutely approach that of a supreme divine ability!
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yu stored the spearhead fragment away.
Just as he was preparing to withdraw his spiritual power and finish choosing, something caught his peripheral vision.
A withered yellow leaf quietly floated in a corner, utterly inconspicuous.
Su Yu’s spiritual power swept over the leaf.
A strange stream of information surged into his mind.
An incomplete chapter of the Fortune Marrow-Washing Record.
This was not a combat technique.
Nor was it a defensive technique.
Rather, it was an auxiliary cultivation technique specifically meant to… improve one’s cultivation aptitude!
Su Yu was stunned.
Improve aptitude?
In the starry sky, aptitude was usually determined by the purity of one’s Origin Blood.
The purer the Origin Blood, the better one’s aptitude, and the faster one could absorb the energy of the universe.
But the Fortune Marrow-Washing Record took a completely different path.
Through an extremely profound resonance with the laws, it forcibly widened a martial artist’s meridians and increased the body’s affinity with energy!
Once mastered, a martial artist would convert several times more vital energy than an ordinary person from the same quantity of resources!
After reading this description, Su Yu’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
An increase in conversion efficiency?!
The system’s deductions essentially consumed his balance to simulate countless years of arduous cultivation in a void space.
One meteor was equivalent to ten quadrillion years.
And throughout those ten quadrillion years, how many drops of Origin Blood he could cultivate depended entirely on his cultivation aptitude!
In the past, with his mediocre aptitude, he could only painstakingly condense one hundred drops of Origin Blood over ten quadrillion years.
But what if he mastered the Fortune Marrow-Washing Record?
If his aptitude doubled, would that mean that, after consuming the same single meteor, he could condense two hundred drops of Origin Blood in the deduction space?
What if his aptitude increased tenfold?
That would be one thousand drops!
It would directly multiply the cost-effectiveness of recharging the system!
“What a treasure!”
Su Yu grabbed the withered yellow leaf without the slightest hesitation.
To others, this thing might merely save them some cultivation resources.
But to him…
This was priceless!
Seeing Su Yu take three items in succession, the corner of Lu Xinghe’s mouth twitched slightly.
This kid really wasn’t shy about taking advantage.
Still, compared with the astonishing value Su Yu had demonstrated, these incomplete cultivation techniques were hardly worth mentioning.
“Have you made your choice?”
Lu Xinghe glanced at the cultivation techniques in Su Yu’s hands and nodded.
“Both the Void Spirit Condensation Art and the Starfall Spear Art are excellent choices. They suit you well.”
“As for the Record of Creation Marrow Cleansing…”
Lu Xinghe shook his head.
“That thing is excruciating to cultivate. It requires repeatedly tearing apart and reconstructing your meridians, yet the improvement to one’s aptitude is limited.”
“Your Source Blood is already absolutely flawless. Your aptitude is naturally peerless throughout the starry sky. There’s no need for you to put yourself through that suffering.”
Su Yu placed the techniques into his storage ring, his expression calm.
“You can never have too many skills. I’ll take it back and have a look.”
Lu Xinghe did not try to dissuade him any further.
They were only incomplete fragments, after all, and of little value.
“Let’s go.”
Lu Xinghe turned and walked out of the treasury.
“You’ve chosen your cultivation techniques, and you’ve passed the test.”
“I’ll take you to meet someone now.”
“Who?” Su Yu followed after him.
“The commander-in-chief of the Seventh Legion of the Great Chu Starfield.”
Lu Xinghe’s expression turned extremely solemn.
“Chen Xuan.”
Su Yu was slightly taken aback.
“Aren’t you the commander?”
Lu Xinghe gave a bitter laugh.
“What kind of commander am I? I’m merely a senior intelligence officer stationed by the Seventh Legion in a peripheral starfield, responsible for infiltration and intelligence gathering.”
“I only ended up training new recruits because I happened to run into you.”
“Commander Chen Xuan is a true supreme powerhouse at the Domain Lord level!”
“He has condensed a full one hundred million drops of Source Blood within his body!”
One hundred million drops.
Su Yu silently repeated the number in his heart, his eyes narrowing slightly.
He truly was an unimaginable colossus.
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