Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 104 Long years
[The Heavenly Thunder Manual: A powerful secret method that elaborates on the profound mysteries of the fundamental laws of lightning. Studying it can greatly enhance the speed of comprehending the fundamental laws of lightning.]

Looking at the "Heavenly Thunder Manual" that had just been returned, Qi Yuan couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.

This is an auxiliary secret technique that can greatly improve the speed of comprehending the fundamental laws of lightning. It is a very useful thing for both himself and his lightning-attribute disciples.

It's worth noting that at the Lanting Auction, a single spot to learn the "Nine Chapters of Thunder and Lightning" fetched a high price of 33 Hunyuan units.

Based on a return rate of over two thousand times, this "Heavenly Thunder Secret Manual" is worth at least sixty to seventy thousand Hunyuan units!
In the original work, the most powerful secret technique, "Soul Imprint," which was kept secret by the Meteorite Star lineage, was only priced at 10,000 points in the Virtual Universe Company's treasury.

Even at a relatively high exchange rate, it would only be equivalent to a little over 10,000 Hunyuan, not quite 20,000.

Such a high price naturally indicates that the power of the "Heavenly Thunder Manual" is absolutely extremely strong.

After all, being rated as "significantly improved" by the system already signifies its extraordinary nature!

Moreover, whether it's the "Nine Chapters of Thunder and Lightning" that appeared at the auction or the "Soul Imprint" in the treasure vault of the Virtual Universe Company, what you're actually buying is just a learning slot for them, which is strictly forbidden from being circulated outside or used for profit.

But this "Heavenly Thunder Manual" is different!
According to the system prompts, the secret techniques returned from the system are absolutely brand new secret techniques that have never appeared in this world before!
In other words, Qi Yuan owns all the copyrights to the "Heavenly Thunder Secret Manual"!
He can decide for himself whether to teach disciples or to distribute and sell the product!

He could even cooperate with forces like Virtual Universe Company if he wanted, allowing them to sell learning opportunities for the "Heavenly Thunder Manual" on his behalf.

He, on the other hand, can extract a certain amount of 'copyright fee' from the profits of each sale, which is equivalent to making money while lying down!

Based on the calculation that one learning session costs 60000 Hunyuan units, even if his copyright commission is only 10% or even 50% each time, it is still a huge fortune!

If this continues, the copyright revenue alone will be an outrageous figure!

"That's certainly a way to make money. There are countless kinds of secret techniques in this world. With the help of the system's 'makeover' function, I can easily obtain a large number of new and powerful secret techniques. I can make a fortune just by selling these secret techniques!"

"However, I can only do this if I have enough strength to protect this enormous benefit."

Qi Yuan shook his head, temporarily putting these chaotic thoughts behind him.

For him, the top priority right now is to improve his strength as quickly as possible.

Once your strength increases, the operational flexibility of the return system will also increase, and making money will become an easy task.
"With the aid of this 'Heavenly Thunder Secret Manual,' my cultivation progress can be accelerated. My current goal is to break through to the Realm Lord level as soon as possible and gain the recognition of the Thunder Origin Law!"

In the following months, Qi Yuan successively gave away several treasures he had obtained at the auction to his disciples.

He gifted two 'Bernar' metal lifeforms to his two newly accepted disciples, and in doing so, he gained two more powerful metal lifeforms that he could nurture to the level of a king.

Of the ten units of Lan Ke Fruit, three units were given to Cang Fan, Liao Li, and Yuan Mu respectively, allowing him to reap hundreds of extremely precious 'Life Fruits' once again.

He kept the remaining 7 units for his own use.

The three top-tier plant seedlings obtained from the last return have been incorporated into Qi Yuan's cultivation plan.

Compared to human cultivators, the advancement of these plant and metal life forms is much simpler. As long as they are provided with the energy and certain substances needed for their growth, they can continuously advance.

With sufficient investment, these special life forms will quickly grow into excellent helpers.

Besides these, there is also a very special fifth-order psychic weapon called the 'Yan Dao Disc'.

This Dao-Evolution Plate contains special Dao-Evolution Beads made of 'Sky Crystal'.

Sky Crystal is an extremely special refining material. In addition to being extremely hard and heavy, it can perfectly memorize the energy flow path through it.

Each Dao-evolving bead, crafted from Sky Crystal, is naturally the perfect vessel to carry various special formations created by formation masters.

One Yandao Disc cost 1.3 Hunyuan units when purchased.

When it was given as a gift to Mireya, who had the highest return rate among the disciples, he was directly rewarded with a 'Cangyuan Map' worth thousands of Hunyuan units!
This is a powerful psychic weapon capable of being used at the immortal level!
After doing all this, Qi Yuan continued to immerse himself in his cultivation.

Now that he has the "Heavenly Thunder Secret Manual," his progress in understanding the fundamental laws of lightning has accelerated considerably.

Focusing on the "Heavenly Thunder Manual," we will strive to improve our understanding of the laws, and then, by studying the "Eight Formations" Thunder Manual, we will quickly integrate these insights and transform them into actual combat power.

If you encounter a bottleneck that you can't solve immediately, the incomplete "True Explanation of Array Formation" can also be of assistance.

In addition to the monthly cashback opportunity
What others found incredibly difficult to comprehend the laws of nature was as simple as eating and drinking for Qi Yuan!
Besides the Law of Lightning, Qi Yuan also naturally needed to devote some energy to improving the Law of Time.

The Law of Time, as one of the two supreme laws of this world, possesses unimaginable magical power, and it is also an insurmountable threshold for him to break through to become a Universe Venerable and the Lord of the Universe.

Compared to the Law of Lightning, his talent in the Law of Time is slightly inferior, so he naturally has to put in more effort.

Fortunately, after using the Chaos Crystal last time, his perception of the Ten Fundamental Laws improved tenfold.

With the assistance of the fragments of "The Array of Time" and "The True Explanation of the Array Dao", although comprehending the laws of time is still quite difficult, the speed of progress is definitely not slow.

The only thing that troubled him was that he had to focus on comprehending the two fundamental laws while also studying powerful texts such as the "Heavenly Thunder Manual," the "Eight Formations" Thunder Manual, and the "Time Formation." He was starting to feel that his energy was running out. This made him extremely envious of Luo Feng's powerful clones in the original story.

Luo Feng has a Golden Horned Beast clone in the Law of Metal Origin and a Demon Killer Clan clone, a spatial darling, in the Law of Space Origin. It goes without saying that he can comprehend the laws with ease and comfort. Moreover, each of his clones is unique and possesses a variety of incredible special abilities.

The Golden Horned Beast's innate secret techniques and powerful combat strength, the Demon Slayer Clan's stealth, assassination, and escape abilities, and the Nether Sea Avatar's incredible size and divine power reserves.
Even the seemingly most ordinary human body on Earth is actually born from a unique race guided by the powerful Mountain-Sitting Guest, possessing unparalleled talents in mind and soul!
However, obtaining clones is not so simple. Apart from one's own racial talent, most clones are obtained by possessing the bodies of special races or beings with similar talents.

The original work seems to have vaguely mentioned that there is a powerful secret technique among the human race called "Spirit Splitting Technique".

However, with Qi Yuan's current level of authority, he cannot access information related to this level.

Moreover, even if such a secret method truly exists, its cultivation requirements would be extremely demanding.

Otherwise, powerful beings with clones wouldn't be so rare among the human race.
Therefore, Qi Yuan could only envy the situation, but for the time being, he had no practical solutions.

Left with no other choice, they could only try to coordinate the time allocation between the two fundamental laws to ensure the highest cultivation efficiency.

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Time passed, and the days went by.

Qi Yuan basically handed over the work of the Blue Bay branch of Virtual Universe Company to his deputy, Saji, to manage.

In any case, there is a fixed process for recruiting elite talents throughout the Blue Bay Starfield, or organizing these recruited elites to participate in various training and assessment activities within the company. Each of these tasks is overseen by a deacon or other employee under the Ministry of War.

Unless it's a special summons from the higher-ups of the Lanting branch, or the distribution of a few important resources such as top-tier elite positions that require his approval, there aren't many occasions on a regular basis where he needs to show his face.

Meanwhile, the development of Red Leaf Star and its territory has also gotten on track.

Thanks to the banquet last time, Qi Yuan not only quickly entered the circle of world lords in the Blue Bay Star Region, but also the faction of Red Leaf Star that he represented was noticed and accepted by the world lord forces in the Blue Bay Star Region.

Even with the promotion from the Samonka team, it would have taken hundreds of years for Qi Yuan's territories, such as Red Leaf Star, to expand their influence to the entire Blue Bay Starfield.

However, this banquet greatly shortened this process.

Many realm lords who want to befriend Qi Yuan will instruct some of their family's business leaders to try to establish some cooperative relationships with Red Leaf Star.

If even the major realm lord families did this, then the lesser-ranked domain lord-level forces naturally followed suit.

The newly formed Red Leaf Star power expanded and grew rapidly at an unimaginable and terrifying speed.

In order to meet the needs of development, at the suggestion of Samonka, Qi Yuan spent nearly 250 billion cosmic coins to gradually acquire the entire Liuquan star system where Red Leaf Star is located.

The entire Willow Spring Galaxy contains over 300,000 life-bearing planets, and the total number of planets reaches hundreds of billions!

Such a vast star system is incredibly rich in resources, including minerals, energy, population, tourism, and specialty products, which can absolutely meet the development needs of Qi Yuan's forces for a long period of time to come.

Qi Yuan also signed another expansion contract with the Cosmic Galaxy Bank, and began a larger-scale transformation and construction of the newly acquired territory.

To this end, the Cosmic Galaxy Bank sent an even larger transformation team, led by Samonka's superior at the Cosmic Galaxy Bank, a high-ranking executive at the ninth level of the cosmic realm.

The focus of this transformation is naturally the reform of the education and training systems for native life on each life-bearing planet.

After obtaining the complete "Array of Time", Qi Yuan developed a great interest in the possible "Array of Space".

Therefore, he never thinks there are too many talented people.

Unfortunately, most of the domain lords and cosmic lords who originally held sovereignty over various planets in the Liuquan Galaxy, except for a very few who chose to stay, opted to go to other ordinary star systems after receiving a generous "demolition compensation" from Qi Yuan, to buy a larger territory and continue to live a carefree life.

The departure of this group of people has resulted in a significant loss of high-end talent within the Liuquan Galaxy.

However, this choice is not hard to understand. After all, most of these lords are used to freedom. If they can be lords and masters themselves, who would want to become someone else's vassal?

Furthermore, their departure wasn't entirely a bad thing. At the very least, the implementation of the Red Leaf Star government's policies throughout the Willow Spring Star System was much smoother and more efficient.
The territory centered around Red Leaf Star is thriving, demonstrating unparalleled vitality and vigor.

Qi Yuan, as the lord of the territory, remained completely absorbed in his cultivation.

Comprehend the laws, study formations, and simulate battles in a virtual universe killing field.
Of course, he would occasionally appear to teach his disciples and bestow upon them rare treasures.

Whenever the triennial Lanting Auction arrives, no matter how busy he is, Qi Yuan will always spare a moment to participate in this top-level event within the Lanting Universe.

Besides broadening his horizons, the unexpected gains that occasionally occurred at this grand event will bring Qi Yuan great surprises in the coming period.
The years are long.

The auction for disciples of spiritual practice includes a gift-giving event.
Time flows like water within this highly regular cycle.

In the blink of an eye, thirty years had passed since Qi Yuan returned to Red Leaf Star.
We've reached 400 monthly votes, which means we need to update one more chapter according to the bonus chapter rules. However, I'm quite busy this weekend and don't have much time, so this chapter will be postponed a bit and will be released on Monday or Tuesday.
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