Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 2 Landing, Thunderstorm Star
In the dark universe, a silver-gray spaceship is traveling at faster-than-light speed.

To Qi Yuan's surprise, the spaceship owner who bought them, a group of Lei Yuan Clan slaves, had not summoned them.

But this is good, as it gives him time to get to know the system he just acquired better.

"The apprenticeship reward system can be triggered by imparting cultivation experience or gifting items."

"Returning gifts is easy to understand, but how can cultivation experience be returned? The cultivation experience I can pass on to my disciples is definitely something I've already mastered. What's the point of returning ten or a hundred times more?"

"The return multiplier is quite impressive. On top of the base return multiplier, there's even a chance to trigger a critical hit reward of up to 100x. If I could recruit a genius disciple with a base return multiplier of 100x, and then trigger a 100x critical hit, wouldn't that result in a return of 10,000x!"

That smells amazing!
If I could trigger a 10,000-fold return every time, putting aside my realm and cultivation level, and just keep sending money and resources to my disciples, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before I became one of the richest people in the primordial universe!

By then, what rare and precious treasures won't you be able to buy? Won't your cultivation level just take off like a rocket?
Of course, this idea is just for fun, and there are many limitations in its actual implementation.

First, the system's return function can only be triggered once a month, and the gifted items must be what the disciple needs at their current level; otherwise, it will affect the return multiplier.

Secondly, critical hit rewards are not easy to trigger; they must be items that can greatly affect the disciple.

In other words, it's not enough for the gifts to be expensive; they also have to be appropriate and touch the hearts of the disciples.

Furthermore, items returned by the system cannot be gifted again and will not trigger a return; you have to come up with different ways to give them away.
The time and effort spent during this period can be imagined.

Of course, besides these, the most pressing problem Qi Yuan needs to face right now is how to find a highly talented disciple.

He himself is only a second-tier stellar-level being, and he is also an indigenous person of the planet. Now he has been reduced to a slave controlled by a biochip.

Unless someone is completely brainless, I doubt any genius with a high probability of success would be willing to become his disciple.

Not right either.
His gaze swept around—

As a figure akin to the 'patriarch' of the Lei Yuan Clan's martial arts, if he were to speak, the planetary-level clansmen around him would likely not refuse.

Moreover, many of them were his students.

"Let me see what kind of aptitude this Thunder Origin Clan member has."

With a thought, he used the system's functions to quickly investigate the situation of the Thunder Source Clan members around him.

The more he investigated, the more depressed he became.

[Target: Longshan; base return rate: 4x; can be bound.]

[Target: Shen Buhai; base return rate: 3x; can be bound after becoming a disciple.]

[Target: Tang Hong; base return rate: 3x; can be bound to Tang Hong after becoming his disciple.]

For hundreds of planetary-level Thunder Source Clan members, the basic return multiplier for the vast majority was only 3-5 times.

The highest one only reached 8 times, not even breaking through the single digit mark.

"There isn't even one more than ten times that number; the Lei Yuan Clan's bloodline seems quite ordinary."

However, he didn't have a better option at the moment, so he could only choose the tallest among the short ones.
"Anyway, the system doesn't limit the number of people that can be bound, so let's give it a try!"

Qi Yuan's gaze swept across the crowd and soon settled on a middle-aged member of the Lei Yuan clan at the edge of the crowd.

The man was dressed in tattered clothes, thin and with graying, disheveled hair, looking like a weary old farmer who had toiled in the fields for most of his life.

This person was the only one among hundreds of Lei Yuan clan members to achieve a return rate of 8 times.

To be honest, Qi Yuan was somewhat surprised when he learned that this person had the highest return rate among the more than 300 Lei Yuan clan members.

Because in the original owner's memories, this person's talent did not seem to be particularly outstanding among the Lei Yuan clan.

As one of the original owner's earliest disciples, his cultivation techniques and resources were no less than those of others, but his progress was extremely slow.

Until the arrival of the extraterrestrial visitors, his cultivation level had only just broken through to the second stage of the planetary level, placing him at the bottom among his fellow disciples and being surpassed by many rising stars.

The only commendable thing is that this person's foundation is exceptionally 'solid'. Although his progress is slow, he has been steadily advancing step by step, and his combat skills and movement techniques are unparalleled among his fellow geniuses.

"Could this be a Thunder Origin Star version of the 'Zhuofeng Emperor'?"

"Never mind, there's no better option for now, I'll just keep you as a backup plan." Qi Yuan made up his mind and quickly transmitted a wisp of consciousness to the virtual panel in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Immediately, a crisp system notification sounded in his mind.

[Target: Cangfan; base return rate: 8x; disciple requirements met; bind now?]

After Qi Yuan made his selection, the previously bare system panel immediately displayed information about Cang Fan:
Name: Cang Fan

[Race: Thunder Source Clan]

[Realm: Planetary Level 2]

[Attribute: Thunder]

[Cultivation Style: Martial Artist]

[Base return rate: 8x]

The content on the panel was very simple and did not reveal any special information. Qi Yuan glanced at it a few times and then exited.

"I've got it, disciple. Shall we try out the system's return function now?"

He thought about it briefly, but then temporarily dismissed the idea.

He was now penniless, and besides the option of imparting cultivation experience, he couldn't even afford the 'gift' that would trigger the system's return reward.
Secondly, he did not forget his current identity.

As a slave controlled by a biochip, his every move is under the watchful eye of his master. If he rashly displays behavior that is inconsistent with his status as a slave, it is easy to attract the master's attention.

Whether he is arrested for research or executed, the consequences will be unbearable for him.

"I'm too weak right now, I have to be extremely careful, and I absolutely cannot let anyone know that I can break free from the biochip control!"

"Stay calm and wait for the spaceship to land before looking for an opportunity."

Thunderstorm Star is a well-known resource planet in the Eternal Starfield.

The entire planet Thunderstorm is shrouded in thick thunderclouds year-round, and most of its surface is engulfed in near-vast thunderstorms.

In such a harsh environment, even ordinary planetary-level martial artists cannot stay for long without supplies.

However, thanks to this environment, Thunderstorm Star has given birth to an extremely precious special resource - Thunder Crystal Ore.

Thunder crystals, extracted from thunder crystal ore, can be used to forge Force weapons or smelted with other metals into C-grade alloys. They are considered a highly sought-after metal ore in the universe.

With its abundant reserves of thunder crystals, a single Thunderstorm Star is worth as much as a dozen other life-bearing planets of the same size.

This is an enormous fortune that would make even a cosmic-level powerhouse incredibly excited!

However, even though the coordinates of this Thunderstorm Star are not a secret, no cosmic-level powerhouse dares to actually make a move against it.

The reason is simple: the master of this planet is backed by the powerful Ortega family.
Inside the spaceship cabin where a group of Lei Yuan Clan slaves were imprisoned.

Qi Yuan attempted to cultivate according to the cultivation methods he obtained from the original owner's memories.

Strands of cosmic energy continuously seeped into his body, and after further tempering, were refined into pure genetic energy.

However, in Qi Yuan's view, the refining speed was pitifully slow.

After another cycle of the universe was completed, he had to stop temporarily.

"The original owner's cultivation technique was far too low-level, and without any cultivation resources to assist him, at this rate, it would probably take decades or even centuries just to break through to the third stage of the Stellar level."

Unfortunately, the original owner's planet, Leiyuan, was not connected to any cosmic civilization. His so-called cultivation methods were all obtained from the wreckage of an extraterrestrial spaceship that accidentally crashed onto Leiyuan. It was already quite good that these methods, pieced together from various sources, were enough to support his breakthrough to the stellar level.

Without a more complete cultivation method, it's uncertain whether he could even reach the peak of the Stellar level before his lifespan ends.

We absolutely must find a way to obtain a more complete cultivation method.

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