Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

Gao Sheng and Mia didn't go out again; Gao Sheng was currently strolling around the safe zone of the base.

Anyway, it's a safe zone. Although the areas designated for each faction have been marked out, there are still quite a few people wandering around.

"Brother, do you have any Thunderstones for sale? I can offer you 300 cosmic crystals for one Thunderstone." It was that skinny man from last time who approached again.

"300 cubic meters?" Gao Sheng secretly calculated that this price was very high considering the remaining treasures. "I wonder if it's Brolin's subordinates or people from Three Axe Mountain. I'm afraid only they would offer this price."

The last treasure, the Heavenly Fire Wheel, is worth only about 10 billion cosmic coins. It requires 150 Thunder Stones, and each Thunder Stone only adds up to 150 cubic meters. Of course, that's because the Heavenly Fire Wheel is the least cost-effective item.

However, the most cost-effective treasures have probably already been redeemed, and now it's unclear whether the remaining ones are even worth 400 units of Thunderstone.

"No, no, my family collected them all a long time ago," Gao Sheng said.

Soon after, Nansi arrived. "This time it's 200 cubic meters," Nansi said with a smile via telepathy.

"Baihulou is really stingy," Gao Sheng said with a laugh.

Bystanders only saw the two chatting and laughing for a while, but they did not exchange spatial rings.

Perhaps because of its outstanding acquisition performance, Nansi has been wandering around in the safe zone and has never gone out.

Of course, since the army entered, most of the elites from the various factions who were originally in the realm within a realm, except for the leaders who went out to greet the army, did not go out. The army was too dangerous. For these low-level elite seeds of the Eternal Star level, it was not training but suicide. No one would do that.

At this moment, there are more people coming and going at the castle gate than when Gao Sheng was here last time. This is probably not some kind of deception. There are 20 troops here, and there are too many people who want to go in and visit.

Inside the cold, old house.

"Little one, you've finally arrived?" A chubby, white-bearded old man stepped in with a smile. "What would you like to exchange for?"

"What do you mean I'm 'finally' here?" Gao Sheng muttered to himself.

"The fifth-tier Force weapon, 'Ice Soul Blade'..."

"It's gone, someone else redeemed it."

"The fifth-tier telekinetic weapon, the 'Suppressing Void Cauldron'."

"This one is also gone."

After reporting several items, all of which were sold out, Gao Sheng asked, "Lord Wu, could you tell me what else is available for exchange?"

The white-bearded old man chuckled and said, "Normally, people shouldn't know which treasures have been exchanged, but I estimate you have quite a few thunderstones, so it's fine."

A list was presented to Gao Sheng, who quickly examined it carefully.

"There are still more than 130 items? There's another layer to the crystal ball's password? And the bank account is still there?" Gao Sheng nodded secretly. Brolin must have exchanged for two layers. His army's harvest had been delivered, or at least most of it.

Gao Sheng himself exchanged 43 items, and Luo Feng probably exchanged quite a lot as well. Adding Dixi's exchange, how come the other forces exchanged so few?

There are probably quite a few forces eyeing that password and account. There are still many troops blocked. The Thunderstones haven't been delivered, and those that have been delivered haven't been redeemed.

Gao Sheng looked at the list and thought, "Hmm?"

Thunder Path Secret Technique (six sets), each set costs 40 Thunder Stones. Four sets remain.

A thought flashed through Gao Sheng's mind.

So that's how it is!

Everyone knows the entire exchange list clearly; the total amount of Thunderstones needed is over 1.4 million.

Others may not be clear, but Gao Sheng has completely surveyed four regions, each with a population of 600-700 million. Even if we take a conservative estimate, the total population of all 26 regions within the entire Realm is definitely over 1.5 million.

With such a large difference, those who didn't get to redeem theirs must be in a really bad situation.

Gao Sheng remembered that the Thunder Technique was still there until the very end, and he felt that the price was not worth it at all.

No! That's not how it works.

The price of this secret technique is certainly not worth it for a rogue cultivator like Luo Feng, but it is already very attractive to Lei Shen. The key is that the secret technique can be taught.

Secret techniques are rare, and good secret techniques are even rarer!

For all the major powers, a secret technique created by a peak realm lord recognized by the laws of lightning, which can be passed down to generations of lightning-attribute elites, is incredibly cheap, a real bargain! These powers will likely all exchange for it!

Then why are you still here?

Because this secret technique isn't an item; it can be replicated.

Who knows how many memory chips this old man in the fog has, or how many sets he's traded out?

Many realm lords, while they were alive, valued their secret techniques highly, and would not pass them on to anyone other than their direct disciples.

That's quite normal. If the enemy finds out, they might find his weakness and target him.

When he was about to die, he wished that everyone would practice his secret techniques and that everyone would know his name.

The old man kept changing his mind about having four sets left, then five, just to let people know that someone was exchanging for this secret technique.

Furthermore, was it just luck that Thor was able to obtain the inheritance of Lord Kabu?

Within this realm, who among those with the lightning attribute has a higher talent than him?

Intelligent life forms have no physical bodies, only carriers. These carriers can be changed at will, and they can even copy themselves onto other carriers. However, what is copied is only advanced intelligence, not the intelligent life form itself. There is only one intelligent life form, and it can only occupy one carrier.

The old man in the fog sent out a large number of secret technology chips. At that time, anyone within a certain range of the castle could remotely teleport themselves to occupy a chip and leave.

The legacy of Lord Kabu, and that crystal ball containing spatial secrets, if they truly exist, would only be given to his disciples!

It's even possible that the account is empty, or has very little money, and he might leave the money to his disciple.

In just a moment, Gao Sheng figured out the crux of the matter.

"Lord Mist, I've made my choice."

"One Tier 5 Force Weapon, the 'Sky-Slicing Blade'."

"One fifth-tier psychic weapon, the 'Frost Wheel'."

"F7 grade metal Violet Plain sapphire mother, 58 tons."

"A set of Thunder Path Secret Techniques."

Even if Gao Sheng's guess is wrong, it wouldn't be a waste to give this secret technique to the family.

"Just these four items."

"Oh? Good." The white-bearded old man beamed with delight. "A total of 126 million Thunderstones."

"OK."

After Gao Sheng put away the treasure and left, the white-bearded old man sighed, "What a pity, he's not of the lightning attribute. I wonder if that little guy will come to exchange it. Hmm... they were together, could this secret technique be exchanged for that little guy?"

The old man was very much looking forward to it.

Gao Sheng returned to the base and read the chip. Of course, no white-bearded old man popped up, and he couldn't understand the secret technique. However, he still asked Xiao Ai to keep it and then sent a copy to the clan leader.

After exchanging for these four items, Gao Sheng still had over 6 Thunderstones left, including some odds left over from Dixi's exchange. He had originally planned to wait until Dixi returned and made some gains, hoping to gather enough to exchange for another item. However, upon further reflection, he realized that by then, these Thunderstones would probably be worth less than 300 cubic meters, so he might as well sell them now.

So Gao Sheng and Mia wandered around for half a day and sold these Thunderstones for more than 1550 million Cosmic Crystals, averaging about 250 crystals per stone.