Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

Auxiliary life and nurturing resource area.

The items here are extremely expensive; many people look at them, but few actually buy them.

Gao Sheng slowly looked at the rows of simulated projections above the counter.

"Ironvine Grass seedlings? Blue Silver Grass seeds? Cut... Cloud Vine seeds? Cloud Vine seedlings? Snow Taro Vine larvae? Slug Flower larvae? Swallow Flower seeds? Metallic life form Panon? Metallic life form Kona?... Wood Crystal? Amethyst Fruit?... "

Gao Sheng clicked his tongue as he watched.

After a while, Gao Sheng waved to the bored red-haired waiter.

"I want to buy a companion life form, along with initial nurturing resources."

The red-haired man approached. "Sir, are you interested in these dependent life forms?"

"Yes, recommend one to me."

The red-haired man smiled and said, "No problem. Why don't you take a look at this Iron Vine Grass? It's affordable, and the cultivation resources are cheap. It can even grow without resources, although that's not ideal... If you cultivate it diligently, reaching the Eternal Star level is definitely not a problem. At that time, it will be much stronger than an ordinary Eternal Star level bodyguard. Ordinary bodyguards may have oversights, but this plant life provides close protection, ensuring absolute safety..."

Gao Sheng smiled but didn't say anything.

Seeing that Gao Sheng seemed uninterested, the red-haired man said again, "Why don't you take a look at this Blue Silver Grass? Although it's not as powerful as Iron Vine Grass, it's not much weaker than humans of the same level..."

"Alright, alright, what's wrong with your eyes?" Gao Sheng waved his hand and said, "Don't mention this kind of trash. Give me a detailed introduction to those."

Gao Sheng waved his hand, pointing to the top row of the virtual projection.

"Yes, yes, yes," the red-haired man said with delight. "Sir, please come into the VIP room. I'll go and fetch our manager."

……

In the VIP room, an obese manager was explaining things to Gao Sheng with a beaming smile.

"Among these attached life forms, the Snow Taro Vine is the best in terms of defense, while the Cloud-Moving Vine is the most suitable in terms of overall strength. It not only has strong defensive capabilities but also decent offensive capabilities, and its regenerative ability is the best... The Swallow Flower and the Snail Flower are more offensively oriented, with the Swallow Flower being stronger in comparison. As for those metal life forms, they have good offensive and defensive capabilities. Although they are not as good as plant life forms, they will save a lot of cultivation resources. Moreover, metal life forms have an advantage: they can be fused into the spaceship when they are no longer needed..."

……

After the obese manager talked for a long time, Gao Sheng made his decision.

"Just this snail flower, including the larvae and early-stage rearing resources, give me one portion."

At this moment, Lao Tie's voice rang in Gao Sheng's consciousness: "Kid, if you're afraid of death, choose Snow Taro Vine; if you're not afraid of death, Swallow Flower and Cloud-Piercing Vine are also good choices. What's with this Snail Flower?"

"I think this 'snail flower' is pretty good. That cool big mouth looks like a perfect match for me, haha," Gao Sheng replied. "What, buddy, you know about these things too? My personal computer shouldn't have these things in its data, right?"

Old Tie laughed heartily, "If it were one of your man-made objects, I might not know, but now the system is completely in sync with the origin of this universe, and there is no natural thing in this universe that I don't know."

"So powerful?" Gao Sheng was taken aback.

In the VIP room, the portly manager beamed with joy—a big deal!

"Sir, you have excellent taste. This conch flower is both offensive and defensive, and it can even devour enemies to grow stronger. It is an excellent helper."

"Grow by devouring enemies?" Gao Sheng secretly curled his lip. The conch flower does have this ability, but to grow in this way is really wishful thinking.

However, Gao Sheng's choice of the conch flower was indeed related to its ability to devour prey. Gao Sheng was primarily attracted to one of the conch flower's key characteristics: speed!

Given enough resources, the growth rate of the spiky flower is much faster than that of the other species.

"There are several initial resources for cultivating the Butterfly Flower. Which one would you like, sir?" The fat manager opened a screen showing more than a dozen kinds of strange fruits, each with a different price.

The most expensive ones are many times more expensive than the larvae of the slug flower itself.

"Let's have this 'Source Blood Fruit'."

After watching for a while, Gao Sheng pointed to one of the red fruits and said, "This fruit is ranked third."

"Yes, yes, yes." The chubby manager smiled obsequiously; this was a really big deal!

"The larvae cost 500 billion Black Dragon Coins, and the Source Blood Fruit costs 1.2 trillion Black Dragon Coins..."

"Don't rush, there are other things too." Gao Sheng continued to pick through the items.

……

"Take care, sir." The portly manager respectfully saw Gao Sheng off.

The total cost, including the seedlings, initial resources, and resources needed to cultivate them to Planetary Level 13, is 6200 billion Qianwu Coins after discounts. The expensive part is the seedlings and initial cultivation resources; the intermediate growth resources are very few. The cultivation to Planetary Level doesn't require much, and the main resource is Wood Seed Crystals.

Even if all plant life forms are gluttons, 10,000 of them would only amount to 200 billion Black Dragon Coins, and even with other resources, it wouldn't be more than 300 billion.

The chubby manager also gifted him a rather large spatial bracelet to hold those resources, even larger than Gao Sheng's own spatial ring.

Gao Sheng can only guarantee a good initial training, enabling you to quickly reach the ninth level of the Planetary Star. If you want to break through to the Constant Star level, he doesn't have enough money.

When these snail flowers are cultivated to the Realm Lord stage, the most they can have are 256 flowers, and the fewest are only 8 flowers, a difference of dozens of times in strength!

Therefore, initial resources are very important. If you start poorly, it will be much more costly to improve them later.

Using Source Blood Fruit for cultivation, you can start with 24 flowers. When breaking through to the Eternal Star level, you need to use better resources to improve it again. Each major breakthrough is crucial for cultivating this plant's life. If you just use ordinary resources to break through, you will still only have 24 flowers at the Eternal Star level, and it will get worse and worse.

Although Gao Sheng has made a fortune, he can only afford this Source Blood Fruit now, so he has to be careful with every major breakthrough in the future.

Accessory life forms are indeed expensive to raise; even among the so-called scions of powerful families, few can afford to cultivate them.

……

As soon as he stepped out of the VIP room, Gao Sheng heard Xiao Ai's voice in his mind.

"Owner……"

Gao Sheng smiled and communicated with him telepathically, saying, "You can keep it for now; there's no need to go out and buy it separately."

"Okay!" Xiao Ai said happily.

Then Gao Sheng felt a wisp of energy swirling around the extra bracelet on his hand, which quickly disappeared.

Clearly, Xiao Ai has already recognized this object in the space as her owner.

How strange!

Gao Sheng suddenly remembered why Xiao Ai had been so eager to get a spatial object, mentioning it several times while they were still on the spaceship.

There must be a reason.

Gao Sheng only had a vague understanding of what was so special about this intelligent life form, but he didn't have time to ask Xiao Ai about it right now.

The chubby boy checked the time and dialed Luo Feng's contact number directly.

"Beep." The call connects.

Luo Feng's voice rang out: "Gao Sheng, hello."

"Brother Luo Feng, are you done with your business? I'll treat you to dinner, haha," the chubby guy said.

"Just finished, no problem. Where is it?" Luo Feng asked with a smile.

"In the northern district of Qiulong City, not far from the slave market, there's a really nice place to eat called 'Hundred Flavors Restaurant'," Gao Sheng said.