Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 229 The Return Journey

Chapter 229 The Return Journey

"it's over."

Looking at the notification email from the military system, Chen Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

He truly hadn't expected that the battle on the main front would be decided in just three months, but the subsequent work of clearing out the remaining alien races would take a full year and a half.

Even so, those hidden alien races were not completely wiped out.

Even now, Chen Yuan and his guards can still find some who slipped through the net every ten days or so.

However, although some alien races still exist, their numbers are far too small. Chen Yuan estimates that there may not even be a million alien races left on the entire Nine Domains Continent.

With such a small number, there's really no need for hundreds of millions of human warriors to continue stationing here to search. In any case, the human race will soon bring the Nine Domains Continent back to human territory, making this supercontinent a new breeding ground for the human race.

As long as the human race thrives on the Nine Realms Continent, the remaining Black Mist Clan will naturally pose no threat.

"Lishan, assemble the team, we're preparing to evacuate."

"Yes, Junior Uncle."

While Li Shan was gathering the guards, Chen Yuan opened the Military Merit Shop and, after confirming once again that there were no new proto-nuclear materials available,

He immediately chose to exchange his military merits for points.

There's nothing we can do about it. The email from the military system made it very clear that the military merit shop and exchange channels would be closed shortly after the war ended.

After all, this war is not a real extraterritorial battlefield for Chen Yuan. The so-called military merit shop and exchange channels are only temporarily open and will be closed after the war ends.

Therefore, Chen Yuan had no intention of saving his military merits. He took advantage of the current tenfold discount and converted all his military merits into points.

After exchanging for the Burning Heaven True Feather, he originally had about 34 trillion military merits left. During this period, he led the guards to clear out the remaining alien races. Although the harvest was not as abundant as in the early stages, he slowly accumulated 40 trillion merits.

He converted all of his military merits into company points, and with a tenfold discount, these merits turned into 40 billion points, which is quite a considerable income.

The only regret is that during this period, neither the Military Merit Mall nor the Company Treasury has produced a second original core material.

Just then, Ireil ​​suddenly said, "Master, the primordial core ingredient 'Primordial Essence Dew' has been discovered in the treasure vault, priced at 8.2 million points. It has been purchased for you."

"Oh!" Chen Yuan's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "Well done, Irene. Now we only need three more of the original core materials."

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He hadn't expected that having Irene keep a close eye on the treasure vault would actually be so effective. In less than two years, they had obtained a primary core material. If they continued to maintain this efficiency, it would probably only take a few years to collect all the primary materials.

Of course, Chen Yuan was also aware that such things were too random and couldn't possibly develop exactly as he expected. To obtain the remaining materials, he would have to think of other methods.

Chen Yuan's method was very simple: he sent out mass purchase requests via email.

Indeed, he knows quite a few powerful figures. Not to mention Dark Teacher and Senior Brother Youhou, his other senior brothers and sisters are all Venerable-level beings.

These original nuclear materials were just novel trinkets in their eyes, not particularly precious at all.

So, as Chen Yuan returned to the fleet with his guards, he received a number of replies.

"Junior Brother needs these three materials? The Nine Doubts Abyss Soil and the Lan Hua Radiant Crystal are a bit difficult to obtain, but I remember the Flame Crystal Kingdom Lord has a copy of the Golden Horn Boundary Stone. Let me ask him for you." — Rongshan Kingdom Lord. "Chen Yuan, you need the Golden Horn Boundary Stone?! I wouldn't mind selling you mine, but my Golden Horned Beast avatar is still only at the Domain Lord level."

"The Golden Horn Boundary Stone can only be condensed after one becomes a Boundary Lord, so it will take several decades." — Luo Feng. "Junior Brother, the materials you need are quite rare. Other materials are hard to say, but I can try to find a way to obtain the Lan Hua Yao Jing. Wait for my news."

Yinlan Venerable: "Junior Brother needs these materials? Hmm—unfortunately, Senior Brother doesn't have any either. Let me ask my friend if he has any." — Tian Shi Palace Master: "Junior Brother's request is quite special, but the quality is a bit low, not worthy of my collection. However, since Junior Brother has asked, I'll inquire for you." — Lord of Youhou: In a short time, Chen Yuan received more than a dozen emails, all replies to his purchase request.

Although the information is still unclear, there are at least some relevant clues.

Chen Yuan wasn't in a hurry. After all, even if he successfully refined the original core, he would still need to find a way to obtain materials for his clone. Even if he had the materials, he might not be able to create a clone immediately. He would most likely have to wait until he was promoted to World Lord.

Because Chen Yuan had already planned the most ideal clone for himself—the infamous Nine Nether Blood Sea from the original work, which perfectly met all his needs.

This clone not only possesses top-tier time-space talent and a super divine body, but also, with the help of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, can achieve perfect genes.

More importantly, when Chen Yuan pursues the path of divine power to challenge true godhood in the future, his talent for creating life will be of great help in the study of gene structure.

It can be said that for Chen Yuan, who possesses the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, the Nine Nether Blood Sea clone is the most perfect choice, even better than the World Tree clone.

However, to nurture this clone, one must be at least a Realm Lord, because among the Nine Nether Lord's 108 children, the weakest is at the Realm Lord level!

Therefore, refining the original core was not particularly urgent for Chen Yuan.

Even after gathering all the materials, he would not start refining immediately. Instead, he planned to use the system to optimize the quality of these materials to the extreme, ensuring that they reached the most perfect state before starting the refining process.

Therefore, while collecting protocore materials is important, it's not necessary to keep it on your mind all the time. After thanking each of the senior students individually,

He just needs to wait patiently for news.

Three days later, all participating fleets returned to the territory of the Rongshan Universe Kingdom. Following the Rongshan Kingdom's ruler's order to disband, the various units gradually returned to their original locations. Chen Yuan and his group also returned to the Rongshan Imperial Capital Star.

After all, he still holds the position of Inspector Envoy, and it is foreseeable that this position will not change throughout the entire Domain Lord stage.

For Chen Yuan, this tribal war was at most a special training mission, and after the war ended, he would naturally return to his original job.

After returning to the capital star, Chen Yuan gave the guards a long leave, while he himself went to the Cosmic Galaxy Bank to sell all the spoils of war and the optimized Tier 7 items he had accumulated during the war.

These items sold for a total of 103 billion Mixed Yuan Units. With his points reserves, Chen Yuan's available funds are now close to 150 billion Mixed Yuan Units.

With such a huge sum of money in hand, he no longer worried about the raw materials; even if he acquired them at a premium, it wouldn't cost much.

Now Chen Yuan is considering how to use this money to enhance his immediate combat capabilities.

For example, cultivating some plant life, such as the Cloud-Moving Vine and the Star-Eating Grass, is too slow if you start from scratch. Even cultivating to the level of a Realm Lord would take hundreds of years, let alone breaking through to immortality.

With that kind of time and energy, Chen Yuan could become a realm lord himself; why would he need plant life?

Therefore, he hoped to obtain readily available combat power, preferably at the level of a king, so that he wouldn't have to rely on Li Shan for everything on the surface.

The main reason was that after this tribal war, Chen Yuan realized that his guard team was indeed somewhat lacking in strength. After all, Li Shan had only barely reached the level of a marquis, which meant that he had to sneak around when he wanted to show his strength.

If you have a strong fighting force to your name, you won't have to be so constrained in many things.

For example, in this war, if he had a king-level combat power, he could openly attack the Holy City without Li Shan saying anything, and he wouldn't need to hide his identity and attack as the "Silver Armor Man".

However, it was indeed difficult to find a way to gain strong combat power in a short period of time. Chen Yuan searched through the treasure vault for a long time but could not find a suitable option.

Finally, he decided to consult his mentor, Orona, to see if she had any good advice.

"You want King-level combat power?" Aurona asked with a strange expression. "Tell me your specific requirements."

"It's combat power that can be used openly and honestly, even if it's just attack power that reaches the King level, money is not a problem." Chen Yuan smiled helplessly, "As you know, there are some methods of mine that are not convenient to use openly."

Orona assumed he was referring to a powerful treasure and nodded, saying, "Indeed, it's rather ostentatious for a domain lord like you to carry such a treasure."

"In that case—" Aurona pondered for a moment, then her eyes suddenly lit up, "You could buy a Zerg hive!"

"The Zerg hive?" Chen Yuan was slightly taken aback, but quickly realized, "That's right! How come I didn't think of that? Isn't the Zerg hive the ideal immediate combat force?"

It should be understood that even a Zerg hive at the World Lord level, if properly nurtured, can unleash a combined attack from a million World Lord-level Zerg warriors, the power of which would make even a King-level expert retreat.

Moreover, it matures quickly; as long as there are enough seedlings, it can be cultivated rapidly. Chen Yuan can even provide time acceleration to further speed up the cultivation process.

What's even more remarkable is that a World Lord-level mother hive is only worth about a million Chaos Units. If he were to enslave ten or eight of them, the combined attack of tens of millions of World Lord-level Zerg would be enough to make even a peak-level King-level Zerg change color.

As for the resources to cultivate Zerg warriors? This expense is negligible for Chen Yuan at present. Even if the cost of purchasing the mother hive is included, it would only amount to tens of millions of Chaos Units at most.

For Chen Yuan right now, this is definitely the most cost-effective choice.