Chapter 198: 197: Du Gang’s Current Situation!

Chapter 198: 197: Du Gang’s Current Situation!

Translator: 549690339

After the qualifying contest, there will be a three-month break. In other words, the official competition will take place three months later.

Finally, Du Gang was also ready for secluded cultivation. This time, he received more than 30,000 Saint Crystals, mostly redeemed from people. Originally, he had over 70,000 Saint Crystals, but over 30,000 of them were given to Kong Luo.

However, these over 30,000 Saint Crystals were enough. The energy required for him to upgrade from the Sector Lord level to the Eternal level only needed 10,000 Saint Crystals. This means that as long as his Laws meet the standard, he can upgrade to the Eternal level at any time!

This is the prowess owned by the Sacred Body; there is almost no bottleneck. As long as the energy meets the standard and the Laws are in place, advancement can be achieved.

“Let’s absorb the energy first!”

In his secret room, Du Gang first prepared to absorb the energy until it was full, and then cultivate the Laws.

He took out a Saint Crystal and roasted it with fire. Seeing no particularly significant reaction, he swallowed it.

“Boom!”

A powerful energy burst open in his body immediately. Like a depth charge, it contained an infinite strength that was ready to explode at any moment.

But at this moment, a potent suction was produced in Du Gang’s body, and in just a moment, all the energy of the Saint Crystal was absorbed completely.

“The energy is indeed not small!”

Du Gang nodded and quickly continued to swallow.

Each Saint Crystal, which seemed to contain a lethal dose of energy to others if swallowed rashly, would be completely absorbed in his stomach within one second.

So, in just one day, Du Gang stopped when he had swallowed 10,000 Saint Crystals.

The 10,001st Saint Crystal, no matter how he tried, could not be absorbed further. It was as if his body is a bottle, and it has reached its absorption limit. “This is the first time I’ve never worried about energy!”

Du Gang lamented. This time, thanks to the relics, he was able to get so many Saint Crystals.

Thinking of Kong Xu’s suggestion that the relics involved some plotting, he couldn’t help but laugh.

“I implore you, let there be more such plots!”

He was curious as to how the Jiang family would react if they knew that he had obtained so much energy so easily.

After laughing for a while, Du Gang collected his thoughts and began to cultivate with the “Ultimate Gold Secret Book”.

This time, as before, his cultivation progress was fast, generally maintaining a speed of reaching the advanced level of one Mystery every nine days.

In just two months, he cultivated the remaining seven Mysteries to advanced levels.

The nine Mysteries, which seemed hard to combine in others’ eyes, were

almost effortless for him. When he brought the ninth Mystery to its advanced stage, they naturally combined into one.

“Pop!”

With a soft sound, Du Gang successfully advanced and his cultivation level reached the second rank of the Sector Lord level.

With this advancement, the newly generated Laws of the world also attached themselves to his internal world.

“Boom!”

At this moment, his internal world started to expand rapidly.

Utilizing this Law power, it expanded by a full hundred kilometers before gradually stopping.

This means that his internal world now has an area of 10,000 square kilometers.

“By this calculation, once I reach the ninth rank of the Sector Lord level, would my internal world almost have an area of 500,000 square kilometers?”

Du Gang frowned, ‘When I left, the Earth’s population reached three billion. If crowded a bit, 500,000 square kilometers should be enough to accommodate them...”

“Let me see if I can use Saint Crystals to expand the area of my internal world...”

Thinking about this, he quickly absorbed a Saint Crystal.

When the Saint Crystal appeared in his internal world, it did not have the chemical reaction he expected. Instead, it kept floating there without being absorbed by his internal world.

“How do I do that?”

Suddenly, he noticed that his mental body seemed to have strengthened a bit in his internal world. Not only was the color more profound, but the power contained in it was also stronger.

“Could it be that enhancing the mental body will expand the area of the internal world?”

Thinking about this, Du Gang tried to devour a Saint Crystal with his mental body.

Unlike before, this Saint Crystal was basically like an ordinary stone, entering the mental body with no change.

“Looks like, the mental body can’t absorb Saint Crystals...”

“Indeed, this is also normal. The Saint Crystal belongs to external energy, akin to physical energy. To grow, the mental body probably needs mental energy...”

At this point, Du Gang remembered the list of items that could boost mental power that he saw in the Virtual Universe Company’s direct disciples’ exchange list.

“By devouring those items that can increase mental power, I should be able to enhance my mental body and expand the area of my internal world, right?!”

“Let’s go out and see. I’ve been in seclusion for two months. It’s quite a long time...”

Leaving the secret room, Du Gang quickly logged into the Virtual Universe Company’s exchange library to check the prices of items that enhance mental power.

“Rune Stone, a relatively common item that can enhance mental power.”

“Depending on the amount of mental power enhancement, it can be divided into: lower-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.”

“And the price of lower-grade is...”

When Du Gang saw the price of a lower-grade Rune Stone, he was completely dumbfounded.

“A lower-grade Rune Stone needs ten Divine Crystals?!”

“Have they gone mad?!”

He couldn’t believe his eyes. You must realize that the energy he needed to increase from the Sector Lord level to the Eternal level was equivalent to one Divine Crystal.

This is ten thousand times the energy a normal person needs. Normally, for an average person, to break through from the Sector Lord level to the Eternal level, considering only energy and not other factors, only one Saint Crystal is needed.

And now, a lower-grade Rune Stone actually costs ten Divine Crystals!

Shaking his head, Du Gang swiftly left to go ask Kong Xu about the situation regarding Rune Stones.

He initially planned to increase his mental power a bit, but it seems that his remaining 20,000+ Saint Crystals can’t even afford a lower-grade Rune Stone!

Kong Xu, not in seclusion, had already reached the ninth rank of the Sector Lord level; there was not much he could do in seclusion. All he had to do was wait for opportunities to advance to the Eternal level!

When he asked about the Rune Stone, Kong Xu was startled and asked: “You’re planning to buy Rune Stones?”

Du Gang said bitterly, “I do want to buy, but the price is just too steep...”

Prince Kong Xu nodded and chuckled, “That’s standard. Rune stones can enhance mental power. What is mental power? It’s the power of the soul, the source of a person...”

“The high price of the rune stones is also normal. They are incredibly scarce and come from the heart of the Primordial Continent. If we want to acquire them, we have to send our strongest people to the continent to trade for them...”

“Sigh!”

Upon saying this, Prince Kong Xu suddenly sighed.

“What’s wrong?”

Du Gang asked curiously.

“Nothing much. It’s just that the ordinary residents of the Primordial Continent don’t need to cultivate and yet they seem to live forever. In comparison, we, the people of the universe, seem rather miserable...” He expressed this with genuine sadness.

Prince Kong Xu continued with a bitter tone, “Do you know where Sacred

Bodies and Divine Bodies originate from?”

Du Gang was puzzled by his sudden question. He shook his head, “I don’t know. ”

Prince Kong Xu sighed, “Actually, these are just designations accorded by us, the people of the universe...”

“On the Primordial Continent, everyone is eternal. Every commoner there, once they’re born, they reach the cosmic level. When they come of age, they attain the Sector Lord level...”

“Ordinary people attain Sector Lord status upon reaching adulthood?”

Du Gang looked at him dumbstruck, his gaze fixated on the prince’s eyes, trying to ascertain if he was joking.

“I’m not joking!”

Prince Kong Xu shook his head and said, “The Primordial Continent is a complete world, unlike our universe where the Laws and space are scattered.

Everything there is more tangible...”

“Over there, ordinary people reach the Sector Lord level upon maturity, and those from races that have rendered meritorious services to humanity, achieve eternal status upon maturity...”

Du Gang furrowed his brows, “Divine Bodies?”

Prince Kong Xu nodded, “Yes, you are from the Ancient God Clan or the Ancient

“The previous era refers to the people from ten million years ago, marked by the activity of the last Golden Age, and this era refers to the people of this

Golden Age, even including those old fellows of ten million years, who can also

be counted in our era...”

“Golden Age, Luo Shan...”

Du Gang suddenly furrowed his eyebrows, saying, “You’re not telling me, that in these millions of years, only Luo Shan and his group of Eternal Level existences have emerged?”

Kong Xu revealed a thought-provoking expression.

He said slowly, “It’s not precisely so. Over these millions of years, roughly every few hundred thousands of years, an Eternal Level powerhouse would emerge...”

“However, the Golden Age, hence so-called because, within this age, a large number of Eternal Level powerhouses may be born...”

“In the last Golden Age, even though the most outstanding one was Luo Shan’s group, in total, more than a hundred Eternal Level powerhouses were born!”

“A hundred in ten million years...”

Du Gang was left dumbfounded.

Kong Xu laughed, “Does it seem like a lot? As if a hundred could emerge in ten million years!”

“But in fact, you must understand, within the territory of the Advanced Cosmic Nations, there are Sector Lord Levels who have lived from the Big Bang era, that is, from over ten billion years ago!”

“In these millions of years, your competitors aren’t just this generation, possibly even the last generation, and perhaps even numerous generations from the past could come out and compete against you!”

Kong Xu said lightly, “These old folks, although they are not as gifted as us, with the accumulation over the years, the Laws they have mastered are not limited to just one series...”

“In terms of strength, these old fellows are much stronger than Luo Shan’s group, but still, they cannot advance!”

“So, the importance of opportunities is self-evident...”

Kong Xu suddenly froze.

He hadn’t noticed it until just now when he unintentionally probed Du Gang with his Mental Power, and realized that he had already reached the Second Rank of the Sector Lord Level.

Although he had already sensed it, he still couldn’t resist asking.

“You’ve reached the Second Rank of the Sector Lord Level?”

Du Gang nodded, “Yes, it took me almost two months to break through to the second layer of the Sector Lord Level!”

“Only?”

Kong Xu’s look at Du Gang was full of sourness.

“Just over two months...”

In contrast, his own two-thousand-year record of advancing from Rank One Sector Lord Level to Second Rank seemed insignificant!

He is a Sacred Body!

He is a Sacred Body!

He is a Sacred Body!

Repeating it three times to himself with closed eyes, Kong Xu finally calmed down.

He tried not to think about it and changed the subject: “Anyway, there is something I have to tell you...”

“A Saint had obtained a Source Stone from the Primordial Continent and gave it to Yu Shuiyao. She plans to hold a Source Opening Conference in five days, and you are also invited...”

“Source Stone?”

Startled, Du Gang had never heard of this term before. “What is that?”

Kong Xu explained: “The Source Stone is a special product of the Primordial Continent, a mysterious substance believed to have originated from the mythical era before the big bang, or even longer, deep beneath the Primordial

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“This Source Stone is wrapped with a special substance, immune to Mental Power detection, and can hardly be seen through by any other means. Only after being excavated, can it be determined if it contains any ‘sources’.”

“Huh?”

Du Gang asked curiously: “Aren’t the ‘source’ and the Source Stone the same thing?”

“They’re not!”

Kong Xu shook his head: “The ‘stone skin’ of the Source Stone is very special, completely isolating what’s inside. The reason they are sought after is because most of the material mined from them is Divine Origin...”

“Divine Origin, a type of energy of a purity that surpasses even Divine Crystals!”

“Of course, under normal circumstances, most Source Stones are empty, with only about one in a hundred having something inside...”

“Among those with contents, most are Divine Origins, hence the name Source Stones, but a small portion contains very peculiar things that could either be ancient artifacts or malicious energies from the ancient times, or even ominous objects...”

“In summary, this is how extraordinary Source Stones are. Every single one, despite being nine out of ten times empty, is still highly valuable...”

With realization, Du Gang asked, “So, this Source Opening Conference, is it when Yu Shuiyao plans to crack open the Source Stone?”

“Exactly!”

Kong Xu nodded: “The Source Stone that the Saint gave to Yu Shuiyao, although only the size of a fist, is worth a hundred Divine Crystals...”

“That expensive?”

Du Gang was astounded. He had just heard about the value of Divine Crystals, and now a Source Stone worth a hundred Divine Crystals appearing shocked him.

Moreover, 99 out of 100 of those Source Stones are empty!

Kong Xu nodded, “That’s right, the value is that high. If it contains a Divine

Origin, even a small piece would be worth over ten thousand Divine Crystals...” “And if there’s an ancient weapon inside, the value could be even higher...” “Of course, it’s still possible that ominous items can be found inside...”

Du Gang finally got it – these Source Stones were just like gambling stones on Earth; everything depended on luck.

“Did she invite me?”

He was a little doubtful. Given Yu Shuiyao’s obviously annoyed demeanor, why would she invite him?

Kong Xu laughed: “You’re the one who started the Golden Age. Of course, they will invite you...”

“As per legend, the people who start the Golden Age have great destiny. The more entanglements with others, the more likely to advance to the Eternal Level...’

“Do you really think that you have to be killed to advance to the Eternal Level?” “If you are killed, the Golden Age might just end...”

“There was an era when a Son of Destiny instigated the Golden Age, but ended up being killed prematurely by an old bastard. In the end, no one advanced to the Eternal Level for a full billion years. Since then, no one dares to kill the instigator of the Golden Age...”

“Huh?”

Du Gang was confused, “So you mean, even without the Kong Family’s protection, the Jiang Family won’t kill me?”

“Of course not, if you are killed, there might be a billion years without an advancement to the Eternal Level, but while this may be serious for others, it doesn’t affect the Jiang Family much, does it?”

Kong Xu laughed: “All I can say is, those old bastards at the Sector Lord Level l,vnn’t dnrp tn Inv finopr nn

“Additionally, each Son of Destiny who ignites the Golden Age brings with them a wholly unique era...”

“I see!”

Du Gang agreed: “So, being the Son of Destiny who started the Golden Age, to all of you, whether as friends or enemies, any connection with me enhances your chances of advancing to the Eternal Level?”

“It’s more or less the case!”

Kong Xu chuckled: “Didn’t I say it before? The reason that the Kong Family could have me come find you is that my family paid quite a price...”

Du Gang frowned: “If I’m that useful, then why aren’t the other sixteen families in Penglai protecting me?”

Kong Xu shrugged: “It’s all about the price. Your Ancient God curse is far more terrifying than promoting a family disciple to the Eternal Level...”

“Your Ancient God Clan was once a major clan on the Primordial Continent. As a result of the curse, only you remain. Other than my family’s ancestors who have some connection with your Ancient God, who else would dare to get involved?”

“Compared to having their disciples enter the Eternal Level, clearly building a relationship with the Ancient God is more terrifying...”

Kong Xu lamented: “Don’t consider our eighteen great clans so invincible. The truth is, once placed on the broad way of the Primordial Continent, we are just average clans, far inferior to your Ancient God Clan of old...”

“Think about it, even the Ancient God Clan nearly became extinct due to the curse. Who else would dare to touch it?”

Du Gang frowned: “Isn’t the ancestor of your Kong Family afraid as well?”

Kong Xu shook his head: “I don’t know about that. The Ancestor probably has his own considerations...”

“Now even I am starting to feel uneasy. I want to get close to you and benefit from this Golden Age, but I also fear that I might not have any descendants thereafter...”

“Hehe!”

Du Gang smirked, “I’ll come find you in five days. You take me to Yu Shuiyao’s.” Now he fully understood his own position.

He was a role that, while feared by others, some simply cannot afford to ignore.

Therefore, these imperial scions of these clans who have come to interact with him, such as Kong Xu and Yu Shuiyao, are definitely not the best of their generation. As per the nature of these clans, the best scions would absolutely still be secretly cultivated and wouldn’t be worth taking any risk here..