NOVEL WEB Chapter 529: 237. Self-Created Divine Skill
After signing the contract, Lin Qing was officially collaborating with the Stars Group.
"Happy collaboration."
The black-clad girl smiled as she appraised the two-handed greatsword Lin Qing had just refined, and said, "Just in time, the preliminary auction is in a year. I'll have someone plan it as the highlight. As a divine artifact to be auctioned for the first time by a future star god, it should fetch a high price, right?"
"Happy collaboration."
Lin Qing nodded and then looked at the council's senior members around, saying, "Thank you all for watching for so long."
"It's a small matter."
"Nothing at all, Mr. Jing Guang, you're too polite."
"It's also our honor."
Each of the council's seniors responded with extremely warm smiles.
After all, they could split their consciousness in the Second Cosmic Network, and everything they could enjoy in reality could also be enjoyed there, just slightly distracted by watching on the side, which was nothing really.
"Mr. Jing Guang." The black-clad girl turned her hand and handed Lin Qing a strange prismatic crystal, saying, "This is the residence the group arranged for you in Holy Star City, it's an estate at No. 12 Universal Avenue."
Lin Qing nodded slightly and accepted it.
He had no concept of 'an estate at No. 12 Universal Avenue'.
But the council's senior members were quite surprised, as Universal Avenue was the central location of Holy Star City in the White Tower World, closest to the secret realm origin, making the estate's value terrifyingly high.
In theory, it was priceless, and not even a hundred billion Void Coins could buy it.
Even if it was just the right to live there, the treatment was already astounding.
In the past, the star gods collaborating with the group, if they could only refine single-colored divine artifacts, wouldn't get such treatment.
Apparently, the chairperson believed Mr. Jing Guang deserved such treatment.
"Then I'll continue refining divine artifacts." Lin Qing said, "There's still more material, right?"
"So urgent?" The black-clad girl asked in confusion.
"It's just unnecessary to waste time." Lin Qing said, "I'll refine some more divine artifacts, better accumulate ten billion quickly."
"Ten billion?" The black-clad girl asked.
"I want to enter the Endless Pool." Lin Qing said.
"The Endless Pool, huh..." The black-clad girl realized, then asked, "Are you comprehending cultivation, or going inside for treasures?"
"Just comprehending." Lin Qing said.
"Oh, then ten billion is enough."
The black-clad girl nodded slightly, "If you're looking for treasures, entering the core of the Endless Pool costs much more, usually appearing only in high-level auctions."
Lin Qing didn't care about treasures; he just wanted to quickly become a Void Creature.
Right now, he still had a five-colored divine artifact, and in the future, just selling it when given the opportunity would ensure no shortage of money.
"Liking artifact refining is nice." The tall, gray-haired woman 'Caslock' walked over, saying softly, "However, keep up with your own cultivation, or you won't be able to refine high-level divine artifacts either."
Lin Qing couldn't help but ask, "Madam Caslock is a Void Dominator, I heard your divine state is four-colored now?"
"Yes." Caslock nodded slightly.
"I heard that after mastering the complete Void Rules, a Void Dominator can theoretically have their divine state evolve to Chaos Color?" Lin Qing said.
Caslock glanced at him, shaking her head, "As expected of someone from the Holy Land, not all star gods are as strong as those from your Holy Land, evolving a divine state to Chaos Color is much harder than any other divine position advancing to Void Level."
"Oh?" Lin Qing said, "I haven't experienced a divine state evolution yet, is it very difficult?"
Caslock was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Very difficult. The star gods are not only exceptionally powerful, but also hold very high status, making each civilization strive to protect them. It was already the best the Stars Group could do for my divine state to evolve to four colors."
Lin Qing realized.
Indeed, the key in the fight among star gods was to deal with the forces protecting them.
"Absorbing four divine states of the same color can evolve a divine state to the next level." Caslock shook her head, saying, "Theoretically, among tens of thousands of star gods, only a few would have Chaos Colored divine states."
She glanced at Lin Qing and said, "Not to mention Chaos Color, even those with five or six-colored divine states among star gods from the Three Great Holy Lands can already be deemed the most terrifying Void Dominators."
Lin Qing thought.
"Anyway, if you wish to refine high-level divine artifacts yourself, become a Void Dominator first." Caslock said casually.
"I understand." Lin Qing nodded slightly.
The stage of a star god is destined to be long; the road ahead is still long.
...
Twenty-four years later.
After continuously refining twelve single-colored divine artifacts with the Stars Group, Lin Qing finally stopped.
Most of his time was spent extracting life system essence; his limit was extracting over two hundred essences at once. Over twenty-four years, it was enough to extract over twelve hundred life system essences.
Refining single-colored divine artifacts didn't take much time either, but each time he reached out to connect with the universe, it was guaranteed.
Luck wasn't kind.
Each divine artifact he refined was auctioned with the help of the Stars Group. Even before finishing the last batch of three divine artifacts, he had gradually received the auction proceeds for the first ten artifacts.
The first artifact sold for 1.9 billion Void Coins and was the highest sold.
This was mainly because some forces wanted to foster good relations with him, the new emerging star god, so they deliberately bid high.
And the auction proceeds for the following nine artifacts didn't exceed 1.3 billion Void Coins each.
In total, all ten artifacts together sold for 13.7 billion Void Coins.
The lowest divine artifact tax rate was only 5%, with the Stars Group taking 10%, leaving Lin Qing with 85%, just over eleven billion six hundred and fifty million Void Coins.