570: Invitation from the Stars, Lu Chongguang (43k)

Inside the Villa in the residential area.

Lin Yang heard and sensed the actions and words of the people in the city and was immediately stunned.

"They are actually thanking me this much?"

He hadn't expected everyone to do this.

However, he quickly understood why everyone was so excited.

To him, destroying Bone Bloom and Ghost Ruins, especially Ghost Ruins, was just something done in passing.

But for the ordinary cultivators within the Yun Que City region, these two major underground forces were nightmares they could not avoid.

They had been oppressed and plundered for too long.

It wasn't just the huge losses in resources and money; when they were plundered, they suffered endless bullying and humiliation, with no dignity to speak of.

Now that he had eliminated these two major underground forces, he hadn't just saved their wallets, but also allowed them to be free from such a situation of being bullied.

Most of the reason everyone was excited was due to this.

Even though they were ordinary people, everyone wanted to live with dignity.

Now, he had given everyone the opportunity to freely and dignifiedly leave the city as they pleased.

It was not hard to understand why everyone worshipped him.

As for the other small underground forces? They didn't dare to show their faces at all recently!

Afterwards, Lin Yang didn't pay much attention and continued to organize the spoils of war.

He certainly couldn't publicly admit that he was the one who did it, as, regardless of the circumstances, taking action within the city was a matter of breaking the rules.

Admitting it publicly would be tantamount to provoking Kunyu Country; even if no one in Yun Que City was his match, Kunyu Country would definitely send experts.

He didn't have the intention to face Kunyu Country as an enemy head-on yet...

Not long after, the spoils obtained after exterminating Bone Bloom, the Xie Family, and Ghost Ruins were organized.

"It's actually only thirty-three point eight billion."

Lin Yang muttered, feeling slightly disappointed.

Admittedly, over thirty billion was a huge sum.

It was just that this amount had quite a gap from what he had imagined.

He had originally thought that destroying the headquarters would yield great wealth.

Although over thirty billion was not a small amount, it was still far from reaching his expected harvest.

After all, back then, just destroying a few Squads of Bone Bloom had yielded nearly one billion.

Now that he had destroyed two major headquarters plus the Xie Family, and only harvested this much in total, there was naturally some discrepancy.

However, Lin Yang quickly understood the reason for this.

Back then, plundering those few Squads yielded so much because they had just finished plundering, and the resources and wealth in their hands hadn't been consumed or transferred.

As for Bone Bloom, the Xie Family, and Ghost Ruins, especially the first two—one on the surface and one in the shadows—they were all supporting many people, and the daily expenses for maintenance were huge costs.

The members also needed to cultivate and improve.

They also had to pay tribute to the big figures behind them.

The plundered wealth naturally got consumed right away.

Being able to still leave behind so many resources and cash was already quite good.

"Over thirty billion; if it's a bit less, then so be it. It can still do quite a lot of things."

Lin Yang muttered, put on his mask, and headed to the Star Divination Tower.

There was no point in him keeping this cash and miscellaneous resources; he needed to go to the Star Divination Tower to exchange them all for things he could use.

"Welcome, honored guest!"

What surprised Lin Yang was that when he arrived at the Star Divination Tower, the manager was already waiting for him in advance.

It looked like he had guessed he would come long ago.

And he was much more enthusiastic than before.

Obviously, he knew that this time he came, he had a large amount of resources and cash to spend.

"They are all sharp as a tack."

Lin Yang secretly grumbled to himself and very directly took out all the resources he wanted to exchange, saying:

"Please trouble the manager to count them. This time, besides needing to purchase a portion of ordinary resources, I also want to reserve a portion of 'Lingyuan Liquid'."

Lingyuan Liquid is a precious resource used after mastering Dao rhythm power at the third level of the Boundary Realm, which can deepen one's control and comprehension of Dao Rhythm.

It is suitable for use when attempting to break through to the Guiyuan Realm.

After the discount, one portion is twenty-eight billion.

Although Lin Yang didn't think he would be stuck at the third level for long, Lingyuan Liquid had another benefit: it could quickly stabilize the Primordial Spirit after breaking through to the Returning Origin Realm, allowing him to immediately absorb ordinary resources to increase his level of power.

The Primordial Spirit is a unique object possessed only after breaking through to the Returning Origin Realm.

The Primordial Spirit condenses and is born at the soul; when it grows to a certain extent, one gains the ability to initially condense a clone.

This is also the core reason why, when one becomes powerful enough, the clone can still survive even after the original body dies.

The human soul is incredibly wondrous; even powerful cultivators find it hard to fathom.

The Primordial Spirit is one of its most profound products.

The stronger the power of the Primordial Spirit, the more clones one can manipulate, and the more power the clones can exert.

Just after breaking through to the Returning Origin Realm, the Primordial Spirit has just condensed and is very fragile, requiring a very long time to slowly nourish.

Only after it is completely stabilized can one massively absorb ordinary resources to quickly increase one's own power.

Otherwise, absorbing too quickly will cause the Primordial Spirit to become unstable and damaged.

And this long period of nourishment is measured in millennia.

Lin Yang didn't have that much time to slowly nourish it, so Lingyuan Liquid was his first choice.

It is very difficult for an ordinary Returning Origin Realm cultivator to take out tens of billions at once to make a purchase.

Especially those who have just broken through to the Returning Origin Realm.

Generally, in order to break through from the Boundary Realm to the Returning Origin Realm, many people exhaust all their family wealth to make an all-out attempt.

After breaking through, they instantly become paupers.

As for looking for small cities after breaking through and quickly accumulating wealth by killing underground forces like him, it is basically unfeasible.

He was only able to avoid being penetrated and isolated by the city's Formation Array power because he had the Absolute Domain.

Ordinary Returning Origin Realm cultivators cannot resist the penetration of the city's Formation Array power.

Once they take action, their identities will be exposed, and what awaits them is being hunted down.

Of course, if one only kills a few plundering Squads outside the city, hitting and running, that is not a problem.

However, doing it too many times makes it easy to be targeted and hunted by the backers of some underground forces.

The reason Lin Yang dared to do it was because he had the Absolute Domain; as long as one wasn't in the Transformation Dao Realm, basically no one could track him once he hid.

Therefore, he could afford to be so extravagant and prepare Lingyuan Liquid in advance.

The manager's smile became even brighter upon hearing this: "The honored guest wants to reserve Lingyuan Liquid? That is certainly no problem; it will be delivered within one day!"

Lin Yang nodded and also bought some other supplies, as well as some life-saving items suitable for He Linxue to use.

Although they were in the city, he had now destroyed Bone Bloom and Ghost Ruins. If the big figures behind them came for revenge and couldn't do anything to him, they might secretly target the He Family.

Taking precautions in advance was never wrong.

Over thirty billion mirror ruins coins, after buying all the necessary items, were instantly left with almost nothing.

Lin Yang also truly experienced the real meaning of the saying, "The higher the strength, the poorer one becomes."

The higher the strength realm, the more ridiculously expensive the corresponding supplies needed for cultivation become.

Before, tens of millions was a huge sum; now, twenty or thirty billion is consumed in the blink of an eye.

When he had finished purchasing things and was preparing to leave, this middle-aged manager suddenly spoke up: "Honored guest, please stay for a moment."

"Hmm? Is there anything else?" Lin Yang paused his steps and looked over with a furrowed brow.

"Honored guest, please allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Lu Chongguang, and I am a first-level manager of this branch. It is an honor to meet you."

This manager adjusted his robes and introduced himself solemnly.

This action made Lin Yang somewhat puzzled, and he couldn't help but become equally solemn.

Although he had traded at the Star Divination Tower many times and had dealt with this manager two or three times, to be honest, he really didn't know the manager's information, including his name, before this.

The other party had never intended to disclose his own situation before this.

After all, the Star Divination Tower was a special super-power-level existence.

They usually didn't have much contact or friendship with ordinary customers.

Now that Lu Chongguang was suddenly introducing himself so seriously and solemnly, this made Lin Yang sense something unusual.

Sure enough. The next moment, he heard Lu Chongguang say: "Honored guest, I am now representing the Star Divination Tower to issue you an invitation."

"Inviting you to join the Star Divination Tower."

These words directly stunned Lin Yang: "Join the Star Divination Tower??"

He was somewhat surprised. The Star Divination Tower was actually inviting him to join?

One had to know, the Star Divination Tower spanned Endless Spacetime and was a rare super-power, like Three Watches Rain, that could spread throughout the entire Endless Spacetime.

Many people wanted to join but had no way in.

Even some Returning Origin Realm cultivators were turned away.

The Star Divination Tower had also never publicly recruited anyone.

And now it was actually inviting him?

Lu Chongguang smiled slightly: "Your strength, honored guest, may currently be lacking, but your potential is great."

"Our Star Divination Tower spreads throughout Endless Spacetime, and we have seen countless various geniuses of Endless Spacetime."

"Looking across Endless Spacetime, your potential is enough to be ranked in the forefront."

"Therefore, after reporting and discussing with the high-level members within the tower, we now invite you to become a member of our Star Divination Tower."

"After joining, you will enjoy certain privileges in any branch."

Lin Yang immediately understood.

The Star Divination Tower not only conducted business and sold intelligence, but also constantly paid attention to experts or people with talent and potential throughout Endless Spacetime, and then invited those they deemed qualified to join.

Now, it was clear that he was considered by the Star Divination Tower to have already possessed the qualifications to join.

Thinking about it, it made sense. Even though geniuses and evildoers emerged one after another in Endless Spacetime, there certainly weren't many people who could, like him, master Dao rhythm power at the first level of the Boundary Realm and also kill old-school experts at the third level of the Boundary Realm who had accumulated for a long time.

If this wasn't enough to qualify for joining, then the Star Divination Tower's hiring standards would be ridiculously too high.

"No wonder I've never seen the Star Divination Tower recruit publicly; it turns out it's an invitation system." Lin Yang thought, and also said it directly.

Lu Chongguang smiled and nodded: "Yes, because our Star Divination Tower spreads throughout Endless Spacetime, occupying geographical advantages, we are able to discover outstanding individuals across Endless Spacetime at the first opportunity, so we usually do not recruit publicly, but only target outstanding individuals for invitations."

"Oh..." Lin Yang nodded to indicate he understood.

This point was indeed a great advantage.

To translate this, it meant that with the scale of the Star Divination Tower, it simply didn't need to go through the trouble of external recruitment and auditing.

There were too many people who wanted to join; they only selected the best among the best.

From this perspective, being valued and invited by the Star Divination Tower was also an honor.

But Lin Yang did not agree immediately.

He was currently Xuan Xiao's Guest Retainer, and although it didn't affect him joining other forces—as long as it wasn't a hostile force to the Saint Xuan Ancient Country, he could still join freely—there were no restrictions on this point.

This was also the reason why Lu Chongguang would still issue an invitation to him even knowing his identity.

But the Star Divination Tower... Although he didn't know much about the Star Divination Tower, he knew that after joining, it wouldn't be as free as being a Guest Retainer.

Even if someone like him joined, it would be at the employee level.

He would need to serve and work for the Star Divination Tower.

Although he could enjoy some privileges and more discounts, and be able to purchase more precious resources that were very rare in the outside world, the limitation on freedom was something that Lin Yang cared about a lot.

First, he was currently not very short of money, and even if he were short of money, he could at worst go and plunder underground forces.

Second, joining the Star Divination Tower required periodically going to a certain branch to act as an attendant to receive guests, and there were also evaluations, etc.

Wanting to become a manager of a branch required grinding.

Not to mention that there were many manager levels within the Star Divination Tower.

Ordinary attendants, senior attendants, managers, branch general managers, managers of high-level branches, etc., all had very different resources and rights they could enjoy.

Besides managers who received guests, there were also personnel in various departments such as those responsible for recycling and identification.

To grind one's way up, one had to do more work.

For him, this was too much of a waste of time.

If he had been stuck at a certain realm level for a long time, he wouldn't mind being an attendant to receive guests to broaden his horizons, or being responsible for a certain category of business.

But he was currently in the stage of sprinting to improve his strength, and doing these things would be a pure waste of time.

If he didn't do the work, the rights he could enjoy would be greatly discounted, and he would have to make up for it twofold afterwards.

Which was overtime.

For Lin Yang, this was a bit too much of a constraint.

Therefore, he was somewhat hesitant.

Lu Chongguang saw this and seemed to be able to understand Lin Yang's thoughts, immediately adding: "Honored guest, it is fine if you do not join now, but you can temporarily accept this invitation."

As he spoke, he directly handed the invitation letter to Lin Yang and simultaneously lowered his voice: "Actually, I personally also suggest that you do not join for the time being. You are currently in the Boundary Realm; although your talent and potential are extraordinary, you are only a candidate for the Returning Origin Realm. If you don't work for a long time, you will have your evaluation points deducted, which is not worth it."

"With your speed of improvement, since you have now mastered Dao Rhythm and have already reserved Lingyuan Liquid, breaking through to the Returning Origin Realm should not be too difficult. It won't be too late to consider it after reaching the Returning Origin Realm."

"At that time, joining with the strength of the Returning Origin Realm, your treatment and other rights in all aspects will be greatly improved, which would be more appropriate."

Hearing this, Lin Yang couldn't help but look at Lu Chongguang in surprise, very astonished that he would actually say these things to him.

Between them, there didn't seem to be any friendship yet...

Lu Chongguang saw this and smiled: "Honored guest, you don't need to be so surprised. You have traded several times in this Yun Que City, especially this time, which brought me very good performance points. I will soon be promoted and transferred away; this is all thanks to you. Otherwise, I would still have to grind here for a long time."

"Uh..." Lin Yang's expression became strange, and he also understood why this Lu Chongguang said these things to him.

"Then congratulations to Manager Lu on your promotion." After a pause, Lin Yang accepted the invitation letter and said.

"Haha, thank you, honored guest." Lu Chongguang laughed and then whispered: "With your bearing, honored guest, you will surely not be limited to this Yun Que City, or even Kunyu Country in the future. Although you are not joining the Star Divination Tower for now, if you have any needs for special-resource-level items in the future, even if I am not in Yun Que City, you can directly send me a message to inform me. Within my authority, I will get you the greatest discount and priority supply."

As he spoke, Lu Chongguang told Lin Yang his private contact information and said mysteriously: "I dare not speak of the Mirror Ruins Realm for now, but within Kunyu Country and even the wide range of surrounding countries, even if there is only one portion of a special resource, if you need it, I will give priority to you."

Lin Yang's expression became even stranger.

It sounded like this guy wanted to befriend him privately?

And... "Manager Lu, the way you talk sounds like you are more than just an ordinary manager."

Lin Yang's eyes flickered. Even if there was only one portion of a special resource, he could still give priority to him; this right was not something an ordinary manager could have.