152: Chapter 152 A staggering 10 billion! The system forcibly activates the withered cosmic seed!

Black Desolation Star Domain, Black Market Star, Ten Thousand Realms Interstellar Auction House.

As the largest and most luxurious den of iniquity in the entire Black Desolation Star Domain, this building, shaped like a giant floating crystal, constantly exuded an aura of money that drove countless Star Sea outlaws mad.

"Beep—Distinguished Black Gold Supreme VIP, welcome. The Heaven No. 1 Panoramic Box has been prepared for you."

No queuing, no inspections.

When Lin Que casually swiped the Black Gold Card forged by the System, the auction house's highest-level artificial intelligence took over the reception.

Under the stunned and jealous gazes of a group of Void Returning Realm Star Sea giants, Lin Que led the Chen Family Old Ancestor and the other two onto the anti-gravity traction beam reserved for Supreme customers, quietly disappearing from the hall.

Heaven No. 1, Panoramic Box.

Hundreds of holographic projection screens floated within the box, allowing every speck of dust on the massive auction stage below to be seen clearly, while the outside world could not peek inside at all.

This was exactly the "Gou Dao" perspective Lin Que liked most—watching them scramble like monkeys from the shadows, only needing to flip the table with money at the final moment.

"Master, the scale of this Star Sea Auction House is a hundred times grander than our Central Continent's imperial palace."

The Chen Family Old Ancestor stepped on the soft psionic carpet and looked at the staggering numbers jumping on the holographic screen, unable to help but sigh.

"No matter how grand the scale, it's still just a place to sell goods."

Lin Que sank lazily into the large, comfortable adaptive sofa, his legs casually crossed on the crystal coffee table.

He hadn't come today to see the world; he came to "stock up."

"Dong—!"

Accompanied by a crisp chime of the Star Sea bell, the massive auction hall below, capable of holding a hundred thousand people, instantly fell silent.

An alien enchantress, exuding the seductive aura of the Great Perfection of Spirit Transformation, walked onto the auction stage, swaying her water-snake-like waist.

"Welcome, distinguished guests of the Star Sea! Today's auction officially begins! The first item—"

The enchantress pulled back the red cloth, revealing rows of metal crates emitting a faint blue glow:

"[Star Sea Gen 3 · Dark Matter Titanium Alloy Heavy Armor] 100,000 sets! Each set is enough to withstand a full-strength strike from the Nascent Soul Initial Stage. Starting price: 50 million star sea coins!"

"Boom!"

The entire venue instantly boiled; this was top-tier weaponry for arming large mercenary groups!

However, before the various major forces below could even begin to raise their paddles.

Inside the Heaven No. 1 box, Lin Que didn't even lift an eyelid as he casually pressed the bidding button beside him.

"Beep—Heaven No. 1 box bids: 100 million star sea coins! And has activated the [Supreme Buy-it-now] buyout!"

Dead silence filled the room.

Several pirate leaders who were just about to shout their bids choked the words back into their stomachs, their faces turning red, yet they didn't dare utter a sound.

A guest from Heaven No. 1? That was an existence even a Star Lord would have to suck up to; who would dare compete with them?

"The second item, [High-dimensional Cell Repair Fluid] 10,000 tons..."

"Beep—Heaven No. 1 box, 500 million star sea coins, buyout."

"The third item, [Void Warp Formation Plate Core] 300 sets..."

"Beep—Heaven No. 1 box, 1 billion, buyout."

...

A crazy "zero-dollar shopping" spree... no, it was a brutal "God-tier Tycoon Stocking Mode"!

In just half an hour, the entire auction's rhythm was held firmly in Lin Que's hands alone.

He didn't look at prices at all when buying; as long as it was strategic material that could be thrown into the inner heaven and earth to upgrade those 100,000 Dragon Cavalry and star destroyers, he would directly [buyout] at double or even triple the price!

This completely unreasonable way of throwing money around left all the Star Sea giants in the venue stunned.

"Mas... Master... we've already spent over three billion..."

The Chen Family Old Ancestor trembled with heartache as he watched the rapidly shrinking account balance. If this were in the Lower Realm, it could buy dozens of major Sects!

"What's the panic? It's all 'sponsored' by the Blood Skull anyway; spending it doesn't hurt."

Lin Que took a sip of the spiritual wine on the table, his heterochromatic eyes filled with calm.

Money is only true wealth when it is transformed into strength. With this batch of resources, the day those 100,000 Dragon Cavalry in his inner heaven and earth emerge from seclusion, they could definitely tear through this Black Desolation Star Domain.

Just then.

The auction stage below suddenly lowered, and then, a transparent metal cabinet locked by multiple high-dimensional Formations slowly rose.

The enchantress host's expression became solemn, and she even put on a pair of special gloves capable of isolating Laws.

"Distinguished guests, the next item is somewhat special."

Inside the cabinet lay a strange stone about the size of a walnut, shriveled and withered yellow all over, even emitting a thick aura of Death Qi.

"This stone was salvaged by our chamber of commerce from the 'Ancient Dimensional Ruins' in the deepest part of the Star Sea. We invited three appraisal masters at the Peak of the Void Returning Realm, and none could crack its material. But it has a terrifying characteristic—"

The enchantress took a deep breath:

"It indiscriminately devours the [Lifespan] and [Origin] of all nearby living beings! The three appraisal masters were only near it for a hundred meters before a thousand years of their Lifespan were sucked away!"

"Hiss—!"

The entire audience gasped.

Sucking away Lifespan?

This isn't a treasure; this is a life-threatening evil object!

"Because it is extremely dangerous and cannot be refined, our chamber of commerce has decided to sell it at a low price. Starting price: 10 million star sea coins!"

The entire venue was silent.

What a joke.

Spend ten million to buy a ticking time bomb that sucks you dry to keep at home?

Only a fool would do that!

However, just as the room went cold.

Inside the Heaven No. 1 box, Lin Que, who had been leaning back lazily, suddenly sat bolt upright!

His heart was racing!

Because the moment that shriveled stone appeared, his 100,000-mile [Starry inner heaven and earth] within his Dantian actually emitted an extreme sense of hunger, as if it were about to tear his body apart!

The five Law leaves of the World Tree swayed even more frantically!

"System! What is that shriveled walnut thing? Why is my inner heaven and earth like a starving ghost that hasn't eaten for eight hundred years?"

Lin Que immediately asked in his mind.

[Warning! Detected extremely high-dimensional withered remains!]

[Analysis: This item is not an ordinary Ore, but a—[Major Thousand Worlds Universe Seed]—that has experienced the destruction of an era and completely withered!]

[Logic Reorganization Initiated—'Dead Tree Blossoming and Super Concentrated Fertilizer Activation' mode!]

[Operation 1: Forcefully cut off the Lifespan devouring channel! Determine the 'malicious blood-sucking Law' as a 'low battery prompt in urgent need of charging'!]

[Operation 2: Conceptual Alteration! Forcefully rewrite the 'withered and dead Universe remains' into '[Ultimate Concentrated Fertilizer]' containing the underlying architecture of a complete Major Thousand Worlds!]

[Operation 3: Release the isolation wall! Cooperate with the host's Blood Scripture to prepare for reverse juicing and inner heaven and earth expansion at any time!]

"Ding! The System has locked onto this priceless treasure for you! As long as it's planted in your inner heaven and earth, it's guaranteed to grow a sky full of stars next year!"

"A Universe Seed?!"

The purple-gold light in the depths of Lin Que's eyes suddenly exploded.

This was a good thing many dimensions higher than an Oblivion Star Core! As long as he swallowed it, his starry inner heaven and earth would definitely welcome an unprecedented surge!

Just as the enchantress thought it would go unsold and was about to start the countdown.

"Beep—Heaven No. 1 box bids: 100 million star sea coins!"

Lin Que made his move, and high-profile at that, directly multiplying the price by ten.

"Whoa—"

The entire venue was in an uproar.

The tycoon from Heaven No. 1 made a move again!

Buying even this kind of evil object, could he have some special Artifact Refining method?

"100 million star sea coins, are there any other bids?"

The enchantress's voice trembled with excitement.

"Hmph! A fellow hiding his head and showing his tail, do you really think this Black Market Star is run by your family?"

Suddenly, an arrogant and wild cold snort came from the Heaven No. 3 box.

"Although this stone is sinister, it's not bad for this Young Lord to buy it as a collectible! I bid 500 million!!"

"It's Kuang Lie, the Young Lord of the Black Abyss Mining Alliance!"

Someone in the hall recognized the voice and was immediately frightened into silence. The Black Abyss Mining Alliance was a super local power on par with the Blood Skull, and its leader was a hegemon at the Late Stage of the Void Returning Realm!

This Kuang Lie was clearly unhappy with Heaven No. 1 and was intentionally looking for trouble to drive up the price!

"Brother in Heaven No. 1, I don't know which path you walk. On this Black Market Star, if you're a Dragon, you have to coil up, if you're a tiger..."

Kuang Lie's voice carried arrogant provocation, spreading throughout the venue via the Formation.

However, before he could finish his threats.

Inside the Heaven No. 1 box, Lin Que didn't even turn on the microphone; he just expressionlessly extended a finger and brutally pressed a string of zeros on the bidding device.

"Beep—Heaven No. 1 box activates [Supreme Buy-it-now] hegemonic buyout!"

"Bid: 10 billion star sea coins!!!"

"Buzz————!!!!!"

At this moment, the entire auction hall felt as if all the air had been sucked out.

Ten billion!!

For a shriveled, life-sucking piece of junk stone, he threw down ten billion?!

This isn't just being rich; this is burning money like it's paper!!

Inside the Heaven No. 3 box, Kuang Lie, who had been overbearing just moments ago, was now like a male duck with its neck squeezed, mouth wide open, unable to utter a word for a long time.

Ten billion?

Even if he sold himself, he couldn't scrape together that much liquid capital! This sense of humiliation from being crushed by pure monetary dimension made him so angry he directly crushed the wine glass in his hand!

"Ten billion... Sold!!!"

The enchantress struck the gavel, nearly fainting from excessive excitement.

Five minutes later.

The sealed cabinet containing the [Withered Universe Seed] was personally delivered to the Heaven No. 1 box by top guards from the Myriad Phenomena Star Pavilion.

"Go guard the door. This box's isolation Formation is good; I'm going into seclusion. Without my command, no one is to open the door."

Lin Que locked the box door behind him and decisively issued the command.

"Yes!"

The Chen Family Old Ancestor and Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing immediately stood on either side of the door like two door gods.

Lin Que took a deep breath, his eyes fixed hotly on the withered seed in the cabinet.

Without any hesitation, he crudely tore open all the Seals!

"Chiii—!"

The moment the Seals were broken, a terrifying suction exploded, attempting to devour Lin Que's Lifespan.

"Want to suck my life? Once you're in my stomach, you're just a dish on my plate!!"

A fierce light appeared in Lin Que's eyes as his 35-million-jin Dark Gold Extreme Realm Physical Body erupted without reservation.

He grabbed the Universe Seed, and his Blood Scripture transformed into the phantom of a purple-gold Heaven-Devouring Demon God, roaring at the sky behind him!

"inner heaven and earth—devour it for me!!!"

Rumble rumble rumble————!!!!!

The moment that originally withered Universe Seed was thrown into the [100,000-mile Starry inner heaven and earth], under the logical catalysis of the System's "Dead Tree Blossoming," it completely awakened!

Its shriveled shell shattered with a bang, and a vast underlying Origin belonging to a "complete Major Thousand Worlds" poured out frantically in Lin Que's Dantian like a Big Bang!

"Ugh, aaaaaah—!!!"

Lin Que let out a roar of pain yet extreme ecstasy!

Too massive!

This power was ten times more massive than the Foundation of an Immortal Emperor plus a Star Core!

His inner heaven and earth territory began to expand outward frantically at an appalling speed!

100,000 miles... 200,000 miles... 500,000 miles!!!

Above the firmament, where there were originally only a sparse few tens of thousands of stars,

At this moment, it was as if the Star Sea had been ignited! Countless nebulae gathered, and millions, tens of millions of stars were overbearingly lit up, forming a magnificent inner heaven and earth galaxy!

"Am I about to break through to the Middle Stage..."

Lin Que felt the Realm barrier of the [Middle Stage Void Return Star Domain Realm] within his body. Under the impact of this massive cosmic Origin, it was already like paper and could be pierced at any time.

But Lin Que suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, forcing himself to calm down!

"I can't break through! Breaking through now would make the Foundation too hollow! The waters of the Star Sea are too deep; what I want is absolute, invincible crushing of the same rank!"

Lin Que restrained, even cruelly, and forcefully suppressed that torrent of Origin that wanted to break through his Realm!

"Blood Scripture! Take all this overflowing energy and pour it into my bone marrow!! Give me Body Tempering!!!"

Buzz—!!!

The suppressed massive cosmic Origin had nowhere to vent and finally could only pour frantically into Lin Que's Dark Gold Demon God Body!

"Crack... crack..."

On the surface of Lin Que's skin, the luster of the dark gold Nirvana Hegemon Body, after undergoing this "violent forging" by the Major Thousand Worlds' Origin, became even deeper and more ancient.

His pure physical strength, without raising his Realm, unreasonably surged once again!

36 million jin... 37 million jin... 38 million jin!!!

When all the cosmic Origin was completely digested and absorbed.

Lin Que slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were no longer filled with sharp purple-gold light but an absolute calm like a black hole that could devour everything.

Although his Realm was still deathly suppressed at the [Early Stage Void Return Star Domain Realm].

But his current Physical Body, with this 38-million-jin extreme violence, even if he just stood there and let that Middle Stage Void Return Blood Skull hack at him for a day and a night, not a single hair would fall!

"Phew..."

Lin Que stood up and casually moved his wrists.

The air around him emitted faint sonic booms because it couldn't withstand his physical mass.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the box, looking at the auction still lively below, a cold, cruel smirk curling at the corner of his mouth.

His powerful Divine Sense had already keenly detected that outside this auction house, hundreds of unmasked, piercing killing intents were deathly locked onto the exit of this Heaven No. 1 box.

"Wealth moves people's hearts."

Lin Que casually picked up the true immortal artifact: world meteor behind him and lazily pushed open the door of the box.

He looked at the Chen Family Old Ancestor and the others waiting in Formation outside.

"Brothers, the stocking is finished."

"There's a group of blind local snakes outside waiting to collect our toll."

Lin Que flicked his large red cloak and walked overbearingly toward the auction house exit:

"Let's go."

"Go clean up the trash."