From the Metropolis to the Strongest in the Cosmos

Li Yang tapped the screen, and information about one top-tier Divine Artifact after another appeared before his eyes.

Previously, Li Yang’s clearance wasn’t high enough to look up Divine Artifacts. But now that he had broken through to the World Realm and was a disciple of the Eternal Ancestor, he could easily search for any Divine Artifact.

At this moment, Li Yang was also thinking about what treasures he needed to exchange for.

‘I have plenty of weapons right now. I’ll set aside my clones for the time being and just focus on my main body,’ Li Yang thought to himself.

‘Therefore, my priority is to acquire the treasures my main body needs.’

He had several clones, and it was completely impractical to think about getting a few treasures for each one. Therefore, what Li Yang had to do now was focus all his efforts on increasing the strength of his main body! His clones were not a consideration.

‘I can use the Sacred Artifact, the Profound Annihilation Spear. With the Phantom Armor helping to hide its fluctuations, the chances of it being discovered are extremely small. Still, I shouldn’t use it often. But I also have the high-grade Divine Artifact, the Black Moon Blade, so I don’t need to consider offensive Divine Artifacts.’

At his current level, he couldn’t even fully activate the Profound Annihilation Spear’s power! If he couldn’t fully activate it, using it would naturally reveal numerous flaws, and someone might recognize it.

Once he became stronger, he could control the Profound Annihilation Spear more perfectly. Then he could activate a small portion of its power without fear of it being recognized.

But regardless, Li Yang didn’t lack offensive treasures at the moment.

Li Yang thought, ‘What I’m lacking now are defensive and speed-type treasures!’

A strong defense would naturally increase his chances of survival!

As for greater speed, it would allow him to take the initiative in battle. He could fight when he wanted to fight and leave when he wanted to leave. These two types of treasures were naturally indispensable!

Li Yang scanned through the list quickly and soon set his sights on two treasures!

“Top-tier Divine Artifact, Golden Moon Armor: Can be fully activated by those with the power of Five Elemental Deities. Can weaken attacks by ten to ninety percent…”

“Top-tier Divine Artifact, Swift Cloud Boots: Can be fully activated by Five Elemental Deities…”

Information about the two top-tier Divine Artifacts appeared before Li Yang. It was a lot to take in, but the gist was this: right now, by activating the Divine Crystal Stone gifted by the Blade Slaughter Sect Master, Li Yang could unleash power surpassing that of a Dual Pantheon. When fighting other Dual Pantheon Deities, the armor would weaken their attacks by ninety percent!

An attack from a Dual Pantheon would hit him as if it came from an ordinary Deity.

As for activating the Swift Cloud Boots, Li Yang’s speed could increase threefold!

He couldn’t fully activate the Swift Cloud Boots’ power at his current level. Even when he reached the strength of a Tri-System Deity, activating the boots would still provide a threefold speed increase!

Such was the power of a top-tier Divine Artifact!

It seemed as though Li Yang now possessed several top-tier Divine Artifacts, but in reality, most Deities never even came into contact with a single one.

After all, the top-tier Divine Artifacts, the Soul-Protecting Pearl and the Phantom Armor, were granted by the Eternal Ancestor. As for the two he was about to receive, they were thanks to the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse!

If not for these circumstances, Li Yang would have never been able to obtain even one top-tier Divine Artifact!

If a treasure of this level were to appear on the Slaughter Battlefield, it would incite countless Deities into a frenzy of slaughter and robbery!

‘These two it is!’

Having made his decision, Li Yang didn’t hesitate any longer and told the elder, Mu Yan.

Mu Yan waved his right hand, and two balls of light flew out, materializing before Li Yang’s eyes as a suit of golden armor and a pair of white boots.

“Li Yang, is there anything else you wish to select?” asked the elder, Mu Yan.

Li Yang said respectfully, “Lord Mu Yan, I would also like a portion of Ancestral Dragon blood.”

“Mm.” Mu Yan nodded. When he had looked up the two top-tier Divine Artifacts for Li Yang, he had also seen that Li Yang could apply for Ancestral Dragon blood for free.

“Li Yang, each portion of Ancestral Dragon blood contains three drops of Primordial Dragon Essence Blood.”

Mu Yan quickly took out a vial of potion. The potion was completely red.

‘Three drops?’

Hearing this, Li Yang wasn’t surprised.

In fact, for an Emperor to perfectly refine Primordial Dragon Essence Blood and increase their strength tenfold, they would certainly need more than three drops.

However, almost no one ever achieved perfect refinement. It was considered quite good to refine a portion of it and increase one’s strength two- or threefold.

Therefore, each portion of Primordial Dragon Essence Blood wasn’t very large. Of course, this also made the price cheaper. If one successfully refined it, they could naturally come back to exchange for more. If they couldn’t refine it, exchanging for more was useless.

Of course, even a single portion was not something an ordinary Deity could afford to exchange for.

The powerhouses who refined Primordial Dragon Essence Blood were, at the very least, Four-Element Deities or Five Elemental Deities.

“Li Yang, you can apply for the Primordial Dragon Essence Blood for free. If you refine all three of these drops of essence blood, you may apply for another portion,” said the elder, Mu Yan.

The meaning was simple: if he hadn’t refined these three drops, Li Yang definitely couldn’t apply for more unless he spent contribution points to exchange for it. This was also to prevent Li Yang from applying wantonly and giving it to others.

“Yes, Lord Mu Yan,” Li Yang nodded.

With the Primordial Dragon Essence Blood in hand, Li Yang continued his exchanges!

He currently had over one hundred billion contribution points in his account, so of course he was going to exchange for all sorts of things.

Life-Saving Spirit Fruits, Spirit Fruits that could rapidly increase his strength, medicinal herbs, potions, and so on.

He might need to summon his clones on the Slaughter Battlefield. A newly summoned clone’s strength would be at its lowest, and the resources needed to raise it to the Peak of World Realm would be an astronomical figure.

‘Also, I need to put a serious effort into cultivating the Gold-devouring Insects!’ Li Yang thought.

The Gold-devouring Insect was an extremely special lifeform in the Cosmos, said to be capable of devouring anything. Its reproductive capabilities were astonishing—the stronger it became, the more fertile it was. If one paid a great price to cultivate a queen to the Divine Realm, every one of its offspring, while not reaching the Divine Realm themselves, would surpass the World Realm, their power landing somewhere between the two.

One could imagine that if numerous Gold-devouring Insect offspring gathered together, wherever they passed, it was estimated that not even the dregs of a Deity would be left behind!

If the Gold-devouring Insects were fully cultivated, they would be an invincible powerhouse in the Divine Realm! They would be able to run rampant across the Slaughter Battlefield.

Buy! Buy! Buy!

At this moment, Li Yang didn’t feel the sting of spending contribution points at all. As long as he felt something would be useful, he bought it directly!

Finally, all the transactions were complete.

All of this had unexpectedly cost him nearly ten billion contribution points!

This amount of contribution points was equivalent to the entire fortune of many Deities.

Of course, the majority of these contribution points were spent on resources for cultivating the Gold-devouring Insects. The other resources cost less than a billion, but the resources for the Gold-devouring Insects instantly ate up over nine billion!

And this huge amount of resources wasn’t even guaranteed to cultivate the Gold-devouring Insect mother to the Divine Realm; the probability was not high.

If it failed, he would need to continue investing huge amounts of resources.

Of course, Li Yang wasn’t pinning his hopes on the Gold-devouring Insects for now. He had no idea how long it would take to fully cultivate them, and he certainly couldn’t count on them for at least the next few decades.