"It's just too expensive!"
"The complete set costs one hundred billion points!"
At this, Lei Shen's face was full of frustration.
He was a member of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
After this Universe Genius Battle, the points he received as a reward were only one thousand.
After buying the first volume of The Discourse on Time, he had no points left.
Hong and Luo Feng both looked relieved as well.
Especially Luo Feng.
Before Luo Fan's avatar warned them, Babata had seen the treasury of the Virtual Universe Company and had already arranged the spending of Luo Feng's one hundred thousand points.
Babata truly deserved to be called an intelligent lifeform. Not a single point was wasted.
All one hundred thousand points had been used to purchase treasures, combat secret techniques, and so on.
It even calculated the discounts available to members of the Primal Secret Realm, ensuring every point was spent.
Fortunately, Luo Fan reminded him in time; otherwise Luo Feng would have cried.
Just like in the original story, after True Yan King's reminder, Luo Feng bought Drifting Blood.
He found that this manual suited him perfectly.
With its help, he was confident he could clear the third level of the Nine Universe Bridge within three years.
Hong, with the advice of an Immortal Power in the Myriad Leaves Secret Realm, purchased the Sacred Canon of Illusory Heart, which corresponded to the Illusion Universe Chaos Tablet.
This Sacred Canon of Illusory Heart followed the path of illusion-type warriors.
The laws within it were the Origin Laws of Light and Time.
It could be said that it was tailor-made for Hong.
Hong's improvement was extremely rapid.
Even Luo Feng could not quickly defeat Hong now.
After learning the Sacred Canon of Illusory Heart, Hong's illusions had become even more terrifying.
All three felt deep relief. Thankfully, Luo Fan had warned them not to spend their points recklessly.
Otherwise, they could only stare at the manuals and cry.
After chatting for a while, Luo Fan took out three fruits.
Three nine-colored fruits, each ten meters tall, appeared instantly.
Luo Fan had already used his domain to form a thin membrane around them.
As long as a powerful expert was not deliberately peering inside, they would not see this scene.
Seeing their confused expressions, Luo Fan explained the function of the Life Source Fruit.
As expected, the three refused without hesitation.
In the end, under Luo Fan's persuasion, they reluctantly agreed to accept them.
The main reason was that Luo Fan still had five left.
And since the four of them were the pillars of Earth, they could not bring themselves to refuse.
Luo Fan took the opportunity to create three tasks.
[Task: Give Hong one Life Source Fruit. Reward: Luck +1,000,000, Life Source Spirit Fruit ×1]
[Task: Give Lei Shen one Life Source Fruit. Reward: Luck +1,000,000, Life Source Spirit Fruit ×1]
[Task: Give Luo Feng one Life Source Fruit. Reward: Luck +10,000,000, Life Source Gold Fruit ×1]
(TL/N: Life Source Fruit are Life Origin Fruit.)
As expected, the rewards he received for giving gifts to "his own people" were the best.
Soon, the three consumed the Life Source Fruits right there.
Afterward, Hong and Lei Shen exchanged insights about the Origin Law of Time.
Luo Fan discussed comprehension of the Origin Law of Space with Luo Feng.
After three days of exchanging insights, the three returned to the outside of the city to continue hunting chaos beasts.
Luo Fan first collected the rewards from gifting the Life Source Fruits.
He still had five Life Source Fruits left.
He planned to save two for his future children.
The remaining three would be set aside, in case he could exchange them later for resources suited to himself.
After collecting the rewards, Luo Fan immediately created two more tasks, then consumed the two newly obtained Life Source Spirit Fruits.
As for the Life Source Gold Fruit, he kept it.
The function of the Life Source Gold Fruit was simple.
After consumption, it increased one's genetic level by one hundred times.
Its limit was a genetic level of 10,081.
The higher the genetic level, the harder it was to improve.
Many treasures used to enhance genetic levels became useless past a certain point.
Even among the high-levels of the human race, none had reached a genetic level of 10,081.
Perhaps only Giant Axe and the Original Ancestor had reached that level.
As for Chaos City Lord, the Lord of Darkness, and others, their genetic levels were only around ten thousand.
Those last few dozen levels were incredibly difficult to increase.
So Luo Fan planned to save the Life Source Gold Fruit for later.
Next came the rewards from his earlier chaos beast hunts.
Soul Pearls.
Just from the name, Luo Fan could tell they were something related to the soul.
After receiving the Soul Pearls, he placed them inside his system space.
There were treasures called Soul Pearls in the Original Universe as well.
Luo Fan even found over ten thousand treasures with the same name.
After all, the name was extremely common.
But he discovered that all those had nothing to do with the Soul Pearls inside his system space.
So he began receiving information about the Soul Pearls from the system.
Very soon, he understood their function.
Soul Pearls were used to temper the soul.
Universal-level Soul Pearls could not be used by domain lord-level beings.
No creature could use a Soul Pearl of a lower realm than itself.
Using it would have no effect and would simply waste the pearl.
After use, the Soul Pearl made the soul more resilient.
Besides increasing resistance to illusions, it allowed the soul to undergo metamorphosis.
If one used enough Soul Pearls, the soul could evolve until it approached the level of immortality, achieving eternal soul existence.
Why did ordinary human world masters only live one thousand eras?
It was not because their bodies aged.
In truth, after becoming a world master, the body, nourished by world energy, would not rot even after death.
The reason for the thousand-era lifespan was that ordinary humans, or rather all ordinary creatures, had souls that could only live for one thousand eras.
After one thousand eras, the soul would die, and the body would follow.
After using Soul Pearls, the soul became more resilient, and its lifespan would grow far longer.
Furthermore, for those who were not spiritual force users, using a Soul Pearl of the same realm could turn them into one.
But that was merely a minor side effect.
While the soul transformed, the clarity of law comprehension increased.
In addition, there was an even stronger effect.
Soul Pearls tempered one's will.
The process of absorbing a Soul Pearl was extremely painful.
The energy within the pearl crushed the soul and then allowed it to heal.
Thus the Soul Pearl could also repair damage to the soul.
But the process was agonizing.
So it could be used to temper willpower.
If one could not endure the pain and fainted, the metamorphosis would stop.
Of course, the soul would still be fully healed.
It would simply waste part of the Soul Pearl's power.
The higher the level of the Soul Pearl, the more energy it contained and the more times it crushed the soul.
Universal-level Soul Pearls crushed the soul ten times.
Domain lord-level Soul Pearls crushed it one hundred times.
Once the soul evolved to a level infinitely close to immortality, Soul Pearls would no longer have any effect.
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