Cosmic Trading System

In the vast expanse of the universe, a black battleship was swiftly navigating through accelerating space.

"We're finally going home!"

Lin Yun looked up, his bright eyes seemingly piercing through the spaceship to view the outer universe and far-off Earth. He murmured softly.

"Yes, we are indeed finally heading home!"

Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran, who were standing beside him, nodded agreement, with Lin Yuanshan echoing their sentiments.

Without their noticing, they had already been away from Earth for almost four months.

Considering the journey back, they estimated that their trip would last more than half a year.

That was quite a long time.

After all, just how long had Qingyun Company been established on Earth?

How much had Qingyun Company developed on Earth during this extended period?

They were in no rush on this trip home.

If they happened across a potentially resource-rich planet along the way, they would stop to collect materials and if they encountered interesting Starry Sky Beasts, they would hunt them down.

...

Lin Yun spent most of his time in seclusion to cultivate his martial arts, unfazed by these distractions.

No matter what the others did, Moon One had to stay within the spaceship at all times. This was an order given by Lin Yun.

Moon One's strength was now robust enough to face off against a level six technologically advanced civilization battleship, providing ample time to protect most people in case of any hazard.

Ten days later.

"Boom —"

Lin Yun's Martial Arts Realm had a breakthrough, reaching the Mid Term Realm in the Golden Core stage.

And another twenty days later.

"Boom —"

Lin Yun's martial arts realm ascended to the Late Term Realm in the Golden Core stage.

In the martial arts practice room.

"Hum —"

A unique fluctuation emanated from Lin Yun's fists and feet. Lin Yun smiled slightly and murmured, "Another fourth-level martial arts skill has reached the Peak Realm. Now, a total of eighteen fourth-level martial arts skills have reached Peak Realm..."

The fourth-level martial arts techniques were no longer considered basic, so Lin Yun rarely used the Cosmic Trading System to directly enhance them.

Because he made an interesting discovery...

As long as he learned a fourth-level martial technique, the realm of that technique would elevate rapidly.

First to third-level martial arts techniques were like the basic strokes of calligraphy, horizontal, vertical, left-falling, right-falling, bending, etc...

The fourth-level martial arts techniques were akin to complete characters, the most complex characters.

Given that he was already incredibly proficient in the basics, even writing complex characters wasn't a challenge for him.

Did revered calligraphers write ugly complex characters?

Perhaps the quality was a little rough at the beginning because they were unfamiliar, but after writing a few times, the quality improved swiftly. It didn't take long to reach their usual standard.

Lin Yun felt the same way about ascending to the fourth-level martial arts techniques.

After learning them, practicing a few times allowed him to reach the Intermediate Level. After a dozen or more rounds, he would be at the Grand Mastery Level. At this rate, it wouldn't take long to reach the Peak Realm.

Under such circumstances, naturally, Lin Yun would not spend a ton of Spirit Crystals on upgrading those levels.

Remember, it was not cheap to upgrade using Spirit Crystals.

A third-level martial arts technique cost about a thousand Spirit Crystals at beginner level.

A fourth-level martial arts technique started at ten thousand Spirit Crystals at the beginner stage.

To upgrade to Intermediate Level around a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals were required, a million Spirit Crystals to upgrade to the Grand Mastery Level, tens of millions of Spirit Crystals to reach the Peak Realm.

Even with Lin Yun's wealth, it was absurd to spend such quantities of Spirit Crystals on techniques that could be upgraded in less than an hour or a day.

What's more, Lin Yun faintly sensed that it might be better to enhance some realms himself rather than relying on the Cosmic Trading System.

As Lin Yun had predicted.

After his breakthrough to Innate Realm, in just over a month, he improved several dozen fourth-level martial arts techniques to the Grand Mastery Level. A few fourth-level martial arts techniques even reached the Peak Realm.

Now, he had eighteen fourth-level martial arts techniques at the Peak Realm.

Because of his promotion to the Golden Core Realm, Lin Yun could now learn fifth-level martial arts techniques.

Over time, Lin Yun learned more than thirty-five level martial arts techniques.

Now, all thirty-plus five-level martial techniques had reached the Grand Mastery Level, and three of them had reached the Peak Realm.

"As expected, having a solid foundation in martial arts pays off big time. Just like this, I have saved a significant number of Spirit Crystals..." Lin Yun murmured to himself.

By taking Martial Arts Pills, using various auxiliary equipment, and consuming natural treasures every day, Lin Yun made rapid progress.

Another month passed.

Lin Yun's body shook as he broke through to the Peak Realm at the Golden Core stage.

"Boom —"

Numerous sources of energy were drawn from all directions, and they poured into Lin Yun's body at a rapid pace.

The quantity and quality of true Qi in Lin Yun's Dantian rose sharply.

"Mr. Lin has made another breakthrough..."

"Is this the Peak Realm of the Golden Core?"

Warriors all over the battleship lifted their heads to look at the location where Lin Yun was cultivating, showering him with envious praises.

This sort of situation had already occurred several times during the past two months.

Originally, some of them were enthusiastic about gathering resources and capturing Starry Sky Beasts during their cosmic voyage, or deliberately visiting the passing lower-level civilizations and so on...

But after seeing Lin Yun's continuous breakthroughs and their same-level companions' successive breakthroughs, the remaining individuals gradually lost interest, and started putting most of their efforts into martial arts cultivation.

By the time they rescued Star Blue, all their levels had reached the innate peak level.

However, the Golden Core Realm was truly hard to break through.

However, the resources Lin Yun provided to them were extremely abundant.

On this point, even they couldn't voice any dissatisfaction.

When they had set off, Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran were still not at the Innate Realm, just like Lin Yun. Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran had always been with them, and the resources they used were similar. However, Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran had made their breakthroughs before them.

This proved that Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran's talents were stronger than theirs.

Now, Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran had been in the mid-term of the Golden Core Realm for quite some time.

Lin Yun had left them far behind.

It was time for them...to buckle down...

The martial arts talent of these people was originally high.

With a large amount of resources and more determined effort...

One by one, they also began to make breakthroughs.

Now, two months had passed, and only two out of twelve people, excluding Lin Yun, Lin Yuanshan, and Zhang Haoran, had not yet reached the Golden Core Realm.

By now, the strength of Lin Yun and his party had undergone dramatic changes compared to when they left Earth.

Thirteen out of the fifteen people were in the Golden Core Realm.

It shouldn't take long for the remaining two to also make their breakthroughs.

Lin Yun had raised Lin Yuanshan and Zhang Haoran's mental strength to middle-level seventh rank, and also raised the mental strength of the other twelve people to lower-level seventh rank. He had also passed on to them the technology to control a sixth-level technology civilization battleship.

Now, these people could perfectly control a sixth-level technological civilization's battleship.

But on the Cosmic Trading System, the cheapest sixth-level technological civilization battleship cost over one billion Spirit Crystals.

A slightly better sixth-level technological civilization battleship cost several billion Spirit Crystals, or even close to ten billion Spirit Crystals.

Lin Yun was considering which level of battleship to buy.

Now, he only had a little over two billion Spirit Crystals left on him. If he wanted to buy a slightly better battleship, he might have to return to Earth and start his calculations over.

He had been away from Earth for so long, those people assigned to gather resources should have gathered quite a lot by now, right?

Lin Yun quietly thought.

Two months of travel brought them closer and closer to Earth.

A sense of expectancy grew in Lin Yun's heart.

Exercise room.

Lin Yun began to practice martial arts techniques.

Although the first three realms of Martial Arts were foundational, the fourth and fifth realms also required foundational work.

Now, he had already made a breakthrough to the peak of the Golden Core Realm.

Next, he would be preparing to make a breakthrough into the Domain Realm.

In this period, the fourth-level and fifth-level Martial Arts techniques he had learned needed to be further honed.

He had learned a total of 81 fourth-level Martial Arts techniques.

Now, 32 of them had reached the Peak Realm.

Next up, Lin Yun began practicing these fourth-level Martial Arts techniques.

The peak of the seventh-level mental strength allowed him to comprehend these fourth-level Martial Arts techniques at a more rapid speed.

On the first day, Lin Yun reached the Peak Realm in two fourth-level Martial Arts techniques.

On the second day, Lin Yun reached the Peak Realm in three fourth-level Martial Arts techniques.

As Lin Yun mastered more and more techniques, his comprehension speed increased even more.

Half a month later, Lin Yun had honed all the fourth-level Martial Arts techniques to the Peak Realm.

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Afterwards, Lin Yun began practicing fifth-level Martial Arts techniques.

Lin Yun had only just started learning the fifth-level Martial Arts techniques, and had only over 30 of them, which was not enough...

Lin Yun learned new fifth-level Martial Arts techniques while improving his old ones.

In this process, his peak of the Golden Core Realm also slowly began to move towards higher realms.

In the blink of an eye, it had been three months since Lin Yun parted with Star Blue.

At this time, their battleship was only a little over two million light years away from Earth.

"In the future, I must build a space jump station near Earth. That way, no matter how far away I am, I can quickly return when I buy a superior battleship..."

Lin Yun sighed.

With a distance of over 30 million light years, even their fifth-level technological civilization's battleship, using the maximum space jump distance, would only need four to five dozen consecutive jumps.

However, they had to travel for over three months, which consumed too much time.

"Beep, beep, beep—"

Just as their battleship was a million light-years away from Earth, a series of warning messages suddenly arrived.

"Huh?"

A jolt ran through Lin Yun's heart.

This message was transmitted from Earth.

Could it be that something happened on Earth while they were away?

There were two major crises on Earth - which one had happened? And when did it happen?

"Quick! Full speed ahead!"

Lin Yun immediately teleported to the core control room, looked at the screens in front of him, and shouted.

"Mr. Lin, what exactly is going on?"

"Mr. Lin, what happened?"

"Did something happen to Earth?"

Whoosh— Whoosh— Whoosh—

At this time, the others also rushed in. Seeing this scene, they all spoke anxiously.

The alarm they had just heard, they had also heard it. And they also knew that the warning was transmitted from Earth.