Cosmic Trading System

Lin Yun had already chosen a city, not the one he was currently in, but one nearby.

According to Lin Yun's various analyses, if the thirty-kilometer radius around his current city was considered, the population should exceed twenty million by a wide margin, even surpassing thirty million people.

Using a device of this caliber could only absorb the spiritual energy radiated by twenty million people, which seemed somewhat wasteful.

He figured that when he had more Spirit Crystals later on, he would purchase a better device for this city.

Whoosh—

Lin Yun summoned his fly car, and quickly headed towards that city.

In just a few minutes, Lin Yun arrived at the city.

"As expected, the people in this city also radiate a lot of mental strength..."

Finding the perfect spot, Lin Yun nodded slightly.

Through quick calculations, with this specialized device for absorbing and refining spiritual energy in this city, he could also obtain about nine hundred Spirit Crystals a day.

Soon, Lin Yun found a good location, took control of the fly car, and headed back to the original city.

With the addition of a specialized device for absorbing and refining spiritual energy, the balance on Lin Yun's Cosmic Trading System began to increase dramatically again.

Previously, Lin Yun could obtain about two thousand one hundred Spirit Crystals a day; now, with this addition, he could obtain about three thousand Spirit Crystals a day.

"In this way, I could purchase another specialized device for absorbing and refining spiritual energy in less than two days," Lin Yun said to himself, a glint flashing in his eyes.

The speed of this rolling development was astonishingly fast.

"Lin Wu and Lin Jiu have already got their resource acquisitions on track in the other five countries, and each has acquired some resources. I must find time to go and collect these resources; otherwise, I won't need them after a few more days," Lin Yun thought to himself.

It wouldn't take too long to get to those five overseas countries, so he could start planning for the other thing in the meantime.

An item he had to purchase sooner or later, it was better to get it earlier for early use.

That was, the space items.

This item was something that Lin Yun always wanted to buy, but since he had the trading space with a lot of room for him to use, and since space items were not cheap, he didn't want to spend too many Spirit Crystals on them initially.

Bigger ones were very expensive, and the smaller ones were of little use.

For instance, with a thousand Spirit Crystals, one could only purchase a space item with a thousand cubic meters of space; with three thousand Spirit Crystals, one could only purchase a space item with three thousand cubic meters of space.

Similarly, with ten thousand Spirit Crystals, one could only buy a space item with ten thousand cubic meters of space. These were the standard prices on the Cosmic Trading System, but there might be higher or lower prices with minor differences.

"A thousand cubic meters of space, if it's filled with iron ore, can't even hold ten thousand tons, which is not even worth ten Spirit Crystals. If it's filled with rare resources, it's another story. In that case, let's start by buying a space item with three thousand cubic meters. We'll transport some rare resources first.

If that's not enough, we can just make more trips..." Lin Yun made his decision quickly.

Once the decision was made, Lin Yun began to focus on practicing martial arts again.

In fact, he could have already started learning more advanced martial techniques.

By 'more advanced', it did not refer to the Intermediate or Grand Mastery Levels or even the Peak Level martial art skills.

It was a martial art skill suitable for martial artists entering the realm of Dark Strength. Even if it was only at the beginner level, this martial art skill had a formidable power, roughly equivalent to the power of the martial art skills Lin Yun had studied at the Mingjin Realm Intermediate Level.

In other words, the martial art skills Lin Yun had studied earlier were classified as Level 1 martial art skills on the Cosmic Trading System.

The martial art skills that only Dark Strength martial artists could learn were classified as Level 2 martial art skills on the Cosmic Trading System.

The power of a beginner's Level 2 martial art skill was equivalent to a Level 1 martial art skill at the Intermediate Level.

The power of a Level 2 martial art skill at the Intermediate Level was equivalent to a Level 1 martial art skill at the Grand Mastery Level.

The power of a Level 2 martial art skill at the Grand Mastery Level was equivalent to the Peak Level power of a Level 1 martial art skill.

Of course, these equivalences were not absolute. For instance, some Level 1 martial art skills were quite strong among many skills; some Level 2 martial ar skills were relatively weak among many. This might reduce the difference.

But, generally, that was the gist of it.

Of course, the cost to learn a Level 2 martial art skill quickly was also not low. For instance, quickly learning a beginner's Level 2 martial art skill would cost about one hundred Spirit Crystals—almost the same cost as quickly learning a Level 1 martial art skill at the Intermediate Level.

Many masters of the Cosmic Trading System would prefer to quickly learn Level 2 martial art skills after they broke through to the Dark Strength realm. Few were willing to quickly learn Level 1 martial art skills at higher realms.

This was because the power of a Level 1 martial art skill at the Peak level was equivalent to that of a Level 2 martial art skill at the Grand Mastery Level. After reaching this level, there was no room for advancement.

After reaching the Grand Mastery Level with a Level 2 martial art skill, they could still breakthrough to the Peak Level.

If they spent their Spirit Crystals on Level 1 martial art skills, it would be a waste.

However, for some martial art skills, being learned at a higher level greatly benefited the foundation at that martial arts realm. For instance, elementary, junior high, and high school knowledge. Thoroughly understanding elementary knowledge greatly benefits junior high school studies.

Thoroughly understanding junior high knowledge greatly benefits senior high school studies.

With the same logic, thoroughly mastering a Level 1 martial art skill will solidify the foundation in the Mingjin Realm more and benefit future learning. This outcome might not be apparent in the short term, but the effect would be evident in the long term.

Underperformance in one step leads to underperformance in all below.

One step forward, one step higher.

If the foundation of each realm was solid, when you reached a certain realm, you would find that you led much further ahead of the martial artists in the same realm, thus making it easier for you to break through to a higher realm.

The principle was the same as the compound interest in the stock market. If you were profiting ten percent daily, soon enough, you would realize your assets had increased to thousands or tens of thousands times their original value.

Of course, this was difficult for many people to accomplish.

However, the principle remained the same.

Understanding a single application unlocks understanding of all others, just like that.

Yet, even though everyone understands this, achieving it is extremely difficult for many.

Even though every master of the Cosmic Trading System was extraordinarily lucky and could easily acquire resources that were unobtainable by ordinary people, it was not easy for them to elevate a wide range of martial arts skills to a high level.

To rapidly elevate a single tier martial arts skill to the peak realm required approximately 11,111 Spirit Crystals.

These basic skills were often unused as the martial arts realm was advanced and were only for laying the foundation...

Most masters of the Cosmic Trading System were not wealthy in the early days. Who would be willing to spend so much?

Therefore, those willing masters of the Cosmic Trading System often chose to elevate one or two martial arts skills to a high realm, such as the Grand Mastery Level, Peak Level... Any more than that would be hard to bear.

In fact, many martial arts Grandmasters excelled in a specific martial arts skill. For example, on Earth, some of these skills were Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Baji Fist, Twelve Way Bullet Leg, Golden Bell Shield, Iron Cloth Shirt, Little Li's Flying Dagger, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Ripple Step, and so on.

Some martial arts masters, Grandmasters, only needed to improve one martial arts skill to the peak, and by that, they could dominate the world.

As per the analysis provided by the Cosmic Trading System that Lin Yun requested last time, not every Martial Arts Grandmaster who fought against him had elevated a martial arts skill to the peak level.

It's very hard to perfect any quest, too; similarly, elevating a specific martial arts skill to the peak is no easy feat.

At the very least, the martial arts skills used by those Martial Arts Grandmasters go beyond tier one martial arts skills and have reached tier two or even tier three. In other words, they don't need to elevate those skills to a high realm to exhibit significant power.

Therefore, it was quite impressive for a master of the Cosmic Trading System to elevate a single martial art skill to the peak.

If a single tier martial arts skill was elevated to the peak, that foundation would be considered solid.

Even so, going forward, it was hard for some masters of the Cosmic Trading System to achieve this.

That's because a tier-two martial arts skill, if rapidly learned to the peak state, required one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

Which master of the Cosmic Trading System would be willing to do this?

For those masters of the Cosmic Trading System who had hoarded one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, no matter how long it took... Can they resist not breaking through to a higher realm during this time?

If they broke through to a higher realm, could they resist not rapidly learning higher-level martial arts skills?

After preparing for thousands of years, Star Blue ventured into space and spent only one hundred thousand Spirit Crystals to buy a spaceship. Even a master of the Cosmic Trading System like Star Blue couldn't afford to learn a martial arts skill so quickly.

Fast learning of some martial arts skills, along with their diligent cultivation, allowed them to ascend to whichever realm they could achieve.

This was the practice of most masters of the Cosmic Trading System.

If their Martial Arts talent was a bit higher, they could elevate a martial arts skill or two or three to the peak with their diligent cultivation. It wasn't impossible.

After all, every civilization had its brilliant geniuses in history.

However, such geniuses that happened to also become masters of the Cosmic Trading System were scarce.

Therefore, on the big data of the Cosmic Trading System, those masters of the Cosmic Trading System who could elevate a martial arts skill of every tier to the peak were considered highly successful.

Among the countless masters of the Cosmic Trading System, they were the cream of the crop.

And if they couldn't do that, reaching the peak or the grand mastery level for martial arts skills of each level also made them formidable masters of the Cosmic Trading System.

Most masters of the Cosmic Trading System considered it sufficient to elevate a martial arts skill to the intermediate level. They occasionally managed to bring one or two martial arts skills to the grand mastery level. They didn't want to spend too much energy on this.

From their perspective, their enjoyment was more important. With so many Spirit Crystals, it was better to purchase high-tech equipment, or powerful artifacts from cultivation civilizations, puppets, to enhance their strength more quickly.

In a nutshell, they didn't have such high ambition.

But Lin Yun was different...

Ever since he saw those formidable figures in the videos, he had been yearning to reach that level someday.

Transforming universes at a snap of fingers, breaking galaxies.

Moreover, with the ample resources on Earth.

This further affirmed Lin Yun's belief.

He wanted to try.

Otherwise, he would regret it.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

That's why Lin Yun was not in a hurry to learn second-tier martial arts skills yet.

He planned to continue improving his currently learned martial art skills, and when every skill was improved to a similar level, he would start learning second-tier martial arts skills.

After all, he had only recently broke through to the Dark Strength Realm.

He still had a long time to break through to Huajin, so he was not in a hurry.