Chapter 155: Cosmic Culture

Ye Feng walked slowly through the virtual realm, passing by shelf after shelf and browsing the vast array of goods as if strolling leisurely. After careful observation, he found that the price of finished medicinal pills was dozens of times higher than the total cost of the ingredients used. However, after Ed’s explanation, Ye Feng finally understood. Items like medicinal pills are created by combining various herbs, and this process inherently involves labor costs and the wear and tear of equipment. Moreover, herbs with originally limited uses see their effects greatly enhanced after being combined to form pills. Thus, the best way to gain a profit margin is by selling special materials rather than finished products. The domain values required for finished products are very high, and most of them, when converted into spirit crystals, have prices comparable to market rates, making it impossible to achieve the same effect as selling rare items like the Immortal Grass. After all, the price of a single Immortal Grass has increased by twenty times through auctions. Of course, rare items can only be sold occasionally. If sold in large quantities, it would likely disrupt supply and demand and cause price fluctuations. Selling rare items in large amounts would also arouse the envy of many others, potentially leading to danger. At the Yuan Ying stage, one is still considered a novice in the cultivation world. Ye Feng knew that even those at the He Ti stage and above could easily kill him. Strength increases by ten times at each level in the cultivation world. A He Ti-stage cultivator is a thousand times stronger than an ordinary Yuan Ying-stage cultivator. A gap of a thousand times cannot be made up by skill or experience alone. “Although the auction on Origin Star has ended, there must be similar large-scale auctions on other planets. Auctions are a good place for me to quickly earn domain values, but I first need to find some items suitable for auction…” Ye Feng continued to wander among the shelves, searching for items that could help him earn a large amount of domain values…
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A man in black followed a young man in brocade robes into what appeared to be a rather modest inn. “Are you sure it’s here, Zhang Ming?” The young man stopped not far from the inn’s entrance, skeptical. “My lord, it can’t be wrong. I saw him go in with my own eyes,” the man in black said confidently, nodding.

Sighing helplessly, the young man entered the inn reluctantly. After finding out the old man’s room number, the two knocked on his door. After a while, the door opened. “Who are you?” “Hello, sir. My name is Yu Huawen. I’ve come here specifically to visit you,” said the young man in the brocade robe with a smile. “What do you want?” The old man’s expression remained cold. “I’ve heard that you’re a powerful cultivator at the Tribulation stage. I wanted to see your prowess. Also, I have a request,” Yu Huawen began, but was interrupted by the old man. “I’m not interested!” The old man said, ready to close the door, but Yu Huawen blocked it. “Sir, please let me finish. Over the years, I’ve sought out no less than twenty powerful cultivators above the Tribulation stage, but they all said they couldn’t help. I came to you just to try my luck!” Hearing this, the old man showed some interest. He stopped closing the door and waited for Yu Huawen to continue. “Have you heard of Water Blue Planet?” Yu Huawen asked a rather silly question. “Who hasn’t heard of Water Blue Planet? In the entire cultivation world, even three-year-olds know it’s home to many legendary figures,” the old man replied impatiently. “Just get to the point. I don’t have time to waste.” “I want to know if you’ve been to Water Blue Planet or if you know where it is,” Yu Huawen finally asked what he wanted to know. “Never been there. Don’t know!” the old man replied succinctly, leaving Yu Huawen speechless. “Are you done?” Yu Huawen nodded dejectedly and turned to leave. The old man watched them walk down the corridor before suddenly calling out, “Did you leave a woman there?” Yu Huawen turned around and shook his head. “It’s my son… The teleportation array on Water Blue Planet isn’t powered by crystals. He’s been trapped there for years. Recently, the array became functional again, but he was severely injured. Now, he only has a Yuan Ying left…” “I can’t help. I don’t even know where Water Blue Planet is. It’s said there are no input teleportation arrays… only output ones…” The old man shrugged helplessly and slowly closed his door. Zhang Ming followed Yu Huawen silently, not daring to make a sound.

“Zhang Ming, have you gotten any results from your observations of Wudao and the others?” Yu Huawen changed the subject.
“They go out every day to gather information—useful and useless alike. But it’s still just the three of them; no one else has joined. Moreover, I’ve investigated everyone who had contact with them, and none of them were those who came through Transport Array No. 29.” Zhang Ming gave his report.
“I seem to have told you before—don’t rule out the possibility that they used disguise techniques! The people they contacted might very well be disguised.” Yu Huawen frowned slightly, clearly dissatisfied with this report. “Never mind. Just take action directly—capture Wudao and the others and see if we can get useful information. They should know where Ye Feng went…”
“Sir, what if they don’t know where Ye Feng is?” Zhang Ming raised his question.
“They must know. All you need to do is find a way to force them to talk.” Yu Huawen glared coldly at Zhang Ming. “You know how to do this! You don’t need me to teach you!”
“Mm!” Zhang Ming nodded, a strange smile appearing on his lips.