High-Level Martial Era

Chapter 1890: Chapter 824: Emperor Weapon

The master of a Star City, at least, must be a Dominator-level expert. A Dominator presiding over a Star City possesses innumerable terrifying powers, capable of massive amplification.

However,

among Cosmic Cultivators, not everyone will establish a Star City. Besides having sufficient strength, one must also make certain contributions to the Immortal Divine Hall and exchange ’Immortal Merit’ for the qualification to establish a Star City.

Looking across the Vast Universe, in this era, more than three hundred publicly known Dominator-level experts exist, yet there are only 211 Star Cities, including three Supreme Star Cities… excluding dozens of Abyss Lineage Dominators, nearly a hundred Dominators have not established a Star City in the Immortal Heaven and Earth.

According to Li Yuan, like the Dominators under Supreme Jing’s banner, none have established a Star City.

This is actually a matter of choice and allegiance.

Though establishing a Star City doesn’t necessarily mean allegiance to the Immortal Divine Hall, it does indicate a certain leaning… Many Dominator-level experts have deep connections with eternal organizations like Chaotic Heaven Ancient Ruins, Star Spirit Hall, and Heavenly Demon Holy Palace, and naturally do not wish to have deeper ties with the Immortal Divine Hall.

“God Master, I am naturally willing to establish a Star City,” Li Yuan said.

Once a Star City is established, through the special authority granted by the Star City, the many Quasi-Saints under one’s banner will cultivate much more efficiently in the Immortal Heaven and Earth.

And the Star City is extremely safe, absolutely preventing Otherworldly strongmen from attacking.

“But the God Master should know, Han Xing Supreme and I are mortal enemies. During this Sacrificial Realm catastrophe, he secretly supported the Yun Jing Dominator. Without him, we wouldn’t be so troubled… Long ago, he even openly put a bounty on me,” Li Yuan continued.

“It can be said that our enmity is irreconcilable.”

“If I establish a Star City, the Star City cannot be moved… Will he attack me?” Li Yuan bluntly asked.

Over the past thousand years, with Li Yuan’s rapid rise shocking all sides, the situation for the Quasi-Saints in the Heart Dream Universe has improved significantly as they wandered through major Eternal Relics.

But occasionally, strongmen still suffer persecution from Han Xing Supreme’s lineage.

Overall, Li Yuan’s cultivators are still at a disadvantage.

“Rest assured on this point.” The Golden Robe God Master smiled and said, “Although we are bound by the temple’s operational rules and cannot directly act against Han Xing Supreme–after all, he also holds a Seven-star Immortal Order and has made significant contributions to the temple–but as long as you have a True Body preside over the Star City.”

“I can guarantee that even if his True Body descends, he won’t shake your Star City.” The Golden Robe God Master promised, “Furthermore, if his True Body descends upon the Immortal Heaven and Earth, I will inform you immediately.”

“In that case, many thanks to the God Master.” Li Yuan had been waiting for those words.

Li Yuan always knew that the Immortal Divine Hall was merely a ’management organization’ left by the creator of the Immortal Heaven and Earth and must follow the various rules left by the eternal existence. Even a position as high as the Golden Robe God Master has some autonomy but is ultimately limited.

Therefore, Li Yuan never expected the other side to help him infinitely, nor did he hope they would directly destroy Han Xing Supreme’s Star City.

That would be unrealistic.

“I shall set my Star City’s position here.” Li Yuan waved his hand, and in the void emerged a massive light phantom star map showing the distribution across the entire Immortal Heaven and Earth.

A point of light flickered prominently.

The location Li Yuan chose is not far from the Second Immortal Divine Hall, close to the Heaven-reaching Star City and Tianluo Star City, and situated at the crossroads of many places suitable for low-rank Quasi-Saints to roam.

It is an excellent location.

Most importantly,

it is sufficiently far from both Han Xing Supreme’s Star City and the First Immortal Temple… even if Han Xing Supreme wishes to attack, Li Yuan would have ample time to react.

“Good, then here it shall be.” The Golden Robe God Master nodded, waving his hand to produce a somewhat illusory golden token, which slowly descended into Li Yuan’s palm.

Li Yuan did not resist.

As the golden token phantom touched his palm, Li Yuan’s Soul quivered slightly, and immediately he sensed the ’Immortal Order Mark’ integrated into his soul experience subtle changes.

The first being his authority.

Previously, as a Five-star Immortal Order holder, Li Yuan had numerous privileges and access to a variety of Exotic Treasures… Now, he directly advanced to a Seven-star Immortal Order holder, with access to more treasured relic Emperor Weapons.

“Even top-level Emperor Weapons can be exchanged?” Li Yuan thought, “However, redeeming the first requires one hundred billion Immortal Merits, the second two hundred billion, the third four hundred billion, and all subsequent ones require four hundred billion Immortal Merits each.”

Such requirements are extremely demanding.

Even a powerhouse like Supreme cannot accumulate so many Immortal Merits solely by slaying those Otherworldly lives in the Immortal Heaven and Earth… Cosmic Exotic Treasures must be contributed.

Li Yuan also understood why the Immortal Divine Hall’s requirements were so stringent.

Though Supremes can refine Emperor Weapons, it firstly requires incredibly long durations, and secondly, most can only refine the simplest top-level Emperor Weapons, like Material Attack or Material Defense types… many more unique top-level Emperor Weapons can’t be refined by Supremes.

After all, refining top-level Emperor Weapons necessitates not only a sufficient Eternal Dao Realm but also great expertise in Artifact Refining.

Special Emperor Weapons like Ancient Universe, Voidification Realm Map, are beyond the reach of most Emperor Weapons… Even soul-type and binding-type Emperor Weapons are hard for Supremes to refine.

For these reasons,

the top-level Emperor Weapons that a few Dominators possess are mostly limited to the two most basic types, which is why Little Tomb was so interested in Heart Dream God Emperor refining the Ancient Universe.

“Holders of the Seven-star Immortal Order are basically all Supremes.” Li Yuan pondered, “Even if redeeming Emperor Weapons, they certainly exchange for the more unique top-level Emperor Weapons.”

Upon merging with the golden token phantom,

besides the enhancement of Immortal Order authority, another tremendous function was ’sensing.’ Instantly, Li Yuan sensed a colossal entity establishing a subtle connection with him in some mysterious location, seemingly under his control.

This is akin to the sensing after refining Emperor Weapons.

That colossal entity should be the Star City.

“I will still need to make additional preparations for your Star City, which will emerge at your chosen location in ten years.” The Golden Robe God Master smiled, “Coincidentally, the city-opening banquet is significant, so you can prepare accordingly.”

“Ten years, fine?” Li Yuan nodded slightly, not in a hurry.

“Alright.”

“Heart Origin Dominator, you can first follow Commander Cang’er to the treasure vault to exchange for the top-level Emperor Weapons.” The Gold Robe God Master said, “If anything arises in the future, I’ll directly send you a message.”

“Thank you, God Master.” Li Yuan cupped his hands in gratitude.

…

Li Yuan followed Commander Cang’er, and effortlessly arrived at the middle layer of the Immortal Divine Hall, as if stepping into another space-time.

“Heart Origin Dominator.”

“As per the God Master’s instructions, you can hand over all the treasures you need appraised to me at once, and I will tell you the total value.” Commander Cang’er said.

“Okay.” Li Yuan did not hesitate, flipping his palm to hand over dozens of Storage Magical Treasures, all of which were at Low Grade Emperor Weapon level.

After all, many exotic treasured relics can’t be stored in God King Level Storage Magical Treasures.

Soon.

Commander Cang’er checked each one, then looked at Li Yuan: “Heart Origin Dominator, according to a fair trade, for these treasures and relics you provided… our Immortal Divine Hall can offer you a total of 1,116,000 billion Eternal Crystals.”

“Sure.” Li Yuan revealed a smile; the price was much higher than he expected, indicating that the Immortal Divine Hall hadn’t undervalued them.

Indeed.

The Immortal Divine Hall was willing to trade in this manner as a goodwill gesture, naturally making it unnecessary to undervalue more.

“Heart Origin Dominator, you can examine the top-tier Emperor Weapons available to exchange, sense their aura and original mysteries… There will also be information on how many Eternal Crystals are needed to exchange for each top-tier Emperor Weapon.” Commander Cang’er said.

He pointed into the void.

In an instant,

the dim void became dazzling, and one Emperor Weapon after another emitting strong auras appeared floating in the void, like drifting on an endless ocean… A total of more than four hundred top-tier Emperor Weapons simultaneously appeared, an incredibly spectacular scene.

Many of the Emperor Weapons immediately caught Li Yuan’s attention.

“Hundred Net Preaching Map, contains Space-Time Path…”

“Fake Kun Saint Armor, contains the mysteries of Chaos Dao and All Things Path Harmonization…”

“Universe Cutting Saber, includes Great Destruction Dao…” Li Yuan quickly sensed part of the information of more than four hundred top-tier Emperor Weapons with his current realm.

It was sufficient for him to discern which ones suited him.

Among these hundreds of top-tier Emperor Weapons, the vast majority were of Material Attack and Material Defense types.

Types like Soul, Domain, and Space-Time were relatively rare, and those that matched Li Yuan were even fewer, with most being extremely expensive.

Among the more than four hundred top-tier Emperor Weapons, the most expensive was named ’Myriad Abyss Book’, a Domain type Emperor Weapon with incredibly impressive might, but the exchange price exceeded 2 trillion Eternal Crystals… Li Yuan simply couldn’t afford it.

“Heart Origin Dominator, how is it?” Commander Cang’er asked.

“I’ll exchange for these three.” Li Yuan pointed into the void, selecting a spear, saber, and combat armor… the three most common types of top-tier Emperor Weapons.

“Red Jade Spear, Mingyou Blade, Imitation Heavenly Venerate Saint Armor… Good!” Commander Cang’er nodded, and with a thought, the three top-tier Emperor Weapons floating in the void immediately descended.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three powerful Eternal Dao Intents spread, surging and impacting, which would exert huge pressure on ordinary Emperor Realm individuals.

But for Li Yuan, who had refined several top-tier Emperor Weapons, it felt like a gentle breeze.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Li Yuan extended his large hand, directly suppressing the three top-tier Emperor Weapons, with swirling Divine Power quickly imprinting a Life Mark within their origins.

He directly absorbed them into his body.

“These three top-tier Emperor Weapons are quite remarkable, and my Immortal Divine Hall spent enormous resources to refine them successfully, especially the ’Imitation Heavenly Venerate Saint Armor’, which was refined after multiple failures.” Commander Cang’er said: “I hope they will exhibit sufficient might in Heart Origin Dominator’s hands.”

“They certainly won’t be disgraced.” Li Yuan responded, then curiously asked: “Commander Cang’er, is there actually a Magical Treasure named ’Heavenly Venerate Saint Armor’?”

Commander Cang’er smiled without speaking, clearly affirming it.

Li Yuan was inwardly shocked.

Even imitations are top-tier Emperor Weapons; Heavenly Venerate Saint Armor? With the ’Saint’ label, could it be a weapon used by eternals?

In this vast cosmos, information on eternals is scarce, leaving Li Yuan to speculate.

The reason for choosing these three top-tier Emperor Weapons is simple—they offer the best value.

“When the Abyssal Sea Sacrifice opens, my multiple true bodies should be freed.”

“My nine great true bodies.”

“One must remain at the home cosmic realm, as the ultimate fallback, of paramount importance, whether there is an Emperor Weapon or not.” Li Yuan thought deeply: “One must guard the Eternal Divine Palace, able to enter Immortal Heaven and Earth at any time… This true body needs strong Emperor Weapons too.”

“The seven true bodies will engage directly in combat.”

“One true body will be cultivating ’World Nightmare’, using only the Void Transformation Dao Map; other Emperor Weapons will be unnecessary.”

“One true body will manage the Ancient Universe, deploying domain methods, likely avoiding close-quarters combat.

“The other five true bodies should preferably have top-tier Emperor Weapons.” Li Yuan contemplated, thus for the strongest burst in combat, he requires at least six attack-type top-tier Emperor Weapons and six defense-type top-tier Emperor Weapons.

And attack-type top-tier Emperor Weapons take priority.

Including the two top-tier Emperor Weapon Combat Sabers obtained from Yun Jing Dominator, Li Yuan already possesses four attack-type top-tier Emperor Weapons, and with this exchange for two more, he will have all necessary attack-type top-tier Emperor Weapons.

“By the way.”

“Commander Cang’er, I hold over a thousand billion Immortal Merit, never having exchanged Immortal Merit for top-tier Emperor Weapons. Logically, I can consume a thousand billion Immortal Merit and freely select one more Emperor Weapon.” Li Yuan smiled and asked: “May I exchange it for that ’Thousand Heart Emperor Ring’?”

Commander Cang’er was momentarily stunned.

Logically, Li Yuan has already exchanged for three top-tier Emperor Weapons, so the fourth would require spending four thousand billion Immortal Merit.