This world ring has always been controlled by a G-rank mechanical puppet, so it bears no life imprint and is thus ownerless. Instantly, the Black-clothed Luo Feng manipulated the power of the world to penetrate and inspect its interior.
“Haha…”
Luo Feng, draped in shadowy black, flashed a triumphant grin. “As expected—a full million mechanical puppets, each one a flawless F9-grade masterpiece.” His previous haul had yielded roughly 530,000 units, but those had suffered core damage from the Golden-Horned Behemoth’s clone assault. These within the world ring, however, remained pristine and untouched.
“Luofeng, Luofeng!” A figure resembling a youth, about 1.5 meters tall, named Babata came running.
“Babata,” Luo Feng turned to look.
Babata is an artificial intelligence lifeform, so constructing a mechanical body allows easy control. This method was originally used by the master of the Yuen-Mo Star, Huyan Bo, to grant Babata a physical form. However, using a metallic body is a common practice and does not significantly benefit Babata himself.
The difficulty for artificial intelligence lifeforms to cultivate and evolve is extremely high unless they obtain an ‘Evolutionary Heart’ to integrate into a metal body, allowing the AI to inhabit it. Then… the artificial intelligence lifeform will achieve a perfect fusion with the metal body.
It is akin to a soul corresponding to flesh.
The artificial intelligence lifeform will then possess the most precious physical form—the evolved body. With this, two things occur:
First, once perfectly fused with the body, the clarity of sensing the cosmic laws will surge, reaching at least a level comparable to that of ordinary human elites. Those without evolved bodies, like Babata, might barely manage to cultivate and perceive, but they would never attain immortality—not even across billions of years! However, with an Evolutionary Heart, one gains the qualification to become a true elite of the mechanical race.
Second, as cultivation progresses, the mechanical elite’s body will continuously strengthen, with flexibility, resilience, and other aspects becoming increasingly perfected, just like real flesh.
Therefore, the Evolutionary Heart is extremely important.
Unfortunately…
Only the mechanical race possesses Evolutionary Hearts. They are the most essential and core treasure of the mechanical race, so the control over Evolutionary Hearts within the mechanical race is extremely strict. Any individual mechanical race member is forbidden from privately selling Evolutionary Hearts. This rule has already been deeply ingrained in every mechanical race’s core. The mechanical race can produce a large number of Evolutionary Hearts to nurture many mechanical race members… but they absolutely will not sell any Evolutionary Heart, no matter how high the price offered.
This leads to a situation where, for humans, demon races, and many other alien races, acquiring an Evolutionary Heart is extremely difficult!
Because the difficulty of obtaining an Evolutionary Heart is prohibitively high.
Moreover, only the mechanical race has Evolutionary Hearts.
Therefore—
Each Evolutionary Heart is priced at over one hundred billion Yuan units, which is nearly the entire wealth of a King-level immortal god. This inevitably means… unless someone regards their AI companion as a life-and-death brother and is a superpower with vast wealth, otherwise, no one can afford to purchase an Evolutionary Heart.
For now, Babata dares not even dream of an ‘Evolutionary Heart,’ nor has he ever possessed one. Being able to have various metal bodies is already more than enough for him.
“Luofeng, never forcibly hack those intact F9-level mechanical puppets,” Babata shouted.
“Huh?” The black-clothed Luo Feng looked down at the youthful Babata.
“Those intact mechanical puppets have anti-hacking measures. Once forcibly hacked, they will trigger a self-destruct program,” Babata quickly explained. “Now the mechanical race expert is extremely far from us and cannot control these puppets. However, if we attempt to hack them, they will self-destruct, which would not be worth it.”
“Hmm? Can’t control them?” the black-clothed Luo Feng asked.
“Of course, there is a way to control them, but my intrusion capability is insufficient,” Babata smiled. “Therefore, there is no need to forcibly hack them. Just detect their interiors and then sell them directly! Some departments of the Virtual Universe Company have the capability to easily hack them, requiring only a small fee.”
Luo Feng nodded.
This intrusion… should be left to the professionals.
“Hey, finished the inspection?” the black-clothed Luo Feng looked at Babata.
“Yep,” Babata nodded.
“The inspection is complete. The various items inside the damaged pyramid spaceship can be divided into four categories.”
“First, the damaged pyramid spaceship itself. This is an F9-level spaceship equipped with extremely high energy defenses. Its energy shield is slightly superior to that of the Yuen-Mo Star. Unfortunately, it was damaged in previous attacks, the ship cracked open, so its value is mainly the large amount of F9-level metal in the hull. It’s estimated that its total value is around 5 million Yuan units.”
“Second, the G-rank metal puppet. This G-rank metal puppet, although not a large puppet, is still a G-rank metal block, much more than the amount used in your Blood Shadow Blade and shield. Its estimated price is around 20 million Yuan units.”
“Third, the 530,000 captured mechanical puppets with damaged energy cores and the 1 million intact mechanical puppets. The total estimated value is around 800 million Yuan units.”
“Fourth, and most valuable, are the expensive instruments in the core cabin. These instruments are made of G-rank and F-rank metals, with extremely complex energy programs. I didn’t dare to probe them carefully. However, just the metal used in these instruments alone is worth over 500 million. The technological content and various techniques involved are even more complex, so their price is estimated to be very high. As to exactly how high, I cannot determine.”
“These are the four categories.”
“The total value is definitely very high, much more than all the other spoils you’ve accumulated over a thousand years. The total value of your spoils over a thousand years is estimated to be around 100 million Yuan units. Far less than this time.”
Luo Feng nodded and smiled.
It’s been three years without a big catch, but now that one big catch can last for three years!
Dealing with powerhouses with deep backgrounds is truly lucrative. Just seizing one of the nine mothership-class vessels yielded such immense profits. The wealth of that mechanical civilization powerhouse genuinely astounded Luo Feng.
“How should I sell them?” Luo Feng pondered.
“I have a suggestion. First, ask the Virtual Universe Company for a price estimate so you have a baseline,” Babata said.
“Okay,” Luo Feng nodded.
…
Luo Feng first used a detector to fully scan all the items and collected all the data, then simulated them in the virtual universe.
In the original district of the virtual universe, within Luo Feng’s manor.
“Your Highness Luo Feng, it is a great honor to meet you. Receiving your invitation makes me, Nors Wu, extremely delighted,” said an immortal god wearing a luxurious green robe, with a fat head, and possessing dead-fish eyes, who humbly bowed to Luo Feng to express his respect.
Luo Feng is the direct disciple of the Chaos City Lord, holding an extremely high status.
“Thank you,” Luo Feng smiled slightly.
“Please take a look,” Luo Feng pointed to the empty ground beside him, where a damaged pyramid spaceship was parked, all of which were simulated.
“What is this?” Nors Wu was puzzled.
“This is my spoils of war. I’d like to ask, as the head of the acquisition department, what price can you offer?” Luo Feng asked. Of course, the Virtual Universe Company has an acquisition department, and generally, acquisitions are handled directly by some AI, while higher-end ones are managed by responsible internal members.
Nors Wu is one of the department heads in the headquarters’ acquisition department, usually dealing with King-level immortals.
“The spaceship is already damaged, estimated at a few million Yuan units,” Nors Wu said casually. He often deals with King-level immortals, so transactions of a few million Yuan units are not something he cares about.
“The real spoils are inside the spaceship,” Luo Feng smiled. “Come with me.”
“Oh?”
Nors Wu was surprised and curious about this direct disciple of the Chaos City Lord.
He and Luo Feng entered the damaged pyramid spaceship together.
“This is a spaceship of the mechanical race, probably belonging to a mechanical race member of considerable status,” Nors Wu remarked, looking at the decorations and style inside the spaceship. When he first saw the G-rank metal puppet, he nodded in approval. “A G-rank metal puppet, the metal itself is worth 20 million Yuan units.”
“These are the 1.53 million mechanical puppets I captured, of which 530,000 are damaged and 1 million are intact. This is a damaged sample, and this is an intact sample.”
“These are the most valuable instruments I captured, capable of deploying extremely powerful setups, even trapping King-level super elites.”
…
After the inspection, Nors Wu was already deeply impressed, as even a King-level immortal with assets of hundreds of billions of Yuan units rarely has a single transaction amounting to tens of billions of Yuan units.
The damaged mechanical puppets have only sustained minor injuries—their energy cores are merely cracked and rendered inoperable, yet all critical components remain intact and can be restored with minimal adjustments.
Among the 1.53 million mechanical puppets, each is a masterpiece even within the F9-tier of the Mechanical Race, likely valued at several hundred Yuan units apiece. If crafted by human hands, the production cost would soar beyond that of the Mechanical Race… averaging roughly 1,000 Yuan units per unit.
Thus, I can offer you 1.5 billion Yuan units.
“Of course.”
“The most expensive are these instruments. These instruments… the materials used are costly, but more importantly, the application of many technologies. This is already considered the pinnacle technology of the mechanical race, probably requiring a Cosmic Sovereign-level expert of the mechanical race to spend a lot of effort to create. To commission a Cosmic Sovereign-level mechanical race master… the cost is extremely high. Unfortunately, these are only part of the set. For this batch of instruments… I can offer you a price of 3 billion Yuan units.”
Nors Wu finally reported the price to Luo Feng.
“Adding in those miscellaneous items, I can also slightly increase the amount, rounding it up, I can give you a quote of 4.6 billion Yuan units,” Nors Wu smiled. “I wouldn’t be this generous for a typical King-level immortal.”
“4.6 billion Yuan units?” Luo Feng was secretly delighted.
“Thank you. I’ll think about it a bit more,” Luo Feng said.
“Haha, no rush. If you want to sell, feel free to contact me anytime,” Nors Wu smiled. “Your Highness Luo Feng’s harvest this time is truly great, especially those instruments… crafted by a Cosmic Sovereign-level mechanical race master. If you could gather the complete set, the price would be much higher.”
“Right,” Luo Feng nodded.
Then Nors Wu left.
“Hahaha… The Virtual Universe Corporation is willing to offer 4.6 billion Universal Credits,” Luo Feng chuckled. “This haul is truly astronomical. So they were forged by a Cosmic Sovereign-tier master of the Mechanical Race. That Mechanical Race powerhouse must have quite the illustrious background.”
“Your luck is pretty good,” Babata chuckled. “You’ve provoked a great enemy, but the benefits from that enemy are also great. Misfortune and fortune are interdependent.”
“This is a blessing, not a misfortune,” Luo Feng smiled. “Now I need to think… through what channels to sell, and how to sell for the highest price.”
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