Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 79: Inheritance

The remainder of the deal was straightforward. Daffodil and Zhang Lie settled on a set pricing for manuals based on their grade:

6,000 points for high-grade techniques and frameworks,

200,000 points for pinnacle-grade,

2,500,000 points for legendary-grade, and finally,

30,000,000 points for mythic-grade.

With the price settled, Zhang Lie proceeded to sift through the manuals for the ones that he wanted to purchase.

Given his personality, he was naturally going to start from the highest-grade manuals. There were only two mythic-grade manuals, both frameworks: [Rondo of Wind and Storm] and [Arclight Dragon's Imprint].

[Rondo of Wind and Storm] was an unusual dual-attunement framework.

In the short recording that introduced the framework, a female hunter was dancing to the accompaniment of wind and storm, wreathed in gusts of billowing wind, lightning arcing around her body. At times, her genetic energy evoked refreshing gusts of wind; at others, the wrath of lightning.

The flexibility of a dual-attunement framework could be a significant boon in a fight. However, choosing such a framework would require an extremely strong foundation of gene fragments, as well as a large number of auxiliary genetic techniques of both elements.

It was certainly a framework that would require heavy investment. However, Zhang Lie was still interested, and he immediately motioned for the manual. After all, it was a pinnacle-grade framework, and thirty million points for it was a bargain.

Honestly, Zhang Lie was very curious just where the Thousand-Treasure Pavilion was acquiring these mythic-grade frameworks. In the past, the emergence of a mythic-grade framework in the first realm of the dimensional world would always be accompanied by a great hubbub, but this Thousand-Treasure Pavilion had offered two of them up for sale, just like that!

Had he simply been too constrained by his lack of wealth in his past life?

Regardless, given his current wealth, he'd take as many mythic-grade manuals as the Thousand-Treasure Pavilion had to offer.

After watching the recording in full, Zhang Lie motioned that he would purchase [Rondo of Wind and Storm]. Daffodil was elated: Zhang Lie's first purchase was for thirty million points!

The payment was quickly processed, and an elaborate, exquisite manual sent over to Zhang Lie's suite. Instead of inspecting it closely, Zhang Lie moved to the other mythic-grade framework, [Arclight Dragon's Imprint]. This was a relatively rare light-attuned framework, and seemed to invoke a full-body technique.

In the recording, a middle-aged male hunter circulated his genetic energy, causing dense silver scales to emerge over his skin. The silver scales encased him like a suit of draconian armor. A simple punch from the hunter was sufficient to make the earth tremble and the heavens shake, and it clearly endowed him with frightening strength.

However, it was also evident that this framework would require a dense reservoir of light-attuned genetic energy: manifesting enough silver scales to cover a hunter's entire body wasn't a trivial task at all.

Despite this shortcoming, it was still a mythic-grade framework, and Zhang Lie bought it without a second thought.

Daffodil's face broke into a huge smile.

He surveyed the legendary- and pinnacle-grade frameworks and techniques in much the same way, buying all that caught his eye. As he had promised, he would buy no fewer than fifty manuals; in the end, he went away with fifty-four.

Of the nine primary elements, he had at least four or five of each type, and he had spent almost a hundred million points.

This was Daffodil's first time seeing someone purchase so many and such varied manuals in bulk. Of course, from her perspective, the more he bought, the larger the bonus she would receive, so her smile had been widening the entire afternoon.

After Zhang Lie finished inspecting the last manual, Daffodil beamed at him. "Mr. Peppercorn, all your desired manuals have been sent to you. On behalf of the Thousand-Treasure Pavilion, thank you for your patronage, and I must personally thank you for supporting me as well! If you're ever by Ursa Major, please let me know, and I'd be delighted to show you around. Here's my contact information."

Before Zhang Lie could say a single thing, she had already sent her contact information over. She was clearly delighted by the humongous purchase Zhang Lie had made.

"I'll take your word for it."

"Of course, Mr. Peppercorn! It would be my honor to meet you in person. May the opening of your dojo be a wonderful success! In addition, from today onward, you'll be a ten-million-class customer of the Thousand-Treasure Pavilion— no, more accurately, you're our first customer to be close to the hundred-million class, and my team will be your dedicated service staff. If you have any requests or problems related to trade and business, my team and I will offer you our utmost support."

Daffodil was certainly very skilled as a sales representative, and she knew just how to keep a customer like Zhang Lie relaxed and happy.

"I do have a question. I asked something similar last time, but I wasn't too satisfied with your answer. This time, I'd like to hear something less evasive."

Daffodil could guess what the question would be. "May I ask if you're inquiring about the origin of these manuals?"

Zhang Lie nodded.

"Most of these manuals were part of the legacies of strong hunters who have perished," Daffodil explained.

Zhang Lie blinked, his mind suddenly filling with possibilities. He had overlooked critical information that he possessed—the locations of burial mounds for several hunters of legend, where their legacy and inheritance could be obtained! One of them was even right on Earth. How could he have forgotten such valuable information?

If Daffodil hadn't brought it up, he wouldn't have considered this avenue of wealth.

The dimensional world had been discovered for less than a century, but within this period of time, there were quite a few rising stars of humanity that had emerged. Some of them were still trying to access higher and higher realms, but others had perished unexpectedly.

At the dawn of this century, there had been a series of serious conflicts between humankind and a class of insectoid lifeforms known as the Kez.

Hunters from that era tended to leave behind a legacy in hopes that there would be hunters to inherit the path of cultivation that they had pioneered and take up their mantles in the war against the Kez. Most such legacies included frameworks, techniques, and all sorts of treasures that they had obtained during their journeys.

Zhang Lie's excitement showed on his face. "Thank you for the information. If I'm ever by Ursa Major, I'll treat you to a meal!"

Daffodil was unaware of the source of Zhang Lie's excitement, but she smiled at the sudden interest that he demonstrated. "I look forward to it, Mr. Peppercorn. If there's nothing else, I'll have to report the outcome of this sale now."

"Farewell!" Zhang Lie's excitement grew more intense once the connection was closed. He was rapidly assembling a plan to take advantage of his knowledge.