The same thing was happening on other frontlines as well.
The contributions Su Yuan had made earlier were simply too great — so great that the Speakers could tolerate the price of being swindled and give it a shot.
As long as they gave it a try, whether or not they succeeded in breaking through, they could at least confirm the authenticity of the pill. And that drove everyone absolutely insane!
The Speakers stuck at the 72nd tier desperately needed this pill to mend their foundations.
And for cultivators below the 72nd tier, the need was even greater. If not for the exorbitant price, the shop's stock would have been cleared out long ago.
Even so, the Speakers still used every means at their disposal to purchase a single pill.
But those beneath the Speakers weren't entirely without hope either.
The Nothingness was vast, and all sorts of extraordinary encounters could be found. Some cultivators, despite having low cultivation levels, secretly possessed incredible treasures.
Now, faced with this golden opportunity to reshape their foundations and break through their limits, they were willing to part with the treasures they'd obtained in exchange for a chance to defy fate!
On a certain Third Frontline.
A cultivator who had only reached the 17th tier saw the news on the forum and read the countless discussions about the mysterious pill in the Seven Stars Shop.
He stared at the price, utterly dazzled.
But after glancing back at a fragment in his hand, he still chose to attempt a purchase.
He operated through the Seven Stars Shop, selecting the option to offset the purchase amount with an item.
At the same time, Su Yuan's consciousness stretched across an infinite distance, inspecting the fragment in that cultivator's hand.
"Oh? This is a fragment of the Void Ark?" Su Yuan was somewhat surprised when he clearly saw the fragment.
It was the same type of fragment as the one he possessed. And there was another one, left behind on the 788th Second Frontline.
Given the material quality of this fragment, it was worth at least a hundred pills.
But he couldn't possibly trade a hundred pills for it. It wasn't that he was stingy — the principle of "a man's wealth invites envy" was something no one failed to understand, right?
So he sent over a single pill and casually collected the fragment.
That cultivator discovered his treasure had inexplicably vanished, while a pill had appeared out of thin air before him.
Wild joy surged through his heart — it had actually worked! That impossibly hard fragment of his had actually been taken by someone.
Aside from being hard, it was completely useless. He had only thought it might be a treasure, but he never expected it actually was!
Without a moment's hesitation, he swallowed the pill. A massive surge of medicinal power immediately spread into every part of his body and into his Origin Space.
His aura began to skyrocket, instantly blasting through the array he had set up himself. The violent energy shook the entire city.
Countless gazes turned toward him, witnessing firsthand a cultivator's realm skyrocketing.
By the time they noticed, he had already reached the 22nd tier, and within a single breath, he climbed to the 23rd. And his aura was still steadily rising!
A City Lord intended to check on the situation, but by the time he reached the target location, the other party's aura had already surged to the 30th tier!
Before he could even process what was happening, it jumped from the 30th tier to the 33rd!
Everyone was left utterly dumbfounded, and they immediately posted the entire incident on the forum.
Someone with experience on the Second Frontline immediately said, "He just swallowed a Void Mixed Spirit Pill! The Seven Stars Shop just had one less pill in stock, and everyone was wondering who had redeemed it. Turns out it was a low-rank cultivator on the Third Frontline! What kind of treasure did he use to exchange for that pill? This is insane!"
Everyone was burning with envy, but the pill had clearly already been swallowed. There was no chance left.
When a year passed, the cultivator's breakthrough finally came to a halt, with his cultivation reaching an astonishing 52nd tier.
But more people were absolutely furious with regret.
"What a waste! Such a waste! A divine pill, and all it did was raise his cultivation a bit! If this had been given to a 71st or 72nd-tier powerhouse, they could have directly shattered the shackles of the 72nd tier!"
"That's his own treasure he traded for it. Being jealous won't do you any good!"
"He's been completely reborn! This guy might even become a Speaker one day!"
Many people became restless and started bringing treasures they couldn't identify to the Seven Stars Shop, hoping to trade them for pills.
Su Yuan had no interest in playing appraiser, so he set a rule: every person had only three chances in their lifetime to fail an appraisal. If they failed all three times, they would never have another opportunity to trade treasures.
With that, the frequency dropped, but the quality of the treasures being offered definitely improved.
Before long.
Several hundred high-grade treasures had accumulated before Su Yuan, including eighteen fragments of the Void Ark.
He tossed them into the air, and the eighteen Void Ark fragments merged together, forming about one-tenth of a hull. These fragments automatically fused into one, and their defensive capability rapidly increased, reaching the point where they could ignore any attack below the 93rd tier.
"How did these Ark fragments end up scattered across every frontline? That's bizarre."
Su Yuan muttered to himself before turning his attention to the other treasures.
Some of these treasures were materials as high as over ninety tiers, and there were even Dominator Artifacts above 80 tiers.
For reasons unknown, they had ended up on the Second Frontline, but now they had become his treasures.
And this was just the beginning. The number of treasures would only keep growing.
"I never expected that I was just trying to slightly boost the strength of the True Name Stars, and I ended up getting a pleasant surprise instead."
Su Yuan did the math — not only had he not lost anything, he had actually made a huge profit!
The resources he had consumed cost nothing more than some auxiliary materials. The main ingredient was something he had just picked up from the roadside, costing less than 1 Mixed Void Unit — precisely 0.57 Mixed Void Units. And the selling price was 1,000 Mixed Void Units.
As for the treasures he received, their value was even higher — ranging from a few thousand to millions of Mixed Void Units. It was a profit margin of ten thousand times!
"How can the returns be this huge?"
After a moment's thought, Su Yuan understood. No one else could communicate and transmit items across infinite Nothingness without any cost, reaching any target in any corner, like he could.
At the same time, the issue of trust and reputation was also a factor. He had only built that trust foundation through trillions of Dominator Artifacts — no one else could do that.
This was a business only he could run.
"They say that scrap collectors might not look respectable on the surface, but the profits are enormous. And that's exactly right! The profit margin here is absolutely terrifying."
Su Yuan felt that there was still more potential to tap into here. He could probably earn enough assets to cover his future breakthrough.
His gaze turned toward the dark shadows within the Nothingness, a delighted smile spreading across his face. "Nothingness Chaos is a good thing! Heaven Slaves, get into the cauldron! The more, the merrier!"

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