His body had consumed the formcast model that he had possessed when entering the Hunter realm. It had been a sixth stage formcast model, which was widely known as the limit for formcast models in the current universe. However, Lu Yin wanted to see if he could upgrade one to a seventh stage formcast model. If such a thing was possible, then just how would it change his body?
Lu Yin placed a formcast model on the top light screen. This was merely a fourth stage formcast model, which made it a very common one. He quickly upgraded it past the fifth stage and to the sixth stage by throwing out numerous star essence.
Once it became a six stage formcast model, Lu Yin observed an amazing number of rune lines from it. Only Envoys were capable of creating such a formcast model, and they could be sold for astronomical prices.
He had once considered selling upgraded formcast models to generate income, but there were too many drawbacks to doing such a thing. For one, he could potentially improve his enemies’ strength, and for another, he would definitely expose himself.
There were certain methods that could be used to generate money, but there were others that would simply burn the one behind them.
After upgrading the formcast model to six stages, Lu Yin grew solemn as he set it back atop the upper screen of light. He desperately hoped that it could be upgraded yet again.
Lu Yin immediately threw out 10,000 star essence.
The formcast model fell down slightly, but only a tiny bit. Despite the fact that the formcast model had barely moved, Lu Yin was pleasantly surprised. This proved that the formcast model could be upgraded to seven stages, which meant that his improvement upon becoming an Enlighter would be absolutely insane.
A key contributor to Lu Yin’s incredible increase in strength after becoming a Hunter was definitely because of his sixth stage formcast model.
He believed that almost no one had a seventh stage formcast model, even when among the Ten Arbiters and the Neoverse’s top talents.
A long time ago, Lu Yin had asked Hai Qiqi about formcast models, and he had been told that sixth stage formcast models could only be made by Envoys whereas seventh stage formcast models could theoretically only be made by a super expert with a power level of at least a million or more. Just how many such monsters were there in the Fifth Mainland? A handful?
Lu Yin’s advantages were growing greater and greater.
This thought prompted Lu Yin to continue trying to upgrade the formcast model to seven stages.
When he looked at the formcast model again, he blinked. Lu Yin had not paid much attention a moment ago, and he had only cared about if the formcast model could be improved again. However, now that he was taking a serious look, his pupils shrank. No way!
He had indeed seen the formcast model drop down a bit, but it seemed as if it had only completed a thousandth or even ten-thousandth of a full upgrade!
Lu Yin was stunned. This was just too much. How could it be so expensive?
Just how much would it cost to upgrade the formcast model from six stages to seven?
He did some quick math and sucked in a sharp breath. 100 million. This upgrade was guaranteed to cost him hundreds of millions of star essence.
Lu Yin’s whole body went cold. It was true that he had hundreds of millions of star essence, but this would essentially bankrupt his entire savings! Why was it so expensive?
He then thought the matter through for a bit. It had cost him 300,000 star essence to upgrade the formcast model from four stages to five, and upgrading it again to six stages had cost him eight million star essence. This was more than a 26-fold increase. If it did indeed cost hundreds of millions of star essence to upgrade it to a seventh stage formcast model, then it simply meant that it was even more than a 26-fold increase in cost, which was not too extreme.
Formcast models were magical things that allowed the younger generation to improve to levels comparable to their seniors. They were a magical discovery that had shortened the potential gap between the current generation and their ancestors. Each breakthrough would allow them to have an amazing increase in strength, and spending hundreds of millions of star essence to obtain something as rare as a seventh stage formcast model was not actually an expensive price to pay.
Lu Yin smiled wryly. Cultivation consumed resources, which was why ordinary people could not cultivate at all. Even if a person had talent, they would be useless without the resources to support them.
Fortunately, Lu Yin still had means to make more money.
He silently put the formcast model away. Since it would take hundreds of millions of star essence to upgrade it, he would not worry about it for the moment. He had already given Ku Wei hundreds of millions of star essence to use to place wagers on ZENITH, so Lu Yin only had 50 million left on his person. It was not enough!
Since he did not have enough star essence to fully upgrade his formcast model, Lu Yin thought for a moment before taking out the froststone. This was what he should upgrade at the moment.
If what the Frost Emperor had said was accurate, then this stone was potentially capable of freezing even time. Naturally, Lu Yin needed to get it to that point.
However, if this froststone had a connection to time, then the amount of star essence needed to upgrade it would definitely be a painful sum.
Lu Yin thought about this as he set the froststone on the upper light screen and threw out a large number of star essence.
At this point in time, anything that Lu Yin wanted to upgrade would be extremely expensive, and each upgrade could easily cost him hundreds of thousands of star essence. This prompted Lu Yin to immediately throw out 100,000 star essence, but the froststone only dropped about ten percent of the way through the screen.