The only challenge Wang Yi faced was that he didn't possess the inherited memories of the Flame Star Beast, which meant he needed to figure out what treasures the creature needed to devour in order to grow.
However, this wasn't a huge problem. The virtual universe contains vast amounts of information. As long as he had access, even the knowledge regarding the growth of the Flame Star Beast could be found.
Just as the Golden Horn Beast grows by devouring metals — primarily consuming large amounts of B-grade metals to accelerate its growth at the Stellar level — the Flame Star Beast can increase the rate of its 'inner world' development by devouring rare, exotic treasures with corresponding attributes.
Now that Wang Yi was a four-star customer at the Universe Galaxy Bank, he had the privilege of purchasing this kind of information or even offering a reward on specialized forums.
He posted about the best plan for rapidly accelerating the growth of the Flame Star Beast at the Stellar level and what treasures could be consumed at the master level(Domain master or higher level).
A post from a four-star customer tends to stand out on the forum.
The members here range from three-star customers upwards, with four-star customers being common, and even five-star powerhouses occasionally frequenting the forum. They exchange all kinds of secret, lesser-known information from across the universe.
Soon enough, Wang Yi started receiving responses.
"So, that's how the Flame Star Beast grows…" Wang Yi's spirits lifted.
In fact, the Flame Star Beast primarily grows by absorbing stellar energy, allowing it to reach the master level. However, this growth process gradually slows over time.
Fortunately, there are treasures that can significantly increase the growth rate of the Flame Star Beast!
For instance, a four-star forum member suggested that the best growth plan from the Stellar level to the Universe level involved devouring 'geocentric stones.'
These are extremely rare energy crystals found at the core of planets and can greatly enhance the growth of the Flame Star Beast.
But geocentric stones are very rare—found on only one out of every hundred planets, which makes them incredibly expensive!
Mining these stones requires advanced technology and techniques, as extracting them without damaging the planet is a highly difficult task.
Each geocentric stone costs at least 200,000 cosmic coins!
To accelerate the growth of a constant star Flame Star Beast to the Universe level within a year, approximately 300 geocentric stones are needed.
As the Flame Star Beast progresses from Universe level 1 to Universe level 9, the number of stones required doubles with each level. To reach the ninth Universe level, it would take three years relying solely on geocentric stones, and the total amount required would be staggering!
However, for Wang Yi, this wasn't a concern!
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Once the Flame Star Beast reaches the ninth Universe level, geocentric stones become less effective, and more advanced treasures are needed. The four-star forum member recommended 'sunstones' at that stage.
Sunstones are energy crystals formed in the cores of stars, containing vast amounts of pure stellar energy and unique materials essential to the growth of the Flame Star Beast, helping it rapidly expand its internal world.
However, sunstones are even rarer than geocentric stones, found only in the cores of stars, where temperatures can reach tens or even hundreds of millions of degrees. Retrieving them requires extreme skill and power. Only powerful domain masters or immortal beings can extract them, and even then, not every star contains sunstones.
Sunstones are measured in grams, with each gram costing about 0.3 Universe coin.
A domain master-level Flame Star Beast needs to consume around 15 grams of sunstone per day, which amounts to 4.5 Universe coin daily for evolution!
As the Flame Sta Beast advances through domain master levels, from the first to the ninth, the daily consumption of sunstone increases, with the total growth process taking around thirty years!
In comparison to other star beast with peak bloodlines, the Flame Star Beast grows at one of the fastest rates.
Typically, the Golden Horn Beast takes around a hundred years to reach the universe level, a thousand years to reach the domain master level, and ten thousand years to reach the world master level.
Meanwhile, the Flame Star Beast typically takes thirty years to reach the universe level, three hundred years to reach the domain master level, and three thousand years to reach the world master level.
However, using an optimized evolution plan that involves consuming various treasures can shorten this growth period by over tenfold!
The geocentric stone and sunstone are just two of the essential materials needed for the evolution of the Flame Star Beast, though they are the most important ones.
Following this four-star customer's growth plan, Wang Yi would need to invest substantial amounts of wealth and resources to ensure the optimal evolution of his Flame Star Beast.
But for Wang Yi, as long as the issue could be resolved with money, it was no problem!
He first focused on acquiring geocentric stones to ensure his Flame Star Beast could evolve from a Stellar level to the Universe level within a year. Despite the rarity and value of these stones, there were still plenty available throughout the universe.
In the virtual universe and various marketplaces, they were available for purchase.
At 250,000 Universe coins per geocentric stone, Wang Yi spent 25 billion Universe coins to buy the first batch of 100,000 stones. A total of 150 geocentric stones would be enough to evolve the Flame Star Beast from Stellar level 7 to Universe level 1 within three months.
From there, he planned to buy more stones to continue upgrading the beast to Universe level 9. Wang Yi didn't lack the funds!
Additionally, other matching materials would cost about 41.5 billion Universe coins!
As for the sunstones, Wang Yi purchased an entire ton!
Each gram of sunstone was equivalent to 0.3 Universe coin, meaning one kilogram amounted to 300 Universe coin.
To evolve a first-tier domain master Flame Star Beast, about 15 grams of sunstone were needed per day. If it took 1,000 days to evolve from domain master level 1 to level 2, that would require 15,000 grams, or 4,500 Universe coin. This amount of wealth was comparable to half of an average immortal's fortune and enough to bankrupt 450 peak domain masters! And that was just for the first level—the requirements would only increase at higher levels.
The cost for a full ton of sunstone reached 300,000 Universe coin, and with the addition of other required resources, Wang Yi had invested a total of 500,000 Universe coin!
Initially, Wang Yi had 1.36 million Universe coin, but his fortune had shrunk by more than one-third!
Spending wealth at this rate felt like watching money flow like water!
However, for Wang Yi, as long as this investment meant rapidly enhancing the power of his first clone, the Flame Star Beast, it was all worth it.
The current investment was simply a down payment for far greater returns in the future!
At the same time, Wang Yi continued searching for the secret techniques of the Flame Star Beast, though he hadn't yet found any useful answers.
In Wang Yi's prokaryotic world, the Flame Star Beast soared, moving like a sleek black-and-red fighter jet, gliding at high speed with its inner prokaryotic world housed within it.
Inside the beast was a volcanic, lava-filled continent hundreds of kilometers long, engulfed in endless red mist. At its center lay a molten lake.
The core of the Flame Star Beast was its pronucleus, and at the heart of the pronucleus was its inner world! Consuming a vast number of rare treasures was crucial for expanding and perfecting this inner world. Only by doing so could the Flame Star Beast break through to new levels!
Compared to a ninth-level Stellar level Golden Horn Beast with a 90-kilometer-long metal continent that expanded to 1,000 kilometers upon reaching the Universe level, the Flame Star Beast was even larger.
At Stellar level 7, the molten continent inside the Flame Star Beast was already 140 kilometers long and wide.
By Stellar level 9, this land would grow to 180 kilometers long and wide!