But theories are just theories, actually.

"It's almost time to be promoted!"

These main conditions have been met, and now it is really possible to start the transcendent promotion.

But the reason why Li Qing didn't do it immediately was mainly because he felt that the accumulation was still a little bit short.

To put it simply, the transcendent is the stage of laying the foundation, and the foundation will determine the potential and ceiling after the transcendental.

To put it in layman's terms, after being promoted to transcendental, it is impossible to continue to awaken new bloodlines, and if you strengthen the existing bloodlines, the difficulty is much higher than before transcendental.

To use a simple analogy, before being promoted to transcendental, you only need a giant dragon bloodline to easily awaken the dragon bloodline.

But if you want to obtain the dragon bloodline after the transcendental, you need at least ten or more dragon bloodlines to be able to awaken.

Moreover, the purity of the dragon bloodline essence required after the transcendent is even higher.

Of course, this is not a problem for Li Qing.

The main problem is that what he wants to awaken is not an ordinary dragon bloodline, but an ancient dragon bloodline, and this thing needs an origin light to stimulate awakening.

Awakening before transcendentality only requires one source light, and awakening after transcendentality requires ten such ancient dragon bloodlines.

Therefore, how could it be possible to spend ten Origin Rays of Light on a problem that only needed one to solve?

It will take a year and a half to accumulate at the earliest, and it may take three years to accumulate at a slow rate.

Of course, now Li Qing has enough dragon bloodline and origin light on hand, but he only has a little hero skill point, and he has not used it for the time being.

To awaken the bloodline of the ancient dragon, you have to point all the bloodline talents that come with it, dragon breath, dragon scales, dragon wings, etc., at least fifteen hero skill points.

There's no need to worry, it's only been a long time now, and when this experience is over, it's basically almost.

When Xie Zhu's trade team returned again, it was already a month and a week later, and Li Qing was in the canyon base on the surface.

Hearing the news of their return, he stopped his experiment to meet him.

I haven't seen him for a month, and Xie Zhu's face is covered with wind and frost.

"Good work!"

Li Qing pushed the hot tea in his hand, sat down in front of him and asked:

"How's it going, what's the takeaway from this trade?"

Xie Zhu took a sip of hot tea, sat up straight and replied:

"The underworld of this plane is quite complicated, and the way we gave up force and switched to trade is a good one, and besides, I found traces of a scourge lord on my way to those human city-states."

"Hmm!"

Li Qing sat up straight and asked in a deep voice:

"Tell me more about it."

"That's right, in the past month, I've gone around the main clans in the underground and found out."

Xie Zhu talked eloquently in front of him, and told Li Qing what he had seen along the way in an orderly manner.

Li Qing listened as his fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, his brows furrowed.

Not much different from the information given by the dwarves, the underground world of this plane is mainly ruled by the four major races of humans, dwarves, orcs and gnolls, and the formation of the United Kingdom of the Underground Tribes has been at war with the Snake Kingdom for many years.

These large tribes generally exist in the form of city-states or tribes, each of which has a population of 20,000 or 30,000 and more than 100,000, and the total population of the entire underground United Kingdom is about one million.

With the complex terrain underground, even if the war with the Snake Man Kingdom over the years is unfavorable, there is no need to be afraid of the Snake Man Kingdom taking over.

However, with the invasion of the Scourge and the arrival of a large number of Scourge Heroes and Scourge Lords directly in the Underworld, their lives are not very easy.

The big city-states are no problem now, mainly the small tribes scattered in small underground spaces have fallen into bad luck, and some of them can't even stop the large wave of wild wandering undead.

Until now, none of the large city-states has been breached, but it is not known how many small tribes have been wiped out.

And this situation is also spreading to the big tribes, and the previous attack on the dwarven tribe by the Scourge heroes was a temptation.

In addition, several human city-states on the other side of the earth are also facing a direct threat from the Scourge Lord at this time.

It is precisely because the general environment is too poor that Xie Zhu's trade road will be so smooth, with dwarves as a guarantee, other city-states are very interested in Li Qing, who has great strength, and several large orders have been booked for this trade trip.

Most of them are exchanging the most scarce food in the Underworld for the most various ores in the Underworld.

Or use the finished war weapon to exchange for some rare magic materials, especially the Adamantite Gold and Mithril that Li Qing needs most.

At the same time with a large intent order.

The mage city-state, one of the three major city-states of mankind, was willing to give up two hundred kilograms of pure gold and one hundred kilograms of Mithril, as well as some mage-related knowledge, in exchange for Li Qing sending a mercenary of no less than five thousand to support the war between the mage city-state and the Scourge Lord.

Two hundred kilograms of Adamantite Gold and one hundred kilograms of Mithril are enough to make twenty Steel Golems.

But these want to recruit all his troops in the past desperately, and that is certainly not enough.

Of course, there is also some knowledge about mages.

But Li Qing didn't think that the mage knowledge in this small plane fragment could be much better, and there might be some new things, but Li Qing didn't think it could be of much value.

So after thinking about it carefully, Li Qing told Xie Zhu to refuse the deal the next time he passed.

As far as normal trade is concerned, don't get too caught up in the war between them and the Scourge Heroes or Scourge Lords.

Li Qing felt that he should stay here honestly, and wait for the surface snake man to fight near the king's capital, and then fish in the water.

Whether it's fishing in troubled waters to kill a natural calamity lord, or taking advantage of the chaos to attack the snake man king's capital, it's all blood gain.

There are ready-made, who are interested in traveling thousands of miles deep into the depths of the earth to deal with a scourge lord of unknown strength.

If this side has just been on an expedition for a short time, and there is a fight on the surface, it will take a month to come back and forth, and when you hurry back, it is estimated that the soup dregs will be gone.

However, less than half a month after he refused, Li Qing received a news that surprised him, the mage city-state had built a large portal on the side of the dwarf tribe, and a dwarf army of about 5,000 went to support the mage city-state through the portal.

There are large portals that can easily mobilize generals at any time, and more troops can be assembled in a short period of time.

After Li Qing received the news, he immediately became interested and asked Xie Zhu to ask the mage city-state whether this portal construction technology was for sale.

Yes, he's got a crush on it.

Portals are different from teleportation, which has a duration limit and a traversal strength limit.

The portal is a fixed portal, as long as it is maintained by a mage, it can continuously teleport troops.

With this, it will be more convenient to open a mine in the future.

After only one day of waiting, there was a response from the mage city-state, and the portal technology could be sold, but it was still that condition, and Li Qing needed to send a force over to support.

Even the mage city-state took out a list of transactions, which was a list of technologies that could be used for trading, with a clear price, and as long as the conditions were met, they could be traded.

Li Qing brought a list, and when he turned to the most valuable page of the list and saw the exchangeable technology on it, he looked up in shock and asked:

"There is still this exchange? Really? ”

The envoys of the mage city-state were several middle-aged and elderly mages wearing old robes, the leader of whom looked to be sixty or seventy years old, and he said with a smile:

"Your Excellency is as surprised as your kindred, and it is true."

"Kindred?"

Li Qing immediately realized something and asked:

"Are you trading with many people like me?"

The old mage nodded:

"Yes, many outsiders like you are interested in our spells and want to trade with us."

Li Qing frowned and asked:

"Is anyone trading it now?"

The old mage shook his head and said:

"No, this kind of technology is stored in a special spell card, we don't have the ability to make more now, some have no technology at all, the existing ones are all left over from the ancient predecessors, there is only one, and the manufacturing technology of this floating city that you said is only one left over from ancient times, and it has not been changed out yet."

Li Qing lowered his head, and at the top of the exchange table was a full set of Floating City manufacturing technologies, including all the supporting technologies related to magic runes and magic arrays.

The exchange condition given by the mage city-state is to kill the Scourge Lord who is attacking the three human city-states.

This is an explosion of redemption difficulty.

But because of this, none of the twenty or so War Lord apprentices in the vicinity of the underground human city-state has been able to accomplish this feat and get the blueprint of the floating city.

Li Qing also said that it was too difficult, even if he came out of the nest now, he might not be able to succeed.

Pursing his lips, he looked at the other exchange items below.

A full set of magic rune system, including hundreds of basic runes, nearly 100 rare runes, and more than a dozen super rare runes.

A set of magic pattern construction blueprints, including all one-star base runes, several two-star runes, two three-star runes, and one one-star set of runes.

More than a dozen war magics, including three second-order war magics and one third-order war magic.

Further down, there are all kinds of mage-related knowledge, including some that Li Qing already has, such as the design of the mage tower, the steel golem, the gargoyle, the rock golem blueprint, and so on.

From here, it can be seen that this mage city-state still has a lot of good things on hand.

It can also be seen from this that when this plane was not broken in ancient times, it should have had an extremely brilliant magical civilization inheritance, but as the plane was broken, the inheritance was gradually lost, and it became more and more difficult for mages to advance, and the resources were becoming less and less, and many powerful inheritances could not be reproduced.

For example, in the case of this plane fragment, even if the entire plane is hollowed out, it cannot be built.

Not to mention the strength requirements, there are no legendary mages in this plane, and it is impossible to cut the peak and build the foundation.

The basic resource requirements alone are not sufficient for this plane.

All kinds of rare magic materials, Mithril needs tons, all kinds of magic gems, all kinds of enchanting materials, artificially drawn magic arrays all over the Floating City, all need to use magic guide materials, all need to use Mithril, and some more precious magic materials.

In addition to this, a floating city also requires a core main mage tower, as well as a bunch of attached mage towers.

In addition, all kinds of powerful vassal modules, whether it is offense, defense, or energy system, etc., are very complex and expensive.

The cost of building a high-level floating city of human civilization is at least more than a trillion.

This is still the cost of materials, not to mention the price, at least one legendary mage presiding, and a bunch of extraordinary archmages to work together, not to mention cutting the mountain peak, and then cutting and carving it into the desired shape.

Time-consuming, costly, labor-intensive.

It takes a lot of time to build a floating city from scratch, and it takes at least hundreds of years to build.

And once you can successfully build a floating city, it will be a bull.

Floating City is not only the strongest base for mages, but also equivalent to a general Void Fortress, which can directly cross the Void and expedition to other planes.

This thing is a perfect match for the Warlord's Divine Domain.

Fixing the gate of the Divine Domain on the Floating City is equivalent to opening up a huge independent space on the Floating City, which can be completely self-sufficient, and the internal energy pool of the Divine Domain can also charge the Floating City, which is equivalent to two energy pools in the Floating City for energy.

The power of the Floating City is directly related to the energy provided by the energy core, and the more energy the energy core can supply, the more weapons and defense modules can be configured, and the stronger the combat power will naturally be.

To use a simple analogy, a legendary mage with a floating city, with sufficient preparation, can single-handedly take on a true god who has just been canonized and has a kingdom of God.

Of course, the current Li Qing will definitely not want to build a floating city, that is unrealistic.

But it didn't prevent him from getting the design drawings of the floating city first, and then starting to prepare in advance.

Therefore, at this time, Li Qing was already a little moved.

In addition, the Mage Federation has opened a large portal in the dwarven tribe, which is very convenient to travel and disseminate information, which has room for maneuver.

"So, can you exchange a gargoyle for a blueprint for the creation of the Golem first?"

Gargoyles are also a type of stone golem, and the individual hard power is not as strong as the rock golem, but this thing can fly, and it is an extremely rare flying golem, and its strategic role is stronger than that of the stone golem.

The three representatives of the mage city-state bowed their heads and discussed, and the old mage in the lead nodded:

"If you're willing to provide 50 million kilograms of food, you can get this gargoyle in exchange."

"Well, I'm going to have to wait another two or three months before I have so much extra food."

The old mage nodded:

"We can wait."

Li Qing shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything else.

The annual output of the first layer of the Divine Domain Farm is 60 million kilometers, and now the first and third floors of the Divine Domain Farm are opened up as farmland, but the third layer of the new development has just been planted, and it is not yet mature, and the grain storage is not enough.

When the harvest is ripe in another two or three months, it will be enough.

Of course, if you wait two or three months, it is estimated that the war with the Calamity Lord will be over, and there may be no need to exchange food at that time.

Next, they simply signed an agreement, if Li Qing can kill the Scourge Lord and exterminate the undead who threaten the human city-state underground, he can obtain a complete set of floating city technology provided by the human city-state.

After sending off the representatives of the mage city-state, Li Qing gathered his men and began to prepare for the next big battle.

(End of chapter)