Hearing Tian Li's request, Gu Qijue nodded.

The price that Emperor Star has to pay to accept the refugees from the Celestial Essence Star Cluster Civilization is just some food and places to live.

Now that the Emperor Star Alliance is rich and powerful, they won't lack food for the refugees.

As for living space, the Emperor Star Alliance needs even less of it.

The entire Southeast Continent Plate is under Gu Qijue's control.

Moreover, as time progresses, the entire Divine Desolate Continent will be completely under his control.

And among these refugees from the Celestial Essence Star Cluster Civilization, there must be top-notch talents.

Tian Li does not know what Gu Qijue is thinking, as long as Gu Qijue is willing to provide him with help and protection.

Next, Tian Li and Emperor Star also formally began a series of cooperations.

While Tian Li and other powerhouses of the Emperor Star Alliance were busy, Gu Qijue began to strive for the Divine Tier realm.

After gaining control of the entire Southeast Continent Plate, he now possesses vast resources.

His next move is to make use of all resources on the Divine Desolate Continent.

This process will also be extremely smooth.

On the Northern Continent Plate, after the highest conference in the Desolate Star System, Ziling began to persuade other powerful figures on the Northern Continent Plate.

She herself was the strongest on the Northern Continent Plate, leading the foremost power there, the Purple Celestial Palace.

After she decided to join the Emperor Star Alliance, other powerhouses had no choice.

After the Northern Continent Plate, the other continental plates were greatly shocked!

They all understood that in the Vermilion Bird Star System, resistance was futile.

Especially for pure Cultivation Civilizations like them, their disadvantages were too obvious in the face of top Star System-level and Star Cluster-level civilizations.

Yet, the powerhouses of the other seven continental plates still wanted to act independently and did not wish to become a part of Emperor Star.

Their idea, of course, did not last long.

Because when they were still hesitating, an extremely shocking news suddenly came!

"The Supreme Leader of the Emperor Star Alliance, Gu Qijue, has been promoted to the Divine Tier!"

Divine-tier powerhouses are rare on the Divine Desolate Continent, but they do exist.

Normally, a powerhouse being promoted to the Divine Tier isn't a big deal.

But Gu Qijue is different, as he killed many Divine-tier warriors while still in the Demigod stage.

Now that he has entered the Divine Tier, he is definitely invincible among Divine-tier warriors, even being able to fight against Super Divine-tier warriors!

The initially hesitant seven continental plates successively chose to submit.

They each lost three Divine-tier warriors, severely damaging their strength.

Additionally, they also wanted to leave the Divine Desolate Continent to seek opportunities in a broader world.

Under such circumstances, submitting to Gu Qijue and becoming part of the Emperor Star Alliance was their only choice.

Gu Qijue emerged from the Cultivation Base at the Infinite Group Headquarters and heard a series of good news.

The person reporting this good news to him was his adopted son, Gu Yinling.

"Foster father, during your seclusion, lord Ziling first led the Northern Continent Plate forces to join the Emperor Star Alliance."

"After the news of your breakthrough to the Divine Tier spread, the other seven continental plates also successively joined the Emperor Star Alliance."

Gu Qijue nodded slightly; these were all good news.

Although unexpected, it was within reason.

However, he was more concerned about the progress on Tian Li's side.

"How is Lord Tian Li's project progressing?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Yinling quickly handed a document to Gu Qijue.

Gu Qijue casually opened it to check while Gu Yinling provided a report.

"Of the three projects that Lord Tian Li is in charge of, the second and third have completed the first stage."

"The first project lacks some materials and cannot start the first stage."

"Lord Tian Li has divided these three projects into three stages to complete."

The second project under Tian Li's charge is to produce Divine Tier Nanomechs for the Emperor Star Alliance.

These Nanomechs require the wearer to be a Demigod; otherwise, they cannot exert the mech's power.

The third project is to manufacture F-Class Cosmic-level Starships.

From Gu Yinling's report, it seems Tian Li is truly sincere, and the progress of the two projects is quite good.

Gu Qijue did not continue questioning Gu Yinling and instead said, "I'll go take a look."

After speaking, he took Gu Yinling to Tian Li's location.

Infinite Group's Floating Base, Celestial Dawn Laboratory.

This place was specifically allocated to Tian Li by the Infinite Group during Gu Qijue's secluded cultivation.

Upon seeing Gu Qijue, Tian Li said, "Some materials for building the Subspace Manufacturing Workshop are not available on Emperor Star and the Divine Desolate Continent for substitution."

"There may be some in the Desolate Star System, but exploring it would take a long time."

"My suggestion is to buy from the black market."

"Not only do we lack materials for building the Subspace Manufacturing Workshop, but the second and third stages of the other two projects also lack materials."

"Additionally, some of my other projects require a lot of materials and equipment."

"Here is a list. See if you can buy everything at once?"

Tian Li was very considerate and prepared the list along with an estimated price table for Gu Qijue.

Even though Gu Qijue was quite wealthy, seeing the total cost of buying materials and equipment made him gasp.

"Could there be an extra zero? Are you sure it's ten billion Chester?"

Gu Qijue looked at the numbers on the price list and asked uncertainly.

Tian Li nodded and said, "I've calculated that with the Infinite Group's financial strength, paying ten billion Chester should be no problem."

Gu Qijue smiled wryly, "Indeed, no problem, but after allocating ten billion Chester, the other businesses of the Infinite Group will be financially tight."

He seriously thought it over, handed the list back to Tian Li, and said, "Cross off the materials and equipment not needed for now, and keep the budget around five billion Chester."

"Or you can come up with a more cost-effective plan, and I'll implement it."

When Gu Qijue mentioned a budget of only five billion Chester, Tian Li nearly choked on his words.

He wasn't pocketing the funds; developing technology genuinely requires burning money.

Materials cost money, equipment costs money, production and processing cost money; the ten billion Chester budget was thoroughly justified.

Fortunately, Gu Qijue did not just provide fifty billion Chester, but also supplemented it.

Tian Li didn't hold back with Gu Qijue and directly said, "There are many Interstellar Pirates in the cosmic space."

"These Interstellar Pirates vary in strength and financial standing."

"Through my investigation, I found that although Emperor Star is not wealthy, it has a very strong combat capability."

"Emperor Star can organize a combat force composed of Demigod warriors and Divine-tier warriors specifically to rob Interstellar Pirates!"

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