Data cultivation, I observe immortality in the five elements

"clang!"

The earthenware jar trembled slightly, emitting a crisp 'crackling' sound, and the incense and prayer power on Luo Yan's body poured into it like a whale swallowing its prey.

Boundless power of faith poured down like a torrential downpour, roaring and venting.

After Luo Yan finished refining the pottery jar, the surging incense and prayer power disappeared from his body.

Instead, they used the pottery jar as a ritual implement, accumulating boundless energy from the unseen world.

'Om! '

Immediately afterwards, the old pottery jar glowed again, reflecting off the Soul-Eating Ant Queen.

In just a moment, the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen was sucked in, and the Soul-Devouring Demon Ants on the ground also burrowed into the jar like a locust plague.

Soon, the somewhat crowded underground world nest was completely empty.

Luo Yan held the earthenware jar in his hand and examined it. He could 'see' the mustard seed space inside the jar, where a huge white egg stood, surrounded by countless tiny eggs.

Looking around, it was quite eerie.

"So, is this level of energy enough to meet your survival needs?" Luo Yan asked.

The main body kept a rat, a white crane, and a group of spirit beasts in the Thunder Emperor Temple.

But when it came to him, he started raising a group of insects.

No matter how you look at it, it feels incredibly strange.

If the original body knew that he was using incense and the power of vows to raise a group of insects, it would probably scold him for being wasteful, ungrateful, and squandering resources.

No one knows whether anyone before us did something similar.

This is the first time, at least in the second spirit body's case, that someone has dared to use incense and the power of vows to raise insects. It's the only one of its kind in the world!

"This energy is very advanced, and I have difficulty absorbing it. For now, I can only use it to maintain my body's needs."

"If you want to enhance my strength, I'm afraid I'm not up to the task," the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen replied truthfully.

Logically speaking, it should be able to devour even the planet's ley line energy, eat soil, gnaw on sand and gravel, and drink magma.

It can absorb all the energy of everything in the world to enhance itself.

This is a characteristic of the Soul-Eating Ant Queen, and also a characteristic of the Zerg race.

This race is essentially the scavenger of the universe; they can eat and devour anything.

Unfortunately, the power of incense and prayers is a high-level energy, and in terms of hierarchy, it is a superior energy on the same level as immortal power.

It is something that cannot be absorbed by ordinary living beings.

Even Luo Yan's true form only dared to use incense-related magical artifacts to store those intangible powers.

He could freely use the power of his faith, but he never dared to let it perfectly merge with himself.

While this special energy has many uses, and can even revive people on the spot, prolonged exposure can easily lead to one's succumbing to its effects.

After all, the incense offerings and prayers are mixed with the distracting thoughts, hopes, and heartfelt wishes of all beings.

So many thoughts and ideas mixed together can easily drive a person completely insane.

This is especially true for beings with more complex thoughts.

Because they think too much, they are more likely to get deeply involved.

Fortunately, the Zerg are single-minded creatures, as is the Soul-Eating Ant Queen. Her thoughts are not complicated, and she says what she thinks.

In addition, millions of individual Soul-Eating Ants swarm around the Queen.

This forms a perfect cycle from the Holy Lord to the believers.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen is able to absorb the special energy of incense offerings and prayers.

However, this energy level is too high, and even the insect queen cannot completely convert it; it is far less efficient than absorbing external energy.

Luo Yan could sense the power of incense offerings and prayers in the darkness. After being consumed for a while, it gradually calmed down and reached a regional balance.

It seems that in the vast ocean, a bottomless abyss has appeared out of nowhere, constantly devouring the power of faith.

Although the supply is continuous, it is not a plan to wipe out the family line.

After all, the main body has enough believers, and the Sun God Cult has grown and developed for nearly two hundred years, with a considerable number of Nascent Soul Realm priests.

Over such a long period of time, the accumulated incense and prayer power have been perfectly suited for nurturing this Soul-Devouring Ant Queen.

Luo Yan held up the earthenware jar with one hand and gently rubbed the jar wall with the other, while carefully observing the changes inside the mother insect's body.

He had two general guesses about how the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen could give birth to a large number of offspring containing law energy during battle.

First, the Insect Mother herself possesses a certain advanced energy that can mimic other Three Thousand Laws of Energy and perform deep replication.

Secondly, the Insect Queen, with her powerful racial talent, devoured and transformed this incense offering power.

If the first possibility is true, then the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen in Luo Yan's hands is truly powerful. As long as Luo Yan feeds it enough law energy, it can perform unlimited transformations.

Imagine if you could find an opportunity to obtain special energies such as the Time Path, Space Path, and Life and Death Path, and let the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen absorb them.

What kind of ultimate monster will it eventually transform into?

If such an insect queen is cultivated, she may not dominate the entire human realm, but she can certainly suppress all realms and traverse hundreds of star fields without any problem.

With this in mind, Luo Yan began the next step of his observation. Only by understanding the actual potential of the Soul-Eating Ants could he unleash the true power of this weapon of war.

"Try absorbing and transforming this energy of the laws of emptiness."

Luo Yan emitted a faint light from his palm, timely condensing a wisp of energy unique to the laws of life. It was extremely rich, full of vitality, and its emerald green radiance was intense.

It is both eye-catching and dazzling.

'Om! '

The earthenware jar trembled slightly, as if nodding in response, or as if sensing something.

After a long while, the divine voice of the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen slowly came: "Reporting to Master, I can see this energy, but I cannot consume it, nor can I distribute it to my children."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yan's heart sank; his plan was likely to fail.

What about these?

Luo Yan hesitated for a moment, then continued to condense the energy of the Law of Destiny, the Law of Yin and Yang, and even the Path of Reincarnation, so that the Devouring Ant Queen could devour it.

If the queen insect can truly absorb these laws of space and spread them to its offspring, then this insectoid weapon will truly be considered incredibly powerful.

Just imagine, even an insect can roam the river of fate, freely wandering between life and death, traveling back and forth between the past, present, and future. How magnificent and astonishing must such a divine insect be?

Even with only a trace of power, it still exceeded the imagination of the outside world.

If a single insect is this powerful, it can be called a divine insect. If a large group of such insects are all like this, then they are truly a race of gods, enough to shock the eyes of all living beings in the world.

At that time, apart from the immortals, gods, and demons of the upper realm, Luo Yan, who possessed this weapon of war, even dared to challenge any strong person in the human realm!
He fears not even a true demigod!

Unfortunately, although Luo Yan's idea was good, after a long period of devouring, the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen found that it could not absorb and transform the ant at all.

Because, from the perspective of the fundamental laws, all laws of emptiness are higher-level energies that cannot be devoured by a worm mother of this life level.

After all, the laws of emptiness are high above, rarely manifesting in the world, and are beyond the reach of ordinary beings.

"Ordinary laws of energy can be absorbed, and even extreme laws can be absorbed, but the law of emptiness cannot."

"This should have been a routine practice, so why is the offering of incense and prayers an exception?"

"Is it because there is a certain connection between the source of the incense offerings and the external attributes of the insect mother?" Luo Yan pondered, his gaze falling on the giant white egg in the pottery jar.

After several attempts, he roughly figured out the potential of the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen, which had a very low starting point.

It also has a certain upper limit!

The laws of emptiness cannot be absorbed, transformed, or copied.

However, from another perspective, the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen can devour the vast majority of law energy and transform it into her own abilities, which then spread to her offspring.

This is already astonishing in itself, even surpassing most cultivators.

Because the energy devoured by the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen will contain a source within its body, and from then on, it will possess memory attributes, allowing it to endlessly nurture these laws of energy.

It can be said that one method leads to eternal understanding.

After all, the fundamental laws of energy exist in the universe and are almost omnipresent; they can be activated simply by air.

Even the ultimate laws can be harmonized through various basic energies to ultimately create a single ultimate law.

This kind of insect mother is equivalent to a weakened version of Luo Yan's main body, which is enough to deal with ordinary geniuses!

This means that for attribute energies below the Law of Emptiness, the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen can replicate and spawn them as long as it devours them and is given a certain amount of time.

This allows them to use it as a means of attack against their own descendants.

This is a simple process of absorption, transformation, and transmission.

The second level is an exception to the path of incense offerings and vows.

Luo Yan speculated that the reason why the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen could devour and transform incense offerings and vows was likely due to its large number of 'children'.

In the world of the Soul-Eating Ants, the Queen is their only deity, which perfectly aligns with the birth of a faith.

Forms resemble each other, and similarities align with the Dao.

This explains why the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen can devour and transform the power of incense offerings, which, though difficult, is sufficient to sustain its survival.

After all, the power of incense and prayers is only the basic energy that makes up the power of the divine path. It is far less advanced than other laws of the void, and lies between low-level and high-level energy.

Furthermore, the sheer number of Soul-Eating Ant offspring, who are the Queen's most devoted followers, further confirms the birth of the power of incense offerings and vows!

"Can it only absorb the energy of incense and ordinary laws? Perhaps that's barely enough," Luo Yan murmured.

The general principles emphasize the domain, the ability to change the environment, and the creation of a suitable arena for combat.

The ultimate laws emphasize killing and slaughter, making them most suitable for dealing with enemies.

Incense offerings and prayers can grant the Zerg the ability to resurrect on the spot and turn the tide of battle.
The combination of these three elements is equivalent to having the realm of laws preceding, individual power in the middle, and immortality concluding.

Even just two or three individual Soul-Eating Ants with such power would likely send chills down one's spine.

Not to mention their sheer number—it's impossible to count them all.

Even in a place like the Starry Sky Ancient Road, ordinary creatures would probably be no match for this Soul-Devouring Ant Queen, and would be devoured until not even bone fragments were left.

"Master, I can only maintain the most basic survival state right now. If I want to transform, I need more external energy," the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen transmitted.

Luo Yan raised his hand and put the pottery jar into his brow space, asking, "Do you have any specific needs?"

“Soil, ore, seawater and other material media can all become my resources.”

"However, if I want to grow quickly, I still need to devour the energy of heaven and earth, or spiritual objects," the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen replied.

"If the master could cut off a part of this planet and put it in a pottery jar, that would be fine too," the Soul-Devouring Ant Queen continued to transmit her voice.

The Soul-Eating Ants possess the ability to devour all energy in the world, even planets are within their devouring range, which is an exceptionally powerful talent.

Although this process may take a long time to complete.

"To nurture it with an ancient life-bearing star?" Luo Yan muttered to himself, then shook his head.

When his destiny was elevated and he saw the boundless calamity power hovering above the Five Elements Sect, he understood a truth: calamities of slaughter exist in this world.

If an ancient life-bearing star were to be refined, how many lives would be lost or injured?
With such immense karma, Luo Yan naturally felt some apprehension towards it.

He would rather the insect mother remain as she is than do something tantamount to suicide.

Fortune and calamity are unseen, yet they truly exist.

Having witnessed the most mysterious power in the world up close, Luo Yan was bound to feel awe towards it.

Next, Luo Yan continued his journey, traversing the underground world.

There are many elemental creatures here. After Luo Yan killed them, he obtained a large number of Law Beads.

Although he didn't collect them intentionally, he still managed to collect several hundred.

Clearly, this place is a treasure trove for cultivators who practice the power of the five elements.

Luo Yan traveled underground for about twenty days before finally finding the star path teleportation relief.

He stepped inside, and the black hole passage annihilated everything.

When he opened his eyes again, it was still a desolate ancient star, the origin of the laws was slowly dissipating, and the will of heaven and earth was gone.

For the next ten years or so, Luo Yan continued to travel through the Milky Way.

During this time, he encountered many strange creatures, some of which were indestructible and others possessed bizarre attack abilities.

Blocked by those creatures, even Luo Yan expended considerable effort to suppress them.

This also broadened Luo Yan's horizons. Just because he had the ability to be immune to Daoist magic didn't mean he could run rampant on this ancient starry road.

Time passed indefinitely, and when Luo Yan was nearly 290 years old, he finally arrived at an ancient planet inhabited by life.

Many creatures inhabit the area, and the magnificent and awe-inspiring Daoist aura can be sensed even across the vast starry sky.

The Holy Demon Realm. (End of Chapter)