Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 123 Domain Lord-Level Ginseng Fruit

A dense array of spatial illusions materialized, and Berlan dodged left and right, trying to escape the reach of the icy storm.

Unfortunately, the snowstorm covered too much area, and under Lu Jin's telekinetic control, the ice crystal snowballs that formed the snowstorm were shot out at an extremely fast speed.

A blizzard swept through, and the spatial illusions were constantly being destroyed.

In a short while, Berlan's true form was enveloped by the pervasive extreme cold and frozen in solid ice.

"Bam—"

A faint crackling sound rang out, and Berlan, who was completely frozen, turned into a handful of crystalline ice powder and dissipated.

Bolan, who won first place in this year's Genius Battle in the original story, only managed to take third place this time.

Fortunately, considering the large number of geniuses in this year's Peak Genius Battle, the Virtual Universe Company's executives allocated three spots for the 'Primal Secret Realm'; otherwise, Bolan wouldn't have been able to even enter the 'Primal Secret Realm'.

Soon, the tenth battle of the Reincarnation War began, which was also the final showdown of this year's Peak Genius Battle.

'Swish!' 'Swish!'

On the arena, Lu Jin and Luo Feng appeared.

"Brother Jin, could you be a little gentler?"

Luo Feng asked Lu Jin.

"What did you say? Go for it! I'll give you what you want!"

Lu Jin nodded in agreement.

Luo Feng: "."

"Space shatters, solidifies!"

Lu Jin raised his hand and pointed, and a six-foot-long blue-gold crystal ice cone instantly materialized and shot towards Luo Feng.

lighter?

Think beautiful!
If I don't use the fifth level of the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon, 'Space Shattering,' to deal with you, wouldn't that be letting down our 'father-son' relationship?
'Depend on!'

Luo Feng cursed under his breath, conjuring up multiple illusory forms and rapidly dodging on the Dark Cloud Shuttle.

"call out!"

A blue-gold crystal ice cone carrying the power to shatter space streaked through the air at high speed, and the surrounding space seemed to freeze along its path.

"Bam—"

The surrounding space had been frozen. Luo Feng, whose understanding of the laws of space was insufficient, was unable to break through this restriction. He was directly pierced through the chest by the blue-gold crystal ice cone and then turned into a handful of ice crystal powder.

The outcome is decided. Lu Jin, who cleared the seventh trial tower, successfully won first place in this year's Peak Genius Battle.

Luo Feng and Bo Lan, who made it to the first level of the seventh trial tower and widened the gap between themselves and the others, ranked second and third respectively in the genius battle.

Ai Chen, Qian Shui, Jiang Mo, Wu Ka, Gu Si Luo, Rong Jun, and Long Yun are the seven people in the top ten.

Before long, the geniuses who ranked in the top 1000 of the Genius Battle, along with the 1008 immortal leaders from various cosmic nations, stood quietly in the central square listening to the Nine Swords Venerable speak.

"First, second, and third."

"Fourth to tenth."

"The eleventh to the hundredth."

"One hundred and one to one thousand."

"With all four levels of geniuses selected, this year's selection of the universe's pinnacle human geniuses has come to a perfect end!"

"Your class is an exceptionally outstanding one. Whether you become strong individuals or fall by the wayside depends entirely on yourselves."

"Work hard, your path to becoming a strong person has only just begun!"

The voice of the Nine Swords Venerable echoed in everyone's mind.

The ultimate battle of geniuses has officially come to an end!

Fifteen minutes later, in the conference room on the second floor of Restaurant No. 2 in the Central Plaza, Lu Jin and a thousand other geniuses were all seated.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Mana."

A man about 2.65 meters tall with markings on his neck and a friendly smile stood at the front of the conference room and said with a smile: "Given the long journey, the farthest genius is more than a billion light-years away from the company headquarters."

To save time and for safety reasons, my Virtual Universe Company will arrange a spaceship to pick you up and take you to the company headquarters.

Please write down your accurate planet address on the paper in front of you so we can arrange pick-up and drop-off.

Upon hearing this, everyone picked up paper and pens and began to write.

Lu Jin was no exception, and wrote on the paper: 'Tian Shuang Universe Kingdom, Guang Han Star Region, Guang Han Star System, Guang Han Star'.

"beep!"

"Data collection complete!"

Before long, beams of colored light fell on the papers in front of everyone, and then a screen appeared at the front of the conference room.

Above the screen is a huge star map, surrounded by complex numbers, symbols, and so on.

Mana glanced at it, then turned to look at everyone and said with a smile, "Everyone, the addresses you wrote down have all been recorded."

Because of the varying distances, the speeds of the spaceships we arrange will also differ, but we can guarantee that you will arrive at headquarters on the same day.

This process will take approximately three years.

'Three years? That's so short?'

Luo Feng was secretly surprised.

The furthest distance is over a billion light-years, which can be reached in three years. This means that a spaceship traveling at dozens of times the speed of light would be needed to pick them up.

A spaceship traveling at tens of times the speed of light—wouldn't that be an F-class spaceship that even immortal gods might not be able to possess?
Mana smiled and said, "Please rest assured, everyone, my Virtual Universe Company has arranged F-class spaceships for you all."

Moreover, this isn't just any ordinary F-class spaceship; it's a special model of F-class spaceship manufactured and sold by my Virtual Universe Company, with internal technology far exceeding that of F-class spaceships produced and sold by various cosmic nations.

After a pause, Mana continued, "Also, I'd like to inform everyone that the prize money for the top 1,000 in the Peak Genius Battle has started to be distributed now. You can check your accounts later."

We, the Virtual Universe Company, will send you a separate email later, informing you of the exact time we will pick you up. Please be ready at the location you wrote down so we can find you on the way.

Alright, everyone, spend more time with your family and friends, because soon you'll all be leaving your hometowns for an extended period.

As soon as he finished speaking, the lively conference room fell silent.

Yes, if we go to the primordial universe and return, the world will probably have changed beyond recognition.

Then, one by one, the figures disappeared from the conference room.

Inside the Lingxiao Palace in the Great Luo Heaven.

The water unicorn clone, now in human form, sat regally on the nine-colored throne at the head of the hall.

Inside the primordial core within the Water Kirin's avatar, in its inner world, Lu Jin's true form is preparing to break through to the cosmic level.

With the battle of geniuses over, I can now break through to the cosmic level.

On the Nine-Colored Continent, Lu Jin's true form shifted his thoughts, and the miniature star systems within his sea of ​​consciousness and dantian, symbolizing his mental power and primal force cultivation, began to expand rapidly.

'boom--'

It was as if the universe had exploded, with tiny star systems expanding to their limits and then exploding, forming a large number of nebulae, star clusters, dust, and countless tiny planets.

Soon, with the evolution of a small black hole in the center, miniature galaxies appeared within the sea of ​​consciousness and dantian.

At this point, the human being's psychic power and primal force cultivation both advanced to the first level of the universe.

"Shh!"

The next second, the water unicorn clone, now in human form, appeared in the inner world.

With his main body reaching the cosmic level and his original core level breaking through the shackles of the domain lord, the next step is for his original core level to advance, and for the water unicorn clone to enter the domain lord realm.

"Rumble--"

Soon, a roar resounded, and countless nine-colored mists that had enveloped the continent and the sky merged into it. The Nine-Colored Continent began to expand continuously, and a large number of landmasses were rapidly generated.

After a long while, when everything calmed down, the inner world had successfully evolved.

It has transformed from its original length and width of 9000 kilometers at the peak of the ninth order of the universe to a length and width of 100,000 kilometers.

And just after the inner world completed its evolution, the vortex galaxy inside the primordial core, which radiated nine-colored light and symbolized the primordial core level, also began to undergo astonishing changes.

"Whoohoo-"

The central black hole of the spiral galaxy, along with eight smaller black holes along its eight spiral arms, experienced a sudden surge in devouring power, frantically swallowing up the surrounding stars.

Moreover, along with the devouring, the central black hole of the spiral galaxy began to grow larger and larger, and all objects, including the eight smaller black holes, were constantly moving closer to it.

At this moment, the central black hole unleashed a tremendous gravitational pull, devouring everything that could be swallowed.

Gradually, the entire vortex galaxy was swallowed up by the central black hole, leaving only a super-large black hole in the entire proto-nuclear space.

"Wow—"

Suddenly, the supermassive black hole began to collapse from the inside out, and the entire black hole region shrank rapidly within the primordial core.

In the blink of an eye, the entire black hole collapsed and disappeared, and a grayish sphere appeared in the original center of the black hole.

Soon, the sphere expanded rapidly, becoming larger and larger.

Before long, the gray sphere grew to the same size as the entire protonuclear space, and then merged with the protonuclear space.

The gray sphere is the life core—the life core—of a domain lord-level life form.

Originally, when a Domain Lord raised their life level to World Lord, an inner world would emerge from their life core.

However, the primordial core already contained an internal world, and since only one life core can exist, the life core naturally had to merge with the primordial core.

Having reached the level of Domain Lord, the Water Kirin clone within the inner world also began its evolution.

The water unicorn clone, which had transformed into human form, twisted and distorted, dispelling the ever-changing effects of its disguise ability and revealing its 90-meter-tall auspicious beast body.

A large amount of nine-colored mist fell from the sky above the Nine-Colored Continent, enveloping the azure scales covering the Water Kirin clone's entire body, and was continuously absorbed by the Water Kirin clone.

At this moment, Lu Jin clearly noticed that the azure scales covering the Water Kirin clone's entire body were becoming increasingly solid at an extremely rapid pace.

Its bones became denser, and the pair of blue-gold horns on its head and the hooves at the front of its limbs began to become thicker and sharper.
Breaking through from the peak of the ninth rank of the Universe to the Domain Lord level represents a leap in life level. However, the increase in strength brought about by this leap may not be as significant as the increase from the first rank of the Universe to the ninth rank.

However, in terms of the essence of life, the changes that occur during a life leap are far more numerous than simply raising a level from the first to the ninth.

"Yin——"

After a long while, the water unicorn clone, which had reached the first level of the Domain Lord and grown to a size of 100 meters, let out a pleasant murmur.

Compared to the Golden Horned Beast, the Water Kirin clone is indeed far inferior in size.

After all, a Golden Horned Beast that has just entered the Domain Lord level can generally reach a length of 10 kilometers, which is incomparable to the 100-meter-tall body of the Water Kirin clone.

But Lu Jin wasn't particularly envious.

The advantage of a large size can only be truly realized after reaching the Immortal level.

Moreover, no matter how big the original size was, even if it was just a short mule with a height of less than one meter, as long as the life gene can reach 10081 times and achieve perfect genes, the size can be directly increased to more than 90,000 kilometers, becoming a behemoth.

Perhaps its size of over 90,000 kilometers is still not comparable to some exceptionally gifted individuals, but it is definitely a level that countless immortals and above in the universe would envy.

Subsequently, the water unicorn clone transformed back into human form, took out a large number of domain lord-level life source crystals, and activated a level-up rampage mode.

The Netherworld Blood Sea Avatar is still in the process of development, and it is very necessary to raise the Water Kirin Avatar and the original core to the peak of the ninth level of the Domain Lord as soon as possible to accelerate the development of the Netherworld Blood Sea Avatar.

As for the main body, there's no rush to upgrade its level using the cosmic-level life source crystal; that can be put on hold for now.

Because of his breakthrough in a major realm, he can now use his cheat code again!

As his consciousness sank into the external space, Lu Jin's mind raced, and he opened the Domain Lord-level treasure chest that emitted nine-colored light.

Soon, as the nine-colored light dissipated, three other items appeared in the external storage space, in addition to the World Lord-level Nine-Colored Treasure Chest.

A golden book.

A gatehouse, about the size of a palm, that looks as if it were carved from the finest green jade, resembling a work of art.

A reddish liquid with faint white-gold threads.

By using his mental power to probe, Lu Jin quickly learned the basic information about the three items.

—《Innate Dao Body》: Amplitude-based cultivation secrets.

Divided into the Innate Dao Body Chapter and the Innate Dao Soul Chapter, upon perfect cultivation, one can achieve a hundredfold increase in the amplitude of the physical (divine) body and a hundredfold increase in the amplitude of the soul.

Based on the diagram of the innate Dao body, there are two methods of cultivating the innate Dao body and the innate Dao soul.

One method is to cultivate oneself by consuming a large amount of energy to transform the body and soul.

Secondly, one cultivates the innate Dao body based on the understanding of higher-level laws, and can achieve perfection by mastering any complete higher-level law.

Note: The prerequisite for cultivating the Innate Dao Body Chapter is to achieve a hundredfold increase in physical strength; the prerequisite for cultivating the Innate Dao Soul Chapter is to achieve a hundredfold increase in mental power amplitude.

—Ginseng Fruit Garden: A special type of top-tier treasure, containing a ginseng fruit tree (ripe and ready to be harvested).

Absorbing the spiritual energy of the universe, the ginseng fruit tree blossoms once every three thousand epochs, bears fruit once every three thousand epochs, and matures once every three thousand epochs.

The ginseng fruit tree produces 30 ginseng fruits every nine thousand epochs, and the ginseng fruit has two uses.

One option is to consume ginseng fruit, which allows one to choose between enhancing cultivation talent or increasing strength; the choice is between the two.

Choosing to enhance one's cultivation talent allows one to become a special life form of the Wood Law, possessing a thousand times the life genes.

Choosing to enhance one's strength can lead to becoming an immortal god of the wood element, while maintaining one's own life gene level and cultivation talent.

Secondly, refining the ginseng fruit can evolve the original nucleus, nurturing a clone with a life gene level not exceeding 10081 times.

Note: Ginseng fruit can be consumed regardless of the user's life level, but repeated consumption will be ineffective.

Refining the ginseng fruit's derivative core is ineffective if the life level is at the Immortal level or above, multiple refinements are ineffective, and it is ineffective if the user already has clones.

Upon achieving true godhood, after merging one's avatars, one can condense an avatar identical to the original. As long as the avatar is immortal, the original will not perish.

—Blood essence of the Time Dragon: A drop of blood essence from the Time Dragon, a special life form governed by the Light-Time Fusion Law.

Note: The Time Dragon possesses a life gene level of 1200 times, and its essence blood originates from a first-tier Time Dragon of the Domain Lord.

Temporarily ignoring the rather extraordinary ginseng orchard, Lu Jin focused his attention on the "Innate Dao Body" secret technique and the essence blood of the Time Dragon.

This book, "The Primordial Dao Body," is quite interesting.

It's important to understand that even though they are both secret techniques with a hundredfold amplitude, the specific difficulty of cultivating them is quite different.

The methods of amplitude manipulation can be broadly divided into two types.

One type of cultivation does not place too many requirements on the cultivator's life level or comprehension; it mainly relies on various precious resources to transform the body or soul for cultivation.

Another type has few or no requirements for resources, but it does require a certain level of life cultivation for the cultivator.

The reason for these two distinctions is that the cultivation efficiency of the Amplification Secret Technique varies depending on the life level at different stages.

If it were just an ordinary hundredfold amplitude secret technique, Lu Jin really wouldn't be interested in it.

After all, he is now a member of the virtual universe company 'Original Secret Realm' and has a Venerable Master as a teacher, so obtaining the secret technique with a hundredfold amplitude will not be difficult.

However, the "Innate Dao Body" is different. Not only does it have both physical (divine body) amplitude and soul amplitude, but the requirements for both cultivation methods are also very low.

In addition, Lu Jin also noticed that cultivating the "Innate Dao Body" by consuming external objects consumes energy.

In other words, he can cultivate the "Innate Dao Body" using cosmic crystals or immortal crystals without spending a lot of valuable resources.

Even if he finds both methods inefficient, he can still use the Life Source Crystals produced by decomposing corpses in the Demon Refining Pot to cultivate.

Without relying on external objects, one can achieve perfect cultivation simply by mastering any complete superior law.

The literal meaning is quite clear: as long as one is a cosmic venerable, no matter how weak one's strength is, one can still cultivate the "Innate Dao Body" to perfection and reach the limit of a hundredfold amplitude.

Cultivation using external resources requires minimal resources.

One can become a Venerable simply through self-cultivation.

Perhaps for an individual, the value of this book, "The Primordial Dao Body," is not that great.

However, for a powerful force, especially a large one with many strong or talented individuals under its command, this Amplification Secret Technique is extremely valuable.

'Perhaps... I can cultivate to the limit a hundredfold before achieving immortality?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

As for the essence of the Dragon of Time...
Supernatural Power: The original core formed by the transformation of Qi into Three Pure Ones has only three slots for the creation of clones, and each clone slot requires the original core level to reach the planetary level, cosmic level, and world lord level, respectively.

Currently, the original core level has just entered the domain lord level, and the human body will be released by the virtual universe company after breaking through to the domain lord level, so the original core level will definitely not be able to break through to the realm lord level in a short period of time.

Even if Lu Jin had the idea of ​​creating a third clone, he was powerless to do so.

If the subsequent Netherworld Blood Sea clone is born and possesses the 'creation' type of talent secret technique that can analyze life genes, then using the Time Dragon as one's third clone would not be bad.

A 1200-fold increase in life genes isn't exactly beneath its weight.

As for the fact that this drop of Time Dragon's essence blood is only at the Domain Lord level, that's not a big deal.

As long as the level of genetic material does not exceed the level of a world lord, and the level of life genes is within 10081 times, there is no clone that he cannot create; it is only a matter of time.

Moreover, the low level of genetic material is extremely favorable news for Lu Jin.

The lower the initial level of the clone, the shorter the time required for its development.

Otherwise, with the inner world of a World Lord level being used to nurture a special life form of World Lord level with 1200 times the life genes, the gestation time would probably be at least thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

However, if the life level is only at the first level of Domain Lord, the gestation time can be greatly shortened.

Afterwards, Lu Jin focused his attention on the ginseng fruit orchard.

In Lu Jin's opinion, the ginseng fruit was even more miraculous than the peaches he had obtained before.

The peaches of immortality are said to enhance the multiplication of life genes and the talent for cultivating the laws of water. There are other treasures in the universe with similar effects.

At most, there are a lot of peach trees, and each tree produces a lot of fruit, and the growth cycle is relatively short.

However, there was no other treasure with the same effects as ginseng fruit in the primordial universe.

Of course, if it only results in a special life form with a thousand times the life genes or an immortal god of the wood element after consumption, or if it is refined to evolve into a primordial core and give birth to an avatar, then it is not too outrageous.

After all, there are treasures in the universe that can enhance genes by a thousand times, treasures that allow one to directly enter immortality after consuming them, and even life forms with the secret technique of creating clones.

Like the Golden Horned Beast, while not every single one is on the street, there are quite a few of them throughout the universe.

Moreover, the Golden Horned Beast can spawn not just one, but three clones.

The extraordinary nature of ginseng fruit lies in the fact that after consuming just one ginseng fruit, one can create a special life form with a thousand times the life gene density according to the Law of Wood.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the original universe does not impose a limitation on ordinary life forms below the level of the Universe Lord, which limits their life genes to a maximum of one hundred times.

If a sufficient number of Blood Crystals can be fused later, with the amplification of 'Blood Crystal Power', it is entirely possible to directly achieve 10081 times the perfect genes, thereby obtaining the strongest secret technique bestowed by the original will and increasing the size to more than 90,000 kilometers.

As for choosing to become an immortal god of the wood element?

What a waste!

They can become special life forms with a thousand times the genetic potential. They can't be guaranteed a place as cosmic venerable beings, but becoming immortal is definitely not difficult for them.

Choosing to refine the ginseng fruit, evolve it into a primordial core to nurture a clone, and then, after achieving true godhood in the future, merge the clones together, still be able to condense a clone exactly the same as the original—this is even more heaven-defying.

This is practically a weakened version of the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones Divine Power.

Beings like the Golden Horned Beast, which possess the secret technique of creating clones, can create clones regardless of how many clones they originally possessed, because this secret technique was bestowed upon them by the primordial universe and was not something they were born with.

Once one becomes a true god, having transformed from a favored child of the original will of the primordial universe into a 'rebellious son,' one completely loses all incarnations.

This is precisely why no true god-level powerhouse in the universe can possess an avatar.

Subsequently, Lu Jin retrieved the Ginseng Fruit Garden from his external storage space and imbued it with his mental power to establish its ownership.

Thanks to the fact that the treasure was produced by the cheat, Lu Jin quickly recognized the Ginseng Fruit Garden, a special type of top-tier treasure, as his owner.

And you know what? Their own orchard is full of top-quality produce, so that's quite a prestigious reputation.

The next moment, Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, and his figure disappeared into his inner world.

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