Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 161 Soul Resonance, Body of Time

"Master, why are you so good to us?"

In contrast, Zi'er, who was more lively, quickly stepped forward, hugged Lu Jin's arm, blinked her beautiful eyes, and asked with admiration in her eyes.

"If you want to act cute as abstainer from lust, go find me."

Lu Jin ruthlessly pushed away Zi'er, who was clinging to his arm.

Although they are all himself, Lu Jin felt that there had to be a distinction.

Being attacked by a cow is unacceptable, not even by one's own clone or incarnation.

Zi'er: "."

"Alright, the primordial will of the universe will bestow upon each perfect genetic life form a supreme talent technique. Tell me about the effects of your supreme talent technique."

Lu Jin addressed the seven people.

Hong'er said, "Master, I have obtained a talent technique called Soul Resonance, which is a support type."

It can resonate with the souls of beings under its control, thereby temporarily enhancing its soul power.

Zi'er said with a surprised look, "Big sister, you also obtained soul resonance? Me too!"

"Me too!"

"me too!"

The five girls, including Cheng'er, nodded in agreement.

Lu Jin: "."

Seven identical, most powerful secret techniques?
Could it be that the original will of the primordial universe got lazy and just gave away the strongest innate secret technique to get rid of it?
After a moment's thought, Lu Jin asked, "The life forms under your own control must refer to the Zerg warriors cultivated by the mother hive, right?"

The Zerg Queen is best suited for the illusionist path, and the strength of one's soul power is crucial for an illusionist.

Furthermore, as the strongest innate secret technique, the effect of the Soul Resonance Secret Technique should not be too bad.

"It refers to Zerg warriors, but only if the Zerg warriors can be controlled."

Hong'er nodded.

Lu Jin asked, "What is the specific percentage of the blessing?"

The Soul Resonance Technique can enhance soul power, so it certainly can't be a simple superposition of all the legion's warriors; there must be some discount involved.

"I'll give it a try~"

As she spoke, Hong'er used her innate secret technique to try and control the Zerg warriors in her inner world to enhance her soul power, conducting an experiment.

'Can only a Realm Lord use it?'

Looking at Hong'er who had begun the experiment, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows.

This is not good news.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Generally speaking, for secret techniques of the same grade, the more restrictions on their use, the greater their actual effect or power.

The lower the usage restrictions, the smaller the actual effect or power will likely be.

Soon, Hong'er said, "Master, after casting the secret spell, each Zerg warrior under my control can be empowered with 1% of their own soul power."

"1%? If the Ghost Insect Warriors are fully formed, even a million-strong Ghost Insect Legion at the peak of the ninth rank of World Lord can only amplify the soul power of a peak World Lord by ten thousand times?"

Lu Jin's face darkened. How could the strongest talent secret technique be so underwhelming?
Ten thousand times the peak power of a Realm Lord is actually not bad, strictly speaking; it's already close to the minimum requirement for being granted the title of Marquis.

However, for Hong'er and her seven companions who have achieved perfect genes and a hundredfold increase in soul amplitude, possessing a soul power a million times greater than that of a ninth-level World Lord, this is a different story.

A mere ten thousand times the soul power of a ninth-tier peak Realm Lord is, while not entirely useless, merely a useless burden.

At this moment, Hong'er said, "Master, the number of warriors I can control is more than a million."

"More than that? How many could there be?"

Lu Jin's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked.

"Due to the Soul Resonance talent technique, the number of warriors I can control has increased from the original million to one hundred million."

Lu Jin: "."

I apologize, great primordial will of the universe, I admit, I, Lu Jin, was too superficial!
If the current version of the Ghost Zerg warriors can be finalized, then a legion of one hundred million peak ninth-tier World Lord Ghost Zerg warriors will be able to be empowered with a million times the soul power of a peak ninth-tier World Lord.

And
"Are there any tiers of 'King Warriors' among the Ghost Zerg warriors?"

Lu Jin asked Hong'er and the other six.

Compared to ordinary Zerg warriors, King-level Zerg warriors require a hundred times more resources, but there's a reason for their higher price. King-level Zerg warriors are ten times stronger than ordinary Zerg warriors of the same level.

If a group of seven, including Hong'er, who are at the Realm Lord level, have a legion of 100 million Ghost King Insects under their command, then after using the Soul Resonance Secret Technique, they can enhance the soul power of a Realm Lord at the peak of the ninth rank by tens of millions of times.

In terms of basic strength alone, he is no less than the White-Bodied Venerable.

It's a pity that this power, which doesn't belong to oneself, can't benefit from the amplification technique's enhancement; otherwise, if it were multiplied a hundredfold, that would be amazing.

Furthermore, the Soul Resonance talent technique not only enhances the abilities of Hong'er and the others.

With the number of controllable warriors increasing dramatically, the power of the Zerg army's combined attack also increased dramatically.

A million-strong army of ninth-tier Zerg kings, capable of severely injuring an ordinary peak-level king with a single combined attack.

If a legion of 100 million Ninth-Order Peak Realm Lords were to launch a combined attack, and if the attack type were a soul attack, it would be a certainty to annihilate a Limit-of-King level cultivator with a single shot.

Unless the opponent has a treasure that can greatly weaken soul attacks, or simply has a soul-type treasure to protect their soul.

Hong'er said, "Master, every type of warrior bred by the mother hive is divided into ordinary warriors and king warriors, regardless of the type of Zerg warrior."

If we compare ordinary Zerg warriors to mediocre talents, then the Zerg King Warriors who survive countless battles are like geniuses who have emerged from among countless mediocre individuals.

A genius is someone who is ten times better than an average person when they are at the same level. Isn't that normal?

"Very good! Have you finished analyzing the genes of the Ghost Zerg warriors?"

Nodding in satisfaction, Lu Jin asked.

"The genetic analysis has been completed. Based on the analysis of the mother hive, if the soul attack strength of the Ghost Zerg warriors is quantified as energy attack, it is among the best of the many Zerg warriors."

Hong'er said with a happy expression.

Even if she is only at the Realm Lord level, with a 100 million Realm Lord level 9 peak Ghost King Insect Legion at her disposal, even a King-level expert would have to give her a wide berth.

He could even put in extra effort to make up for his shortcomings in understanding the laws and secret techniques. With the soul power of a ninth-level World Lord enhanced by soul resonance by tens of millions of times, killing an invincible King in the future would not be a problem.

Suddenly, Lu Jin thought of a problem and said, "With a hundred million Legion warriors, given your Mother Nest's breeding efficiency..."

The speed at which a Lord-level mother hive can cultivate Zerg warriors is relatively limited. Directly cultivating a Lord-level ninth-tier peak warrior would yield approximately ten per day.

As for breeding King-level Zerg warriors, since only stellar or cosmic-level warriors need to be bred, the breeding efficiency can be higher, with an average of one hundred warriors being bred per day.

A million-strong army of Zerg warriors would require more than 27 years of cultivation time. If the number were increased a hundredfold, that would take more than 2,700 years!

Although less than three thousand years is not a long time for other realm lords, it is a very long time for Lu Jin.

“Master, although each queen can only build one mother nest, the breeding efficiency can be improved by expanding the mother nest.”

Hong'er said.

"Uh, the mother nest can be expanded?"

Lu Jin asked in surprise.

Orange chimed in from the side, "Master, when our Queen Mother's life level advances, the Mother Nest won't automatically upgrade."

The reason why the Immortal Queen's Mother Nest is larger than ours is because it was expanded.

Of course, the Immortal-level Mother Nest is not only large, but its level has also been improved, enabling it to cultivate Immortal-level warriors.

Furthermore, expanding the mother nest requires a lot of resources, while the daily training efficiency of ten peak ninth-tier Realm Lord warriors is already sufficient for an ordinary Realm Lord-level Mother Queen.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin nodded.

Indeed, an ordinary World Lord-level Mother Queen can only control a million-strong insectoid army. With sufficient resources, she can amass a million-strong army in less than three hundred years.

There is no need to spend a lot of resources to build a larger nest that can produce more warriors.

What resources are needed to expand the mother nest?

"Cosmic crystals will do."

"Where is the Life Source Crystal?"

"Does Master treat the precious Life Source Crystal as a Cosmic Crystal?"

Hong'er blinked and looked at Lu Jin with a puzzled expression.

Not only her, but also the other six, including Cheng'er, were the same.

Although they did not yet know that the Immortal-level Life Source Crystal could enable World Lord-level plant life to enter the realm of immortality, they were all aware of the preciousness of the Life Source Crystal.

In their view, given the same total energy, the value of the Life Source Crystal far exceeds that of the Cosmic Crystal.

Lu Jin waved his hand: "Just tell me if it's okay or not."

Cosmic crystal?
I have to spend money to buy this thing.

However, with the Immortal-grade Life Source Crystal and the Immortal Transformation Pool in hand, as long as one endures the hardship of consuming Star Grass, one can completely produce and sell it at zero cost.

"of course can."

Hong'er nodded.

"Whoosh whoosh-"

With a wave of his hand, Lu Jin unleashed a torrent of Immortal-grade Life Source Crystals, which poured down like a celestial river, piling up into a massive mountain not far ahead.

Then he said to Hong'er and the other six, "Use it as you please! Your master has plenty of Life Source Crystals, and he can use them to expand his inner world as well."

“Master, I almost forgot if you hadn’t mentioned it.”

After achieving perfect genes, I feel that my inner world can expand significantly.

"But our Mother Empress already faces immense difficulty in breaking through to immortality; if she were to further expand her inner world, the difficulty would become even greater."

Hong'er said with a somewhat solemn expression.

Lu Jin asked, "How big is your inner world?"

“It had already expanded to its limit, with a diameter of one million kilometers.”

"A million kilometers? Then your inner world should be able to expand to at least tens of billions of kilometers in diameter."

Hong'er and the others do not possess the secret technique of creating clones, and for the time being, the size of their inner world is still less than his one trillion kilometers in diameter.

"To create an inner world spanning billions of kilometers, one would need to reach at least the peak of the King-level or even the limit of the King-level in their comprehension of higher-level laws, right?"

Zi'er couldn't help but click her tongue.

"Don't panic. Your current cultivation talent is far beyond what it used to be, and the cultivation environment of the Great Luo Heaven is also incomparable to that of the outside world. Besides, my expectation for you is that you can comprehend the Ten Great Laws at the Realm Lord stage."

Lu Jin said with a serious expression.

Having already been given perfect genes, Lu Jin's expectations for Hong'er and the other six were naturally not limited to becoming the Lord of the Universe or a True God, but rather at a higher level.

Given the excellent cultivation environment within the Great Luo Heaven, it wouldn't be good to have low standards.

Of course, if the seven of them can't keep up with his progress, then Lu Jin will change the original plan and have them improve their strength with the Law Godhood, just like Zi Ni Chang.

Hong'er and the other seven: "."

Master, aren't you overestimating us a bit?

half a month later.

After consuming a large amount of Immortal-grade Life Source Crystals, the expansion of the nest of Hong'er and her seven companions was completed.

The diameter of the mother nest expanded from over 800 meters to 10 kilometers, becoming roughly the same size as an immortal-level mother nest.

After the mother nest expands, the breeding efficiency also increases a hundredfold.

With sufficient resources, the number of ordinary Realm Lord level 9 peak Zerg warriors cultivated increased from ten per day to one thousand per day.

The cultivation of peak ninth-tier Zerg kings can reach an average of 10,000 per day.

Subsequently, Lu Jin sent Zi Nishang to Earth to use spatial magic to reinforce the Australian continent and then set up a spatial barrier along the coastline to isolate the inside from the outside.

Needless to say, the Australian continent will become the base for Hong'er and her six companions to cultivate the Ghost King Insects.

As for the way to enter and exit the Australian continent, Lu Jin placed the Western Heavenly Gate, which evolved from the celestial realm, in the center of the continent to connect the Australian continent with the Great Luo Heaven.

Earth's unique environment is very useful for cultivating Zerg warriors, especially the Ghost King Zerg cultivated by Hong'er and her seven companions, which are soul attack type Zerg.

The reason why King-level Zerg warriors are stronger than ordinary Zerg warriors is because King-level Zerg warriors are 'geniuses'.

Breeding Zerg overlords elsewhere is tantamount to picking geniuses from among countless mediocre talents.

The ability to cultivate Zerg overlords on Earth is tantamount to selecting geniuses from among relatively high-quality mediocre talents.

Perhaps the quality of geniuses selected from these two different places is the same, but the number of mediocre talents required for the latter is far less than that for the former.

Furthermore, since Earth enhances the potential of the soul, and the Ghost Insect Clan are also soul-type insect warriors, according to the statistics of Hong'er and the other seven, cultivating Ghost King Insect Warriors on Earth only requires one-tenth of the resources needed for cultivation outside.

The Zerg Overlord's combat power is ten times that of an ordinary Zerg warrior.

Currently, the resource consumption for cultivating Ghost Lords on Earth is only ten times that of ordinary Ghost Zerg warriors.

Compared to the initial expectations, the maximum number of Ghost King Insects has increased a hundredfold, but the cost of each Ghost King Insect has also decreased tenfold.

Back then, in the Saipan star system, one of the nine garbage star systems, the purchase of 10 billion peak ninth-tier world lord insect corpses could cultivate approximately 100 million peak ninth-tier world lord ghost king insects.

Damn it, there's a significant gap!

Lu Jin silently complained to himself.

When he bought 10 billion Chaos Units of Insect Corpses, he thought he would have plenty left over!
Unexpectedly, out of seven queen mothers, he could only feed one of them.

Virtual Universe, Yuxiang Mountain Primitive Area, Manor No. 114.

Inside the attic, a virtual screen appeared in front of Lu Jin.

"Your Highness Lu Jin, it's been a long time!"

Oruk, the bald, purple-striped giant on the screen, said with a smile.

"King Purple Thunder, how have you been lately? I need to buy insect corpses from you again."

After exchanging greetings, Lu Jin got straight to the point.

"What? Buy insect corpses? Your Highness, didn't you just buy 10 billion peak-level World Lord insect corpses from the Saipan star system two years ago?"

Upon hearing that Lu Jin had bought insect corpses again, Oruk asked in surprise.

One hundred billion peak-level World Lord insect corpses, and all of them were of average quality.

Even if it were used to cultivate a Zerg king legion, it could produce tens of millions of Zerg king legions at the peak of the ninth level of the World Lord realm.

"Sigh~, it's all my fault. Never mind, let's not talk about it. King Purple Thunder, your Saipan Star Region should still have peak World Lord insect corpses for sale, right?"

'Were you robbed?'

Oruk thought to himself.

"Of course! As long as Your Highness places an order, we have as many peak-level Realm Lord insect corpses as you want!"

Oruk said without hesitation.

He didn't care why Lu Jin wanted to buy more insect corpses.

As long as he can afford the mixed units, he can sell as many insect corpses as there are in the Saipan star system.

After all, everything in the garbage star field has a price tag; they sell it to anyone who pays for it. The only difference is in quality.

"Alright, this time I want a peak-level World Lord insect corpse with 70 billion Chaos Units."

Lu Jin nodded and said.

Although the shortage is only 60 billion Chaos Units of Insect Corpses, it is still necessary to keep some stock.

Anyway, the insect corpse is at the peak of the ninth level of the World Lord, so its shelf life is very long.

"70 billion Hunyuan units?"

Oruk couldn't help but raise his voice.

He knew that Lu Jin was a major client who would need a considerable number of insect corpses in the future, but he never expected that this major client's order would be so large.

Including this order and the previous order of 10 billion mixed units, Lu Jin has placed orders for 80 billion mixed units of insect corpses from him in just over two years!
Compared to his immortal status as a king, it's not much different.

Lu Jin nodded: "Yes, it's 70 billion mixed units."

When will Your Highness come to collect the goods?

"I will teleport there via the Divine Kingdom shortly. I wonder if King Purple Thunder is available?"

"Of course I'm free. I'll be waiting for Your Highness at the Star Domain Administration."

After finalizing the purchase intention, Lu Jin himself withdrew from the virtual universe and had Zi Zhenfeng take him to the Saipan star system via the divine kingdom teleportation.

It is worth mentioning that some time ago, the security department of Yanhuang Company completed the task of cracking down on slave organizations that violated the ban.

Lu Jin bestowed upon Zi Zhenfeng the superior Time Law Bead that had been extracted from the corpse of the low-level King-ranked ram-headed demon in the Dead Silence Demon Abyss.

Zi Zhenfeng is now a newly appointed King-level expert.

Of course, reaching the initial level of being a king only requires a divine body level and an understanding of the laws.

Zi Zhenfeng's weakness in secret techniques means that even if he doesn't create his own top-tier secret techniques, which are standard for powerful kings, it will still take him a certain amount of time to cultivate the top-tier secret techniques created by others.

Moreover, not only Zi Zhenfeng, the head of the security department, but also Lu Jin bestowed upon him the superior law beads that he had obtained in the Dead Silence Demon Abyss.

Currently, many members of the security department of Yanhuang Company have reached the level of advanced Immortal Military Lord or the peak of Immortal Military Lord.

Time flies, and another half a year has passed.

On this day, the internal world within the pronucleus.

A Blood God Child stood in the air, looking up at the oval-shaped, nine-colored giant egg with a diameter of ten kilometers that was suspended in mid-air at the very center of his inner world.

The three-year period has passed, and the Time Dragon clone, which has been in the womb, is about to hatch.

'I wonder what kind of innate secret techniques the Time Dragon's clone possesses.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

More than half an hour later.

"Kakaka-"

The oval-shaped, nine-colored giant egg, ten kilometers in diameter, began to show cracks in mid-air.

'Snapped--'

A short while later, a crisp sound rang out, and the nine-colored eggshell shattered completely.

"Yin——"

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a long, drawn-out dragon roar, a platinum-gold dragon ten kilometers long soared into the sky.

The Dragon of Time has a slender body and an overall appearance resembling an oriental dragon, with horns like a deer, a head like a camel, eyes like a rabbit, a neck like a snake, a belly like a clam, scales like a fish, claws like an eagle, paws like a tiger, and ears like a cow.

The dragon has four claws on its belly, each claw with five sharp, white-gold claws at the tip. Its entire body is covered with white-gold dragon scales, and mysterious patterns are faintly visible on each scale. Its whole body exudes a faint golden glow, giving people a sense of holiness.

The next moment, the Time Dragon clone activated its shapeshifting ability, rapidly shrinking its body into the form of an Earthling with flowing long hair and wearing platinum armor.

After concentrating and perceiving for a long time, Lu Jin learned about the innate secret technique of the Time Dragon clone.

As a special life form governed by the law of light and time fusion, the Time Dragon avatar possesses 1200 times the life gene and three great innate secret techniques.

Talented Secret Technique 'Dragon God Transformation': [Light-type secret technique, increases strength sixteenfold.]

Innate Secret Technique 'Mastery of Time': [A secret technique of time, mastering the three profound mysteries of the laws of time; its actual effect depends on one's own strength.]

Innate Arcane Art 'Body of Time': [A time-light fusion arcane art that uses the power of time to protect oneself and reduce damage from physical attacks.]

The 'Dragon God Transformation' talent technique has remarkable effects, essentially granting a free 16-fold increase in divine body and soul amplitude.

Although not extremely high, this level of amplitude is something that most immortals can only look up to.

Unfortunately, the amplitude effect of this secret technique was completely overshadowed by the "Innate Dao Body," which reached the limit of a hundred times amplitude, making it a purely useless talent secret technique.

The three great mysteries of spatial laws are 'spatial teleportation', 'spatial blockade', and 'spatial strangulation'.

As a superior law, the law of time also has three profound mysteries: 'time pause', 'time acceleration', and 'time reversal'.

Pausing time for the opponent and a certain area around them can have the effect of controlling the opponent during combat.

It accelerates time for itself and a certain area around it, thus increasing its speed during combat.

As for time reversal, it sounds very sophisticated, but its actual effect is far less powerful than the literal meaning suggests.

Using the Time Rewind ability only allows you to see past images within a certain area; it cannot change anything.

However, while time reversal may seem somewhat useless, it is an indispensable part of the complete laws of time.

For the immortal kings on the time side, it is indeed a double-edged sword, but they cannot do without it, otherwise they cannot become the Time Venerables.

Compared to the useless 'Dragon God Transformation', 'Mastering Time' is definitely a super-powerful secret technique.

When the forces are equal, the Time Dragon's clone can use time stop and time acceleration, while the opponent cannot, which is enough to instantly turn the tide of a battle that was originally evenly matched.

Moreover, with this innate secret technique at hand, it will be much easier to comprehend the laws of time in the future.

Compared to 'Mastering Time', the 'Body of Time' talent technique, which integrates light and time, is also extremely effective, reducing the damage from material attacks to one-thousandth.

(End of this chapter)