Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 180 Faction Bounty, Azure Abyss

Meanwhile, a piece of news ignited the Immortal Circle in the Seventh Extraterrestrial Battlefield of the Demon Clan.

— [Within the faction, near-King-level invincible powerhouses, including King Mengsha, King Yinyan, King Bingbi, and many other King-level limit and peak powerhouses, were enslaved by the souls of unknown powerhouses from the opposing faction in the Shattered Star Continent region.]

Furthermore, the Black Bone King, a near-invincible powerhouse who reported this news to the alliance, was not enslaved by a soul because he had none, but unfortunately perished as well.

This news directly shocked countless immortals in the demon race camp.

It should be noted that although Feng Wang Wudi is also an immortal, he is nowhere to be seen in the outer battlefield.

After all, those who have been crowned kings and are invincible have almost reached the point where they can no longer advance.

To continue improving one's strength, the only way is to become a Universal Master.

Comprehending the laws of time or space is what invincible kings should be doing, not continuing to train on the battlefields beyond the realm.

It can be said that in the battlefields beyond the realm, the strongest beings who are close to being invincible and crowned kings are the heavens.

But now, the sky has fallen, and four of them have fallen, and three of them have even become soul slaves of unknown powerful figures from the opposing camp.

Immediately, the Universe Venerable, who was stationed in the Seventh Extraterrestrial Battlefield of the Demon Clan, ordered a thorough investigation into the unknown powerful figures who enslaved the Demon King, Silver Nightmare King, Ice Jade King, and other demons.

Soon, based on the intelligence report of the fallen Black Bone King, and given that the incident occurred in the Shattered Star Continent region, the demon race identified the unknown powerhouse as a human, Lingxiao King!
In the virtual universe, on the extraterrestrial battlefield plane, on the seventh island of Shattered Star City, inside a luxurious restaurant with the number 001 displayed at the entrance.

"Big news, big news!"

A stunningly beautiful woman with long, colorful, wavy hair, wearing a thin veil that partially obscured her graceful figure, screamed.

"Dream King, what breaking news is there?"

"Dream King, you're the most well-informed person in Shattered Star City. What major event has occurred?"

The colorful-haired woman, Dream Queen, parted her red lips slightly and said, "Just a few minutes ago, the demon race faction issued a faction bounty: anyone who kills King Lingxiao will be rewarded with one precious treasure if they are not a member of the demon race faction, and two precious treasures if they are a member of the demon race faction!"

"Sigh~"

Immediately, a collective gasp filled the entire restaurant.

This is a treasure!
A treasure that most king-level powerhouses cannot possess!
Amidst the shock, someone asked, "Is this Lingxiao King referring to the Lingxiao King who has been active in our Shattered Star Continent region in recent years?"

There are a great many Immortal Kings in the outer battlefields, and there are quite a few with the same name.

The Dream King nodded: "The demon race camp even gave a special introduction to the Lingxiao King, who wears dark blue armor and has three pairs of dark blue wings."

"My goodness! What earth-shattering thing did this rich guy do to warrant the demon race offering such a valuable reward?"

As soon as he said that, the curiosity of all the immortals in the human faction present exploded.

The Dream Queen blinked her beautiful eyes, made no attempt to hide anything, and said directly: "Today, in the Shattered Star Continent region, coordinates: XXX..."
Among the four powerful figures in the demon race camp who were close to becoming kings—King Mengsha, King Yinyan, King Bingbi, and King Heigu—the first three became soul servants of King Lingxiao, while the latter, having no soul, perished at the hands of King Lingxiao.

In addition, more than ten King-level limit cultivators and more than twenty King-level peak cultivators in the demon race camp were also enslaved by King Lingxiao.

As for why so many powerful figures from the demon race have come to the small Shattered Star Continent today...

My servants have gathered information that King Lingxiao has enslaved a powerful demon, then used him as bait to lure other powerful demons into sharing the spoils.

"Holy crap! Is King Lingxiao really that ruthless? No wonder the demon race offered such a valuable reward."

"Tsk tsk~, four people who are close to becoming invincible kings."

"I originally thought that King Lingxiao had already gone crazy enough by hunting down tens of thousands of marquises in just a few years, but I never expected that I had seriously underestimated him."

"How can you compare this? Let alone tens of thousands of marquises, even if there were a million marquises, they would only be slaughtered when facing a powerful expert who is close to being a king."

"If he can enslave someone who is nearly invincible at the King level, then King Lingxiao must possess the strength of an invincible King, right?"

"It's probably pretty close."

"A bounty of just one or two treasures? Who are the demons looking down on? I refuse to believe that those four near-kingly invincible demons don't possess any powerful treasures!"

"Although... well, compared to the strength of King Lingxiao, the reward for one or two treasures is indeed low. I guess it's just for show."

"Gentlemen, today many powerful demons have become servants of our human race. Let us raise a toast to celebrate King Lingxiao!"

"Congratulations to King Lingxiao!"

"Congratulations to King Lingxiao!"

At that moment, the restaurant was filled with congratulations and clinking glasses.

In the heavens above the divine realm of Zi Nishang, inside the Palace of Time.

"Om~"

A buzzing sound rang out, and a deep blue cliff, shrunk to ten meters high, flew out from the mouth of the Qiankun Cauldron and landed in the air in front of Zi Nishang.

Immediately afterwards, Zi Ni Chang waved her hand, and three more treasures appeared on the edge of the azure cliff.

A set of beast-shaped armor, including four claws and two pairs of wings, a three-inch round bead, and a foot-long round mirror, all in a deep blue color.

Pointing to the four treasures, Zi Nishang explained to Lu Jin beside her: "The Azure Heaven Abyss Armor is composed of four weapon parts, two wing parts, and twenty-seven defensive parts, totaling thirty-three top-tier treasure parts."

By combining the sets, the complete Azure Abyss Armor is ranked as a common treasure, possessing the effects of defensive armor, melee weapon, and flight wings.

The armor of the Azure Heaven Abyss Armor has three layers of secret runes. These three runes can reduce physical attacks to one percent, one-thousandth, and one ten-thousandth, respectively, and also reduce soul attacks to one-tenth.

Gaining the recognition of the fundamental laws of water and space allows one to activate the first level of secret runes; comprehending the fundamental laws of water and space allows one to activate the second level of secret runes; comprehending the fundamental laws of water and space allows one to activate the third level of secret runes.

The Azure Heaven Abyss Armor has two pairs of wings. The first pair of wings can greatly increase flight speed, while the second pair of wings greatly enhances the effects of the three great mysteries of space.

The Water Kirin clone possesses the innate secret technique 'Mastery of Space'. After activating the secret runes on its second pair of wings, it can teleport within a spatially sealed area unless a Space Venerable casts a spatial blockade.

The Azure Heaven Abyss Pearl, Azure Heaven Abyss Mirror, and Azure Heaven Abyss Cliff are top-tier treasures of the highest quality, belonging to the categories of soul, domain, and flying palace. "Because the Ice Pearl, a top-tier soul treasure given by the Heavenly Frost Kingdom Lord, did not have the ability to sense self-destruction, Lu Jin had Zi Ni Chang refine a soul treasure for the Water Qilin clone as well."

"very good!"

Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction, put the four treasures into his world ring, and handed them over to the water unicorn avatar within the world ring to refine and recognize them as his own.

"Ni Chang, forge another 1000 sets of top-grade F-level equipment for the Blood God Child's avatar. Just the three types: armor, sword, and wings will suffice."

Remembering the creation of the secret technique, Lu Jin said to Zi Ni Chang.

The weakest Blood God Child incarnation is merely an ordinary life gene. Even with a hundredfold amplification, it only possesses the power of a hundredfold peak ninth-level World Lord. Even with the initial level of Law Enlightenment at the King level, aside from the influence of treasures, its strength is still inferior to that of an ordinary initial level Immortal Marquis after burning divine power.

Among the eleven extraterritorial battlefields, there are quite a few opponents whose strength is not much different from that of the Blood God Child's incarnation.

For the next stage of creating secret techniques, Lu Jin plans to send 1000 Blood God Child incarnations to the outer battlefield to create techniques amidst the fighting.

The main body created the secret technique of the Water-Space Fusion Law Controller; the Water Qilin clone created the Water-Space Fusion Law Claw-type Martial Arts Secret Technique; and the Blood God Child incarnation created the Water-Space Fusion Law Sword-type Martial Arts Secret Technique.

The secret techniques of controllers, claw-type martial artists, and sword-type martial artists may seem quite different, but in reality, they all lead to the same goal.

If Lu Jin could create a controller's secret technique, he could transform it into a top-tier claw-type secret technique and a top-tier sword-type secret technique of the same grade, provided that the essence of the law remained unchanged.

This is similar to a novice driver learning to drive. Once they learn to drive a sedan and get their license, driving other vehicles such as vans and SUVs, which are permitted under that license, is not difficult for them. They can get on the road after a little familiarization.

As for the more than 16,000 years that have passed within the Time Palace of the Time Dragon's clone, thanks to the Time Dragon's clone's extremely strong affinity with the laws of light, Lu Jin has already comprehended the lower-level laws of light origin and only needs to continue to comprehend the laws of time origin.

Even if one becomes the master of the universe through the Water, Void, and Beast God Path, one must still comprehend the fundamental law of time.

"That's easy. With the Qiankun Cauldron, getting 1000 sets of F-grade equipment isn't difficult."

Zi Ni Chang nodded.

The Qiankun Cauldron has an automatic treasure-refining mode. Once a top-grade F-level equipment template is created, and the corresponding materials are added and sufficient energy is supplied, the Qiankun Cauldron will continuously produce it.

"Master, the Ghost King Insect Legion has been trained. When are we going to go on a training expedition?"

At this moment, Hong'er said to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin shook his head slightly and said, "Don't rush. You should create the secret techniques first. The Heavenly Court has a huge talent shortage, and your efforts will be indispensable in the future."

A million-strong army of ninth-tier Zerg kings, capable of severely injuring a peak-level King in a single combined attack.

If it were replaced by a 100 million-strong army of Ninth-Order Peak Netherworld King Insects, a single combined attack would be enough to easily annihilate the soul of a King-level being, unless the opponent has a soul-type treasure to protect their soul, or simply has no soul at all.

In addition, Hong'er and her six companions, with their strongest innate secret technique 'Soul Resonance' and a legion of one hundred million peak ninth-level Realm Lord Ghost King Insects, were able to amplify the soul power of peak ninth-level Realm Lords by tens of millions of times.

With such a strong foundation of power, as long as the secret techniques are not neglected, he will definitely become an invincible illusionist who can be crowned king.

With the Demon Refining Pot in hand, along with the Time Dragon clone and the seven others including Hong'er, they can hunt alien races and become kings during the Realm Lord stage, and cultivate kings into immortals.

Hunting alien Venerables during the Immortal stage can cultivate Universe Venerables.

When the Heavenly Court possesses 100,000 king-level heavenly soldiers and thousands of venerable heavenly generals, and also has the feat of slaying a lord of the universe, then the Heavenly Court can be officially born.

After all, if the five major human powers are to be transformed into six, the Heavenly Court cannot function without a powerhouse at the level of a universe master.

Even if one possesses the power of a master of the universe, it is not enough if one has not mastered spacetime.

The reason why other human forces under the five major powers, including the Virtual Universe Company, are "insignificant" is because they do not have a Lord of the Universe to oversee them and are unable to reverse time and space to resurrect fallen immortal gods or cosmic venerables.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Court has the Immortal Transformation Pool. As long as a divine power imprint is left in the Immortal Transformation Pool in advance, even if the Heavenly Court does not have a Lord of the Universe, it can still revive immortal gods and cosmic venerables.

Subsequently, Lu Jin logged into the virtual universe and purchased numerous master techniques, claw-type martial arts techniques, and sword-type martial arts techniques from the virtual universe company's treasury to learn from and broaden his horizons.

With trillions of points at your disposal, the cost of purchasing these secret techniques is nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

Take "Time and Space Essays" for example, one of the most expensive secret techniques in the treasure trove, but the entire book only costs 100 billion points.

With trillions of points at hand, one could purchase thousands of secret techniques at the same level as "Time and Space Essays".

It must be said that the cheapness of secret techniques is a major feature of Swallowed Star.

In other extraordinary worlds, even if an ordinary cultivator went bankrupt, they might not be able to afford a cultivation manual created by a powerhouse a level higher than themselves.

As the Qiankun Cauldron continuously and automatically produced the F-grade Blood Demon Sword, Blood Demon Armor, and Blood Demon Wings set, thousands of Blood God Child incarnations were successively teleported by Lu Jin to eleven extraterrestrial battlefields through the Kunlun Mirror, based on the coordinates found in the virtual universe.

With three top-tier F-grade equipment pieces in hand, even though the life genes of these Blood God Child incarnations are only at the ordinary level, their strength is not much different from that of a common Marquis-level Immortal after burning divine power.

Therefore, after these thousands of Blood God Child incarnations arrived in different areas of the eleven extraterrestrial battlefields, they began a frenzied hunt for Immortals of the initial Marquis level and below.

Facing an Immortal of the initial stage of being granted the title of Marquis, the Blood God Child avatar unleashed his full power.

If it were merely an Immortal Army Lord, the Blood God Child incarnation would not use the hundredfold divine body amplification, and would try to minimize the strength gap between the enemy and ourselves.

Because these Blood God Child incarnations did not join the human race and their identities should not be exposed, Lu Jin could act with impunity.

On the battlefield outside the domain, any immortals of the initial rank of Marquis or below encountered, not to mention the demon, insect, and mechanical races, including non-human immortals from the human race and human immortals who actively provoke him, are all within the hunting range of the Blood God Child's avatar.

With such unbridled behavior, the Blood God's incarnation was bound to perish.

However, the casualties were not a big deal. It was just a matter of losing some energy from the Netherworld Blood Sea clone and an F-grade immortal weapon. Lu Jin didn't care.

As for whether any enemies will discover that the Blood God's incarnation can resurrect infinitely.
There are eleven extraterrestrial battlefields, each with a diameter of at least hundreds of thousands of light-years. If a thousand Blood God Child avatars are scattered into them, it's like a thousand drops of water merging into the ocean—completely insignificant.

And even if you discover that there's something wrong with the Blood God Child's incarnation, so what? You still won't be able to come up with any effective means to target me.

If a true master were to disregard martial ethics and become an incarnation of the Blood God, tens of thousands of Blood God incarnations could merge into one, and with the advantage of powerful treasures, even a high-ranking king would perish.

Bonus chapter for May (10)

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