Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 182 The Immortal Mother Queen Bei Yuan
“The king of the Chi Yong clan, retreat immediately.”

Lu Jin warned in a deep voice.

Judging from the speed at which this powerful Chi Yong clan member dealt with the Golden-Haired King, Lu Jin could tell that the opponent's strength had reached the limit of the King level, rather than the peak of the King level.

"Whoosh!"

Without uttering a word, the Dark Blood King transformed into a streak of crimson light and attacked at lightning speed, his curved blade slashing directly at Lu Jin.

'Good advice is useless against a damned devil!'

Lu Jin's gaze was icy. With a thought, he activated the secret runes on the second pair of Azure Heaven Abyss Wings on his back and used his innate secret technique 'Mastering Space'. His figure vanished instantly and appeared behind the Dark Blood King.

'Exorcise the spirits!'

At the same time, Lu Jin silently shouted, and a mysterious talisman radiating light appeared, then transformed into a golden stream of light and shot towards the Dark Blood King at lightning speed.

‘Poof~’

The golden light arrived in an instant, precisely penetrating the Dark Blood King's divine body.

In an instant, the Dark Blood King felt an extremely powerful soul force invade his divine body, and then rapidly corrupt his soul.

"No!"

His soul was being corrupted at an alarming rate, and the Dark Blood King was filled with fear.

However, just as the exorcism talisman was about halfway through its corruption of the Dark Blood King's soul, a mysterious force appeared, causing the Dark Blood King's consciousness to go black and his soul to collapse and he to die.

'unlucky! '

Looking at the Dark Blood King, whose divine body was intact but had already turned into a corpse, Lu Jin cursed inwardly.

Needless to say, this Chi Yong clan king-level expert was originally a soul servant.

Because a soul servant can only have one master, when subjected to an irresistible secret technique of soul enslavement, the soul will collapse and perish.

Indeed, the saying "rivals in the same trade are enemies" is absolutely true.

The difference between a supreme immortal god corpse and a supreme servant is enormous.

Fortunately, with the Demon Refining Pot in hand, he could cultivate a blank-level King-level peak cultivator after the corpse was decomposed into resources, so the loss was not too great.

For Lu Jin, as long as he comprehends the three superior profound mysteries, there is not much difference between the peak of the King-Sealing Realm and the limit of the King-Sealing Realm. A tenfold amplitude is nothing.

Just as Lu Jin was about to step forward to collect the body, a sudden change occurred.

"Bam—"

With a cracking sound, the Darkblood King's World Ring shattered.

As a host of miscellaneous items appeared, two terrifying figures emerged above the boundless desert, along with a pyramid-shaped nest over ten kilometers high, shrouded in a faint poisonous mist.

A venomous dragon with a body length exceeding eighteen kilometers, a single dark green horn on its head, four claws on its belly, and its entire body covered in emerald scales.

A human man, over three meters tall, with a robust build, long golden hair, wearing golden armor, and wielding a golden divine sword.

The two immortal figures possessed powerful auras, both burning with divine power, no less than the previous Chi Yong Clan King Limit.

But Lu Jin's gaze did not fall on them.

"An Immortal-class Mother Nest?!"

Looking at the pyramid-shaped Zerg mother hive that appeared in mid-air not far away, Lu Jin couldn't help but exclaim.

The next moment, the Poison Dragon King, who was born of the demon race, and the Golden Sword King, who was born of the human race, transformed into two streams of light, one green and one gold, and rushed towards Lu Jin at high speed.

At the same time, a surge of ethereal divine power rapidly spread out, and the Immortal Mother Queen Bei Yuan within the Mother Nest directly burned her divine power, unleashing a secret technique of enslavement upon Lu Jin.

Bei Yuan originally didn't take a liking to Lu Jin's water unicorn clone.

After all, in Bei Yuan's eyes, although the Water Qilin clone was fast, once she seized the winged treasure, this strange beast would become ordinary.

Furthermore, since the divine body is only a few meters tall, it is merely fragile cannon fodder to her, and there is no need to waste her enslavement quota.

However, after Lu Jin used a soul-binding technique to enslave the Dark Blood King, which caused the Dark Blood King, who was already a soul slave, to collapse and die, Bei Yuan immediately changed her original opinion.

Ordinary high-level Kings with small divine bodies are indeed cannon fodder, but those who can enslave high-level Kings at the limit of King status are geniuses among the strong!
Bei Yuan even seriously suspected that the other party had not been in the Immortal realm for very long.

After all, such a powerful enslavement technique is most likely not something cultivated later in life, but rather an innate technique. It must be no ordinary beast, and its life gene multiplier is probably quite high, making it absolutely worthy of her taking it as a soul servant.

"puff--"

The ethereal divine power arrived in an instant, drilling into the mind of the water unicorn clone, attempting to forcibly enslave Lu Jin.

"Hmph~!"

Lu Jin snorted coldly upon sensing the invasion of the ethereal divine power.

With the top-tier soul-type treasure, the Azure Heaven Abyss Pearl, protecting his soul, not even an immortal-level queen, let alone a venerable-level queen, could enslave him.

'Om—'

As expected, the azure Azure Heaven Abyss Pearl trembled slightly, easily eliminating the invasion of this ethereal divine power.

This level of soul enslavement isn't even strong enough to trigger the Biluo Tianyuan Pearl's self-destruction; how could it possibly enslave him?

I want to eat fart!
Despite his disdain, Lu Jin was quick to act.

With a thought, and with the blessing of the Azure Sky Abyss Wings, he once again activated his innate secret technique 'Mastering Space', instantly teleporting behind the Azure Poisonous Dragon that had transformed into a beam of azure light and was rushing towards him.

'seal up!'

Immediately afterwards, the power of space spread out instantly, and a powerful spatial binding force descended upon the azure poisonous dragon, also encompassing the golden-armored man with the golden sword and the immortal mother nest.

'Exorcise the spirits!'

At the same time, the Divine Body of Exorcism activated, and a radiant talisman transformed into a golden stream of light, shooting rapidly toward the 18-kilometer-long azure poisonous dragon.

Spatial Blockade is specifically designed to counter spatial teleportation, even if it's a spatial blockade you cast yourself.

Therefore, Lu Jin first teleported and then blocked the way.

Moreover, with the blessing of the second pair of Azure Sky Wings, the spatial blockade cast by the Water Kirin clone using the innate secret technique 'Mastering Space' was slightly less effective than that cast by the Space Venerable, but it still surpassed the spatial blockade of incomplete spatial laws.

This level of spatial confinement may not be able to completely imprison the limits of the King's power.

After all, for the powerful among the immortals, the greatest practical effect of sealing the profound mystery is to restrict teleportation, rather than to imprison the opponent, but imprisoning them for a short time is not a problem.

As expected, the moment the spatial blockade was activated, the Azure Poisonous Dragon's body was instantly imprisoned in place, and then transformed into a golden light that shot out a divine exorcism talisman that invaded its divine body.

He recognized the species of this azure poisonous dragon; it belonged to the Azure Dragon Clan, one of the many royal families of the demon race, and was born with three times the life force genes.

Unless the human with blond hair has some special opportunity, the blue venomous dragon is stronger than the human.

Holding the truth of a single, decisive blow, Lu Jin naturally chose to pick on the toughest opponent first.

‘Poof~’

As the golden light entered his body, the Poison Dragon King of the Azure Dragon Clan felt an extremely powerful soul force rapidly invading his soul.

Using the soul power of a ninth-level World Lord at a million times greater than that of a peak Realm Lord to unleash the Divine Exorcism Technique is something that ordinary Immortals without soul-type treasures cannot withstand, not even those at the limit of the King-level after burning their divine power.

In the blink of an eye, the Poison Dragon King, who was a soul servant, died as his soul collapsed.

Realizing that the enslavement was ineffective, a powerful spatial binding force descended, and another of her three servant generals perished. The Immortal Queen Bei Yuan in the Mother Nest's expression changed drastically.

'Certainly! '

Immediately, Bei Yuan, who was trapped in the mother nest by the spatial blockade, changed her mind and tried to break free of the spatial constraints with her own strength, while simultaneously unleashing the mysteries of time.

As time began to fluctuate, just as Lu Jin was about to apply a divine exorcism talisman to the golden-armored, golden-sword-wielding human man who had just broken free from his restraints.

Suddenly, Lu Jin's figure froze in mid-air, as if he had fallen into a dark and silent world.

Aside from consciousness, which can still think, the body is unable to move, and all senses have lost all ability to perceive; there is only absolute darkness and silence.

'Time stopped?!'

Lu Jin immediately understood what kind of method had been used against him.

The man in golden armor and wielding a golden sword possesses the attribute of metal in his immortal divine body, and the superior law he comprehended must be the law of space.

If nothing unexpected happens, this time-pause technique should be the work of the immortal queen within the mother nest.

There are two ways to break the time-stopping mechanism.

One type is someone who is also proficient in the laws of time, using time to fight against time. As long as their understanding of the laws of time is sufficient, they can completely ignore the time stop imposed by the enemy.

Another type is those who are not proficient in the laws of time, or have never comprehended them, and forcibly break through using their own overwhelming strength.

'hateful! ’

Lu Jin cursed inwardly.

Although he had tried to understand time, his comprehension of the laws of time was still far from being able to grasp its profound mysteries.

With his level of understanding of time management, he can at most reduce the time constraints.

After all, the Water Kirin clone is not the Time Dragon clone; its innate secret technique is to control space, not time.

The second method also won't work.

With the added benefit of the treasure, how could the Water Qilin clone, which only possessed the strength of a high-level King, break through the Time Stop effect of the Immortal Mother Queen, whose strength was no less than the limit of a King, in a short period of time?

Immediately, within the Time Palace of the Purple Rainbow Divine Kingdom, the Blood God Child, wielding the Kunlun Mirror, transformed into a location locator for the Kunlun Token carried by the Water Qilin clone, initiating a remote investigation.

From God's perspective, Lu Jin only saw the golden-armored man with a golden sword, who had broken free from the spatial constraints, slash a dazzling golden sword rainbow at the water unicorn clone.

At the same time, the Immortal Queen in the nearby Mother Nest also broke free from the spatial constraints thanks to her formidable strength.

However, this immortal queen did not use any secret techniques on the water unicorn clone. Instead, she threw out a world ring and then directly rode away on the mother nest.

"Bam—"

The next moment, more than ten peak-level servants of various races, having burned their divine power, broke through their world rings and appeared on the battlefield. They then launched a frenzied attack on the water unicorn clone that had been affected by the time stop.

Lu Jin: "."

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

In an instant, the water unicorn clone, having suppressed its size, was overwhelmed by the secret techniques unleashed by a group of powerful kings.

Fortunately, the Azure Heaven Abyss Armor was not made of paper. Although limited by its level of understanding of the laws, it could only activate the first level of secret runes for the time being, but it could still reduce physical attacks to one percent.

Not to mention that as an ordinary treasure armor, aside from weakening physical attacks, the Azure Heaven Abyss Armor also has extremely strong basic defensive capabilities.

Moreover, with the Water Kirin clone's fierce resistance, the time stop wouldn't last long, so it shouldn't be possible for it to be controlled until it dies.

However, at that moment, the man in golden armor and with a golden sword, along with a group of peak-level servants who had been granted the title of King, seemed to have received some kind of order and retreated at lightning speed.

next moment.

"call out--"

From God's perspective, Lu Jin saw a dazzling white beam of light, thousands of meters in diameter and radiating terrifying power, shooting rapidly from afar and accurately hitting the water unicorn clone that was restricted by the mysterious time-stopping technique.

"boom--"

In an instant, as if a supernova had exploded, a dazzling light burst forth, and a super-large sphere of light with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers instantly formed at the location where the water unicorn clone was.

"Rumble--"

Space shattered, and the entire forbidden desert space trembled violently.

Despite being protected by the Azure Heaven Armor, the Water Kirin clone was still hit by the combined attack of the Immortal Zerg warrior legion, and its primordial pearl was shattered.

Every realm lord has a primordial pearl, and the Water Kirin clone is no exception.

Only by shattering the Origin Pearl can the Water Kirin clone be killed; otherwise, even if its head is shattered, it will not die.

Of course, there is no inner world within the primordial pearl of the Water Kirin clone.

If it were a genuine high-level immortal king, with an immortal body and wearing ordinary treasure armor, it wouldn't be a big deal to withstand a combined attack from an immortal insectoid warrior legion.

However, the Water Qilin clone is not a high-level immortal being who has been granted the title of King, but rather a Realm Lord, and therefore does not possess an immortal body at all.

Once the Origin Pearl shattered, the Water Kirin clone was instantly killed.

The next moment, Lu Jin's mind shifted, and the Kunlun Mirror switched its remote detection perspective, locking onto the Immortal Queen in the distant Mother Nest.

At the same time, the original body within the World Ring temporarily interrupted its creation process, using its pseudo-form supernatural powers to transform into a five-meter-tall water unicorn clone.

"Shh!"

Through the communication of consciousness with the Kunlun Mirror, the Blood God Child incarnate injected primal force, and spatial traversal was activated. The original body, which had transformed into a water unicorn avatar within the World Ring, disappeared and directly appeared in the Immortal Mother Nest within the Star Tower Desert Forbidden Zone.

"!!!"

Staring at the blue beast that appeared out of thin air in front of her, almost face to face, the Immortal Queen Bei Yuan, who had previously commanded ten thousand immortal warriors to unleash a legion attack, widened her eyes in disbelief.

Before she could react further, a mysterious object radiating light shot towards her and entered her body.

Instantly, Bei Yuan felt a powerful soul force begin to invade her soul, distorting her consciousness.

At this moment, an unprecedented fear rose in the heart of the Immortal Mother Empress Bei Yuan.

She hadn't forgotten that her two powerful servant generals, the Dark Blood King and the Poison Dragon King, both at the pinnacle of the King-level, had fallen victim to this enslavement technique.

Without hesitation, a chilling aura filled the air as Bei Yuan chose to self-destruct her divine body.

The Zerg Queen possesses an exceptionally strong soul, making her far more resistant to soul enslavement techniques than ordinary life forms of the same level.

But the blue beast's enslavement technique was too terrifying. Without any soul treasures, she dared not gamble on whether she could withstand it.

She knew all too well what would happen to the soul slaves if they couldn't withstand it.

On the other hand, choosing to self-destruct, although resulting in heavy losses, at least offers a chance to make a comeback.

After she is resurrected, capture more powerful soul servants to work for her and accumulate experience over time.

The loss of the Immortal Mother Nest, tens of thousands of Immortal Warriors, and the resurrection fees for powerful servants that occurred today can eventually be earned back.

"Shh!"

Inside the Time Palace, Blood God Child's avatar moved his mind and, before the impact of the self-destruction could spread, swiftly teleported his true self back to the Time Palace.

At this moment, within the forbidden space of the Star Tower, above the boundless desert, a dazzling light erupted from the craters scattered across the Immortal Mother Nest.

"boom--"

Immediately afterwards, a violent roar resounded, and the solid Immortal-level mother hive, as well as the tens of thousands of Immortal Zerg warriors arrayed around the mother hive, were all reduced to countless fragments by the self-destruction of the Immortal Queen Bei Yuan, and then swallowed up by the rising super-large energy sphere.

At the same time, seeing that the legion's combined attack had successfully killed the opponent, the Golden Sword King and his servants, who were preparing to go forward to collect the spoils of war, froze, their souls annihilated and they perished.

When the master dies, the souls of the servants also perish instantly.

Within the primordial core, the power of the infinite worlds surged forth, and the water unicorn clone, spanning over 90,000 kilometers, was fully revived. Immediately, it activated its pseudo-form supernatural power, rapidly shrinking its size to five meters tall.

"Shh!"

With a thought, spatial teleportation was activated, and Lu Jin teleported his shrunken water unicorn clone back into the forbidden space of the Star Tower.

Before long, the Azure Heaven returned to its original position, and many immortal divine corpses of powerful kings appeared in the external space.

'Although the clone failed once, the gains were still considerable?'

Looking at the fourteen immortal god corpses in the external space, Lu Jin thought to himself.

Although their number is small, these fourteen immortals were all at the peak of the King-level in their lifetimes, and at least had comprehended some advanced profound mystery.

After the corpses were stuffed into the Demon Refining Pot and decomposed, it was enough for Lu Jin to cultivate fourteen new peak-level Kings with no prior experience.

It's a pity that although the strength of the King Limit is stronger than that of the King Peak, apart from the factor of life genes, the only difference is the amplitude of the divine body and the amplitude of the soul. This factor cannot be converted into resources through the Demon Refining Pot.

From the perspective of the superior law beads alone, under the same progress in comprehending profound mysteries, the value of an immortal divine corpse at the limit of the King-level realm is equal to that of an immortal divine corpse at the peak of the King-level realm.

Without hesitation, the Blood God Child avatar within the Time Palace directly stuffed all the immortal divine corpses obtained in this battle into the Demon Refining Pot for decomposition.

To avoid forgetting later when things got busy, and because the Immortal Queen resurrected quickly and also resurrected the Zerg Universe Lord, all the corpses he harvested could only be decomposed into Immortal-level Life Source Crystals.

As for the fact that a certain Zerg cosmic overlord discovered that these servants could not be resurrected?

The universe is vast and full of wonders. There are many examples of people who cannot be resurrected after falling. As long as it is not done on a large scale, Lu Jin is not worried that the Lord of the Universe will come knocking on his door.

Moreover, this was done by the Netherworld King, who joined the human race in the extraterritorial battlefield, and has nothing to do with my human race's Lu Jin.

After waiting for more than two hours in the forbidden space, Fatty's voice rang in Lu Jin's mind: "Master, the passage to leave this forbidden space has appeared, more than 20 million miles behind you."

"Whoosh!"

The water unicorn clone flapped its wings and transformed into a streak of azure light, swiftly traversing the air.

Before long, Lu Jin arrived at a certain place in the boundless desert.

Below, in the boundless desert, a desert vortex appeared, its center pitch black with faint starlight.

"Master, this is the passage to the forbidden area within the Star Tower."

Fatty reminded him.

"Ah."

With a slight nod, the water unicorn clone flew into the desert vortex.

The space shifted, and Lu Jin appeared on a stone bridge.

Looking around, Lu Jin saw that the stone bridge beneath his feet was winding and spiraling, suspended in the endless void, stretching into the far distance.

At the end of the stone bridge, there was nothingness.

Fatty explained, "Master, according to the intelligence provided by the military system, the next forbidden space is at the end of the stone bridge."

Furthermore, in the void beneath the stone bridge, one can sometimes see the Sealed Star, but it is very dangerous and must not be approached.

"It's just a valuable treasure, no need to worry about it."

Lu Jin waved his hand dismissively.

Although the value of the sealed star is not low, it can be sold for 30 treasure points, and a single item can reach the top grade of the sealed treasure category.

But for Lu Jin, it really didn't hold much appeal.

After all, this thing only appears once every long period of time, so unless he can get a large number of them at once, they are not very valuable to him.

It's no exaggeration to say that after Zi Ni Chang was able to refine top-tier treasures, he no longer cared about treasures below the level of ordinary supreme treasures.

Soon, after walking to the end of the stone bridge and crossing the passage, Lu Jin entered another forbidden space.

The space shifted again, and what came into view was a vast grassland.

Glancing at the rapidly shrinking and disappearing entrance passage behind him, Lu Jin instructed, "Fatty, use the detector to see if anyone is in this forbidden area."

Soon, Fatty replied, "Master, no immortal beings have been detected."

"Tsk~, it seems there are still too few experts in the Star Tower area."

Lu Jin smacked his lips.

The Star Tower area is home to hundreds of thousands of Kings, but the forbidden areas within the Star Tower contain far more than just hundreds of thousands.
Unless a sealed star is born and the Star Tower intentionally gathers many powerful individuals to seize its treasures, it is clearly impossible to encounter enemies in any forbidden space.

They encountered the Golden-haired King before, and then the Immortal Queen came later; it was just good luck.

Of course, having enough strength is good luck, but lacking strength is bad luck.

Suddenly, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow, a hint of joy flashing in his eyes.

The perspective shifts to a primordial secret realm, the abyss of purgatory, within the desolate Demon Abyss.

"It's done!"

Looking at the blood lake with a diameter of over 90,000 kilometers in front of him, and the energy tornado that had originally spread for millions of miles but was now gradually dissipating, Lu Jin couldn't help but smile with joy.

After many years of waiting, the Blood Lake Treasure, which had not yet completed its gestation, has finally been fully conceived!

'It's fortunate you finished your gestation now, otherwise you'd be stuck in a warehouse in a few years.'

While delighted, Lu Jin secretly complained.

Zi Ni Chang is currently able to refine top-tier treasures. With time accelerated a thousand times inside the Time Palace, based on outside time alone, it shouldn't be too long before she can refine ordinary treasures.

If Zi Nishang becomes a master craftsman at the level of ordinary treasures, then what is the point of him having this Blood Lake treasure?
It's just icing on the cake; he probably wouldn't really care about it.

(End of this chapter)