Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 211 Venerable-Level Legion Warrior
But thinking about it, it makes sense. There is a big difference between going directly from a Realm Lord to a Universe Venerable and going directly from an Immortal to a Universe Venerable.

Both Hong'er and Youhai's clone, both at the Realm Lord level, are made of flesh and blood.

If the transformation of the divine body is not completely completed, wouldn't it result in Hong'er, who is a cosmic venerable, having part of her body as a venerable-level divine body and part of her body as a world lord-level flesh and blood body?
It seems that the reason why the origin of the universe supplies an unlimited amount of immortal divine power to the realm lords who have entered immortality is to avoid such an awkward situation.

Perhaps due to the enormous leap in the transformation from a Realm Lord's body to a Venerable-level divine body, resulting in a ten million-fold increase in strength, it was not until half a day later, when the colossal five-colored vortex of endless spatial divine power descended, that it disappeared.

It has to be said that today was definitely the day Lu Jin got the most free access to the primordial will of the universe.

Seven top-tier cosmic overlord divine bodies, each over 90,000 kilometers tall, are nothing compared to this.

The seven Nether Sea clones, each a top-tier cosmic overlord and billions of kilometers in diameter, are the true super-big heads.

Based on the calculation that the ocean-shaped ghost sea clone with a diameter of one million kilometers is equivalent in energy to the humanoid ghost sea clone with a height of more than 90,000 kilometers.

With a diameter of 10 billion kilometers, the Nether Sea Avatar, having completely completed the transformation into a Venerable-level divine body, will have a divine power reserve equivalent to a top-tier humanoid cosmic overlord divine body that is over 900 million kilometers tall.

To be honest, seven humanoid top-tier cosmic overlord divine bodies, each over 900 million kilometers tall, possess such a massive amount of divine power that, apart from obtaining it for free from the origin of the universe, no force could afford to buy it simply by spending money.

"Wow—"

The "Thousand Transformations" secret technique was activated, and the Mother Empress's divine body, which was over 90,000 kilometers high, shrank rapidly, and Hong'er returned to her previous ordinary human form.

"Master, the divine body of the Nether Sea Avatar has been completely transformed."

Hong'er said excitedly.

This is a top-tier cosmic overlord divine body with a diameter of tens of billions of kilometers!

It's no exaggeration to say that she has achieved divine freedom; she has more power than she can use, absolutely more!
In fact, not only did Hong'er achieve freedom of divine power, but Lu Jin also completely achieved freedom of life source crystal at the Venerable level.

Nodding, Lu Jin asked, "Hong'er, how long will it take you to upgrade the mother nest? Do you need any special materials?"

Lu Jin was already eager to deploy a Venerable-level Zerg army.

Furthermore, dismantling the corpses of immortal-level Zerg warriors can yield lower-level divine essences.

So, dissecting the corpse of a Venerable-level Zerg warrior should allow one to obtain a high-level Law Godhood, right?
Hong'er said, "The Mother Nest can be constructed or upgraded through innate secret techniques. Upgrading a World Lord-level Mother Nest to a Venerable-level Mother Nest only requires the consumption of divine power."

However, upgrading the Mother Nest, both in terms of divine power consumption and the time required, is directly linked to the level of the Mother Nest and the maximum efficiency of training warriors.

"Very good, let's go out first."

Lu Jin nodded.

After returning to Lingxiao Palace, Cheng'er and the other six did not have to wait long before they successively completed their leap from Realm Lord to Universe Venerable.

Then, Lu Jin instructed: "Next, we will establish the Divine Kingdom, then enter the Time Palace to upgrade the Mother Nest as quickly as possible, and then begin to cultivate the Venerable-level Zerg Legion."

By the way, how many Venerable-level Zerg warriors can you control simultaneously?

Hong'er said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be 100,000 warriors."

The most powerful innate technique, 'Soul Resonance,' increases the number of warriors we can control by a hundredfold.

An ordinary Queen of the Universe, at the Venerable level, can only control one thousand Venerable-level warriors at a time.

However, although the maximum controllable number is only one thousand, the strength of the Zerg warriors is not fixed, and warriors who reach the level of Cosmic Venerable differ significantly from those below Cosmic Venerable.

Lu Jin asked, "How are they different?"

Zi'er spoke first: "Master, I know that too!"

The most ordinary Venerable-level warrior is similar to a being with a lower life level who directly uses a higher-level law godhood to enter the realm of a cosmic Venerable.

The life genes are ordinary, and there are no secret techniques, treasures, or unique skills.

Even if you trained a thousand Venerable-level warriors of this caliber, it wouldn't be of much use.

Unless the Queen controls them to unleash a combined ultimate technique, a simple legion attack can at most kill an ordinary low-level Cosmic Venerable.

Furthermore, Zerg warriors of Immortal rank or higher can only be cultivated using resources of the same level, unlike World Lord-level warriors which can be cultivated by consuming large amounts of low-level resources.

Moreover, due to the upper limit on the number of controlled individuals, cultivating ordinary Venerable-level warriors is extremely uneconomical, and they must be strengthened.

The biggest difference between Venerable-level warriors and those below that level is that Venerable-level warriors can be enhanced.

Raising an eyebrow, Lu Jin said, "Tell me more about it."

"There are two types of enhancement. One type is enhancement in terms of secret techniques and ultimate skills."

After Zerg warriors reach the level of Cosmic Master, they can also cultivate Amplification Secrets and Ultimate Techniques.

However, most of the enhancements to secret techniques and ultimate skills are amplitude-based enhancements, with very few enhancements to ultimate skills.

Because regardless of whether the legion warriors possess the ultimate skill, as long as the Queen herself does, she can control the legion warriors to unleash the ultimate skill in a combined attack.

Another method is genetic enhancement, which can strengthen the most ordinary Venerable-level warriors and their divine bodies to the level of top-tier cosmic overlords.

Warriors at the Venerable level, like those under the command of a Queen of the Universe, typically possess genetic enhancements thousands of times greater.

Only when the Queen, a being of the cosmic caliber, controlled a thousand top-tier overlord warriors and unleashed a combined ultimate attack could the Venerable-level Zerg warriors not be completely eliminated by the Queen, who was of the cosmic caliber.

After a moment's thought, Lu Jin asked, "The gene enhancement you're talking about shouldn't be the same as normal life gene enhancement, right?"

He remembered that the Lord of the Nether Lotus of the Zerg had a thousand top-tier cosmic overlord Zerg warriors under his command.

If the genetic enhancement of Zerg warriors is the same as the enhancement of life genes in normal life, Lu Jin doesn't believe that a mere Minglian could afford so many resources.

Just kidding, a thousand portions of resources are enough to pile up thousands of times the amount of life genes, even if she sold her Minglian, she couldn't afford it!
It should be noted that even the second-order universe master's indicators in terms of life genes are only a thousand times greater.

Moreover, if you really have that many resources, why bother using them to cultivate insects? It's completely not cost-effective.

Hong'er explained, "Master, the genetic enhancement of Zerg warriors naturally does not require the expenditure of precious treasures that can improve the level of life genes."

Otherwise, with so many resources, wouldn't every one of the Zerg's Cosmic Sovereigns be a top-tier cosmic overlord?

The genetic enhancement of a Venerable-level warrior also only requires consuming the resources used to cultivate the warrior.

However, I've heard that the cost of gene enhancement is not fixed; the higher the gene enhancement level, the more resources are required for cultivation.

It's like doubling the genes of an ordinary Venerable-level warrior; you only need to invest two sets of resources.

However, once the genes are enhanced thousands of times, each additional doubling of gene enhancement requires several times the resources needed to cultivate an ordinary Venerable Warrior.

'So, if that's the case, the corpses of top-tier overlord warriors can't be decomposed to yield a corresponding multiple of bloodline source crystals?' Lu Jin thought to himself.

Lu Jin asked, "With the size of the Nether Sea Avatar, it should be enough for you to cultivate 100,000 top-tier overlord warriors, right?"

Hong'er nodded: "That's definitely enough! Generally speaking, if the divine body is intact and the size is similar, several ordinary Venerable corpses can be used to cultivate an ordinary Venerable warrior."

With the sheer size of our Dark Sea clones, 100,000 top-tier overlord warriors with ten-thousand-fold genetic enhancement are more than enough.

However, the enhancement of the Amplification Secret Technique requires the warriors to cultivate it themselves; the Queen Mother cannot directly raise the warriors' Amplification Secret Technique level.

Furthermore, our elite warrior legion suffers from a serious flaw.

Lu Jin said, "Is it because your secret techniques are not up to par?"

"Well, there are two types of legion attacks for Venerable-level warriors. One type is a legion attack that does not involve the use of secret techniques, just like when we used to control World Lord-level Ghost King Insect warriors to launch a combined attack."

Another method involves the Queen controlling every legion warrior with her consciousness, using the legion warriors as the foundation to unleash a combined ultimate attack.

Our secret techniques are all of low quality. If we only control the legion warriors to perform basic combos, it's like a battle between strong warriors without using secret techniques, which will significantly reduce our strength.

In addition, when we don't have sufficiently powerful palace-type or domain-type artifacts, the opponent's domain-type artifacts are very effective against Legion Warriors.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin felt a headache coming on; domain-type treasures were indeed very effective against legion-based strategies.

However, there are ways to break this barrier. You can either strengthen your own domain or put your legion warriors into the palace treasure.

However, it is clear that he does not possess any domain-type or palace-type treasures suitable for use by top-tier cosmic overlords or even cosmic lords.

Leaving aside other things, surely there must be treasures in the higher fields and in the higher palaces?

A treasure of this tier would cost at least two hundred treasure points.

'We can only watch Ni Chang now'

Lu Jin pondered to himself, then continued to ask, "With ten thousand times the gene enhancement, plus a hundred times the extreme amplitude, what level could be achieved by a hundred thousand top-tier overlord warriors performing a basic legion attack?"

Hong'er shook her head: "I don't know the specifics, but theoretically speaking, it's at least at the level of a universe master."

"After building the divine kingdom and upgrading the mother nest, we need to quickly equip ourselves with 100,000, no, 200,000 top-tier overlord warriors, whose genes have been enhanced ten thousand times and whose strength has been amplified a hundredfold."

One hundred thousand warriors use the ghostly insectoid race, which uses soul attacks, as their genetic template, while one hundred thousand warriors use other insectoid races, which use material attacks, as their genetic template.

The Amplification Secret Method involves cultivating the "Innate Dao Body." Don't worry about Life Source Crystals; you can have as many as you want.

However, during the cultivation process, you should first have the warriors practice the Amplification Secret Technique, and then proceed with gene enhancement.

The 100,000 Venerable-level Zerg warriors are only the maximum number that Hong'er and her six companions can control at the same time, not the maximum number they can create.

Given sufficient resources, it is necessary to deploy two different types of top-tier hegemonic legions.

After all, some powerful beings do not have souls, while the cosmic lords who do have souls must all possess soul treasures.

With a top-tier hegemonic legion capable of material attacks at their disposal, they don't necessarily face the predicament of being completely countered.

If one cultivates the Amplification Secret Technique first and then strengthens the genes, then the "Innate Dao Body" can be cultivated to perfection with just energy expenditure, but the stronger the cultivator's basic strength, the greater the energy consumption.

The cultivation costs of an ordinary Venerable-level warrior are far less than those of a top-tier Overlord warrior.

"Yes, Master."

The seven responded in unison.

A week later.

Within the Great Luo Heaven, in the sky scattered with numerous stars, seven stars appeared that were noticeably larger.

That was the divine kingdom of Hong'er and her seven companions.

To this end, Lu Jin also mobilized the authority of the Lord of the Heavenly Realm, condensing seven spatial fragments with diameters exceeding one trillion kilometers.

The ability to establish a divine kingdom within the celestial realm was something Lu Jin discovered while training immortal-level celestial soldiers who were not soul slaves.

Since he is not a soul servant, he cannot give him complete trust.

If the divine kingdom is built outside, what's the point of isolating the Heavenly Court?

In a sudden flash of inspiration, Lu Jin discovered that the divine kingdoms of immortal gods could be built within the celestial realm.

As long as the Lord of the Heavenly Realm uses his authority to condense appropriately sized spatial fragments within the Heavenly Realm, and allows the inner world of an immortal deity to merge with the spatial fragments, it can transform into a divine kingdom, becoming a star hanging high in the sky within the Heavenly Realm.

To date, apart from Zi Ni Chang and numerous alien servants, all the divine kingdoms of beings above the Immortal level under the Heavenly Court have been transformed into stars in the Great Luo Heaven and the Xuanhuang Heavenly Sky.

Another month later.

In order to accelerate the training of the Realm Lord-level Ghost King Insect Warriors, the nest was initially expanded to a Realm Lord-level nest with a diameter of ten kilometers. After Hong'er and her seven companions expended a massive amount of divine power, it was expanded into a Venerable-level nest with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers.

The strength of the mother nest varies greatly depending on the level of the Venerable Mother Queen.

After all, there is no fixed template for the Zerg hive. Before the strength reaches the limit of that level, the strength of the hive depends entirely on how much resources you invest.

Lu Jin had no idea how tough the nest of an ordinary Venerable-level Queen was.

But the upgraded nest of Hong'er and the others is truly tough, no less so than top-tier palaces and treasures, and even the cosmic overlord cannot destroy it.

Even if a true top-tier cosmic overlord came, it would take them a lot of effort.

However, don't think you've gotten a great deal. This was built using a massive amount of divine power from the Nether Sea Avatar.

If the divine power of the Nether Sea Avatar could be sold, the cost of upgrading a Mother Nest would be enough to exchange for several top-tier palace treasures.

Fortunately, Hong'er and the others' Nether Sea clones were large, and even after consuming so much divine power to upgrade the Mother Nest, they still looked about the same size as before.

Furthermore, this is under the condition that resources are in ample supply.

The Venerable-level mother nest, with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers, can nurture one Venerable Warrior or a top-tier Overlord Warrior every ten days.

The only difference between the two is that the latter requires more resources.

However, if ordinary Venerable Warriors are first cultivated, and their genes are then enhanced after they have reached the hundredfold limit amplitude.

By absorbing the nurturing energy formed from the transformation resources of the mother nest, ordinary Venerable Warriors can undergo ten thousand times of genetic enhancement on their own, elevating their divine bodies to the level of top cosmic overlords.

(End of this chapter)