Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 220, codenamed 'Demon Hunting,' officially begins!
The next day, in the palace at the highest point of Thunder Island in the virtual universe, surrounded by endless chaotic energy.

"Shadow, what brings you to me?"

The Chaos City Lord, dressed in a golden robe, asked a question to a figure in the hall that appeared and disappeared, like a blurry phantom.

The Shadow Monarch said, "City Lord, the intelligence department's spies have sent back news about the following: the Lord of the Bichuan Clan, the Lord of the Yaoye Clan, the Lord of the Ziguang Clan, the Lord of the Jumo Clan, the Lord of the Suanyuan Clan, and the Lord of the Qingtian Clan."

These six cosmic rulers have all perished.

There were billions of races in the primordial universe, but if we only consider the most powerful races, there were only a few hundred.

Virtual Universe Company's intelligence department has planted spies in every powerful race in the universe that has at least one ruler of the universe, unless that powerful race has no soul.

With soul servants and spies, plus the fact that the virtual universe covers the entire primordial universe, the intelligence department of the virtual universe company may not necessarily know some private information within powerful groups.

However, the intelligence department is certainly able to learn about matters with a wide reach.

Six cosmic rulers have fallen?

The Lord of Chaos City was startled.

He naturally remembered these six universe lords, since there were only a thousand universe lords in the original universe.

Although they were all only second-tier universe masters with ordinary strength, the simultaneous fall of six of them was definitely a major event that shocked the universe.

After a moment of contemplation, the Lord of Chaos City asked in a deep voice, "Have you ascertained the specific details?"

The Shadow Monarch reported: "The spies planted within the six races have sent back news that these six cosmic lords fell extremely quickly."

First, a treasure of a fiery palace suddenly appeared, then a treasure of a fiery domain spread out, and a short while later, the clan's cosmic lord fell, and the murderer disappeared with the treasure and the corpse.

Judging from the intact corpses of some immortal beings from the six races left near the scene, these six universe lords must have all perished in a soul attack.

As for the fact that the six cosmic lords fell very recently, the Shadow Lord didn't seem to care.

With prior preparation, he could also travel to six extremely distant locations within the primordial universe in a very short time using divine kingdom teleportation and instantaneous teleportation, but he simply didn't have the ability to instantly kill the Lord of the Universe.

"Are there any specific images of the Flame Palace and the Domain Treasure?"

The murderer was able to instantly kill a second-tier universe master, so he must not be a weak one among the universe masters. The palace treasures and domain treasures he used must have been of a high grade.

If the rank is high or above, and the perpetrator has appeared in the universe, then the identity of the murderer can basically be identified.

"The palace treasure was shrouded in a halo of flames and could not be seen clearly, but a spy was caught in the flame domain treasure at the time and recorded the video through the virtual universe system."

As the Shadow Monarch spoke, a virtual screen appeared in front of him, playing a very short video.

Upon seeing the illusory flames filling the entire world on the screen, the Lord of Chaos City fell silent.

The domain manifested by this Flame Domain Treasure looks somewhat familiar!

Suddenly, the Chaos City Lord's pupils contracted sharply, then he nodded expressionlessly and said, "I understand."

Sensing the unspoken meaning, the Shadow Monarch bowed slightly and said, "This subordinate takes his leave."

After the Shadow Monarch left, the Chaos City Lord immediately opened the Clan Treasury interface inside the hall.

The interface of the clan's treasure vault in the virtual universe contains information on all the treasures collected in the clan's treasure vault, and even information on treasures that have been exchanged by human powerhouses.

Soon, the Chaos City Lord unearthed a video introducing a treasure that was exactly the same as the previous one, with the domain filled with endless illusory flames.

Following this, the Chaos City Lord's suspicions were confirmed when he discovered that a certain treasure refiner's account had contributed numerous treasures to the clan's treasury, including nine top-tier treasure weapons and armors, and had also exchanged for four top-tier treasure armors with different attributes.

Contributions to and exchanges in the clan's treasure vault do not necessarily require the individual's presence; the auxiliary AI can apply to the virtual universe.

Once the application is approved, the virtual universe system will dispatch mechanical lifeforms directly under the core intelligence, as well as powerful human warriors to act as bodyguards, to act as a team to retrieve or deliver the treasure, but the scope is limited to within the territory of the human race.

'Our human race has produced its 19th Universe Lord?'

The Lord of Chaos City thought to himself.

The high-level treasure, the 'Eight Desolate Divine Fire Mirror', was exchanged for by Zi Nishang.

Those who can instantly kill a second-tier universe master, even if their life level is not at the level of a universe master, are at least top-tier universe overlords with second-tier combat power.

In addition, Zi Ni Chang had previously exchanged a top-tier treasure armor in the treasure vault.

After the fall of the Lord of Bicheng and six other second-tier universe lords, she possessed seven top-tier treasure armors.

She contributed three pieces to the clan's treasury and exchanged four for them, giving her a total of eight top-tier treasure armors, each with different attributes.

The ultimate treasure armor has very high limits, and it would not be outdated even for top cosmic overlords. The user must at least have the strength of a cosmic overlord, otherwise it would be a complete waste of the treasure.

In other words, it's not just one combatant at the level of a universe master; there are at least seven other experts whose strength is no less than that of a universe overlord.

Of course, these seven experts, who are no less powerful than the overlords of the universe, may be clones, and not necessarily seven separate individuals.

Thinking this to himself, the Lord of Chaos City neither pressed for details nor told anyone else.

Since they intend to hide their strength, it's enough for them to know it themselves; there's no need to tell others.

Moreover, the human race is not currently facing any perilous situation, and has not yet reached the point where it needs more high-end combat power to deter other races.

The more hidden cards a human race has, the more advantageous it will be.

After thinking it over, the Lord of Chaos City still sent an email to Zi Ni Chang.

I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to know if there were any of those peaches left, and if so, I'd buy them at a high price.

Looking at the 19 highest-ranking members of the entire human race, apart from the true god-level Giant Axe, only his main killing avatar, who was stationed in the initial universe, possessed a perfect gene.

If such wondrous peaches still exist, those like his second junior brother, the Lord of Darkness, and his third junior brother, the Lord of Ice Peak, should use gene treasures to quickly increase their life genes to ten thousand times if they haven't reached ten thousand times, and then use these peaches to achieve perfect genes.

At that time, possessing a massive divine body spanning over 90,000 kilometers, although the upper limit of its power output will not see a qualitative increase, its ability to survive will increase dramatically.

Inside the Hall of Time.

"The Lord of Chaos City sent me an email, asking if I had any top-grade peaches left, which he would buy at a high price."

Upon receiving the prompt from the chubby girl, Zi Nishang spoke to Lu Jin.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Jin said, "There was no reply."

Treasure Points are very useful. To put it simply, you can exchange them for ordinary peak-level treasures, even if they are not necessarily suitable for you.

However, the main body and its various clones already possess very strong treasures, so there is no need to further enhance them for the time being.

As for Zi Nishang and Hong'er, Lu Jin doesn't need to consider their treasure configurations for the time being.

It's better to wait until the Heavenly Court is established, and then, by leveraging the desire of the many universe lords of the human race for perfect genes, sell the top-grade peaches at high prices, while simultaneously establishing cooperative relationships with the five major powers.

In terms of the number of powerful individuals, the Heavenly Court is no less powerful than the five major forces excluding the Giant Axe, but in terms of soft power such as training realms, it is far inferior to the five major forces.

Having received the signal, Zi Ni Chang nodded and instructed the chubby girl to send a reply to the Lord of Chaos City.

It wasn't exactly a lie, since she didn't actually have any top-grade peaches; they were all given to her by Lu Jin. The Chaos City Lord had the wrong person.

Three months later, by order of the King of Tianshuang Kingdom, the bald, one-horned giant Barn, who was at the peak of the Marquis level, came to the Guanghan Star Region and handed a world ring to Lu Jin.

The eighty trillion world rings with a diameter of 100,000 kilometers that Lu Jin had previously requested were all contained within this world ring.

The best thing about Swallowing the Stars is that it's like a world ring, allowing for infinite nesting, with as many layers as you want.

Theoretically speaking, if one had the ability to dissect the original universe into appropriately sized fragments and seal certain special areas, it would be possible.

Therefore, as long as there are enough World Rings, it is possible to store the fragmented original universe into a single World Ring through an infinite nesting process.

After receiving the goods, Lu Jin used his consciousness to communicate with the Kunlun Mirror, located the Kunlun Token carried by the Golden Cunning King, and teleported the world ring containing a massive number of world rings to it.

Inside the temple of the divine kingdom, King Jin Jiao distributed a massive number of world rings.

"Gentlemen, the plan will officially begin after September. Do not disappoint your master!"

King Jinjiao addressed his more than 12,000 subordinates in the hall.

"Yes, Commander!"

The servants responded in unison and then departed, leaving their soul servants to carry them back to their respective demon territories via the divine kingdom's teleportation system.

Nine months later.

Within the Demon Clan's territory, in the Twilight Star Region, the Mahuang Starfield, a divine realm nestled in the spatial interlayer.

In the divine palace of the peak Immortal Army Lord 'Mahuang', the Immortal Mahuang, who is over a hundred meters long and looks somewhat like a slug, is not sitting on his original throne, but is instead respectfully lying down in the palace.

Besides the immortal Mahuang, there were more than 1,200 immortal figures with different appearances inside the spacious temple.

On the throne at the head of the table sat a burly human figure clad in silver-scaled armor.

Of course, the burly humanoid figure was not human, but a soul servant under Lu Jin's command, the invincible Heavenly Silver King from the Dreamscale Serpent Clan.

Influenced by Lu Jin, Tianyin Wang, who was originally a demon, maintained his human form using the "Thousand Transformations" secret technique even when he was not in the Heavenly Realm and not in battle.

'Shuh! '

At this moment, the Heavenly Silver King on the throne opened his eyes, and a terrifying divine power pressure permeated the entire temple.

Instantly, all the more than 1,200 immortal figures with different appearances in the temple looked toward King Tianyin.

King Tianyin said in a deep voice, "Listen to my command!"
There's only one day left before the plan officially begins. One day from now, the plan will officially start!
All star lords, depart! Make sure the plan succeeds.

With that, King Tianyin waved his hand. "Yes, Master!"

The immortal servants bowed and accepted the order. Subsequently, nearly a thousand immortal demon servants left the temple, leaving only two hundred or so immortal figures of alien races inside.

These two hundred or so immortal figures from different races were all soul servants or servants of servants under the command of the Heavenly Silver King, totaling over a thousand soul enslavement slots.

The nearly one thousand demon star lords who left the temple earlier were the immortal soul servants of these alien races.

Then, King Tianyin said to the two hundred or so alien servants: "Once the plan begins, those who directly enslave the star domain lords will be required to regularly travel to the divine kingdoms of the various star domain lords to retrieve the 'demon cubs,' without fail."

The so-called 'demon cubs' refer to the demon race life forms living on all the inhabited planets within the demon race's territory.

"Yes, Master!"

The group of foreign servants bowed and responded.

The following day, the operation, codenamed 'Demon Hunt', officially began!
At the same time, in various star systems within the Mahuang Starfield, there are a large number of cosmic-level and domain-lord-level demon servants at the bottom of the 'servant network' who, through the world ring, collect demon life on various inhabited planets.

"Awooo!" "Roar!" "Hiss!" "Moo!"

The roars of various demon races echoed continuously across the inhabited planets within the Mahuang Starfield.

There was despair, there were cries of agony, but very little resistance.

Because those who take in the lives of demons are at least at the cosmic level, while the demons who are taken in are all below the cosmic level.

Before the operation officially began, more than 95% of the cosmic-level and above demon race life forms in the Mahuang Starfield had either perished or become part of the vast web of slaves.

With such a vast difference in strength, the demon race beings on each inhabited planet, who were targeted by the World Ring, naturally had no power to resist.

Moreover, this scene wasn't limited to the Mahuang star system.

A similar scene was unfolding in most of the star fields of the entire Twilight Star Region, and even in more than 1,200 star fields within the territory of the Demon Race.

If it were a human, making such a commotion would have caused an uproar in the virtual universe, leading to the arrival of countless powerful human beings to suppress it.

But this is the territory of the demon race, and the demon race's communication system is far less advanced than that of the human race.

The virtual world of the demon race can only cover the area of ​​one star system, and pure voice communication without video can only cover the area of ​​one star field.

Furthermore, the human race's virtual universe is not technology, but a secret technique of the progenitors, and does not require the setup of servers.

In contrast, the demon race, even for the most basic voice communication, needs to set up servers in each star field and build a 'star field communication network'.

Furthermore, due to the vast void regions between star systems, even adjacent star systems cannot directly communicate via voice.

However, the demon race also came up with a solution that was hardly a solution.

That is, to build a 'Void Domain Communication Network' in the void region, overlapping partly with the 'Star Domain Communication Network' inside the star field and the 'Void Domain Communication Network' deeper into the void region.

Then, by setting up a relay station in the overlapping area, messages from this star system can be transmitted to the void domain communication network.

By relaying messages through multiple relay stations located in overlapping areas, messages from this star system are transmitted to neighboring star systems. Ultimately, through even more relay stations, the star system management can also receive messages from various star systems within the territory.

However, this communication system has a serious flaw: the relay stations need to be manually operated rather than operated by intelligent life forms when relaying messages.

It's not that the demon race is bored and wants to create jobs, but rather that they can't do without human intervention.

In terms of technology, the mechanical race is far superior to the demon race.

If the entire territory's communication system relies entirely on intelligence, the machine race could instantly paralyze this intelligent communication system or spread false information if they wanted to.

Even individual life forms can break through this communication system using advanced technology.

Therefore, the demon race can only choose to transfer the data manually; otherwise, if the intelligent communication system fails, it will be too late to transfer it manually.

The vast network of enslavement that covered most of the demon race's territory naturally did not overlook the demon race members responsible for relaying messages at these relay stations.

It can be said that throughout the entire operation, as long as it was not witnessed by a powerful demon who was not a member of the enslavement network, the demon high command had no idea that a mastermind was carrying out such a large-scale operation within their own territory.

While a large number of cosmic and domain lord-level demon servants at the bottom of the enslavement network were busy rushing to various inhabited planets to collect demon race lives, the immortal-level star domain lords were also busy.

For example, the Mahuang Immortals in the Mahuang Starfield rely on immortal crystals that have been scattered throughout various star systems in their own starfield in advance.

The divine kingdom's teleportation light flashed frequently, continuously heading to various designated locations within the star field to collect world rings filled with the life of demon races, gathered by a large number of world lord-level demon servants, and then returning to the temple to hand them over to their master, the Heavenly Silver King.

The star lords in the nearby star fields are in a bit more trouble. These star lords need to hand over the world rings filled with the lives of the demon race to their masters first, and then their masters will collect them and hand them over to the Heavenly Silver King in the Mahuang Divine Kingdom.

As for the large number of Lord-level demon servants in the middle layer of the enslavement network, although they cannot quickly reach various designated locations through the divine kingdom teleportation, the areas they are responsible for are not too wide.

By planning the collection route in advance, traveling through the dark universe in a spaceship, and arriving at various locations to collect the demon life collected by the cosmic-level or domain-lord-level demon servants, the efficiency is still quite good.

The demon-hunting operation covered more than 1,200 star domains, nearly 10 million star domains, and nearly 90 billion star systems, with countless inhabited planets.

With such a vast coverage area, accidents are bound to happen.

For example, within the Mahuang Starfield, among the countless life-bearing planets directly under the management of the Mahuang Demon Kingdom, the one ranked among the top 100 in terms of prosperity, named 'Bilan Star,' ripples appeared in the void outside the life-bearing planet, and an E-class flying saucer-shaped spaceship shuttled back to the original universe.

After leaving the dark universe, the spaceship sped towards the planet Azure.

At this moment, three metal puppets with silkworm heads and human bodies were sitting in the spaceship's control room.

Within the world rings of the three silkworm-headed puppets, there is a world lord, hundreds of meters long, who shares the same leech race as the Star Domain Lord, Ma Huang Immortal.

"Boss, we found quite a few valuable items during this expedition to the secret realm. Have you found buyers yet?"

The silkworm-headed puppet on the left spoke to the leader of the silkworm-headed puppets in the middle.

The eldest silkworm-headed puppet said, "Third brother, don't worry, you know the communication range of our demon race."

"The next stop is Bilan Star. Let's go there and have some fun, relax a bit, and then head to Mahuang Star to find buyers."

"Third brother, the eldest is right. We've escaped death this time, so we should enjoy ourselves."

The second silkworm-headed puppet on the right echoed this.

The third silkworm-headed puppet nodded in agreement: "Indeed, demons should seize the day and enjoy life to the fullest."

More than an hour later, the three flying saucer-shaped spaceships carrying the silkworm-headed puppets approached Bilan Star.

Inside the spacecraft control room.

"What's happening here?"

Watching the spaceship's main controller frantically ascend, and the spaceship's detectors detecting a ninth-tier peak world lord bull demon who was ruthlessly absorbing the lives of demons on Bilan Star, the silkworm-headed puppet leader couldn't help but ask in surprise.

"Could it be that this bull demon realm lord is an interstellar pirate? Did some evil slave trader place an order, and this bull demon came to Bilan Star to capture slaves?"

"That's what the second silkworm-headed puppet guessed."

The third silkworm-headed puppet immediately retorted, "Go to hell! Bilan Star is a prosperous planet directly under the Mahuang Demon Kingdom, ranking among the top 100. Which interstellar pirate or slave trader would dare to come here to capture slaves? Aren't they afraid that the Mahuang Immortals will be furious and investigate to the end?"

After a moment's thought, the leader of the silkworm-headed puppets said to his two younger brothers, "Second brother, third brother, we must stop this evil deed."

"Perhaps, considering the merits we three brothers have rendered, Immortal Mahuang will reward us."

He is no ordinary realm lord. Not only has he reached the peak of the ninth level of realm lord, but he has also gained the recognition of the Water Origin Law. Defeating that bull demon who is also at the peak of the ninth level of realm lord but does not have the mark of recognition of the Origin Law on his forehead will definitely not be a problem.

"Boss is wise!"

The second and third silkworm-headed puppets shouted.

Before long, the spaceship arrived outside the atmosphere of the planet Bilan and then hovered.

"Wow—"

The hatch opened, and three silkworm-headed, human-bodied puppets flew out, followed by three leech-like demons at the level of a realm lord, which flew rapidly towards the realm lord bull demon who was indiscriminately recruiting demons.

"Ok?"

Upon seeing three realm lords approaching, one of whom had even gained the recognition of the primordial laws, the bull demon, who was using his world ring to collect a large number of demon race lives, was startled. Knowing that he was no match for them, he hurriedly contacted his master, Ma Huang the Immortal, through the communicator, and at the same time took out an Immortal Crystal that his master had given him beforehand.

"Hey, you bull demon, how dare you be so insolent?"

Before they even got close, the leech leader loudly questioned them.

"What kind of demons are you?"

The bull demon continued its demon-slaying actions and asked.

"How dare you! You dare to commit violence in front of us three brothers! You are a disgrace to the demon race! Die!"

Seeing that the bull demon didn't take the three of them seriously, the leech leader was furious. He immediately channeled the power of the world and controlled a light blue short spear to shoot out.

But at that moment, a dazzling azure light emanated from the Immortal Crystal hidden behind the bull demon.

Amidst the tremors of immortal divine might, an immortal figure radiating a powerful aura of consciousness descended.

"I have seen the immortal Mahuang!"

As the brilliant azure light faded, the three leech brothers, upon seeing that the descendant was the supreme Mahuang Immortal of the Mahuang Starfield, quickly bowed respectfully.

"Humph!"

A cold snort rang out, and three streams of azure light shot out from the body of the Immortal Mahuang.

(End of this chapter)