Swallowing the Stars: Heart of the Martial God

Chapter 135 Primal Treasures

Xuan Gu's clone stared intently ahead, his eyes sharp as torches. He understood that in this Nine Netherworld, the more peaceful a place seemed, the more likely it was to hide a deadly trap.

Suddenly, without warning, a strange ripple appeared in the space in front of them, like a pebble being thrown into a calm lake.

The ancient giant's clone instantly became alert, abruptly stopping in its tracks, a confident sneer curling at the corner of its mouth.

He clearly sensed that behind the spatial ripples, there was an extremely faint yet chilling life force, like a venomous snake lurking in the darkness, ready to launch a fatal attack at any moment.

Without the slightest hesitation, he clenched his right fist instantly, and the quasi-emperor divine power within his body surged wildly. His seemingly indestructible rock body now faintly glowed with a layer of pale golden light, and countless subtle secret patterns appeared and disappeared on his body surface, exuding a mysterious and powerful aura.

"Drink!" A deep roar, as if from the deepest hell, echoed as his fist, carrying a destructive force and a whistling wind, slammed heavily into the rippling space.

"Boom!" A loud noise shook the entire Nine Netherworld space-time violently, as if a supernova had exploded in that instant.

The space that was originally rippling instantly shattered, turning into countless black fragments that flew everywhere like hidden weapons.

A dark figure darted out of the shattered space, letting out a sharp, piercing, and chilling roar that seemed to pierce the soul and send shivers down one's spine.

Upon closer inspection, the shadowy figure had a bizarre appearance, resembling a rare dark lizard found in the universe, yet it possessed a pair of enormous, semi-transparent energy wings covered with mysterious and eerie runes that shimmered with a ghostly green light.

In this dim and oppressive environment, it appears particularly terrifying and frightening.

The monster clearly had no idea that its carefully laid concealment methods would be so easily seen through by the other party, nor did it expect the other party to be so ruthless and decisive, leaving no room for mercy.

But how could the ancient giant's clone give it any chance to breathe? Its left hand shot out like a black lightning bolt, instantly transforming into a huge hand that blotted out the sky, and firmly grasped the dark demon lizard in its palm.

The monster struggled desperately, its energy wings flapping wildly, creating chaotic and violent energy storms.

The runes on its wings flickered more and more intensely, and strange black rays shot out from the runes, striking the hands of the ancient giant's clone like poisonous thorns.

However, these seemingly powerful rays of light only left fleeting white marks on his hands, disappearing in the blink of an eye as if they had never existed.

The ancient giant's clone exerted a little force, and a crisp sound of bones cracking came from its palm. The monster's struggle stopped instantly, and its body, like shattered porcelain, turned into countless points of light and dissipated into the air, disappearing completely.

After eliminating the lurking dangerous creature, the Xuan Gu Giant clone continued its journey deeper into the Nine Netherworld.

As he ventured deeper, he could clearly feel the surrounding space becoming increasingly unstable, as if it were being wantonly kneaded and twisted by an invisible and malicious hand.

Every now and then, spatial rifts would appear without any pattern and disappear in an instant, as if this space was silently protesting.

Moreover, an inexplicable and heavy sense of oppression followed him like a shadow, as if countless eyes hidden in the darkness were coldly watching his every move, ready to launch a fatal attack at any moment.

After traveling a while longer, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed dramatically. The once colorful and vibrant flowers and plants vanished without a trace, replaced by a vast, eerie, and terrifying black stone forest.

These stone forests are of various shapes and extremely bizarre. Some resemble ferocious demons baring their fangs and claws, as if they want to devour everything in the world; others resemble incomparably sharp spears piercing the sky, exuding a chilling killing intent.

The surface of the stone forest exudes a bone-chilling cold, causing the surrounding air to condense rapidly, forming a thin layer of frost.

The fresh floral fragrance that filled the air was replaced by an intense, almost tangible, stench of blood. The bloody smell was heavy and oppressive, making one want to vomit.

The ancient giant's avatar, with its stone brows furrowed, unleashed its full senses, like an invisible net, carefully examining the black stone forest.

Just then, the earth suddenly began to tremble violently, as if an ancient behemoth that had been sleeping for countless years was about to awaken.

A deep and awe-inspiring roar came from afar, a roar containing boundless anger and majesty. Waves of sound rolled in, shaking the surrounding black stone forest into pieces of dust.

Faced with this terrifying sight, the ancient giant's clone showed no sign of retreating; instead, a glint of excitement flashed in its eyes.

He knew that the more dangerous a place was, the more likely it was to hide amazing opportunities and powerful treasures. This was an adventure rule he had always firmly believed in.

So he quickened his pace and headed toward the direction from which the roar came.

As the distance closed, the roars grew increasingly deafening, the surrounding spatial fluctuations intensified, and the stench of blood became so thick it was almost suffocating.

Finally, an enormous figure appeared before him.

This is a colossal beast that is 300 million kilometers long and 30 million kilometers tall, its massive body seemingly capable of supporting an entire world.

The carapace resembles a huge black dome with jagged edges and deep grooves, like the marks left after the earth was torn apart. Dark red energy flows in each groove, like congealed blood slowly surging.

Its head is broad and flat, with a protruding snout like a hard battering ram, covered with layers of black keratin that shimmer with a metallic luster. From time to time, scorching air waves spew from its pair of huge nostrils, distorting the surrounding space slightly.

One of the extraordinary life forms in the mysterious realm of the Ancestral God, Tuoshanzhen.

It is a powerful being that truly possesses the combat strength of a cosmic master.

"Outsiders, leave this place immediately!" the giant beast declared, its voice booming like thunder, echoing throughout the entire stone forest.

The ancient giant didn't bother arguing with such a special life form with a strong sense of territory. Seeing that it had no treasures and couldn't kill the opponent, it simply turned and left.

After Tuoshan Zhen saw the Xuan Gu Giant's clone leave, he closed his eyes again, as if he had fallen asleep once more.

This is the norm for most super-large and unusual life forms.

Their enormous size not only grants them unparalleled divine power but also limits their agility, causing most of them to be reluctant to move. This also makes them extremely territorial and unwilling to let other powerful beings enter their territory.

Leaving the territory of Tuoshanzhen, the Xuan Gu giant's avatar continued forward for a long time, when suddenly a slight spatial distortion appeared ahead.
"A spatial wormhole?"

Wormholes are quite common in the universe. Each wormhole connects two places, and stepping into a wormhole can directly take you to the other side. In the vastness of space, Luo Feng wouldn't care, but in the secret realm...

Without the slightest hesitation, the ancient giant's clone strode toward the spatial wormhole.

After a seemingly endless journey, the ancient giant's clone finally arrived at the other end of the wormhole.

He found himself in a strange valley, surrounded by a faint purple mist that seemed to have a life of its own, flowing and swirling slowly through the valley.

The mountains on both sides of the valley soar into the clouds, their bodies exhibiting a strange semi-transparent appearance, with light seemingly shimmering inside, as if countless brilliant stars were sealed within.

Before he could even properly observe his surroundings, a subtle yet oppressive energy fluctuation suddenly emanated from ahead. The ancient giant's avatar instantly became alert, its eyes blazing as it looked towards the source of the energy fluctuation.

Not far ahead, several groups of powerful figures stood ready, the atmosphere tense and fraught with danger.

Among all the powerful beings, the Zerg Queen is undoubtedly the most prominent.

She was tall and slender, about twelve meters in height, with fair and translucent skin, like crystal, radiating a luminous glow, as if she were the purest treasure in the world.

Her eyes were like two dazzling rubies, beautiful and lustrous, yet they contained endless coldness and majesty, sending chills down one's spine when she swept her gaze around.

At this moment, she was like a queen high above, coldly gazing at a stone platform in front of her.

She was surrounded by countless Zerg warriors, like loyal guards, who clustered around her at the core.

On the opposite side of the Zerg were powerful demons of various forms and powerful aliens from the Northern Frontier Alliance.

When the enormous figure of the Ancient Giant's clone appeared in everyone's sight, the scene froze instantly.

A hint of surprise flashed in the Zerg Queen's ruby-like eyes.

As a unique and special life form in the universe, the Xuan Gu King is powerful and appears to be without guile.

He is a key target for the Zerg Alliance to recruit. The Purple Iris Lord has already given an order that if Xuan Gu can be brought into the alliance, he will be rewarded with a large number of contribution points and treasures.

They might even have the chance to become a disciple of the Lord of Purple Iris.

With these resources, she could definitely become a cosmic ruler.

The Zerg Queen faces a much higher difficulty in breaking through to immortality than other races, while the conditions for becoming a Cosmic Sovereign are the same as those for other races' powerful beings.

However, once they break through, the Zerg Queens can become extremely powerful among the Cosmic Sovereigns by relying on their Zerg legions.

Immediately afterwards, her gaze fell on the treasure on the stone platform, a hint of helplessness flashing in her eyes. She thought to herself that with the strength of the Xuan Gu King, if he wanted this treasure, she would have no chance to compete with him.

The demon leader was also quickly calculating in his mind.

Although the powerful alien warriors of the Northern Frontier Alliance remained silent, the changes in their eyes betrayed their thoughts.

Everyone wanted to bring Xuan Gu Wang into their camp, but they were also wary of Xuan Gu Wang's strength and worried that the other side would snatch this treasure away.

According to the information they found, this treasure is very likely a primordial treasure.

Primal Treasures: refers to 'primal treasures', which is a general term for a certain type of treasures!

Only when a powerful being in the universe steps into immortality from the realm master stage, and awakens the sea of ​​laws at the origin of the universe, can they have that one chance in their lifetime to be infused with endless energy from the origin of the universe, transforming their body into a 'divine body'. Instantly gaining enormous divine power, this opportunity only comes once.

As they cultivate and their strength increases, the powerful will also draw upon the 'Sea of ​​Laws,' the origin of the universe, to slowly absorb its energy.

At this point, the absorption rate is much slower. However, since the improvement in strength is very slow, many powerful individuals only break through after millions or hundreds of millions of years. Therefore, although the absorption of energy is slow, it is enough for the divine body to continuously grow stronger.

however--

In the battles between the strongest beings in the universe, true life-or-death struggles are common, and burning divine power is a frequent occurrence.

Having stored up divine power for hundreds of millions of years, once a large amount of divine power is burned, such as 50% of the divine power, it would take an extremely long time to recover such a huge amount of divine power.

Fortunately, there are still many treasures in the universe that can be converted into divine power to allow the strong to recover quickly, and even awaken gods who have fallen into slumber, allowing them to quickly regain their strength.

Even in the ordinary immortal stage, many treasures in the universe still have great uses.

However, at the Cosmic Venerable stage, the divine body of a Cosmic Venerable is extremely powerful. If it suffers a loss of 30%, 50%, or even more from burning, the amount of treasures needed to recover is incredibly vast, tens of thousands of times greater than that required for the Immortal God stage. Even if Cosmic Venerables were to go bankrupt, they still couldn't gather that enormous amount of cosmic treasures.

This is merely the Supreme Being of the Universe.

If it were a war between universe masters, a clash between universe masters, the loss of 50% of their divine body would be even more terrifying. 50% of a universe master's divine body would be a tremendous loss for the entire race.

Once you reach the level of a universe master, cosmic treasures that can restore your strength in a short time are extremely rare, and very few people can afford to use them.

For some cosmic overlords and cosmic masters, there is a type of treasure that is extremely important at this time—the primordial treasure.

The Primal Treasure is not for defense or attack, but for enabling the powerful to draw upon the Sea of ​​Laws of the Origin of the Universe. Once one possesses the Primal Treasure, the energy drawn upon the Sea of ​​Laws of the Origin of the Universe can be drawn upon a thousand times, ten thousand times, a million times... As for how much the efficiency is improved, it depends entirely on the level of the Primal Treasure.

If one possessed a primordial treasure… like a cosmic lord severely injured, whose divine body is greatly damaged, requiring millions of years to recover. But with a primordial treasure that increases energy absorption by 100,000 times, recovery would be achieved in just 10 years! For a cosmic lord at that level, how short is 10 years?

Even though it's a primordial treasure that increases speed a thousand times, which is considered low-level, it still makes the universe's overlords envious.

Possessing such a treasure means one can easily burn 10% of their divine power in battle without fear, as recovery is naturally rapid, and with the aid of this primordial treasure, recovery can be achieved in an extremely short time. The value of such treasures, which allow powerful individuals to confidently burn their divine power, is self-evident.

The value of this newly emerged primordial treasure is at least comparable to that of a high-grade treasure.

Having this treasure, whether exchanged with a powerful member of the clan or kept for personal use, would bring him endless benefits, so he would naturally not give it up easily.

The Zerg Queen raised her head slightly, her voice soft yet carrying an undeniable majesty: "King Xuan Gu, I have long heard of your renown. If such a powerful being as you were willing to join my Zerg Alliance, I would be willing to relinquish the struggle for this primordial treasure and instead help you hold off the powerful beings of the other races. What do you say?"

On the demon race's side was a Nine-Meng Beast. The Nine-Meng Beast snorted coldly and said defiantly, "King Xuan Gu, as the strongest race in the primordial universe, my demon race has two of the strongest beings in the universe, and the number of universe lords is several times that of this insect race. Our territory is vast and our resources are abundant. If you are willing to join my demon race, we will certainly treat you as an honored guest. We will do our best to meet any of your needs, and you may even have the opportunity to become a master of a universe lord. It is much more promising than being in this insect race."

The alien powerhouse of the Northern Frontier Alliance also appears to be a special life form, but it is not a heaven-defying special life form like the Ancient Giant or the World Tree.

Only a few dozen times more genes.

At this moment, he also spoke up to win him over, saying, "King Xuan Gu, our Northern Frontier Alliance is the alliance with the most special life forms besides the Ancestral God Sect. We also have the strongest being in the universe in charge. The Lord of the Star River is fair in dealing with matters and takes the best care of us special life forms. With your life gene multiplier, once you join the Northern Frontier Alliance, you are very likely to be accepted as a personal disciple by the Lord of the Star River."

"You might want to think about it more."

(End of this chapter)