Swallowing the Stars: Only in my later years did I come to the life-spending panel.

However, this time, the deduction on the panel did not continue; instead, a blood-red character lit up.

[The simulation was interrupted.]

Blood-red characters flashed wildly on the pale gold panel screen, the blinding light jolting Zhou Mu from his invincible feeling of controlling everything, his brows furrowing into a deep frown.

"What happened? The remaining lifespan of the plundering was still a full 300,000 years, how could it suddenly stop?"

He immediately focused his attention on the panel, carefully examining the specific reasons for the interruption of the deduction.

The next second, the crimson characters on the screen rippled like water, transforming into lines of cold and harsh notification messages:

[Warning: The host's clone's current physical strength and material foundation are insufficient, reaching the physical limit of its current life level!]

[To deduce the second level of "The Law of Heaven and Earth," the lack of rare earth-attribute laws will lead to the collapse of the physical body and the annihilation of cells!]

[Deriving the second level of "Shrinking the Earth to an Inch" requires a rare artifact with spatial attributes; forcing the deduction will result in getting lost in the spatial turbulence and having one's soul torn apart!]

Looking at the detailed explanation on the panel, the surprise and doubt in Zhou Mu's eyes gradually faded, replaced by a wry smile of realization and helplessness.

"I see... I was indeed too greedy."

Zhou Mu shook his head, his emotions gradually calming down.

The Lifespan Furnace is indeed a heaven-defying cheat code for him, forcibly granting him unparalleled comprehension. As long as his lifespan is sufficient, he can compress the comprehension process into an instant, achieving it in one fell swoop.

But the key issue is that the current hardware of the Azure Giant clone is not up to par!

Although this clone possesses a genetic level comparable to the Golden Horned Beast, in the end, it is just a "premature baby" suffering from malnutrition due to severe energy deficiency, and its current realm is only a pitiful ninth-level planetary stage.

A physical body at the ninth level of the planetary realm is like an extremely precise glass container. The first perfected secret technique is already the limit that this container can currently hold!

To continue adding water, the container itself must first be strengthened and expanded!

Even a skilled cook can't cook without rice.

Zhou Mu sighed, "Without earth and space-attribute cosmic treasures as resources, the Lifespan Furnace alone is simply not enough to support the deep transformation of the physical body by the power of the laws."

Having figured this out, Zhou Mu decisively gave up the idea of ​​continuing to obsessively study these two secret techniques, and instead turned his attention to the last inherited secret technique on the attribute panel that had not yet been deduced—the "Azure Realm Armor".

A hint of anticipation flashed in Zhou Mu's eyes.

"Panorama Armor! Show me the derivation of 'Azure Armor'!"

[Consumes lifespan plundered...]

[Deduction begins!]

......

[Consumes and plunders 5 years of lifespan...]

[From beginner to master of the Azure Boundary Armor]

[The simulation was interrupted.]

[Warning: Lacking earth and spatial attribute materials to condense the core of the Boundary Armor, it is impossible to continue constructing the complete Boundary Armor!]

As the interruption notification popped up on the panel again, Zhou Mu's consciousness returned to reality.

Inside the Martian underground base, the Azure Giant's azure body, now restored to 130 meters, began to emanate a yellowish-brown aura. This aura attempted to solidify into a tangible armor, but within it, silver spatial gaps flickered, pulverizing the hard-won yellowish-brown primal force.

At this moment, the surface of the Azure Giant was covered with an extremely dim, faint, dark yellow armor phantom. The armor was ancient and ferocious in style, with spatial patterns flowing across its surface.

With a thought, Zhou Mu conjured a lightning spear in his palm and hurled it fiercely at the chest of the Cangyin Giant.

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"Bang!"

Thunder roared as the lightning spear struck the illusory armor, causing it to dent only slightly before shattering into a sky full of lightning.

"It's only a half-finished product at the entry level, not even reaching the first level, yet its defensive power is already so astonishing."

Zhou Mu's eyes brightened slightly, but he then shook his head regretfully. According to the records in the inherited memories, this layer of boundary armor is currently just an energy phantom made of pure primal force. Although it has extremely strong physical defense, it lacks rare treasures as a material framework and cannot form a spatial interlayer inside that can peel away and banish enemy attacks.

To cultivate it into the kind of absolute defense that is said to be "impervious to all laws" according to the inherited memories, a massive amount of resources are needed to fill this bottomless pit!

"Gurgle..."

Just as Zhou Mu was pondering to himself, a terrifying roar, like thunder, came from the belly of the Azure Giant.

Immediately afterwards, a frantic hunger that almost swallowed up reason swept through Zhou Mu's consciousness like a tsunami!

"I'm so hungry..."

Originating from the instinct of the first innate secret technique [Devouring Void], after the clone had fully adapted to the first level of perfected ultimate skill, it finally began to unleash its power without restraint.

Every cell in this colossal giant's body was howling madly, desperately craving to devour earth, spatial metals, strange stones, and even high-density energy crystals...

This massive underground steel city is entirely cast from Grade A metal, black iron. Although it is only Grade A metal, it is abundant and plentiful. The total mass of metal in the entire base reaches an extremely terrifying number!

"Since this Mars base is pretty much useless anyway, we might as well..."

A ruthless glint flashed in the eyes of the Cangyin Giant Zhou Mu. He immediately retreated and ordered Babata VII to take off to avoid being affected by the upcoming storm.

"Eat it! Swallow it!"

As Zhou Mu released his suppression, the Azure Giant suddenly opened its abyssal maw, wide enough to devour mountains.

Innate Secret Technique - [Devouring Void]!

Rumble!!!

In an instant, an extremely terrifying suction force formed in front of the giant's open maw, and the terrifying devouring and pulling force instantly enveloped the entire underground base.

clack clack-

Those black iron walls, designed to withstand planetary-level attacks, were as fragile as weathered clods of earth in the face of this gravitational vortex. Large sections of metal walls, load-bearing columns, and alloy floors were torn apart and uprooted, turning into a torrent of steel that poured madly into that pitch-black maw.

The massive black iron pieces were instantly pulverized into dust by the violent spatial force and gravity vortex as soon as they were drawn into the vortex. They were then transformed into pure energy and frantically absorbed by the hungry cells of the Azure Giant!

One hundred thousand tons!

One million tons!

Ten million tons!

In just a few minutes, the steel city, built with the hard work of tens of millions of miners, was devoured by the Giant of the Azure!

"belch--"

After the Azure Giant swallowed a piece of black iron floorboards, the terrifying suction slowly dissipated. The Azure Giant, whose size had grown to over 300 meters, patted its belly and let out a loud burp.

His originally pale, bluish-green skin became solid and heavy after absorbing a massive amount of Xuan Iron energy. The thin mist of earth-yellow domain surrounding his body also became denser. After replenishing his energy, he had broken through to the Heng Star level! He was no different from the newly born clansmen in his inherited memories.

Most of the surrounding steel bases have disappeared, leaving a huge, empty hole thousands of meters deep in the Martian surface.