Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Lottery of All Things

It is said to be the former residence of a powerful cosmic ruler from a certain race.

It was originally a beautiful continent with a maximum diameter of hundreds of billions of kilometers, but it was shattered by many powerful figures in the battle.

Now it has become a dangerous battlefield.

Before the military competition among the three races, the three barracks bases of the Human Race's Ninth Extraterrestrial Battlefield, namely 007, 008, and 009, each need to select 3,300 slots.

Each cosmic-level squad is at full strength with six members, and a barracks can select 550 cosmic-level squads.

The remaining one hundred spots will be reserved for other purposes.

Zuo Yan guessed that it was left by the human army to some "aces".

Each barracks base will first select the best squads from all the squads.

Zuo Yan's current 008 military base contains twenty large legions.

Each legion has thousands of cosmic-class squads.

The First Legion is the strongest, and its individual squads are also quite powerful.

Therefore, even if the previous Energetic Squad was short of members, there was still a high probability that they would be selected.

With Zuo Yan joining the team now, there's definitely no problem with him being selected.

Zuo Yan used his authority to carefully review the intelligence regarding the military competition among the three races.

……

Zuo Yan entered the villa where the welcome party was being held.

The other five members of the Energetic Squad were sitting inside.

Captain Ina welcomed him inside and introduced him to everyone:

"Let me introduce you all. This is Zuo Yan, a first-timer on the extraterrestrial battlefield, ranked as a Cosmic Warrior!"

People like Zuo Yan, who are rated as generals as soon as they arrive at the extraterritorial battlefield, are considered to be at the cosmic, domain lord, or world lord level.

This all represents their formidable strength within the same realm.

After all, in the battlefields outside the region, many veterans whose strength is rated as generals have mostly relied on the time to hone their skills.

In the Energetic Squad, besides Captain Ina and her fellow Star Dream Clan Beast Tamer Girl, who were also rated as Space Warriors during their recruit training, there are others.

The other three were elite cosmic warriors who honed their skills to become cosmic generals in extraterrestrial battlefields.

Ina pulled Zuo Yan along and pointed to a girl who was also a member of the Star Dream Clan.

Ellie, the beast tamer of the Energetic Squad.

Although its entire body resembles a starry dream, it is petite and cute.

Unlike Ina, one has the figure of a mature woman, while the other has the figure of a little girl.

"This is the team's beast tamer, 'Ellie,' my younger sister, three years younger than me."

Zuo Yan greeted the girl in front of him.

The Star Dream Clan is an extremely powerful race among the many races of the human race.

He was born with a very strong soul and spiritual power, and he had the strength of a domain lord by adulthood.

Several of the powerful members of the race are at the level of cosmic rulers.

One race ruled a cosmic kingdom called "Star Dream Cosmic Kingdom," which was only a few cosmic kingdoms away from the Qianwu Cosmic Kingdom.

Then Ina introduced the other people.

A female warrior named 'Puyun', dressed in crimson-gold armor like a female war goddess, has taut muscles and a wheat-colored complexion.

A burly warrior of average build but with enormous, bulging muscles, a wolf's head and a human body, known as "Giant Wolf".

A slender ape-man warrior with brown hair, 'Azure Sword'.

After seeing these people, Zuo Yan couldn't help but marvel at the perfect and powerful configuration of the Yuanqi Squad.

There are tanks that can withstand damage, assassins that are fast, warriors that are brave, support characters that can scout, and captains who can control the battlefield.

He greeted each of his teammates, and the welcome banquet officially began.

In the days that followed, there were less than three years left before the tri-race military competition.

The Energetic Squad is also ranked among the top ten squads in the First Legion.

So there were no tasks assigned.

Zuo Yan was also able to cultivate during this time and practice teamwork and exchange cultivation techniques with his teammates in the Yuanqi Squad.

During this period, Zuo Yan also demonstrated his strong abilities and completely integrated into the team.

In the virtual universe, he often engages in one-on-one battles with the other five teammates, defeating everyone and becoming the strongest member of the Energetic Squad.

……

In the system's world space.

Zuo Yan watched as the giant egg began to shake until it shattered completely.

He had already withdrawn the power from the spacetime crystal and shut down the acceleration space.

After all, such a large "egg" cannot be supported by a single ten-cubic-meter spacetime crystal.

Not long after, a giant tree with nine colors, a trunk 33 million kilometers high and 3.3 million kilometers in circumference, and a canopy over 100 million kilometers long appeared in the system's world space.

The Nine-Colored Tree had just been conceived, and its strength and life gene level were the same as Zuo Yan's today.

His strength and genes can grow along with his true self!

The entire system's world space was driven by the enormous nine-colored tree.

Space began to expand rapidly, from 100,000 kilometers to a million kilometers... ten million kilometers... a hundred million kilometers!

Because the system's world space is not limited by realms like the inner world of a realm lord.

Therefore, the entire space was expanded a hundredfold by the Nine-Colored Tree, and the world power within the space also became a hundredfold more concentrated.

Moreover, it is different from the special life forms spawned by certain powerful beings in the original universe.

Zuo Yan drew the 'Nine-Colored Tree', which possessed the qualities of a God-King, from the prize pool of the All-Heavens Lottery System.

It will only grow along with the original.

Whether it's realm of power or life genes.

Of course, once he becomes the strongest being in the universe, this clone will also return to his original body.

Zuo Yan transferred the second part of his soul into the Nine-Colored Tree clone and began to sense the situation of this clone.

The Nine-Colored Tree is just as described.

It is the darling of the Ten Great Original Paths.

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, light, and lightning.

The ten fundamental laws of the universe appeared before his eyes in the most intuitive form.

The various secret patterns are as simple as reading the lines on your palm.

He gradually came to understand and comprehend the essence of the ten fundamental laws of the primordial universe.

Zuo Yan gradually immersed himself in cultivation.

Two months later, Zuo Yan broke out of his cultivation state.

He exclaimed, "This is truly incredible! In just two months, the results have been equivalent to half of what I achieved in my previous cultivation."

Besides the four fundamental laws of metal, wind, time, and space that I have already comprehended, I have also grasped half of the essence of the other six fundamental laws.

The two fundamental laws of metal and wind, and their 72 essential natures, have been fully comprehended.

The two fundamental laws of time and space, which consist of 108 essential aspects, have been grasped to the extent that 90% of them have been understood.

Zuo Yan suppressed his excitement and began to examine the innate secret techniques inherent in the Nine-Colored Tree.

After the Nine-Colored Tree grows up, it can divide into nine major offspring, and thus also possesses nine innate secret techniques.

Zuo Yan can only be described as very strong.

For example, the Spacetime Sub-body's innate secret technique is "Spacetime Walker": somewhat similar to his "Spacetime Domain," but even more powerful.

He can travel to different time and space dimensions, omnipresent and omnipotent. If combined with his own innate secret technique "Sword of Time and Space", he will be the enemy's nightmare.

For example, the Water Child's innate secret technique is similar to the "Transformation Technique" of the water-and-air attribute star behemoth "Iceberg Behemoth".

However, unlike ordinary iceberg behemoths, their transformation techniques are easily seen through by powerful beings like the Lord of the Universe who control spacetime.

The Water Child's innate secret technique, "Water Spirit Body," after transformation, can only be perceived by those who are reincarnations of God-Kings in the primordial universe and the cosmic sea, unless their essence reaches the level of a God-King.

Moreover, this kind of change is a fundamental change. For example, if he becomes a soulless life form such as a demon-slaying race or a rock life form, he will also lose his soul after the same change.

From now on, Zuo Yan will no longer have to worry about being annihilated or enslaved by the souls of powerful beings!

……

Zuo Yan controlled the origin within the Nine-Colored Tree and, combining it with the genetic force, began to divide it into nine offspring.

The differentiation was rapid, and nine offspring, each nearly two meters tall and resembling Zuo Yan's original form but with different hair and clothing, emerged from the Nine-Colored Tree.

The Nine-Colored Tree can control the volume of its constituent parts, as long as the total volume of the nine constituent parts does not exceed that of the Nine-Colored Tree itself.

However, their small size does not prevent them from having the same strength as the original body; at most, they just have insufficient endurance.

The tree splits into nine offspring, each less than two meters tall, which doesn't significantly change the current state of the Nine-Colored Tree.

"Once I cultivate ten souls, each of my sub-bodies will take over one, which will make my actions much smoother."

"Otherwise, if the second soul division were to control the nine sub-bodies on its own, it would be difficult to fully unleash the potential of each sub-bodies."

Zuo Yan looked at the nine sub-bodies in front of him and thought to himself.

Next, he used the nine sub-bodies to begin experimenting with the nine innate secret techniques of the Nine-Colored Tree.

The spacetime sub-body embodies spacetime, like a solitary traveler, targeting certain individuals in the cosmic-level soldier rest area, traversing different spacetimes.

To understand their past clearly, to vaguely explore their future, to observe their lives...

The water elemental body manifests as all living beings in the universe, each with its own unique experiences...

……

Zuo Yan left his 'Nine-Colored Tree' clone in the system world space to continue comprehending the Ten Fundamental Laws before returning to his cultivation room in the villa.

"Master, the 008th Barracks will be holding a squad selection competition in the virtual universe in three days."

Xiao Juan appeared beside Zuo Yan, reminding him of a notification.

"I see."

In the virtual universe, Zuo Yan arrived at an open-air bar.

The other five members of the Energetic Squad were sitting on the sofa next to the table.

When the white panda that animal trainer Elizabeth had been raising saw Zuo Yan appear, it immediately ran over and hugged his leg.

The petite, cute, and lively Ellie and the tall, pure, and sweet Ina also came over.

"Little White really likes you!"

Elizabeth raised a glass of sparkling starlight and handed it to Zuo Yan.

Zuo Yan took the wine glass, thanked them, and clinked glasses with the two women.

He patted Xiaobai's head and sat down on the sofa.

Two girls from the Star Dream Clan sat on either side of him.

"The squad selection will be held in three days. This won't be too difficult for us. My main concern is the upcoming tri-race military competition."

Ina looked at Zuo Yan, who had a calm expression, and said with a smile, "But with Zuo Yan joining us, I'm not so worried anymore!"

"That's right. During this time, the five of us often teamed up to fight Brother Yan one-on-one, but we could never last more than ten moves. When we encounter those disgusting demons and those mechanical iron blocks, Brother Yan can kill them all by himself!"

Ili felt admiration and confidence when she recalled the strength that Zuo Yan had demonstrated.

"That's right. With Old Yan's strength, if he hadn't said anything, I would have thought he was a prince from the number one secret realm of one of the five major powers!"

Even the usually composed ape-man named "Qingjian," who often carried a green bamboo sword, expressed his agreement.