Swallowing the Stars: The System Bound the Wrong Person at the Start

With the assessment of the Zerg Queen's talents coming to an end, Chen Yang's consciousness finally sank into the deepest part of his divine essence.

If the Zerg Queen's talent was a byproduct that the system casually fused together, then what they would face next was the truly heaven-defying foundation that the "dog system" had bestowed upon the Pangu race in order to repay the debt of karma—the three core talent secret techniques.

The moment consciousness touched the core of the divine spark, three immense streams of information surged into the mind, transforming into three ancient and mysterious law imprints that were firmly branded onto the blank divine spark.

"God": Pangu is the god among gods. This talent is an optimization of the ability of a god to collect faith. In the name of Pangu, he can endlessly collect the power of faith and the power of thought, purify it, and transform it into pure divine source, which is stored within his godhood. With a thought, he can create all living beings; as the divine source flows, it can manifest all things permitted by the original rules of the universe.

"God said, 'I created everything.'" Chen Yang silently recited the system's notes, a hint of shock flashing in his eyes. In this world that devours the stars, collecting faith is incredibly easy. Simply purchase a life-bearing planet and manage it however you like; fabricating a myth to spread faith is routine. Moreover, during the more than 30,000 years he slept and nurtured, the faith in Pangu across the land of China had already accumulated into a vast ocean. This meant that he would not only have an inexhaustible source of divine energy but also an endless supply of resources; using divine energy to manifest all things was a completely risk-free business.

Next is the second talent – ​​"Perfection".

This is a deductive technique inscribed on a deity, possessing the ability to deduce anything to its perfect limit. The system's note is simple and direct: "I cannot tolerate even the slightest flaw."

This talent is nothing short of heaven-defying. When deriving secret techniques, by utilizing the computational abilities of the divine essence, one can perfectly integrate the technique with one's own understanding of the laws, deriving it to a state that best suits oneself, equivalent to a self-created secret technique with 100% compatibility, completely eliminating the arduous work of developing techniques in isolation; when deriving items, one can analyze all flaws and consume divine energy to repair them; and its most core function is to derive life genes! As long as one continuously derives perfect genes and integrates them into oneself, one can infinitely increase the gene multiplier, ultimately achieving a perfect divine body ten thousand times greater, directly pointing towards the path of true godhood!

"Too perfect..." Chen Yang sighed inwardly. "God" provided endless divine resources, and "Perfection" paved the way for advancement. These two talents allowed him to skip countless stages of arduous cultivation.

The third talent is the foundation upon which the Pangu Clan stands—the Undying Divine Body.

Upon ascending to immortality, the Pangu race does not lose their physical bodies. Instead, they transform their soul essence into soul particles, which perfectly fuse with the atoms that make up their bodies. Immortal divine power is stored within each atom, with a capacity of one perfect divine power unit (i.e., the entire divine power of a perfect genetic immortal military lord who is 96,000 kilometers tall).

But the core essence is that neither the soul nor the body is in control; it is the will that is!

As long as the will endures, one is immortal! Even if the body is annihilated into nothingness, as long as the will remains, it can instantly reassemble and recover. This is true immortality!

In addition to these three core talents, Chen Yang also discovered a terrifying ability derived from "God"—cloning.

Because the primordial spirit resides in the divine core and becomes its true core, the divine core gains the ability to replicate the original core. As long as the divine source stored within the divine core is consumed, the original core can be condensed again, giving birth to an avatar with talents completely identical to its original body.

This is not essentially a "talented secret technique: clone" under the original universe rules, but a special means derived from the creative ability of the god.

Theoretically, as long as there is enough divine source, "God" can create an infinite number of clones. But this is obviously too overpowered, completely exceeding the limits of the original universe. To prevent Chen Yang from directly exploiting this bug to create an endless number of clones, the "dog system" reached some kind of limiting agreement with the original will of the original universe before leaving.

Ultimately, this ability was strictly limited to creating a maximum of two clones. Including the original body, Chen Yang could only possess a maximum of three bodies.

Whether the main body or the clones die, or even if the entire army is wiped out, they can be reborn from the divine spark by consuming divine energy. This is equivalent to the divine spark being his "true self," while the three bodies are merely vessels. These three bodies share a single consciousness, with the same will controlling everything, and their appearance and soul aura can be modified at will during the gestation period.

Moreover, the divine spark itself is indestructible; no living being in the primordial universe or even the Origin Continent could shatter it. This means that as long as the divine spark exists, Chen Yang is absolutely immortal. Even if he advances to the level of a true god in the future, he can maintain three bodies, each with its own independent inner world, divine kingdom, and even a miniature universe.

Other pure Pangu people, although they do not have the life-saving skill of creating clones, do not need it at all!

Because the essence of the true Pangu people is "unyielding will, immortality and indestructibility." As long as their will is strong enough, even if they are shattered into elementary particles, they can be instantly reshaped.

As for the zombie descendants below the Pangu clan, although their physical bodies are immortal, their souls have a physical form, thus possessing a fatal weakness—their souls can be destroyed, or even enslaved. However, since zombies have no lifespan limit, even if they unfortunately perish, as long as Chen Yang becomes the Lord of the Universe or even a True God in the future and masters the ability to resurrect powerful beings in the universe, he can still perfectly resurrect them.

Chen Yang understood perfectly well that the resurrection of the universe's ruler in the primordial universe wasn't a simple, crude act of "retrieving" someone from the river of time. Rather, it involved using ultimate control over the laws of spacetime to reverse a specific point in time, returning to the moment before the target's demise. The caster would then use their divine power to immobilize the target, allowing spacetime to naturally resume its flow. Protected by this divine power, the immobilized target wouldn't be forcibly pulled back to the present due to the time reversal. While this method of resurrection could restore complete memories, it had extremely strict limitations—the resurrected individual must have a sufficient lifespan to withstand the backlash of time; if their lifespan was insufficient, forced resurrection would only cause them to perish once more.

Even more fatally, this kind of "time travel" cannot break the enslavement of the soul at all!

Under the laws of the primordial universe, the souls of the enslaved have been completely altered and branded with the mark of slavery. Even if the Lord of the Universe were to expend enormous resources to forcibly pull them back from the past to the present, what would be retrieved would still be a puppet whose soul is enslaved and absolutely loyal to its master. To try and save people through such means is pure fantasy.

But Chen Yang is not worried about these limitations, because his future goal is to transcend the river of time and space!

To some extent, rescuing people from the river of time is far more powerful and thorough than "time travel" under the original laws of the universe!

To retrieve someone from the river of time, the caster must first completely transcend its constraints. Once transcended, one can ignore the lifespan limitations of the original universe and the causal relationship of soul enslavement, directly retrieving the target from a specific point in the past and placing them back in the present.

Because the target is "rescued" rather than "retrograded," there are no traces of time passing on the resurrected individual. This means that regardless of whether the resurrected individual has died of old age or not, and regardless of their lifespan, they can be perfectly rescued at a point in time ahead of schedule, completely avoiding the fatal flaw of time backlash!

More importantly, if the target was once enslaved by a soul, as long as Chen Yang retrieves their pure state "before being enslaved" from the river of time, what he retrieves is a completely fresh life, untouched by any enslavement or contamination! This is the true meaning of perfect resurrection!

Three great talents, plus a divine avatar: one provides endless divine source and matter, another deduces all things pointing directly to true godhood, one grants an immortal body for absolute survival, and the third provides a margin of error for multi-tasking. This can't just be described as abnormal; it's practically a bug in the primordial universe.

However, Chen Yang was also well aware of the value of the Pangu Clan.

He wasn't afraid of those old monsters trying to possess him. In the underlying logic of *Swallowed Star*, the Realm Lord level was the final stage of possession. Once one ascended to immortality, the soul would be completely shattered, transforming into a spiritual imprint that merged into every cell, indistinguishable from immortal divine power. Since even the concept of a "soul" no longer existed, possession naturally became nonsense. Moreover, his primordial spirit had already resided in his godhood, becoming the true core of the godhood; no being in the primordial universe or even the Origin Continent could shatter his godhood.

What he truly fears is trouble.

If he were to prematurely expose the incredible genes and talents of the Pangu Clan, who knows if he would be captured and dissected for research by the five major powers. Being caught in that endless cycle of testing and maneuvering would inevitably drain his energy and disrupt his peaceful growth. He would never allow anything to derail his evolutionary pace. At least until he achieved immortality, he must conceal his brilliance and roam the universe as a conventional, ordinary lone traveler.

Having clarified his future development path, Chen Yang turned his attention to his birth time. After a brief moment of perception, he realized that it would take several more days for him to fully emerge from his cocoon.

Although he has not yet been born, he can already clearly sense that five powerful treasures are quietly floating in his original core world.

The one most deeply connected to him was a translucent oval crystal. This crystal had 129,600 facets and was the "Blank Divine Spark" that the system had forcibly transformed into. It was the true core of a god and had now become the absolute foundation of Chen Yang's existence.

As for the other four treasures, since the connection is not yet deep, he is unable to find out their specific information and can only patiently wait for the day they are revealed.

However, he has plenty of patience for the remaining few days.

With a thought, Chen Yang quietly unleashed his immense soul power. Normal planetary-level first-tier mental power has a radius of only about one kilometer. However, as a planetary-level first-tier individual with perfect genes, his soul was a hundred times stronger, extending its coverage to over a hundred kilometers.

And this is far from over.

The 10,081 soul cores within his body were operating simultaneously, amplifying his soul power ten thousandfold within a range of hundreds of kilometers!

In an instant, an invisible force of perception swept out, covering a terrifying radius of a million kilometers!

The entire Earth was within his soul's perception, with no secrets whatsoever. Even through the thick layers of earth, he could clearly sense the Meteorite Star spaceship, located more than 15,000 meters underground somewhere in Australia. However, the spaceship's hull was made of F-grade metal, preventing him from knowing the details inside.

But on the land of China, everything about the Wu Zhou Dynasty was as clear as the lines on the palm of his hand.

His soul perception pierced through the layers of palace walls and landed in the Daming Palace. There, he saw a woman who had entered old age, yet whose heart remained strong and proud.

Wu Zetian.

Chen Yang greatly admired her. As the only female emperor in Chinese history, she was absolutely capable of helping him manage the future power of his family.

His certainty stemmed from the fact that becoming a member of the Pangu clan had perfectly activated his brain's development and intelligence, greatly enhancing his thought process. He, who previously lacked photographic memory, could now completely recall all his memories from childhood to adulthood, even the scene of his birth in his previous life, which he remembered perfectly.

With this terrifying memory, he clearly remembered that there were still fifteen years left from the first year of the Tian Shou era to the death of this empress.

Fifteen years is enough time for him to observe her slowly. However, her current aged appearance is really not very attractive. Chen Yang secretly pondered that he would use his divine source to help her restore her appearance when the time came, so that at least she would be more pleasing to the eye.

And so, Chen Yang curiously used his soul power to perceive everything happening on the land of China.

Good and bad, he saw it all. He saw the aristocratic families' frustration at being unable to speak out against Wu Zetian, and the ecstatic joy of scholars from humble backgrounds who were promoted by the empress. But what he saw even more was the countless ordinary people suffering unspeakable hardship.

In this era, simply surviving has exhausted all their strength.

Looking at these people struggling in the face of fate, Chen Yang's state of mind suddenly changed.

He seemed to have become one with heaven and earth, quietly overlooking everything in the world. Like the Way of Heaven, he pitied all living beings, yet couldn't think of interfering in human affairs. He forgot to think, forgot everything, as if he had completely merged with heaven and earth, simply watching, feeling, without interfering or meddling.

However, the more he saw, the more distressed he became.

He disliked this kind of misery, and even more so, he disliked the feeling of powerlessness of being held captive by fate.

The destiny of the Pangu Clan is to capture fate; while Chen Yang's will is to truly transcend the shackles of fate!

boom!

Chen Yang regained consciousness.

At that very moment, his soul underwent an unprecedented transformation. The extremely idealistic will belonging to the Pangu clan awakened completely, becoming more resolute and pure than ever before.