Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 143 World of the Realm Lord

Chaotic Starfield.

The original pirate base, pieced together from planetary fragments and warship wreckage, has disappeared, replaced by a massive honeycomb-shaped planetary structure.

After the gold-eating ants cleared the area, all the metal debris from the space pirate base was devoured.

The swarm spent two years reassembling countless planetary fragments using creep tissue, forming a massive Zerg planetary structure.

Yes, planetary structures, larger than Earth, with a diameter exceeding 15,000 kilometers—planetary-type Zerg structures.

At the heart of the planetary Zerg architecture is a cosmic-level mother hive reaching a height of 12 kilometers, the Zerg swarm's second cosmic-level mother hive.

The surface of this Zerg-style planetary architecture is covered with creep and honeycomb-like tunnels of varying sizes.

The planet's structure contains countless chambers of varying shapes, which constantly give birth to various Zerg units.

If you go deeper inside, you can see some particularly huge chambers containing the remains of golden-horned behemoths that were half-born and then destroyed.

These remains of the Golden Horned Beast are significantly smaller than the real Golden Horned Beast; they are more like a miniature or weakened version.

This is a huge chamber specifically used for research on the Golden Horned Beast. If it were to be given a name, then "Golden Horned Nest" would be a good one.

After more than two years of research and the consumption of massive resources, the Zerg swarm has successfully used the Golden Horned Beast gene to create a weakened version of the Zerg unit.

This Zerg unit has reached cosmic-level strength, but its size is only 500 meters, and it no longer has internal space. Even its talents have been reduced from three to one, leaving only the combat talent—Enhancement.

Compared to the real Golden Horned Beasts, the Golden Horned Insects had far fewer golden runes on their bodies, but some silver runes appeared.

The silver runes are a unique result of the Zerg's research on the Void Serpent. They allow the Golden Horned Zerg to have a faster flight speed in space, and their attacks are imbued with certain spatial law effects.

The Golden Horned Insect Clan and the real Golden Horned Behemoth have been weakened in many ways, especially after losing their internal space, their resource consumption has been greatly reduced to less than one ten-thousandth of what it used to be.

This Zerg unit, which possesses enhanced combat abilities, was named the Golden Horn Zerg by Qin Mu. Unlike the Golden Horn Behemoth, which is positioned as a top-tier Zerg mothership, it belongs to the main force and backbone of the Zerg swarm.

The Golden Horned Zerg were a byproduct of Qin Mu's research on the Golden Horned Behemoth, a process that gave the Zerg swarm a deeper and more thorough understanding of the behemoth.

At the same time, the silver runes on the bodies of the Golden Horned Insects indicate that the swarm has been able to initially integrate the fundamental laws of metal and space!

This is Qin Mu's biggest gain in the past two years!

Not only the Golden Horn Nest, but also the Blazing Flame Nest and the Void Serpent Nest, which are used to study the Blazing Behemoth, are located inside this Zerg planet.

The Blazing Nest also yielded significant results, nurturing smaller Blazing Insectoids compared to the Blazing Behemoths.

They are also only about 500 meters long, and their bodies are covered with fiery red and silver secret patterns like dragons. They are combat units that have absorbed the excellent genes of the Blazing Beast and the Void Serpent.

The nests used for studying the Void Serpent are far inferior. As a superior law, the law of space is too difficult to study. The swarm has only gained some understanding of the spatial runes in the body of the Void Serpent and is not yet able to create a true spatial swarm.

Therefore, so far, there is only one type of unit with spatial attributes in the swarm: the Void Serpent.

However, it was precisely the research on the Void Serpent that led to the emergence of two powerful units in the Zerg Swarm: the Golden Horned Zerg and the Blazing Zerg.

Although these two Zerg units cannot be considered Space Zerg, they do possess some characteristics of Space creatures.

The planet's buildings are covered with fungal carpets, and towering, lush green trees, some thousands of meters tall, grow there, blocking out the sun. These are the Earth Spirit Treasure Trees that have grown.

The existence of these trees allows them to draw energy from the universe, significantly increasing the energy concentration in the surrounding universe and enabling the insect swarm to grow faster and better. At the same time, each tree is entwined with a cloud-patterned vine.

These are units developed by the Zerg swarm after they absorbed the genes of the Moyun Vine. They are distributed across the planet's surface as a form of close-combat defense.

Beneath the Earth Spirit Treasure Tree dwells a large number of Zerg units, such as the Golden Horned Zerg, the Blazing Flame Zerg, and the Flame Tank Zerg.

They are the protectors of the Zerg planet.

Outside the planet, large numbers of Zerg units flew and traversed the void.

Not far away, several golden-horned insectoids with wingspans exceeding 500 meters could be seen propelling a fragment of a planet several kilometers long, containing a large amount of precious metal minerals, towards them.

With the help of the swarm, this fragment of the planet was pushed into the Zerg planet.

As the planetary fragments fell toward the surface of the Zerg planet, the tendrils of the Cloud Vine rapidly extended to tens of kilometers, supporting the entire fragments, breaking them down, and merging them into the vast Zerg planet.

Yes, this insectoid planet is growing in this way, and its size continues to increase!

Furthermore, on its surface, one can even see some biological channels that are still under construction and clearly belong to energy jet vents.

This is not just a research planet for the Zerg.

In Qin Mu's plan, it is a mobile battle fortress capable of spawning massive numbers of Zerg units!

It is still just a prototype and is far from meeting Qin Mu's requirements.

Far from the planet, in the edge regions where energy flows rage amidst space storms.

A fleshy sphere about one kilometer long floated in the energy flow. This fleshy sphere was like a sea urchin, with thousands of vines growing on its surface, each more than several kilometers long.

Under the violent energy impact, the surface of this fleshy sphere and the vines were a bloody mess, and the patterns representing the laws of space flickered.

Tiny spatial cracks would occasionally appear in the violent energy flow, instantly severing flesh vines tens of meters thick, or even cutting the entire flesh sphere into pieces!

The fleshy sphere, resembling a sea urchin, was battered and bruised by the energy flow, and was even swallowed up from time to time, yet it still stubbornly survived, frantically absorbing energy at an extremely terrifying rate every moment.

That's right. After more than two years, the Zerg swarm has figured out how to extract energy from the raging energy flow.

Although these fleshy spheres, which Qin Mu called resource spheres, suffered losses from time to time, these losses were negligible compared to the total energy they acquired.

On the edge of this spatial storm, these urchin-like resource spheres float everywhere, providing the swarm with the energy it needs to expand.

Thanks to the existence of the resource orbs, the Zerg swarm's energy needs, while still scarce, are finally not so lacking, allowing them to hatch cosmic-level Zerg units in large quantities.

Deeper within the spatial storm, a Void Serpent over 600 meters long, its body covered in silver patterns, traversed the energy gaps. As a Void Serpent with the talent for spatial travel, it was the only unit in the swarm capable of exploring within the spatial storm.

Even if it encounters an energy surge, it can rely on its own talent to traverse through it, exploring the path while also searching for potential resources for the swarm.

Due to the harsh environment, apart from the energy contained in the space storm itself, other resources are extremely scarce here.

Although scarce, it is not entirely absent. When the Void Serpent traverses these energy gaps, it occasionally encounters fragments of planets shattered by space storms, or meteorites, and so on.

Planetary fragments and meteorites that survive space storms often contain precious minerals, which are also needed by the insect swarm.

Of course, this is just a small harvest for the swarm when it is in an open area. To really obtain mineral resources, etc., they still need to rely on planets within a thousand light-years around Earth.

The Chaotic Starfield is extremely dangerous. It's alright during calm periods, but once a real uprising breaks out, the entire Zerg swarm in the Chaotic Starfield could be wiped out.

Therefore, detecting fluctuations in the chaotic star system's spatial storms is extremely important.

On this day, as usual, the Void Serpent explored the spatial storm.

Suddenly, it discovered a massive fragment of a planet, a fragment with a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers.

Such planetary fragments are extremely rare in space storms, and the Void Serpent flew over without hesitation.

This planetary fragment may have once belonged to a habitable planet, as the Void Serpent discovered ruins of human structures on its surface.

Countless years have passed, and these ruins are no longer recognizable as they were originally; one can only vaguely tell that life once existed there.

On the planetary fragments, besides ruins from who-knows-how-many years ago, the Void Serpent also discovered some C-grade minerals. C-grade minerals are already considered relatively precious resources in the universe, and the Zerg swarm also needs to consume these resources when hatching advanced units.

The Void Serpent immediately began to summon the swarm, directing them to gather resources along the safe paths it had explored.

At that moment, it did not notice that there was a shimmering vortex in the ruins of this planetary fragment.

Three days later, a swarm of insectoids, centered around a fiery behemoth over a kilometer long, arrived at the fragment of the planet.

As the mother ant hatched and a large number of worker ants began mining minerals, one of the gold-eating ants finally noticed something amiss.

When the gold-devouring ants approached the flowing light, they disappeared without a trace.

Previously, it was on planetary debris caught in a space storm.

In the blink of an eye, the gold-devouring ant's vision turned into night!

boom!

The gold-devouring ant's body appeared high in the sky, plummeting wildly at an astonishing speed.

Before the planetary-level gold-eating ant could react, it was slammed heavily to the ground.

Under the immense gravitational pull, this planet-level gold-eating ant, though not dead, was severely injured, with liquid oozing from its metallic exoskeleton.

The gold-eating ant struggled to raise its head and look around.

This place is actually a jungle! An extremely dense jungle!

This is another world.

Following the soul network, the scene that the Gold-Eating Ant saw was instantly teleported into the swarm, causing the entire swarm to erupt in excitement.

The Zerg swarm has discovered a new world on a planetary fragment caught in a space storm!

"This is the world of the Realm Lord!"

On Earth, Qin Mu, who was immersed in cultivation, was alarmed. After the insect swarm explored further and combined it with their understanding of the universe, Qin Mu said with delight.

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(End of this chapter)