Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 144 Exploration

"The world discovered by the swarm has a gravity approximately 5000 times that of Earth, making it impossible for ordinary planetary-level Zerg to survive."

The exact size is still unknown, but even just around the entrance, the swarm has already discovered numerous star-level and even cosmic-level monsters.

On Earth, Qin Mu's eyes revealed an undisguised joy.

The gold-devouring ant was already severely injured after falling, and it was soon crushed to death by the powerful gravity of the World Lord's World.

The swarm quickly dispatched more Star-level Gold-Eating Ants that were gathering resources nearby to enter the world. After entering the world through the vortex of light, each time they landed at a different location, but all in a jungle.

Judging from the soul network, the distance between them is not too far.

These gold-eating ants quickly discovered the native creatures in the jungle. Due to the super strong gravity of the world's master, most creatures were at least at the star level, and those weaker simply could not survive in this world!

The World of the Realm Lord is different from the ordinary world. The World of the Realm Lord is created by the Realm Lord using the primordial energy of the universe. The foundation of the World Lord is the cosmic crystal. The land, sand, rocks and so on are all affected by the primordial energy of the universe, making them much more special than external matter.

If it weren't for this unique characteristic, ordinary vegetation simply wouldn't be able to survive under such gravitational pull.

The fundamental energy of the universe.

An energy with incredible power that can only be unleashed by those who reach the level of a World Lord. Once this energy condenses, it becomes a "Cosmic Crystal".

Cosmic Crystals are a form of hard currency in the universe. They are not national currencies like Silver Blue Coins, Black Dragon Coins, or Qianwu Coins, but rather crystallized from the primordial energy of the universe!

Therefore, it is applicable to any country in the universe and to any race!

The Star-level Gold-Eating Ants are considered a relatively powerful monster in the outside world, but they suffered heavy losses not long after entering this world of the World Lord, and were simply unable to fight against the native creatures of the World Lord.

"First, we need to find out the size of this world, the number of monsters, whether there are intelligent life forms controlling it, and whether it has left any legacy."

On Earth, Qin Mu's eyes gleamed; the value of a World Lord was immense!

Regardless of whether there are any treasures inside, the world itself is an astonishing treasure. If there are any heirlooms or similar items inside, its value would be even more astonishing.

"Let the swarm explore first, then I need to head over there myself."

Qin Mu muttered to himself that he hadn't gone there to satisfy his curiosity, but rather to bring the swarm's advanced power with him.

The entrance to this world is not large; it is a vortex of flowing light with a diameter of only a dozen meters.

Powerful units in the swarm, such as the Blazing Insects, are 500 meters long and cannot get in at all!

Currently, only small worker insects like gold-eating ants can get inside.

However, it is clear that such weak units as the Gold-Eating Ants are insufficient to conquer this world of the World Lord.

Qin Mu, on the other hand, can use the World Ring to transport powerful units such as the Golden Horned Beast into the world all at once.

Qin Mu even planned to transport this entire fragment of a planet, which spanned thousands of kilometers, to the vicinity of the Zerg planetary fortress using the World Ring.

What if there are other treasures on this fragment of the planet?

It would be such a pity to miss it.

What benefits could a realm master's world, adrift in spatial storms and never yet developed, possibly offer?

How powerful is the strongest creature inside? Is it at the cosmic level? Or the domain lord level?!

These are all unknowns.

Qin Mu must take this seriously.

He had been cultivating diligently for two years, and the swarm had also been developing for two years. This world of the realm master was a good opportunity to test the strength of the swarm.

Over the past two years, the swarm has been working hard to analyze the genes of various organisms and upgrade the level of the mother hive within the swarm.

However, unlike at the Eternal level, the rate of improvement slows down significantly once you reach the Cosmic level.

Even a creature of peak lineage as powerful as the Golden Horned Beast.

At the star level.

It takes a year and a half to go from the first to the third order.

It takes two years to break through from the fourth to the sixth rank, for a total of about six years.

It takes 12 years to break through from the seventh to the ninth rank, for a total of 36 years.

Breaking through from the ninth rank to the cosmic level requires more than 50 years. The entire 'eternal star' stage lasts for nearly a century.

The cosmic-level phase lasted for nearly a thousand years!

It takes about 15 years to go from the first to the third order.

It takes 20 years to break through from the fourth to the sixth rank, for a total of 60 years.

It takes 120 years to break through from the seventh to the eighth rank, for a total of 360 years.

Finally, it takes more than 500 years to break through from the ninth level of the cosmic level to the domain lord.

However, the Golden Horned Beast can increase its evolution speed by consuming different metal combinations. For example, when a Hengxing-level beast consumes a metal combination with the highest evolution efficiency of 89 times, it only takes a little over a year.

Even for a Golden Horned Beast, which consumes the most efficient metal combination for evolution (56 times the efficiency), it would still take nearly nine years to evolve to the ninth rank of the cosmic level.

In terms of speed alone, unless the Zerg swarm has a massive amount of resources and a large-scale hatching of mother hives to increase the swarm's processing speed, it cannot be as fast as the Golden Horned Beast.

It has been more than two years since the Zerg Swarm broke through to the cosmic level, but now, due to resource issues, there are only three cosmic-level mother broods in the Swarm.

The resources within a thousand light-years around Earth and in the chaotic star field are not enough to support a large number of cosmic-scale insectoids!

Therefore, the Mother Nest that Qin Mu currently keeps in the World Ring and carries with him is now at the fourth level of the Universe level.

The Golden Horned Beast, by devouring the best combination of metals, reached the fifth rank of the cosmic level.

Compared to the Golden Horned Beast, which can evolve simply by consuming metal, the Zerg hive requires hundreds of times more resources to evolve!

The entire swarm, so far, only has a little over 100,000 Zerg units at the cosmic level. This includes the Skyfire Ravens in the World Ring that the teacher gave us, as well as many slaves who have been Zerg-ified.

Since there were no adversaries among the star-level Zerg combat units, Qin Mu did not hatch too many, with a total number of around 10 billion, mainly distributed within a range of 1,000 light-years around Earth.

However, this is also because the Zerg swarm has no rivals, so Qin Mu didn't hatch too many combat units. With the Zerg swarm's current resource reserves, if a major war breaks out, the number of cosmic-level units in the swarm could easily multiply several times over.

Just as Qin Mu boarded the Galaxy and flew towards the Chaotic Starfield, the Zerg swarm's preparations had already begun.

The distance between Earth and the Chaotic Starfield would take about ten days for the Galaxy spaceship to travel through the dark universe, which would be enough time for the Zerg swarm to gather a lot of information.

On the Zerg planet fortress, a massive Zerg force sets off to provide support.

On the planetary fragments, a group of star-level units skilled in flight were also hatched.

This is a monster from the universe called the Phantom Serpent. They resemble snakes, are over thirty meters long, have slender bodies, six pairs of wings on their backs, are extremely fast, and are adept at stealth, making them perfect for reconnaissance.

More importantly, Qin Mu chose this monster because the Gold-Eating Ants that entered the World Lord's World at the beginning discovered the Phantom Flying Serpent monster inside.

Monsters are not unique to the world of the Lord of the Realms; they exist widely throughout the universe, and many have been analyzed in the gene pool of the swarm.

After the first batch of 100 Phantom Flying Serpents with strength at the ninth level of the Hengxing Star were hatched, they quickly entered the World Lord's World.

Outside the vortex of light, one after another, phantom flying snakes passed through and entered the world of the realm master.

Shifting stars.

The sky darkened, and through the soul link, the 100 phantom flying snakes quickly located themselves. Knowing their positions, they spread out in all directions under the arrangement of the mother nest.

Due to the super-strong gravity of the Realm Master World, the speed of the Phantom Flying Serpents has also slowed down a lot, but even so, the situation in the Realm Master World has gradually appeared in the swarm.

The entrance to the Lord of the Realms is an extremely vast, continuous mountain range, stretching over 100,000 kilometers, covered with lush vegetation.

Because it was so vast, the insect swarm initially mistook it for a jungle.

In this mountain range live countless star-level monsters, as well as at least several thousand cosmic-level monsters, including many cosmic-level ninth-order monsters!

After flying out of the mountains, the terrain became very diverse. To the east was a vast plain, to the west an endless desert, to the south a barren wasteland of rocks, and to the north a hilly region.

The swarms of insects cannot be explored further yet. There are simply too many monsters in this world, and their strength is terrifying. In just one reconnaissance mission, the Phantom Flying Serpents lost more than half of their forces.

Even after the swarm sent out a second and third reconnaissance unit, it still found it difficult to reach any further.

Without cosmic-level combat power, it is very difficult to survive in this world.

This is not one of those worlds that has been occupied and cleaned up by the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance, but a pristine world that has never been developed!

"Reconnaissance activities continue."

Despite the heavy losses suffered by the advance reconnaissance troops, Qin Mu did not give up, but continued to send out more reconnaissance units.

As long as there are enough of them, some will be able to fly to farther places. Even if they can't fly to farther places, they can still find out detailed maps of the mountainous region at the entrance, the distribution of monsters, their strength details, and so on.

This will be of great benefit to subsequent arrangements.

Knowing your enemy and yourself is the key to victory in every battle.

As for whether it will alert the native monsters inside the world of the Lord of the Realm, under normal circumstances it will not.

Because the first batch of Phantom Flying Serpents, as well as the second and third batches of monsters sent by Qin Mu, were all monsters that already existed in the World Lord's World.

Unless there are intelligent life forms in this world that are constantly monitoring the entire world, it would be impossible to detect them.

Of course, in this situation, hiding is useless. The only way is to wait for the main force of the insect swarm to arrive and forcibly take over the world.

This is also why Qin Mu did not rush to let the worker insects enter and breed in the mother nest.

"Based on the information I have, worlds of world masters generally have distinct characteristics, which are closely related to the laws that world masters comprehend."

For example, the reason why Luo Feng and his group were able to comprehend the Thunder World during the original timeline's cosmic mercenary assessment was because that world lord comprehended the Law of Thunder.

Therefore, the most terrifying natural force in the entire Thunder World is—thunder!

In the world of thunder, encountering lightning is extremely dangerous. If there are signs of thunder, you need to immediately move away from places where you might be struck by lightning.

Once struck, even a weaker domain lord would instantly turn to ashes.

There is absolutely no life on the stars.

On the Galaxy, which was traveling at top speed in the dark universe, Qin Mu was deep in thought.

"Aside from the extremely strong gravity, we haven't found any other characteristics of this world. Could it be earth-based?"

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