Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 154 The Fallen Domain Lord

When Qin Mu gave the order, the cosmic-level insectoids that had been scattered to hunt down the native monsters flew towards the core area of ​​the World Lord's World.

After all the native monsters in the world of the Lord of the Realm were killed and devoured, their numbers exceeded one million, reaching an astonishing 1.2 million.

The gravity at the core of the world's master is so great that it is almost indistinguishable from the environment of a white dwarf. Only cosmic-level insectoids can move freely in such an environment.

With gravity hundreds of millions of times greater, even a star-sized Zerg would struggle to survive, let alone fight.

After rejoining the swarm of insects, Qin Mu no longer flew alone, but landed on the body of a golden-horned behemoth.

After a month-long life-or-death battle, its scales and skin were covered in wounds, but it was precisely these wounds that made it look fierce and violent.

Qin Mu stood atop the head of the golden-horned behemoth, his mind immersed in the will of the swarm.

The way the rock giant merged with the swarm's will was peculiar; although it had no soul, it still appeared in the soul network.

As a life form made of rock, the rock core is its soul and its source of energy.

As long as the rock core remains intact, its outer shell can regenerate at any time.

Rock giants are immune to mental attacks, but they also cannot use telekinesis, let alone control objects. All rock giants are warriors.

When the rock giant was born, Qin Mu naturally understood its talent.

Their innate talent—Children of the Earth—allows them to greatly increase their strength when they step on the ground, and to draw energy from the earth inexhaustibly to repair the damage they suffer.

This talent greatly enhances one's affinity with the earth element; Qin Mu could even feel the fluctuations emanating from the earth surrounding the rock giant.

Such fluctuations are imperceptible to both human bodies and even to the rock monitor lizard.

"Although it is also the first level of the Earth Domain, if it is used with the body of a rock giant, the strength will at least double!"

And the insights into the Earth Realm were so clear.

Qin Mu sighed.

"Perhaps we should look for some single-attribute life forms like rock giants. If we can't find top-tier life forms like the Golden Horned Beast, using them as substitutes would be a good option."

Unlike the Golden Horned Beast, which possesses the pinnacle of gold and spatial attributes, the Rock Giant can only comprehend the essence of earth, and comprehending the essence of space is extremely difficult.

This also means that single-attribute life forms like rock giants are very powerful below the World Lord level, but once they reach the World Lord or even Domain Lord level, they fall behind other races.

For them, achieving immortality is even more difficult.

Immortals, also known as eternal beings or gods, need to fully comprehend a certain lower-level fundamental law before gradually comprehending a higher-level fundamental law.

However, if it is only used to comprehend the laws of a single domain or attribute, it is an excellent choice.

In his thoughts, the Golden Horned Beast flew at high speed through the sky, with more and more other Zerg units appearing on its sides: Blazing Beasts, Void Serpents, and so on.

Upon reaching the outer edge of the world's core region, the Golden Horned Beast stopped and began to await the arrival of other cosmic-level insectoids.

The core area of ​​the world is not large, roughly a circular region with a diameter of a thousand miles.

Once you enter the core area, the gravity will be up to a million times that of Earth's gravity, and the further you go in, the stronger the gravity will be, up to hundreds of millions of times stronger.

Because of the extremely strong gravity, even the psychic power of a cosmic level or even a domain lord level is difficult to spread out. This is why the domain lord level giant bear did not notice the changes in the outside world.

For a powerful creature of this level, a month is too short; it would pass in the blink of an eye.

It has been trapped in this world for far too long, tens of thousands of years have passed, and it is almost going mad.

Even intelligent life forms like Babata, after gaining emotions and intelligence, nearly went insane after being trapped on the Meteorite Star for 50,000 years, let alone ordinary life forms.

At first, it would wander around the world of the world master, trying to find a way out, but after tens of thousands of years, it realized that it would be impossible to get out unless it controlled the core of this world.

Apart from it, all other monsters in this world are ferocious beasts, devoid of any intelligence and incapable of communication.

So it stayed in the core area of ​​the world, attacking the black castle for tens of thousands of years, only occasionally venturing out to vent its anger.

As observed by the Void Serpent, the eyes of this Domain Lord-level giant bear were filled with madness. It relentlessly attacked the black castle until it was exhausted, then fell asleep for a period of time, only to wake up and continue attacking, repeating the cycle endlessly.

This has become its obsession.

In the past, occasionally some cosmic-level ferocious beasts would accidentally enter this area. At first, it would drive them away and kill them, but later it became too lazy to care.

The laws of this world are incomplete, making it impossible for a domain lord-level powerhouse to emerge, thus posing neither a threat nor a help to it.

This is why it ignored the giant void serpent.

However, after its furious attack on the Black Castle and falling into a deep sleep, it failed to notice the increasing number of Zerg appearing in the distance.

The insectoids, led by a giant golden-horned beast, slowly approached it.

Within the swarm's soul network, the souls of a million of the most powerful Zerg units began to glow faintly, and all soul power began to converge around the Golden Horned Beast.

An extremely terrifying power gathered within the Golden Horned Beast's body.

This power was enough to awaken even a sleeping domain lord-level giant bear, but by then it was too late.

In the core region of the Realm Lord's World, amidst interference from an extremely strong magnetic field with gravity hundreds of millions of times that of Earth, and tens of thousands of years of tranquility, the Domain Lord Giant Bear's vigilance has been reduced to a minimum.

A visible shockwave of soul energy burst forth from the Golden Horned Beast's body, instantly reaching the Domain Lord Giant Bear's form.

"roar--"

The domain lord beast only had time to roar once. The souls gathered in the singularity tried to resist, but the moment they came into contact with that terrifying soul impact, their souls shattered.

Its body was intact, but its soul had completely dissipated.

The massive body of the Domain Lord Giant Bear collapsed with a crash, and the madness in its eyes gradually faded.

Under the combined attack of a million cosmic-level Zerg, the Domain Lord-level Giant Bear was instantly killed.

"call--"

Qin Mu's soul sea felt swollen, and he felt dizzy.

Although the Heart of the Swarm arcane art has reached the second level and the attack was launched from the body of the Golden Horned Beast, the load of mobilizing a million cosmic-level Zerg is still too great.

"Finally, the last unstable factor has been eliminated."

Judging from the resistance of this Domain Lord-level giant bear, its soul strength is already at the ninth level of the Domain Lord level!

Fortunately, I was fully prepared before launching the attack, and I killed him in one blow.

Qin Mu let out a long breath, trying to clear his head.

Killing this domain lord-level giant bear in one blow may seem easy, but it was not in reality.

This is the result of the swarm's efforts over the course of a month within this master world.

It was a terrifying attack launched only after annihilating all life in the entire world of the Lord of the Realms, collecting massive resources, and then hatching a million-strong cosmic-level insectoid race.

This attack represents the culmination of the swarm's accumulated power.

If this attack fails to instantly kill the domain lord-level giant bear, then the insect swarm will be in trouble.

"Next, we need to gain control of this black fortress."

There was a smile in Qin Mu's eyes.

He also had an idea of ​​how to breach this black fortress.

After observation, Qin Mu discovered that this black fortress not only had strong defensive capabilities but also considerable offensive capabilities.

Yes, this black fortress has nine laser cannons, and they are D-level laser cannons.

After checking the information, it was found that it was a D3 level laser cannon.

A single strike can kill a powerful martial artist at the third level of the Domain Lord realm.

However, this laser cannon rarely attacks, or it never attacks at all.

There are two possible reasons: first, the laser cannon cannot harm the domain lord giant bear; second, there is insufficient energy.

The master of this realm has been dead for 80,000 years, and the domain lord giant bear may have been attacking for 80,000 years!

It's already quite an achievement that they've managed to stay this long.

"The fungal carpet began to spread, covering the entire area."

All units in the swarm retreat, awaiting the complete spread of the creep. Except for the Golden Horned Beast, the Blazing Beast, and the Void Serpent, the remaining cosmic-class Zerg units will begin their attacks in waves!

The swarm did not rush to attack, nor did it even retrieve the corpse of the fallen domain lord-level giant bear. Instead, it quickly retreated and left the core area.

On the outer edge of Earth's core, star-shaped mother nests are hatching, and from these mother nests, a purple fungal carpet spreads like flowing water.

"Click—"

The immense gravitational pull crushed the fungal carpet tissue; ordinary plants simply could not survive under such a force millions of times stronger.

But it is clear that the fungal carpet is not an ordinary plant.

After a brief period of adaptation, with ample energy provided by the mother nest behind them, these fungal carpets continued to spread, taking root thousands of meters underground.

When fighting those rock giants, the swarm's fungal carpet has to withstand the earth domains of those cosmic-level rock giants to spread.

When combat units like the Golden Horned Zerg and the Blazing Zerg evolved, their creep tissue also adapted to reproduce under extreme gravity.

Although the fungal tissue keeps bursting open, it continues to advance steadily like a tide.

After advancing nine hundred miles, when the gravity reached hundreds of millions of times that of Earth, these fungal mat tissues finally could not withstand the pressure and were completely crushed into dust.

Qin Mu sensed that these fungal mat tissues were undergoing frantic evolution and mutation under the intense gravity, constantly adjusting their structure in an attempt to survive in such an environment.

The swarm's evolutionary capabilities are at play.

But this is clearly not something that can be done in a short period of time.

That's enough, because it's only a few dozen miles from here to that black fortress!

One by one, rock giant lizards with strength at the fourth level of the universe began to enter the arena. After mutating by devouring the core of the rock giant, their bodies had completely transformed into earth-attribute, and strange earth-yellow patterns appeared on their bodies.

When they reached the edge of the fungal carpet, an invisible earth domain emanated, largely neutralizing the powerful gravitational pull.

The Earth Realm can not only enhance gravity, but also neutralize it.

The fungal tissue continued to spread along the domain, enveloping the dead domain lord bear and extending into the underground of the black fortress.

When the fungal carpet tissue touched the yellowish-brown light curtain on the black fortress, countless tentacles rapidly spread along the yellow light curtain.

The energy within the yellowish-brown light shield was absorbed by the fungal carpet at an astonishing rate, transforming into nutrients for its growth.

"boom--"

"boom--"

"boom--"

The nine silent D3-class laser cannons finally fired, instantly piercing through the nine giant rock lizards that were hit, killing them instantly.

A D3-level laser cannon can easily kill enemies at the third tier of the Domain Lord level. These Zerg, who only have the strength of the Universe level, cannot withstand it and will be killed instantly.

When the rock giant lizard's territory disappeared, the fungal tissue did not disappear, because the next rock giant lizard immediately took its place.

"Finally couldn't hold back any longer? Swarm, except for the Golden Horned Beast, the Blazing Beast, and the Void Serpent, all other units, begin your attack!"

Qin Mu sneered inwardly. The battle would be over once the fungal carpet successfully spread.

How could nine D3-level laser cannons possibly withstand a million-strong cosmic swarm of insects?

Even if they are killed, their corpses will be quickly digested by the creep tissue, converted back into energy, and hatched into new Zerg units.

As long as top-tier units like the Golden Horned Beast are not lost, the Zerg swarm can afford to hold out!

Amidst the roar.

The nine D3-level laser cannons in the castle fired wildly, killing the Zerg one by one.

But against a swarm of insects, it's undoubtedly a drop in the ocean.

suddenly--

The earthen-yellow light on the surface of the black fortress shone, and sounds came from the dilapidated and ancient castle. Beams of light lit up the entire castle, and soon, they enveloped the whole castle.

A humanoid phantom appeared in the sky above the castle.

"Zerg!"

"Leave the master's territory!"

"Otherwise, I'll detonate the castle's self-destruct program, and you won't get anything."

In the void, the humanoid phantom solidified, transforming into a beautiful, scaled woman who shouted angrily.

"Intelligent life? Self-destruct program?"

Amidst the swarm of insects, Qin Mu's gaze remained calm. It was normal for this castle to have auxiliary intelligence; the only question was whether it had evolved into intelligent life.

It's not surprising that it could recognize the Zerg, after all, its master was a ruthless person who had entered the extraterrestrial battlefield and fought against many alien races, and had even retired alive.

Qin Mu didn't take the threat of intelligent life seriously. Putting aside whether the fortress had a self-destruct program or not, even if it did, Qin Mu wouldn't give up.

He refused to believe that the castle's self-destruction could destroy the entire World Lord's World. As long as the World Lord's World still existed, he wouldn't lose out.

"The Zerg? I'm a pharmacist at Virtual Universe Corporation; these are just monsters I've bred."

Qin Mu's voice echoed through the sky.

(End of this chapter)