Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 204 Analysis of the Golden Beast God!

"kill!"

"kill!"

The shouts and roars of battle echoed throughout the Zerg swarm's soul network, as an incomparably fierce and tyrannical will madly assaulted the swarm's will.

"This level of willpower thinks it can shake my swarm?"

In a secret cultivation chamber in the core area of ​​the Haifeng family in Red Leaf Territory, Qin Mu murmured.

This wasn't Qin Mu fusing the Blood Crystal, but rather, when he sent the Blood Crystal into the mother nest for analysis, an incredibly fierce will descended and surged into the swarm soul network that Qin Mu had constructed.

This is not a shock to consciousness, but pure will!

Willpower and consciousness are different. Consciousness depends on the strength and power of mental energy, while willpower is simply caused by personal beliefs.

The will of an apprentice-level martial artist can still be more terrifying than the will of a realm lord!

When Qin Mu's soul network was being constructed, it had undergone countless attacks from the Zerg, making his will terrifyingly strong.

It was merely an impact of the will within a single Blood Crystal. To Qin Mu's soul network composed of billions of insect swarms, it was like a gentle breeze, and after a brief stalemate, the will was suppressed.

The analytical power of the swarm also slowly seeped into the Blood Crystal.

Available in the next moment!

An immense amount of data flooded into the Zerg hive, and the sheer volume of information was countless times greater than Qin Mu's analysis of the Golden Horned Beast or even the Iceberg Beast at the World Lord level!

The computing power of hundreds of seventh-tier domain lord-level mother nests in the swarm almost instantly became overloaded. In particular, the mother nest that directly analyzed the Blood Crystal turned bright red instantly. The mother nest, which was 170 kilometers high, resembled an erupting volcano, with plumes of blood-red steam appearing in the sky above it.

This is a sign that the internal workings of the brood chamber have reached their limit and are about to collapse!

"This, this level of life structure diagram! Stop parsing!"

Qin Mu's expression changed, and his eyes showed horror.

This is something that has never happened before when the swarm analyzed various powerful creatures, not even with a peak-bloodline cosmic behemoth like the Golden Horned Beast!

In the instant of analysis, under the onslaught of the massive amount of data, Qin Mu felt the entire swarm's operation almost come to a standstill.

In an instant, Qin Mu sensed an extremely vast and terrifying life gene structure.

Even though the structure was riddled with flaws, and even though the swarm of insects had only glimpsed a corner of it, the terrifying impact still filled Qin Mu with immense horror.

However, this shock disappeared immediately after the analysis stopped, and the bright red mother nest gradually calmed down.

"Absolutely terrifying! It nearly brought the swarm to a standstill in an instant."

Qin Mu's face was pale, but then a fanatical glint appeared in his eyes.

This is a naturally born beast god at the level of a cosmic master!

Qin Mu originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect that it could actually be analyzed!

Yes, although Qin Mu stopped analyzing under that terrible impact.

But Qin Mu understood that this was simply because the swarm of insects was far too weak compared to the Golden Beast God, who was at the level of a universe master!

The difference between a Domain Lord and a Universe Lord is simply incalculable.

Even a single drop of blood is beyond the current capabilities of the Zerg swarm to fully analyze.

But that doesn't matter!

Because as long as it can be parsed, it will inevitably be able to be parsed successfully when the swarm becomes stronger!

If the Domain Lord level isn't enough, then the World Lord level will do!

If the Realm Lord level isn't enough, then let's become Immortal!

If one hundred mother hives don't work, then one thousand, ten thousand!

Sooner or later, the swarm will be able to successfully analyze this golden beast god!

This means that one day, a golden beast god army at the level of a cosmic lord might appear in the swarm!

This discovery is amazing.

Before this, Qin Mu actually had some concerns.

Just as the Golden Horned Beast's ability to create clones has its limits, Qin Mu is also worried about the limits of the swarm's analytical capabilities.

As a life form with ten times the genetic power, the Golden Horned Beast's ability to create clones allows it to spawn life forms up to a hundred times its original size. However, it cannot successfully spawn some more powerful life forms, such as those with a thousand times the genetic power.

Through this experience, Qin Mu realized that even innate beast gods at the level of universe lords might not be as powerful as the insect swarm in essence.

The fact that a Domain Lord-level being able to analyze a Golden Beast God at the Universe Lord level is undoubtedly great news.

"The energy consumption from analyzing the Blood Crystal is outrageous; in just a moment, it consumed two percent of the swarm's energy reserves!"

Sensing the depletion of the Blood Crystals used to analyze the swarm, Qin Mu couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.

The swarm has collected resources in more than a hundred star systems within the Chinese universe. Over the years, the swarm's energy reserves have accumulated to an astonishing level.

Two percent is enough to hatch several domain lord-level golden-horned behemoths.

"We must wait until we reach the level of a World Lord and have hatched enough mother nests before we can attempt to analyze the Golden Beast God."

Although it hurt, Qin Mu's eyes were filled with excitement.

The Golden Beast God was too powerful, and its life gene structure was too complex. The analysis of the domain lord-level mother hive was like a computer overload, and the swarm almost collapsed.

It's important to know that the swarm's analytical capabilities are astonishing; even analyzing a world lord-level iceberg behemoth would only take them a few months.

"To truly analyze the life structure of the Golden Beast God, Blood Crystal alone is probably not enough; at the very least, the complete blood of the Beast God is needed."

Qin Mu's eyes were thoughtful. In the instant of analysis, Qin Mu sensed a corner of that enormous life structure.

That part of the life structure is also incomplete, full of flaws.

To extract a single drop of Beast God's Blood, one hundred Blood Crystals are required. It's not surprising that the structure of a single Blood Crystal is incomplete.

Qin Mu could sense that even with enough mother nests to share the burden and sufficient energy supply, it would probably take an entire era to successfully analyze a swarm of insects at the domain lord level.

However, the long processing time is not a major problem. The strength of their insect swarm is still weak, only at the Domain Lord level. If they can reach the World Lord level or even Immortal level, the analysis speed will definitely be greatly improved.

Another point is that I only have one Blood Crystal. If I collect enough and melt them down into the Blood of the Beast God, then the analysis progress can also be improved.

"Although we don't plan to analyze the Blood Crystal for the time being, we can still study its enhancement effect on swarm units."

Qin Mu's eyes shone brightly.

Besides directly analyzing Blood Crystals and the life structure of the Golden Beast God, the Zerg Swarm can also study the effects of Blood Crystals on Zerg Swarm units.

In fact, this is what Qin Mu really wants to do: integrating a Blood Crystal can enhance the perception and power of various laws by two or three levels.

The fusion of ten is not only a transformation of the fundamental laws of the universe, but also a transformation of the body's basic structure.

This kind of transformation is what Qin Mu wants to study.

For the insect swarm, once a metamorphosis is successful and the cause of the mutation is thoroughly analyzed, it transforms into a completely new life gene structure, and from then on, the insect swarm can directly hatch!

Just like the Golden Horned Zerg that Qin Mu studied in the Zerg Swarm, their continuous evolution has resulted in dozens of variants.

After being enhanced, this Blood Crystal is actually just a variant.

"I need to collect enough Blood Crystals!"

Qin Mu's eyes were bright as a series of thoughts raced through his mind.

Before entering the Blood Luo World, Qin Mu's main consideration was to establish a reference point within that world.

As the ruler of the swarm, he will not die as long as the swarm exists.

To ensure the swarm doesn't perish, he will naturally take some measures.

As a mission world within the Primordial Mystery of the Virtual Universe Company, the Blood Luo World is, to some extent, very safe.

Unless Virtual Universe Corporation takes action, anyone else who wants to destroy the Mother Nest here would have to infiltrate the core territory of Virtual Universe Corporation!

This is almost impossible.

As Qin Mu is the personal disciple of the Chaos City Lord, will the Virtual Universe Company take action against him?

Furthermore, as long as the mother nest remains in the Blood Luo World, Qin Mu can continuously harvest Blood Luo Crystals even after leaving this world.

In fact, not only in the Blood Luo World, Qin Mu also planned to leave one or two mother nests in every subsequent mission world.

Even more extreme, placing a mother hive within Chaos City!

For example, the Chaos Ruins where the Chaos City Lord is located is a vast, desolate continent littered with the corpses of billions of races, making it a paradise for insect swarms!

With the strength of the Chaos City Lord, the weakest of those he could kill would be Immortals!

Among those corpses, there are probably quite a few that are immortal, venerable, or even cosmic overlords.

Corpses of this level have at least ten times, or even a hundred times, of genetic material, and may even contain some powerful special life forms!

If we could place the mother nest there...

I shook my head, trying to dispel these thoughts from my mind; they were still a bit too far off.

Although he trusted the Lord of Chaos City, he still needed to carefully consider this matter.

"Let's collect the Blood Crystals first and put the Mother Nest into the Demon Sea."

In the secret cultivation chamber where the patriarch of the Haifeng family resided, Qin Mu was perusing the memories of several high-ranking members of the Haifeng family.

Based on their memories, Red Leaf Territory held no secrets for Qin Mu, allowing him to act more boldly.

Red Leaf Territory has four forces with Domain Lord level experts: the City Lord's Mansion, the Sea Breeze Family, the Tide Sound Family, and the Ice Lizard Clan.

The Ice Lizard Clan differs from ordinary human races in appearance, possessing a lizard head and exhibiting a savage and bloodthirsty nature, belonging to the savage human race.

The Blood Continent is vast and naturally has many human races, the majority of which are similar to humans on Earth, but there are also many races with different appearances.

Qin Mu wasn't very concerned about these things. He only cared about two things: where to find Blood Crystals and what the environment in the Demon Sea was like, whether it was suitable for placing a mother nest and allowing the swarm to reproduce.

"The City Lord's Mansion does indeed have Blood Crystals, but there shouldn't be many, maybe only one or two. The other two families might also have one or two."

After carefully reviewing all the memories, Qin Mu came to a conclusion.

The patriarch of the Haifeng family and the city lord of Hongye territory have a good relationship. He obtained the Blood Crystal from the other party and has also seen another Blood Crystal in his possession.

In the Blood Luo Continent, although Blood Luo Crystals are a relatively valuable treasure, it is not too difficult for some powerful individuals at the Domain Lord level or above to obtain one or two.

This was likely a deliberate move by the higher-ups of the Blood Luo World, a way to select talented elites.

"Go! Capture the leaders of the other factions in Red Leaf Territory!"

Qin Mu gave the order to the insect swarm in his mind, and the Demon Slayers who were wandering in Red Leaf City immediately began to move.

At the same time, the iceberg behemoth's body, which was over a thousand kilometers long, disappeared from the iceberg behemoth's core.

Inside the secret room, a burly figure, two meters tall, appeared.

"dominate!"

The burly figure bowed to Qin Mu.

The figure was none other than the transformed iceberg behemoth.

As one of the twelve peak-bloodline star beasts, the Iceberg Beast's survival talent is the Transformation Technique.

This talent allows it to transform into almost any form, whether it's its soul aura, physical appearance, internal structure, or anything else.

Under the transformation technique, even a Venerable-level expert would find it difficult to detect the anomaly.

It was precisely this confidence in its own talent that gave this iceberg behemoth the idea of ​​infiltrating the primordial universe.

Of course, no matter how powerful this transformation technique is, it's not enough against the Chaos City Lord who controls a region of space and time.

"Iceberg, go and bring me the city lord of Red Leaf City."

Qin Mu did not erase the consciousness of this iceberg behemoth, so it also possessed its own consciousness.

Qin Mu learned from the memories of the Haifeng family patriarch that the city lord of Hongye Territory was at the ninth level of the Domain Lord level. In order to capture him silently, Qin Mu directly sent out the ice mountain behemoth at the peak of the Realm Lord level.

"Yes."

The burly man, Iceberg, respectfully replied, then turned and left the secret room.

Looking at the figure of the iceberg, a plan emerged in Qin Mu's mind.

It would be a waste to have the Iceberg Beast with its strength and talent by my side. I could send it into the Blood Luo people's World City to become its lord.

The Blood Luo World is ruled by the Immortal Temple, but the Immortal Temple holds a transcendent position and generally does not interfere in ordinary matters.

The distribution of Blood Crystals begins with the Immortal Temple giving them to the city lords of various world cities, and then distributing them to the lords of each world.

There are over ten million world cities in the Blood Luo world, and each world city is ruled by tens of millions of lords.

If the Iceberg Behemoth became the lord of a world, it would have a continuous supply of massive amounts of Blood Crystals without needing to collect them.

With the Iceberg Beast's talent, it's entirely possible that after incorporating multiple Blood Crystals, it could infiltrate the Immortal Temple.

Even Venerable-level experts might not be able to discern the transformation techniques of the Iceberg Beast!

At that time, there would be many more opportunities to gain benefits.

After arranging everything, Qin Mu's body disappeared and appeared in the Primal Core World.

"Let's study the enhancement abilities of the Blood Crystal first."

Qin Mu's body lay in a flesh and blood chamber, with nerve-like threads of flesh and blood connecting his body, monitoring every subtle change in his entire being.

A thin thread sliced ​​across Qin Mu's palm, and bright red blood flowed out along the wound.

The triangular prism-shaped blood crystal, analyzed by the swarm, floated from the mother hive and landed on the wound.

The fusion of Blood Crystals is very simple; just let them come into contact with fresh blood from a wound. Almost everyone on the Blood Crystal Continent knows this.

"I heard it's very difficult to integrate into Blood Crystal? Let me see just how difficult it is!"

When the beautiful and dazzling Blood Crystal touches a wound, especially when fresh blood touches it, an invisible and strange energy suddenly bursts forth from the Blood Crystal.

The same fierce will as when analyzing the Blood Crystal rushed into Qin Mu's sea of ​​consciousness. Shouts and roars of battle filled the air. Having experienced it once before, Qin Mu's expression remained unchanged, and he easily defeated it.

"Boom!"

As Qin Mu crushed that will, the true, fundamental, and wondrous power within the Blood Crystal erupted. Strands of red threads within the Blood Crystal frantically surged into Qin Mu's body.

Qin Mu's body trembled involuntarily.

Qin Mu's facial muscles twitched involuntarily, and his skin would sometimes congeal into a crust, and sometimes crack and bleed.

His arms swelled violently, and the veins on them sometimes became completely transparent, like transparent crystals, and sometimes turned pure gold, while his muscles constantly changed.

All these changes are monitored and recorded by the mother nest through the flesh and blood threads.

"Something's changed! This Blood Crystal is altering my genetic structure!"

A joyful smile appeared on Qin Mu's face. In the monitoring of the Mother Nest, the strange power in the Blood Crystal was constantly modifying his genetic structure.

He completely ignored the pain caused by the modification; he had done similar gene modifications to himself more than once, and he was used to such pain.

Under the influence of that strange power, Qin Mu felt his body temperature reach an unbelievably high level, as if he were about to be burned to ashes, but in the blink of an eye it dropped to an astonishingly low level, so cold that he could not feel his own body.

With a hissing sound, Qin Mu's ten fingernails slowly extended, like metal nail blades!

Then it quickly shrank, and at the same time, all ten fingers mutated, and even the internal bones changed. The entire palm became like a hoof, and hair slowly grew out.

Not only his fingers, but also his arms, legs, feet, and face were growing black hair. In just a moment, Qin Mu turned into a hairy man.

However, after a few minutes, these hairs quickly retracted and disappeared.

chi chi~~

Black scales sprouted from Qin Mu's arms, fingers, legs, feet, and even face, while his entire body grew stronger and taller.

"Is this change a transformation into the body of the Golden Beast God?"

During this modification, without the assistance of the mother nest, even I would probably lose control of my body.

Qin Mu's will flowed through the swarm of insects as he carefully observed the scene.

The transformation of the Blood Crystal lasted a long time. When all the changes were over, all the abnormalities on Qin Mu's body disappeared, as if there had been no change at all.

But Qin Mu knew that this was just an appearance.

Under the influence of the Blood Crystal, subtle changes were observed in the genes of his body.

This is a leap forward in life!

It's like every time you break through a level, there's a leap.

Breaking through to the planetary level, breaking through to the eternal level, breaking through to the cosmic level... at other times it's just an accumulation of quantity.

A single Blood Crystal actually caused his life to leap forward!

With his exceptional control over his body and the auxiliary monitoring of the Mother Nest, Qin Mu clearly felt that after merging with the Blood Crystal, every cell in his body contained a magical and special power.

This power is neither primal energy nor telekinesis; it is some kind of unknown force.

With a low shout, Qin Mu directly activated that unknown power by relying on his control over his body.

Instantly!

A seemingly simple yet incredibly profound blood-red pattern appeared on Qin Mu's chest. When this blood-red pattern surfaced on his skin, Qin Mu felt as if the world had changed.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Light, Time, Space...

The fundamental laws of the universe are becoming increasingly clear.

"As expected, it improved by about 30%, a feeling very similar to when I activated the secret runes on my body."

Qin Mu murmured to himself, and in addition to the blood-red secret runes, gold, red, and silver secret runes appeared one after another on his body.

When these patterns appeared, Qin Mu's perception of the fundamental laws of metal, fire, and space instantly doubled.

"Compared to the genes of the Golden Horned Beast, Blazing Beast, and Void Python that I have integrated into my body, the enhancement is somewhat weaker, but this is only one Blood Crystal."

More importantly, the three genes I have integrated into my body can only strengthen one of them.

Unlike other crystals, the Blood Crystal enhances the perception of all laws! Furthermore, the power of each law it unleashes is increased!

Carefully sensing the changes in his body, Qin Mu fell into deep thought.

"Something's not right with this power. It seems to contain some kind of will. No wonder the impact of that will doubled when it merged with the second Blood Crystal!"

"We must find a way to eliminate this will!"

One update today, 5000 words. I took my child to the hospital again today; the fever has been up to 39 degrees Celsius and won't go down. The doctor said this virus takes five or six days to heal, and I hope it will improve in a couple of days.

(End of this chapter)