Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 205 The Blood-Soaked World of Zerg

On the Blood Continent, adults are all at the Earth level once they reach adulthood. For Earth-level martial artists, maintaining a speed of nearly a thousand kilometers per hour while walking is normal.

In such a world, how vast is the Devil Sea, which can be called an ocean?

Unable to calculate!

Even powerful beings at the Domain Lord or World Lord levels would find it difficult to cross the Demon Sea.

This is a very terrifying region on the Blood Continent. Not only is the environment extremely harsh, but it is also inhabited by countless marine beasts and numerous savage races deep within.

Harsh environments often give birth to many rare and precious treasures.

Mermaids are a unique race living in the Demon Sea. Every mermaid is stunningly beautiful and possesses an incredibly moving singing voice.

These are the most powerful women on the Blood Continent. Capturing just one of them can bring wealth that even Cloud Realm or Domain Realm experts would envy.

The Sea Breeze Family made their fortune by selling mermaids.

By capturing beautiful fish, the Haifeng family has established connections with many top dignitaries and even some big names in the world's cities.

Just as Qin Mu had guessed, they were able to capture the Fish Beauty in the Demon Sea, indicating they were very familiar with the surrounding waters.

The Demon Sea appears chaotic, but countless wild sea beasts roam freely within it.

In reality, just like on land, there are territorial divisions.

The Sea Breeze family has ties with a faction called the Terror Shark Clan, and they trade with each other.

"Based on the available information, a deep-sea area would be a suitable location for the mother nest."

Qin Mu pondered.

Although a mother nest had already been placed in the underground space of the Youhe Mountains, Qin Mu, being a cunning rabbit with multiple burrows, would not put all his eggs in one basket.

Moreover, compared to the Dark Valley Mountains, the Demon Sea has much greater potential for development.

A world ring appeared in Qin Mu's hand, which he handed to one of the Demon Slayers guarding him.

The demon slayer immediately led a group of people and flew towards the Demon Sea.

This group included ten members of the Demon Slayer Clan and a seventh-tier Iceberg Beast of the Domain Lord level.

After successfully analyzing the iceberg behemoth at the realm lord level and obtaining its life structure, Qin Mu used it to hatch four more iceberg behemoths at the domain lord level.

In the ocean, the strength of the iceberg behemoth can be greatly enhanced. With the characteristics of ten times the genes and many secret techniques and talents, ordinary world lords are no match for it.

With this group of people, the nearshore area of ​​the Devil Sea is relatively safe.

Once the mother nest is placed, it can expand and spread from the nearshore area into the depths of the Demon Sea.

With the Iceberg Behemoth, a Zerg race possessing a soul, the Zerg swarm can also use this ability to transform into Zerg, corrupting and infecting powerful wild beasts or alien strongmen in the Blood Luo World.

Three hours later.

Tens of thousands of miles away from Red Leaf City, in the Demon Sea, a squad of elite units carrying a Zerg hive plunged into the Demon Sea from the sky.

As soon as they entered the ocean, they startled the wild sea beasts roaming nearby.

Just as these marine beasts were about to rush forward, they felt an intense pressure as a terrifying giant turtle, about seventy kilometers in size, appeared in their field of vision.

This terrifying creature, as large as a mountain, merely emitted an aura that made all the surrounding wild beasts tremble and dare not make the slightest move.

Under the watchful eyes of these sea monsters, the terrifying giant turtle sank deeper and deeper into the sea and disappeared.

The Demon Sea is extremely deep and vast.

As you venture slightly deeper, you'll find that in many places the depth exceeds thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers. It is precisely in such an environment that powerful marine mammals can thrive.

After sinking nearly 10,000 kilometers into the ocean, the iceberg finally reached the seabed, a place of cold darkness where sunlight had never shone.

A serpentine beast, nearly a kilometer long with a triangular head, roams the seabed.

brush--

A gigantic head emerged from the dark, icy seawater and swallowed the beast, whose strength had reached the Cloud Realm (cosmic level), whole.

In the final moments of this serpentine beast's life, it saw what appeared to be a towering mountain on the flat seabed, from which beasts continuously emerged.

……

In the cultivation room of the Haifeng family mansion, Qin Mu sensed a mother nest appearing deep in the Demon Sea and a smile appeared on his face.

Another mother nest has been successfully placed!

"The two mother hives, incorporating the Iceberg Behemoth's innate runes, have been successfully placed. The next step is for the swarm to develop covertly."

These two mother nests were specially prepared by Qin Mu, and they are best at concealing their presence. In addition, their remote location makes them relatively safe.

Most of the Zerg units they hatch are derived from native wild beasts, allowing them to blend perfectly into the native environment.

In the Blood Luo world, Qin Mu did not intend to confront the natives head-on, but rather to take the path of covert infiltration and corruption.

Given the current strength of the Zerg swarm, it is unrealistic to confront the Blood Continent, which has many immortals and even cosmic venerables, head-on.

In fact, even if the Zerg swarm were capable of confronting the Immortal Temple head-on, Qin Mu would not do so.

After all, the Blood Luo World is a cultivation world within the Primordial Secret Realm of the Virtual Universe Company. If Qin Mu makes it a mess, what will happen to the other trial participants?

Without a doubt, by then, the higher-ups of the Virtual Universe Company and the Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, who is monitoring from outside the Blood Luo World, will intervene.

If direct confrontation doesn't work, then how about corruption in secret?

With the Zerglings' innate ability to transform into Zerglings, coupled with powerful units like the Ice Giants and the Demon Slayers who excel at assassination and disguise, even if they cannot corrupt and erode the Immortal Temple, controlling some world cities will not be a problem.

It's like how, during Earth's time, when the insect swarm was still weak, they secretly controlled those king-level monsters to accumulate power.

With the Iceberg Behemoth's strength, it could fight against weaker Immortals, and controlling and killing some World Lord-level City Lords of World Cities would be no problem at all.

This not only replenishes the swarm's strength but also allows them to harvest enough Blood Crystals!

"Perhaps I should establish an intelligence organization."

A thought popped into Qin Mu's mind.

Unlike the Earth era, with the support of military satellites, Qin Mu has complete control over all situations on Earth.

However, the Blood Continent does not have such means, so Qin Mu needs a source of intelligence.

With a large number of Demon Slayers as a foundation, and with the help of the Mother Nest's allocation and the corruption of the Zerg swarm, establishing an assassination-oriented intelligence organization is not difficult.

There are many similar organizations in the Bloodlust world.

What will happen to the Blood Continent, a world that is both domesticated and extremely martial? What happens when it is unable to expand outwards?

civil war!

The Blood Continent has tens of millions of world cities, each governing a world with a diameter ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of kilometers.

They attacked and fought against each other.

For example, the world where Red Leaf Territory is located has extremely tense relations with the four surrounding worlds, and major wars break out every now and then.

Not only between world cities, but also among the tens of millions of lord cities within a world city, wars frequently break out.

The Immortal Temple, high above all others, does not interfere in the war against the Blood Continent unless it is an act of annihilation; in fact, they are happy to see it happen.

This kind of breeding, which involves raising insects, is essentially no different from the insect swarms killing each other to cultivate a king insect race.

These are all methods used to cultivate strong individuals.

This gave the insect swarm an excellent opportunity!

With sufficient intelligence support, the swarm can secretly and continuously corrupt and erode those lord cities, and even world cities!

"Go! According to the plan, using Red Leaf City as the core, transform the city lords of the surrounding lord cities and many other forces into insectoid beings, then enter World City and occupy it!"

Qin Mu's deep voice echoed in the training room.

"Yes, Master!"

Iceberg bowed respectfully.

With his peak World Lord level strength, capturing some Domain Lord level lords would be far too easy.

This process also yields a large amount of Blood Crystals!

In the original timeline, Luo Feng had done something similar, except that he simply hunted domain lords to obtain Blood Crystals.

In comparison, Qin Mu's approach was even more ruthless.

What he wants is not a one-time harvest, but a long-term hold!

In the Haifeng family's mansion, Iceberg walked out of the cultivation room, his appearance constantly changing as he walked until he looked exactly like Qin Mu.

This change is not only in appearance, but also in the very essence of the soul.

His body rapidly ascended into the air, directly breaking through the eighteen layers of clouds in the Blood Luo World.

Whoosh!

The mechanical spaceship, simulating a meteorite, flew rapidly through the void outside the Blood Luo World.

Bloodlust Continent, Radiant City, is a territory's main city located tens of millions of kilometers away from Red Leaf City.

Inside the city lord's mansion, in a luxurious palace.

A fierce-looking man with a scar on his face sat on the throne, roaring angrily. Below him stood a group of burly warriors in armor.

"How dare the chieftain of a mere barbaric tribe defy my orders?"

Jiang Pu, take a guard and raze that tribe to the ground!

I'll show those people what happens when they disobey orders!

A bald, burly man carrying a terrifying battle axe stepped forward from the crowd with a sinister grin.

"Yes! I'll set off right away and make sure that entire tribe is wiped out!"

Another lean man also spoke angrily.

"The Greywater tribe is courting death. They dare to resist even when they are conscripted by the 30% of their able-bodied men."

We are currently engaged in battle with Lansha City, and the losses at the front lines are considerable. If other families and tribes suffer the same fate, how can we possibly continue the fight!

"Exactly! A bunch of cowards!"

"..."

The generals below echoed his sentiments.

Anyway, they weren't conquering any of their own forces, just some barbaric tribes. If they died, they died.

This kind of thing is perfectly normal in any lord city in the Bloodlust world.

Just as they were shouting wildly, a figure silently walked in from outside the main hall.

brush--

An invisible psychic force impact reverberated throughout the palace, and everyone who came into contact with it instantly became dazed.

The swarm's spiritual power is eroding their souls and consciousness.

After a long while, everyone knelt on the ground, their eyes filled with fanaticism.

Iceberg walked directly to the throne and gave the order.

"Bring out all the Blood Crystals!"

Everyone, including the city lord, knelt on the ground. Two people respectfully took out three Blood Crystals from their spatial rings and handed them to Iceberg.

A smile appeared on Iceberg's face.

"For the Swarm! For the Great Overlord!"

All those kneeling on the ground shouted in unison with fervor.

"For the Swarm! For the Great Overlord!"

Iceberg nodded in satisfaction, its body transforming into a streak of light as it flew into the sky once more, heading towards the next city.

The lord, with a scar on his face, stared fervently at the iceberg soaring into the sky. He stood up and addressed the general behind him.

"The Great Ruler needs Blood Crystals, and the Crimson Horse Family possesses one. Let's go and retrieve it for the Ruler!"

The Red Horse Family is a powerful family within Radiant City that possesses a Domain Lord status.

This Blood Crystal was given to the Red Horse family by Scarface Lord not long ago.

"yes!"

The generals below responded enthusiastically.

These people were more united than ever before, and they mobilized all their forces to prepare to attack the Red Horse Family.

Among these people, two members were actually members of the Red Horse family!

However, that's all in the past. Now they share a common identity: members of the Zerg swarm.

When they are transformed into Zerg, although they retain their intelligence, their actions will be entirely for the benefit of the Zerg swarm.

……

One lord city after another was invaded by the iceberg behemoths at the peak level of the world lord, who instantly subdued everyone and then transformed them into insectoids with the power of the swarm!

After being transformed into the Zerg, they are essentially a part of Qin Mu. As long as they are not soulless beings like the Demon Slayer Clan, they can naturally use the Zerg transformation ability.

As for resistance?

nonexistent!

How could ordinary domain lords with weak strength possibly resist the insectoid transformation cast by a peak realm lord?

……

In the void, in a side hall on the first floor of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, which was responsible for monitoring the entire Blood Luo World.

"what?"

"What's going on with Prince Qin Mu? Why is he always traveling in that mechanical race spaceship, flying into the Blood Luo World one minute, then going in the next, and then coming out again?"

"Yes, they went to more than a dozen places in one day. What were they doing?"

"Yes, this is really strange."

The group of realm lords responsible for monitoring were all very puzzled; they simply didn't understand what Qin Mu was doing.

Unbeknownst to them, hundreds of tiny nodes had appeared in the swarm's soul network in just one day.

Although the Heavenly Eclipse Palace monitors the entire Blood Luo World, it only monitors the outer perimeter of the Blood Luo World to ensure that no native inhabitants of the Blood Luo World leave.

As for what happens inside the Blood Luo World, they don't care, and no one monitors it.

……

In the Sea Breeze family's training room during the hunt for the Iceberg Beast.

Qin Mu was sensing the increasing number of soul nodes within the swarm of insects.

"The speed is not bad. In one day, we occupied 21 lord cities and gained 26 Blood Crystals."

"These 21 lord cities can also secretly coordinate to attack other forces and continuously harvest Blood Crystals."

"The mother nest in the Deep Valley Mountains can also hatch a batch of native wild beasts. These wild beasts can be sold as commodities, which can also increase the power of these lord cities and appear openly and legitimately."

"The Mother Nest in the Demon Sea has also begun to wage war against the sea monsters and is expanding into the depths."

A strange light appeared on Qin Mu's face.

In the past, due to various concerns, he had never used the ability to transform into the Zerg on a large scale.

"If the insectoid transformation in the Bloodlust world goes smoothly, then when the insect swarm truly spreads throughout the universe..."

The primordial universe is far larger than the Blood Luo World!

Among them are hundreds of millions of races, countless powerful races, and six top-tier races.

That's where the Zerg swarm truly takes its place.

I'll continue writing the next chapter; I don't know if I can post it before midnight.

(End of this chapter)