Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 207 The Enhancement Experiment of Blood Crystal

Inside the flesh and blood chamber, strands of flesh and blood retracted from Qin Mu's body.

As he rose from the flesh chamber, ten larvae in the nest began to mutate into eggs as tall as a person.

A quarter of an hour later, ten people who looked nine-tenths like Qin Mu emerged from the group.

These individuals, using Qinmu Gene as a sample, exhibit varying levels of strength and physical attributes.

Some were the weakest apprentices from Earth's era, some were planetary or celestial, and some were cosmic level beings with the same body and strength as Qin Mu.

These human bodies moved into various fleshy cavities, where countless neural networks enveloped them, monitoring all changes within their bodies.

Blood Crystals floated over from the void, and a thread sliced ​​open the test subject's body, placing the Blood Crystals on it one by one.

"The shock to will has begun. Every test subject is subjected to the same shock. Although they are all in the soul network, the shocks do not accumulate, but rather come in waves."

Qin Mu's voice echoed through the swarm of insects.

After the murderous will of the Beast God was shattered, Blood Crystal released wisps of crimson power, which quickly poured into all the test subjects.

All the test subjects began to mutate under the influence of the Blood Crystal, their entire bodies undergoing changes, and waves of pain from the depths of their souls assaulted the will of the swarm.

However, the will of the swarm is so strong that it cannot be disturbed at all.

"puff!"

Suddenly, the chest of the weakest apprentice-level experimental subject, numbered 0001, burst open, blood splattering everywhere, and the mutating hand bones also suddenly broke.

Whoosh~~~~, a large amount of crimson power rapidly flowed back from the body of test subject 0001, continuously flowing back into the blood crystal in his palm.

In just a moment, the Blood Crystal, which had been almost transparent, returned to its original beautiful blood red color.

"The most primitive human body failed to integrate with the first Blood Crystal."

"The process of evolution and mutation was forcibly stopped, and even the impacting beast god's will flowed back into the Blood Crystal."

Qin Mu's will was icy cold. Instead of repairing the shattered body of Experiment 0001, he began to study it.

"Although the fusion failed, the genes of this body have been affected, with subtle changes."

"Planetary level, fusion failed!"

"The fusion of the celestial-level test subject was successful!"

"Let's begin a deeper analysis..."

……

Not only these ten test subjects, but also the fusion of Blood Crystals among the peak bloodline behemoths in the swarm began after Iceberg returned with 308 Blood Crystals.

A giant golden-horned beast, seventy kilometers long and resembling a continuous black mountain range, lay beside a mother nest. From the mother nest, fleshy tentacles, mutated from the cloud-patterned vine, extended out.

These fleshy tentacles pierced into the Golden Horned Beast's body, monitoring the changes in every cell within it.

At the same time, the iceberg that brought back the Blood Crystal roared to the sky, and as it roared, its body grew wildly as if it were being inflated.

In an instant, it transformed into a giant tortoise stretching for thousands of kilometers.

This is the true size of the Iceberg Behemoth at the peak of the Realm Lord level.

From the surrounding seven or eight mother nests, fleshy tentacles extended out and pierced into its body.

Water has no fixed form. As a peak bloodline behemoth with both water and air attributes, its life-saving talent is the art of transformation.

This talent allows it to change size at will, from the size of an ordinary person to the size of thousands of kilometers long with ease.

However, this change is different from the Golden Horned Beast's secret technique "Original World," and its strength will not change.

Don't underestimate this iceberg behemoth's innate transformation technique; its transformations are different from the Demon Slayer Clan's replication talent.

As energy life forms, the Demon Slayer race has no fixed appearance and can change at will. Their innate secret technique is replication, which allows them to replicate the life aura and soul aura of their targets.

Even immortals cannot detect the Demon Slayer Clan's disguise by using their psychic powers to penetrate their bodies or sense their aura.

This change is already extremely terrifying, but it pales in comparison to the iceberg behemoth.

First, there's the change in size. The Demon Slayer Clan can only replicate life forms that are roughly the same size as themselves. If they were to transform into a behemoth like the Golden Horned Beast, which is tens of kilometers long, all their energy would be consumed instantly.

But the iceberg behemoth would not.

Furthermore, the Demon Slayer Clan only imitates the appearance, but the Iceberg Beast can even simulate the internal workings!

Not only internally, for example, the Iceberg Beast can transform into the Golden Horned Beast. As long as one has enough understanding and familiarity with the Golden Horned Beast, one can even use the Golden Horned Beast's enhancement talents.

Aside from being unable to use its clone ability, it was practically indistinguishable from a real golden-horned behemoth.

Even if an immortal were to use their telekinesis to probe into their body, they would not be able to detect it!

Only the ruler of the universe, who has complete control over a region of space and time, can see the problem.

As the twelve peak bloodline star beasts, none of them are weak.

If the Iceberg Behemoths weren't so few in number and didn't bother with assassination, they should be the number one assassin race in the universe.

The two Blood Crystals floated to the hooves of the two giant beasts.

A fleshy tentacle sliced ​​across their hooves, leaving a wound more than ten meters long.

The Blood Crystal moved gently over the wound and fell directly into it, its invisible power rapidly flowing into the bodies of the Golden Horned Beast and the Iceberg Beast.

"boom!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

The killing intent surged into his body. The will of the Golden Horned Beast and the Iceberg Beast was Qin Mu's will, the will of the swarm. This level of impact was completely insignificant.

"Hiss~~" Strands of blood-red energy flowed from the Blood Crystal, rapidly penetrating the wound on their right hoof and into the depths of their muscles and bones. Instantly, their hooves began to undergo unusual changes; the scales and claws on their hooves mutated, and the internal muscles and bones also changed...

"There are only a little over three hundred Blood Crystals in the swarm, which is far from enough to supply the dozens of Starry Sky Beasts with peak bloodlines in the entire swarm!"

Therefore, these Blood Crystals are temporarily given to a Golden Horned Beast and the strongest Iceberg Beast.

The enhancements of these two cosmic behemoths can be compared.

Once the Iceberg Behemoth is fully upgraded, we'll invade World City and capture the World Lord.

Qin Mu's thoughts swirled among the insect swarm.

After sweeping through hundreds of surrounding lord cities, they only managed to collect 300 Blood Crystals. This efficiency was far too slow.

But you can't blame Iceberg for being weak, because he wasted 99% of his time on the road.

Each time they arrived at the iceberg, they would rush straight into the city lord's mansion and forcibly convert everyone into Zerg.

The speed of the mechanical race's spaceships has also reached its limit.

Even using a large number of spaceships to travel back and forth simultaneously to capture the lord wouldn't work.

Because the mechanical race's spaceships were reported to the Eclipse Palace outside the Blood Luo World, they would not be attacked after flying out of the eighteen layers of clouds.

As for flying within the clouds?

That would be easily discovered by the natives of the Blood Luo World. Once they discover extraterrestrials, the entire Blood Luo Continent will hunt them down.

Moreover, if a large number of spaceships were launched at the same time, even a fool would know there was a problem, which would inevitably attract the attention of the monitors of the Eclipse Palace.

Qin Mu didn't want to expose the insect swarm in the Blood Luo World so quickly, so it was best to use only one mechanical race spaceship.

Therefore, the way to obtain a large amount of Blood Crystals in a short period of time is to invade and capture a World City Lord!

A powerful figure responsible for distributing Blood Crystals to millions of lords within a territory possesses at least tens of thousands of Blood Crystals.

As they finalized their strategy, the mechanical race's spaceship, carrying 100 demon-slaying race members and a domain lord-level iceberg behemoth, flew towards the nearest world city. They would go ahead and gather intelligence on the world city.

At the same time, the two behemoths easily fused with the first Blood Crystal!

The difference is that, compared to Qin Mu's complete evolution and mutation, his gene count has increased exponentially.

The Golden Horned Beast's enhancement only resulted in a partial improvement; only its right hoof, which had been fused with the Blood Crystal, underwent some unique changes.

The Golden Horned Beast and other body parts.

For example, the body, wings, the other three hooves, tail, head... remained completely unchanged.

The Iceberg Beast fared even worse; while the Golden Horned Beast at least managed to strengthen one of its hooves, the much larger one only managed to complete the tip of one hoof!

"As expected, just like the fusion of Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast clone in the original timeline, it only completed a partial enhancement."

The Starry Sky Beast's body is too enormous, with countless tendons, bones, muscles, cells, and so on. To change all of these tendons, bones, muscles, and skin, an immense amount of Blood Crystal power would be required.

A single Blood Crystal was enough to cover only the right hoof.

……

"Continue to strengthen one more area!"

Qin Mu gave the order without hesitation.

Qin Mu did not make this decision to make the strong even stronger.

There's more than one golden-horned behemoth in the swarm!

He planned to strengthen different parts of the different Golden Horned Beasts. Once all parts were strengthened, the swarm's analytical capabilities would be able to piece together a complete evolved form!

That's the strongest Golden Horned Beast!

The same principle can be applied to the other giant beasts, but it will certainly take a long time to study them in order to achieve this.

After the order was given, the two giant beasts began to continuously fuse the Blood Crystal.

Two...

Three...

Four...

After the fusion of the ten was completed, the hooves of the Golden Horned Beast and the Iceberg Beast underwent a qualitative change at the same time!

Within the swarm's will, Qin Mu activated the Bloodlust power within the hooves of the two star beasts.

The moment the magical power was activated... the scales on the right hooves of the Golden Horned Beast and the Iceberg Beast underwent a dramatic change, and the most fundamental genes within them—scales, tendons, muscles, claws, and so on—were rapidly altered.

This is the most fundamental change in the composition of matter!

at the same time!

Blood-red patterns also appeared on the entire pale gold right hoof, incredibly complex and perfect blood-red patterns, forming a perfect whole!

"Their sensitivity to the origin of the universe and the application of its laws are three times greater than before the fusion, just like their original form!"

"This Blood Crystal is truly amazing! It enhances both the Domain Lord-level Golden Horned Beast and the World Lord-level Iceberg Beast by three times!"

This enhancement has nothing to do with strength, but only with gene multiplication; no wonder many Venerable-level powerhouses covet it.

"Continue the integration!"

The 11nd one...

The 21nd one...

The 31nd one...

……

The 90nd one...

The power of Bloodlust surged in and began to transform.

"Click—"

Something unexpected happened to Qin Mu: the right hoof of the iceberg behemoth that had just begun to merge twisted, its bones shattered, and the power of the Blood Crystal began to flow back.

The fusion failed!

However, the Golden Horned Beast did not encounter any unexpected problems and successfully fused with the Golden Horned Beast.

"The Iceberg Behemoth failed, but the Golden Horned Behemoth succeeded."

"As expected, the Blood Crystal is formed from the blood of the Golden and Void Beast Gods, and its compatibility with the Golden Horned Beast is the highest."

Qin Mu had anticipated this scene, but he still felt a pang of regret.

Humans can only fuse up to 50, while iceberg behemoths can fuse up to 90, which is already quite impressive.

With each subsequent modification to the right hoof, the impact on will grew stronger, but it was still no match for the soul network composed of trillions of insect units.

Although the swarm only has around ten million main units at the domain lord level, if you include the worker insects that gather resources in the China Universe, the number becomes incalculable.

However, the iceberg behemoth, like the human body, could no longer fuse.

"Golden Horned Beast, continue the fusion!"

Qin Mu continued to issue orders.

The 91nd one...

The 92nd one...

It wasn't until the ninety-ninth time that Qin Mu activated the Blood Luo Power within the Golden Horned Beast's body.

Instantly, countless blood-red patterns appeared on the right hoof of the golden-horned behemoth. The entire right hoof rapidly changed, with tendons, scales, muscles, and so on undergoing a transformation from the smallest cellular depths, directly turning into a pale golden hoof. Moreover, the hoof was covered with dense and complex blood-red secret patterns.

The secret patterns covered the entire right hoof claw, faintly forming a graphic, a picture of a roaring beast's head.

When the 98th Blood Crystal was successfully fused, the blood-red runes on the right hoof were still scattered. However, when the 99th crystal was fused, hundreds of runes were added, making the originally scattered runes much more complete.

Because the unicorn horn is missing... the image formed by these blood-red secret patterns is not yet complete!

"Begin fusing the 100th one!"

Qin Mu felt excited, as fusing 3, 10, and 100 Blood Crystals represented a significant leap forward.

The golden-horned behemoth continued to merge.

The power of Bloodlust surged in and began to transform.

As expected, the 100th one was a success!

Qin Mu controlled and activated the immense Bloodlust power lurking within his right hoof, causing it to undergo a rapid transformation. The scales on the surface of the Golden Horned Beast's right hoof became incredibly dense, turning into a dazzling gold!

At the same time, the hooves and claws are covered with dense, blood-red patterns. The blood-red pattern and the gold of the scales are completely mixed together, creating a very abrupt effect of blood-red and gold mixed together.

When the secret patterns on the right hoof claws are fully combined, they form the head of a roaring beast god.

The complete image of the Beast God's head roaring!

"As expected, only the blood of a beast god with the corresponding attribute can reach the limit!"

Looking at the other star beasts with peak bloodlines among the insect swarm, Qin Mu sighed inwardly.

"Where can we obtain the blood of the other major beast gods?"

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