Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 213 Qin Mu's Path

Palace of Ecliptic Eclipse.

A colossal palace floats in the void. In a side hall on the first floor of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, there is a huge screen displaying a video of a mechanical spaceship.

"I don't know what's going on with this Prince Qin Mu. Why is he flying around everywhere even after arriving at the Ancient God Ruins?"

"Yeah, it's never been quiet!"

More than ten realm lords responsible for monitoring the movements of the entire Blood Luo Continent stared at the screen with headaches.

"Everyone keep a close eye on things. This is the ruins of an ancient god, and there are many immortal powerhouses among the natives. If His Highness Qin Mu encounters danger and flies out, we must ensure his safety."

One of the leading realm lords emphasized this.

"Understood, everything was prepared long ago."

"Don't worry, they're all watching. It's not just us; there are big shots watching too."

"Fortune favors the bold. Although it's very dangerous, if we can achieve something in the ruins of the ancient gods, that would be incredible!"

"Um!"

……

Qin Mu was unaware of what was happening at the Heavenly Eclipse Palace.

These days, he did indeed have a domain lord-level iceberg behemoth disguised as him, piloting a mechanical race spaceship to drop a number of Zerg units in various places in search of the evil energy vortex.

Through Lü Ao, an elite disciple of the Immortal Temple, Qin Mu captured several more elite disciples undergoing training.

Through their memories, combined with the information from the Zerg-ified World Lords and the Virtual Universe Corporation.

Qin Mu's understanding of the ancient god ruins and the immortal temple became increasingly clear.

The Temple of Immortality is located in the core area of ​​the Ruins of the Ancient Gods.

There, the land is vast and desolate, with undulating mountain ranges, and occasionally some swamps, lakes, forests, giant pits, and so on.

In an area spanning millions of kilometers, vortexes of malevolent energy can be seen everywhere, whether on the summit of a mountain, at the bottom of a lake, deep within a giant pit, or suspended in mid-air.

Within a radius of tens of millions of kilometers, there were a total of 10081 blood-red vortexes of malevolent energy. The largest of these vortexes was dozens of times larger than the malevolent energy vortex in the giant pit where Qin Mu was located, while the smallest was only one-tenth the size of the giant pit's malevolent energy vortex. There were all sorts of blood-red malevolent energy vortexes.

They vary in height, size, and position.

10081 malevolent vortexes are distributed across the sky, lakes, mountains, and valleys, naturally forming a unique pattern!

These 10081 malevolent energy vortexes are the real core!

The remote vortex of malevolent energy that Qin Mu occupied was one of millions in the ruins of the ancient gods!

Based on the existing data, the swarm indeed found several more vortexes of malevolent energy. Upon delving into them, they discovered that they all had similar cores and contained spatial and metallic patterns.

One of them was larger than the vortex of malevolent energy where Qin Mu was, and it contained 12 law patterns.

However, Qin Mu did not move away. He simply left a few members of the Demon Slayer Clan and the experimental subjects in these vortexes of malevolent energy to observe and gain insights.

For the swarm, all perceptions within the soul network are shared, so leaving behind a few Demon Slayers and experimental subjects is sufficient.

"These huge golden runes are still too profound for me. Even though I have fully comprehended the 108 natures of space, it is still difficult to achieve with the powerful computing power of the mother nest."

Inside the core space of the malevolent energy, Qin Mu looked at the eight enormous golden runes in the sky.

Knowing that there were millions of similar evil energy cores, and that none of these millions could be considered true cores, Qin Mu understood why the insect swarm had almost paralyzed itself when analyzing the Blood Crystal.

The core of these malevolent energies was undoubtedly formed after the fall of that golden, spatial-attribute innate beast god.

With the current capabilities of the insect swarm, they can't even understand the golden runes in the core of a remote area's malevolent energy, let alone fully analyze that beast god.

That's practically suicide.

"Although these golden runes are difficult to understand, the golden light radiating from them has made significant progress in the research on Blood Crystal and bloodline fusion!"

Perhaps the perfect body I envision, incorporating numerous peak bloodlines, can truly stabilize.

Qin Mu's eyes shone with light as he faced a humanoid experimental subject that was a thousand meters tall.

This is an experimental subject that Qin Mu spent two years fusing with five peak bloodline star beasts, eight powerful bloodlines, and many excellent genes.

It wasn't the first one; it was one that had just hatched from the swarm, while the first one had already died due to genetic collapse.

At this moment, the experimental subject was enveloped in a special flesh and blood chamber that Qin Mu had specially prepared, which was five kilometers high.

It was bathed in the golden light radiating from the golden runes, and the rapidly collapsing genes within its body were constantly being modified and evolved under the golden light.

"Unfortunately, this test subject's genes are too unstable. The perfect body I envisioned should possess many powerful talents."

The Golden Horned Beast's enhanced talent, the Flame Star Beast's rebirth, the Destroyer Beast's time-stopping ability...

The idea was nice, but the reality was harsh.

This experimental subject had no talents at all due to the intense genetic conflict.

In fact, what Qin Mu wanted most at this moment was to upgrade the Flame Star Beast's life-saving talent, Nirvana Rebirth. Relying on the evolutionary ability that Nirvana Rebirth comes with, perhaps he could achieve perfect fusion after dying a few times.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to do that yet.

"However, at least we've seen a glimmer of hope."

Although the experiments kept failing, Qin Mu was not discouraged. Failure was normal; success was never easy.

This is the path I chose!

After becoming a disciple of the Lord of Chaos City, the Lord of Chaos City told him about the path to the future, which was the path of laws and the path of divine power!

He had a vague plan for his future.

Compared to the improvement offered by the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, perhaps this kind of research is more suitable for me.

Knowing that the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual exists on Earth, it would be a lie to say that I wasn't tempted!

Qin Mu had also sent the insect swarm to search the Earth, but to no avail.

However, as the insect swarm grew stronger and Qin Mu made breakthroughs in his genetic research, he realized that the Nine Tribulations Manual might not be very suitable for him.

As the swarm grows stronger, its numbers increase.

The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual consists of nine tribulations. Failure to cultivate each tribulation will result in the collapse of the soul and body, turning the soul and body into ashes and causing death.

If successful, then the genes evolve.

If it fails, the material structure will completely collapse and turn into ashes.

Luo Feng relied on exploiting a bug in the Demon Slayer Clan's system and was unafraid of failure.

Their own swarm also includes soulless beings like the Demon Slayers, Rock Giants, and Metal Lifeforms, so theoretically they are not afraid of failure.

But Luo Feng is only one Earthling, and his Golden Horned Beast clone can reassemble immediately even if it collapses.

The insect swarms are different!

Leaving aside the numerous colossal star beasts with peak bloodlines, the collapse of the billions of insect swarms gathering resources would be a huge loss.

To ensure that in the event of an unforeseen emergency, Qin Mu secretly spread the swarm throughout the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom, and through the Virtual Universe Company and China's connections, he secretly continued to expand the swarm's reach.

Over the past century, dozens of human space nations have secretly harbored Zerg larvae.

Even outside human territory, insect eggs have been found lurking in some weaker groups.

These larvae and eggs can ensure that even if Qin Mu encounters a desperate situation one day, he can still retain the hope of rising again!

Of course, it's best if you never need to use this.

Even someone as powerful as Luo Feng needed countless failures to complete the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, so the losses would be unimaginable if the insect swarm collapsed countless times.

Furthermore, the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual doesn't provide much improvement in the first few tribulations; it's not as fast as improving through research by your own insect swarm!

The first tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual increases the body's genes by 3 times, the second tribulation increases the body's genes by 6 times, and so on.

Needless to say, in the later stages, it became extremely exaggerated, and through research on the insect swarm, one could see that one was not inferior.

It has now stabilized at 15 times, with a maximum of 30 times the gene. Of course, this is not yet stable, but the light radiating from the golden runes gave Qin Mu hope.

There are eight naturally born beast gods in the universe, and countless special life forms.

World Tree, Nine Nether Sea, Ancestral Star Tree, Li Volcano...

If you are strong enough, you can bring them all to the lab table!

When the insect swarm becomes stronger and can perfectly analyze the innate beast god, it will be like when I have now fused together the genes of many peak bloodline star beasts.

By fusing eight naturally born divine beasts and numerous powerful and unique life genes, the so-called perfect divine body is not unattainable!

Compared to the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, my own research is the most suitable for me.

Of course, this path will be extremely difficult, far less easy than the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.

"This is my path! The path of the Swarm!"

Qin Mu's eyes were calm.

Under his control, the special flesh-and-blood chamber, which was five kilometers high, continuously adjusted the genetic fragments of the experimental subject, moving them towards a more stable direction.

Each of the swarm's mother nests was also operating at full capacity.

While Qin Mu was researching and modifying the genes of the experimental subjects, the peak-bloodline star-sky behemoths in the swarm were also comprehending the phantom image of the giant lizard.

Those from the Demon Slayer Clan and others who were skilled in the fundamental laws of space were comprehending the spatial laws constructed within the golden runes.

The experimental subjects hatched from Qin Mu's genes practiced power generation, marksmanship, and movement techniques. After their faces were modified, these experimental subjects walked through the ruins of the ancient gods, occasionally fighting against some natives who had entered the ruins for adventure and training.

They ventured into vortexes of malevolent energy, leaving behind some Zerg units to collect and comprehend different golden law patterns and battle phantoms.

Of course, some Zerg units are also comprehending the "Cosmic Chaos Monument," the "Cosmic True Explanation," and many other secret techniques. Qin Mu will certainly not give up on these grand principles.

Time passed by in this process of research and practice...

……

"Brother Mu! I'm about to arrive in the Blood Luo World!"

A slight vibration came from the smart wristband on Qin Mu's arm, and the email from Luo Feng startled him from his research.

"We're almost there!"

This is Hong and Thor.

Immersed in his research, Qin Mu suddenly realized that more than a year had passed, and Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen had already emerged from Chaos City.

Unlike Qin Mu, they left with the main group and needed to first reach the Primal Secret Realm and the Doomsday Secret Realm before heading to the Blood Luo World.

Arrival in the mission world was made by personnel arranged by the Virtual Universe Company.

The Primal Realm and the Post-Apocalyptic Realm are far apart, so the three agreed on a time to arrive at roughly the same time so they could look after each other.

Qin Mu also put down his research, logged into the virtual universe, and met with the three of them.

"Haha, just follow the coordinates I give you to descend. Once you arrive in Red Leaf City, go straight to the City Lord's Mansion; I'll be waiting for you there!"

(End of this chapter)