Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 235 Bloodline Evolution and the Zergling Mothership

After giving a piece of flesh essence to the goat-headed demon at the city gate, Qin Mu successfully entered the city.

"The defenses of this city are simply a joke."

After strolling around the city wall, Qin Mu shook his head.

In front of the massive city wall, which is tens of thousands of meters high and thousands of meters thick, there are many war machines that exude a powerful aura, but these machines are not guarded by any demons.

Some demons, who appeared to be on patrol and guard duty, were laughing and joking around, fighting nearby.

The Demon City is extremely large, with its main roads spanning tens of thousands of meters in width, so even a behemoth like the Balrog wouldn't feel too constrained.

As Qin Mu walked along, he observed his surroundings. The buildings in the city could only be described as rather random.

Besides the standard styles, there are all sorts of other styles available.

On the streets, tens of thousands of demons were unusually fighting to the death without meeting face to face; only occasionally would a few demons engage in combat.

The city is large, but that's all it is; it has no aesthetic appeal whatsoever.

Only the largest palace-like building in the city is passable.

"Tsk tsk, a great demon guarding the gate! The demon lord still has some clout."

After wandering around the city for most of the time, Qin Mu still discovered quite a few good places.

For example, inside the demon's lava workshop.

Here, flames soared into the sky, and lava boiled, resembling a blazing inferno.

A group of powerful demons were busy here, their skin as hard as iron, their horns as sharp as knives, and their bodies exuding an evil aura.

These demons, wielding hammers and pliers, forged all sorts of weapons while drinking fine wine.

Their movements were skillful and powerful; with each strike, lava would splatter and transform into sharp weapons.

The workshop was filled with all sorts of weapons, some incredibly sharp, others as heavy as mountains, each exuding a powerful aura.

Many demons picked and chose among them, searching for the right weapon for themselves.

Sometimes they would pick up a weapon and swing it around to feel its weight and power, and sometimes they would whisper among themselves, discussing which weapon was more suitable.

Qin Mu also picked one out to take a look. The weapon inside was surprisingly good, with demonic patterns on it. Once activated, it could unleash powerful energy.

It is no worse than ordinary second-tier or third-tier weapons.

Some of these exceptional pieces are comparable to fourth-tier weapons.

After getting a general idea, Qin Mu found a building that resembled a tavern.

Most demons have a great fondness for blood and wine.

However, this place only looks like a tavern; the signs are all crooked and illegible, making it impossible to read what they say.

Shaking his head, Qin Mu went inside.

Inside the hall, a cacophony of noise filled the air. Demons of all shapes and sizes reveled, their laughter, shouts, and the clinking of glasses mingling together.

In the center of the hall, the corpse of an unidentified demon lay sprawled, bearing the marks of battle and emanating a faint stench of blood.

Qin Mu ignored the noise around him and casually found a corner to sit down. He was here to gather information, of course.

A demon with four arms and two heads slowly approached. Its skin was wrinkled, and its eyes revealed a cunning and greedy nature.

"Hey, newbie, what would you like to order?"

The demon asked in a hoarse voice as he stretched out a hand.

Qin Mu casually tossed a piece of flesh crystal to the bartender: "Give me a drink, keep the change."

The bartender with four arms squeezed the blood and flesh crystals in his hands and immediately revealed a ferocious smile.

"Please wait a moment!"

Before long, the bartender poured an unknown liquid from various bottles and jars into glasses and carefully mixed it.

A glass of wine, its surface still bubbling with hot bubbles, was placed in front of Qin Mu.

Please enjoy.

He sniffed the bloody smell mixed in with the wine, put down the glass, and realized he simply didn't have the courage to drink it.

Qin Mu turned his gaze to the other demons in the tavern and listened carefully to their conversation.

Although most of it was meaningless nonsense, Qin Mu still managed to glean some useful information.

For example, the demon lord of this city is fighting a demon lord from another layer of the abyss, with both sides deploying hundreds of millions of demon armies.

This was a war that lasted for hundreds of years, and neither side showed any sign of stopping.

After gaining a general understanding of the situation, Qin Mu withdrew his will.

The demon lord of this demon city is named Matteo Lorraine, an old demon lord who has ruled the city for over a million years.

Its strength is unimaginable, given that it was able to occupy a vast city in the abyss of purgatory for millions of years.

None of the demons that attempted to challenge it survived; the enormous head hanging at the city gate was that of a demon lord it had slain.

Under its command are 13 demon legions, each with more than 100 million members, and the weakest member of each legion possesses the strength of a mid-level demon.

In addition to these thirteen legions, there was also a large number of servants and conscripts.

If necessary, it can also use the power of its own demon commander to forcibly recruit other demons into its army, increasing the total number several times over.

"A worthy opponent! It's the next target for the Zerg swarm."

"My consciousness returned to the mother nest," Qin Mu said calmly.

However, the location of the swarm was too far from the city, making it difficult to start a war even if they wanted to.

Even at its fastest speed, a straight-line flight would take half a month, let alone a large Zerg army.

Along this journey, countless demons dwell, including many great demons.

It would take at least half a year to fight our way through.

The swarm is clearly not large enough and needs time to reproduce.

Having figured things out, Qin Mu stopped worrying about them and handed over these trivial matters to Irina.

During this time, Qin Mu studied both the Zergling Tyrant and the Demon's Bloodline.

This gave Qin Mu quite a pleasant surprise.

By capturing demons alive, Qin Mu found more than a dozen relatively stable evolutionary paths and studied their evolutionary processes little by little.

We also have some initial ideas about the evolutionary mutation path of the insect swarm.

"I think I also have a way to evolve the human bloodline."

Qin Mu's eyes lit up as he looked at the experimental subject in front of him.

This is an experimental subject from Earth's era that wouldn't even qualify as an apprentice.

Previous research approaches, while involving the gradual use of bloodline potions to elevate one to the Domain Lord level and then to the World Lord level, were still considered.

However, these processes are not actually connected.

However, if we refer to the evolutionary system of demons, we might actually be able to discover an evolutionary path that belongs to humanity.

"Interesting! I'll give it a try!"

He never forgot Teacher Yu Chen's expectations.

Although he could boost human genes up to six times using the Zerg hive, this method was only available to him.

Without the help of the mother nest, Qin Mu himself would not be able to do this.

This is clearly different from the World Lord-level bloodline potion that the teacher expected.

But what if we adopt the demonic ladder-like evolution?

Although each evolution doesn't bring drastic changes, the cumulative effect can eventually lead to the level of a World Lord, or even stronger!

Not only has the strength changed, but the essence of life has also undergone a qualitative change.

"If the plan succeeds, it will not only fulfill the teacher's wish, but also bring a huge amount of wealth!"

At that time, we can use the power of the entire human race to feed the insect swarm!

Qin Mu's eyes shone brightly.

This matter cannot be completed in a short time; it will take a long time.

But if you succeed, the rewards will be astonishing.

Throughout the billions of years of human history, the most powerful bloodline potion has only reached the level of a Domain Lord.

Who could refuse a bloodline potion of a realm lord level?

Even the five major powers, led by Virtual Universe Corporation, would be in an uproar!

This will also make other forces in the universe see them as a thorn in their side!

"Take it slow, let's talk about it when I'm stronger."

The light in Qin Mu's eyes dimmed. Even if he really figured it out, he would have to wait until the insect swarm reached the peak World Lord level before he could make it public.

……

With its full force unleashed, the swarm grew at an astonishing rate.

The swarm's extermination-style slaughter quickly attracted the attention of powerful demons in the surrounding area, leading to dozens of wars involving millions or even tens of millions of insects.

Under Irina's deliberate control, the intensity of the war was astonishing.

Every day, hundreds of thousands, even millions, of Zerg die.

But the number of demons who died was even more staggering.

The corpses of these demons were dragged back to the hive, where they were converted into energy and hatched into new Zerg warriors.

In high-intensity warfare, the Zerg swarm is also evolving and mutating at an astonishing rate, with new Zerg units appearing almost every day.

During the war, the eight major strains of insect swarms, distinguished by laws, were truly established.

Each strain contains countless varieties.

However, as the territory grew larger and the enemy became stronger, the drawbacks of a fixed mother hive became apparent.

A single mother hive requires far too many resources; even a swarm cannot place too many mother hives.

The swarm that rushed to the front and into the open territory suffered a lot of losses.

It's impractical to put the Mother Nest into the World Ring and then release it through the World Ring.

That would be too inefficient and the weaknesses would be too obvious.

The swarm desperately needs a mobile and powerful hive!

Fortunately, Qin Mu had already prepared for this when he was in the Blood Luo World.

The Starry Sky Behemoth Mother Nest Project, which is a war mother nest constructed using Starry Sky Behemoths as its bodies, has entered the battlefield for the first time.

……

"roar--"

A deafening sound came from the sky.

A colossal star beast, nine-tenths similar to the Golden Horned Beast but much larger and more bloated, about a hundred miles long, appeared at the edge of the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the two forces clashed fiercely. One side was a demon army of about 20 million, led by a powerful demon at its peak, and supported by three slightly weaker demons.

The other side has around eight million Zerg units, which is slightly insufficient in number.

The battle was exceptionally fierce, with rivers of blood flowing and the roars of the Zerg and the demons echoing everywhere.

Every moment, countless Zerg are killed in battle.

Because they are far from the mother hive, the Zerg cannot receive timely support and supplies. In addition, without the assistance of creep, their advantages in terrain and environment are completely lost.

Meanwhile, the demon army, with its numerical advantage and overwhelming superior combat power, gradually gained the upper hand.

However, with the arrival of this strange golden-horned behemoth, the situation on the battlefield instantly changed.

Thousands of miles from the battlefield, a section of its abdominal scales suddenly flipped over, revealing a honeycomb-like network of flesh and blood.

These passages vary in size, some only a dozen meters in diameter, others hundreds of meters wide, and the largest one has an astonishing diameter of a kilometer.

Immediately afterwards, a torrent of insects surged out from these fleshy passages.

Their numbers were staggering; in just a few moments, an army of over a million Zerg surged onto the edge of the battlefield like a tidal wave.

These Zerg warriors came in various forms; some were covered in hard shells, while others had sharp mouthparts. They emitted deafening roars that shook the entire battlefield.

It's not just the swarm of insects.

As fleshy spheres resembling spores spewed out from the approximately kilometer-diameter flesh tunnel, the entire battlefield situation underwent a dramatic change.

These enormous flesh spores hurtled toward the ground at incredible speed, then exploded, revealing a Zerg structure half-embedded in the ground at the edge of the battlefield.

As soon as the Zerg building appears, countless creeps surge out from around it, quickly spreading across the entire battlefield.

These fungal carpets not only covered the corpses on the battlefield, rapidly absorbing and digesting them to provide the Zerg with a continuous source of energy, but also provided powerful support to the Zerg warriors.

When the creep comes into contact with Zerg warriors, it can quickly replenish their energy and even heal their wounds.

As the demon army stepped onto the fungal carpet, they were immediately entangled by the crimson vines that stretched out from it.

The entire battlefield instantly became the domain of the Zerg swarm.

After unleashing a massive swarm of insects and flesh spores, the Golden Horned Beast roared and charged straight at the Great Demon on the battlefield.

This great demon wasn't very large; it was a lizard demon that was a hundred meters long.

However, unlike ordinary lizards, it has two tails, a row of eyes on its head, and a cunning and bloodthirsty madness.

With a roar, the massive body of the Golden Horned Beast descended like an ancient divine mountain, its colossal claws, capable of blotting out the sky, slamming down with destructive power.

With a deafening roar, the earth shattered, dust flew everywhere, and debris scattered in all directions.

Although the great demon was of a higher level than the Golden Horned Beast, it showed obvious fear when facing the Golden Horned Beast.

During this time, the Golden Horned Beast's reputation had spread throughout the region, and more than ten great demons had died at its hands.

Faced with the attack of the golden-horned behemoth, it tried to escape.

However, it clearly underestimated the Golden Horned Beast's agility and combat experience.

The giant claws of the golden-horned beast swept across like lightning, their speed astonishing.

The lizard demon tried to escape, but it was too late.

With a scream, the lizard demon was slammed into the ground by the giant claw, its entire body sinking into the soil.

The golden-horned behemoth did not stop; it continued its fierce attack until it completely slayed the lizard demon.

Qin Mu, who was watching the battle from the rear nest, smiled.

"Very good. The combination of the Golden Horned Beast and the Mother Nest can now serve as a mobile mothership for the Zerg swarm."

The subsequent mother nest can be divided into two types.

One type is a fixed mother nest, which is larger in size and suitable for positional warfare. It has enormous computing power and is good at analysis and research.

The second type is a mobile mothership, which possesses powerful combat capabilities and excels in combat.

It can carry and hatch massive numbers of Zerg, and can also spray flesh spores to alter the terrain and provide a suitable battlefield environment for the Zerg swarm.

"Let's call this second type of mother hive a Zerg mothership!"

(End of this chapter)