Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 250 Adjusting the Body and Selecting Talents

Inside the flesh and blood chamber of the mother nest, as gene editing began, Qin Mu's body started to evolve rapidly.

His muscles and bones expanded and grew rapidly.

Sharp horns grew from his head, and wings slowly extended from his back. His tailbone continued to lengthen, evolving into a thick tail.

After absorbing a massive amount of energy and various precious resources, the outline of the Hive Tyrant appeared in just one day.

"Next, it's time for character customization."

Through the view of the mother nest, Qin Mu carefully examined his own body.

For combat-oriented units like the Hive Tyrant, combat power is the primary consideration, and the more ferocious the appearance, the better.

However, as the person himself, appearance is also quite important.

After all, whether someone is strong or not is a matter of one version, but whether someone is handsome or not is a matter of a lifetime.

As the result of the first phase of the Perfect God Body Project, Qin Mu was very familiar with every gene segment of the Hive Tyrant.

It is possible to modify the appearance without reducing the gene count.

"You need to be taller and slimmer; you're too bulky."

"Remove the scales from my face; at the very least, show my face."

"These spikes are useless, remove them."

"..."

After making some adjustments, Qin Mu nodded in satisfaction.

Although it is still somewhat grotesque, at least it looks human now.

A normal Zergling Tyrant only pursues combat power, much like a giant King Kong with wings and a tail.

The Hive Tyrant's body comes from the Devastatus, which is a strange behemoth resembling an ape.

After modifications, its shape became elongated and more humanoid.

It only has a dark golden horn on its head, its body is still covered with a thick layer of scales, and it has a pair of golden wings on its back and a tail.

"That looks much more imposing and handsome."

Qin Mu looked at the modified design with satisfaction.

Qin Mu did not modify the scales, wings, tail, or horn. These were related to gene multiplication and combat power, and Qin Mu himself thought they looked quite cool, so he did not intend to change them.

"Next, it's time to choose talents."

Qin Mu's consciousness was somewhat excited.

During these ten years of inheritance, the first stage of the perfect divine body's gene multiplier reached 100, and there was also a major breakthrough!

That means being able to grant two talents!

Qin Mu is currently most familiar with the talents of the Golden Horned Beast, the Flame Star Beast, the Ice Mountain Beast, the Hill and Ravine Beast, and the Destroying Sag Beast.

However, he was only familiar with it; Qin Mu had not mastered it all.

To be precise, the only talents he currently possesses are the Golden Horned Beast's Enhancement and Devouring abilities, the Flame Star Beast's Sun Radiance and Star Devouring abilities, the Ice Mountain Beast's Transformation technique, and the Hill and Ravine Beast's Imprisonment talent.

The newly acquired talents from other top-tier bloodline beasts are much less impressive, far inferior to the five initially obtained.

Among them, the most powerful clones, rebirth, and the time-stopping talent of the Destroyer Beast are still under research.

These talents are too powerful, and the secret runes involved are too complex; Qin Mu simply cannot master them in a short period of time.

On the contrary, the runes for combat talents like Enhancement, Radiance, and Imprisonment are much simpler.

Of course, this is only the talent of peak behemoths. Qin Mu has also thoroughly mastered most of the talents of the eight powerful bloodlines and many ordinary star behemoths.

Examples include the Blazing Behemoth's talent, Heart of the Furnace, and the Sand Flying Behemoth's talent, Gathering Sand, but it's clear that the gap between their talents and those of peak bloodline behemoths is significant, and Qin Mu doesn't find them appealing.

"Enhancing talents is definitely necessary."

Qin Mu thought to himself.

While enhancing talent effects is simple, it is the most practical!

The physical and spiritual power increased by two times. Although it may not seem like a significant improvement, the priority of enhancing talents is very high, and they can be perfectly stacked.

For example, Qin Mu's own soul secret technique, "Ten Thousand Soul Insect Seal," cancels out the soul amplitude secret technique in "Abyss Inheritance," so the amplitude multiplier has not increased much so far.

The amplitude of psychic power is 4000, which is actually 40 times the amplitude of the soul.

However, the enhanced talent will not be affected; it will directly increase by 2 times!

Moreover, it elevates both the body and the soul simultaneously.

"It's a pity that we haven't fully researched time freezing and rebirth yet, otherwise we would definitely choose these two."

Qin Mu felt a little regretful.

Whether it's creating a clone, stopping time, or undergoing rebirth, these are all incredibly powerful, involving extremely profound mysteries.

Based on Qin Mu's current research on bloodlines, he knows that so-called talent is actually just some secret patterns solidified in the body or primordial core!

In theory, as long as one is proficient in the secret runes and understands the fundamental laws, one can use them regardless of talent.

For example, time standing still.

Some powerful figures who have been granted the title of King are able to use it.

"Yaoyang and Imprisonment talents are both quite good. Yaoyang's power can be unleashed and enhanced, while Imprisonment can restrict opponents."

Unfortunately, the Radiant Sun and the Enhancement skill overlap, so they cannot be stacked.

"But compared to transformation magic, it's inferior!"

Qin Mu murmured to himself.

Transformation Technique is Qin Mu's only life-saving talent.

Compared to talents like clones, rebirth, and time stop, it may seem inferior, but it is actually extremely powerful!

Unlike the Demon Slayer Clan's talent for replication, the replication talent can detect anomalies as long as the Immortal Divine Power probes the inside of the body.

However, the Transformation Technique is different; even if the power of immortality detects the inside of the body, it cannot be found!

Unless one is the master of the universe, it is almost impossible to discover this through detection methods.

Moreover, the innate transformation technique is not just about changing one's physical appearance.

Even if it's an ordinary iceberg behemoth, as long as he's familiar enough with and understands the object of the transformation, he can even use the object's talent!

If it transforms into the Golden Horned Beast, it can unleash powerful enhancements!

Transform into the Flame Star Beast and unleash the Radiant Sun!

Aside from being unable to use the Golden Horned Beast's life-saving ability to create clones, it is almost indistinguishable from a real Golden Horned Beast.

But what if Qin Mu had mastered the Transformation Technique?

With his research on genes and bloodlines, he can master almost anything unless one has an exceptionally strong talent!

How terrifying!

"There are countless people who want to kill me. When I go to the outer battlefield for training, I need a way to hide my identity, otherwise it will be a real problem."

Qin Mu's thoughts surged within the will of the insect swarm.

As the personal disciple of the Chaos City Lord, Qin Mu was hailed as having the talent of a universe master during the Genius Battle. He had long been on the kill list of many alien races.

It's a pity that after the Genius Battle ended, Qin Mu and Venerable Guiyi went directly into the Initial Universe, giving no chance to any alien races.

The research on the Seed of Genes enraged all the alien races, who wished they could eliminate it as soon as possible.

Although many powerful alien races have not yet truly identified the researchers behind the gene seed, Qin Mu has already been eliminated over the years and is now in the top three of the suspect list!

It's alright in the human heartland, but if Qin Mu dares to enter the extraterritorial battlefield, he has no doubt that there will be powerful experts above the Venerable level who will come to kill him!

Under normal circumstances, powerful beings above the level of Cosmic Venerables from the major peak races would not dare to enter the extraterritorial battlefield, but there are always exceptions.

If the various alien races confirm that they are the researchers of the gene seed, powerful figures will attack them the moment they step out into the extraterrestrial battlefield!

Just like in the original timeline, Luo Feng's performance during his time as the Realm Lord was so extraordinary that he was attacked by the strongest being in the universe even in the core territory of the Ancestral God Sect!

Therefore, concealing his talent is very important for Qin Mu.

Transformation is the best choice.

"Enhancement, Transformation!"

After selecting his talent, Qin Mu immediately began adjusting his body and solidifying the talent runes.

Inside the flesh and blood chamber, Qin Mu's body frantically absorbed energy, constantly undergoing transformation.

three days later.

Qin Mu, who had transformed into a body a thousand meters tall, opened his eyes.

"This power is truly formidable!"

Qin Mu felt his new body, clenched his fist, flapped his wings, and wagged his tail, feeling quite peculiar.

However, Qin Mu had frequently operated the body of the Hive Tyrant before, so he quickly adapted.

One by one, the fleshy tendrils attached to his body broke off, and Qin Mu stood up from the fleshy cavity.

"It's time to continue receiving the inheritance! With my current body, which has a hundred times more genes, receiving the inheritance will be much easier."

With a flap of his wings, he quickly flew out of the mother nest and flew through the space inside the Golden Horned Beast's body. After familiarizing himself with the power for a while and completely mastering every bit of power in his body, Qin Mu decisively returned to the interior of the Abyss Tower.

hum-

After a spatial fluctuation, Qin Mu's figure appeared.

Seemingly sensing the changes in Qin Mu's body, the internal space of the Abyss Tower, which was originally only a thousand meters high, also expanded in sync, directly becoming as high as ten thousand meters!

"Huh? The space actually changes automatically?"

Qin Mu was secretly amazed. He had originally planned to shrink his body to avoid inconvenience, but he did not expect that the inheritance space would change on its own.

Ignoring all that, Qin Mu touched the red rocks inside the tower and continued to receive the inheritance.

Just as Qin Mu had expected, his body felt no burden whatsoever, and he easily completed the cultivation of the secret technique.

His body and soul amplitude are also becoming stronger through inheritance!

……

Time flies when you're on a spiritual journey, and another ten years have passed.

While receiving the inheritance, Qin Mu did not neglect his research on the Seed of Genes.

"Hahaha! The second generation of gene seed has finally succeeded! All eight strains can be upgraded to the domain lord level, and the probability of evolution has also been slightly improved."

Qin Mu's voice came from inside a mother nest.

Twenty years have passed, and the research on the Domain Lord-level Gene Seed has finally been successful!

Furthermore, the probability of transformation has increased from five in ten thousand to one in a thousand!

A full doubling of the improvement.

This means that there are twice as many people in the human population who are capable of bloodline transformation!

"Next, I need to focus on improving the bloodlines of the Realm Lord level. Let's choose a race to improve first, the Giant Axe race! Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain myself."

Qin Mu was in a good mood, as this was an important source of funding for the Zerg.

Once the first Lord-level bloodline potion is produced, we can request the human race to increase research funding.

"The Zerg swarm is about to break through to the World Lord level! This is truly a double celebration!"

(End of this chapter)