Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 254 Becoming a Realm Lord

Time flows on, regardless of anyone's will.

Another twenty years have passed.

The effects of the second-generation gene seed have truly taken hold over the past twenty years.

The reactions from the three elite races bordering humanity—the demon race, the insect race, and the mechanical race—were undoubtedly extremely intense.

But this time it wasn't just them; the Starry Sky Beast Alliance, who had been watching the spectacle, were the ones who were stunned.

Humanoid cosmic behemoth?

What's going on?

What is the connection between the human gene seed and the cosmic behemoth?

As more and more powerful humans evolve to the Domain Lord level, humanoid star beasts of eight different types make their appearance one by one.

Among the powerful members of the Starry Sky Beast Alliance, it was discovered that these so-called eight gene strains correspond to the eight powerful bloodlines among the Starry Sky Beasts: [Azure], [Earth], [Wind], [Thunder], [Water], [Fire], [Mountain], and [Lake].

The eight powerful bloodlines are all star beasts that are born at the planetary level, grow at the eternal level, are young at the cosmic level, and are at the peak of the domain lord level.

Although not as powerful as a peak-level bloodline behemoth, it is still among the top tier of domain lord-level bloodlines.

Although these humanoid star beasts are not as large as the real star beasts of the "Eight Powerful Bloodlines" and have not inherited their talents, they are still enough to shake the Star Beast Alliance.

After careful study, they discovered that the characteristics exhibited by the first batch of gene seeds clearly belonged to ordinary star behemoths!

As one of the nine super powers in the primordial universe, the Starry Sky Beast Alliance is undoubtedly very powerful.

I was just watching a melon (a Chinese idiom for gossip), but I never expected to get caught up in it myself.

However, after conducting an internal investigation, they found no evidence of a large number of deaths of cosmic behemoths.

This indicates that the raw material for this gene seed was not a giant star beast, or at least there was no large-scale killing of giant star beasts.

This has led to differing attitudes towards the Seed of Genes within the Starry Sky Beast Alliance.

Most of the cosmic behemoths didn't care, since there wasn't a large-scale massacre of them, and they couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.

The Starry Sky Beast Alliance has always adopted a free-range model, and even the Starry Sky Beasts with peak bloodlines were not recognized before the Immortal era.

Some of the star behemoths are also very interested in the evolutionary mechanism of the Seed of Genes.

Virtual Universe claims that the Seed of Genes has three generations.

It now appears that the evolutionary path is clearly: ordinary bloodline star behemoth – powerful bloodline star behemoth – peak bloodline star behemoth.

If human bloodlines can continuously advance, can the same behemoths of the stars do?

There are too few star beasts with peak bloodlines.

Their numbers are only slightly better than those of special life forms in the universe; they are pitifully few.

If humans simulate the evolution of their bloodlines, wouldn't that mean that the internal evolution of cosmic behemoths is also possible?

If possible, the Starry Sky Beast Alliance would receive an epic upgrade!

While there are few Starry Sky Beasts with peak bloodlines, there are quite a few Starry Sky Beasts with ordinary and powerful bloodlines.

The Starry Sky Beast Alliance was thrown into turmoil.

The situation within the human race has changed even more dramatically.

The first generation of gene seeds can only evolve to the cosmic level bloodline.

The impact of cosmic-level bloodlines on the upper echelons of humanity is not significant, because the truly top-tier races possess at least cosmic-level or even domain lord-level bloodlines.

However, the second-generation gene seed is different; it can reach the level of a domain lord!

In its domain lord-level battle form, the humanoid star behemoth's strength increases at least tenfold.

This has made even human races with cosmic-level or even domain-lord-level bloodlines restless.

Forced by circumstances, these cosmic-level and domain-lord-level bloodline groups had no choice but to follow suit and inject gene seeds.

The era of universal gene implantation has truly begun!

Furthermore, in the Giant Axe Arena, certain positions require the implantation of a gene seed and completion of at least one bloodline transformation before one can assume the role!

This trend spread from the Giant Axe Arena, and major forces such as Virtual Universe Company and the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance began to follow suit.

Moreover, the evolution probability of the second-generation gene seed has doubled!

Many people are even more eager for the legendary third-generation gene seed.

Will the probability of third-generation evolution increase again?

The number of attacks by alien races targeting top human pharmacists has also increased.

Meanwhile, several pharmacists claimed that they were the ones who developed the Seed of Genes, and then they were protected by the five major human powers.

Even Qin Mu's teacher, Yu Chen the Immortal, entered Chaos City.

The truth and the falsehood are intertwined, making it difficult to distinguish who is the true creator of the gene seed.

……

Purgatory Abyss, Tower of the Abyss, Floor 2996.

Qin Mu sat cross-legged, cultivating his thousand-meter-tall body. His expression was pained, and his muscles and bones vibrated at a strange frequency. His body's power structure was constantly adjusting in this vibration, making his body more suitable for exerting force.

Body amplitude 39 times!

The soul's amplitude is 45 times greater!

"This impact on my soul and will is almost at the Venerable level! Even with billions of insects sharing the pressure, I still feel immense pain and am about to collapse."

Based on previous experience, the willpower challenge increases significantly every thousand floors.

"At four thousand floors, I will definitely reach the Venerable level!"

Qin Mu opened his eyes, his thousand-meter-tall body trembling uncontrollably.

Under the impact of this will, the swarm ceased all activities, including research, and began to fight back against the will's impact.

Although the swarm is large enough to disperse the impact of will throughout the entire swarm, it can collectively resist such an impact.

Ultimately, the swarm's level is only at the domain lord level!

Even if Qin Mu's mental state had reached the second level of the Pure Heart, and he had the assistance of the insect swarm, he still found it difficult to resist the pressure of the will that was infinitely close to that of a Venerable.

This is a huge gap in the level of life.

Even someone as strong-willed as Hong ultimately failed on the 21st floor of Illusion Island.

The 21st floor is the oppressive will of the Venerable One!

Qin Mu felt he could withstand a few more floors, and might even make it past the 4000th floor.

But to test oneself, to test the limits of the swarm?

no need!

Because the Zerg have finally accumulated enough resources to advance to the level of World Lord!

"Just because a swarm of insects at the Domain Lord level can't withstand it doesn't mean a swarm of insects at the World Lord level can't!"

"It's time, Swarm! Begin your ascension!"

Qin Mu's eyes were filled with joy.

The entire swarm erupted in cheers and roars, and points of light within the soul network began to flicker and shrink.

The golden-horned behemoth's core was hidden within the scales on his chest.

Giant mother nests, each about 190 kilometers high, began to transform. Countless biological tissues poured out from inside the mother nests, enveloping them and transforming them back into a giant insect egg.

Rumble—

A thunderous sound came from the insect eggs.

The sound, like a heartbeat, could be clearly heard even from thousands of miles away.

A powerful life force is nurtured within it.

At the very core of the insect egg, a strange core is conceived. This core becomes harder and harder, and various ancient patterns appear on its surface.

At its core was a chaotic void, as if the world itself was evolving.

In the outer abyss of purgatory, colossal star beasts with peak ninth-tier Domain Lord bloodlines roared in unison.

They ceased hunting and fighting, returned to the vicinity of the mother hive, and began their metamorphosis under the protection of the swarm army.

Take the Golden Horned Beast as an example.

Their vast metallic continent, originally 90 kilometers long and wide, began to frantically absorb the endless golden mist surrounding the continent, as well as the endless golden mist high above the continent, with the mist enveloping the entire metallic continent.

Unlike previous world transformations, the vast metallic continent that swallowed the endless golden mist did not expand, but shrank!

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The more golden mist it absorbed, the smaller the metal continent itself became, while the entire internal world space grew larger and larger.

Just a moment!

The diameter of the entire internal world space was more than ten times larger than before, while the vast metal continent, which was 90 kilometers long and wide, became smaller and smaller as the metal mist accumulated over countless years merged into it, eventually turning into an endless abyss surrounded by a golden mountain range.

This is a strange phenomenon that only occurs when a Golden Horned Beast evolves from a Domain Lord level to a World Lord level!

Unite the two realms! Unite the Golden Horn Boundary Stone!

A single Golden Horned Beast can only produce one Golden Horned Boundary Stone in its lifetime. This stone is formed from the true essence of gold within the beast's vast inner world and contains both gold and spatial attributes, making it a true treasure.

The Golden Horn Boundary Stone is the most important treasure of the Golden Horned Beast!

Because after breaking through from the Domain Lord level to the World Lord level, the Golden Horned Beast's inner world is no longer purely "gold energy", but will become a normal inner world with rivers and mountains, where life can live!

Therefore, that fierce and aggressive golden energy condensed into a "Two Realms Abyss".

The essence of energy in the Abyss of Two Realms lies in the Golden Horn Boundary Stone!

The twelve top-tier bloodline behemoths, including the Flame Star Beast, the Hillside Beast, and the Ice Mountain Beast, are all born with an inner world. Their advancement only requires transforming their inner world from pure single-attribute energy into a normal world.

However, most of the insect swarms lack an internal world.

For example, his own body only has a life core at the domain lord level!

At this moment, his life core began to transform, constantly hardening and solidifying, and a world was gradually being born from the chaos within it.

"Boom!"

Unlike in the past when the swarm advanced first and then the swarm propelled his evolution, this time he advanced in sync with the swarm!

The immense soul power of the insect swarm converged along the soul network into his thousand-meter-tall body.

A power also began to erupt from the life core within his body.

The power of the soul and the principles melted directly into a liquid torrent under the influence of an invisible force, and the two torrents began to collide.

When mental power and the Force truly touch, it is the first fusion after the integration of consciousness and will.

The first wisp of world power was born! The world power was born!

This allowed Qin Mu's consciousness to resonate as if sensing the origin of the vast universe.

Unlike in the past when he sensed the origin through the body of a peak bloodline behemoth transformed into an insectoid race, this time he used his own body to sense the origin of the universe.

The primordial universe is the oldest, most vast, and most powerful universe, nurturing the most diverse life forms.

Although the 'Initial Universe' is a universe located outside the Primal Universe, it is not even a fraction as large as the Primal Universe.

The true origin of the primordial universe.

When the first trace of world power was generated within Qin Mu's body, it connected with that incomparably distant primordial land.

Having had many experiences of entering the origin of the universe, Qin Mu's consciousness instantly entered the origin of the universe under the resonance of the 'Power of the World'.

It was an incredibly vast land. With Qin Mu's consciousness, he could only sense this endless land and could not sense any other existence.

And every grain of soil on this endless earth is like a space, within which exist endless cosmic crystals.

When Qin Mu's consciousness truly came into contact with the origin of the universe, an astonishing change occurred within his life core.

A vast and immense world began to evolve.

This is his inner world!

An inner world born from a body with a hundred times the genetic potential!

A diameter of 10 kilometers, 100 kilometers, 10,000 kilometers, 100,000 kilometers...

It was as if chaos had just begun, or as if the Big Bang had occurred.

His inner world expanded wildly.

At this moment, a channel was opened between his inner world and the 'Original Source of the Universe', and endless primordial energy of the universe, 'World Power', poured into his inner world.

It surged in like a raging flood, incredibly powerful, and this force made the already rapidly expanding inner world even larger!

The primordial origin of the universe is extremely generous.

When any Domain Lord breaks through to the World Lord level, they will have one opportunity to recklessly devour the power of the cosmic crystal in the Origin Land of the Universe.

In the vast land of the primordial universe, the energy released by the cosmic crystal contained in any grain of sand is enough to fill the inner world of a realm lord.

At this moment, more than 10,000 mother hives have been promoted within the swarm!

And there are countless Zerg armies!

Peak bloodline behemoths, powerful bloodline star behemoths, insect hive fleets, insect hive tyrants...

As if shearing wool, the entire swarm frantically devoured the cosmic crystals that were grains of sand in the primordial origin of the universe.

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