Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 272 Two Special Life Forms Gifted by the Lord of Chaos City

"It was faster than expected; in just two and a half years, the genes of ordinary Golden Horned Beasts were increased by 30 times."

After successfully completing the first tribulation of his Golden Horned Beast cultivation, Luo Feng achieved a genetic boost of 90 times.

After activating the power of Bloodlust, genes can surge again.

Inside the mother nest, Qin Mu let out a breath.

After analyzing Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast clones, the gene multiplication rate of the Golden Horned Beast clones in the swarm also reached 90 times.

After fusing 1000 Blood Crystals, the gene multiplier can increase by 20 times, reaching 1800 times.

Qin Mu wasn't too happy, though, as this was something he had expected and there was nothing to be happy about.

"The Nine Tribulations Manual is too amazing. I have watched Luo Feng cultivate for three years, and I still can't understand how the model of the universe's operation was created. It's too complicated."

The mysteries contained within are far beyond my current comprehension.

Perhaps one day, when my understanding of the laws of the universe reaches the level of the cosmic master, or even higher, I will be able to comprehend the mysteries of how the universe operates.

After three years of cultivation, Qin Mu has made considerable progress in gene research, but he still has no understanding of the core cosmological operating model of the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual".

"Let's put the research on the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual on hold for now. Like the analysis of the Blood Crystal, it's not something we can understand at this stage."

"Perhaps I should change my approach and focus my research on the Flame God Clan."

The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual is written in the script of the Flame God Clan, who were the first race created by the Mountain-Sitting Guest in the early stages of the universe's evolution, and are also a race with naturally powerful bodies. I don't believe there's no connection between them.

Although he couldn't understand how the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual worked, Qin Mu was not discouraged.

In the following period, Qin Mu no longer asked Luo Feng to cooperate with his research, and instead they cultivated on their own.

They then focused their efforts on researching the Yan God Clan to enhance their own genes.

……

Five years later, in Chaos City.

"Among the monsters that have been collected so far that are skilled in venom, there are eighteen types that can damage a god's body."

"However, even after purification, the most potent venom of the [Azure Blood Toad] requires a kilogram to completely annihilate a Marquis who possesses immortality."

It's nowhere near as potent as Femoral Venom, which can kill a "King of Kings" level expert with just 100 grams.

Qin Mu frowned; he was not satisfied with this result.

With the swarm's capabilities, producing the venom of the "Azure Blood Toad" is not difficult; whether it's one kilogram or two kilograms doesn't really matter.

The important issue is that the [Azure Blood Toad]'s venom annihilates the divine body too slowly.

In actual combat, if too much venom is injected into an enemy's body at once, unless the enemy is a fool, they will definitely use their divine power to envelop the venom and expel it from their body.

To truly kill an immortal Marquis, the amount of [Azure Blood Toad] venom required would need to be at least a hundred times greater.

Inefficient and slow.

But this was already the most poisonous creature among the World Lord-level monsters that Qin Mu could find.

【Firmware Venom】is different; it's a poison concocted by top human pharmacists using precious resources, and its production process is extremely difficult.

It is not suitable for insect swarms.

"Should I research [Firm Venom], master its technology, and then use the Zerg swarm's capabilities to mass-produce it?"

Qin Mu wasn't particularly interested in researching it; he focused his efforts on bloodlines in the field of medicine and wasn't interested in poisons.

Poison is merely a transitional substance for the swarm; it's only useful for world lords.

The most toxic potion, [Fimor Venom], is only useful during the King stage; it becomes useless after reaching the Cosmic Master stage.

Once Qin Mu breaks through to the Immortal realm, the swarm will possess immortal divine power, and the venom will no longer be so important.

"Forget it, I shouldn't get distracted. Bloodline and genes are the most important thing; it's not worth getting distracted by researching poisons."

The venom of the [Azure Blood Poison Toad] is barely enough; with a higher dose, even a king could be poisoned!

After careful consideration and weighing the options, Qin Mu decided to abandon his research on [Firmmore Venom].

"Hmm? The Lord of Chaos City is looking for me? The special life form in the clan's treasure trove is finally mine?"

Qin Mu's face lit up with joy.

Eight years ago, when Qin Mu forcibly memorized the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual," causing a large-scale reversal of time in the universe's rules, his teacher, the Lord of Chaos City, promised him a batch of special life forms.

Special life forms are extremely rare. Because of their extremely high level of life and innate secret techniques, they lure billions of races in the universe to take action, enslave, and possess them!

Special life forms, without powerful protectors, will soon be torn apart by the greedy billions of races in the universe!

Devour it!

The Chaos City Lord has three incarnations, one of which is a special life form.

Many of these ancient beings possess special life forms.

As time went on, it became increasingly difficult to find special life forms, especially in Qin Mu's era.

Therefore, every special life form is an important resource within the race, and even the Lord of Chaos City cannot bestow it upon others at will.

After much negotiation, it can finally be given to Qin Mu today.

Upon receiving the news, Qin Mu immediately logged into the virtual universe and entered the Thunder Island Temple.

"Teacher, is there a result?"

Qin Mu asked with delight.

There are no truly special life forms in his swarm yet.

"Haha, finally it's done. If it's a typical special life form with a gene multiplier of only a few dozen times, I can give it to you directly."

But since you're researching gene fold expansion exceeding the 100-fold rule limit, I can't give you something too bad.

"After all this time, I found you two special life forms, both at the World Lord level."

The Lord of Chaos City laughed loudly.

"The first special species is named [Netherworld Poisonous Python]. The [Netherworld Poisonous Python] has a gene multiplier of 200 times. It is a rare wood-type, space-type flesh-and-blood creature and possesses extreme venom!"

Aren't you collecting venom that can kill immortal beings?

Its venom is even more potent than Fermó Venom! Having achieved immortality, its venom can even threaten cosmic beings.

"Another special kind of life is called the Tree of Life."

This was obtained by a chance encounter from a master of the universe within our human race; it is a hundred times more precious than the [Netherworld Serpent].

It grew from a branch of the World Tree. Although it is inferior to the World Tree in many ways, with a gene multiplier of only 300, it possesses the same talent as the World Tree—'Mastery of Time and Space'!

Within a certain range around it, time and space are completely controlled, which is somewhat different from the World Tree's talent of "mastering time and space".

However, as the Tree of Life itself grows stronger, its ability to control space and time also increases.

This will greatly help you in your future journey along the path of time and space and in becoming the master of the universe.

Besides its natural talent, it is also extremely large, reaching a height of 600 million kilometers!

The Tree of Life strengthens and stabilizes the divine realm. Once you become immortal, you can place it within your divine realm.

The more stable a divine kingdom is, the stronger its oppressive and restrictive power becomes—ten or even a hundred times stronger—if an enemy were to intrude. A powerful being in the universe used this tactic to directly force enemies into the divine kingdom, killing many of them.

"Teacher, thank you so much!"

Qin Mu's eyes lit up upon hearing this. The [Netherworld Poisonous Python] and the [Tree of Life] would be of great help to both the insect swarm and himself.

The [Netherworld Serpent] needs no introduction; its main draw is its venom!

With this venom, even more potent than Fermó Venom, the threat the Zerg swarm poses to the Immortals will increase dramatically.

The Tree of Life is even stronger, possessing the talent to control time and space.

Mastering time and space is a necessary condition for becoming the master of the universe by following the great path of time and space!

"The Tree of Life? With this talent for controlling space and time, perhaps the simulation of the universe's workings could reach an even higher level?"

Qin Mu silently thought to himself that although he had temporarily given up his research on the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual," he had kept in mind the idea that the universe's operating model was driving genetic changes.

Qin Mu didn't know much about the Tree of Life.

On the contrary, the World Tree knows more about it.

In the original timeline, when Luo Feng chose his third clone, his initial target was not the Nine Netherworlds, but the World Tree!

It's just a pity that the conception... failed!

There are nine World Trees in the entire universe.

The exact number of gene multiples is unclear, but it is at least several thousand times that of humans.

One of the World Trees is a Cosmic Venerable-level tree, the strongest World Tree. Its trunk alone is 1200 million kilometers thick, and its height is 5.9 million kilometers. Its canopy is so large that its diameter exceeds one billion kilometers. This is an outrageously large tree—the largest tree-like special life form in the universe in terms of volume.

There are also three World Trees, which are of the Immortal level, only slightly smaller than the Venerable World Trees, and are 1.2 million kilometers tall.

The last five World Trees are at the World Lord level, slightly smaller than the Immortal World Trees, and their height reaches 6000 million kilometers.

The World Lord-level Tree of Life that Chaos City Lord obtained, although not as powerful as the World Lord-level World Tree, is still as far as 600 million kilometers long!

This is already extremely exaggerated, much larger than any unit in the swarm.

Even a peak-level bloodline behemoth like the Golden Horned Beast, when it grows to the peak of the World Lord level, will only have a volume of one thousand kilometers.

The insect hive fortress in the swarm is only a little over 10,000 kilometers in diameter.

"If I remember correctly, the strongest World Tree is a unique existence in the universe. It can transform into a powerful Tree of Life as long as it branches out even a little bit."

As the most powerful World Tree, brimming with endless vitality, its life essence is extremely strong.

The other eight World Trees were merely saplings he cultivated. He transferred a portion of the essence of life to these eight saplings, which led to the creation of the other eight World Trees.

In other words, with proper nurturing, the Tree of Life could potentially revert to its ancestral form as the World Tree!

Qin Mu recalled the contents of the original timeline.

"I will send these two special life forms to you as soon as possible, and you can study them yourself then."

The Chaos City Lord was in a good mood. He had initially intended to give Qin Mu the special life form [Green Devouring Nematode] from his clan's treasure trove.

But later they discovered a more suitable Tree of Life, and only after some effort did they manage to obtain it.

"Thank you, teacher! I will not let you down."

Qin Mu was in a very good mood and thanked him.

"Hahaha, your contribution to the human race is far beyond what two mere special life forms can compare to!"

"If I get the chance, I'll catch two more for you, but unfortunately, good special creatures are too rare."

The Lord of Chaos City laughed.

He always left his other disciples to their own devices, letting them seize opportunities on their own.

But Qin Mu is different; Qin Mu's achievements in medicine, especially in bloodline genes, are too high.

The emergence of the Seed of Genes and the Bloodline Elixir of World Lord level has benefited the entire human race, greatly enhancing its overall potential.

This alone makes it incomparable to two special life forms.

Now, they are even researching ways to break through the genetic limitations by a hundredfold!

As a teacher, how could he not support it?

Otherwise, with Qin Mu's strength, it would be a waste of his precious time to capture a special life form.

He didn't even hope to find a way to break through the genetic limitation of a hundredfold; that was too difficult, and the rules of the universe wouldn't allow it.

As long as it makes Qin Mu's research go more smoothly, that's fine.

Qin Mu was unaware of the Chaos City Lord's thoughts. After chatting for a while, Qin Mu bid farewell to the Chaos City Lord and exited the virtual universe.

"Special life forms! Two of them at that! We're rich now!"

Qin Mu said excitedly.

"Once these two special life forms arrive, we will begin research on their Zergification."

With these two special life forms, research on the gene swarm's multiplication rate may also yield new breakthroughs.

(End of this chapter)