Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 291 Development and the Release of the Fourth Generation Gene Seed

Two months later.

Outside the battlefield, inside the Zerg hive fortress.

Qin Mu's body flashed, and he appeared in his inner world.

The King of Annihilation and three other peak-level Kings floated around the Tree of Life.

Four nutrient capsules of varying sizes, customized to their body shapes, flew to Qin Mu's front as he appeared.

Qin Mu looked at the four sleeping King-level experts, and an invisible power of the world extended out, directly supporting the four of them, and then slowly lowered them into the nutrient tank.

"drop!"

Qin Mu gently pressed the button.

wow——

The transparent cover on the surface of the nutrient tank closed automatically, and at the same time, a large amount of strange liquid substance began to be released automatically from inside.

"Hiss hiss hiss~~"

The liquid enveloped the four powerful kings, and a mysterious power began to flow into their bodies. Then, the liquid began to churn and bubble.

"here we go."

Qin Mu read it softly.

After selling off the spoils of war, Qin Mu used almost all of the fifty trillion resources to purchase various other resources.

Money sitting on the books is useless; only money that is quickly converted into real power is truly valuable.

This is why Qin Mu, despite acquiring a large amount of resources and selling a large number of World Lord-level bloodline potions over the past few centuries, is still short of money.

Fifty trillion yuan of mixed currency is used to purchase resources. What a huge amount of money!

Even for virtual universe companies, it takes a long time to allocate goods.

The resources purchased for the restoration of King Nirvana and his companions were delivered relatively early; a significant portion of them had not yet arrived.

Over the past two months, Qin Mu had also tried to use the insect swarm to revive the four people who had fallen into a deep sleep, but after consuming a lot of resources, there were no good results.

It's not that it can't be done, but the effect is too poor!

If you really have to do it yourself, the resources you consume are far more than what you would spend money to buy.

If we really want to study the technology to restore a divine body, we should start with ordinary immortals and work our way up step by step, instead of jumping straight to the peak or limit of the King-level realm.

Time passed second by second.

The liquid in the four chambers was gradually fading in color. After about three days, Qin Mu clearly sensed a faint fluctuation of consciousness from a peak-level King in the insectoid network.

Qin Mu, who was in the flesh chamber of the insect hive fortress, instantly appeared next to the nutrient tank.

"Soon, the Frost King is about to wake up."

Qin Mu revealed a slight smile.

This is one of the three peak-level King-level experts. He is from a powerful subordinate race within the Demon Clan Alliance, and his title is Frost Snow King. He is skilled in water and spatial laws.

Once there was a fluctuation in consciousness, it happened quickly; just one hour later, Frost King's consciousness was fully restored.

"Whoosh!"

The liquid inside the nutrient tank instantly became clear, and the strange substance was completely swallowed up.

The transparent hatch opens.

A Frost King, about ten meters tall and covered in silver-white scales, landed in front of Qin Mu from the nutrient pod.

"dominate!"

"Frost King called out respectfully."

Once transformed into a Zergling and becoming a member of the swarm, Frost King knew that his will was being controlled, yet he felt no resentment whatsoever.

In essence, he can be seen as an incarnation of Qin Mu.

How could one possibly rebel against oneself?

This kind of erosion is more terrifying than the slavery of souls.

"Um."

Qin Mu looked down at the Frost King in front of him. If one of them woke up, the other three would be soon.

Compared to Qin Mu, the ten-meter-tall Frost King is too small.

It was precisely because their divine bodies were too small that they were pierced by the bone spears of the insect hive tyrant and corroded by the venom, and quickly fell into a deep slumber.

Those massive demon kings, because of their enormous divine bodies, are not corroded by venom as quickly. When severely injured, they would rather self-destruct than fall into a deep sleep.

As Qin Mu had predicted, the other two peak-level King-level experts, Soul King and Purple Feather King, also woke up one by one.

The King of Annihilation was the slowest to awaken, with only half a day's difference in time.

The difference in power between the peak of the King-Sealing Realm and the limit of the King-Sealing Realm is not that great, with the King-Sealing Realm having about 10 times the power of the peak of the Realm Lord Realm. The difference lies more in the understanding of the laws.

At the peak of the King-level realm, one typically comprehends two spatial and temporal mysteries, while at the limit of the King-level realm, one usually comprehends all spatial or temporal mysteries.

By using divine power amplification techniques or attack methods, the strength of a King at the limit is ten times stronger than that of a King at the peak. This allows them to easily kill a King at the initial stage, and to kill a King at the peak by consuming only 5% to 10% of their divine power.

"dominate!"

The awakened King of Annihilation stood respectfully before Qin Mu, carrying a blood-red warhammer on his back.

"Okay, you guys recover your strength first, and then cooperate with me to do some research."

Qin Mu smiled and nodded.

When Qin Mu transformed the four into Zerg, he went through their memories and knew everything about them.

The King of Annihilation followed the Law of Earth to achieve immortality, and mastered all three profound mysteries of the Law of Space.

Before this, Qin Mu had mastered the three profound spatial techniques: spatial sealing and teleportation. Only spatial strangulation was still a little lacking.

Reading the memories of the King of Annihilation and then using them through his body to comprehend the final spatial mystery is only a logical step.

Among the three peak-level King-level experts, Frost Snow King, Soul Separation King, and Purple Feather King, Soul Separation King follows the path of time, comprehending two kinds of time mysteries, and is also a King-level expert in soul attacks!

With their cooperation, Qin Mu's strength can be improved again, and through them, he can also gain a better understanding of the Immortal stage.

For example, immortal divine bodies, the construction of divine kingdoms, and so on.

Although Qin Mu was in the Chaos Void of Chaos City, he gained a deep understanding of immortals and even Venerables through the corpses of powerful figures there.

But they were all dead after all!

What is immortality?

When a realm lord fully comprehends a certain lower-level fundamental law and exerts 100 times the normal force, an ocean of laws descends, and the body transforms into unique, immortal divine power.

The soul directly collapses and decomposes, beginning to fully merge with the body, with each spiritual imprint integrating into every cell.

Every cell can be considered a part of the soul. There is no clearly visible soul, only the most basic spiritual imprint that can be explored. And every life with a soul has a different spiritual imprint, so it is impossible to judge the race from the spiritual imprint.

The inner world broke free from its shackles and merged with the spatial fragments in the cosmic crevice to form a truly stable and powerful space—the divine kingdom.

A corpse has no soul!

There is no kingdom of God!

At the level of immortality, one can no longer be considered a physical life form, but rather an energy life form.

This might be a good thing for other races, but it's not the case for the Zerg swarm or for Qin Mu.

To date, almost all of his research has been based on flesh and blood!

Therefore, Qin Mu was not in a hurry to enter the realm of immortality.

When one is a realm master, one can also comprehend various laws, and each law is very intimate with the realm master.

When one becomes immortal, the soul is completely integrated into the divine body and becomes a part of it. The divine body is composed of immortal divine power and can be considered a part of the ocean of the origin of laws. For example, if the law of earth becomes immortal, then when one tries to comprehend other laws such as fire, water, light, and wind, one will be strongly rejected by the other laws, and the difficulty of comprehending them will increase by tens of thousands or millions of times.

Even if Qin Mu gains the recognition of the Ten Fundamental Laws and there is no rejection, comprehending them will still be much more difficult.

and also--

The law above the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) is the law of space.

The five laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are perfected to become immortal and comprehend the laws of space. Although there is rejection, there is still a possibility of improvement, but it is much more difficult than the realm master stage.

By understanding the laws of wind, lightning, and light, and by comprehending the law of time, one may also gain insights for improvement.

If someone has clearly comprehended the Law of Wind but insists on studying the Law of Space, it might work at the Realm Lord stage, but once they reach the Immortal stage, they simply won't be able to cultivate anymore.

If he were to become immortal now using a certain law, such as the law of fire, he would gain absolutely no benefit other than a slight increase in strength!

Why would Qin Mu agree?

This is also why many geniuses stay in the realm lord stage for a long time.

Of course, although I don't intend to break through to become immortal, it's perfectly fine to research and explore the realm of immortality in advance.

……

"Um?"

Qin Mu let out a soft "hmm".

"Has a tyrant fallen so quickly? Even Leviathan has been severely damaged."

Most of the scattered Hive Tyrants have arrived on the battlefield and entered the most brutal battle.

Scenes of dozens of high-intensity battlefields flashed through Qin Mu's mind, finally settling on a shattered starry sky.

This is a vast battlefield, unlike land battlefields like the White Sand Continent which are measured in light-years. This battlefield is composed of countless fragments of broken planets and continents.

At this moment, the fierce battle is still raging.

One side of the war was naturally the human race, and the other side was the machine race.

In the starry sky, countless war platforms of the mechanical race unfolded, with mechanical golems and pyramid-shaped war machines firing wildly.

Those orbital cannons and star-shattering cannons, powerful enough to destroy planets, drew trails in the dark, cold universe as they bombarded the swarm of insects.

The swarm's counterattack was also extremely fierce, with energy beams containing law-based attacks erupting from the bodies of peak world lords.

Leviathan even served as a mothership.

Under the control of the Hive Queen, the fleshy tentacles on its body constantly mutated and recombined, transforming into long-range attack cannons and engaging in a fierce battle with the Mech race's war base.

Having absorbed the genes of billions of species, the insect swarm retains a massive amount of genes in its gene pool, allowing it to choose the direction of evolution and mutation when necessary.

Among them are those who excel at ranged attacks.

However, along the way, apart from the time when Qin Mu rode Behemoth into the extraterrestrial battlefield with absolute power and fought against the machine race once, the swarm had never had any experience fighting against the machine race before.

Although Qin Mu made many preparations, there were still many shortcomings in the actual battlefield.

The star-studded battlefield is not the best battlefield for the Zerg swarm.

Although there are planetary fragments and continental fragments, these are too small to spread out into a fungal carpet and fleshy spores.

Even if it manages to spread out, it will soon be blasted apart by orbital cannons and planet-shattering cannons.

Even though there were tearing worms devouring the corpses of fallen swarms and mechanical golems on the battlefield.

Qin Mu's carefully crafted tearing worm teeth were excellent, capable of devouring even metal, but their efficiency was far lower than that of devouring flesh and blood.

In this battlefield, with the same three Leviathan fleets, the Hive Tyrant that died was killed by concentrated fire from the Mech race's orbital cannons.

However, before its death, this Hive Tyrant also inflicted considerable losses on the Mech Race, killing three Immortal Gods and destroying a large number of war platforms during its charge.

"As expected, real combat is the best test; the Zerg swarm still has quite a few problems."

Qin Mu was not too disappointed.

The swarm is certainly not perfect, but the trials of the battlefield can bring them closer to perfection.

"Heh heh, so one of the Zerg has already evolved resistance to energy attacks?"

Qin Mu chuckled. It was a beetle-like unit at the World Lord level.

Having survived multiple bombardments by laser cannons, its life genes underwent a transformation.

The losses to the Zerg swarm were not taken seriously. It was expected that the ten legions and one hundred Zerg hive fleets deployed in the early stages would suffer some damage during the fierce battle.

Transfer consciousness to the insect swarm on the White Sand Continent.

Compared to the fierce battles with the machine race in the star battlefield, the Zerg swarm here has already established a firm foothold.

In just over ten days, the number of insect swarms on the fierce battlefield not only did not decrease, but increased more than tenfold!

Although most of them were cannon fodder units, the number of main force units almost doubled!

A significant portion of these units evolved from lower-tier Zerg during intense warfare.

Centered on the human war fortress, the surrounding area, spanning millions of miles, was covered by a thick fungal carpet.

Low-level Zerg crawled out of the exposed hatcheries on the ground one after another, and then headed to the distant battlefield.

From the abdomen of the three-headed Leviathan, powerful units at the peak of the World Lord level continued to fly out, charging into the battlefield in droves.

At the edge of the spreading fungal carpet, the allied forces of the demon race and the insect race of the White Sand Continent continued to converge.

But the insect swarm resisted their pressure and continued to expand!

The blood and flesh of the battlefield are the best nourishment for the evolution of the insect swarm.

"As expected, the machine race is still a bit too annoying!"

Qin Mu frowned at the starkly different outcomes of the two battlefields.

"We still lack some high-end combat capabilities."

After carefully reviewing the situation on the battlefield of Baisha Continent, Qin Mu sighed.

After pushing the battlefield back tens of millions of miles, the allied forces of the demon race and the insect race gathered a large number of immortal powerhouses, and the insect swarm could only rely on its continuous numbers to wage a war of attrition.

"Increase the troop strength! Frost King and Purple Feather King, these two peak-level kings, can also go out. With their strength, they can quickly crush a battlefield in conjunction with the swarm, and secretly capture a group of immortals to enrich the swarm's strength."

"After a while, King of Annihilation and King of Soul Separation can also be sent out."

Qin Mu pondered.

He had studied the Silent King's treasured warhammer, but it was far inferior to the Star Spear, so he still handed it over to the Silent King to use.

With fifty trillion Chaos Yuan resources, it would be easy to expand the insect swarm tenfold. Of course, Qin Mu could not put all his resources into this aspect.

"Send out ten more legions, and the Starry Sky Beast Legion can also be mobilized."

Over the course of more than a month of fighting, several tyrants and the star beasts on the battlefield forged a deep friendship and gained a deeper understanding of Qin Mu of the Star Beast Alliance.

Friendships are most easily formed in the midst of life-or-death battles.

"In addition to these, the fourth generation of gene seeds can also be released for sale."

Qin Mu's eyes shone brightly.

For him, the fourth-generation gene seed was merely a transitional product.

But for those who have reached the level of cosmic bloodline and are subject to the use of genetic seeds in the universe, it is a tremendous change!

Because the fourth generation of the gene seed is different from the previous three generations, it is not used to enhance bloodlines, but to give talents to strong individuals who have evolved to the cosmic level and have a combat form!

To be precise, it's about selecting talents.

Hundreds of talents are available for selection! (Selection within the same tier)

Aside from talents like time stop and clones, which are considered heaven-defying among peak-bloodline star beasts, the rest are all viable options.

Including the Golden Horned Beast's talent enhancement!!!

It's easy to imagine the huge waves that will be caused in the universe when the fourth-generation gene seed is released.

This means that the blueprint Qin Mu once outlined at the high-level human conference has taken another step forward.

Perhaps it really is possible for human genes to advance.

"There's no rush to develop the fifth-generation gene seed; it's not an easy task to research. Perhaps before that, I can turn my attention to another direction."

Qin Mu pondered this in his heart.

The Seed of Genes is a path that provides upward mobility for the lower classes of humankind.

However, its evolutionary method dictates that only a small number of determined and combat-savvy geniuses can complete the evolution.

Even if Qin Mu reduces the difficulty of the breakthrough as much as possible, the number of breakthroughs that can be achieved is ultimately limited.

To be precise, there is not even one in a billion that can evolve to the final step.

"The evolutionary model obtained from the Yan God Clan and the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual may enable everyone to achieve genetic ascension."

With human genes!

"Living biological weapons are also a good option! Bio-armor?"

One idea after another popped into his head. With Qin Mu's expertise in bloodline genes, although it was difficult, it was not impossible.

This is also the best form of training for Qin Mu.

(End of this chapter)