Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 303 Special Life Remains, Directly Reimbursed

Qin Mu carefully read the information about Hongmeng, becoming more and more amazed as he read.

Hongmeng City is a gathering place for all the powerful beings of humanity and many other races. Which race possesses the treasure?

Of course, it is these powerful immortal gods who have been granted the title of King, and even those cosmic venerables and cosmic lords who stand at the very top. They possess the vast majority of the wealth of the many races in the Hong Alliance.

and so--

The auctions attended by some so-called star-rated bank clients were nothing compared to the transactions in Hongmeng City... it was like child's play.

Ordinary transactions are measured in units of ten billion Hunyuan, or even ten billion Hunyuan.

Large transactions are even more extravagant.

Rare and special treasures are priceless and are exchanged for other items.

auctions!

Huge deal!

An elite team venturing into the secret realms of the universe!

An elite force in the extraterritorial battlefield!

Special organizations formed by shared interests and common goals!

In short... despite having over three million powerful individuals in Hongmeng City, they control the wealth and survival of humanity and numerous other races.

Humans are the rulers of the Hongmeng!

Super overlords like the Lord of Chaos City and the Lord of Void Gold may share common interests regarding the survival of their races, such as cultivating their own forces to seize treasures, but they also have conflicts of interest!

After all, even the Lord of Chaos City, the Lord of Void Gold, the Lord of Dragon Journey... they all have their own desires!

This is perfectly normal.

Qin Mu didn't see anything wrong with it; it was just human nature.

This is why he only sent Hong, Thor, Jia Yi, and others to venture into the Illusionary Sea after he was absolutely certain he could protect the Earth.

There is internal strife among humans, and those numerous alien races also want to seize a larger share and obtain more resources!

In short...

Hongmeng City is truly a place where all sorts of people mingle and powerful forces are everywhere.

"Three million King-level powerhouses! My swarm is still too weak. I only have three hundred Hive Tyrants comparable to King-level powerhouses."

"Hmm, it seems I'll need to spend some time researching things after entering Hongmeng City."

Qin Mu carefully examined the information about Hongmeng, and sighed inwardly.

……

The highest-level plane space in the entire virtual universe, the plane space where the most powerful beings gather, is the Hongmeng Space.

In the boundless starry sky, surrounded by stars, an ancient and majestic city floats—this is Hongmeng City.

"Buzz!"

As Qin Mu arrived, one of the countless stars surrounding Hongmeng City also lit up slightly.

"Is this Hongmeng City?"

Qin Mu appeared in the living room, which was less than 1,000 square meters.

For the average person, this living room isn't small.

However, with Qin Mu's ten-kilometer-tall body, he simply couldn't stretch out.

Therefore, when Qin Mu entered, his body shrank proportionally to about two meters.

Qin Mu had already researched and learned about this, so it wasn't surprising.

Qin Mu's strength, as assessed by the Hongmeng, is at the limit of the King-level, which is equivalent to a three-star member. Those whose strength is divided into one-star to three-star reside in the outer city.

All official members of the Hongmeng City's outer city have the same residence, which covers an area of ​​3200 square meters.

"As the information in the document states, his physical fitness is at the apprentice level."

Qin Mu stretched his body and looked around at the layout of the living room.

Hongmeng City is a platform for strong individuals to exchange ideas and gather. All the strong individuals have the same physical qualities, maintaining a fragile body at the apprentice level.

Therefore, one cannot judge a person's ability simply by looking at their appearance.

Even the Universe Venerables in Hongmeng City have such fragile bodies. The only difference is their consciousness... And as long as the consciousness suppresses its pressure, it is impossible to judge its strength from the surface.

"Let's go out and see, King Tiancang and the others are waiting."

Qin Mu walked out of his residence.

……

This is a quiet and vast residential community with diverse house styles, but all of similar size.

The outer city of Hongmeng City is the most prosperous and bustling, after all, the inner city is where the Universe Venerables reside, and how many Universe Venerables are there in total?

With fewer people, it naturally feels deserted.

The outer city of Hongmeng City has more than 3 million residents, who are directly assigned to individual residential communities, each with a fixed maximum of 10,000 residents.

Walking on the streets of the neighborhood.

Occasionally, one can encounter powerful beings that are clearly different from humans, including rock-type and metal-type life forms.

Qin Mu carefully examined the swarm and found that almost all of its gene pool species had been analyzed, and he secretly noted down the few species that were not present.

"King Tiancang, King Xuanyu, King Chongyuan..."

After walking for a while, Qin Mu discovered a group of powerful individuals gathered ahead, chatting and laughing while holding some wine. At a glance, there were hundreds of them, and Qin Mu recognized most of them!

"Haha, tyrant, I've finally waited for you!"

"We've been waiting for you for so long."

"..."

Several people who were familiar with Qin Mu greeted him.

"Haha, checking information about Hongmeng City took a little time."

Qin Mu was not intimidated and walked over with a loud laugh.

"Let me introduce you to the Tyrant of our first extraterritorial battlefield, Base 028!"

He is also the leader of the Zeg clan; I'm sure everyone has heard of him by now.

King Tiancang laughed as he stood up and introduced himself to the hundreds of powerful kings.

"How could we not know the names of the tyrant and the Zeg clan?"

You're just lucky; the tyrant went to your 028 war base and directly solved your predicament.

This has also greatly eased the pressure on your First Extraterritorial Battlefield.

A powerful human laughed.

"The names of the tyrant brothers are already legendary!"

"Exactly!"

"..."

The group of powerful figures who had been granted the title of king echoed this sentiment.

Qin Mu smiled at the hundreds of powerful kings and returned the greeting with a cupped hand.

Apart from the change in size, Qin Mu's body remained unchanged, so many powerful figures recognized him at a glance.

Qin Mu was used to the compliments from many powerful figures.

Because the Zerg fleet is wreaking havoc on the battlefield, it goes wherever the fighting is most intense!

What others fear as a deadly battlefield, the Zerg Hive Tyrant finds sweetness in!

It is an open secret that they were able to be resurrected within Behemoth.

A single Zerg hive fleet represents at least one fearless King-level warrior charging into battle, twelve Marquis-level warriors, a Leviathan capable of continuously hatching Zerg warriors, and an army of billions of peak Realm Lords.

Once a Zerg hive fleet is secured, the pressure on the war base will be greatly reduced, and it may even be able to push back directly.

The price, however, is simply for each base to provide some war supplies, such as alien flesh and corpses.

Who wouldn't want such a good thing?

"Come, Tyrant. Let me introduce you. This is Shadow Peak King..."

The Heavenly King pointed to the lean, powerful human beside him and introduced him.

"This is the Blood Bird King..."

Qin Mu greeted them one by one.

"This is the King of Exorcism..."

When Qin Mu heard Tian Cang Wang pointing at a powerful human, he turned his gaze over and raised the wine cup in his hand.

King Quwu, also with a friendly smile, raised his wine cup.

Qin Mu vaguely remembered the name "King of Exorcism".

This was a powerful human who had reached the pinnacle of the King realm. He was active in the battlefield outside the Seventh Domain and perished in the original timeline when he was competing with Luo Feng and others for treasures in the Star Tower.

However, due to the war with the Zerg, the Machine Race, and the Demon Race, King Quwu has been transferred to a war base to be stationed there.

After everyone had finished introducing themselves, Qin Mu exchanged virtual universe communication methods with all the powerful figures who had been granted the title of King, thus expanding his network of contacts.

Qin Mu did not notice that one of the alien kings, after successfully obtaining his contact information, visibly relaxed, as if he had completed some task.

……

Qin Mu chatted happily with the group of powerful figures, but they didn't discuss the matter of supporting the extraterritorial battlefield during their first meeting.

With a way to contact him, Qin Mu will also come to the extraterritorial battlefield in the future; there will be plenty of opportunities.

"Come on, I'll take the tyrant for a stroll around the city. It's his first time here, and we can all get together afterwards!"

After chatting for a while, the Heavenly King addressed the crowd.

"Haha, let's go take a look. I'll have to trouble King Tiancang. I'm very curious about Hongmeng City."

Qin Mu said with a smile.

"Since it's my first time here, I should definitely take my time exploring; I might just find some treasure!"

"I'm fine too, let's go together."

"..."

The powerful figures all expressed their understanding, and several of them even planned to take the opportunity to get closer to each other.

Under the leadership of the Heavenly King, Qin Mu also began to wander around the Hong Alliance.

Hongmeng City is a city where even the lowest-ranking residents possess the strength of a king. As a city where countless powerful individuals gather, it is naturally very developed, and scenes that are rarely seen in ordinary times can be seen everywhere here.

Large spaceship transaction.

Trading of plant life and metal life.

High-performing employee recruitment business.

Special item appraisal service.

Major auction houses.

New types of gambling businesses.

All kinds of things, as long as you have money, you can have them!

As Qin Mu and his group were walking down the street, the Heavenly King suddenly stopped, pointed to a palace in front of them, and laughed.

"Want to go check it out? Puyai Palace is the only casino in the entire Hongmeng City!"

It was a seven-story palace with an unusual style, and on the palace walls were inscribed the words "Puya Palace" in three human languages.

"Gambling? Forget it, I have no interest in gambling."

Qin Mu looked at it and shook his head.

Most strong people have an adventurous nature, and with a long life and not much to do, some who enjoy excitement may become addicted to gambling.

But Qin Mu had absolutely no interest in such things.

Although the Hongmeng organization probably doesn't have any cheating or anything like that, it would be better to use that time and energy to research bio-engineering and gene seed.

"Alright, let's go browse other shops then. See what you want. Most of the things that humans have can be bought in Hongmeng City."

The Heavenly King pointed to the enormous shops in the distance.

"There are limits on the number of shops in Hongmeng City. These shops can only be built if the owner is a Universe Venerable, and they also have to pay huge amounts of taxes."

In Hongmeng City this year, even those who are granted the title of King are not qualified to open shops!

"The Puyai Palace's business, which requires no initial investment, is rumored to be backed by a certain hall master in the Hongmeng Hall. Some even say that it was a joint venture between several hall masters."

Qin Mu nodded to indicate that he understood.

Here, even being crowned a king is just the lowest level; only the cosmic venerable ones have the right to speak!

"Where can I buy powerful creatures? Live or dead, it doesn't matter, but special life forms would be even better. I'm particularly interested in that!"

Qin Mu said it bluntly.

"Powerful creatures? Many shops sell them, but if you want special life forms, then you should check out Yu Bao Tang."

That was the best of all the shops, supposedly owned by a human temple master among the Hongmeng Temple Masters.

The Heavenly King pointed ahead.

"Yu Baotang?"

Qin Mu followed the line of sight and saw a two-story palace that was several kilometers long and wide.

It should be noted that the Hongmeng is very economical with land. The residences of the Kings and Immortals are only so big. So how big would a shop that is several kilometers long and wide be? How many goods can it hold?

He had heard of Yu Baotang's great reputation.

The Heavenly King was right. This shop was indeed run by a human, and Qin Mu knew that it was the Dragon Lord who had taken Jia Yi as his disciple!

"These treasures are ridiculously numerous."

Qin Mu entered the Yu Bao Hall and saw countless treasures displayed as far as the eye could see, each accompanied by a blueprint.

The drawings included videos, pictures, and textual information, detailing the origins, special features, and prices of the treasures being sold.

Qin Mu looked at the treasures and didn't see any that were worth less than a million Chaos Yuan.

Among them, there are quite a few with hundreds of billions of mixed units.

Qin Mu holds an extremely high position and authority within the virtual universe, but some of the treasures in this Yu Bao Tang are not even recorded in the clan's treasury.

Of course, in terms of the completeness of treasures, the human race's treasure trove is definitely more comprehensive.

However, some rare treasures may not be included.

Moreover, selecting items from a catalog is merely looking at a list, which is far less impressive than actually viewing the items in person.

"The treasures on the first floor of Yubao Hall number in the hundreds of millions, with prices ranging from millions of Hunyuan units to hundreds of billions of Hunyuan units. They have everything."

The Heavenly King pointed to a place in the distance.

"But the real treasure is on the second floor. The real treasure cannot be purchased with Hunyuan; it must be obtained through a barter system using other treasures."

The Heavenly King explained.

"As you know, there are some special treasures in the universe that are extremely rare, and some are even unique, making it impossible to determine their price."

Qin Mu nodded. Hunyuan was very precious for someone who had been granted the title of King.

But at the level of a cosmic sovereign, it becomes less useful.

"I'll take a look around the first floor first. I just glanced around and I already spotted quite a few powerful creatures!"

"They even have remains of special life forms!"

Qin Mu smiled.

In the past, the Lord of Chaos City gave him two special lives, both of which were still alive.

That was something Qin Mu specifically proposed in order to quickly analyze genes, obtain the life structure, and complete the experiment.

However, this does not mean that swarms cannot analyze special life forms.

Even if it's just a tiny bit of debris or hair, the swarm can use the Golden Horned Beast's clone ability to create it and then analyze it.

This process takes a long time.

These can easily span hundreds or even thousands of years.

Qin Mu was unwilling to waste so much time.

For example, when Qin Mu walked to the counter, he saw the remains of a special life form.

It was a grayish-white skeleton with knife marks on it.

Although it was just a bone, the aura it emitted was extremely fierce.

Qin Mu stepped forward, examined it carefully, and then looked at the detailed text description on the drawing next to him.

"The leg bone of the special life form 'Light-Devouring Tiger,' at the World Lord level, is 50 times stronger than the life gene level!"

Price: 380 million Mixed Yuan Units.

Qin Mu's eyes lit up as he read the introduction.

This is a special life form of light and time. Although its gene multiplier is not high, its talent is very strong.

There are actually hundreds of similar special life remains in this Yu Bao Tang!

"There are quite a few with strong defenses too! Let's see if there are any that can counter the mechanical golems!"

Looking at them one by one, Qin Mu felt a surge of excitement.

The lowest price for these special life remains is several million Hunyuan units, while the most expensive ones are as high as hundreds of billions!

"I don't have much money left, but it's okay, I can get reimbursed!"

"I'm researching methods for implantation and a hundredfold genetic breakthrough. My teacher, the Chaos City Lord, promised me a batch of special life forms, and these seem pretty good!"

Do I have to pay for my own experiments?

That's ridiculous!

The benefits of one's own research do not go solely to oneself.

That's called benefiting all mankind.

Qin Mu looked at the various special life remains and began to compose information to send to his teacher, the Lord of Chaos City.

(End of this chapter)