Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 318 The War Race Begins with the Human Race

Inside the Chaos Void, Qin Mu and the Chaos City Lord watched the battle between the Insectoid Tyrants on the screen.

"The bio-armor is still the original version and not perfect enough. Let the Hive Tyrant test it for a while first."

"Let's release it together with the gene multiplication and divine body data then."

Looking at the Hive Tyrant wreaking havoc on the battlefield, Qin Mu said.

"Well, that's up to you."

The Lord of Chaos City nodded.

Looking at the vast battlefield, Qin Mu's gaze turned to one particular scene.

Massive numbers of mechanical golems flew out from the pyramid-shaped ships and engaged in a fierce battle with the swarms of Zerg.

One after another, mechanical golems and Zerg swarms fell to the ground amidst flames and rain of blood.

At the heart of the battle, the land had long been reduced to a wasteland by the terrible attacks.

Only swarms of tearing insects darted through the corpses, constantly devouring flesh and metal fragments.

Yet attacks still rained down from the sky, destroying large swathes of the tearing insect swarm.

Those mechanical puppets would occasionally emit self-destructing sounds.

After a long period of fighting, the three races alliance had long been aware of the role of creep and tearing apart the swarm, and tried their best to limit the swarm's consumption of corpses.

Besides the mechanical race, a large number of rock lifeforms and metal lifeforms also appeared on the battlefield. These were all races that had been recruited by the three-race alliance.

"The three-race alliance has become smarter, making it much more difficult for the Zerg to replenish resources on the battlefield."

Qin Mu watched this scene unfold.

With the support of the Zerg army hatched by Leviathan on the battlefield outside the region, the human race no longer fears a war of attrition, but is actually happy to do so.

The more intense the war of attrition, the faster the Zerg swarm evolves, and it can even give birth to a large number of super behemoths that are tens of kilometers, or even hundreds or thousands of kilometers long.

By utilizing creep and tearing apart swarms, you can quickly recover the corpses and remains of both allies and enemies without investing additional resources; the number of swarms will only increase as you fight.

Human elites can also improve their abilities on the battlefield by relying on the seed of genes.

The Zerg Queen is no match for the Zerg swarm in terms of attrition, whether in terms of hatching speed or the quality of hatched units.

Even with sufficient resources, a Queen Mother of the Realm Lord level can only cultivate 10 Tiger Beetles per day due to the limitations of the Mother Nest if she were to cultivate a peak Realm Lord insectoid race. This speed is far slower than that of Leviathan.

As for cultivating star-level and cosmic-level Zerg cannon fodder, that's much faster; they can be endlessly and continuously spewed out from all the channels of the Zerg hive.

But even if it's fast, can it be faster than the incubation chambers that cover the fungal carpet?

Neither the Zerg nor the Mechs have the ability to quickly hatch on the battlefield!

They also spawned a large number of cannon fodder units to plunder corpses on the battlefield.

But they simply couldn't compete with the fungal carpet, which tore apart the insect swarm.

Ordinary cannon fodder will be strangled by the fleshy vines cultivated by the fungal carpet as soon as they step into its area.

If faced with an overwhelming swarm of tearing insects, they will be wiped out as well.

When the cannon fodder dies, the Zerg Queen must be reborn, which requires a lot of time and resources.

Unlike the creeping worms and the tearing swarms, they can reproduce on their own, and their numbers can grow and spread at an extremely fast rate when the battlefield is full of flesh and blood.

Therefore, the alliance of the Machine Race, Zerg Race, and Demon Race simply destroyed the battlefield. As long as the war started, a group of people would frantically attack the ground and destroy the creep.

Beneath the earth, countless rock-like life forms roam, destroying the foundation of the fungal carpet.

The corpses scattered on the ground were destroyed as much as possible.

The mechanical race, in particular, has begun installing self-destruct devices in their mechanical golems.

Knowing that the Zerg swarm was adept at devouring flesh and corpses, they brought in a large number of rock, energy, and metal species.

While swarms can extract resources from metals and even rocks, it's too slow.

In the primordial universe, flesh-and-blood life forms were only one of the mainstream; rock-based, metal-based, and energy-based life forms were also quite numerous.

Among the six dominant races, only the human race, the demon race, and the insect race are made of flesh and blood.

Among billions of races, there are many that are not made of flesh and blood!

It is precisely because these non-flesh-and-blood beings join the battlefield that the Zerg swarm's battlefield recovery capabilities are greatly limited.

"They're not stupid, of course they'll come up with a solution."

"The Zerg swarm is quite powerful; ordinary rock lifeforms, energy lifeforms, and metal lifeforms are no match for it."

"With your Zerg swarm here, things are much better."

Seeing Qin Mu's appearance, the Lord of Chaos City laughed.

"That's different. If things continue like this, it will become a battle of resource consumption, and the advantages of the Zerg swarm will not be brought into play."

"I'm already researching countermeasures; let's try it on this machine race first."

Qin Mu shook his head.

"Oh, what countermeasures?"

The Lord of Chaos City became interested.

"Does the teacher know about the Blood Spirit Mother Tree and the Blood Spirit Fruit?"

As Qin Mu spoke, he froze the scene of the war on the body of an immortal god of the mechanical race.

"Know."

The Lord of Chaos City nodded. He had seen all the hundreds of special life forms that Qin Mu had purchased in Hongmeng City.

"There are two ways to target non-blood-and-meat life forms. One is to enhance the swarm's ability to digest and absorb non-blood-and-meat life forms."

On the other hand, the goal is to find a way to transform them into flesh-and-blood life forms, and the Blood Spirit Fruit has this effect.

Qin Mu smiled.

He has been working on enhancing the swarm's consumption and absorption of the remains of non-flesh-and-blood creatures.

However, the effect is not very good, especially for energy-type life forms and rock-type life forms.

Once they die, energy-based life forms dissipate completely, while rock-based life forms turn into a pile of stones.

Only metal lifeforms and mechanical golems are slightly better, at least they can leave behind some alloy remnants.

"I plan to use the characteristics of the Blood Spirit Mother Tree to research a batch of Blood Spirit Fruits specifically for the Machine Race, and attempt to secretly control a group of Machine Race members."

"Blood Spirit Fruit is a treasure that mechanical beings would kill for."

"As long as they are released, there's no worry about them not being fooled."

"I've just started this research, and it will take time before I see any results."

Qin Mu explained.

"What resources are needed?"

The Lord of Chaos City said subconsciously.

He was already used to Qin Mu's various ideas; wasn't it just a tactic against non-flesh-and-blood beings like the mechanical race?

Compared to gene seed, implantation and gene multiplication are far inferior.

"I need a batch of mechanical, rock, metal, and energy immortals for experimental research."

Qin Mu said with a smile.

On the battlefield, it is relatively easy to kill immortals such as mechanical, rock, metal, and energy types.

But capturing them alive would be difficult.

Many rock-type and energy-type life forms, including the machine race, are soulless.

How can you capture someone who doesn't even have a soul?

In a real crisis, the other side would rather self-destruct.

Therefore, the only way to capture them alive is through sealing techniques.

This is something the swarm is not good at.

"No problem, I'll go to the clan's treasure trove and get you a batch."

The Lord of Chaos City replied without hesitation.

"Yes, thank you, teacher."

Qin Mu smiled and turned off the battlefield view.

He showed these to his teacher not only to demonstrate the bio-armor, but also because he wanted a batch of non-flesh-and-blood alien immortals for research.

As the two walked out of the mother nest, Qin Mu said.

"The experiment on enhancing the divine body to achieve the genetic multiplier of immortality has been basically perfected."

"The final stages of the Chaos City project can be completed in one or two years, and the teacher can start promoting it ahead of time."

"For large-scale debugging, one nest is not enough. I also need to build several nests specifically for this purpose."

The primordial universe is vast, with hundreds of thousands of kings and billions of immortals belonging to humanity scattered throughout the universe. Returning to Chaos City is not a matter of just a day or two.

It would be too late to notify everyone once everything is ready.

"Don't worry, everything is ready. We're just waiting for your notification."

The Lord of Chaos City laughed.

With a virtual universe, it's very convenient to send out notifications.

"Our human race has suddenly produced a massive number of powerful kings, each of whom is extremely strong. At that time, the insect race, the demon race, and the mechanical race will definitely have countermeasures."

Is there a possibility of a tribal war breaking out?

Qin Mu asked with some curiosity.

He had considered whether to hide the technology of divine body and gene multiplication for a period of time, but the Chaos City Lord teacher said there was no need to hide it.

Immortals, especially those who have been granted the title of King, are already considered the middle force of their race. When a large number of Kings appear, it will inevitably lead to a leap in the number of Universe Venerables.

"No! At least not in the short term."

The Lord of Chaos City said with a smile.

"The primordial universe may seem vast, but the one who truly holds power is the Lord of the Universe!"

This applies to our human race, as well as the demon race, the machine race, and the insect race.

The emergence of a large number of immortal kings and a number of cosmic venerables will make them nervous, but not to the point of risking their lives.

At most, they will use some means to coerce us from all sides.

Furthermore, we will also release information stating that these promotions to kingship are necessary to counter the Three Races Alliance, and that it is imperative to expend precious resources to enhance their strength.

As he spoke, the Lord of Chaos City looked at Qin Mu.

"You once acquired hundreds of millions of Blood Crystals in the Blood Luo World in one go."

Every hundred of these Blood Crystals can be fused into a single drop of Beast God's Blood.

One hundred of them can boost an ordinary immortal's genes a hundredfold!

With the Blood Crystals you possess, there's enough to boost the genes of at least ten thousand Immortals and Venerables by a hundredfold.

There are eight naturally born beast gods in the universe. Our human race has one of them, while the other seven are occupied by other races.

There are many treasures in the universe similar to the blood of the Beast God, and even more in the Cosmic Sea!

If it comes down to expending resources, which top-tier clan couldn't accomplish something similar?

Qin Mu nodded, agreeing.

Which of the six top clans doesn't have a profound foundation?

If we take out all the resources, will we still be able to survive?

These resources are used in small quantities, and each use is limited.

Only exceptional geniuses will receive these resources from their clan.

For example, in the original timeline, Luo Feng, even as the Lord of the Realm, could only obtain 50 drops of Beast God Blood for free.

Universe Venerables and Universe Lords are not qualified to receive resources for free; they must exchange them for contributions to their race. Without contributions, they cannot obtain resources from their race.

Some kings worth cultivating may have a free quota, but the quota is usually extremely low, for example, 10 Blood Crystals, which is less than a drop of Beast God Blood.

Seeing that Qin Mu understood, the Lord of Chaos City smiled again.

"The technology you developed is different; it consumes fewer resources, and most of them are renewable resources."

Whether it's the seed of genes, implantation, or the method of increasing gene multiplication, the same principle applies to enlarging the divine body.

Therefore, we can confidently and boldly roll out this program across the board.

Other treasures that can increase gene multiplication are almost all non-renewable.

The universe was fine at its inception, but now resources are dwindling, so we must use them sparingly.

"An escalation of the war's intensity is inevitable."

"Once the human race's genes multiply, divine bodies improve, and armor becomes widespread, the battlefield will likely expand to the level of cosmic sovereigns."

"You don't need to worry about these problems; just focus on increasing your strength."

Qin Mu nodded.

"Yes, teacher."

How can simply piling up treasures compare to the technology he researched?

Their efficiency varies drastically!

It would be interesting if the alliance of the three major races—the Machine Race, the Demon Race, and the Zerg Race—were truly dragged into a war of attrition.

When a large number of immortals emerge from the human race and are crowned kings, will they follow suit?

Following along will deplete our resources.

If they don't follow, the number of human kings will increase, their strength will grow, and they will suppress the three races with their own power!

In the past, on the battlefields beyond the borders, they aimed to deplete and wear down the lower levels of the human race.

However, with Qin Mu's Leviathan joining the battlefield, this kind of attrition became almost useless.

The widespread use of the Seed of Genes has ironically led to the creation of a large number of powerful individuals within the human race.

But now, the human race is using the same method to deplete their middle and upper classes!

So, can they come up with effective measures?

Qin Mu was also quite curious about this!

(End of this chapter)