Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 333 The Corrupted Machine Race

The inner world, beneath the Tree of Life, which is 600 million kilometers high.

In the towering mother nests, Qin Mu threw the sleeping King of Destiny, along with two other peak-level mechanical beings, into the flesh and blood chambers.

Amidst a pool of crimson liquid, the divine bodies of the Fallen King and two peak-level mechanical beings began to slowly repair themselves.

In Chaos City, when Qin Mu helped those 100,000 immortals improve their divine bodies, he already knew everything about repairing divine bodies.

Even metal bodies like those of the mechanical race are no match for it.

Strangely, during the repair process, the mechanical bodies of the three machine race members underwent bizarre changes.

From the outside in, it felt as if it had been invaded by some kind of flesh and blood tissue.

Those intricate mechanical parts actually began to soften, becoming as elastic as flesh and blood.

As if corrupted, some of the mechanical parts even grew fleshy tentacles!

During the transformation, the original mechanical structure was not destroyed, but was transformed into a semi-flesh, semi-machine existence, which continued to function normally.

The mechanical body of the Fallen King seemed to breathe as it undulated and trembled rhythmically in its slumber.

Gradually, as more and more flesh and blood tissue appeared in his body, faint fluctuations of soul energy began to emerge within him.

The machine race, though possessing physical bodies, are in fact intelligent life forms.

Intelligent life forms do not have the concept of a soul.

They can move freely across the network and are essentially more like a mass of data.

Ordinary mechanical races do not have a true physical body, cannot comprehend the laws of the universe, and cultivation is extremely difficult for them; even after billions of years, they cannot become immortal.

But the universe is vast and full of wonders.

Once an "Evolutionary Heart" is obtained and integrated into the metal body, allowing intelligent life to reside within it, the intelligent life will be 100% integrated with the metal body.

Just as the soul corresponds to the body, intelligent life will also have an evolved body.

Even with the use of the 'Heart of Evolution,' the machine race still lacks a soul.

It's just a simulation.

But at this moment, a true soul was born within the body of the Fallen King.

The moment the soul was born from the body of the Fallen King, the swarm's soul erosion spread over it, turning the newly born soul into an insectoid being.

"Wake up!"

Qin Mu had a faint smile on his face.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Death King suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze towards Qin Mu filled with fanaticism, the same fanaticism as all the other Zerg units.

"dominate!"

The King of Demise rose from the flesh and blood chamber and respectfully knelt on one knee.

He had become a member of the swarm.

The moment the King of Destruction was corrupted by the swarm, everything he owned belonged to the swarm.

Qin Mu could clearly sense the peculiar state within his body.

Although half of his mechanical body had been transformed into flesh and blood, it still retained its mechanical characteristics. Through the body of the Fallen King, Qin Mu even entered the virtual network belonging to the mechanical race.

There were no abnormalities throughout the entire process.

Qin Mu even discovered that the King of Destiny had a master!

It wasn't himself, but a cosmic venerable within the machine race.

The social structure of the machine race differs from that of humans. As intelligent life forms, they are born with the ability to recognize masters.

Within the Machine Race, Machine Race members will acknowledge a master as a higher-ranking Machine Race member, including the Cosmic Venerable.

Once you acknowledge a master, you will absolutely and essentially obey that master.

They will never have the slightest thought of betrayal. They may feel jealousy or resentment towards other members of their own kind, but they will be absolutely loyal to their master.

It is precisely because of this master-recognition characteristic that the machine race is extremely united.

"How interesting. It has given birth to a soul, yet still retains the characteristics of a mechanical intelligent life form."

Qin Mu's eyes were filled with joy.

The spiritual connection between master and servant is far more advanced than their capacity for self-identification.

"Unfortunately, even for a special life form like the Blood Spirit Mother Tree, it is extremely difficult to condense a Blood Spirit Fruit."

It not only requires a lot of resources, but also a long time.

Using it to confer a royal title would be a waste.

Otherwise, by having the King of Destiny infiltrate the Machine Race, he could secretly corrupt a large number of them.

Qin Mu said with some regret.

The battle with the King of Destiny ended quickly. With time frozen, the King of Destiny fell into a deep sleep before he could even send a message.

Although the Blood Spirit Mother Tree is a special life form, it is less than ten kilometers in size, and it normally takes at least a thousand years to condense a Blood Spirit Fruit.

He was able to harvest a few Blood Spirit Fruits, which was achieved by expending a large amount of resources.

"If only the Tree of Life could condense Blood Spirit Fruit."

With the Tree of Life reaching a height of six million kilometers, it doesn't need any additional resources; simply absorbing energy from the universe is enough to easily cultivate a large number of Blood Spirit Fruits.

Qin Mu looked up at the towering Tree of Life outside the Mother Nest.

As the most powerful special life form in his hands, it would be a waste to use such a huge size simply to suppress the inner world.

"Plant grafting is a very common technique in the universe."

It's not impossible that they could cultivate not only Blood Spirit Fruit, but also Zerg warriors using the Tree of Life.

However, as a branch of the World Tree, it is not easy for the Tree of Life to alter its genetic structure.

A thought suddenly popped into Qin Mu's mind.

Whether it's the World Tree or the Tree of Life, it's not surprising that such a massive entity can breed life on it.

"This seems interesting."

Qin Mu's thoughts began to flow.

In the past, he focused his energy primarily on flesh and blood life forms and paid little attention to non-flesh and blood life forms.

I haven't done much research on the Tree of Life; I've only used its ability to control space and time to fight and study.

However, its enormous size was overlooked.

"If it really works, the Tree of Life will be even stronger than Behemoth."

Looking at the Tree of Life that stretched as far as the eye could see, Qin Mu thought to himself.

"This could serve as a new project to complement research on non-flesh-and-blood life."

Once he made up his mind, Qin Mu stopped thinking about it.

Given the current size and resources of the insect swarm, starting a new research project is not difficult. Even a special life form of the size of the Tree of Life could hatch a few to serve as research subjects.

There is no doubt that it will take a long time.

After placing the Fallen King and two other mechanical beings in the Mother Nest to continue recovering their divine bodies, Qin Mu appeared in the forbidden space of the Star Tower.

"Continue to fight other powerful beings. The main goal at present is to create my own secret techniques and find a way to break through to immortality."

An immortal appeared before Qin Mu and began the divine kingdom teleportation.

Unlike others, he had Zerg units pre-positioned throughout the Star Tower area, allowing him to quickly locate powerful alien beings within the Star Tower region.

Here, there are plenty of powerful alien warriors for him to hunt and fight.

In the Star Tower region today, there are too many powerful figures like the Fallen King, or even those who have reached the King level and are invincible.

(End of this chapter)