Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 345 Evolution of the Tree of Life - Ancient Tree of War

After bidding farewell to his teacher, the Lord of Chaos City, and the founder of the Giant Axe, Qin Mu began his daily cultivation and research within Chaos City.

Developing the fifth-generation gene seed and the ability to create clones over a century is not difficult for Qin Mu, but Qin Mu has much more to do than that.

Inside the mother nest, Qin Mu looked at the invincible kings recovering their divine power in the flesh and blood chambers, and a hint of satisfaction appeared on his face.

This was naturally the invincible king he had captured.

When the Chaos City Lord brought him back, these sleeping invincible kings were also brought back with him.

There are a total of 32 invincible powerhouses who have been crowned kings.

With the original seven captured and still alive Invincible Kings included, the swarm now had 39 Invincible Kings and hundreds of Limitless Kings.

They will greatly enhance the top-level power of the swarm.

Then, with another wave of his hand, about two hundred precious treasures appeared before him.

"The Zerg Queen is indeed cautious; she even left a mental imprint among the precious treasures she bestowed."

Qin Mu complained.

The spiritual imprint hidden within the treasure has been erased by Master Chaos City, so it can be used with confidence.

"Once they have recovered, they can bring back suitable treasures and return to the battlefield beyond the realm."

Having finally captured so many invincible kings, they naturally need to put them to good use.

"Behemoth, Leviathan, and other Zerg units will also continue to evolve through constant battles in the outer battlefields."

Countless images flashed through Qin Mu's eyes: scenes of battles in the extraterrestrial battlefield.

When they first entered the battlefield, the Zerg swarm consisted of only ten legions.

Units like Leviathan, capable of turning the tide of battle, can only remain in the rear of the battlefield, constantly breeding Zerg warriors and spreading creep.

But things are different now.

As time went on, the Zerg army grew to several thousand!

That's tens of thousands of Leviathans!

They are found on every battlefield; wherever there is fighting, they are there.

The sufficient number of Leviathans allowed them to directly enter the front-line battlefield.

They complete their evolution on the battlefield.

Some of these Leviathans are ruled by Hive Tyrants.

However, some were changed to Hive Queen, or Hive Sentinel Commander.

Ten thousand Hive Tyrants cannot command such a large army.

Qin Mu no longer intends to hatch more first-generation Hive Tyrants.

After hundreds of years of fierce war, countless first-generation Hive Tyrants have perished, and the Blood Crystals in his possession are no longer sufficient to support such consumption.

The continuous growth of the Hive Sentinels has gradually replaced the role of the first-generation Hive Tyrant.

As time goes by, the first-generation Hive Tyrant will be phased out, or rather, upgraded!

After death, their memories and combat experience are preserved, and they are reborn in the second-generation Hive Tyrant, which is now the Hive Sentinel.

Even Behemoth, when Qin Mu entered the Star Tower area to cultivate, took the initiative to attack hundreds of times and participated in battles.

"There are many special life forms in the swarm, and these special life forms are constantly integrating into the swarm."

The types of Leviathans became more diverse, and Behemoths grew increasingly larger.

Sensing that Behemoth had grown to a size of 110,000 kilometers, Qin Mu revealed a satisfied smile.

For special life forms, 110,000 kilometers is not a huge distance.

There are millions or even tens of millions of kilometers.

Compared to those extraordinary life forms that have lived for hundreds of millions of years, Behemoth is still a baby.

As long as we continue to grow and absorb more powerful life genes, we will one day be able to surpass them.

"The matter of the extraterritorial battlefield has come to a temporary end."

Although the war is becoming increasingly fierce, with the help of the Zerg swarm, they are already able to compete with, and even suppress, the three-race alliance in low-to-mid-level battlefields.

On high-level battlefields, with the Nirvana Temple, a continuous stream of units can be refined into powerful immortals, allowing them to contend even if the other three races open their clan treasure troves.

Qin Mu whispered, leaving the battlefield to the high-end units in the Zerg swarm, such as the Hive Tyrant and Hive Queen.

Moderate warfare is beneficial to the human race, as it can accelerate the cultivation of strong individuals.

With his help, the other three races truly opened their racial treasure troves and depleted their resources. The human race, on the other hand, only consumed some ordinary resources.

Even if such a war continues indefinitely, there will be no problem of resource shortage.

Although he didn't stay in the extraterritorial battlefield for very long, the changes he brought to the entire battlefield were undeniable.

Pulling his thoughts away from the battlefield outside the realm, Qin Mu glanced at the mother nest, where a mechanical race king, an invincible expert with a full mechanical structure, stood.

Its mechanical body has become flesh and blood, and a soul has been born.

"The Fallen King has successfully infiltrated the Mechanical Race and used the Blood Spirit Fruit to corrupt a portion of the Kings."

Within the Mech race, the Zerg swarm has finally managed to establish an intelligence network.

However, that's not enough.

A smile appeared on Qin Mu's face, and then he sank his consciousness into the inner world of a mother nest within the chaotic void.

After obtaining permission from the Chaos City Lord, he placed more than ten Mother Nests to serve as Nirvana Temples.

In fact, this place has become the most important large-scale research base center in the swarm.

Where could be safer than this?

This is an internal world with a diameter of approximately 900 million kilometers.

The world is half land and the other half a blood-red ocean.

On land, thick fungal mats covered the ground, with countless fleshy chambers of varying sizes arranged in a staggered pattern.

In the center of the land, there is a strange tree of life surrounded by a mother nest.

Like a normal Tree of Life, it is also six million kilometers tall.

But within its vibrant green trunk grows flesh and blood tissue.

The original plant life has been transformed into a half-flesh, half-plant life.

The canopy of trees, which blocks out the sky, is filled with all sorts of 'fruits'. The largest of these fruits is over a hundred kilometers long, while the smallest is only the size of a fist.

Qin Mu's gaze swept across the countless fruits and spotted a bright red fruit, about ten meters in diameter.

This is the Blood Spirit Fruit.

Blood Spirit Fruit, cultivated from the Tree of Life.

And there are hundreds of millions of such fruits on the Tree of Life, which is six million kilometers long!

*Slap*

Suddenly, one of the Blood Spirit Fruits burst open, spilling blood-red pulp and liquid.

As if in a chain reaction, the other fruits around them also burst open one by one.

Some fruits exposed flesh similar to Blood Spirit Fruits, but others dropped out Zerg warriors that were half-developed!

From one of the green fruits, which was about 100 meters in diameter, a Zerg unit with green skin, resembling a humanoid tree-man, flew out the moment the fruit burst open.

The treant warriors that were conceived prematurely only possessed the aura of a Domain Lord.

After struggling to stand in mid-air for a while, it finally fell to the ground because its internal structure was not fully developed.

Finally, in Qin Mu's sight, its body still cracked open with a thud.

In its final moments, this treant warrior, only at the Domain Lord level, seemed to know its fate, gathering all its energy into the hundreds and thousands of seeds in its abdomen.

The moment its body shattered, the seed in its abdomen was blasted away by the violent energy and landed on the fungal carpet.

Then, something even stranger happened.

Upon contact with the fungal carpet, the seeds frantically absorbed its nutrients, even the liquid scattered from the Blood Spirit Fruit.

Just over half an hour later, some of the seeds transformed into towering trees, each a hundred meters tall, laden with large and small emerald green fruits.

Some of them burrowed underground, transforming into vines that nurtured emerald green fruits.

Then, the fruit of the 100-meter-tall tree was torn apart from the inside.

A two-meter-tall tree-man warrior, exuding a celestial aura, crawled out of the fruit.

After finding no enemies around, tentacles resembling plant roots sprouted from his feet and merged into the fungal carpet to quickly absorb nutrients.

As energy continued to accumulate, his aura rapidly broke through, reaching the cosmic level from the Hengxing level.

"After the Tree of Life absorbs the genes of the Blood Spirit Mother Tree and the Mother Nest, the newly born Tree of Life can indeed hatch Blood Spirit Fruits."

But it's clearly not stable enough yet, and the warriors that hatch aren't strong enough, but that proves my approach is correct.

Qin Mu looked at the enormous Tree of Life.

"The half-flesh-and-blood Tree of Life retains its talent for controlling space and time."

At the same time, given the characteristics of the Hive, which can hatch Zerg warriors, it would be inappropriate to call it the Tree of Life.

Let's call it the Ancient Tree of War!

Such a massive life form, if it were to completely stabilize, would become a major asset for the insect swarm.

Qin Mu's expression showed a hint of satisfaction.

Due to the inherent characteristics of the War Tree, the warriors it hatches possess the properties of plants.

Because of these characteristics, they have extremely strong vitality.

Even if their heads are severed and their bodies are broken, they can easily repair themselves.

Even if they die in battle, they can still integrate most of the essence in their bodies into the seeds within their bodies, spreading them across the earth.

Soon, these seeds transformed into towering trees, or burrowed underground to hatch more warriors that were half plant and half flesh.

After absorbing the superior genes of the fungal carpet, these seeds develop extremely advanced root systems that can easily penetrate hundreds or even thousands of kilometers underground, making them extremely difficult to eradicate completely.

Moreover, these warriors, when not in war, can draw nutrients from the earth just like plants.

Of course, possessing Zerg characteristics, they can also devour flesh and corpses to achieve rapid growth.

It can be said to be an extremely excellent Zerg unit.

"Unfortunately, it's still not perfect."

Qin Mu looked at the constantly cracking fruit in the ancient war tree and shook his head with a sigh.

After absorbing a large number of excellent genes, the War Tree's gene multiplication factor alone has reached five hundred times, which is higher than that of the Tree of Life.

But clearly, this is only a semi-finished product.

"Once the project is completed, the placement of the ancient war trees will also be a problem."

(End of this chapter)