Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Since Qin Mu entered the Cosmic Sea, the insect swarm has been exploring and developing within it for nearly 100,000 years.

Throughout the cosmic ocean, whether in ordinary dangerous places or the three most perilous locations, swarms of insects abound.

Especially in the Peak Realm, its outermost layer has been almost completely devoured by the insect swarm, the inner domain is filled with insect swarms, and even the core area is being explored by insect swarms.

The same was true inside the spaceship, where countless swarms of insects were searching for possible opportunities.

So far, although Qin Mu has obtained some ordinary True God inheritances and supreme treasures, he has not obtained any truly top-tier inheritances or treasures.

This situation is not surprising. Although the swarm is huge and has a strong ability to explore, the three forbidden zones have existed for countless years, and in each cycle of reincarnation, a large number of powerful people have explored them.

The truly easy-to-find treasures were already taken by the powerful figures from the very beginning of the spaceship era.

It was just like when the corpse of the God King of Jin was born, and the first group of explorers ate until their mouths were full of oil.

After countless reincarnations of powerful figures searched again and again, apart from a few places that consistently produced treasures, only the core areas of the three forbidden lands were found. Those places that were rarely explored might contain supreme treasures or powerful inheritances.

The Garden of All Souls, though a dangerous place, is an exception.

After all, there are Void God-level death beasts lurking around, and the surrounding area is also full of death beasts, so ordinary people don't dare to come in at all.

This is why the treasure hall was preserved.

As for the inheritance of the Broken East River, it was because he knew about it in advance that he was able to obtain it.

Moreover, the inheritance of Duan Donghe is just a simple inheritance. In order to allow future generations to grow better, apart from the treasures in the treasure space, the successive inheritors of Duan Donghe did not leave any treasures inside.

But this treasure room is different; it is clearly used specifically for storing treasures.

Outside the treasure vault, in the palace, stood rows of insectoid tyrants. A thorough search was conducted, leaving no possible clue unchecked.

"The stone pillars surrounding this treasure vault are mainly used to trap enemies and serve as an alarm. The actual defensive array is located inside the treasure vault."

Qin Mu frowned slightly as he looked at the broken protective formations.

There is also a lot of information about the secret patterns, or array formations, in the Duan Donghe lineage.

However, the awkward thing is that, due to the limitations of the original universe, all those above the Void True God level in the inheritance cannot be seen.

The Cosmic Ship is a treasure of the Chaos Realm Mechanical Stream.

This treasure room might not seem like much inside the spaceship, but it was at least strong enough to defend against an attack from an eternal god; its level was far too high.

If it weren't for the severe damage, there would be absolutely no hope of cracking it.

Even so, if we were to force a solution, it would probably take a very long time, even if we succeeded.

After a preliminary study, Qin Mu discovered that there were a large number of secret patterns on the top and sides of the bronze gate. These were secret patterns specifically used for identity authentication, which could open the gate through certain special fluctuations.

"Swarm! Search the Garden of All Souls for any tokens that might lead to the treasure chamber! No, expand the search area to the entire spaceship!"

Qin Mu's eyes flickered, and he gave the order.

Since it's a treasure vault, there must be a way to get in.

It's like there are some tokens inside the spaceship itself, such as pendants [tokens] carved with strange beasts.

The tokens, from lowest to highest quality, are black, cyan, and silver.

These tokens not only unlock corresponding storage spaces, but also serve as proof of identity. For example, possessing a silver token allows direct passage through some dangerous areas.

With this in mind, Qin Mu immediately ordered the insect swarm to send over some of the identification documents they had collected.

When Qin Mu killed the True God of Awakening, he obtained a silver token from him. The insect swarm also found two more when they were sweeping through the spaceship.

If we could get in directly with just our identification, that would be ideal.

While waiting, Qin Mu did not idly analyze the many secret patterns outside the treasure room, especially the secret patterns on the bronze door, and tried to decipher them.

Qin Mu was very familiar with the style of these runes; they belonged to the same school as the runes on the outer shell of the spaceship or the black-patterned stone pillars.

Qin Mu has been conducting research on this for years.

In addition, the Mountain Hermit had also provided a solution, so Qin Mu quickly became engrossed in it.

Qin Mu only stopped his deciphering work three years later, after some units in the swarm delivered the tokens.

The secret runes guarding the treasure chamber were extremely complex, and even after three years, Qin Mu had only grasped the basics.

"Try using the silver token directly. If that doesn't work, try something else."

Qin Mu walked to the bronze gate, and a silver-white mythical beast carving appeared in his hand.

hum!

Seemingly sensing the silver token, a beast head pattern on the bronze gate lit up, and then a beam of light condensed in the eyes of the beast head statue, scanning Qin Mu's body from top to bottom.

"This is bad! It seems to be performing identity verification?"

As a master proficient in secret runes, Qin Mu instantly understood the purpose of the scan.

Sure enough, amidst a rumbling sound, the secret patterns on the strange beast stone pillars inside the palace lit up again, while a piercing alarm sounded.

However, this time the runes that lit up on those beast pillars quickly dimmed, and they did not shoot out light to imprison Qin Mu as they did when the insect hive tyrant first opened the door.

Three years is not a long time, but it was enough for Qin Mu to destroy the already severely damaged energy circuits of these outer runes.

Qin Mu has been studying the secret patterns inside the spaceship for tens of thousands of years, and the insect swarm is constantly deducing them, so this is something they can do.

"Try other tokens."

Even when the bronze gate stopped responding, Qin Mu was not discouraged.

Failure is normal.

If opening this treasure vault were as easy as just picking up any token, it would be far too easy.

Even if there are tokens in such treasure rooms, there are usually specific methods to open them, so Qin Mu was just trying his luck.

If among the many tokens, there happens to be one with extremely high access levels, allowing direct entry, that would be ideal.

One by one, the tokens appeared in Qin Mu's hands, and he tried them one by one.

From the highest-grade silver tokens to the lowest-grade black tokens, and even other tokens or similar items that the swarm found in the Garden of Souls, inside the spaceship.

Unfortunately, it simply cannot be opened.

Fortunately, Qin Mu no longer tried this shortcut.

Actually, there is another way to quickly unlock the treasure room: invite the Mountain Hermit.

As a god-king level weapon refiner, cracking this level of treasure room was a piece of cake for him.

But Qin Mu didn't intend to do that for the time being; instead, he focused on cracking the code.

The secret runes in this treasure room are severely damaged, but Qin Mu is confident that he can decipher them if given some time.

This is also a good experience for him.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...

As time went on, Qin Mu gradually discovered the patterns and weaknesses of the secret rune diagram.

Although the array formed by these ancient runes is powerful, it is no longer indestructible after being eroded by countless years and impacted by great battles.

Outside the spaceship.

This enormous ship, tens of millions of light-years high and hundreds of millions of light-years long, with its damaged exterior, has been completely covered by a fungal carpet, turning into an eerie purple.

On the fungal carpet, there are pyramid-like branches of the mother nest.

Swarm units continued to emerge from it, devouring the chaotic air currents drawn in by the spaceship.

Outside the spaceship, the massive rivers of fire, giant electric snakes, and various dazzling rays of light containing powerful energy were mostly intercepted by the swarm units and transformed into nutrients for the swarm's growth.

Even below the spaceship, within the dense chaotic energy mass that was devouring the damaged microcosm, large swarms of insect units were plundering the resources within the spaceship.

On a fragment, approximately 10 billion kilometers in diameter, that was constantly orbiting the spaceship at high speed, Qin Mu's will descended upon the body of the Hive Tyrant.

"In ten thousand years, although I still haven't cracked the treasure chamber, my understanding of the runes has improved significantly. I can try to extract these ship fragments from the outer reaches of the universe."

Feeling the chilling pressure emanating from the entire fragment, Qin Mu smiled.

The countless secret patterns on this fragment vaguely connect to the distant spaceship.

It is this special connection that links the entire fragment to the spaceship, making it seem as if the fragment and the spaceship are one.

Over countless years, none of the powerful beings who fought these fragments were able to take away the remnants of the spaceship.

Qin Mu looked at the fragment, and a vast array of secret patterns appeared before his eyes. If anyone else could see it, they would be shocked to discover that it was a compilation of all the secret patterns on the outer shell of the entire spaceship!

With a thought, a small part of the secret pattern diagram rapidly expanded, revealing the secret pattern diagram on this fragment, which was marked with bright red dots on it, spanning billions of kilometers.

That was clearly an energy flow node on the secret pattern diagram.

"Begin destroying the energy nodes!"

Above the fragments, more than a thousand Hive Tyrants attacked simultaneously, unleashing their full power.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The bright red dots on the rune map dimmed almost simultaneously, and then, amidst the bombardment by the insect hive tyrant, the fragments that had never fluctuated in the endless cycle of reincarnation began to tremble slightly!

As the fragment trembled, the invisible rope connecting the fragment and the spaceship seemed to break, and the fragment, spanning billions of kilometers, completely deviated from its original trajectory and drifted away into the distance.

"It's done! The spaceship fragments can't take away this myth; it can be put to an end!"

Qin Mu looked at the fragments and couldn't help but laugh.

For countless years, no one had ever taken the fragments of the spaceship, but Qin Mu did it!

"How is this possible? The fragments of that spaceship were actually blasted away!"

Several cosmic lords, startled by the violent explosion in the distance, flew out of the temple and gasped in shock as they watched the fragments of the spaceship being flung through the energy shockwave.

"Nothing is impossible. That's Qin Mu! Look at the situation inside and outside this spaceship. I wouldn't be surprised if he took the whole spaceship away one day."

Lord of the Wasteland glanced at Lord of Dragons beside him.

After obtaining the inheritance of the Broken East River, most of the universe lords of the human race are in seclusion, while only those who have clones are still exploring and training outside.

"If the three forbidden zones are in such a state, it's unimaginable what will happen in a few years. Where will future rulers of the universe be able to explore and train?"

The Lord of Dragons sighed.

Under the swarm's near-frenzied devouring, some conventionally dangerous areas with special resources vanished, and it's unclear how much longer the three most dangerous areas can hold out.

"Haha, don't worry about that."

Am I not currently assembling a Zerg Expeditionary Fleet?

If you feel there's nowhere else to hone your skills, you can join the Zerg Exploration Fleet; the depths of the cosmic ocean hold countless mysteries. (End of Chapter)