Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

As the mountain dweller recounted the story, the details gradually became clear.

It turns out that Wutong God King, as a powerful being at the second level of the God King realm, also had a Daoist partner.

The Fire Phoenix God King at the first level of the God King realm.

Both of them were guest ministers of the Thunder Ancient Kingdom in the Origin Continent.

When the Mountain Guest mentioned the Thunder Ancient Kingdom, Qin Mu had some guesses in his mind.

The overall structure of the continent of origin is not complicated.

It is mainly dominated by two ancient kingdoms, namely the Thunder Kingdom and the Flame Wind Kingdom.

The territory occupied by these two ancient kingdoms forms the center of the entire Origin Continent. The most precious resources of the Origin Continent are also in the hands of these two ancient kingdoms.

Many powerful individuals serve as guest advisors within it.

As for other countries, such as the Jin Kingdom established by the mountain dweller and the Wu Kingdom which cut off the Donghe River, they were just third-rate small countries originating from the edge of the continent.

As one of the two most powerful ancient kingdoms on the Origin Continent, the Thunder Kingdom was founded by the legendary Thunder Ancestor and its power was extremely strong.

What makes the Thunder Ancient Kingdom truly unique is its preference for cultivating with the Hunyuan bloodline.

Throughout the entire Thunder Ancient Kingdom, many Chaos Sovereigns cultivate the Chaos Origin Bloodline, not to mention those God-King level experts.

This led to most of the powerful figures in the entire country becoming extremely fanatical.

This was true of nine of the monarchs.

It is said that at least three of these nine monarchs were in a state of madness for most of the year, only occasionally venturing out in a lucid state.

A mad king is terrifying.

Once it goes mad, driven by the desires of its primordial bloodline, it will devour all life around it.

How powerful is the monarch?

Even a powerful expert at the first level of the God King realm would find it difficult to withstand them for even a moment or two.

The Daoist partner of the Wutong God King, the Fire Phoenix God King, was devoured by a mad king and perished completely before he could even be resurrected using a resurrection vessel.

It can be said that he died a very tragic death.

The Wutong God King and the Fire Phoenix God King had been cultivating together since their birth and had a very deep bond. How could the Wutong God King let the Fire Phoenix God King go so easily after his death?

"I heard that because of the Fire Phoenix incident, he was so angry that he fought a fierce battle with the Thunder Ancient Kingdom, but was ultimately defeated and fled into the Cosmic Sea."

The man sitting on the mountain sighed.

His experience was somewhat similar to that of the Wutong God King, except that the Wutong God King was stronger than him.

"However, there is another rumor besides this."

That was when Fire Phoenix was exploring the treasure land, she accidentally obtained a treasure, but it was discovered by the powerful people of the Thunder Ancient Kingdom, who forced her to hand it over.

The fire phoenix refused and was forcibly killed.

The reason Wutong was killed was because Huofeng entrusted him with a treasure before she died.

There's a lot of truth and falsehood involved, and I can't determine the specifics.

With a slight hesitation, the mountain dweller recounted another version he had heard.

To be honest, he felt this version was more credible.

Because the people of the Thunder Kingdom have a really bad reputation; not only are most of them crazy, but they are also extremely stingy.

This isn't the first time they've plundered their own people's treasures.

The reason why so many powerful people still seek refuge with the Thunder Kingdom is simply because it possesses too many treasures and numerous inheritances.

"It's good to have some general information. It seems that our main exploration target in the 0001 Cosmic Sea is this Wutong World."

Qin Mu was in a pretty good mood.

Regardless of how the God King of Wutong fell, or whether he possessed any heaven-defying treasures or inheritances.

This is the inner universe of a second-level God-King, and there must be many opportunities within it.

"Let us gather information first. You can set off after we've confirmed it!"

Qin Mu looked at the Empress, the giant axe, and the mountain hermit.

This universe is indeed very beneficial; even those who sit on the mountain want to go there.

"Okay! We'll wait for your news."

Giant Axe nodded.

Although the desire to fight was already extremely strong in my heart.

But Giant Axe also knew that it would be very unwise to rashly start a war with the local strongmen and world beasts when the situation was unclear.

We need to at least get a clearer picture of the intelligence.

The information gathered from just one cosmic ruler is not enough.

……

"We'll head straight to the fourth forbidden area, 'Wutong World,' and explore the other directions later."

Qin Mu held a diagram of the silk threads he had obtained from the blue flying beast and quickly scanned it into the insect swarm network.

Surprisingly, this map contained very comprehensive information, not only about the Wutong World, but also about the other three forbidden areas, and the routes were quite clear.

"Yes, be careful."

The blue beast we captured is a powerful member of the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon Clan, one of the 16 sacred universes.

We acted quickly, but it still managed to send some information back to the clan.

Although the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon Clan doesn't have any tenth-tier True Gods, it does have quite a few ninth-tier experts. Encountering them would be troublesome.

Hong flipped through the memories of the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon, his brows furrowing slightly.

"It's alright, these things are unavoidable."

"Just a ninth-tier True God," Qin Mu said indifferently.

"I'm rather curious, what was that light that erupted from his wings when I imprisoned him, that it almost broke through my seal?"

"That's a treasure he obtained in the Wutong World, look."

"If you hadn't intervened, he might have really gotten away."

Hong looked at the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon and saw a piece of armor resembling tree bark fly out from the body of this azure flying beast.

Reaching out, Qin Mu beckoned the tree bark-like armor over and examined it closely, revealing a look of surprise.

This armor seems to be naturally formed, covered with countless patterns, and even a slight input of divine power will cause extremely strong spatial fluctuations.

Clearly, the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon achieved this using this armor.

The natural patterns on this armor grant the user extraordinary spatial mobility, making it difficult for even ordinary peak-level treasures to restrict.

"interesting."

There was a hint of something different in Qin Mu's eyes.

This is somewhat similar to the cloning of insect swarms!

They are both perfectly natural, as if they were one.

When the Zerg are in control, they rely on bio-armor, and some top-tier units can even suppress or kill the invincible King.

The immortality of the entire human race was also greatly enhanced by the power and potential of the armored vehicles.

However, after breaking through to become a Universe Venerable, the Zerg swarm's power increased too rapidly, and the bio-armor couldn't keep up.

After all, at that time, the armor could only be compared to top-tier treasures, and was no match for the Lord of the Universe.

How could the bio-engineering technology he developed alone compare to the treasure-refining techniques created by countless powerful individuals across countless reincarnations?

Therefore, Qin Mu had no choice but to have the insect swarm research and refine treasures to support the swarm's high-end combat power.

Of course, Qin Mu never gave up on upgrading his armor.

Because he knew very well that, compared to refining treasures, bio-armor with swarm characteristics was the future of the swarm.

However, this is a completely new system, and it takes time to accumulate experience.

A significant reason he studied the art of refining magical artifacts was to extract its essence and improve his own equipment system.

However, the upgrade and modification of the bio-armor has not been very effective.

On the one hand, as a living organism, the bio-armor itself is too weak to withstand attacks; on the other hand, the existing database is too poor.

For example, due to Tuo's talent, any material impact can be directly weakened to one ten-thousandth. At the stage of the Lord of the Universe, he is practically invincible and can achieve perfect weakening.

However, if one rises to the level of a top-tier true god, the weakening effect begins to decrease.

If one reaches the level of a Void True God, the weakening effect is greatly reduced, and it will not have a very good effect.

This has the same defensive effect as ordinary treasures.

Once the limit is exceeded, the effect is greatly reduced.

However, all of this came to a qualitative breakthrough in the research on bio-armor after Qin Mu returned from the Ten Thousand Demons Universe.

As a living life armor, the emergence of the strongest warrior system has directly raised the strength of the armor to the level of the ultimate treasure armor!

Unlike normal insect swarm units, their resilience, understanding of laws, and other aspects need to be improved in all aspects.

Armored weapons and armor can be taken to extremes.

Significantly enhances attack and defense capabilities.

Furthermore, the Myriad Demons Universe is a bloodline cultivation system, a system that allows one to directly reach the God King realm.

The various powerful talents collected from the Pandemonium Universe are endless, enough to allow the armor to unleash powerful energy.

Because Tuo's talent is nothing special even in the Wanmo Universe.

For example, the Flame Overlord of the Ten Thousand Demons Universe is a powerful being capable of withstanding the War Skull Behemoth with his bare body.

He possesses a unique talent: his defensive damage reduction effect is ten times that of Yin Tuo, and its potential is much higher.

Furthermore, with the Divine Weapon System, a cultivation system best suited for nurturing weapons, and the Witch System, which studies all things, the strength of the armor was boosted to an astonishing level in a short period of time.

The new colony equipment has already been deployed and tested on a small scale in the top-level units of the swarm.

"Perhaps, this kind of armor can take bio-armor to the next level."

Qin Mu felt a little excited as he carefully sensed the wooden armor.

According to the memories of the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon, this special wooden armor grew from a tree in the Wutong World.

A single fruit can be a weapon or a suit of armor.

Its breeding pattern is very suitable for insect colonies.

After saying that, Qin Mu handed the armor in his hand to the Chaos City Lord and Luo Feng next to him for inspection.

"Armor growing from a tree? This is comparable to a top-tier treasure, isn't it?"

Is there anything comparable to the most powerful treasure?

That's amazing!

Looking at the wooden armor in his hand, the Lord of Chaos City couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of the universe.

The others who received it were also amazed.

"With the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon's silk thread diagram, combined with some coordinates from our flight, I can roughly deduce the coordinates of the Wutong Sacred Land."

In this way, you can directly open the wormhole and travel there.

Let's go, everyone, and see this sacred place called Wutong.

Looking around at the people around him, Qin Mu spoke.

The sacred land of Wutong is extremely far away from them. If they were to travel there by wormhole or teleportation, it would take at least several decades.

It's obviously unnecessary to waste time on this.

"Okay, no problem."

"I'm incredibly curious about this sacred place called Wutong; it's amazing that such a wondrous and secluded spot exists here!"

"..."

The Lord of Chaos City, Luo Feng, the Lord of Dragon Journey, and others all agreed.

They had never seen such a powerful place before, and every one of them was filled with curiosity.

In the three forbidden zones of the home universe, whether it is the Peak Realm, the Universe Boat, or the Flowing Mountain, there are no truly living beings. The Lava Demon God is essentially just a puppet.

"Let's go then."

Without further ado, Qin Mu mobilized the power of the Gate of Origin to observe and determine the coordinates. Then, a spatial portal slowly opened before him.

brush!

The group flew into it and instantly traversed an extremely long distance.

When everyone emerged from the portal and looked around at the distance, they were all deeply moved.

Before them, countless magnificent lights swirled, forming an ocean of light that shimmered brilliantly amidst the chaotic air currents.

These countless rays of light contain immense power; even the weakest ray, only a few hundred meters long, can easily annihilate a cosmic venerable.

Some of these are so powerful that even the ruler of the universe can destroy them, such as those spanning millions or tens of millions of kilometers.

And this is only the edge of the ocean.

Deep within it, there are countless streams of light, stretching for hundreds of millions of kilometers, or even light-years.

Instantly, Luo Feng and the others thought of the Five-Colored Aurora Lake above the Ancestral God Sect's base in the Primordial Universe.

Compared to this endless ocean of light, the colorful aurora lake seems too small and insignificant.

"Is this the Flowing Light Sea, one of the most dangerous places in this cosmic sea?"

Luo Feng murmured to himself.

Through the Azure Phoenix Heavenly Demon, they learned that in order to intercept the giant phoenix tree flying out from the depths of the Cosmic Sea, the powerful beings of this Cosmic Sea lured it into the largest Flowing Light Sea in the forbidden zone.

This is an ocean with a diameter of over a trillion light-years, composed of countless streams of light.

Just as its name suggests, the Flowing Light Sea is dynamic, with its shapes being magnificent and ever-changing.

Of course, beneath its beautiful exterior, the Flowing Light Sea is just as dangerous as the Inclined Peak Realm and the Universe Boat.

Those streaks of light may contain a special world, a treasure trove, or a crisis.

However, what truly amazed Qin Mu and his group was not the magnificence of the Flowing Light Sea.

In that deep and boundless ocean, there stands a towering tree with a charred exterior, only half of its trunk remaining, yet still reaching a height of approximately 20 billion light-years.

This giant tree has a unique shape, resembling a sycamore tree.

Countless streams of light swirled around the giant sycamore tree and its branches, occasionally colliding with it.

The light, spanning light-years and powerful enough to annihilate a true god, not only failed to harm the giant sycamore tree but was instead directly absorbed by it.

"A giant phoenix tree? I originally thought that the Void Tree, which was one light-year tall, was unmatched by anything else in the Zerg swarm, but I never expected there to be such a colossal creature in the cosmic ocean!"

The Lord of Chaos City looked somewhat bewildered.

What does 20 billion light-years mean?

The main peak of the Inclined Peaks is only about 9802 million light-years away.

It's less than one-twentieth the size of this giant sycamore tree!

This is a living body.

How exaggerated!

This half-dead tree was so huge that it could be clearly seen even from a great distance.

Even though it was dead, the aura emanating from it was still terrifying.

What lies deep within the cosmic ocean that could give rise to such a powerful life form? And who killed it?

Luo Feng looked at the scorched area on the giant parasol tree, which was clearly caused by some powerful attack.

In the primordial universe, the World Tree, which is a billion kilometers tall, was the supreme cosmic overlord.

The Void Tree, a light-year tall, within Qin Mu's insect swarm is something even top-tier tenth-order True God powerhouses like the Giant Axe Founder and the Empress wouldn't dare claim they could defeat.

How powerful was this giant phoenix tree, which is 20 billion light-years tall and 20 billion times taller than the Void Tree, in its lifetime?

It's simply unimaginable.

It's not true that the bigger the size, the stronger the strength, but if the size is this big, the strength must be ridiculously strong!

Even Qin Mu was deeply shocked when he saw it.

If I remember correctly, the corpse of the God King of Jin, the previous incarnation of the Mountain Dweller, was only about 1.6 million light-years tall.

What are the characteristics of plant life?

After a long while, everyone came to their senses.

"Let's go! Let's explore the inner world of this giant sycamore tree. Let's conceal our presence and try not to attract the attention of the natives." (End of Chapter)