Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

The Cloud Kingdom, a remote country originating from the mainland, comprises 108 Chaotic States.

In terms of sheer numbers, Chaos State is not small; it ranks among the top of third-rate kingdoms, even larger than the Jin Kingdom once ruled by Zuo Shan Ke.

Even in the Food Kingdom, there are only 135 Chaos States in total!

It should be noted that the Food Kingdom has five God Kings, and the Lord of the Heavenly Kun Kingdom is at the second level of God King.

It belongs to a relatively strong second-tier country.

However, the Yun Kingdom only has one God-King, the King of Yun Kingdom, who is only at the first level of God-King realm.

The reason for this is that Yun Kingdom is poorly located.

Apart from a few relatively wealthy states, most of China is very poor.

The desolate and chaotic land is one such extremely barren place.

The north wind of the desolate Chaos Continent never ceases, and the sand mixed with fragments of the laws of chaos draws countless blood-red arcs in the void.

In such an environment, even the eternal God would have to be extremely careful to survive.

However, through the information he purchased at the Yanfeng Guild Hall, Qin Mu learned that there was a strange beast called the [Thousand Tribulations Karma Mirage] that could fight against Chaos Realm monsters in the deep sands of the Chaos Desert!

The more powerful the alien beast, the harsher its living environment on the Origin Continent.

Any beast at the level of a god-king would be instantly captured by a powerful god-king, and many top-tier chaotic beasts would have to hide in dangerous, remote places in order to survive.

This is how the Thousand Tribulations Karma Mirage did it.

After several days of intense investigation and reconnaissance, the swarm's reconnaissance forces finally pinpointed the location of this powerful Chaos Realm beast.

tear-

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the void, and the swarm of insectoids tore through space and descended.

The swarming insectoid army, like a tidal wave, instantly enveloped an area spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers, spreading out a black mist imbued with the aura of the laws of destruction.

Where the swarm of insects swept by, even the barren sand began to flow in reverse, forming vortexes that swallowed the light.

"Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage, with your addition, the swarm can begin its journey on the fundamental path of cause and effect."

As his consciousness descended upon this destructive insectoid army, Qin Mu's gaze turned sinister.

Thanks to the addition of the Calamity Elephant, the swarm's understanding of the fundamental principles of matter has advanced by leaps and bounds.

This made Qin Mu extremely covetous of other Chaos Realm beasts with different bloodlines.

Aside from the Great Dao of the Origin of Life and the Great Dao of the Origin of Destruction, what the insect swarm urgently needs is to gain a deeper understanding and improvement of the Origin of Cause and Effect and the Origin of Space!

During the days the insect swarm was in seclusion, Qin Mu sensed at least dozens of causal deductions targeting the insect swarm.

Many of these deductions even clearly originated from powerhouses at the God-King level.

Clearly, the swarm's successful suppression of the Calamity Elephant has attracted the attention of some powerful beings.

Fortunately, the swarm's 12-fold increase in lifespan granted it the property of being unaffected by cause and effect; otherwise, relying solely on the swarm's own understanding of cause and effect would have been insufficient to resist such deduction.

In that case, the entire swarm would be exposed to the eyes of some ancient beings.

A god-king who is well-versed in the way of cause and effect, following the thread of cause and effect, has almost no secrets to ordinary eternal true gods or even the rulers of chaos.

Everything was as clear as the lines on the palm of one's hand.

Relying on the swarm's own inherent abilities, it can isolate this kind of detection, but that's about it.

Furthermore, when a God-King level expert conducts causal probing, the swarm needs to consume a massive amount of energy, yet such probing is isolated, which greatly impacts the swarm's various research and deduction efforts.

How could Qin Mu tolerate this?

Counterattack!

We must fight back!

Let them know that there will be a price to pay for projecting the Zerg swarm!

Otherwise, as the swarm grows stronger, such projections will become more and more frequent.

And this is also why the most elite Zerg army, the Destroyer Zerg Legion, sought out the Thousand Tribulations Karma Mirage!

The insect swarm must have sufficient understanding of the fundamental principles of cause and effect!

wow——

When the swarm of insects appeared, the [Thousand Calamities Causal Mirage], which had been lurking in the depths of the quicksand abyss, opened its 18,000 pairs of compound eyes.

This creature resembles a combination of an ancient dragon and a deep-sea octopus, with a full 18,000 pairs of compound eyes scattered throughout it.

Its back is covered with crystalline armor plates that resemble dragon scales, each scale engraved with tiny causal runes.

The nine scorpion tails at the end swayed slightly.

Its entire body glowed with causal runes, and each eye reflected a pre-harmonious scene of different causal lines.

"Why are you forcing me? I've already hidden here, why are you still forcing me!"

The resounding sound echoed throughout the heavens and earth. The eighteen thousand pairs of eyes of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage flashed with a cold light; it sensed the danger!

An extremely intense crisis!

Using its bloodline talent to deduce cause and effect, it saw countless scenes of its own death, and even being enslaved!

This filled it with fear, as well as immense anger and madness!

"Force you? Ridiculous! Before you hid in the desolate and chaotic state, you devoured one large city and 18 small cities!"

Hundreds of millions of lives have perished in your mouth. Even if you hide in this desolate and chaotic land, you will use the power of cause and effect to constantly lure the surrounding creatures into your belly.

Of course, this has nothing to do with me wanting to kill you.

It was just my opinion.

Qin Mu scoffed. How many good things could a Chaos Realm beast possibly have?

A black swarm of insects, stretching for hundreds of billions of kilometers, suddenly swooped down, with billions of black beetles simultaneously vibrating their wing membranes.

The high-frequency shockwaves caused the laws of destruction, spanning billions of kilometers, to fluctuate violently. The churning mist of the laws of destruction rolled and swirled, enveloping the quicksand abyss where the mirage beast was hiding from all angles.

"It's just food! You cultivators eat exotic beasts, but I can't eat you?"

From the depths of the desert came a cry like that of an infant, and blood-red rings appeared on the back of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage.

The crimson rings spun wildly, and with each rotation, 100,000 causal chains materialized, weaving a honeycomb-shaped defensive matrix in the void.

"Causal closed loop - reverse!" The Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage's cry was accompanied by a metallic, tearing tremor.

The outermost edge of the churning black mist suddenly solidified, emitting a constant hissing sound, as if it were fighting against and annihilating some invisible force.

"A closed causal loop?"

Qin Mu watched this scene in astonishment, unlike the Calamity Barbarian Elephant which only knew how to rely on its powerful physical strength to attack.

When blood-red rings appeared on the back armor of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage, Qin Mu could sense that a strange causal cycle seemed to have formed in an area in front of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage.

In this cycle, the swarm's attacks are used to erode the swarm itself, and what is constantly being annihilated is the destructive mist condensed by the swarm itself.

"The power of cause and effect—this is exactly what the swarm needs!"

Qin Mu's mood immediately brightened.

He didn't use a soul attack to kill it immediately, partly to test the adjusted Destruction Swarm, and partly to see how the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage performed.

The desolate and chaotic state of Chaos is sparsely populated, and even a major battle would hardly be noticed by the outside world.

According to the information from the Flame Wind Guild, the Thousand Tribulations Karma Mirage is a powerful being at the peak of the Chaos Realm!

But how could mere cause and effect possibly stop the destructive swarm that Qin Mu had meticulously prepared?

This swarm of destructive insects is led by a Destructive Demon Ape that has completed its second body tempering, along with tens of thousands of powerful second-tier units and nearly a hundred billion ordinary insects!

Simply by sending the entire swarm of insects that had been destroyed over there, the almost tangible aura of destruction completely annihilated it.

When the power reaches a certain level, no matter what methods you use, you can simply crush them!

That's just how unreasonable it is.

flutter--

The Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage split open its abdominal cavity with star-shaped mouthparts and spat out scarlet spores.

Noisy!Noisy!Noisy!

The scarlet spores, imbued with the essence of cause and effect, sought to penetrate the swarm of insects shrouded in the black mist of the law of destruction.

Amidst the continuous annihilation, a very small number managed to penetrate and land on the bodies of the black beetles.

In an instant, the memory projections of their deaths appeared within the bodies of these black beetles.

Strange things happened.

These memories are actually overwriting reality, forcing the Zerg genetic chain to regress.

"Hmph! They actually dare to try and destroy the Zerg swarm in this way?"

Qin Mu snorted coldly, and the bodies of the infected black beetles exploded, turning into the most primal energy and merging into the swarm, where they were instantly reborn.

Such losses are negligible for the insect swarm.

"Die!"

In the center of the destructive insect swarm covering hundreds of billions of kilometers, the destructive demon ape, spanning nearly 10 billion kilometers, swung its battle axe down fiercely.

"The Three Thousand Worlds, the Creation of Heaven!"

Wow!

Three thousand axe lights, imbued with powerful laws of destruction, slashed down, their power reaching the peak of the Chaos Realm under the enhancement of the swarm of destructive insects!

If Qin Mu dares to come hunting, how could he fight a battle he's not sure he can win?

The nascent, devastating swarm is already quite powerful.

"You want to kill me! Are you prepared to perish?"

The compound eyes of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage shattered simultaneously, and what flowed out was not blood, but crystals.

In an instant, he unleashed his strongest innate secret technique with all his might.

Upon first sight of the swarm of insects, it knew its chances of survival were slim.

The surrounding space was sealed off the moment the swarm appeared, and even the earth where it hid repelled it.

Each causal deduction also foreshadows that escape is almost impossible.

Because the enemies are not just those in front of us.

The Way of Cause and Effect is not good at direct combat, but it is extremely good at deduction.

It knew very well that it absolutely could not allow the swarm of destructive insects to engulf it, as it would surely die if it were to confront the swarm head-on.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the instant that the pairs of compound eyes shattered, three thousand axe beams struck the body of the mirage beast.

The ensuing swarm of destructive insects attacked, intending to devour its body.

Strange things happened.

The axe light that had struck the back of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage actually appeared on the body of the Destruction Demon Ape, tearing open huge wounds.

The black mist gathering above the swarm of destroying insects trembled violently, and black beetles, including secondary command units such as the Destroying Giant Scorpion, exploded.

Qin Mu could tell at a glance that the wounds on their bodies were caused by his attacks!

"interesting!"

In an instant, nearly half of the destructive swarm that made up the insect tide was severely damaged, and one-tenth of them died on the spot.

However, Qin Mu showed a look of great interest when he saw this scene.

"Is this your trump card, the reversal of cause and effect? ​​By some means, you reverse the causal line, causing the swarm to be killed by your own attack."

However, such a reversal of cause and effect must have caused you great harm.

How many more times can you launch an attack like that?

A shockwave emanated from the entire swarm, instantly killing a large number of swarm units and disrupting the connections that had been wiping out the swarm.

"Hmph, how many of my attacks can your beast horde withstand?"

Its aura had weakened considerably, and the Thousand Tribulations Karma Mirage, with its eyes bulging, spoke in a cold voice. The pairs of bulging eyes were gradually recovering.

"Hahaha, my swarm is endless!"

Qin Mu laughed heartily.

Casualties?

He doesn't care at all.

So what if the entire Destruction Legion is wiped out?

Just get another one.

Qin Mu only dispatched one Destruction Legion because he wanted to know the strength of the Destruction Legion once it was fully assembled.

Instead of only being able to use one legion.

Furthermore, at the same time within the Yun Kingdom, a total of five battlefields were simultaneously engaged in fierce battles!

The nine insect swarms corresponding to the nine supreme laws of the Origin Continent were then established into the three elements of destruction, life, and matter!

In these battlefields, Qin Mu directly invoked the massive soul power of the insect swarm to annihilate it in one fell swoop.

How could an ordinary Chaos Realm beast withstand a mental attack from a second-level God King?

The Zerg swarm used to just clean up the battlefield.

Only here can the newly formed Legion of Destruction fight against itself.

"Let me see what you've got up your sleeve!"

The roar of the Destruction Demon Ape shattered the sky of the desolate Chaos Continent, and its nearly 10 billion-kilometer-high body disintegrated.

The runes on the bodies of the giant scorpions of destruction, the secondary node units of the shadow spiders of destruction, and even all the black beetles lit up.

"All insects return to their source, and all things return to one!"

Countless secret patterns linked together, and in an instant, the entire horde of destructive insects transformed into a flowing black ocean.

Each drop of "water" is a condensation of the laws of destruction.

Where they crush, even space and time begin to decay—the sand grains lose their mass, and the gale solidifies into a glassy state.

The pairs of compound eyes of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage had just condensed and were flashing wildly, while the blood-red rings on its back armor were spinning to their limit.

But it had absolutely no effect on the surging black ocean.

Whether it's creating a closed loop of cause and effect, a chain of cause and effect, or even its pair of compound eyes collapsing again, it wants to repeat the same trick.

But they all crumbled in an instant, collapsing the moment they touched the destructive mist.

When the first drop of black "water" touched the shell of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage, the shell was corroded into honeycomb-like holes, each hole devouring its life essence.

"hiss--!"

The Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage let out a sharp, mournful cry, and all nine of its scorpion tails broke off simultaneously.

The severed tail transformed into a "causal anchor" in the air, forcibly tearing open a spacetime rift leading to other chaotic continents.

"Trying to escape? Then your existence is meaningless."

Qin Mu sighed.

The will of the swarm instantly transformed into a terrifying abyss, crashing down upon the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage.

Before it could even enter the spacetime rift, the enormous body of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage went limp and its life force dissipated.

Bang!

The swarm of destructive insects, which had transformed into a vast ocean, dispersed once more, their numbers now reduced by more than half.

The fusion of the primordial chaos is not perfect; the fact that it has lasted this long is already its limit.

"With the corpses of the Thousand Tribulations Causal Mirage and several other Chaos Realm beasts, analysis and research should be of great help to the insect swarm."

"Ha, so the King of Yun has finally arrived?"

Qin Mu gazed at the endless wilderness. At the spot where Marquis Lin Yuan had fallen, an immensely colossal figure tore through space and appeared. (End of Chapter)