Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

After everyone dispersed, Qin Mu and the Empress returned to the body of the Kunpeng.

"Your Majesty, this is the Nine-Colored Lotus. Consuming it will greatly benefit your soul." Looking at the Empress, Qin Mu smiled, and a Nine-Colored Lotus with two petals remaining appeared in his hand.

"A nine-colored lotus?" the Empress exclaimed in surprise.

She was no longer a newcomer to the Origin Continent, and was extremely familiar with these kinds of soul treasures.

Because Qin Mu would find some treasures that could enhance her soul and give them to her every now and then, although she was still an Eternal True God, her strength was more than a hundred times stronger than before.

"This is a treasure of the God-King level. It would be useful to you even if you did, right? The mission you are about to undertake is probably extremely difficult. You need to improve your strength as much as possible."

Looking at the nine-colored lotus, the Empress shook her head and did not accept it as usual.

"I've tried, but it's not very useful to me. My soul is too vast; to enhance it, I would need to evolve the vast majority of my swarm units."

Even the rarest and most precious treasures, at the level of a god-king, are but a drop in the ocean for the insect swarm.

The only way for the swarm's soul to be enhanced is through arcane arts.

"A special inheritance I obtained from the infinite space has this effect; you need not worry."

Qin Mu smiled and explained, then handed over the Nine-Colored Lotus.

The Empress looked into Qin Mu's eyes and, seeing no hesitation, sighed inwardly and accepted the treasure.

She has been practicing diligently.

But the distance between her and Qin Mu was growing ever wider, which left her feeling quite uneasy. Back in the primordial universe, she could still offer some assistance.

However, once they arrived on the Origin Continent, this gap became even more astonishing.

However, she quickly adjusted her mindset.

She is the Empress!

The Queen of the Swarm.

Instead of those ordinary women who act like little girls.

"I will break through as soon as possible."

Without much hesitation, the Empress immediately removed a petal from the Nine-Colored Lotus, then sat cross-legged on the ground, focusing all her efforts on absorbing its special power.

The moment she put the nine-colored lotus into her mouth, an incredibly peculiar power spread through her body and merged into her 10000 soul essences.

These 10000 original souls grew at an astonishing rate and then underwent a qualitative transformation.

The countless soul threads that linked the souls shone brightly, giving birth to all sorts of strange and mysterious patterns, and finally transformed into a strange lotus phantom within the soul.

"My soul is transforming."

This transformation was extremely gentle; the Empress not only felt no discomfort, but her soul felt incredibly refreshed.

When the transformation was over, the Empress opened her eyes wide. She felt that her soul had undergone a strange change, as if a dusty lens had been wiped clean. Her understanding of the laws of chaos and the fundamental Dao became incredibly clear.

The ability to perceive the soul and make deductions has been greatly improved.

Tenfold, a hundredfold improvement!

"How does it feel?"

Qin Mu looked at the Empress with a smile. He could sense that the Empress's soul had undergone a qualitative change, becoming more solid and transparent.

"Very good, extremely good. Not only my soul, but also my will has undergone a transformation, and I am only a hair's breadth away from the first level of the God King realm!"

The energy contained in the Nine-Colored Lotus is too vast for me to absorb entirely.

The remaining power transformed into a wondrous lotus flower stored within my soul, empowering it and significantly enhancing its defenses.

The Queen's eyes became incredibly bright.

She could sense that as long as she absorbed all the power within the Nine-Colored Lotus, she would surely be able to elevate her mental will to the first level of the God King realm!

"That's good. With the improvement of your spiritual will, you will be able to extend the time you spend observing the fundamental Dao of life in the primordial universe. This is quite an opportunity."

Qin Mu nodded with a smile.

The Great Dao of the Origin of Life in the Primordial Universe has become one of the greatest assets of the human race, and it is definitely a sacred place for cultivation for the strong who walk the Great Dao of the Origin of Life.

Unfortunately, among the most outstanding geniuses of the human race, not many have followed the path of the origin of life.

Aside from the Empress, there were only a handful of people, including Luo Feng, Ming Lian, and Peng Gong.

The rest each had their own ideas.

For example, the original ancestor followed a path of fusion between the illusory and the real world, aiming to unify the "Great Dao of the Illusory Realm" and the "Great Dao of the World".

The Lord of Chaos City follows the path of merging the fundamental principles of time and space, which is the path of time and space.

Darkness follows the fundamental path of space and the fundamental path of extreme points.

Qin Mu did not interfere with this.

Everyone has their own understanding and interpretation of the Great Dao, and the more talented a person is, the more steadfast their understanding of the Dao will be!

That is precisely why they are able to go further.

Like the hermit sitting on the mountain, he knew that he could comprehend the fundamental Dao of life in the primordial universe, yet he still chose to reincarnate and continue cultivating the fundamental Dao of the world without hesitation.

This is his way!

"Yes, this transformation has greatly strengthened my soul, increasing my ability to deduce and comprehend by ten or even a hundred times, and greatly increasing my chances of breaking through to the Chaos Realm."

I'll go study the Chaos Layer first; maybe I can directly comprehend the Laws of Chaos!

The Queen's eyes shone.

While a portion of the original universe's consciousness comprehended the fundamental Dao of life, the main body went directly to the chaotic layer in the endless space.

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Qin Mu smiled and nodded, then opened up a space to teleport the Empress to the Chaos Layer.

For him now, traveling to the Chaos Layer no longer requires the power of the Chaos Ruins and the Gate of Origin; he can reach it directly using the swarm itself.

call--

The space shifted, and the two instantly appeared in the Chaos Layer, where the Laws of Chaos were displayed before them in their clearest form.

In the Chaos Layer, all objects, and even energy, are formed by the condensation of the laws of chaos.

And here, an endless swarm of insects dwells, doing their utmost to devour the energy of the Chaos Layer.

If the Lord of Tiankun Kingdom were to appear here, he would surely be filled with utter despair.

Because the number of insects here is more than ten thousand times greater than when Qin Mu fought against him.

An endless swarm of insects floated in the chaotic layer, stretching as far as the eye could see.

With the near-infinite energy of the Chaos Layer, the Swarm God is transforming at an astonishing rate.

Moreover, the number is increasing.

The swarm has moved beyond the stage of relying on hunting in the wilderness; how much energy can they gain from hunting those few alien beasts?

At this stage, the purpose of hunting alien beasts is no longer energy, but to obtain bloodlines that the swarm has not yet included.

That's it.

The swarm's adversary will be truly innate, undifferentiated life forms.

How many abyssal aliens lurk in that unknown source world?

Billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions, trillions?

Qin Mu didn't know.

But it's never wrong to make the swarm bigger!

When the swarm is large enough, it can crush even the strongest enemy.

……

While protecting the Empress, Qin Mu also began his own cultivation.

He exchanged many good things with more than ten God-Kings from the Mother River of Life's forces, such as the "Void Severing Boundary Array Diagram," a spatial array treasure for God-Kings at the second level.

The fusion of the Boundless Origin Dao and the Material Origin Dao, the 'Boundless Star Sea Array'.

And the Divine King First Realm array diagram containing the power of the Great Dao of Life and Death, which was obtained from the Divine King Zongfu—the Great Array of Life and Death Reincarnation.

Once these three formations and their corresponding insectoid legions are fully integrated, the power of the insectoid legions will inevitably be greatly enhanced.

In particular, he also possesses the spatial domain-type treasure "Cloud and Mist World" obtained from the King of Yun Kingdom. Qin Mu has renamed Cloud and Mist World to War Fog!

When the fog of war and the 'Void Boundary Array Diagram' are perfectly integrated, Qin Mu is confident that he can contend with the Heavenly Kun Kingdom Lord with just this space insect swarm army!

Besides that, there's the Hunyuan bloodline.

The most important one, of course, is the "Heart Demon Ape".

The remains of this parasitic primordial life form are relatively well-preserved, and its size is not large, only a million kilometers, which is very small among primordial bloodline life forms.

When the swarm began analyzing, Qin Mu discovered that a very subtle form of mental pollution had silently appeared within the swarm network.

If it weren't for the fact that the swarm was undergoing the "Unity of All Spirits" transformation.

If it weren't for the practice of the "Heart Chakra Millstone" tradition, which constructs a mental millstone within the insect swarm's mental network to constantly grind away the insect swarm's chaotic mental will...

The insect swarm might actually get contaminated!

This caused Qin Mu to break out in a cold sweat.

The Hunyuan life form is truly too bizarre!

Even the dead Hunyuan life forms possess such strong pollution.

No wonder when the God King Zongfu handed over this "Heart Demon Ape," he repeatedly warned him to be careful, otherwise his mind could easily be corrupted.

However, if mental corruption is discovered, and Qin Mu doesn't intend to integrate this bloodline into the insect swarm, then it's actually a good thing.

As the heart chakra grinds away this contamination, the swarm's will to fight back gradually increases.

This will undoubtedly be of considerable benefit to the future encroachment of the Abyss Xenomorphs.

The analysis of the Hunyuan bloodline is extremely slow; Qin Mu estimates that it will take at least an epoch to complete the initial analysis.

As for a more in-depth analysis?

If the ability to predict swarms and other capabilities are not improved, the time required will increase by at least ten thousand times!

Besides the "Heart Demon Ape," there are also the remains of the primordial life form "Poison Shadow Lion," and the strange beast "Sky-Carrying Beast," which was transformed after the death of the Snow Realm Ancestor. The insect swarm is working hard to analyze them.

However, these things do not cause much pollution to the insect swarm.

They are just some relatively ordinary Hunyuan bloodlines, and it is said that they were all obtained from outside the Origin World by the ancestors of the two ancient kingdoms and cultivated by themselves on the Origin Continent.

Within certain special realms of the two ancient kingdoms, there exist specially bred beings of the Hunyuan bloodline.

Of course, compared to true primordial beings, these primordial beings only possess a very thin trace of primordial bloodline.

"Fortunately, we have a foundation in studying the bloodlines of alien beasts, so although this Hunyuan life bloodline is complex, it's not completely incomprehensible."

Looking at the secret patterns that were combined in an extremely complex way within the Hunyuan bloodline, Qin Mu thought to himself.

Through extensive research on chaotic beasts, Qin Mu discovered that the essence of the Hunyuan life bloodline is actually also composed of secret patterns.

It's just more complicated!

If the difficulty of analyzing the secret patterns contained in the bloodline of the Chaos Realm beasts is 1, then the difficulty of analyzing the secret patterns contained in the bloodline of the Primordial Life is at least a million!

The difference is so great that it's astonishing.

For ordinary Chaos Realm beasts, once the insect swarm obtains their corpses, it won't take long for them to hatch.

However, this is almost impossible when facing the lifeblood of Hunyuan.

At least, not now.

"To achieve in-depth research on the Hunyuan bloodline in a short period of time, we must complete the transformation of the insectoid swarm's soul network as soon as possible!"

Qin Mu was well aware of this.

However, the inheritance and cultivation of the Great Dao of the Soul Origin, "All Spirits Return to One", is extremely difficult, even more difficult than the perfect level of the Destruction Inheritance "Nine Realms of Extinction"!

In "Nine Realms of Extinction," the insect swarm can still rely on the World Beast King to exploit a bug.

There is no "All Spirits Return to One"; one must rely entirely on one's own understanding.

So far, the swarm has only grasped some of the most basic concepts and is attempting to achieve collective consciousness resonance and deep soul fusion.

This step is extremely difficult.

However, through the resonance of collective consciousness, the strength of the swarm's will is increasing at an astonishing rate, laying the foundation for the reconstruction of the soul network and the formation of the Sea of ​​Spiritual Pivot.

"It still takes time. At the current pace, even if I put all my energy into it, it will take at least seven or eight eras."

Take it slow; this is crucial for the swarm. We absolutely cannot afford any mistakes.

Qin Mu calmed himself down and devoted himself to cultivation.

There is so much for the Zerg swarm to do: comprehend and integrate the fundamental Dao, research the Hunyuan bloodline, study formations, and even research Zerg biological warfare weapons, among other things.

He also couldn't allow the swarm to devote all its energy to rebuilding the soul network.

For example, the upgrade and modification of the "Kunpeng" alone, a biological warfare weapon, requires a lot of resources and effort.

How could he feel at ease heading to the unknown source world without a powerful war base?

This cannot be solved by purchasing the treasures of the God-King's Palace.

How vast is an entire Origin World?

The Abyssal Alien is a parasitic life form and is extremely adept at hiding.

Therefore, the swarm must deploy war fortresses over a large area and develop a large-scale reconnaissance system based on them.

Only if the swarm itself can do this can it possibly challenge the Abyssal Xenomorphs.

The current Kunpeng falls far short of Qin Mu's ideal requirements.

This is why, during the battle with the Lord of Tiankun Kingdom, the Lord of Tiankun Kingdom felt that Kunpeng was as if it were pieced together, with various inconsistencies.

Because this was just an experimental version.

Only after the research is completed will the insect swarm begin to breed Kunpeng on a large scale.

……

Time flies by like a fleeting moment.

A century has passed.

While Qin Mu was completely immersed in cultivation, the others were also working hard to cultivate, allowing the actual territory ruled by the Myriad Beasts Sect to expand at an extremely rapid pace.

In addition to the original 36 barren Chaos Provinces of the Cloud Kingdom, there are 12 relatively rich Chaos Provinces ruled by the Xuanhuo God King and the Qinglian God King, as well as 5 Chaos Provinces located in the remote Snow Realm.

They have all been included in the coverage area of ​​the Void God Realm.

At this moment, all 53 Chaos Provinces under the rule of the Myriad Beasts Sect were engulfed in a frenzied atmosphere.

Because a grand event is being held simultaneously in the Void God Realms of these 53 Chaotic Continents!

The most exciting and largest-scale talent selection in the Origin Continent ever—the Origin Continent Genius Battle—has begun! (End of Chapter)