Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 86 The Beginning of Upgrading and Unification

Early June, 2057.

In the Jiangnan Base City, at the Shengshi Jiangnan residential complex, Qin Mu sat cross-legged in the martial arts training hall of a villa.

After giving Uncle Qing a ten-thousand-year-old willow heart, which directly boosted Uncle Qing's strength to the level of a war god, Uncle Qing had long since returned to the army to hunt monsters in the wilderness.

The two children had also gone to school, so Qin Mu was the only one at home at the time.

While Qin Mu's body was in the residential area, his consciousness had descended into a mother nest in City 003, where he was modifying the genetic structure of the Scyther.

In the early stages of the war, Qin Mu fought fires everywhere. Since there were no monster kings on land, he pushed his way through almost unimpeded, and no monster could withstand his full-force attack.

To date, Qin Mu has controlled over fifty king-level monsters that have been transformed into insectoid creatures. Among them, eight are ocean monsters, and the rest are land-based king-level monsters.

The control of a large number of King-level monsters not only greatly increased the strength of the insect swarm, but also plunged the monsters into chaos.

At the same time, the number of Zerg swarms also increased explosively, with land units exceeding 600 million, and with ocean units included, the total number of Zerg swarms exceeded one billion.

The marine swarms have already ventured into the depths of the Pacific Ocean and begun to expand rapidly.

The rapid growth of the insect swarm as a whole has allowed Qin Mu's strength to reach a new level. His mentalist strength has broken through to the fourth level of the planetary level, and his martial artist strength has reached the second level of the planetary level.

The domestic situation has basically stabilized. With the help of the insect swarm, the military has begun to leave the city to clear the urban ruins and monsters in the wilderness and build new cities.

Although most of the king-level monsters within China have been tamed, killed, or fled to other places, there are still many ordinary monsters, which will require a long time to clear them out.

Martial artists from organizations like the Ultimate Martial Arts School and the Thunder Martial Arts School took advantage of this time to hunt monsters frantically and accumulate military merits.

To date, more than one hundred plant spirits have been exchanged.

The number of various Zerg units exchanged is unknown.

Almost all martial artists have their own monster companions.

Among some powerful warriors at the God of War level, lord-level flying mounts have already become popular.

The overall artistic style of China seems to have been skewed.

Both martial artists and ordinary people were mobilized to begin monster-hunting or large-scale construction projects.

After repelling several invasions of sea monsters and enslaving a few sea king monsters, they...

The king of the ocean monsters has learned its lesson and no longer dares to invade China at will. Instead, it has intensified its invasions of places outside of China.

This gave Qin Mu a bit more free time, allowing him ample time to study and fine-tune the insect swarm.

"It's finally a success. The ability of the Steel Rock Rhinoceros to devour metal and integrate it into its bones and skin has been incorporated into the Blade Mantis's bladed arm."

Qin Mu had a smile on his face. This was not just because the strength of the Blade Mantis had reached a new level, but also because Qin Mu's ability to modulate the Zerg swarm's genes had finally made substantial progress!

The enhancement of the Scizor was successful, and not long after, the preparation of the Giant Tiger Beetle was also successful.

"Next, I can consider researching how to enhance my human body."

After making substantial progress in gene modulation capabilities, Qin Mu set his sights on strengthening the human body.

In the universe, human bloodlines are classified into ten levels, and Earth humans belong to the ninth level.

Now that there are breakthroughs in gene modulation capabilities, it is only natural to consider improving one's own bloodline.

Bloodline Evolution Agent is an extremely precious treasure in the universe, and it is not sold in stores or other places.

Although he hasn't started trying yet, Qin Mu felt that improving his potential might not be too difficult.

Even if there are no immediate results, it can lay a good foundation for increasing your gene pool in the future.

"To research bloodline evolution potions, we need to collect superior human genes."

Generally speaking, the descendants of martial artists are more likely to become martial artists themselves. For example, a powerful figure like Hong could have descendants who become war gods, because their bloodline is stronger than that of ordinary people.

After making up his mind, Qin Mu directly issued an order to the military to collect the blood of some martial artists and their descendants for genetic analysis.

"Buzz—"

Just as Qin Mu gave the order, the auxiliary optical computer on his arm vibrated slightly.

It was a communication request from Representative Jia Yi.

"The African base city can no longer hold on and has requested assistance."

Jia Yi explained his purpose.

"Ignore them, we won't negotiate."

Qin Mu sneered.

He also knew about the African base city; after the continuous attacks by beast tides, even powerful figures at the level of councilors had perished, let alone ordinary martial artists.

It's not just the African base city that's struggling; the other four major powers are also on the verge of collapse.

Every so often, many so-called elites try to escape into the now-stable territory of China through various means.

They disagreed, saying they would wait until the situation was more stable domestically before taking the initiative.

To be honest, Qin Mu really looked down on them. With their meager strength, they were practically useless against the insect swarm.

If you disagree, then you disagree. Do you really think Qin Mu needs them?

Is Qin Mu like Hong, with his heart set on all of humanity?

Instead of wasting time on this, it would be more worthwhile to research bloodline evolution potions.

After hanging up the call, Qin Mu opened a list of martial arts merit exchanges.

When Qin Mu saw a name on the redemption list, his heart stirred slightly.

"Has Luo Feng already exchanged for the Spirit of Plants?"

"Has he accumulated so many military merits so quickly? Is he no longer hiding his identity as a psychic?"

In recent days, he had also been paying attention to Luo Feng's military achievements. At first, the progress was not very fast, but it became faster and faster later on.

Judging from the process of accumulating battle merits, Luo Feng had already killed a lord-level monster before exchanging for the Spirit of Plants.

Clearly, he no longer concealed his identity as a mentalist, and his strength had also increased significantly.

"I was originally planning to arrange some 'adventures' for you, but it seems that's not necessary. As expected of City Lord Luo?"

"Well, after a while, we'll give them a mission and transfer them to Kirishima for security duties. Babata must be getting impatient."

There was a smile in Qin Mu's eyes.

Just as Qin Mu was in a good mood, the auxiliary optical computer on his arm vibrated gently again.

"flood?"

Qin Mu had been in frequent contact with Hong and Lei Shen during this period, and their relationship was quite good. They also exchanged experiences on martial arts cultivation.

Of course, calling it an exchange is less accurate than saying that Hong and Lei Shen took the opportunity to give Qin Mu some pointers.

Although Qin Mu's overall strength was already greater than theirs, in terms of martial arts cultivation alone, Hong and Lei Shen were far superior to Qin Mu.

Hong, in particular, comprehended the second realm at the planetary level without any guidance; his comprehension was nothing short of heaven-defying.

Unfortunately, although Qin Mu had tried to comprehend the domain during this period, he had not achieved any results.

Qin Mu was generous with his guidance to Hong and Lei Shen, and had already shared the successfully analyzed Moyun Vine seeds with the two of them.

This significantly improved the two's strength.

"Qin Mu, Hong and I have discussed it and decided to first merge the Limit Martial Arts Academy and the Thunder Martial Arts Academy into the Chinese United Government to accelerate the progress of globalization."

You need to speed things up here too. Even with my and Thor's support, the sacrifices in the major base cities are far too many.

Many old folks value power more than their own lives!

To truly unify the world, ruthless measures are necessary.

Hong's voice was cold, and there was a hint of murderous intent in his coldness.

Compared to China, some of the base cities are completely rotten. During his time observing them, he discovered far too much darkness.

Even with Hong's composure, he couldn't help but feel murderous intent.

This is the end of the world!

If it weren't for Hong and Thor holding things together, humanity would have been wiped out long ago!

Where is there so much truth, goodness and beauty?

"Understood, I will urge the Chinese military to expedite the process."

Qin Mu understood; Hong was never a kind-hearted person, and ruthlessness was his true nature.

"Qin Mu, I am Thor. In addition to the Thunder Martial Arts School, I will expedite the cleanup of major base cities in India."

"Those old fogies are still clinging to outdated systems at a time like this. The major bases are under immense pressure, with numerous Ocean King-level monsters invading. I need reinforcements!"

Thor's voice came through the communication from Hong's side. The two often cultivated together, and at this moment, Thor's voice was filled with suppressed anger.

Originally, when Hong and Thor were talking, the three of them had discussed what kind of system they would need to use after establishing a unified base in the future.

Although both Hong and Qin Mu are of Chinese descent, and Thor is also half Chinese, Thor's mother is Indian.

Therefore, Indian culture had a significant influence on Thor, and he originally had some ideas in his mind.

But after all that effort, he was starting to despair!

Those guys, who don't know what they're thinking, actually want to cling to the power of the past and those bizarre systems.

In most of these base cities, the level of corruption is unparalleled globally, comparable to that of African base cities.

The fact that China has become a major power in the new era is largely due to its association with Thor.

But what do they have left when Thor doesn't support them?

Qin Mu hadn't forgotten that in the original timeline, during the period when Luo Feng possessed the Golden Horned Beast, one of the so-called three giants on Earth was Sago Nehru, a genius from India.

In the original timeline, Babata considered his talent to be second only to Luo Feng's.

Unfortunately, his character was so bad that he was also among those to be eliminated.

"Alright! Since you've made up your mind, I will transfer some of my monsters to India. The number of ordinary monsters will not be less than 100 million, and the number of king-level monsters will not be less than ten!"

According to the list we collected earlier, you already know this. Once the support arrives, start the cleanup!

Qin Mu did not hesitate. Although his original plan was to wait until the situation was more stable, he would not let the opportunity slip by.

The early addition of the Limitless Martial Arts Academy and the Thunder Martial Arts Academy will greatly accelerate the progress of Qin Mu's plan for unification.

(End of this chapter)