Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 99 The Arrival of the Golden Horned Beast

After exchanging information with Hong, Thor, and Jia Yi at the Mars Steel Base, the three gained a clearer understanding of the universe and a certain understanding of the unique characteristics of Earth.

After exploring the steel city for a while and eliminating the dangers, the Heilongshan X81 spacecraft has brought many scientific research personnel in mechanics, energy and other fields from Earth to the Mars base.

Leaving aside the researchers' excitement, Qin Mu returned to the spaceship and sent Hong, Thor, and the others back to Earth. Then, he spent several days deploying mother nests on many planets and asteroid belts in the solar system.

Once the mother hive reaches planetary level, surviving in space becomes quite simple. The various units that hatch are mainly worker insects, searching for minerals and resources on different planets.

Meanwhile, the Zerg's creep spreads across various planets, collecting energy while also modifying the environment to create a habitat suitable for the Zerg.

After returning to Earth, it was already past July 20th. After temporarily lending the spaceship to the United Chinese Government, Qin Mu resumed his cultivation life.

Of the three secret techniques he had chosen, he had already mastered the basics of "Heart of the Swarm," and after trying to cultivate "Spatial Control" for a period of time but finding that he could not get the hang of it, he focused his attention on "Primordial Insect Codex."

The Primal Insect Codex is the oldest and most basic of the many insectoid tuning methods, but that does not mean it is simple. On the contrary, it is an extremely vast and complex tuning method that can be described as all-encompassing.

It includes specific debugging methods, but more importantly, it represents a line of thinking and a rigorous research approach.

When he first started learning, Qin Mu was completely absorbed in it, as the knowledge within was exactly what he had been pursuing.

With the foundation laid by his previous research, Qin Mu's genetic research skills improved at an astonishing rate.

"So that's how it is!"

A glimmer of light appeared in Qin Mu's previously confused eyes.

He had previously gathered the nation's top talents to research gene evolution agents, and had achieved some results.

In terms of enhancing genes and bloodlines, Qin Mu's approach is to study the descendants of powerful individuals and combine their superior genes to create gene evolution potions.

With the knowledge in the "Primitive Insect Codex", Qin Mu realized that his approach was correct, but there were many problems with the details and the operation.

Besides issues with details and operation, the materials he used for research were also of very poor quality.

The most powerful being on Earth, Thor, is only at the planetary level, and their descendants are only at the apprentice level, with a very small sample size for research.

However, with the "Primitive Insect Codex" and a wealth of genetic data from the inherited genes, these problems were easily solved.

On Earth, around a hidden underground mother nest, human bodies that bear a striking resemblance to Qin Mu are constantly being hatched and then fed into the digestive system.

The human subjects used in the research initially had serious defects, such as severe mutations or lesions in internal organs. However, as Qin Mu's research ideas were confirmed one by one, the defects gradually decreased.

"It's a success!"

Qin Mu, who was conducting the research, suddenly had a bright idea and became excited.

Inside the mother nest, a human body almost identical to Qin Mu appeared.

His body showed no signs of mutation, and all his internal organs were perfectly formed, making him even more outstanding than Qin Mu's own body.

After drawing on many excellent genes, especially the genes of the Zerg Queen, his genetic structure became more rational, and he surpassed Qin Mu in terms of physical strength, speed, and neural reaction speed.

In terms of sensing and absorbing cosmic energy, he is more than twice as strong as his own body!

"With my consciousness descending into this body, my perception of the laws of fire has become much clearer!"

"In terms of overall qualities and potential, it's at least twice that of the original owner!"

A joyful smile spread across Qin Mu's face. He had finally succeeded!

"The research is only a preliminary success. With my planetary level seven physical attributes, my potential can be doubled! I don't know if it's because the Zerg's heritage is too strong, or if the physical potential of Earth humans is too poor."

Qin Mu thought to himself that it was truly astonishing that he could achieve such results in just over ten days after obtaining the Zerg inheritance and combining it with his previous research.

Without the Zerg, Qin Mu's physical potential would actually be quite poor. A twofold increase doesn't mean he reached twice the genetic potential, but it would still elevate him from an ordinary person to a genius among Earthlings.

"Double the overall quality and potential enhancement is just the beginning! As long as we continue our research, it won't be long before it causes a qualitative change, achieving the effect of a gene multiplication."

"My current strength has reached the planetary level, which manifests as a doubling of my overall qualities and an increase in potential. But what kind of effect would it have on an ordinary person?"

Can you reach the apprentice level?

Qin Mu was excited.

If using it can help ordinary Earthlings reach the apprentice level, then that would be amazing.

You should know that the bloodline of Earthlings is the ninth class, and adults are considered inferior.

The seventh and eighth ranks in the cosmic bloodline are defined by reaching the apprentice level after adulthood.

Therefore, using the results of one's research to create a gene serum would be enough to attract the attention of the vast majority of ninth and tenth-class bloodline humans in the universe!

This is about enhancing potential! It's not just about simply increasing strength.

If you want to do it, just do it. The insect swarm now stores a large amount of human genes from Earth, so proving the results of the experiment will be very easy.

Around the mother nest, insect eggs hatched rapidly, and humanoid creatures, indistinguishable from humans on Earth, crawled out of the eggs.

After they hatched, a worker insect stepped forward and injected a bloodline evolution potion that the mother nest had just synthesized into the human body.

"Just provide him with energy to absorb and see if it can increase his strength, and to what extent?"

The fungal carpet spreads on the ground, channeling energy into the human body.

"His strength is at the beginner level of general, which is the fourth level of apprentice!"

When they first hatched, their strength was that of ordinary humans. After being injected with the drug, and simply provided with sufficient energy to allow them to grow naturally, they were able to reach the fourth level of the Apprentice level!

The results of the experiment delighted Qin Mu. The potion had achieved its intended effect and could indeed improve bloodlines, although it could only raise a ninth-grade bloodline to an eighth-grade one.

"This can already be considered a bloodline enhancement potion, although it's the weakest kind!"

Bloodline enhancement potions are also graded, but any bloodline enhancement potion, even the lowest grade one, is a treasure!

"Making a bloodline enhancement potion requires about 100 milliliters of gene potion. For the Zerg swarm, the cost is equivalent to hatching a planetary-level Zerg."

This cost is not high for bloodline enhancement potions.

If it were sold in space, it would definitely be sought after by many humans born with ninth or tenth-class bloodlines!

Although it takes energy enough to create planetary-level Zerg to produce a Bloodline Enhancement Potion, and energy still needs to be absorbed to create a Level 4 Apprentice Human, it seems like a bad deal, but that's not actually the case.

Bloodline evolution agents cannot directly enhance strength, but they can make the user's future cultivation faster and easier.

Injecting a bloodline evolution agent is equivalent to improving the user's foundation in one go, which is far more than just a simple increase in strength.

"How much would this thing sell for in space?"

Qin Mu was thrilled. He had been worried about money when he entered the universe, but with this potion, he no longer needed to worry about that.

This is just the beginning. As Qin Mu's research continues, the potion's effects will improve and its value will increase!

Qin Mu was thrilled and became completely absorbed in the research.

Just as Qin Mu was engrossed in his research, a golden streak of light flew rapidly from the vast universe, heading directly towards Earth at a terrifying speed close to the speed of light.

On Earth, in the Hawaiian Islands, a golden streak of light streaked across the sky and plunged into the sea. Strangely, the near-light-speed descent caused no ripples whatsoever.

Not only did the sea surface remain unchanged, but no satellite, no monitoring device, and not even any insect swarm on Earth detected this golden light.

Deep in the ocean!

When the golden light disappeared, only an oval-shaped black egg with a diameter of about twelve meters remained, with strange golden patterns on its black shell.

The golden-horned behemoth that Qin Mu had been waiting for finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)