Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 129 Finally Becoming Special, Four Great Talents

As Xingluo recounted his story, Hunzhen finally understood why, in so many simulations, the Silver Ghost King ultimately chose to self-destruct rather than reveal the truth that he was an avatar capable of absorbing the energy of the original body and instantly recovering to his original state to complete the counterattack against the Black Demon King.

Because the Sims did not possess the ability to recover through simulated inheritance, they dared not possess the Silver Demon King in front of the Dark Lord, resulting in the Sims ultimately posing no "threat" to the Silver Demon King.

This makes it impossible for the Star Luo Silver Ghost King's clone to achieve its goal of devouring others.

It's likely that by then, Xingluo had already concluded that there was no longer any possibility of his clone completing its devouring and evolution, and felt that he had no hope of escaping his cage.

The appearance of Hunzhen and the great war that engulfed the entire Abyss World were the biggest variables he could imagine.

Aside from that, the only way to change the situation is for that terrifying mechanical god from outside the abyss to descend and take them away.

Having lived a life of humiliation as a demon shadow for countless years, and having lived through countless eons as the Silver Demon King, Xingluo probably has little emotional reaction to anything other than freedom.

Naturally, he casually abandoned his now worthless identity as the Silver Demon King.

Even before giving up this identity, he still had plenty of time to transfer Hunzhen away.

This is Hunzhen's deduction based on his understanding of Xingluo.

In the long silence, all the stars in the sky dimmed.

It was as if the world had fallen into eternal silence, with only a bonito serpent capable of devouring the universe remaining.

In reality, in this empty world, there are two figures, insignificant compared to the vastness of the world, gazing at each other.

"Why are you telling me all this?"

Hunzhen floated down in front of Xingluo and finally spoke.

"Because you are the only person who has ever spoken to me as an equal throughout countless years, my only friend."

Xingluo let out a long sigh.

"If I don't say these things to you before I leave this world, who else can I say them to?"

He then revealed a half-smile.

"You—" Hunzhen's eyes widened as he remembered someone else who had said the same thing to him.

Suddenly, he understood the inexplicable closeness between himself and Milirat, as well as her strange affection and friendship towards him.

Yes, if Xingluo can plant thousands of avatars and hidden agents in the first layer of the abyss, there's no reason why they wouldn't arrange avatars in other layers of the abyss.

At first, he thought Xingluo and Milila were mother and son, but it turned out they were the same person!

As if confirming Hunzhen's conjecture, Xingluo transformed into the form of Mililat.

The silver-haired girl in the wheelchair blinked, smiled wryly, and teased, "What? You think I can't be a woman? How dare you assume my gender? I'm essentially a shadow, and a shadow doesn't have a gender."

Hunzhen was speechless for a moment because of these very reasonable words.

"Mr. Hunzhen, please carry my dream of freedom and continue on this path in my place."

The silver-clad girl placed her right hand on her chest, bowed her head, and bent over.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her dignified and noble expression remained as elegant and serene as when they first met.

She suddenly looked up, a smile on her face, almost bringing her to tears: "I have no regrets about meeting you."

The next moment, her figure exploded, turning into countless starlight that merged into the lightless universe.

When Hunzhen came to her senses, she realized that she had unconsciously reached out her hand towards the place where she had disappeared.

But the person is gone, and even if the possessed person reverses time, they cannot be resurrected.

He lowered his hands expressionlessly.

"Mr. Hunzhen, my name is Milirat, I am the president of the Humanity Committee, and also the 'Royal Blood' you mentioned."

The scene from my memory suddenly echoed.

Light rain, ruined streets, wheelchairs, and the elegant silver-clad girl in the wheelchair who, like the finishing touch, embellishes this somber scene.

He personally destroyed all of that.

He didn't regret it, but he felt a little lost.

The giant serpent devoured the starry sky and occupied this new sea of ​​souls.

Outside, a demonic shadow emerged from the obsidian-like ore, rapidly twisting and weaving flesh and organs to form a lifelike appearance.

Hunzhen clenched his fists, getting familiar with his new body.

A sudden realization dawned on him, revealing all the secrets of this body.

"Three Lives Demon King..."

Hunzhen seemed to be still somewhat unaccustomed to her new body, her voice hoarse as she muttered to herself.

This is the third special life form, born even earlier than the Silver Demon King and the Black Demon King, hidden in this abyss of purgatory for countless eons.

Compared to the Silver Demon King and the Black Demon King, he only has a hundred times the genetic multiplier, lacks the talent of time and space, and his compatibility with other lower-level laws is mediocre, reaching the upper-middle level of an ordinary life.

At first glance, it's not a special life form like the two great kings, who are naturally skilled in fighting.

However, he possesses two core talents.

One is the three thousand magical realms.

They can transform into any race with a genetic multiplier below their own, or disguise themselves as a series of non-living beings, somewhat similar to the "copying" talent of the Demon Slayer race.

Compared to the Demon Slayer race's "cloning," it is superior in that it can copy most of the target race's talents, which is almost equivalent to transforming into another race.

If a specific target is killed and cloned, even some of their moves and insights into the laws can be replicated (insights cannot be inherited by the original). It can be considered a complete replication.

At most, three avatars (fully imbued with the original deity) with the power of the original deity can be created, or thirty avatars with one-tenth of the power of the original deity, and so on, up to a maximum of three thousand avatars with one-thousandth of the power of the original deity.

The essence is to plan three thousand units of power and allocate them arbitrarily.

For example, there could be one avatar with the power of the original, plus two thousand avatars, each one-thousandth the power of the original.

Unfortunately, only by reaching the Immortal level can the "Three Thousand Magical Abilities" ability be advanced to obtain the "Unification of Demonic Power" ability, which concentrates the power of the three thousand clones into one.

Otherwise, it would be an additional strength multiplier, a terrifying ability that directly triples combat power.

Even so, it is still incredibly powerful.

Take Kandri, famous for his ability to create clones, as an example. His ability to create clones is considered extremely powerful among the Cosmic Masters, with each clone possessing 60% of his strength.

But in essence, energy and control originate from the original body. That is to say, it is necessary to expend energy and mental energy to maintain the clone.

However, as long as the main body does not actively withdraw the three thousand magical clones of the Three Lives Demon King, each clone can be regarded as an independent individual, relying on the main body's understanding of the laws to use the clone technique a second time.

It can be seen as a weakened version of the true clone, similar to the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique, which even a powerhouse at the level of a universe lord cannot see through. (It can't be seen through as a clone, but the disguise can be detected.)

Furthermore, like Star Luo, additional personalities can be created for the avatars, so that even if a thousand avatars live in the same abyss layer, their personalities will be completely different.

This ability to manipulate also implies another characteristic—Sansheng Molu is born with a soul amplitude of 3000.

Although Sansheng Molu has no talent in physical combat and close-quarters fighting, he is exceptionally gifted in soul power.

Besides having an extremely high innate soul amplitude, he is also a natural illusionist.

However, the 3000 soul amplitude and illusion talent depend on the existence of the main body and cannot be shared with the "clone".

Speaking of clones, the second talent of the Three-Life Demon Lord, "Three-Life Demonic Appearance," is the origin of his name.

The Three-Life Demon King can create up to two clones by killing a target or completely devouring its soul, resulting in a total of three clones including the original.

Unlike ordinary clone techniques, the three clones can ignore distance and instantly transfer the energy of the clones and incarnations to a particular body.

In other words, if one clone is used as a reserve energy source and is constantly in an environment that efficiently absorbs energy, the energy recovery speed of the clone that goes out on adventures will be ten, a hundred, or a thousand times that of normal conditions.

Beings with the secret technique of creating clones are inherently extremely resilient, but even the clones of the Three-Life Demon King are extremely difficult to perish from.

Like the Golden Horned Beast, the true life core of the Three-Life Demon is that obsidian-like ore, within which lies the nascent form of its undeveloped inner world.

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As long as the life core is not shattered, the three incarnations can consume energy to re-condense.

Although the Three-Life Demon King is not large in size, its core contains a considerable amount of energy reserves, enough to support half of the energy needed for a special life form of the size of the Silver Ghost King.

If that's the case, the Demonic Three Lives technique has one less clone than the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique. Although it has the advantage of "energy conduction," it's hard to say which is better.

But it is only when one reaches the level of immortality that this core talent truly comes into play.

When the Three-Life Demon Lord breaks through to immortality, he must already possess three avatars. At the moment of breakthrough, the three avatars merge into one, just like an ordinary cosmic life breaking through to the level of a true god, forming a unique original body.

The true self will be a powerful individual who inherits all the talents of the clones, combines all the specialties of the three clones, and has undergone genetic optimization.

At first glance, it appears that the ability to create clones has been lost.

Survival skills are always the most important thing. Sometimes, an extremely powerful individual is really not necessarily better than three unique clones.

However, the Three-Life Demon Luo already possesses the first talent of the Three Thousand Magical Realms, and his ability to protect himself far exceeds that of ordinary life.

This is probably one of the reasons why Xingluo was so weak in the early stages, yet managed to survive until the end and find an opportunity to devour the Silver Ghost King.

Furthermore, this primary talent will grow stronger as the main body becomes stronger. Once the main body merges with the two clones to create the unique main body, as long as the clones are not too weak, it is common for the strength to triple.

In addition, the Magic Three Thousand can be equivalent to splitting into two main bodies, and the combined power of the avatar after immortality can be said to have completely made up for the loss of the second talent clone.

Besides successfully possessing "Three Lives Demon King", it is also worth mentioning that he has already occupied one of the clone slots - "Silver Ghost King".

The essence of the clone is part of the innate secret technique, which is naturally inherited as the mastery of the Hunzhen body-seizing technique is achieved.

Silver Demon King, with a thousand times the gene multiplier and a hundred times the spatial compatibility.

His unique talent, "Void Armor," commonly known as Silver Armor, is the armor worn by the Silver Demon King's clone during his all-out battle with the Black Demon King.

Flesh and blood are merely accumulated reserves of energy; this armor is the true essence of the Silver Demon King. Therefore, when the silver armor shattered, the Silver Demon King's aura instantly plummeted.

Silver armor can shield against spatial fluctuations and possesses material and soul defense capabilities hundreds of times stronger than one's own life level.

As for the destructive power that was unleashed earlier using the gauntlets, it was purely an effect achieved by utilizing the spatial properties of the Silver Armor.

But this was only the state of the Silver Demon King before it devoured the Black Demon King. After devouring the Black Demon King, its genetic multiplier, law compatibility, and even its unique talent all changed.

Fortunately, it has only completed the initial digestion and has not yet truly transformed. Even so, it has been able to withstand the power of the abyss's will, which was originally irresistible.

After Hunzhen possessed the body, he was able to see the abilities of this clone after its complete transformation, just like the original Xingluo.

1,500 times the genetic ratio, 100 times the spatial fit, and 50 times the temporal fit.

It also grants a second talent, "Time-Wounding Demon Blade," commonly known as the Black Blade.

Just as the silver armor is to the Silver Demon King, the black sword is the true form and essence of the Black Demon King.

Silver armor symbolizes ultimate defense, while black blade represents ultimate destruction and lethality.

The black blade can conceal time fluctuations, and when using techniques and secret arts based on the laws of time and space, it can unleash a minimum of ten times and a maximum of one hundred times the destructive power, depending on the energy consumed.

Originally, this enhancement was limited to the "Law of Time," but after being devoured by the Silver Demon King's clone, it also changed, and now it also enhances the Law of Space.

The Three-Life Demon King and the transformed Silver Ghost King, one with a 100x gene multiplier and the other with a 1,500x gene multiplier.

The former, in terms of gene multiplication rate alone, can only be considered ordinary among special life forms, but it has an extremely powerful talent for survival and a talent with heaven-defying potential.

The latter, in terms of gene multiplication rate alone, although not comparable to the most outstanding ones like the Innate Beast God and the Insect King, is already considered to be an extremely rare level among special life forms.

In addition, with two great talents, one of ultimate defense and the other of ultimate lethality, it is in no way inferior to the Insect King with a gene multiplier of 5,000 times.

In terms of the rarity of time-space talent, it can be said that it has an edge.

"The purpose of this trip has been achieved, or even exceeded."

"However, it will only be truly complete if some regrets are resolved."

Hunzhen looked down at the bottom of the great void, and the colorless core that had awakened his future vision naturally came to mind.

After he possessed the body, the immense pressure of the abyss's will constantly affected him, continuously draining his power.

Unfortunately, this loss is just a drop in the ocean for him now.

With the simulated inheritance, his recovery ability is more than a thousand times that of Xingluo.

The true form and its clones are at their peak strength only when their energy is fully replenished.

This means that a simulated inheritance can restore the energy of both the original body and its clone.

However, he still couldn't break through to the realm master level in this abyss world.

For the remaining World Lords who have broken through to the next level, the most important thing is not recovery ability, but the power to break free from constraints.

After successfully possessing the body, in terms of the material basis of his strength, he was no different from Xingluo. However, in terms of laws, he was a hundred times inferior to Xingluo, who was at the level of a cosmic venerable.

After a few days, once the Life Source Fruit is fully absorbed, the gap in raw strength will narrow a little, but not by much.

What Xingluo could only do with great difficulty, he can no longer do now.

The pressure that can be applied to a single individual, and the power exerted on the thief who has possessed the Abyss Ruler, is already the limit of the Abyss Will.

Relying on his powerful recovery ability, Hunzhen was confident that he could seize an opportunity that even Xingluo was unable to obtain.

Hunzhen ignored the Abyss Will, which seemed to be clamoring in his ears like a shrew, and leaped into the great void.

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

At the bottom of the abyss, the once unattainable, colorless core is now within reach.

(End of this chapter)