Please be my partner.

However, it's not necessary for Mellen to do everything herself. For example, the task of collecting the fragments of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Totem - Pillar of Ancestral Origin" can be entrusted to the archaeologists of Baoshi Academy. As professionals, they are best at finding clues from hidden history.

However, this matter involves ultimate power, and the archaeologists are probably not up to the task. It would be necessary for Mellen to assign several ancestral god-level powerhouses to accompany them in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

As for the space battlefield, it will require Mellen to make the trip himself.

According to the White-Maned Wolf's description, the cosmic battlefield was extremely dangerous; even a powerful Ancestral God could perish there if he wasn't careful. However, hundreds of thousands of years have passed since then, and it's unknown whether anything else has changed over there.

Melen issued the relevant orders and notified the cat tribe, bear tribe, and bull tribe to each send a powerful ancestral god to accompany the operation.

After doing all this, Murren ascended to the heavens.

The wounds of the universe, the land of ruins.

This is a damaged place that can be clearly seen even in the outer universe. It is the site of the invasion of the Starry Universe and the place where the Myriad Beasts Universe fought back with all its might. In addition to the Ancestral God-level powerhouses fighting with all their might here, there is also the confrontation of universe-level foundations and the battle of the strongest.

That invasion lasted for tens of thousands of years.

The vast area spanning 100,000 light-years (fun fact: the diameter of the Milky Way is approximately 100,000 to 180,000 light-years) was reduced to scorched wasteland due to this great war.

In the heart of this scorched earth lies an even more bizarre place, where enormous, star-like corpses float, their charred cores like rotting eyeballs staring at the eerie green 'soup' in the center.

This thick 'soup' was once one of the ultimate powers of the Council of Beasts... [Life Nest - Myriad Things Return to Nothingness Ritual], but now it is like a pool of festering pus, slowly devouring everything it touches.

Even in areas that would be extremely dangerous for a god-level being, Mellen walked through them as if on flat ground.

Crossing the battlefield filled with chaotic rules and turbulent energy currents, the Soup of Life appeared before Melon. The void was stained with a viscous green, which was the mist rising from the Soup of Life. Anyone touched by the mist would have their flesh and blood turn into a string of bubbles, and even their soul would become foam in the soup.

Through the soup of life, Murren saw three chaotic auras hidden and rising within it. These auras showed no trace of wisdom, only chaos and madness.

In terms of sheer size, each of these three auras far surpasses the level of an Ancestral God, but that's all; they still can't compare to the strongest beings.

These three auras originated from three strange heads, which were the destroyed [Life Nest - Myriad Things Return to Ruins], a special life form formed by the fusion of the remains of dozens of Ancestral God-level powerhouses who fell on the battlefield, after being pieced together in a chaotic and disorderly manner.

The first head was covered with coral-like horns, and its eye sockets were inhabited by parasites that emitted iridescent colors; the second head was a mechanical head made of brass and gears, with flesh and blood growing between the gears; the third head was the most bizarre, it had no facial features, and its surface was covered with honeycomb-like holes, each hole releasing images of world destruction, the collapse of heaven and earth, and the slaughter of all living beings.

The reason these three heads survived to the end was because they formed a fragile balance with each other, and under their mutual restraint, none of them could do anything to the others.

Suddenly, the three heads seemed to sense Melen's spying, and the fragile balance was abruptly broken, with chaotic forces surging wildly.

The parasites in the eye sockets of the coral head collectively flapped their wings, transforming into a swarm of poisonous moths; countless gears rose from the mechanical head, assembling into mecha beasts; and transparent tentacles extended from the holes of the faceless head, each wrapped with destructive power, decomposing and annihilating matter wherever it passed.

Mellen suddenly took a step back, as if immersed in the past, and everything that was happening in the normal timeline froze.

Of course, calling it condensation is a bit of an exaggeration. If you look closely, you'll find that compared to the past, the normal timeline is still progressing at an extremely slow pace, only tens of thousands of times slower.

Despite this time difference, Mellen was able to make arrangements with ease.

He looked at the little red lotus on his shoulder and asked, "Can you 'eat' this thing?"

Little Red Lotus looked at the bubbling soup of life and immediately shook her head, indicating that she couldn't digest it.

This put Mellen in a difficult position. Even Little Red Lotus, who was well-versed in the subject, couldn't deal with the Soup of Life. No wonder the remains of the [Mother Nest of Life - The Ritual of Returning to Nothingness] had been left here for hundreds of thousands of years without anyone taking care of them.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Mellen's mind...

Since raw food is hard to digest, how about cooking it?

Chapter 761 Making Soup and Testing

"Since it's the soup of life, let me use a big fire to help you 'reduce' it!"

Mellen looked at the Soup of Life, a wisp of red lotus fire igniting at his fingertips. However, before he could act, there seemed to be some minor troubles to resolve.

The attack from the three heads instantly shattered the broth of life and unleashed a monstrous surge.

Just as Mellen was preparing to deal with the three heads, something unexpected happened: the three heads, which had been attacking Mellen in unison, suddenly began to fight each other midway through their attacks.

From the eye sockets of the coral head, swarms of parasites burst into shrill laughter; the gears of the mechanical head whirred and crushed floating stellar debris; the honeycomb-like holes of the faceless head spewed out viscous tentacles, each drop of slime reflecting a different scene of destruction.

Parasitic venomous moths and mecha beastmen fought each other, their tentacles reflecting rays of destruction that caused large areas of matter to disintegrate and annihilate wherever they touched.

When the three attacks reached Mellen, they had lost almost all of their power.

After easily deflecting the aftershocks of the attacks, Mellen shook his head speechlessly, then smiled slightly and muttered to himself, "Well, since you're all in such a mess, let me put in a little more effort. It just so happens that the 'soup' needs some 'add-ons' too."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mellen's figure suddenly became blurry for a moment, as if he were standing on the boundary between illusion and reality, where the real and the unreal corresponded, and the dream remained unclear.

Then, under the influence of the hazy dream, the three heads completely forgot about Mellen and began an even more brutal battle among themselves.

After admiring it quietly for a moment, he raised a finger, and a wisp of red lotus karmic fire ignited.

The viscous slurry beneath my feet churned and surged, as if millions of distorted faces were floating and sinking within it.

The next moment, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire grew rapidly in the wind, instantly transforming into a raging sea of ​​fire. The blood-red flames resembled a torrent from hell, scorching all the filthy souls in the world.

In just a few breaths, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire surrounded the Soup of Life, igniting it from the outermost edge. Instantly, countless wails rang out, echoes of the sorrow of countless remnant souls.

The moment the Red Lotus Karmic Fire touched the Soup of Life, the liquid, spanning ten thousand light-years, boiled as if it were alive.

The ghostly face, formed from pent-up resentment, struggled to escape, only to be licked away by the flames and reduced to wisps of smoke.

The blood and flesh remains rolled in the karmic fire, gradually losing their stench and emitting a mellow amber fragrance.

The karmic fire of the red lotus spread relentlessly, its speed surpassing time and space, and within just a few days, the entire Soup of Life was ablaze.

Given the quality and volume of the soup of life, if it were simply burning, it would probably last for hundreds of millions of years.

However, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire is different. It is released by the Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and its power is essentially even higher than that of the Ninth Grade. The Soup of Life is shrinking at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.

Throughout this process, the three heads were constantly fighting each other. They may have sensed the approaching danger, but their chaotic and mad nature prevented them from stopping the battle.

The mechanical skull crushed the horns of the coral skull, but what spewed out from the broken end was not a parasitic poisonous moth, but golden light particles purified by the burning of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

The mucus from the faceless skull corroded the mechanical gears, and after the rust peeled off, it revealed bone patterns as white as jade.

The coral skull's retaliation caused tender shoots to sprout from the holes in the faceless skull—the purest crystallization of life force remaining after the resentment had been burned away.

Time slipped by, one year... three years... seven years...

Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. During these twenty years, the soup of life has been scorched by the red lotus fire, gradually concentrating as if being simmered by a great fire.

Because of the changes in the Soup of Life, the entire cosmic battlefield also underwent tremendous changes, with the outer perimeter becoming even more chaotic, and even causing energy tides to continuously penetrate every corner of the battlefield.

However, none of this mattered to Mellen. At his feet was a round crystal stone with a diameter of 100 meters. The crystal stone was warm and translucent, without any impurities, and emitted a mellow fragrance.

Three soft glows are also sealed within the crystal, and one can vaguely see dreamlike and magnificent colors moving within them.

A blood lotus mark appeared between Mellen's brows, and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire suddenly intensified. The hundred-meter crystal, which had already reached its limit, began to shrink rapidly again, and when it finally fell into Mellen's hand, it had turned into the size of a fist.

The crystal floated in Mellen's palm, its interior shimmering with starlight, as if it had transformed a ten-thousand-light-year-old battlefield into a handful of dazzling starlight amber.

Little Red Lotus stood on Mellen's shoulder, her eyes sparkling with excitement. She kept nuzzling Mellen's cheek, but her gaze never left the crystal, her little face showing a longing expression.

If the previous soup of life was a nauseating filth, then the crystal before us is a tempting pastry.

Mellen naturally understood what the little guy was thinking. He gently tapped his dog's head and said with a smile, "Alright, this is what I prepared for you. Digest it well."

Little Red Lotus made a happy "woo-woo" sound, and then swallowed the crystal in one gulp with a "woof".

Mellen chuckled and patted Little Red Lotus's head again. He then stretched out his other hand, and the inherited artifacts of the Lion, Ape, and Elephant races appeared.

These were found by Melen while refining the three heads. The inherited artifacts of the lion and ape were in the faceless head, while the inherited artifact of the elephant tribe was in the mechanical head.

When they first obtained the inherited artifacts of the three races, they all suffered intense distortion and corruption. Even if they still possessed the ability to inherit, it would be done in a more bizarre and grotesque way.

Fortunately, the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire was a suitable remedy. After being burned, although the three races' inherited artifacts were damaged to varying degrees, the contamination within them was finally removed.

After putting away the three clans' inherited artifacts, Mellen tilted his head slightly and said calmly, "Having watched for so long, it's time to come out and say hello."

There was no response, only the chaotic ebb and flow of energy.

Mellen shook his head slightly, reached out and grabbed, and one of the energy tides immediately dissipated and collapsed, as if strands of silk had fallen into Mellen's palm.

Suddenly, a streak of light broke free from its restraints and began to flash away into the distance.

Mellen chuckled softly, lightly tapping his finger in the void. Space distorted, transforming into an invisible ripple that swept past the stream of light, which instantly dissipated into sparks.

Before it completely dissipated, the sparks vaguely formed the image of a valiant woman, gazing at Mellen with a cold gaze; this was clearly just a special incarnation.

In fact, Mellen had known for a long time that he was being monitored. He hadn't pointed it out before simply to buy time. Now, however, Mellen's power in the Beast Universe was increasing day by day. In addition, after analyzing the power of the rules contained in the [Life Mother Nest - Myriad Things Return to Nothingness], his strength had improved. He felt that he could conduct a further test, so he decisively made his move.

Mellen naturally knew that the person monitoring him was an avatar, but it didn't matter; he had his own ways of dealing with it.

With a slight wave of his hand, the dissipating sparks of light froze instantly, then fell into Mellen's hands like swallows returning to their nests.

Time, space, illusion, reality, dream, life, soul...

Layer upon layer of rules appeared, overlapped, circled, and combined, transforming into a power capable of tracing cause and effect and disregarding distance, directly acting on the body of the Starfire Incarnation.

The Realm of Endless Starfire, the Mysterious Phoenix Realm.

The valiant woman was handling a series of tasks. As Xuanling's trusted subordinate, she was usually quite busy.

Suddenly, the valiant woman's expression changed drastically. She transformed into a streak of fire and shot into the sky, crying out, "Master, save me..."

At that moment, a profound power suddenly invaded the Xuanfeng Secret Realm, disregarding all the defenses within and directly penetrating through layers of obstacles to affect the valiant woman.

The valiant woman's strength was shattered the moment she came into contact with the profound power, and all her protective measures were rendered ineffective after only a slight flicker.

Under the erosion of a profound power, the time in which the valiant woman resides is distorted, and space begins to shrink, as if trying to pull her from the real world into a 'point' without up, down, left, or right.

The valiant woman's face froze in terror, as if, while being pulled, she had become a painting, unable to move, without thought, and could only passively await her predetermined fate.

Just then, a clear phoenix cry rang out between heaven and earth. The intangible sound carried a substantial power, breaking through the layers of seals on the valiant woman.

In the instant her thoughts flowed, the valiant woman instantly transformed into a ball of starlight. This was a unique innate ability of the Xuanfeng clan. After transforming into starlight, she could not only be immune to most attacks on matter, energy, spirit, and mind, but also greatly weaken attacks at the level of rules.

However, even though the valiant woman was considered a strong figure among the Ancestral Gods, and even though she had honed her Starfire talent to an extremely high level, the profound power still clung to her like a bone-deep infection.

One-third of the starlight that the valiant woman had transformed into was already covered by darkness, and this darkness was still writhing and eroding.

"Hmph!"

Xuanling let out a displeased snort. She hadn't felt this kind of challenge to her dignity for many years.

A wisp of flame drifted out, like the most ordinary candle flame, seemingly carrying no power, yet it crossed space the moment it appeared and landed on the darkness.

The darkness vanished in an instant, like snow falling in spring; however, the spark that the valiant woman had transformed into was also reduced by a small portion.

The valiant woman reappeared in her true form. She stumbled and almost fell to the ground, her face as pale as paper, and her body faintly glowed with a fluorescent light, making her appear somewhat transparent.

Despite her physical weakness, the valiant woman, supported by her fellow tribesmen, arrived at the main hall and respectfully knelt down, saying, "Thank you, Master, for saving me."

Xuanling looked at the valiant woman, her eyes seeming to hold countless worlds in flux: "What just happened?"

The valiant woman recounted everything that had happened.

After listening, Xuanling muttered to himself, "The Wolf Lord is reclaiming the ultimate power of the Heavenly Dragon Clan? Your Starfire Avatar was discovered by the Wolf Lord, and just now he attacked you directly from a great distance through the connection between the avatar and you?"

The valiant woman lowered her head and remained silent. She knew this was her master's habit when he was thinking, and that he wasn't asking her a question.

After a moment, Xuanling asked, "What do you think?"

The valiant woman said, "The Wolf Lord's strength has exceeded its limits! Even with the Wolf Clan's heritage having been tempered by the vast universe, it shouldn't have reached this level!"

Xuanling nodded slightly and said, "So, this so-called Wolf Lord was probably created by the Dragon. The Dragon may have had some other purpose in sending him back to the Myriad Beasts Universe."

The valiant woman hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Master, in that case, shouldn't we nip this uncertainty in the bud?"

Xuanling pondered for a moment and said, "You mean the Fire Seed Alliance that the Wolf Lord created?"

After a moment, Xuanling shook his head and said, "The fusion of the universe is about to begin. If we shift our attention now, we may lose the initiative. This may be the dragon's true purpose."

"No matter how much trouble the so-called Fire Seed Alliance causes, it's nothing more than the struggle of a bunch of ants. Just keep a close eye on the Celestial Dragon Clan. I have a feeling that when the fusion of the universe begins, they will definitely not be peaceful."

"As for this wolf lord..."

"That's quite interesting. He's clearly not a ninth-rank, yet he can unleash some of the power of a ninth-rank. Perhaps he possesses some kind of secret technique or treasure? In any case, for now, we should just keep a minimal amount of surveillance on him and see what he does next."

A valiant woman should be respectful.

The cosmic battlefield.

The spark in Mellen's hand was burned away by a domineering flame powerful enough to incinerate heaven and earth. Without a medium, Mellen was unable to continue attacking the valiant woman in the Xuanfeng Secret Realm.

However, during this confrontation, Mellen also got a glimpse of the power of the strongest.

Overall, this trip to the cosmic battlefield was very fruitful. The energy and rules contained in the Soup of Life were more than enough for Little Red Lotus to advance her cultivation to the limit of True Immortal, and the excess power could be given back to Melon and the other dogs.

Furthermore, the fact that the Xuanfeng clan did not react further to Mellen's actions allowed Mellen to deduce many things, and thus, he could proceed with some other plans.

Although there are still many treasures left on the cosmic battlefield, they are not enough to make Mellen waste any more time here.

A few days later, Mellen returned to the Wolf Clan's secret realm, and upon his return, he heard some good news.

Following the guidance of the stone carvings, the archaeologists from Baoshi Academy found the broken "Ten Thousand Beasts Totem - Ancestral Pillar". Later, based on some clues found during the excavation, they discovered three more Ancestral Pillars.