Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 148 Luo Feng, become a disciple of the Qianwu!

"A zero mortality rate for a safety-level mission? The mission can be completed simply by hunting a few stellar-level monsters. No wonder the mortality rate is zero."

Upon opening the task, Qin Ming started by checking the security level.

Upon seeing this, Qin Ming shook his head.

There are four levels of missions: safe (0% mortality rate), normal (10% mortality rate), difficult (20% mortality rate), and dangerous (50% mortality rate).

This mortality rate is still relative to ordinary geniuses in secret realms.

For Qin Ming, it was even less of a challenge.

With his powerful soul force, he could easily kill an ordinary cosmic-level monster with a single glance.

If the Myriad Soul Banner is used, it can instantly kill ordinary Domain Lords!

Inside the Myriad Soul Banner are the souls of hundreds of top-grade, ninth-tier cosmic-level monsters that he purchased from the Secret Realm System.

These top-tier cosmic-level monsters, even if they were to fight alone, could rival ordinary domain lords; otherwise, they wouldn't be so expensive.

Even a normal cosmic-level ninth-order slave only costs 100 billion cosmic coins!

The ones Qin Ming bought were all worth trillions!
With these cosmic-level ninth-tier monsters, once the domain is activated, even a domain lord would be certain to die under a combined soul attack.

Therefore, Qin Ming is not afraid of opponents at the Domain Lord level at all. For him, the problem is how to find enemies at the Domain Lord level!

Furthermore, his motivation wasn't simply to upgrade the Myriad Soul Banner.

It's also for the sake of gaining experience!

Otherwise, he could have asked the guard captain 'Alex' and others to capture a domain lord-level monster for him to use in the evolution of the Myriad Soul Banner.

Although, nominally, their main task as guard captains is to protect their own safety.

But no one minds if they ask them to do some side jobs.

After all, it was just a monster at the domain lord level.

Of course, they cannot accompany the mission, otherwise the training effect will be lost.

Qin Ming's guards are immortals, and the other Heavenly-level geniuses in the Qianwu Secret Realm also have the strength of Realm Lords.

How can one train with the protection of a realm lord?

After cultivating in the Qianwu Secret Realm for several months, his strength had increased a thousandfold compared to the past, but he had never experienced a single real battle.

This is obviously not possible.

Battles in a virtual universe, no matter how realistic, are still virtual.

He needs real-world experience!
On Earth, Qin Ming's strength improved the fastest during actual combat.

That kind of real-world combat that gets your blood pumping and puts pressure on you!
Qin Ming decided to start with the danger level.

List of dangerous missions:
1. Bone Battlefield
2. The Silent Desert
3. Crimson Wasteland
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5 Shadow Swamp
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9 Machine Maze
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18 Ice Soul Abyss
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The list is densely packed, with a total of 238 options available.

All training missions take place in special areas of the Qianwu Continent, areas that have been specially modified to serve as training grounds for geniuses.

How vast is the Qianwu Secret Realm?

A diameter of 1.2 light-years is a staggering 11.35 trillion kilometers.

Even if you threw a million Earths in, it wouldn't make a splash.

Although it can't compare to the core missions of the Virtual Universe Company, which are essentially a secret realm, it's more than enough for training some geniuses at the stellar level.

"The Battlefield of Bones, an extremely ancient battlefield of gods, is where a great war broke out between the natives living on the continent and the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom in ancient times."

A large number of immortal gods perished.

The battlefield of bones was once a battlefield of gods, filled with malevolent energy, and from which strange skeletal life forms were born…

Qin Ming looked on, a strange light in his eyes.

It seems that this secret realm continent was forcibly occupied by Teacher Qianwu, and all the original immortal inhabitants were killed.

The requirement for this mission is to survive for three months and collect 100 bone crystals.

"Skeletal life? Interesting!"

Qin Ming looked at the mission with some curiosity, but did not choose to accept it, because skeletal life forms have no soul.

No matter how high the score, a mission without a soul holds no appeal for Qin Ming.

Scroll down to look at each task one by one.

"A desolate desert..."

"The Crimson Blaze Wasteland is a dangerous place in the Qianwu Continent, where numerous lava volcanoes erupt and lava flows everywhere."

Because of the abundant primordial energy of the universe in the Qianwu Continent, a large number of lava life forms were born in the magma.

Lava Salamander, Fire Spirit, Crimson Flame Wyvern…

Qin Ming looked at the detailed introduction of the Crimson Flame Wasteland.

The description is very long.

This includes environmental threats and various powerful and ferocious beasts that inhabit the area.

The training mission in the Crimson Wasteland is hunting!
"Tsk tsk, this mission is perfect." Qin Ming's eyes lit up. "The strongest in the Crimson Flame Wasteland is a peak Domain Lord, and the weakest has the strength of a star level."

Therefore, one must be extremely careful during the hunt; once discovered by a powerful monster, it's no longer hunting, but being hunted.

Peak Domain Lord!

Ordinary domain lords pose no threat to Qin Ming.

However, even a peak domain lord still poses a certain threat.

However, if you first upgrade the Myriad Soul Banner to the fourth tier, and then rely on the souls of Domain Lord-level monsters, flesh and blood puppets, or even refine immortal corpses, hunting them will not be difficult.

There are many monsters in the Crimson Wilderness. If you hunt them down, it's not impossible to upgrade the Myriad Soul Banner directly to the fifth tier.

Let's look at each task one by one.

The vast majority of these tasks involve combat and hunting, while some involve collecting special treasures or survival missions.

For example, in the Thousand Machine Maze, you defeat the mechanical puppets inside the maze and obtain special tokens from their bodies. The more tokens you collect, the higher your score.

"Among these missions, the Crimson Wasteland, the Starbone Battlefield, and the Shadow Swamp are all hunting missions, all of which are special environments and contain a large number of monsters."

They all suit me perfectly.

However, the Crimson Wasteland has the most monsters.

Just choose it.

After completing the task, I can explore other places.

Qin Ming's eyes shone brightly.

The training of geniuses in the Qianwu Secret Realm is relatively conservative, preventing them from being placed in overly dangerous situations. The Qianwu Universe Kingdom doesn't value nurturing a genius, and they are unwilling to let them perish easily.

It's not that there aren't more dangerous places on the Qianwu Continent.

For example, some missions involving cosmic-level geniuses even involve world lord-level monsters and enemies.

How could such a vast place as the Qianwu Secret Realm possibly be without a Realm Lord?
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Crimson Wasteland Training Mission:

Hunting 10000 star-level monsters will earn you 10,000 points.

2. Hunt down 100 cosmic-level monsters; success will earn you 10 points. (Note: 99% of those who accept the Crimson Wasteland quest will only complete the first mission.)

Hunting cosmic-level monsters may attract the pursuit of domain lord-level lava behemoths.

Technological items are prohibited in this mission; failure to comply will result in mission failure.
As long as one of the two tasks is completed, it means that the training task is successfully completed.

"drop."

"Please confirm acceptance of the Crimson Wasteland training mission."

"Accepted successfully."

"Please fill in your departure time. The Qianwu Secret Realm will arrange a spaceship to take you to the Crimson Wilderness."

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After accepting the cultivation mission, Qin Ming began to make various preparations.

"Although the mission does not allow the use of technological items, we still need to prepare a spaceship, as the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship can no longer keep up with my pace."

With the Myriad Souls Banner advancing to the fourth tier, perhaps we could consider hunting down a Realm Lord to advance it to the fifth tier.

Therefore, a suitable spaceship is necessary.

"After several months of nurturing, the Star-Eating Grass has grown to the ninth level of the Stellar level, and it can serve as my battle armor without any problem."

"Well, just in case, we'll buy a batch of ninth-tier cosmic-level monsters. This time, we don't need to buy the top-tier ones. Ordinary ninth-tier cosmic-level monsters will only cost 1 cosmic coins."

Buy another batch of monster flesh to replenish the blood pool.

There's nothing else needed.

Log in to the Qianwu Secret Realm system quickly and make your purchases there.

Among the treasures is a spaceship!
Qin Ming slid the virtual panel and hovered the final confirmation button on the transaction interface at his fingertips.

A 1200-meter-tall E-class peak mechanical race spaceship—this is an essential tool for venturing into the Qianwu Secret Realm, conquering the Genius Battle, and even venturing into the extraterrestrial battlefield in the future.

He could afford the price of two thousand Hunyuan units, and the resources given to him by Master Qianwu amounted to more than nine thousand Hunyuan. The divine weapons and armor on the several immortal corpses he possessed also gave him confidence.

The mechanical race's spaceship on Earth has been handed over to Babata for strict control, serving as a trump card to protect Earth.

The firepower of the mechanical race's spaceships was enough to kill an ordinary world lord.

Having acquired the mixed-elemental power that he had transferred, China had already purchased cosmic-level slaves and acquired that mechanical race spaceship.

After confirming the purchase of the spaceship and the array of cosmic monsters, Qin Ming was about to exit the virtual universe when he noticed a red dot flashing in his email notification.

"Huh, is that Luo Feng?"

A smile appeared on Qin Ming's lips.

Before this, he had communicated with Luo Feng several times and had a general understanding of his situation.

Unlike the original timeline, although Luo Feng possessed the Golden Horned Beast, which was still an egg, he had already gone to the universe to open an account and enter the virtual universe before the possession.

The virtual universe recognizes the soul!

Therefore, even though Luo Feng's body has transformed into a golden-horned behemoth, it does not prevent Luo Feng from logging into the virtual universe.

For the past few months, Luo Feng had been adapting to his body, which was still an egg, and sorting out his bloodline memories.

The bloodline memories of the Golden Horned Beast are enormous.

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Virtual universe, Ganwu Continent.

Inside a restaurant, Luo Feng, who appeared in human form, was chatting with Jia Yi with a joyful smile on his face.

Jia Yi also knew about his possession of the Golden Horned Beast.

"Brother Ming, you're here."

Seeing Qin Ming walk in from outside, Luo Feng quickly stood up.

"Tell me what happened."

Qin Ming waved his hand and casually found a seat to sit down.

"It's strange! Normally, it would take about a year for this golden-horned giant beast egg to hatch naturally."

My original plan was to hatch as soon as possible and create my first clone.

But for some reason, when I possessed the Golden Horned Beast embryo, took control of its body, and sorted through its memories, my soul seemed to become stronger.

Both comprehension and talent have improved.

So, I'm hesitating about whether to hatch early.

Luo Feng was also somewhat confused.

He naturally wants to regain his human body as soon as possible, but it seems that hatching prematurely may affect his future potential.

"Early hatching? There's no need! It'll only take about a year."

A glint flashed in Qin Ming's eyes. Just as he had guessed, Luo Feng, who had returned to the embryonic state, seemed to have his soul potential growing stronger under the influence of Earth's characteristics.

Earth is a special treasure created by the powerful reincarnation of a god-king, the Mountain-Sitting Guest, who devoted a great deal of effort to its creation.

Life forms conceived on Earth are born with extremely powerful spiritual potential and have a huge advantage in terms of mental state.

"You should gestate normally, allowing your soul to grow to its limit before breaking out of the shell."

There's no need to worry about cultivation.

The Golden Horned Beast's cultivation is already extremely fast, and if it devours metal, it can accelerate its cultivation even further, up to ninety times faster at planetary and stellar levels.

After you hatch, it won't take you more than a year to reach the ninth level of the stellar level, and you can step into the cosmic level in two years.

This is also enough time for you to create a human clone and participate in the Genius Battle a few years later.

Before this, Qin Ming had told them about the Genius Battle.

"Then I'll wait a little longer!"

Luo Feng no longer hesitated.

It would only take about a year, and with the virtual universe, he, Xu Xin, his parents, and his younger brother could meet and cultivate normally within it.

"Okay, you should focus on improving your strength during this time."

Or perhaps I can find a way to bring you into the Qianwu Secret Realm, and even have you become a disciple of the Qianwu King like me!

(End of this chapter)