Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 157 Innate Secret Technique, Soaring Strength
2064 5 Month 11 Day.

The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, the Netherworld.

Qin Ming's consciousness hovered above the blood pool, looking down. In the center of this blood pool, which had a diameter of nearly 100,000 kilometers, an incredibly huge black oval egg floated.

When the oval egg was first conceived, it was grayish-brown and small. However, as it developed, the color became darker and darker, and dense golden patterns appeared on its surface.

And its size is getting bigger and bigger, and it is now thousands of kilometers high.

"almost."

"Finally, it's about to be born."

Qin Ming looked at the giant black egg, lost in thought.

A height of over a thousand kilometers is not considered large for rock-based life forms.

But this is normal, because even special life forms are not born at their maximum size.

Even a life form of ten times the size of the Golden Horned Beast, at the ninth level of the Stellar Realm, would only be a kilometer long!
Only when a being reaches the peak of the Realm Lord level can its body length increase to 1000 kilometers.

The mountain giant before us is only stellar-sized, yet it already reaches 1000 kilometers in size!

The difference is so great that it is astonishing.

It should be known that the Black Sky Lord is a six-armed giant of black crystal, millions of kilometers tall!
Of course, even at a million kilometers, its size is not considered large among rocks.

For example, the Lishan Volcano, a unique life form, is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Or perhaps the strongest World Tree, which, along with the Black Sky Lord, is a top-tier cosmic overlord, with a trunk 1200 million kilometers in diameter, a height of 5.9 million kilometers, and a canopy diameter exceeding 10 billion kilometers.

However, these creatures are very difficult to move, or even unable to move at all.

The larger the volume, the harder it is to move autonomously.

It was so large that it could hardly move on its own.

Qin Ming chose a different kind of mountain giant clone.

Although not the largest in size, it is still extremely large and can maintain a normal speed of movement.

Qin Ming might choose a clone that is so large as to be completely immobile and can only serve as a power bank for divine energy, but he certainly wouldn't choose it as his first clone.

In fact, given the ability of the third-tier Myriad Soul Banner to generate flesh and blood, Qin Ming had little interest in the Nine Netherworld clone.

"I wonder what kind of talent the Mountain Giant will possess?"

Qin Ming was also curious.

Before the clone was fully formed, the life inside the eggshell remained in a state of confusion, and he was unable to perceive it.

About three hours later.

"Kakaka~~~"

The oval-shaped giant egg, which was over a thousand kilometers high, gradually developed cracks.

This made Qin Ming look forward to it.

With a final snap, the eggshell shattered completely, revealing a six-armed black crystal giant, thousands of kilometers tall, standing in mid-air.

"It's finally done!"

"Its power is about three hundred times that of the human body. It seems that the initial life level of my mountain giant avatar is about 300 times."

The mountain giant's clone emitted a booming sound.

"It's a bit lower than I expected. If there's nothing special about it, then I'll be at a loss."

The mountain giant's clone rose from the pool of blood, strode away, and stepped onto the Netherworld Earth.

Rumbling--

The earth collapsed, and the mountains and rivers trembled.

"Hmm? Why is the body so heavy? Even just moving it can cause such enormous damage to the surroundings."

The mountain giant emitted a rumbling sound, tinged with doubt.

Immediately, Qin Ming found a place to sit cross-legged.

He began to carefully sense himself and soon felt that there was a faint aura of law within the black crystalline body of his massive body, containing a trace of information.

Qin Ming's consciousness absorbed this information.

……

"So that's how it is. The reason why the mountain giant's body is so heavy is because of this. It seems that my choice was right."

The mountain giant's clone whispered, "No wonder that Black Sky Lord has such a high level of life and also has the name Black Sky."

The information contained within this enormous body allowed Qin Ming to learn about the Mountain Giant's talent, and the talent information explained everything.

The Mountain Giant's clone possesses three innate secret techniques:
First, the King of the Earth.

Second, black holes in space.

Third, absolute defense.

The first innate secret technique, 'Earth King,' refers to the ability of the mountain giant to completely merge his body into the earth, causing the surrounding space to be affected by the mountain giant.

This influence increases as the Mountain Giant's strength grows.

At the same time, the Earth Body can also absorb the essence of minerals and metals contained in the earth to quickly improve its strength and even improve its life level.

Just like the king of the earth.

The second innate secret technique, 'Spatial Black Hole,' is a combat innate secret technique used for sealing and strangulation.

Once activated, the black crystals and golden runes all over the Mountain Giant's body will be activated, and the surrounding space will be instantly affected, even torn apart, just like turning into a black hole.

They can even condense spatial vortexes on all six arms to use as weapons to annihilate enemies.

The spatial vortex can devour everything, even light, turning everything into complete darkness.

This is probably the origin of the title "Black Sky Lord".

As for the third innate secret technique, 'Absolute Defense', it's very simple.

That means any material impact force can be directly reduced to one-thousandth!

Moreover, this weakening has a very high priority and can be stacked with abilities such as armor and treasures.

"What a powerful innate secret method."

The mountain giant's clone spoke in a deep voice, "Earth King, by merging with the earth, one elevates their life level. This must be the reason why the Black Sky Lord's life level is so ridiculously high."

"Earth King!"

The mountain giant's clone instantly unleashed its innate secret technique.

Boom~~~~
The mountain giant's entire body transformed into countless black crystals, merging into the dark earth beneath its feet.

In an instant, Qin Ming felt that the entire Netherworld Space, with a diameter of one hundred million kilometers, was completely under his control.

In the instant it merges into the earth.

Qin Ming's consciousness sensed the Earth Body's subtle control over the surrounding space, but perhaps due to its stellar-level nature, the control over space was obviously very weak.

However, the perception of soil and space is extremely clear.

"After merging with the earth, I was able to directly sense the fluctuations emanating from the soil and space."

"To comprehend the laws in this state is a thousand times, ten thousand times stronger than with a human body!" Qin Ming was shocked.

Under the guidance of Master Qianwu, he began to comprehend the essence of 108 spatial laws at the stellar level, relying on his human body and powerful soul.

This road is not easy to walk.

Four years ago, Qin Ming had an epiphany and initially grasped the nine most basic types.

Even with his talent, in the past four years he has only become more familiar with and mastered these nine spatial essences.

There was no clue as to the 27 more complex types that followed.

But at this moment, Qin Ming found that in this state, the profound mysteries of the spatial laws that he had previously been unable to understand or comprehend seemed to be clearly displayed before him.

It only takes a little thought to understand.

You'll be able to master it in no time.

"Try absorbing the essence of the earth again. The Netherworld Space inside the Myriad Soul Banner is formed by the Myriad Soul Banner absorbing a large amount of monster flesh and blood. There are also a lot of metallic substances in the monster corpses."

Coming to his senses, Qin Ming immediately had a thought and instructed his body, which had transformed into the earth, to absorb the metals and minerals within.

Silently, the metallic substances in the earth merged into the black crystals.

Within the core of the mountain giant's body, a continent spanning 90 kilometers in length and width is slowly changing as it absorbs metals and minerals.

Special life forms naturally possess an inner world, which is extremely vast. At the ninth level of the stellar level, the inner world alone is as large as 90 kilometers.

The internal world of a Golden Horned Beast of the same level is only 90 kilometers!

A difference of ten thousand times!

As he continued to devour, Qin Ming also learned why the mountain giant was a black crystal and why its movements were extremely heavy.

This is because the mountain giants have extremely high body density after consuming large amounts of metal and mineral essence.

It's like black hole matter.

Mountain giants are not only enormous in size, but their body density is also astonishingly high.

"The earth within the Netherworld does not contain any particularly precious metal minerals. At most, merging with the earth and absorbing its minerals can only increase one's strength."

However, it is impossible to elevate one's level of life.

It seems we still need to find some special mineral veins first, or simply buy special metals and minerals to absorb.

Rumbling--

With another roar, the mountain giant that had merged into the Netherworld Earth transformed back into a six-armed giant made of black crystal.

"The Mountain Giant's second talent—the Spatial Black Hole—is to use its ultra-high density body, combined with its innate runes, to simulate a black hole-like ability."

I was initially curious that, as a rock-based life form with a life level 8000 times higher, it only had a distance of 100 million kilometers.

It turns out that the mountain giant's body was an extremely compressed, super-density form.

Qin Ming spoke slowly.

One million kilometers may seem like a huge distance to a living being made of flesh and blood.

But it's nothing compared to the naturally large size of creatures like rocks and plants.

Many special life forms, hundreds of times larger, are measured in tens or hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Even plants like the cloud-borne vine and the star-eating grass can extend their lifespan to millions of kilometers or even longer.

Over the years, the star-eating grass he has been feeding has already surpassed the cosmic level, making this easy for him to do.

The mountain giant is not a purely rock-based life form; it also possesses spatial attributes.

Under extreme condensation, it even exhibited some characteristics of a black hole.

Black holes are extremely terrifying celestial bodies in the universe.

It is not a real 'hole'.

It is a 'super-high density' celestial body formed by the continuous condensation of countless collapsed substances!
It is far more terrifying than high-density celestial bodies such as white dwarfs and neutron stars!
Ordinary cosmic-level beings can walk and fight on white dwarfs.

But even something as powerful as an immortal being, once trapped deep within a black hole, can only perish.

Because of the incredibly dense and massive nature of black holes, they possess an extremely powerful gravitational pull.

Gravity tears space apart!
To be precise, black holes exist between 'primordial space' and 'space turbulence'.

Because of its extremely high density, mass, and gravity, even spatial turbulence cannot disturb it.

Therefore, a black hole is like a rock, rooted in the same place and motionless.

It can devour all matter and turn it into itself; even light cannot escape.

And this is just an ordinary black hole.

Qin Ming knew that there was a powerful black hole in the primordial universe called the Toya Black Hole.

Although it is only three meters in diameter, the endless devouring power it generates is enough to cause even a cosmic sage to perish.

Even the membrane of the primordial universe was torn open by this twisting force, creating a hole nearly 10,000 kilometers in diameter, allowing one to leave the primordial universe.

hum!
Golden runes suddenly appeared on the surface of the black crystals covering the mountain giant's body.

Countless golden runes covered the entire chest and back of the black crystal, and for a moment the surrounding space began to distort and fluctuate.

An astonishing gravitational pull emanated from the mountain giant's body, drawing in vast amounts of matter from the Netherworld, even swallowing up light and turning it into darkness.

Talent—Space Black Hole!
"My Mountain Giant clone is not dense enough and too weak, so after activating its talent, it doesn't have a significant impact on space and can't tear it apart."

Qin Ming quietly sensed the power of the spatial black hole.

"Although it cannot tear space apart, it can still influence the surrounding space with the support of the innate runes. As its strength increases, it can also have the characteristics of spatial sealing and strangulation."

Spatial confinement and strangulation are a perfect match for mountain giants, which are massive and relatively slow-moving rock-based life forms.

With the body of a mountain giant, once the talent is activated, it restricts the enemy's movement, and when it punches down, it's like a super-high-density black hole crashing down.

Its destructive power is absolutely terrifying.

"And this absolute defense reduces all material attacks by one-thousandth."

If paired with a supreme defensive treasure, the mountain giant's defense would be unimaginably formidable given its massive size!

"The only weakness of the Mountain Giant may be its soul."

"However, with the Myriad Soul Banner, I am least afraid of soul attacks!"

"With the Soul Domain of the Myriad Soul Banner, the Domination, Netherworld Regeneration, and other abilities, I am practically immortal!"

Qin Ming laughed heartily, and the entire Netherworld space trembled.

This clone is absolutely perfect for him!

"Let's go find Teacher Qianwu. There should be some areas on the Qianwu Continent with precious minerals that the mountain giants can absorb."

Even the mountain giants need a teacher's help to cultivate their secret methods.

The battle of geniuses will begin in just over two years!

I wonder how powerful I'll be with the Mountain Giant clone by then.

(End of this chapter)