Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 195 Arrival
Training mission on Visca Star:

1 Hunting Guide (100 kinds of monsters), you can get 2 points if you successfully hunt them all.

2. Obtain the special quest item 'Death Soul Jade'. Success will grant you 15 points.

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 Visca Star training mission."

"Accepted successfully."

"Please fill in your departure time. Virtual Universe Company will arrange a spaceship to take you to Visca."

……

Qin Ming looked at the task with a smile.

His main reason for choosing this mission was to hunt down demonic beasts and obtain a large number of souls to power the growth of the Myriad Soul Banner and his second avatar, the 'River of Souls'.

As for everything else, they are secondary.

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

Executing a mission often requires staying in the mission world for several years, or even decades or centuries.

He naturally had to be prepared.

This includes the cultivation resources and experimental equipment needed for the "Bloodline Record" and "Soul Forging" paths of the pharmacist, as well as the "Life Puppet" resources for the puppeteer, etc.

After the second clone, the 'River of Souls,' was born, the time and efficiency of cultivation increased by almost a hundred or a thousand times.

The thought process of that enormous soul body was far faster than that of races like the Machine Race and the Zerg.

With the ability to multitask, one can not only simultaneously assist in cultivating the laws of earth and space, but also learn many different kinds of secret techniques at the same time.

They even separate into individual soul entities to do other things in the inner world and the underworld.

Of course, the most important thing at this moment is the cultivation world mission.

The first priority upon entering Visca is to conceal one's identity!
Even though Qin Ming's strength far surpasses that of others of the same level, he wouldn't be foolish enough to directly expose his identity and indiscriminately kill people.

In a cultivation world where even humans don't exist, almost any weapon will reveal its identity, because demonic beasts rely more on their powerful physical bodies to fight.

Therefore, we must either act swiftly and decisively.

They either possess a strong talent for stealth or conceal their identity.

As an illusionist, Qin Ming still has many ways to conceal his identity.

After acquiring the second clone, 'River of Souls', one can further conceal their soul aura by controlling their soul talent.

Besides these two methods, there are also flesh and blood puppets!
By using flesh and blood puppets, combined with soul control to conceal one's soul aura, one can almost perfectly blend into different demon beast groups.

Therefore, Qin Ming first needs to buy a batch of monster corpses that might be useful.

"A language of the monster category?"

With Qin Ming's powerful soul force and extremely fast thinking speed, he could grasp it with just a glance.

……

Inside the cultivation room, a silver-gray nutrient tank sat quietly.

For more than three months, Qin Ming's human form has been lying in the nutrient tank, where cold liquid rich in energy has been constantly penetrating his skin, muscles, and internal organs, rapidly transforming him.

"drop!"

The hatch of the nutrient tank slowly opened.

Qin Ming opened his eyes and stood up from the nutrient solution, which had become almost like clear water. His naked body was covered in flowing cloud wings that formed a slightly casual outfit.

"Body power at the ninth level of the universe, mental power at the ninth level of the universe."

With a slight movement, Qin Ming quickly mastered the power emanating from every part of his body, causing the surrounding air to vibrate subtly.

In just about three months, he directly advanced to the ninth level of the cosmic level.

His physical abilities have reached their limit; unless he breaks through to the Domain Lord level, he cannot improve any further.

This is much faster than the advancement of many powerful races and special life forms.

Even with his mountain giant avatar, which absorbed precious metal veins, it still took him several years to level up, no matter how quickly.

"The nutrient solution from Virtual Universe Company is indeed as good as its reputation, but it's a pity that my Mountain Giant and River of Souls can't enjoy the same treatment."

Mountain giants grow by devouring precious metal veins, and the River of Souls needs to devour souls; these nutrient solutions designed for flesh and blood naturally have no effect.

……

When Qin Ming walked out of the cultivation room, some servants and guards who were busy in the manor immediately bowed respectfully.

"Your Highness!"

"Your Highness!"

"Your Highness."

The Soul Master 'Quide,' who had reached the pinnacle of his power, also flew out from his residence nearby.

"Thank you for your hard work these past few days. The things I ordered should have arrived by now, right?"

Qin Ming looked at 'Quide' and smiled. It was a bit of a waste to have a King-level expert as his bodyguard, but it would certainly provide a great guarantee for his safety.

"Everyone's here."

Quaid handed over a World Ring.

Qin Ming took the World Ring and quickly refined it, scanning it rapidly with his mental power.

The resources here cost him a full 800 million Hunyuan, the most important of which were the mountains of metal ore and the corpses of monsters.

In addition, there is a large number of precision instruments.

These are special equipment for pharmacists and puppeteers. With these, Qin Ming can divert some of the Soul River's energy to carry out practical operations.

Both the World Ring and the Tier 5 Myriad Soul Banner can sustain life, making it not much different from the normal world.

……

the next day.

Qin Ming's flowing cloud wings fluttered slightly as he flew out of the palace, wielding the Zhenyue Pojun Halberd.

at the same time.

A fish-shaped spaceship swept across the distant, misty sky and landed on the territory of Qinming Continent.

"Rumble..."

The spaceship slowly descended. "Your Highness, this is your first training mission. I wish you all the best," Quaid offered his respectful congratulations.

"Thank you for your kind words." Qin Ming smiled and nodded, then transformed into a stream of light and flew towards the spaceship sent by the Virtual Universe Company.

"Congratulations, Your Highness!"

Thousands of guards and tens of thousands of servants respectfully greeted him at the same time, while Qin Ming had already swiftly entered the spaceship in the distance.

The spaceship soon departed and disappeared.

……

In the dark universe, the fish-shaped spaceship moves rapidly forward.

"Your Highness, we are heading to Visca. We are already traveling at 40 times the speed of light and are expected to arrive in 12 hours."

A middle-aged man in black armor with a single horn on his forehead respectfully said, "Your Highness may rest now. I will inform Your Highness when the spaceship reaches its destination."

"Okay." Qin Ming nodded his thanks.

Qin Ming then sat down on the sofa next to him, closed his eyes, and his consciousness appeared in the space of the Myriad Soul Banner.

Inside the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, a winding, blood-red river stretching nearly 20,000 kilometers flows through the void.

The almost tangible moonlight poured down, and the rich essence of the soul quickly surged into the river of the soul.

From time to time, a figure about two meters tall, resembling Qin Ming, would split off from the River of Souls and fly out, landing in the palace complex below.

This vast palace is now filled with all sorts of experimental instruments needed by pharmacists.

Hundreds of figures clad in wide white robes moved about, operating various instruments to analyze the flesh, blood, and materials of some monsters.

Many of them are already preparing medicines.

The Bloodline Records, a secret art for pharmacists, is quite interesting. Rather than calling it a secret art, it's more accurate to describe it as a research-based discipline.

To even get to the first stage of getting started, you need to master an incredibly vast amount of knowledge.

The entire system is divided into 10 levels, each corresponding to one of the 10 levels of the bloodline of a human race.

Start with Level 1.

Even if displayed in a virtual universe, it would be comparable to a library!

This made Qin Ming understand why the profession of pharmacist is so niche; there is so much to learn and master, and this is only what the 'Bloodline Pharmacist' branch of pharmacists needs to master.

In the eyes of the 'Domain Dust' pharmacists, potions are merely a facade.

As a cosmologist, the core of the work is to thoroughly understand bloodlines and genes, and then optimize and enhance the original bloodline through special methods.

Qin Ming largely agreed with this.

And this is actually a prerequisite for the Distraction Power Flow.

Fortunately, with the River of Souls, he was able to multitask, even splitting into tens of thousands of consciousnesses to learn simultaneously.

The initial knowledge is actually not complicated.

Many of these can be directly searched in the virtual universe, and with Qin Ming's soul computing speed, which is even more powerful than the supercomputer of the mechanical race, he can learn them extremely quickly.

In comparison, the Soul Forge technique is much more profound and has an extremely high entry barrier.

It's not that the soul is more complex than blood or genes, but rather that it's far too difficult to observe.

It is naturally more difficult to prepare a targeted medication based on this.

However, this was extremely easy for Qin Ming. Both the power of the Myriad Soul Banner and his talent for controlling souls allowed him to easily get started in this area.

……

soon.

12 hours passed.

"Your Highness, we are about to embark on a space shuttle journey back to the original universe." After the middle-aged man with the one-horned head finished speaking, the spaceship trembled slightly before returning to calm.

“The exterior is virtual,” the middle-aged man with the unicorn murmured.

The surrounding scenery changes, revealing the outside world.

Various ethereal dust particles drifted in the thin mist formed by the primordial energy of the universe, revealing a dreamlike light.

In the distance, there stands a magnificent palace.

The palace radiated a dazzling golden light, no less impressive than the temple of Master Qianwu in the Qianwu Secret Realm, and it exuded an astonishing aura.

"This palace is guarded by the top experts of our Virtual Universe Company."

The middle-aged man with the unicorn horn explained.

"The company will assign powerful individuals to monitor the continents or planets within the secret realms to prevent the native life forms from causing any trouble."

Qin Ming nodded slightly. There were quite a few immortal gods on Visca.

If there were no guardians, the immortals inside would have escaped long ago.

"I can only escort Your Highness this far," the middle-aged man with the one horn said, bowing. "It's not far from Viska. Your Highness can travel the rest of the way by yourself in your spaceship."

"Thank you," Qin Ming said.

The hatch opened, and Qin Ming, clad in silver-white armor formed from flowing cloud wings, flew out of the spaceship and stood in the void.

boom!
A silver-white pyramid-shaped spaceship appeared out of thin air.

"Number 1, activate the stealth system."

"Okay, master."

The mechanical race's spaceship transformed into an ordinary meteorite and flew towards Visca.

Although Qin Ming already possessed the Sky Rift Palace, a flying palace treasure bestowed upon him by his Dark Master, it was still too much of a stretch for him to control such a treasure with his own strength.

On the contrary, the mechanical race's spaceships only require issuing commands, and their maneuverability and defense are quite good.

Inside the control room, Qin Mingyao looked ahead.

In the far distance, there is an enormous, almost infinite, super-large planet suspended in the void.

More than ten stars orbit around the planet, preventing it from falling into darkness.

Qin Ming had seen many of the Void Continent.

This was the first time Qin Ming had ever seen such a massive planet; the scene was truly awe-inspiring.

wow——

The mechanical ship plunged downwards at an extremely high speed.

(End of this chapter)