Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 199 Soul Essence! An Advancement in Life Level
"Whether it's as I expected or not, you'll know once you try it!"

After moving the 'Death Soul Jade' into the Myriad Soul Banner space, Qin Ming's gaze turned cold. The Mountain Giant unleashed its full power, intending to crush the small Death Soul Jade.

The mountain giant, which is 60,000 kilometers high, is far superior to even the strongest world lord in terms of sheer power.

However, under the immense pressure, the Death Soul Jade remained completely still.

Seeing this, Qin Ming did not resort to brute force.

The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls trembled slightly, enveloped by a strange power, as if it were refining the soul of a monster.

"Click——"

A clear voice came.

The seemingly indestructible Death Soul Jade was now showing cracks.

Noisy!Noisy!Noisy!
On the refined Soul Jade, ferocious beast heads appeared, constantly changing, howling mournfully in the void, seemingly trying to burrow into Qin Ming's soul.

However, before the power of the Myriad Souls Banner, it could only turn into wisps of green smoke and disappear.

As the Death Soul Jade continued to shatter, it transformed into a familiar mist of soul essence that Qin Ming recognized. After a full half hour, all the will within the Death Soul Jade finally vanished completely.

"Congeal!"

With a soft shout from Qin Ming, the crystalline mist condensed again.

The black Death Soul Jade, originally the size of a fist, had transformed into a crystal gem only the size of a thumb.

"As I suspected, this Death Soul Jade was also formed from the essence of the soul, but it contained too much chaotic will."

Qin Ming let out a soft sigh of relief.

This discovery stirred up a myriad of thoughts within him.

The Myriad Soul Banner has two fundamental and powerful abilities: condensing the essence of flesh and blood and the origin of the soul.

His rise to prominence was due to these two fundamental abilities.

Especially the extraction of the essence of the soul!
This is also the fundamental reason for the strength of his soul.

Qin Ming had known for a long time that there were many substitutes for flesh essence in the universe, which is why he dared to take out flesh essence while still on Earth.

After all, there are countless treasures in the universe that can enhance the physical body.

As long as it's not the condensed essence of flesh and blood that can directly increase gene multiplication, then there's nothing to worry about.

The origins of our souls are different!

He didn't dare to take this thing out at all, because it was too overpowered.

It directly elevates the soul!

Of course, as his strength increased and he became an apprentice of the Lord of Qianwu Kingdom and the Lord of Darkness, his horizons gradually broadened.

There are actually many special treasures in the universe that can elevate the soul.

For example, the Chaos True Spirit, one of the three treasures of Chaos City.

Simply absorbing it can enhance one's soul to a certain extent, improve one's affinity with laws, and so on.

Or perhaps some rare and precious natural treasures.

Qin Ming's ability to cultivate his soul amplitude so quickly was not only due to his own talent, but also because his two teachers provided him with invaluable resources without reservation.

When he cultivates, if he wants to increase the amplitude of his soul from 32 times to a higher level, he needs to consume a rare and precious herb called Moon Spirit Fruit.

This treasure has the power to elevate the soul.

It also contains a trace of the power of the soul's origin.

However, this was the first time Qin Ming had ever seen a treasure that was exactly the same as the soul essence extracted from the Myriad Soul Banner.

Although this Death Soul Jade still contains a large number of 'impurities'!
With a thought, the Death Soul Jade, which had just condensed into a soul crystal, decomposed again, transforming into the purest soul essence that surged into Qin Ming's sea of ​​consciousness.

hum!
An extremely comfortable feeling rose from the depths of his soul. As this power flowed, Qin Ming could clearly feel his soul grow stronger.

"Such a pure soul essence! It's much purer than the soul essence I formed by devouring the souls of world lord-level monsters!"

Feeling the continuous flow of soul power, Qin Ming was overjoyed.

Boom——

With the burst of psychic power.

A massive black earth, weighing tens of millions of tons, was suspended in mid-air, with all the soil and sand completely enveloped by psychic power and not leaking out at all.

Under Qin Ming's control, this huge rock mass continuously deformed and flew in mid-air.

"The permeability, etherealness, flexibility, and resilience of soul power have all been enhanced, and the strength of the soul has also increased accordingly!"

Feeling the changes in his soul, Qin Ming was overjoyed.

The power of the soul also possesses many characteristics.

For example, some races are skilled at bewitching, such as the Phantom Spirits, whose souls are more pervasive.

Some races excel at soul attacks and possess even stronger soul-ethereal abilities, making them difficult to withstand with ordinary soul defenses.

The rest also have their own characteristics.

At this moment, having absorbed the refined soul essence from the Death Soul Jade, its permeability, etherealness, flexibility, and resilience have all been significantly improved!

"This is truly amazing. What kind of life form is this? Some special kind of life? Or perhaps an even stronger being, like the Golden Beast God?"

Countless thoughts raced through Qin Ming's mind.

Even a fifth-tier Myriad Soul Banner requires half an hour of refining to be completely successfully extracted, so its essence is naturally extremely high.

Even after refinement, the effects of absorbing different soul essences will vary.

How can an apprentice-level soul compare to a realm lord?

Moreover, it is extremely difficult for others to absorb the Soul Jade.

Even a realm lord would need a long time to resist the impact of that will and slowly absorb it bit by bit.

Absorbing the first one is alright, but the impact on will intensifies significantly with the second one, as if wills are stacked, becoming stronger and stronger in the end.

Most realm lords can only absorb one after a long period of time!
Limited improvement.

But for Qin Ming, there is no such thing as a limit. As long as he clears the hidden will in the Death Soul Jade, he can easily absorb it.

Just like the refined blood of the Beast God.

It contains no element of willpower.

"This is truly an extraordinary treasure. Let's call it the essence of the soul for now."

Looking at the remaining eleven Death Spirit Jade in his hand, the Myriad Soul Banner vibrated, and its strange refining power appeared, enveloping them all.

Half an hour later, eleven 'soul essences' floated in front of him.

brush!
Qin Ming tossed one of them into the air, and one of them was absorbed by the Mountain Giant's clone.

The other ten were all swallowed up by the River of Souls.

Unlike the human body, which slowly absorbed the essence, after half an hour, only a very small amount of the 'soul essence' had been consumed.

When it entered the River of Souls, it immediately dissipated at an astonishing speed.

It was completely absorbed in just a few minutes.

"Hmm? The level of life genes in the River of Souls seems to have increased?"

Qin Ming was suddenly startled.

How many are there?

The River of Souls contains souls with a thousand times the genetic makeup!

After absorbing just 10, the power increased by 1%!
The same treasure can have drastically different effects on different life forms.

The mountain giant needs to devour precious metal veins to improve itself, and the River of Souls naturally devours pure soul essence!
"It seems I need to collect more Dead Soul Jade."

Qin Ming's eyes burned with fervor as he ordered the mechanical race's spaceship to immediately head towards the next gathering place of royal beasts. "Accumulate strength first! Then, we'll go to the demon race's royal court!"

The Blood Soul Tiger clan was wiped out, with a total of 732 World Lord-level beings killed. There were many more below the World Lord level. Including the Blood Soul City slaves at the foot of the mountain, the number has exceeded nearly 10 billion!
The once somewhat empty space of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner became lively again.

However, with the River of Souls present, even if more souls were harvested, it wouldn't be enough to devour them all. Apart from leaving behind those World Lord-level souls, Qin Ming directly transformed them all into the purest soul essence.

While these origins of the soul cannot elevate the life level of the River of Souls, they can significantly increase its size.

Big is good!
Big is beautiful!
This is the rule that devours the universe.

"With the 732 souls of the Realm Lords harvested, the soul attack of the Myriad Soul Banner will be even stronger, making subsequent slaughter more efficient."

That Soul Crystal vein is worth at least hundreds of billions of Chaos Units.

Once I have enough strength, I will be able to slaughter and plunder the entire demon royal court!
There are also the Death Soul Jade, which is most likely related to the Ancestral God's Tomb.

I should go too.

That's exactly what we'll do. I wonder if the higher-ups will intervene?

Thinking of this, Qin Ming couldn't help but look up at the void, his gaze seemingly seeing a temple floating in the sky.

Visca is ultimately just a training ground.

The treasures inside are actually the private property of the human elite, used to cultivate geniuses.

If I wiped them all out...

"Never mind all that! Let's slaughter a few members of the royal family first, and pretend we don't know anything about it."

If you have any questions, go find my teacher, the Lord of Darkness!

Oh, my official teacher is Senior Brother 'Lord of Youhou', so I can ask him for help!

The mission didn't specify that you can't attack royal families or demon royal courts.

Thinking of this, Qin Ming felt relieved.

Having connections is really advantageous!
The more times you harvest, the more souls of the realm masters within the Myriad Soul Banner you accumulate, the stronger you will become.

More than seven hundred realm lord souls!

The entire Black Dragon Mountain Empire has fewer than one hundred Realm Lords.

Moreover, as it grows like a snowball, its harvesting speed will become faster and faster.

……

The mechanical race's spaceship raced through the void for a full half month, traversing the territories of hundreds of races before finally coming to a stop.

"According to the soul memories of the Blood Soul Tiger clan, this is a royal demon clan called the Nightmare Spider, whose strength is even greater than that of the Blood Soul Tiger."

Release a Nightmare Spider Flesh Puppet, have it carry the World Ring, and let it lie in wait.

Before heading to Viska for training, Qin Ming purchased a large number of demon corpses, including the Nightmare Spider!

After a while.

boom! boom! boom!
A series of explosions rang out, and the Nightmare Spider Sanctuary located in the underground cave collapsed, causing the entire race to vanish completely.

The earth collapsed for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, turning into a huge crater.

For ordinary living beings, a crater stretching over 100,000 kilometers is enormous.

But for a mountain giant spanning 60,000 kilometers, it's just a matter of digging a few times.

Next!
The mechanical ship soared into the sky, choosing its next target.

……

The Demon Clan's Royal Court.

Inside an incredibly vast temple, hundreds of immortal demons and immortal gods gathered.

Perched atop the throne was a giant snake, several kilometers long, covered in bluish-black scales, with pupils that resembled ripples, its forked tongue flicking out, its eyes filled with fury.

"Who on earth is it! In just over a month, they have slaughtered three royal clans in succession! And the number of ordinary clans that have disappeared is countless!"

This is a provocation against my Reincarnation Cong-Eyed Serpent clan!

The Reincarnation Cong-Eyed Serpent, one of the eighteen royal families of the demon race, possesses a genetic advantage of 6 times the normal level and is the absolute overlord of Viska Star!
"The murderer must be found! He must be torn to pieces!"

The immortal, frenzied roar of the Blood Soul Tiger clan.

Its entire population, except for a very few who were traveling, was wiped out. How could it not be furious and insane?
"Issue a bounty. I refuse to believe that not a single one of the tribes he slaughtered will be found around the area!"
Three royal clans in succession vanished, leaving only ruins and the astonishing fluctuations of the earth's fundamental laws.

This must have been made by an immortal earth-elemental deity.

Let the skilled trackers do the searching!

Beneath the throne, another Reincarnation Cong-Eyed Serpent, an immortal deity, had a ruthless glint in its pupils.

“This can’t go on. I have to go back to my tribe. Otherwise, if I encounter that murderer, my tribe won’t be able to stop me.”

The snake's scales were bluish-green, and there were tens of thousands of ring-shaped patterns on the dense scales. The six-winged, one-eyed Ziqian Wanshe had a cold voice.

Ziqian Wanshe is also one of the royal families of the demon race.

There was a clear hint of fear in its eyes. Being able to quickly slaughter a royal family and hundreds of world lords, its strength was probably not that of an ordinary immortal.

“That’s right, I must return to my tribe. How can we rest easy until we eliminate this mastermind behind it all?”

Even the immortal giant wolf let out a low roar.

"The mastermind behind the massacre fled immediately afterward. This suggests that he didn't want to be discovered, and his strength may not be as great as we thought."

We are the Hui people guarding the town.

If we encounter him, the other immortals should immediately provide support!

"I agree!"

"Do it this way: issue a warrant, send him back to his tribe to guard the town, and find him!"

In an instant, all the immortals within the royal court were filled with fervor.

"Could the murderer be from an extraterrestrial race?"

Suddenly, an immortal being spoke in a low voice.

Silence, dead silence.

In fact, with the wisdom of immortal beings, how could they not have thought of this? They just didn't want to bring it to light.

If it really was an extraterrestrial human race that made the move.

No matter how much they resisted, it was futile.

They are just prisoners, a group of prisoners imprisoned to hone the skills of human geniuses!
All the immortal demons knew this.

"If the powerful beings from the extraterrestrial races really wanted to kill us, they wouldn't need to resort to such sneaky methods; they could simply eliminate us directly."

The immortal deity, the Cycle-Eyed Serpent on the throne, sneered.

"However, what you said does make sense. It's possible that some unparalleled genius from the human race has entered our world to gain experience."

This can be achieved through certain special means.

His movement pattern was similar to that of their spaceship.

Go find him and kill him!

Let humanity know that those who try to use us as whetstones will be risking breaking their knives!

The continuous slaughter has enraged all the immortal gods of the demon race.

"Probably!"

"Kill him!"

"Let the human race regret this!"

(End of this chapter)