Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 243 The Gift of the King of Qianwu Kingdom

"Lord of the Universe?"

The Lord of Chaos City nodded slightly. As long as Qin Ming maintains his current momentum, he does have a great chance of breaking through to the Universe Venerable realm within tens of thousands of years, or even less.

With Qin Ming's three top-tier special life clones, once they break through to the Universe Venerable level, they will definitely become top-tier universe overlords in a very short time!

Even if his understanding of the laws is slightly lacking, with his super-large divine body and extremely high gene multiplier, he can still hold his own against the Lord of the Universe.

At this point, killing Qin Ming would be virtually impossible.

After all, Qin Ming possessed a high-level palace treasure bestowed by the Lord of Darkness, allowing him to hide inside as long as he wasn't instantly killed.

Within the primordial universe, the treasures of high-level palaces are indestructible.

The Lord of the Heavenly Wolf Clan of that demon race, relying on the Heavenly Wolf Palace, acted with impunity in the primordial universe.

The Sky Rift Palace is also one of the most prestigious and top-tier palace treasures.

As for soul attacks and soul enslavement?
This is even more impossible.

With a top-tier soul-type special life form like the River of Souls, and the defense of a soul treasure, even the Zerg Queen cannot enslave a soul.

Top cosmic overlords of the human race, such as the Lord of the Heavenly Eclipse Palace, are very difficult to kill in the primordial universe unless they deliberately choose to die.

"Then you should keep a close eye on things."

Seeing that the Lord of Darkness had made a plan, the Lord of Chaos City felt relieved.

Within the primordial universe, the possibility of killing Qin Ming right under the nose of the Lord of Darkness is extremely low.

There are still risks, but they are now within a controllable range.

……

Qin Ming's passage through the 18th level of the Sky Bridge caused a storm that not only affected the top management of the Virtual Universe Company but also spread to the alien races.

Within the territory of the Wild Universe Kingdom, in a 'space interlayer' corresponding to a certain starry sky, lies a vast divine kingdom.

This magnificent divine kingdom is the location of the Zerg's infiltrative organization.

Within the divine realm lie continuous mountain ranges.

In the center of the mountain range, there is a mountain peak that is over a million kilometers high, and at the top of the peak is a huge temple that is over 100,000 kilometers high.

The temple radiated endless light, which illuminated the earth.

People moved about inside the temple.

There are humans, and there are Zerg warriors.

"Master, master."

In the vast hall on the highest level of the temple, a golden-robed figure appeared in a flash, hurriedly kneeling down and calling out urgently.

"Master, I have important information to report."

The tens of thousands of immortal insectoids surrounding the main hall looked at the golden-robed man who had suddenly barged in with hostility and roared warnings at him.

It seemed that if the man in the golden robe showed the slightest disrespect, he might pounce on him at any moment.

"What intelligence do you have that's causing such a panic?"

A gentle voice echoed in the hall.

Clearly, this is an immortal-level Zerg queen, and being able to nurture and control tens of thousands of immortal Zerg warriors makes her an absolutely invincible being who has reached the highest rank.

If tens of thousands of immortals were to launch a combined attack, even ordinary cosmic venerables would not dare to withstand it head-on.

Clearly, this is a core infiltration base of the Zerg within the human population.

"Master! We just received news that Qin Ming, the human genius, also known as No.1, went to attempt the Tongtian Bridge today."

Qin Ming, who has only been alive for a few hundred years, actually passed through the 18th level of the Heavenly Bridge in one go!

"The 18th floor?"

The gentle voice exclaimed in surprise, "The 18th level of the Bridge to Heaven is already at the level of a King-level Immortal God. In other words, No. 1's comprehension of the laws is already comparable to that of a weaker King-level being?"

"Yes Master."

The man in the golden robe said respectfully and urgently, "After the genius battle, Qin Ming will become our main focus."

But despite our best efforts, we were unable to find an opportunity to assassinate him.

Even his hometown was under extremely tight blockade, and all of our infiltrators there were wiped out.

Such talent is terrifying; it surpasses all the geniuses of the human race throughout history.

Even geniuses like Kodi and Eclipse, who appear only once every tens of millions of epochs, are far inferior to him.

Ten million epochs, that is one hundred billion years.

Among those who can be called peerless geniuses who appear once every 'millions of epochs', there is one named Kodi and another named Venerable Fiery Erosion. Although many of them perished along the way, those who did not perish... all achieved astonishing accomplishments!
The peerless geniuses who did not perish were those who emerged over tens of millions of epochs, like the Venerable Fire Erosion, who became a cosmic Venerable in just tens of thousands of years.

Qin Ming's talent far surpasses that of Venerable Fiery Erosion.

"The strongest genius of countless eras, indeed, has amazing talent," the gentle voice turned cold.

"Back then, our clan expended a great deal of effort to eliminate the threat of Kodi, so that even his teacher, the 'Lord of Chaos,' could not revive his disciple by reversing time and space."

"Having learned this lesson, humanity's protection of Qin Ming will likely be astonishing."

I will report this to the clan at the meeting.

We no longer have the strength to deal with Qin Ming.

……

The universe is infinitely vast and boundless; even the human race only occupies a core portion of it.

Beyond human territory, within the realm of the demon race.

A palace floats in the endless starry sky, surrounded by flames.

Clusters of flames—black, white, purple, red, green, blue… of all colors, each the size of a star—swirled around the palace.

However, if observed from a distance, none of this can be seen.

The spacetime around the palace has been distorted, forming its own separate spacetime.

"Human race, Qin Ming?"

Surrounded by flames, the enormous, jet-black wolf moved slowly on its four hooves, its surrounding space and time completely under its pressure.

At this moment, it is the master of this space and time!

It is the greatest being of the 'Sky Wolf Clan,' one of the royal families of the demon race—the Lord of Sky Wolf!
At this moment, a jet-black wolf was kneeling before the palace, revealing all of Qin Ming's information and intelligence to the Lord of the Wolves.

"Such a talented genius should not continue to live! Mark him as the highest level threat and do everything in our power to gather information about him."

The Lord of Sirius had a dangerous glint in his enormous wolf eyes.

"He is currently living in Chaos City, so it's impossible to kill him. But once he becomes a Realm Lord, he will definitely go to the outer battlefield!"
He must be eliminated on the battlefield outside our territory!

……

At the edge of the universe lies the headquarters of the Crystal Clan, one of the six major races in the universe.

A magnificent palace complex, forged from countless crystals, covers an area spanning several light-years. Within this crystalline palace complex, planets, stars, neutron stars, and other objects are like ornaments, inlaid in various places.

There is a tall tower in the palace complex.

The tower, 3.2 light-years tall, soars straight upwards, its incomparably sharp spire... bursting forth with a dazzling beam of light, shooting directly upwards into the endless depths of space. Wherever this beam of light passes, any planet or star is pierced with a hole, its power lasting for nearly an entire star field before finally weakening completely.

Inside one of the palaces sat a majestic and powerful figure.

His appearance was very similar to that of a human, except that he had a golden eye between his eyebrows. Invisible ripples spread from his eye throughout the entire cube with a diameter of 300 kilometers.

"Oh?"

"Qin Ming's talent is actually this terrifying?"

"It seems that the Zerg, the Demon Clan, and the Mechanical Clan will all try to kill that genius. There's going to be a good show."

"The territories of those four top clans are close together; the more brutal the battle, the better."

……

Qin Ming's reputation was already well-known when he passed the Trial Tower and became an apprentice of the Lord of the Universe at the Stellar level. Many powerful races in the universe already had intelligence records about him.

But at that time, Qin Ming was only at the Stellar level.

While their understanding of laws is strong among those of the same level, it is quite ordinary in the context of the universe.

It's different now.

A mastery of the laws at the King level—that's what makes someone a powerful being in the entire universe.

Its level of danger instantly jumped to a whole new level.

Its level of attention has naturally increased to a whole new level.

However, Qin Ming couldn't be bothered to pay attention to any of this.

It is mediocre not to be envied by others.

Wanting to become an apprentice of the Lord of the Universe, gain the attention of the human elite, and obtain endless resources, yet not wanting to be targeted by alien races—there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Anyway, he doesn't plan to leave anytime soon.

At the very least, one must elevate their strength to a limit, such as the peak of the Kinghood, or even the limit of the Kinghood, or the level of invincible Kinghood.

With the Soul River Soul Control talent, he can even alter his own soul aura.

Hiding his identity was not difficult for him.

What's there to be afraid of?

"Is Master Qianwu looking for me?"

On the rooftop of his residence in Chaos City, Qin Ming smiled.

Virtual universe, the secret realm of the Qianwu.

In a courtyard, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom sat alone, drinking wine, with many delicious dishes in front of him.

In a corner of the courtyard, there were more than a dozen huge boxes.

Each box resembled a cargo container.

"Here you go, sit down!"

Qin Ming stepped forward, familiarly filled Qianwu's cup, and then sat down next to him.

"Teacher, what brings you here? What are these boxes?"

Qin Ming looked at the huge metal box next to him and asked with some doubt.

"This is a secret manual prepared for you."

The Lord of Ganwu Kingdom smiled.

Qin Ming was stunned.

Although it is in a virtual universe, valuable secret techniques are usually delivered in metal boxes.

Even a top-tier secret manual like "The Evolution of Black Holes," which contains tens of thousands of secret techniques, is just a small box.

These dozen or so huge cargo boxes in front of me must contain countless secret manuals.

"The World Lord level is the stage where you can make the fastest progress. You have three top-level special life clones, so it will be extremely difficult to break through to the Immortal level."

Therefore, you need a large number of esoteric texts to study and comprehend, and to create your own esoteric methods.

These are some secret techniques I've prepared for you.

With the River of Souls present, you'll grasp the concepts quickly.

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom picked up the wine cup, took a sip, and looked quite satisfied.

"Teacher, I have my own points, I can redeem them myself."

Qin Ming also picked up a glass of wine and smiled.

"What do you know? You may have great talent, but there are countless secret techniques among the human race. Do you know which secret techniques you should choose?"

These are all carefully selected by me, and are the most suitable for you at this stage.

"I've already selected all the secret techniques related to time that you'd like to explore in the future."

The Lord of Qianwu looked at Qin Ming and said.

In terms of wealth alone, Qin Ming certainly has no shortage of it.

Can we discuss insight?

That's way too far off!

As a high-ranking venerable being, the ruler of the Qianwu Kingdom reached the limits in all aspects millions of years ago.

He had thoroughly grasped the laws of space, and was only one step away from understanding the laws of time.

If one can also comprehend the laws of time, then spacetime will become self-contained, and one will directly become the master of the universe.

"Ordinary geniuses have dozens of secret techniques, a hundred or so would be enough."

But for you, it's far from enough.

This collection contains 3600 common secret techniques and ten sets of precious scriptures.

From low to high levels, it covers all categories, including research involving the Ten Laws, weapon manufacturing, and creating secret techniques, as well as the apothecary system you're pursuing.

The ruler of Qianwu Kingdom was quite pleased with himself; he had put a lot of thought into selecting these secret techniques.

"Teacher, thank you for your trouble."

Qin Ming's eyes lit up, and he was deeply moved.

With 3600 common secret techniques, encompassing everything, how could my own vision compare to that of Master Qianwu?

"Well, I also had a conversation with your Dark Teacher once."

It's a good thing that you want to comprehend the laws of space and time when you are a realm master.

You also have that kind of capital.

But in that case, the Dark Cosmic Monument you've chosen now won't be enough.

Regarding the laws of time, you can choose another Chaos Monument.

This way, one can grasp the concepts more quickly.

(End of this chapter)