Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 292 The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual and the Flame God Clan
To devour the world, big is good, big is beautiful.

This "largeness" refers not only to its size but also to its numerical value.

For example, gene fold.

A higher gene count equates to greater strength, which forms the basis of the power system.

If one follows the path of divine power, then one is naturally stronger than a true god of law. As long as the gene multiplier exceeds 30,000 times, the divine body's height can increase tenfold.

If it reaches 60,000 times, it can cause the divine body to increase a thousandfold from its original height.

If it reaches 9 times, that is, an infinite divine body, it can change size at will.

Any true god whose life genes reach 90,000 times the normal level can easily become a Void True God! Even becoming an Eternal True God would not be too difficult.

Under such circumstances, Qin Ming naturally wanted to pursue the divine power path, and he began his research early on, using the bloodline alchemist as a foundation.

Including the remains of many special life forms bestowed by the Dark Lord's teacher and the Chaos City Lord, their genetic maps are being analyzed and mapped through the flesh-and-blood derivative talent, creating life genetic structure maps.

This has brought Qin Ming considerable gains. For example, he is now able to create World Lord potions and even produce potions that can increase gene multipliers by 10 times.

However, he still cannot be considered a beginner in the Divine Power style.

Far from enough.

This path is too difficult and too complicated.

But there might be a shortcut on this path!
That is the Yan God Clan!
The Yan God Clan has a great history, and they are both creations of the God King of Jin, sharing the same lineage as Earth.

Because his country and family were killed by the Food Kingdom, the previous incarnation of the Mountain Guest, the God King of Jin, chose to rush into the Crossing Universe Sea and enter the Three Thousand Primordial Universes in order to enslave the Beasts of the Realm and exact revenge.

There are successful examples of this.

On the Origin Continent, the ruler of the Tianmu Kingdom, the 'Purple Wood God King,' was the one whose kingdom was destroyed just like his.

Later, he fled into the Cosmic Sea, enslaved a World Beast, and returned to the Origin Continent, where he killed all his opponents.

Unfortunately, the Divine King of Jin failed.

Faced with the primordial universe permitted by the supreme rules, the God King of Jin could not even resist. He could only use the reincarnation technique to enter the primordial universe and become a special life form, the Mountain Guest.

The primordial universe represents the origin of life and possesses infinite possibilities.

Driven by a desire for revenge, he decided to train a disciple.

But he couldn't find it.

So he decided to take advantage of the special environment of the primordial universe to create a disciple for himself.

Initially, he wanted to cultivate a race that was skilled in controlling the body.

In his plan, the most talented person born from this group should have the potential to reach the third level of the divine body and possess an infinite divine body.

And so the Flame God Clan came into being!

He succeeded.

The Yan God Clan indeed possesses exceptional physical talent, and geniuses like the Yan Emperor have emerged from among them.

But he failed.

Although the Flame God Clan has high physical talent, their comprehension is too poor, so they are destined not to go far.

Therefore, the Mountain Dweller gave up, which led to the Earth lineage having a special soul that made it easier for them to break through.

However, for Qin Ming, the Yan God Clan might be a breakthrough point for him to embark on the path of divine power.

Skilled at controlling the body?

What does it mean to be good at controlling one's body?
Through meticulous analysis of the genes of the Yan God Clan, Qin Ming seems to have discovered the problem!
Because it was a soul-annihilation, the divine body of the 'Iron-Blooded King' of the Flame God Clan was preserved very well, without any damage.

Therefore, Qin Ming could easily confirm that the 'Iron-Blooded King's' gene multiplier reached an astonishing 86 times.

This gene multiplication rate is already very high for a king.

Many cosmic venerables only have a 10x increase in gene multiplier.

Then, by reading the Iron-Blooded King's memories through the Myriad Soul Banner, Qin Ming clearly understood why the Iron-Blooded King's gene multiplier was so high.

That's fighting!
Or rather, it's about stimulating a special power within the body through combat.

This is a power hidden deep within their bloodline, a pattern that only emerges during extremely intense battles or when facing life-or-death crises.

Once these patterns appear, they create a strange resonance within the body, followed by the appearance of strange, blood-red threads that perfectly combine the Force Crystal Sphere, Soul Crystal Sphere, and body.

This eventually forms a special circuit that allows gene multiplication to evolve!

"Blood-red threads?"

Qin Ming murmured to himself, but directly extracted the memories from the Iron-Blooded King's soul and personally experienced the feeling of that gene enhancement.

The Iron-Blooded King underwent three bloodline evolutions. The first one occurred when he was a domain lord and was attacked by a ferocious beast, his life hanging by a thread. At that time, the power within his body suddenly doubled.

The situation was similar in the following instances.

However, the improvement was different with each breakthrough, with the largest improvement being 6 times the genes and the smallest being 3 times.

"It's a bit interesting."

A smile appeared on Qin Ming's lips.

This genetic evolutionary talent is the source of the Flame God Clan's strength.

However, very few people are able to awaken this power, and even within the Yan God Clan, someone like the Iron-Blooded King is extremely rare.

"This is too similar to the evolution method of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual."

Although Qin Ming had never cultivated the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, he still had some understanding of it.

The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual is a secret method for actively evolving the body's genes, recorded in the Yan God Clan's script!

Each failure in cultivation will result in the collapse of the soul and body, leading to immediate death.

What's really interesting is that during the evolution process, the soul crystal ball and the force crystal ball are used as the core to release psychic power and force, which are then integrated into every cell of the body.

The soul crystal sphere, the force crystal sphere, and the body are brought into balance as one, and then the secret techniques are cultivated to promote the evolution of the body's genes.

During cultivation, 72000 auxiliary crystalline threads and 1440 main threads can be generated, perfectly combining the Force Crystal Sphere, Soul Crystal Sphere, and body, simulating the entire body's interior as an 'inner universe'.

Drive the evolution of the body's genes through the inner universe.

"The Yan God Clan might have been specifically designed based on the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual."

Qin Ming pondered in his heart.

The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual was originally a secret technique of the Jin state.

As the first race cultivated by the Mountain-Sitting Guest, specializing in physical strength, it's possible that the Mountain-Sitting Guest spent a great deal of time and effort to directly integrate secret techniques into their bloodlines, granting them the ability to evolve their bloodlines and achieve unlimited divine potential.

This can also be corroborated by the story of Emperor Yan.

Compared to humans, the warriors of the Flame God Clan are all tall and robust, with the shortest being eight meters tall and the tallest being ten meters tall.

But that's about the size.

But what about Emperor Yan?

Its silhouette stretches nearly 10,000 kilometers high!
This situation is not quite normal.

Even the original Luo Fengren in the original timeline, his divine body only began to grow larger when it reached 10081 times its original size through the final tribulation of the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual"!
At 10080 times the normal height, Luo Feng's original human form was still less than two meters tall.

It wasn't until it broke through 10081 that it began to grow taller and larger rapidly.

From less than two meters high, it skyrocketed to over 90,000 kilometers high!

The divine power within the divine body has increased by more than a billion times!

However, Emperor Yan only has 10,000 times the gene strength, and has not reached the limit of 10081 times. So how can his divine body reach nearly 10,000 kilometers?
There must be some secrets behind this.

"Having only one experimental subject, the Iron-Blooded King, is not enough. Moreover, the Iron-Blooded King has become immortal, and his soul and bloodline have merged to become a divine body."

It's also very unfriendly to research.

It would be best to obtain some experimental subjects below the Immortal level!

Qin Ming's eyes flickered, and he had an idea in mind.

The Yan God Clan does indeed send some geniuses and powerful individuals into the outer battlefield, but their numbers are small, and even if they enter the outer battlefield, they are very difficult to find.

I've only collected one Ironblood King so far.
It would be too troublesome to capture it using only one's own strength.

……

Virtual universe, dark temple.

"Teacher, I have something I'd like to ask for your help with."

Qin Ming said respectfully.

"Oh? What happened?"

The Lord of Darkness looked down at Qin Ming.

"I want to capture some members of the Flame God Clan to serve as test subjects, preferably those below the Immortal level."

Qin Ming stated his needs directly.

For him, capturing the Flame God Clan was a troublesome matter, but for the human race, it was a very simple matter.

Furthermore, when he was researching the Spirit Nourishing Potions and Bloodline Potions, the Lord of Darkness and the Lord of Chaos City explicitly expressed their support, telling him to feel free to ask if he needed anything.

Even the Zerg Queen, an extremely rare life form, had one of his soul sub-bodies left behind in Chaos City.

"The Flame God Clan? What's so special about this clan?"

The Lord of Darkness frowned.

The Flame God Clan is an absolute disgrace to the human race.

The Yan Emperor was once a genius highly regarded by the human leadership, who invested considerable resources in his cultivation.

But Emperor Yan is arrogant and self-centered.

This made the Lord of Darkness dislike the Flame Emperor from the very beginning.

However, due to his personality flaws, Emperor Yan made mistakes time and time again.

Ultimately, the higher-ups chose to tolerate him because of his talent.

However, after becoming the ruler of the universe, he betrayed his own race by attacking other rulers of the universe in order to obtain treasures, and split off from his own race.

This enraged the higher-ups, who decided to execute him.

It was only because they later discovered that Emperor Yan was actually a disciple of the Mountain-Sitting Guest that they gave up, out of respect for the Mountain-Sitting Guest.

The Mountain-Sitting Guest is the most mysterious and strongest being in the universe.

Although he has only made a few moves, one can deduce from just a few of his methods that he is extremely formidable.

The human race is in a bad situation and is unwilling to provoke a lone universe powerhouse like the Mountain Dweller.

But this also made humanity a laughingstock!

In other words, his adventure in the cosmic sea and his special status made it unsuitable for him to attack Emperor Yan. Otherwise, with his strength, he could have easily defeated, suppressed, or even killed Emperor Yan.

Emperor Yan's physical body is indeed powerful, but his soul and will are his greatest flaws.

"I enslaved the 'Iron-Blooded King' of the Yan God Clan and, through studying his body and reading his memories, discovered some very interesting things."

Their racial talent seems to possess the ability to exponentially evolve their genes...

This has been of great help to my research on bloodlines.

Qin Ming briefly explained the whole story, and apart from the fact that the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual" was inconvenient to bring out, he did not hide anything else.

"Genetic multiplication evolution? No wonder the Flame Emperor's body is so powerful."

The Lord of Darkness's eyes flashed with a dangerous light, and he spoke immediately.

"I'll have someone handle this matter and help you arrest some of them. Also, there's something else I need to inform you about."

Your Soul Palace's special nature should have already been exposed.

The demon race has begun mobilizing its invincible kings, especially those without souls, to prepare for an attack on the Soul Palace.

The same applies to the Zerg and Mech races!

Internally, an extermination order has been issued, intending to completely wipe out the entire Soul Clan.

Because of the Spirit Nourishing Elixir and Qin Ming's rapid progress in creating secret techniques in the virtual universe, he no longer objects to Qin Ming's research into these areas and will provide assistance to the best of his ability.

Geniuses are always treated specially.

As for capturing some members of the Yan God Clan?

This is not a problem for humans, or rather for virtual universe companies.

"Invincible King? An Extermination Order? This is to be expected. Once they arrive, the second wave of Spirit Nourishing Potions should be released around the same time."

"Our human race has no shortage of strong individuals, does it?"

(End of this chapter)