Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 367 The Mountain Giant's Breakthrough, the Overall Explosion of Humanity
When the gene multiplication reaches a certain level, it is no longer just a gene but a secret pattern!

Qin Ming was very clear about this.

Whether it's the primordial universe, the originating continent, or even the naturally occurring primordial life forms in the infinite primordial space, the secret rune system is of paramount importance.

Whether it's flesh and blood, rock, or even the soul!
The blood-red patterns formed when flesh-and-blood beings consume Blood Crystals are essentially secret patterns, as are the golden secret patterns on the surface of mountain giants.

However, compared to flesh-and-blood life forms, rock-type life forms and soul life forms are more 'dependent' on runes.

Over the past tens of millions of years, Qin Ming has been sorting out and compiling the "Secret Pattern Records," analyzing a large number of special life patterns and the secret patterns of the eight innate beast gods. His understanding of secret patterns has become increasingly familiar and thorough.

Under these circumstances, the gene multiples of the Mountain Giant, the World Tree, and the River of Souls, which were stuck at the threshold of 10,000 times the gene multiple, naturally began to slowly increase.

The Mountain Giant, which has the fastest growth rate, has finally reached 10081 times.

Click!

When the final part of the mountain giant's body underwent a subtle change in its runes, Qin Ming felt a fundamental breakthrough in the origin of his life.

It seems that a certain bottleneck has been broken, and the life gene level has finally taken another small step forward!

10081 Perfect!

"Breakthrough."

Qin Ming could clearly sense that the divine body was trying to absorb energy and grow stronger.

That was a desire stemming from the instinct of life, but the free-floating energy within the giant axe's microcosm was simply insufficient to supply it.

Breaking through 10081 times the genetic potential only grants one gift from the primordial universe. No matter how many clones one creates, one will not gain any innate secret techniques. Apart from the change in the essence of life, there will be no other changes.

Therefore, Qin Ming did not leave.

Wow!
The six-armed mountain giant, millions of kilometers high, transformed into a streak of light and flew towards the River of Souls not far away, under the watchful eyes of many cosmic lords.

Countless streams of water surged up from below, like countless ribbons encircling the six-armed crystal giant, and were continuously absorbed by it.

This caused the six-armed crystal giant to begin growing larger and larger.

It has grown from a height of millions of kilometers to become even larger.

"Incredible! With the body of a mountain giant, he can even contend with a fifth-order universe lord, right?"

A smile that he couldn't hide was on the rugged face of the giant axe.

The Chaos City Lord, the Dark Lord, and others standing nearby all looked over, knowing that Qin Ming was still a Universe Venerable.

It's just that Qin Ming's combat power is too strong.

For tens of millions of years, everyone has been cultivating and discussing together. How could they not know about Qin Ming's progress in comprehending the laws of time?
If Qin Ming so desires, he can be promoted to the Lord of the Universe at any time.

They broke through again at this moment.

The Mountain Giant clones all possessed 10081 perfect genes, and they were all very curious about just how powerful Qin Ming could become.

A million kilometers is not a huge distance for rock life.

But if it gets any bigger, it becomes almost impossible to move.

Qin Ming's Mountain Giant clone was clearly not like that.

Over the course of thousands of years, they have been exploring how to optimize and modify the Mountain Giant's innate runes, making the Absolute Defense talent and the Spatial Vortex talent even stronger.

During the process, Qin Ming optimized and absorbed the secret patterns of the Toya Black Hole, as well as those of many special life forms and the eight innate beast gods.

Although the gene multiplier only increased by less than a hundred times, the increase in strength was far more significant.

Putting everything else aside, just the absolute defense alone increases the weakening effect on material defense from 1000 times to 5000 times!
Its spatial vortex's distorting power is no less than that of the Toya black hole, and it can be strengthened according to Qin Ming's will.

Ordinary cosmic venerables would be devoured and torn apart by Qin Ming's twisting power simply by getting close to him.

"Once Qin Ming's clones all break through to the perfect gene level, especially when the River of Souls reaches 10081, he can break through to become the Lord of the Universe."

He still needs to absorb divine power through the River of Souls.

The original ancestor smiled slightly.

Breaking through to the level of Venerable One or Lord of the Universe only allows for a very short period of time to absorb divine power. Moreover, when one has clones, one can only choose the one with the largest size and the fastest absorption of divine power.

Qin Ming's breakthrough was naturally achieved by absorbing divine power through the River of Souls.

After reaching 10081 times, the conversion of devoured divine power is faster and the quality of divine power is also higher. Qin Ming naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

The next breakthrough will make me the strongest in the universe.

Knowing the situation of the Divine Power Flow, Qin Ming will definitely follow the Divine Power Flow route, which requires at least 90,000 times the genetic power, or perhaps 100,000 times the genetic power of Luo Feng in the original timeline.

That would take a very long time.

"Haha, what a joyous occasion today!"

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten about Qin Ming's level. I don't know how strong he will be when he truly becomes the Lord of the Universe."

"Fifth rank is definitely not a problem. He has created quite a few ultimate secret techniques over the years. The strongest fusion secret technique is also a natural outcome."

The lords of the universe laughed heartily, for the Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master's breakthrough took place within his own divine realm, and it was not convenient for others to observe.

However, Qin Ming's clones reached level 10081.

It is still a rock-based life form.

Among the several people present who had clones, many were not flesh and blood beings, and naturally had discussed with Qin Ming how to improve.

Qin Ming did not hide anything.

Qin Ming didn't mind sharing it with other universe masters, so that he could have another companion on his journey.

When talking with them, Qin Ming frankly said that he vaguely sensed a path.

By continuously increasing one's gene count, one might be able to break through to a higher level.

That is, the Divine Power Flow! At this moment, they were all curious.

As they watched, the mountain giant, already a towering figure a million kilometers tall, grew wildly in size as divine power flowed into the river of souls.

200 million kilometers... 500 million kilometers...

When it reached a height of 1000 million kilometers, that towering giant finally stopped growing.

Feeling the surging power within his body, Qin Ming felt an immense sense of exhilaration.

The Mountain Giant's main battle avatar has finally broken through its limits once again.

hum!
The next moment, the secret runes on the mountain giant's body lit up.

The colossal form, which was tens of millions of kilometers tall, suddenly shrank. It wasn't a shrinking of form due to divine power, but rather a collapse under some strange force.

The cosmic lords present had all seen the secret pattern diagram of the Toya Black Hole, and now they clearly found a similar secret pattern diagram in the secret pattern diagram on Qin Ming's body.

As the mountain giant's body collapsed, an increasingly powerful, devouring, and twisting force emanated from it.

1 million kilometers... 100 kilometers... 1000 kilometers...

When the six-armed crystal giant was compressed to 1000 kilometers, the twisting and devouring power within a radius of tens of millions of kilometers was enough to cause the cosmic venerable's divine body to automatically collapse.

The actions of the Lord of the Universe were restricted, as if he had entered some powerful domain.

Whoosh!
Qin Ming took a step forward and instantly transformed into a streak of light, appearing in front of the Primordial Ancestor, the Giant Axe, the Lord of Darkness, and others at an extremely fast speed.

"It's even faster than before."

The Lord of Darkness smiled as he looked at Qin Ming.

"Being smaller naturally increases speed."

Qin Ming replied with a smile.

"It's not just that you've become faster; your physical strength has also increased significantly after your size has shrunk. In terms of defense alone, your Mountain Giant is probably no weaker than Yin Tuo."

The progenitor also spoke up.

"It's hard to say exactly, but I imagine it won't be too different."

Qin Ming did not refute it. His body was the product of extreme compression, like a black hole, with an astonishing density, which naturally greatly enhanced his defense.

Combined with the innate secret technique of absolute defense, it has reached an almost astonishing level.

Wearing the ultimate treasure armor 'Xuanhuang Armor', there are few things that can pose a threat to him, not to mention the primordial universe, even in the cosmic sea.

"I suspect that even if Qin Ming stood still, I wouldn't be able to break through his defenses."

The Lord of the Wilderness looked at Qin Ming and couldn't help but sigh.

"No doubt about it, you definitely can't break through my defenses."

Before Qin Ming could speak, the Lord of Dragons laughed.

The sheer power of a top-tier treasure armor, combined with a 5,000-fold reduction in absolute defense, amounts to a 50 million-fold reduction. Even a fifth-tier universe lord burning divine power would find the power of such a reduction quite limited.

As for soul attacks?

With the Soul River clone present, soul attacks were a joke to Qin Ming.

"There's no need for you all to flatter me. Your strength has also improved significantly. If you enter the Cosmic Sea again, you will surely surprise everyone."

Qin Ming cupped his hands and smiled at the people around him.

As his strength increased through the Secret Pattern School, the other universe lords naturally also improved, their strength skyrocketing.

For example, the Lord of Dragons and the Lord of Ice Peaks have created their own unique and strongest fusion techniques.

A divine body spanning 90,000 kilometers, the most powerful fusion technique.

He has already become a true master of the fifth-order universe.

With the "Secret Pattern Record" and guidance from the Primordial Ancestor, it would be strange if one's strength hadn't improved.

"Hahaha, it's all thanks to you that we obtained the 64 Secret Rune Diagrams! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have gathered together, not even the Primordial Ancestor..."

Lord of the Wilderness grinned.

He didn't care much about Qin Ming at first. So what if he was a genius?
The more I learned about it, the more I admired it, and I even felt the same way I did when I faced the original ancestor.

Most of them, once they get the opportunity, keep it hidden.

Treat it as your trump card.

If he were to discover the secrets of the 64 Secret Patterns, he would definitely keep it to himself and never tell a second person.

But Qin Ming is different.

He was not afraid of others knowing that, under the same circumstances, his rate of progress far exceeded that of other universe lords.

Perhaps this is what makes him different, and what makes him so charming.

After a period of noise,
The crowd quieted down and continued to study the "Secret Pattern Record" to create and comprehend their own strongest fusion technique.

The Heavenly Eclipse Palace Master's breakthrough requires at least a century of preparation time to hold a celebration.

In the Giant Axe's microcosm, that's a million years.

"The World Tree clone and the River of Souls clone are just one step away from breaking through. Soon they will be able to begin building the Netherworld within the human race and even the entire primordial universe!"

A glint of light flashed in Qin Ming's eyes.

Over these tens of millions of years of cultivation, his plan has become increasingly refined.

"Huh? Luo Feng is looking for me. Has he arrived on Ice Prison Star?"

(End of this chapter)