Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 309 Destruction Source Crystal, Ninth-Order Secret Technique

Lu Jin sensed the soul attack from the Beast Tiga, but he didn't pay it any mind.

Not to mention that the intensity of this soul attack is not outrageous, the fact that the strongest soul-type treasures combined with the will of a Void True God can easily withstand it.

For a soul attack to be effective, the attacked party must possess a soul, right?
The Blood God incarnation has no soul, and naturally possesses absolute soul defense.

The only threats to the Blood God Child's incarnation are physical attacks and will attacks, which are rarely controlled by life.

'A dying struggle~'

Lu Jin thought to himself, and with a thought, endless blood light gathered within the vast sea of ​​blood, and a dark red divine sword a million kilometers long materialized.

"boom!"

With the surge of divine power and the bloom of boundless crimson light, the dark red divine sword transformed into a crimson sword rainbow that seemed capable of shattering the universe, shooting straight toward the hideous and grotesque world beast, Tiga.

"puff--"

A crimson sword rainbow carrying terrifying power flashed past, and a sound of tearing flesh rang out. The hideous and grotesque Beast Tiga, whose soul was contained within its body, shattered and fell directly to the sword. Its corpse was also cut in two at the waist.

Supernatural Powers: Second level of Three Heads and Six Arms, Third level of Nine Heavens Divine Armor Core Secret Runes, Ninety Thousand Times the Life Gene.

With the combined effect of these three factors, the 'Chaos Hole' secret technique, which was originally only at the top level of the eighth rank, could be said to have reached the top level of the fourteenth rank.

In addition, the 'One Thought Creates the Void' and the Endless Blood Sea Domain provide a boost to one's own strength and suppress the enemy's strength.

This crimson sword rainbow was far beyond what the Beast Tiga could withstand, even with the Blood Burning Technique activated.

Before he could even transform into ninety-nine clones to escape, he was instantly killed by Lu Jin's sword.

Subsequently, the surrounding space-time returned to normal, and Lu Jin dispersed the Endless Blood Sea Domain.

"Whoosh!"

The Purple Cloud Heavenly Palace unleashed a suction force, and the world beast corpse, which had been cut into two pieces, flew into the Purple Cloud Heavenly Palace and was then taken into Lu Jin's external storage space.

'I wonder what can be extracted from the corpse of a World Beast?'

Lu Jin thought to himself with anticipation.

On the other side, in the Hall of Ascension in the Great Luo Heaven.

The Netherworld Blood Sea clone, now in human form, retrieved two sections of a World Beast's corpse from its external storage space and stuffed them into the Demon Refining Pot for decomposition.

Achieving the third level of the divine power path, with 90,000 times the life gene, allows the divine body to change size at will, plus the supernatural power: ever-changing shape.

The current Netherworld Blood Sea clone can not only transform into human form, but also into the original form of a normal person.

Therefore, the location of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone was changed from the Netherworld Heavenly God Kingdom, which previously had only a thousand times the time acceleration, to the Immortal Ascension Hall in the Great Luo Heaven, which had a ten-thousand times the time acceleration.

Even the work of expanding the upper limit of the divine body of many Blood God Child incarnations was placed in the Immortal Ascension Hall, where the time acceleration rate was higher.

Before long, the corpse of the Beast Tiga was decomposed and turned into two items.

A bloodline crystal with a full 100,000 facets, filled with a large number of golden light spots.

Numerous jet-black crystal spheres, about the size of ping-pong balls, emitting strange fluctuations.

"Shh!"

Lu Jin took out the Bloodline Origin Crystal and examined it carefully.

Inside this bloodline crystal, there were as many as 100,000 points of light.

One of the light spots was gray, while the other 99999 light spots were pale gold, much paler in color than the numerous pure gold light spots in the 90,000 times gene bloodline source crystal that Zhilu Jin had concocted himself.

"Yao Yao, what's going on?"

Lu Jin's consciousness asked the bewildered spirit of the Demon Refining Pot.

The next moment, a surge of feedback information flooded into Lu Jin's mind.

Limited by the supreme rules, no external force can create 100,000 times the life gene; 99999 times the life gene is the highest limit, unless the level of this external force surpasses the supreme rules.

Therefore, one of the light spots in the bloodline crystal appears gray.

This was exactly what Lu Jin had expected, and it also confirmed one point: the life gene that even the supreme rules would celebrate could not be achieved through external means.

Furthermore, although all World Beasts possess a 100,000-fold life gene template, those who are not World Beast Kings only have pseudo-100,000-fold life genes.

Refining this bloodline source crystal can only result in a pseudo-99999 times gene enhancement.

Unable to achieve the third level of the divine power path, the infinite divine body, it lacks the characteristic of being able to control the size of its divine body at will, and cannot have a beneficial influence on small universes; only its divine power intensity remains undiminished.

'Isn't this just a useless thing?'

Lu Jin muttered to himself.

To put it bluntly, the Perfect Gene Life Refining of this pseudo-99999 times bloodline source crystal only increased its divine power to nearly ten times its original level; there were no other changes.

Of course, possessing pseudo-99999 times the life gene is equivalent to having a life gene map, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of achieving 99999 times the life gene, and is very beneficial for the universe lord who lacks specific inheritance to embark on the path of divine power.

Once one's own life gene attainments are improved, one can distinguish the genuine from the fake and truly possess 99999 times the life gene potential.

The initial enhancement of strength, followed by guidance on the path of divine power—this is the function of the World Beast Bloodline Source Crystal.

Yes, that's for sure. This thing is useless to the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court has the "Miro Supreme Diagram," so there's no need to use the 'pseudo' bloodline source crystals produced by the corpses of the World Beasts as a guide, not to mention that Lu Jin can also create 'true' bloodline source crystals.

After putting away the Beast Bloodline Source Crystal, Lu Jin looked at the black crystal spheres inside the Demon Refining Pot that emitted strange fluctuations.

According to the information provided by the artifact spirit Yao Yao, this thing is called the 'Destruction Source Crystal', and it can be ignited by injecting divine power.

While burning, the Destruction Source Crystal can help the user comprehend the fundamental Dao of destruction.

After a moment's thought, Lu Jin took out a Destruction Source Crystal.

As divine power was injected, the jet-black Destruction Source Crystal emitted a burst of black flames exuding an aura of destruction, which then enveloped Lu Jin's entire body.

At that moment, Lu Jin felt a surge of information about a power he had never encountered before flooding into his mind.

This information was extremely profound and obscure, seemingly beyond the reach of beings at his level.

After a while, the Destruction Source Crystal in his hand burned out, and the black flames radiating an aura of destruction dissipated.

The moment the black flames disappeared, the extremely complex information that had flooded into his mind was instantly forgotten by Lu Jin.

What did I just realize?

Lu Jin, lost in thought, pondered in a daze.

Clearly, the Great Dao of Destruction is not something a cosmic master is qualified to comprehend.

Even for someone with exceptional abilities, turning the impossible into the possible is no easy feat.

but
'I refuse to believe I can't figure it out at all!'

Lu Jin thought to himself, took out all the Destruction Source Crystals from the Demon Refining Pot, and then injected divine power to 'ignite' them.

At the same time, the three avatars and all the Blood God Child incarnations in the Hall of Ascension temporarily put aside their original cultivation tasks and, with the blessing of the Bodhi Tree, devoted themselves wholeheartedly to comprehending the Great Dao of Destruction.

As time passed and the Destruction Source Crystal continued to burn, under the full comprehension of more than 89,000 divine bodies, strands of his own understanding of the Great Dao of Destruction emerged from Lu Jin's heart.

At a certain moment, a Blood God Child had a flash of inspiration and integrated his insignificant understanding of the Great Dao of Destruction into his understanding of the Ten Fundamental Laws.

'boom--'

It was like Mars colliding with Earth, with a flood of brilliant ideas appearing.

In an instant, Lu Jin came up with hundreds or even thousands of creative inspirations for the fusion of multiple laws in different combinations.

Moreover, as time went on, more and more esoteric inspirations emerged.

After an unknown amount of time, the black flames that had been emanating from the body of the original being dissipated, and all the Destruction Source Crystals that had been decomposed from the corpse of the World Beast Tiga were burned away, leaving not a single one.

Opening his eyes, Lu Jin smiled.

"Shh!"

With a thought, a surge of divine power shot out, outlining a mysterious pattern that exuded boundless pressure and appeared extremely complex at first glance.

Immediately afterwards, another burst of divine power shot out, outlining the secret pattern of the eighth-tier top-level secret technique 'Chaos Void'.

Comparing the two, even just looking at the strength of the pressure emanating from the two secret patterns, one can sense that the pressure emanating from the new secret pattern is several times stronger than that of the secret pattern of the eighth-order top-tier secret technique 'Chaos Void'.

The completely burned-out Destruction Source Crystal brought a rich harvest.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Lu Jin himself has accumulated a lot of knowledge and has been at the top level of the eighth rank in terms of secret techniques for a long time.

'Finally, I've truly surpassed Luo Feng for once!'

Lu Jin thought to himself, and then his true form instantly teleported out of the Immortal Ascension Palace.

He had surpassed Luo Feng in the past, but the comparisons were all with Luo Feng before he had fully matured.

The reason they were able to surpass them was entirely due to their first-mover advantage.

But this time, it truly surpassed expectations.

The creation of a ninth-order secret technique at the Universe Master stage is something that Luo Feng in the original novel was unable to achieve at the Universe Master stage.

Well, an eighth-tier top-level secret technique, which is actually considered to surpass Luo Feng's level as the Lord of the Universe in the original work.

However, as both are eighth-order secret techniques, there is no qualitative difference between them being top-tier.

Being able to create an eighth-order secret technique, given enough time, perfecting it to the pinnacle of the eighth order is not difficult, therefore it cannot be considered a true transcendence.

Only ninth-order secret techniques, which have a qualitative difference from eighth-order secret techniques, can be considered a true transcendence.

In the original work, Luo Feng had the potential to become a lord. Now that he has surpassed Luo Feng, it shouldn't be a problem to say that he has the potential to become a lord, right?
"Shh!"

Above the endless golden sea of ​​clouds, far from the Lingxiao Palace in the Great Luo Heaven, Lu Jin's true form teleported there.

"Whoosh whoosh-"

With a thought, Lu Jin's divine power surged, accompanied by the manifestation of intricate and mysterious patterns, which stirred up time, space, and a strange fluctuation.

The next moment, a jet-black sword light, exuding an aura of destruction and intertwined with black and white energy, materialized.

"Whoosh!" With a flick of his finger, a jet-black sword beam wrapped in black and white energy shot out, instantly appearing dozens of light-years away, before transforming into a destructive black light that spread outwards.

Without the slightest sound, the black light spread rapidly, directly wiping out everything within a space spanning billions of kilometers.

Even the most basic spatial particles completely disappeared within this area with a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers.

'Let's call it... Time and Space Annihilation!'

Looking at the vast black region spanning billions of kilometers, dozens of light-years away, devoid of any matter, Lu Jin gave a name to his newly created ninth-order secret technique that merged time, space, and destruction.

Afterwards, the true form teleported back to the Hall of Ascension and began fine-tuning the 'Time-Space Annihilation' secret technique.

The current Time-Space Annihilation is just a sword technique. In order to better match it with the God-Slaying Spear, which has an extremely high ceiling, we need to at least fine-tune a version of the spear technique.

In addition, with the emergence of the ninth-order secret technique and the fact that the tenth-order secret technique, the Universe Master stage, is basically out of the question, Lu Jin readjusted the cultivation tasks of many Blood God Child incarnations.

Of the 90,000 Blood God Child incarnations, 1,000 were stationed in the Ten Thousand Waves Waters of the Peak Realm to seal off the Dark Land and guard against the Realm Beasts, leaving 89,000 Blood God Child incarnations.

This time, as many as 80,000 Blood God Child incarnations who had not yet begun their infinite divine body expansion began to comprehend the "Miro Supreme Diagram".

The remaining nine thousand Blood God Child avatars, including the one stationed at the headquarters of the Universal Alliance, all devoted themselves to fine-tuning and perfecting the ninth-order secret technique 'Time-Space Annihilation'.

Not only must it be adapted to be used with various weapons, but it must also be perfected into a top-tier ninth-order secret technique.

As for the Blood God Child incarnation who has already completed the infinite expansion of the divine body and is currently supplying divine power to one person from many, and who is also expanding the divine body.

It's simply a matter of restoring the supply and absorption of divine power. Only a small portion of consciousness is needed to maintain it, and it doesn't affect the fine-tuning and improvement of the spacetime illusion technique by these blood god incarnations.

Perhaps it was the second-tier world beast Tiga that set a bad precedent, or perhaps it was the supreme rules' subtle guidance that disregarded martial ethics.

Following Tiga, in the years that followed, there were occasional attempts by other Beasts to 'overtake on a curve' and leave the Dark Land.

However, without exception, they all perished under the attack of the Blood God Child's incarnation, who had already laid a trap.

The ninth-tier secret technique 'Time-Space Annihilation', the second level of the Three Heads and Six Arms, the Nine Heavens Divine Armor upgraded three tiers, plus 90,000 times the life gene.

Even though they were just numerous Blood God Child incarnations lacking suitable weapons, each of them possessed the strength to cross the threshold of the fifteenth-level True God.

At present, the early days of the world beasts are still in the gestation period. There are no high-level world beasts. The wise world beasts that have left the dark place are at most second-level world beasts. Naturally, they cannot stop Lu Jin's Blood God Child incarnation. They don't even have the means to escape.

One era after the advent of the ninth-tier secret technique, Spacetime Annihilation, the technique underwent minor adjustments to become applicable to various weapons.

One hundred thousand epochs after the primordial universe, the Spacetime Annihilation Technique was perfected to the ninth-order top-tier secret technique.

Over the next 100,000 epochs, the twelve true gods and the empress of the Heavenly Court successively created the ninth-order secret techniques.

At the same time, none of the many universe lords already in the Heavenly Court, except for the newly promoted universe lords, have a secret technique level below the sixth rank.

A very small number of those with exceptionally high-level secret techniques even created seventh-tier secret techniques under the blessing of the Bodhi tree.

Everything was moving in a positive direction. The only thing that bothered Lu Jin was that the frequency with which the wise beasts left the Dark Land seemed to be gradually increasing.

Time flies, and millions of years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Lingxiao Palace of the Great Luo Heaven, nearly ten thousand powerful figures gathered.

Everyone present was a powerful figure, at least a Lord of the Heavenly Court or higher.

It must be said that the Heavenly Court's strength has developed at a very rapid pace.

"Heavenly Emperor, more than 12407% of the known territory of the primordial universe belongs to my Heavenly Court, totaling 8563 star sectors."

The remaining less than 10% of the known territory consists of a few territories directly under the Hundred Flowers Imperial Court, the Virtual Universe Company, and the Giant Axe Arena, but the majority are territories belonging to other races.

The Lord of Qiankun Palace, Lingyuan, reported to Lu Jin.

The Heavenly Court did not claim all the territory of the primordial universe for itself.

In the past, every inch of land was fought for because the territory under the Heavenly Court was not yet large.

Every time you relinquish the territory of a star sector, it's equivalent to shrinking your land by a fraction of a thousandth or even a fraction of a ten-thousandth.

But now that they've conquered most of the original universe, the Heavenly Court isn't really that interested in a few extremely remote and fragmented territories.

As for the Global Alliance?

The Universal Alliance officially disbanded five million years ago.

A small number of Universe Lords who did not belong to any race but were of special life form origin, as well as many Universe Lords of the Starry Sky Beast lineage, joined the Heavenly Court and became members of the Heavenly Court.

Most of the remaining people, who had clans behind them, were driven by the Heavenly Court to live a meager existence in remote and fragmented territories.

Therefore, the original universe today can be said to consist of only two forces.

The Ancestral God Cult, representing the original will of the primordial universe, and the human race, which follows the Heavenly Court.

To put it bluntly, Lu Jin, as the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court, has long since become the de facto ruler of the primordial universe.

With a stomp of the foot, the entire primordial universe would tremble.

Lu Jin asked, "Have the Sector Guardians been arranged?"

"It has been arranged. Each star sector will be overseen by a cosmic overlord."

"The Lord of the Cold Kite replied."

"That's good."

Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

With over 124 million star sectors, each equipped with a cosmic overlord-level star sector guardian, the Heavenly Court has at least 124 million cosmic overlords under its command.

Thanks to the Enlightenment Diagram of the Higher Laws, it is not difficult for a genius to become a cosmic overlord.

Adding a superior law godhead and another superior law bead of the three profound levels, one can cultivate a cosmic overlord.

Otherwise, the Heavenly Court would never have been able to gather over a hundred million cosmic overlords so quickly.

At this moment, the Lord of the Heavenly Spirit Palace, the Lord of Dawn, stepped forward and said, "Heavenly Emperor, there are quite a few True Gods in the Cosmic Sea who have obtained mechanical treasures in the Jin World. Their mentality has become somewhat inflated. Many True Gods have informed the human race that they wish to go to the Dark Land to hunt world beasts."

Lu Jin laid a trap for the Beasts of the Realm in the Wan Chong Lang waters, which was initially unknown to anyone in the Cosmic Sea.

However, as time went by, terrifying auras occasionally emanated from the Wan Chong Lang waters. After being sensed by powerful individuals who went to the Qingfeng Realm to search for treasures, the matter became public knowledge.

Everything was fine until some idiots just kept jumping around.

The Primordial Universe Heavenly Court's development speed was beyond reason, which gave the powerful figures of various forces in the Universe Sea a misconception.

The Heavenly Emperor's numerous Blood Demon clones stood guard outside the Dark Land, hunting down the Realm Beasts. These Realm Beasts were the greatest enemies of the entire Cosmic Sea, and eliminating them would likely earn the special favor of the Primal Universe's Origin Will.

Otherwise, how could the Heavenly Court have developed so rapidly?
Why did the Heavenly Emperor forbid other powerful beings in the Cosmic Sea from hunting the Beasts of the Realm?

This is clearly a case of the Heavenly Emperor, who is treacherous and cruel, planning to monopolize the enormous benefits of hunting world beasts!

"Really? Xiguang, make a list."

"Four Heavenly Kings of the Four Directions and Four Seasons, you all go and kill according to the list."

Raising an eyebrow, Lu Jin spoke directly.

If some fool wanted to go to the dark place to get himself killed, Lu Jin wouldn't normally stop him.

But the problem is he can't guarantee that the people he'll send to their deaths will all be tough nuts to crack.

If someone were to become a spineless coward who couldn't defeat the Beast of the Realm and instead knelt down and begged for mercy to become its servant, wouldn't their approximate strength and the inescapable trap they had laid be directly exposed?

Compared to the question of whether someone is trustworthy, which is considered intellectually deficient, Lu Jin believes it's simpler and more convenient to deal with the scumbags who created this problem.

In any case, Lu Jinke had no intention of relying on the various forces in the Cosmic Sea to resolve the crisis of the Beast Realm.

The many true gods in the cosmic sea are only two or three levels above the top ten. With such little strength, they can't even kill a third-order world beast. What use are they?
If you're a piece of trash, you should be aware of your worth. If you dare to jump out and spout nonsense, affecting the Heavenly Court's grand plans, then you should all die.

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor."

The Lord of Dawn and the Eight Heavenly Kings bowed in response.

After a while, the meeting ended and everyone dispersed, leaving Lu Jin with Zi Nishang and Hong'er, a total of seven people.

"Ni Chang, if there are enough True Gods, what is the maximum number of Legion-type True God-level Mechanical Treasures?"

Lu Jin asked Zi Nishang.

In the primordial universe, tens of millions of epochs have passed. Within the Hall of Ascension, where time is accelerated ten thousand times, hundreds of billions of epochs have already passed.

Thanks to the complete treasure-refining inheritance and the significant enlightenment boost from the Bodhi Tree, Zi Ni Chang's treasure-refining skills have long since reached the level of a true god-level treasure.

They can even forge a single-target mechanical treasure of true god level.

However, compared to the reincarnation of a powerful being like the Mountain Hermit, his skills are still far inferior.

Although it can be used to refine a single mechanical treasure that can enhance the strength of a True God at the third tier, its effectiveness is not as high as that of the Nine Heavens Divine Armor, and it can only reach the top of the fifteenth tier at most.

Based on the calculation that the Three Heads and Six Arms technique can be upgraded by three levels, the Mechanical Flow Treasure can be upgraded by three levels, and the 90,000 times life gene can be upgraded by nearly one level, a True God who possesses an eighth-level top-tier secret technique can reach the upper limit of its effectiveness.

"Although I haven't tried it, if we gather a thousand True Gods, the Legion-type True God-level Mechanical Treasure can theoretically unleash the power of a top-tier Fourteenth-Order True God."

Ten thousand True Gods are at the sixteenth level, one hundred thousand True Gods are at the seventeenth level (peak), one million True Gods are at the nineteenth level, and ten million True Gods are at the twentieth level (peak).

To go even higher, innovation must be built upon existing traditions.

"Zi Ni Chang said."

"Hong'er, have you fully comprehended the Mother Nest's innate secret techniques?"

Lu Jin turned to look at Hong'er and the other six.

When the Lord of the Universe ascends to the status of a true god, all innate talents and secret arts will disappear.

It's not impossible to keep it; you can simply figure out this talent's secret method on your own.

Some innate secret techniques are simple and can be easily comprehended by strong individuals, such as the Golden Horned Beast's innate secret technique 'Enhancement'.

However, some innate secret techniques are at an extremely high level, and theoretically, even the Lord of the Universe could not comprehend them, such as the Golden Horned Beast's innate secret technique 'Clone'.

"I've already figured it out, but..."

Hong'er nodded, then changed the subject: "After we become true gods in the future, we are not absolutely certain that we can upgrade the mother nest, nor are we absolutely certain that we can cultivate true god-level warriors without any flaws."

(End of this chapter)