Swallowing the Stars: Level 1, One Talent, Invincible Chaos Origin

Chapter 197, The Holy Decree of the Night Chime Clan
As the light faded, a figure clad in gleaming silver armor and wielding a long spear was revealed.

His expression was calm, his eyes deep and unfathomable, like an ancient well with a cold pool. Just by standing there quietly, he seemed to have become the core of the entire star field.

The originally violent dust cloud and raging energy aftershocks seemed to have become docile.

Jiang Ming's gaze fell on 'King Jinlan'.

King Jinlan was tall and had a face like an iron block and a large black mouth.

Judging by human aesthetic standards, King Jinlan's face has a somewhat honest and simple appearance.

"Human race."

Jin Lanwang's incredibly sophisticated computing core frantically searched for data, but found no matching data for Jiang Ming.

"Good luck to you."

King Jinlan glanced at Lan Shahou behind Jiang Ming, then turned to leave.

When a human king appeared, King Jinlan immediately understood that it had no hope of killing a peak Marquis-level being in the hands of another king.

"Do I allow you to leave?"

Jiang Ming spoke indifferently, casually extending his gleaming silver spear forward.

There was no earth-shattering display of power, only the sudden magnification of the cold glint at the tip of the spear, as if it had instantly traversed the distance of space, ignoring the multi-layered energy shields and force field distortions that automatically activated around King Jinlan.

"Crack!"

A soft, yet teeth-grinding cracking sound rang out.

The outermost layer of Jinlan King's body, a composite energy shield strong enough to withstand a full-force attack from a high-level King, shattered instantly, as fragile as glass.

The spear tore apart King Jinlan's divine body, ripping it in two.

"There's nothing particularly special about the mechanical race's conferment of a kingship."

Jiang Ming was somewhat disappointed. He didn't think that this mechanical race's king was any stronger than the 'Fire Skull King' that Jiang Ming had recently knocked into a deep sleep.

"It seems you're too weak."

Jiang Ming's cold words became the last echo Jin Lanwang heard.

On the gleaming silver spear, a huge, colorful phoenix phantom suddenly spread its wings!

laugh! !

The phoenix collided with King Jinlan's body, but there was no violent explosion, only a chilling sound of energy annihilation.

"Let's die together!"

King Jinlan sensed his divine power decreasing at an alarming rate and let out a final roar.

His body suddenly erupted with unprecedented light, and a destructive energy wave gathered wildly!

"Qiang~"

The phoenix cries out!

It was as if the universe itself had frozen in time with that cry, and King Jinlan's self-destruction came to an abrupt halt.

After that cry that seemed to stop at the same time, an unknown amount of time passed, feeling like a moment or an eternity.

As the light faded, King Jinlan's seemingly intact body floated into Jiang Ming's hands.

"There is no soul, only consciousness exists."

Jiang Ming glanced at the Golden Orchid King in his hand and thought to himself.

Machine races are not life forms with souls, therefore, methods of soul enslavement cannot be applied to them.

As far as Jiang Ming knows, there may not be any means to enslave the machine race in the original universe.

The reason it is a possibility is because Jiang Ming knows that the core intelligence of the entire 'virtual universe' is a mechanical universe master.

But was this mechanical universe ruler evolved from the 'original' intelligent life form? Or was he directly enslaved through a special method of enslavement?

However, there is no way to verify this.

Both possibilities exist, but Jiang Ming leans more towards the idea that the 'Primordial Ancestor' was a mechanical universe lord directly enslaved. This is because cultivating a universe lord is far too difficult; even if the 'Primordial Ancestor' were incredibly powerful, he would still need immense luck to encounter a highly potential intelligent life form.

In comparison, enslaving a mechanical universe lord seems much simpler.

After all, the 'Original Ancestor' was a super strong being who could create the heaven-defying secret technique of the 'Virtual Universe'.

'It's not that difficult for me, but I wonder what level of computing power the Machine Race's King could achieve.'

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

With the existence of the 'Abyss of Calamity', even those without souls can be enslaved.

Lan Sha Hou was already terrified and huddled to the side, trembling. His gaze toward Jiang Ming was filled with boundless awe and gratitude.

He had never seen such a powerful King-level being kill a mechanical King-level being of the same rank with such ease!
Jiang Ming's gaze swept across the void, and he reached out a hand.

An object, roughly the size of a palm, dark gold in color, and shaped like a fragment of a token, flew into his hand from the spatial turbulence.

The fragment of the token was engraved with incredibly ancient and complex patterns, faintly exuding a vast and timeless aura.

During the battle just now, Jiang Ming noticed that King Jinlan had once tried to destroy the token, but failed and then secretly threw it into the spatial turbulence.

However, none of its actions escaped Jiang Ming's notice.

"Thank you so much for saving my life, sir! Lan Sha will never forget this!"

Lan Sha Hou then realized what was happening and hurriedly stepped forward, bowing respectfully. At the same time, he transferred 1000 million Hunyuan units through the virtual universe network without hesitation.

Jiang Ming nodded slightly, but his gaze lingered more on the strange, dark gold token fragment.

"This seems to be some kind of token?"

Jiang Ming felt a slight stirring in his heart, and his consciousness communicated with the virtual universe to begin searching for the origin of this token.

"Huh? There isn't any?"

Jiang Ming was somewhat surprised. With his authority in the virtual universe, unless it involved the Lord of the Universe, or even the virtual universe had no record of it, there would be no way he would have no information at all.

This piqued Jiang Ming's interest.

The Abyss of Calamity, a hell of ten thousand insects in the Azure Ridge.

Jiang Ming's will was focused on the throne at the center of the abyss.

"Bilong, do you know this?"

Jiang Ming transmitted the detailed image of the dark golden token fragment, its energy fluctuation characteristics, and even all the subtle laws he sensed.

After a moment's recollection, the Lord of Bilong quickly recalled the origin of the token.

A moment later, a look of realization and reminiscence appeared on her stunningly beautiful face.

“Master, I do indeed know about this item.”

The Lord of Bilong's voice carried a hint of solemnity.

“This is a fragment of the ‘Holy Decree’ of the ‘Night Chime Clan’.”

"The Nightmare Clan?"

Jiang Ming searched the virtual universe and found information about this race.

It is an extremely ancient and powerful race. At its peak, the strongest member of the race was as powerful as a cosmic lord.

However, they were wiped out by the Zerg in the early days of the primordial universe. The predecessor of the Zerg's second battlefield was the core territory of the Nightmare Clan.

"Back then, the Nightmare Clan refused to withdraw from our territory and was eventually wiped out by our Zerg."

"The 'Holy Decree' in the master's hand was once one of the clan tokens of the 'Night Chime Clan,' representing the highest authority of the 'Night Chime Clan.'"

"This is an unexpected gain."

The legacy left behind by a powerful race that possesses the power to rule the universe is also a tremendous treasure for Jiang Ming.

"Then what is the purpose of this 'holy decree' I received?"

(End of this chapter)