Swallowing the Stars: I Have a Primordial Dao Seed

Beibei piloted the spaceship, finding a safe direction to accelerate in the starry sky, and then started the engines. The two spaceships, like two shooting stars, began to accelerate in sync.

Before long, the two spaceships broke through the space barrier and entered the dark universe for travel.

"Master, what is our destination this time?" After entering the dark universe, Beibei's voice rang in Zhou Yuan's mind.

Zhou Yuan sat in the main control chair, looking at the 3D projection of the cosmic star map in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he replied, "Go to Nanyun Star. It is one of the core commercial stars in the southern part of the Zichen Universe Kingdom. The market is big enough that we should be able to sell our stuff easily without worrying about causing unnecessary trouble."

He knew that the resources he had acquired this time were too vast, and his strength was not strong enough. If he made a move on a small planet, he might attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.

As the core commercial planet in the southern part of the Zichen Universe Kingdom, Nanyun Star is the closest core commercial planet to the Yunyan Secret Realm. Massive amounts of resources are traded there daily, so his meager resources are insignificant and wouldn't attract anyone's attention.

"Yes, Master, target: Nan Yun Star, estimated travel time: seventeen months, let's go!" After saying that, Bei Bei steered the spaceship toward Nan Yun Star.

Taking advantage of the spaceship's journey, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and focused his mind on the Hunyuan Dao Seed deep within his sea of ​​consciousness. The Hunyuan Dao Seed had just absorbed a large amount of cosmic crystals, and Zhou Yuan wanted to see just how much energy the Hunyuan Dao Seed needed to deduce the secret techniques.

Zhou Yuan focused his mind on the Hunyuan Dao Seed, examining its deduction techniques. The Hunyuan Dao Seed's deduction function was very simple: one only needed to set a goal to begin deduction. Deduction consumed energy, and once the energy was depleted, the deduction stopped. After stopping, one could continue to provide primal power to continue the deduction.

Zhou Yuan thought about the secret techniques he needed. He already had a secret technique to improve his gene level, and the most important one was a secret technique to save his life.

According to Zhou Yuan's memories from both lifetimes, the best life-saving technique should be the clone technique. The protagonist, Luo Feng, relied on the clone ability of the Golden Horned Beast to escape danger many times.

Secondly, there are cultivation secrets, mainly secrets for comprehending the laws, such as the Bloodstained Manual that Luo Feng originally exchanged at the Virtual Universe Company.

As for combat techniques, they need to be created by oneself to better suit oneself. Even if the Hunyuan Dao Seed can deduce combat techniques that fit oneself, creating one's own techniques can not only integrate what one has learned, but also be more conducive to one's own cultivation, and can also temper one's own thinking and comprehension.

Secondly, there is the Amplification Secret Technique, which is one of the important ways to increase strength in the Devouring Stars universe, and the Amplification Secret Technique is relatively rare in the entire human race.

Those who possess the Amplification Secret Technique are generally powerful individuals at the peak of the King-level realm or above. The Amplification Secret Technique allows cultivators to unleash power far exceeding their own strength in a short period of time, making it crucial for battles between powerful individuals. It can increase combat power by up to a hundredfold, and most Venerables do not possess the Amplification Secret Technique that can increase combat power by a hundredfold.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan tentatively asked the Hunyuan Dao Seed to deduce the clone technique. He set a simple clone technique target in his mind, but the feedback from the Hunyuan Dao Seed was that it lacked a lot of energy. The energy of the cosmic crystals he had absorbed before was less than one trillion trillionth of that.

Zhou Yuan was completely dumbfounded. He hadn't expected that deduce a clone technique would require so much energy. The Golden Horned Beast's clone ability was only considered a mid-to-high-level opportunity in the eyes of the Chaos City Lord, so it shouldn't have required so much energy.

"No, there must be something wrong with my settings. A clone technique like the Golden Horned Beast shouldn't have such high requirements. There are so many Golden Horned Beasts, so this technique shouldn't have such high requirements." Zhou Yuan began to ponder his settings for the clone technique.

My previous setup was too vague and didn't provide any specific reference. I guess it was a deduction of a clone technique that even the Lord of the Universe could use, which is why the Chaos Origin Dao Seed requires such a massive amount of energy.

Zhou Yuan decided to keep things simple and directly set up the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique. He transmitted all the settings of the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique from his memory to the Hunyuan Dao Seed, including details such as the Golden Horned Beast's clone development method, gene level, and number of clones.

This time, at least not so much energy is needed; the feedback from the Hunyuan Dao Seed has already reached one thirty-millionth of the energy. Zhou Yuan roughly calculated that, based on this ratio, deduce the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique would require approximately 300,000 Hunyuan units of cosmic crystals.

Although this is an incredible sum of money for Zhou Yuan right now, he can still accept it. After all, the assets of an immortal powerhouse can provide three clones, and the value of this clone technique far exceeds 300,000 Chaos Units.

However, since he could set the attributes of his clones, Zhou Yuan naturally wanted to experiment more. Based on the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique, he increased the gene level he could nurture to 10081 times, and then had the Chaotic Origin Dao Seed feed back the energy needed for deduction.

Unexpectedly, the energy required for this simulation increased ten thousand times, reaching 3 billion units of cosmic crystals.

However, in Zhou Yuan's view, this amount of resources is enough to create a clone with 10081 times the genetic level, which is incredibly cost-effective.

It's important to know that a genetic level of 10081 times is extremely rare even in the entire universe. Having such an avatar would result in a qualitative leap in combat power, and one could also obtain the most powerful secret technique in the universe bestowed by the original universe.

After this initial attempt, Zhou Yuan experimented with many different settings. For example, he set the number of clones to increase, with each additional clone increasing the energy requirement by a hundredfold, two by ten thousandfold, and so on, with each additional clone increasing the energy requirement by a hundredfold. Another example was setting different cultivation levels for creating clones, which resulted in a secret technique that even immortals could create clones.

Ultimately, Zhou Yuan decided that three clones would suffice. He planned to cultivate one Blood Sea clone to specialize in gene research and provide divine power; one World Tree clone to cultivate the laws of spacetime; and a third main combat clone to handle battles and exploration.

Moreover, after practicing the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, he was large enough and strong enough to be used as a main combat clone.

Based on the Golden Horned Beast's clone technique, Zhou Yuan raised the gene level to the point where he could breed a creature with 10081 times the gene density.

Before the Immortal realm was modified, all beings could autonomously create clones, and the genetic material of any organism at any realm could serve as the basis for an avatar. The method of creation remained the same as that of the Golden Horned Beast, through the internal world.

Zhou Yuan also designated the secret technique as a talent-based secret technique. This designation required an additional energy expenditure, but it was negligible compared to the energy required to increase gene levels. The advantage of a talent-based secret technique was that it could be used directly after the deduction was completed without needing to learn the technique itself.

After setting it up, Zhou Yuan saw that the energy requirement reported by the Hunyuan Dao Seed was about 20,000 times that of the original Golden Horned Beast, roughly six billion Hunyuan units of cosmic crystals, equivalent to the entire assets of a King-level Immortal. Zhou Yuan believed that with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and the Hunyuan Dao Seed, he would definitely be able to gather the necessary resources at the Realm Lord stage.

After setting it up, Zhou Yuan had the Chaotic Origin Dao Seed begin its deductions. Instantly, the cosmic crystal energy that the Chaotic Origin Dao Seed had just absorbed was completely consumed, and the deductions ceased. Zhou Yuan had no choice but to wait until he had sufficient resources to continue the deductions later.