Swallowing the Stars: The System Bound the Wrong Person at the Start

At this time, China was in the reign of Empress Wu Zetian during the Tian Shou era. Last year, Wu Zetian formally proclaimed herself Empress, changed the dynasty name to Zhou, and established the Wu Zhou regime.

In a valley in Shennongjia, four thousand meters underground, in a natural karst cave the size of a football field and six meters high, a three-meter-diameter crimson jade ball is quietly suspended in mid-air.

Chen Yang's consciousness awoke from a long slumber, a wave of dizziness still lingering over him. As his consciousness cleared slightly, fragments of completely unfamiliar memories surfaced from the depths of his mind. The mechanical, cold announcements, prompts, and warnings left him stunned.

After carefully analyzing the information conveyed by the mechanical voices, Chen Yang understood. Simply put, the system was originally supposed to bind to another person and take them to Earth in another world, but due to some accident, it bound to him instead and brought him to this world that doesn't value life at all—Swallowed Star.

Chen Yang was utterly speechless. A powerful transmigrator with a cheat-like ability had bound the wrong person? And transmigrated to the wrong destination? Then, he claimed that because he was a true spirit from the supreme ancestral planet Earth, he couldn't incur karmic debt, so he intervened to transform him into a special life form, leaving behind five treasures to settle the matter, and then disappeared?

Is it really such a coincidence? And is that system carrying out a mission? Why is it so fixated on that host? Since it's wrong, can't it just continue down the wrong path? It won't despise him, so why go to the trouble of severing ties and cutting all ties?

However, in his previous life on Earth, he was just an ordinary office worker. Being able to be reborn after death was enough for him. As long as he was alive, there was always hope.

In his past life, he was still single at twenty-seven. His parents died one after another, and his sister got married and started her own family. He was like a lost soul in that world, without goals or ideals, just living a numb and simple life. On his twenty-seventh birthday, he saw a girl not far away about to be hit by a car. His mind went blank for a moment, and his body, almost instinctively and without thinking, rushed forward and pushed the girl away.

Then, he lost consciousness.

He was quite puzzled. He wasn't exactly a saint, so why would he inexplicably rush forward to shield someone from this disaster? Was it really like what he usually thought when he was incredibly bored, like, "Life is so boring, I want to die"? Such thoughts are best left unsaid; very few people actually have the courage to do them.

Now he's arrived in the Swallowed Star world. First, he was fused into the body of the Zerg Queen Irina by that damned system, allowing him to perfectly devour all of the Zerg Queen's essence. Then, the system communicated with systems from other planes, paying a certain price to obtain the bodies of all the Pangu people in the Pangu Holy Land when the Pangu Clan was wiped out. It refined and extracted them into a drop of extremely pure Pangu Clan bloodline, which was then integrated into his body.

Then the system's power intervened, optimizing and transforming him into a new special life form. Because this special life form was too overpowered, the system added some restrictions. However, according to his vague memory, even as a special life form, it should still be in human form, modeled after the Demon Lord Chonglou from his favorite Xianxia game. If it were Chonglou from the TV series, he would definitely refuse.

Having calmed down, Chen Yang began to focus on his current state. He easily released a kind of soul power to observe himself and his surroundings, discovering a transparent crystal about one millimeter in size in the center of his heart—this was his primordial core.

The moment consciousness touched the primordial nucleus, a surge of information was continuously transmitted into the mind.

He originally possessed the talent of having 10,000 soul cores from the Zerg Queen after devouring Irina's soul essence; now, the number of soul cores has decreased to 10,081. In addition to soul cores, he also possesses the characteristic of the Pangu race: primordial spirit.

His consciousness and will are carried by his primordial spirit, which resides within the original core. The 10,081 soul cores revolve around a star like planets orbiting a constellation, following some mysterious trajectory.

However, Chen Yang soon discovered an extremely peculiar setting—the "blank divine spark" manifested by the system within his body was currently emitting a soft light. His primordial spirit had actually and naturally sank into this blank divine spark!

His divine nature became the most important and core embodiment of himself.

This is practically a perfect coincidence. The Pangu race in "My Date with a Vampire" has the heaven-defying setting of "immortality is the same as immortality," while under the cosmic rules of "Swallowed Star," the primordial spirit should be extremely fragile. But now, his primordial spirit is hidden within this supreme treasure-level divine spark, which is equivalent to putting on an invincible armor of absolute defense.

Chen Yang perfectly inherited a total of 4289 innate, special, and ordinary secret techniques from the Zerg Queen, and he also obtained an upgraded version of the Zerg Queen's hive. In addition to the Zerg heritage, he also possesses all the talents of the Pangu race from the Zombie Pact, because his current life form is a completely new and special life form formed by incorporating Zerg talents while primarily based on the Pangu race.

Since the Pangu Clan is the main force, Chen Yang naturally inherited the Pangu Clan's name. Creating such a terrifying race in the future wouldn't be bad—yes, he can reproduce and propagate a race.

The Pangu Clan's combat prowess in the original "My Date with a Vampire" novel didn't seem very high. Two Pangu Clan kings and the Holy Mother engaged in a great battle on Earth, only managing to destroy a few buildings, not even damaging a planet. In the finale, several people fought to the death on a football field, yet couldn't even destroy it – a poor performance.

Well, let's put aside the combat power and destructive power for now. After all, the Pangu Clan only allowed life to be born on Earth in order to capture destiny, so they should give Earth, this battlefield, an epic upgrade.

Leaving aside combat strength for now, let's just talk about the setting of the Pangu race.

The Pangu Clan is an extremely idealistic race.

Pure Pangu people are immortal, eternal, and indestructible as long as their will is not extinguished. This is not a matter of the primordial spirit, but of the will. Will is existence, and existence is eternity. Even if the physical body is shattered into elementary particles, as long as the will remains, it can be instantly rebuilt.

This kind of idealistic power is also manifested in the descendants of the Pangu clan, but to a vastly different degree. Zombie descendants with green eyes and below lack a primordial spirit, possessing only a soul, and are fundamentally incapable of true immortality. In the original work, Wanyan Bupo, a pseudo-red-eyed zombie, was instantly reassembled after being reduced to particles by Ma Xiaoling; this was due to the residual power of the Pangu bloodline. Jin Weilai, driven by her profound maternal love for her son Nino, forgot her own death despite her physical body's demise, and as a fourth-generation zombie, she outmaneuvered and killed a second-generation zombie.

What does this mean? The power of the Pangu Clan is closely related to "idealism"! The stronger the will, the stronger the power!

In the original story, aside from the Holy Mother of Yaochi being struck by an arrow emanating from Ksitigarbha, being pulverized into particles by the combined fire of the crowd, and the Pangu Clan being wiped out by the Red Snowstorm Virus, you have absolutely no idea how the Pangu Clan could die. Chen Yang even suspected that as long as the Pangu Clan's will was strong enough, they would never die. Jiang Chen, even after being poisoned, could still leisurely send Kuang Tianyou back to Earth, and only after that did he receive his "lunchbox" (a euphemism for death) without any worries, showing no signs of weakness from being poisoned.

Then there's the setting of transcending the Three Realms and Six Paths, and being unaffected by fate. That setting is amazing.

The most direct evidence to illustrate this point is the disappearance of Kuang Tianya. After Kuang Tianya vanished, everyone, including the already enraged Kuang Tianyou, lost all memories of him. Yet, King Fuxi, a pure-blooded member of the Pangu clan, looked at Kuang Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling with pity. Clearly, the Pangu clan could disregard even the power to repair spacetime rifts. This is a power akin to the rules of the universe; how could they simply ignore it? In the previous calamity, humanity created such monsters, and their fate was already considered slow in terms of destruction.

The Pangu race also possessed primordial spirits. The Pangu people walked the mortal realm solely in their primordial spirits, and even after their primordial spirits were destroyed by Jiang Chen, they could return to their bodies and recover. The zombies below the Pangu race, if their emotions reached their extreme, could unleash combat power far exceeding their normal levels. The Pangu race likely possessed the same characteristic, only their emotions rarely reached such extremes. They were extremely rational, even accepting the extinction of their race in order to capture their destiny.

Therefore, from the perspective of the setting, the Pangu race is a perfect race. They possess the talent of immortality, the power to destroy the world, extraordinary wisdom and abilities, and the characteristic of transcending the Three Realms and Six Paths and not being controlled by fate.

Chen Yang, this special life form, also inherited these characteristics of the Pangu race. Currently, he, like the innate Beast God, possesses a perfect gene multiplier of 10081 times. Moreover, his level is higher than that of a pure Pangu person because he can create a truly pure Pangu person, at the cost of a drop of his heart's essence blood.

He could create zombies like the Pangu Clan, using his fangs to suck the blood from his target's entire body, then injecting a drop of his heart's essence into the target's body. The target would then be transformed into a blood cocoon by the heart's essence, undergoing a period of gestation. After a period of gestation, like an insect emerging from its cocoon, they would become a true member of the Pangu Clan. This newly conceived Pangu Clan member would possess an innate and extremely high level of loyalty to Chen Yang, as if it were a brand etched deep within their bloodline.

However, this creation from nothing comes at an extremely high cost.

The essence of his heart is not an inexhaustible spring, but rather the ultimate condensation of Chen Yang's primordial power. With his current special life level of 10081 times the perfect genes, at his peak, he can only condense a maximum of 108 drops of essence of his heart within his body.

These 108 drops of essence blood represent 108 pure Pangu warriors who will be able to sweep across the universe in the future.

Of course, the essence blood is not irretrievable after it is consumed, but the process is extremely slow. Even if he does nothing but sit in meditation, it would take a full hundred years to condense a single drop of his heart's essence blood from the origin of the universe.

Moreover, after the bitten person receives the blood essence, they still need to go through an extremely long gestation period.

The Pangu Clan's foundation was terrifying; even a single drop of their heart's essence contained fragments of world-destroying laws. The target infused with this essence would need a thousand years to fully absorb its power after transforming into a blood cocoon, completing the ultimate leap in their life form and finally emerging from the cocoon.

"A thousand-year gestation period, a hundred-year recovery period..."

Chen Yang silently calculated the accounts in his mind. No wonder his predecessor slept in that underground cave for over 30,000 years. At this rate of recovery, 30,000 years would be just enough time for him to accumulate the foundation of 300 drops of his heart's essence blood, laying the groundwork for the future propagation of the Pangu Clan.

Besides bloodline and reproduction, the Pangu clan's talent in the laws is also considered heaven-defying.

In the original story, each of the zombies below the Pangu clan possessed a unique ability from birth, and Jiang Chen, as the God of War, could even control time and space, freezing time and space to save Nino. Now, within the world of "Swallowed Star," this ability has a perfect explanation.

The zombie descendants of the Pangu race are born with the ability to grasp a lower-level law and possess an extremely strong sensitivity to higher-level laws. Pure Pangu people, on the other hand, are born with the ability to grasp all ten laws and have an exceptionally strong perception and clarity of all laws in the universe.

This means that as long as the descendants of the Pangu clan do not perish, their future achievements will at least be immortal gods, and pure Pangu clan members are destined to become cosmic venerables or even cosmic masters!

Of course, in addition to using the "creation" method of the heart's essence to create people, the Pangu clan could also reproduce normally through the union of men and women.

However, the probability of such natural conception is shockingly low.

After all, the Pangu race's life level was far too high, so high that even the fundamental laws of the universe could hardly easily contain such a perfect life form. For two powerful members of the Pangu race to combine and naturally give birth to a newborn was as difficult as capturing a naturally born beast god in the universe with bare hands. In the long river of time, the Pangu race often went through tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, without successfully giving birth to a newborn with the complete Pangu bloodline.

However, even with such a rare natural reproduction, the level of life is far beyond that of ordinary races. Moreover, the Pangu race's bloodline has no inherent lifespan limit, meaning they have unlimited time to comprehend the laws of nature.

However, the Pangu race was too extraordinary and did not conform to the rules of the original universe. Therefore, the system set extremely strict "primordial core restrictions".

After emerging from their cocoons, the descendants of the Pangu clan experience a gradual decline in gene count as their bloodline degenerates.

The highest-level green-eyed zombies have a gene multiplier of up to 1081 times. As long as they possess the enlightenment of the laws at the King level and are supplemented with massive resources, they can advance to immortality. Yellow-eyed zombies have a gene multiplier of 365 times and require the enlightenment of the Marquis level. Blue-eyed zombies have a gene multiplier of 108 times, white-eyed zombies have a gene multiplier of 36 times, and even the lowest-level black-eyed zombies have a gene multiplier of 10 times.

Zombies with blue eyes or lower can naturally ascend to immortality as long as they comprehend a lower-level law.

However, no matter how high the genetic multiplication rate, truly breaking through the primordial core to become an immortal god faces a tremendous hurdle. Ordinary descendants of the Pangu race, when their inner world naturally grows to the peak of the Realm Lord level, can reach an area of ​​one trillion kilometers in length and width, and must create their own "Immortal Peak Secret Technique" to break through the primordial core.

As for Chen Yang, who is the source, his inner world is so vast that it is suffocating. When he naturally grows to the peak of the World Lord, its length and width can reach ten trillion kilometers!

To break through this indestructible core, Chen Yang not only needs to reach the peak of the Realm Lord, but also must comprehend at least one branch of the two superior laws of time and space, and create his own "Immortal Ultimate Secret Technique" in order to successfully break free from his cocoon and become a god!

"Goodness, these restrictions are pretty harsh." Chen Yang stroked his chin, but his eyes gleamed with excitement.

Although breaking through the original core is incredibly difficult, the Pangu race has no lifespan limit! While others are stuck at the peak of the realm lord for a few hundred years and their lifespan is exhausted, they can spend ten thousand or a hundred thousand years to slowly refine their secret techniques until they achieve their goal!

After taking stock of the foundation of his physical body, bloodline, and laws, Chen Yang turned his attention to the legacy left by the Zerg Queen.

In the Swallowed Star universe, the Zerg Queen is a universally acknowledged terrifying being who is "invincible among those of the same level and can easily defeat those of higher levels." The fundamental reason for this lies in the Zerg Queen's extremely abnormal and powerful innate secret techniques.

Chen Yang currently inherits two main Zerg Queen's innate secret techniques, and these two techniques have been forcibly copied and optimized by that "dog system," and firmly engraved on that blank divine spark. This means that they will never be taken back by the original will of the primordial universe when he ascends to true godhood, unlike the original core secret techniques.

"The Hive": A secret innate ability of the Zerg Queen, allowing her to create a hive within her body, much like creating a clone. However, the hive is not a clone; if the original dies, the hive will not recreate it. Therefore, the Zerg hive is merely a tool created by the innate secret ability "The Hive," and is not a clone.

Originally, the Zerg hive, a unique innate technique, would be reclaimed by the primordial universe after Chen Yang ascended to the True God realm. However, the system copied and optimized it, re-engraving it into his blank godhood. Therefore, even after ascending to the True God realm, Chen Yang could still use the Zerg hive to breed Zerg warriors.

"Soul Control of Ten Thousand Hearts": The Zerg Queen's innate secret technique, she is born with ten thousand soul essence cores, her soul power is powerful, she can multitask and precisely control many Zerg warriors in battle, at most she can control a hundred things at once, she can control a million Zerg warriors to launch a combined attack; if she wants precise control, she can only control a maximum of ten thousand Zerg warriors at the same time.

This secret technique is actually extremely powerful, but only the Zerg Queen, who is born with ten thousand soul essence cores, can cultivate it. While the primordial universe endowed the Zerg Queen with powerful soul talent, it also imposed limitations on her; her frail physical body is one of the limitations imposed on her by the primordial universe.

Soul power requires a powerful physical body to support it. Because of her weak physical body, the Zerg Queen could not possibly unleash her full soul power. Not to mention a soul power ten thousand times that of a peer, she could at most unleash a power a hundred times that of a peer. Her soul power at the peak of the Realm Lord level was already at its limit, comparable to that of an Immortal Army Lord.

But it's different for Chen Yang. He was born with perfect genes, and the physical body of the Pangu clan is renowned for its strength. He can perfectly unleash the full potential of this innate secret technique and absolutely push this talent to its limit.

"The Zerg's resources are truly terrifying," Chen Yang thought to himself.

But this is just the beginning.

The Zerg Queen's secret techniques were indeed powerful, but they were merely a byproduct that the system "casually" fused together. What I'm about to discuss is the truly heaven-defying foundation that the damned system bestowed upon the Pangu race to repay karmic debts—the three core innate secret techniques!