Devouring the starry sky, the clone evolves into a primordial behemoth.

Chapter 1 Doppelganger

Kyoto Base City, Main City, Jinhua District.

February 19, 2056 AD, 2 PM. The winter chill had not yet subsided, and the night was cool as water.

As usual, after finishing his night shift, Chen Mo went to the supermarket to buy a large bag of unsold raw meat before rushing back to his rented room.

The slums of the Lower City District are characterized by narrow alleyways, foul-smelling sewers, and tightly packed tenement buildings.

On the fourth floor, in room 4-2, a small room of just over ten square meters, the room was bare and dimly lit, exuding a chilling aura. As the door opened, a wave of heat entered Chen Mo's senses.

Snapped!

The switch was turned on, and a pair of dark gold vertical pupils in the room met the black eyes of a human.

It was a black python about two meters long. It was originally supposed to be Chen Mo's pet, but now it had become one of Chen Mo's clones. Chen Mo didn't know the specific reason, but he felt that this should be the belated golden finger that he had after his reincarnation.

After being reborn, he awakened his memories of his past life when he was about three or four years old. He then realized that he had been reincarnated into the world of "Swallowed Star". Although he was still on Earth, it was obviously not the Earth he knew.

Tragically, despite becoming a chosen one, Chen Mo remains just an ordinary person with no redeeming qualities.

Martial artist? Mentalist? Don't even think about it. Until a few days ago, Chen Mo wasn't even an intermediate student.

Perhaps the only advantage is knowing how the plot is going to unfold.

However, the distance between Kyoto Base City and Jiangnan Base City, where the protagonist Luo Feng is located, is more than a thousand miles. They also have to cross a wilderness area inhabited by a large number of monsters. The airfare alone is an astronomical figure for Chen Mo.

Therefore, he had no way to find Luo Feng, let alone try to curry favor with him.

If it weren't for this inexplicably appearing clone, Chen Mo would have almost given up on his dream of becoming a martial artist.

What a pity it would be to come to the world of Swallowing the Stars and not become a martial artist, not fight against those strange and wonderful monsters, not be able to see the vast and boundless universe, and not be able to meet the myriad races in the universe.

But now, it seems that everything has taken a turn for the better.

A few days ago, Chen Mo suddenly discovered that his pet "Spicy Strips," which he had raised for two weeks, had died. This made him very sad. Just as he was preparing a large pot with scallions, ginger, and garlic, he discovered that... part of his consciousness seemed to have entered Spicy Strips' body. Thus, he had an extra clone.

Spicy strips belong to the python family, but Chen Mo didn't know what kind of python it was. He looked it up online and found that it was quite different from ordinary pythons, and was very likely some kind of mutated monster.

When I first found it, it was only a dozen centimeters long and could eat a few larger insects or a mouse in one meal.

However, in just over ten days, it grew to nearly a meter in length and weighed five or six kilograms. This growth rate was almost comparable to that of large pythons like the anaconda.

Now, Chen Mo's clone is growing even faster because it needs to eat food equal to its own weight in one meal, and its digestion speed is extremely fast. It can basically digest all the food by the next day, and its body length increases visibly almost every day.

It's now almost two meters long and weighs thirteen or fourteen kilograms!

For Chen Mo, whose monthly salary is less than 6,000 yuan, spending hundreds of yuan a day on meat is definitely a considerable expense, but he doesn't feel the pinch at all; in fact, he's quite excited and wishes the guy would eat more every day.

Because some of the food digested by the clone is converted into energy and transferred to his body, his physical strength, speed, and even the speed of his nerve perception are all increasing rapidly.

In just a few days, Chen Mo's strength, which hadn't improved in a long time, increased by more than ten kilograms! His speed and nerve reaction speed also increased significantly, officially reaching the standard of an intermediate student!

This was something he never dared to dream of before. Even with enough time to train and ample nutrition, it would still take him at least half a year to become an intermediate student.

Intermediate students—

Your punching power needs to reach 400KG!

The speed must reach 15 m/s!

Before this, although Chen Mo had trained very hard, his punching power was still only over 300 kilograms and his speed was only 13 meters per second until he graduated from high school.

After graduating from high school, Chen Mo gave up attending a regular university and chose to work in the main city of Kyoto instead of Weicheng. During his work, he did not give up training and would go to the Extreme Martial Arts Gym whenever he had time. However, a year has passed and his physical fitness has improved very little.

Since acquiring his clone, Chen Mo's physical abilities have improved dramatically in just a few days! In his most recent test, his punching power reached 407KG, and his speed reached 15.6m/s!

At this rate, Chen Mo's stats might reach the standard for a quasi-martial artist in less than two years. Then he can sign up for the quasi-martial artist assessment. Once he passes the assessment, he will be a genuine martial artist, and he will only be twenty-one years old at that time.

Martial artists are transcendent beings, worlds apart from ordinary people. As long as one can become a martial artist, both Chen Mo and his family will live the life of the upper class.

Most importantly, only by becoming a martial artist can Chen Mo have the opportunity to come into contact with the real world of "Swallowed Star" and realize many of the plans he wants to achieve.

Previously, becoming a martial artist was something that seemed unattainable for Chen Mo, but now it seems to be within reach.

……

Over the next few days, everything went as Chen Mo had predicted, and his overall physical condition steadily improved.

However, on the tenth day, after the clone had completed ten meals and digestions equal to its own weight, something unexpected happened: the clone lost its desire to eat!

Chen Mo discovered that some kind of information had appeared in the clone's mind, as if it were an instinct inherent in its genes. This instinct told him that it was about to begin evolving!

Evolution requires consuming the complete genes of an organism, and then perfectly fusing those genes with one's own, thereby achieving the goal of gene leap!

Since the clone is currently only at the ordinary biological stage and cannot even be considered a beast soldier, it can only devour ordinary creatures to complete its evolution. In other words, as the clone continues to grow, its future evolution will allow it to devour more powerful creatures, or even various special life forms, as long as their level does not exceed its own.

"What kind of creature should I choose as my first evolutionary material?"

Chen Mo spent the whole morning worrying about this matter, which caused him to be distracted at work and almost caused an accident.

After finally getting off work, he rushed out of the factory and took a taxi directly to the pet market.

It's called a pet market, but it actually has all sorts of insects and beasts, and even some low-level monsters with very cute appearances, but the prices are beyond Chen Mo's current means.

After more than three hours of selection, he chose a liger cub. Adult ligers are excellent in terms of speed, strength, and reaction speed, which are exactly what Chen Mo needs right now.

In terms of genetic strength, the liger is perhaps the most human-like of all ordinary animals.

An adult liger can easily kill three to five humans.

As for why Chen Mo chose a liger cub, it's because evolution only requires complete genes. It doesn't matter if it's a cub or even a corpse.

As soon as he got home and opened the door, a dark shadow flashed by, and the cage in Chen Mo's hand was snatched away by the snake's tail. The clone's sharp teeth bit open the cage and swallowed the lion-tiger cub inside.

Immediately afterwards, the clone curled up in a corner and fell into a deep sleep.

Evolution has begun!

That night, Chen Mo slept very soundly. In his dream, he felt as if he were in a sea of ​​lava and fire, with all his muscles and bones being melted and then reassembled.

The next morning, after waking up, the first thing he did was check his body, and then he was completely stunned...

(End of this chapter)