Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 98 Netherworld Blood Sea, Thirty-Six Heavenly Realms
It's quite amazing that Lu Jin's consciousness is now quite complex.

The soul consciousness within the original core can enter the external space, as can the soul consciousness of the human main body, and the soul consciousness of the water unicorn clone.

As Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, the cosmic-level treasure chest radiating nine-colored light within the external storage space dissipated, transforming into a burst of dazzling nine-colored brilliance.

After the nine-colored light faded, in addition to the guaranteed Domain Lord-level Nine-Colored Treasure Chest, the Universe-level Treasure Chest still yielded three items.

A small, palm-sized, white jade gate-like building that looks extremely familiar.

Thirty-six small balls radiating vibrant colors.

A blob of red liquid.

By using his mental power to investigate, Lu Jin quickly learned the basic information about the other two items, in addition to the white jade portal he already suspected.

——Peach Garden (1/3): One of the three components of the Peach Garden, a special type of top-tier treasure. It is now a high-grade treasure and contains 1,200 medium-grade peach trees (ripe and ready to be picked).

Absorbing the spiritual energy of the universe, the mid-grade peach tree blossoms once every two thousand epochs, bears fruit once every two thousand epochs, and matures once every another two thousand epochs.

Note: Each medium-grade peach tree produces 99 medium-grade peaches every six thousand epochs. Each medium-grade peach can double the level of life genes (100 times and above are ineffective), as well as the corresponding affinity with the Water Origin Law.

—Thirty-six Heavenly Realms: Special divine treasures, each heavenly realm can be the size of the god-king, with a maximum diameter of 129600 light-years.

The Thirty-Six Heavens contain the spiritual energy of the Heavens. Spending a long time within the Heavens can enhance one's cultivation talent to a certain extent in all aspects (the specific effects vary from person to person; the stronger one's talent, the weaker the effect).

It can generate four celestial gates: east, south, west, and north, connecting any celestial realm with the outside world.

Each celestial realm can establish celestial passages to connect with other celestial realms.

Limited by the original universe, the current Thirty-Six Heavens and the Gates of Heaven are only treasures of the True Gods.

Note: The Thirty-Six Heavens can be entered into the origin of the universe, where all energy consumption is supplied by the origin of the universe.

—Water of the Netherworld Blood Sea: A part of the Netherworld Blood Sea, a special life form with flesh and blood, and is compatible with the laws of time and space.

Note: The Netherworld Blood Sea possesses a life gene level of 380 times, and the water of the Netherworld Blood Sea originates from the first-order Netherworld Blood Sea of ​​the universe.

Temporarily ignoring the second Peach Garden component and the Thirty-Six Heavens, Lu Jin focused his attention on the Netherworld Blood Sea.

The primordial core, derived from the supernatural power "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," can obtain one avatar creation quota when its life level reaches the planetary, cosmic, and world lord levels, respectively.

Now that the protocore level has reached the cosmic level, it has naturally obtained a second slot for the creation of a clone.

Undoubtedly, this mass of Netherworld Blood Sea water can serve as the genetic material for the pronucleus to nurture a second clone.

However, according to his original plan, one of the three clone slots of the original core would be reserved for the Nine Nether Sea.

Not only is the Nine Nether Sea the largest in the primordial universe, and it can serve as a super blood bank in the future, but most importantly, the Nine Nether Sea also possesses the secret technique of 'creation' talent.

To ordinary people, this innate secret technique seems somewhat useless.

If we lack resources ourselves, where will we get the resources to cultivate and create a species of life?
However, for Lu Jin, who plans to ascend to the path of divine power and become a true god in the future, the secret method of creation that can analyze the essence of life is very important.

Otherwise, if his own cheat system doesn't provide this kind of help in the future, he has no confidence whatsoever that he can advance to a true god with 100,000 times the life gene as Luo Feng in the original work.

If the gene material provided by the cheat program were something else, Lu Jin would definitely have used it directly.

However, the Netherworld Blood Sea is similar to the Nine Netherworld Sea. It is obvious at a glance that the two are of similar type and both have an extremely large size.

Furthermore, the fact that their own cheat software didn't introduce the Netherworld Blood Sea's talent secrets made Lu Jin somewhat conflicted.

If the Netherworld Blood Sea's innate secret technique is not powerful enough, and it will need to nurture the Nine Netherworld Sea, which possesses the secret technique of creation, as a third clone, wouldn't that mean the clone's abilities would be redundant?

"Since this is the Netherworld Blood Sea Water given by the cheat program, it should refer to the Blood Sea that gave birth to the Styx Ancestor in the ancient legends, right?"
If the Netherworld Blood Sea were a living being, it would be quite possible that it possesses creative innate techniques?

Touching his chin, Lu Jin pondered to himself.

After weighing his options for a long time, Lu Jin gritted his teeth and thought, "Damn it, let's do it!"
The Netherworld Blood Sea is a special life form with 380 times the life gene, and it is compatible with the laws of time and space. Even without a talent secret technique with an effect similar to 'creation', it is still an excellent clone.

If it exists, great; if not, it's not impossible to create a Nine Nether Sea as a third avatar after advancing to the Realm Lord level.

Regardless of what kind of clones are conceived, after achieving true godhood in the future, all three clones will merge with the original.

He then used his supernatural power, "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," to condense three clones, each of which was exactly the same as the original.

Subsequently, Lu Jin took the Netherworld Blood Sea Water out of the external storage space and put it into the inner world of the original core.

'Doppelgangers, gestation!'

With a thought, the inner world began to nurture the second clone with the waters of the Netherworld Blood Sea.

"Rumble--"

The entire Nine-Colored Continent trembled.

The crimson waters of the Netherworld Blood Sea were lifted by an invisible force and suspended in mid-air above the Nine-Colored Continent.

The next moment, the endless nine-colored mist that permeated the sky above and beyond the Nine-Colored Continent surged wildly toward the Netherworld Blood Sea.

'laugh--'

In an instant, the waters of the Netherworld Blood Sea dissipated like mist, leaving only a tiny bit of blood-red substance enveloped by the nine-colored mist.

As more and more nine-colored mist gathered, a giant oval nine-colored egg, a thousand meters high, gradually took shape in the sky above the Nine-Colored Continent.

Moreover, perhaps because the Netherworld Blood Sea is extremely large, the Nine-Colored Giant Egg continues to grow in size.

Unable to detect the gestation time of the Netherworld Crimson Clone, Lu Jin withdrew his consciousness from his inner world, took out the second Peach Garden component, and infused it with his mental power to recognize it as his master.

Thanks to the fact that the treasure was produced by the cheat program, this high-level treasure quickly completed the process of recognizing its owner.

‘Shua——’

The next second, the water unicorn clone, which had transformed into human form, disappeared and reappeared in the Peach Garden.

Inside the Peach Garden.

Looking around, Lu Jin noticed that the newly acquired peach orchard was not much different from the one he already had, with hundreds of acres of peach orchards inside.

However, compared to the lower-grade peach tree, the middle-grade peach tree is slightly larger, increasing in height from five meters to six meters, and the silver patterns covering its trunk have turned into gold patterns.

Moreover, the diameter of a medium-grade flat peach is about four inches, which is larger than that of a low-grade flat peach, which has a diameter of three inches.

Looking at the 1200 peach trees in the garden, all laden with ripe peaches, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction, then picked them all and stored them in his external spatial storage. Each of the 1200 medium-grade peach trees bore 99 medium-grade peaches, totaling 118800 medium-grade peaches.

Each medium-grade peach can double the level of life genes, with an upper limit of 100 times the life genes.

If used in conjunction with low-grade peaches, only 90 mid-grade peaches are needed to achieve a hundredfold increase in life genes.

The maturation cycle of a mid-grade peach is six thousand epochs. In other words, if there is an abundance of low-grade peaches, he can create 1320 life forms with 100 times the genetic potential every six thousand epochs.

After harvesting the fruit, Lu Jin withdrew from the Peach Garden, retrieved the first Peach Garden component from his own consciousness, and combined the two Peach Garden components into one.

Under Lu Jin's deliberate suppression, the two white jade gates overlapped, and without any of the supreme treasure's pressure emanating from them, they transformed into a white jade gate with gold and silver patterns.

At this moment, after the two Peach Garden components, one of ordinary treasure level and one of high-grade treasure level, were combined, the Peach Garden, which was still missing one last component, was upgraded to the top-tier treasure level.

However, Lu Jin used his mental power to investigate and found that the Peach Garden had not changed much after the merger.

At most, there were 1200 low-grade flat peach trees and 1200 medium-grade flat peach trees planted together in a flat peach orchard that had expanded to about a thousand acres.

As for more?
It seems that only the Peach Garden itself has become more robust and less susceptible to violent destruction.

To put it simply, the core of the Peach Garden lies in the numerous peach trees planted within it.

The Peach Garden, this most precious treasure, can only be considered a flowerpot with flowers planted in it.

The reason it's not low-grade is simply to prevent the flowerpot from breaking easily.

Given that his true self was still participating in the Elementary Heavenly Frost Auction in the virtual universe, Lu Jin temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​using a mid-grade peach to enable his human self to achieve a hundredfold increase in life genes.

Lu Jin retrieved the Thirty-Six Heavens from the external storage space and infused them with his mental power to recognize them as his own.

'So, we have our future base camp?'

Looking at the Thirty-Six Heavenly Realms that appeared before him, which, after recognizing their master, had completely subsided and transformed into thirty-six small glass spheres, Lu Jin thought to himself.

Even though it is suppressed by the primordial universe, the Thirty-Six Heavens are still a treasure of the true gods.

The four Heavenly Gates, which evolved from the Thirty-Six Heavenly Realms, are the only gateways to the Heavenly Realm. Without passing through the four Heavenly Gates, even a true god would be unable to enter the Heavenly Realm.

This is similar to the Star Tower after it has been recognized by Luo Feng. Once Luo Feng closes the tower door, who can get in?

It can not only prevent the strong from entering, but if used in reverse thinking, the Thirty-Six Heavens can also be very useful.

For example, if a powerful figure is lured into the Heavenly Realm, Lu Jin may not be able to suppress the person on the spot, but as long as he closes the Heavenly Gate and the Heavenly Realm passage, wouldn't this Heavenly Realm become a cage for imprisoning powerful figures?
Unless Lu Jin intends to let the other party go, or the other party is strong enough to destroy the God King's treasure, there is no way they can escape this cage.

In addition, there are so-called 'celestial spiritual energy' within the Thirty-Six Heavens. Living there for a long time can also improve one's cultivation talent in all aspects to a certain extent.

This makes the Thirty-Six Heavens not only a base camp and a prison for the strong, but also a talent training base with a maximum diameter of 129600 light-years.

Perhaps celestial inspiration is of little use to true geniuses.

But geniuses are only a tiny minority; most people have relatively ordinary talents.

Perhaps this improvement in talent is the difference between a peak ninth-level World Lord and an Immortal God.

Lu Jin glanced at one of the small glass spheres with faint purple-gold patterns, thought for a moment, put the other thirty-five heavens into his external storage space, and then threw the small glass sphere with purple-gold patterns into the air above the world ring.

The next second, the glass sphere emitted a dazzling light and then disappeared into the world ring, disappearing into the origin of the universe.

There are thirty-six heavens, and although not every heaven is different, they are divided into two types.

One type is the ordinary celestial realm, which has thirty-five levels, each with a corresponding name. In essence, there is no difference in quality between them.

Another type is the Great Luo Heaven, a special existence among the thirty-six heavens.

What makes it special is not its size, which is the same in every celestial realm. Its size can vary at will, but its maximum diameter is 129600 light-years.

The main reason is that the Great Luo Heaven is the highest heaven, closer to the Dao than the other thirty-five heavens, and the Great Dao manifests there.

In the terminology of Swallowing the Stars, it means that there are primordial laws manifesting within the Great Luo Heaven, which is beneficial for cultivators to comprehend the Ten Primordial Laws.

Then, Lu Jin's mind raced, and a dazzling golden light rose from the sky above the World Ring.

In the blink of an eye, a gate to the heavens appeared.

The gate to the heavens shone with countless rays of light and auspicious clouds, with celestial music seemingly emanating from it.

Two enormous celestial pillars, made of crystal-clear glass, are entwined with lifelike golden dragons and jade phoenixes, appearing and disappearing amidst auspicious clouds.

Above the lintel, the three gilded characters "Nantianmen" gleamed brightly, seemingly possessing the majesty of heaven and earth.

A ray of light burst forth from the Heavenly Gate and descended, enveloping Lu Jin.

The next moment, Lu Jin's figure appeared in front of the South Heavenly Gate, on what seemed to be a plaza paved with white jade.

After scanning the area, Lu Jin stepped through the Heavenly Gate, which resembled a glass curtain and whose interior was obscured from view, and entered the Great Luo Heaven.

As her gaze shifted, Lu Jin was greeted by a desolate land shrouded in a clear blue sky.

Above the sky, shimmering nine-colored threads were constantly appearing and disappearing.

Lu Jin knew that these constantly appearing and disappearing crystalline threads actually had ten colors, symbolizing the ten fundamental laws manifested within the Great Luo Heaven, rather than nine colors.

The golden law of metal, the green law of wood, the blue law of water, the red law of fire, the yellow law of earth, the cyan law of wind, the purple law of lightning, the white law of light, the silver law of space, and the law of time, which appears as a transparent color.

It is precisely because the manifested laws of time are transparent that these manifested law threads appear to have only nine colors at first glance.

Lu Jin frowned slightly as he glanced at the desolate land below the sky.

How could the Great Luo Heaven, the highest of the Thirty-Six Heavens, be so desolate?
"Evolution!"

With a thought, Lu Jin instantly unleashed a torrent of cosmic energy, which spread across the barren land.

As if a revival wind had blown by, accompanied by the spread of cosmic energy, the once barren land of the Great Luo Heaven was instantly covered with small flowers and grasses.

Immediately afterwards, in the air several miles away directly in the direction of the South Heavenly Gate, cosmic energy gathered, and a white jade palace shrouded in auspicious clouds suddenly materialized.

Bonus chapter for April (4/8)

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