Devouring the Stars: A New Talent Every Month
Chapter 49

Nurturing the Blazing Void Beast Clone

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Inner World.

Black-eyed Lu Ming looked up at the sky. At the center of his Inner World, a massive spherical body radiating endless light floated in the air.

Countless profound secret patterns covered the sphere's surroundings, faintly drawing upon the Universe Origin and emitting a strange fluctuation.

Compared to when it had first begun gestating, the sphere had already grown many times larger.

"It's almost ready." Lu Ming looked up at the enormous sphere nurturing the Blazing Void Beast clone, his eyes filled with anticipation.

Crack!

A sound like an eggshell shattering suddenly rang out.

Misty fog began rising from the surface of the massive sphere as it continuously cracked apart.

Amid a series of faint cracking sounds, countless fissures appeared across the sphere's surface.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

A moment later, the spherical shell completely collapsed! A mass of azure flame airflow radiating boundless might appeared in midair.

The flame airflow spontaneously took the form of an unknown, strange giant beast. It was over thirty thousand kilometers long, with azure flaming magma flowing across its entire body. It looked like a monster condensed from flames, its entire body brimming with a scorching, tyrannical aura.

"Let's carefully experience it first!" Lu Ming happily controlled this new body.

After receiving the clone materials for the Blazing Void Beast from his teacher, Lord of Dragon Passage, Lu Ming had also gained access to information on this heaven-defying special lifeform. He now had a fairly clear plan for how to nurture the Blazing Void Beast clone in the future.

"Flames... space. What clear perception!"

Lu Ming controlled the Blazing Void Beast clone as it floated in the void, carefully sensing every change within itself. Before long, he received a great deal of information from his own body.

At the same time, Lu Ming's consciousness continuously sorted through that information.

"My genetic energy strength is nearly equivalent to a ninth-rank Domain Lord!" The Blazing Void Beast clone spoke, its voice like the roar of a Fire God. "As expected of an extraordinarily powerful special lifeform with a Life gene level 3600 times higher!"

In terms of raw strength alone, it was directly a full major level ahead of other lifeforms.

Even among special lifeforms, such a Life gene level must be incredibly rare, right? Lu Ming thought to himself.

Its only shortcoming was that it was still a little too small.

After all, it was an Energy Lifeform. No matter how high its Life gene level was, its size could not be considered truly outrageous. At least compared to the World Tree and Mount Li Fire, a body length of merely thirty-six thousand kilometers was indeed rather small.

Of course, compared to races such as the Human Race, Demon Race, and even Starry Sky Giant Beasts, the Blazing Void Beast was already a colossal creature.

"Although this Blazing Void Beast clone doesn't possess particularly strong talent in the Time Law, its talent in the Space Law is probably even greater than that of the World Tree clone!" In particular, the move Void Control was simply terrifying!

"I'm only at the ninth rank of the Universe level, and my comprehension of the Space Law is practically nothing remarkable... yet even so, I can now freely use heaven-defying methods similar to Space Lock, Space Strangler, and even Teleportation!" Otherwise, why would people say special lifeforms were unreasonable?

"Let's test this move first." The Blazing Void Beast clone instantly activated the third set of Law Secret Patterns within its Life Crystal Core.

Buzz...

In an instant, with the Blazing Void Beast clone as its core, everything within a radius of three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers appeared in its mind. That incomparable familiarity and control over the surrounding space was simply too wonderful.

"I am space."

"Space is me."

"This is a domain under my absolute control!"

"Void Control—what an inconceivable power!"

The Void Domain, spanning an area of three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers, could be freely controlled by the Blazing Void Beast clone in battle. He could even instantly transform into this expanse of space, become a part of space, merge into it, and then reappear at any location.

This heaven-defying teleportation method, unrestricted by any blockade, was called Domain, and it was also an incredibly heaven-defying Innate Secret Method. Yet Domain... was merely one of the many abilities of the Innate Secret Method Void Control.

Even many King-level Immortals and Universe Venerables could only envy such a heaven-defying method. Yet the Blazing Void Beast itself was currently only at the ninth rank of the Universe level!

"Though it's only at the Universe level, with this clone, where in the vast universe can't I go?" Lu Ming was overjoyed, his spirits soaring.

"No rush. My Blazing Void Beast still has plenty of room to grow. First, I've yet to formally come into contact with the Space Origin Law. I basically need to start from scratch in that regard." It was worth mentioning that the Virtual Universe Company offered special treatment to geniuses like Lu Ming who possessed cloning talent, such as allowing them to choose a Chaos Tablet again.

Although the choice of a Chaos Tablet was extremely important and could not be changed lightly, this restriction only existed because the Virtual Universe Company's higher-ups feared that geniuses would keep changing their minds and waste their time and energy recklessly.

However, in special cases like Lu Ming's, where a new clone had been gestated and gained powerful new cultivation talents, exceptions were naturally permitted. He could choose another Chaos Tablet to study.

For truly top-tier, heaven-defying super geniuses, it was even possible to make an exception and allow them access to multiple Chaos Tablets.

When Lord of Dragon Passage had recommended that Lu Ming gestate this Blazing Void Beast clone, he was likely hoping that Lu Ming could make up for his weakness in the Space Law and, in the future, have a chance of becoming a Universe Lord through the path of the Combination of Time and Space.

Thus, while gestating this clone, Lu Ming had simultaneously gained the authority to choose a new Chaos Tablet, allowing this clone to comprehend the Space Law.

As for the number of times he could study Chaos Tablets, Lu Ming did not need to worry for the time being. As the Direct Disciple of a Universe Lord, such a minor privilege was nothing.

In fact, the moment Lord of Dragon Passage accepted him as a disciple, he had also gained permanent residency rights in Chaos City.

"In the future, the Blazing Void Beast clone will focus on the Space Law and the Path of the Fire-Void Beast God, while my true body will focus on the Time Law and the Path of the Thunder-Time Beast God. The two may even complement each other in the later stages."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the Nine Universes Chaos Tablet is still the most suitable for the Blazing Void Beast clone. When the time comes, I'll have to buy that exorbitantly priced secret manual called Chronicles of Time and Space." Clones were wonderful, but nurturing them also burned through points at an alarming rate.

"Besides Chronicles of Time and Space, I also need to purchase precious materials that can strengthen the Flame Origin, as well as the body amplitude secret technique Tempering, which was custom-made for the Blazing Void Beast, and the precious materials required to learn it..."

Only by strengthening the Flame Origin could he maximize the power of the second Innate Secret Method, Burning Ashes.

As for Tempering, it was an extremely powerful body amplitude secret technique!

The soul had Soul Amplitude strength!

The body had Body Amplitude strength!

The basic spear technique Lu Ming had cultivated when he was still weak contained Body Force, and this Body Force was a type of power amplitude.

However, Body Force here referred entirely to the development of the body's inherent strength. For example, Lu Ming could now achieve one hundredfold Body Force, which actually meant he could control 100% of his body's strength.

Once Body Force reached one hundred, it was considered perfect control over every bit of power within one's body.

A Body Force of one hundred was the limit under normal circumstances!

The same principle applied.

With Mental Power Amplitude, being able to control a hundred Flying Daggers simultaneously, with every Flying Dagger reaching its maximum attack power as though controlled individually, was likewise the limit achievable under normal circumstances!

But that was only under normal circumstances.

Perfectly utilizing one's body and soul was something every Immortal God could achieve. Only by perfectly mastering one's own body and soul could one have a chance to break through and become an Immortal God. This was one of the prerequisites for breaking through to immortality.

Within the Virtual Universe Company, there was a specially established Immortal Altar that tested this very aspect.

But true experts could make their bodies and souls erupt beyond their limits!

For instance, they could unleash two, three, or even greater times their normal attack power.

Certain special secret techniques and special treasures could allow one to surpass the limits of their normal state!

Naturally, all such secret techniques and treasures were incomparably expensive treasures in the universe.

Using the perfect utilization of one's bodily strength as the standard of "one," the maximum amplitude achievable by the body and soul in the universe was one hundredfold!

No matter what secret technique was used... the ultimate limit was one hundredfold. However, secret techniques that could truly reach that one-hundredfold limit were exceedingly rare in the universe.

In fact, even among the King-level Immortal experts of the Human Race, those who could generally achieve threefold or fivefold Body Amplitude were already considered quite impressive.

Many Immortals among weaker Alien Races had no access to such precious secret techniques at all.

Tempering, however, was a heaven-defying secret technique tailor-made for the Blazing Void Beast. It required no support from Law comprehension; by relying solely on tempering oneself, it could directly reach the one-hundredfold limit of Body Amplitude.

"I need to buy secret techniques, and I need to buy cultivation resources too. Nurturing a clone really isn't a simple matter!" At this moment, Lu Ming was troubled, yet happy.

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