Third Stage Reward, Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art!

After finishing off those five adventurers, the next order of business was to sweep the battlefield and collect the spoils.

The scarred warrior who led them had wielded a Grade 2 mid-tier Force weapon, worth several hundred million Black Dragon Coins.

The remaining two warriors had each carried Grade 2 low-tier Force weapons.

From the two Psychics, he harvested two Grade 2 low-tier telekinetic weapons.

Adding in the Grade 2 Force battle suits they wore and the contents of their spatial rings...

"Master, all these spoils combined should amount to a profit of around two billion Black Dragon Coins!"

Xiao Yu reminded him from the side.

Su Zhe nodded slightly.

Two billion Black Dragon Coins sounded like a lot, but in reality, it was only the price of a single Grade 3 Force weapon.

Still, it wasn't bad.

At the very least, if he used it to purchase slaves, it would be enough for Su Zhe to reach the ninth rank of the Star level.

"Xiao Yu, continue searching for nearby beasts and humans!"

Su Zhe ordered.

He was short by seventy thousand Devour Points; taking down a few Star-level targets would be enough to bridge the gap.

Su Zhe intended to gather one million Devour Points as quickly as possible to claim the third reward.

Fire borrows the momentum of wind.

After devouring the scarred warrior and mastering the Domain of Wind, Su Zhe quickly discovered a brand-new way to utilize these domains.

Under Su Zhe's control, two different domains could actually be made to overlap perfectly!

This was simply incredible!

Ordinary people could never achieve this, nor could they easily master two different domains, let alone domains like wind and fire, which were inherently conflicting.

The Domain of Wind corresponded to the Law of Wind, which was a subordinate law of the Law of Time.

Meanwhile, the Domain of Fire corresponded to the Law of Fire, which was a subordinate law of the Law of Space.

Of course, for an ordinary person, mastering even one domain at the Star level would already mark them as a minor genius.

Under normal circumstances, even those geniuses participating in the Genius Tournament would only choose one domain and one law to specialize in; they wouldn't choose to study two different domains, as that would scatter their energy and waste time.

With that extra energy, wouldn't it be better to research the superior origin laws?

Only Su Zhe, who grew through devouring, could develop this kind of playstyle.

With the Domain of Fire and the Domain of Wind superimposed, the bonus from the Domain of Wind allowed the two domains to produce the effect of a triple-layered domain, making Su Zhe's strength even greater!

"Swish!"

Su Zhe flashed forward, his hand rising and blade falling; a Star-level eighth-rank beast died miserably under his strike.

"Devour!"

[Devoured Star-level eighth-rank beast, obtained 327,680 Devour Points]

[Current Devour Points: 1,257,938]

[Detected Devour Points have reached 1,000,000. Third-stage growth reward available for redemption. Redeem?]

"Redeem!"

There was no need to hesitate.

Su Zhe chose to redeem it immediately.

Following that... a massive surge of memories flooded into Su Zhe's mind all at once.

Even with his experience in absorbing memories via the Blacklight Virus, Su Zhe was still momentarily stunned by the sheer impact of this vast influx.

Fortunately, the surrounding beasts had already been wiped out by Su Zhe.

Furthermore, Su Zhe had chosen to hide in a cave before claiming the third-stage growth reward; otherwise, if any enemies had appeared at that moment, Su Zhe would have been in grave danger.

When Su Zhe opened his eyes again, five days had already passed.

Absorbing those memories had taken a full five days.

Fortunately, no adventurers had passed through this area during those five days, and although beasts had reclaimed the territory outside, they had failed to find the hidden Su Zhe.

Su Zhe sighed inwardly and began to examine the memories he had acquired.

That massive collection of memories was a cultivation technique.

The name of the technique was... Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art.

A technique from the Shrouding the Heavens World!

It was created by Empress Ruthless, a powerful art capable of devouring and plundering the origin of enemies to make it one's own; by relying on this technique, one could even cultivate a Chaos Body.

After arriving in the Swallowed Star world, this cultivation technique also underwent some transformations.

The power to devour the origin of special physiques seemed to have shifted here into devouring the bloodlines of special lifeforms, or even directly inheriting their unique innate secret techniques!

The Blacklight Virus and Nihility Devouring Flame actually possessed similar abilities.

But with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, this devouring capability would be greatly enhanced.

If one could inherit innate secret techniques...

Su Zhe immediately thought of the Golden Horned Beast's clone innate secret technique.

As one of the most powerful innate secret techniques throughout the entire Swallowed Star saga, it was impossible for Su Zhe not to want it; who would complain about having too many life-saving abilities?

Moreover, with the clone innate secret technique, Su Zhe could compensate for his lacking talents by gestating clones. Coupled with his main body's constant devouring, the law talents he could stack would make comprehending laws a breeze!

It seems devouring Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast clone is an urgent matter.

Su Zhe thought silently.

Next.

After unlocking the third stage of growth rewards, Su Zhe noticed a brand-new prompt appearing on the panel.

[Growth rewards have been fully distributed. Next stage goal: Obtain 1,000,000 Devour Coins (Every 10,000 Devour Points can be exchanged for 1 Devour Coin)]

Devour Coins?

Su Zhe frowned slightly. This sounded like the name of a currency; could it be that some kind of system shop or similar function would be unlocked later?

Furthermore, 1,000,000 Devour Coins meant 10 billion Devour Points.

The previous stages only saw a hundredfold increase, but by this fourth stage, it had jumped to a ten-thousandfold increase.

Fortunately.

As Su Zhe's strength grew stronger through devouring enemies, meeting the goal of 10 billion Devour Points did not seem particularly difficult.

He might have a chance to complete it by the Universe level, or at the very worst, he should certainly finish it by the Domain Lord level.

Su Zhe thought that the more important matter now was to first advance to the ninth rank of the Star level and then leave the Thunder World.

The world-within-a-world in the Thunder World would not appear for a few more years, and Su Zhe did not intend to wait here for it. Instead, he was more interested in the missions he could accept after becoming a trainee universe mercenary.

Once he became a universe mercenary, he could enter the universe secret realms within the human territory to explore without spending money.

As a mercenary, he could also accept missions posted by others to earn rewards.

Although it required risking his life, the final gains might not necessarily compare to those of the geniuses in the core layers, but it had the advantage of freedom, and the difficulty of the missions was not as high as those faced by the geniuses.

"Advance to the ninth rank of the Star level first."

Su Zhe left the pit and emerged into the outside world.

With the blessing of his dual domains, Su Zhe could now be considered nearly invincible within the Thunder World. Unless he encountered disciples from major factions who carried a group of ninth-rank Star level bodyguards with them, no one should be Su Zhe's match.