Life-Soul Space

Giant Mantis Beast was the name Yang Yu had given the three enormous beasts under his command.

Before their transformation, they had been large black Mantises with stripes. Now that they had become monsters, their old name no longer suited them. Naturally, they needed a new one.

If I want to control more Giant Mantis Beasts at once, I need to find a way to cultivate my Fate Soul!

Only by strengthening my Fate Soul can I gain enough power to split off vast numbers of Life Imprints and control an ocean of vicious insect troops! A Fate Soul is rather similar to the concept of souls passed down in ancient Eastern traditions. It isn't part of the physical body, but belongs to the intangible realm of the spirit.

It's too intangible for even the inherited power of the Insect Codex to strengthen it directly. It can only be strengthened through gradual cultivation. I remember that the memories transmitted by the Insect Codex seemed to include relevant cultivation methods.

Yang Yu ate as he thought, wolfing down at least ten pounds of cooked, sauce-marinated beef in the blink of an eye.

Not only that, he also devoured one of the two roasted pork legs on another plate, their skin golden and crisp.

An ordinary person would have been stuffed to death by so much food, yet Yang Yu's stomach felt no bloating whatsoever. Like a black hole, it ground up everything that entered and rapidly digested it all.

His physical strength had increased dramatically, and so had the amount he could eat at each meal.

Such a powerful body consumed an enormous amount of energy. Some could be replenished by his pores naturally absorbing the free energy drifting through the world, while the rest had to come from consuming large quantities of food.

Even without considering the cost of unsealing the Insect Codex's pages, Yang Yu now faced another expense.

The cost of his daily meals alone was staggering.

This made his need for money feel increasingly urgent.

The savings in his bank account were rapidly dwindling. He would have to find an opportunity soon to earn some money for his living expenses.

Crunch, crunch!

After swallowing the last mouthful of roasted pork leg, skin and bone included, Yang Yu patted his stomach and stood.

Twenty pounds of Sauced Beef, thirty-five pounds of pork leg.

Plus roughly ten pounds of assorted fruit and vegetables.

Even after eating all that in one sitting, Yang Yu was only about eighty percent full.

I need to head out soon and find some money, fast.

"Otherwise, even feeding myself will be a problem." Yang Yu glanced at the wreckage of the dining table.

While I'm at it, I can keep an eye out for powerful insects and animals. Ideally, I should find creatures with ancient bloodlines. Insects would be best, followed by cold-blooded amphibians and reptiles, with warm-blooded mammals coming last.

Life Energy produced the best transformation results in insects.

Cold-blooded amphibians and reptiles ranked second.

Warm-blooded mammals came last, and their transformation results were at least fifty percent worse than those of insects!

Yang Yu had another reason for deliberately seeking insects and animals carrying genes from ancient life forms. Once strengthened by Life Energy, creatures with the bloodline genes of fierce ancient beings would not reach their growth limits as easily as ordinary creatures.

The first black beetle Yang Yu had transformed was an ordinary creature, with no powerful bloodline genes lying dormant within it.

Its growth potential was very limited.

Even with Life Energy transforming it, growing to the size of a millstone was already its limit.

If he forced further strengthening, ninety-nine percent of the time, there would be only one outcome.

It would explode and die!

The chance of mutation and evolution was less than one in ten million.

He cleared away the dishes, repainted the study, and cleaned up the scraps of shell left behind after the three Giant Mantis Beasts had eaten.

There was plenty to keep him busy.

By the time Yang Yu had cleaned up the chaotic study and restored it to pristine order, it was already three in the morning.

The night was deep and quiet, yet Yang Yu still felt no trace of sleepiness.

Counting the night he had spent on Tianjing Mountain the night before last, Yang Yu had gone two days and a night without sleep.

Ever since the power inherited from the Insect Codex greatly strengthened his body, not only had all his physical attributes and appetite increased dramatically, but the intervals between his periods of sleep and rest had also grown much, much longer.

With his current understanding of his body, Yang Yu could make a rough estimate.

He could now go a week without sleeping or resting, day or night. After that week, he would need only seven or eight hours of sleep, just like an ordinary person, before he was full of energy again.

If he took care of himself and rested an hour each day, he could keep going indefinitely.

Moreover, every function of his body would remain at its peak at all times.

I don't need to rest yet.

There's nothing else to do in the middle of the night, and I've more or less finished testing everything I can about Life Energy in its current basic state.

It's time to find a Fate Soul cultivation method among the information inherited from the Insect Codex.

Until I resolve the issue of my Fate Soul's strength, I won't be able to fully unleash the power the Insect Codex has given me. I can't even display one ten-millionth of it... this is crucial.

Yang Yu drew a deep breath and set aside everything he was doing.

Whoosh...

He turned his palm over. Dark light flashed across the back of his hand, and a thick, pitch-black book appeared in his grasp.

It was the Insect Codex.

Yang Yu could now freely store the Insect Codex inside his body, keeping it in his life-soul space.

Besides the Insect Codex, his life-soul space could also hold the living creatures he had transformed and brought under his command.

For instance, the three Giant Mantis Beasts, now well fed, had been quietly tucked away in his life-soul space.

Within the insect civilization inheritance, the technology for constructing a life-soul space was already exceptionally mature.

With this convenient technology, individual members of the Insectoid Civilization had once been able to release armies of hundreds of millions of insect beasts at any moment, making them a terrifying race that dominated the cosmos.

As for Yang Yu, after transforming his first Giant Mantis Beast, he had easily triggered the relevant information in his inherited memories. With that information, along with Life Energy and the power of his Fate Soul, he had easily constructed a Life-Soul Space of his own.

Yang Yu held the black Insect Codex in one hand and murmured to himself.

"The memories poured into me are far too disorganized. Although they're only from the first page of the Insect Codex, only the most basic information... the Insectoid Civilization was so vast and brilliant that even the tiniest fragment of its knowledge is too immense for a human to read through."

"At least for now, my Fate Soul is only slightly stronger than an ordinary person's. At this level, I can't memorize and fully comprehend all that information."

"Fortunately."

"Perhaps the creator of the Insect Codex considered that this inheritance of power might fall into the hands of another race. Or perhaps the Insectoid Civilization suddenly encountered some unknown, immense crisis and made preparations for it. The Insect Codex isn't merely a vessel for inherited power. It's also like a supercomputer, allowing me to easily retrieve specific information already poured into me by following the methods left on its pages."

As he thought, Yang Yu opened the Insect Codex.

Rustle.

The first page turned easily.

"I need information on fate soul cultivation methods. The way to search for it should be... here!" Yang Yu moved his finger across two-thirds of the Insect Codex's page, stopping near the bottom.

There, Yang Yu easily grasped a passage of incredibly tiny writing in the Insect Race's script, accompanied by an illustration of an arcane hand seal.

"This is a hand seal for searching memories, along with its corresponding formula."

"And it's specifically for Fate Souls."

"As long as I circulate my power according to the method on the page, form the Hand Seals, and activate them with Life Energy as the source, I can easily retrieve the information on Fate Soul Cultivation Methods that the Insect Codex poured into me, which has already sunk into the depths of my memory."

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