Great Void Spirit Crystal

"How beautiful!"

"Only the universe could nurture a treasure like this."

Not just Chu Yuan, but all six Universe Level bodyguards were also staring in wonder.

After coming back to his senses, Chu Yuan immediately asked Feiluan, "Feiluan, what treasure is this?"

"Master, this is a Great Void Spirit Crystal!"

Feiluan's voice trembled slightly as she flew excitedly back and forth around Chu Yuan.

"Great Void Spirit Crystals are born only in Cosmic Secret Realms. They are precious treasures that take a hundred million or even a billion years to form."

"What does it do?"

"Master can fuse with it."

Feiluan rushed up to Chu Yuan and said, enunciating every word, "After fusing with a Great Void Spirit Crystal, your affinity with the Space Origin Law will increase dramatically. It can also grant you the ability to create clones. Most importantly, a Great Void Spirit Crystal can increase your gene multiplier."

Boom!

Chu Yuan felt as though he had been struck by lightning. His eyes instantly reddened, and boundless greed surged in them as he gazed at the Great Void Spirit Crystal.

Increased affinity with the Law of Space.

Clones.

An increased gene multiplier.

Every one of its three functions defied the heavens.

The Law of Space was a higher law, a thousand or ten thousand times harder to comprehend than a lower law.

Chu Yuan had some talent for the Law of Space, but it was not particularly strong.

After the enhancement, his cultivation of the Law of Space would proceed incomparably smoothly.

The second benefit was clones.

Clones were a means of survival.

With clones, his safety would be greatly assured, whether he was adventuring in search of treasure or fighting. His chances of dying would fall a hundredfold or a thousandfold.

Most importantly, it increased his gene multiplier.

Improving one's life genes was incomparably difficult.

As warriors cultivated, advancing step by step from Planetary Level to Star Level, Universe Level... and finally Immortal, their level of life evolved.

Yet even after breaking through to Immortal, their gene level was still only 1x.

Every 1x increase in genes made one's base strength stronger by that of another person at the same level.

The Golden Horned Beast could rival an Ordinary Immortal at Peak World Lord precisely because it was born with a 10x gene level.

"A treasure! It really is a treasure!"

Goosebumps rose all over Chu Yuan's body in his excitement. He then pressed, "Is there anything I need to watch out for when fusing with a Great Void Spirit Crystal?"

"No!"

Feiluan shook her head. "According to the Virtual Universe Company's statistics, there have been no instances of failure when fusing with a Great Void Spirit Crystal. The success rate is one hundred percent, and the process is completely painless."

"Very good."

Chu Yuan nodded and flew up toward the Great Void Spirit Crystal, intending to take it.

Rumble!

A thunderous noise suddenly came from the distance.

Chu Yuan's expression changed. As though facing a formidable enemy, the six bodyguards immediately flew to his side and surrounded him protectively.

The seven followed the sound with their eyes and saw a distant mountain shaking violently.

Crack. Crack.

The mountain split, and the earth shook. Two stone arms, each more than ten kilometers long, abruptly rose and slammed down, pushing hard against the ground.

Then a mountain rose from the earth. That mountain had a human face. Its upper body slowly sat up, then it lifted its feet and finally stood.

It was a gigantic stone man, more than thirty kilometers tall, walking toward Chu Yuan one step at a time.

"%&*#@￥..."

The stone man roared. He was not speaking the Universal Language, so Chu Yuan could not understand him, but his tone made it clear that he was angry and was not saying anything pleasant.

Every step the stone man took shook the earth. The surrounding herds fled in terror in all directions, including quite a few Star Level vicious beasts.

"Be careful, Master! It's a rock lifeform!"

Black Blade One and Star Pupil No. 1 stood in front of Chu Yuan, fully on guard.

Star Pupil No. 1 shouldered a D9-class laser gun and aimed at the stone man's head, ready to fire at any moment.

Chu Yuan shook his head, his gaze sharp. "An ordinary rock lifeform wouldn't be this enormous. This is a rock special lifeform."

Beside him, Feiluan projected a three-dimensional display showing detailed information about the stone man. "Master is right. This is a Hard Rock Race lifeform, born with a 30x gene level. They are born only in Cosmic Secret Realms and are the most numerous kind of rock special lifeform."

"Hard Rock Race lifeforms move slowly and have low intelligence. Their innate secret technique, Hardening, enhances their defenses, instantly increasing their defensive power tenfold."

"His weakness is the 'stone heart' inside his body. As long as his 'stone heart' isn't destroyed, he won't die."

"This Hard Rock Race lifeform stands kilometers tall, and his strength should be at Universe Level Sixth Order. But don't be careless. He is a special lifeform. Although he's only at Universe Level Sixth Order, he's much stronger than many Universe Level 9 humans."

"Only Universe Level Sixth Order?"

Chu Yuan's eyes lit up.

Every kind of special lifeform was exceedingly rare, with outrageously high prices.

Although the Hard Rock Race's life genes were only 30x, they were still extremely precious.

If he could capture this one alive, he could definitely sell him for a good price.

As for nurturing a Hard Rock Race lifeform as a clone, Chu Yuan had never considered it.

A 30x life gene level was simply too low, and the Hard Rock Race had no particularly powerful innate secret techniques. It was not worth wasting a precious clone slot.

Chu Yuan raised a hand and ordered, "Activate the laser gun. Five percent power. Fire one shot to test him first."

"Understood!"

Star Pupil No. 1 shouldered the laser gun, adjusted its power to five percent, aimed at the stone man, and pressed the button.

Boom!

The laser beam crossed more than 130 kilometers and struck the stone man precisely, piercing his chest and blasting a huge hole clean through him.

The stone man staggered and dropped to one knee, then immediately stood and roared at Chu Yuan's group.

"%￥#...#￥@￥..."

Another string of incomprehensible words came roaring out. Chu Yuan shook his head speechlessly. "Big guy, stop howling. I can't understand what you're saying!"

The stone man flew into an utter rage and charged at them.

But he was too slow. Before he could get close enough to attack, Star Pupil No. 1 fired again, blasting apart the stone man's head this time.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The laser gun fired repeatedly, blasting apart the stone man's hands, feet, shoulders, waist, and abdomen in succession.

At maximum power, the laser gun could fire only three consecutive shots.

But at just five percent power, it could fire sixty consecutive shots.

Rumble!

Under the laser gun's barrage, the stone man's body exploded, sending thousands upon thousands of enormous rocks flying in every direction.

Among them, a fist-sized red stone glowed, dull thumping sounds coming from within it like a beating heart.

That was the stone heart, the core of the Hard Rock Race lifeform.

Drawn by the stone heart, all the scattered rocks flew back and gathered together again.

The great hole in his chest rapidly healed, and his head grew back.

The stone man returned to his original state, without so much as a scratch.

He threw a punch at Chu Yuan. His fist exploded, and the shattered stones shot toward Chu Yuan at tremendous speed like meteors.

"Star Eater!"

Chu Yuan neither dodged nor evaded. The Star-Eating Grass rapidly grew and spread.

Eighteen main vines shot through the air, each splitting into branching vines that bound all the incoming stones and stopped them in midair.

Nine main vines swiftly coiled around the stone man, binding his limbs, head, and chest, tripping him and pinning him to the ground so he could not move.

The Star-Eating Grass's main vines were more than 2,000 kilometers long. Wrapping around and binding a stone man only thirty-one kilometers tall was effortless.

The Hard Rock Race had enormous bodies, but his sluggish movements were his greatest weakness.

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