In a daze, Lu Sheng seemed to see again the figure of the level 13 general-level beast he had killed. Its countless eyes stared viciously at him, their gazes filled with intense resentment. Its mandibles writhed and opened and closed, seemingly uttering some extremely evil curse upon him.
"@#%*..@#%*."
Strange syllables emanated from its mouth, repeating endlessly.
Sheng listened for a while, discerning meanings like "great," "forget everything," and "destruction" from these syllables.
Lu Sheng suddenly understood. This thing was probably referring to the title of "Lord of Oblivion."
"What's going on? Cursing me so the powerful figure behind me will have time to deal with me?" Sheng thought casually, then with a surge of divine sense, he completely crushed the last remaining consciousness of the beast.
A curse? A revenge from a powerful figure? Lu Sheng didn't care at all. He'd already offended a level 15 beast lord back on the azure planet. Could this "Lord of Oblivion" be any more powerful than that one? When you're down on your luck, you're not afraid of getting bitten. If he's got the guts, come and kill him now. No Then... Get in line!
After shattering the consciousness of the level 13 beast, a massive spiritual force immediately merged into Sheng's soul. In an instant, countless chaotic and fragmented images flashed before his eyes.
This spiritual force was filled with extreme evil and chaos. Let alone a level 12 expert, even a level 13 law expert would likely be instantly turned into a mentally unstable madman by being recklessly struck by this power.
But Sheng had been enduring this kind of memory impact since the very beginning of his martial arts journey. Now, it's all about inheriting entire planets and billions of memories. This mental shock was like being drenched in the rain without an umbrella. He felt it. But not much. As for the evil aura within this mental power... That's even easier to handle.
Sheng's mind stirred. A wisp of his divine soul instantly traversed countless light-years, descending upon the distant azure planet beyond the stars. Deep within the dark, in the lightless abyss. Silently lurking... A large, shell-shaped monster. Its surface was covered in irregular, jet-black scales, emanating a dense aura of chaos and evil.
Suddenly, countless scales on the shell monster's surface opened, revealing an eye beneath each black scale. The countless eyes darted around, and then the enormous shell split open from the middle. Amidst a dense array of serrated teeth and pink flesh, a sleeping humanoid figure slowly awoke.
"Is this what the alienated-cell clone looks like now?"
Sheng sensed his clone's body. Protected by the enormous and hard outer shell, it was like a pearl inside a clam shell. Its lower body was connected to the inside of the black shell, constantly absorbing the nutrients transferred from it. Moreover, Lu Sheng unexpectedly discovered that his alienated-cell clone's current strength had reached level 12. Even faster than his original body's progress.
"This life is far too cushy."
Thinking of the unnameable being who nurtured his clone like a son, Lu Sheng didn't know whether to be happy... or delighted.
Lu Sheng examined the clone further and discovered that the imprint of the Fire Dao's Extreme Yin fragment he had left within it last time had been efficiently cultivated. Perhaps following an instinct embedded within its genes shared with Sheng, the clone had groped its way to the proper Fire Dao's Extreme Yin form.
It actually followed the same path as Lu Sheng's Stellar Dao: protostar form, main-sequence star form, red-giant form. It could now enter the main sequence star phase.
Only its protostar form was a dark purple; not the bright, fiery purple of Sheng's thunder,
but a deep, mysterious shade, saturated with chaos and evil. The higher the clone form went, the darker the color of the star became.
"Could this be..." Lu Sheng speculated, "the sun of the Dark Side Universe?!"
It was indeed a possibility. That unnameable entity had nurtured the alienated-cell clone with such dedication, imparting memories and heritage—it was only natural. The latter had thus independently deduced the Dark Side Stellar Dao. It made sense!
"Then let me give you some more nourishment..."
Lu Sheng directly dumped all the harmful elements from the spiritual power of a level 13 general-level mutated beast onto the clone. Instantly, the mutated clone's shell-like body rapidly expanded, like an inflating balloon. And it continued to grow rapidly in a deformed and chaotic direction.
A faint aura, reaching the level 13, emanated from his clone's body. The silent abyss was completely stirred by this aura, and countless mutated beasts let out mournful howls.
An incredibly vast consciousness extended from the deepest part of the abyss. It seemed to contain a trace of joy; the joy of parents seeing their child succeed.
"Good...good child...grow up...grow up quickly..." To avoid spoiling the other's joyful anticipation, Sheng quickly withdrew his divine soul. He left quietly, just as quietly as he had come.
"Hoo—"
His divine soul returned to his body.
After removing all harmful impurities, what remained of the spiritual power of the level 13 general beast was... countless fragments of memories related to martial arts, rules, and even laws, which all flowed into his body.
In an instant, three of his fifth realm martial arts techniques were brought to their peak state.And he acquired four new fifth realm techniques.
Amazing! How much accumulation does a true level 13 martial artist in reality possess? Sheng knew now. Qualitatively, it might be inferior to what he had previously inherited from the dream universe, from the level powerhouse Thunder Blazer, the one who passed on the law of thunder to him. After all, he was a very powerful fellow member of the Starry Sky Human Race.
But in terms of quantity, his memories completely overwhelmed Thunder Blazer's. After all, this level 13 beast general had survived in the dark side of the universe for who knows how long. In the process of growing to level 13, who knows how many other alien beings it had devoured and how many memories he had absorbed.
Even Sheng's current spiritual realm--peak level 12--almost couldn't withstand the impact of these memories. In just an instant, his soul was shaken, and golden blood rapidly flowed from his orifices.
Yes. After the number of immortal cells reached five million, Lu Sheng's blood had completely turned crimson gold. Like amber, or like molten crimson crystal. It faintly seemed to carry a hint of purple, a purple-gold color, giving it an extremely noble and magnificent feel.
"Crack crack—"
A few breaths later, the mental cultivation in Sheng's mind... The four-colored crystal suddenly expanded significantly. A fifth color appeared.
Simultaneously, Lu Sheng's spiritual power cultivation officially broke through level 12, advancing towards level 13. At the same time, a massive power, filled with rage, fury, and rage, appeared and rapidly surged into the newly born five-colored crystal.
The previously evenly distributed colors of the five-colored crystal began to rapidly expand and increase in the crimson portion. When the entire crystal was almost completely covered in crimson,
"Crack—"
The five-colored crystal in Sheng's mind crashed. At the same instant, a brand-new memory concerning the subsequent inheritance of the Divine Crystal Dao emerged from the depths of his mind. As he absorbed and digested this inheritance, the five colors flickered and intertwined in his eyes, and a hint of understanding appeared on his face.
"So... this is the true core of the Divine Crystal Dao..."
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Translation notes by dhoo
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Lei Futian aka Thunder Blazer
雷伏天, see chap. 533
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Lord of Oblivion
The strongest beast in the area, a level 14 beast commander. The level 13 beast general killed by Lu Sheng was one of Lord of Oblivion's subodinates. Haiji Dao mentionned him before when talking to Mokodo. But had Lu Sheng heard of him? I didn't think so.
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The alienated-cell clone
An experiment carried on by Lu Sheng on his native, azure planet. It started from a cell which was a mix of an immortal cell and a beast cell. He obtained a chimeric creature without much conscience, he calls it his clone, and he had planned to let it evolve for a while before absorbing it later.
異化細胞分身, yìhuà xìbāo fēnshēn: 異化 alienated, 細胞 cell, 分身 clone
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Stellar evolution: protostar, main-sequence star, red-giant
A protostar is a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. It is the earliest phase in the process of stellar evolution. source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostar - See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
"Scientists call a star that is fusing hydrogen to helium in its core a main-sequence star. Main sequence stars make up around 90% of the universe's stellar population. They range in luminosity, color, and size – from a tenth to 200 times the Sun's mass – and live for millions to billions of years." source : https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/types/
protostar form
原恆星形態, yuán héngxīng xíngtài: 原 primary 恆星 fixed star 形態 form
main-sequence star form
主序星形態, zhǔ xù xīng xíngtài: 主序星 main-sequence star 形態 form
red-giant form
紅巨星形態, hóng jùxīng xíngtài: 紅巨星 red-giant star (紅 bonus 巨星 giant star) 形態 form