nashuaworldcup Chapter 324 Infinite Evolution, Void Fungus!
Chapter 324 Infinite Evolution, Void Fungus!
Chapter 324 Infinite Evolution, Void Fungus!
This strange fungus actually possessed intelligence and a soul, which truly surprised Ye Yang, and even made him slightly delighted.
This made him wonder, even though Ye Yang had never heard of such a precedent in either the Devouring World or the Immortal Alliance World.
But what if it works out?
This fungus not only possesses many incredible abilities in the world of the Immortal Alliance, deceiving countless people, including many true immortals and star lords.
After devouring the world and experiencing an initial collapse, it miraculously adapted and then unleashed its power, conquering the entire world within the ring!
Without a doubt, the most outstanding ability of this creature is its adaptability!
Given the right conditions, they can transform into anything they want depending on their environment. Even changes in the fundamental laws of the world cannot cause them to collapse completely; on the contrary, they free them from their original constraints.
More importantly—it can give birth to a soul!
Unlike the soulless life forms of the Demon Slayer Clan, this fungus, even when appearing in clumps or two, does not exhibit any fluctuations in soul power. However, as its numbers accumulate, its soul power will also grow stronger.
"No, we haven't fully understood the properties of this fungus yet, so we can't make a decision easily. But—"
Ye Yang took a deep breath, somewhat excited.
Now, what he needs to do is continue his research on this fungus.
The goal is both to find ways to eradicate it from infected individuals and to determine its species potential.
"Isn't it very good at devouring and digesting? Then I'll catch some domain lord-level creatures for you to eat."
Ye Yang immediately left the world ring. Of course, he had to be careful not to bring out the hidden spores when he came out, so as not to cause harm to the outside world.
With the help of the divine beacon under Nan Cheng's command, Ye Yang arrived at a remote starry territory of the demon race, randomly selected a star field, and captured some demon beasts at the level of domain lord and realm lord.
Then, have Xia Beina summon some Zerg World Lord King Warriors, as well as a batch of World Lord-level Silverwing Mayflies.
Then it was stored in that world ring.
First were 100 domain lord-level demonic beasts—after these beasts were thrown in, there were no unusual occurrences for several minutes.
However, they were quite dissatisfied with the dark, dense clouds of purple spores and the barren land covered with purplish-black fungi.
Because they were captured, they were both fearful and felt extremely oppressed, so they wantonly wreaked havoc on the land.
Some large pits were dug out—it can be seen that although the purplish-black mycelium on the ground is quite tough, it is only equivalent to the strength of C8 grade material, and it would be easily destroyed by a group of domain lords.
It is estimated that when Ye Yang threw it into the Devouring World, after the calendar laws were mutated and the genes collapsed, the fungi that survived lost their original accumulation. They readapted and evolved in the Devouring World and barely managed to have mycelial strength comparable to C-grade materials.
However, less than seven minutes after the 100 domain lord-level demonic beasts were released, a new change occurred.
For some unknown reason, they all began to go berserk, lost their minds, and began to attack each other desperately.
This is a demon beast, not a ferocious beast, and it possesses a considerable level of intelligence.
He's completely gone mad now.
Before long, the last, battered and bruised monster lay dead on the ground, and countless mycelia began to cover it—
"In less than half an hour, all 100 domain lord-level demonic beasts were eliminated."
Ye Yang was secretly surprised.
Judging from its physical strength and energy per unit tissue, the previous purplish-black fungus should have reached the eighth or ninth level of the cosmic level.
After all, it devoured the entire world, and some small celestial beings were also devoured and digested. It's normal for this fungus to learn to absorb energy from the universe and cultivate genetic energy.
In less than half an hour, it successfully broke through the immune system of the domain lord-level life forms, invaded their bodies, and even affected their brains and souls, ultimately causing all the monsters to go berserk and attack each other to their deaths!
"Domain lords possess a life core. Even if their brains are shattered, as long as the life core and soul remain, they will not die. Similarly, even if a domain lord's brain is invaded and parasitized, as long as their will and consciousness do not succumb, they will not exhibit symptoms of losing their mind and going insane."
Ye Yang's expression gradually turned serious: "This means that while invading the body, this fungus can also attack the soul!"
This is no ordinary fungus; we need to increase the difficulty!
Ye Yang immediately deployed the World Lord-level Silverwing Mayfly.
He wanted to see if this fungus would still be invincible against small creatures at the level of a World Lord, or against Silverwing Mayflies with their strange time-related innate secret techniques.
Three hours later—
"Dead!"
Ye Yang carefully sensed the condition of the silver-winged mayfly corpses.
"While flying, it suddenly crashed to the ground and died; the faint soul fluctuations of the silver-winged mayfly also suddenly disappeared."
"Then mycelium began to grow inside the corpse, and it was completely digested—"
Ye Yang nodded. It seemed that the purplish-black fungus had already mastered the ability to invade the body of a World Lord.
So, the next step is to deploy a batch of Zerg World Lord King Warriors!
Ye Yang then protected Xia Beina, staying with her inside the World Ring, where she controlled the Zerg warriors.
"Is there anything unusual?" Ye Yang asked.
"Master, the warriors don't seem to feel anything different," Shabena said.
How powerful are the bodies of world lords? Ordinary dangerous places in the universe, such as neutron stars and star cores, can no longer threaten them.
Aside from extreme celestial bodies like black holes—
Ordinary microorganisms cannot even invade a body of cosmic scale, let alone a world lord.
However, Xia Beina's expression soon changed.
"Master, I'm having some trouble controlling the warriors. It's like they're being interfered with—" She frowned, scanning them repeatedly with her mental energy, but couldn't find anything unusual.
Ye Yang couldn't detect anything unusual when he scanned the area with his mental power, but when he expanded his Dao Domain and activated his Martial Dao True Intent, he clearly knew that the mysterious power of the earth beneath their feet had invaded the bodies of these insectoid warriors.
"That's really impressive—" Ye Yang couldn't help but click his tongue.
Although the current purplish-black fungus is not as powerful as the main world version before the law mutation, which could even break through his martial arts essence, it would be extremely powerful if it could deceive Ye Yang's mental power.
Ye Yang then realized that his research into this fungus might be nurturing it, gradually cultivating it into a monster—
"Destroy the mycelium on the ground!" Ye Yang immediately ordered.
Shabena immediately nodded and manipulated the Zerg warriors to destroy the mycelium below.
But unexpectedly, the mycelium below had been strengthened at some point, and even a group of insectoid world lord kings felt some resistance when they tried to destroy it!
This is absolutely comparable to the strength of E1 and E2 grade materials.
"Hehe, energy is conserved. It's impossible for it to upgrade and maintain its original size without absorbing external energy." Ye Yang didn't see the area covered by these mycelia decrease.
He casually unleashed an attack that landed on the ground thousands of kilometers away.
boom!
It blasted a huge crater.
Ye Yang was able to determine the mycelial strength of that area based on this.
"Cosmic level."
He grinned.
This purplish-black fungus can also allocate energy to a small portion of the area, upgrading one part while leaving the other un-upgraded.
It is commonly known as concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks.
It is evident that, if needed, it can also drain the mycelium in other areas, concentrating its energy!
"Let's go." Ye Yang led Xia Beina away from this world, leaving the Zerg warriors to be devoured and absorbed by the purplish-black mycelium.
"snort."
In the starry sky, Ye Yang looked at the eight demon race realm lords in front of him.
At this moment, all eight demon realm lords looked at Ye Yang with extremely angry and fearful eyes.
Beside them, several immortal gods exuding powerful auras stood silently guard.
"Human, how dare you trespass into my demon realm! You're courting death!" One of the demon realm lords, who understood the universal language of humans, said coldly, "Even if you have a powerful background and immortal guards, so what? I am a friend of the eleventh prince of the Tian Tong Demon Kingdom, and your matter is already—"
boom!
Ye Yang glanced at them casually, and the demon race member, who was spouting nonsense, was instantly silenced, his soul resounding.
"Now you only have one choice—" Ye Yang said coldly, "Complete my mission, or die!"
He directly used soul illusion magic to control the consciousness of all the demon race realm lords, and then forcibly instilled a large amount of information into them within the illusion.
"Ye Yang's first task is to find a way to eliminate the purplish-black fungus, or else, he will die!"
Then came a lot of information about the purplish-black fungus, including its spores' ability to invade and parasitize, the entire process of the deaths of the previous few Domain Lord-level demons and World Lord-level insectoid warriors, and several potentially effective methods of self-protection.
Ye Yang then put them into that world ring and followed them inside.
"Void Lockdown!" Ye Yang unleashed his immense world power, transforming it into a massive amount of void power, intending to unleash a world-devouring version of Void Lockdown.
However—buzz~~
The entire purplish-black earth suddenly trembled, and countless purplish-black fungi shook in unison, generating a terrifying suction force that even caused Ye Yang to momentarily lose control of the void power.
In an instant, more than 30% of the void power was absorbed and directly devoured by the purplish-black fungus!
"Huh?!" Ye Yang's eyes widened. After realizing what was happening, he immediately restrained the remaining void power and threw it out of this world.
"This fungus—it actually has the ability to absorb and transform the power of the void?!" Ye Yang was somewhat surprised.
However, upon closer examination, these fungi are very likely the work of the Void Cult, and it makes sense that they possess this ability.
"Therefore—in the main world, where the Milky Way galaxy exists within a vast cosmic void, the power of the void is omnipresent, and these fungi can draw energy from it to grow!"
Ye Yang raised an eyebrow; that made sense.
No wonder the fungal spores are everywhere, taking over the entire planet, yet they haven't caused any strange phenomena.
It turns out that they don't need to devour other creatures indiscriminately, nor do they need to obtain energy through spiritual energy and sunlight.
You can simply absorb and transform the power of the void.
This greatly reduces the risk of exposure.
"The people who cultivated them are really 'dedicated'."
Ye Yang sneered, a cold glint flashing in his eyes, and continued to test patiently.
He changed his methods, using spatial techniques to reinforce the space of this world.
In this way, as long as two powerful kings are not fighting at full strength inside, this world ring will not collapse.
Now look down—
The fungus, having absorbed a large amount of void power, immediately became more active, but its area shrank rapidly.
Ye Yang knew that this meant upgrading all the mycelium to the level of a World Lord.
Since this fungus can absorb and transform the power of the void, let's call it the "Void Fungus".
At this point, the void fungus had completely transformed into a world lord-level life form!
boom!
Ye Yang was under extra pressure from this world's space. Now that he felt the impact, he knew that the void fungus had opened up its own internal world.
"Pronucleus? Where is the pronucleus?"
Ye Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately began searching for the prokaryote of the void fungus.
Or rather, the core of life.
This is also a kind of primitive rule of the universe. Once you break through to the realm master level, a core that can carry the world inside your body will be born!
Ye Yang found it quickly and began to observe it secretly.
According to his senses, the soul of this void fungus was not very powerful, only about 10 times that of an ordinary human realm lord.
However, considering its enormous size, which covers an entire world, even though it only covers a thin layer and the area has shrunk, its volume is still 100 trillion times that of an ordinary human!
If all the mycelia were piled up, it would be a mountain with a diameter of tens of kilometers!
Such a massive body, yet its soul is only about ten times stronger—that's truly absurd.
"However—if the soul is successfully destroyed, will its body also die? After all, it's just an aggregate of microorganisms." Ye Yang didn't think that the so-called soul was the real weakness of this kind of life form.
However, the soul annihilation experiment needs to be conducted after this batch of demons has finished testing.
At this moment, let's look at those eight demon realm lords again—
Kusa~ Kusa~
One of the realm lords manipulated thousands of blades with his mind power, frantically cutting through the surrounding air. The powerful force sliced any object that entered the area in half.
Even something as tiny as a single cell would be cut if it got close to this demon!
Countless purplish-black spores drifted in the wind, but were split in two the moment they got close to it.
Once the cells are broken, they naturally lose their vitality and can no longer initiate parasitism.
On the other side, a demon race that understands the fundamental laws of fire used the power of the world to unleash a terrifying secret fire technique, completely enveloping itself in a blazing flame as hot as the interior of a star in order to resist the parasitic erosion of spores.
There is also the Demon Clan Realm Lord, who uses multiple water films to construct an internal circulation, blocking all external impurities.
These demon realm lords, after witnessing the horrific deaths of those domain lord-level demons and realm lord insectoid warriors, absolutely did not want to suffer the same fate themselves.
They could only rely on the knowledge and hints given by Ye Yang, combined with their own strengths, and each use their unique abilities to achieve their own goals!
In short, those spores and mycelia will not pose a threat to them for the time being.
Thus, these demon realm lords began to carry out Ye Yang's mission.
Whether it's cutting and pulverizing, freezing and pulverizing, burning at high temperatures, corroding with toxic liquid, sweeping with electric current, or burning with light—in short, all sorts of methods are used.
In an instant, large swaths of Void Fungus were killed and eliminated, and a rare clean clearing appeared.
However, seemingly sensing the threat to themselves, the countless mycelia that had remained unchanged since the start of the test finally underwent a completely new change!
Large swaths of mycelium on the ground began to die, turning to ash and drifting away in the wind.
In the distance, oval-shaped bumps were formed by the accumulation of a large number of mycelia, and they looked like eggs.
Something was rapidly forming within it, and that was—
Sizzle—!
The mantis knife sliced through, cutting the lump open from the inside out.
A Lord-level Zerg warrior named "Blue Mantis" flew out from it.