harleyscars Chapter 332 Zerg Overlord, Limits of Divine Body
Chapter 332 Zerg Overlord, Limits of Divine Body
Chapter 332 Zerg Overlord, Limits of Divine Body
"Humans—how dare you capture the great Shattered Star Wolf King! The Gray Forest Wolf God will never let you get away with this!"
The Domain Lord-level Wind-Eating Wolf was still cursing Ye Yang in his heart.
Unbeknownst to them, they were in a dream world indistinguishable from reality, where all their thoughts were known.
"The Grey Forest Wolf God? An immortal being, does it deserve it?"
Ye Yang shook his head and chuckled, completely unconcerned about the demon's inner thoughts. What he cared about was that even without using illusions or soul techniques, he could still vaguely discern what the other party was thinking.
It's just not that clear or accurate.
"Verification through the illusion confirmed that the demonic wolf was indeed cursing me inwardly. Its thoughts were connected to two concepts—'Shattered Star Wolf King' is its own title, while 'Grey Forest Wolf God' is merely an immortal demon race that controls this star field."
"I used mimicry mycelium to invade its brain, and I actually managed to obtain some vague information about its thoughts!"
Ye Yang fell into deep thought.
Which is more fundamental to consciousness: the soul or matter (the brain)?
In the universe, there exist many life forms that possess extremely high intelligence even without a soul.
The most typical example is the Demon Slayer Clan.
They have a material core that carries thought, but no soul.
But if you say the soul isn't important, then all life forms with souls, once destroyed by their souls, cannot survive!
Under normal circumstances, the soul and brain of humans and demons are highly coordinated.
"Perhaps it is because of this coordination between the brain and the soul that even though the soul of the domain lord can survive outside the brain while inside the life core, it can still obtain thought and memory information from their brains."
Just as Ye Yang was pondering, when the mimicry hyphae had eroded 50% of a brain region in the demon wolf, the demon wolf suddenly twitched.
"Huh?"
The wolf asked in confusion, only to find that it was having some difficulty controlling its limbs.
But it's nothing, the slight delay disappears once it focuses its attention on the task at hand.
But Ye Yang noticed the reason behind this.
"The erosion exceeded 50%, and that area of the brain suddenly died! It could no longer support the soul of this demon wolf, causing abnormal control of its limbs. For an ordinary animal, this would result in paralysis, but this demon wolf was, after all, a domain lord level, so its soul power naturally took over the control of its body."
Ye Yang squinted. As the erosion rate of other brain regions of the demon wolf reached or even exceeded 50%, large areas of these brain regions began to die.
In the blink of an eye, the Wind-Eating Demon Wolf was shocked to find that its brain had suddenly died. If it hadn't been a Domain Lord, it would have been dead by now.
"Human, what have you done?!"
The wolf felt more horrified than being violently crushed, its brain destroyed silently and without any sensation.
"Still so arrogant even when living under someone else's roof?" Ye Yang flicked his finger and smashed the wolf's head. After it repaired its body, he grabbed it again and poured mycelium into its body.
After numerous experiments, Ye Yang finally confirmed one thing: "The mycelial erosion and replacement rate cannot reach 50%; if more than 50% of the cells in the body are my mimicry fungal cells, then this body will no longer be able to bear the original soul."
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This pattern is actually a manifestation of the repulsion between two independent souls.
Even though Ye Yang's fungal-like hyphae hide all fungal characteristics and only exhibit normal cellular functions by relying on his "latent" talent, at the most fundamental level, these cells still belong to Ye Yang!
Because Ye Yang's soul power is stronger —
Once Ye Yang's soul takes over half of the body, the other person's soul will inevitably be repelled by Ye Yang's soul!
It's equivalent to being possessed by Ye Yang's soul!
However, Ye Yang did not actually possess the body; his soul would not take over that part of the physical body. Therefore, that part of the flesh and blood cells essentially underwent a soul annihilation.
Thus, necrosis occurs.
"This cellular erosion technique is practically invincible below the Immortal level. However, the divine bodies of Immortal Gods are composed of divine power, and once that divine power is burned, my cells will be exposed!"
"Moreover, having cultivated an immortal body, the title of Marquis of Immortality has its soul imprint deeply embedded in every cell, making it easy to distinguish foreign objects."
Ye Yang felt that this move was more effective at creating a "semi-possession" effect on the body.
One can use the bodies and talents of other beings to comprehend the laws and gain insights into cultivation!
In combat, it is not very useful in the world of Swallowed Star.
"Unless I can use an illusion to make the opponent completely unaware of the existence of these cells, but how is that possible? To create such an illusion, I would need to completely control the enemy's soul and penetrate deep into it to manipulate it."
"But given all that, why not just enslave their souls directly?"
Thinking of this, Ye Yang had a flash of inspiration: "Soul enslavement!"
"Even if the soul servants know they're being parasitized, they won't resist me!"
"I could easily learn from the Zerg, but I would use mycelial parasitism to coordinate and manipulate them, using soul servants instead of Zerg warriors as the damage dealers, and controlling them to launch coordinated attacks —"
"No, no, no, let's be more direct and parasitize the Zerg Queen, with me as the central figure to command them in joint operations."
"Furthermore, if my mimicry cells exhibit some special talents, they might become a cultivation cheat code for them, helping many World Lord Queens become Immortals, or even Venerables!"
Ye Yang became more and more excited as he thought about it.
If he were to directly parasitize and control ten thousand Immortal Queens, and under those ten thousand Immortal Queens were billions of Immortal Zerg warriors—that combined attack would make even a Cosmic Venerable turn tail and run, right?
"Moreover, and most importantly, if my fungal life gene count is high enough, then I can directly conceive the Zerg Queen!"
"I will become the Queen Mother of Queens—cough cough, let's just call myself the Ruler. Haha, from now on, above the Queen Mother will be the Ruler!"
Just do it!
Ye Yang immediately summoned Irina and Shabena, two Zerg Queens of the Realm Lord level, to assist in the experiment.
Ten days later————
"My God! Master, I can clearly feel the fluctuations of the fundamental laws of time!"
"Master—Waaaaaah~~ You are so great."
Two figures, like elves, twirled joyfully around Ye Yang, expressing their delight.
At this moment, on their backs, within the thin, cicada-wing-like wings, were strands of gold and silver interwoven with different colors.
Those are fungal hyphae that can resonate with the fundamental laws of space and time at all times!
At this moment, these mycelia continued to extend and grow, connecting with the 1 soul nodes within the two queens' bodies, merging with them to form an incredibly complex network.
The spatiotemporal talent expressed in the mycelium, the gene that can receive the fluctuations of the fundamental laws of space and time in the universe, was actually reverse-transcribed from Ye Yang's human form.
The method of transplanting the fungi into the bodies of the two queens, and the complex network formed in conjunction with 1 soul nodes, is a structure that evolved naturally in the special environment within the queens' bodies, relying on the "mutation" talent of the fungi.
This benefits from the power of the "mutation" talent.
A large number of fungal cells can compete for survival under the rules set by Ye Yang.
Under natural conditions, life will find all sorts of strange and wonderful ways to survive. But as long as Ye Yang specifies the direction of "mutation," these cells will compete around that direction, and the winners will live.
Using human society as an analogy—in its natural state, human society develops into city-states and nations, and then engages in competition through diplomacy, economics, and war.
But now there's a divine rule: Chess! Only countries that can cultivate chess masters can achieve victory.
Will humans completely obey? No, they will use all sorts of means, such as assassinating chess masters from enemy countries, using poison or drugs, or simply overturning the table and starting another war.
But Ye Yang's fungal cells would completely obey; if told to play chess, they would play chess. Even if they had enough nutrients to survive, or even if the cell was strong enough to devour other cells to survive, it would still commit suicide and die if it lost the game!
This is cell apoptosis; in a sense, Ye Yang's fungal morphology is the true swarm consciousness.
Every cell will absolutely obey instructions.
Thus, at the cost of trillions of fungal cells dying, Ye Yang traversed a process that would take tens of millions of years to evolve in just 10 days, successfully giving these two little queens a cheat code!
"Not only that—if possible, I could even coexist with all humans on Earth, bestowing upon them the highest-level legal talents of the human race!"
At least before they reach immortality, they can all obtain top-tier law talents through the symbiosis accessory.
Ye Yang knew that there were actually many geniuses in this world, but they were limited by various conditions and their talents could not be developed.
But if the shackles called "talent" are broken, perhaps many geniuses who would otherwise be buried will be able to stand out.
"This is a big matter, and we can't make it public yet."
Ye Yang composed himself.
Now that we are fully familiar with all the abilities of the fungal morphology, it is time to challenge the Void Fungus, which can be described as the "complete form of the fungal community".
"If my primordial strain is a fragile queen, and my hyperadaptive flora are naive, untrained warriors, then the void fungi are fully armed, battle-hardened, and terrifying killing knights!"
But in order to rescue his mother, Ye Yang knew that this was a battle he had to go through.
He took out a clump of dead void fungal hyphae and attempted reverse transcription—failed!
"As expected, the life gene level is very high, and reverse transcription failed directly."
Ye Yang frowned and tried repeatedly.
"My original bacterial strain has a life gene multiplier of about 80 times, and can only mimic and nurture cells with a life gene level of 8 times or less. The super-adaptive bacterial population that I differentiated also has a life gene multiplier of only 8 times."
"But these void fungi far exceed eight times in number. Just how many are there?"
He knew he needed to first elevate the life gene level of the fungus.
How to improve?
The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual can only be cultivated by beings with flesh and blood, and the Blood Crystal can only be fused with beings with flesh and blood.
The original strain belongs to fungi, not animals.
Although reverse transcription and recessive transcription can transform some cells into flesh and blood cells, thereby enabling one to cultivate the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual," one will lose the precious reverse transcription talent!
Ye Yang would never do that.
He then attempted to cultivate a human body using super-adaptive bacteria to practice the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual".
However, for some unknown reason, Ye Yang, who was very familiar with the cultivation method of the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual", failed repeatedly and was unable to form a complete internal universe cycle!
"Is it because the body that is conceived is not a complete life form?"
Ye Yang seemed to be deep in thought.
The clones created through the talent of creating clones are very complete. Apart from being clones, souls, and life origins that share the same origin as the life core, they are no different from normal life forms.
It meets the requirements for cultivating the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual".
The human body nurtured by the microbial community may appear no different from that of an ordinary person, but it is completely different in the way the soul is carried!
Ye Yang, in the form of a fungus, has his soul indiscriminately residing in every fungal cell. However, after mimicking a brain, his thinking is elevated, and the strength of his soul power also increases dramatically.
Fungal cells mimic animal cells, but they are still fungal cells in essence; they just appear to the outside as animal cells.
That human body, which looked like a human, was actually just a mass of fungal cells glued together to form the shape and structure of a human body.
Differences arise in the ways in which the "spirit and body unite."
The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual requires the threads of mental power and the threads of primal force to form a structure similar to a cosmic cycle. If the "union of spirit and flesh" does not meet the requirements, it will naturally fail!
Fortunately, Blood Crystal can be used on simulated human bodies.
Ye Yang could only sigh, "Therefore, the only way to elevate the genetic level of the original bacterial strain is through mutation."
He smiled again: "Perhaps there is another way, what if we evolve ourselves into flesh and blood through mutation?"
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Just as Ye Yang was considering the feasibility of this plan, the unusual behavior of his third clone caught his attention.
"Hmm? It's already expanded to its limit?"
"Not even close!"
Human Ye Yangfei was flying over a vast golden plain, with a golden planet below!
This is actually the core of his microbial community—the original T strain.
Previously, the T strain had been using cosmic crystals like crazy, constantly multiplying and expanding.
Its size has been increasing rapidly, but now it has finally reached its limit.
This is a golden planet with a diameter of 100 million kilometers, entirely composed of countless T-species mycelia, making it incredibly spectacular.
However, Ye Yang was still somewhat disappointed.
"If the divine body is only a million kilometers tall—although that's still huge, it's difficult to sustain the beast form in many desperate battles. Especially now that the life gene multiplier is not high."
Ye Yang frowned, thinking about the situation of the life in the Nether Sea. Others have the talent of creating secret techniques, while he has "recession" and "reverse transcription", and can also differentiate super-adaptive bacteria, all of which have similar effects.
"Looks like a clone of the same type."
With a muttered remark, Ye Yang manipulated a large number of T-strains to differentiate into a super-adaptive bacterial community.
The result was disappointing; the T-species planet showed no signs of breaking through the limits and continuing to grow.
"So, reverse transcription, recessive."
Ye Yang activated his talent, and the mycelial spheres that split off in diameter, reaching 1 kilometers, directly reverse-transcribed the life matter of a world lord-level Earthling, and then made the fungal genes recessive, expressing only human genes.
A huge mass of flesh and blood was piled up to form a planet.
Then look at the T-species planet, which is slightly smaller than 100 million kilometers in diameter. Suddenly, it lost some kind of constraint and began to absorb a large amount of cosmic crystal energy with a rumbling sound, and then it multiplied and grew wildly.
Until it is restored to a diameter of 100 million kilometers.
If the flesh-and-blood planet with a diameter of 1 kilometers were then restored to a mycelial planet, the volume of the T-species growth would not shrink back.
"It's done, and it's even more efficient. Theoretically, I can increase the volume of a sphere with a diameter of 100 million kilometers in one go."
"The original T bacteria were limited to a diameter of 100 million kilometers; any size beyond that is a colony that has lost its 'reverse transcription' ability."
Despite some flaws, Ye Yang was generally satisfied.