Chapter 162: [Power of the Beast God (Fake)] (Part 2)

"Zerg Legion?"

Luo Feng was deep in thought.

Earlier, when Jiang Chen took away the "Zerg Mother Nest" from Earth, he had already mentioned that he would have Luo Feng build a Zerg Legion in the future.

Luo Feng had even deliberately gone to research information regarding this aspect, but in his initial plan, he had intended to use the Zerg Legion purely as a "weapon."

However, according to Jiang Chen, the strongest aspect of this "legion wave" system was not in frontal battlefields, but in resource plunder.

After witnessing firsthand the efficiency with which Jiang Chen plundered resources, Luo Feng had indeed taken Jiang Chen's advice to heart.

"Alright, let's go cultivate in the Ancient God Ruins. As for scavenging for resources, leave that to Jarvis." Jiang Chen patted Luo Feng on the shoulder.

"Oh, right." Luo Feng nodded and followed Jiang Chen onto the spaceship.

"Jarvis, I'll leave this side to you. According to the plan, expand at the fastest speed. In addition, send a mechanical legion to clear out an area in the Ancient God Ruins, and separate the Immortal Temple from our territory as much as possible," Jiang Chen ordered Jarvis, while placing world rings containing the mechanical legion onto the spaceship's control console.

Jarvis controlled a robot to take the world rings away, boarded another spaceship, and set off to prepare for mining and expansion matters.

Jiang Chen and Luo Feng returned to the Ancient God Ruins and squeezed into a cave with a relatively dense concentration of vicious aura.

"According to my experience, the deeper you go into these caves, the denser the vicious aura becomes. However, after reaching a certain point, it peaks, and going any further down will actually cause the density of the vicious aura to decrease," Luo Feng warned. "When you go deeper, you must pay attention to your own endurance. If you are overly corroded by the vicious aura, you might become a lunatic who has lost his mind."

"Mm, I know what I'm doing." Jiang Chen nodded slightly.

Having been inside the Ancient God Ruins for so long and in prolonged contact with the vicious aura, Jiang Chen had a clear grasp of his own endurance limits.

What surprised Jiang Chen somewhat was that he seemed to possess an extremely strong "resistance" to the vicious aura.

The intensity of this "resistance" far exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations.

Where Luo Feng had previously been cultivating was considered a region with a very dense vicious aura, but aside from feeling somewhat irritable in his heart and wanting to go on a killing spree to vent, Jiang Chen hadn't felt much at all.

Even with the two special traits [Soul Elevation] and [Demon Lord's Soul], coupled with the special soul lineage of Earthlings, Jiang Chen still felt that his resistance to the vicious aura was somewhat absurdly strong.

However, after pondering carefully for a moment, Jiang Chen immediately realized where the problem lay.

[Stable Particle Structure]: Immune to true damage, possesses extremely high resistance to foreign substance/energy corrosion.

This was a powerful special trait Jiang Chen had redeemed long ago, originally meant to enhance his self-preservation capabilities.

As for the so-called "true damage," Jiang Chen was quite clear on its definition in games—it meant ignoring all defensive power and directly dealing damage equivalent to its exact numerical value.

However, how such "true damage" would manifest in reality was something Jiang Chen truly couldn't guess.

Regardless, a special trait that could increase self-preservation capabilities was something one could never have too many of.

If it weren't for encountering various special circumstances after joining the Virtual Universe Company, which created a "rigid demand" for special traits in specific directions, Jiang Chen definitely would have prioritized redeeming traits of the "accelerating upgrade speed" and "enhancing self-preservation" types.

It was only during the Initial Universe period that he needed to comprehend the Chaos Tablet.

After leaving the Initial Universe, he needed to strengthen his combat power and army-building capability, which forced Jiang Chen to change his choices when redeeming special traits.

However, as the scale and strength of the mechanical legion continued to grow, gradually approaching the standard in Jiang Chen's ideal, Jiang Chen was also considering readjusting his "inclination" for future special trait redemptions.

Ahem, getting off topic.

Returning to [Stable Particle Structure], apart from immunizing against "true damage," this trait also possessed extremely strong resistance to "foreign energy corrosion."

According to Jiang Chen's judgment of his own condition, vicious aura clearly also fell under the category of a "foreign energy."

Naturally, once [Stable Particle Structure] took effect, Jiang Chen's resistance to the corrosion of vicious aura would naturally be extremely high.

Coupled with the two special traits [Soul Elevation] and [Demon Lord's Soul], it was completely normal that Jiang Chen felt almost nothing against the corrosion of the vicious aura.

"I'll cultivate right at this spot. The vicious aura here is about the optimal position where it doesn't affect my cultivation while maximizing my ability to absorb Blood Luo Crystals." Luo Feng quickly selected an area.

Jiang Chen walked around, felt it for a bit, and nodded, "This is pretty much the spot with the densest vicious aura. In this surrounding area, there isn't anywhere with a thicker vicious aura."

"You can try fusing with a Blood Luo Crystal. Cut a small wound and fuse the Blood Luo Crystal with your blood. The process is quite agonizing; if you can endure it, the fusion will succeed, and if you can't, it will fail." Luo Feng explained the fusion process of the Blood Luo Crystals, along with some points requiring attention.

"Let me try." Jiang Chen took out a Blood Luo Crystal and extended his left palm.

His right fingertips brushed across his palm like a sharp blade, instantly slicing a wound directly into the center of his left palm.

Jiang Chen hurriedly pressed the Blood Luo Crystal over the wound, and an intangible force erupted from within the Blood Luo Crystal, entering Jiang Chen's body along the wound.

Boom~!

An incomparably fierce will descended into Jiang Chen's mind.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Bouts of killing intent continuously impacted Jiang Chen's consciousness.

This was a contest purely on the level of willpower, yet the impact of the killing intent was much weaker than Jiang Chen had imagined, failing to bring him any significant pressure.

Rumble~!

Jiang Chen's willpower directly shattered that unfathomable will inside the Blood Luo Crystal.

At the exact moment that will shattered, strands of red threads inside the Blood Luo Crystal began to enter Jiang Chen's body, causing violent changes to begin within him.

Jiang Chen's skin, flesh, meridians, bones...

Underwent extremely violent changes every moment, their forms continuously shifting, and even sometimes insect-like carapaces would appear on the surface of his body, while his bones would occasionally turn completely transparent.

At times, a massive amount of scales would grow, only to rapidly shed shortly after.

Yet all these changes ultimately remained within the scope of a "flesh-and-blood lifeform," avoiding any scenario where his entire body transformed into a metallic lifeform.

Jiang Chen's body temperature was also changing violently, at times reaching an inconceivably high temperature, and at times turning as cold as ten-thousand-year glacial ice, seemingly attempting to freeze his very soul.

This transformation process was extremely intense, and naturally immensely painful.

After a long while, the entire transformation process finally came to an end.

From the outside, Jiang Chen appeared unchanged.

Yet Jiang Chen could sense that his "life level" seemed to have undergone a certain leap.

On the surface, whether it was genetic force, spiritual force, or even physical strength, not the slightest change had occurred.

However, Jiang Chen knew very well that this was simply because too few Blood Luo Crystals had been fused, not enough to trigger a "qualitative change."

Improvements existed, but they would only become apparent through continuous cultivation in the future.

Unless he fused with more "Blood Luo Crystals."

Nearby, seeing that Jiang Chen had completed the fusion, Luo Feng immediately asked with concern, "A-Chen, how is it?"

"Very good." Looking at the newly appeared content on his personal panel within the system interface, Jiang Chen revealed a trace of a smile. "Extremely good!"

[Godly Beast Might (Pseudo)]: Slightly enhances life level and cultivation potential.

A brand-new special trait!

Aside from redeeming them through special trait points within the system, there were other ways to gain special trait bonuses!

Moreover, the four words "Godly Beast Might" filled Jiang Chen's mind with wild imaginations.

Could it be that as the number of fused Blood Luo Crystals increased, he could reach a level comparable to "natural godly beasts"?

Even without containing "godly beast laws," merely possessing physical strength reaching the level of a natural godly beast would be a massive upgrade.

One had to know that the eight great natural godly beasts were all special lifeforms with 10,081 times perfect genes.

Although the eight great natural godly beasts had all fallen under the joint siege of various cosmic races, this did not mean they were weak.

Their sheer divine body strength alone granted them formidable self-preservation capabilities.

Had it not been for massive numbers of powerhouses laying siege, causing an existence of that level to fall would have been extremely difficult.

"I feel no pressure at all fusing Blood Luo Crystals. Let's fuse a few more and see." Jiang Chen spoke, once again slicing an open wound on his palm, taking out a new Blood Luo Crystal, and pressing it against the wound.

Fusion after fusion, the "willpower impact" of the Blood Luo Crystals grew stronger each time, yet Jiang Chen easily withstood every single one.

The superposition of the three traits [Stable Particle Structure], [Soul Elevation], and [Demon Lord's Soul] made Jiang Chen's Blood Luo Crystal fusion process exceptionally smooth.

The willpower impact posed zero pressure to him.

Instead, it was the pain during the body transformation process after the willpower impact subsided that made Jiang Chen rather uncomfortable.

However, this kind of transformation was merely painful and uncomfortable; there was no actual danger involved.

Fusing ten Blood Luo Crystals in succession, Jiang Chen finally reached his limit.

When the eleventh Blood Luo Crystal merged into his body, the willpower impact was easily crushed by Jiang Chen, but during the transformation process, a massive number of wounds suddenly appeared all over his body.

The instant the wounds appeared, the "Blood Luo power" that had seeped into Jiang Chen's body rapidly flowed backward out of his body and back into the Blood Luo Crystal held in his hand.

Fusion failed!

He glanced briefly at the special trait on the system panel.

The name [Godly Beast Might (Pseudo)] remained unchanged, but its attribute had transformed into: 'Slightly enhances life level and cultivation potential. When driving "Godly Beast Might," all-attribute coefficient x10, this bonus applies directly to the total numerical value.'

All-attribute coefficient x10!

Ten times gene multiplier!

Although it came with the restriction of needing to "drive the Godly Beast Might" for it to take effect, it was definitely more than enough in combat.

Moreover, a trait granting all-attributes +1000%, if redeemed from the system, would cost over tens of thousands of special trait points.

And an "all-attribute coefficient x10" was far more valuable than "all-attributes +1000%."

The latter was additive, while the former was multiplicative.

The so-called "Godly Beast Might" was actually the "Blood Luo power" contained within the Blood Luo Crystals.

Jiang Chen attempted to drive the Godly Beast Might, and a peculiar force surged from within his body, directly forming paths of blood-red patterns across his skin.

Countless patterns converged on Jiang Chen's body surface, faintly forming an incomparably intricate and perfect secret-pattern diagram.

The moment the secret-pattern diagram appeared, Jiang Chen immediately felt his genetic force and spiritual force surge dramatically, while his clarity of perception toward various laws simultaneously skyrocketed.

"It really is ten times!"

Without needing to test, merely by sensing it, Jiang Chen immediately confirmed that both his genetic force and spiritual force had increased tenfold.

Originally, Jiang Chen's genetic multiplier was already a dozen times.

After activating the Blood Luo power, it directly skyrocketed to over a hundred times, making the improvement extremely pronounced.

"However, I remember in the original novel, once the genetic multiplier gets too high, the effect of the Blood Luo power attenuates. But it's not reflected in the trait description?"

A trace of doubt flashed through Jiang Chen's mind, but he didn't dwell on it deeply.

Mysteries involving the "Universe Master" level or even higher levels were not something the current Jiang Chen was qualified to probe into.

While Jiang Chen was testing the effects of the "Blood Luo power," Luo Feng, standing nearby, was completely dumbfounded.

In just a few short days, Jiang Chen had successively fused ten Blood Luo Crystals, becoming a "Black Warrior"—an extreme rarity born across the endless years of the Blood Luo Continent.

The vast majority of that time had still been spent on the body transformation process inflicted by the special power within the Blood Luo Crystals.

"Damn! It took me decades to fuse three and I still haven't succeeded, and you just fused ten Blood Luo Crystals all at once?" Luo Feng stared with wide eyes, looking at Jiang Chen in disbelief.

"Maybe my adaptability to this stuff is just better." Jiang Chen didn't explain.

Actually, if it weren't for the [Stable Particle Structure] trait, Jiang Chen estimated that even fusing one would have been a struggle.

Like Luo Feng, cultivating in this Ancient God Ruins for decades or even longer would at most yield three fused Blood Luo Crystals.

However, relying on the [Stable Particle Structure] trait, Jiang Chen had directly fused ten, only failing on the eleventh—a performance that could only be described as heaven-defying.

"The trait [Godly Beast Might (Pseudo)] looks like it still has room for further improvement. As for the method, it should be continuing to fuse more Blood Luo Crystals. Perhaps 'Godly Beast Blood' has an effect too? At least in terms of enhancing the gene multiplier, the effect of Godly Beast Blood is even better than Blood Luo Crystals. For this trait, it should be useful."

Jiang Chen thought for a moment, refrained from dwelling deeply on the matter, and tossed the Blood Luo Crystals into his world ring, leaving them for his clone to study.

"Let's cultivate properly here." Jiang Chen looked at Luo Feng and spoke, "I'll leave this spot to you; I'll go carve out a cave nearby. In the Blood Luo World, you should at least fuse three Blood Luo Crystals and become a 'Blood Warrior' before doing anything else."

"Mm." Luo Feng nodded.

Seeing Jiang Chen become a "Black Warrior" in just a few short days, Luo Feng was naturally unwilling to fall behind.

He also possessed self-awareness; he knew he couldn't possibly become a "Black Warrior" in a short time or catch up to Jiang Chen's pace.

However, fusing three Blood Luo Crystals to become a "Blood Warrior" was a target he absolutely had to achieve!

"The vicious aura density here is extremely high; I'll stay right here and cultivate with peace of mind. I won't leave until I become a Blood Warrior!" Luo Feng silently made up his mind.

(End of this chapter)