blogombal Chapter 326 The Creation of a Doppelganger, Instinct Out of Control
Chapter 326 The Creation of a Doppelganger, Instinct Out of Control
Chapter 326 The Creation of a Doppelganger, Instinct Out of Control
"With this batch, there will be a total of 2500 trillion cubic kilometers of insect corpses."
Ye Yang has been conducting the second round of volume limit testing in the Devouring World for more than ten days.
After the previous clump of fungus was destroyed by Ye Yang's soul, all the spores died at the same time!
In other words, it does not reproduce by spores like ordinary fungi. The new hyphae produced by those spores are also part of the parent fungus's life and die along with the parent fungus.
Therefore, Ye Yang had no choice but to re-deploy the equipment.
Fortunately, Bailin has plenty of fungal strains; these things are easy to cultivate, and you can easily grow a large number of them.
However, not every time the Void Fungus species is deployed, it survives successfully.
Twice in a row, the bacteria that Ye Yang introduced died suddenly due to the change in the underlying laws, completely rotting into a useless mass of organic matter!
Only on the first and fourth attempts did the strain successfully survive the initial cell collapse, and then embark on its evolutionary journey in the new world.
For this test, Ye Yang mobilized a large number of Silverwing Mayfly Corpse reserves—Ye Yang only had two World Lord-level and one Immortal-level Zerg Queen under his command, but the Silverwing Mayfly breeding farm in his inner world was producing an astonishing amount, which was beyond what the three of them could fully digest.
Nan Cheng consumed the most. As the Immortal Mother Queen, her efficiency in cultivating peak-level Zerg warriors in the Zerg hive was astonishing. The speed at which she consumed Zerg corpses was hundreds of times that of Irina and Shabena.
However, compared to the production of insect carcasses from breeding farms, it is still a drop in the ocean.
Seeing that the number of silver mayflies was about to spiral out of control, the three of them recently carried out a large-scale extermination operation, accumulating a large number of insect corpses that they could not possibly use up.
But Ye Yang used up all his test materials this time!
The insect corpses, totaling a volume of 2500 trillion cubic kilometers, were all fed to the newly born void fungi!
This resulted in an incredibly developed world where countless silk threads were piled up in all directions during the test.
The mycelium covered the entire world inside the ring, a landmass with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers, to the point that it could not spread out and could only be stacked layer upon layer, reaching a thickness of 26 kilometers.
This is a giant pancake that is 26 kilometers thick and tens of millions of kilometers in diameter.
"That's about right. Although we haven't tested its limits yet, this is enough."
Ye Yang looked down at the boundless purplish-black earth, which was covered with thriving void fungi!
He knew that once a divine body reached a certain size, it would become virtually impossible to move.
Since the colossal divine body is difficult to move no matter what, then as an avatar, it becomes less important once it exceeds a certain size.
Only two conditions need to be met:
1. It can split off a portion and carry it with it as a reserve of divine power, replenishing it at any time during battle.
2. The divine body is large enough that the divine power it absorbs from the Sea of Laws, the origin of the universe, can fill the divine power of all other avatars at any time, allowing the other avatars to use their divine power freely without hesitation.
As long as these two conditions are met, the third clone, as the backing of divine power, is perfectly qualified!
Clearly, the size of the Void Fungus life form has met the requirements after testing.
Let's look at other aspects —
Ye Yang is now certain that the Void Fungus has the following four talents:
1. Super adaptability, the ability to continuously evolve according to the environment.
2. The ability to record bloodlines? Or the ability to devour bloodlines? The ability to recreate the bloodlines of food that has been consumed.
3. Extremely high affinity with the power of the void, naturally able to utilize, absorb and transform the power of the void.
4. Powerful and terrifying abilities to invade, parasitize, and mimic the physical body.
Under the manipulation of the mastermind, the Void Fungus was able to continuously invade Ye Yang's True Meaning Protection Circle, and it kept evolving, each generation becoming stronger than the last, gradually making it difficult for Ye Yang to resist!
Afterwards, the Void Fungus survived the cellular collapse caused by the change in the world's underlying laws and successfully evolved a new species adapted to devouring the world's underlying laws.
A bloodline possessing extraordinary power is generally not compatible across different worlds.
Ye Yang had previously selected so many divine beasts from the main world, special life forms from the Devouring World, and various powerful life forms from other dungeon worlds, but he had failed to adapt to any of them.
Only the Golden Beast God bloodline, which devours the world and contains the Dao of the Golden Divine Beast, and the Kunpeng bloodline, which contains the Dao of the True Man of the Hidden Realm, can successfully adapt to these two bloodlines.
However, the Void Fungus did not rely on any power of the Heavenly Dao or the Great Dao that humans comprehend; it survived solely by relying on its own adaptability and evolutionary power!
Although current statistics show a success rate of only 50%, it is still quite remarkable.
The second talent is to record or devour bloodlines and recreate them.
After the first clump of void fungi devoured all the creatures within the world ring, it reached the cosmic level. It now appears that it absorbed a large amount of the genes from the species that devoured the world, recombined them, and expressed them within itself.
This allowed it to rapidly grow into a cosmic-level entity.
After devouring the Domain Lord-level demon race and the World Lord-level Silverwing Mayfly, the Void Fungus experienced a leap in growth, presumably because it acquired their life genetic material.
After the Zerg warriors sent in by Ye Yang were digested, the Void Fungus actually gained the ability to breed Zerg warriors, which shocked Ye Yang.
It is evident that the Void Fungus must possess a talent similar to "the creation of the Nether Sea," capable of creating and nurturing life based on existing life factors.
If one pursues the path of divine power in the future, the importance of this type of talent is beyond doubt.
Thirdly, the affinity with the power of the void—this was probably added by the Void Cult, and it actually matches Ye Yang's main focus on comprehending the laws of spacetime.
Fourthly, the ability to invade, parasitize, and mimic the physical body.
Because of the unique nature of devouring immortal divine bodies from different worlds, this ability may not be of much use at the immortal level, since immortal gods cannot possibly fail to distinguish which divine bodies are not their own.
But in the main world, this ability is extremely useful.
Whether it's protecting your own people, strengthening the weak, infiltrating the enemy's body, interrogating them, or infiltrating to gather intelligence—it's an essential skill for home, travel, murder, and robbery!
This ability evolved under the careful guidance of the mastermind behind the cultivation of the Void Fungus, and naturally thrives in the main world.
"Moreover—if I nurture the Void Fungus into my third avatar, then I can defeat magic with magic. I can also easily deal with the mycelium lurking in my mother's body."
Ye Yang murmured to himself, having already made his decision.
The thought crossed his mind was that he wanted to return to his original state and leave the world that devoured him.
But then it stopped immediately.
"No, the Void Fungus—it's probably not that simple for it to develop into a third avatar."
He frowned as he looked at the purplish-black earth.
Because the second cluster of void fungi didn't have much survival pressure, they spent their days digesting the insect corpses that Ye Yang had thrown in.
Therefore, even though it has grown to such a huge size, it remains muddle-headed and lacks intelligence.
Without learning a clear, logical way of thinking, without mimicking the brain to expand its capacity, and without understanding how to develop one's own abilities to cultivate the warriors that protect oneself—
But this doesn't mean that the Void Fungus in its "primitive" state is easy to bully.
Its "instinct" is already extremely dangerous.
"Anyway—let's try it out here with the instance avatar first."
Ye Yang chose to stay a little longer.
He also annihilated the second clump of void fungus, and then took a clump of dead mycelium.
Ye Yang has both the corpses of the first and second Void Fungus clusters.
He first tried to cultivate the fungus using the remains of the first clump of fungi as material.
"Let's begin." After putting the materials into his inner world, Ye Yang immediately activated his innate secret technique, "Trinity," to begin nurturing his third clone.
However----
Rumble~~
The entire world inside his body trembled, and Ye Yang himself subconsciously shook.
A feeling that was more like indigestion than nausea welled up inside me.
"As expected—the bloodline in the materials is impure, as if the flesh and blood of humans, demons, insectoids, and other creatures were mixed together and used to nurture the clone—"
Ye Yang's expression was somewhat unpleasant. He could feel that as the innate secret technique flowed and slightly stalled, it randomly selected one of the bloodlines to nurture.
"No, I think I understand now how the Void Fungus records the lineage of other life forms and then gives birth to those life forms. Similar to how memory T cells in the immune system record pathogen information, the Void Fungus also uses special cells to record bloodline information!"
"These special cells contain the bloodlines of different species. Using them directly for fertilization is like eating a hodgepodge! You can't tell them apart at all."
Ye Yang shook his head. This way, the original void fungus could not be nurtured. Perhaps there would be a lack of talent or something similar.
Taking advantage of the fact that the pregnancy had just begun and was not yet stable, he immediately chose to self-destruct.
After spending Fate Points to revive this avatar, Ye Yang immediately began trying again.
"The second cluster of Void Fungus also devoured a large number of Silverwing Mayflies. The insect corpses may also contain fragments of other animals or plants. In short, it's a mess. We can only cultivate new strains of fungus."
Ye Yang chose to cultivate a third strain of bacteria that was adapted to the environment of the Devouring World Law.
After two attempts, a third strain of the fungus quickly emerged.
"Pregnancy!"
Before its soul could fully form, Ye Yang separated a portion of it and nurtured it within his inner world.
This time it felt normal, without that mixed feeling.
"It's done!" Ye Yang's eyes lit up as he felt the feedback from the innate secret technique.
These void fungi come from the main world. After experiencing cellular collapse in the world they devour, they have a certain probability of adapting and evolving. Their initial cellular strength is generally at the planetary level.
Even if it is considered a special life form, its gene multiplication rate would not be too high, and it is still within the range that Ye Yang's innate secret technique can withstand.
It's perfectly normal to conceive successfully.
"In this way, not only will the third clone be settled, but the crisis in the main world will also soon be resolved." Ye Yang smiled.
However—this smile did not last long.
Just over three hours after the successful conception, Ye Yang felt a sense of panic.
Within his inner world lies a sphere that gathers the power of countless worlds.
This is a cocoon made up of a large amount of Ye Yang's life essence energy, used to nurture the third avatar.
It should have been smooth and shiny, but now the surface of this sphere is covered with purple hair!
"How could this be?" Ye Yang was dumbfounded, staring blankly at the sphere.
Countless mycelia were seen spreading out from it, constantly devouring his life-giving energy.
In just three hours, the first cell had already been conceived. However, this third clone was not content to stay still. It skipped the normal gestation process of the innate secret technique and began to frantically absorb the source energy to expand rapidly!
Then, things got out of control.
"The soul has only just begun to develop, but the body is already out of control—no, I must control it!"
Ye Yang's expression turned solemn, and he immediately focused all his attention on his inner world.
However, no matter how hard he tried, his third clone, which shared the same origin as him, simply wouldn't obey him and even exploited a bug in his system, frantically devouring energy, and Ye Yang was powerless to do anything about it.
This was, after all, his third clone, not a foreign object. His inner world was completely unprepared for it and had no means of countermeasures.
"The new clone's soul is too weak, but its physical instincts are terrifyingly strong, to the point that it is completely out of control—" Ye Yang tried to transfer his main consciousness and thoughts to the third clone, but found that the third clone could not bear it at all!
He is currently in a developmental stage where he is completely dominated by bodily instincts, and his soul is so weak that it can be almost ignored.
"This is outrageous! It's like some exceptionally gifted fetuses drain their mother dry, but I'm being drained dry by the third part of myself I'm developing?"
Ye Yang gave a bitter laugh, finding it utterly absurd.
They could only wait for death.
Sure enough, when the source of life was drained by the third clone, which was frantically expanding and filling the entire inner world, the soul of the third clone had not yet grown to the point where it could bear Ye Yang's consciousness.
He could only barely manage to slow it down, but it was too late.
As Ye Yang's clone weakened and died from the draining of energy, his inner world collapsed, and his third clone also perished simultaneously.
"What a monster." After being resurrected, Ye Yang looked at the pure strain of void fungus sealed in his hand with a complicated expression.
The matter of pregnancy probably needs to be considered in the long run.
After his second clone's consciousness returned, Ye Yang went to check on the physical condition of the philanderers in the Bailin dungeon world.
This is very bad. The mycelium of the void fungus has already parasitized their bodies, but they have no feeling about it, and they cannot detect it even with their divine sense.
So, just how many planets in the entire galaxy have fallen?
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Ye Yang sighed and immediately told the new information he had learned to the Ancestor of Power.
"Master, my first clone in the local star system is finding it increasingly difficult. I have already pushed the true meaning of martial arts to its limit, but my skin is being invaded and parasitized from time to time."
Ye Yang's expression was serious.
Although it's just a parasite on the skin, and it will be removed instantly.
However, the fact that the spores cannot be kept outside the body indicates that the problem has become very serious.
These spores are no longer ordinary spores!
Apart from complete time-space freeze, all other defensive and isolation measures either had no effect from the beginning or became weaker over time.
"Wait a little longer, Rui Tan is already on his way," Ji Li Zhen Jun replied.
"Senior Rui Tan?" Ye Yang was delighted.
"Yes, I told him about it, that you were the one who discovered the Void Fungus, and he immediately believed me."
You said that freezing spacetime techniques could completely prevent the invasion of void fungi, and he happens to be skilled in the arts of spacetime.
More than 50 seconds have passed since the crisis was detonated. At the cost of extremely high mental burden, Ye Yang activated the 10 times time flow speed in the instance world to complete the testing of the Void Fungus and discovered some of its abilities.
Within those 40 seconds, the void fungi on the planet where the Extreme Dao Vein was located completed their ninth iteration.
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