Swallowed Star: Copy God

In other words, with its innate talent combined with the enhancement from the talent secret technique 【Devour】, 'Cotton Candy's' path to advancement would inevitably be easier than that of other creatures.

'Truly, it is worthy of being a special lifeform born from a universe secret realm,'

Ye Yun couldn't help but sigh in admiration. If given sufficient resources for cultivation, 'Cotton Candy' could rapidly advance to the Undying realm, and even the path to becoming a Universe Venerable or even a Universe Master would be much easier than for other lifeforms.

After all, as long as it devoured treasures aligned with the corresponding law direction, it could almost limitlessly enhance its comprehension of various laws, which would undoubtedly be of great help for Universe Venerables and Universe Masters in breaking through.

'Cotton Candy's' first and second talent secret techniques could be said to be auxiliary in nature, aiding its growth.

However, its third talent secret technique was a purely combat-oriented one, named 【Energy Control】.

When this secret technique was activated, energy attacks from opponents would be directly absorbed and stored within 'Cotton Candy's' body. Because of its special physique that allowed it to comprehend the ten fundamental laws, 'Cotton Candy' would not suffer any damage during this process.

Of course, if the energy intensity was so overwhelming as to cause a crushing defeat, 'Cotton Candy' would naturally be unable to achieve absolute unharmed absorption and would have a certain承受上限.

However, an Undying-level being enduring a Universe Venerable's attack, or a Universe Venerable-level being enduring a Universe Master's attack, would not be too problematic.

After completing the absorption and storage of energy, 'Cotton Candy' could choose to release this energy, almost perfectly replicating the attacker's offensive power!

In other words, when 'Cotton Candy' was still only at the Undying level, it could rely on absorbing, storing, and releasing energy to contend against powerhouses at the Universe Venerable level!

In Ye Yun's view, this kind of talent secret technique that could allow battles across major levels undoubtedly surpassed the level of peak secret techniques and could very likely reach the level of ultimate or even supreme secret techniques!

After carefully observing it again, Ye Yun once again marveled at 'Cotton Candy's' monstrous talent.

Ye Yun stood in place, falling silent for a moment. After a while, the expression on Ye Yun's face gradually turned cold, and with a sweep of his gaze, he copied 'Cotton Candy's' talent in comprehending the fusion of laws, as well as its third talent secret technique 【Energy Control】.

Thus, the third talent secret technique that Ye Yun had copied through the Eye of Replication was confirmed to be 【Energy Control】 from the heaven-defying special lifeform 'Cotton Candy'!

'Cotton Candy's' other two major talent secret techniques were also very powerful and were excellent secret techniques for auxiliary cultivation. If they were copied, they would also be of great help to Ye Yun's subsequent growth.

However, Ye Yun did not choose to copy them. Regarding the unexpectedly discovered 'Cotton Candy,' Ye Yun had other ideas in mind.

'It would be such a pity for such a special and powerful lifeform to simply dissipate in the universe,'

A smile appeared on the corner of Ye Yun's mouth as he whispered to himself.

Only after understanding that the 'Cotton Candy' nurtured within the silver giant egg was actually such a strange special lifeform did Ye Yun finally understand what that faint sense of induction was all about.

Long ago, Ye Yun had firmly established his own path of cultivation, which was to rely on the characteristics of the Eye of Replication to walk the extremely difficult path of fusing the ten fundamental laws.

Ye Yun's initial reliance was on the Eye of Replication's ability to copy talent in comprehending various laws, as well as the ability to absorb the experience of others' comprehension talent. In this way, his accumulation and foundation would reach an incredible depth, greatly increasing the feasibility of walking this path.

However, only after truly embarking on this path did Ye Yun realize that his previous thoughts were somewhat naive.

The original universe had its own special rules, which was the independence of each law.

Once one thoroughly understood a lower-level fundamental law, the comprehension of the other seven lower-level fundamental laws would become very blurred, even to the point of being unable to sense them.

In fact, Ye Yun could have long ago reached the point of thoroughly understanding a single lower-level fundamental law, such as the law of water or the law of light.

The reason why he had not taken this step was because Ye Yun still harbored the ambition of comprehending all the laws.

One was to comprehend the law of space and then comprehend the law of time, mastering the power of spacetime and becoming an orthodox Universe Master.

The other was to completely master the fusion law of a lower-level fundamental law and an upper-level fundamental law, such as water-space, gold-space, etc. Once all of them were mastered, one could also reach the battle power of a Universe Master.

With Ye Yun's talent, both paths could be taken. Whether it was the inheritance of the Water Beast God or the lifelong experience and comprehension of the City Lord of Chaos, they could definitely lead Ye Yun to advance to this step.

However, the Universe Master was never the end that Ye Yun sought. From the beginning, what he wanted was to break through the realm after the Universe Master.

Breaking through from the Universe Master to True God, and even higher levels after that, could not be completely replicated and achieved by following the cultivation process of others. One must have their own thoughts and considerations.

According to the original story, every True God must walk a path that no one else has ever walked before.

Ye Yun had great confidence in himself, but he did not think that he would definitely be able to take this step. He could only formulate a path that was most suitable for his own choice based on his knowledge and the conditions he had in hand.

The fusion of the ten fundamental laws was undoubtedly the path that Ye Yun felt was most suitable for himself.

The reason why Ye Yun had been staying at the realm of World Lord without breaking through was to be able to travel through more territories of the original universe and find help that could help him more easily walk this path well.

The vacant talent secret techniques that the Eye of Replication could copy, as well as the choice of the final major clone, were all ways that Ye Yun could still enhance his own foundation.

After truly seeing 'Cotton Candy's' specialness and power, especially 'Cotton Candy's' innate proficiency in the ten fundamental laws, Ye Yun instantly made a decision: his third clone would be this special 'Cotton Candy'!

‘Cotton Candy’ is an energy-based life form with a life gene level 9,000 times that of an ordinary life form. This alone is enough to crush most special life forms.

Not to mention it also possesses three major innate abilities, making its growth and assistance to Ye Yun's main body extremely terrifying.

Moreover, Ye Yun is aware that as an energy-based life form, its soul core essentially carries a certain degree of the original universe's rules.

In other words, energy-based life forms are born in accordance with the original universe's fundamental laws.

The more advanced the energy-based life form, the more obvious this conformity becomes.

This can be clearly seen in the Demon Killing Clan and the evolved Winged-Dragon Snake branch bodies.

For example, Ye Yun's current level of comprehension of the spatial origin law is shared by both his main body and the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body, and Ye Yun has also replicated the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body's perverted talent for spatial origin law.

However, there is a huge difference between the main body and the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body in the application of various spatial origin law abilities.

Relying on its current level of spatial origin law comprehension, the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body can already perform teleportation far exceeding the power of ordinary undying experts, but Ye Yun's main body cannot do this.

The reason for this is that the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body's soul core is extremely compatible with the spatial origin law, making the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body seem to be integrated with the spatial origin law. With this kind of perception and fusion, it can naturally perform teleportation.

In fact, Ye Yun's current spatial origin law attainment has not yet reached the standard for performing teleportation.

Similarly, the soul core of ‘Cotton Candy’ also has similar characteristics, that is, it has a very deep compatibility and connection with the ten fundamental laws, and even the fusion laws of the ten fundamental laws.

This results in ‘Cotton Candy’ being able to utilize this compatibility to achieve stronger effects when using its first and second innate abilities.

In simple terms, ‘Cotton Candy's’ special ‘constitution’ can promote the exertion of innate abilities, achieving a result greater than two when the two cooperate.

Because he knew this hidden meaning, Ye Yun did not replicate these two innate abilities, but directly prepared to use ‘Cotton Candy’ as his third branch body.

Once the ‘Cotton Candy’ branch body is successfully created, its comprehension will definitely be much stronger than Ye Yun's main body.

However, after a moment, a wry smile appeared on Ye Yun's face.

‘A life gene level of 9,000 times, it really poses a problem for me.’

‘Cotton Candy's’ foundation is too solid and powerful, a full 9,000 times the life gene level, standing at the top of almost all life forms.

Ye Yun's branch body talent comes from the Golden Horned Beast, and there are considerable limitations to the branch bodies it can nurture.

His own realm is only ‘Domain Lord level,’ but his life gene level far exceeds the current stage, exceeding the limit that Ye Yun can replicate.

‘It seems that in addition to the three-colored liquid currently in my hand, I need to put some effort into finding other treasures.’

Although there is considerable difficulty, Ye Yun's determination to choose ‘Cotton Candy’ as his third branch body remains firm, and he will not easily change his mind before finding a better target.

In fact, the higher-ups of the Virtual Universe Company must have a certain collection of treasures that can improve the life gene level, but these strategic-level resources never appear in the public exchange treasure trove.

Therefore, even though Ye Yun's current authority in the Virtual Universe Company has reached the point comparable to a universe master, he still cannot see any clues about similar treasures.

For example, the Blood Luo Crystal that Luo Feng once obtained in the Blood Luo World, which contains the blood of the Beast God, is a treasure that can improve the life gene level.

But after Luo Feng came out of the Blood Luo World, he could not search for information about the Blood Luo Crystal at all, obviously because of the Virtual Universe Company's blockade.

‘It's time to get the Blood Luo Crystal from Fengzi, and when I meet the Chaos City Lord again, the Azure Flame Blade should be enough to exchange for some treasures that can improve the life gene level.’

Ye Yun is very clear that many low-level treasures no longer have much effect on top universe masters like the Chaos City Lord.

Therefore, the Chaos City Lord must have a lot of resources in his hands. As long as he can exchange for one or two, it will be completely enough for Ye Yun.

The more the life gene level is improved in the later stages, the worse the effect of each treasure will be, but it will not lose its effect. At worst, there will be a slight increase.

Ordinary powerhouses will find stronger treasures as their level realm and life gene level improve.

But Ye Yun doesn't need to do this at all. He has the unique Eye of Replication, which can forcibly and continuously raise his life gene level through the accumulation of quantity.

Ye Yun estimates that he only needs three or four more different treasures that can improve the life gene level. When he replicates a large amount of stock and uses them at the same time, his life gene level will definitely usher in a leap-like improvement.

After getting such an unexpected gain as ‘Cotton Candy,’ Ye Yun is not in a hurry to break through to immortality. During the improvement process at the world master level, he can improve his foundation as much as possible, and strive to create his own myth after entering immortality.

Looking at the ‘Cotton Candy’ restricted in mid-air not far ahead, Ye Yun turned his back, waved his hand gently, and the Azure Flame Blade flashed past. The extremely sharp physical attack completely ignored ‘Cotton Candy's’ [Energy Control] talent and directly turned it into debris.

The next moment, only a broken soul core fragment remained in place.

The strange special life born from the original universe fell into Ye Yun's hands like this!

Ye Yun's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes did not fluctuate in the slightest. He collected the soul core fragments left after ‘Cotton Candy's’ death and came outside the inner world in a blink of an eye.

In the next instant, the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body appeared at the same time. Ye Yun and the Winged-Dragon Snake branch body nodded slightly, waved their hands, and summoned an ordinary undying expert shrouded in a black robe from the world ring.

This undying expert was one of King Ku Yan's former slaves. After King Ku Yan's surprise attack on Ye Yun failed and he was controlled, he became Ye Yun's subordinate.

Ye Yun glanced at the surrounding environment and said softly,

“Open the divine kingdom teleportation and go to where your divine kingdom is located!”