Chapter 3107: Fatal Parasite
This was truly an incredible interstellar journey!
Li Yao seed to have seen countless ancestors of the Prival Race crouching under the tentacles of the Void Hunters, shivering in the broken starships. They were living every second of their life in anxiety, while they were trying to co up with new dreams to please the gargantuan nightmare creature below their feet and above their heads.
One mont of carelessness, and the starship would be minced to pieces by the tentacles. Millions of people would be swallowed by the sucking discs that looked like black holes. There would be nothing left of them at all. They would truly be obliterated!
Other than that, the Void Hunters often travelled in the raging tides of the four-dinsional space.
The ancestors of the Prival Race were apparently not prepared for the impact of the four-dinsional storm.
Although they were protected by the tentacles of the Void Hunters, countless starships were damaged every ti they passed through the storm in the four-dinsional space. The passengers were sucked out of the gaps and smashed into the gaps of ti and space, ending up in a fate worse than death.
Even if they returned to the three-dinsional universe safely, countless people would be lded with their starships and explode violently, or suffer from serious sequela and beco ntally deranged. It was as if their bodies had returned, but their souls were still left in the terrifying four-dinsional storm!
How thrilling, how humiliating, how desperate!
However, in order to survive, a weak species had struggled from the lifeless space tens of thousands of years ago to this day, to this place, to the center of the Universe Ocean, and to the dawn of dawn. Their will and ambitions would not be crushed by any difficulties.
When the Void Hunters and the four-dinsional storms crushed their flesh and blood, leaving them heavily wounded and on the verge of death, the purest spiritual energy in the center of the universe gave them the warst comfort.
The Prival Lord of Heaven absorbed and digested the spiritual energy crazily. He was like a sponge that had been tossed into water after being dried, hoping to absorb all the seawater in the ocean.
In order to survive, they had tempered every organ in their body with spiritual energy, reorganized the gene strands, refined the cell structure, and optimized the efficiency of the mitochondria. Their internal organs, skin, and brain had undergone trendous changes and gradually adapted to the coldness of the three-dinsional universe and the brutality of the four-dinsional space.
In order to survive, their computational ability soared. Almost every Prival Lord of Heaven had beco a qualified Dream Maker, weaving weird, brilliant dreams for the Void Hunters.
In order to better instill the dreams into the collection of nerves of the Void Hunters, the Prival Lord of Heaven’s ability to manipulate brainwaves and telepathic thoughts was improving day by day, too. The neurons in their brains were mutating and strengthening. The number of neurons that were condensed in a tiny brain was even higher than the total number of neurons on one of the enormous tentacles of the Void Hunters.
Of course, even though they were fully prepared, it was inevitable that a lot of their compatriots would be devoured by the Void Hunters every few days. There was no ti for sorrow or desperation. With the help of their spiritual energy, the Prival Lord of Heaven activated their strong reproductive ability and expanded their species crazily like rabbits.
In the universe at that ti, most of the intelligent creatures were tough individuals without natural enemies or competitors like the Void Hunters. They boasted a long life and absolute dominance. Their urge to continue their genes was not strong, and they would only reproduce once every hundreds or even thousands of years.
The female creatures such as the Prival Lord of Heaven could reproduce when they were fifteen or sixteen years old. Then, they could reproduce once a year. Every ti, they could even be twins or triplets. They were even crazier than cockroaches, mice, and rabbits.
With the help of advanced genes and dical technology, it was not difficult for the multiple births and the rapid recovery after the birth.
At that ti, the reproduction of the species was dependent on the bellies of the females and was bound to be restricted. But after the artificial uterus and the incubation tank were developed, the Prival Lord of Heaven was no longer restricted by the gender restriction. As long as they had enough energy and genes, they would be able to produce offspring continuously, thereby freeing all the won and doubling the combat ability of the entire species.
As long as they were willing and had enough energy, their species could explode exponentially and reproduce in every corner of the infinite universe.
And that was exactly what they did—the devils that were about to sweep across the entire Universe Ocean!
The Void Hunters were ignorant of everything.
It was not that it did not notice the subtle changes of the bugs attached to its body, but that there were more and more of them.
However, its body was too enormous, and its perception of ti was different from that of the Prival Lord of Heaven. It did not realize the danger of the Prival Lord of Heaven at all. Instead, it felt that the bugs were scratching its itch more and more. What was wrong with that?
Not long after, the Prival Lord of Heaven showed another ‘ability’ to the Void Hunters.
The Void Hunters lived by swallowing teoroids and asteroids, crushing the crystals stored inside, and absorbing the energy stored inside.
However, its body was too large, and its movents were relatively clumsy. During the process of swallowing the teoroids and asteroids, it was inevitable that a lot of the debris would be left behind.
A lot of precious energy was still stored inside the residues. As the saying goes, a little makes the world go round.
In the past, the Void Hunters would often leave behind a large number of teorites and asteroid fragnts after devouring everything in their way.
But right now, the Prival Lord of Heaven was hovering around the scene of the void hunter’s absorption in his latest small-scale spiritual airship. He was collecting the scattered scraps carefully and slting the scraps that contained mother lodes of crystals into the purest spiritual crystals before he offered them to the void hunter.
For the Void Hunters, the manually-refined spiritual energy crystals whose purity was close to 100% were as delicious as dragon liver and phoenix marrow.
The Void Hunter sensed a feeling of beauty that was completely different from the glamorous dream but with the sa approach. He was imdiately hooked and found his original thod of absorption boring and tasteless.
From then on, the Prival Lord of Heaven joined the absorption and digestion process of the Void Hunters and beca the ‘tentacles’ in a different form. They helped the Void Hunters crush the teoroids, slt the spiritual minerals, extracted the purest spiritual energy crystals, and tossed them into the suckers of the Void Hunters respectfully.
Of course, the Prival Lord of Heaven had to take a step back during the process. About 5% to 10% of the spiritual energy had fallen into their control.
The Void Hunters, who had been well served by the Prival Lord of Heaven, did not think too much of it. As far as they knew, the Prival Lord of Heaven was their tentacles, teeth, the flagella in their digestive system, and even the probiotics inside their body. Who would doubt the probiotics inside their body?
Just like that, the ancestors of the Prival Clan lurked in the shelter of the Void Hunters and drifted in the dark sea of stars for a second ten thousand years.
Over the past ten thousand years, the Void Hunters and the Prival Lord of Heaven had beco more and more inseparable. The prival cosmic creature that was as enormous as a deity was more and more feeble in appearance and under the control of the Prival Lord of Heaven.
Its cluster of nerves had been analyzed, studied, paralyzed, and corrupted by the dream creators of the Prival Clan. Its wisdom, like that of a seven-year-old child, had been played by the wisdom of the Prival Clan.
Its digestive ability weakened as the Prival Lord of Heaven continued supplying the purest spiritual energy crystals. It did not even bother to wave its tentacles. Everything was done by the Prival Lord of Heaven.
The Prival Lord of Heaven had even learned how to sneak into one of its tentacles and cut off the transmission of information between the tentacle and the nerve cluster before it was connected to the mainfra crystal processor of the starship so that the tentacle could be controlled.
After all, the Void Hunters had so many tentacles, but they did not even have a real brain. The neurons all over their bodies were too few to notice such tricks.
If it had been discovered, it might’ve praised the loyalty of the Prival Lord of Heaven and helped it get rid of the tentacles and the troubleso feeding process!
Although it was not unusual for countless people to die every day, the artificial uterus and the technology of the large-scale hatching pool, together with the fully-automatic education system that Li Yao ntioned just now, could allow ten tis more of his compatriots to be produced continuously. Then, with the scraps of teorites that the Void Hunters despised, he could refine tals and build components into new starships—the real warships that could expand the black glory of the Prival Lord Clan to the ends of every tentacle of the Void Hunters!
The Void Hunters had never discovered the ambitions of the Prival Lord of Heaven.
In the anti, the Prival Lord of Heaven had only encountered one life-and-death threat, not because of the original intention of the Void Hunters, but because the life cycle of the behemoth had co to an end.
Void hunters were asexual creatures.
It was obvious. Such top predators in the universe did not need to change their genes aggressively. Besides, it was quite rare for them to run into their own kind in the vast sea of stars. It was unnecessary to ask for trouble by evolving genders.
However, the reproduction thod of the Void Hunters had caused a lot of trouble for the Prival Lord of Heaven.
Whenever a Void Hunter sensed that its ten-thousand-year-long life was coming to an end, it would devour a lot of teoroids and asteroids crazily driven by its instincts and store all the overloaded spiritual energy inside its body. It was like a gargantuan biological bomb that would explode in the end.
In the big explosion, the old Void Hunters would be blown to pieces, and their broken limbs would be burnt by the intense spiritual energy reactions. Part of the hibernating genes would be activated, too. In the end, of the thousands of tentacles that were tossed away, the few largest limbs would be revived and grow out of their body parts, turning them into new Void Hunters.
The process was called ‘explosion’.
It was not hard to imagine that, for the Prival Beings who were living on the bodies of the Void Hunters, it was as good as another apocalypse.
However, the Prival Lord of Heaven at this mont was no longer an earthling who could not resist the catastrophe twenty thousand years ago.
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