282: Chapter 282 The Emperor Yang Beast

Inside the eggshell, the behemoth's body trembled slightly.

Lin Yun closed his eyes, immersed in the torrent of information from the Bloodline Legacy.

Countless memories, knowledge, and secret techniques surged in like a tide.

New information surfaced in his mind every second.

New understandings took root in his heart every moment.

The origins, evolution, and glory of this race, along with the sights, sounds, and feelings of ancestors across hundreds of millions of years of history, all converged here.

The behemoth race was named Di Yang.

When Lin Yun first saw this name, an inexplicable sense of shock welled up in his heart.

It wasn't fear, but awe.

Awe for the strong, and awe for ancient existences.

Di Yang—the Emperor's Sun, the Lord of Ten Thousand Suns.

Just speaking the name aloud gave one an invisible sense of pressure.

The Diyang Giant Beast was a flesh-and-blood lifeform, with a lifespan a hundred times that of ordinary creatures.

An ordinary sixth-order creature had a maximum lifespan of six thousand four hundred years.

Yet a Diyang Giant Beast had a lifespan of six hundred and forty thousand years at the sixth order.

Six hundred and forty thousand years.

When Lin Yun saw this number, he was completely stunned.

A human ninth-order Martial Artist only had a lifespan of fifty-one thousand two hundred years.

Six hundred and forty thousand years was more than ten times that of a ninth-order Martial Artist.

If a Diyang Giant Beast grew to the ninth order, its lifespan would be over five million years.

Five million years.

What kind of concept was that?

Earth's civilization before Lin Yun's Transmigration had only existed for a few tens of thousands of years from its birth to the present.

Five million years was enough for Earth's civilization to rise and fall a hundred times over.

After his shock, Lin Yun continued reading.

The Diyang Giant Beast was also a Star-Devouring Creature.

Not just an ordinary Star-Devouring Creature, but the most terrifying existence among them.

Ordinary Star-Devouring Creatures, like Starlight Grass, could only devour planets, growing slowly by consuming planetary energy.

But the Diyang Giant Beast could directly devour stars.

Those massive celestial bodies burning with blazing fire were mere food to a Diyang Giant Beast.

As long as it devoured planets, a Diyang Giant Beast could naturally grow to ninth-order Perfection without any Bottleneck in between.

It didn't need to Cultivate, didn't need comprehension, and didn't need accumulation.

Eating was enough.

Eating planets, eating stars, eating its way all the way to ninth-order Perfection.

Lin Yun finally understood why the Diyang Giant Beast's egg was on the Magic Eye Planet.

The Magic Eye Planet was a massive gas giant, its core containing immense energy.

The Diyang Giant Beast laid its egg here so that its offspring would have plenty of food the moment they were born.

After devouring the Magic Eye Planet, it could devour the three surrounding stars.

Once those three stars were devoured, it would reach the ninth order.

A complete set of ingredients, all perfectly arranged.

Lin Yun was incredibly shocked.

The strength of the Diyang Giant Beast far exceeded his imagination.

The behemoth he had undergone Possession of was still just an unhatched baby.

But this baby had infinite potential.

After his excitement subsided, Lin Yun continued to examine the secret techniques within the Bloodline Legacy.

The Diyang Giant Beast had two innate secret techniques that it was born knowing, requiring no study or Cultivation, etched into its very bones from birth.

One was Devour, and the other was Clone.

Devour was a primary offensive skill.

It could devour lava, decomposing and absorbing it to convert into its own energy.

It could also be used for attacks.

It could instantly release a powerful devouring force, pulling in surrounding enemies to be swallowed directly.

Lifeforms weaker than itself couldn't resist at all and would be instantly killed.

An area-of-effect skill—one pull, and a whole area would be gone.

Lin Yun tried to feel how Devour operated.

It was simple, as natural as breathing.

If he wanted to devour, he could.

No technique or guidance was needed; with a single thought, the devouring force was naturally released.

Clone: using specific genetic material to gestate an independent individual within the Internal World.

Whether flesh-and-blood, energy-based, or rock-based, any type would work.

As long as there was the genetic material of the target.

A single drop of blood, a leaf, or an energy core could gestate a Clone within the Internal World.

This Clone would possess all the abilities of the original race and be identical to them.

If the original race had a Bloodline Legacy, it could also be acquired.

It was simply Heaven-Defying.

Lin Yun tried to sense his Internal World.

The Diyang Giant Beast's Internal World was located within its Life Core.

The Life Core was the most central organ of the Diyang Giant Beast, currently located deep within its heart; it was the size of a chicken egg, completely transparent like a crystal ball.

As long as the Life Core was not destroyed, the Diyang Giant Beast would not truly die.

Even if the main body and all Clones were destroyed, if the Life Core remained, it could slowly absorb energy and recover.

This was the most terrifying aspect of the Diyang Giant Beast.

Its life-preserving ability was Heaven-Defying.

Currently, the Life Core was still a transparent crystal sphere with no patterns on it.

To go from a transparent crystal sphere to being able to gestate a Clone, red stripes needed to appear on the Life Core.

The more red stripes there were, the more complete the Internal World would be.

Only when the red stripes appeared could the Internal World slowly take shape, and only then could it hatch from the egg.

Lin Yun carefully sensed the state of the Life Core and found that it would take at least ten years for the red stripes to appear.

Ten years was too long.

He didn't plan on waiting that long.

He actively released Devour.

Outside the giant egg, Wang Tianming was suspended in the lava, cautiously observing the surrounding environment.

The Soul Ant lay beside him, its massive body flickering in and out of sight within the magma.

Suddenly, a terrifying suction force emanated from the giant egg.

The surrounding lava surged toward the giant egg frantically, as if drawn by something.

The magma churned and a vortex swirled, forming a massive funnel.

Wang Tianming felt his own body being sucked toward it as well.

His face turned pale with fright, and he quickly activated his True Qi Body Protection, desperately flying backward.

The Soul Ant also panicked, its six thick legs paddling frantically in the magma to move away from the giant egg.

The man and the insect retreated repeatedly, backing away over ten thousand meters before they managed to stabilize themselves.

They watched the center of that massive vortex, where the giant egg hung silently, its surface glowing with intense red light like a bottomless pit, greedily devouring everything around it.

Wang Tianming swallowed hard.

If the Soul fluctuations hadn't shown that his master had merged with the giant egg, he would have run away already.

This suction force was too terrifying.

With his cultivation at Fifth-Order Perfection, he had almost been sucked in.

Lin Yun's voice came through Divine Thought: "Don't be afraid. It's me. Move further away so you don't get hurt by accident."

Wang Tianming breathed a sigh of relief and quickly led the Soul Ant back another few thousand meters.

The devouring force of the giant egg grew stronger and stronger.

Countless streams of lava poured in from all directions, absorbed by the giant egg.

The orange-red magma swirled, forming a massive vortex around the giant egg.

At the center of the vortex, the giant egg was like a hungry beast, greedily devouring everything.

Lin Yun felt the changes in the Life Core.

The lava entered the giant egg and was decomposed by the devouring force, turning into the purest energy which then flooded into the Life Core.

The Life Core greedily absorbed this energy, and a faint red color began to appear inside the transparent crystal sphere.

It was very faint and light, like a wisp of smoke drifting within the crystal sphere.