260: In the name of Swallowing Stars!

However, Lin Tianwei, despite all his calculations, ultimately missed one crucial point: he severely underestimated the terrifying primeval spear.

Though seemingly a physical object, it was, in fact, a formidable weapon capable of destroying even consciousness itself.

While he dodged the physically vital spots, the primeval spear directly pierced Lin Tianwei's head in a spiritual sense.

Terrifying destructive power began to madly obliterate Lin Tianwei's consciousness.

Once his consciousness was destroyed, even if Lin Tianwei's body survived, he would be nothing more than a monster that only killed by instinct.

The primeval spear truly lived up to its name as a weapon forged by a Cosmic Beast, expending countless origins.

Coupled with it being an attack specifically targeting consciousness, Lin Tianwei had no way to avoid it.

The moment the primeval spear struck him, Lin Tianwei only felt a terrifying force attempting to utterly destroy his consciousness.

It continuously crushed, until finally grinding it into dust.

However, at this critical moment, a golden light flashed in Lin Tianwei's mind, erupting with brilliant radiance.

That was the light of Origin.

The brilliant light erupted from the Origin Lin Tianwei had harvested from Barioss.

Though seemingly weak, this glimmer of light gradually ignited Lin Tianwei's consciousness like a spark.

It allowed Lin Tianwei's consciousness to barely survive the primeval spear's assault, to live through an attack that should have been certain death.

On the other side.

The primeval spear's lethality was so terrifying that even without hitting Lin Tianwei's body, it inflicted such horrific damage.

The Cosmic Beast, whose body was directly struck by the primeval spear, suffered an even more tragic fate.

He never imagined that his ultimate weapon would turn its spearhead and launch a fatal attack against him.

The Cosmic Beast's already weakened consciousness became fragmented.

However, he was, after all, a terrifying Behemoth from the cosmos.

He was even an existence capable of dividing his body into three parts and still not dying.

His mastery of consciousness had reached a profound level.

Even such severe injuries were still unable to kill him.

Origin!

As long as he could obtain Origin, he would be able to survive!

The Cosmic Beast roared in his heart.

Now he was barely clinging to life, but it didn't matter; the Death Ripple was still active.

As long as he could harvest the remaining life on Blue Star, the victor would still be him.

With Lin Tianwei, the disruptive ant, gone, the entire Blue Star would no longer have any power to stop him.

Thinking of this, the Cosmic Beast laughed wildly: "Although I've lost a lot, even suffered a complete loss."

"But in the end, I won this battle."

"No creature can stop me from savoring this delicious snack before me."

"Return to Origin Secret Art, devour the entire Blue Star!"

However, just as the Cosmic Beast was clamoring to devour the entire Blue Star, he was horrified to discover that Lin Tianwei, who had locked his body, actually moved.

Lin Tianwei's movement was hope in despair for Blue Star.

For the Cosmic Beast, however, it was an incredibly terrifying nightmare.

The ecstatic expression instantly froze on his face, and the Cosmic Beast said with disbelief in his eyes: "How is this possible?"

"Under the attack of the primeval spear, even my consciousness began to fall apart."

"How could you, an ant from a low-level planet, possibly survive?"

Without answering the Cosmic Beast, Lin Tianwei, though alive, found every movement of his body a torment.

Mental Power: 1035!

This attribute might be an astronomical figure for a mortal, but for Lin Tianwei, whose Mental Power once reached fifty thousand, it was a mere tenth of its former self.

Consciousness drives the physical body.

For Lin Tianwei, with his Mental Power at its limit, driving his body had become an extremely difficult task.

But it was fine.

Before being attacked by the primeval spear, Lin Tianwei and the Cosmic Beast were already locked together.

Lin Tianwei only needed a simple action to deliver a fatal blow to the Cosmic Beast, who was also at the end of his rope.

Eat, enjoy the most primal carnival of life, and directly devour this Cosmic Beast before you!

After activating his body's eating instinct, Lin Tianwei's Mental Power plummeted again, reaching a figure of less than five hundred.

But it didn't matter; this battle was over, and his body's instinct was enough for Lin Tianwei to devour the Cosmic Beast before him.

Lin Tianwei, having lost his enemy, had more than enough time to slowly recover.

Talent: Mental Food (Transcendental)!

Most importantly, Lin Tianwei also possessed this Talent capable of restoring Mental Power.

The remaining body of this Cosmic Beast contained a large amount of energy, which would surely allow Lin Tianwei to recover a lot of Mental Power.

At least enough to regain rudimentary control over his body.

Facing Lin Tianwei's gaping maw, the Cosmic Beast's consciousness began to tremble.

This time, he finally felt the shadow of death.

Depleted of energy and unable to replenish it, with his body having lost its head, he simply could not be Lin Tianwei's opponent.

He could only watch helplessly as Lin Tianwei devoured his body piece by piece as food.

"No, I'm not reconciled."

"How could I die so ignominiously here?"

"If I hadn't gone through a major battle before, how could I have lacked Origin?"

"If there hadn't been a slightly stronger ant here that I hadn't infected, how could I have been so passive?"

"If these foolish ants hadn't chosen to end themselves, I would have already completely devoured this entire planet."

"If not for…"

At the end of his life, the Cosmic Beast let out his most unwilling roar.

He was unwilling to fall like this, to fall on a low-level planet only fit to be his food, to fall into the mouth of Lin Tianwei, an ordinary tiger.

However, there were no such 'ifs' in this world; he could only watch his body being devoured by Lin Tianwei little by little.

When a large number of lives began to end themselves, preventing him from harvesting enough Origin from Blue Star, his death was already predetermined.

Destined to become food in Lin Tianwei's mouth.

This was the entire Blue Star's counterattack against him.

However, just as Lin Tianwei swallowed the last mouthful of the Star Devouring Behemoth's flesh and blood, he suddenly laughed maniacally:

"Hahaha..."

"Do you think you've won?"

"Cherish these last beautiful moments; the malice from the cosmos will devour you all until nothing is left."

"My name is Star Devouring Behemoth. I hope you, this interesting ant, can grow stronger and live until our next meeting."

The Star Devouring Behemoth decided to give Lin Tianwei one last grand gift: to condense his remaining Origin and send Blue Star's coordinates to nearby entities.

A weak but infinitely life-filled planet, that truly was a sweet treat.

Danger, an immense sense of crisis enveloped Lin Tianwei's body.

That was a warning from his Talent: Danger Perception (Legendary).

This sense of crisis was even a hundred times stronger than when Lin Tianwei faced the Alpha Gene.

It made Lin Tianwei understand that the final words of this Behemoth named Star Devouring were absolutely not alarmist!

"Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a new target."

"Ding, in view of the host's cross-level kill, the quality and success rate of Talent extraction will greatly increase."

"Ding, Talent extraction successful, host has obtained Talent: Star Devour (Mythical), Origin Control (Mythical), Avatar (Mythical), Infection (Mythical), Return to Origin (Mythical), Transcendental Consciousness (Transcendental)."

"Ding, please confirm whether the host wishes to use these Talents."

"Origin Control (Mythical): Mythical-grade Talent, skillfully master the methods of using Origin."

"Avatar (Mythical): Mythical-grade Talent, divide into Avatars with a certain level of strength."

"Note: The more resources consumed, the stronger the Avatar's strength."

"This Talent has multiple abilities; please explore them yourself, host."

"Infection (Mythical): Mythical-grade Talent, you will gain the ability to infect everything."

"Note: The deeper the degree of Infection, the higher the host's dominion over the infected."

"Return to Origin (Mythical): Mythical-grade Talent, Return to Origin, annihilate living beings, refine Origin."

"Note: Return to Origin has a very high failure rate; please explore how to increase the success rate, host."

"Transcendental Consciousness (Transcendental): Transcendental-grade Talent, consciousness Awakening, gain Transcendental Consciousness."

Mythical-grade Talents? Five Mythical-grade Talents?

Use, use, use!

Lin Tianwei felt that hesitating for even a second longer would be disrespectful to these Mythical-grade Talents.

"Ding, congratulations to the host on successful Reinforcement, gaining greater power."

Knowledge, a vast amount of knowledge began to overwhelm Lin Tianwei.

This Reinforcement was different from every Reinforcement Lin Tianwei had experienced before.

In addition to feeling a powerful force infused at the conscious level, Lin Tianwei found that he gained more knowledge.

That's right, it was knowledge.

For example, after obtaining the Talent: Star Devour (Mythical), Lin Tianwei could not directly master the ability to devour a defenseless planet.

Instead, he gained the method of how to devour a defenseless planet.

In other words, if Lin Tianwei's own strength was insufficient, he simply could not use the Talent Star Devouring.

By extension, the same applied to other Talents.

The Avatar Talent, though seemingly incredibly powerful, was actually a super pay-to-win skill.

It was only because Lin Tianwei's current strength was not great that dividing an Avatar was very simple.

Once he became powerful, creating an Avatar would require a massive amount of resources.

Among them, Origin was paramount, determining the fundamental capabilities of the Avatar.

Lin Tianwei could, of course, be stingy and casually use a little material to perfunctorily create an Avatar.

However, an Avatar created in this way would be utterly useless.

Not only would it not help him in any way, but it would also tarnish his reputation.

This led to a very awkward situation.

Using resources not to enhance the main body but to create Avatars would absolutely be putting the cart before the horse.

Unless one had already reached the bottleneck of the current realm, or needed to use Avatars to perform some incredibly tricky maneuvers.

Otherwise, dividing an Avatar would be meaningless.

Of course, this Talent was not weak; rather, it was incredibly abnormal.

The ability for the main body to resurrect through an Avatar upon death alone was an extremely broken Talent.

However, requiring a large amount of resources, it was undoubtedly a pay-to-win Talent.

And currently, Lin Tianwei might be considered wealthy on Blue Star.

But in the vast and boundless cosmos, he could probably only be considered a super pauper.

However, after the joy of obtaining five Mythical-grade Talents, Lin Tianwei's expression became solemn.

Mythical-grade Talents, far more powerful than Legendary-grade Talents, each represented immense power.

Since the Star Devouring Behemoth could drop as many as five divine-grade Talents, didn't that prove his words were not alarmist?

Talent: Avatar (Mythical) even gave Lin Tianwei the answer.

Why did the Star Devouring Behemoth, despite clearly being dead, still boastfully tell him to become stronger so he could live until their next meeting?

He was merely an Avatar.

Although he had immense potential, before he could absorb enough Origin to grow powerful, he was just a younger brother.

Avatars can possess self-awareness, and upon death, the Avatar's consciousness returns to the main body.

Lin Tianwei, also possessing the Talent: Avatar (Mythical), understood this rule.

In other words, although the Star Devouring Behemoth was dead, the hatred he harbored for Lin Tianwei was so deep.

It was highly probable that he would not easily let Lin Tianwei off the hook.

Crisis, this was absolutely an enormous crisis.

In a sense, Lin Tianwei had exploited a bug of the Star Devouring Behemoth.

Under normal circumstances, the Star Devouring Behemoth's divine-grade Talents were not something Lin Tianwei could even hope to touch.

This could be seen from the fact that Lin Tianwei currently couldn't even utilize the abilities of these divine-grade Talents.

However, the Star Devouring Behemoth foolishly divided an Avatar that was comparable in strength to himself and possessed immense potential.

This resulted in Lin Tianwei obtaining powerful Talents that were far disproportionate to the difficulty of killing the monster.

It was truly a case of 'sowing one, reaping ten thousand,' an extremely satisfying outcome.

However, this harvest was not without cost.

At the very least, Lin Tianwei effortlessly achieved the feat of being targeted by the powerful Star Devouring Behemoth without ever leaving his home.

Not only that, the Star Devouring Behemoth's final words also indicated that he definitely had ill intentions.

Perhaps before long, Blue Star would welcome new cosmic visitors.

However, Lin Tianwei immediately showed an amused expression.

The Star Devouring Behemoth was truly naive, thinking this would cause him trouble.

Afraid?

Why should he be afraid?

Having received the Star Devouring Behemoth's super experience gift package, he was no longer the same as before and had no need to fear those cosmic visitors who might visit Blue Star.

After all, alien visitors capable of targeting a low-level planet like Blue Star wouldn't be that powerful.

If they dared to come, he would dare to treat them as experience gift packages to farm.

The most important point was that although Lin Tianwei now possessed five divine-grade Talents, his knowledge of the cosmos was extremely lacking.

He was just worried about not finding a guide to lead him.

Thinking of this, Lin Tianwei felt that the Star Devouring Behemoth was truly a super good beast.

Not only did he drop a massive loot after dying, but he also felt that wasn't enough, and sent him a farewell gift.

Otherwise, if Lin Tianwei, a lone tiger, were to wander aimlessly in the cosmos, he would truly be like a headless fly, completely lost. (End of Chapter)