Chapter 613 - The Jinx Comes True

Blue Planet and Stellar Moon were both located within the same star domain. The boundary of this star domain was the black mist that had devoured countless cosmic civilizations.

The Four Divine Dragons were suspected to be inside the black mist, blocking its spread. The ancient divine beasts of Blue Planet had also come into contact with the black mist, including the Torch Dragon. However, since these creatures did not possess cosmic-level strength, they had perished within the black mist.

A Legendary-grade spaceship flew out from Blue Planet, heading straight for the edge of the star domain. Inside were various clones like Lu Ran’s soul clone, #18’s mechanical clone, and Manager Ying’s clone.

Exploring the black mist was dangerous, so it was only natural not to send their true selves. Using clones was clearly the safest approach. They were just clones; if they died, they died.

For the same reason, although the spaceship wasn’t as fast as Sudden Death King, Lu Ran and the others still chose a spaceship they wouldn’t mind losing. The main idea was to let their true selves enjoy peace and quiet while the clones and tools bore the burden.

The journey to the edge of the star domain was extremely long. At first, Lu Ran’s true self and clone maintained some connection, but as the distance grew, this connection gradually faded.

On Blue Planet, after Lu Ran returned, he promoted sparring matches between the Beastmaster Empire and various countries on Blue Planet.

For example, the Beastmaster Empire initiated a national war against the Paris Beastmaster Association, with the annihilation of the nation as the end point of the match. This terrified the Paris Beastmaster Association, making them think they had somehow offended this lord. They immediately knelt in surrender and sent over a pile of resources.

Surprisingly, after one country surrendered, Lu Ran didn’t press further and simply moved on to challenge the next. Nippon... Heavenly Eagle... In the blink of an eye, Lu Ran had troubled every country. Many foreign beastmasters burned with anger, feeling that Lu Ran was humiliating them.

However, soon after, beastmasters from Blue Planet returned from ascension realms and brought back news of what had happened on Stellar Moon.

The information that Lu Ran had already nurtured three Primary-Divine beings, effortlessly crushed the Chaos Dragon God with the help of the Divine Tree, and even executed many Stellar Moon residents who had cursed him, was made public.

Once this was confirmed, the countries on Blue Planet instantly became docile. After multiple verifications, every country confirmed that these messages were true. The fact that many of Limitless City’s permissions were now in the hands of Xia already made it hard for other countries to breathe. This time, Lu Ran’s achievements on Stellar Moon made them even more fearful.

“Mystic Turtle, how was the power of surrender this time?”

Lu Ran had initiated national wars, and the leaders of each country had surrendered on behalf of their nations. The power of surrender involved national destiny and was of extraordinary quality.

“Compared to the Chaos Dragon God and the others, it’s still lacking. I didn’t feel much,” Mystic Turtle said apologetically, rubbing its belly.

Now, its species rank had reached Superior Legendary. This wasn’t because of the surrenders from the national wars initiated by the Beastmaster Empire, but because of the battle with the Chaos Dragon God.

At that time, when Lu Ran and the others were crushing the Chaos Dragon God and suppressing it so it couldn’t get up, Lu Ran had said, “Chaos Dragon God, as long as you willingly surrender and go into seclusion to reflect for ten thousand years, I’ll spare your life.”

The Chaos Dragon God was already on the verge of death. Faced with the opportunity Lu Ran offered, why would it care about anything else? Surrendering and going into seclusion for ten thousand years wasn’t a big deal. Moreover, it truly found Lu Ran’s strength as a beastmaster incomprehensible and immediately chose to surrender, hoping Lu Ran would let it go.

However, after it surrendered, Baby Cloud, Six-Path Flower, #18, and the Divine Tree intensified their efforts and killed the surrendered Chaos Dragon God, and it died with everlasting regret.

Lu Ran shook his head. Leaving aside the fact that he wasn’t someone who kept promises to enemies, even if he had spared the Chaos Dragon God, Baby Cloud, Six-Path Flower, #18, and the Divine Tree didn’t want to let it go, and he couldn’t control them.

Besides, recently, every fight Lu Ran and the others had played out basically the same way. Various strong Legendary beings chose to surrender under overwhelming force, making Mystic Turtle’s growth speed incredibly fast.

In fact, it was the fastest-growing familiar in Lu Ran’s team, which was also related to Mystic Turtle’s species. If elemental lifeforms were uniquely favored like the darlings of the world, then rule-bound lifeforms were even more privileged. They were practically the darlings of the universe. The mere form of a rule-bound species was rarer than Legendary species of elements, animals, or plants.

However, no matter how privileged, the peak of Legendary seemed to be a limit. It was probably impossible for Mystic Turtle to break through to the Primary Divine level through such simple and violent methods. Lu Ran was looking for other training paths.

Aside from Mystic Turtle, Captain Doofus had also advanced to Superior Legendary. This was because its four kin had all advanced to Intermediate Legendary, boosting Captain Doofus’ level.

The swordgrass relied on Six-Path Flower’s enhancements, the sword spirit relied on grinding with the Chaos Dragon God’s remnant soul and bones, the lightsaber relied on #18’s enhancements, and the stone sword relied on Baby Cloud’s enhancements.

And this wasn’t the end. Captain Doofus’ kin could also potentially reach Superior Legendary one day. However, whether Captain Doofus could break through to Primary Divine by relying on four Superior Legendary sword kin was uncertain.

Rather than pinning hopes on feedback from accessory sword kin, Captain Doofus would prefer to conceptualize Divine-grade resources and Divine lifeforms into swords.

I wonder how things are going over there.

While consolidating combat power in the imperial palace, Lu Ran waited for news from the depths of space.

At this time, after a long cosmic voyage, the spaceship had gradually approached the edge of the star domain. On the spaceship, Lu Ran’s clone, #18, and Manager Ying’s clone were all huddled together, observing the outside.

Lu Ran’s clone finally saw the black mist. It was very novel. They preliminarily speculated that the black mist had now enveloped this star domain into a spherical shape.

“Next, let’s run an experiment.” Lu Ran’s clone looked at #18’s clone, who immediately understood.

It opened the spaceship and dragged out a conscious soul from the detention room. It was the soul of a monkey. Because it couldn’t control its hands and feet and stole from tourists in a scenic area of the Beastmaster Empire, it was taken away by hell employees for torture. Then its soul was extracted, becoming one of the soul resources in hell.

An antenna was attached to the soul, and the soul’s consciousness fluctuations immediately appeared on the spaceship’s large screen. Then, #18 handcrafted a robot, which carried the soul and rushed out of the spaceship, throwing itself into the embrace of the black mist.

“

Ook, ook, ook!

” The monkey soul was terrified.

Although it didn’t know what would happen next, it was instinctively very afraid. As they approached the black mist, the black mist immediately generated a certain pull, like a black hole, pulling the experimental subjects in. This scene made Lu Ran’s clone’s heart drop.

It's a good thing we sent clones and didn’t get too close.

Bzzzt...

In the next instant, the monkey soul and the robot were annihilated in the black mist. The screen connected to the soul’s consciousness immediately went black, and #18, who had handcrafted the robot, lost all control over it. No information was retrieved.

“It seems like simple experiments can’t help us understand this black mist at all.” Lu Ran’s clone shook his head.

Then, he pulled out more soul experimental subjects, covering every species and attribute imaginable.

Time passed bit by bit again, and back on Blue Planet, Dark Crow’s growth speed was quite fast. It had already achieved some results from its arduous training.

Lu Ran had left the Ancestor trait dropped in the Divine secret realm for Dark Crow, making it Dark Crow’s tenth trait. This trait meant that the more descendants connected by bloodline, the stronger one’s own bloodline power.

The clones created by Dark Crow’s Legion Soldier trait were originally forged using a part of its body as a sacrifice. Dark Crow had chosen its eyeballs as the sacrifice. Therefore, these soldier clones naturally possessed Dark Crow’s bloodline and, as crow sons and crow grandsons, continuously fed back bloodline power to Dark Crow itself.

During this period, Dark Crow plucked its eyeballs at an extremely fast rate. Its own regeneration speed definitely couldn’t keep up, but now that it was life-linked with the Primary-Divine Six-Path Flower, just a little sprinkle of water from Six-Path Flower could instantly heal Dark Crow’s injuries.

With this advantage, the number of Dark Crow’s soldier clones grew at an alarming rate from a hundred at first, to a thousand, then to ten thousand, and then to a hundred thousand, and finally to a million!

This meant at least a million eyeballs. Even the vitality of the Primary-Divine Six-Path Flower couldn’t withstand such wastefulness from Dark Crow. However, Lu Ran also gave Dark Crow the core of the Dark Primary Divine. By sacrificing pure dark power, Dark Crow could also use dark energy to nourish its injuries and speed up recovery.

Located in a field with different time flow rates created by #18, only a few months had passed in the outside world. With the consolidation and consumption of resources, it had already created eight million clones.

At this point, although Dark Crow’s normal state hadn’t reached the Primary-Divine level due to bloodline feedback, in legion form, Dark Crow’s species rank had reached Primary Divine.

A joyful cry could be heard throughout the vast Beastmaster Empire the moment Dark Crow reached Primary Divine.

“

Kekekekeke...

”

The laughter made many beasts and the empire staff lose sleep.

“My king, I have not failed your mission.”

Dark Crow was the first to reach Primary Divine by pushing itself hard by leveraging existing advantages to self-mutilate. The eyes were absolutely core organs for Dark Crow. Plucking them out was extremely painful for Dark Crow, but throughout the process, it never cried out in pain and never stopped.

Lu Ran couldn’t help but admire its willpower. In comparison, Sudden Death King was still waiting for #18’s research on the Chaos Dragon God’s blood, and Captain Doofus was also biting a Divine-grade tool with no progress. Among the three brothers, Dark Crow was the first to reach the finish line.

“Comprehension, bloodline, and recklessness. In the end, the reckless one moves faster.” Lu Ran reached out his hand.

The Primary-Divine Dark Crow still turned into a small crow and landed on Lu Ran’s hand.

“Dark Crow, do me a favor. With your current strength, can you see the edge of the star domain? I want to see how the spaceship we sent out is doing.”

“I’ll try!”

When Dark Crow was at Superior Legendary, its vision could easily cover every place on Blue Planet, even the moon. Now, Lu Ran didn’t know the extent of its vision.

“I’ll also call #18 to assist you and give you a temporary mechanical armored evolution... an armored evolution that enhances vision...”

That day, at the edge of the star domain, the clone group on the spaceship was still diligently exploring the black mist when a terrifying Evil God’s Eye, like a dark star, suddenly opened in the cold cosmos.

Upon seeing such a gigantic eye, Manager Ying’s clone on the spaceship knew that Dark Crow had probably achieved Primary-Divine combat power. “Holy meow.”

“After all this time, do you have any research results?” Dark Crow descended, asking on Lu Ran’s behalf.

Facing Dark Crow, Lu Ran’s clone cast a silent glance.

After a long time, he said, “We have one piece of good news, and one piece of bad news. Which do you want to hear first?”

Dark Crow was stunned. “Let’s hear the bad news first.”

“The bad news is, we discovered that the black mist isn’t completely stagnant. It’s still expanding constantly.”

“And the good news?”

“The good news is, at this expansion speed, even if we wait another ten thousand years, it still won’t reach near Blue Planet. So I think it’s fine for my true self to get married and have children. After all, in ten thousand years, his wife and children might die before him.”

“We also found that inside and outside the black mist seem to be on different time axes...” Manager Ying added.

Dark Crow breathed a sigh of relief. It didn’t understand Manager Ying’s words, but it understood the other part.

“So, unless the black mist’s expansion speed suddenly increases, we still have plenty of time to prepare?

HAHA,

he will have descendants! I’m very pleased!” Dark Crow laughed.

After it finished speaking, the black mist before them churned and rolled, advancing a segment toward the center of the star domain, showing signs of accelerated devouring.

Everyone fell silent, and Dark Crow’s eyes widened.

***

On Blue Planet, Dark Crow suddenly covered its mouth, looking at Lu Ran with a terrified expression.

“What happened?” Lu Ran asked.

“My king, if I said it has nothing to do with me, and that I’m innocent, would you believe me?”