Chapter 565: Chapter 567: The Vast Number of Star Gods

“Found it. There are actually more than a dozen Star Gods hiding in this one Star Domain…” Qin Muye said, his expression somewhat horrified.

At present, they are all Rank 8, but only the kind that has just entered that stage, the kind that Qin Muye alone could annihilate, and even the low-ranking S-level entities from the Shining Universe server could wipe them out.

The Star Gods were in the midst of slumbering fusion. If it weren’t for Qin Muye using the Civilization’s Son Weapon for detection, they would definitely remain undiscovered. Just the adjustment alone took Qin Muye nearly ten days, and he even had to utilize quite a bit of the Star Array’s computational power to manage it.

“A Star Domain with ten Star Gods is not considered an Unknown Star Domain. Just the number of Star Gods in the known Star Domains would be…” Qin Muye’s expression turned into something like a curse. If there was just one Star Domain, ten Star Gods would be nothing, but there are tens of thousands of known Star Domains–how could anyone deal with that?

Even one Star God per Star Domain would be too much to handle.

“This Cosmic Will has really diced itself up finely.” Qin Muye cursed again.

He hadn’t expected Rank 9 to be so exaggerated, capable of splitting off so many Rank 8 entities. Even if the entire Shining Universe server was their home field, this was still too exaggerated.

“It looks like I’ll need to be more cautious with the plan to take over their nest.” The results of this investigation surprised Qin Muye. He had still underestimated the gap between Rank 8 and Rank 9.

But he didn’t want to give up just like that; instead, an even bigger plan started to take shape in his mind.

“I’ll directly turn the Star Gods, then when the time comes, all of Cosmic Will’s minions will be my own, and I’ll see how you can win then.”

Qin Muye’s idea was simple: these Star Gods hadn’t completed their fusion yet. Since doing everything in one step wasn’t possible, he would break it into smaller ones.

The Star Gods had not yet fully matured, which was the greatest convenience.

In fact, this process was very similar to what happened on the Magic Continent. If Qin Muye had realized everything earlier and taken action then, would the Mother of the Race even dream of returning? Her everything would probably have become beneficial to Qin Muye.

And now the situation with the Star Gods and the Cosmic Will was similar.

“Having the upper hand makes many things convenient.”

“But this can’t be done too blatantly; it needs to be covert.”

Qin Muye drove the Civilization’s Son Weapon to the side of a deserted planet. This was a resource planet that had been hollowed out. However, no life forms were left over, so it didn’t become ownerless territory. It was just floating in the cosmos like a corpse.

Not only unremarkable but also repugnant to people.

Yet it was this exact situation where a new life was reviving within the corpse of a planet. Once it successfully emerged, the battered body would explode with an extremely terrifying power.

After Qin Muye arrived, obviously, there would no longer be this opportunity.

The Civilization’s Son emitted an invisible frequency, continuously triggering mental resonance, and within the originally silent planet, a will began actively awakening, seemingly awakened ahead of time and appearing somewhat dazed.

Before this will could react, Qin Muye once again initiated the Civilization’s Son’s eroding frequency, causing the waking will to fall into latency in an instant.

It was as if its soul had been extracted, looking extremely dull.

“The effect is good, now it’s time to make a move.”

A trace of Abyss Power emanated from Qin Muye’s body and merged with this will in a flash.

Sensing the emergence of a new connection, Qin Muye breathed a sigh of relief.

“It’s done, this being has become one of my avatars.”

“And it still retains enough self-awareness that the Cosmic Will hasn’t detected any difference.”

This one avatar didn’t mean much, but what if there were many? A hundred thousand, a million? When the Cosmic Will later used the Star Gods to form a Gestalt Consciousness to regain strength, that was going to be interesting.

“This is just the beginning.”

Qin Muye knew that transforming and infecting them one by one was not realistic; the numbers were so vast that even he would suffer. Therefore, a strong infectivity was needed, letting the Star Gods doom each other, all transforming into his avatars.

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Fortunately, Abyss Power was very adept at these tasks, and coupled with Qin Muye’s specialization in Civilization’s Son Weapons, he was dealing with the Star Gods and Cosmic Will.

“Let’s start by transforming a hundred thousand Star Gods. Although it might be just a drop in the ocean, it’s uncertain whether we can finish before the Star Gods awaken.”

According to Qin Muye’s observation of the Star God he had just encountered, the fusion was already very high, almost like it was about to break free from its shell.

This meant that true chaos was about to ensue.

In Wang Wei’s memory, the Star God disaster lasted for two thousand years, but Qin Muye estimated that, let alone two thousand years, if the various civilizations could exist after two years of fighting, it would be because they were resilient.

The sheer number of Rank 8s was simply impossible for the natives to resist.

If Qin Muye failed this time, his first action would be to flee, not to engage in a head-on fight, due to the outrageous number of Rank 8s.

Even if their strength was somewhat inferior, the quantity at the same Rank was more than enough to make up for quality.

If they were to really hatch, and a swarm of Rank 8 Star Gods surged toward Qin Muye, his first instinct would be to turn and run, not to fight to the death with them.

This was a true case of being overpowered.

Even if they were considered lower S-class in the Shining Universe server, the gap was significant, but Qin Muye couldn’t guarantee that all the Star Gods were of lower S-class, there might be some whose power was similar to his.

Not everything goes according to Qin Muye’s plans. Just because the Star Gods start at Rank 8 didn’t mean they couldn’t grow and become stronger. With the support of the Cosmic Will, this process was very rapid, so to win, one had to complete the plan as quickly as possible at the initial stage. Otherwise, if it were to drag on for too long, there would definitely be no advantage.

The number of Rank 8s was so large that even the three major forces might surrender immediately.

All forces in the Shining Universe server combined probably didn’t have one percent of their number in Rank 8s, and it wasn’t a matter of one by one – they would simply be overwhelmed.

Before facing a vast group of Star Gods head-on, Qin Muye didn’t feel much pressure. It was only when he directly confronted them that he truly felt the immensity of the pressure.

After infecting the first Star God, Qin Muye continued to infect other Star Gods within the same Star Domain, becoming even more adept at it.

“This speed isn’t good enough,” Qin Muye said after infecting the Star Gods in the domain. He felt the efficiency was too low.

“Let’s go back to my domain first and have the Spirit Monsters help me. Many hands make light work.”

It was unlikely he would go through servers of all Star Domains at an excessive pace, as this would provoke the natives’ backlash.

Such action was comparable to a nuclear bomb walking through a busy street; even if you knew the bomb wouldn’t go off, it would still cause anxiety, especially since Rank 8 transitions were taboo and might lead to being attacked.

“With the Abyss Power infection device and the Star God Radar, as long as these two devices are equipped, there should be no problem.”

Qin Muye was actually a bit panicked, which was why it took him until after dealing with ten Star Gods to come up with this idea. It was like floating past three logs in a river thinking there was no danger, only to find out that what was floating were crocodiles. Since the fact of the crocodiles had been established, even though there were differences between crocodiles, he needed to turn these crocodiles into Yangtze alligators with a snail’s pace to have a chance of survival; otherwise, if it were the larger gharials, that would be the end.

“It’s just that the efficiency might be a bit low.” Qin Muye contemplated that if he let the Spirit Monsters handle it, at the very least a hundred thousand Star Gods would need to be infected.

“And for each Star God, it might take about a month’s time. If they are stronger, it might take even more time.”

To Qin Muye, the Star Gods were weak, and even becoming an avatar through infection was quick because it was he who took action. However, no matter how weak, a Rank 8 was far beyond the reach of a Rank 7 Spirit Monster.

So even without danger, it would take at least a month, and that was a conservative estimate.

Improving efficiency wasn’t very realistic because the operators were Spirit Monsters; moving too fast might lead to detection. Although death meant resurrection, it could provoke a chain reaction.

“A draft of one million Spirit Monsters should provide enough manpower,” Qin Muye calculated the number of Spirit Monsters, feeling a bit strained.

Because the Spirit Monsters were responsible for many projects, such as the GROX Empire Ring-shaped World Cage project, after the initial number, Qin Muye had gradually invested another million Spirit Monsters into it, with the goal not only to thoroughly understand the Ring-shaped World but also to gradually move everything back.

Fortunately, Qin Muye didn’t need to worry or feel troubled about this, because his role was only to issue orders, and the Spirit Monster known as Black Hand was in charge of handling it.

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