Swallowed Star: The Zerg Overlord

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Chapter 50: Enhancement

Shengshi Jiangnan Residential Area, Villa No. 0921.

After returning home, Qin Mu had a meal with Uncle Qing and chatted for a while. Uncle Qing's recent life had been quite comfortable. He was doing well as a manager in the military factory, and there were internal rumors that the old factory director was about to retire, and Uncle Qing had a good chance of taking over. As for Mumu and Xiao Wu's school matters, there were dedicated people handling them, so Uncle Qing didn't have to worry.

However, Qin Mu didn't rush to tell Uncle Qing about the healing potion. Although Professor Zhou now had a Horde Leader Swamp Newt to assist in the experiments, researching such things wasn't something that could succeed overnight. It still required time.

When parting ways with Professor Zhou, the two had made an agreement that when Qin Mu went to school in early September, he could go directly to see him. Moreover, when Qin Mu and Professor Zhou separated, the professor gave Qin Mu a list of books, with dozens of titles, for Qin Mu to self-study as soon as possible. Scientific research was different from martial arts. You either knew it or you didn't. It wasn't something you could suddenly understand by getting angry or having a sudden burst of power.

In the villa's training hall. Qin Mu placed a black metal safe in front of him and opened it after entering the password, fingerprint, and iris triple security.

Inside the safe were two boxes, labeled Black God Suit and Thousand Year Willow Heart. As for the custom-made weapon, it would only be made after Qin Mu sent his requirements.

Looking at the two boxes, Qin Mu felt a bit excited. These were all good stuff.

Qin Mu first opened the Black God Suit box, which contained a bracelet and an instruction manual next to it. After reading the instruction manual carefully, Qin Mu understood how to use the Black God Suit. The Black God Suit could change its appearance at will, manifesting as clothes, Suit, a bracelet, or any other form. The method of use was simple. Just wear it on the body, and it would automatically seep into the skin and absorb blood. After absorbing some blood, it would automatically adjust to make the entire Black God Suit perfectly fit the user, just like the skin of the body, and completely follow the user's will.

According to the instructions, Qin Mu put the bracelet on his wrist. After a while, a slight tingling sensation came from his wrist, and then the bracelet turned into black liquid flowing up his arm. Strands of blood were absorbed, mixing with the black liquid and undergoing some wonderful changes. Fifteen minutes later, these changes stopped, and the bracelet turned into black light spreading out to cover the entire body, transforming into a set of combat gear Qin Mu usually wore.

Qin Mu's heart moved, and the combat gear changed in the black light into a set of everyday clothes.

"With this Black God Suit, I don't even need to buy clothes anymore." Qin Mu laughed.

The true function of the Black God Suit was not just changing its appearance, but its powerful defensive capabilities. The Black God Suit's defensive capabilities were extremely strong, even King rank monsters couldn't break through it, and when attacked, it could deflect 90% of the attack. To kill the wearer of the Black God Suit, one could only rely on continuous attacks, literally shaking them to death.

With the Black God Suit, Qin Mu's defensive power was greatly enhanced. As long as he didn't actively court death, it would be very difficult to kill him under normal circumstances.

"Now for the main event." Qin Mu opened the other box, which contained an egg-shaped green crystal with green liquid inside, crystal clear and shimmering with light. Just getting closer and taking a breath of its aura made one feel refreshed.

"So, this is the Thousand Year Willow Heart." 

The Thousand Year Willow Heart was a non-renewable treasure that could greatly enhance a person's cell activity and physical fitness.

Qin Mu took a deep breath and, following the instructions, pierced the outer crystal shell and poured the inner liquid essence into his mouth. Qin Mu sat cross-legged, feeling a cool and comfortable sensation throughout his body, as if drinking a glass of iced beer on a hot day, making his soul tremble.

Qin Mu's entire body, from his tendons and bones to his flesh, was trembling. With his powerful control over his body, he could clearly feel the subtle changes at the cellular level after drinking the liquid essence. Not only at the cellular level, he even directly observed the transformation of his body's genes, discarding useless or defective genes, reintegrating the genes in his body, and even absorbing some genes from the Thousand Year Willow Heart to form new structures.

These were subtle changes, and the external manifestation was that his cell activity was rapidly increasing, and his body automatically expelled some black substances.

Under the powerful vitality of the Thousand Year Willow Heart, Qin Mu's physical fitness improved at an extremely fast rate.

At the same time as his body was transforming, in Qin Mu's sea of consciousness, the soul links with countless Zerg units continuously fed back a stream of power. Some were extremely weak, only at the Soldier rank, while others were more powerful, reaching the primary Horde Leader rank. These feedback powers were like a series of rivers, large and small, continuously converging into Qin Mu's sea of consciousness.

Previously, Qin Mu's soul was like a wooden bucket, with limited capacity to bear power. When the bucket was filled with water, it would continuously overflow, and this overflowing power would integrate into Qin Mu's body. This overflowing power continuously strengthened Qin Mu's physical fitness.

After taking the Thousand Year Willow Heart, Qin Mu's physical fitness improved rapidly, and his soul also grew stronger. The original wooden bucket turned into a pond, and the power fed back from the soul links converged into the pond without overflowing. Qin Mu's spirit power was also rapidly increasing.

"So that's how it is! The feedback from the Zerg could make me even stronger, but unfortunately, my body limited this enhancement." Feeling this, Qin Mu finally understood.

"I was worried before that my spirit power wouldn't keep up with the improvement in physical fitness. It turns out my body has been holding me back." Understanding this, Qin Mu put his worries aside and felt a mix of amusement and frustration. 

Before taking the Thousand Year Willow Heart, Qin Mu had actually been somewhat worried. Because in the sea of consciousness of a normal spirit, there was a gathering of spirit power, some in liquid form, some in solid form. This determined the strength of the spirit talent. The weak ones were just some liquid gathering, and when they reached the Warlord rank, their potential was exhausted. Those with strong talent, like Luo Feng, had a dark golden sphere. As long as Luo Feng's physical fitness kept up, he could directly reach the peak of the advanced Wargod.

Qin Mu was different. There was no similar liquid or solid in his sea of consciousness. His spirit talent came from the Zerg.

"Doesn't this mean that as long as the Zerg continues to grow stronger and my physical fitness improves fast enough, there's no limit to my spirit talent?" Qin Mu's eyes lit up.

While Qin Mu was lost in thought, his physical fitness continued to improve.

Intermediate Warlord, advanced Warlord, and then he broke through to the Wargod rank with unstoppable momentum. Primary Wargod... peak primary Wargod level... until he reached the intermediate Wargod rank before slowly stopping.

Half an hour later. Qin Mu threw a punch.

"Boom——"

"My punching power is at least over 148,000 kilograms. This punching power has reached the intermediate Wargod rank."

Qin Mu's eyes shone with light. His soul in the sea of consciousness continued to grow stronger, and his spirit power intensity was also leaping forward.

"At this rate, it won't take a day for my spirit power to reach its limit, which is the peak of the advanced Wargod."

Looking at the now empty green crystal in his hand, Qin Mu sighed. "It really is a good thing. No wonder even a strong individual like Hong was moved by it."

Suddenly, as if thinking of something.

"Can this be cultivated by the Zerg? The Mother Nest in the wilderness has already analyzed hundreds of plant genes, and ordinary plant genes can be analyzed quickly. If we can analyze the willow tree that produces the Thousand Year Willow Heart, does it mean we can mass-produce the Thousand Year Willow Heart, or even the stronger Ten Thousand Year Willow Heart?"

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