Chapter 360: Harvest the Clones, Prison Planet

Ling Jiu was very surprised when he heard Leoux’s words, “What did you say? There are other Evogods that can devour souls? How is that possible?”

“It’s true!” Leoux said with a smile, “I got this information from this Evogod’s memory. Like you, this fellow had also devoured the souls of other lives to expand his Soul Nebula!”

“In fact, there is none other race than Evogods that is fit to have the ability to devour others.”

“Indeed!” Ling Jiu nodded.

He had devoured countless beings, including two Evodgods. In terms of soul power alone, no other beings were comparable with the Evogods. Their souls were powerful, especially the second Evogod he had swallowed.

After devouring so many super-clustered lifeforms, Ling Jiu’s Soul Nebula had only expanded to 260 soul stellar units. But once he swallowed the second Evogod, his Soul Nebula had expanded to 7,690 soul stellar units!

The difference was big!

Hence, Ling Jiu hoped that there would be more Evogods out there he could devour so that the expansion of his Soul Nebula would be more rapid.

“So, this Evogod had made several clones out of his body, taught them the Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution, and then deployed them to the star regions nearby to let them build their strength through cultivation training!” Leoux smiled.

“Was he trying to harvest the clones?” Ling Jiu was shocked.

“Yes, that was what he was about to do!” Leoux nodded slightly. “Somehow, by coincidence or fate, when he was about to devour these clones to achieve his goals — to make a breakthrough and become a cosmic lifeform, he encountered us. And that’s a GG for him. Just how bad his luck was!”

“Where are those clones?”

Ling Jiu gulped and could not hide his desire in his eyes. “Leoux, I want to devour those Evogod clones to grow my Soul Nebula further!”

His Soul Nebula had reached 7,690 soul stellar units. The figure was not far from the top record achieved by Evogods —10,081 soul stellar units.

To break this record, Ling Jiu did not mind waiting!

“I know their locations!” Leoux replied with a smile, “To make the clones grow faster, this Evogod named Yanlong had housed all of them near white holes!”

“Calculations based on different time-flow speeds show that even the youngest clone has lived for a hundred thousand years!”

“A hundred thousand years? That’s bounteous!” Ling Jiu licked his lips, “With the Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution, even if they never devour any souls, they should not be weak since they can absorb the dark psionic energy in the universe.”

“Indeed, they are not weak!”

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go harvest!”

…

The science and technology mastered by the Evogod Yanlong were of Grand Unified Civilization. Fortunately, although they were far advanced than Earth’s technology, he could not create wormholes freely like the beings from the Emissian Civilization.

Therefore, Yanlong’s action radius was limited to a galaxy group.

His clones were housed near the Andromeda Galaxy. The travel distance to their locations was not an issue for Leoux’s speed.

The next day, Leoux arrived at the vicinity of the wormhole where Yanlong’s first clone was located. There was only one planet near the wormhole.

Under ultra-fast time flow and an environment that was rich of dark bio-energy, this planet had evolved to that state where it could give rise to life. However, it was still a primordial planet.

The whole planet was covered by strange plants as short as grass. Hence, the land looked like a grass field.

There were herds of strange herbivores eating grass. They looked like cows, but their mouths were in the shape of cylinders. When they were eating grass, their cylinder-shaped mouths covered a large portion of grass and then wriggled constantly. It was a rather weird sight to see.

“Where is the first clone, Leoux?” Ling Jiu asked in confusion as he was looking at the extraterrestrial animals all over the mountains.

“Right among these animals!” Leoux said with a smile.

“Among these animals?” Ling Jiu was stunned, “They can’t be animals with intelligence, right? How could they be the Evogods?”

The clones are also considered as Evogods!’

And these Evogods mix themselves in the herd of extraterrestrial animals?

That’s a tarnish on Evogods’ reputation!

Leoux smiled and shook his head. “The fact is, one of the Evogod clones is within the herd of animals below us!” Leoux maneuvered the battleship to capture one of the cow-like animals.

Despite struggling frantically, it could not break free from the blacklight shackles. Eventually, it was taken to the battleship and brought to Ling Jiu.

“Feel it carefully, Ling Jiu!” Leoux laughed.

In fact, Ling Jiu had already felt its soul power before Leoux said so. There was a terrifying soul fluctuation coming from this extraterrestrial animal.

The power of the soul was just slightly weaker than the Evogod named Yanlong, but stronger than any other super-clustered lifeforms that he had met so far. In other words, it was the second strongest soul that Ling Jiu had encountered in his life.

“What are you doing? Why did you capture me?”

When the extraterrestrial animal was struggling madly, it emitted waves of soul fluctuations.

“Why did we capture you? I’m sorry to tell you that we are from the Time-Space Administration Bureau, authority dedicated to hunting guys like you—who possess bodies of others for rebirth and disrupt order!”

Ling Jiu said dully, “Your existence has seriously interfered with this planet’s order. So, come with us!”

“What are you saying?” When the extraterrestrial animal heard Ling Jiu’s words, horror came to its eyes.

It was just a clone. Although it had acquired Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution, such a fearsome teaching, neither had it inherited any memory about the Evogods nor been to other planets.

It had spent all its life on this planet, mixing itself in the herd of extraterrestrial animals. It had lived on this planet for more than two hundred thousand years.

The moment it heard Ling Jiu’s words, it was aghast. Indeed, it could survive until today because it was reborn by possessing the bodies of others!

“Okay, stop talking nonsense!” Ling Jiu waved his hand. “Leoux, I let you handle the rest!”

“Roger!”

Leoux did not take long to break the extraterrestrial animal into soul fragments. Ling Jiu did not leave the place. Instead, he devoured and absorbed them on the spot since the location was near a whitehole.

His Soul Nebula then began to expand further.

7700 soul stellar units

7750 soul stellar units

7800 soul stellar units

…

A hundred years later, after all the soul fragments were exhausted, Ling Jiu’s Soul Nebula had reached 7,840 soul stellar units, which meant it had increased by 150 soul stellar units.

The growth was satisfying!

“Let’s harvest the next clone!”

Thus, Ling Jiu and Leoux had begun their journey to harvest those clones. Before he knew it, a year had passed.

The year had passed at a normal speed of time flow since they were at a normal zone instead of the vicinity of white hole. So, on Earth, a year had passed too.

“How many clones are left, Leoux?”

“One! The Evogod Yanlong had created nine clones. We found eight of them. So now there is only one left!”

“One? ” Ling Jiu nodded slightly. “After I devour this clone, we can return to Earth! Speaking of which, how long have we been away from Earth?”

“Well, sometimes we were in the vicinity of white hole; sometimes we had to keep moving in the space. Adding all up, a total of three years has passed on Earth!” Leoux replied.

“Three years? That’s not considered short!” Ling Jiu took a deep breath. “But this time, it is a great gain. My Soul Nebula has reached 9,310 soul stellar units!”

“True! Your current Soul Nebula is indeed massive. It is massive enough to be ranked third in the dozen millions of years history of the Evogods.” Leoux laughed, “By the time you devour the last clone, you might even be able to break the record of 10,081 soul stellar units and top the ranking!”

“Let’s hope I can break the record!”

Ling Jiu smiled. “Even if I can’t break it, it doesn’t matter. By the time I devour the last clone, I will enter the second stage of Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution anyway! ”

“It is indeed the time for that! ” Leoux nodded in agreement. “During the first stage of Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution, all you have to do is just forming Soul Nebula around your soul. It is the stage where you accumulate energy. It doesn’t have much effect on your soul. However, when you begin the second stage, your soul will undergo transformation!” Leoux could not help but exclaimed as he arrived at this point. “Once your Soul Nebula— in the size of 9,000 soul stellar units — collapses, they will merge with your soul at once. The power of your soul will reach a level beyond imagination!”

“I can’t wait to see that!” Ling Jiu was filled with anticipation too.

At the first stage in the Eight Laws of Black Hole Evolution, the Soul Nebula would just surround the Kindle of the Soul.

Therefore, no matter how big the Soul Nebula grew, the Kindle of the Soul would remain the same. At most, the Kindle of the Soul would just burn more vigorously after absorbing dark psionic energy from the Soul Nebula.

However, things would be different in the second stage. In a very short time, the huge Soul Nebula would collapse and condense on the Kindle of the Soul.

One could imagine the extent of transformation the Kindle of the Soul would undergo.

After several days of traveling, Leoux had finally arrived at the planet where the last clone was located.

The whole planet was gray. There was neither ocean, forest nor river but only gray land.

‘Judging from its appearance, this planet does not look good. Its environment is scarce. Even if it can give rise to lifeforms, they can’t be strong.’

Nevertheless, the moment Ling Jiu stepped on the planet’s surface, he knew he was wrong.

This unremarkable gray planet emanated terrifying live fluctuations — not just one but tens of thousands!

The more bizarre part was that there were none other than tens of thousands of terrifying life fluctuations detected on this planet, as if the entire planet only had tens of thousand habitants!

“This planet… is a little bizarre!”

Ling Jiu stood high and mighty on the planet’s surface while looking at the planet under his feet. A glint of bright light flashed in his eyes. “This is similar to the condition of the Demon-Sealing Tower!”

“You are right!” Leoux smiled and said, “This planet was originally a prison used by the Kaos Titans to imprison death penalty criminals!”

Leoux smiled and said, “This planet was originally used by the Caius Titans as a prison planet to keep death-row inmates!”

“Its time flow was super fast, as high as 10,000-to-1 ratio!”

“This means, even for super-clustered lifeforms, they can only live on this planet for ten years!”

“That’s right. Ten years mean ten years in the normal region of the universe!”

“I get what you mean!”

Ling Jiu nodded slightly. The lifespan of a super-clustered lifeform was only 100,000 years at most. Under 10,000-to-1 ratio speed of time flow, it could only live for 10 years.

“Furthermore, no planet exists within tens of thousands of light-years around this planet. Hence, even if the prisoned criminals want to break jail and escape from this planet, they can only rely on flights. And eventually, they will die on their way during the long interstellar journey. Tens of thousands of light-years. that is just too far away!” Leoux continued.

“Caius Titans really know how to pick a place!” Ling Jiu could not help but retort, “Such a planet is definitely a suitable location to be used as a prison. When the death-row inmates arrive here, they will be in a dilemma — to break jail or not to break jail. This is just too—”

“Actually, this is normal. Many civilizations will look for planets similar to this one to use them as prisons. It isn’t something unusual in the universe!” Leoux said.

“Alright!” Ling Jiu nodded, “Let’s look for the last clone! Wait a minute. Since we are here, let’s ‘relieve’ the inmates on this planet from their sufferings!”

“These inmates have to continue to suffer on this planet eventhough Caius Titans had already been annihilated. Their lives are just too hard!”

“Okay! Let’s ‘relieve’ them!” The two had been together for many years, so Leoux knew the underlying meaning of Ling Jiu’s words. He laughed when he heard Ling Jiu and happily accepted the suggestion.

“Let’s go!”

With a word, Ling Jiu blinked into the planet. Once he arrived there, he felt a terrifying gravitational pressure on him.

“This gravity…” Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows.

“The gravity of this planet is one hundred and thirty times that of Earth!” Leoux replied.

“No wonder!”

For Ling Jiu, the gravity of one hundred and thirty times that of Earth was not an issue. He began to take a good look at this prison planet specially used to imprison death-row inmates.

The sky was dark, as groggy as ink. Among the thick black clouds, there were streaks of lightning flashing back and forth.

The ground was as black as burned coal, as if it had been burned by a fire or blasted by a nuclear bomb.

In addition, there were black stones, black plains, and black hillocks…it seemed that the whole world was black!

As Ling Jiu looked around the unfamiliar environment, he could not help shaking his head. “Having to live on such a planet is really a nightmare. The inmates here are so pitiful!”

“Well, it is a prison planet, a place equivalent to prison facility on Earth. You can’t expect the environment of a prison to be good, right?” Leoux laughed.

“That’s true!”

Ling Jiu started to sense for lifeforms, and immediately, he detected the first target. With just a step, he came to the location where it was.

The place was a hillock with a height of about one hundred meters. It was black with no sight of grass. At the foot of the hillock, there was a three-meter-tall cave.

“I know you’ve found us. Come out!”

…

Hiram was a native of Prison VIII. He had lived on this planet since he was born.

Prison VIII was a planet with a very poor environment. Hiram did not understand why he was born here. He had heard from his elders that his ancestors ⁠— who had been exiled here forever after committing a felony ⁠— had lived, multiplied, and settled here.

Hiram hated his ancestors. From his point of view, if they had not committed a felony, he would not get implicated and be born here.

This planet was hell. The environment was extremely harsh with lacking resources, and necessity as basic as food was scarce too!

And yet, the greatest threat was not food, but other people on the planet.

The place was chaotic, lawless. Neither humanity nor rule exists. There was only one rule ⁠— survival of the fittest!

On this planet, the weak ones were food and slaves. Only the strong ones who topped the food chain were qualified to survive here.

Therefore, the weak tended to stay hidden and build strength through cultivation training desperately.

Fortunately, this planet was extremely rich with dark bio-energy. It helped better attainment in cultivation training.

Hiram was a genius. He became a super-clustered lifeform when he was only five thousand years old.

However, Hiram dared not to let his guard down because super-clustered lifeform was not the strongest lifeform on this planet. He was still exposed to the risk of getting killed.

Hiram had been lying low for five thousand years. Long years of cautiousness had heightened his vigilance to the max.

He had noticed Ling Jiu’s presence when Ling Jiu showed up, so he hid inside a cave and stayed alert. At the same time, he was observing Ling Jiu watchfully.

If the person was weaker than him, he would kill him without hesitation and feed on his meat. He could not recall when was the last time he had eaten.

If the person was stronger than him, he would restrain his own aura and lie low until the person left.

Unexpectedly, a dull voice came to his ears. “Show yourselves. I know you’ve found me!”

Hiram became stiff and hesitated suddenly. As a person walking in the dark, he had to lie low at corners and ambush his opponent rather than facing them openly.

“What should I do?” Hiram was caught in a dilemma.