Chapter 857: Earth Clod

Xu Zhi had seen this and clearly understood the distribution of power here.

There were two major powers.

The Deerhorn people appeared to control the planets in the nearby region, but they were helpless against the Cat-tailed people, whose planet remained a formidable challenge.

Medusa began to follow Nasha'er to a clone factory located on a certain star in the universe.

Meanwhile, Medusa was quite amiable with the devout Princess Nasha'er, constantly inquiring about information regarding this land. After landing on a planet, she quickly met with the wicked leader of the Renny Cult.

This group was exceedingly fanatical and pious, even wanting to lick her feet, which was quite horrifying.

"Undoubtedly, they are a group of devout lunatics," Medusa thought calmly. "They fanatically believe they are pets and that their former master's return will bring them happiness."

At this moment, she was submerged in a cultivation chamber.

She had retracted all her aura and power, as even a slight tremor from her could turn them into dust.

Around her, a frantic, high-energy deep blue liquid bubbled, continuously deforming tissues, proliferating cells, and causing fresh tumors to undulate across her body, a truly bizarre sight.

Outside.

Only five scientists were permitted to approach, gazing in horror at the forbidden entity within the glass chamber.

"This is terrifying. What kind of body is this?"

"It's not an individual life form; it's an aggregate life form, as if a conglomeration of shells, starfish, fish, trees, birds, beasts, and raptors!"

"It's simply... unimaginable!"

Medusa remained calm.

During her evolution in the Creator God's garden, she had naturally undergone a tremendous and horrifying transformation, to the point of being unrecognizable.

Compared to her previous Cthulhu evil god form, she was now an entirely different species!

"I have essentially undergone a major evolution with these animals and new tissues... That's why I said no one would likely recognize me now," Medusa thought calmly. "These shells, starfish, beasts, vines... I created them by stealing the genetic forms of the strange animals and plants from the Creator God's garden.

They thought they were observing me, but in reality, I was secretly studying them to construct my new, iteratively improved body."

Yet, even Medusa had to admit that the species in the Creator God's evolutionary garden were indeed terrifying! Every single one possessed extraordinary potential!

Especially the trees, plants, and shells—even the stones could move. This suited her perfectly, as they made her body movements exceptionally flexible and ideal.

This also sparked a certain fondness within her for that strange garden.

Inside the glass chamber, filled with emotion, she suddenly addressed those below: "By the way, have you heard of the Creator God?"

Nasha'er fell to her knees, trembling all over. "The... Creator God?"

Everyone's hearts pounded rapidly, filled with a suffocating sense of dread.

That was... What was that?!!

Was this the terrifying secret that even the great supreme being, Renimansga, had to conceal?

"Truly weak villagers, their civilization has declined to such an extent," Medusa sighed, shaking her head. "But of course, lower civilizations are not qualified to know."

At that moment.

Voices could be heard from the surroundings.

"No, we can't replicate the entire body!"

"That's impossible!"

"This replication factory is a massive production line built to replicate gods; it can create a thousand clones of a god!"

An anxious voice echoed.

"Can we replicate half the body then?"

"Perhaps... perhaps only a palm... not even that."

"It's not that the energy of one hand is equivalent to a thousand gods; it's that replication is too complex. Constructing such a replicated structure consumes immense energy..."

As these words fell, everyone was astonished.

In less than ten days, the notorious Renny Cult had infiltrated the Imperial Capital.

Wielding a mysterious ancient god's palm, an unnamable, unseeable force that swept across the land, they simultaneously announced:

"The ancient god Renimansga has revived! The Cosmic Garden will begin recruiting disciples in half a month, with an enrollment of two hundred million!"

As soon as the news broke, countless planets across the entire empire trembled.

On Cat Star, the ancient deities were also greatly alarmed.

Had an ancient being truly revived?

Had the true master finally arrived in this world? Were the pets of old to return?

A new era had begun.

Meanwhile.

A single eyeball moved through coordinates, sweeping up many large octopuses in one fell swoop.

The energy they acquired was simply terrifying.

Many large octopuses proudly acknowledged their ancestry, following behind a certain Octopus Bro.

This tiny, humanoid Octopus Bro, with a round head and two comical orange-yellow eyes, held a recorder and stared at the colossal octopus souls.

"Yes, I am the lost royal lineage of your octopus clan. Now, I return to sweep across an era and restore our clan's ancient glory."

"Large size is a mistake. Only your kind, with your inferior large bodies, cannot break through. Therefore, I broke through; I have returned."

"Killing you is for your own good. Otherwise, if you broke through to become gods, you'd be doomed!"

Octopus Bro, with his hands behind his back, gazed into the distance, his tentacles wildly swaying in the wind. Full of oppressive dominance, he scoffed, "A single octopus under the eternal azure sky, eight tentacles unfurled can prop up the heavens!"

"With this return, I am destined to suppress all corners and cultivate the potential of a supreme true god!"

The surrounding octopus kin were greatly shaken and grew even more reverent.

Their main clan, in a distant nearby galaxy, was surrounded by those detestable Deerhorn 'bugs.'

However, they still needed to venture out.

After all, their characteristic was to orbit a star and absorb energy, so they were always dispersed outwards.

Yet, the situation of their main clan was also not optimistic. They still had to protect the weaker deities under their command, as their relationship was symbiotic. If those smaller deities died, even if the larger ones were invincible, they too would inevitably perish.

On the other side.

The players were holding a meeting.

"Ahead lies a terrifying place, one that might interest you," said the brain worm deity, who was being studied.

"Don't judge me by my current state; I've wandered through various heavens and gained some knowledge. Ahead is one of the Andromeda Galaxy's famous forbidden cosmic ruins, an ancient desolate land, the Cosmic Garden..."

"It is said that there are many such ruins in the universe, as even a great Tier-Nine existence has a lifespan of only about a hundred thousand years, fleeting like smoke... But I've only heard about them, as few deities, aside from Tier-Nine overlords, can fly out of a galaxy," the brain worm deity stated.

The players' expressions remained calm.

After all, this was truly just a low-level casual dungeon; they had swept through it with unimaginable ease.

At this moment, a planet appeared in the distance – a vast, black planet shaped like a colossal, peculiar courtyard, with a massive, eerie castle towering on its flat, square land.

"This is truly astounding," one player remarked.

"By the looks of it, it's made from at least seventy or eighty Earths piled together, isn't it? That's too exaggerated!"

"Is this a cosmic overlord of a galaxy?"

They were all instantly astonished.

"Yes, I was also very shocked the first time I saw it," said the brain worm deity. "The remnant civilization of this ruin has redeveloped, but it's still terrifying. Before, as a wandering civilization, I dared not show my face."

Meng Mei shook her head. What did it matter if it was more powerful than the brain worm deity? It was merely a slightly larger ant.

Nevertheless, they remained very cautious. They traveled to an extremely remote planet and found a high-ranking member, specifically one from the Renny Cult.

After all, the Renny Cult had risen to prominence in a very short time!

An evil god, an ancient revival, a single palm sweeping through everything, new disciples being recruited, the entire land shaking...

A series of messages poured in.

"What? This place also knows about the Creator God..." Alchemy Emperor Grantham instantly frowned. "This is not simple at all."

"Yes, perhaps they aren't complete backwater bumpkins," Meng Mei added, her expression growing serious. This civilization might not be as easy to deal with as they had imagined.

The brain worm deity, however, was utterly dumbfounded, its head buzzing. "Could this really be true?"

Octopus Bro walked over, patted its shoulder with a look of pity, and slowly uttered two words:

"Bumpkin."