My Divine Beasts Are Really Not Evil Gods-Chapter 9: Calamity Beast, Creating Secret Food

The instant the contract was completed, a vast and pure spirituality surged into his body, rushing to his limbs and bones, continuously strengthening his muscles, skin, and even his spiritual power was enhanced greatly.
The colorless spirituality in his body began to transform into a pale red.
After the very last wisp completed its transformation, it rushed like a torrential tide into a void node within his mind and slammed into it.
Bang!
Following the soft sound, the long-sealed Beast Taming Space was forced open by the torrent of Red Copper Spirituality, revealing a vast, white space.
But soon, the sky was dyed pale red by the Red Copper Spirituality.
Moreover, Lu Yu could sense that his now level-one Beast Taming Space was connected to the vast Mother River, allowing it to devour primal spiritual energy and accelerate the growth of a Servant Rank pet beast.
This was a miracle granted to beast tamers by the great Mother River!
Lu Yu had also successfully advanced to Early-stage Red Copper, and only now had he truly stepped onto the path of the extraordinary.
He could have also chosen to solidify one of the pet beast's innate skills onto himself, but since the Phantom Dream Spider had yet to be born, he could only set it aside for now.
"It's about time I checked out the Key of Truth's new function!"
At this thought, with a flicker of his will, the world before him was instantly swallowed by an endless flow of chaotic qi, and he once again arrived in that mysterious space.
The colossal figure was shrouded in eternal chaos, magnificent and mysterious.
Lu Yu tentatively named it the "Thousand-Handed Demon God."
Thousand, signifying the great chiliocosm, the vast and endless.
【Contract First Pet Beast】
【Status: Completed】
【Reward: Secret Food Inheritance】
The text instantly shattered and reassembled, quickly taking form.
【Secret Food Creator: As the creator, you possess the ability to extract all things in the world as materials and use them to create Secret Foods.
Secret Foods are divided into three types: Evolution Secret Foods, which can trigger evolution.
Consuming a Skill Secret Food can grant a skill, and Sacrificial Secret Foods can be used to make offerings to ancient entities.
Using taboo history as the main ingredient for a Secret Food has a chance of yielding unexpected rewards.】
【Secret Foods are not powerful because of their combination, but infinitely possible because of your imagination!】
'Infinitely possible because of imagination…'
A vast amount of knowledge poured into Lu Yu's mind, giving him a deeper understanding of this inheritance.
This was completely forbidden knowledge!
The ability was simple, divided into Infinite Extraction and Secret Food Creation.
Infinite Extraction: as long as the target did not resist, he could extract materials from anything in the world.
It was a conceptual-level bug of an ability.
Even a grandmaster of Material Extraction Study would be green with envy if they knew.
One must know that the extraction of extraordinary materials had to be done with extreme care. A single mistake could lead to being blown to smithereens by an extraordinary organ.
However, as long as Lu Yu met the conditions, he could extract materials even from a god!
And these extracted materials could be used to create the three types of Secret Foods: to trigger evolution, grant skills, and make offerings to ancient entities.
It gave pet beasts the possibility of limitless strengthening!
Additionally, after entering the gate in his previous life, he had obtained a Space-Time Treasure Chest, a gift from the Gate of Truth.
It contained top-tier materials from across the myriad worlds. Opening it would grant four random ones, with no level restriction.
In other words, it was even possible to get the body of a god!
Thinking of this, Lu Yu couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation.
As long as he obtained sufficiently powerful materials here and created an Evolution Secret Food, a mere nightmare could be extinguished with a wave of his hand!
As Lu Yu's thoughts shifted, the chaotic sludge beneath him began to boil like water and split open into a massive fissure, like an abyssal maw devouring the world.
A black-and-gold box floated out from within. Upon being opened, it instantly burst, transforming into four items encased in colorful bubbles.
When his gaze fell upon them, related information would appear.
【Heart of the Void Worm: From an ancient worm of the Void Ecological World.
It possessed only a basic consciousness, knowing only to crawl endlessly through the void, feeding on void energy for sustenance. The passages it left behind would become Void Wormholes.
Some would collapse, causing storms, while others would become stable paths for void life to traverse.
This worm had extremely high talent and unexpectedly developed intelligence during its long journey, gaining the instinct to reproduce.
It actively pursued a Space-Devouring Mantis Matriarch Larva, only to have its head eaten. In its agony, the Void Worm chose to self-destruct, taking its beloved with it.
Its heart was swept into a spatial turbulence.
The Heart of the Void Worm received the void's blessing, gaining the ability to open a path into the void.
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【P.S.
I lived and died with it!】
【Evaluation: Four-star High-stage】 (One-star Red Copper, two-star Silver, and so on…)
"As expected, even intelligence is no match for a love-struck brain!"
Lu Yu's mouth twitched, rendered speechless by this Void Worm.
Normally, even with the desire to reproduce, it should have sought out its own kind.
But this fellow went and found an extraordinary lifeform that liked to devour space.
And it was the most notorious kind—a female mantis that liked to eat its male partner for nourishment!
She saw you as food, yet you thought you were living and dying together with your beloved.
There's no cure for a simp!
Not even Fei Yang Yang could out-simp you.
That being said, for Lu Yu, this was a huge windfall.
Four-stars should correspond to the Morning Star Rank, a level beyond Gold Spirituality, shining like a star, also known as the "Overlord Rank."
Enough to become a regional overlord.
What's more, it was a space-type material, the rarest of its kind. If it appeared on the market, it would incite a bidding war and be sold for an exorbitant price.
All of Lu Yu's current assets combined probably wouldn't even cover a fraction of the cost.
It could be said that if he sold this material, he could live a life free from worries about food and clothing.
But…
That was impossible!
In this world where great power belonged to the individual, wealth and authority were merely byproducts of strength.
A powerless person with great wealth was like a child carrying gold through a bustling market.
The commoner is innocent; possessing a treasure is the crime.
Besides, he couldn't explain how an ordinary student could obtain a material from the Void Ecological World.
A single slip-up could expose his golden finger.
With this in mind, Lu Yu looked at the second material.
【Nest of the Space-Devouring Mantis Matriarch Larva: The Space-Devouring Mantis is an infamous predator that roams the void, fond of feeding on the barriers of small worlds. A world whose barrier has been devoured cannot stop the influx of a Void Storm, leading to the extinction of all life.
The number of Space-Devouring Mantises is small, with most existing as individuals. Among them, certain special females with the Matriarch's Nest talent can become a Matriarch, breeding Slave Beasts—Flicker Mantises, which possess a spatial flicker skill.
The species is primarily a matriarchal society, linked through a collective consciousness. The Slave Beasts gather resources to supply the Matriarch.
If the Matriarch dies, the swarm perishes as well.
After this powerful and strange beast drove its swarm in a calamity to devour a small world, the Matriarch once again birthed a large number of Slave Beasts, but among them, one appeared that evaded the pheromonal suppression and was born as a larval Space-Devouring Mantis possessing a Matriarch's Nest.
A single swarm cannot accommodate two Matriarchs.
The cruel Matriarch should have eaten her, but in the end, chose only to exile her.
As a result, right after leaving the swarm, she was hit by the self-destructing attack of a Void Worm. Her body shattered, and only the undeveloped Matriarch's Nest remained, swept into the void's turbulence.
A complete Matriarch's Nest can breed followers by absorbing void energy and blood food. An incomplete one will be affected in terms of the number and strength of the followers it can breed.
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【Evaluation: Four-star Mid-stage】
"What is this, a dream crossover…"
Lu Yu was stunned. These two could still have a love-hate relationship even after death.
And from the perspective of the Mantis Matriarch, she had just run into a suicide bomber truck.
Is this what a simp looks like in the eyes of a goddess?
Crying, I'm crying!
Also, I'm shaking with anger, how dare they! Why can only females become a Matriarch!
How can you just assume their gender!
Unfortunately, the Matriarch's Nest was not fully developed.
The Space-Devouring Mantis Matriarch clearly had higher potential than the Void Worm. According to the description of its complete form, it might have reached a five-star or even six-star evaluation, evolving into an insectoid calamity.
"Still, this is a huge harvest!"
Lu Yu took a deep breath, suppressing his greed.
A person's greatest taboo is insatiable greed.
The third material was a strip of cloth covered in mysterious curse marks, seemingly soaked in a large amount of blood, giving it a strange, blackish-red color.
【Heavenly Nun's Blinding Gauze: Originating from a legendary hero.
She was born with peerless beauty but was blind in both eyes. Disdained by her parents, she was often beaten and scolded in her youth, yet her heart remained pure, and she loved the world.
At the age of seven, due to a food shortage at home, she was driven out and was later found and adopted by the saintess of the Silver Church. She began a life of ascetic training, dedicating everything to the Silver Sun.
Although born with a disability, she possessed a perceptual ability beyond the reach of ordinary people, called the Mind's Eye. She also had extraordinary talent in swordsmanship, becoming a legendary swordmaster in just twenty years and creating the Mind's Eye style of swordsmanship.
But she did not become arrogant because of this. The world treated her with pain, and she repaid it with song.
She used the bounty money earned from slaying Demonic Beasts to help the poor, putting the will of silver into practice, and spreading its brilliance to all people.
Though she was kind, she also had a sharp edge.
When she learned that a duke was using mortals in sacrifices to extend his life, she single-handedly fought her way into the duke's castle, slaughtering a thousand elite cavalry, and was known to the world as the "Heavenly Nun."
Later, an Ancient God sleeping in her world awakened, spreading corruption and harvesting the world.
A large number of Demonic Beasts went berserk, triggering a demonic calamity. An overwhelming tide of Demonic Beasts swept through the human kingdoms.
Countless legendary heroes rose up to resist the calamity, and she was one of them. But due to a traitor giving false information to lure away reinforcements, she stood alone against the demonic tide at Blackstone Fortress to protect the ordinary people behind her, one person, one sword, guarding the border, fighting to the death without retreating.
Her brilliant soul attracted the Ancient God's attention. Had she submitted, she could have been transformed into a servant of the Ancient God and gained a long life, but she refused.
After slaying several thousand Demonic Beasts, she died of exhaustion. Her will and soul fused into the blinding gauze, becoming a legendary item, but it was also cursed by the Ancient God.
This legendary item is in a corrupted state. After removing the corruption, wearing it can stabilize one's spirituality, provide a degree of resistance to corruption, and offers a chance to comprehend the Mind's Eye.
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【Evaluation: Three-star Top-tier】
"Just a few hundred words, yet it's the magnificent and grand life of a legendary hero," Lu Yu couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
In any other story, she's the template for a protagonist, but unfortunately, this is reality, where there aren't so many happy endings.
After all, the final BOSS was a terrifying existence that could be called an Ancient God, one that could easily harvest worlds.
Even in the Beast Taming World, that's an existence above the Morning Star Rank.
The gap between a mortal and it was as vast as that between an ant and the sun!
But even so, facing the Ancient God's temptation, her faith remained firm, even giving rise to the ability to stabilize spirituality and resist corruption!
It's just a pity her world's level was too low. A legendary hero was only a three-star material, equivalent to Gold Spirituality.
A genius like her, if she could come to Lu Yu's world, would definitely become a top-tier beast tamer.
The final material was a small seedling that looked like it was carved from obsidian.
Its trunk was damaged, and its few sparse branches were bare, making it seem as if it had already withered and died.
However, the information about it left Lu Yu stunned.
【Seedling of the Ghost Tree (Near-death): Legend says that in an ancient era, a divine tree named "Death" was born. It was the personification of Death itself.
It opened up the Eternal Netherworld, nurtured countless ancient existences, managed the order of the Netherworld, and became the final resting place for all the dead across myriad dimensions.
However, due to ■■■■, the Divine Tree of Death was shattered.
Its seven largest fragments became the seven Imperial Trees. One of them was the Ghost Imperial Tree, which grew anew, its roots spreading across countless worlds, devouring endless souls.
The divine fruit that grew on it could be consumed to cheat death once, and it also had miraculous abilities like transforming the soul, resurrecting the dead, and so on.
And the Ghost Tree is a descendant of that divine tree's roots, after countless generations of propagation.
When it took root in a small world, it was discovered by an astrologer to be the source of turmoil that would plague the world. The world's forces were gathered to cut it down and exile it to the void.
It is in a near-death state. After being restored, it can grow by devouring souls and bear soul-strengthening Cloud Soul Fruits.
Alternatively, the entire tree can be ground into powder to create a special "Death Substitution" Secret Food.
If the Ghost Tree can be advanced to a Ghost Imperial Tree, and the origins of the other six Imperial Trees are gathered and fused, there is a chance to restore the Seed of the Divine Tree of Death.
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【Evaluation: Five-star High-stage】
The first five-star material!
The Netherworld, Lu Yu had heard of it. It was a powerful world on par with the Abyss.
The Yellow Springs was one of its representative ecological mystic realms, a world of the dead.
He never expected it to have been created by a tree.
And this Divine Tree of Death, which represented one of the supreme laws, had actually been shattered and turned into seven Imperial Trees.
One of them, the Ghost Imperial Tree, had taken root in myriad worlds.
Its power was unimaginable. Even its descendant from countless generations later was a high-level material.
If it hadn't been dug up right after taking root, it could have easily destroyed a world.
From this, one could imagine just how powerful the original Divine Tree of Death truly was!
Moreover, the reason for the shattering of the【Divine Tree of Death】seemed to involve some kind of taboo, which his currently incomplete【Eye of Truth】was unable to see.
But Lu Yu didn't want to probe too deeply. After all, the curse from peeking at the Taboo Sun was still hanging over him.
In this world, too much curiosity would only lead him into the abyss of death.
No matter how grand its origin, it was just a material in his hands.
However, this material's value was extremely high. The【Death Substitution Secret Food】was a last resort, like draining the pond to get the fish, not to be considered unless he was in a desperate situation.
Instead, the ability to temper the soul was what Lu Yu cared about. After all, the stronger a beast tamer's soul, the more spiritual power they could contain.
For example, it's like a cup filled with water; any more and it will overflow. But if you turn the cup into a water tank, although the quality is the same, the quantity can completely crush others of the same rank.
As for evolving it into an Imperial Tree and reversing its origin to nurture the Divine Tree of Death…
To be honest, it would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted. After all, it was one of the supreme laws.
Once he mastered it, he would essentially possess the power of undeath, capable of raising an Undead Calamity with a single thought.
But he was also well aware of his own limitations.
He knew the waters here were too deep, and he couldn't handle it.
Thinking of this, Lu Yu suppressed his complex thoughts, his gaze profound.
'It's time to create the first Secret Food!'
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