Chapter 663: I shall become the hunter of hunters

A pitch-black shadow lurked at the far end of the Warp, in a position between the Warp and the material universe, spanning two dimensions.

No other emotions could be seen in that shadow, only naked hunger and greed, coming from the distant deep space, arriving among the stars for an appetite that could never be satisfied.

Many mistakenly believed that its existence was to absorb more matter and energy, but this was actually a misunderstanding of it.

In the entire galaxy, only the Aeldari barely perceived some of its essence.

The Aeldari called it the Dragon, called it the Distant Hunger, called it the Dragon of Hunger. Compared to the somewhat unreasonable title of the Tyranid Swarm, there was no doubt that the name the Aeldari gave them was closer to the essence.

Zhou Yun's eyes reflected some scenes within the shadow; billions upon billions of fates rose in the material universe, and primitive hunger caused them to gather together, twisting into a massive braided rope.

Those billions upon billions of living beings abandoned their will, their souls, their existence, and their fates, sacrificing everything they had and gathering together to form a unique, grand existence.

Many mistakenly believed that the purpose of this existence was to seize more energy and matter.

But this was actually a misunderstanding; what it pursued was never just matter. The purpose of its existence was to satisfy its bottomless hunger, to satisfy its desire to eat. Eating itself was more important than anything else; the amount of matter consumed was secondary.

It was powerful, extraordinarily powerful. In terms of the vastness of its domain, it was at least on par with Tzeentch and Nurgle, or even superior.

And its threat to Zhou Yun was also greater than that of other gods.

Its domain barely overlapped with Zhou Yun's domain at all. It had absolutely nothing to do with machines; its act of integrating genetically modified living beings had a certain relationship with creativity, but the problem was that the Norn Queen responsible for integrating the genetically modified living beings had no soul or emotions of its own.

This meant that for Zhou Yun to deal with it, he could only rely on head-on confrontation.

Another point was that among the many existences in the Warp today, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, Zhou Yun, and it were the few that had bodies in the material universe.

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's body was already permanently seated on the Golden Throne, making it difficult to exert much influence.

Zhou Yun's body was relatively free, but Zhou Yun regarded it as his anchor as a human and could not be modified at will. A mortal body could not contain too much power under normal circumstances, but at critical moments, he could rely on some gadgets to forcibly contain more.

The Swarm's bodies were the most numerous, but like Zhou Yun's situation, the power and will that a single Tyranid creature could contain were limited. However, they were ultimately more flexible, free, and could be consumed at will.

As for its current position,

According to the information Zhou Yun obtained in over twenty thousand dreams, it was close to attaining the throne of Greed Dissolution, only a very small distance away.

But it was not yet complete; its existence was still discrete, not gathered and connected together. In this state, it could not truly ascend.

The key lay right here.

Zhou Yun had to snatch the throne of the Greed Dissolution domain before it did.

This risk was actually very high. Zhou Yun only occupied the domain of Malicious Craft, and he could already feel his will somewhat disintegrating, beginning to strongly head toward the extreme.

And if Zhou Yun really seized the throne of the Greed Dissolution domain, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang would have to bear a full three domains. If he couldn't hold on, then...

But the risk had to be taken. Today, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang bearing the burden of two domains was also not light. In the dream, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's longest record of persisting while bearing two domains was over three hundred years.

In other words, regardless of whether Zhou Yun went to occupy Greed Dissolution, there were only three hundred-plus years left until the birth of the Dark King.

And the method to occupy Greed Dissolution was something Zhou Yun had long since clarified.

This method also had significant risks; if not implemented well, the Tyranid Swarm would complete its ascension and become the Eternal Dragon.

But Zhou Yun could only do this. There was no longer a hegemon-level civilization in the galaxy that could serve as a sacrifice or faith for him.

He could only rely on the characteristics of the Greed Dissolution domain itself.

He had to become the hunter of hunters, the dragon that eats dragons.

Zhou Yun slowly extended his round hand.

Inspiration, creativity, thoughts, and ideas were woven into threads, hanging down from his fingertips, gently beginning to manipulate the fate in reality, silently driving a human toward Zhou Yun's arrangement.

That was also an existence with a certain divinity, just happening to be close to the two domains of Malicious Craft and Greed Dissolution.

In the Sword-class frigate *Vesalius*,

Fabius Bile felt his inspiration constantly surging.

It had been many years; he had not experienced this feeling of inspiration bursting forth for many years.

This former Chief Apothecary of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children seemed to have found the feeling of abusing animals and modifying slaves in his childhood at this moment.

That new, sprouting inspiration, like a butterfly about to break out of a withered cocoon, made Fabius Bile's body tremble uncontrollably.

The mechanical devices behind him constantly rolled the Warp's evil energy, extending chainsaws, scalpels, and serrated blades to cut through the blood and flesh before him.

He was going to create new humans from this scattered blood and flesh, within the shells of old humans, replacing the current humans and making humans a more perfect race.

Just like a butterfly welcoming a new life from a withered cocoon, just like a snake eating itself from the tail and reshaping itself.

This was a cycle, a spiral upward evolution, a great iteration.

Fabius Bile moved his fingers, and the slaves beside him offered him various gene sequences and organs of alien creatures.

His fingertips flew, implanting these alien organs into the chaotic blood and flesh before him.

Fabius never limited himself to the racial differences between creatures when creating life.

Whether it was mammals, insects, worms, octopuses, or even plants and those more twisted, abstract aliens, all were in Fabius Bile's material library.

He dug a gland out of a half-human-sized pitch-black beetle and took a series of hearts from an alien creature similar to an octopus.

"What is this thing? T'au? Don't pollute my material library!"

Fabius Bile waved his hand, signaling the slave to throw that blue-skinned creature down.

He increasingly began to feel that the creature before him was becoming more perfect, closer and closer to the new human in his ideal.

This relied entirely on his talent, the inspiration that burst forth in his mind.

Fabius certainly heard the voice coming from the Warp.

That Saint Doraemon birth, that Machine God thing.

Fabius Bile never believed in any gods; he was an atheist. He betrayed the Imperium and the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, but he still believed in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's philosophy.

There were no gods among the stars, nothing worthy of human awe, nothing that reason could not answer.

If there was something that could not be explained by reason, then it must not exist; it was a hallucination.

"The so-called gods are even more non-existent; they are a collective hallucination."

"They are just a natural phenomenon in the Warp, like wind, like rain, like fire, like the sun. They are indeed powerful, but the act of endowing them with personality and consciousness is no different from primitive people worshipping the Wind God, Rain God, Fire God, and Sun God; it is pure superstition." ===== CHAPTER 664 =====