Chapter 638 — The Cosmos Behemoth Bulu

Yet this human before him had done it. Bu Lu had never imagined that during his sleep, such a monster had appeared within the Cosmos Overlord's legion.

Compared to himself, he felt that the one who had passed that Glory Challenge was the true monster.

"What, have you changed your mind?" Shi Jin asked.

"Mm. You may indeed be very strong," the cosmic behemoth said. "But—"

"I'm curious why a powerhouse like you would choose me."

"Because you're the most special one," Shi Jin said.

The cosmic behemoth's heartbeat quickened.

"I came too late. By the time I reached the Slumbering Land, you were the only one left. All the other epochal gods had gone. There was no one else to pick from," Shi Jin said.

Bu Lu: ??????

So that's what made me special???

"That's right," the Spirit King said.

Bu Lu's blood pressure spiked instantly. So that was the reason?

"Still, after hearing of your deeds from Senior Spirit King, I truly was surprised," Shi Jin said. "A fellow so unlucky as you, and yet you've survived to such a great age—that alone sounds like no small feat."

"None of your business," Bu Lu said, curling his lip.

"Don't take offense. I mean no disrespect—I simply admire that you could live through so many calamities," Shi Yan said. "How about this: pass my trial, and I'll contract you as my pet beast. What do you say?"

"Don't joke around," Bu Lu said. "Even if you passed the Glory Challenge, you may not be qualified to contract me."

"Even if you wanted to contract me, it should be I who sets you a trial."

"In that case, let's test each other," Shi Jin said, folding his arms with an air of indifference.

"Then let me see your strength first," Bu Lu said.

"If you two are going to fight, not in this place," the Spirit King spoke up. "Please move yourselves to another star domain."

"Fine," Bu Lu said. "Leave it to me."

With that, his body rapidly shrank. Though the cosmic behemoth race fed on planets, they themselves moved about on planets; to move upon certain worlds, the race had naturally evolved the ability to freely control their size.

For the most part, they shrank. Their normal form was already colossal enough; to grow even larger was many, many times harder than shrinking, and consumed immense energy besides.

Soon, this behemoth, great enough to pluck stars from the sky, shrank to a mere few hundred meters tall, then flicked its tail and punched a pitch-black hole in the starry sky.

A Cosmic Hole!!

And one of the transcendent grade, no less—far beyond the ability of that abyssal wyrms. Shi Jin could sense that behind this Cosmic Hole lay an exceedingly distant star domain; even Lin, were she to sail there, would need a very long time. Yet this creature, merely by creating a single Cosmic Hole, had connected two places at once. Shi Jin coveted this ability greatly.

After all, the Cosmic Hole he had copied still had no teaching target. If he could contract this fellow, then... it seemed contracting this fellow would still have been a wasted copy—the other's Cosmic Hole appeared to have already maxed itself out, with no way to add more points.

Unless, beyond transcendent-grade divine skills, some higher tier could be unlocked in the future... But at least for now, Shi Yu had not unlocked any skill approaching the Dao.

For skills below the divine grade, approaching the Dao meant approaching the rules; divine skills themselves represented rules. But for divine skills, what did one approach when cultivation reached its utmost?

The origin of the cosmos?

While Shi Jin was pondering, the cosmic behemoth Bu Lu took the lead and stepped into the Cosmic Hole.

"In that case, I'll go with him. Senior Spirit King, will you come along?" Shi Qi asked the loli ghost, unable to understand why an old monster who had lived so long would maintain the form of a little girl.

"Sure. Might as well take a look," the Spirit King said.

"Then let's go together," Shi Yan said. With that, the two stepped into the Cosmic Hole as one.

The next moment, the two of them left the sleeping place behind and entered an exceedingly distant star domain. But no sooner had they arrived than they heard Bulu's helpless voice.

"Hm!!" Bulu said. "Luck's a bit poor—our arrival point seems less than ideal. The moment we came through, we were surrounded by a starry-sky storm."

"Ha, ha—it's rather optimistic, isn't it."

As Bulu's words fell, faint storm ripples like ocean waves had already taken shape around them; amid the chaotic fluctuations of the starry sky, even the cosmic rift was beginning to grow unstable.

"Still, it's not so bad." Seeing that the Spirit King had followed them through as well, Bulu knew that even a starry-sky storm would not prove fatal—a high-tier Supergod could dispel a storm of modest scale with ease.

His ill fortune was not enough to affect a high-tier Supergod.

"Your luck really is something else." Shi Jin took in their surroundings and could not help but press a hand to his forehead. Just what kind of ruin had Bulu's mother entered, to come away stained with traces of the previous epoch?

And to have passed it down to the next generation, no less.

Honestly, Shi Jin felt profoundly fortunate that he had crossed over smoothly, arrived here, and escaped the curse of the cosmic will. If he were like Bulu, he could not guarantee he would still be alive.

"The storm is not small in scale." The Spirit King was speechless too.

"Wait." Bulu spoke. "Can we leave it to him to handle?"

Bulu looked at Shi Jin. "A storm of this level—even fully formed, I could still escape it. But can you?"

"I don't want a partner who drags me down," he said.

"But isn't the one dragging us down the very one who drew the storm here?" Shi Jin retorted.

Bulu: ???

Shi Jin thought: this big lunk probably means he is afraid the calamity he brought will hurt others, so he wants to first find out whether the other party has the strength to withstand calamity...

"Honestly, the curse on you really is severe."

"A tenth of all the time I have lived has been spent sailing the starry sky, and in all that time—never mind cosmic disasters on this scale, I have never once even encountered a minor cosmic calamity. I am a man favored by the goddess of fortune.

And you actually managed to make me run into a starry-sky storm. You really do have a knack."

"Hah, goddess of fortune. If you are favored by the goddess of fortune, then I must be cursed by the goddess of calamity."

Bulu looked at the starry-sky storm taking shape around them, his gaze darkening.

"Then tell me—which is stronger, the goddess of fortune or the goddess of calamity?" Shi Jin asked.

"The goddess of calamity, I would say." Years upon years of misfortune had gradually accustomed Bulu to it.

"No—actually, the goddess of fortune is the stronger." Shi Jin said.

"It seems my luck stands above your curse. If we had run into some other cosmic disaster, perhaps it would mean we are unsuited to each other—but the appearance of this starry-sky storm has convinced me that your curse may not necessarily affect me."

As Shi Jin finished speaking, under the gaze of the Spirit King and Bulu, a white mechanical glove appeared on his right hand, inlaid with five wind-spirit beads of differing colors. The next moment, Shi Jin turned his palm toward the starry-sky storm ahead.

What followed was a breathtaking sight: the sea of storms in every direction across the starry sky surged violently, as though meeting the lord of storms, and swiftly condensed into an enormous sphere of wind—a storm planet forged entirely of compressed starry-sky storm, floating above Shi Jin and the others, held aloft by his raised arm.

At that moment Bulu stared in astonishment, finding it utterly inconceivable—a starry-sky storm capable of grievously wounding a low-tier Supergod, brought under control just like that??

If that compressed storm were slammed down, he felt, it could annihilate a star—a small star system.