A vast, dark tide surrounded the divine-level army of evil dragons, launching one brutal slaughter after another.
Of the two warring factions, one possessed a molecular-level regeneration ability, making it difficult to completely extinguish their life no matter the attack, and they could also gain new strength by devouring their enemies.
The other possessed a mythical-level ability to split and reproduce; every injury, every drop of blood left behind, could form a lower-level clone.
In an instant, the battlefield became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Whether it was the evil dragons or the Gastrea army, both appeared as ferocious monsters to outsiders.
As they slaughtered each other, it was even difficult to distinguish their allegiances; one could only see the ever-glowing crimson pupils in the battlefield.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but whether it was vampires, evil dragons, or Gastrea, they all had a pair of calamitous red pupils that could emit an ominous light.
And under Su Mo's command, the constantly evolving Gastrea army soon underwent a change.
Previously, their devouring and evolution had relied on the fusion of various low-level Gastrea genes to produce the twelve Zodiac-level leaders.
But after receiving Su Mo's instructions, these Gastrea all turned their attention to the enemy before them.
If the mountains, rivers, plants, and earth could absorb the blood of the two-headed dragons, why couldn't they?
Moreover, those 5-Digit next-generation clones did not have the trait of further splitting, so their corpses could be freely devoured.
Originally, under the fierce battle of the two-headed dragon army, the number of next-generation clones was constantly increasing, swelling to over a hundred thousand in the blink of an eye.
But under the frenzied devouring of the Gastrea, the situation instantly changed.
"GEYAAA—"
At the center of the Gastrea battlefield, a roar similar to that of an evil dragon, though somewhat unskilled, rang out.
Crimson pupils lit up. Compared to the mindless red eyes of the Gastrea period, these were clearly more akin to the evil dragon ruby eyes of Azi Dahaka himself.
Although this being was surrounded by the other eleven Zodiacs, no other Gastrea attacked it.
Because the one who had just let out the roar of an evil dragon was not a member of the evil dragon army, a clone of Azi Dahaka, but the Taurus belonging to the Gastrea army.
"What?" Seeing this scene, even Azi Dahaka himself was surprised. "It completely devoured and even fused with the Divinity of my clone?"
This was the first time he had seen an existence that could completely absorb the Divinity of his clone in this way.
"As expected..." Su Mo, however, nodded slightly, his expression not showing any surprise. "The library of genetic factors symbolized by the Gastrea, after obtaining the power of the Third Stellar Particle through devouring, will transform into an evil dragon."
Originally, the Taurus before him was just a twisted monster, like a chimera, freely expressing the gene pool within its body.
But after devouring the blood and corpses of Azi Dahaka's clones and extracting the Third Stellar Particle from them, the genetic factors within Taurus's body were re-expressed by combining with the Third Stellar Particle.
Its Divinity instantly achieved a leap, reaching the 4-Digit exceptional level.
At the same time, Taurus's form was no longer as bloated as a flesh mountain from a cultish text, but gradually formed the twisted posture of an evil dragon.
Although it still had a villainous style, it had a lot more streamlined beauty, and the concentration of dragon factors had greatly increased.
This phenomenon in itself was the best verification of the hypothesis Su Mo had proposed earlier. That is to say, the basis for the composition of an evil dragon's Divinity is the combination of a library of genetic factors and the Third Stellar Particle!
After the successful experiment, Su Mo immediately began to review it. In less than a minute, all twelve Zodiac-level Gastrea had evolved into the evil dragon form.
Compared to the two-headed dragons who were clones, the gene expression of these twelve Zodiacs was freer and richer, and their performance far surpassed the mass-produced products.
After these twelve Zodiacs transformed into the evil dragon form, the situation on the battlefield completely reversed.
By devouring the blood and corpses of the evil dragon army, more and more monsters in the Gastrea army evolved onto the evil dragon path. The previously frantic red eyes had all uniformly transformed into Azi Dahaka's ruby eyes.
An uninformed observer might think that they were all subordinates of Azi Dahaka.
Only those who had witnessed the changing situation on the battlefield with their own eyes understood that these lives were precisely Azi Dahaka's mortal enemies.
"The library of genetic factors is now available, and the foundation of the Third Stellar Particle is now available too..." Looking at the situation before him, Su Mo nodded slightly.
The collective evolution of the Gastrea army into an evil dragon army had in itself already confirmed his previous theory; there was no need for further doubt. What he needed to do now was to go a step further.
"To create a pure-blooded dragon from the ground up, the only remaining element is the human Divinity."
If the vampire form was unable to evolve into a pure-blooded dragon due to the lack of accumulation in the library of genetic factors, then the evil dragon form lacked the integration of human Divinity.
Only by correctly filling in the last element could the mystery of the pure-blooded dragon be completely solved and the evolutionary path of this creature be incorporated into the evolutionary tree.
"But, how exactly to do it?" Su Mo hesitated slightly.
Putting everything else aside, the twelve Zodiacs before him should not lack human genes. After all, their birth was the result of human experiments with the Gastrea virus.
If it were as simple as mechanically piling up human Divinity like mixing cement, then the existing Zodiacs would have already become pure-blooded dragons.
But the facts were not so. That is to say, the combination of human Divinity, the Third Stellar Particle, and the factors of the Genome Tree (Tree of Life) must be based on a certain correct form to be effective.
As for what the correct form was...
Su Mo raised an eyebrow, finally no longer ignoring the terrifyingly expanding Divinity, and looked at Azi Dahaka himself. Clearly, the other party did not understand this either.
Perhaps this was the reason why Azi Dahaka longed for a human hero?
As if sensing Su Mo's gaze, Azi Dahaka, whose evil dragon army had been almost completely wiped out, twitched the corners of his mouth and sighed with heartfelt emotion. "A beautiful tactic! I never thought that the human cosmology has grown to such an extent, even capable of rivaling congenital gods and buddhas."
Hearing his praise, the hundreds of millions of gods in the night sky began to have their doubts.
Putting aside the villainous aura of the Gastrea army and their overly similar appearance to Azi Dahaka, what these Gastrea army displayed was the product of a very radical genetic engineering technology.
Genetic engineering is a key technology that cannot be avoided in modern society.
Everyone knows that the application prospects behind this technology are vast, but it is suppressed from moving forward due to moral and ethical constraints.
After all, if this technology were to be researched without restriction, it could potentially destroy the world.
And it was obvious that the technology on these Gastrea was at least a hundred years ahead of the average state of human history.
Not only did Azi Dahaka not understand it, but even the god-groups, including those who had closely colluded with the Son of God to establish the Demon Lord Alliance, did not know when the Christian church had obtained this achievement.
"No, no, only Lord Su Mo's theory of evolution has reached such heights." Canary couldn't help but shake her head and retort.
Before this, she had always thought that the leader of her community, Kouryuu Kasukabe, this holder of the Crown-level Genome Tree (Tree of Life), was the individual with the deepest understanding of evolution theory.
But after seeing the power that Su Mo casually displayed, she realized that she had been looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.
Kouryuu Kasukabe still could not overcome the side effect of monsterization that could result from overusing the Genome Tree.
Su Mo, on the other hand, had already incorporated this state of monsterization into his theoretical research and had reconstructed the evolutionary tree, incorporating the evil dragon form into the existing theoretical system of the evolutionary tree.
In the field of life research, this was a theoretical breakthrough no less significant than the theory of relativity.
In comparison, Kouryuu Kasukabe could only be said to be a user and practitioner of the theory, while Su Mo was a master who could grasp the theory and even establish new ones.
"I should have called Kouryuu over. Just by learning a little from Lord Su Mo, his strength would have definitely been greatly enhanced!"
While Canary was feeling regretful, Azi Dahaka, who was unaware of the specific situation of human history, continued to stare at Su Mo with burning eyes. "What surprises me even more is that as a god, you have mastered so much of the human cosmology... Who exactly are you?"
Such a question was a bit strange for the hundreds of millions of god-groups.
Who could Su Mo be? As the Master of the Christian Church, who else could he be but the one and only God?
However, for those who had witnessed Su Mo's battles up close and had personally felt the pressure of his Divinity, this question was not so simple.
At least, even for Azi Dahaka, who was now fighting him face to face, Su Mo's identity was still a mystery.
"...The Divinity of the Christian God, the Son of God. The Divinity of Kalki and Rama from the Hindu pantheon. The Divinity of Nuada and Lugh from the Celtic pantheon... In just an instant of being your enemy, the increase in my Divinity surpassed the results of the previous million god-groups combined! It was as if I was fighting against all the gods of the Celestial Realm by myself!"
Like an aria, Azi Dahaka spoke of his previous feelings. His burly body trembled slightly, and his six ruby eyes glowed with a bewitching and excited red light.
After a pause, he repeated his previous question. "Su Mo... who on earth are you?!"
The second question brought a dead silence between heaven and earth.
Even the hundreds of millions of gods above, even Indra who had witnessed almost all of Su Mo's battles, even the World-Honored One of Buddhism who had personally seen Su Mo use Kalki's power, couldn't help but widen their eyes after hearing Azi Dahaka's words.
No, they knew that Su Mo had many aliases and possessed many Divinities, but they didn't know that his aliases were so numerous, and the Divinities he possessed were so precious and vast! He's not just the Master of the Christian Church, he also holds crucial positions in other divine systems?
And, if they heard correctly, several of the names mentioned by Azi Dahaka were 2-Digit Full-Authority Domain beings, right?
After realizing this, the gods had the same question as Azi Dahaka. That is, who on earth was the Su Mo before them?
Standing in mid-air, facing the gaze of the enemy before him, the gods in the sky, and his companions on the ground, Su Mo shook his head lightly.
"There's nothing to be puzzled about. I am not a pure god. I am just a passing poet."
He had said such words many times before in other worlds.
Although in Little Garden, his most well-known identity was the Master of the Christian Church, in reality, he was not a god, but simply a weaver of myths.
If the Hindu pantheon had not already been swallowed by Buddhism, with the Kalki Divinity that he had already completed, Su Mo could have become the master of the Hindu pantheon without any hindrance.
The identity of the one and only god, which others considered extremely noble, was really just a piece of clothing that Su Mo casually put on.
It was obviously impossible to define the person Su Mo by the identity of his clothes.
"A poet?" Hearing this absurd answer, the gods were slightly taken aback, and then all shook their heads.
Although in Little Garden, poets were hailed as the fourth strongest species because they could tamper with the content of Gift Games and even interfere with human history, they were ultimately just humans.
Their upper limit was at most the 4-Digit level, and their actual combat power was ridiculously weak.
Even a genius poet like Canary could do almost nothing without her companions.
How could Su Mo, with such powerful strength, be a mere poet?
The other party was either being modest or joking.
Hearing this, Canary showed a thoughtful expression, as if recalling something.
Only Azi Dahaka, upon hearing this, showed an extremely joyous and excited expression. His six ruby eyes instantly lit up, and his entire body trembled with excitement.
He asked his final question with great excitement. "Do you mean that you possess a human Divinity?!"