I, the creator of the evil god!

Chapter Thirteen: The Power of Time and Shadows The Unknown Evil God’s Blood

Lu Yu extended a finger, and the twisted spider egg floated before him, cradled in chaotic currents.

In the monster editing state, Lu Yu could perceive much more than usual, including the faint breath of life nestled within the egg. This wasn’t the emergence of a spiderling but the primordial state of life’s conception.

This process embodies laws governing birth, yin and yang, and creation itself. The propagation of life adheres to the world’s foundational rules.

Since the system indicated that the spider egg could be edited, Lu Yu had no intention of letting it languish in his material library. Such a rare resource was better used to bolster his own strength.

Without hesitation, Lu Yu touched the twisted spider egg. Grey currents surged into the egg, melding with its fragile essence of life. The translucent white membrane of the spider egg gradually darkened, transforming into a grey sphere.

At this moment, Lu Yu retrieved a cherished material from the treasure chest: a pocket watch infused with traces of time and shadow.

(Four-Star) Broken Pocket Watch: Once belonging to an unnamed entity, this watch is imbued with faint traces of time and shadow, elevating it from the mundane. However, it is tainted by the blood of an evil god, harbouring a power capable of inducing madness.

When Lu Yu edited the Fear Balloon, he refrained from using this pocket watch. Adding excessive materials doesn’t always yield better results; compatibility is the key.

The Fear Balloon, made from ordinary materials, already possessed Hellfire and the Leeching Aura. Its potential was maximised at its current level. Adding the pocket watch might have raised its star level or granted it another skill, but its overall evaluation wouldn’t have improved.

Through experimentation, Lu Yu discovered a guiding principle: advanced materials often dominate and assimilate others.

For instance, the Leeching Aura from the burial shroud became the core power of the Fear Balloon, while the Hellfire Whip served as a supporting role. High-grade materials naturally take precedence.

Using low-grade materials with high-grade ones could diminish their value. This was evident in the Fear Balloon, where the inclusion of three-star materials resulted in a two-star rating.

The pocket watch, being a four-star material, would likely overshadow the Fear Balloon, turning the creation into a solo showcase of the watch’s power. This approach conflicted with Lu Yu’s desire for maximised efficiency. Advanced materials were precious, but waste was unacceptable.

Fortunately, a new vessel had emerged: the twisted spider egg.

The egg, mutated and brimming with three-star potential, could serve as a worthy host, absorbing the time and shadow energy within the pocket watch.

With this in mind, Lu Yu gazed at the golden pocket watch stained with dark-red blood and lightly tapped it.@@novelbin@@

Ding!

The moment his fingertip touched the watch, it dissolved into countless golden specks, merging seamlessly with the twisted spider egg.

The grey egg began to shimmer with golden light, which slowly spread across its surface.

“Should I integrate the Spider Evil God’s Webbing? Since it’s a spider egg, perhaps this could drive its evolution further.”

The thought crossed Lu Yu’s mind, but as he prepared to add the Evil God’s Webbing, the twisted spider egg resisted. An aura akin to the Spider Evil God’s emerged, exuding madness and destruction.

“The essence of an unknown evil god!”

Lu Yu’s eyes widened in astonishment at the egg’s transformation. A quick mental search through his memories clarified the situation.

The pocket watch’s description mentioned more than just traces of time and shadow; it was also tainted by the blood of an evil god—a mysterious and unnamed deity.

Previously, Lu Yu had overlooked this, assuming the watch itself was the focal material. To his surprise, the evil god’s blood had been included, its essence surviving through epochs of conflict and decay to become a four-star material.

In essence, the pocket watch was composed of two four-star materials.

No wonder Lu Yu couldn’t incorporate the Spider Evil God’s Webbing. The blood of another evil god had already fused with the twisted spider egg.

Evil gods, harbingers of chaos and terror, are inherently disordered and insane.

Long ago, the cults of the Distant Feaster and the Deep Sea Nightmare clashed violently. Their rivalry seemingly stemmed from mutual disdain between their deities, igniting a war that obliterated a small nation and spread madness and slaughter.

Eventually, special forces intervened, quelling the conflict at great cost and driving both cults into retreat.

This history affirmed that evil gods did not belong to a single faction; they often clashed amongst themselves.

Thus, the blood of two evil gods was inherently irreconcilable, beyond Lu Yu’s current level of control.

Resigned, Lu Yu stored the Spider Evil God’s Webbing and instead added venom sacs to the golden spider egg, enhancing its offensive potential.

After integrating two venom sacs, the twisted spider egg stopped absorbing materials, stabilising into a fist-sized golden egg. Mystical grey runes adorned its surface, weaving an exquisite tapestry.

The egg descended gently into Lu Yu’s hands as its details emerged in his mind…