Chapter 494 - 318: The Void Giant Whale’s Predation, Epiphany on Natural Law; The Call Between Marshal Zhang and Vice Admiral Qin Rui

Chapter 494: Chapter 318: The Void Giant Whale’s Predation, Epiphany on Natural Law; The Call Between Marshal Zhang and Vice Admiral Qin Rui

However, after that brief interlude, Zhang Yi and Lu Mei quickly turned their attention back to the Void outside the viewport. As they ventured deeper, strange creatures born from the Void began to appear.

A school of creatures resembling translucent, glowing jellyfish floated leisurely past the viewport, trailing long, colorful void tentacles. They seemed to be engaging in some kind of Energy exchange or perhaps a large-scale migration. Their bodies were nearly entangled as they swayed gently to some unseen rhythm, radiating a dreamlike luminescence.

Lu Mei seemed quite taken with this school of rainbow-hued void jellyfish, her gaze lingering on them for a long moment.

But before Lu Mei could say anything, the school of jellyfish suddenly seemed to take fright, and their speed abruptly increased.

Seeing this, Zhang Yi adjusted his gaze to look farther into the distance, where he witnessed an even more staggering sight.

Farther out in the Void, a Void Giant Whale had appeared. It was the size of a planet, its body a dark, earthy brown, as if encased in armor. Its head was massive, and its numerous compound eyes glowed with a dark blue light. The Void Giant Whale was slowly swinging its enormous caudal fin in pursuit of the prey ahead.

Don’t be fooled by the Void Giant Whale’s size into thinking it’s slow. With just one swish of its massive caudal fin, it could glide forward for hundreds of thousands of meters.

Before this colossal creature, a school of panicked Void Silverlight Fish, shimmering with silvery scales, was fleeing for their lives. These shimmering fish, like a flock of startled birds, desperately tried to escape the Void Giant Whale’s gaping maw. In the course of their frantic escape, the Void Silverlight Fish soon caught up to and quickly surpassed the glowing void jellyfish ahead.

However, no matter how fast the Void Silverlight Fish fled, the Void Giant Whale simply opened its massive mouth, and an immense, invisible suction pulled everything toward it. Then, everything—the glowing void jellyfish and the Void Silverlight Fish alike—was swept into the Void Giant Whale’s mouth.

The entire process was silent, yet it perfectly showcased the food chain of the Void.

"Is that... the Void Giant Whale and the Void Silverlight Fish mentioned in the textbooks?" Lu Mei breathed, her eyes filled with awe. "Seeing them in person... they’re even more beautiful and astonishing than I imagined!"

Zhang Yi nodded as well. However, what resonated more deeply with him, due to his Natural Divine Position, was the natural food chain itself.

The weak are prey for the strong!

It was the same everywhere.

As time went on, the Yanhuang Federation First War Fortress disappeared from view completely. With no landmarks in the Void, Zhang Yi had no idea where they were. After a while longer, however, he and Lu Mei witnessed a new spectacle.

Unlike the living void creatures they had seen before, this time they saw the corpse of a Void Giant Whale through the viewport. It was even larger than the last, and its life force had completely dissipated.

There was no telling how long this Void Giant Whale had been dead. Its corpse now floated silently in the Void.

However, the Laws of the Void and Time were both acting upon the whale’s corpse. Its once-hard shell was gradually softening, and the Energy in its flesh and blood was slowly dispersing into the surrounding area. Under the influence of the Void Law, the whale’s originally tough hide and flesh were gradually turning into hard rock. The once-uneven folds of its skin became towering peaks and deep ravines.

The void Energy that had not completely dissipated remained contained within the corpse and transformed into the four basic Elements needed to build a world. In the places where the Void Giant Whale’s Energy was dispersing the most—namely, its mouth and tail—some faintly glowing, extremely primitive fungi and mosses had already begun to grow.

Thus, a tiny, nascent micro-world was being nurtured on the body of a dead Void Giant Whale.

Although this newborn world was extremely small, its size limited by that of the original Void Giant Whale, it was undeniably new life that had evolved from the creature’s corpse. In another few million years, this Void Giant Whale’s corpse might completely transform into a small world, adding a splash of brilliance to the dark Void.

"Is this the so-called whale fall, where one death gives rise to myriad life?!" Lu Mei exclaimed.

"That’s right," Zhang Yi affirmed. "This is a whale fall, where one death gives rise to myriad life!"

"The dead body of a Void Giant Whale, evolving into a world..."

"How much Energy would that require?"

"How many Divine Realms could you create with all that?"

"How much area could you add to a Divine Realm?!"

Lu Mei’s tone was filled with amazement but also a longing for the Energy released by the dead Void Giant Whale.

Zhang Yi shook his head slightly. "You can’t calculate it like that. The Energy contained within a Void Giant Whale, while it does include energy from the Subspace, is too impure. If you could simply capture void creatures, extract the Energy from their bodies, and convert it into the kind of Energy used to create or expand a Divine Realm, then these creatures would have all been wiped out long ago. On the contrary, this natural cycle—where void creatures are born from the Void and return to it in death—is what the Divine Beings of the Blue Star Federation hope to see."