Chapter 456 - 226: Kill, Purge Contamination, Mother Empress Brain Marrow

Chapter 456: Chapter 226: Kill, Purge Contamination, Mother Empress Brain Marrow

At this moment, three hundred meters deep inside the Hive, the temperature suddenly spiked. A massive amount of steam billowed from both the Yunxia Ridge Mother Empress and the fallen Biological Nest.

The tiny Fog Beads contained the purest Life Energy, comparable to a concentrated form of Organic Nutrient Liquid.

The Mother Empress orchestrating all of this was using her Infinite Reproduction Realm, intending to create a Summoning Altar with a Life Energy Value exceeding ten thousand.

This would fulfill the conditions required to activate a Divine Domain Descent.

The price for forcing this was to exhaust all of her own life potential, sacrificing her life to the Mother of Life.

It would transform the entire Hive into a forbidden zone for all life.

Once the Divine Domain Descent began, of those present, aside from Lin Feng and Ling Yi, only Shen Jie—who had mastered the Slaughter Realm—could barely resist the influence of the Hive Will. The rest, who were merely Tier Two Late Stage Awakeners, would be corrupted by the Divine Realm’s Genetic Radiation, devolving into mindless Zerg People.

The Genetic Warriors would be the first to fall.

Their resistance to genetic corruption was practically zero.

Furthermore, as the influence of the Divine Realm’s radiation spread, the underground Zerg Paths outside the Nest and the Shelter on the surface would all suffer varying degrees of genetic corruption.

Whether it was the Salvation Army standing guard or the Swarms rushing in as reinforcements, all would fall under the terrifying influence of the Hive Will and become part of the Divine Realm’s endless Zerg sea.

With their genetic sequences branded into the Divine Realm, they would be trapped for all eternity, never to be free, unable to die, and without hope of release.

Henceforth, every time a Divine Domain Descent occurred, these branded lifeforms would rematerialize within the boundless Zerg sea.

Even Lin Feng, who had stepped into Tier Three, wouldn’t be able to resist the effects of the genetic corruption for long.

Throughout the entire Hive, only Ling Yi, as a Mother Empress Avatar, could hold her ground within the Hive Will.

After all, she herself was one of the many Zerg God’s Apostles born from it.

To the lives of other Alien Races, the so-called Divine Realm was more like a hellish prison, and Ling Yi, as a Divine Envoy, was effectively one of its wardens.

She was also the first to realize what was happening. She shouted anxiously, urging Lin Feng, who was locked in a fierce battle with the Mother Empress, to finish her off as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, the consequences would be unthinkable!

In this moment of extreme urgency, Ling Yi, with her limited Spiritual Power, was forced to make a trade-off.

To secure their ultimate victory, she had to retract the Spiritual Energy Shield protecting Lin Feng and the other two, reabsorbing it so she could instead attack the Mother Empress who was initiating the Divine Domain Descent.

Stopping the Divine Domain’s descent was the absolute priority!

Even though the gap in their Spiritual Attribute Values was over a thousand, Ling Yi’s 2,500-point Spiritual Power was not to be underestimated.

Furthermore, as a Mother Empress herself, her familiarity with Infinite Reproduction and the release of a Divine Realm was on par with her opponent’s. She could naturally disrupt the sacrificial ritual to delay or even stop the summoning process.

This would also buy Lin Feng and the others precious time to land the killing blow.

But the moment they lost Ling Yi’s spiritual protection, the three of them—especially Lin Feng and Shen Jie, who were engaged in close-quarters combat with the Mother Empress—instantly felt a Spiritual Storm erupt from her...

The aura of Infinite Reproduction, along with a portion of the Divine Realm’s power, swept over them, and the mental states of Lin Feng and Shen Jie were immediately affected.

Nearby, Liu Yi, who was bombarding the Mother Empress with an Ion Laser Cannon, also suffered the dual impact of the Mental Realm and the Divine Realm now that his Spiritual Shield was gone.

Unlike Lin Feng and Shen Jie, he was an ordinary Tier Two Late-stage Perfect Awakened who had not yet mastered Realm Power. His resistance to Mental Realm attacks was not strong.

His own Spiritual Attribute Value of just over nine points was facing off against the 3,900 points of a Tier Three Early-Stage Perfection Mother Empress...

He was like a candle in the wind—fragile and helpless.

Unable to withstand the assault, he was the first to lose his combat effectiveness. He dropped the Ion Laser Cannon, stumbled, and collapsed to the ground, clutching his head and curling into a ball as he writhed in pain.

The might of Deities, even a mere fraction of a percent, was not something any being below Tier Four could withstand.

Meanwhile, the Divine Realm’s radiation was having a progressively deeper effect on Lin Feng and Shen Jie.

Shen Jie, who had activated his Slaughter Realm, was already in a state of continuous mental decline. Now, suffering the influence of the Divine Realm, he was gradually losing his mind, attacking and tearing indiscriminately at the Mother Empress’s tail and the Biological Nest.

Fortunately, he had already fused with Spine Zerg genes and, after passing his Realm Trial, had activated the Spine Zerg Race’s genetic sequence related to Mental Realms...

Now, with his Mental Realm covering his entire body, the half-man, half-Spine Zerg Shen Jie was resilient enough to resist the influence of the Divine Realm’s aura. He replenished his rapidly depleting energy by hacking at and devouring the Mother Empress’s flesh.

Of the three, however, the one most deeply affected was Lin Feng, who had flown to the nape of the Mother Empress’s neck.

Both the Infinite Reproduction Realm and the Hive Will’s Divine Realm were powered by a continuous stream of Spiritual Energy originating from the Mother Empress’s brain.

The Neck Guard at the back of her neck was the area closest to the Zerg brain.

This meant Lin Feng was standing at the very epicenter of the Divine Realm’s release, enduring spiritual pressure and radiation several, or even dozens, of times greater than the others.

The Flying Tiger Armor he wore seemed to be coming to life. Under the influence of the radiation, the organic Biological Material composing the Battle Armor began to break down and reform into the cellular tissue of the Zerg Race, sprouting limbs that were visible to the naked eye.

The entire Flying Tiger Armor was "dissolving" in a bizarre way.