Chapter 509 - 244: Lin Feng Lv. 32, Parasitic Control, and Plans for the Trial

Chapter 509: Chapter 244: Lin Feng Lv. 32, Parasitic Control, and Plans for the Trial

「Personal Upgrade Complete!」

「Lin Feng, Lv. 32/39」

「Life Value: 2.4k, Physique: 2.4k, Spirit: 2.9k」

「Note: Your Spiritual Attribute Value is approaching the apex of the Tier Three Early Stage. To break the limit, you must absorb Spiritual Energy from a Tier Three Mid-Stage Life Form.」

This upgrade added five hundred points to each of his Attribute Values. It was a minor boost within the Tier Three Early Stage, with no other special changes.

However, the reminder in the note made Lin Feng frown slightly.

But he quickly came to terms with it. After all, breaking the limit would grant him the power of a Middle Stage entity, so it only made sense that he would need to absorb energy from one.

However, did this mean that to advance from the Tier Three Early Stage to the Middle Stage, he would have to kill a Tier Three Mid-Stage being?

Lost in thought, Lin Feng turned to Ling Yi, who seemed to have noticed, and asked her about the matter.

She knew that after killing several Mother Empresses, Lin Feng’s power was approaching the Perfection of the Tier Three Early Stage.

His next step was to consider the problem of advancement.

Ling Yi pondered for a moment before giving her answer:

"That’s right."

"If your bloodline doesn’t contain the genetic sequence for advancement—in other words, if your ancestors weren’t illustrious and didn’t leave behind a genetic template for evolution—then you can only rely on yourself to figure it out step by step."

As she spoke, Ling Yi glanced meaningfully at Jiang Yun’er on the other side of the fire and continued,

"Of course, in the case of a Mixed Blood Species, even if one side of the lineage possesses the blood of Deities, the impurity and mutual rejection of the genes would still require them to figure it out on their own."

"Otherwise, the best method is to kill a stronger, Tier Three Mid-Stage being and use its immense Life Energy and powerful physical structure to forge your own path of evolution."

"Furthermore, the jumps in power between the Early, Middle, and Late Stages are enormous. A Tier Three Mid-Stage being is about three times as strong as its Early Stage counterpart. If you kill one and absorb it completely, you might be able to complete your advancement with just that single being."

Lin Feng nodded. Unfortunately, he likely couldn’t use the latter method Ling Yi mentioned—unless he could become like a Reproductive Armor Mecha and utilize the Mother Empress’s corpse.

Ling Yi, however, could rely on the Tier Three Cells from a Mother Empress’s corpse, as well as the residual Life Energy within it, to improve her own strength.

As they were both Mother Empresses, there were naturally no barriers to her absorbing the body of her own kind.

By the same token, Genetic Warriors faced no restrictions when absorbing the flesh of Spine Zergs, just as his subordinate Genetic Combat Team could quickly grow identical membrane wings after devouring the Tier Two Membrane Wings of Wind-winged Zergs.

Therefore, Jiang Yun’er—who sat before Lin Feng licking fish soup from an Iron Bowl as she gradually recovered—could naturally absorb the flesh and blood of a Zerg Race Mother Empress to complete her advancement, being a Genetic Mother herself.

The only unfortunate part was that the corpses of the two Mother Empresses they had killed this time had already been snatched away by the Mid-stage Mother Empress.

This had left Ling Yi sullen with anger.

According to their agreement, the Mother Empress’s corpse was supposed to be Ling Yi’s spoils of war.

In the defensive battle at Yunxia Ridge, the Salvation Army had managed a flawless victory with zero casualties, largely thanks to Ling Yi interfering with the Tier Two Zerg Race in the Swarm from her position on the mountaintop.

This included her early detection and control of the elusive Tier Two Samurai Hunter Zergs.

As a pure Tier Three Early-stage Mother Empress, Ling Yi possessed complete Realm Power, making it effortless for her to influence Tier Two Zerg Race at a close range of several hundred to a thousand meters.

The actual controllers of the Swarm, the four Mother Empresses, were simply too far from the front lines. Even though their Spiritual Attributes and Levels were much higher than Ling Yi’s, their mental link weakened with distance, rendering them powerless to intervene.

Jiang Yun’er had used a similar method on the front lines to provide significant help to the defenders.

Having learned about the details of Tier Three advancement, Lin Feng saw that it was getting late and decided to end the interrogation and confession session.

However, now that Jiang Yun’er had recovered most of her strength with the help of the Organic Nutrient Liquid, she obviously couldn’t be allowed to move about freely in the camp.

Verbal promises were worthless.

Even if Lin Feng and Ling Yi appealed to her with both reason and emotion, it would be impossible to shatter the faithful devotion she’d formed under a Mother Empress’s influence with just a few words.

Yet, neither Lin Feng nor Ling Yi could watch her twenty-four hours a day. In the camp, aside from Shen Jie—a Tier Two Peak who had mastered the Slaughter Realm and was thus unaffected—the large number of Early and Mid-Stage Tier Two Awakeners, as well as the Tier One Peak Warriors, were all susceptible to being bewitched by Jiang Yun’er’s Genetic Control and letting her "escape to freedom."

So, before everyone else lay down to rest, Lin Feng asked Ling Yi directly, making no attempt to hide his question from Jiang Yun’er:

"Do you have any way to control a Tier Two Peak Zerg mother entity?"

The moment he spoke, the color drained from Jiang Yun’er’s face, which had just been regaining its radiance, and it instantly turned deathly pale.

Ling Yi, on the other hand, smiled thoughtfully and nodded. A golden glint flashed across her eyes as she quickly found the perfect solution within the Realm Inheritance of the Zerg Race Mother Empress.

She then slowly rose, walked over to Jiang Yun’er, and gave her a kind, gentle smile.

"Miss Jiang, I’m going to need your cooperation on this."

"You cannot resist, nor can you have any stress reactions. Given your Realm Ability and your degree of control over your own body, that should be easy for you to do, right?"

Jiang Yun’er swallowed hard and asked timidly,

"What... what are you going to do?!"

In the dark shadows cast by the bonfire, Ling Yi looked like a Demon King from Hell, preparing to strike a wicked bargain with a human:

"What am I going to do? I’m simply following Lin Feng’s command—to place a shackle on you, one that will allow us to control your life at any moment. It will also make it convenient for all of us to trust you completely again."