Chapter 1188 - 542: Broodmother

Chapter 542

That’s the enemy of the God Court!

A Catastrophe-level race wandering in the dark universe, living on devouring civilizations, worlds, and even laws! They have no fixed form, can parasitize on any material, corrupting and corroding it, turning it into their "weapon" and "nest".

The destruction of the seventh outpost of the God Court, indeed has more terrifying enemies behind it, but this "Corrosion Tide" is definitely the vanguard among them!

They are still entrenched here!

"Open fire!" Xu Ran didn’t hesitate at all and decisively ordered.

Boom!

The sides of the Pioneer ship, hundreds of hidden gun ports instantly opened. In these gun ports, what gathered was no longer simply energy beams, but Annihilation Divine Light infused with the Power of Ruins!

Whew whew whew!

Hundreds of gray Annihilation Divine Lights, like a doomsday meteor shower, tore through the void, and fiercely bombarded into that dark red "tide".

Chi chi chi——

Wherever the Annihilation Divine Light reached, large areas of "metal dust" were directly decomposed and obliterated, turning into the most primitive particles, dissipating into nothing. The Power of Ruins is exactly the nemesis of such highly polluting things.

A round of salvo cleared a large area ahead.

However, before everyone could cheer, more Corrosion Tides flooded out from the Sacred Hall, following one after another, fearlessly filling the gaps just created.

Their numbers seem endless!

"This is not the solution!" Cang Shi frowned, "Their numbers are too many, our energy reserves can’t outlast them!"

"Their vital point is inside that hall!" Xu Ran’s gaze was like a torch, staring deadly at that Sacred Hall occupied by corrupted things, "This Corrosion Tide must have a core, a ’mother nest’ in control! As long as we destroy the mother nest, these things will be like rootless duckweeds!"

"But how do we get in?" Zhen Shan said anxiously, "This tide can even corrode the void, our Battle Array might not hold for long!"

"Who said we’re going to force our way in?"

A trace of fierceness flashed in Xu Ran’s eyes.

He took a deep breath, his Divine Thought connecting again with the core of the Pioneer.

"Fire Origin, extreme burn!"

Buzz!

The totem at the ship’s bow instantly erupted with blinding brilliance, like ten suns across the sky. A vast Divine Origin was instantly ignited, injected into the ark’s jump array.

"Target, interior of the Sacred Hall! Dimension breach jump, initiate!"

What a mad decision this is!

Jumping spatially into the enemy’s nest center, any slight deviation in coordinates, or interference from the enemy’s spatial field, could plunge the whole ship into space turbulence, with no hope of return!

But Xu Ran dared to gamble on the resonance between Fire and the "thing" within the Sacred Hall to provide him with a precise coordinate!

He also gambled that this newly ascended god-class ark had the powerful capability to ignore enemy interference!

The next moment, the entire hull of the Pioneer began to become illusory and transparent.

The surrounding space twisted and folded violently like a water surface.

"Not good! They’re going to jump!"

In the Corrosion Tide, a will far stronger than ordinary insects abruptly awakened. Countless corrosion dust rapidly combined into a dark red giant net covering the sky, enveloping the Pioneer, trying to seal off this space.

However, it was already too late!

Just before the net closed, the hull of the Pioneer disappeared entirely from its original location.

...

Inside the Sacred Hall.

The light here was dim and oppressive.

The walls, bookshelves, and floors of the hall were covered with a thick, dark red fungal carpet, wriggling slowly like a living thing. Countless corrosion insects were born and hatched on this carpet, then merged into the outside tidal army.

At the very center of the hall, where the most important classics of the God Court should have been enshrined, there now lurked a massive cocoon, composed of innumerable corroded metals and flesh tissues entwined.

The cocoon was like a beating heart, and each pulse released a vast amount of corrosive air, polluting this sacred hall.

This was the mother nest of the Corrosion Tide!

At this moment, the space above the mother nest was suddenly and violently torn open by a massive rift.

A dark gold divine ark, like a ghost descending from another dimension, charged in with endless dignity and divine light!

It was the Pioneer!

"We made it!" Cang Shi and others cheered from the bridge.

"Now is the time!" Xu Ran’s eyes widened, and his Divine Thought and will reached their peak at this moment.

He didn’t attack the massive mother nest because he knew that the life force of this Celestial Calamity creature was unimaginably tenacious.

His target was the source that Fire was guiding him to!

It was the thing that the mother nest was trying so hard to suppress and digest...

"Open the Eye of Ruins!"

Xu Ran’s gaze pierced through the layers of corrosion fungi, seeing through to the core of the huge mother nest.

He saw it!

He saw it!

In the deepest part of the multiplying and proliferating mother nest, filled with decay and corruption, at the core where billions of corrosion insects and filthy flesh intertwined, it wasn’t any monstrous creature or some evil Divine Artifact.

It was a book.

A quietly floating ancient tome of unknown material.

It presented a warm jade-like luster, as if having undergone countless epochs yet untainted by the slightest dust. The pages were closed, the cover bore no words, only an extremely intricate imprint, as if the condensation of myriad law trajectories, just a glance could draw one’s Divine Soul into it, drowning in an endless ocean of knowledge.