343: I'm going to eat, eat, eat!

Authority really is everything.

Especially for someone like Ye Su who has independent agency.

Once the Mother Empress granted him authority,

Ye Su dared to take a knife to the Broodmother.

First, he modified the tunnels, creating a separate VIP passage for his own entry and exit.

Then, he checked the Broodmother's inventory.

"There's still Flesh and Blood Power. Old geezer, let's do another round."

Ye Su was beaming with joy.

Fen Tian's face darkened.

This guy really didn't even want to pretend anymore.

Too opportunistic.

He called me Senior when he needed help, but now that he's made it, he calls me 'old geezer'.

Fortunately, he still knew to share the good stuff.

Otherwise, Fen Tian really would have hit him!

Soon.

New flesh and blood chambers were constructed.

The Ye Su Insect and Fen Tian Insect underwent another wave of strengthening.

Their body sizes changed once again.

In terms of aura, strength (insect body), size, and the development of pheromone sacs, they had far exceeded the range of Elite Zerg.

"King level!"

Fen Tian was completely stunned.

Wait.

There was no precedent for an Ascension Five Mother Empress creating King Zerg.

After all, this kind of unfair resource allocation was not how a Mother Empress thought.

But Ye Su could ask for it.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

As long as he kept crying, he could keep eating!

And just like that, through sheer force of will,

He ate his way and Fen Tian's way into becoming King Zerg.

"Ye Su, do you think the Mother Empress will realize what's happening and eat the two of us?"

Fen Tian asked.

"How could that be? I'm the Mother Empress's precious little darling now!"

Ye Su said with his hands on his hips;

"Let's go, we're going out for a stroll."

After saying that.

He directly used pheromones.

He summoned the Elite Zerg and then constructed seven high-speed lanes.

Swish swish swish—over ten thousand Elite Zerg, led by Ye Su, charged out of the Broodmother and began moving around the Mother Empress at high speeds.

—

The Mother Empress sent out a sense of confusion.

"Just patrolling to prevent any sneak attacks."

Ye Su replied with pheromones.

And then the Mother Empress quieted down.

Elite Captains inherently had this responsibility.

This title essentially meant being the Mother Empress's super personal guard.

They possessed the authority to independently mobilize Elite Zerg.

This was also a symbol of a Mother Empress's combat power.

After all, commanding a large-scale Zerg operation would distract most of a Mother Empress's focus.

The autonomy of an Elite Zerg Captain allowed them to firmly protect the Mother Empress.

Among those in Ascension Five,

Mother Empresses with such Elite Captains were almost all on the verge of promotion.

Therefore.

When Ye Su took the Elite Zerg out for a stroll,

The other Mother Empresses moved slightly away from this Mother Empress.

A symbol of strength!

This left the Mother Empress herself bewildered.

'Could it be that I've reached the edge of Ascension Five? Can I promote?'

Only outside

did Ye Su realize how bizarre this place was.

The surrounding Mother Empresses were all at the Ascension Five level.

Or rather, only Mother Empresses of the Ascension Five level were qualified to cross that wormhole to get here.

"Senior, do you sense the aura of Heaven's Will? Why is it so chaotic?"

Ye Su asked.

Fen Tian's heart stirred;

"Ye Su, it's not that the aura of Heaven's Will is chaotic, it's that this Heaven's Will has been polluted."

"Polluted?"

"Yes, what is referred to in the Universe as a cataclysm."

Fen Tian took a deep breath; he finally knew where they were;

"This place is the Universal Border!"

"Ah!"

Ye Su was startled.

The letter from the future said this place was a forbidden land.

He had just taken one look and was instantly crushed.

But—he didn't feel anything at all right now.

Could it be because of the Zerg?

Or was it because there was a supreme existence taking the brunt of it above this great Ascension Five Zerg army?

But coming back to the point.

"What exactly is the pollution? And who is the Universal Border defending against?"

Ye Su asked.

To him, this was a massive mystery.

"It's hard to define."

Fen Tian said;

"The Universe has its own enemies, and those enemies are the pollution."

"However, ordinary people have never seen the pollution."

"Even I have only heard of it. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes this time, I would have thought such talk was just a lie woven by the Great Clans!"

Fen Tian had always thought the Universal Border was a joke.

A reason for the Great Clans to exploit everyone.

Now that he was here, he had to believe that the Universe truly had enemies.

"Alright..."

Ye Su replied.

It seemed even with a 'treasure' at home, he couldn't probe the secrets of the Universal Border.

As for himself—Ye Su didn't think he could see or understand anything.

He only hoped

the Mother Empress was just here for a stroll

and wouldn't do anything like joining the war.

—Soon.

The Mother Empress fleet moved into the Flesh and Blood Mountain Range.

Suddenly.

Pheromones began to transmit.

The Mother Empress issued a command through the local network.

"We're actually supposed to devour this Flesh and Blood Mountain Range?"

Ye Su was astonished;

"Could it be that this mountain range is the source of the Flesh and Blood Power?"

With his mind racing,

Ye Su immediately led the Elite Zerg to the front line.

Upon reaching the Flesh and Blood Mountain Range, he let his subordinate Elite Zerg truly approach it.

Furthermore,

he used his deterrent power as a King Zerg

to scare away the elite teams of other Mother Empresses; in short, he was very overbearing.

But what this overbearing behavior earned him

was the Mother Empress's extreme satisfaction.

Specific pheromones were even transmitted over,

carrying a message like a pat on Ye Su's head—"No danger."

Fen Tian said.

Thus,

Ye Su finally began to touch the Flesh and Blood Mountain Range.

At the touch,

he was completely stunned.

It was actually illusory.

This massive Flesh and Blood Mountain Range was actually an illusion.

But even more bizarre was that despite the mountain range being illusory, when the Zerg's mouthparts bit into it,

they could still bite something.

It was like—eating meat while breathing.

Completely absurd.

"Senior, this is—"

Ye Su asked in shock.

Fen Tian was even more shocked, his entire body even trembling;

"My god, this is being extracted from other timelines!"

"Ye Su, take a bite and then look up!"

Ye Su did as told.

He bit into the air, yet something was still swallowed.

Looking up again,

Ye Su was also dumbfounded.

High up in the endless sky, there was a 'Firmament'!

This 'Firmament' was actually an incredibly terrifying existence of the Zerg.

The reason he couldn't see it before

was because it wasn't in this timeline at all.

After biting a mouthful of the illusory Flesh and Blood Mountain Range, his body possessed the chaotic Karma of the timelines,

allowing him to see 'Its' existence.

"My scalp is tingling!"

Ye Su said.

"Don't be afraid, such an existence will not descend!"

Fen Tian said while trembling.

"How do you know?"

"If such an existence were to descend, the timelines in this area would be shredded to pieces."

Fen Tian said;

"In that case... none of these Mother Empresses would survive!"

"Clearly, the other party seems to be using some method to steal the flesh and blood of a very special existence from countless timelines."

"I just don't know if that existence will realize it!"