299: Nirvana Worm

In just one second, it transformed from an inconspicuous piece of minced meat into a colossal stitched beast over a thousand meters long, composed of twisted flesh, shattered armor, and wailing Souls.

"I haven't lost yet!"

The Myriad Devouring Mother Empress's resentful and mad will erupted from within the giant beast.

At the last moment, she abandoned all her fleets and ninety-nine percent of her biomass, condensing all her life Origin and will into this final battle form.

This was her true trump card.

The stitched giant beast let out a silent roar, opening its massive mouth, formed from countless warship wrecks. It didn't attack the Gravekeeper's fleet, but instead aimed at the numerous wrecks of the Star Lord's fleet floating above the battlefield.

An indescribable suction force erupted from its mouth.

Those wrecks, whether biological tissue or stellar alloy, were all swallowed whole under this suction.

It was devouring, devouring all the legacy of its former ally, the Star Lord.

As large quantities of wrecks containing Star Divine Power and high-level biological genes were swallowed, the stitched giant beast's size began to expand and evolve again at a visible rate.

"This is..."

Even the Timelord, who was accustomed to all sorts of anomalies, felt his unperturbed state of mind churn with colossal waves for the first time upon witnessing this insane scene.

This monster before him had exceeded all definitions of known anomalies in his database.

"Roar!"

The evolved giant beast let out a roar that could shatter stars, directed at the sky.

But it didn't immediately launch an attack.

Its massive body twisted sharply in the Void Realm, transforming into a dark red stream of light. It didn't rush towards the crown, nor towards the Gravekeeper's fleet, but instead towards the distant darkness, vanishing without a trace in an instant.

It had also escaped.

The Timelord quietly watched the direction it disappeared, without ordering a pursuit.

He knew very well that with the speed and power the monster had just displayed, even he didn't have absolute certainty of being able to keep it.

Moreover, his primary goal remained the crown.

He reached out his hand again, this time without any obstruction.

The crown of the era slowly settled into his palm.

"Mission complete, returning."

The massive Gravekeeper's fleet turned its ships around, carrying their final spoils of this journey, and returned to the Continent of Bones.

This chase game surrounding the crown seemed to have finally come to an end.

Scarlet Swamp, the Myriad Devouring Mother Empress's lair.

The stitched giant beast descended from the sky, crashing into the center of the swamp and slowly merging into this land of flesh.

The entire Scarlet Swamp boiled violently because of this.

An unprecedented surge of immense energy, filled with the aura of evolution and creation, spread wildly from the center of the swamp in all directions.

The entire Scarlet Swamp was rapidly evolving from a simple biomass incubator into a more complex and complete super-life integrated entity.

The Myriad Devouring Mother Empress's will echoed throughout her dominion.

She was digesting, digesting the Star Lord's Divine Power, digesting the genes of those high-level creatures.

"If I can turn his genes, his technology, into my nourishment..."

A thought, mad to the extreme, rose in the Myriad Devouring Mother Empress's will like a black sun.

As this greedy will was issued, the rapidly expanding Scarlet Swamp's method of expansion suddenly became bizarre.

Countless tiny biological spores, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, erupted from the giant tumors, carried by the energy currents like a silent, world-sweeping rain of dandelions, drifting to every corner.

They landed on neglected floating islands, on rushing energy rivers, and within shattered ruins.

Then, silently, they took root and sprouted.

Patches of inconspicuous creep began to secretly spread in the dark corners of the world, like cancer cells.

They were a massive, ever-expanding neural network, continuously feeding all information of this world back to the mother body.

The Myriad Devouring Mother Empress was subtly transforming the entire Kindling into her own nest, her own sensory organs.

She was waiting.

Waiting for the optimal moment to cast the net she had long prepared for her most coveted prey.

However, this schemer, who had undergone Nirvana in a crushing defeat, did not know that while she focused all her attention on her distant prey, a group of the most professional thieves had silently infiltrated the heart of her seemingly impregnable lair.

At the edge of the Scarlet Swamp, beneath a natural cover formed by giant ribs.

Charon, Black Widow, and Shui Gu stood like three statues integrated with the environment, quietly observing the violently evolving land of flesh.

"Tsk tsk, what an incredible monster."

Black Widow licked her lips: "Abandoning the crown, choosing to devour and evolve."

"This guy's vision is much broader than that Star Lord whose head is only filled with muscles and glory."

"Its evolution speed is too fast."

"It's analyzing the Star Lord's Divine genes, attempting to fuse them with its own biotechnology."

"Once successful, it will become a truly immortal, infinitely evolving Divine-Grade creature."

"By then, let alone us, even the Gravekeeper holding the crown may not be its match."

"So, we need to give it some fun before it completes its evolution, right?"

Black Widow looked at Charon.

Charon didn't answer, merely pulled out the brass coin again and tossed it high.

The coin tumbled in the air for a long time before slowly falling.

Heads, the ferryman and the Styx.

"It seems today is suitable for sending people on their way."

Charon put away the coin, his gaze fixed on the deepest part of the Scarlet Swamp.

There, a core area pulsed like a giant heart; it was the Myriad Devouring Mother Empress's energy hub and the dwelling place of her will.

But their target was not there.

Instead, it was a subtle but crucial organ next to the heart: the core brain pool.

That was the super biological computer the Myriad Devouring Mother Empress used to process information and control her world-spanning creep network.

That was the true brain of this giant beast.

"Move."

At Charon's command, the three figures, like three drops of ink merging into the ocean, silently vanished from their spot.

The infiltration began.

The Scarlet Swamp's defenses were an inescapable net.

On the ground were endless aggressive patrol units, in the sky were biological reconnaissance eyes with no blind spots, and even the air floated with miniature spores capable of analyzing foreign matter.

Any intruder would be instantly overwhelmed by an unending tide of insects.

However, all of this was meaningless to the ruin hunters.