130: Chapter 130 Holy City Insect Nest and Abyss Infection Pool

The moment the command was issued, Su Chen's mental will receded from the front lines like a tide, refocusing upon his god throne.

The shadows that had carried the Dark Templar Warriors returned to a deathly silence once more, as if they had never existed.

The entire temple fell back into absolute silence.

However, Su Chen's thoughts did not stop because of this.

On the contrary, he was surveying his entire Empire on a much grander and more profound scale.

As the war machine kicked into full gear, massive amounts of resources were flowing with unprecedented efficiency from conquered worlds and torn battlefronts, turning into a surging torrent of data that converged like a hundred rivers into the sea, finally gathering within his singular will.

Biomass, energy, rare minerals... these numbers jumped and piled up frantically in his consciousness, reaching astronomical figures that would leave any civilization speechless.

His gaze pierced through the temple's dome, looking down at the massive nest perched upon the moon below.

War was merely a means.

Evolution was eternal.

While the slaughter on the front lines was important, it was ultimately just consumption. True leaps always originated from the rear.

To prepare for the potential True God-level war that could sweep across the entire sea of stars, he had to forge his Foundation into an impregnable divine kingdom of war.

A single thought crystallized in his mind.

"Activate the 'Biological Divine Kingdom' conversion program."

His will was the supreme Law of the Zerg Swarm.

Rumble—! Boom—!

An indescribable, low-pitched roar echoed from the deepest part of the entire nest. It wasn't a simple sound, but a violent resonance originating from the structural level, as if a heart that had slept for billions of years was awakening at this moment.

The entire Iron Hive began an earth-shattering transformation.

Beneath Su Chen's feet, the hideous bone spikes that originally formed the god throne began to soften and squirm. A layer of dark-gold biological keratin grew out from the gaps in the metal at a visible rate, covering every inch of the surface and rapidly solidifying into shape, with profound and complex energy patterns emerging upon it.

The temple walls were no longer inanimate objects.

They were breathing.

Countless psionic energy blood vessels, thicker than the main cannons of interstellar battleships, proliferated and pulsed deep within the walls. With every contraction and expansion, they precisely delivered energy comparable to a stellar eruption through an incredibly sophisticated neural network to every corner of the hive, every defense tower, and every incubation chamber.

Hum!

Su Chen could clearly "see" layers of brand-new psionic energy shields opening one after another in the outer space of the nest. They overlapped and resonated with each other, forming an absolute defense Domain.

He even performed an instantaneous deduction within his consciousness.

A Lower True God, wielding a Divine Artifact, launched an all-out strike.

Light tore through the Void Realm.

However, that power, sufficient to destroy stars, was rapidly deflected, absorbed, and converted the moment it hit the first layer of shields.

Layer by layer, it progressed; layer by layer, it was weakened.

Finally, when the attack reached the biological armor of the hive's main body, it was already at its limit, only managing to leave a shallow scorch mark that was completely repaired by surging biomass in the next instant.

Defensive power had increased tenfold!

From this moment on, this nest was no longer just a simple fortress.

It had transformed into a living, self-aware planetary heart, armed to the teeth.

Having settled the external defenses, Su Chen's will began to contract inward.

He rose from the god throne and took a step forward; the space in front of him automatically cracked open into a pitch-black rift.

He stepped inside.

A second later, he appeared in the deepest part of the Iron Hive.

This was an absolute forbidden zone that had just been opened. The surrounding walls were covered with hideous living defense turrets. The "eyeballs" of those turrets turned slightly as he appeared, emitting a heart-palpitating psionic energy glow.

The air was thick with a unique scent—a mixture of high-concentration energy and biological pheromones.

Before him was a massive, bottomless pool of blood.

The pool's water was viscous, displaying an ominous dark red color.

Su Chen raised his hand, and a ring shimmering with spatial fluctuations glowed faintly.

A mass of substance was taken out from it.

It was a mass of viscous, squirming black matter without a fixed shape, looking like living asphalt. The moment it was taken out, the surrounding light distorted.

[Rank 10 Silver Demigod Grade · Demon Mother River Essence].

This was the product of the Zerg Swarm devouring the corpses and Souls of billions of demons during the previous "scorched earth policy" that swept through the entire Abyss Outpost Plane. The Mother Hive had spent a huge price to extract this most fundamental manifestation of chaos and corruption Law.

It was, in itself, a fragment of the Abyss Plane's will.

"It is time to open the 'Infection' tech line, the most evil and powerful one."

A near-fanatical flame burned in Su Chen's eyes.

He no longer hesitated.

"Deploy!"

With a toss of his arm, that mass of black essence representing endless corruption traced an arc and fell toward the blood pool.

Plop!

That wasn't the sound of a heavy object falling into water.

It was like a drop of boiling oil falling onto a calm lake.

No, it was like dropping it into an ocean of high explosives!

Roar—!!!

The entire Mother Hive—or rather, this "planetary heart" that had just completed its transformation—let out a roar of extreme satisfaction from the depths of its Soul!

The massive blood pool instantly boiled violently.

Black mist surged up from it, twisting and circling in the air to form countless hideous, pained, yet relieved ghostly faces. They roared silently before being torn apart and swallowed by an even greater power.

In the center of the pool, a massive vortex was forming.

Next, a brand-new building slowly rose from the bloody water amidst the tooth-aching sounds of bone growth and flesh tearing.

It was a creation whose horror was beyond words.

Its main body was a massive, constantly opening and closing stomach-like structure, its surface covered in folds and mucous membranes. Around it grew hundreds of thick, frantically squirming tentacles, each ending in a mouth filled with sharp teeth.

Black slime, emitting a strong scent of sulfur and rot, constantly seeped from the gaps in the stomach, dripping onto the hard biological alloy floor.

Sizzle— Sizzle—

Deep pits were corroded into the ground, giving off nauseating black smoke.

A line of cold System prompts appeared on Su Chen's retina at the right time.

[Congratulations! Building incubation successful!]

[Name]: abyssal infection pool (Lower God Rank)

[Functions]:

Forced Infection: Captured prisoners of war (Humans/Angels/Demons/Dragons, etc.) can be thrown into the pool. Using the Origin power of the Abyss Mother River, their will is forcibly cleansed, and their Soul imprint is erased, transforming them into "The Infected" who only obey the Dominator. The conversion process fully retains all their former classes, skills, and combat experience, and they gain Zerg Physique bonuses (HP +50%, Pain Perception -100%).

Genetic Hotbed: The pool provides an extremely chaotic and high-concentration energy environment, making it an excellent place for cross-species and cross-attribute gene Fusion experiments (Warning: Failure rate is extremely high and may lead to unpredictable genetic collapse. For example: Light and Dark Fusion).

Su Chen walked slowly to the edge of the pool, looking down at the churning black water emitting the scent of corruption.

He felt the terrifying power within it, capable of twisting all life forms. The long-brewing, almost insane plan in his heart finally had a Foundation for implementation.

Dominator of Light, Lumina.

His first hero unit: powerful, pure, and loyal.

But precisely because her light-based genes were too pure, she had always been unable to perfectly integrate into the Zerg Swarm's mainstream System. When facing enemies with certain specific attributes, she was easily countered.

This was a major flaw.

And now...

"If... I use this infection pool as a furnace, and combine it with the 'Disintegration Virus' that the Vampire Grand Duke is about to 'deliver' as a key..."

A clear blueprint unfolded in Su Chen's mind.

It was the strongest unit from his past life's game memories, the one that swept through the Universe and made all races tremble—

The Hybrid.

They possessed the God Race's unparalleled psionic talent and the Zerg Swarm's inexhaustible, powerful physical body.

Light and dark achieved a perfect symbiosis within them; chaos and order merged as one in their Souls.

They had no weaknesses.

"No, just one isn't enough."

"What I want to build is... a Hybrid Legion."

Su Chen stuck out his tongue and lightly licked his somewhat dry lips, his eyes full of undisguised greed and anticipation.

His gaze seemed to pierce through the layers of the nest's barriers, through the endless Void Realm, and landed on the distant Abyss battlefield.

He seemed to see that Vampire Grand Duke named Dracula carefully holding the "gift" he dreamed of, stepping onto the stage he had meticulously prepared.

"Demons, hurry up."

He whispered softly to the empty forbidden zone.

"My laboratory is already starved and impatient."