137: Chapter 137 Divine Compression and the Construction of the Psionic Defense Line
Consciousness withdrew from the noisy temple, returning to the silent and magnificent Divine Domain.
The ecstasy and amazement that erupted over a single semi-Divine Artifact receded like the tide, isolated in another world.
Su Chen's will descended upon the highest point of the Brood Nest.
Beneath his feet lay the boundless creep, like a purple-black, breathing living continent.
In the distance, viscous genetic raw fluid rolled within the spawning pool, emitting a rich aura of life.
In the entire world, only the cold and efficient operating sounds unique to the Zerg Swarm remained.
【 Star-Crushing Behemoth · Behemoth 】.
These six words burned brightly deep within his consciousness like a newly ignited star, releasing infinite gravitational pull.
Hatch it.
Immediately! Right now!
This thought transformed into the most primitive impulse, nearly tearing his sanity apart.
He longed to see that walking mountain rise from the ground, longed to personally command this ancient Titan, and grind all obstacles into dust.
But the next instant, this frenzy was forcibly suppressed by an absolute calmness.
Su Chen's gaze pierced through the barriers of the Divine Domain, looking toward the endless Void Realm.
He could feel that just outside the temple, countless bright or hidden gazes were greedily patrolling and spying, like a school of sharks in the deep sea that had caught the scent of blood.
A new god born less than a year ago, yet possessing such a vast Divine Domain and a startlingly large number of dependents.
He had long since become a piece of fat in the eyes of others.
Hatching the Behemoth at this moment—the commotion would definitely not be comparable to the minor stir caused by the birth of the Thunder Beast King Hyperis.
That would be an energy storm sweeping across several Divine Domain planes.
The moment of its birth would be its most vulnerable moment.
This was no different from lighting a bonfire in front of a hungry pack of wolves and then slowly roasting a lamb coated in honey.
That was not displaying power, but seeking one's own death.
"Sharpening the axe will not delay the woodcutting."
Su Chen's consciousness echoed throughout the entire Zerg Swarm network, cold and absolute.
"Zaz."
A respectful thought immediately replied: "Dominator, I am here."
"Suspend all external expansion operations."
"All units wandering outside, withdraw them all to the Divine Domain. Seal off all external passages."
Su Chen issued an unprecedented order to hunker down.
"We are going into seclusion."
"As you command, my Dominator."
Zaz's will had not the slightest doubt, only the most thorough execution.
The moment the order was given, the entire Divine Domain seemed like a precision war machine that had had a special switch pressed.
On the borders, the billions of Zerg Swarm units fighting against indigenous creatures retreated like a receding tide.
The lands that had just been covered by creep were abandoned without hesitation.
Countless Zerglings, Hydralisks, Roaches... converged into streams of steel, following fixed routes, silently returning to the interior of the Divine Domain.
A brand new, absolute defense era had begun.
For the entire next month.
Su Chen poured all his energy into "Internal Skill Cultivate" (Internal Skill Cultivation).
He sat cross-legged within the biological chamber at the top of the Brood Nest, surrounded by slowly pulsating translucent flesh tissue, with countless nerve bundles and energy conduits converging from all directions, connecting to his body.
The massive amount of faith points accumulated over these past few months through war and spreading faith were now mobilized without reservation, like a flood breaking through a dam.
These pure energies were not used to hatch new Zerg Swarm units, nor were they used to expand the creep.
They had only one target—the Divine Spark within Su Chen's body.
He was doing something extremely dangerous, one could even say insane.
Compressing the divine portfolio.
The Divine Spark is the core of a deity's authority and power.
In Su Chen's Divine Spark, three distinct yet interrelated powers of rules were intertwined.
【 Gale 】 representing speed and cutting.
【 Torrential Rain 】 representing erosion and coverage.
【 Thunder 】 representing destruction and judgment.
These three powers, like three unruly cyclones, each acted on its own within his Divine Spark; although he could mobilize them, there was huge internal energy friction between them.
And what Su Chen had to do now was to use his own will as a furnace and massive amounts of faith points as fuel to forcibly condense, forge, and smelt these three gaseous rule powers under high pressure!
He wanted to compress them from their diffused gaseous state directly into an extreme solid state!
He wanted to forge a unique one belonging only to himself—【 Thunder Divine Spark Crystal 】!
Boom!
When the first wisp of faith points crashed into the Divine Spark, attempting to forcibly fuse the three rules, an indescribable, sharp pain instantly pierced through Su Chen's Divine Soul.
That was not physical pain, but a tearing sensation originating from the level of the rules.
The Gale was cutting at his will, the Torrential Rain was eroding his divinity, and the Thunder was crazily bombarding the Foundation of his Divine Spark.
The slightest carelessness would result in the shattering of his Divine Spark and the fall of his divine position.
But Su Chen's will was as hard as eternal ice that never melts.
Enduring this tearing, not only did he not retreat, but he mobilized even more faith points, squeezing inward even more crazily!
"Condense!"
Accompanied by a roar from the depths of his Soul, the energy storm inside the Divine Spark suddenly intensified.
What he wanted was a burst quality of Divine Power several times greater than now.
What he wanted was for every strike in the future to carry an unrivaled crushing power!
Meanwhile.
While Su Chen was undergoing an extremely dangerous internal transformation, an insanely grand civil engineering project was also taking place on the periphery of his Divine Domain.
Hundreds of millions of Drones, like the most diligent engineers, worked twenty-four hours a day without interruption.
The earth shook and roared.
One, ten, one hundred...
Thousands of hideous and terrifying 【 psionic energy Spore Anti-Air Towers 】 rose from the ground like a forest of steel growing out of Hell.
These hundred-meter-tall biological buildings had huge spore chambers at their tops, inside which flickering, deep blue psionic energy light shone, illuminating the entire sky of the Divine Domain into an eerie blue.
They were densely packed and layered, completely sealing off every inch of airspace, forming an anti-air matrix that would make any flying unit feel despair.
And beneath the ground, the scale of the project was even more terrifying.
The Drones dug out a dense, spiderweb-like network of underground tunnels, burying millions of egg-sized 【 Biological Landmines 】 and countless 【 Burrowed Banelings 】 like sowing seeds under every inch of creep.
Above ground was a jungle of death.
Below ground was fertile soil of death.
The entire Divine Domain had turned into an airtight war fortress, a steel hedgehog that killed upon touch.
It was silent, lying in wait, waiting for the arrival of prey.
When Su Chen opened his eyes again, the energy storm inside the Divine Spark had subsided.
A deep blue crystal, the size of a fingernail but seemingly carrying an entire thunderstorm nebula, floated in the center of his Divine Spark, rotating slowly.
With every rotation, billions of tiny electric sparks were born and died inside the crystal.
He had succeeded.
His gaze pierced through the flesh chamber, overlooking his masterpiece.
psionic energy towers stood like mountains, and the earth hid murderous intent.
"Come."
Su Chen looked at this impregnable defense line, his eyes flashing with a cold, chilly light; it was a kind of anticipation mixed with absolute self-confidence and cruelty.
"No matter which blind fool wants to come and fish for benefits."
"After coming out of this seclusion, I will make the whole world tremble for the Zerg Swarm."