25: Chapter 25 The Ultimate Evolution of the Spore Tower and the Abyss Mother Tree
The empty echoes in the altar still lingered in Su Chen's ears.
"God of Corrupt Corpses, your divine artifact is useless now."
A cold smile, carrying a sense of absolute control, slowly spread from the corners of his lips.
He gazed at the existence floating before his eyes.
That drop of "origin of myriad poisons."
It wasn't simply black; it was an absolute void left behind after light had been completely swallowed.
An ultimate creation, a concentration of a hundred million concepts of death.
Under its presence, the surrounding space was silently corroded and distorted, pulling out fine black cracks and emitting a tooth-aching 'sizzling' sound.
Simply perceiving its existence caused Su Chen's divine soul to feel waves of stinging pain, as if being sliced by a thousand cuts.
This thing was too overbearing.
It had transcended the category of 'matter' and was the highly condensed form of the concept of 'lethal poison' itself.
Su Chen's gaze swept across his Divine Realm.
In an instant, several plans flashed through his mind.
Should he bestow it upon the Zerg's top combat unit, Queen of Blades Sarah?
The moment the thought arose, he immediately rejected it.
No.
Although Sarah's genetic sequence had reached perfection through countless evolutions, her core was still 'biological.'
Using a body of flesh and blood to carry the origin of a concept was no different from using a thin piece of paper to wrap a fusing star.
The only outcome would be Sarah's genetic chain being completely collapsed and torn apart from the lowest level by this overbearing origin, eventually turning into a puddle of meaningless organic matter.
That wouldn't be an enhancement; it would be murder.
This drop of 'origin of myriad poisons' needed a carrier.
A carrier large enough, resilient enough, and with a primitive enough life form that it could be completely reshaped.
A perfect 'vessel.'
His will was like a fixed coordinate, firmly locked onto the only final target.
Su Chen's vision pierced through the temple walls, bypassed the Spawning Pool and the still-evolving Hive, and finally landed at the entrance of the Divine Realm.
There stood a silent giant tower.
A Rank 5 defensive structure—the 'Toxic Spore Tower.'
It was one of the oldest defensive sequences of the Zerg, with no complex thoughts or exquisite structures, only the most primitive instincts for growth and defense.
Its roots were deeply embedded in the earth of the Divine Realm, drawing the most basic elemental energy, its vitality so exuberant it was almost barbaric.
Perfect.
A canvas resilient enough, large enough, and 'blank' enough.
"It's you then."
Su Chen's voice was very soft.
With a slight movement of his divine sense, the floating drop of 'origin of myriad poisons' was wrapped in a gentle divine power and slowly drifted toward the entrance of the Divine Realm.
The process had to be extremely cautious.
Every slight vibration of this origin caused the shell of divine power wrapping it to emit an overwhelmed wail, as if it would collapse at any moment.
Beads of sweat seeped from Su Chen's forehead once again.
Controlling this thing consumed even more mental energy than the hundreds of millions of genetic deductions he had performed before.
Finally, that pitch-black liquid that swallowed light arrived beneath the Toxic Spore Tower.
The tower's roots were intertwined like coiled giant pythons, deeply embedded into the rock layers.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Chen guided that drop of origin and gently pressed it into the thickest main root of the Spore Tower.
There was no world-shaking explosion.
There wasn't even a sound.
The moment the pitch-black liquid touched the root, it merged in silently, like mercury spreading over the ground.
One second.
Two seconds.
A deathly silence enveloped the entire Divine Realm.
The next moment.
Rumble—!!!
The entire earth let out an overwhelmed groan of pain.
Bottomless, massive canyons spread frantically in all directions with the Spore Tower as the center.
The tectonic plates beneath his Divine Realm rubbed and collided violently, triggering a terrifying earthquake that far surpassed any natural force.
The sleeping Zerg units were instantly startled awake, letting out uneasy hisses.
But Su Chen's will had already turned into the firmament, firmly suppressing all Zerg units in place, commanding them to quietly witness this unprecedented 'rebirth.'
Under the forced rewriting of the Legendary Rank genes, the Spore Tower began a hair-raising mutation.
Crack! Crack!
Its roots, deeply planted underground, were no longer satisfied with the meager energy of the shallow soil.
With an unstoppable momentum, they pierced through the hard rock layers and tore through the thick crust.
Finally, they plunged directly into the magma layer deep within the core of the Divine Realm!
The scalding magma, shimmering with dark golden light, was treated as the purest nourishment by those frenzied roots and drawn upward incessantly.
The body of the Spore Tower began to swell visibly to the naked eye.
It was no longer simple growth.
It was drawing energy from the entire Divine Realm to undergo an unimaginable reconstruction!
The originally dozens-of-meters-tall tower body, as if injected with the breath of a god, grew upward at a speed that defied the laws of physics.
One hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
Three hundred meters!
A massive shadow enveloped nearly half of the Divine Realm, and the light of the sky was obscured by this colossus rising from the ground.
Finally, its height was fixed at a staggering five hundred meters!
The original outer skin, which had a plant-like fibrous texture, began to peel off and fall away in layers, turning into drifting ash.
In its place was heavy, hideous purple-black biological armor.
The surface of that armor was covered with eerie curves and spikes, glinting with a cold, metallic luster, as if forged from the firmest substance in the abyss.
Upon the armor, countless massive crimson compound eyes slowly opened.
They were densely packed, distributed irregularly across every corner of the tower body, each one as large as a room.
They turned silently, their pupils devoid of any emotion, containing only the purest, coldest will for destruction.
Every compound eye reflected the distorted light in the sky, radiating a pressure that made the soul tremble.
At the top of the tower.
The massive vent originally used to spray spores had now turned into a bottomless pitch-black hole.
At the edge of the hole, flesh and tissue writhed and proliferated, forming layers of hideous ring-like structures.
Whoosh—
A dark purple mist slowly exhaled from that opening.
That was no simple poison mist.
Wherever the mist passed, space emitted a sizzling sound of corrosion, and even the light became viscous and dim.
A row of brand-new golden information, shimmering with an epic luster, unfolded before Su Chen.
【Name】: Abyss Toxic Mother Tree (Rott)
【Rank】: Rank 7 (Epic-Tier Biological Building)
【Armor】: 8.0 (Immune to most physical and magical damage)
【Skill】: Abyss Poison Mist (Full map coverage, reduces all enemy attributes by 30%, deals continuous True Damage)
Su Chen's gaze fell upon those lines of data.
Rank 7 Epic.
The rank alone was enough to crush the ace units under the command of most deities.
An armor value of 8.0, combined with the 'Immune to most physical and magical damage' trait, meant it was an indestructible war fortress.
And the most terrifying part was its skill.
Abyss Poison Mist.
Full map coverage!
Reduces all enemy attributes by 30%!
Continuous True Damage!
This was no longer something that could be defined as a 'defensive tower.'
This was a mobile, battlefield-wide ultimate domain that integrated powerful weakening with defense-ignoring execution!
Su Chen looked at this gatekeeper standing between heaven and earth, like an ancient demon god crawling out of the abyss.
He knew that the outcome of this war was already decided.
His Divine Realm had become a true forbidden zone of death.