117: Chapter 117: Extracting the Half-Step Transcendent Entry, the Zerg Overlord is Obtained

"It's almost time."

Lin Yuan watched the sleeping Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree and whispered to himself.

Once Plane 093 is completely conquered, it will definitely be able to cross that threshold.

For the current Wasteland Divine Domain, annexing a Diamond-tier plane is only a matter of time.

Withdrawing his gaze, Lin Yuan focused his Mental Energy on the open space in the center of the Divine Domain.

He flipped his wrist.

The Royal Larva from Plane 093 appeared in his hand.

Looking at this thing, Lin Yuan couldn't help but feel a sense of relief after much hardship.

For the sake of this item, he had gone in and out of Plane 093 several times, almost losing his life in the spatial turbulence.

"Let me see what is hidden inside here."

A dark gleam flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes as he fully activated [Creation Extraction].

Several dark gold chains emerged from the Void Realm, tightly binding the larva.

A sharp mental shriek came from the other side.

"Shut up."

Lin Yuan moved his intent, and the chains tightened.

"Snap!"

The dark gold chains ignored physical defenses and pierced into the larva's fleshly Origin.

It extracted frantically.

The larva's flesh shriveled and weathered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A ball of light containing Laws with high-ranking suppression power was pulled out along with the chains.

"Extraction successful. Obtained Half-Step Transcendental Trait: [Swarm Sovereign]."

"Trait effect: Can forcibly tamper with, override, and take over the mental connections of low-tier species of the same Origin, ignoring conventional spatial barrier obstructions."

Lin Yuan checked the trait attributes, and his heart stirred.

This was exactly what he needed most.

With this trait, he would be able to disintegrate the opponent from within during the next invasion.

Lin Yuan flashed and arrived directly above the underground insect lair.

His Mental Energy swept across the vast underground labyrinth.

The scene before him made Lin Yuan's breath hitch slightly.

The strength within the swarm was secondary.

What shocked him even more was the form of the swarm.

During the grand exam, those gene fragments that the insect race devoured.

Now, they had been completely digested by the insect race mother.

The previous generation of Soldier Insect, which were entirely pitch-black and relied only on "arthropod slashing," had died out completely.

What appeared before Lin Yuan were brand-new monsters born after countless generations of iteration and natural selection.

On the Divine Domain panel, this army had been renamed: [Heaven-Devouring Insect Race].

Looking around, the entire insect lair was divided into distinct troop type zones.

On the outermost perimeter were the most numerous [Mad Scythe Shadow Lurker Insects].

They fused the genes of the Gale Sword Servant and the Shadow Nightmare.

Their body size shrank to about two meters, their forelimbs evolved into bony dual blades, and their surface was covered with a layer of shadow film that absorbed light.

Their speed was extremely fast; they were assassins born entirely to shred the enemy's backline.

In the rocky wall area on the left, hundreds of thousands of [Nether-Uranium Heavy Armored Insects] were entrenched.

This was the perfect combination of Crystal Rock Titan and Heavy Armored Gargoyle genes.

Their body size expanded to eight meters, and the surface of their carapaces presented a rough texture mixed with amethyst and rock.

As they walked, the ground sank slightly; they possessed inherent gravity field resistance, making them perfect position pushers.

In the acid pool on the right, [Corrosive Poison Bursting Beasts] were densely soaked.

The water affinity of the Deep Sea Naga and the corrosive venom of the Poison Swamp Monster had mutated within them.

They had no limbs, and their abdomens were swollen into spheres filled with high-pressure toxic sludge.

Once they engaged the enemy, they would launch a suicide charge, and the toxic sludge was enough to melt Platinum-tier Law shields.

And at the top of the insect lair, hanging upside down, were all [Psionic Plasma Insects].

The energy Laws of the Thunderstorm Lion and the Light Unicorn were forcibly kneaded together.

Their tails were entwined with blue and white intertwined electric arcs, capable of firing high-energy plasma balls with a range exceeding two kilometers.

This filled the insect race's long-standing weakness of lacking long-range heavy firepower.

Numerous and diverse.

But every form brought the characteristics of specific genes to the extreme.

Lin Yuan even discovered that when the insect mother bred these offspring, it perfectly utilized the three Diamond-tier traits extracted previously.

They logically became the cornerstone of the various troop types.

Nothing else, reproduction is supreme.

In the insect race's evolutionary dictionary, survival is the absolute truth.

"Well done." A look of satisfaction flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

He raised his hand, his intent locking onto the deepest part of the insect lair.

There, four thousand insect race elites, reaching ten meters in size and with auras all stabilized at the Platinum tier, were guarding the Insect King and the insect mother.

This was currently the most core combat force of the entire Abyss-Devouring Insect Race.

"Bestow."

Lin Yuan slapped the Half-Step Transcendental [Swarm Sovereign] light ball in his hand directly toward those four thousand insect race elites.

A full forty-six million faith points were deducted.

Lin Yuan's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

In order to plunder Plane 093, he had purchased Star Gate keys, recovery potions, and Void Armor-Piercing Shuttles.

Added to this trait bestowal, he had already poured in over one hundred million faith points in total.

If he didn't devour this plane entirely and squeeze it dry, interest and principal alike, Lin Yuan felt he wouldn't be able to sleep soundly in the future.

The light ball exploded, turning into four thousand streams of light that submerged into the centers of the insect race elites' brows.

"Hiss—!"

The four thousand Platinum elites hissed toward the sky.

The bones on the tops of their heads split open, growing a tentacle resembling a crown.

Patterns extremely similar to the Royal Larva appeared on the carapaces of their bodies.

Class pressure spread out with a bang.

Inside the entire insect lair, millions of various insect races all stopped their activities.

They prostrated themselves on the ground in the direction of these four thousand elites.

Lin Yuan looked down at the Insect King and the mother, descending his oracle.

"From now on, stop all meaningless fighting."

"Fully cooperate with these four thousand elites possessing the Dominator trait to expand and reproduce."

"Pour all resources and all flesh into the offspring possessing this trait."

"All other individuals that have not inherited the trait are to be converted into nutrients."

The insect race mother, whose body was as huge as a mountain, and the Insect King standing on high, simultaneously raised their heads.

They let out sharp hisses, accepting the order and obeying.

The insect race reproduction machine began to operate in full swing.

Lin Yuan looked at the bustling and orderly prosperous scene below.

"Once I devour that Diamond plane, these insects might even dare to go head-to-head with the Tyrant Demon race."

This thought flashed through Lin Yuan's mind.

The insect race will definitely reap the biggest version bonus next season.

Lin Yuan shook his head.

He cast out the superfluous thoughts in his mind.

The life, death, and evolution of his dependents are determined by fate; he is only responsible for providing resources and direction.

His consciousness returned to reality.

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze falling on his left shoulder.

The surface of the flesh looked intact, but deep within the bone marrow, the dark purple World Power was still colliding.

The curse descended by the insect mother burning the plane's Origin was not something easy to deal with.

Lin Yuan did not go to buy healing holy medicine, nor did he seek help from his mentor.

He closed his eyes, replaying in his mind over and over the life-and-death moment in Plane 093 when he was locked onto by the insect mother and pierced through the shoulder by a bone spur.

That feeling of powerlessness as if the whole world was collapsing and his vitality was being stripped away.

After fusing the [End and Origin] Divine Godhead Fragment.

Lin Yuan knew very well that the Breakthrough between life and death was never just for his dependents.

The deity himself also needed to experience this kind of extreme baptism.

The insect mother's desperate strike was a devastating attack.

But if it could be deconstructed, it would be top-tier Law firewood.

Lin Yuan composed his mind.

He did not mobilize Divine Power to forcibly expel the dark purple energy, but instead completely released the blockade.

"Come."

Lin Yuan let out a low shout.

The dark purple energy, like a wild horse breaking free from its reins, followed the meridians of his left shoulder and rushed toward his internal organs.

Excruciating pain.

Muscle fibers disintegrated under the impact, and his blood was dyed black.

Lin Yuan's eyes were vacant; in his Sea of Consciousness, the dark gold divine fire burned quietly.

He immersed his mind completely in this destructive force.

In his mental vision, there was no physical pain, only the purest evolution of Laws.

He saw the collapse of Plane 093 when the insect mother went berserk, and he saw the void storm swallowing stars.

This momentum of destroying everything began to resonate with the "Wither" character formula in the Divine Art [Wither-Bloom Mark] he had comprehended.

What is at the end of destruction?

Lin Yuan guided this force and began to approach his heart.

Just as the dark purple energy was about to crush his heart.

Within the divine fire, the faint glow of the fused Divine Godhead Fragment suddenly jumped.

[End and Origin].

A trace of vitality erupted from the deep silence of death.

"Thrive."

Lin Yuan uttered a word in his heart.

The dark purple energy attempting to destroy his body suddenly stagnated.

The next moment, they were forcibly guided and reversed by a higher Law of vitality.

The collapsed muscles were rewoven, and the black blood shed its Death Qi.

Lin Yuan's Divine Power was tempered and elevated bit by bit in this cycle of life and death alternating.

This was an extremely slow and dangerous process. A slight carelessness would result in death and the dissipation of the Dao.

But he didn't care.

Time passed quietly inside the villa on the Dead Star.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

...

The morning of the fifth day.

Lin Yuan, who had been sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly opened his eyes.

A flash of gray-black flickered in the pupil of his left eye.

A flash of emerald green danced in the pupil of his right eye.

The two completely different colors faded away after an instant, returning to normal black and white clarity.

Lin Yuan raised his left hand and looked at his shoulder.

The dark purple curse on his left shoulder had disappeared.

A layer of streamlined Law patterns faintly flowed beneath his skin and flesh.

He did not directly achieve a Breakthrough in Realm.

But he could feel his control over the [Wither-Bloom Mark].

It had changed from rigid execution into an instinct like breathing.

The World Power from the Diamond-tier plane had already been devoured and assimilated by him, becoming a part of his own deity foundation.

"The harvest is passable."