140: Chapter 140: Heresy

The sword light of Li Xuan's Reincarnation Sword Nine ultimately failed to bloom.

Turbulence from the Void Realm seeped in, about to grind this Sword Cultivator into pulp.

Just when Li Xuan was falling into despair, the surrounding sea of insects moved.

Tens of thousands of Heavy Armor Beetles and Mad Sickle Shadow Blade Beetles did not retreat.

They charged headlong into the collapsing space rift, launching a suicide attack.

The Heavy Armor Beetles in the front row leaped high, jamming their dark uranium armored shells into the Void Realm rift.

The Void Realm's cutting force tore their bodies apart; green body fluids and shattered internal organs were scattered everywhere.

The Zerg in the rear stepped on the remains of their companions, filling the gap wave after wave.

Tens of thousands of Zerg corpses piled up at the edge of the rift, suppressing the momentum of the spatial collapse for half a second.

This half-second determined Li Xuan's fate.

A dozen of the largest Blade Beetles lunged from the flanks, their articulated limbs acting like precision mechanical hooks.

They pierced Li Xuan's shoulders, collarbones, and thighs.

Agonizing pain struck, and the last trace of Qi remaining in Li Xuan's body was forcibly severed.

The sword light extinguished, and the fragments of the Azure Underworld Sword fell onto the dark purple Wasteland.

The Blade Beetles exerted force simultaneously, pulling backward violently.

Li Xuan's battered body was dragged back from the edge of the Void Realm and slammed heavily onto the hard rock.

He didn't even have the strength to struggle.

His Meridians were completely destroyed, his Golden Core shattered, and his left arm broken.

A sense of weakness flooded his brain; Li Xuan rolled his eyes back and fell into a deep coma.

Seeing this, the Zerg army quickly divided the work.

Thousands of Heavy Armor Beetles stacked layer by layer, pressing Li Xuan's body at the very bottom to form a cage of flesh.

Another group of Worker Insects dispersed their formation, quickly searching through the ruins of the explosion.

On the high-temperature melted glass-like ground, a Worker Insect's antennae probed into the scorched earth, digging out a polyhedral crystal.

mechanical core.

The Worker Insect clamped the crystal with its mouthparts and turned to crawl toward the rear of the army.

In mid-air at the edge of the battlefield.

Forty thousand Dominator Bugs clad in silver-black interlaced exoskeletons hovered in the air.

There was no emotional fluctuation in their narrow compound eyes, only computing power running.

The Worker Insects presented the mechanical core, and on the other side, Li Xuan's heavily suppressed body was also exposed to the Dominator Bugs' sight.

A massive spiritual network connected.

Forty thousand Dominator Bugs began to deconstruct the data of these two trophies.

Spiritual tentacles swept over Li Xuan's body.

"Abnormal bone density, unknown energy circulation circuit, no Abyss radiation residue detected."

The spiritual tentacles turned to the mechanical core.

"High-density inorganic creation, containing a compressed energy matrix internally. No vital signs. No living metal characteristics detected."

The Dominator Bugs fell into brief confusion.

They were born in the Wasteland Divine Domain and had experienced countless genetic screenings.

Their database was filled with the wing structures of Demon Vultures, the bite force parameters of Bone Fish.

The karmic fire temperature of Fire Spirits, as well as the gravity and Shadow Lurker Laws of the Tyrant Demons.

These two things were completely beyond their scope of cognition.

The aura was wrong. The composition was wrong.

Even the most basic brand of the Wasteland Divine Domain Laws was missing.

The Dominator Bugs felt a trace of instinctive fear.

This fear did not stem from the strength of these two remains, but mainly from the unknown.

The entire world was the creation of the God Lord.

The God Lord's will shrouded the firmament, inviolable and unfathomable.

These two anomalies appeared out of thin air and were very likely new variables introduced by the God Lord.

Or perhaps some secret experiment the God Lord was conducting.

If the Zerg were to decompose and devour them without authorization, destroying the God Lord's layout, the result would inevitably be a catastrophe.

In the spiritual network, the forty thousand Dominator Bugs quickly reached a consensus.

Exceeding processing authorization, must report.

The only entity in the Wasteland Divine Domain that could represent the supreme will and possess the power of adjudication was the Demon Tree in the Central Basin that pierced through heaven and earth.

After the decision was made, the Dominator Bugs issued a brand new command.

In the front, the cannon fodder phalanx, which had lost one-third of its numbers due to the nuclear explosion and battle, regrouped.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of insect swarms did not stop for a moment; they adjusted their formation and continued to step onto the scorched earth heading toward the far north volcano.

The suicide mission could not stop.

The progress of genetic screening must not be interrupted by any unexpected events.

After arranging the front line, the forty thousand Dominator Bugs personally escorted Li Xuan's body and the mechanical core.

They changed direction and flew at full speed toward the base camp on the New Continent.

Crossing a million kilometers of Wasteland.

The landscape of the New Continent had long been rewritten by the Zerg.

Within sight, thousands of conical insect nests were scattered across the dark purple plains.

In the sky, dense clouds of Plasma Bugs patrolled like dark clouds, blockading the air superiority here.

The sea of insects surged, and Worker Insects tirelessly transported Ore and prey remains.

The Dominator Bug army landed in the deepest part of the insect swarm's center.

Here, there were no dense insect nests, only a vast circular open space.

In the very center of the open space grew a shocking behemoth.

This was a blood-colored giant tree thousands of meters high.

Its size formed an extreme contrast with the small red trees around it that averaged only over three meters tall.

The surface of the thick trunk was covered with dark red veins, flowing with high-concentration biological energy.

On the branches hung bulging tumors that pulsated rhythmically, emitting the aura of alluring high-tier resources.

This was the masterpiece that the entire Zerg race had spent a hundred years and poured all their efforts into creating.

Before the Zerg King fell into a deep slumber, the supreme command left behind was "Secure third, contend for second."

The Dominator Bugs had deduced the war situation countless times, and the conclusion was always desperate.

The Violent Demon Race occupied the Central Basin, exclusively enjoying the resource feedback of the 100,000-meter Demon Tree.

As long as the Demon Tree was in the hands of the Violent Demon Race, the Zerg would never be able to cross the class barrier.

If they couldn't snatch the Central Demon Tree, then they would build one themselves!

For a hundred years, the Zerg had piled 60% of the New Continent's prey remains and high-tier Ore.

All at the roots of this originally ordinary small red tree.

To ripen it, tens of millions of low-level Zerg even voluntarily cut off their vitality, turning into fertilizer.

Pouring their own flesh and blood and Soul into the soil without reservation.

Quantitative change finally triggered a qualitative change.

This sub-tree mutated.

Not only did its size skyrocket to thousands of meters, replicating the low-spec version of the Central Demon Tree's abilities, but it also derived a brand-new function.

[Consciousness Anchor]

As long as a sufficient price of flesh and blood is paid.

The root system of the sub-tree could briefly resonate with the main body of the Central Demon Tree, causing its projection to descend here.

Forty thousand Dominator Bugs hovered under the blood-colored sub-tree.

They placed the unconscious Li Xuan and the mechanical core on an altar at the intersection of the tree roots.

Around them, ten thousand Royal Guard Insects formed a formation, sealing every inch of space within a hundred miles.

The awakening ceremony began.

The spiritual ripples of the Dominator Bugs spread.

Hundreds of thousands of large Worker Insects crawled out from all directions, dragging mountains of high-tier flesh and blood remains.

Among these remains were the torsos of Platinum Rank Bone Fish, the heads of Demon Vultures, the three heads of Bone Blade Bats...

Massive amounts of flesh and blood piled up at the roots of the sub-tree.

The blood-colored sub-tree came back to life.

Dark red roots broke through the soil and pierced into the pile of flesh and blood.

The absorption began.

Visible to the naked eye, those high-tier flesh and blood quickly shriveled, weathered, and finally turned into a pile of gray-white powder.

Unimaginable, pure biological energy followed the root system of the sub-tree.

Piercing through the earth veins of the Wasteland, crossing endless distances, and transmitting directly toward the direction of the Central Basin.

Meanwhile.

In the Central Basin, at the center of the Blood Abyss Sea.

The 100,000-meter-tall Liquid Metal Blood-Devouring Demon Tree vibrated slightly.

The nascent intelligence of the Demon Tree was boredly manipulating its root system, extracting energy from the turbulence of the Void Realm.

Although the Void Realm energy was massive, it was too impure, mixed with spatial fragments and time turbulence.

It was extremely difficult to eat, requiring a lot of energy to filter and digest.

At the beginning, the Demon Tree thought it was quite delicious, but after a long time, it realized that it just hadn't eaten anything good before.

At this moment.

Smooth, pure flesh and blood energy suddenly surged into its core from the depths of the earth veins.

This energy did not have a trace of Impurities and also carried the unique mellow fragrance of Zerg genes that had been tempered a thousand times.

It was too comfortable.

It was like, after getting used to eating rough tree bark, it was suddenly stuffed with a big mouthful of top-grade marbled Wagyu beef.

The Demon Tree's consciousness instantly cleared up by three points.

It stopped extracting Void Realm energy and projected a strand of its main consciousness over.

New Continent, Zerg base camp.

On the surface of the blood-colored sub-tree's trunk, the dark red bark split to both sides.

Liquid metal seeped out, quickly intertwining and wriggling.

In just a few seconds.

A faceless human face outline condensed and formed on the surface of the trunk.

Accompanying the appearance of this face, the pressure belonging to an epic top-tier building descended upon the entire world.

The surrounding air was evacuated, and gravity experienced chaos at this moment.

Forty thousand Dominator Bugs lowered their bodies at the same time, prostrating on the ground.

The spiritual frequency of the Dominator Bugs reached perfect unity at this moment.

Forty thousand brains converged into one, and the prayer sound was transmitted into the depths of the Demon Tree's consciousness.

It carried the unique coldness of the Zerg, yet revealed a fanatical religious color.

"Agent of the Supreme Will."

"Watchman of the God Lord's Glory."

"The swarm offers you the nectar of flesh and blood. At the edge of the Wasteland, we have captured an unknown heresy."

"Its body does not tolerate the Law of the God Lord, and its creation contains no aura of the Divine Domain."

"The swarm is dull and does not dare to act rashly upon the God Lord's chessboard. We implore the Agent to cast down the Dharma Eye and adjudicate the life and death of the heresy."