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After Lin Hao left with the little fox and the Saintess Group, they ran straight back to the Zerg base to find Nan Cheng!
Chapter 109 The Tree Desires Stillness, But the Wind Never Ceases (Business Trip, 6000 words)
Now, apart from their mastery of soul techniques, the three of them are in no way inferior to Nan Cheng in terms of strength. However, out of habit, Nan Cheng is, after all, the most familiar and powerful Zerg Queen on the extraterrestrial battlefield.
Extraterritorial battlefield, Zerg-controlled territory.
Unlike the Terran's barracks bases, the Zerg have completely transformed a 1.2 light-year diameter area of space into the Mother Nebula Cluster.
Whether it's the network of void fungal carpets or the spore clouds that can distort the laws and permeate the nebulae.
All of these are enough to make it impossible for intruders to find a way to attack.
At the very center of this nebula is a supermother hive, its surface covered with fossilized pupal shells of immortal Zerg warriors.
A figure stepped out of the mother nest, and the wrinkled fungal carpet automatically spread out into a blood-red corridor. The creature armor with dark gold patterns wrapped around the graceful curves, but it was not the ferocious form of combat.
The venomous thorns were all gathered into a bone hairpin in her hair bun, and a cold, butterfly-shaped halo appeared at the corner of her eyes.
Unlike the alluring beauty of Fei Ye, Yao Yue, and Lian Xing, this figure blended the sharpness of battle evolution with the seductive charm of the Mother Queen's essence into a highly oppressive beauty.
It was none other than the Immortal Mother Queen—Nan Cheng.
"I was wondering who had come, but the fungal carpet spore community didn't send out any warning signals..."
Nan Cheng walked out of the mother nest with a serious expression, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Fei Ye and the others.
"Hmm? You teleported here. Is this the extraordinary encounter you couldn't describe in detail during the Soul Secret Technique?"
Nan Cheng, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, immediately discovered the blind spot.
"A hundred years ago..."
Fei Ye recounted all of their experiences over the past century.
"That's the situation. 'Ice Mist Realm Lord' Wu Ming is a greater threat than No. 1 Lin Hao! If we can't keep him in our insect race, then no matter how reluctant we are, we can only ask the clan to find a way to destroy him!"
"Are you sure you're not kidding me? This kind of thing can actually happen?"
Nan Cheng looked on in disbelief. "I even suspect that humans have tampered with your souls. Do you dare to let me examine your souls?"
"You! Hmph, I'll investigate then!"
Although Fei Ye felt wronged, she still put the overall situation first. After all, although the internal competition among the Zerg was fierce, at the Immortal level, due to the unified management of the Queen, the open competition among the Queens was greater than the covert struggle.
Nan Cheng's cold fingertips did not touch Fei Ye's forehead directly, but instead flicked his finger.
A faint, almost invisible stream of dark golden light merged into the sprawling fungal carpet below, as if it were alive.
In an instant, the wrinkled fungal carpet that had just been spreading out a blood-red corridor began to pulsate gently as if it had been infused with life. A thin, gauze-like cloud of spores, emitting a slightly sweet and fishy smell, rose from its surface, gently enveloping Nan Cheng and Fei Ye.
This is a unique ritual used by the Zerg Immortal Queens to conduct deep, soul-level communication.
Through the creep network and spore cloud of the Mother Nebula, the fundamental spirits of both parties are briefly connected to the Zerg's unique "symbiotic consciousness sea".
Here, the mental connection will be stronger than ever before, and the exploration will be much deeper.
Nan Cheng's once warm eyes had completely lost their warmth, leaving only a pure and chilling scrutiny.
Her mental power did not forcefully probe, but rather, by leveraging the natural resonance among the insectoids, it seeped into Fei Ye's soul sea like flowing water, capturing every subtle ripple of Fei Ye's soul fluctuations.
Nan Cheng's gaze swept across the area, searching for any trace of soul "impurity" that did not belong to Fei Ye or bore the mark of a forced contract.
Human soul enslavement techniques often leave behind unique, distorted patterns or rune marks that are difficult to completely erase and incompatible with the host's soul.
Time seemed to thicken in this region shrouded in spore clouds.
Nan Cheng's investigation was extremely thorough. Fei Ye's memory orbs flowed normally, her soul anchor remained rooted in the Zerg origin, and her core will was stable...
All appearances point to one fact—Scarlet Night is still the pure, uncorrupted Zerg Queen.
"No...any trace of enslavement?"
While this conclusion arose in Nan Cheng's mind, it did not bring him complete relief.
Because in her deeply immersed perception, an extremely subtle "anomaly" quietly emerged, almost completely integrated with the soul of the Hiyori herself.
That wasn't a trace of a contract, but rather... it was like fragments of 'rhythm' left behind after the interaction of some high-level laws!
They were like wisps of extremely faint ice mist, lingering and dissipating at the very edge of the area where Scarlet Night could comprehend the laws of the soul.
Its core is not the corrosion and devouring familiar to the Zerg, but rather an extremely pure, cold, and all-encompassing... the origin of laws!
Nan Cheng's pupils suddenly dilated.
When his spore resonance touched the edge of the icy mist, his mind instantly became more active...
Something is very wrong!
An indescribable contradiction gripped Nan Cheng's heart.
She felt like she had been inexplicably contaminated from afar...
Reason told her that soul enslavement could never be faked to this extent.
But her intuition was pounding on her nerves—the existence of Wu Ming, the "Lord of the Ice Mist Realm" that Fei Ye and the others encountered, was itself a mystery that defied common sense!
The level of laws he deals with far exceeds the scope of Nan Cheng's understanding.
The "miracles" that happened to Hiya and the others may have their roots hidden in a deeper and more dangerous dimension.
After some investigation, even with Nan Cheng's profound understanding of the soul, he couldn't find any trace of Fei Ye and the others being enslaved.
"I can't make that decision. Here's what you three will do: go back immediately. This is a very important matter, and I will report directly to the Queen!"
Nan Cheng gave the instructions with a solemn expression.
……
Fei Ye and the others had just been teleported back to the Zerg territory from the extraterrestrial battlefield when they were pulled into a vast starry sky by an irresistible force.
A thought pierced through the endless distance of space and descended upon this place.
A beautiful and slender figure could be vaguely seen, surrounded by endless light. Just looking at her figure was enough to enchant a cosmic venerable.
The three Zerg queens, who were usually aloof and high-ranking in public, knelt respectfully without offering any resistance.
Because this graceful figure is none other than the unique ruler of the entire Zerg race—the Zerg Queen!
"strangeness……"
From a purely spiritual perspective, even the Zerg Queen, a true god, couldn't see anything wrong with Fei Ye and the others, but their experiences were simply too bizarre.
In the Queen's eyes, time and space began to rapidly rewind.
The Empress saw the 'Ice Mist Realm Lord Group' and also saw 'Ice Mist Realm Lord' Wu Ming!
She even had the leisure to enjoy watching how Fei Ye and the others improved their understanding of spatial laws through repeated resonance with Wu Ming.
The illusion beads created by the Lord of Chaos City could not possibly escape the notice of the True God.
"So it was him! I never expected that 'Lord of the Ice Mist' Wu Ming and No.1 are the same person!"
The Empress's gentle voice rang out, and then, as if she had thought of something, her eyes, which resembled a nebula, suddenly lit up.
Her slender, fair fingertips touched the ground, without a trace of human presence, yet a vast, primal power that caused the entire Mother Nest Nebula to dim and tremble began to be drawn from her body, thread by thread.
This primordial energy is pure and viscous, containing the vitality and majesty of the primordial universe.
The Empress's ten fingers flew, and threads of primordial energy intertwined and flowed in her palms.
They are not simply intertwined, but rather, under the guidance of an invisible law, they form countless tiny, three-dimensional runes.
These runes are nested and interconnected, with a void vortex at their core that exudes an aura that can attract and imprint the essence of the soul.
The entire process appeared elegant and slow, but in reality, it consumed an immeasurable amount of the Queen's pure essence.
As the last ray of light disappeared into the core of the amulet, the rhomboid crystal, no bigger than a fingernail, landed in Fei Ye's palm. Its smooth surface flowed with a faint light like the birth and death of billions of stars, and the profound "nothingness" at the core made one's soul tremble.
This "Starlight Amulet" may seem like a protective treasure, but its only and most deadly effect is to forcibly anchor and extract a fragment of the wearer's soul from the river of time and space at the moment when the wearer's soul is on the verge of complete annihilation. This fragment contains the most core, the most primordial, and the mark of the true spirit!
Once the capture is complete, it instantly collapses into an unobservable state. Only the Empress herself, who possesses the other part of the "mark," can perceive and awaken this unique chance for resurrection.
This completely eliminates the possibility of the Chaos City Lord or even the Giant Axe Founder resurrecting Lin Hao by reversing time and space.
Fei Ye and the others could clearly sense that the Empress's aura had weakened slightly, but they didn't dare to ask any further questions.
"Feiye, Yaoyue, Lianxing, you have done a great job. Go back to the outer battlefield first. Feiye, take this amulet with you. When he returns, make sure to give it to him. At the same time, do everything you can to win him over! In this matter, you can allocate all the resources of the entire clan!"
"As you command, my lord."
Fei Ye and the others responded respectfully, and then disappeared into the starry sky, returning to the node passage from the Zerg territory to the outer battlefield.
"Interesting! This kind of talent is unheard of! He shouldn't be human; he's the catalyst for our Zerg's rise in the universe..."
After sighing, the empress's graceful figure disappeared into the starry sky, as if she had never existed.
……
The Zerg Queen sat on the amber throne at the heart of the Brood, her countless tendrils forming a mental network that covered the entire Zerg territory.
As all the intelligence converged, those pupils, which had been gleaming with an eerie light, suddenly contracted—
Lin Hao and Luo Feng, two geniuses ranked in the top ten of the human race's ultimate killing list, actually came from the same place: Earth, a remote planet in the Milky Way.
"Interesting... It's a pity I can't personally investigate what secrets this fascinating planet holds..."
The Empress lightly traced the bone patterns on the edge of the throne with her fingertips, a dangerous smile playing on her lips.
She knew all too well the characteristics of the human race's high-ranking officials: Giant Axe carried the burden alone, Chaos was diligent and conscientious, and the rest were not exactly kind-hearted people.
She didn't know before, but now she does. Even if 'Earth' has no secrets, it can still have them!
If those greedy human leaders were to find out, that blue planet buried by cosmic dust would surely become the target of everyone's ire.
With a slight thought, the Empress emitted an invisible wave.
Before long, a series of "secret rumors" quietly began to circulate among the high-ranking members of the human race—
"Have you heard? Lin Hao and Luo Feng come from the same place, 'Earth' in the Milky Way. This 'Earth' might be a treasure that can influence talent!"
"Isn't the Lord of Chaos being too kind to Lin Hao? A treasure like 'Earth' should rightfully be in the hands of the entire human race!"
"That's right, even if Lin Hao is the personal disciple of the Chaos City Lord, he shouldn't monopolize such a treasure. Besides, it's been so long since he's been back to his hometown. It's a waste for Earth to be in the hands of Luo Feng and Lin Hao!"
"Forget it, there's no point in discussing it. We'll have to see what the 'Giant Axe Conference' decides..."