「Qin Hu, Lv. 30/39」
「Life Value: 1.4k, Physique: 1.4k, Spirit: 1.2k」
「Superpower Awakening: Physical Enhancement—Fuses with Spine Zerg cells. When stacked, increases Physique Attribute Value by 50% for ten minutes. Each use consumes 10% of Spiritual Attribute Value.」
「Realm Power: Fearless Realm—When activated, it rallies all beings within a one-kilometer radius who have mastered a Spinal Zerg Realm. Each Tier Three ally increases the Basic Attribute Values of all members by 5%, up to a maximum of 100%.」
「After activating the Fearless Realm, it consumes 100 points of Spiritual Attribute Value per minute. Once the Spiritual Attribute Value drops below 1,000, the Fearless Realm will gradually deactivate, and its effects will continue to weaken.」
「Note: The Fearless Realm is also effective on Tier Two Peak beings who have mastered a Spine Zerg Race Mental Realm. Each one provides a 2% boost to Basic Attributes.」
「Note: The effects of the Fearless Realm do not stack, but multiple users can extend the duration of the effect.」
「Evaluation: The harsh environment of Ceres forged the tenacity and valor of the Spine Zerg Race. To survive and reproduce in such conditions, the power of the group is indispensable, and Fearless is its embodiment. A human Genetic Warrior who masters the Fearless Realm will lead their Mixed-blood Race to tenaciously survive in the apocalypse.」
After reading the Identification of Qin Hu’s Attributes, Lin Feng marveled at the power of the Fearless Realm. When stacked with Physical Enhancement, it could unleash up to 150% of Qin Hu’s own combat strength. At the same time, the boost to his Basic Attributes would also increase his Life Value and bolster his weaker Spiritual Attribute.
It more or less made up for his early-stage deficiency in Spiritual Value.
Moreover, if he could gather twenty Tier Three Genetic Warriors, he could achieve a 150% Physique boost, which was 20% more than Shen Jie’s current maximum of 130%.
However, the two weren’t really comparable. Shen Jie could use his Slaughter Realm to directly enhance his own Physique without any external conditions. He could also extend the duration of his Slaughter State by killing beings of the same tier.
As for Qin Hu’s Fearless Realm, gathering twenty Tier Three Genetic Warriors was incredibly difficult—practically impossible.
Currently, the only Tier Three Genetic Warriors in the world were probably him and Shen Jie.
Including his Tier Two Peak subordinates, the most they could provide was a 60% bonus, and even that boost wouldn’t last for very long.
This was because his subordinate Genetic Warrior team members could suffer various accidents during battle or move outside the one-kilometer-radius area of effect.
Based on a 60% Attribute bonus, he would have 1,920 points in his Spiritual Attribute Value. After deducting the 120 points for activating the fused version of the Physical Enhancement Superpower (10% of his base Spiritual Attribute), he would have 1,800 points remaining. With the Fearless Realm’s terrifying consumption of one hundred points per minute, it could only be sustained for 18 minutes.
And after that, the Mental Realm effects from the other three members with the Fearless Realm would not only have a smaller range, but their duration and amplification would also be greatly reduced.
It was far less effective than Qin Hu himself, who had stepped into Tier Three and obtained 30% of the Fearless Realm Inheritance.
Of course, while the Fearless Realm’s effect was inferior to the Slaughter Realm, its group-strengthening buff allowed the Spine Zerg Swarm to fight against the outliers of their race—the Slaughter King Spine Zergs—on the primitive and harsh planet of Ceres.
This was one of the reasons they could survive and reproduce despite the destruction wrought by the Slaughter King Spine Zergs.
A swarm of ten to twenty Unyielding King Spine Zergs, rallied and led by a Fearless King Spine Zerg, could stop the destruction and attacks of a Slaughter King Spine Zerg, ensuring the safety of the race.
Perhaps this was why the Spine Zerg Race’s three great Mental Realms had been passed down to this day.
Unyielding was the most common among the lower-tiered King Spine Zergs, while the Fearless King Spine Zergs were the leaders of the race. As for Slaughter, they were more like the planet’s predators, responsible for culling the weak, promoting the continued evolution of the Spine Zerg Race, and ensuring the inheritance of the Spine Zergs’ primitive and savage bloodline.
A simple yet complete food chain, writing an epic poem of evolution over hundreds of millions of years on Ceres.
In Lin Feng’s eyes, this was perhaps also an important means for his other subordinate Genetic Warriors to keep Shen Jie in check in the future.
Having mastered the Slaughter Realm, it was highly likely that Shen Jie would follow the old path of the Tier Four Spine King, eventually losing his sanity under the influence of the Spine Zerg Race’s genetic curse and becoming a Mad King.
However, before he could ascend to that throne, the other six Battle Group Leaders who mastered the Fearless Realm, leading the remaining twenty-eight Unyielding Genetic Warriors, would be the final line of defense to stop him if he descended into madness.
At that moment, as Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, contemplating Qin Hu’s Fearless Realm and the possibilities of the future...
Qin Hu, having come back to his senses, slowly climbed out of the cracked Zerg Egg and stood before everyone.
As the Physical Enhancement Superpower—which had been activated by the stimulus—was withdrawn into his body along with his Mental Realm, the malformed Zerg carapace that had proliferated on Qin Hu’s skin began to break off and fall away.
In the end, only a layer of black, soft armor remained attached to his skin, a permanent "scar" of Genetic Assimilation—an indelible malformation.
Ling Yi immediately controlled the Incubation Pyramid, extending several sucker-covered tentacles to clean Qin Hu’s body.
Lin Feng walked forward and gifted a set of Tier Two, orange-grade, Lv. 29 Tiger Armor Arm Guards to him.
"Congratulations, Brother Qin, on officially stepping into Tier Three and becoming a powerful High-tier Evolver!"
Qin Hu slipped on the arm guards and pressed a button on them. They transformed into a suit of Full Body Armor that, combined with his nearly two-meter height, made him look exceptionally solemn and imposing.
The Life Force he had previously lost from overusing his Assimilation State was also significantly restored at this moment.
The white hair at his temples returned to a jet black, and the wrinkles covering his face disappeared.
After absorbing the Life Energy of the Zerg Race Mother Empress, Pang Bo, Qin Hu’s entire appearance seemed to have reverted in an instant from that of a man in his fifties or sixties back to his early thirties.