This meeting was to plan the final battle of the northern support campaign. All Tier Three individuals were required to attend and learn their assigned roles.
Ling Yi didn’t hesitate, placing Liu Yueqi into a brand-new Tier Two Zerg Egg. Just as it did when gestating Tiger Spine Zergs, Ling Yi began to channel the Incubation Pyramid’s immense Life Energy through the egg to accelerate her recovery.
Soon, Liu Yueqi visibly recovered to her peak condition. The color returned to her cheeks, and her face glowed with vitality. At the same time, the powerful aura of a Tier Three Awakener radiated from her once more.
Ling Yi walked up and asked about her Awakening process.
Liu Yueqi took out her Thousand Slash Saber and slowly drew the blade. A moment later, a piercing, white-gold wave of light surged from the palm of her hand, flowing from the hilt into the blade itself.
The entire blade was completely enveloped by this powerful Energy, making it resemble a Light Saber.
Before, her Molecular Cutting Superpower could only gather a thin layer on the blade’s edge. But now, amplified by her Realm Power...
Liu Yueqi’s Thousand Slash Saber had become a vessel for her Mental Realm, transforming into an unparalleled and indestructible weapon—the only one of its kind on Blue Star.
Feeling the monumental change in the Energy within her, Liu Yueqi sheathed her Thousand Slash Saber and began to explain.
"During my advancement, my consciousness entered a sealed space. To escape, I had no choice but to use my Superpower, the only ability I had, to break through the walls."
"But the space regenerated far faster than I’d imagined. At first, I couldn’t even break the walls faster than they could repair themselves."
"I had no choice but to try again and again, honing my technique with the Molecular Cutting Superpower..."
As Liu Yueqi recalled her Awakening, a golden light flashed in Lin Feng’s eyes. He used Identification on her, revealing her Attributes now that she was fully recovered:
「Liu Yueqi, lv30/39」
「Life Value 1.4k, Physique 1.4k, Spirit 1.5k」
「Superpower Awakening — Molecular Cut」
「Molecular Cut: Concentrates internal Energy into a single point, releasing a force capable of severing molecular bonds and ignoring the Defense of any complex biological Life Form.」
「Realm Power — Shattering」
「Shattering Realm: An evolution of the Molecular Cutting Superpower. Possesses all the effects of Molecular Cut, but can also release numerous streams of Molecular Cut Energy, concentrating them into an atomic-level blade edge that severs all bonds.」
「Note: Concentrating a single miniature Atomic Blade consumes 1 Spiritual Attribute Value. Can directly sever Tier Two Orange Weapons and Equipment. When dealing continuous Damage, the Damage stacks until the target is completely shattered. Release will cease when Spiritual Attribute Value drops below the base value of 1,000.」
「Evaluation: All things in the universe are interconnected, but everything moves from order to disorder, from high energy to low. The Shattering Realm merely accelerates this process. Physical severing is only its most basic expression. Perhaps one day, it will be able to cut all connections—including the rules of reality itself!」
After reading the description and Evaluation for Shattering, the Realm Power Liu Yueqi had awakened, Lin Feng felt it was yet another testament to his keen judgment.
’Stacking the Molecular Cutting Superpower hundreds or even thousands of times results in a qualitative leap.’
’Now, Liu Yueqi can sever the Giant Mandible of a Tiger Spine Zerg by spending just one point of Spiritual Power. Breaking the physical Defense of a Tier Three Life Form will be a piece of cake.’
’If one strike isn’t enough, she can do ten, a hundred, or even a thousand!’
’Eventually, one of those strikes is bound to break through any Golden Quality Weapon, Equipment, or Biological Material.’
For breaching and assault operations, Liu Yueqi’s role would be irreplaceable. As far as Lin Feng knew, he didn’t possess a single weapon with armor-penetrating power comparable to the Shattering Realm’s Atomic Blade.
Take the Hunter Emperor’s Chainsaw Sword, for example. While its blades were also made from a Mother Empress’s Golden Plate Bone, its greatest weakness was the material itself.
Cutting through the extended Neck Guard of the Mother Empress’s Brain Marrow Plate Bone had caused wear, reducing its Durability. Besides that, the material’s strength was only equivalent to a level 33 Plate Bone; there was no way it could cut through the head of the level 36, Tier Three Mid-stage Perfection Mother Empress.
But Liu Yueqi’s Shattering Realm was different.
Enveloped in that piercing white light and combined with the fact that her saber was forged from the Plate Bone of an Early Stage Perfection Mother Empress, Lin Feng believed she could easily destroy any Golden Quality Material up to Tier Three.
The Hunter Emperor’s Chainsaw Sword only had ten points of Durability, but the Atomic Blades from her Shattering Realm scaled with Liu Yueqi’s own power, allowing her to create them by the hundreds or even thousands.
As long as she had a suitable weapon to act as a vessel, Lin Feng believed her ability would become one of their trump cards against Tier Four Cosmic Life in the near future.
As Liu Yueqi slowly recounted her experiences in the Spirit World, the others gradually understood that her ordeal had been no less arduous than receiving a Realm Inheritance.
Without a specific method of inheritance to guide her, Liu Yueqi had been forced to figure out how to form her own Mental Realm by herself in that sealed space...
That was why she had remained in the Egg Pod for so long.
Her Tier-Jumping Upgrade had also taken longer than Qin Hu’s.
Fortunately, she had figured out how to unleash her Superpower in rapid, high-frequency bursts, causing the vibrational frequency of her Molecular Cut to spike.
It was like unleashing two, three, or even more than a dozen strikes in the time it normally took for one.
Without increasing the Energy cost, she had multiplied her Damage output several times over...
After breaking out of that space, she entered a new one where she met many people she once knew.
These included her grandparents, her mother, and her aunt, Liu Ruojiao.
These were all just spiritual constructs, manifestations of her own thoughts. She didn’t elaborate on this part of the experience, skipping ahead to the moment her Shattering Realm finally took form.
As Liu Yueqi’s account came to a close...
Shen Jie and his team, who had infiltrated deep behind enemy lines into the Western Capital City during the pre-dawn northern raid, finally returned to the main Hive at Yunxia Ridge, appearing before the group.
However, Shen Jie was not in good condition. His face was deathly pale, as though he had overexerted his Realm Power, and the team members behind him were in a similar state.
Many had suffered grievous injuries, such as severed legs and hands or mangled torsos.
Fortunately, these Genetic Warriors had all reached the Tier Two Late Stage Peak. Activated by the Spinal Zerg Realm, the potent Zerg genes within their bodies rapidly repaired their wounds, allowing them to barely cling to life.
Seeing their state, Lin Feng quickly had them go and feed on the fully incubated Tier Two Zerg Eggs that had been collected.
The larvae inside were rich in nutrients, and aside from containing Zerg toxins, their texture was actually far superior to the viscous Organic Nutrient Liquid.
In the eyes of the Genetic Warriors, they were a rare delicacy.
They had conquered two Hives in one fell swoop, and the amount of resources they plundered was immense. Of the fully incubated Zerg Eggs alone, there were sixty or seventy.
It was enough for each Genetic Warrior to have two.
While the others began to feast, Shen Jie carried one of the eggs over to Lin Feng’s group.
After greeting the newly advanced Tier Threes, Qin Hu and Liu Yueqi, Shen Jie stopped in front of Lin Feng.
He sighed and shook his head, his expression full of regret.
Lin Feng patted his shoulder. "Sit down."
"You can eat while you talk. We’re not in a rush."
Shen Jie nodded. He reached out with a five-clawed hand covered in Zerg Armor, tore a large chunk of tender white flesh from the abdomen of the snow-white larva inside the egg, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Unlike the other Tier Two Peak Genetic Warriors, the Tier Two Zerg Eggs didn’t have much of a healing effect on Shen Jie.
Because of this, Lin Feng had Ling Yi bring over some flesh that had been carved from the Mother Empress’s corpse.
After eating over a hundred pounds of the Mother Empress’s flesh, the color visibly returned to Shen Jie’s face. Chewing on the soft larval meat in his hand, he began to speak.
"We failed..."
"The Mid-stage Mother Empress we were trying to contain west of the Capital City realized that the two Early-stage Mother Empresses on the front lines had gone silent. It immediately chose to migrate its entire brood..."
"It tried to lead its Zerg to the North to rendezvous and ally with the northern Mother Empress."
"So I immediately led my Genetic Combat Team to intercept it..."
"But that Mid-stage Mother Empress was dead set on escaping."
"It sent out hundreds of Samurai Hunter Zergs to hold us back."
"Ultimately, we ran out of stamina, fell into an encirclement, and nearly became lost in the complex, shifting tunnels of the Underground Hive."
"It wasn’t until we found a path to the surface that we escaped..."
"At our closest, I was less than a kilometer from that Mid-stage Mother Empress. I could even sense that its power wasn’t as great as the two outside Yunxia Ridge."
"It’s just a shame... we still let it get away!"
Lin Feng sighed softly.
"It’s alright. You did your best."
He then stood up and said,
"Now, let’s discuss how we’re going to kill the two Mid-stage Perfection Mother Empresses right here at Yunxia Ridge!"