For now, ensuring his own safety came first.
"At the very least, I need several hundred ordinary Ninth-Orders, and the more, the better."
Xu Zhi calculated frantically. "Otherwise, the race's 'destiny' will be too weak. The power gathered by the Zerg protective barrier simply won't be able to block the scrutiny of a Tenth-Order!"
But that number was far too enormous.
One had to know that Xu Zhi had only a handful of ordinary Ninth-Orders under his command. Meng Mei, who had just broken through, could count as one, a Ninth-Order without perfected genes.
What about the others? There were practically no ordinary Ninth-Orders in the second echelon.
After all, it was a civilization barely over ten thousand years old. Its accumulation was far too shallow!
Several hundred of them would be hundreds of times the Zerg's current numbers. Gathering them all at once would not be easy.
"But it's not impossible! Working with the Buddhist sect to secretly convert a large number of Ninth-Orders would be the fastest and simplest method!"
It was not that he could not directly transform them into Zerg like Naisela did, but that would take too much time and effort. Viral infection was more practical and faster.
"It seems it's time to launch the first true Zerg war. If I don't crazily swallow enough to become fat in one bite, struggling through this Nebula Destruction Great Calamity to seek even a sliver of survival, something really might go wrong."
"Tenth-Order... truly terrifying, yet so alluring."
He murmured silently and slightly closed his eyes. "But the forces I can currently mobilize are somewhat limited!"
The Cosmos Garden was completely useless here. After all, Medusa was its only combat force, and her true strength could not increase quickly.
On Moon God Ji's side, Ji Shang and