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A soul?

Liu Zhi froze for a moment, not quite understanding what the voice meant.

The voice didn't hurry him. It simply waited in silence.

It took Liu Zhi about ten minutes to finally react. He closed his eyes and used the perception he relied on for Soul Extraction to see everything before him.

The moment he looked down, he froze.

The enormous ore had vanished. In its place, a gigantic female phantom, resembling a Titan construct, was writhing. She looked enormous, yet exquisitely formed. Rather than seeming like an ordinary woman made gigantic, she seemed as though she had been born that way.

As she moved, Liu Zhi noticed that parts of her body turned translucent with every gesture. Through her transparent form, he could see a celestial body made of starlight, much like the constellations he had seen before, with bright stars connected by lines.

Soon, Liu Zhi's attention shifted away from the woman's celestial form. He understood why she had asked him to use his soul to see what lay before him.

Liu Zhi now saw three or four souls that looked like balls of starlight clinging to the woman's back and arms. Nearby, another seven or eight similar souls were pressing toward her.

Liu Zhi knew these souls well. They were just like the one he had extracted from the Level 4 Zerg Mother Nest.

"This is..." Liu Zhi stared at the souls for a moment, then asked, "Is this why you brought me here?"

"Yes. These are one of the Zerg's methods. I encountered them during the last great war. They're a species unique to their Level 4 Mother Nests, called Star Spirit Insects or Soul Insects. A Level 4 Mother Nest can produce only one Star Spirit Insect in its lifetime.

"These insects are