On the seventh floor of the Trial Tower lay a vast desert. At its very center was a green patch, though it wasn't an oasis. It was simply a stretch of sand whose surface had been stained green.
At the center of the green patch sat a gigantic dark-green sphere, roughly sixty meters in diameter. Its surface was riddled with pits and bumps of various sizes, from which yellow-green poisonous gas seeped. Viscous green poison also trickled across its surface.
This enormous sphere was unpleasant to look at. It was the infamous Zerg Hive, feared throughout the universe.
About two kilometers from the Zerg Hive, Luo Zhiyuan suddenly appeared.
From the original story, he already knew there would be a Zerg Hive on this seventh floor, so he had been looking forward to this level for a long time.
He studied the enormous Zerg Hive with keen interest.
His Light Wings beat lazily, carrying Luo Zhiyuan toward the Zerg Hive. He stopped where the poisonous gas hadn't spread.
He stirred the Spiritual Force in his Consciousness Ocean, then sent a strand of it to envelop the entire Zerg Hive before slowly probing its interior.
He wanted a close look at the hive's structure, and even at the Zerg Mother Emperor hidden inside it.
As Luo Zhiyuan's Spiritual Force entered the hive, the Zerg Mother Emperor within sent out a wave of Spiritual Force, invading his Consciousness Ocean.
A phantom voice seemed to ring beside Luo Zhiyuan's ear, trying to hypnotize and charm him.
But he had long since cultivated the Nine Mountains Secret Technique to the third layer within his Consciousness Ocean. The voice was stopped by three overlapping mountains as soon as it reached his Consciousness Ocean. Luo Zhiyuan heard only a faint, ethereal sound and felt no other