Zerg Mother Emperor

Inside the sixth floor of the first Trial Tower.

Hiss!

A transparent sword beam pierced the skull of the last Starry Sky Behemoth, Cang.

The sixth floor was cleared.

Yun He maintained his pace, keeping his points ranking somewhere in the teens.

Whoosh!

He was teleported to the seventh floor.

Yun He lowered his head to look at the screen on his wrist.

First tower, seventh floor: Zerg Mother Nest. Destroy the Zerg Mother Nest to earn 10,000 points and be teleported directly to the first floor of the second Trial Tower.

Zerg Mother Nest: In reality, even the weakest Zerg Mother Nests rival World Lords, and many rival immortals. The Zerg Mother Nest in this Trial Tower has had its strength proportionally reduced to suit the participants.

Recommendation: Destroy the Zerg Mother Nest as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the more Zerg Warriors it will produce, and the stronger they will be.

Boom!

The seventh floor instantly transformed into a vast desert. At the oasis in its very center stood an enormous sphere, roughly sixty meters in diameter. Its surface was uneven, and wisps of poisonous gas drifted from it. Toxic fluid even flowed over parts of it.

"So this is a Zerg Mother Nest?" Yun He studied it curiously. He knew there was also a World Lord-stage Zerg Mother Nest in Shennongjia on Earth, but he had never gone to see it out of curiosity.

Thus, this was his first real look at a Zerg Mother Nest.

The Zerg were one of the pinnacle races in the universe, capable of rivaling the Human Race. They were a very peculiar race.

One could call their population terrifyingly vast-or pitifully small.

A single Zerg Mother Nest could produce countless Zerg Warriors. One nest was an entire Zerg Legion.

Yet Zerg Warriors possessed extremely little intelligence, if any at all. They had only instinct.

Zerg Warriors obeyed their Mother Emperor's commands absolutely.

Thus, among the Zerg, only the Mother Emperors were truly intelligent beings. If their population was counted by the number of Mother Emperors, it was pitifully small.

Yet every Zerg Mother Emperor could breed countless Zerg Warriors. A single Mother Emperor could occupy an entire galaxy, or even a vast star domain.

In reality, even the weakest Zerg Mother Emperor was at least at the World Lord level. With endless Zerg Warriors under their command, every Mother Emperor was a terrifying, disaster-level existence.

Hiss!

A transparent sword beam cleaved the entire Mother Nest open. A Mother Emperor roughly six meters tall flew out, her entire body pale and translucent like crystal.

She had beautiful, transparent wings, while a faint mist veiled her face like drifting smoke. Her azure eyes were as clear as autumn waters, tinged with melancholy. Even without a clear view of her features, her extraordinary allure was unmistakable. Strange, lovely music rang out, drifting into his ears.

"Trying to charm me?" Yun He stood quietly in midair, looking utterly unconcerned. Instead, he wanted to test the Zerg Mother Emperor's abilities.

It was only the first Trial Tower, after all.

"Zerg Mother Emperors excel at spiritual force attacks and charm." Yun He rubbed his chin, allowing the Mother Emperor to attack his mind and soul.

Hiss!

A surge of spiritual force formed a spike and plunged straight into Yun He's mind.

Yun He frowned slightly. He felt some discomfort, a faint stabbing pain in his mind.

His soul will had been nurtured by the laws. Even without any means of protecting his soul, ordinary soul attacks could not harm it at all.

Yet the Mother Emperor in the very first Trial Tower had caused him a faint stabbing pain. That put Yun He on his guard.

"Soul defense is a major weakness of mine. Once I join the Virtual Universe Company, I need to learn a soul protection secret technique as soon as possible!" Yun He grew wary, taking the issue of soul defense seriously.

Condense!

Yun He's gaze sharpened. He gathered his spiritual force with all his might, forming layer upon layer of protection within his mind.

The Zerg Mother Emperor's soul attacks struck again and again. Yun He frowned as he endured them.

The Mother Emperor's body was frail. Having lost her Mother Nest, she could only rely on mental attacks against her enemy, but she could do nothing to Yun He, whose consciousness was powerful and whose will was firm.

Yet Yun He continued to frown, troubled by his complete lack of soul defenses.

On the seventh floor of every subsequent Trial Tower, he would encounter a Zerg Mother Emperor.

If the soul attacks of the later Zerg Mother Emperors grew powerful enough, Yun He doubted whether he could withstand them.

And what about the arena battles afterward? There seemed to be someone named Illusion Demon Galexi in this competition, a Spiritualist specializing in illusions whose soul attacks were terrifyingly powerful.

Ever since joining the genius battle, every opponent he had encountered had lost with a single glance from him.

Could I end up losing to something like that?

To Yun He, anything he was not absolutely certain of posed a risk.

Where there was risk, something unexpected could happen.

For the cautious Yun He, that was almost intolerable.

He hated surprises.

Hmm?

Would this work?

"Let's try it!"

Yun He tried forming a mixed hole from spiritual force within his sea of consciousness.

Boom!

Within his sea of consciousness, surging spiritual force rapidly formed a vortex. The vortex spun swiftly, soon forming a black hole that enveloped the entire core of his soul.

"How could I be so stupid? Why didn't I think of this sooner?"

Yun He's eyes lit up. When he looked at the Mother Emperor again, he regarded her like a lamb awaiting slaughter.

"Again!" The corners of his mouth curved upward.

Hiss!

The Mother Emperor's spiritual force once again formed a spike and pierced Yun He's sea of consciousness.

Whoosh!

The moment the spike entered his sea of consciousness, the rapidly spinning black hole swallowed it whole. It failed to stir even a ripple.

"That's more like it." Yun He closed his eyes with a smile. He let the Mother Emperor's soul attacks wash over him, as gentle as a spring breeze against his face.

"I think my mixed hole suits me better than any other Soul Defense Secret Technique, doesn't it?"

Since he was using it in the Virtual Universe, the mixed hole in his sea of consciousness had not been constructed with fusion laws. Instead, it was formed from the laws of light and time, so its power might not have amounted to even one percent of a true mixed hole in reality.

The Virtual Universe was formed by the Original Ancestor's Strongest Secret Technique.

It covered the vast majority of the Primal Universe.

Any law the Original Ancestor understood could be simulated within the Virtual Universe.

The Original Ancestor, who stood at the pinnacle of the tenth tier of True Gods and was suppressed in the Core Land of the Primal Universe, clearly considered the universe's ten origin laws, including the eight Beast God fusion laws, nothing remarkable.

As for the Space-Time Fusion Law, that seemed to be the path the Chaos City Lord was pursuing. Yun He did not know whether the Original Ancestor understood it.

And Yun He had no intention whatsoever of testing whether the Virtual Universe could simulate a fusion of time, space, and light.

He tested it for quite a while. Only after confirming that the soul attacks of the Mother Emperor in the first Trial Tower could do absolutely nothing to his mixed hole did Yun He reward her with a sword beam.

"First Trial Tower cleared!"

Whoosh!

Yun He vanished from that floor and was teleported to the first floor of the second Trial Tower.

Recently, many readers have said that the protagonist is too timid. Well, let's have him show off a little more, then.