One day later.
At the entrance leading from the fifth layer to the Sixth Layer, everyone was ready. Each had brought themselves to peak condition.
"Let's go."
They rose into the air, crossed the scorched earth of the sixth layer, which had been plowed by lightning and claw marks, and headed straight for the Seventh Layer without stopping. Passing through the Space Gate, they felt refreshing air brush their faces. The desert world was as vast and desolate as it had been seven days earlier.
They flew for a long time.
"That green sea ahead should be where large numbers of Mother Empress Lashabel's offspring have gathered," Wangcai said, pointing into the distance.
Everyone looked in the direction he indicated.
The black pyramid had originally stood alone in the middle of the desert. Now, a vast green ocean surrounded it.
That was not water, but living plants. Hundreds upon thousands of oases had been forcibly relocated around the pyramid by the Mother Empress. Each oasis was an offspring monster.
Countless roots and vines writhed and churned within the green sea, like a boiling pot of thick green soup.
Wangcai's Thunderous Force strike had truly frightened Lashabel. She had gathered every offspring she could summon, building this multilayered defensive line around the black pyramid.
"Hahaha... I thought you two had fled back to the sixth layer in terror. To think you actually dared to return."
A clear voice rang out over the green sea. Thousands upon thousands of roots glowing green rose from its center, holding an alluring female body suspended in midair.
It was Mother Empress Lashabel. Nearly transparent green roots slowly circled her, like a cloak behind a monarch. She looked down at the group below with undisguised contempt in her voice.
"Oh? So you brought help." Lashabel's gaze