157: Empty Worm Queen

He moved like a phantom through the swarms, each flick of his finger unleashing a highly condensed psionic beam that precisely pierced the vital points of a bug—its compound eyes, its mouthparts, its energy core!

Wherever the beam passed, whether it was tough carapace or an energy shield, it was torn apart as easily as paper.

A few breaths!

In just a few breaths!

The hundreds of menacing Gold-level Void Bugs that had swarmed him were like meat thrown into an invisible grinder; dismembered limbs, shattered carapaces, and splattering bug fluid rained down like a storm, creating a thick, foul-smelling "carpet" at the rift's entrance.

When the last Blade Hunter was impaled through the head by Lin Feng's psionic beam and fell twitching, the entire entrance area plunged into an eerie silence.

Even the chaotic battlefield in the distance seemed to pause for a moment due to the instant clearing of this area.

Lin Feng didn't even glance at the bug corpses littering the ground; his gaze pierced through the chaotic energy storms and the raging beast and bug seas, fixating on the deepest part of the rift!

There, an aura more terrifying, more ancient, and more rapacious than peak Transcendent power was slowly awakening, like a sleeping world-devouring behemoth!

The mere mental pressure it exuded caused Lin Feng's soul to sting, as if countless cold, malicious tentacles were trying to burrow into his mind!

"The source!"

Lin Feng growled, no longer hesitating in the slightest.

He had to find it and eliminate it before this terrifying entity fully awakened and completely took control of the situation!

Otherwise, the entire Weiyang, and even the entire Dragon Country, would be doomed!

"Go!"

Lin Feng snarled at the Alien Queen, his figure transforming into a streak of light as he unhesitatingly plunged into the chaotic, bloody, energy-raging depths of the rift!

The Alien Queen followed closely, like his most loyal shadow, her dark silver figure flashing in and out of the chaotic light and shadows.

The spatial structure inside the rift was extremely unstable, filled with violent spatial turbulence and energy storms.

Lin Feng activated his protective psionic energy, moving like a ship cutting through waves, hurtling through floating boulders, entangled beast and insect corpses, and constantly exploding energy clusters.

The Alien Queen, on the other hand, displayed astonishing spatial adaptability; she sometimes clung to the twisted spatial folds like a gecko, moving swiftly, and sometimes short-distance teleported through gaps in the chaotic energy, perfectly avoiding the most dangerous energy turbulence.

The deeper they went, the more tragic the traces of battle became.

Shattered beast corpses, mountains of insectoid remains, and huge craters blasted by powerful forces were everywhere.

The air was thick with the suffocating smell of blood, char, and a unique, cold metallic sweetness peculiar to the void.

The terrifying pressure from the deepest part also grew stronger, like a physical sledgehammer, constantly pounding Lin Feng's spirit and will.

Finally, after passing through a labyrinthine area composed of countless massive, twisted purple crystals, the scene before them suddenly opened up, yet instantly sent Lin Feng's heart plummeting!

This was an unimaginably vast "cavity" located at the core of the rift!

It was as if all the energy of the entire spatial rift converged here, supporting this terrifying nest that existed independently of reality.

At the center of the cavity was the eye of the energy storm, and the source of that terrifying aura!

Lin Feng saw her!

The Void Insect Mother!

Her form had transcended the realm of "biology"; she was more like a living nest composed of flesh, energy, and twisted rules!

Her main body was a giant, translucent, constantly pulsating sac-like structure over a hundred meters in diameter!

The sac wall was a bizarre dark purple, covered with a dense, spiderweb-like network of crimson energy veins, filled with viscous, eerie green liquid that creepinged like a living thing.

Countless not-yet-fully-formed insect eggs floated in the liquid, and through the sac wall, one could see the curled-up outlines of various larval forms, greedily absorbing nutrients provided by the mother.

Below the sac-like structure, countless thick energy tentacles extended, like the roots of a giant tree!

These tentacles were deeply embedded in the "ground" below, which was composed of shattered space and strange minerals, furiously drawing energy from the spatial rift itself, and simultaneously, like the most terrifying whips, constantly lashing out at any approaching beasts or out-of-control insects!

Each strike carried the shriek of tearing space!

Above the sac-like structure, dozens of fleshy pipes extended, like giant chimneys, covered with holes.

These pipes continuously spewed out dense crimson mist, highly corrosive and spatially disruptive; it was these mists that formed the chaotic energy field within the entire rift and constantly expanded outwards, attempting to erode the real world!

Countless tiny worker insects, like aphids, busily shuttled between the pipes, maintaining the mother's operation.

Directly in front of the sac-like structure, a relatively "petite" structure, like the head of a giant worm, protruded.

This should be the Insect Mother's "consciousness core" or "head."

It had no eyes, only an abyssal maw that occupied most of its "head," filled with layers of spiraling, razor-sharp teeth!

The maw was dark and deep, as if connected to the endless void, constantly dripping viscous saliva that corroded the rocks below.

Waves of suffocatingly powerful mental fluctuations spread out from this maw like a tide, commanding the entire insectoid army, while also emitting maddening mental pollution!

Her body surface was not pure biological tissue but covered with a thick layer of dark silver, metallic-sheened bone plates!

The texture of these bone plates was remarkably similar to the Alien Queen's exoskeleton!

Only they were thicker, much larger, and covered with profound and twisted natural patterns, as if absorbing and converting the surrounding violent spatial energy!

Around her, dozens of elite insectoid guards, even more ferocious in form and far surpassing pseudo-Transcendent in aura, stood guard!

Some were like moving bone-spur fortresses, others like killing machines with multiple pairs of energy-bladed wings, and some were like pure energy phantoms, exuding heart-pounding fluctuations.

They were like the most loyal imperial guard, vigilantly patrolling the surroundings; any approaching beasts or out-of-control insects would be instantly torn to shreds by them!

At this moment, this terrifying Void Insect Mother seemed to be in a critical stage of "awakening."

Her enormous sac-like mother nest pulsed faster and faster, the crimson energy veins glowed brightly, and the crimson mist she spewed became even denser.

Her worm-like head slowly lifted, and her abyssal maw slowly opened, as if roaring silently, a more terrifying, more rapacious will, as if to devour the entire world, swept through the entire core cavity like an invisible tsunami!

Lin Feng and the Alien Queen's figures, before this living, awakening, terrifying nest, were as insignificant as dust!

However, Lin Feng's eyes burned to their extreme at this moment!

Fear?

Yes!

But more than that, it was the desperate resolve of burning his bridges!

Found it!

The source of everything!

He must stop her!

At all costs!

"Target locked! Insect Mother's core!"

Lin Feng's voice rang out in the mental link, cold and firm.

The power of rules within him began to condense frantically, like a volcano about to erupt!

The Alien Queen also crouched low, the muscles beneath her dark silver bone armor taut, her inner jaw poised in her mouth, her deadly bone tail slowly rising like a viper!

The final showdown was imminent!