Chapter 406 The Seven-Colored Crystalline Core

Above this seven-colored crystalline core was an energy conduit about the thickness of a thumb. The seven-colored crystalline core hung below this conduit, swaying gently from side to side. Perhaps it was just an illusion, but Li Chenzhou felt that the light of the seven-colored crystalline core seemed to be growing increasingly dazzling.

"Grizzly! Time!"

Upon seeing the seven-colored crystalline core, Li Chenzhou immediately shouted in the communication channel.

"Two minutes and thirty seconds!"

Grizzly naturally knew that Li Chenzhou was asking about the cooldown time of his Gale Step skill. He had already used Gale Step once, and it would take another two minutes and thirty seconds before he could use it again!

"Two minutes?"

Hearing Grizzly's answer, Li Chenzhou narrowed his eyes, then issued another command:

"Everyone, cover me!"

"Chief! Wait..."

Hearing this, Grizzly was shocked and quickly shouted while looking towards the war chariot where Li Chenzhou was located.

Previously, when Li Chenzhou gave the soldiers war chariots, he would teleport the soldiers into the chariot, then teleport himself out, and immediately exchange for another one. Therefore, the war chariot where Li Chenzhou was now was the last one he had exchanged.

In this chariot, besides Li Chenzhou, there were only a dozen or so soldiers. Although they were all from Li Chenzhou's world, Li Chenzhou couldn't even remember their names, and Grizzly wasn't in this chariot either.

Just as Grizzly shouted, Li Chenzhou had already handed over control of the war chariot to one of the soldiers inside. Then, with a thought, he teleported outside.

"Swish!"

As soon as he appeared outside, Li Chenzhou immediately activated the War Fog. Seeing that Li Chenzhou had already rushed out, Grizzly immediately roared in the communication system:

"Full firepower, cover the Chief!!!"

The other war chariots immediately began to provide full cover for Li Chenzhou, while Li Chenzhou, under the cover of the War Fog, used the energy conduit to continuously approach the seven-colored crystalline core!

After the range of the War Fog expanded, the benefit was not only that Li Chenzhou could affect a larger area, but also that it made it more difficult for enemies to lock onto him so easily.

For example, in the beginning, the War Fog only had a ten-meter radius. Although the enemies shrouded within couldn't see Li Chenzhou, those outside the War Fog could easily find Li Chenzhou's location.

Because the War Fog was centered on Li Chenzhou and moved with him, anyone with a little bit of brains could use this to find Li Chenzhou's location.

But when this range expanded to a hundred meters, it became more difficult to find the center point of the War Fog. After all, the range was too large, and the margin of error would also increase.

Moreover, because all the war chariots were gathered together, the War Fog also completely enveloped Grizzly's and the others' war chariots. Because of the characteristic that it wouldn't affect their own people, all the soldiers on Li Chenzhou's side were unaffected by the War Fog, and immediately launched a counterattack.

The first things they cleared out were naturally the Devourers around Li Chenzhou. After being shrouded in the War Fog, these Devourers had no ability to counterattack or dodge, and were instantly killed in large numbers.

Li Chenzhou ignored these Devourers. His only goal was the seven-colored crystalline core.

The Mother Empress also sensed Li Chenzhou's actions, so she began to mobilize large numbers of Devourers to intercept Li Chenzhou.

Although the Mother Empress was also affected by the War Fog, Li Chenzhou was inside her body, and he was also climbing upwards with the help of her energy conduits and hatching nests, so the Mother Empress could sense Li Chenzhou's location.

Li Chenzhou's actions made the Mother Empress feel extremely dangerous. Therefore, the Mother Empress even gave up attacking the other soldiers, whether it was those soldiers from other worlds who hadn't died completely, or Grizzly and the others who were hiding in the war chariots to cover Li Chenzhou. The Mother Empress gave up on all of them. Almost all of the Devourers were shooting at or charging towards Li Chenzhou.

Perhaps because the situation was too tense, no one noticed that the Mother Empress's hatching speed had begun to slow down again. This was because the Mother Empress had once again entered the process of evolution.

This was an evolution that the Mother Empress had initiated on her own. Although the Mother Empress herself knew that if she started evolving now, she might be killed because of it, she knew that these humans would not easily let her go.

But the Mother Empress had no choice. If she hadn't started the evolution process during the previous concentrated fire, her crystalline core would have been completely destroyed, and she would have definitely fallen along with it.

Therefore, after discovering that Li Chenzhou's and the others' war chariots were aimed at her crystalline core, the Mother Nest had no choice but to start the evolution again. Moreover, this time, the evolution she started was not the kind of life form evolution from before, but a single-entity evolution.

The meaning of single-entity evolution was that the Mother Nest's evolution this time was to break through her own level, not an evolution of her life form. The evolution of a life form was the evolution of the entire Devourer race, while a level evolution would only improve the Mother Empress herself.

In other words, the Mother Empress's previous evolution would comprehensively improve her entire life form, including her hatching ability, life intensity, and so on.

After completing that kind of evolution, the Devourers she hatched afterwards would change their life forms, which would be equivalent to the entire Devourer race being improved.

And now, the Mother Empress's evolution was somewhat similar to the evolution of Xiao Xin (pinyin), which could only improve her own level and would not change her life form. In other words, even if the Mother Empress completed the evolution, the Devourers she hatched afterwards would be no different from before, and even their levels would not be able to break through. They would still be Devourers of the highest level, Level Nine!

These two kinds of evolution were worlds apart for the Mother Empress, but the Mother Empress had no choice, because she had no choice. If she didn't quickly improve her level, what awaited her was death.

Therefore, the Mother Empress immediately chose to use all of the remaining cosmic source energy, only to improve her own level. This way, her crystalline core would evolve, and in the process of evolution, she would once again gain the protection of the laws of heaven and earth!

This was why Li Chenzhou and the others' concentrated fire of this level had not destroyed the Mother Empress's crystalline core, and why her crystalline core had turned into a seven-colored crystalline core!

Moreover, the Mother Empress had not completely completed her level upgrade, because the thinnest energy conduit was still constantly transmitting cosmic source energy to the seven-colored crystalline core.

Li Chenzhou didn't know about the Mother Empress's choice, nor did he know that the Mother Empress now hated these humans still in her body to the core. He only knew that if he wanted to kill the Mother Empress, he had to destroy this crystalline core.

Therefore, Li Chenzhou no longer cared about saving his mental strength, and kept expanding the War Fog to its maximum extent, facing the Devourers mobilized by the Mother Empress, and charged towards the seven-colored crystalline core.

Just when Li Chenzhou was still dozens of meters away from the seven-colored crystalline core, a large group of Devourers climbed to a high place. Then, according to the Mother Empress's guidance, they pounced downwards in the shroud of the War Fog, and below them was Li Chenzhou, who was charging upwards...