Because the space on the pipes was limited, dodging the fluids up there was unrealistic. So, Li Chenzhou simply jumped down and ran along the ground towards the crystal below.

Now, with the crisscrossing pipes above him, the fluids were easier to avoid, but the surrounding Devourers began to swarm towards Li Chenzhou.

Although the evolved Devourers were most important to the Mother Empress, the human who had invaded her body was also a significant threat. If he damaged her crystal core, the Mother Empress would surely die, and she would not let Li Chenzhou off.

However, this was the Mother Empress's body, after all. The pipes and incubation nests were like the Mother Empress's blood vessels and organs, so she couldn't act as recklessly as she could outside.

Even the Devourers charging toward him didn't use ranged weapons, but simply rushed at him, seemingly intending to capture him alive.

These Devourers were afraid of damaging the Mother Nest with their firearms, but Li Chenzhou had no such concerns. With a flip of his hands, a beam gun appeared in each. These weren't the unlimited-ammo physical handguns he had used before, but high-grade beam guns that cost hundreds of thousands of Kill Points.

Needless to say, Li Chenzhou's marksmanship was excellent. He raised his arms repeatedly, and beams of energy continuously shot from the dual guns in his hands, blasting the Devourers charging at him one after another.

But soon, Li Chenzhou discovered that the corpses of the Devourers he killed would slowly disappear after falling to the ground, as if they were being absorbed by the Mother Empress.

Seeing this, Li Chenzhou remembered that the Devourers were originally hatched by the Mother Empress with her life energy. Now that he was inside her body, the Devourers he killed would naturally be absorbed by her again.

In other words, killing Devourers here was of little use. The drain on the Mother Empress's energy was probably minimal, simply adding another incubation process.

However, since these Devourers were here to intercept him, Li Chenzhou couldn't ignore them. But from now on, Li Chenzhou's target would not only be the Devourers.

Half of the energy beams he fired were aimed at the Devourers, while the other half were aimed at the aerial spheres, the Mother Empress's incubation nests.

Because these incubation nests were inside the Mother Empress's body, they had no defensive capabilities. A few shots were enough to destroy one, and each time one was destroyed, the pipes and other incubation nests within the Mother Empress's body would tremble violently.

Seeing that it was effective, Li Chenzhou simply stopped attacking the Devourers and focused on shooting the incubation nests. To increase efficiency, he directly put away his dual guns and replaced them with a large-caliber beam gun.

This beam gun could fire explosive beams. Basically, even large incubation nests hundreds of meters in size could be destroyed in two or three shots, while smaller ones could be destroyed with a single shot.

Li Chenzhou's efficiency greatly increased. One incubation nest after another exploded under the barrage of energy beams, spewing out disgusting liquids that splattered everywhere, only to be absorbed by the Mother Empress.

Although the energy from these incubation nests was also absorbed by the Mother Empress, the energy loss was minimal. But the bursting of the incubation nests was not something the Mother Empress could easily endure.

Compared to the Devourers, the incubation nests were truly like the Mother Empress's internal organs, while the Devourers were more like hair and nails. Therefore, killing more Devourers wouldn't affect the Mother Empress's body, but destroying so many incubation nests was too much for her to bear.

Thus, after Li Chenzhou destroyed more than thirty incubation nests, the Mother Empress finally dispatched her true trump card – the Devourer Guard!!!

The Devourer Guard were very powerful. Most importantly, they were a Devourer legion with independent consciousness, capable of adapting to circumstances, and even cooperating with each other. Their combat power was several times higher than that of ordinary high-level Devourers!

Because of the appearance of the evolved Devourers, the Mother Empress had previously sent out five thousand Devourer Guard to eliminate those evolved Devourers. Now, because of Li Chenzhou's appearance, the Mother Empress once again dispatched three thousand Devourer Guard.

Since the total number of Devourer Guard was only ten thousand, the Mother Empress had to leave some to protect her crystal core.

Moreover, these Devourer Guard came from the four incubation nests near the crystal core, the ones guarding it. These four incubation nests were the Mother Empress's most important incubation nests – no, they should be said to be the nests of the Devourer Guard.

Because the Devourer Mother Empress could only incubate ten thousand Devourer Guard in her lifetime, these four incubation nests had already lost their ability to incubate and were now only used as nests for the Devourer Guard.

Although Li Chenzhou didn't know about the existence of the Devourer Guard, he felt that these guys were very unusual as soon as they appeared, and definitely not easy to deal with!

The Devourer Guard were about the same size as high-level Devourers, not as large as the evolved Devourers. But these guys were all flying units, with a pair of fleshy wings growing on their backs.

These fleshy wings were dark brown, similar to bat wings, but much larger. With these wings, the Devourer Guard not only gained the ability to fly, but also became faster!

As soon as these Devourer Guard appeared, they swooped down towards Li Chenzhou. Moreover, they didn't have the same concerns as other Devourers, and directly opened fire on Li Chenzhou with their beam guns.

The Devourer Guard dared to fire because they were confident in their marksmanship, and because they could weigh the pros and cons.

Firing here would damage the Mother Empress, but if Li Chenzhou reached the crystal core and successfully destroyed it, the Mother Empress would directly perish. Therefore, they were now willing to let the Mother Empress's body suffer some damage in order to kill this human who had somehow barged in!

Seeing the Devourer Guard coming aggressively, Li Chenzhou naturally couldn't retreat. This might be his last chance, so he unhesitatingly released his War Fog.

At the same time, Li Chenzhou moved forward quickly, using the pipes and incubation nests between him and the Devourer Guard as cover. He also directly gave the Burrowing Rat's AI outside the order.

Upon receiving the order, the Burrowing Rat immediately activated and burrowed upwards with force, directly drilling into the Mother Empress's body. The huge drill bit shattered the Mother Nest's outer shell, breaking through the Mother Empress's outer wall bit by bit!

The Mother Empress didn't expect a Burrowing Rat here. Because her body was in the soil, she couldn't mobilize Devourers to kill this thing that was constantly drilling into her body. Moreover, she had lost the ability to float during the evolution process, so she could only watch helplessly as the Burrowing Rat drilled through the outer shell and entered her body...