After successfully subduing the Insect Mother Queen, the group immediately evacuated from the island and set off once more.
Ye Chen handed control of the Great Power-level ancient ship to the King of All Heavens, while he himself took the Insect Mother Queen into one of the treasure halls on the ancient ship. He closed and sealed the doors, issuing the corresponding order that he was not to be disturbed unless absolutely necessary.
Having become the master of the Insect Mother Queen, Ye Chen also gained access to all the memories within its mind, learning its true identity. It was not merely an Insect Mother Queen, but a mutated one.
It was known that Insect Mother Queens rarely mutated, but once they did, they became special existences, either extremely powerful or extremely weak.
Undoubtedly, this Insect Mother Queen was very powerful, having reached a level where it could battle those in the Reincarnation realm. Moreover, the Insect Warriors it birthed were very special, being humanoid in shape and bearing a strange resemblance to alien race demonic living beings.
Furthermore, this Insect Mother Queen was a member of the Insect Race with the bloodline of a Mythical Emperor and Sovereign. Although that bloodline had been diluted countless times over the ages and was no longer powerful, it could still barely be considered a royal lineage.
Ye Chen also learned of this Insect Mother Queen's origins. It was an ancient life form, traceable back to the ancient era. It was an Insect Race life form that had entered before the Ancient God Continent and the myriad realms began their ancient bloody war, and at that time, it was merely an unhatched egg.
The egg had been in a state of slumber, slowly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, gathering enough to be born. In that state, the egg was unconscious and not truly a living being, allowing it to endure the passage of time.
Around seventy thousand years ago, the Insect Mother Queen finally awakened and hatched. Naturally, it was far from as massive and powerful as it was now. It had just hatched, a true insect, constantly devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and beginning its evolutionary journey.
Not long after, it was discovered by the Black Prison Heavenly King, the continent's overlord of that generation, who captured it and traveled far across the Chaotic Sea.
From the Insect Mother Queen's brief childhood memories, one could see that the Black Prison Heavenly King was a tall, robust, and imposing man of peerless bearing and matchless divine power. With every move, he could shatter the heavens and earth, pulverize the void—extremely powerful.
Worthy of being the former continent overlord, he traversed the Chaotic Sea. However, after venturing deep, he soon encountered terrifying living beings—not just one, but three, all Heavenly King-level fearsome beings. Blood stained the sky.
When Ye Chen clearly saw the three Heavenly King-level beings that ambushed the Black Prison Heavenly King in those blurry memories, his eyes widened in shock, for they were actually alien race living beings! There were demonic beings with bat wings and sinful beings covered in red fur.
He was greatly surprised that alien race living beings also existed within the Ancient Emperor Realm. But recalling that even alien race supreme existences had emerged during the Taichu battle, he realized that the Mythical Emperors and Sovereigns sealed within the Ancient Emperor Realm likely weren't just alien race supreme existences. It was highly possible there were others, even entire alien race tribes.
The three alien race Heavenly Kings attacked, battling the Black Prison Heavenly King.
That battle shattered heaven and earth, its shockwaves reaching beyond the skies, spanning a hundred thousand miles. No matter how powerful the Black Prison Heavenly King was, he was no match for three alien race Heavenly Kings. He sustained injuries during the fight and fled two hundred thousand miles, crossing the Chaotic Sea, eventually arriving at an island.
He laid down patterns of Great Dao rules and inscribed formation runes, intending to set a trap to kill the alien race Heavenly Kings on the island.
He charged into the sky, engaging the three pursuing alien race Heavenly Kings in a fierce battle, luring them onto the island to activate the most powerful killing formation and eliminate them all at once.
Unfortunately, the result was beyond his expectations. In the end, the three alien race Heavenly Kings did not enter the formation. As seen on the island, he suffered the most terrible injuries: half his body was shattered, and his glabella was pierced by an alien race Heavenly King, leaving only a last wisp of battle soul.
Finally, the Black Prison Heavenly King fell onto the island, luring the three alien race Heavenly Kings and triggering all the inscribed rule patterns. In a desperate struggle, he managed to slay one of the alien race demon Heavenly Kings.
The other two alien race Heavenly Kings, injured, ultimately fled, leaving behind regret.
Before his impending demise, the Black Prison Heavenly King placed the Insect Mother Queen within the corpse of the alien race Heavenly King, allowing it to devour the demon Heavenly King's flesh and blood as nutrients for growth. He also infused his own Heavenly King Great Dao essence and Great Dao Imprint into the Mother Queen's body.
Furthermore, he applied an Imprint, engraving the notion of the alien race as a mortal enemy into the deepest part of the Mother Queen's being, forming an instinct. It was to ensure that in future generations, it would forever view the alien race as enemies and pursue them relentlessly.
Finally, the Black Prison Heavenly King used his last bit of strength to seal it away for a long time, allowing it to digest the power over the long years and eventually emerge.
As for why this Insect Mother Queen mutated, it traced back to the Great Shattering War of the Mythical Era. Its ancestor, a Sovereign descendant of the Insect Race Great Emperor, participated in the war and once confronted an alien race Sovereign.
The final result was victory over the alien race Sovereign, and it devoured it, acquiring a special bloodline.
Coupled with this generation's Mother Queen also devouring the corpse of an alien race Heavenly King, an unprecedented mutation ultimately occurred. It no longer resembled an insect, becoming a special aberrant form, and the insects it birthed also resembled alien race demons.
"So that's how it is." Ye Chen finally understood that all of this was a contingency left behind by the Black Prison Heavenly King.
Just as the Black Prison Heavenly King intended, over the long years, the Insect Mother Queen digested part of the alien race Heavenly King's flesh and blood as well as its Heavenly King origin. Upon emerging, it was indeed very powerful, possessing strength comparable to the Saint Treasury Realm. Over the next five hundred years, it continuously digested the vast energy accumulated within its body, gradually reaching combat power at the Samsara level.
Moreover, some of the Insect Warriors it birthed were exceptionally powerful. Some, because the Insect Mother Queen infused them with its immense internal energy, were born with strength comparable to the Saint Treasury Realm and could continuously grow. This led to several Insect Warriors later that were a cut above ordinary Saint Lords—these were the generals among the warriors, exceptionally powerful.
However, this also consumed a large amount of the Insect Mother Queen's internal energy. What the Black Prison Heavenly King likely never anticipated was the influence of the alien race demon Heavenly King on the Insect Mother Queen. It almost suppressed its intelligence, making it bloodthirsty, extremely ferocious, and imbued with a demonic nature.
After digesting these memories, Ye Chen understood the cause and effect, comprehending everything clearly. He sighed lightly; the origins of this Insect Mother Queen were indeed extraordinary.
Possessing the Great Dao essence of two Heavenly Kings within it, along with the Great Dao Imprint of the Black Prison Heavenly King, as long as it fully digested them, it could reach the Heavenly King realm in the future.
This was the minimum level. Moreover, having mutated, its prospects were even more extraordinary, and it was unclear just how far it could go.
In the future, once this Insect Mother Queen fully matured, it would become a great asset to him.
However, none of this was important at the moment. Currently, the Insect Mother Queen had suffered terrible heavy injuries. Not only had part of its limbs been severed by Ye Chen, but its ovary had also been cut off and refined into life essence. The injuries were very severe, having reached a level that endangered its life origin.
If it were merely about healing the Insect Mother Queen's injuries, for Ye Chen, who possessed the Saint Body Regeneration Art and the Divine King Rebirth Art, it would be trivial.
But while healing its injuries, he also needed to cleanse its demonic nature and restore its divinity.
Within the hall, the Insect Mother Queen, massive as a mountain, lowered its proud head before Ye Chen, appearing very reverent and submissive.
Ye Chen placed a hand on its head, and streams of pure golden holy light continuously poured into its body.
This was the Divine King Rebirth Art in operation. The heaven-defying power of Great Dao rules continuously repaired the Mother Queen's wounded body, and severed, shattered limbs regenerated one by one.
Not only that, but a mass of golden blood even appeared in Ye Chen's hand, shining with dazzling golden light brighter than the sun, radiant and brilliant.
This was his saintly blood, and moreover, Saint Body essence blood, containing terrifying golden blood energy that permeated the space. It also possessed vigorous vitality and Great Dao laws, with Order Divine Chains manifesting one after another.
One could imagine how extraordinary this mass of Saint Body essence blood was.
At Ye Chen's level, his blood energy could already rival the Great Dao Blood of a Heavenly King, because his saintly blood was too vigorous. It was the Battle Sacred Body, containing Dragon Origin, Nine Tribulations Gold, and the existence of Chaos Blood. It also rivaled a Great Power-level physical body and had refined and integrated numerous Heaven and Earth Treasures into his body.
To put it bluntly, in a sense, his saintly blood was even more extraordinary than Heavenly King Great Dao Blood, even possessing life-extending divine effects.
Let alone Saint Body essence blood, which contained unimaginable effects.
This mass of essence blood, only the size of an infant's fist, was enough to make any ancient recluse covet it to the point of madness. Even Ye Chen's complexion paled slightly, but without hesitation, he directly infused it into the Insect Mother Queen's body.
Boom—
It could be clearly seen that as soon as this mass of Saint Body essence blood entered, strange changes occurred on the Insect Mother Queen's body. Its entire form began to emit a hazy golden radiance. Its pitch-black scales slowly transformed from deep black towards gold, no longer appearing so ferocious and terrifying, but gradually becoming somewhat sacred.
Moreover, its ovary regrew. Compared to the previous massive ovary, it appeared smaller but more crystalline, with threads of gold flowing within and numerous law dao patterns flickering.
Previously, Ye Chen had severed its ovary not just to refine it into life essence, but more importantly, to break and then rebuild, allowing the regrown ovary to nurture even more powerful Insect Warriors, as the previous ovary had already birthed too many.
For this Insect Mother Queen, Ye Chen could be said to spare no effort in support. As seen before, such an Insect Mother Queen could continuously birth powerful Insect Warriors, provided it had sufficiently powerful energy support.
In the myriad realms, Insect Mother Queens were generally feared as powerful living beings precisely because they could continuously birth terrifying Insect Warriors.
For this very reason, Ye Chen also wanted to obtain such an Insect Mother Queen, with the goal of continuously birthing sufficiently powerful Insect Warriors.
Even some sufficiently powerful Insect Mother Queens could nurture Heavenly King-level Insect Warriors. Naturally, the number was unlikely to be large, and they might only contain a trace of Heavenly King rules, inheriting more of the powerful physical body. But even so, this represented an astonishingly formidable force.
Naturally, Insect Mother Queens capable of reaching this level were exceedingly rare within the entire Insect Race.
It was rumored that the most terrifying Mythical Insect Race Great Emperor could even nurture the strongest Insect Warriors comparable to Sovereigns. Their numbers were few, but each was terrifyingly boundless, possessing power that could completely overturn the myriad realms, causing people to tremble.
Ye Chen's ultimate goal was to cultivate such an Insect Mother Queen to become his asset.
Because his future would be arduous. Even if he became invincible in the world and could soar through the river of time, it wouldn't be enough. He needed more foundation to face what was to come; otherwise, no matter how powerful he became, he might find it difficult to change that outcome.
Because what needed to be faced was not a single person, nor an Emperor or Sovereign, but very likely the alien race universe that had destroyed the entire Mythical Era.
After healing the Insect Mother Queen's injuries, the golden light did not diminish. Instead, it rapidly circulated within the Insect Mother Queen's body. Visible to the naked eye, threads of pitch-black demonic energy continuously emanated from the Mother Queen's body—the malevolent nature of the demon Heavenly King's corpse. It was very powerful, even capable of affecting Samsara-level experts, but it could not affect Ye Chen.
Within his body, whether it was the Battle Sacred Blood or Dragon Origin, they were specifically targeted against the alien race. Moreover, they possessed the all-encompassing nature of Chaos and the immeasurable tribulations contained within the Nine Tribulations Gold. Therefore, they were divine treasure blood that expelled all malevolent influences.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
Half an hour later, the malevolent energy on the Insect Mother Queen completely disappeared. Moreover, a subtle change occurred. Its appearance hadn't changed much, but its entire body flowed with a faint golden hue, becoming much more sacred.
Although an Insect Mother Queen, it no longer appeared ferocious and terrifying.
Furthermore, the Insect Mother Queen's intelligence became much clearer, instantly becoming much more astute. A soft, neutral voice, neither male nor female, came through: "Abenue thanks Master for intervening and dispelling the malevolence within my body."
Abenue was precisely the Insect Mother Queen's name, a very special name.
Ye Chen shook his head, not minding it. Then, expending even more mental effort, he struck out with streams of golden finger radiance Imprints, accompanied by wisps of ancient Chaos aura, continuously infusing them into the Insect Mother Queen's body. This activated the vast Heavenly King energy and Heavenly King Imprint hidden within its body, accelerating Mother Queen Abenue's evolutionary path.
As expected, the next time it emerged, Abenue would at least be at the Heavenly King realm level.
Finally, he had it enter his internal space.
Now, Ye Chen's Saint Body was extremely vigorous, and he had also opened up a small world within his body, spanning dozens of miles. Combined with the World Seed, it was exceptionally vast, enough to accommodate the Insect Mother Queen.
Ye Chen did not have the Insect Mother Queen immediately birth Insect Warriors. Instead, he had it enter slumber. Now was not the time for it to emerge. He needed to gather more energy to allow the Insect Mother Queen to nurture even more powerful warriors.