Douluo Continent: Starting with Transforming Xiao Wu into the Zerg Queen

The soul beasts within the encirclement trembled uncontrollably as they looked at the dark, ferocious-looking jumping insects around them.

Soon, the encirclement created an opening.

The hydra dragged its massive body slowly as it crawled in.

From the perspective of this jumping insect, the hydra's body appears incredibly tall, its imposing stature, more than a person's height.

Anyone who is stared at by a pair of narrow, scarlet eyes will feel a chill run down their spine.

The hydra, brandishing its pair of scythes, slowly crawled up to the soul beast. The soul beast was already trembling with fear and didn't even have the courage to look up at the hydra.

The hydra swung its scythe-like blade fiercely.

"Ouch!!!"

The soul beast's shrill scream rang out instantly, and half of its body was neatly cut in two!

Keep in mind, this is a defensive-type spirit beast; its entire body was as fragile as tofu in front of the scythe.

The serpent then opened its mouthparts, and a stream of thick green acid shot out, exploding violently on the soul beast's body!

This time, the soul beast couldn't even let out a scream before it was completely corroded by the strong acidic venom!

A yellow spirit ring slowly floated up, and a strong yellow light burst forth.

It seemed to be expressing the intense resentment of this soul beast.

Seeing this, Lin Fan withdrew his spiritual power with satisfaction.

The Hydralisk's performance greatly exceeded its expectations!

Hydralisks were originally designed as ranged attack units, possessing deadly acidic venom attacks.

However, their bodies are extremely fragile, and they are unlikely to survive if someone gets close.

The genetic enhancements extracted from the Broodmother have greatly improved this weakness of the Hydralisk. If the enemy thinks that the Hydralisk is weak, its pair of sharp scythes will definitely teach you a lesson!

After testing the Hydralisk's attack power, Lin Fan withdrew his focus and nodded in satisfaction.

He then looked at the panel and saw that he now had 6310 energy points.

Hatching a Hydralisk requires approximately 300 energy points, while hatching a Springtail spore only requires 150 energy points.

Furthermore, a single spore of a springtail can hatch into three, making it an extremely cheap combat unit!

While Hydralisks are incredibly powerful, their massive size makes them slow-moving. They are far less agile than Zerglings, so it's best to primarily use Zerglings as your main offensive units.

Having made up his mind, Lin Fan immediately began planning his next development path.

During this period, the leaping insects hunted fewer and fewer low-level soul beasts. Their current location was deep in the forest, and if they wanted to develop smoothly, fighting to the death here would definitely not work.

We must shift our hunting grounds to areas inhabited by low-level spirit beasts.

Now, the hunting grounds are for spirit beasts that are a hundred years old or younger.

Lin Fan immediately gave the order, and the worker bees and fungal carpets moved forward in unison, digging continuously along the outer edge of the forest to expand the area of ​​the underground kingdom.

Meanwhile, a primary mother hive is dedicated to hatching worker bees. While digging underground tunnels, a huge cave is dug every 200 meters to hatch a primary mother hive.

Once the existing level 1 nest has sufficient energy, it will be immediately upgraded to a level 2 nest.

The remaining nests continuously produce Zerg units at a ratio of nine Zerglings and two Hydralisks!

Lin Fan also planned a tactic of using Zerglings to harass and Hydralisks to fire acid venom from a distance, which he recorded in the Zerg psychic web.

The Zerg's combat skills are also constantly being improved and refined.

The hydralisk's acid venom can be sprayed up to 500 meters away, with an accuracy error of no more than 20 centimeters.

The perfect tactics brought a huge disaster to the spirit beasts in the forest!

A small team of nine springtails and two hydralisks roams the forest hunting.

Springflies, with their agile and flexible movements, dart freely through the forest, constantly searching for prey.

Once a Soul Beast is discovered, it is quickly notified to other units through the Zerg Mental Network. The nine Zerglings then swiftly surround it, pulling and tugging back and forth according to the pre-set tactics, slowly strangling the Soul Beast bit by bit.

If they encounter a troublesome soul beast, two streams of acidic venom will shoot from a distance like cannonballs and slam into the soul beast's body.

This attack would leave it either dead or crippled, and the springtails swarmed over it, finally ending its life.

Within half a day, these hunting teams had expanded to about ten, recklessly reaping the lives of soul beasts in the forest.

Fortunately, the Soul Beast Forest is vast, and the territory of each ten-thousand-year-old Soul Beast is several tens of miles in size.

The commotion caused by the Zerg was like a small pebble thrown into a pond, only creating a tiny ripple.

However, Lin Fan still adhered to the principle of caution and kept the range of the Zerg hunting team synchronized with the worker bees that were constantly digging underground tunnels.

It continues to expand outwards from the forest.

If one had a God's-eye view and could observe from the ground, one would discover this.

Deep beneath the forest, a vast underground empire is quietly taking shape!

Countless tunnels advanced simultaneously, rapidly excavating and expanding in all directions. At the same time, the purplish-black fungal carpet also expanded continuously, quickly covering the areas where the tunnels were excavated.

Beneath this forest, an outside force is quietly rising!

As the Zerg race developed, Lin Fan naturally didn't sit idle either.

As he ascended to the ground through the passage, the soul beasts occasionally surrounded by the jumping insects became Lin Fan's practice targets.

Forced by the pressure from the jumping insects, the surrounded soul beasts had no choice but to attack Lin Fan, who seized the opportunity to fight them relentlessly.

I'm honing my combat skills; anyway, if I get injured, I can just lie down on the fungal carpet and recover quickly.

Who would complain about having too much combat experience?

They can even save their own lives if they encounter real danger!

No matter how strong the Zerg army under his command is, his own strength is weak, and when he encounters danger, these armies cannot protect his life.

Imagine the enemy, after overcoming countless hardships, fighting their way through the swarm of insects to reach Lin Fan.

But they discovered that Lin Fan was actually a top-tier martial arts master with unparalleled strength!

What kind of despair must this be?

Chapter 10 Upgrading to Level 3 Mother Nest, First Encounter with Xiao Wu?

Time flies.

A week passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Fan slowly rose from the fungal carpet and opened his eyes.

His gruesome wounds have healed completely, and his once fair skin has now turned a bronze color.

Lin Fan's once youthful face now revealed a hint of determination, his eyes filled with indifference and bloodlust.

The daily battles between the Zerg, and his own struggles against the Soul Beasts.

This made his entire body exude an incredibly dense aura of malevolence, and the stench of blood could be smelled from a great distance.

In the forest, ordinary hundred-year-old soul beasts sniffed Lin Fan's scent from afar and ran away.

Lin Fan now fights against soul beasts that are a thousand years old or older, and serious injuries are common.

After each battle, Lin Fan was carried back by the jumping insects and lay down on the fungal carpet to recuperate.

But you know what?

Lin Fan gradually became obsessed with this healing process, feeling a cool, refreshing sensation all over his body, as if every cell was dancing. It was a feeling of comfort that ran from head to toe!

Lin Fan let out a long breath. The Zerg's main base has now completely moved to the low-level soul beast area on the outskirts.

In the depths of the original forest, they simply built a dozen or so mother nests to continuously produce troops, while also hoping to pick up any stragglers, such as a heavily injured ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.

Although the chances are slim, they're not entirely nonexistent, are they? It's just a matter of trying one's luck, and while we're at it, we can also hunt down some low-level soul beasts and the offspring of high-level soul beasts that have slipped through the net and sneaked here.

Although he was moved to the low-level soul beast area, Lin Fan still hadn't seen a single human in the past week.

It seems that the Soul Beast Forest I am in is definitely not the Soul Hunting Forest. There are quite a few Soul Masters who hunt Soul Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest.

He was either in the Starry Sky Forest or the Sunset Forest.

To find out your location and timeline, you must go to the human world.

However, Lin Fan is not in a hurry for the time being. The development of the Zerg has just begun. Isn't it better to develop stealthily in the sparsely populated Soul Beast Forest?

It's not too late to go out once you have enough capital.

Even if Tang San becomes a Title Douluo by then, Lin Fan believes that his insectoid army will not be to be underestimated!

Lin Fan connected his consciousness to the mental network.

A string of numbers immediately catches the eye—[105431 points]

A full 100,000 points of energy!

Within a week, the Zerg continued to mass produce units and develop their strength. Their hunting speed against Soul Beasts also increased rapidly, and their accumulated energy rose at an astonishing pace!

Looking at the Zerg's current scale: [25 Tier 1 Broods, 10 Tier 2 Broods]

[Corruption Pools: 41]

Springtails: 3600

Worker bees: 700

Hydralisks: 1200

[Number of gene types: 214]

Lin Fan's eyes darted around. It had only been a week, yet the Zerg had developed so rapidly!

The underground empire has already undergone a complete transformation.

The place where Lin Fan was standing had been dug out into a huge pit. If he hadn't known he was underground, he would have been in a terrible situation.

I almost felt like I was in a giant world!

Three level-two mother nests stood before me, constantly wriggling, and large swathes of fungal carpet had already been improved due to absorbing plant-type soul beasts.

The fungal carpet transformed into a meadow, covered with countless fragrant flowers that blanketed the entire underground world.