This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 397 Entanglement and Delay, Straight to the Enemy's Lair

Although the Zerg only has one strongest being in the universe, the number of universe masters is also less than that of the other three top races.

However, it was still internally divided into two major factions, each with its own stronghold.

The main reason is the two strongholds: one is a treasure trove that is extremely important for the breeding of the Zerg Queen, and the other is a secret cosmic realm that produces a large amount of strategic resources for cultivating high-level Zerg warriors.

One is the root of the continuation of the ethnic group, and the other is indispensable for its development and growth.

The Zerg Queen has set up cosmic portals connecting her two lairs to her mini-universes. Each lair is overseen by several universe lords and inhabited by a large number of universe judges and immortals.

"The Empress's order is for us to recall all the cosmic overlords who are currently abroad. We only have two top cosmic overlords that we can trust. They have been bestowed with high-level soul treasures and their wills are close to those of the cosmic lords. Only a top-tier sixth-order soul attack can succeed silently."

The Zerg have only two top-tier cosmic overlords, naturally attracting much attention and even being bestowed with high-level soul-type treasures. This is something that even the cosmic overlords of the human race and the demon race can only envy.

"Within the Queen's miniature universe, there is a group of cosmic venerables who can be trusted completely."

"Use the cosmic channel to bring out the group of cosmic venerables in the mini-universe to control the situation first, and then send everyone who has been summoned back into the mini-universe for investigation."

"We must find all the traitors!"

As the Zerg cosmic overlords rapidly exchanged information, their hands never stopped moving as they directed their confidants, disciples, and clansmen, issuing a series of orders.

"All cosmic beings currently abroad, return immediately! Those who fail to return on time will be treated as traitors to their race."

"Report any special circumstances immediately. Those who report will be forbidden from returning to their tribe for a thousand years!"

"All immortal gods, remain silent and await instructions—"

At the same time, a universe master and many venerable beings within the Zerg Queen's mini-universe also received orders from the Queen's will and began heading towards the cosmic passage leading to the primordial universe.

All of this happened within 5 seconds of Ye Yang officially taking action.

At the 15th second, the first batch of Cosmic Venerables who came out from the miniature universe arrived at the two core lairs of the Zerg in the primordial universe.

At the 20th second, more than 200 cosmic venerables teleported to their divine kingdoms and boarded spaceships to fly towards their two lairs, where all methods of teleportation and divine kingdom teleportation were forbidden.

21 seconds —

Within a star system within the Zerg territory, two alien planets, each a million kilometers in diameter, are traveling together at faster-than-light speeds in the dark universe.

Ten thousand times the speed of light—this is an unimaginable speed for most Lords of the Universe, because they cannot distort or violate the laws governing the universe.

But for the strongest beings in the universe, this is merely a relatively fast speed.

boom!

Suddenly, spacetime collapsed ahead, and a majestic palace shattered spacetime and flew in, directly blocking the two alien treasure stars.

The aura of this enormous palace was astonishing. Ye Yang noticed its special nature immediately. The aura of a supreme treasure, far surpassing that of the Thousand Treasures River, could only remind him of one thing—the most powerful treasure!

"Could it be the Zerg Queen? Or the supreme treasure, the Queen's Palace?"

Ye Yang thought to himself.

There were no sixth-order universe masters in the primordial universe; those who possessed the most powerful treasures were all experts at the True God realm.

Despite being blocked by a true god, Ye Yang was not particularly alarmed.

It wasn't because he had narrowly escaped death from that illusory demon god last time—

Ye Yang knew that when he had his chance encounter with the Void Demon God last time, the latter hadn't taken him too seriously, still in the stage of curiosity. It was like seeing a strange, beautiful butterfly by the roadside and casually picking it up to look at it.

He had no intention of killing.

But if what's in front of us now is the Queen's Palace, and the one blocking our way is the Zerg Queen, then things would be a thousand times more serious than last time!

But Ye Yang is no longer the same Ye Yang as before. For this plan, he has devoted himself to cultivation for hundreds of millions of years, strengthening his true self and reaching the limit of the universe master in terms of consciousness and will. He also created the strongest secret technique of the universe master in terms of soul defense.

"I don't believe it. With the suppression of the primordial universe's operating rules, a top-tier sixth-order soul attack could still kill me?"

Without hesitation, he immediately burned his divine power, and a large hand that had been prepared beforehand reached out from beneath the surface of a rare planet.

At this moment, Ye Yang had already transferred a large amount of his consciousness to this strange treasure planet.

The strange treasure star, which might have been difficult for even a second-order universe master to deal with, could immediately be operated with more precision and subtlety after Ye Yang shifted his attention.

Combat power immediately increased hundreds of times.

"Golden Quetian!"

Ye Yang unleashed his strongest fusion technique, and amidst the swirling chaotic energy, a great sun and a bright moon faintly appeared, surrounded by countless stars.

However, in the blink of an eye, the sun and the moon collided, and the stars fell, as if the entire golden sky had collapsed.

All power converges in the central giant hand, where the four great laws of metal, fire, time, and space are gathered and arranged in an orderly manner.

Even relying solely on his divine body's explosive power, Ye Yang's "Golden Heaven" technique still possesses the attack power of a top-tier fourth-order universe master. If paired with a suitable top-tier attack treasure, it would be an absolute top-tier fifth-order combat power!

However, this was of little use to the Zerg Queen.

"snort."

A majestic and exquisitely beautiful figure appeared, standing in the void outside the Queen's Palace.

This Zerg Queen was extremely cautious and afraid of death when she roamed outside the Primal Universe, and never left the Queen's Palace. However, her highest attack power in the Primal Universe was only at the peak of the sixth rank, and she was not afraid at all.

The Zerg Queen simply reached out, as if brushing aside something in her way, and swatted away the attack power of "Golden Palace Heaven".

They didn't even take a single step back.

"Tsk, looks like I can't buy much time."

Ye Yang felt helpless.

After thinking it over, he still didn't bring out one of his trump cards: the Zerg Legion, the master of the Mimicry Universe.

Even if you manipulate a hundred Zerg warriors of the Universe Lord level to unleash "Golden Moon Slash," the combined attack power can reach the top level of the sixth tier, but it is still meaningless.

It couldn't harm the Zerg Queen at all, nor could it buy them much time.

"Anyway, the decision to sacrifice them has already been made."

Seeing that he could no longer delay, Ye Yang chose to self-destruct immediately!

Such a massive divine body's self-destruction power naturally surpassed that of a top-tier sixth-order being, thus triggering the constraints of the universe's operating rules. Chains of laws appeared to suppress the violent self-destruction energy.

"What?"

The Zerg Queen had already unleashed her ethereal divine power and was about to unleash a soul illusion attack when, unexpectedly, the opponent simply self-destructed without hesitation.

"Damn it! I should have ignored that attack and used Soul Illusion directly."

She immediately entered the Queen's Palace and then headed towards another place ravaged by the alien planet, according to the clan's real-time intelligence.

As long as the owner of this extraordinary treasure is controlled by the soul, or eroded and killed by the soul, then no matter how heaven-defying the talent of this guy's clones is, no matter how many clones he has, they will all be doomed!

Soon, in another star system.

Ye Yang's two extraordinary planets are rampaging and destroying everything in their path, having just annihilated two people on a prosperous planet.

The titled Immortal Mother Empress, along with dozens of ordinary Immortal Mother Empresses and a large number of Realm Lord Mother Empresses—

The Queen's Palace has arrived once again.

Its speed is astonishing, and it comes from the opposite direction of the original universe.

The moment Ye Yang realized it, he wanted to self-destruct, but it was too late.

Before he self-destructed, the Zerg Queen invaded his divine body with the ethereal divine power extended from the palace's supreme treasure.

"What kind of trashy illusion is this? Get out!"

Ye Yang focused his consciousness slightly and easily broke through the illusion.

His profound state of mind, strong true self, and powerful will made it difficult for him to be deceived by these illusions.

"Illusions are useless? Then I'll just use soul-devouring to annihilate you!"

The Zerg Queen realized that the owner of this extraordinary treasure did not seem to have any powerful soul-type treasures protecting him, and that her ethereal divine power invasion was not hindered by any treasures, so she immediately changed her strategy.

Her soul-erosion attack technique can reach the seventh level, but in the primordial universe it will be limited to the top level of the sixth level.

But killing a cosmic lord whose soul is not protected by a powerful treasure is enough!

The fact that the Lord of the Extraordinary Treasure so readily self-destructed, willing to abandon such a massive divine body, must mean he was afraid of her soul-manipulating abilities.

However----

""

Ye Yang's painful voice spread through the vibrations of divine power.

However, it withstood the soul attack of this top-tier sixth-order level.

"It hurts so much, it's even interfering with my thinking."

He was still somewhat shaken: "Fortunately, I finished cultivating the third volume of 'The Record of Condensing True Nature and Awakening the Spirit,' otherwise I might have fallen victim to this."

"Soul attacks are indeed terrifying. If the power of a physical attack is only one level lower, there's still a chance to withstand the damage. But if the soul defense is even one level lower, once it's breached, you'll be instantly killed."

Ye Yang withstood two soul attacks from the Zerg Queen, which gave him the opportunity to cause every trace of life and soul imprint at the most microscopic level of his divine body to self-destruct.

boom!

Another huge firework exploded in space.

"Even that didn't work? None of these Exotic Treasure Stars have soul-type supreme treasures to protect them. The Lord of Exotic Treasures relied entirely on himself to survive."

"Could his willpower already rival that of the strongest beings in the universe? No, even so, he should have had a hard time withstanding the final soul erosion and annihilation."

The Zerg Queen gritted her teeth. She hadn't expected that the owner of this extraordinary treasure was not only extremely insane but also incredibly difficult to deal with.

While the elite races could roam freely throughout the primordial universe, inspiring fear in countless weak, ordinary, and powerful races, they were also incredibly troubled by the relentless attacks and harassment from a lone fifth-tier universe lord.

Moreover, who has ever seen a cosmic lord who can create thousands of clones, each with the combat power of a fourth-tier being?

"Where exactly did this monster, the owner of this extraordinary treasure, come from?"

"Why should we be enemies with my insectoid race and the demon race?"

The Zerg Queen's face was grim.

A universe master capable of creating the strongest fusion technique belongs to the very elite group of beings in the primordial universe. Among many top-tier powers, there are only one or two such individuals.

"Humans? Machine race?" She had her doubts, but neither of these two top races had a Universe Lord with methods similar to that of the Treasure Lord.

However, the strongest fusion technique of the Lord of the Extraordinary Treasures has a unique application of spacetime, which is somewhat similar to that of the Lord of Chaos City, but only slightly.

Their approaches are completely different from those of the Chaos City Lord!

Everyone knows the talents and abilities of the Chaos City Lord's various avatars, so it couldn't be him.

Information about the cosmic rulers of the machine race, humans, and other powerful races and forces flashed through the Zerg Queen's mind.

In the end, none of the universe masters fit the bill, but the human genius Ye Yang was somewhat possible. However, this was also the least likely, since creating the strongest secret technique for fusion with universe masters would have required countless years of cultivation and battles against numerous universe masters.

Simply by cultivating in seclusion without experiencing trials, it would be impossible to create such a secret technique!

Unless it's a super monster who can comprehend cultivation and create secret techniques as easily as eating and drinking, possessing an extraordinary level of comprehension that even the monster from the human race of yesteryear couldn't match—

But that's even more impossible. No one so extraordinary has ever appeared in or outside the primordial universe. And while Ye Yang is indeed a genius, his growth trajectory suggests he couldn't possibly be like that.

"The only option is to capture and suppress him within the Queen's Palace, bring him back to the mini-universe, and then use the mini-universe's essence to perform a soul-binding technique to annihilate him."

The Zerg Queen's eyes were icy cold.

In terms of the threat posed to a race, the master of this extraordinary treasure is comparable to the strongest being in the universe.

Even more serious! Because no universe's strongest being can create thousands of clones to wreak havoc everywhere.

Disregarding her pride, the Zerg Queen began sending messages to the Dream Demon Ancestor and the Tremor Demon Ancestor of the Demon Race.

To this day, the demon race is still offering a bounty throughout the universe for information on the owner of the extraordinary treasure.

Seeing the Zerg's miserable state, the Demon Clan, who had been targeted before, would probably feel a great threat as well.

82 seconds after Ye Yang launched his full-scale attack.

The two Zerg strongholds, and the cosmic passage connecting the Zerg Queen's mini-universe, have produced more than 150 Cosmic Venerables.

"You all proceed immediately to your respective mission locations and evacuate some of my Zerg's geniuses and immortals. Some missions involve holding out or patrolling key locations. If you discover any trace of that exotic planet, do not engage it head-on; immediately report and request reinforcements!"

A Zerg cosmic overlord is issuing orders to a group of Venerable Queens.

In the distance, nests decorated in various shapes are flying at near-light speed.

The entire starry sky surrounding this core stronghold is impassable by teleportation, divine kingdom teleportation, or entry from the dark universe; its defenses are extremely tight!

Therefore, the Venerable Ones summoned from outside need to fly over on their own.

Once inside the area controlled by the Zerg universe's ruler, they will be immediately teleported to the vicinity of the cosmic passage.

More than 60 Zerg Universe Venerables have now returned and been sent to smaller universes for investigation.

So far, no one has been found to be enslaved by the soul, or rather, those spies will never return!

The two core strongholds, home to over 150 Venerable Ones who emerged from miniature universes, are about to depart.

Of the cosmic lords recalled from outside, more than 60 have entered miniature universes, and more than a dozen have just been moved to the vicinity of the cosmic passage by the Zerg's cosmic lords. The remaining nearly 300 are still flying in this starry sky.

More than 200 other Venerable Ones are on their way.

"According to mathematical model predictions, this is the time when the number of Zerg Venerables gathers at these two strongholds the most."

Inside a flying queen insect nest, a small golden beast, shrunk to about a meter in size and completely concealing its aura, revealed a bloodthirsty smile.

boom!

His aura was no longer concealed. In an instant, he took control of space and time, crushing six nearby Zerg Venerables from the mother hive.

"hold head high!!!

""

A golden horn shot into the sky, and the behemoth, which instantly grew to a height of 90,000 kilometers, roared, announcing its arrival.