Chapter 500: Fighting the Legendary-Grade Broodmother

Chapter 500: Battle Against the Legendary Queen

"Arooooh!"

From the mouth of the colossal sacred dragon that was Saint Xi erupted a breath of holy flame, brimming with devastating power.

The golden stream of draconic fire swept across the immense black hive like a cone-shaped inferno, moving from south to north and west to east.

Under the scorching of the sacred dragon's breath, the dark insect nest rapidly crumbled. The residual golden flames of holiness lingered above the stellar insect lair, burning ceaselessly and purifying it from the world.

Saint Xi's draconic breath possessed an awe-inspiring might.

Almost in a single strike, she had crippled the entire stellar insect hive.

The battle insects that had been ceaselessly emerging suddenly became sparse, as the whole nest blazed with sacred fire.

Li Wei continued to perceive the movements of the stellar queen within the burning hive.

At the moment Saint Xi launched her attack, he sensed an instant surge in the queen's aura intensity.

It seemed the stellar queen had also realized a formidable enemy had appeared, resorting to any means necessary to strengthen herself.

Saint Xi's dragon breath lasted for five minutes, charring the surface of the entire stellar hive before finally ceasing.

"So simple. These insects are too weak."

Saint Xi laughed triumphantly.

Li Wei gazed gravely at the burning stellar hive below.

He cautioned carefully, "Don't be careless. The stellar queen doesn't seem injured. She's still very much alive."

Upon hearing this, Saint Xi's dragon eyes narrowed slightly as she pierced the depths with a gaze that seemed capable of seeing through the hive itself, locating the hidden stellar queen.

"Sacred Dragon Light Orb!"

Saint Xi chanted in the dragon tongue, and holy power condensed in her mouth into a massive orb of draconic light.

Whoosh!

The sacred light orb shot downward toward the stellar hive.

With a piercing sound, it instantly penetrated the charred surface of the hive, sweeping away all obstacles in its path before striking the stellar queen hidden deep within.

Boom!

The moment the sacred light orb hit the stellar queen, it exploded violently.

The entire stellar hive expanded outward, with torrents of flame erupting from the breach and illuminating the dim world.

Li Wei felt the stellar queen's aura weaken slightly.

She was injured.

Whoosh!

A dark shadow burst forth from the flames like an arrow, shooting straight toward the two figures in midair.

Li Wei's psychic perception had already captured the enemy's movement.

He immediately warned Saint Xi.

"Careful!"

Their minds connected, and Saint Xi reacted instantly.

She lunged forward abruptly, twisting sideways while whipping her tail.

Bang!

The thick dragon tail, carrying tremendous force, smashed into the charging enemy.

The foe was directly knocked down onto the hive, creating a massive crater. The impact's force pushed the entire hive backward by dozens of meters.

Saint Xi flapped her wings and hovered in midair, lowering her head to stare at the fallen enemy.

Li Wei also looked down, his expression focused.

Illuminated by the surrounding sacred flames, Li Wei could clearly see the enemy's form.

The stellar queen stood upright on two legs, her body covered in dark green chitinous armor. Her upper body bore enormous scythe-like claws similar to a mantis, numbering twelve in total.

Below her neck hung what appeared to be long human-like hair, but upon closer inspection, these were actually countless tiny tentacles, each ending in a circular mouth filled with sharp teeth.

Her back bore four pairs of transparent, elongated wings resembling those of a dragonfly.

Her lower body consisted of massive, reverse-jointed hind legs like a locust's, possessing extraordinary jumping ability.

In an instant's leap, she could reach several times the speed of sound.

Standing amidst the sacred flames, the stellar queen showed no signs of being burned.

Li Wei keenly noticed that the stellar queen might have evolved resistance to sacred fire. After enduring Saint Xi's powerful tail strike, cracks appeared in the queen's dark green armor, with dark green blood beginning to seep from her chest.

However, these injuries healed completely within mere seconds.

The stellar queen's chitin grew even thicker, evolving greater strength. Her eight blade-arms fused into four, her limbs becoming more robust and powerful.

Li Wei now understood the stellar queen's true power.

This was a legendary-class stellar queen.

She could adapt and evolve abilities to resist attacks from other legendary beings like sacred dragons.

In other words, they couldn't give her time to continue adapting and evolving. They had to end this quickly.

Li Wei's thoughts transmitted to Saint Xi's mind, and she immediately responded.

She dove straight down toward the stellar queen below.

Bang!

Saint Xi pounced on the stellar queen, whose four blade-arms thrust toward her. Though her razor-sharp blades struck the incredibly tough dragon scales, they were deflected.

When one attack failed, the stellar queen evolved even sharper and more powerful weapons, gradually inflicting wounds on Saint Xi.

Saint Xi pinned down the stellar queen and opened her massive jaws, unleashing draconic breath at point-blank range.

Faced with such close-range sacred dragon breath, the stellar queen had no way to dodge.

Her body rapidly disintegrated under the assault.

The stellar queen emitted an ear-piercing shriek so intense it made Saint Xi dizzy-headed, forcing her to break off the draconic breath.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle!

As Saint Xi recovered her senses, she heard strange sounds and felt stinging pain across her body.

Looking down, she saw that from the half-burned body of the stellar queen behind her, slender tentacles had extended to pierce into her wounds.

Though these tiny tentacles appeared harmless, they could penetrate Saint Xi's tough dragon hide, devouring her flesh and consuming her dragon blood.

As the stellar queen consumed Saint Xi's flesh and blood, she rapidly evolved new abilities.

Abandoning her destroyed body, the stellar queen's form shrunk to less than six meters, yet her power became even more formidable.

Dragon-scale patterns emerged on the stellar queen's body, with faint golden stripes appearing on her back and chest.

She had obtained the power of the sacred dragon.

Realizing that the Star Worm Empress was surreptitiously draining the very essence of her lineage, Sheng Xi flew into a furious rage.

She lunged at the shrunken Empress, intent on tearing the creature to shreds.

Boom! Boom!

For the first time, Sheng Xi suffered a setback in a clash of sheer might, forced back several steps before she could regain her footing.

In stark contrast, the Star Worm Empress, despite its diminished size, recoiled by only a single pace from the impact.

Its strength had grown deeper, more formidable.

An expression of unbridled ecstasy contorted the Empress's features as it realized that by devouring the foe before it, it could claim an even more potent power, achieving a flawless, transcendent evolution.

Having faltered in physical combat, Sheng Xi immediately unleashed a torrent of Holy Dragon Breath.

Sizzle! Sizzle!

The draconic fire, which once would have effortlessly incinerated the Empress's flesh, now wrought nothing more than superficial burns.

The golden striations lacing the Star Worm Empress's body grew progressively brighter.

It was adapting further, building a resilience against the holy damage inflicted upon it.

This was the legendary, extraordinary trait the Star Worm Empress possessed—Super Evolution.

It allowed the creature to adapt and evolve corresponding defenses against even legend-tier destruction.

Right at that moment, an inconspicuous sphere of light struck the Star Worm Empress.

The destructive force contained within the orb was far from overwhelming, and it was swiftly absorbed and countered by the Empress's adaptive trait.

Yet, before long, a bizarre phenomenon began to manifest within the depths of the Empress's body.

(End of Chapter)