Apocalypse: My Items Upgrade Infinitely

After consuming an upgrade energy, Lin Feng unleashed the powerful and enigmatic gene radiation. Before this, he successfully attracted most of Queen Ling Yi's attention through verbal provocation, amplifying the effect of the gene radiation and potentially unlocking her genetic seal.

However, a few minutes later, just as Lin Feng was beginning to feel optimistic, he suddenly noticed the ground beneath him trembling lightly yet frequently. The gene radiation skill was still in progress, needing at least ten more minutes to unveil the final dark conclusion. Energy from the upgrade was continuously being converted into mental power, released from Lin Feng's brain, embedding that genetic memory into every nerve cell within a five-kilometer radius.

The tremors might indicate that Queen Ling Yi was summoning Tier 2 Tiger Bugs from underground for support.

With this in mind, Lin Feng stifled his tension and remained calm. After all, no amount of Tier 2 insects could threaten him; they would merely serve as upgrade materials for the Tiger Tooth Chainsaw Sword. Moreover, should they enter the gene radiation's range, they would also suffer mental invasion and lose consciousness.

As time passed, however, the tremors grew more intense, with the ground beneath him cracking and heaving, as if something massive was about to emerge. Behind the mentally entrapped queen's avatar, a small insect pit began to collapse, expanding from a ten-meter diameter hole into a massive sinkhole spanning tens of meters, nearly reaching a hundred meters across!

Watching the ever-expanding sinkhole, Lin Feng's sense of crisis peaked. He had been retreating cautiously since the first signs of change, ensuring the gene radiation still covered the critical queen's avatar. He could retreat three to four kilometers while maintaining coverage.

Anticipating potential danger, Lin Feng prepared to activate the Flying Tiger Armor's flight mode to escape at any moment.

Just as expected, what was about to emerge from the pit was likely Queen Ling Yi's main body—a colossal high-tier insect the size of a small mountain!

With the tremors subsiding, a sharp, explosive sound pierced the air as a Tier 3 queen, sixty meters wide and a hundred meters tall, burst from the pit like a towering skyscraper!

Its face, bristling with spines and bristles, was hideous, with dozens of basketball-sized compound eyes fixed intently on the tiny figure kilometers away.

As Lin Feng looked at the queen, his vision darkened. His mental perception was severely impacted!

Unlike last time, when he witnessed the Haicheng queen from seven or eight kilometers away as a mere Tier 1 awakener or a level 9 enhanced human, he now faced a high-tier insect queen with his fully realized Tier 2 powers, having broken past mental limits and nearly reached the third stage.

Now, confronting the insect queen again, Lin Feng experienced new, more visceral feelings!

The queen's overwhelming might rekindled the deep-seated terror within him!

With the detailed appraisal data appearing before him, Lin Feng realized the terrifying nature of this planet's strongest third-stage life form:

"Queen, lv33/39"

"HP: 13k, Physique: 3.4k, Spirit: 3.8k"

"Intent—Infinite Proliferation"

"Abilities: Absolute Control (Utilizes high mental attributes to achieve telekinesis, consciousness control, and various powers)

Domain Release (As an heir to cosmic life, possesses a complete racial advancement path, capable of using domain powers beyond its stage)

Undying Body (Bulky form nurturing numerous low-tier life forms, granting vastly superior life attributes, capable of rapidly regenerating lost HP by consuming lower-tier insects)"

"Evaluation: Third-stage life form, high-tier insect unit, progenitor and commander of low-tier insects, possesses high HP and mental attributes, serves as the insect base, with strong defense but extremely slow movement."

"Note: Target life form is releasing its intent."

"Warning! Unknown domain detected nearby!!"

"Warning! Unknown domain detected nearby!!"

"Warning! Unknown domain detected nearby!!"

Before Lin Feng could finish reading the queen's attribute data, several strings of black and red warnings flashed before his eyes.

With no time to ponder, he abandoned using the second stored gene radiation, immediately activating the Flying Tiger Armor's flight mode to flee.

However, reality's speed could never match the bizarre mental energy released in waves!

Before Lin Feng could retreat a kilometer, he stopped mid-air as if colliding with an invisible wall, frozen in place.

The next second, Lin Feng's vision went black...

Instantly stripped of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, even his awakened mental perception vanished.

His consciousness was severed from his body, plunging into darkness.

He could no longer command his body, akin to a computer without an internet connection, unable to load any information.

Yet his mind remained acutely aware.

He simply lost control over his physical form.

It felt like plummeting endlessly into the abyss of the black sun in the mental world during his limit break...

But this was an assault by the queen!

Caught in this bizarre peril, Lin Feng struggled fiercely!

Mental energy stored in his brain surged, attempting to break the invisible confinement around him.

Fortunately, his mental attributes had already surpassed the 1000-point limit, reaching a third of the lv33 queen's level.

Under his relentless exertion...

He finally regained sight and hearing!

Upon hearing faint sounds and opening his eyes, he was greeted by a hellish scene of corpses and blood!

Countless grotesque giant insects with dozens of jointed legs crawled in swarms across a sea of bones.

Above this terrifying insect tide stood a colossal statue thousands of meters tall.

Flooded with chaotic information, Lin Feng realized the vague statue was their deity, the Mother of Life.

Forcing himself to focus on the statue, he saw larval insects crawling from the distant, floating idol, falling to the ground.

Some larvae broke free mid-fall, tearing through their old bodies to reveal wings, landing among the swarm.

Others, unable to break free, hit the ground, splattering into pulp, devoured instantly by other insects.

Leaving a mountain of bones.

Lin Feng frowned as the scene repeated, filling his vision, with the incessant joint noises and bone-crunching gnawing bursting in his ears.

This excruciating sensation nearly shattered Lin Feng's remaining sanity!

At that moment, a notification appeared:

"Host's spirit damaged, hive consciousness domain is consuming self-awareness."

"Automatically searching for countermeasures..."

"Gene radiation activation available to mitigate effects."

"Activating..."

"Note: Gene radiation skill consumes one upgrade reserve energy per use."

Soon, a strange energy spread from Lin Feng's brain, counteracting the invading domain.

Gradually recovering, Lin Feng squinted through blood-stained eyes, seeing Queen Ling Yi's massive form beneath the statue.

Beside her...

Floated a glowing human figure!?

A long-haired woman in a white dress, her features indistinct like the celestial idol.

It seemed she was conversing with Queen Ling Yi.

With the gene radiation's aid, Lin Feng broke free from the domain's influence, glancing again at the queen's direction, only to find the white-clad woman vanished like an illusion...

Yet Lin Feng only regained sight and hearing, unable to move below the neck, standing motionless in mid-air.

Thankfully, the endless insect tide below remained distant, sparing him from being devoured.

But soon, Queen Ling Yi, amidst the insect sea, rushed towards him.

Insects falling from the idol's surface gathered under Ling Yi's control, forming a massive hand lifting her.

Stopping at two hundred meters from Lin Feng, she glared at the tiny human...

Queen Ling Yi emitted a piercing screech, followed by a mental wave exploding like thunder in Lin Feng's mind:

"Where did you hear that word?!"

The mental storm jolted Lin Feng, clearing his muddled consciousness.

He knew what she meant...

It was the word he almost uttered, triggering this sudden upheaval.

The Great Black...

Was the last word Lin Feng heard before his consciousness was stripped during the insects' dark history in the mental world.

The insects' reverence for the entity that devoured a star and slew their god.

Evidently, this touched a taboo.

Prompting Queen Ling Yi to risk exposure, controlling Lin Feng.

Facing Ling Yi's harsh interrogation...

Lin Feng struggled to speak, using his dwindling mental energy to reply:

"In your erased history..."

"Perhaps you already know, yet dare not face it..."

"Cough... It's the hope fire left by your ancestors..."

Before he finished, the gene radiation depleted, a crushing impact nearly knocking Lin Feng unconscious...

Sensing Lin Feng's agony, Queen Ling Yi extended two thigh-thick tendrils from her mandibles, grasping Lin Feng mid-air.

As the tendrils' slippery mucus coated him, his lost senses returned, and the environmental pressure lessened.

Bound by Ling Yi's tendrils, Lin Feng couldn't retrieve his weapons, coughing up the mucus-blood mix clogging his throat.

Clearing his airway, he gasped for air.

Restoring oxygen to his body, reactivating his tissues.

Familiar strength surged back, his mental attributes recovering from confinement.

Ling Yi's forehead revealed her female avatar, emerging from a compound eye membrane, addressing Lin Feng:

"Never mention that word in reality, especially if recalling the eclipse."

"The entity will sense it,"

"This familiar mental energy wave."

Lin Feng gazed at Ling Yi, sensing a change in her, the mental waves losing their previous frenzy.

Perhaps the gene radiation worked.

Unlocking the insect queen's genetic seal, awakening Ling Yi's true nature.

Spitting out the mucus-blood, Lin Feng prepared to question, but a rancid, putrid stench filled his mouth.

The same discomfort he felt upon breaking free, seeing and hearing the eerie scene.

Ling Yi's avatar frowned, wiping Lin Feng's mouth with her tendril.

The familiar mucus soaked his tongue, dispelling the bizarre taste.

Yet it left an odd sensation.

"If you want to lose taste and become a bug-spewing monster, keep spitting."

Ling Yi's cold voice warned.

Heeding the advice, Lin Feng stopped coughing, asking:

"What is this place? The insect mental world? Why can I say that word here?"

Ling Yi's avatar rose, spreading her arms as if lifting the celestial idol, her queen body rising a hundred meters.

Gazing at the tiny Lin Feng, Ling Yi spoke:

"This is the insect god's domain, the hive consciousness."

"As high-tier mothers, we manifest our intent, infinite proliferation."

"The Great Mother responds to my call, bestowing Her domain here, masking your taboo."

Suppressing discomfort, Lin Feng asked:

"So you can't control this bizarre mental domain?"

Ling Yi watched him intently, nodding:

"The hive consciousness belongs to all insects, I use my proliferation intent to merge, controlling parts of the domain..."

"Your mental assault is a natural attribute, low-tier life will assimilate into it."

"Becoming one of us."

"My intent shields you."

Lin Feng smirked, asking:

"So you regained your memories?"

Ling Yi, towering above, peered at him:

"Yes."

Lin Feng clenched his fists, looking up:

"Can we work together, awaken more queens, or kill Haicheng's 76th? It's our biggest threat!"

Ling Yi chuckled coldly:

"Ha!"

"To kill a third-stage life, especially a cosmic descendent, without intent, it's impossible!"

"I won't expose my free will for your promotion!"

Lin Feng frowned:

"What's intent, domain?"

Ling Yi's lips curled:

"The universe is dark and cold, a vast energy field feeding off mediocrity, devouring the weak."

"Before becoming cosmic life, you need immense material vitality and mental will to resist endless darkness!"

"Intent is your self-existence meaning, only with it can you face surrounding darkness!"

"It keeps you from losing self in the universe."

"Intent is the domain's prototype, the tangible image of mental power, the key to cosmic life's battle!"

"Hence why the fourth stage's uniqueness and being cosmic life."

"For cosmic life, any creature on a planet's cradle is like a larva, even at the third stage, a fledgling ant..."

"Only when gazing at the universe will you see your frailty!"

"So..."

"Do you see how laughable it is for humans to kill a high-tier queen?!"

"You might use external forces, like nukes, to erase a high-tier queen, but never defeat us alone!"

"In life and death, third-stage life will do anything, even ants dream of flight!"

"This time, to prevent your taboo, I sacrificed half my energy to summon the domain!"

Lin Feng inhaled deeply, realizing his preparations were far from enough.

Queens, as direct insect descendants, balanced physique, spirit, and HP...

And as cosmic heirs, the strongest third-stage beings!

Unwillingly, Lin Feng asked:

"What about other insect types? Will Tiger Bugs evolve into high-tier queens?"

Ling Yi shook her head:

"Only queens are the core, others created by fusing local genes on alien invasions."

"Tiger Bugs as cosmic descendants have third-stage forms, but won't unseal unless a high-tier queen dies."

"Maintaining third-stage King Bugs consumes immense biomass, risks unknown."

"So... to reach the third stage, kill a queen."

Lin Feng absorbed this, suppressing shock, watching the insect swarm:

"How to manifest intent?"

Ling Yi didn't evade, needing time for her main body to escape, she explained:

"Every life has unique experiences, there's no fixed method, maybe a sudden realization or an epiphany."

"Our Great Mother paved the way in our genes. Upon reaching the third stage, every queen receives ancestral spiritual heritage, following it."

"Humans lack cosmic life records, you'll explore yourself!"

"Intent's minimum mental requirement is the third stage, your mental boosted by parasitic hosts barely qualifies."

"Explore cautiously, lacking strength strains the mind!"

Before Lin Feng could question more, the insect sea and Ling Yi shattered like glass.

Vanishes instantly.

Leaving Lin Feng alone, floating mid-air, his wing membranes flapping.

The protective mucus didn't appear.

As if it was all an illusion.

Yet the blood from his eyes and ears reminded him.

The real battle was just beginning!

The bizarre mental world in limit break...

What would his intent be?!

Lin Feng clenched his fists, realizing! 

He drew his lv29 electromagnetic cannon, firing at the large sinkhole.

His right hand drew the Tiger Tooth Chainsaw Sword,

flying above the sinkhole...

As the smoke and dust cleared,

No trace of the insect queen's massive body.

"Damn!"

"Forget it, my state..."

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