Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Lin Yi carefully looked through the resource consumption data required to cultivate the Abyss Demon Beast, and his brows unconsciously frowned.

The egg stage alone consumes 100 points of bio-energy, and cultivating it to maturity requires another 200 points of bio-energy, which means that an Abyss Demon Beast needs to consume a total of up to 300 points of bio-energy.

This number is really too expensive for a third-tier combat Zerg. Even the price of a fourth-tier combat Zerg is rarely so high.

And this is just the beginning. Lin Yi knows very well that cultivating the Abyss Demon Beast is not as simple as a one-time investment.

Once this type of combat unit is successfully cultivated, the subsequent daily consumption to maintain its existence should not be underestimated.

According to the basic rules of the Zerg, the bioenergy required for daily maintenance of an ordinary Zerg unit is approximately one percent of its breeding cost.

But the Abyss Demon Beast obviously does not belong to the category of ordinary units - most of the special Zerg units follow completely different energy consumption rules.

Just as Lin Yi fell into deep thought, the fleshy barrier of the insect nest suddenly began to wriggle.

Jila slowly stretched out her upper body. The shell that originally covered her face had completely faded away, revealing skin as white and delicate as that of a human.

The most eye-catching thing is the several black stripes symmetrically distributed on both sides of her cheeks. These stripes extend upwards, adding a bit of evil charm to her.

However, Lin Yi noticed that although his appearance had changed significantly, Jila's height seemed to remain at the same level.

"what is this?"

Jira curiously poked her newborn cheek with her fingertips, and the soft touch made her eyes widen slightly.

"Skin." Lin Yi answered briefly.

"So soft." Jila touched his cheek repeatedly, his brows gradually frowning, "I've become weaker."

There was obvious dissatisfaction in her tone, and her fingers unconsciously stroked the place that once covered the hard shell, as if she was full of resistance to this fragile new form.

"How is the progress of extracting the gene fragments of [Star Guardian]?"

Jila closed his eyes and concentrated, sensing the decomposing remains in his body. After a moment, he opened his eyes and shook his head, saying, "It's not finished yet. The target's genetic structure is more complex than expected, and digestion and analysis will take extra time." Obviously, the genes of the high-level Zerg brought considerable challenges to Jila.

"Forget it, let's cultivate an Abyss Demon Beast first and build the Abyss Amplifier at the same time."

"clear."

As Jila's mental instructions were issued, the egg-forming tissue inside the hive began to wriggle violently.

The fleshy duct secreted a special nutrient mucus, and in less than a minute, an egg with a dark purple luster was squeezed out. The basketball-sized egg fell into the bulging breeding sac below, and the blood vessel-like patterns on the surface flickered with the breathing.

Five minutes later, accompanied by a teeth-grinding tearing sound, an abyss demon beast covered with lava-like cracks broke out of its cocoon.

"Roar!!"

The Abyss Demon Beast raised its head and roared. This ferocious creature had just been born into this world, and his eyes were full of primitive desire to destroy everything.

But when its eyes fell on Lin Yi and Jila, the ferocious beast instantly became as docile as a puppy.

The suppression from the instinct of life made this abyss demon beast unable to have the slightest desire to resist.

The Abyss Demon Beast is different from most Zergs. It is a nearly humanoid creature with two strong hind legs that are bent in a large arc. This unique physiological structure gives it terrifying explosive power.

Its head has no eyes, only a huge mouth that is torn to the neck. The inside of the mouth is filled with seven layers of spirally arranged serrated fangs. Each tooth has a barb structure. This design ensures that any prey that is bitten will be torn into pieces layer by layer like falling into a meat grinder.

Once bitten by this beast, except for giant creatures like the Tyrannosaurus Rex, most land creatures would have no chance of escaping.

The front claws of the Abyss Demon Beast are extremely slender, with three sharp bone spurs growing at the ends.

The four retractable spikes on its back are usually kept close to the spine, but once it enters combat mode, they will instantly unfold like a peacock spreading its tail.

When charging at full speed, these deployed spikes can easily cut through the body of prey like butter.

This evolutionary direction fully reflects the survival law of the abyss creatures, where the strong prey on the weak - every organ and every inch of the body is a perfect weapon for more efficient killing.

……

Name: Abyss Demon Beast
Health: 100%
Bioenergy: 20/20
True Strength: 85 points

True Agility: 88 points

Real physical strength: 80 points

Intelligence: 1
Charm: Lower-level Zerg have no charm attribute.

Skill 1: Power of the Abyss Demon (Passive, LV.30): The all-encompassing power generated by the mixture of the power of the abyss and the power of the demon. The attack will carry 50 points of true damage and will cause corrosion and armor-breaking effects on the enemy.

Skill 2: Terrain Adaptation (Passive, Lv.24): Adaptability in extremely harsh environments +50%.

Skill 3: Alien Species (Passive, Lv.35): Shell Defense +28, Physical Defense +12 points, Health +500 points.

Skill 4: Combat Intuition (Passive, Lv.38): Possesses strong adaptability and learning abilities during combat, but this learning ability is limited to combat knowledge.

Skill 5: Slow Recovery (Passive, Lv.10): When in an environment containing the power of the abyss, health will slowly recover.

……

After checking the attributes of the Abyss Demon Beast, Lin Yi turned around and asked Jila to start building the Abyss Amplifier.

As the order was given, dozens of worker insects quickly took action.

They used their sharp forelimbs to dig a deep pit in the ground and carefully placed a dark purple insect egg in it.

The biological patterns on the surface of the eggs began to pulsate regularly, as if they were breathing.

After just a dozen seconds, the ground suddenly shook violently.

Along with the teeth-grinding sound of bone growth, a hideous-looking black tower broke out of the ground.

The tower is covered with spiral flesh patterns, and four curved spikes extend from the top.

At the moment when the tower was fully revealed, Lin Yi felt a faint force of the abyss sweeping through his body.

The impact range of this wave was far beyond expectations. With the insect nest as the center, all creatures within a radius of ten kilometers stopped moving at the same time.

The birds in the forest scattered in panic, the rodents in the burrows trembled, and even the most ferocious predators instinctively lowered their bodies.

They could not understand where this shudder from the depths of their souls came from, but their biological instincts told them that something beyond the top of the food chain had appeared in this area.

The Zerg bred by Jila are different from other Zerg - because of the integration of her genetic sequence, these combat units naturally contain trace amounts of the power of the abyss.

It is this characteristic that makes them far more resistant to abyssal energy than ordinary creatures, and they can even thrive in corrosive environments.

The emergence of the Abyss Amplifier has multiplied this advantage.

Not only did this tower fail to suppress the Zerg, but it acted like an energy furnace, continuously strengthening all the abyssalized units within range.

The newly produced Abyss Demon Beast seemed extremely excited within the radiation range of the Abyss Amplifier. This environment filled with trace amounts of Abyss power was the most comfortable environment for it.

After feeling the power of the abyss in the air, the originally violent aura of the Abyss Demon Beast became unusually stable, as relaxed as a hatchling returning to its mother nest.

The huge daily consumption of the Abyss Demon Beast is essentially to convert biological energy into the Abyss Power needed to maintain survival.

Within the range of the Abyss Amplifier, the free Abyss power in the environment can be directly absorbed by the Abyss Demon Beasts, greatly reducing their dependence on bioenergy.

If more Abyss Demon Beasts could be allowed to move within the range of the amplifier, not only would a large amount of biological energy be saved, but the destructive power and recovery capabilities of these Abyss Demon Beasts would also be significantly enhanced.

"Jila."

"Master." Hearing Lin Yi's order, Jila's figure poked his head out of the insect nest.

"Adjust the hatching sequence of the hive, giving priority to the production of Abyssal Demon Beasts. All newly cultivated units should be deployed within the coverage of the amplifier." Lin Yi ordered. "Understood." Jila nodded slightly, and then conveyed the order to the hive through the mental link.

Soon, the eggs in the hatching pool began to wriggle faster, and new abyss demon beasts were bred at a faster rate.

Lin Yi noticed that although the ordinary Zerg units that were originally active near the amplifier did not benefit directly like the Abyss Demon Beast, subtle Abyss patterns began to emerge on their shells, and they seemed to be slowly adapting to this environment.

Ten minutes later, after confirming the amplification range of the Abyss Amplifier, Lin Yi prepared to use the Abyss Amplifier as a means of expansion.

Each Abyss Amplifier only requires 500 points of bio-energy, and combined with a fungal blanket network of 200 points of bio-energy, it can transform an area of ​​ten miles in radius into a territory suitable for Abyss Demon Beasts to fight.

This kind of cost-effectiveness is tailor-made for the expansion of the Zerg.

The third-level Zerg Queen is far from reaching her peak. Waiting until Jira breaks through to the fourth level will be the best time to truly start the Zerg swarm tactics.

However, at this moment, the excess biological energy is no longer useful, so it is better to convert it into real-time combat power.

Lin Yi's plan was very clear - first expand the territory step by step, use the cooperation of the Abyss Amplifier and the fungal blanket to gradually erode the surrounding areas, and lay the foundation for the subsequent explosive growth of the Zerg army.

He ordered Jila to hatch a dozen worker insects, lay fungal carpets within the coverage of the amplifier, and build new abyss amplifiers to form a chain amplification network.

As the fungal blanket spreads, the expansion speed of the hive increases significantly, and the Abyss Amplifier continues to strengthen the Zerg units within range.

"Master, at the current rate of expansion, our control range will triple in 24 hours, but the biological energy is a bit insufficient." Jila reported through the mental link.

Lin Yi immediately crushed the remaining ten life stones and stuffed them into Jila's hands.

The best result, of course, is that these ten life stones fill up the biological energy, and then Jila is promoted to the fourth level.

Even if the promotion cannot be completed, these energies are enough to support Jira to expand the control range of the hive to an unprecedented scale.

After Jila ate five life stones, the energy stored in the hive reached its limit, but this time Jila could not advance to the fourth stage.

Jila could sense that if she evolved to the fourth level like this, she would definitely fail.

She needed to obtain the 'super biological crystal core', but she had no idea where to find it. All she knew came from her genetic memory.

Just as Lin Yi was thinking about how to find this so-called "super biological crystal core", Su Xiao returned to the camp with the remaining individual of the ace Zerg Bee Knife he got from Huan Feng.

As soon as he approached the camp, Su Xiao sensed the trace amount of abyss power in the air.

Then, crackling sparks flashed on Su Xiao's body. These sparks were the result of the mutual erosion and confrontation between the power of the Blue Steel Shadow and the power of the abyss. Although both of them were in the Samsara Paradise, there was no such thing as turning off friendly fire here.

Fortunately, Su Xiao had been in contact with Lin Yi for a long time, and he knew that the Blue Steel Shadow power in his body was very sensitive to the power of the abyss, so Su Xiao forcibly suppressed the restless Blue Steel Shadow power under the surface of the skin, and the electric arcs jumping on the surface of the body disappeared without a trace.

Su Xiao turned his head and looked behind him, and found that both the shadow army controlled by Lin Yi and the Zerg army cultivated by Jila had no reaction to the power of the abyss, and they were still performing their respective duties in an orderly manner.

After returning to the camp, Su Xiao immediately noticed the Abyss Amplifier.

Around it, the rich power of the abyss almost condensed into substance, and the pitch-black abyss demon beast was crawling comfortably beside the amplifier, greedily absorbing energy.

Su Xiao glanced at the various strange buildings that had been newly added to the camp and the Zerg troops that he had never seen before.

An expansion of this scale could only mean that Jila had successfully evolved to the third stage - otherwise, with the production capacity of the original hive, it would be impossible to complete such a large-scale upgrade in a short period of time.

He casually threw the remaining individual of the bee knife towards the direction of the insect nest. Before the broken Zerg corpse hit the ground, it was quickly dragged into the depths of the nest by several Zergs that looked like worker bees.

After doing all this, Su Xiao walked straight towards the Abyss Demon Beast and opened its attribute panel.

After seeing the attributes of the Abyss Demon Beast, Su Xiao could confirm that this thing was a powerful fighter even among the fourth-level combat Zerg.

Because Su Xiao had seen a four-stage combat insect species in the Phantom Bee's hive, and only one of its attributes was a real attribute. If it really confronted the Abyss Demon Beast, one Abyss Demon Beast could beat five opponents.

"Where's Jira?"

"She is digesting the remaining individuals she brought back from the hive. She is now stuck at the threshold of the fourth stage of evolution and cannot find a way to break through for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Su Xiao clicked on the war channel.

On the light screen, the purchase information sent by Lin Yi was particularly eye-catching - [Clues related to purchasing super biological crystal cores at high prices].

There was nothing below the message, not even a single reply.

With the intelligence network of the contractors of the Samsara Paradise, they couldn't even find anyone who had heard of this term, which was enough to show how rare super-biological crystal cores are on this continent.

If you think about it carefully, it makes sense. If the fourth-level evolution is so easy to achieve, there wouldn't be only three fourth-level insect nests standing in the entire continent.

Even the so-called "intelligent Zerg" entrenched overseas, their leader is just a third-level queen.

The self-proclaimed title of "Insect King" is probably not even a joke in front of the real fourth-level Insect King.

"In that case, let's start converting it into combat power."

Ten minutes later, a group of abyss demon beasts came out.

There were 150 beasts in each batch, and in less than half an hour, the hive had bred 419 demon beasts.

A large group of abyss demon beasts were patrolling near the insect nest. Compared with them, the ugly mantis beetles actually looked a little cute. As for those poisonous stingers, they were not even the weakest among the younger brothers.

After being promoted to the third level, Jila gave birth to a brand new evolution chamber organ. This cavity filled with nerve veins constantly pulsated, injecting pure bioenergy into the Zerg being cultivated.

It was under its influence that 419 elite individuals were born among 15 demon beasts.

……

Name: Elite Abyss Devil Beast
Health: 120%
Bioenergy: 20/20
True Strength: 89 points

True Agility: 91 points

Real physical strength: 85 points

Intelligence: 1
Charm: Lower-level Zerg have no charm attribute.

Skill 1: Power of the Abyss Demon (Passive, LV.40): The all-encompassing power generated by the mixture of the power of the abyss and the power of the demon. The attack will carry 70 points of true damage and will cause corrosion and armor-breaking effects on the enemy.

Skill 2: Terrain Adaptation (Passive, Lv.28): Adaptability in extremely harsh environments +60%.

Skill 3: Alien Species (Passive, Lv.39): Shell Defense +35, Physical Defense +18 points, Health +800 points.

Skill 4: Combat Intuition (Passive, Lv.38): Possesses strong adaptability and learning abilities during combat, but this learning ability is limited to combat knowledge.

Skill 5: Slow Recovery (Passive, Lv.10): When in an environment containing the power of the abyss, health will slowly recover.

Skill 6: Teamwork (Passive, Lv.10): For each friendly unit nearby, all attributes of the skill increase by 1 point, up to a maximum of 5 layers.

……

The combat power of the elite Abyssal Devil Beast is terrifying, and its dominance on the battlefield is unquestionable. Especially when it cooperates with friendly units, the suppression power it displays is enough to scare the enemy.

Once its buffs are maxed out, the three true attribute values ​​of Abyss Demon Beast will exceed 90 points.

What's even more frightening is that its innate true damage characteristic combined with the armor-piercing effect makes it a veritable battlefield meat grinder, and any defense is useless in front of it.

"Give me the command authority."

Lin Yi nodded, and then transferred the command authority of this group of Zerg to Su Xiao.

At the moment the transfer of authority was completed, a strange red light spread under the feet of the Zerg.

Immediately afterwards, the attribute values ​​of all the Zerg warriors began to rise steadily. What was even more shocking was that a bloodthirsty fighting spirit suddenly burst out from their eyes, and the momentum of the entire army changed.

"Aura buff? No, it's not an aura, but it can strengthen a large number of friendly forces at the same time. Could it be the effect of a special title?" After seeing the changes in the Zerg, Lin Yi deduced in a very short time that Su Xiao probably holds a rare title, and the activation condition of this title must be related to the size of the army he commands - only when he commands a sufficient number of combat units can such a powerful group increase be triggered. (End of this chapter)