The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

A massive swarm of insects, obscuring the sky, came from behind Rongdu, turning every building in the city into a hiding place for the insects.

The scorched earth plan would be much more difficult to operate in urban clusters. The scorched earth flamethrower, designed to deal with swarms of insects, is equipped with an extremely high-pressure jet of liquid flame, which can often cover a range of tens of kilometers.

However, the flames cannot melt buildings and steel in the city immediately. They will bounce off buildings after hitting them. Even with reduced power, the scorched earth flamethrower can cover hundreds of meters, making it unsuitable for urban warfare.

Therefore, the role of the Scorched Earth Siege Troopers in urban warfare was greatly reduced, but even so, they were still the stern fathers of the Zerg.

The liquid flames will seep into every corner of the city, burning away all the insects hiding everywhere. Even if these monsters hide in the sewers dozens of meters underground, the liquid flames will fill and melt the entire sewer like maggots clinging to bones.

Behind the advancing fearless mechs were the crowds who were sweeping through the remaining areas.

This included Aigal, the provisional leader of the Freedom Curtain, who was holding a rifle and covered in Sacred Tree magazines.

Any insect swarm that slips through the net will be hit by the Divine Tree's bullets, and then turn into pathetic corpses that are imploded, with all life being devoured by the Divine Tree.

"Forward! Keep pushing!" Aigle shouted to the people behind him.

He picked up his gun and charged back into the ruins. Inside the half-melted obsidian remains, his life detector beeped, an alarm that there were still some swarming insects that had escaped.

This is a refuge in Rongdu, and Ai Gaole, being a Rongdu native, is very familiar with it.

When he finally cleared the area and blew open the shelter door, he found a blonde girl looking at him in terror.

At this moment, Ai Gaole was completely stunned.

Beneath that steel helmet, the 26-year-old captain of the Hell Vanguard Army stared blankly at the blonde girl, the girl who had appeared countless times in his dreams after the fall of Rongdu.

"Aigler, is that you? Aigler, did you come to save me?" The blonde girl looked at Aigler with surprise. Even through the thick exoskeleton armor and mask, she seemed to recognize him and said excitedly.

She even wanted to rush over and give her childhood sweetheart, who had joined the army years ago, a hug.

"Don't come any closer!" Ai Gaole roared, his hands trembling as he gripped the trigger tightly.

Other Freedom Curtain soldiers sweeping through the ruins seemed to have noticed the situation, and several of them rushed over.

“Aigole, don’t you recognize me? I’m Elena. Do you remember when we were studying at the Democratic Academy, you sat right behind me? I remember you loved to sleep in class and then your drool would soak your textbooks…” The blonde girl said, looking at Aigole’s gun barrel. She put one hand on her chest and the other hand looked lost.

The other Freedom Curtain personnel who came to provide support fell silent upon hearing these words, but still raised their guns.

"Aigole..." the girl seemed to continue calling out, but for some reason, she also started crying, opening her mouth as if to say...

"Don't come near me, kill me..."

Beneath that heavy exoskeleton, the soldier, who was merely a captain, had tears wetting his mask.

"boom!"

The bullet from the Divine Tree struck the blonde girl in the forehead instantly; Aigle had fired.

Amidst the girl's bewildered and distorted expression, the divine tree completely blasted her apart, revealing limbs and carapaces scattered everywhere beneath her human skin...

Flames shot into the sky in the distance, and missiles rained down on Rongdu from the distant outposts like a meteor shower. The explosions resembled dazzling fireworks, just like the girl who took him to see the fireworks when he graduated.

Others came over to comfort the captain.

"My beloved homeland is Rongdu. Let's continue to retake Rongdu," he said, picking up his gun and joining the mopping-up operation against the insect swarm once again.

This time, however, he seemed to have even more reasons to wipe out the entire swarm of insects.

……

The Battle of Rongdu lasted for a full 18 hours. After the 18th hour, the location of the Zerg Queen was marked by the Starfleet's instruments, followed by the fall of the Titans as thousands of Dreadnoughts descended from the sky.

After several more hours of fierce fighting, the Zerg Queen was killed. Without a continuous supply of pure-blooded Shub Zerg to breed, the Zerg swarm was completely on the verge of a slow death. The Rongdu counterattack seemed to have been a complete success.

Another ten hours or so passed, and the insect swarm in Rongdu was completely wiped out.

When the flag of the Iron Curtain was planted on the ruins of Rongdu, it seemed that the entire war had come to a complete end.

Even with the loss of the Zerg King and a large number of combat troops, and despite the fact that the world is still filled with billions of pseudo-Zerg, it has no impact on the overall situation.

Even after losing a large number of pure-blooded Shub insectoids, Xue Law began his plan.

"The entire process of creation is complete..."

Holding the Seed of the World in his hand, the chapter of the Creation Era is turned at this moment. This Noble Phantasm grants Xue Lude the ability to directly achieve the formal Creation Era ritual under the power of the world consciousness.

The world consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain may have known that only Xue's Law could save her, so even though she was like a young lady who had submitted to her enemy, she still begged Xue's Law and entrusted everything to him.

However, in the genesis of Xue's law, saving Him was merely a side effect.

Nearly 10 billion pseudo-insects seemed to sense impending doom. At this moment, no matter where in the world, a huge halo appeared in the sky, and a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts instantly arose.

They became hysterical, seemingly aware of the impending crisis.

"With your body, reshape the world and all its phenomena!"

The Seed of the World shot into the sky in an instant, and at the moment their fingers touched, the entire world was engulfed in endless light.

As expected, over 10 billion pseudo-insects were instantly annihilated by this creation, their energy becoming the cornerstone of the new world, and their bodies being decomposed into the purest organic matter.

Where the insect carcasses decompose, flowers bloom and trees grow.

Only the true pure-blooded Shub insectoids remained, but they were all marked by the world after Xue's Law sent their coordinates to the Dreadnought's network.

This war has come to a complete end.

As the sun sets, the banner of the Iron Curtain stands tall in the very center of the ruins, fluttering in the wind.

……

however……

"Wait, what do you mean by the divine tree in the Thousand Insect Pit blooming and preparing to bear fruit?" Having just concocted a groundbreaking Xue's Law amidst the ruins of Rongdu, he listened to the information from the outpost with a terrified expression...

Chapter 319 The Birth of the Insect-Eating Tree

Xue's Law has always believed that his plan is certainly not perfect, but it is the most stable one in his limited vision.

According to the intelligence from the Mist Council, the Sixth Apostle would never allow the swarm to have more authority than the Divine Tree. Otherwise, the result would be that the swarm would devour the Divine Tree, rather than the Divine Tree devouring those insects in human skin and turning them into fruit.

That's why he developed the Divine Tree Bullet and successfully created a subspecies of Divine Tree that could stably devour swarms of insects while also self-destructing.

But now, what does it mean for the divine tree to blossom and bear fruit?

Xue Dinglu felt a cold sweat break out on his back.

The flowering and fruiting of the divine tree is actually a process of sublimation for the divine tree itself. What it fears is that this world, which has just escaped the clutches of the insect swarm, will soon become a world parasitized and distorted by the roots of the divine tree.

When he arrived at the outpost, he found that the sapling of the divine tree had indeed expanded rapidly, overturning the entire outpost base. The factory that produced the divine tree bullets was completely swallowed up, and the outpost base, which had been transformed from the base vehicle, was also completely crushed into scrap metal by the tree roots.

A divine tree, hundreds of meters thick and towering above the clouds, rose from the ground.

What shocked everyone even more was that the divine tree began to bloom. Although the flowers looked like an insect spreading its wings, the terrifying energy and horrifying power gathered on the flower buds filled everyone with fear.

"What exactly happened?" Xue asked.

He seemed to sense the distortion of billions of souls emanating from this divine tree, which made him break out in a cold sweat.

"Actually, it's a bit strange. Don't we have two Zerg Queen corpses on us...?" A tall mech explained somewhat awkwardly, "We spent a huge amount of time dealing with the Zerg Queens before, and we had to use a rocket to throw the Queen's corpse into a star to completely annihilate it..."

"So this time I wanted to take a shortcut. Since this tree could devour the Zerg Queen, I tried throwing her corpse at it, and then what you see is this..."

The mecha said, quite embarrassed.

Xue Luding remained silent, looking at the billions of souls hanging all over the divine tree. He then thought that the tree looked like it had eaten too much and was suffering from indigestion, which was why it had to use its excess energy to bloom and bear fruit.

Xue's law gradually made everything clear.

After the clumsy mech threw the Zerg Queen's corpse to the Divine Tree, the Divine Tree absorbed it without hesitation.

Then came the time for Xue's Law of Genesis to come into play. Using the Genesis technique, he connected to the planet's Great Source and wiped out all the pseudo-insects in the world in one fell swoop.

After all, these pseudo-insects were originally monsters twisted from the planet's native creatures. Even though they had become insects, they were still connected to the planet's Great Source.

These pseudo-insects actually absorbed a significant amount of the planet's ley line energy before they died.

The energy drawn from the ley lines by the swarm is like a continuous source of magic, equivalent to the blood of the entire planet, and belongs to a type of small-scale planetary energy source.

Therefore, when the swarm reaches this stage, it means that the world's consciousness is beginning to decline and die. It is not necessary to extract all the geothermal energy of the entire planet. It is only necessary to absorb the earth's vein magic. The entire planet will have to use the energy of the earth's core to maintain the surface until the energy of the earth's core can no longer supply the surface. Then the entire planet will die completely.

This is also why the world consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain is on its last legs. After learning about Xue's Law, it gave the last World Seed to Xue without any hesitation, and it also dissipated.

It will only be able to be reborn when Xue's Law reactivates the Seed of the World.

These pseudo-insects, whose bodies were originally bulging and filled with the earth's ley line magic, were originally intended to be supplied to the Insect King.

However, the Insect King was shattered, and the entire pseudo-Insect swarm of hundreds of billions was also annihilated in an instant by Genesis.

In addition, the Divine Tree itself is essentially rooted in the planet's blood vessels (small source), and just a few hours ago, this thing also devoured the Zerg Queen without hesitation, hanging the Queen's soul on the tree.

And so, a strange reaction suddenly occurred.

In Xue's original theory, the energy of the swarms of insects that were annihilated by Genesis would dissipate into the world and gradually return to the origin of the world over time.

However, the dissipated magic and swarm of insects connected with the soul of the Insect King atop the Divine Tree through Xiao Yuan's soul...

At that moment, billions of units of energy poured onto the divine tree. And just right, the divine tree itself was not afraid of the impact of energy and souls, especially since it accepted all the spirituality of these organisms.

As a result, this sacred tree, which should have been in balance with the bacteriophage, suddenly began to grow and bloom uncontrollably, like a rampaging Unit-01.

After clarifying all the logic, Xue's Law states: "..."

He never expected that such a wondrous magical reaction could occur. Looking at the completely twisted divine tree, Xue Lude glanced at the Seed of the World in his hand...

He felt completely numb, but thankfully, no one died; at most, only a few unlucky people were injured.

This divine tree seems quite peculiar. It does not actively devour any creatures other than insects, just as it does not actively devour humans. However, if you are unlucky enough to be within its range, you will still be attacked indiscriminately.

However, for the swarm, this thing seems to actively devour the insects. Just like those pure-blooded Shub insects who survived Genesis, even though they hid in underground caves thousands of meters deep, they were killed by the underground tunneling mechs and their bodies were brought out.

Just as the mechs carrying the swarm's corpses approached the outpost, the tree roots suddenly sprang up, instantly snatching away the Dreadnoughts and the corpses in their hands. Then, a whip was used to throw the Dreadnoughts away, leaving them dazed and confused. The corpses of the insects, however, were crushed and absorbed by the tree roots.

This is a scene that just happened; the divine tree seems to have undergone some changes that even Xue's Law could not have predicted.

The good news is that the tree is just preparing to flower and bear fruit, and there are no further developments; it remains stable for the time being.

It's unclear how long it will remain stable, but the members of the interstellar squadron have clearly noticed this thing and are starting to sweat profusely.

Perhaps they are also preparing to launch their planet-destroying attacks, since the natural disasters of the Divine Tree would be far more troublesome than the insects if they were to erupt.

However, Xue Lude was puzzled because he seemed to sense that there were still a large number of bacteriophages on this twisted divine tree...

"Wait a moment, let me make direct contact." Xue Dinglu interrupted one of the interstellar squad members who was preparing to react.

He arrived at the sacred tree, his hands imbued with cursed blood and a large amount of bacteriophages. Hopefully, nothing unexpected would happen, but even if something did, the bacteriophages could protect him, at least giving him time to escape.

However, the moment the cursed blood touched the divine tree, an endless swarm of insect souls, filled with resentment and unwillingness, surged forth.

The resentment of a swarm of billions of insects was then shattered by "Innovation Century" as if it were a roadside insect being kicked to death.

Xue Dinglu was stunned for a moment.

But in reality, the Zerg swarm was annihilated by the Innovation Era while it was still alive, let alone after it died.

The cursed blood flowed along the phloem of the divine tree, and he was astonished to discover that this divine tree's genes were completely different from those of other divine trees...

For other sacred trees, their own cells and bacteriophages are locked in a life-or-death struggle, like enemies killing their fathers.

But within this divine tree, perhaps due to their long-term symbiosis, they actually achieved a reconciliation that lasted for centuries, and then...

When facing external threats, eat the bugs first!

Xue Law: "..."

He suddenly remembered this: bacteriophages are viruses after all... and viruses are the most adaptable and mutating organisms, especially since this is a bacteriophage super-enhanced by the cursed blood.

So, amazingly, the bacteriophage became a symbiotic entity of this sacred tree cell, similar to chloroplasts and mitochondria, becoming an internal organ of the sacred tree cell.

In the primitive era, prokaryotes devoured and merged with each other, eventually becoming intertwined. Mitochondria and chloroplasts were born in this way; these two cellular organs were originally separate prokaryotes, but they were incorporated into other cells.

Bacteriophages and genus cells are now in roughly the same state...

The unfortunate result of their consensus is...

insect!

Xue Dinglu silently drew out the cursed blood and looked at the strange divine tree with a twitching expression.

No, perhaps it shouldn't be called the Divine Tree anymore. It has become a completely different subspecies from other Divine Trees. A more accurate name would be the Insect-Eating Tree.

This bacteriophage, which coexisted with the cells of the Divine Tree, eventually became this kind of life form. Xue Law felt as if he had accidentally created the most terrifying demon, a Divine Tree that specifically feeds on the Shub insect race!

But this is only temporary. As mentioned before, phage mutations are unstable and occur at a fairly high frequency. Right now it is a phage tree, but who knows what strange thing it might turn into without the intervention of the cursed blood.

Therefore, Xue Dinglu immediately said, "Everyone evacuate the area. Everyone should be at least ten kilometers away. I'll figure out a solution!"