Chapter 530 - 251: Pseudo Tier Four Life Form, Realm Trial

Chapter 530: Chapter 251: Pseudo Tier Four Life Form, Realm Trial

"What do you think?"

Once he was sure Shen Jie was far away and had left the Underground Hive, Lin Feng stared at the dark cave entrance where his figure had vanished, then suddenly spoke.

Ling Yi frowned slightly and glanced back at the other side of the Pyramid, where Jiang Yun’er was calibrating the Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor.

Jiang Yun’er immediately reined in her gossipy heart, turned away, and lowered her head to focus on her work.

Only then did Ling Yi offer her opinion:

"Shen Jie wasn’t lying. The scene he described was nearly identical to the sealed images left behind by the Zerg King."

"The question is, who pulled him out of the Mental Realm in the end?"

"Generally speaking, without the Spiritual Power of a Tier Four, it’s very difficult to forcibly awaken a Lost Soul from the Spirit World."

Lin Feng was also pondering this.

But soon, the agility of his Tier Three brain, after some searching and comparison, led him to a possibility:

"Do you think... it could have been my mom?"

Ling Yi froze for a moment, and her expression changed drastically.

Lin Feng continued, voicing her unspoken question:

"But you said that only a true Tier Four Life Form can leave its Realm Inheritance within its race’s bloodline."

"My mom’s Spiritual Attribute only broke the limit. How could she appear in Shen Jie’s Realm Inheritance?"

After hearing Lin Feng’s follow-up question, Ling Yi’s brow furrowed even more deeply. Just as Lin Feng said, the situation was becoming increasingly strange.

It was certain that the voice Shen Jie heard while unconscious was indeed human, and it must have come from the other part of his bloodline—that of the Human Race.

But it was impossible for the Human Race to have ever had a Tier Four Life Form...

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have remained in a fragmented state before the Zerg Race’s arrival, with numerous countries constantly at odds, embroiled in endless conflict for thousands of years.

After all, any single Tier Four Cosmic Life could easily unify the entire planet. The very meaning and responsibility of its existence is to lead its own race...

...to venture into the Cosmos and expand the civilization’s living space!

Given humanity’s primitive state of technological development, the probability of a Tier Four Life Form ever having been born among them was close to zero.

Even the fact that Lin Feng’s mother had achieved the level of Half-Step Tier Four was a great shock to Ling Yi.

To find the source of the voice, a bright golden light appeared in Ling Yi’s eyes. She mobilized her Realm Power, which began to operate frantically within the Purple Crystal Brain Marrow of her Brain Domain.

A moment later, she finally spoke slowly, offering the only explanation she could find:

"I searched through the entire ocean of knowledge passed down by the Zerg Race for hundreds of millions of years..."

"And I finally found a similar case."

Lin Feng’s expression grew serious. This kind of information and knowledge was an intangible treasure one could only hope to encounter by chance. Only a Divine Race with a legacy spanning hundreds of millions of years could accumulate such a profound foundation.

Ling Yi took a deep breath and began to explain methodically:

"Because of the uniqueness of a Tier Four Life Form, it takes millions, or even tens of millions of years, for a single Tier Four Powerhouse to emerge within the same race..."

"And in that vast river of time, countless Tier Three Life Forms evolve, as numerous as carp crossing a river."

"Among them are many exceptionally gifted evolutionary geniuses. In order to continue breaking through the shackles of evolution, they choose to forgo the long accumulation required for physical transformation..."

"Instead, they take an unorthodox path, prioritizing spiritual enhancement in an attempt to further extend their lifespans."

"This gives rise to a large number of Tier Three Peak beings whose Spiritual Power has broken the limit."

"They are also known as... Pseudo Tier Four Life Forms."

"But Physique and Spirit are two parts of a complementary evolutionary path. It’s like a bicycle—you need two wheels to be stable and go the distance."

"Riding on one wheel is like crossing a tightrope on a unicycle—every step is fraught with peril."

"This is especially true after ten thousand years at Tier Three Peak. Their physical bodies have reached the point of decay, their Physical Strength dropping to the Tier Three Early Stage, or even lower."

"At that point, the immense Spiritual Energy stored in their Brain Domain turns from a life-extending boon into a fatal poison."

"Without a powerful Physique to act as a moat, these aging Pseudo Tier Four Life Forms, having surpassed their natural lifespan, are like a plastic bag filled with the water of an entire lake. They are in constant danger of overflowing and bursting, growing ever more fragile with the passage of time."

"Thus, to continue their wretched existence, they have only one path: to seize the fresh bodies of other new-generation Tier Three Life Forms from their own race."

"In your human terms, this is called ’body seizure’."

Lin Feng frowned slightly.

"Can’t they clone their own bodies? With the Zerg Race’s advanced biotechnology, that shouldn’t be difficult, right?"

Ling Yi rolled her eyes at him, momentarily speechless.

"The number of times any cell can divide is finite. As long as you haven’t transcended the category of a material life form, you cannot escape the distortion of genetic information under the law of entropy, which leads to decay, or forgetting everything and becoming an idiot."

"Of course, if you’re willing to become a mindless pile of rotting flesh just to stay alive, you could just become a Biological Meat Nest."

"Otherwise, why would a Tier Four Life Form need to extensively merge with its race’s genes to expand its own sample capacity?"

"The amount of Life Energy that each gene can contain has a limit. The entire race must proliferate to a certain extent, possessing enough genetic samples, so that after collection and fusion, the so-called ’uniqueness’ can be condensed."

"The reason a King is a King is that the complete sequence within their body can contain infinite Energy, nurture different Realm Powers, and ultimately, at Tier Six Peak, condense an Immortal Divine Kingdom."

"Tier Four is called a Cosmic Life because it is the point where a life form steps onto the long staircase of Ascension to Divinity."

"The path is already paved. All that’s left is to continue to accommodate and nurture more Mental Realms..."