Chapter 889: Memories, Origins, and Rebirth
After successfully subduing the Insect Queen, the group immediately withdrew from the island and set off again.
They handed over the Great Power Level Ancient Ship to the Heavenly Kings to pilot, while Ye Chen took the Insect Queen into one of the Treasure Halls within the ancient ship, closed the door and sealed it, issuing commands not to disturb him unless necessary.
Upon becoming the master of the Insect Queen, Ye Chen gained all the memories within the Insect Queen's mind, learning the true identity of the queen. She was not just an Insect Queen; she was also a mutated Mother Queen.
It's important to know that the Insect Queen rarely mutates, but once it does, it becomes a unique existence—either very strong or very weak.
Undeniably, this Insect Queen was powerful, having reached a level capable of battling the Reincarnation Realm, and the Insect Clan Warriors she produced were very special, humanoid, resembling Alien Demon Beings.
Furthermore, this Insect Queen was a member of the Insect Clan with the Mythical Emperor Bloodline, although that bloodline had long been diluted countless times, it was barely strong, but it could still be considered a Royal Clan.
Ye Chen also learned the origin of this Insect Queen. She was an ancient life form, traceable back to Ancient Times, entering when the Ancient God Continent had yet to engage in the ancient war with the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, merely an unhatched egg.
The egg remained dormant, slowly absorbing nature's spiritual energy, gathering enough to hatch. In this state, the egg was unconscious and not truly alive, able to endure the passing of time.
It was about seventy thousand years ago that the Insect Queen finally awoke and hatched. Naturally, back then, it was not as large and powerful as it is now. Just hatched, it was a real insect, continuously absorbing nature's spiritual energy, embarking on the path of evolution.
Not long after, she was discovered by the Black Prison Heavenly King of that era, collected, and taken across the Chaos Sea.
From the brief childhood memories of the Insect Queen, one could see that the Black Prison Heavenly King was a tall, majestic man, distinguished and unparalleled, whose movements could disrupt the heavens and earth, shatter the vacuum, extremely powerful.
Truly a former Overlord of the continent, he crossed the Chaos Sea, but after delving deep, he quickly encountered terrifying life forms, not just one but three, all terrifying Heavenly King-level beings, spilling blood across the skies.
When Ye Chen saw the vague memories of the three Heavenly King-level beings that attacked the Black Prison Heavenly King, his eyes widened, for they were Alien Beings, some demonic beings with bat wings, others shrouded in red fur and malice.
Alien Beings existed in the Ancient Emperor Realm, surprising him greatly. But recalling the battle of Taichu, where an Alien Supreme existence emerged, he understood that the Mythical Emperor and the Emperor sealed in the Ancient Emperor Realm likely guarded not only Alien Supreme existences but perhaps an entire Alien race.
The Three Alien Species Heavenly Kings attacked, battling the Black Prison Heavenly King.
That battle shattered heavens and lands, impacting beyond the sky, fighting across a hundred thousand miles. Even as powerful as he was, the Black Prison Heavenly King was no match for the Three Alien Species Heavenly Kings, wounded in the battle, fleeing twenty thousand miles, traversing the Chaos Sea, eventually arriving at an island.
He arranged Dao Rules and imprinted Array Patterns, planning to ensnare and kill the Alien Heavenly Kings on the island.
He charged into the sky, engaged in fierce combat with the three pursuing Alien Heavenly Kings, luring them to the island, unveiling the strongest Killing Array to annihilate them.
Unfortunately, the result was unexpected; the three Alien Heavenly Kings did not fall into the array, and as witnessed on the island, he suffered grave injuries, half his body shattered, his brow pierced by the Alien Heavenly King, with only a sliver of War Soul remaining.
In the end, the Black Prison Heavenly King fell on the island, luring the Three Alien Species Heavenly Kings, triggering all the array imprints, and in a final desperate move, managed to kill one Alien Demon Heavenly King.
The remaining two Alien Heavenly Kings escaped with injuries, leaving regret.
Before the Black Prison Heavenly King was about to perish, he placed the Insect Queen inside the corpse of the Alien Heavenly King, allowing it to devour the Demon Heavenly King's flesh and blood for growth, simultaneously injecting his Heavenly King Dao Essence and Dao imprint into the queen's body.
He also imprinted the notion of considering the Alien race a life-and-death enemy deep within the queen's core, making it instinctual to view the Alien race as enemies born into the world, eternally pursuing and attacking them.
Finally, with his last bit of strength, the Black Prison Heavenly King performed a sealing, allowing it to absorb power throughout the ages, ready to emerge.
As for why this Insect Queen mutated, one must trace back to the Mythical Great Destruction War, where her ancestor, a generation of the Insect Emperor's progeny King, once battled an Alien Race Monarch.
In the end, the Alien Race Monarch was defeated, absorbed, with a special bloodline.
This lifetime's Mother Queen also devoured the corpse of an Alien Heavenly King, causing an unprecedented mutation, no longer like an insect, becoming a special mutation, birthing offspring similar to Alien Demons.
"I see." Ye Chen finally understood that all of this was the handiwork left behind by the Black Prison Heavenly King.