Chapter 2936: Key Core

Emery took a deep breath to calm himself down and tried to persuade Fang Heng, “Fang Heng, the Seed of Ouroboros is extremely dangerous. The Western District Federation has already lost their minds to its power. If you stay, you’ll only be inviting disaster. Why not work with me instead? I’ll take you away and recommend you to the Central Federation. With your abilities, you could make a name for yourself there…”

“Just you? You think you can get me out of here?”

“Yes! We can use the power of the Seed of Ouroboros!” Emery had already made plans. “We’ll let the Seed of Ouroboros cause chaos on the outside. While the Western District Federation is focused on the swarm, we’ll escape back to the Central Federation. You’re not trusted here, but it’s different in the Central Federation. There, you can obtain–”

“No need.”

Fang Heng spoke calmly.

“Ah… ah…”

Emery suddenly screamed. To his horror, scalding blood began seeping from his orifices, slowly wriggling and condensing around his neck.

The blood grew hotter and tighter.

“No! Fang Heng! Stop! If you kill me, the Seed of Ouroboros will still go out of control! You’ll die with me!”

“Stop! The Central Federation won’t let you go!”

Emery shouted, his face turning crimson until he exploded into a cloud of blood mist under Fang Heng’s power.

Fang Heng flipped his wrist.

Within the blood mist, over a dozen mutant worm cocoons were enveloped in a faint blood glow, slowly levitating toward Fang Heng.

The cocoons hovered in the air.

“Hmm…”

Fang Heng observed the cocoons floating in midair, deep in thought.

The cocoons were a bit different.

Queen bug? This one?

From the outside, the cocoon Emery referred to as a queen bug had more defined structural patterns, was more intact, and slightly larger compared to normal ones.

He had never heard of this before…

Fang Heng muttered to himself, slowly reaching out.

A slit opened in the palm of his hand.

“Chi, chi chi…”

The cocoon slowly slid into the rift in his palm.

[Hint: The player absorbed an incomplete Seed of Ouroboros fragment. The player’s current Seed of Ouroboros ability has been upgraded to Level 9.]

So that’s how it was.

After fully absorbing the cocoon, Fang Heng quickly understood.

The so-called queen bug was actually the cocoon of a cultivator.

The cultivator shared a link with the Seed of Ouroboros developing within the cocoon.

So, during the early foundational stage, the cultivator’s cocoon could influence the growth of the Seed of Ouroboros to some degree.

But only in the earliest stages.

Once the Seed of Ouroboros entered the third stage, it would develop a strong self-awareness.

At that point, even someone like Emery, who had a queen bug cocoon, couldn’t control it anymore–he could at most prevent himself from being harmed by it.

However…

To Fang Heng, absorbing a queen bug cocoon was no different than absorbing a normal one.

They were all just skill experience points.

Also, while Emery couldn’t suppress a Tier 3 cocoon, Fang Heng could use the aura of his high-level Seed of Ouroboros to exert partial suppression.

This suppression didn’t require any cocoon and was entirely based on overwhelming power.

“Fang Heng.” Charlene stepped out from a nearby spirit barrier and said, “The Federation has already deployed defensive forces outside. We can proceed with the next phase.”

“Alright, leave it to me.”

Fang Heng tossed the remaining dozen broken cocoons left behind by Emery toward the insect nest formed by the Seed of Ouroboros.

Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!!

Tentacles extending from the nest’s outer layer quickly entangled the midair cocoons and slowly dragged them back inside, absorbing them.

Immediately after, the entire Seed of Ouroboros nest began to stir violently, twisting and expanding, releasing a bloodthirsty glow.

Charlene frowned slightly.

The Tier 3 Seed of Ouroboros had become significantly stronger and was still growing more powerful.

In the game world, she had nothing to fear. But if it crossed into the real world, she couldn’t guarantee control.

Fang Heng’s eyes suddenly snapped open. He turned and stared coldly at the insect nest, shouting, “Quiet down!”

The Level 9 Seed of Ouroboros power within him erupted. The Tier 3 Seed of Ouroboros immediately sensed a strong cultivator aura and quickly quieted down, curling into itself.

A flicker of surprise appeared in Charlene’s eyes. She turned to look at Fang Heng.

“Just a little trick,” Fang Heng said, withdrawing his aura. He was about to go find the Federation when he suddenly frowned.

Hmm? What’s that?

After Emery died, a puzzle-shaped object had fallen to the ground.

A key?

Fang Heng raised his hand in curiosity.

Whoosh!

The puzzle-shaped key slowly floated in the air and landed in Fang Heng’s palm.

A game prompt appeared.

[Hint: The player discovered an item – the spawn’s ship key (giant-sized).]

Item: The spawns’ ship key (giant-sized).

Type: Special mission reward.

Description: Using this key, the player can unlock ship construction items within the spawns exchange platform. The player can construct a starship based on the spawns technology (giant structural design). This key serves as the ship’s core.

Current ship construction completion: 0%.

Special description: Once construction begins, the key can no longer be stored in the backpack.

Special description: If the player dies before ship binding is completed, the item will drop 100%, and construction progress will reset to 0%.

It turned out to be the key to constructing a starship!

Fang Heng’s heart skipped a beat when he read the game description, and a smile curled on his lips.

Well, well, Emery!

He had underestimated him!

He had something this valuable on him?

With this, Fang Heng could finally build his starship?

Once the ship was built, he could completely sever ties with the Western District Federation, build and launch his vessel, and travel to various spawns-related worlds to take on missions.

Fang Heng quickly examined the item in more detail.

What he had now was just a shell–the core needed to start constructing a ship.

In addition to exchanging components from the spawns system, he would also need to buy auxiliary ship modules or manually build them himself.

At a glance, building a ship would require massive amounts of resources.

It was a great item, but for now, there was no rush to build the starship.

First, he had to deal with the Federation’s mess and break through the ‘lock’ ability.

With that thought, Fang Heng placed the key into his backpack and turned to Charlene, “Let’s go. Let’s check things out outside.”

“Alright.”