Chapter 342: Enslave the Queen, Meet the Master!

Deep within the cavern.

Its whole body, as vivid as thick fresh blood, the seventh‑rank exotic shark‑insect queen in a pupa form, is crawling deep in the cavern, constantly writhing its massive body.

Its length exceeds two hundred meters, and its diameter exceeds thirty meters.

The eggs it lays are the same size as Ta Ke's.

At this moment, a vast swarm of Sears Crows hovers over the shark‑insect queen's body, and the flames of the crow flock completely ignite the queen.

The Sears Forbidden Crow clearly has not fully restrained the insect queen; the queen continues to writhe and climb on its own.

Nevertheless, the Sears Crow has suppressed the opponent's Transcendent Soul State.

After entering and seeing the Sears Crow, which completely suppressed the shark‑insect queen's Transcendent Soul State, Ta Ke could not help but rejoice greatly.

Generally speaking, the "soul" is not important to high‑rank transcendent beings.

Those transcendent beings of Mo Lei·Shen Ting, who are not even human, can even extract a soul and crush it outright.

But for the insect race, which needs to construct a "Soul Network",

Soul!

It is the core within the core.

Ta Ke remembers that there once was an insect queen who did not condense the Transcendent Soul State, but instead gathered other "Elemental States".

As a result… she was beaten savagely by other insect queens, and her corpse was devoured.

An insect queen must follow the path of the Transcendent Soul State.

Being able to control a whole micro‑world's Soul Network shows how powerful an insect queen's Transcendent Soul State is.

Therefore!

Insect queens are extremely, extremely difficult to enslave.

Even looking across the Three‑Eyed God·Holy Spirit Empire, one can find few powerful transcendent beings that have nearly enslaved the insect race.

But at this moment,

The 【Terrifying‑Level】 Sears Crow has actually suppressed the insect queen's Transcendent Soul State, essentially presenting a cleansed insect queen before Ta Ke.

Ta Ke only needs to follow the enslavement method in the "Old Days·Star Meditation Secret Canon" to enslave its Transcendent Soul State.

With the Sears Forbidden Crow, enslaving the insect queen is no problem.

At this moment, trailing behind the insect queen, Ta Ke is feeling another crucial issue.

That is,

the ecological cycle between "Steam Ecology" and "Insect Ecology".

Ta Ke has little interest in merely enslaving the insect queen to command the insect army.

But having his own shark‑insect queen and exotic shark‑insects all enter the steam era, Ta Ke not only has that, but also greatly benefits.

After all, this is a highly imaginative scene and a groundbreaking extraordinary work.

More importantly…

Once the steam insect ecology succeeds,

Ta Ke would effectively carry a massive "Steam Insect Nest" with him.

In the future, creative insect forms such as "Steam Lighthouse Insect", "Steam Cycle Insect", and the like can be experimentally created.

The steam ecology route itself is a large‑scale production model of the steam industry.

Even the great spirits of steam and rail must spread their steam veins, linking numerous transcendent worlds.

Ta Ke can venture into a "Steam Insect Race", exploring his own future steam path, which is not impossible.

It should be known that before this, Ta Ke's "Steam Stars" were also an experimental foray into the steam route.

No one knows what the path of a steam wizard is.

Ta Ke must explore himself, to forge his own steam Transcendent Master "Ecology Nest".

After a long while,

"Hoo…"

Ta Ke lets out a long sigh, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"The steam insect race, even the steam queen, this ecological metamorphosis plan is entirely feasible."

"It's just that the insect ecology of this whole world is too vast, while my steam ecological cycle's power is too weak."

"The steam cycle's power must be sufficiently strong to ignite this insect ecology."

"We need to build steam towers, use steam magical cottages as steam lamps, to drive and complete this steam insect plan."

"Normally, advancing the plan poses no problem."

"The issue is that once those transcendent beings open the passages, the power of Zi Yulan will certainly flow in on a massive scale."

"They will inevitably cause some interference to the insects here."

"Regardless of status, it seems necessary to converse with the high‑level elites of Zi Yulan."

"After all, I conquered this world, so I have certain usage rights, which is appropriate."

"Even if it's the worst case, don't let those incoming transcendent beings casually kill my insects; after all, they are part of the ecological cycle."

"Before that, I must first complete the enslavement of this insect queen."

"Perfectly mastering the insect queen makes the subsequent plan feasible.

With a leap, he arrives atop the insect queen's body.

Ta Ke sits cross‑legged on her, beginning to devote himself to the enslavement.

Ta Ke uses the Sears Crow to suppress the insect queen, eliminating her commands and the full‑scale probing of the spiritual network.

Those exotic shark‑insects become a scattered mass, only able to drift aimlessly in the air according to their most primal instincts.

The incoming Transcendents, after evading the first wave of attack, each went into hiding.

About seven or eight days passed.

Ta Ke finally completed the subjugation of the Exotic Shark Insect Queen.

Then Ta Ke began constructing a high tower at the summit of this mountain range and placed the magical cottage atop it.

Ta Ke also anchored a system onto the magical cottage, allowing it to develop gradually.

Previously on Barrier Void Island, the source energy was thin, and anchoring would waste a lot of time, so Ta Ke did not anchor there.

This sunken ship microworld called Yaguang has a fairly good source energy concentration.

After building the high tower, Ta Ke ordered the Shark Insect Queen to gather her core power into this mountain region.

Ta Ke consolidated the Exotic Shark Insect's power, giving other Transcendents a chance.

They began gathering together and tried to establish a long‑distance teleportation gate.

And Ta Ke took the opportunity to slip in.

…………

Deep within the tunnel of the sunken ship deck mountain.

A spacious open area not far away.

Several sixth‑tier Transcendents are diligently constructing a "teleportation gate", seeking to connect with the Ziyulan world.

A cluster of shadow in the corner is quietly cultivating.

Although this shadow cluster resembles Ta Ke's shadow form, it is merely the Soul Curtain Shadow that Ta Ke constructed.

This Soul Curtain Shadow uses the soul curtain of a sixth‑tier shadow wizard as its outline.

It also contains a large amount of Ta Ke's own life threads.

The most crucial point is.

This Soul Curtain Shadow also bears the aura of the Steam Sequence.

Although it is merely a living mass of Transcendent‑state material of the Steam Sequence, it is the finishing touch.

This allows this Soul Curtain Shadow to largely disguise itself as Ta Ke.

"Connected, connected…"

"The teleportation array is linked!"

As the few Transcendents building the teleportation array shouted in amazement.

Ta Ke's Soul Curtain Shadow silently opened its eyes.

The several Transcendent guards resembling Ta Ke also appeared one after another.

Soon a response came from over at Ziyulan.

Led by a sixth‑tier Transcendent, a flood of fourth‑ and fifth‑tier Transcendents poured in.

Seeing the Ziyulan Transcendent army surge into this microworld.

Ta Ke let out a slight sigh of relief.

If it were a trap, no one would respond; instead, they would be trapped to death inside this microworld.

The many sixth‑tier Transcendents who completed the expansion task did not stay long, yet the danger here was by no means negligible.

With the army's arrival, everyone immediately passed through the teleportation array to reach Ziyulan.

After Ta Ke passed through the teleportation array, he instantly saw Ha Luo De and other high‑tier Transcendents maintaining the war army's entry.

At this moment, the incoming Transcendents were communicating with Ha Luo De and many other high‑tier Transcendents, evidently reporting the numerous strange occurrences inside the microworld.

Faintly came the terms "Divine Power Teleportation", "Steam High Tower", "Insect Queen" and the like.

Listening, Ha Luo De's expression was quite vivid.

The situation inside this Yaguang microworld was more complex than he had imagined.

At that moment, a coarse, heavy voice rang out.

"Lord Ha Luo De, I have a very important matter; I wish to see senior Transcendent Master Luo Mos."

"This important matter will determine the future direction of the Yaguang Sunken Ship microworld."

As the words fell.

For a moment, everyone's gaze around converged on the strange Steam Wizard in shadow form before them.

Want to see the Transcendent Master?

Decide the future direction of a microworld?

The audacity was truly excessive.

But considering the many strange events that had occurred in the Yaguang Sunken Ship microworld, Ha Luo De had to take it seriously.