"Only fifty?"

Li Chenzhou frowned. Tenth-level ability users were powerful, but such a small number wouldn't be enough for anything.

"Of course not. I've calculated that if I use all the cosmic source energy Lei-gege gave me, I should be able to create seven or eight hundred of these Devourers!"

Xiao Ya replied, "However, I suggest you give them an additional ability. Although this will reduce their numbers by about a third, those Devourers will be a greater threat to other Devourers!"

"Oh? What ability?"

Li Chenzhou asked curiously.

"Control ability!"

Xiao Ya pointed to her nose and said, "Xiao Xin and I can cooperate, and with this cosmic source energy, I can create Devourers with control abilities. However… this control ability is only effective on Devourers or zombies. It has no effect on humans or mutated beasts at all!"

"That's not a problem! Create those kinds of Devourers!"

Li Chenzhou waved his hand. His current enemy was the Devourers, so this ability was perfect.

"Girl, can't you give all the cosmic source energy to Xiao Xin, raise him to level ten, and then all the Devourers he hatches will be level ten?"

At that moment, Grey Bear asked from the side.

"No! There isn't enough cosmic source energy!"

Xiao Ya immediately shook her head.

"Is it because this brood is too big?"

Grey Bear looked at the enormous sphere. Indeed, the size of the brood was like the difference between a rabbit and an elephant compared to the Devourers. The larger the size, the more cosmic source energy required.

"It's not just because of the size, but also the life form!"

Xiao Ya explained, "The individual Devourers are actually similar to humans. Although the body structure is slightly different, it's not much. But the brood is different. Do you know that within a true brood, its own rules can even be born!"

"Rules?"

Grey Bear looked bewildered.

"Yes! Rules!"

Xiao Ya nodded and pointed outside. "Take our small world, for example. Although it's not a complete world, it still has the necessary rules to form a world, such as spatial rules and temporal rules. Without spatial rules, the space here would collapse. Without temporal rules, time here would freeze, and we would be stuck in place, forever maintaining the actions we were doing when we entered, and never be able to leave.

"In addition, there are life rules and death rules. Without life rules, anyone entering here would die immediately. And without death rules, all the creatures here would live forever."

"Oh? Isn't that great? Can you create a small world without death rules? Then we can live forever!"

Grey Bear's eyes lit up.

"Impossible!"

Xiao Ya shook her head. "Death rules are one of the necessary rules of the world. If our world didn't have death rules, not only would we be destroyed, but the entire world would be destroyed!"

"How is that possible?"

Grey Bear was stunned and asked incredulously.

"Think about it. If no one in our world, whether human, animal, or plant, ever died, then… life would keep increasing until the entire world couldn't bear it, and in the end, it would only be destroyed!"

Xiao Ya explained, "Therefore, there is birth and there is death. No life can live forever. Even planets have their own lifespan. This is the rule. Everything in the universe cannot escape the rule!!!"

"..."

Xiao Ya's words plunged everyone into silence. They suddenly felt a strange feeling in their hearts, which was… since the end is death anyway, then what are they working so hard for now?

"What Xiao Ya is talking about is natural law, which no one can resist. And what we are doing now is fighting against fate. We don't want to be livestock raised in captivity, and we don't want to let the Devourers dominate our fate!"

Li Chenzhou suddenly said, "Given the same length of life, which one lives more wonderfully: a bird flying freely in the sky, or a bird in a cage?"

"Phew! That's right! Then… let's continue, kill the Devourers!"

Grey Bear exhaled and shouted, waving his fist.

"Girl, adding control abilities to these Devourers, doesn't affect you, does it?"

Li Chenzhou looked at the fifty Devourers, then looked at Xiao Ya and asked.

Obviously, the Devourers being able to gain this control ability must have come from Xiao Ya, because the Devourers themselves could not have this ability. All the Devourers were under the control of the Mother Empress, so how could she give the Devourers this ability that could threaten her rule?

"Of course not! It only consumes a little mental energy at most!"

Hearing Li Chenzhou's question, a trace of panic flashed in Xiao Ya's eyes, but because of her height, Li Chenzhou didn't see it at all. Then, Xiao Ya raised her head, smiled at Li Chenzhou, and replied, "Don't worry, gege, Xiao Ya is fine, and Xiao Ya is very happy because she can finally help gege!"

"Yes! Ya-tou is the most amazing!"

Xiao Ya's answer made Li Chenzhou smile knowingly. He reached out and rubbed Xiao Ya's head, saying with affection.

"Boss! There's a mountain range over there. Let's go there!"

Just then, Grey Bear suddenly pointed to the front right and said.

The Devourers' lair looked a little strange, somewhat dim. The sky and the earth were gray, without any celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, or stars. There was some vegetation on the ground, and even very tall trees, but all the trees were black or gray, even the leaves.

In short, the Devourers' world was completely in dark tones, with no bright colors at all, giving people a feeling of lifelessness!

The mountain range that Grey Bear mentioned was the same. There were many tall trees on the mountain range, even forming a forest, but the trees were also gray and black, and they were all very tall, the tallest being thirty or forty meters, as tall as a dozen floors!

"No! Keep going! We have to find the Devourers' city!"

Li Chenzhou shook his head.

Their departure was not only to attract the attention of the Devourers, but also to find a suitable battlefield.

It was definitely not enough to rely solely on the energy shield to resist attacks. No matter how many killing points there were, they would be used up. Therefore, Li Chenzhou now had to burn the flames of war to other parts of the Devourers' world.

He believed that the Devourers' world would also have cities or other places where the Devourers could gather and live. Their lives could not just be plundering energy in other worlds, just like human society, there could not only be ranches and farms.

Food was important, but life was more than just eating. Therefore, what Li Chenzhou was looking for now was the Devourers' city, to make the Devourers' world chaotic as well…