Hearing this, Luo Fan naturally agreed without hesitation.
After all, when it came to being given resources for free, the more the better.
As for how to nurture Zerg Kings,
he could simply have his clone transform directly into the appearance of a Zerg King.
As for the resources, he could just leave them to Irina outside.
Because he needed to enter the Queen's small universe, Luo Fan left Irina outside.
He even deliberately stored her inside a World Ring and had the clone carry it while staying within a spatial interlayer.
…
After Lan Qi handed over the resources to Luo Fan, he left her residence under the pretext of recovering from his injuries.
Because nurturing Zerg Kings also required time,
he obviously could not immediately go participate in the Metamorphosis Secret Realm assessment during this period.
So he prepared to go take a look at the Queen Hall.
He wanted to comprehend the Saint Seals.
After all, these were things ranked alongside Chaos Tablets.
Just like Chaos Tablets, in order to comprehend a Saint Seal, one needed to test whether their law comprehension had improved.
Because the Zerg Dream Network could not deploy laws,
the test could be conducted inside the Queen Hall.
The Zerg Queen had nurtured several Zerg warriors specifically for testing.
All of them were at the Venerable level.
These Zerg warriors would adjust their combat strength according to the opponent's realm and information.
As long as one passed, they would gain a chance to comprehend a Saint Seal.
As for the battle itself, there was no need for the Mother Queen to fight personally.
It was sufficient to use Zerg warriors for the battle.
After all, if it was just a single Zerg warrior, the Mother Queen could fully have that Zerg warrior execute law-based attacks.
Only when the numbers were large would such precise control be impossible.
Because ordinarily, before Zerg warriors left Queen City, they would go comprehend a Saint Seal one last time.
Including Irina, who had done the same when she left Queen City previously.
So right now, Luo Fan did not have any Saint Seal comprehension attempts.
He needed to first challenge the Ascension Stair.
The Ascension Stair was a place similar to the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
The difference was that it existed in reality.
As for opponents, they were the Zerg warriors nurtured by the Zerg Queen.
Very soon, Luo Fan arrived at the Queen Hall.
He moved with ease and familiarity into a room.
Written at the entrance of the room were the two characters "Firefly."
This represented that the Ascension Stair challenge here tested comprehension of the Firefly Saint Seal.
The Firefly Saint Seal was the Saint Seal that Irina had previously comprehended.
It was a path that combined the Fire Origin Law with the Space Origin Law.
The moment he entered the room, Luo Fan saw a ferocious-looking golden Zerg warrior.
It stood roughly fifty meters tall.
It was a mantis-type Zerg warrior.
Its two arms were like a pair of scythes.
Their length nearly exceeded its own height.
After Luo Fan entered the room, a ray of light swept over him.
"Irina, World Master level, record: Ascension Stair, thirteenth step."
A gentle female voice echoed from all around.
In the next instant, the mantis-type warrior opposite him began to shrink.
It became roughly the same size as a World Master–level Zerg warrior.
Seeing this, Luo Fan also released his clone.
The clone transformed into a mantis-type warrior as well.
After all, the mantis type was fast and had strong attack power, making it very suitable for single-target combat.
After the clone appeared, it launched an attack toward the opposing mantis without hesitation.
Luo Fan treated the two forelimbs as twin blades and began fighting the opponent.
On the way here, he had already had the clone practice beforehand.
So he was quite familiar with this combat style.
Very quickly, he defeated the opponent.
Because this was a test conducted in reality,
when the mantis received an attack exceeding the limit, it automatically used defensive methods beyond the assessment's scope.
This also meant that Luo Fan had passed the challenge of the fourteenth step of the Ascension Stair and obtained one chance to comprehend a Saint Seal.
"Do you wish to continue participating in the Firefly Ascension Stair fifteenth-step assessment?"
The gentle female voice sounded once again.
Luo Fan directly refused.
He was only curious about the Zerg Saint Seals and wanted to comprehend one to see what it was like.
If he truly wanted to comprehend something, it was still better to comprehend Chaos Tablets.
After all, there were far more Chaos Tablets than Saint Seals.
The Zerg had fewer powerhouses than the human race, so the number of Saint Seals was also somewhat fewer.
After refusing, Luo Fan directly walked toward another direction within the Queen Hall.
That was where the Saint Seals were stored.
While heading over, Luo Fan began establishing a task.
[Task: Comprehend the Firefly Saint Seal once. Reward: Firefly Saint Seal.] (TL/N: I know some people would get confused. Here if Luo Fan comprehended a Firefly Saint Seal, he will gain a Firefly Saint Seal and take it with him anywhere. Basically he will own it.)
Luo Fan froze for a moment.
"Damn it, it directly rewards a Saint Seal!"
He forced himself to maintain outward calm, concealing the wild joy in his heart.
He had not expected that merely comprehending the Firefly Saint Seal once would directly grant him a Firefly Saint Seal.
If tasks for comprehending Chaos Tablets were also like this, that would be incredible.
However, Luo Fan quickly reacted.
For a human to comprehend a Saint Seal even once was basically impossible.
The difficulty was simply too great.
First of all, just entering Queen City completely cut off all hope for humans.
Even Giant Axe could not safely enter the Queen Hall to comprehend a Saint Seal once.
Perhaps only the Original Ancestor had even the slightest possibility.
So judging from the task difficulty, this reward might actually be too little.
Thinking this way, Luo Fan was no longer that shocked.
Even so, he was still ecstatic inside.
Very soon, he arrived before a golden corridor.
The corridor was roughly several dozen kilometers wide.
As for its length, it was at least several thousand kilometers.
Inside the corridor, there were a total of thirty-one sealed chambers.
In front of each chamber stood a seventy-meter-tall golden Zerg warrior.
These Zerg warriors were even stronger than the Zerg warriors used for the earlier assessments.
They were also nurtured by the Zerg Queen.
Every single Zerg warrior guard here possessed Universe Overlord–level strength.
Luo Fan arrived before the golden gate marked with the two characters "Firefly."
In the next instant, a ray of light swept over him.
"Irina, Saint Seal comprehension attempts: 1."
"Do you wish to enter the Firefly comprehension chamber?"
Luo Fan did not hesitate and directly confirmed.
Immediately afterward, the golden gate opened automatically.
Streams of chaotic airflow spilled out from within.
As Luo Fan walked into the Firefly Saint Seal comprehension chamber, he pondered something.
It seemed that Saint Seal comprehension attempts were not limited to only comprehending the Firefly Saint Seal.
Because the Zerg were different from humans and did not rely entirely on law-based secret techniques in battle.
Many Zerg Mother Queens relied primarily on Zerg warriors to fight.
Law comprehension was mainly used to break through realms.
Only by reaching a higher realm could they nurture stronger Zerg warriors.
Therefore, when some Mother Queens became stuck at a realm bottleneck, they would go comprehend other Saint Seals.
For example, Saint Seals that followed paths related to battle formations.
However, those were generally things only Mother Queens above the Immortal level could do.
Below Immortal, the focus was still primarily on laws.
If one wanted to comprehend other Saint Seals, there was only one method.
That was to apply to the clan.
However, to be approved, one had to at least be a member of the Metamorphosis Secret Realm.
One had to know that among these Saint Seals, there were Queen Saint Seals created by the Zerg Queen herself.
Just like how the human race also had the Giant Axe Chaos Tablet.
Thinking of this, Luo Fan became even more determined to enter the Metamorphosis Secret Realm.
From this Firefly Saint Seal comprehension task, it could be inferred that the reward for comprehending a Queen Saint Seal would very likely be the Queen Saint Seal itself.
If the human race obtained a Queen Saint Seal…
Luo Fan did not dare imagine how satisfying that would be.
A Queen Saint Seal comprehension chamber suddenly appearing among the Chaos Tablet comprehension chambers.
That scene would be absolutely shocking.
Shaking his head, Luo Fan stopped thinking about other things.
Right now, comprehending the Firefly Saint Seal was more important.
The comprehension time for a Saint Seal was one month, slightly longer than for a Chaos Tablet.
Luo Fan did not want to waste time.
He walked to the center of the Firefly chamber and saw a massive stone stele.
The stele was one hundred meters tall and roughly one kilometer long.
There were eight images engraved upon it.
Each image was composed of strands of Saint Marks.
These Saint Marks formed a profound Saint Seal.
Around the entire Saint Seal were wisps of chaotic airflow.
Luo Fan tried comprehending it and compared it with a Chaos Tablet.
He discovered that the effect of this Saint Seal was somewhat inferior to that of a Chaos Tablet.
It was roughly only sixty percent as effective.
However, the comprehension time was one month.
Overall, if one's realm was low, the effect would actually be better than comprehending a Chaos Tablet.
But if one's realm was high, comprehending a Chaos Tablet would be more effective.
After all, Chaos Tablets had stronger guidance effects than Saint Seals.
When one's realm was relatively high and law comprehension encountered a bottleneck,
sometimes what was needed was precisely the guidance of a Chaos Tablet or a Saint Seal.
After comparing the differences between the two, Luo Fan settled his mind and began comprehending the Firefly Saint Seal.
This Firefly Saint Seal was likely left behind by a Zerg Universe Overlord.
Therefore, it did not contain insights related to Universe Masters.
After comprehending it, Luo Fan still gained quite a lot.
The application of the Space Origin Law on it differed somewhat from that on the Ice Peak Chaos Tablet.
…
Very quickly, a month passed.
The golden gate slowly opened.
"Chi!"
The seventy-meter-tall golden Zerg warrior standing at the entrance emitted a piercing screech, awakening Luo Fan from his state of comprehension.
After waking up, Luo Fan did not linger at all and turned to leave the Firefly comprehension chamber.
In his mind, he also heard the sound of the task being completed.
He did not immediately leave the Queen Hall, but instead went back to challenge the Ascension Stair once more.
By doing so, he once again obtained a Saint Seal comprehension attempt.
This way, after advancing into the Metamorphosis Secret Realm and applying to comprehend other Saint Seals, he would be able to comprehend the Queen Saint Seal.
…
Very soon, a year passed.
Luo Fan also successfully passed the assessment of the Metamorphosis Secret Realm.
In terms of law comprehension, he naturally passed without issue.
As for the evaluation of Zerg warriors, he also passed by having his clone transform into a Zerg warrior.
After passing the assessment, he began applying to comprehend other Saint Seals.
During the application period, Luo Fan took a look at the member permissions of the Metamorphosis Secret Realm.
He discovered that he could head to certain Zerg secret realms to undergo World Master–level Mother Queen trials.
In fact, members of the Cocoon Chrysalis Secret Realm could also choose to go to Zerg secret realms for training.
However, the secret realms accessible to Metamorphosis Secret Realm members were far more dangerous.
But danger also meant that the opportunities within those secret realms were far more profound.
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