Chapter 138 - Eighteen Feet Long Yuan Shen (1/2)

The insect race in the black forest was everywhere and as the heavily injured Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei were escorted by Zhong Yue out of the forest, their emotions were overcome with gratitude and shock.

This was because the of the grotesque strength that the insect race possessed! They soon found out the horrifying power that the insects commanded as soon as they entered the forest back then. They moved as fast as lighting and their skin was seemingly impervious to all attacks.

The remaining Qi Practitioners only managed to arrive at the Monster God Ming King palace by planning their actions carefully.

But when it came to Zhong Yue, these insect races were no match for Zhong Yue! He cast out his seven sword qis and distributed them throughout the ground and air, efficiently forming a death array which minced the insects into pieces before he proceeded to extract their spirit peals.

The process and methods he used to slaughter those insects were ruthlessly efficient, as if they had been practiced and honed over countless killings.!

Hu Qimei and Yu Xuanji were lost in their shock as they thought, Brother Long Yue is even stronger after killing King Teng, he might have the capability to fight with Heaven Monster Li Jun and even defeat him!

It came as no surprise that Zhong Yue's strength was able to greatly impress the monster duo as his spirit was still growing at a very rapid pace, enabling him to control his sword qi with even greater power and flexibility

Only with a stronger spirit will the sword qi be able to unleash greater power. For example, if a sharp sword was held in the hand of an ordinary man, the man might not even be able to kill a beast but if a branch was wielded by a person of skill, he might even be able to cut down any formidable foes with just that seemingly fragile branch, let alone with the formidable sword qis.

Huh? This footprint….

Zhong Yue suddenly stopped as he came across with a few footprints on the ground that there were forty feet apart. Each footprint was about a few feet in size each!

These footprints also did not belong to any humans or monsters, instead, they belonged to the strange claws of the insect race!

Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei followed the path of these footprints received another immense shock! It seemed like wherever these footprints passed through, it would cause the trees in their paths to fall onto the ground and the mountains to collapse. These were the traces left behind by an enormous creature of the insect race!

"Big guy…."

The duos murmured, "So there's another big guy in this secret realm…."

Zhong Yue let out a long breath and he said, "This guy is slightly smaller, which suggests that he shouldn't be any bigger or stronger than the other big guy that escaped from this place."

Hu Qimei inhaled deeply and murmured, "Even if it is not stronger than the previous one, it is still much stronger than us."

Zhong Yue looked at the trail of those footprints that led all the way to a lava waterfall before vanishing completely. He concluded that the big guy might have burrowed into the lava waterfall.

How could there be an insect race in the ground? There shouldn't even be space for the insect races when the Monster God Ming King was ordered to stand sentry here.

Zhong Yue thought,  Could there have been insect eggs in the ground that were flushed to this place by the lava? But how many eggs must there be to give rise to such an abundance of insects… That's right, the queen!

He then remembered the key he obtained from Zhu Xianer's and the picture on the key was an insect queen!

If it was the egg of the insect queen that was hatched, then it could explain the enormous amount of insect races in the Black Mountain's secret realm!

If that's the way, then the big guy that crawled out from this place is the insect queen? How many insects have been sired by her during all these years?

He couldn't help but shiver upon pondering this matter further.

Not long later, they finally returned to the entrance of the Black Mountain's secret realm and managed to safely exit out of the realm.

"There are three more survivors!"

Outside of the realm, the long brows elder from the Xian Kong Saint City said with a deep voice, "The three little young ones, come here."

Zhong Yue then brought Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei up to the front of the palace where the long-browed elder stood. They greeted him as the elder measured them and the elder said, "Other than the three of you, are there any more survivors?"

Yu Xuanji shook his head and said, "There shouldn't be any more Qi Practitioners."

"So only four of you survived?"

The elder seemed to be disappointed but he then cheered up and he said, "Over sixty entered and in the end, only the four of you managed to return safely. I suppose this can still be considered as a good result already. Before the three of you, Heaven Monster Li Jun also walked out of here. Seems like the final disciple of the Sain City Lord would be either one of you. You guys are not bad, not bad indeed… I shall contact the management now and ask them to welcome all of you. Take care of yourselves and treat your injuries while waiting for the city lord to summon you."

Zhong Yue, Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei nodded and remained silent.

Not long later, a warship arrived with the manager standing on the bow. The trio was then invited to board the ship before they set sail towards the city hall.

As the warship was approaching the city hall, strong individuals from various factions walked forward but were met with disappointment upon only seeing the trio.

Unlike the others, the Awakening level Qi Practitioners from the same faction as Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei were extremely happy and they quickly walked up to them and followed them at their backs.