Chapter 506 - Testing (1/2)
The insect race was not far from the Ancestral Star, they couldn't imagine what would happen to their homes and people once it arrived.
Even Yanmo He's face was pale. True, the demon race could manipulate the insects, but the insects were also the demon's rivals. Back in the ancient days, the insects were just pets to the demons, machines they built to kill. But the accidental emergence of the mother insects were like the birth of brains to the insect race.
They rose from pets to rivals, machines that were meant for killing the others turned on their creators. The rise of the insect race was accompanied by rivers of demon blood!
Even when Xin Huo was assuring him from the side, Zhong Yue still felt uneasy. He mumbled, "The treasures in the monarch tombs wouldn't come out and stop the insect race before the insects threaten the tombs. And before that ever happens, the insects would've already devoured all of the lives in the Ancestral Star. Xin Huo, do you know of any ways to stop them, to take down the insect planet?"
Xin Huo shook his head and said, "Nope. If you are in the deityhood, I can still control your mortal body and place a slaughtering array that can kill all of the insects in the insect planet. But you are still too weak, there is nothing you can do."
"Move on! Go forward!" the gods ordered the experts, they said, "Find the end where this path leads us to!"
Zhong Yue walked forward and thought, Even Xin Huo can't do anything now. It seems like the only way is to break the dimensional tunnel now. This tunnel links the Ancestral Star and insect planet together, it is like a rope, the insects can climb on the rope and reach the Ancestral Star as well as pulling at the rope to bring themselves closer to us! So … if we can cut the rope, the link between us and them will be broken. Without the dimensional tunnel, only gods can travel past the universe to reach us. The other insect Qi Practitioners wouldn't be able to come at all.
Without a Pure Yang Yuan Shen, no one could tread past the Pure Yang lighting zone. If those insect Qi Practitioners forcibly pushed through the insect race, they would surely be killed by the Pure Yang lighting.
Furthermore, although the insect planet was said to be close to the Ancestral Star, it would still take a long time for the Qi Practitioners to travel through space. And no one other than the gods could survive so long in space without a sufficient supply of breathable air.
As for the insect gods that managed to make it to the Ancestral Star, the Ancestral Star gods would surely take care of the intruders. That would be none of Zhong Yue's business anymore.
Even if there really were a mother queen that emerged from the insect planet, the Ancestral Star still had Lord Kun, Lord Dragon, the Xiao Mang grand ancestor and others!
Thus, taking down the dimensional tunnel was the only way to save Ancestral Star!
Zhong Yue and the others bolted out on the ice bridge. Suddenly, there were patches and patches of golden clouds flying toward them. The buzz of insect wings could be heard as the insect Qi Practitioners swarmed at them like clouds.
These insects were just low-tier insects, but they were large in number with tens of thousands insect Qi Practitioners were coming in at a time. But what was even scarier was the unknown experts hidden amongst the insect crowds.
Looking at it from afar, these insect Qi Practitioners were like waves and waves of golden waters that billowed at them, pouncing down and crashing to them as if they were the coastline.
The crowd were shocked and terrified, they mustered all their strength and blasted out like nocked arrows let loose, avoiding interception with the insects.
The ice bridge led them straight down underground. After a long time of traveling, they finally reached the underground hole and the insect Qi Practitioners chasing behind them were getting even larger in number.
Without much hesitation, the Ancestral Star experts entered the underground hole and moved along the ice bridge formed by the frozen mother queen mouth.
The insects rushed over and reached the front of the underground cave. All of a sudden, the insect Qi Practitioners swirled like a torrent above the hole but none moved further in. It felt like the insect Qi Practitioners were feared of the hole, yet, showed great respect and awe to it as well.
Suddenly, one of the insect Qi Practitioners opened its eyes and shot out thousands of light beams, blasting at the Ancestral Star Qi Practitioners inside of the underground cave.
Right at that instant, all of the other insect Qi Practitioners opened their eyes and blasted out beams as well.
Tens of thousands of insect Qi Practitioners were flying together in circles, and tens of thousand light beams coalesced together like a drilling machine.
The over tens of thousands of insect Qi Practitioners formed themselves in an array formation. Although it was crude and simple, the array formation could output incredible power, coalescing the powers of the over tens of thousand insect Qi Practitioners into one and directed the concentrated light beam at their enemies!
Swords Gate only barely had 10,000 Qi Practitioners, even for the other races that were stronger than Swords Gate, they wouldn't be able to form a slaughtering array formation from tens of thousands of Qi Practitioners either!
It wasn't hard to infer how strong the array formation was!
The tens of gods that were on the back of the expedition were all shocked. As soon as the gods like Bai Yuncang were going to block the incoming attack. Monster god Yu Wenju sneered coldly and said, "Don't! This strike is exactly done to test out our limits. If we move, the insects will know how strong we are, and they will know how many gods are here! As long as the insect gods aren't aware of our limits, they won't dare to come squarely at us!"
Bai Yuncang and the other gods then quickly retracted their skills.
"Then, our Qi Practitioners…," a god looked at the crowd and said reluctantly.
Yu Wenju slowly shook his head in answer, "It's up to them to decide their own fate."
The light beam blasted down at the crowd. Bai Yuncang and the other gods were only able to protect their own Qi Practitioners and allowed the light beam to slice through their sides!
Whereas for those Qi Practitioners that weren't protected by the gods, they were all killed without even able to put up a fight with the light beam!
At the front of the expedition, Zhong Yue immediately flew back. He landed beside Qiu Jin'er, Zuo Xianghseng and the others while shouting at them, "The Lunar Mirror!"
The divine weapon Qiu Jin'er chose to bring into the insect planet was the Lunar Mirror. Upon hearing Zhong Yue's instruction, she immediately took out the divine mirror and placed it above them.
Zhong Yue, Zuo Xiangsheng, Tian Yanzhong, Gu Hongzi and Fang Jiange let out a long whistle and they surged their arcane energy into the mirror.