The black beetles' range of activity was extremely wide. When Xu Liao was studying in Qingxu Grotto-Heaven, he had even sent a group of black beetles into Devil Prison.
If the black beetles' nest was extremely far away, ordinary people would not be able to find it. When Xu Liao had released the black beetles to scout the way in Devil Prison, he had encountered countless cruel demons, but these demons had no way of tracking them through the black beetles.
But Xu Liao was different!
Xu Liao had a way to find the insect nest. The black beetles assimilated by the Star Swallowing Art were under his control, and these defecting black beetles could take the initiative to lead him to the insect nest.
As Xu Liao subdued more and more black beetles, he was soon surprised to find that the black beetles attacking the imperial army did not come from one insect nest, but from twelve. Among these insect nests, there was an extremely small number of existences called king beetles.
These king beetles already possessed intelligence, and could even control insect swarms from a distance.
The black beetle nest that Xu Liao had obtained had been turned into a combat beast by the Longevity Sect, so it did not have a king beetle. The insect nest itself shouldered the role of the king beetles in commanding the swarm.
As for the higher combat power of the king beetles compared to ordinary black beetles, the Longevity Sect directly increased the combat power of the ordinary black beetles to make up for it. The effect was better than having a king beetle.
The black beetles that Sun Bofang had used were ten times stronger than these natural black beetles. Moreover, the insect nest could command the swarm at will, and could issue high-level orders. It was more suitable for the role of a commander than the natural black beetles' king beetles.
Xu Liao had once possessed a black beetle, and afterward, he had studied this special combat beast countless times. If he tamed the insect nest, he was one hundred percent sure that he could transform it into a combat beast of the Longevity Sect.
His modification of the moon wolf had come to a standstill due to a lack of technology. After all, Xu Liao was not a scientific cultivator who researched combat beasts. It was difficult to design a new product even with the vast knowledge of Golden City. However, it was easy to duplicate the Longevity Sect's mature technology.
Although the insect swarm around Xu Liao looked huge, it actually did not give him much pressure. This was because the insects in the inner circle were newborn black beetles that had already been assimilated. Their own demonic energy had also been transformed into immortal slaying demonic energy, so they could fight with their master, Xu Liao, against their original companions.
Xu Liao looked like he was fighting a huge insect swarm with great difficulty, but in fact, he had relied on the assimilated black beetles to survive the initial stage and had become carefree.
Xu Liao went straight for the first black beetle nest. This nest was dozens of meters high, like a small mountain. There were countless black beetles going in and out. The king beetles in the nest sensed this danger and frantically urged their swarm to attack.
Xu Liao was not afraid. He endured the black beetles that constantly pounced at him and were assimilated by the Star Swallowing Art. His hands slowly pressed down on the heavy sword.
The Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art was operated to the extreme. A black light gradually enveloped the entire nest. Wherever the black light swept past, it turned into a state between existence and nothingness, an illusory quality.
Although the black beetles were overwhelming, their weakness was that a single black beetle was not strong. Even an ordinary person could crush them to death. The nest itself had no combat power. It completely relied on the protection of the insect swarm. Its defense against enemy invasion was very poor.
This was also why mammals like the African anteater liked to eat ants. They often destroyed ant nests in the wilderness, dealing a devastating blow to the nest every time.
Xu Liao was like a huge anteater. However, his methods were much more ferocious than this wild beast.
As a Heavenly Demon legacy, the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art usually looked inferior to the Nine Mysteries True Art, Demon Mantra Sutra, Jade Cauldron Thirty-six Transformations, and even the Heavenly Courts' Ten Great Mystical Powers. But in fact, apart from a few Heavenly Demon legacy mystic techniques, many of them were not as powerful as the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art.
In particular, the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art was a combat system that was developed purely for combat. It was especially good at defeating the strong and bullying the weak.
Against a strong enemy, the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art had all sorts of strange methods. Against a weak enemy, the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art could crush them with force, leaving no room for the enemy.
This wild black beetle nest could not withstand the erosion of the Heavenly Demon Immortal Execution Art. Especially with the erosion of the Immortal Execution Art's demonic aura, every black beetle that had not been assimilated would become Xu Liao's accomplice. Every inch of the nest that had not been assimilated would "help the tyrant".
Soon, the nest was completely enveloped by the Immortal Execution Art's demonic aura. Black light lingered, and it would no longer release black beetles to attack Xu Liao. The black beetles belonging to this nest were almost all under Xu Liao's control, including those that had not been assimilated.
Through the Immortal Execution Art's demonic aura, Xu Liao had almost refined the entire nest. Only in the center of the nest, there was a silver beetle that was desperately using its demonic aura to resist.
This King Beetle actually had the strength of a Level Seven Demon Warrior, and could also extract a small amount of demonic aura from its own kind. With the advantage of the nest, it was not inferior to a Level Nine Demon Warrior.
Although Xu Liao was also a Level Nine Demon Warrior, he cultivated the top Heavenly Demon inheritance, so it was not difficult for him to crush a King Beetle of the same level. However, if he wanted to capture this black beetle completely, he could not use many violent methods, so he fell into a stalemate.
Xu Liao constantly used the Immortal Execution Art's demonic aura to provoke the silver beetle's battle consciousness. Under the shroud of the black demonic aura, the silver light emitted by the silver beetle gradually dimmed, and its consciousness was constantly being eroded by the Immortal Execution Art's demonic aura.
This King Beetle was extremely intelligent. When it realized that it could not continue, it let out a cry for mercy.
Xu Liao coaxed it a little, and made it release its consciousness. He inserted the artificial spiritual consciousness of the combat beast into it.
Artificial spiritual consciousness was the foundation of combat beasts. As long as there was artificial spiritual consciousness, the master would be able to easily control the combat beast.
In particular, regardless of whether it was the 18 Immortal Sects or the Thousand Demon Guild, the definition of artificial spiritual consciousness was auxiliary intelligence. It was the controller's intelligence, thinking, control, consciousness, and various extensions of the controller's intelligence, thinking, control, and consciousness. It was not an independent thinking body.
Because humans stood at the peak of all living beings, coupled with the limitations of technology, they tended to think independently when it came to the path of creating artificial intelligence.
However, demons had seen countless beings of unknown origins, who cultivated and activated their spiritual consciousness. Therefore, the artificial intelligence of combat beasts tended to be auxiliary, becoming an extension of the master's consciousness, and not having independent consciousness.
Xu Liao actually preferred the artificial spiritual consciousness of demons, and did not like the artificial intelligence of humans.
Combat beasts would always be the tools of demons and cultivators, but humans were always worried that artificial intelligence would betray them. This was the difference in thinking between the two.
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