The truth behind the insect plague was worth pondering. Perhaps some things were not as simple as they seemed on the surface.
At the very least, to hatch such a large number of insects, it would require an astonishing amount of energy and resources. Where would the energy come from? Where would the resources come from?
There was not much life in this world. At the very least, from what Lu Ye could see, there was nothing useful to the insects. With a thought, he commanded the Sacred Beetle to fly close to the edge of this world.
Since this was a world like a secret realm, it naturally had an edge. It was unlike the Nine States, which was a huge celestial body. No matter which direction one went, one would eventually return to the starting point one day.
Similar to the many small secret realms Lu Ye had been to, the edge of this big secret realm was filled with chaos and nothingness. It gave off an extremely ominous feeling. Even the insects were unwilling to approach it.
He had just observed that the door to this place stood at the edge. The Sacred Beetle's flying speed was still very fast. After all, its strength was not weak. Lu Ye stuck close to the Sacred Beetle's back and looked down from time to time. Soon, his gaze was attracted to a towering hill on the left. He had seen the hill when he first came in, but only now did he realize that it was not a hill at all, but a huge insect nest!
Lu Ye had never observed an insect nest from this angle. Although he had entered an insect nest in the Spirit Stream battlefield, he had been deep inside the nest. He had no idea what it looked like from the outside.
The shape of the entire insect nest was like a hill-shaped sarcoma. The sarcoma was densely packed with large and small holes, making it look like a beehive.
Insects were constantly crawling out of this beehive sarcoma. There was more than one such beehive sarcoma in his field of vision. Lu Ye looked up and saw many hill-like things. They were undoubtedly insect nests standing on this land.
These insectoid nests were the reason for the insectoids' massive numbers and size. They were also the source of the insectoid plague.
If the cultivators of the Nine States could find a way to kill their way into this big secret realm, they would naturally be able to solve the insect plague. However, the key problem now was that it was extremely difficult to enter.
Lu Ye himself had entered, but that was because he had used the Soul Manipulation Rune to control the insects. In addition, he had excellent concealment skills. However, it was not so easy to bring people in.
Moreover, given the environment here, a small number of people would not help at all. At the very least, an army would be needed to get rid of the insects here. Lu Ye had never seen insectoids killing each other in the Nine Provinces. At most, those insectoids would eat the corpses of their dead companions. However, in this great secret realm, the insectoids did not get along peacefully. Fighting and killing were almost everywhere. The corpses of the dead insectoids were eaten by the survivors and turned into powerful resources for the survivors.
This was probably the reason why the insectoids were able to give birth to so many powerful existences. They constantly devoured their companions to strengthen themselves, becoming stronger bit by bit, or becoming food for even more powerful beings.
The reason why they couldn't be seen in the Nine Regions was probably because there were better things that attracted them, which made them suppress their instinct to kill each other. For example, the fluctuation of spiritual energy or the vitality of humans. During this period of time, the Sacred Beetle was targeted by a ferocious insect. That insect was definitely at the level of a large insect. Regardless of whether it was its size or strength, it was stronger than the Sacred Beetle.
In a panic, Lu Ye secretly blessed the Sacred Beetle with a Wind Travel Spirit Rune. Only then was he able to escape.
He broke out in a cold sweat. In this place, if he did not have the Sacred Beetle's cover, once he was exposed, he would definitely die without a burial place. Even bringing out the Dragon Emperor would be useless. He continued to fly, not daring to go too deep into the center. The closer he went to the center, the more insects there were. On the contrary, because of the instinctive fear of the chaotic nothingness, not many insectoids approached the edge, which made Lu Ye's situation safer. During this period of time, Lu Ye observed more than a dozen huge insectoid nests and several ferocious and terrifying giant insects. Those giant insects had the ability to overturn rivers and seas. Even the top Divine Sea Realm cultivators in the Nine Regions would not be a match for them. If he wanted to defeat such giant insects, he could only win by relying on numbers. After a few hours, a light came into view below, attracting Lu Ye's attention.
When he looked down, he could not help but be startled.
This was because the source of the light was actually another door. Although Lu Ye was not very familiar with this large secret realm, since he was already here, his sense of direction was not a problem. Therefore, he was completely certain that this door was not the one he had entered from, but another.
He was a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he quickly felt relieved. The Nine Regions was enormous, and there were countless fissures in the ground and Insect Paths. Even if he went deeper, the frequency of Insect Paths converging would increase. In the end, it was impossible for them to connect to the same place. This meant that this great secret realm had more than one door to the Nine Regions.
As for how many there were, he did not know.
Lu Ye really wanted to know where this second door was connected to.
After thinking about it, he ordered the Sacred Beetle to fly down, and a moment later, he squeezed through the swarm of insects and crossed the door.
That familiar feeling of being suppressed by the magnetic field once again made Lu Ye's Spirit Qi circulation become incomparably sluggish.
Fortunately, he had been prepared, otherwise, his aura would have been exposed. Lu Ye quickly took out the ten-point map and compared it with his current location. He quickly determined that his current location was actually in the Thunder Region.
However, because he was too deep underground, the markings on the map were not obvious. As for where exactly he was in the Thunder Region, he did not know.
He hurriedly put away the ten-point map and ordered the Sacred Beetle to return to the insect race's great secret realm through the door. It took a lot of effort to travel in the opposite direction, but he finally returned.
Just like before, he immediately rose into the air and continued to investigate. Sure enough, after a few hours, Lu Ye saw the third door. In the next few days, Lu Ye ordered the Sacred Beetle to explore this place.
When he first returned to the Nine Regions from the Blood Refinement Realm, such a great secret realm did not look too big from afar. It was just one of the larger floating continents, but when he actually entered it, he understood how vast it was.
It was about the size of a continent. In other words, the size of this great secret realm was basically comparable to the Spirit Stream Battlefield. The number of doors was very thought-provoking. There were exactly nine of them. Every time Lu Ye passed by a door, he would go in and out once to confirm his position.
The nine doors corresponded to the nine continents of the Nine Regions! If this was a coincidence, it was too much of a coincidence. Lu Ye faintly saw some mysterious and profound methods. However, he could not figure out why for the time being. A few days after entering the insect race's great secret realm, Lu Ye returned to the door he had entered from.
The situation of this great secret realm had basically been explored. It could be said that he had gained a lot. Lu Ye did not want to destroy those insect nests and solve the current predicament of the Nine Regions by himself. That was not reality. An individual's strength was ultimately limited. In this calamity that was sweeping through the Nine Regions, only the cultivators of the Nine Regions working together could overcome this crisis. In a sense, this matter was a crisis, but it was also an opportunity to change the situation that had been maintained for thousands of years between the two factions of the Nine Regions. At the very least, the two factions had stopped fighting.
Thinking of this, Lu Ye seemed to understand something. He ordered the Sacred Beetle to enter the door and leave the insect race's great secret realm. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
When a person was in the insect race's great secret realm, they were really walking on the edge of life and death. Once exposed, they would not have a good ending. Now that they had come out, they could control their own fate.
However, Lu Ye could not show himself for the time being. He could only continue to hide under the Sacred Beetle's wings and let it crawl out along the insect path. He originally wanted to go back the way he came, but there were too many forks in the road ahead. How could he go back the way he came? In any case, no matter which path he took, he would eventually return to the surface, so he might as well just leave it to fate. He just had to be careful not to run into the Myriad Devil Ridge's territory. The two factions were indeed not fighting, but they were clearly separated. If he appeared in the Myriad Devil Ridge's territory at this time, it was very likely that some misunderstandings would occur. For this reason, he had no choice but to take out the map from time to time and use it to determine his approximate location. It was another difficult journey. It was not until ten days later that Lu Ye's cultivation had recovered to seventy percent that he came out from under the Sacred Beetle's wings.
With a thought, the Sacred Beetle suddenly stopped breathing and crawled on the ground. Lu Ye raised his hand and shot out a Fire Phoenix. The raging flames wrapped around the Sacred Beetle and quickly burned it to ashes.
He drew his saber and rushed forward along the insect path. Along the way, there were insects that sensed the fluctuations of spiritual power and turned back to block him, but they all died.
He charged and killed along the way. When he could no longer feel the suppression of the magnetic field, he finally rushed out of the insect path and entered the fissure. His figure soared into the sky, and saber light wantonly swept out. The light above his head became more and more obvious. Finally, at a certain moment, he got rid of the darkness and saw the light. Lu Ye let out a long breath.
Although this trip to the insect race's great secret realm was not thrilling, his nerves had not relaxed since he went deep underground. Especially after he really entered the insect race's great secret realm, the month-long journey made even him feel exhausted.
The main reason was that the Sacred Beetle's crawling speed was not fast enough, especially when he was moving in the opposite direction of the insect race. Sometimes, he would be knocked back by more powerful insects. Otherwise, it would not have taken so long.
However, he had gained a lot from this trip. At the very least, he had figured out the situation inside the insect race's great secret realm. Now, as long as he could solve the problem of how to resist the suppression of the magnetic field and weaken his strength, the cultivators of the Nine Regions could mobilize their armies and kill their way into the insect race's great secret realm. At that time, with the powerful foundation of the cultivation world of the Nine Regions, it would not be difficult to solve the insect disaster.
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