A huge underground space appeared in Yang Kai's field of vision. This underground space was surrounded by meat walls, and with the flickering Spirit Energy, it was possible to see a large number of insects gathered here.
This was another insect nest!
However, this one was not within the range of Blue Blood Sect's station, but another Sect's.
When the insect tide arrived, every Sect with a station on the Spirit Stream Battlefield couldn't escape, so at this time, everyone had to deal with the insect tide within their own station.
It could be said that every Sect's station had an insect nest that needed to be dealt with.
Blue Blood Sect's station was almost done, with seven hundred cultivators guarding the underground space. Every insect that appeared died, so they were happily farming merit points.
Blue Blood Sect was able to settle the overall situation so quickly because Lu Ye had chosen a more radical approach, so their efficiency was very high.
But the situation here was different.
The cultivators of this Sect had chosen the most standard way to deal with the situation, which was to block the entrance of the insect nest and constantly lure the insects out to kill them. This method was not very efficient, but it was more reliable.
It could be said that ninety percent of the Sects in the Outer Circle would choose this method; after all, not every Sect Protector could fly like Lu Ye and provide support at any time. On top of that, his strength had surpassed the Seventh Order.
It was because of this that Lu Ye chose this radical approach. It turned out that this method was very effective, otherwise, Blue Blood Sect's current situation would have been the same as what they were seeing now, and it would have taken many more days to deal with the insect nest.
Lu Ye being able to arrive here meant that Blue Blood Sect's insect nest was connected to the one here. This kind of situation rarely happened because most insect nests were independent of each other.
But such a thing had happened before. According to Fourth Senior Brother, when an insectoid nest developed to a certain extent, it would devour other insectoid nests to strengthen itself. That powerful insectoid nest would have insectoids digging underground to find the location of other insectoid nests.
Blue Blood Sect hadn't dealt with an insect tide for many years, and every time an insect tide came, the insect nests in Blue Blood Sect's station would develop rapidly. Over the years, the nearby Sects would first deal with the insect nests in their own stations before joining forces to deal with Blue Blood Sect's because if they didn't take action, the insect tide would grow larger and larger, and they would inevitably be affected.
Sometimes, they even needed to ask the sects in the Inner Circle or the Core Circle to deal with it. Because too much time had passed, the insect tide in the Blue Blood Sect's territory had developed to the point where the sects in the Outer Circle were helpless.
That explained why the two hives were connected. It was because the Insectoids had opened up a passage between them.
However, no one had expected that Blue Blood Sect would deal with this matter so quickly this time. While this Sect was still slowly being cleaned up, the other side had already secured victory.
Shouts could be heard coming from the passageways, occasionally mixed with screams. Someone must have been injured.
Even if they were to block the entrance and lure the Insectoids to kill them, it was not necessarily safe. Once the number of Insectoids reached a certain level, it was possible for them to break through the defensive line and cause a large number of casualties to the cultivators.
Lu Ye didn't know which Sect this was. Currently, there were three forces that bordered the Blue Blood Sect's territory. Two of them were from the Ten Thousand Devil Ridge and one was from the Grand Heaven Alliance.
From the picture, these three sects were arranged in a triangular formation, with the Blue Blood Sect in the middle.
The three forces were Bi Tao Courtyard, Tian Sha Hall, and the Feng Family.
Bi Tao Courtyard belonged to the Grand Heaven Alliance and was located to the west of the Blue Blood Sect. It was also a Rank-9 Sect. Tian Sha Hall was a Rank-8 Sect and was located to the north of the Blue Blood Sect. The Feng Family was a Rank-9 Sect and was located to the east of the Blue Blood Sect.
Lu Ye recalled the direction he had come from and took out the picture to compare. He found that his current position was close to Tian Sha Hall's territory.
In other words, the cultivators who were dealing with the Insectoids were from Tian Sha Hall.
They had many experiences dealing with insect tides, so the Tian Sha Hall's situation was considered stable. As long as they were given enough time, they would definitely be able to clean up the Insectoids here.
Before Lu Ye came to the territory, the Lone Cultivators of the Blue Blood Sect were often bullied by Tian Sha Hall and the Feng Family. If it weren't for Bi Tao Courtyard, those Lone Cultivators wouldn't have had a place to live.
From Chen Yu, Lu Ye learned a lot of things. That was, there was actually a mineral lode in Blue Blood Sect's territory, and above that mineral lode was an orchard. Whether it was the mineral lode or the spirit fruits produced in the orchard, they could all be considered the Sect's resources.
However, because the Blue Blood Sect was empty all year round, it was occupied by Tian Sha Hall. For so many years, no one went to find trouble with them.
When Lu Ye learned about this, he didn't pay attention to it because it hadn't been long since he took in those disciples. It wasn't wise to rashly have any large-scale conflicts with other sects. At the very least, he had to wait until the cultivators had some sense of belonging to the Blue Blood Sect.
Now, it seemed that this might be an opportunity.
After observing for a while, Lu Ye shrank back and waved at Yiyi.
Yiyi whispered into her ear.
Lu Ye whispered a few words.
Yiyi nodded. "I understand."
With that said, she rode on Hu Po and returned the way they came.
The battle between Tian Sha Hall's cultivators and the Insect Clan was in full swing. No one expected that a pair of eyes in the darkness had already set their eyes on them.
When they came, Lu Ye didn't know the situation in the tunnel, so he didn't explore very quickly. However, Yiyi didn't have to worry about returning. The tunnel itself was safe and there were no traces of the Insect Clan.
Therefore, after more than two hours, Yiyi rode on Hu Po and returned. Hu Po's body was covered with storage pouches. A conservative estimate was that there were two to three hundred of them. They were all collected from the sect's cultivators.
After meeting up with Lu Ye, Yiyi handed him another storage pouch. "It's all here. Also, Sister Hua Ci has already brought everyone out of the wormhole to repair as you instructed. The nest on our side has already begun to wither."
"Very good."
"Lu Ye, will this really work?" Yiyi could clearly tell that Lu Ye was up to no good.
"Who knows? There's no harm in trying. At most, we'll lose some insect corpses."
With that said, Lu Ye took a few storage pouches from Hu Po's back and quietly walked to the entrance of the cave. He opened the storage pouches and poured the insect corpses inside into the nest.
There were actually Insect Clan members here as well. However, because the Tian Sha Hall's cultivators had caused too much of a commotion on the other side, the Insect Clan's attention had been drawn there. This was also the reason why Lu Ye could safely hide here.
The Insect Clan was very sensitive to light sources and fluctuations of spiritual power. As long as Lu Ye didn't cause too much of a commotion, he basically wouldn't attract the Insect Clan's attention.
When a large number of insect corpses appeared, a few Insect Clan members who were caught off guard stumbled and screeched. Those Insect Clan members looked left and right but didn't find anything. Instead, they were stunned by the extra insect corpses.
Immediately after, many Insect Clan members rushed over from all directions and moved the insect corpses to various parts of the nest. The life force and energy contained in the insect corpses were completely absorbed by the nest in an extremely short period of time. All the insect corpses seemed to have been weathered for thousands of years and turned into dust.
These Insect Clan members had just finished their work when another large pile of insect corpses appeared.
The Insect Clan members clearly didn't know what had happened. They probably didn't have any intelligence and would never have thought that there would be a day when someone would be kind enough to feed them.
Driven by their instincts, many more Insect Clan members rushed over and moved the large number of insect corpses away.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh …
One side happily fed the Insect Clan members while the other side digested the food quickly. They formed a perfect cooperation.
50 storage bags were emptied, 100 storage bags were emptied, 150 storage bags were emptied …
Lu Ye didn't know if this would be effective. However, if things developed according to his plan, things would be interesting.
Just as he was engrossed in feeding the Insect Clan members, the battle between the Tian Sha Hall cultivators and the Insect Clan members gradually became more intense.
A puzzled voice came from one of the cave entrances. "Senior Brother, why are there more and more Insect Clan members? There were even fewer of them just now. "
"Don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and kill them. The more you kill, the fewer there will naturally be."
"Oh."
At first, only one or two cultivators at the cave entrances noticed this abnormality. They thought that it would only be a temporary phenomenon. After all, the number of Insect Clan members in the Insect Clan's nest was limited. They would definitely be able to kill them all. Over the years, they had dealt with the Insect Clan members in the same way. This time was no exception.
However, as time passed, more and more cultivators realized that something was wrong. The more Insect Clan members killed, the more Insect Clan members there were. There were a few times when the Insect Clan members' defenses were breached and many of them were injured or killed.
Lu Ye silently listened to the Tian Sha Hall cultivators talk as he fed the Insect Clan members. After confirming that he was right, he worked even harder.
After throwing all the remaining Insect Clan members' corpses into the Insect Clan's nest, Lu Ye took out a palm-sized meat core from the storage bag that Yiyi had specially given him.
A Life Core!
This thing was the crystallization of life force and energy. It was also the source of the Insect Clan's nest. For this plan, Lu Ye had even stopped his sect's disciples from earning merits in advance. He had asked Yiyi to take out all the Life Cores.
Otherwise, the Insect Clan's nest wouldn't have withered so quickly.
He didn't know how many Insect Clan members' corpses were needed for this Life Core.
Weighing the Life Core in his hand, Lu Ye casually tossed it into the Insect Clan's nest.
I'll give you a big gift. I hope you don't fail to appreciate it.
Yiyi had brought a total of eight Life Cores from the Insect Clan. The reason there were so many was because the Jade Blood Sect had dealt with the Insect Clan too quickly. They hadn't had time to use these Life Cores.
After an incense stick's worth of time, the sound of Life Cores popping could be heard from all over the Insect Clan's nest.
Hearing this sound, Lu Ye couldn't help but worry for the Tian Sha Hall cultivators.
He was familiar with this sound. It was the sound of the Insect Clan's Insect Clan hatching. Just by listening to this sound, he knew that a large number of newborn Insect Clan members had been born.
He hoped that the Tian Sha Hall cultivators could hold on …
"Ah!" A miserable cry came from one of the caves, followed by more miserable cries.
Someone shouted angrily, "Why are there so many big guys all of a sudden!"
Someone else shouted, "Hold on, don't let them break through the defenses."
"Senior Brother, save me. We can't hold on any longer!"
In the darkness, Lu Ye threw a Spirit Pill into his mouth and called out to Yiyi.
"Let's go."
The initial plan was going smoothly. It was time to move on to the next step.
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