Overlord: Insect Eater

Chapter 10 Depths of the Nest
He didn't rush into the mysterious worm nest, the celestial worm first released the black ghost ant controlled by him with the blood talisman, and let it dig directly through the stone wall to investigate the enemy's situation.

This is the safest method, the worst is to lose a spirit worm, it will have no effect on the celestial worm.

It's just that he never expected that after he controlled the black ghost ant and finally dug through the stone wall and entered the world he perceived, he was stunned by what his divine sense saw.

As a spirit insect master, Tianchong inherited the memory of his original body, so he is also confident that he has a good understanding of countless kinds of spirit insects, but everything that appears in front of him now breaks his own cognition.

what is that?
A black beetle actually lives with a ground flame scorpion?
Shouldn't the former be the food of the latter?Could it be that I read it wrong?
Heavenly Insect continued to carefully manipulate the Black Nether Ant to approach, and then found that the various types of spirit insects living in this underground space were far beyond his imagination, and they were all so harmoniously together, without any disputes?
How is this possible? It is completely inconsistent with the habits of spirit insects.

Or maybe these spirit insects are not wild, but spirit insects cultivated and subdued by other insect masters?
But that's not right either...

Let alone ordinary insect masters, even the spirit insect masters from the spirit insect clan would not dare to put different types of spirit insects in their hands in one place.

Otherwise, unless you are watching all the time, they will definitely fight!

Heavenly Insect was a little unwilling to give up, and continued to let the black ants go deep, but what surprised him was that even the black ants he controlled walked to the side of those spirit worms, and the other party did not respond.

"Damn it! What's going on? Could it be that these spirit insects are all fake?"

Of course, it is definitely impossible to be fake, because the celestial insects can feel the powerful aura of those spirit insects. Just by looking at them, they are much stronger than their own black ghost ants, and they are definitely high-level spirit beasts.

Moreover, there are many types, and there are quite a few spirit insects that are extremely rare in the outside world.

Such as fire-breathing ants, earth flame scorpions, jade-tailed scorpions, giant shield black beetles, frost demon spiders and so on.

While controlling the black ghost ant to go deep, Tian Chong took all the surrounding situation into his eyes and analyzed this weird insect nest.

Although I don't know how big the underground space where the worm nest is, but the celestial worms can detect more than a hundred spirit worms, and the strength of all the spirit worms is high-level spirit worms. It does not conform to the law of a naturally formed insect nest.

"I just don't know if this place is man-made, or it was made by some high-level and intelligent spirit insects..."

If it's the latter, then this place is probably the lair of the golden source silkworm!
Because even if the Golden Origin Silkworm is just born, its wisdom is no less than that of the human race, and it will even be more cruel and cunning.

While the celestial worm was still thinking about this, an invisible wave came from the deepest part of the underground space, and then the originally quiet spirit worm erupted suddenly. Before he could react, the black ghost ant was directly killed by five The rice-sized Earth Flame Scorpion was swallowed in one gulp...

"Damn! I'm scared!" The sudden change directly startled Tian Chong, because just now his consciousness was attached to the black ghost ant, so he felt a little empathetic.

However, the eating of the black ghost ants did not seem to calm down the commotion in the nest. Huge high-level spirit insects began to scatter, as if they wanted to find a way for the "enemy" to invade.

Sensing the chaos in the underground space from the hole on the stone wall, Tian Chong immediately knew that he had been discovered, and then quickly exited this passage, and along the way he released all his black ghost ants and spirit devouring bees, preparing to Fight with those underground spirit insects.

As long as he can break through the underground insect nest and figure out the mystery inside, it will be worthwhile to lose all his black ghost ants and spirit devouring bees.

Of course, Heavenly Insect also paid attention to the spirit insects in those underground insect nests, thinking whether to try to subdue them or not.

After all, they are all high-level spirit insects, and there are quite a few rare high-level spirit insects, which makes him, a spirit insect master, very greedy!

Before the celestial worms came to the ground, there was already the movement of spirit worms fighting in the passage below. Obviously, the group of spirit worms in the underground worm nest found the entrance of the passage and rushed out from it.

Although the level of the black ghost ants is one level lower than that of the opponent, the number is dozens of times higher than that of the opponent. In addition, the passage is narrow, and the huge body of the high-level spirit insect is greatly restricted in the underground passage. Gaining the upper hand, many of the high-level spirit insects that rushed out were cracked open by the black magma spit out by the endless black ghost ants, and then devoured them all.

Under normal circumstances, these high-level spirit insects would also retreat in the face of such a situation, but those high-level spirit insects in the insect nest still rush forward to die without thinking.

After all, there is still a level gap, so under the impact of these high-level spirit insects who are not afraid of death, the black ghost ant colony also suffered huge losses.

"I can't go on like this..." Tian Chong, who had fled to the ground, couldn't help frowning.

Because the narrow passage also has great restrictions on his own insect swarm, especially flying spirit insects like the spirit devouring bee.

For such a long time, under the action of the essence of the celestial insects, many of the current spirit-eating bee swarms have evolved into intermediate spirit insects.

The mid-level spirit devouring bee has been greatly improved again. With the addition of flying attributes, its lethality is much stronger than that of the black ghost ant.

More importantly, these spirit devouring bees have bee needles, and the bee tail needles on the belly of each spirit devouring bee are their most powerful armor-piercing weapons.

Coupled with the evolved bee venom, it can be said that the tens of thousands of devouring bee swarms will be more terrifying than the black ghost ants!
"Bring them to the ground!"

Tian Chong immediately made a decision.

Flying to a mountain wall, Tian Chong looked at the exit of the underground passage below, and countless black ants rushed out of it like a stream of water, and then scattered within a thousand meters around.

At first glance, the black ghost ants looked like huge black stones, directly covering the entire ground.

And in the sky, a huge dark cloud had already enveloped the surroundings, and the dense swarm of spirit-eating bees had been preparing for a long time, waiting for those high-level spirit insects to come out, and swarmed up.

Boom boom boom!
Even on the mountain wall, the celestial insects could hear the densely packed sound of marching underground. Obviously, those high-level spirit insects rushed out directly as expected.

A sneer curled up at the corner of Tianchong's mouth. At this moment, he was even more sure that there was something strange in the underground space. He wanted to kill them all and hide himself...

What followed was a big battle like a meat grinder. Countless black ghost ants and spirit-eating bees directly covered the entire valley, and every powerful high-level spirit insect was covered with a dense layer of spirit-eating bees.

Perhaps these high-level spirit insects are very powerful in combat, each attack can kill dozens of spirit-eating bees, but facing the endless black clouds in the sky, this little loss is insignificant at all.

And in the face of the double attack from the sky and the ground, even high-level spirit insects would not be able to hold on for a few minutes before the hard carapace would be broken by the magma of the group of black ghost ants, and then die.

As for those who were stung by the venom needles of the devouring bees, it was even worse. The severe bee venom directly brought unimaginable pain, even high-level spirit beasts could not bear it, and these poor guys would be in pain Struggling to die, this scene made the heavenly insects in the distance feel terrified.

"Well, it seems that it's time to do some research on the evolved bee venom, maybe it can be used as a unique trick against the enemy in the future..."

With such thoughts in mind, Tian Chong quietly touched a half-dead high-level spirit insect, and then drove the insect-controlling talisman into the opponent's head.

It's just that what Tian Chong didn't expect was that his own insect control rune didn't work, and was even directly washed away by a layer of golden light in the opponent's consciousness!

really!

These spirit insects are controlled, otherwise, facing such a terrifying swarm, any spirit beast with normal sense would run away.

Heavenly Insect glanced at the spirit worm in front of him. It was an earth spirit scorpion, a giant scorpion that lived underground. It had earth attribute spiritual power, was good at earth escape, and was highly poisonous. Its favorite thing was to lurk in the Underground attack prey.

And the potential of this kind of spirit insect is very good, it has the potential to be cultivated into a sky-level spirit insect, and in the memory of the sky insect, someone in the spirit insect clan transformed this spirit scorpion into a three-tailed ground scorpion, which is comparable to a divine beast.

Such a spirit insect with unlimited potential, Tian Chong still didn't want to give up.

Since ordinary insect control runes are useless, let's try the blood runes of the spirit insect race...

Thinking of this, Tian Chong spat out a mouthful of blood again, and then quickly formed a seal with both hands, and a bloody rune took shape in front of him again.

The blood talisman entered the body, and the golden light in the earth spirit scorpion's mind reappeared, but this time the blood talisman was not directly dispersed, and the two began to stalemate.

This time, the spirit scorpion suffered a disaster. It had only half life left, but its consciousness was directly crushed by the aftermath of the blood talisman and golden light explosion, and it died.

Tian Chong shook his head regretfully, it seems that he needs to find a more tenacious spirit worm to try again.

In the ensuing fight, the Heavenly Insects roamed the battlefield, finding a target from time to time, and before their own swarm killed the opponent, they used the insect net to pull them over, and then the blood charms served them.

After some attempts, Tian Chong found a total of ten targets, but only two were successfully controlled by its blood talisman. The success rate is really too low!
Moreover, ten times of blood talisman is already the limit of today's worm. If he does it again, it will affect him. This kind of thing is absolutely unacceptable.

One of these two high-level spirit insects is an earth spirit scorpion, and the other is a knife mantis. The former is an earth spirit insect, and strictly speaking, it does not match the attributes of a heavenly insect...

After all, the four veins of spirit insects are heaven, mystery, earth, and spirit. The sky worms from the sky veins are best at flying spirit insects, and the earth spirit scorpions are the darlings of the earth veins. The senior who cultivated the three-tailed ground scorpions in his memory is also The people of the earth.

Of course, the mismatch of attributes doesn't mean that you can't use it, it's just that there will be fewer ways to cultivate it, and it will be more difficult for you.

The big deal is that after returning to the clan, you can exchange with the people of the earth veins, isn't it... With the three-tailed earth scorpion pearl jade in front, this earth spirit scorpion is still very popular among the spirit insect clan.

As for the sword mantis, it is comparable to the heavenly worm, and the sword mantis is a kind of spirit insect with relatively powerful attack power. Not only is it extremely fast, but the two swords can emit sharp sword energy. All attacks take damage.

In Tian Chong's memory, the original body's father once had a sword mantis, and even successfully completed the cultivation and evolution, and evolved into a six-eyed sword mantis. The same black spots are their characteristics, they can shoot psychedelic light to attract enemies, and then send out a lore blow!
Coincidentally, Heavenly Insect also knows the cultivation and evolution method of Saber Mantis, so when he discovered the existence of Saber Mantis in these underground insect nests, he had already thought about it.

Finally, after Tian Chong took out a bottle of spirit insect liquid to supplement the nutrition of the two newly harvested spirit insects, the battle in the valley also came to an end.

At this time, the ground of this large valley was completely filled with corpses, and liquids of various colors gathered together, making the valley look like a huge chemical sewage pool.

Tian Chong frowned, checked the loss of his own swarm, and then felt a little pain in his heart...

There are nearly [-] black ghost ants, and the remaining number is actually less than [-]. The battle loss rate of [-] out of [-] is a hundred times, a thousand times more cruel than human wars.

The words of the spirit devouring bees are slightly better. After all, there are many of them, and they can fly, so they have a certain advantage innately.

But even so, there are only a little over 1 left.

The only thing that makes Heavenly Insects gratified is that after this battle, after devouring so many high-level spirit insects, their own insect swarm has also improved a lot.

At the very least, the blood ants among the black ants, who were already powerful, were already faintly looking to advance, and the celestial insects didn't stop them, and let these guys rush into the pile of corpses to eat.

The spirit devouring bees have also been updated, and now all of the ten thousand spirit devouring bees have reached the intermediate level, and their combat effectiveness has not even decreased but increased.

This is where the swarms are truly terrifying. As long as they are given enough time, it is not difficult to increase the number of swarms.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, the celestial worms can provide them with enough spiritual power... This is the crux of the problem!
The more powerful the spirit worms, the more consumption they need. When you reach the sky level, if you want to play swarm raids like now, it depends on how thick your pocket is!

Judging from the current situation of the celestial insects, he can't even support many high-level spirit insects, let alone form a swarm of high-level spirit insects.

Looking at the high-level spirit insect corpses all over the floor, these are all high-quality materials, and they are very valuable if sold. Unfortunately, now he needs to explore the secrets deep in the underground space, and these things can only wait until the end. I'll deal with it later...

(End of this chapter)