Sage of Humanity

Lü Yingying's spirit state was noticeably different.

In the Fairy Tree World, this little fairy was in a state of extreme fear and anxiety, especially when Lu Ye was rushing back and forth defeating the enemies, she was constantly shouting.

But at this moment, she wasn't making any noise. She was still anxious but kept her mouth tightly shut, with a pair of watery eyes showing a hint of determination and excitement!

Since ancient times, there have been so many visitors to the Fairy Tree World, but never has anyone made a choice like this human combat cultivator. Regardless of his initial motivation or the outcome, he was contributing to the fairies!

With this premise, how could Lü Yingying not be grateful, how could she dare not to assist wholeheartedly?

"What's your situation? Were you slacking off earlier?" Lu Ye's voice sounded.

The little fairy looked aggrieved: "No, it's just that the blessing powers of our Fairy Race are related to willpower. The stronger the will, the stronger the blessing, the weaker the will, the weaker the blessing..."

Lu Ye understood.

Because the Fairy Race itself didn't care much about the insect race in the Fairy Tree World, they always knew it was an incurable problem, so even if Lü Yingying was responsible for enhancing his blessing, it was just fulfilling the task assigned by her race.

But now it was different. When he stepped into the Tree World passage and came to the Insect Race Tree World, Lü Yingying had a firm will to assist him, which made her blessing powers stronger.

"Can it be even stronger?" Lu Ye asked.

Lü Yingying's little face turned red, seemingly exerting effort: "I'll try!"

Lu Ye laughed heartily: "But don't push yourself too hard!"

If the blessing could be strong enough to let him slay an Insect Race bodyguard with one strike, this battle would be much easier, but for now, killing one with two strikes was still quite good.

As his figure passed, powerful auras disappeared one after another. Undoubtedly, the Blood River Technique was the best secret technique for dealing with group battles. When the Blood Sea spread out, it was difficult for enemies to gather together, and challenging to find his trace amidst the chaos.

If it weren't for having something to rely on, Lu Ye would be mad to come in alone.

Yuk Yaorao hadn't followed him in, if she wanted to come, she would have appeared by now. For this, Lu Ye wouldn't demand anything. They were mere acquaintances, and he didn't have many connections with the Fairy Race, he could venture courageously into this place but wouldn't force others.

It's an unreasonable thing!

Loathesome Aphid was running along the Insect Path.

In the stellar space, races varied and were numerous, the human race undoubtedly was the largest entity occupying the most domains, but beneath the humans, other large races existed.

The Insect Race was one of them, thanks to its powerful hatching ability and unique invasion system, the Insect Race occupied quite a few domains in the stellar space.

The once-every-hundred-years Divine Sea battles naturally also included the Insect Race.

Loathesome Aphid was among them, this time following the elders from his race here, first to participate in the upcoming Divine Sea battles, and second to retrieve some items from the Insect Race Tree World here.

In places like the Tree World, only those in the Divine Sea Realm could enter, so his elders couldn't come in.

The Insect Race had been plotting for thousands of years in the Tree World here, during which they had some good harvests, but in recent centuries had gained nothing, until this time!

All the harvests were stored in the core space of the insect hive, so it's up to him to retrieve them.

The mission was simple, he just needed to bring back this expedition's gains. However, as he was about to leave the Insect Path, he vaguely sensed intense spirit force fluctuations behind him.

Loathesome Aphid halted, looked back, and his expression was uncertain.

After sensing for a while longer, he finally confirmed the commotion came from the core area of the insect hive, it seemed like a strong intruder was there!

Who could it be?

Loathesome Aphid didn't know, but the Insect Race Tree World connected with at least a dozen other races' Tree Worlds, so if there truly was a strong intruder, they must have come through one of those dozen Tree Worlds.

Highly likely it's the human race, because among all the stellar races, humans were the most meddlesome!

Probably some human anomaly descended upon that Tree World, after solving the Tree World's problem, they followed the passage into this place.

What audacity!

The Insect Race Tree World stood here for millennia, and not without powerful anomalies breaking in, but most of those anomalies had unfortunate ends. The power the Insect Race Tree World accumulated over the millennia was incomparable to insect hives from other Tree Worlds, it was always ready to respond to intrusions, especially during such times.

After a brief contemplation, Loathesome Aphid changed course, heading down the Insect Path.

He wanted to see which mighty being dared to come and test the Insect Race's mettle!

Being able to follow an elder to the Reincarnation Tree, he naturally was an anomaly of his own domain, such beings were usually confident, never considering themselves inferior to anyone.

The further he went, the more shocked he was, because in his perception, the auras belonging to the Insect Race bodyguards were vanishing too quickly, almost reaching the rate of one per breath.

If not for knowing that the Tree World forbids traces of Constellation Realm beings, Loathesome Aphid might have assumed this was the work of some Constellation Realm cultivator.

Startled, Loathesome Aphid hurriedly restrained his own aura, concealing his whereabouts.

As a member of the Insect Race, knowing that there was a powerful figure ahead, he couldn't just sit idly by. The Insect Race had heavily invested in the Tree World near the Reincarnation Tree and had been plotting for a long time; if the insect hive here were destroyed, the losses would be incalculable.

Although they could send another group to occupy a Tree World, the Reincarnation Tree likely wouldn't refuse, yet there would be no hope of opening a path to another Tree World. In such a case, occupying a single Tree World would hold no significance.

The Insect Path is long, and when Loathesome Aphid reached the entrance to the core space, he was greatly shocked upon peeking in.

Because contrary to his expectations, the meddler here was not a human race member but a Blood Race!

He didn't see the Blood Race figure; everything visible was drenched in a thick blood color, the entire insect hive core enveloped in a sea of blood.

How could this be?

As one of the two most notorious plundering races in the stellar space, the Insect Race and Blood Race were natural allies, with any other race potentially opposing the Insect Race, except the Blood Race wouldn't, as everyone understands the principle of mutual support; only by joining forces can they establish a footing in the vast stellar space.

So Loathesome Aphid was puzzled, wondering why a Blood Race member came here to commit slaughter?

Could it be they wanted a piece of the pie? This thought made Loathesome Aphid somewhat irritated; he had heard elders say that the Blood Race was extremely greedy, and upon hearing the Insect Race had arrangements near the Reincarnation Tree, always wanted to get involved. However, alliances aside, interests are interests, and the Insect Race invested greatly in its arrangement near the Reincarnation Tree, not easily allowing other races to profit from it. Thus, facing Blood Race requests, they were always outright rejected.

Is this a matter of destroying what they can't gain, or applying pressure on the Insect Race?

As Loathesome Aphid pondered, the blood mass before him suddenly squirmed and expanded, rapidly wrapping around him.

Damn! Loathesome Aphid realized he was exposed, although he didn't understand why, as he had been cautious arriving here, and the other party was causing chaos. Logic suggested they shouldn't have detected him.

Yet the changes in the blood sea undoubtedly indicated his exposure.

The opponent intended to drag him into the blood sea!

Never compete with the Blood Race in the blood sea! This is common knowledge among all stellar space races, so witnessing the blood sea's expansion, Loathesome Aphid immediately fled backward.

However, the blood sea's expansion was incredibly swift and sudden, and although Loathesome Aphid accelerated to the limit, he could not evade the blood sea's embrace.

No escape!

Immediately following, Loathesome Aphid felt a sharp, aggressive aura lock onto him, as if a blade suddenly hung above his head.

He could choose to continue retreating, aiming to escape the blood sea's range, but this seemed unlikely. No matter how fast he was, he couldn't outpace the spread of the blood sea; being enveloped made escape difficult.

Realising the dire situation, he decisively chose not to retreat but to advance, charging towards the insect hive's core space!

Retreating meant facing the formidable monster alone; given the blood sea's size and aura's might, Loathesome Aphid felt he was likely unmatched.

He needed assistance!

The core's bodyguards were naturally his allies!

So, despite his reluctance, he could only dive into the blood sea.

Upon entering the blood sea, he immediately felt the surrounding viscosity reduce his pace.

Yet since he dared plunge in, he surely relied on something; he deployed some wonderful method unknown to others. What ought to slow his speed suddenly heightened again, swiftly propelling through the blood sea.

Lu Ye was not far behind, pursuing relentlessly.

Meanwhile, he clicked his tongue in amazement.

Even though his earlier conversation with Yuk Yaorao made him realize his previous impressions of the Insect Race were overly simplistic, as his experience with them was limited to the Insect Matriarch inside the Insect Race Great Secret Realm, he did not expect to encounter a real more advanced Insect Race member so soon!

The infiltrating creature was utterly unlike the Insect Race Lu Ye knew; upon first glance, it bore little difference from humans, possessing all human traits, yet subtly varied in some respects.

Firstly, the creature had a sharp head, seemingly wearing a pointed hat.

Secondly, its eyes were large hexagonal compound eyes, bugging out as if the eyeballs might burst, appearing extremely comical.

Beneath those compound eyes, a smaller pair of eyes were situated on its cheeks.

Furthermore, its hands had only three fingers instead of five.

Of course, the most conspicuous anomaly was the gray flesh wings on its back, resembling bat wings.

Though Lu Ye had witnessed various Insect Race forms, he struggled to associate this one's appearance with any specific Insect Race; it seemed more like a blend of several Insect Race traits affixed to a human-like body.