Chapter 226: The Roaring Insect Swarm Slays All Phenomena

The Thousand-Handed Blood Slaughter Dharma Aspect let out a roar that shattered the Divine Soul. Its thousand arms—formed into fists, palms, claws, or blades—forcefully tore apart the Needle-spine Crawlers with a terrifying might capable of rending heaven and earth. The Flood Dragon phantom, formed by the Flood Dragon Demon King Daoist Array entwined around its body, shattered. The five hundred Profound Flood Dragons making up the array exploded inch by inch into a blood-red mist.

BOOM!

The already heavily fractured Blood-colored Domain suddenly expanded, covering a radius of ten miles. Within the domain, a monstrous Sea of Blood strangled the Insect Race one by one. Even the thunderbolts roaring between heaven and earth seemed to stall.

He no longer paid attention to the harassment of the surrounding Insect Tide, nor did he dodge the thunderbolts in the sky. Concentrating all his power and speed into a single point, he transformed into a dark red streak of blood light that tore through space, brazenly crashing toward the encroaching Leviathan! Wherever he passed, the remnants of the Insect Tide were directly smashed and evaporated, the thunderbolts were scattered by the blood light, and even the ground was plowed into a deep trench.

This strike condensed all of Shen Tu Lu’s current strength!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Three dazzling white lights struck him. Under his maddened outburst, Shen Tu Lu’s strength had already surpassed the ordinary Middle Stage of the Myriad Phenomena Realm, reaching the terrifying heights of the Late Stage! He forcefully smashed apart the light from the three main cannons.

The Leviathan seemed to sense the fatal threat as well. All the defensive Secret Pattern Arrays on its carapace were fully activated. The thick Biological Armor lit up layer by layer, preparing to withstand this desperate strike head-on!

“Oh no!” someone exclaimed among the crowd watching from behind the Leviathan. Even the white-robed old man’s expression changed, his hands forming spells as he prepared to step in and save the boy. He had stayed hidden in the dark without making a move, partly to fish out hidden enemies, but also to save Qin Yu at the most critical moment.

A life-saving grace was not so easily repaid. With a few additional tricks, Qin Yu would naturally join the Demon Suppression Bureau for real. He had already witnessed too many surprises in this battle. Shen Tu Lu appeared unparalleled in his fury and unstoppable in his momentum, but it was merely his final madness. As long as this strike was blocked, he would likely have no choice but to flee in panic.

Relying merely on the small Qin Family, Qin Yu’s Mother of Ten Thousand Worms had already unleashed such might. If he had the resources of the Demon Suppression Bureau, just how far could Qin Yu grow? If he broke through to the Primordial Mansion, Myriad Phenomena, or even the Primordial Spirit Realm, he could truly become a major pillar of Great Wei! Everyone held their breath, waiting for the result.

“You’re too greedy.” A smile appeared on Qin Yu’s lips from within the Leviathan.

How could he not see that Shen Tu Lu’s current state was his final madness, a desperate outburst like a cornered beast? If he hadn’t come, there was a ninety-nine percent chance Shen Tu Lu would have chosen to flee rather than risk his life. It was exactly this greed that made him fall into the carefully prepared trap.

Countless golden Secret Patterns lit up on the Leviathan’s body. Within a ten-mile radius, tens of thousands of Insect Swarms roared and hissed at the sky, merging into a complete whole under the connection of the Secret Patterns. They brazenly collided with the Thousand Hands Dharma Aspect, which was charging forward with a roar against countless bombardments.

Before he even got close to the Leviathan, an astonishing repulsive force fell upon the Thousand-Handed Blood Slaughter Dharma Aspect. The Leviathan’s massive body was enough to engrave a large number of Array Secret Patterns, completely integrating the Insect Swarm’s talents—including their mastery over arrays and even the Gold-devouring Insects—into itself.

The Leviathan was a war fortress for the Insect Swarm, absolutely not just a long-range battery! Whether in offense or defense! Connecting the power of tens of thousands of insects in an instant outburst pushed the Leviathan’s defense to an incredibly horrifying level.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

The Leviathan roared. Hundreds of tentacles extended from the front of its head, turning into sharp cones that attacked the Thousand Hands Dharma Aspect, crashing violently against its many arms. The tens of thousands of flying units guarding the Leviathan launched suicide attacks like moths darting into a flame.

“Hahaha! Truly worthy of being an Exotic Beast with the Ancient Divine Demon Bloodline, but you still can’t stop me! Die!” Shen Tu Lu laughed maniacally as he looked at the approaching Leviathan. His inner power erupted, forcefully enduring the defensive power formed by the array as he chopped off the tentacles one by one. Dozens of huge arms even merged together to form a hundred-zhang-long Blood-red War Axe, intending to completely cleave the Leviathan in two.

But the next moment, the earth shattered with a boom! It wasn’t an explosion, but rather the blooming of a flower of death!

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ!

A low, dense, soul-trembling sound of flapping wings rang out! A golden cloud erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption. These Gold-devouring Insects, each the size of a fist, transformed into an ocean that blotted out the sky and sun! They converged, emitting a hazy light, and instantly submerged the Thousand-Handed Blood Slaughter Dharma Aspect that was charging toward the Leviathan with a death-defying momentum!

Gold-devouring Insects! The Ancient Exotic Beasts—Gold-devouring Insects!

Hundreds of millions of Gold-devouring Insects clung to the Thousand-Handed Blood Slaughter Dharma Aspect like the most ravenous school of piranhas.

SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH!

A scalp-numbing sound echoed out, as if billions of tiny files were working simultaneously! The blood-red light on the surface of the Dharma Aspect, which was strong enough to withstand the Leviathan Main Cannon, became dim, rough, and covered with fine, sandy holes at a visible rate!

“Ah—!! What the hell is this thing?!” Shen Tu Lu let out a shrill scream. He could feel that his Dharma Aspect—the ultimate form he had condensed using decades of accumulation and his own lifeblood—was being rapidly disintegrated from the most microscopic level! It was the shaking of his foundation, the collapse of his Dao.

The momentum of the Dharma Aspect’s charge came to a screeching halt. A thousand arms waved frantically, shooting out blood light in an attempt to disperse and shatter these fist-sized Gold-devouring Insects. However, there were simply too many of them. Shattering one patch only led to more instantly filling the gap! His attacks could only inflict fatal injuries on a very small fraction of the swarm.

The special Secret Patterns bestowed by heaven and earth allowed them to fuse in the most perfect state. They attacked together! Defended together! The greater their numbers, the more terrifying their might became.

Empowered by their talent, their sharp teeth gnawed away, directly tearing the Dharma Aspect to shreds before burrowing inside to swarm toward Shen Tu Lu’s true body at the center. Shen Tu Lu spewed mouthfuls of blood wildly, his aura plummeting at a cliff-like speed! The double backlash from both the Dharma Aspect and his main body caused him to instantly suffer unimaginable trauma!

Just at this moment, when his mind lost control and his Dharma Aspect was on the verge of collapse, hundreds of Soul Devouring Spiders rushed out from the ground, letting out shrill howls. Visible waves of soul shrieks pierced through the Dharma Aspect phantom like a tidal wave, stabbing ruthlessly deep into Shen Tu Lu’s Sea of Consciousness, which had become incredibly fragile due to the backlash!

“No—!!!”

This time, Shen Tu Lu let out a mournful, wretched wail. The Dharma Aspect’s movements ceased entirely, and then it completely collapsed from the inside out, turning into the purest specks of energy and blood-red dust. In the center of the Dharma Aspect, Shen Tu Lu was instantly enveloped by the Gold-devouring Insects, forming a golden sphere.

Under everyone’s terrified gazes, Shen Tu Lu—the Guardian of the Blood Demon Sect, the fiercely infamous Thousand Hands Master—let out a miserable howl, causing the golden sphere to cave in here and there before his aura vanished entirely.

The battlefield suddenly plunged into a deathly silence.

“The Myriad Phenomena Realm is indeed powerful! But my Insect Swarm is even stronger.”