Chapter 177: Point to Heaven

Clearly I only used it once, yet it was already targeted this quickly?

When the Original Insect was making the Knight Belt, it probably added something else inside the belt.

As a result, it can be sensed by the Alien Insect, and the belt awakens upon sensing the Alien Insect's trace.

Jiang Xia stared at the mimicking Alien Insect before him, but his mind was on the belt.

If he had the equipment, he should be able to disassemble the Knight Belt for study.

He should be able to greatly improve its performance based on the original.

And he could also crack the secret of how the Original Insect made the Knight Belt.

With insufficient information, it's hard to find what he wants from that vast sea of data.

Jiang Xia lightly turned his head to the right to dodge the venom flying in midair, and incidentally punched the Alien Insect.

This Alien Insect's whole body is grayish-white with black-gray stripes and a fully insectoid appearance, instantly letting Jiang Xia retrieve all data about its presence on Earth.

It is an Alien Insect modeled after a wolf spider, and its molting occurred ten minutes ago.

But why is it a spider again?

Whenever the Knight offers sacrifice to heaven, various spider-like monsters always die under the Knight's just iron fist.

"You wouldn't think I have no combat ability when I'm not transformed, would you?"

Jiang Xia said, looking at the Alien Insect he had punched away.

"Hiss."

The only response to Jiang Xia was a faster spray of venom and claws.

The foul-smelling venom shot straight out, and then, as expected, missed.

The bluish-green venom fell to the ground, instantly corroding a pit, and uncomfortable white smoke slowly rose.

Jiang Xia lightly turned his body, merely twisting a small arc, causing all the Alien Insect's attacks to miss, just grazing the edge of his clothing.

Data constantly flashed in Jiang Xia's eyes; the ability to control spacetime particles from the Alien Insect Queen within him, combined with the Earth Library, produced a capability advantageous in any battle.

"After fully interpreting the data and combining it with the ability to control time flow, one can actually achieve a short-term precognition of future combat, though the foreseeable future is only about five seconds."

Jiang Xia looked as if it had split into three or four Alien Insects and muttered.

Each of those three or four Alien Insects represents its future course of action and attack pattern.

Moreover, Jiang Xia himself possesses hyper‑accelerated vision; together, the adult Alien Insect before him cannot touch his body and is instead toyed with by him.

"Why do you smell like your own kind, when you're clearly just a human?"

A human phantom appeared on the ferocious exterior of the Alien Insect, which gazed at Jiang Xia in puzzlement.

"Who knows?"

Jiang Xia blocked the Alien Insect's claws with both hands, then kicked its abdomen.

His body was healing, and the energy of the Alien Insect Queen and from killing so many Alien Insects continually manifested on Jiang Xia's body.

Even the Alien Insect standing before him sensed the kinship aura on Jiang Xia's body.

However, Jiang Xia's testing is about done.

It's time to send it on its way, in the manner an Alien Insect kills.

Jiang Xia slowly raised his right hand; a metallic black beetle burst through the air, blocking the Alien Insect's attack while leaving a harsh wound on its body.

"henshin (transformation)"

The Dark Jia Dou Insect Device automatically flew to Jiang Xia's waist.

Now the compatibility with the Knight System is manifested on Jiang Xia's body.

"Castoff"

Countless metal shells slammed into the Alien Insect at a speed of two thousand kilometers per hour.

"Boom!"

The metal part of the shell's breastplate directly slit open a gap at the chest of this wolf spider.

If it weren't an adult, it would have died the moment the Knight System molted.

Dark Jia Dou, appears.

Its appearance is exactly the same as Jia Dou's.

The only changes are that Jia Dou's compound eyes are blue, while Dark Jia Dou's compound eyes are yellow, and the insect device at the waist is red versus black.

It's just a color‑swap version, with only a slight change.

"Boom!"

"Hiss‑ah!" the wolf‑spider Alien Insect let out a miserable cry, feeling its body about to be shattered by the knight before it.

What frightened it even more was that the knight ahead seemed to be aiming for the protruding parts of its body.

"Don't move, it'll be quick."

Jiang Xia stepped on the wolf‑spider Alien Insect with one foot, held it down, grabbed the spider leg growing from its body with his hand, and pulled hard.

Bluish‑green blood spurted directly from the junction of the spider leg and the Alien Insect's body.

Jiang Xia kicked it away with a strong kick and instantly dodged the filthy blood.

"This won't do; you kill people the same way, don't you?"

Jiang Xia's tone icy, he looked at the wolf‑spider Alien Insect writhing in pain and casually tossed the broken spider leg aside.

Sometimes knowing too much isn't good either; after he looked up the data on how this Alien Insect kills.

He sentenced it to death, and made it die in a very painful way.

"No, this demon is too terrifying; I can't beat him alone. My companions should have already dealt with another knight—let's group up and go."

The wolf‑spider Alien Insect watched the writhing fist, and as the Dark Jia Dou approached slowly, its fear peaked.

It let out a roar and turned to run.

Seeing the already hyper-accelerated Alien Insect, Jiang Xia lightly tapped the button on his waist.

"ClockUp"

The surrounding time instantly slowed, and the scattered fallen leaves in the air hovered motionless.

Dust particles in the air were halted by an invisible force, suspended motionless in midair.

Sunlight reflected off the river surface outlined stationary beams, one after another, in the air.

Even mere ordinary acceleration could already achieve such a near-time-stop effect; that is the allure of the time-system Knight.

Jiang Xia's figure flashed, he leapt into the air, and directly stepped onto the two legs of the Wolf Spider Alien Insect.

Before it could let out a scream, Jiang Xia grabbed its neck with one hand, firmly muffling its sound in its belly.

Then he punched hard, striking its abdomen, and meanwhile he also removed its left Spider Leg, after all, left and right need to be symmetrical to look good.

The Wolf Spider Alien Insect's companion, another Spider-type Alien Insect, flew up from underground and heavily smashed onto the square where Jiang Xia currently was.

White smoke rose from underground, a figure identical to Dark Jia Dou but with an entirely red body, a Knight, slowly walked out of the white smoke.

Sun God Jia Dou.

Two spider-shaped Alien Insects were surrounded by two Knights modeled after beetles.

Jiang Xia and the Heavenly Dao Chief began continuously pressing the finishing switches on their respective Insect Devices.

At the same time they pulled the horn on their Insect Devices, a deep blue current flowed from the abdomen up to the horn on the forehead.

"1, 2, 3……"

Calmly turning around.

Seeing them turn around, the Alien Insect seemed to find an opportunity; the Wolf Spider Alien Insect rushed toward the Heavenly Dao Chief, while its companion lunged at Jiang Xia.

Both Alien Insects had their defenses broken by their respective opponents, so they tacitly chose to swap opponents.

"RiderKick"

With an electric current in his right leg, he precisely struck the two Alien Insects with a spinning kick, as if they had deliberately offered themselves up.

Amid the fire and explosion, only Jia Dou's right hand slowly rose, pointing to the sky.

At that moment the sun also slowly rose behind him, and the time card was just right; sunlight poured down, revealing his presence to the world.

"This is truly the pretender king, Heavenly Dao Chief." Seeing the Heavenly Dao Chief's appearance, Jiang Xia gave a light laugh.

He does not have the habit of being so ostentatious.

(End of chapter)