Chapter 1156

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Just then, a dense buzzing suddenly rang out, so thick it made one's scalp tingle.

The sound was extremely fine and dense, like countless wings vibrating simultaneously, yet also like the sound of some metal grinding against bone.

At first it was only faintly discernible; after a few breaths it surged over like a tide, covering the sky and blanketing the earth.

The Chaos Fog was shaken by this sonic wave into violent turmoil; the gray-white fog walls seemed to be gnawed from within, one expanding hole after another appearing.

Immediately after, the insects appeared.

First a few, then several dozen, then thousands upon thousands, densely packed, surging out from those holes.

These insects were bizarre in shape to the extreme.

Some resembled centipedes, but with an extra pair of membranous wings.

Some looked like ants magnified countless times, yet grew three skulls.

Some were completely transparent, revealing murky green liquid churning inside their bodies.

Some simply had no fixed form, merely a constantly shifting amalgam of tentacles and carapace.

Their numbers were beyond counting; just this one batch that surged out already covered half the sky.

The wingbeats of the insect swarm stacked together, forming a clamorous droning.

Before the swarm, the Chaos Fog was like gnawed rotten flesh, peeling away layer by layer.

"Vacuum Homeland?"

"It's the Vacuum Homeland's insect swarm!"

"How did they come here too!"

Someone in the crowd cried out in alarm, the fear in their voice even thicker than when they had just seen the Chaos Lords.

The name Vacuum Homeland, throughout the entire Endless Star Domain and Chaos Sea, is an existence that makes one's hair stand on end.

This swarm of insects does not observe rules and bottom lines like cultivators; they have only one instinct.

Devour everything, then evolve.

Xu Zhangqing narrowed his eyes, sizing up the sky-covering, earth-blanketing insect swarm.

He had seen no small number of spirit insects.

Within the Ten Thousand Insects Mother Nest's divine ability condensed swarm, there were exotic spirit insects scavenged from various places, and even many brand-new species derived.

Those insects were fierce, but in their bones they still had the foundation of spirit insects.

They had spirituality, had order.

Some even possessed a few parts of human nature.

But the swarm before him was different; not a shred of spirituality could be found on them, replaced instead by a thick, indissoluble killing aura.

That killing aura was not stained on from slaughter, but innate from birth.

They were born with it.

Zhao Ziyue shifted his fishing rod to another position, his gaze sweeping over that continuously expanding insect swarm, his voice carrying a hint of solemnity: "Lao Xu, these are all Vacuum Homeland's insects.

If a fight breaks out later, be extremely careful."

Xu Zhangqing turned his head to look at him: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Ziyue continued: "These insects are different from Chaos Species; Chaos Species have complete rules, but the Vacuum Homeland's insect swarm, their rules are incomplete.

Or rather, they simply don't care whether rules are complete or not.

On a single insect, there might simultaneously hang seven or eight different law fragments, each fragment incomplete, but stacked together they can gnaw through anything.

Have you ever seen an insect that can devour time?

Vacuum Homeland has them!

Have you ever seen an insect that can use an entire Star River as a pupa shell to lay eggs?

Vacuum Homeland has those too!"

He paused, lowering the bamboo fishing rod's line a few more inches into the Chaos Sea: "Moreover, their numbers are too many.

The insect swarm's attack method, you can never guess what it will be.

Because while they attack you, they are also evolving."

Xu Zhangqing listened, yet his expression did not fluctuate much; he looked again at that sky-obscuring insect swarm and said in a flat tone: "Speaking of insects, I've also raised a swarm."

The number of insects inside the Ten Thousand Insects Mother Nest had long since reached a terrifying figure.

No helping it, the Reverse Meridian Dragon Transformation Insect Mother is too prolific.

Although, they lack the strangeness of Vacuum Homeland's insects.

But if truly comparing numbers and combat strength, he did not believe his insect swarm would fall behind.

What's more, the Five-Colored Divine Light brushes away all things.

Flesh can be brushed, divine souls can be brushed, laws can be brushed, Dao rhymes can be brushed.

No matter how many insects, they are still flesh-and-blood bodies, and still within the Five Elements.

As long as it is an existence within the Five Elements, there is nothing that cannot be brushed away.

However, there was one thing that gave Xu Zhangqing some surprise.

These years traveling south and venturing north, from the Tianyuan Realm to the Floating World Four Domains, from Qinglong Donglu to the Chaos Sea, the human cultivators he had seen were countless, and the foreign races he had seen were not few.

There were Chaos Species, there were insect swarms, there were all sorts of strange and exotic beings.

But the number of the Demon Race was pitifully few.

Back in the Tianyuan Realm, the Demon Race was a massive force no less than the human race.

All kinds of Demon Beasts were spread throughout mountains, forests, lakes, and seas.

From Demon Kings occupying a territory, down to the mountain-guarding Demon Beasts outside immortal sects.

Many types, vast numbers.

But upon reaching the Universe Star Domain, especially here, all one encountered along the way were either human cultivators, or Chaos Species, or insect swarms like the Vacuum Homeland.

True Demon Race had almost vanished without a trace.

Although Chaos Species have some forms resembling beasts, they are not the same thing.

The Demon Race is a race that cultivates by relying on bloodline, possessing a complete cultivation system.

While Chaos Species are products under the Chaos Laws, having no cultivation system.

The two merely look similar in appearance.

Therefore, Xu Changqing threw this question to Zhao Ziyue.

Zhao Ziyue fell silent for a moment, organizing his wording: "It's not that there are no Demon Race, but rather that Demon Race able to survive here are almost none.

The Tianyuan Realm has abundant Spiritual Energy, and the Heaven and Earth Laws' suppression of the Demon Race is also small, so the Demon Race can multiply and thrive, even occupying a Boundary Realm.

First, the Universe Star Domain is vast, unknown how large or far, the probability of running into demons is not high.

Second, in places near the Chaos Sea, the interference of the Chaos Laws is truly too strong.

Ordinary Demon Race cannot absorb Chaos Qi; staying long-term their bloodline will be corrupted by Chaos, either regressing or mutating into Chaos Species."

He pointed at the distance, those few Chaos Lords currently entangled in battle with cultivators: "Their ancestors might have been a branch of some Demon Race, having stayed in the Chaos Sea for long, their bloodline completely rewritten by the Chaos Laws, becoming their current appearance!"

Xu Changqing, hearing this, let out an "Oh."

Zhao Ziyue then pointed toward the Endless Star Domain's direction: "The Endless Star Domain does have Demon Race; over there are several dozen Continent Domains, each Continent Domain's human cultivators are hunting Demon Race.

Demon Race's Ya Dan, demon bones, Monster Blood, are all hot commodities at auctions.

Demon Race able to survive in that kind of environment are either Great Demons so strong no one dares provoke them, or they rely on some major power, acting as mountain-guarding divine beasts or sect-protecting Demon Beasts.

So, the Demon Race in the Chaos Sea have already gone extinct.

The remaining, either evolved into Chaos Species of Royal Clan or Monarch level, or retreated to edge regions cultivators cannot reach.

Therefore, you seeing no Demon Race along the way is actually not strange."

Xu Changqing suddenly realized: "So that's how it is!"