Chapter 137: Bug King Travis's Astonishment

A flash of terror suddenly flickered through Beerus's massive insect eye.

"How could this be!" a shrill screech imbued with mental waves rang out.

Immediately after, with a surge of great force, a strand of blood‑red flame attached itself to the emerald blade that emitted a chilling aura.

Whatever method Beerus used to resist, it all turned into nourishment for that blood flame as it continuously grew.

Feeling the dual damage to body and soul, and the overwhelming assault surging from the emerald blade.

The next moment.

A massive roar sounded.

Below, not far away, a low hill instantly collapsed, turning into a field of ruins on the battlefield.

Beerus's painful screech kept coming from the collapsed ruins.

"Boom~"

A flash of blue light flickered.

Beerus burst through the ruins and flew out.

A look of stunned shock filled Beerus's face, and a tone of incredulous screech sounded:

"Law! You actually comprehended the Law! That's impossible!"

At this moment Beerus's breath was feeble, clearly bearing serious injuries.

To dispel that blood flame infused with the Law's power, Beerus had expended a great amount of his own energy.

Fulade, seeing this, gave Beerus no time to rest and launched a fierce attack on him, hoping to quickly finish the opponent.

Beerus was clearly shaken by Fulade's previous powerful strike that contained the Law.

Thus, in the ensuing battle, he remained in a constant state of evasion.

In fact, such a powerful attack infused with the Law, using the faint Law energy Fulade controls, could hardly be used more than a few times.

But the opponent evidently did not know that.

And precisely because of this strike, Bug King Travis, whose body had already been forced into more than half, this time his expression toward Fulade finally grew solemn.

At the moment the Law's fluctuation rose, a faint sense of danger suddenly surged.

This caused Travis, who had been intent on conquering this Micro Plane invasion, to be shadowed in his heart by the continuous abnormal phenomena.

A vague ominous premonition suddenly rose in his mind.

But given Travis's arrogant and overconfident nature, he could never admit his mistake, especially since it was only a slight threat.

As the thought shifted, Travis instantly calmed again, though the contempt in his eyes had already vanished.

When looking at Fulade, a note of amazement instead appeared on his slightly fierce triangular skull.

Half‑god, who would have thought that a newly emerged Level Three creature could already touch the Law's power that only half‑god‑level beings can access—how could he not be amazed?

Especially since he himself, being in the later stage of Level Three, is in the phase of perceiving the Law's power, he can truly feel how arduous it is to grasp the Law.

Normally, early Level Three beings have not yet fully understood their own power, let alone reach the stage of probing the Law's power.

Because of their own limitations and perception of power, that barrier stands, impossible to surpass.

Only by raising one's strength to a sufficient height can there be a few chances to touch the threshold that leads to the divine level.

And that~ is merely a few chances at most.

Take the entire Green Blade Bug Race as an example.

Due to genetic limits of the bug race, even as Level Three lifeforms, they live at most only two thousand years.

In the past ten thousand years, those who have broken through the Level Three Life Tier to reach Bug King level number in the hundreds.

Yet only about one percent manage to become half‑god‑level Bug Emperors!

Clearly, the difficulty of comprehending the Law is immense, not to mention the subsequent ascension to divine stages! This is a presence that makes the entire star realm, billions of lower beings, gasp in awe yet hesitate to approach.

One could say Level Three is already the pinnacle that the vast majority of beings can attain.

And Bug King Travis, as a member of the Green Blade Bug Race, this generation has the greatest chance to step into half‑god status, yet for centuries remains clueless.

No wonder Travis and the others were so shocked when they discovered Fulade had already begun to touch the Law.

Even the three who also belong to the Dark World, at this moment, their gazes toward Fulade were filled with shock.

Only that penguin, after a moment, showed a look of realization.

Earlier he had faintly sensed a ripple of the Law, but it was too weak and brief; at the time he thought it was his own illusion.

"That damned bastard." Ma'erjin's gaze toward Fulade hinted at a hint of complexity.

Her competitive spirit was strong, yet she had harbored a grudge over what Fulade had done to her years ago. In recent years she devoted herself to strengthening, and now seeing the gap widen, she couldn't help feeling a bit down.

Of course she would never admit that she felt even a slight secret joy.

Fulade could of course sense the shock in everyone's hearts at this moment.

He also saw Travis and the others' eyes looking at him like a monster.

But only Fulade knew in his heart that he was merely standing on a Giant's shoulder, needing only to bend down to pick, which was far easier.

Whereas they stood below the threshold, needing to grow tall enough to have a chance to touch that lofty threshold.

The difficulty, of course, is another matter.

Just as the crowd fell into a stalemate.

The first to break the balance were not Fulade and his allies, but various monsters swarming from the forest's hives.

Hot on their heels was a Demon Hunter Legion!

As Canyon Forest shook violently, a massive swarm of monsters surged out of the forest.

Led by the major Magic Beast Lords of the forest, they launched a fierce charge against the endless horde of bugs emerging from the Space Rift.

For a moment, fierce collisions, bloody combat, and hysterical roars filled the valley.

【Magic Beast Lords are equivalent to Level One creatures, as mentioned earlier.】

Obviously they also detected the anomaly here; upon realizing that a top‑tier strongman of this plane had arrived, they no longer hesitated and each summoned a massive number of demons from within their territories to provide support.

Seeing the tens of thousands of demons pouring in from all parts of the forest as massive reinforcements, Fulade and the others were surprised, yet it was understandable.

After all, a Plane Invasion is no trivial matter; it is a moment of life‑or‑death for an entire plane, not an internal dispute among its own inhabitants.

Even the fiercest internal conflict at most leads only to the extinction of a species.

But a Plane War concerns the survival of all beings within the plane.

No one can stand aside from it.

Having just broken free of their shackles and reached Level One Life Tier, they already surpass more than ninety percent of the low‑level beings among the billions of species in the Star Realm.

Regardless of which plane world they inhabit, a Level One Life Tier being is undeniably a powerful entity at the top of its own food chain, a direct beneficiary of that plane.

They are like pillars in the middle of the stream, the cornerstone that upholds each plane's existence, and also the main force that sustains a Plane War.

Among those tens of thousands of demons, a horn of charge was sounded under the leadership of a higher demon beast numbering nearly a hundred.

Leading the charge were, astonishingly, a cunning dragon‑like creature and a Two‑Winged White Tiger born with wings on its back.

The aura of a powerful superior demon beast, mingling among the tens of thousands of demons, stood out glaringly.

"Roar~!!"

With the tiger's roar, the Two‑Winged White Tiger first cast a wary glance at Travis, who was in a descending state.

Then, leading a massive swarm of demons, it lunged toward the distant bug swarm.

The powerful life aura made this Two‑Winged White Tiger like a tiger among a flock of sheep, and it began a bloody melee.

Sharp claws and ferocious fangs surrounded its body, continuously rotating massive cyan wind blades that reaped life.

Thus this Two‑Winged White Tiger became a literal killing machine.

Such a striking display immediately attracted the attention of a Level Two Bug General.

The Level Two Bug General, who had originally intended to support Ma'erjin's legion, instantly changed direction and attacked the Two‑Winged White Tiger.

At the same time, the dragon‑like creature did likewise; its appearance caused the bug swarm that had been supporting three nearby legions to begin its first split.

This immediately eased the pressure on the three members of Ma'erjin.

Even a Level Three being, if enough low‑level creatures sacrifice their lives, can be literally consumed here.

Of course, the premise is that they do not flee, or that the Level Two beings surrounding them reach a certain number, before they can truly threaten their lives.

After all, upon reaching Level Three, unless engaged in massive energy consumption, there is virtually no issue of energy shortage.

At their level, the usual energy expenditure and the body's autonomous absorption of external energy have long achieved a certain balance.

But this also illustrates the danger of a Plane War: even a Level Three being cannot guarantee a clean exit from it.

And the final factor that tipped this balance was the arrival of a Demon Hunter Legion.

PS: I originally planned to start a regular update today, but my sister has to go to Shanxi for an internship, so I was busy all afternoon.

Hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow.

(End of chapter)