Chapter 155: Mantis Plane

This is a passage about a hundred meters in diameter that links to the Mantis Plane.

As the white spatial haze is absorbed and transformed by the Altar, the pitch‑black Spacetime Passage, like a predatory beast that selects its prey, radiates strong ripples of spacetime energy.

"The other side of this Spacetime Passage is the low‑level civilization Mantis Plane.

The risks it contains have already been learned from intelligence, so I will not give further warnings here.

Our main purpose for this operation is, while ensuring our safety as much as possible, to take more resources belonging to the Mantis civilization, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity and development of our Dark World."

Amid the many powerful factions rubbing their fists and eager to try, the northern Witch Vivian slowly spoke a reminder.

The expressions on everyone's faces grew serious and solemn, clearly realizing the important impact this operation will have on the future rise of the Dark World.

Fulade and other senior officials, seeing the condition of the many powerful participants from the Dark World, nodded silently and said no more.

At the command, the personnel involved in the infiltration rushed toward the Spacetime Passage.

Unlike the uncertainty and safety of a Space Rift.

The Spacetime Passage is relatively much more stable and safe; as long as no strong external force interferes, it remains smooth, without Space Rift or spatial turbulence effects.

As layer upon layer of ripples rose, a primarily black Spacetime Passage, suffused with threads of multicolored halos, appeared in view.

The group moved forward steadily, carefully restraining their own power to avoid affecting the Passage's stability.

This cannot blame them for being cautious; given the stability of Spacetime Passages created by the Dark World, any massive energy leakage would indeed cause unpredictable effects on the Passage's stability.

This Spacetime Passage, emitting a rainbow halo with occasional streaks of light, after about half a day of marching, finally showed a sliver of white light before Fulade and the others.

………

This is a special plane composed of seventy percent jungle and thirty percent ocean.

If observed carefully from outside the plane, one can see three massive continents.

Each continent's area is not inferior to the volume of a Micro World.

These three massive lands are covered by continuous stretches of jungle of all sizes, exuding vigorous life.

Around the three jungles dense with green foliage lies a vast sea of emerald water.

At this moment, this once vibrant world has been eroded by intense war.

Of the three continents, the easternmost Curtis Continent has now completely fallen.

The central continent has become fully mired in stalemate warfare; most of its area has fallen into enemy hands, and collapse seems only a matter of time.

Central continent Mantis.

This is the main continent of the Mantis Plane, also the most resource‑rich continent.

Its area is so vast that, compared to the combined area of the eastern and western continents, it exceeds them by more than twice, demonstrating the breadth of the Mantis continent.

At this moment, a startling battle wave is occurring above the Mantis Plane.

It is two formations that, to lower‑level beings, appear as majestic figures radiant like the sun.

Their massive aura makes the armies below, locked in constant combat, fear to avoid them.

"Kuraqi, I wonder how long you can still endure in my toxic hand,"

A mocking voice rang out.

In the sky, a black fluid instantly formed into a colossal being a kilometer tall, massive in build, bearing fangs and claws.

A slender tongue, like a serpent's tongue, continuously spewed from the mouth full of fangs, giving a ferocious, evil impression. "Hmph, despicable variant creature, whose hands the deer will die in is still unknown, go die!"

The speaker is the sole fourth‑rank divine‑level powerhouse of the Mantis Plane, the emperor of the Mantis Insect race! Kuraqi.

He is a humanoid intelligent being with two distinctive antennae on his forehead, a kilometer tall and slender.

His body is clad in golden armor that shines brilliantly.

From his arms sprout a pair of elongated, reverse‑jointed green blades, emitting a sharp cold light that creates ripples in the surrounding space.

The Mantis Plane has two dominant races.

They are the Mantis Insect lineage and the Mantis Green Blade Bug Race.

Kuraqi is the emperor of the Mantis Insect lineage and also the guardian of the Mantis Plane.

Tens of thousands of years ago, when Mantis was still a Micro Plane, the dominant race here was the Green Blade Bug Race.

After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the Green Blade Bug Race, due to differing philosophies, gradually diverged into two distinct cultivation paths.

One focuses on spiritual mind‑power cultivation, the other on passive bodily evolution.

The differing views caused, over time and with changes in cultivation systems and environment, the birth of the Mantis Insect race.

Until the Mantis Plane ascended to a small world, Kuraqi achieved fourth‑rank strength, and the dominance naturally fell into the hands of the Mantis Insects.

As soon as the words fell, a golden special energy brimming with great might, accompanied by a kilometer‑long massive blade shadow, thunderously surged toward the opposing variant creature.

"Boom—!!"

The booming sound exploded, instantly echoing across the sky of the Mantis continent.

The massive force of their clash, and the occasional powerful aftershocks, spread outward, uprooting vast swaths of jungle in an instant.

It is unknown how many lower‑level beings, in bewildered confusion, perished beneath the aftershocks of the two strong ones' duel.

This is still that powerful fourth‑rank strongman of the Mantis Plane, who caused the battlefield to be lifted to the tens of thousands of meters high wall of this plane.

This also explains why these fourth‑rank lifeforms are regarded by the lower beings of countless star‑realm civilizations as mighty deities.

Just as the two fourth‑rank strongmen of Mantis civilization and the Variant civilization clashed, faint ripples containing spatial fluctuations appeared in a jungle somewhere on the central continent.

With Fulade and others arriving, the terrifying scene before everyone's eyes resembled a cataclysmic apocalypse.

After a brief moment, the recovered group withdrew their lingering, shocked gaze from the sky.

They opened the intelligence and maps in their hands, and after confirming the direction, hurried toward the region they were responsible for.

"Be careful!" Fulade said, seeing Ma'erjin and Malinfisen turning and heading forward, offering a concerned reminder.

"Hmm, you too, Brother Fulade," Malinfisen smiled sweetly, then led her subordinates toward the target area assigned to their side.

Ma'erjin merely gave a cold nod, as if it mattered not.

Seeing the silhouettes of all the forces already gone, Fulade quickly withdrew his mind and headed toward the southeast of Mantis Continent.

That place was a region relatively close to the battlefield of both sides.

The reason for choosing this region is that a certain resource there is precisely the main source of the fusion‑agent material needed for the large strategic weapon platform, the outer alloy armor of the Space Fortress, and the large energy‑conversion power furnace that the Sky Island Alchemy Heavy Industry Laboratory is currently secretly developing at full speed.

The Space Fortress is a large war weapon platform developed by the Dark World, based on the technological data provided by the Kryptonian Civilization and combined with the Dark World's localized magical‑energy technology.

It is a functional large weapon platform that integrates interstellar navigation, spatial jumps, massive transport, Plane War, and defensive fortresses.

(End of chapter)