Chapter 104: Stealing Its Nest

"When the big battle starts in a bit, we need to hack that damn bug a few more times." Wang Zu was so angry his eyes had gone red.

The big bug stubbornly chased after the direction Blood Chiluo had fled.

Su Huchen flew his sword while deliberately seeking out open, sparsely populated areas to run through.

The big bug stuck tightly to their route, locking its gaze on Blood Chiluo, and chased them all the way into the depths of the Wang clan grounds.

Within the ambush circle in the depths of the Wang clan grounds, a killing atmosphere already filled the air!

Many human experts had long been lying in wait, just for the bug to come.

By this time, Xu Chengzhu and Director Bao Junyi and others had already arrived at their pre-assigned positions within the encirclement a step ahead.

The instant Su Huchen zipped past Xu Chengzhu with a whoosh, Xu Chengzhu raised his arm high.

Then he brought it sweeping down without hesitation.

In an instant, countless powerful spells erupted from the Xiancheng experts on all sides, all striking the big bug's carapace at once.

The big bug let out a mournful, pained wail.

Although its carapace withstood every attacking spell, the pain could not be dulled — it was, after all, a living creature, and it hurt when struck.

The pained big bug immediately shifted its attention away from Blood Chiluo and onto the human experts attacking it. It gave up the chase outright, raised a great claw and thrust it forward, and stomped straight toward the densest clusters of people.

The humans in the path of its stomp scattered instantly like birds and beasts.

The big bug stomped thunderously several times in a row, but didn't hit a single person.

It only smashed flat swath after swath of houses.

It immediately lost patience, drew in a great breath, and then exhaled.

A great mass of bug-men, dripping with slime, were spewed out from its mouth.

When these bug-men were first spat out, their eyes were shut, and their bodies were covered all over in deep blue-green bug armor.

The instant they hit the ground they opened their eyes, then pushed off with their feet and launched themselves into the air, drew weapons stored in the spatial rings on their fingers, and charged straight at the human experts each had picked out.

The bug-men had only the form of men — but they were bugs!

There was no emotion in their eyes, only slaughter!

So when they attacked the human experts, they truly stopped at nothing.

One bug-man, in order to kill the human who had ducked behind it after their clash, simply reversed his spear tip and drove it through his own belly and through the enemy at the same time.

Then he pulled the spear tip out and stabbed several more times.

Once the human expert behind him was dead, it contentedly collapsed as well. A bug-man behind it who had killed his opponent rushed over and tossed it back onto the shell-bug's carapace. Naturally other bugs dragged it back for treatment.

A bug-man's vitality was far tougher than a human's.

Even cut clean in half, as long as it was carried back to the bug nest by other bugs, it would recover within a few days.

Such ferocious bug-men made the surrounding human experts feel a chill rising straight up from their hearts!!

This was Xiancheng, the stable rear of the sect — many of these human experts had risen through years of accumulated cultivation and had never seen a violent biological weapon like the bug-men!!

Some of the weaker-willed actually turned and fled outright.

The moment they ran, those bug-men who hadn't yet found a suitable opponent lit up at once.

They went madly chasing after those deserters.

They pursued and slaughtered them in a trailing line, leaving those blood-drained human experts strewn across the field in grisly heaps!!

The horrific scene made the surrounding human experts and the mortals and cultivators who hadn't fled in time and were crouching in the distance to watch all turn their heads in unison!!

Too savage — these bug-men were far too savage.

"Aim for the head! Cut off the bug-men's heads — only then will they die for good. Just hacking off their limbs or stabbing a hole in their belly won't take them out of the fight!" Director Bao Junyi shouted.

A human missing an arm might start fearing battle and shy away from fighting.

But bug-men wouldn't.

After losing their limbs, they only grew fiercer.

They might even choose to grapple the enemy and self-detonate, dragging the enemy down with them.

Director Bao Junyi was clearly already used to this kind of fighting. Unfazed amid the danger, he kept shifting the truly battle-hardened experts into place, letting pass those idiots who had already been scared stiff by the bug-men, and intercepting the bug-men chasing those idiots.

Otherwise the encirclement would have been torn open by the bug-men.

Then he arranged for more arriving human experts to organize into even larger spell clusters, to attack the big bug at range.

In any case, hit it enough times and even the thickest hard shell would crack and be damaged.

The remaining experts suited to close combat, those who practiced the martial path, he deliberately held back for the final assault.

The entire battlefield was arranged by him in perfect order, and even Xu Chengzhu was very satisfied.

The sect's dispatching Director Bao Junyi over showed they truly took Xiancheng's problem seriously.

Elsewhere, Su Huchen tossed the flowerpot he had been holding to Su Hanlin. "I'm leaving it to you — I'm going into the fight too."

"Don't worry, I'll protect Blood Chiluo well," Su Hanlin said.

"You just need to take it and hide well," Su Huchen said.

"Got it," Su Hanlin replied.

After entrusting Su Hanlin with protecting Blood Chiluo, Su Huchen turned right around and plunged back into the hunting circle, joining the other human experts to hunt the big bug.

Su Hanlin also found a spot at the corner of a tall building — open视野 but well concealed — and held Blood Chiluo as he watched the battle.

Blood Chiluo saw the big bug being beaten into mournful yelping, endlessly spitting out more bug-men to attack the surrounding human experts, and no longer paying it any attention at all. It immediately said to Su Hanlin, "Su Hanlin, I need to step away for a bit — just a little while. Don't tell anyone, okay?"

"What are you going to do?" Su Hanlin immediately sensed something was wrong. He grabbed Blood Chiluo's true body, and his hand was pricked full of tiny holes, with blood flowing out — but he didn't seem to feel it. "Don't you dare go ambush that big shell-bug, it's too dangerous. If something happened to you, how would I explain it to your master when I got back?"

"I'm not going to ambush that big bug — its hard shell is so thick, do you think my attacks could break through it?"

"Then what are you going for?" Su Hanlin asked in surprise.

"I'm going to steal its nest. When it left the nest, it hid some extremely, extremely fragrant things underground. I'm going to sneak over and steal them back." Blood Chiluo said excitedly.

Su Hanlin hesitated upon hearing this, then said, "Then how about I protect you and we go together?"

"I'm not taking you; your escape speed is too slow. If I take you, we might get caught by the human-looking insects it sends out. It has stationed several strange insects there to guard the place! If I take you, you're just dead weight." Xue Chiluo said without any courtesy.

Su Hanlin was instantly struck hard.

He was actually dead weight?!

"Then aren't you afraid of those insect-men?" Su Hanlin asked again.

"What are insect-men?" Xue Chiluo asked, confused.

"Those strange insects that look like humans." Su Hanlin explained to it.