Chapter 155

Su Jin collected a circle of insect carapaces and returned to her elder brother’s side.

Su Jian was boiling a pot of wild mushroom chicken soup, richly fragrant, richly fragrant.

He had built his own firepit and brought a portable hanging pot for camping.

Su Jin’s stomach growled loudly.

Su Jian burst into laughter: “Just wait a little longer, just a little longer and it’ll be ready.”

Su Hanlin was roasting pancakes—palm-sized ones threaded onto skewers and placed beside the fire, occasionally brushing them with sauce.

When all the pancakes were done, Su Hanlin and Su Jian, together with Su Jin, devoured an entire pot of wild mushroom chicken and over a dozen pancakes.

The night breeze rustled gently; the commotion from nearby Mount Woniu couldn’t reach them at all.

“Hanlin, when do you think the chaos in the outer district will settle down?” Su Jian asked lazily after eating his fill. “When can we go home?”

“Hard to say. If that High Priest doesn’t keep stirring things up, the outer district will calm down soon.”

“If he keeps stirring things up, then let him stir.”

“The more he stirs, the more of his hidden cards he reveals—and the greater his losses.”

Look, at first it was just the parasitic ones causing unrest, then traitors led them to seize entire districts.

Now it’s worse—the High Priest has unleashed his big move, plotting to strike at our Su clan’s elementary students.

And to succeed, he’s even exposed his Number One Queen Nest, hidden for years!

This time he’s suffered heavy losses—Xu Yunrui led his team to trick Feng Qi and directly destroyed one of his Queen Nests.

That Queen Nest was far larger than the shell beetles. It grew by directly siphoning the spiritual veins beneath Mount Woniu.

Think about how long the Mount Woniu sect has been operating here?

This Queen Nest has existed for over a hundred years.”

Su Hanlin’s words jolted Su Jian awake from his drowsiness.

“What? This Queen Nest beneath our feet has existed for over a hundred years? And we had no idea? Has the Police Inspectorate really become this incompetent?” Su Jian asked, his face icy.

“As if we could’ve found the Queen Nest without the Police Inspectorate stepping in,” Su Hanlin defended them. “We located this one because our Intelligence Division traced some clues, and secondly, Xu Yunrui is truly talented.”

His plan was flawlessly layered—Feng Qi never sensed a thing.”

“That’s how we tricked open the Number One Queen Nest,” Su Hanlin added approvingly.

“To be honest, no one initially thought the Number One Queen Nest was this close to Mount Woniu,” Su Hanlin admitted. Even he had broken into a cold sweat when he received the news.

If Xu Yunrui hadn’t prepared in advance, our Su clan’s first-year elementary students, just admitted to the clan school this year, would’ve suffered devastating losses.

“Do you know why the High Priest chose to target our Su clan’s first-year students?” Su Jian frowned.

“I heard some of these children became disruptors in the River of Time.”

“What does that mean?” Su Jian still didn’t understand.

“It means one or more of these children, due to great fortune or some accident, glimpsed the future.”

“The insect fears they saw its true face, so it wants to capture all our Su clan’s students—so it can use what they saw to alter its own plans,” Su Hanlin explained.

“No way! We’ve got one of these monsters in our clan school? Then how’s Su Jin ever going to earn the school’s favor and special training now?” Su Jian couldn’t help complaining.

“Big brother, I never wanted the clan school’s favor or special training,” Su Jin said, blushing.

“Adults are talking—kids shouldn’t interrupt,” Su Jian snapped.

“Not entirely. After all, Xiao Jin has not only excellent talent, but also a Blood Crimson Spider!” Su Hanlin said.

“True enough,” Su Jian felt reassured the moment he thought of the Blood Crimson Spider.

“Thanks to Xu Yunrui tricking open the gate, the Queen Nest didn’t trigger its self-destruct mechanism—we got a complete insect nest for free.”

“A complete Queen Nest contains enough resources to feed the entire family for a full year,” Su Hanlin added.

“Xu Yunrui is really that capable?”

“Of course.”

“The Police Inspectorate has Su Huchen and Xu Yunrui—you’re safe working there. Do well. I’m waiting for your promotion and raise so you can treat me to dinner.”

“Go away.”

“Oh, by the way, the Queen Nest is right here—surely Mount Woniu doesn’t know nothing?” Su Jian had barely finished speaking.

They all saw Mount Woniu erupt with a thunderous explosion.

The upward-rushing shockwave blasted a massive black mushroom cloud into the sky!

The upper half of Mount Woniu’s main peak was completely blown away.

Su Jian and the others stared, dumbfounded.

The Su clan cultivators who had been sitting or lying on the ground all leapt to their feet, staring at Mount Woniu nearby!

“Did they just blow off half the main peak? Any casualties? Should we go lend support?” one cultivator asked.

“Wait for orders. We haven’t finished our job here either. We can’t just leave on our own,” another said. “No unauthorized departure during mission.”

We’re staying here for two reasons: first, to prevent the High Priest’s people from retaking the entrance and trapping the Inspectorate personnel inside.

Second, after the Inspectorate leaves, we’ll conduct a second harvest of this Queen Nest.

Only after we’ve harvested everything will the Queen Nest be fully sunk underground.

This thing can never be allowed to keep growing.

Not long after Mount Woniu’s main peak exploded, hundreds of cultivators flew out of the Queen Nest.

Leading them was Bao Junyi, Chief Inspector of Xiancheng Police Inspectorate.

His face was dark as if it could drip with water.

He never imagined the High Priest would blow up Mount Woniu’s main peak.

But you think blowing it up means I won’t suspect you anymore?

Impossible.

Bao Junyi’s lips curled into a cold, merciless smile.

The more you try to hide it, the more certain we are it’s you.

Inside the underground Queen Nest, Xiancheng’s city master Xu Yi, noticing his son Xu Yunrui hadn’t emptied the insect crystals stored in the Source Pool, asked in surprise: “I didn’t know you were this close to the Su clan—you left them so many insect crystals?”

“I didn’t do it for the Su clan. I did it to win over my Blood Crimson Spider. Maybe one day its master will reject it—and decide I’m the better choice.”

Xu Yi snorted at this.

“A bonded witch spirit only switches masters after its original owner dies. And even then, the new master can’t fully control it.”

“Huh? So there’s no exception?” Xu Yunrui truly adored the Blood Crimson Spider.

He felt that little thing was meant for him!