Chapter 157: Naked

Ang raised his hands and pressed them out. The bugs that pounced on the man were bounced away by invisible wind.

The wind surged forward, just like a small breeze of level four or five. When it surged in front of the bugs, these winds turned into invisible fingers, bouncing and bouncing, bouncing the little bugs away one by one.

Instantly, the bug tide that had almost pounced on the fleeing humans collectively bounced back and fell.

Having had the experience of dealing with bugs last time, Ang found that he had chosen the wrong magic at the time. He instinctively used the explosive fireball, but in fact, the power of the explosive fireball was excessive for the bugs.

This kind of bug that could be flattened with the sole of a shoe turned into ash after one explosive fireball and wouldn't die a few more times.

Was there any magic with less power, just right to kill the bugs without wasting elements and magic power, and could be released a few more times?

Was there? Ang had it—Pollination Spell.

Under the Speed-Death Halo, the flowering period of crops was very short. Ang needed to send the pollen on every stamen to the pistil within the short ten-minute flowering period.

Although he used a shortcut, lifting the pollen and letting it fall freely, the control of wind elements within ten minutes to lift all the pollen in two or three hundred acres without damaging the flower stamens was terrifyingly precise.

Increasing the power of the Pollination Spell a little bit and turning it into small wind bullets—wasn't that a magic weaker than level one?

The power was weak, but it was just right for the bugs. And there were many of them. When a wave surged over, the wind bullets were so dense that they became a wind wall. The bugs surging over in dense waves were swept away by the small wind bullets, falling to the ground like rain, and soon piled up into a ridge.

The cloaked person who was triumphant just a few seconds ago was so scared that his head stretched out, his neck stretched long. He couldn't see his expression, but he could feel his inner confusion.

Stunned for a few seconds, the cloaked person reacted, opened his hands, and stomped his feet hard, like dancing a trance dance, making strange sounds in his mouth: "He, hu, ma, xuan, ka % # * ¥ #......"

With his stomping, piles of bugs fell from his cloak, surging toward all directions like a tide.

Nai Ge Li Si frowned: "He, hu, ma, xuan, KS? The scale and tone structure are wrong. Is he shouting randomly?"

As the God of Knowledge who was proficient in all human languages and dialects, he saw through at a glance that the other party was shouting randomly. Whether he shouted or not, it probably didn't affect him shaking bugs from his cloak.

The bugs pouncing from the front didn't attack Ang at the first time, but pounced on their own kind, gnawing on the bugs that had been knocked down. Some gnawed halfway, and they themselves kicked their legs and died, then became food for other bugs.

Other bugs crawled in other directions, some crawling toward the top, bypassing from other caves or the ground, or surging to the position above Ang and the others, and surrounding them from above.

Surrounded by dense bugs, the faces of the fleeing humans turned pale. They looked at Luo Ge for help, but were shocked to find that Luo Ge had disappeared.

Nai Ge Li Si smiled at them and let Ang turn out a pile of beets: "Eat if you are hungry."

The humans were all stunned. Eat at this time? Escape is important, right? Still eat?

The bugs had surrounded all directions. The cloaked person felt confident and let out a strange laugh: "Good guy, what weapon did you use to kill my children? Hand it over quickly, and I will leave you a whole corpse."

Nai Ge Li Si was stunned for a moment, thinking carefully before understanding what was going on. The Pollination Spell was too gentle. Could a magic used for crop pollination be violent? As a result, Ang's magic reaction was very small, and the cloaked person didn't realize it was a magic at all.

Or it was preconceived. He hadn't seen such weak magic and thought it was caused by some weapon.

"I don't want a whole corpse. I want to die cleanly. Is that okay?" Nai Ge Li Si responded with a smile.

"Eh? Young dragon? Dragon race?" Blocked by the fleeing people, the cloaked person noticed Nai Ge Li Si and was a bit scared.

After hesitating for a while, the cloaked person said timidly: "Young dragon sir, I have no intention of hurting you. After I deal with these people, you can leave."

"Oh? Let me leave? Really?" Nai Ge Li Si was surprised.

"Of course, the Dragon race is great, and He Mo Er Tos has no intention of being an enemy of the Dragon race. This is our internal human grudge, so please don't intervene, young dragon sir," the cloaked person said.

"Oh, so you are the servants of He Mo Er Tos? I am just about to convert to the Chaos Temple and become a believer of He Mo Er. It's great to meet you. May I ask if you can lead us to the Chaos Temple and offer my piety to He Mo Er?" Nai Ge Li Si talked nonsense.

The cloaked person looked Nai Ge Li Si up and down, obviously not believing its nonsense, and said: "Only with faith in your heart, everywhere is the Chaos Temple."

"You can't say that. Without feeling divine might, it is very difficult for faith to be pious. Can you take us to the Chaos Temple?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

The cloaked person was angry: "I see you are just talking nonsense. You just want to find our temple. Although we have no intention of being an enemy of the Dragon race, it doesn't mean I am afraid of you. Stay quietly, otherwise my children will eat you together."

Nai Ge Li Si curled his lips: "I just want to know the location of your temple. Why is it so difficult? Forget it, we'll just see for ourselves."

Ang stomped his foot, and the Speed-Death Halo activated.

Insects

Insects and beetles from all directions died one by one with their bellies turned up; some bugs began to gnaw on their dead kin like mad, and some, having gnawed halfway, kicked their legs and died themselves, then became food for other bugs.

The cloaked figure watched, feeling bewildered, and screamed in a panic: "Children! Children! What is wrong with you? What kind of madness is this?"

The process of the bugs gnawing on each other and dying suddenly underwent a new change; one beetle among them was unusually vigorous, and its kin nearby were almost all bitten in half by it, one after another. Soon, its size grew by a circle, then the carapace on its body split open, and a larger beetle crawled out from the shell, opening a pair of wings while trembling all over.

Ang and the others had seen this kind of winged beetle once before; the one that slipped through the net last time by Dragonfall Lake was exactly this kind.

They hadn't thought much of it originally—wasn't it just a beetle with an extra pair of wings? Ang had crushed it on the spot.

But seeing this beetle, the cloaked figure, who had just been at a loss, suddenly rushed up regardless of everything: "Wing Emperor! Wing Emperor! Heavens, the Wing Emperor has been born."

Nai Ge Li Si was a step faster than him, flying over and scooping up the Wing Emperor with its short little hands.

This winged beetle, which was a circle larger, was about the size of a small fist and looked neckless. After being grabbed by Nai Ge Li Si, it stretched out its neck and bit Nai Ge Li Si's claw in return.

Crack! The scales on Nai Ge Li Si's claw were bitten and cracked!

Nai Ge Li Si was so shocked that its eyeballs popped out: "Cracked? Bitten and cracked? And mine are dragon scales!"

It had dared to grab it easily because it relied on its thick skin and scales, which those small bugs couldn't bite through. It hadn't expected this Wing Emperor bug to have such a good bite, actually cracking its scales—and these were dragon scales!

The fleeing humans stared blankly at this scene; they didn't understand it anyway, only feeling hungry. Now they understood what Nai Ge Li Si meant by "eat when you're hungry," and they grabbed sugar beets and stuffed them into their mouths desperately.

All the bugs had turned over and died, leaving only the one in Nai Ge Li Si's hand. Since it had already bitten through the scales, Nai Ge Li Si simply stuck its claw toes into its mouth, blocking its mouthparts.

Although the Wing Emperor had a good bite, it clearly couldn't bite through the dragon's claw toes. It desperately gnawed 'click-clack' there, but only managed to chew off some debris. As the halo moved, the Wing Emperor, unable to feed, was soon on the verge of death.

Ang dug away the Speed-Death Halo and happily collected the bug corpses, controlling the wind element to blow them precisely into a pile, then gathered the fire element to burn them into ashes, ignoring the cloaked figure throughout the entire process.

The cloaked figure already understood he had run into a tough opponent, and what terrified him even more was that he had no idea how his 'children' had died.

After Ang collected the bug ashes, Nai Ge Li Si flew over and asked the cloaked figure curiously: "What does Wing Emperor mean?"

"An... an evolved Earth Emperor Bug," the cloaked figure replied with a trembling voice.

"What are its characteristics?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"It can fly, has a long life, a good bite, and is very prolific," the cloaked figure replied obediently.

"Indeed, a very long life," Nai Ge Li Si nodded. Under the Speed-Death Halo, those ordinary bugs turned over and died instantly, but this Wing Emperor was still alive; although it was on the verge of death, it was likely due to hunger.

"How long can it live?" After some questioning, Nai Ge Li Si finally obtained the detailed data on the Wing Emperor bug. This kind of bug could live for a month, its lifespan was ten times that of an ordinary beetle, its reproductive ability was ten times that of an ordinary beetle, and its movement speed and distance were dozens or even hundreds of times greater.

That is to say, under the same food conditions, before the Wing Emperor bug's life ended, it could reproduce more than a hundred times the offspring of an ordinary beetle. If they were allowed to run rampant, the harm caused would be far more terrifying than ordinary beetles and insects.

A hundredfold scale of insect plague made Nai Ge Li Si shudder just thinking about it. However, the good news was that the evolution mechanism of this Wing Emperor bug was still unclear, and the cloaked figure couldn't figure out how it evolved for the time being, which was why he was so excited when one suddenly appeared.

The only thing that could be confirmed was that gnawing on the withered branches of the World Tree could increase the probability of an ordinary beetle evolving into a Wing Emperor bug.

"World Tree withered branches? You wouldn't have registered a dimensional passage and received the diseased World Tree branches from the elves, would you?" Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what we got from the elves," the cloaked figure replied.

"... I hope this big giveaway by the elves doesn't end up creating something uncontrollable," Nai Ge Li Si muttered.

Seeing this, the cloaked figure hurriedly said: "My lord, may I go now?"

"Go? When did I say I would let you go?" Nai Ge Li Si asked in surprise.

The cloaked figure's tone sounded like he was about to cry: "Bu... but I've been so cooperative, answering whatever you asked. Please, let me go."

Nai Ge Li Si sighed and said: "Even if I let you go, what's the use? I'm not holding you back anyway. You may go."

"Thank you, thank you, my lord." The cloaked figure was overjoyed, thanking him repeatedly, and turned to run.

But as soon as he turned his head, he saw Luo Ge holding the Shadow Blade. The elusive Black Knight didn't know when he had circled behind him; if it weren't for Nai Ge Li Si needing to ask questions, he would have been dead long ago.

The cloaked figure's body stiffened, and he saw Luo Ge swing his blade, cleaving off his entire head.

The cloaked figure's headless body knocked Luo Ge aside and struggled to run forward, but Luo Ge swung his backhand.

Extracting the soul of the cloaked lich, Luo Ge looked at Nai Ge Li Si, then at Ang, who was picking up bug ashes.

Nai Ge Li Si said helplessly: "You go ahead and search it."

Luo Ge became bashful and said embarrassedly: "I... I don't know how to perform soul-searching."

"What? You don't know? You're the Black Knight Emperor!" Nai Ge Li Si was so shocked its eyeballs were about to fall out.

"Sigh, you know my personality. There are too many sad emotions in other people's memories, which easily affect me, so I had Pi Ye Luo help me erase that technique," Luo Ge explained.

Forget it then; one couldn't let the Black Knight Emperor become depressed just for the sake of searching memories. In the end, it was still up to Ang.

The cloaked figure Ang had searched in the village earlier didn't have the location of the Chaos Temple in his memory, and this cloaked figure didn't have it either, but his memory did contain the method for how to reach the temple.

"Follow the bugs, crawling traces, enter the gray rock cave, straight to the temple gate," Ang summarized the memory he had searched from the cloaked figure's soul.

The group followed the bugs' traces into the gray rock cave. The Dark Face City was located in a red stratum, and gray rock caves were rare; this was a very obvious feature. Just follow the features forward, and there was no fear of getting lost; at worst, they could just return the way they came.

Nai Ge Li Si decided to go and see first; once there was a risk of getting lost, they would immediately return the way they came.

"We should get some teleportation scrolls, the ultimate artifact for searching underground caves or mazes. Even if we really get lost, we can just tear a scroll and go home. Ang could copy them, but unfortunately, there are no blank scrolls. Let's go take a look first; if it really doesn't work, we'll go copy a pile of scrolls and come back," Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Find bugs," Ang said. His goal had changed from killing He Mo Er Tuo Si to finding bugs.

"Yes, yes, yes, fine, fine, fine. Ku Ba Da, a god is actually not as good as a pile of fertilizer; if He Mo Er Tuo Si knew, he would be furious," Nai Ge Li Si said irritably.

Soon, they followed the gray rock cave and the bug traces to a huge underground space. The entire space was olive-shaped, thick in the middle and thin at both ends, with the distance between the two ends being at least two to three thousand meters.

They entered from the higher end, and looking far away, at the other end, a stone building resembling a gate was vaguely visible.

"Is that the Temple Gate?" The group walked to the stone gate. Nai Ge Li Si looked at the stone gate, which was less than two meters tall, and muttered: "This is too shabby, even Zi Hai wouldn't be able to squeeze in."

Lei Dian came over to gesture and said: "I can't squeeze in either; I think I've gotten fat."

Nai Ge Li Si was just about to make a snide remark when it suddenly felt a violent spatial fluctuation behind them.

Looking back, more than ten meters away from them, a strong light suddenly flashed. A female mage carrying a thick staff appeared with a scream, immediately throwing away her staff and desperately tearing at her mage robe.

Tearing and slapping as she went, she soon stripped herself bare, screaming desperately: "Ah ah ah! Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!"

Nai Ge Li Si looked left, then right, and finally pounced on Lei Dian, covering its eyes.