Today's fourth update: Chapter 2988! 4/4!
This was like the "Insect Kings" Xu Kun had encountered when he ventured deep into insect nests as part of his plan against the Succubus Race. They were the standard answer.
They had emerged through endless, brutal slaughter among their own kind, stepping over the corpses of billions of their kin and ultimately evolving, under the bloody law of "raising gu," into beings with the bloodlines of top-tier insect races.
The rise and fall, survival or extinction, of an insect race branch depended entirely on whether its vast population could produce a powerful "Insect Venerable" capable of ruling that type of insect creature through the process of "raising gu"!
The emergence of a powerful Insect Venerable could unite that type of insect race, forming a force not to be underestimated and earning a place on the stage of competition among the myriad races.
However, once that Insect Venerable fell, the insect-race power it had built would swiftly collapse like a sandcastle, only to be devoured by other insect races or internal factions.
The cycle repeated endlessly, and the chaos never ceased.
For insect races, the word "stability" was a luxury harder to attain than climbing to heaven, and the greatest shackle restraining their development!
Only a very small number of exceptionally fortunate insect races, or those that had mastered special means of survival, could barely establish themselves among the myriad races of Blue Star and gain a moment's respite.
Among them, the one most often discussed by the myriad races—especially other insect races—and even regarded as an "ideal model," was the Silkworm Race, once a Tier-B Race in the Myriad Races Sequence.
Although the Silkworm Race had now fallen out of the Thousand Races Sequence due to Sequence Retraction, as its limited potential