Battle Against the Time-Space Bugs
Hua Qiang dodged to the side, and then saw clearly that it was an insect the size of a calf.
This insect has a ghostly face, eight legs, a gray abdomen with ring-shaped markings, and its entire body is covered in hard armor. It has two pairs of wings on its back, as thin as cicada wings, but with a wingspan of several meters.
It turned out to be a Level 1 flying Void Beast — Time-Space Bug!
Damn it, how could something like this appear?
Time-Space Bug are social animals; if one appears here, a massive swarm of millions will attack in the next moment.
Moreover, as long as the Time-Space Bug Insectoid is not killed, she can continuously breed an army of insects.
Ordinary cultivators who encounter insects like this can only consider themselves unlucky and try to avoid them; confronting them head-on would be exhausting.
However, Hua Qiang had no choice; he could not hide, much less escape.
This area is where he is searching for the origin of this world, and this group of Time-Space Bug is clearly the guardian beast of that world's origin.
To find the source of this world, we must kill all these insects.
Hua Qiang conjured the Dao Sword in his hand, and with a casual wave, a dazzling sword light shot out, cleaving the Time Worm in two.
This has stirred up a hornet's nest.
The moment the first Time-Space Bug was killed, the entire void trembled violently.
The piercing chirping of insects sounded like ten thousand steel saws simultaneously, tearing at the eardrums.
Countless compound eyes glowing with a ghostly blue light emerged from the void, and a dense swarm of Time-Space Bug surged forth like a black tide, overwhelming everything in its path.
Hua Qiang's expression was solemn, Dao Sword shone brightly.
He leaped into the air, his figure becoming a blur, and simultaneously used Time Acceleration, his movements becoming extremely fast, like a ghost weaving through the swarm of insects.
The sword flashed, and wherever it passed, the Time-Space Bug were cut in two, their green blood raining down.
However, the swarms of insects were simply too numerous, advancing wave after wave, seemingly endless.
A level-3 Time-Space Bug suddenly swooped down from the sky, its huge pincers carrying a fierce gust of wind, and smashed down on Hua Qiang's head.
Hua Qiang's eyes narrowed, and he instantly used Time Deceleration.
The fierce attack suddenly slowed down. He dodged it with a swift movement, and at the same time, he swung the Dao Sword in his hand, unleashing a dazzling sword arc that directly slashed at the wings of the Level 3 Time-Space Bug.
"Puff!"
With a loud bang, one of the wings of the Level 1 Time-Space Bug was severed. It let out a shrill scream and crashed heavily to the ground.
But before Hua Qiang could even catch his breath, several more Level 3 Time-Space Bug surrounded him from all directions, spewing out eerie purple poisonous mist from their mouths, corroding black holes in the space wherever they passed.
Hua Qiang dared not be careless, and his hand seals changed rapidly, forming a huge Time Prison in front of him.
The poisonous mist touched the Time Prison and was immediately imprisoned within it, slowly dissipating.
At the same time, he seized the opportunity, raised the Dao Sword high, and frantically circulated his Spiritual Power: "Myriad Swords Returning to Origin!"
Countless sword Sword Qi shot out from the Dao Sword, like a sky full of meteors, sweeping towards the swarm of insects.
Wherever the Sword Qi struck, the Time-Space Bug were torn to pieces, creating a brief gap in the swarm.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Hua Qiang charged towards the weakest point in the insect swarm.
But soon, more Time-Space Bug filled the gap.
A dozen or so Level 1 Time-Space Bug flapped their wings, which were several meters long, releasing spatial blades that sliced through everything around them.
Hua Qiang frowned and once again used Time Acceleration, his figure flashing constantly as he skillfully dodged the attacks of the spatial blade.
He formed hand seals and shouted, "Time Storm!"
In an instant, a terrifying Power of Time erupted from the swarm of insects, forming a massive storm vortex.
Wherever the vortex passed, spacetime distorted, and the Time-Space Bug were caught in it and instantly torn to pieces.
However, this powerful attack also consumed a lot of Hua Qiang's Spiritual Power. His face turned slightly pale, and his breathing became somewhat disordered.
But the swarm's offensive did not weaken; on the contrary, it became even more frenzied.
Hua Qiang gritted his teeth, plunged the Dao Sword into the ground, and quickly formed hand seals in front of his chest. "Time Rewind!"
A strange light shot out from his hand, enveloping a swarm of insects.
The movements of those Time-Space Bug suddenly became sluggish, and some of them even began to move backward.
Seizing this rare opportunity, Hua Qiang unleashed his most powerful attack, unleashing terrifying energy waves that exploded within the swarm of insects, creating a bloody storm...
The green blood dripping from Hua Qiang's sword had not yet dried when the swarm's attack suddenly slowed down briefly.
The remains of the Time-Space Bug, shredded by the Time Storm, fell like rain, piling up into small hills on the scorched ground.
Hua Qiang actually tore open a blank space of a hundred feet in diameter amidst the boiling insect swarm.
His eyes flashed with a cold light, Dao Sword, carrying a sharp Sword Qi, pierced straight into the core of the insect swarm like a golden lightning bolt.
Each swing of the sword brought forth a shower of blood, and the hard carapace of the Time-Space Bug was easily torn apart like paper by the fierce sword strike.
Hua Qiang's figure transformed into a phantom, weaving through the swarm of insects, leaving behind mountains of insect corpses wherever he went.
The air was filled with a nauseating stench, mixed with dense Spiritual Power fluctuations, making it hard to breathe.
When the compound eye of the last Level 4 Time-Space Bug lost its luster, Hua Qiang suddenly soared into the air.
His body was filled with surging Spiritual Qi, and his Spiritual Sense spread outwards like a spider web.
The ravaged battlefield was completely exposed under the Spiritual Sense, and a strange tremor suddenly came from the ground in the distance, like the earth breathing.
Hua Qiang's gaze sharpened as he saw the ground thousands of meters away bulging like a boiling pot, with countless spiderweb-like cracks from which eerie blue fluorescent holes were continuously pouring out of the Time-Space Bug.
These newly hatched insects, whose carapaces were not yet fully hardened, already revealed sharp fangs and took flight in swarms.
Rushing toward Hua Qiang.
Hua Qiang's pupils contracted slightly as he finally found the source of the swarm— the Time-Space Bug Mother must be hidden beneath that undulating ground!
The Dao Sword hummed incessantly, its blade rippled with crimson patterns, and Hua Qiang's aura surged as he sped toward the terrifying insect nest.
At this moment, with each step he took closer, the ground beneath his feet trembled more violently, as if the entire world was trembling for the impending battle to the death.
Roar--
A deafening roar came from underground.
The massive body of the Time-Space Bug Mother rose abruptly from the ground, its dark purple carapace resembling a twisted mountain range, with countless streams of slime gushing out from its folds.
As its massive mouth opened and closed, scarlet saliva dripped onto the ground, corroding deep, bottomless ravines.
With a sharp hiss, the ovipositor on the mother insect's abdomen writhed violently, and tens of thousands of semi-transparent worm eggs poured out like a waterfall.
The moment the insect egg landed, its hard shell shattered, and the Time-Space Bug trembled with its wet wings, its green compound eyes flashing with a bloodthirsty light.
In an instant, the entire land was swallowed up by the surging tide of insects. The dense swarm of insects, like a black tsunami, swept towards Hua Qiang with a stench and a raging wave.