Finally Home...

They entered a world above a Dense Forest on a certain planet, but at this moment, the sky above this planet was extremely dark.

The atmosphere in the sky seemed to have been polluted by some substance, displaying a dim yellow hue. Countless red lightning bolts leaped and flashed in the clouds, accompanied by rumbling thunder.

Even more terrifying, in the sky not far away, countless strange flying creatures were wailing and desperately flapping their wings, fleeing to other places. However, behind them, a black cloud was closely following them.

They were a group of giant insects flying in the air, their bodies covered in jet-black carapaces with some strange Runes on them, but they were also somewhat different from normal insects.

These insects have huge, curved horns on their noses, and the wings they flap behind them are not transparent or translucent insect wings, but huge fleshy wings with wing membranes, which look somewhat similar to the wing structure of bats or Dragon Race.

These Flying Insect were enormous, the smallest being over twenty meters long. They didn't look like insects at all, but rather more like some kind of flying Strange Beasts.

At this very moment, this strange cloud of Flying Insect was relentlessly chasing after the fleeing horde of creatures. The sharp horns on their noses gleamed, and bolts of red Thunder were unleashed from those horns, striking the fleeing horde.

In the sky, native creatures of this world were constantly being scorched and fell to the ground.

The situation on the ground was even worse. Not far away, countless Black Giant Insect could be clearly seen spreading across the ground like a carpet. As the tide swept in, countless Dense Forest were destroyed, falling into the water and then being torn apart and devoured by the insects.

As this black Insect Tide swept through, the entire dense Dense Forest vanished at a visible speed, and flying creatures falling from the sky were also devoured, disappearing into the terrifying Insect Tide in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Bai Qiuran immediately activated the stealth mode of the Void Airship and simultaneously turned on the recording devices in various parts of the Void Airship to record these scenes of ecology.

"What a greedy and terrifying creature this is."

Wisdom Immortal lay beside the monitor, watching the Insect Tide on the ground and in the sky, and exclaimed, "It's like a species created specifically for expansion and evolution."

"Is this the Insect Race?"

Looking at the scene, Li Jinyao asked, "Judging from this, it seems that civilization in this world is doomed."

"It's not just a matter of being in dire straits; it's already completely hopeless."

Bai Qiuran pointed at the insects and said, "Look, those insects have symbols on their bodies. Those are Runes System left to them by the Eden Regime to give these border world civilizations, which they can't yet control, the ability to protect themselves. And those flying giant insects, the way they release lightning for energy attacks, is also entirely through the power of Runes... The civilization of this world has probably already been devoured and digested by them."

"I can't wait to observe and study them."

Wisdom Immortal rubbed her hands together and said.

"You'll be in charge of this operation."

Bai Qiuran discussed it briefly with Jiang Lan and Li Jinyao, then said to Wisdom Immortal, "You are a professional researcher, while the three of us... have no experience in studying a particular organism."

"No problem!"

Wisdom Immortal would certainly not refuse such a request, as it was a rare opportunity to directly use Bai Qiuran to help with its research.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's activate our invisibility and fly around this Material World to take a look. Our initial understanding of these insects is still insufficient."

"OK."

Following Wisdom Immortal's instructions, Bai Qiuran activated his invisibility and piloted the Void Airship, cruising through this Material World.

It didn't matter if they didn't fly; once they did, they saw many astonishing things.

They observed that the insects were organized and organized. In addition to the giant insects that were devouring the Dense Forest and the Flying Insect insects that were hunting down flying creatures, there were many other types of insects in this world.

There were Slime, covered in slime and resembling lumps of flesh, moving forward along the land devoured by the giant worms. As they moved forward, they laid out disgusting "carpets" of skin covered in blood vessels on the planet's surface.

Once these "carpets" are laid out, they seem to come alive, expanding rapidly on their own. They extend countless tendrils like blood vessels, digging deep into the earth and drawing nutrients from the soil.

There were also colossal beasts, like Divine Age Strange Beasts from the Age of Gods, several miles long, covered in heavy black armor, with a pair of thick ramming Behemoths at the front. They could split mountains and valleys, and their enormous bodies only needed to accelerate a short distance on the ground before gently ramming down towering mountains.

These Behemoths are now using this method to flatten the mountains that originally existed on this planet, one by one.

There were also enormous Flying Insect, no smaller than these Behemoths, flapping their huge wings as they flew over the valleys of this planet, constantly producing countless sticky clumps of varying sizes from their bellies, which fell into the valleys and filled them up.

Along the rivers of this planet, there are amphibious insects that resemble fish, leaping into the water and frantically preying on the creatures in the river. At the seashore, there are also some similar insects that are larger than these, forming huge groups that leap into the ocean to hunt down the Behemoths that live in the ocean of this planet.

Bai Qiuran piloted the spaceship out of the planet's atmosphere and discovered that outside the atmosphere, there were also some insects even larger than the Behemoths on the ground. They resembled huge, black squid, with tentacles waving behind them, relying on some mysterious power that Bai Qiuran and his companions had never seen before to move towards space outside the planet.

These enormous black "squids" were also covered with countless black Insect Eggs of all sizes, which must have been the insects' "expeditionary Fleet".

The cruise was nearing its end. Throughout this process, Wisdom Immortal continuously operated the various recording devices on the airship, filming the insects from different angles.

He even felt the airship didn't have enough recording devices, so he pulled out a bunch of Recording Stone from who-knows-where, lay on the airship's translucent cabin wall, and muttered something while filming, looking like he was possessed.

"We've almost finished exploring this Material World."

Bai Qiuran parked the Void Airship behind a cloud within the atmosphere of Habitable Planet, disguising it as a cloud of mist. Then he asked, "Wisdom Immortal, what's next?"

"Next... ah!"

Wisdom Immortal tapped her palm.

"We need to find the nests of these creatures. Given their behavior, they most likely have ancestral nests. We should check the City in this world where civilizations once existed; those are the places where the insects' nests are most likely to be."