Your Majesty, Please Eat the Corpse

This new Insect Race Empress appears to be slightly smaller than the one controlled by Tang Ruowei, and has some additional features, but it doesn't seem to have undergone a transformative evolution.

It came to the Empress controlled by Tang Ruowei. The two insects flew in the Void, standing opposite each other. Then, the insect vibrated the energy transmission organ behind its wings, emitting a strange Energy Wave.

The fluctuation was extremely subtle, and ordinary people could not perceive it at all. However, the clone controlled by Tang Ruowei received the fluctuation very clearly. Moreover, the fluctuation also conveyed an emotion that made her clone instinctively feel disgusted.

Moreover, after this fluctuation spread, the surrounding Insect Swarm also became restless.

"Uh, let me see."

Tang Ruowei's true form lowered her head and pulled out a thick book from her spatial storage. After flipping through it for a moment, she said, "This is a pre-battle provocation. How should I respond... I've got it."

The Insect Race's thinking is very weak, so even though Tang Ruowei used Thought Possession to seize the Insect Race Empress, who had the most powerful thinking ability among the Insect Race, she did not directly obtain any information about the Insect Race's "language" from her.

However, the way these insects communicate is incredibly complex to outsiders; even a slight fluctuation in the height of a vibration can convey two completely different meanings.

Even if Tang Ruowei were given a book containing most of the Insect Race's common terms, she wouldn't be confident that she could learn it in a short time and manipulate the Empress to express it perfectly. However, the Machine God had also taken this into account. The energy frequency transmitter it created using Machine Puppet technology already contained all the Insect Race languages known in the Immortal Realm.

Following the instructions in the manual, Tang Ruowei controlled the Empress's body, extending a tentacle to feel the launch device on her back, locate the button, and then press it accurately.

The energy transmitter changed its frequency and then emitted a precise Energy Wave in response to the newly born Empress on the other side.

The Empress paused for a moment, seemingly doubtful, at the clumsy response, but the other insects, sensing the Energy Wave, were already in a frenzy.

The Empress's Duel is a rule etched into the genetic code of the entire Insect Race swarm, which even the Empress cannot violate. Empress challenged by another Empress must bravely respond to the challenge, or the Insect Swarm will swarm and devour her, allowing the Empress who challenged her to ascend to the throne.

The Empress had no choice but to respond to Tang Ruowei's provocation immediately. Then, the surrounding insects swarmed in, encircling the nearby Void and constructing a "duel arena" with their bodies.

The two Empress began to face each other and slowly Mobile. The Empress opposite was completely focused, her muscles tense. Tang Ruowei could feel the energy within her body constantly rising. The Runes on her body lit up, and her organs were constantly absorbing the chaotic energy from the surrounding Void.

Seeing how nervous it was, Tang Ruowei also manipulated her Empress Clone to pretend to be nervous as well, and the two faced off and circled each other.

After a brief standoff, the newly born Empress on the other side could no longer contain herself and launched an attack on Tang Ruowei.

Without a sound, the Empress spread her Wings, and countless cavities emerged from beneath them, glowing with energy. Rows of bone spikes, surrounded by seven-colored energy, shot towards Tang Ruowei.

Sensing the power of the bone spur, Tang Ruowei thought for a moment, then lowered her body and used the metal armor covering her back to defend against the attack.

A series of clanging sounds rang out as the Runes on the armor absorbed energy from the Empress's body, forming an indestructible defense that directly blocked the newborn Empress's bone spike attack. Then, with a thought from Tang Ruowei, the turrets mounted on the Empress's metal armor turned their muzzles around and aimed at the Empress on the other side.

Boom--

A series of continuous and intense artillery fire rang out, and countless shells formed a rain of bullets, covering the Empress on the opposite side within the range of fire. The turret attachments installed on the Machine God were actually the best individual-level weapons that the Machine Puppet could currently make, and each shell was more powerful than the bone spikes that the newly born Empress had just fired.

More importantly, the turret uses a miniature artificial turret pre-installed inside as its energy source. Therefore, Tang Ruowei does not need to supply energy to these shells, and they can fire continuously until their energy is exhausted.

So Tang Ruowei simply aimed at the Empress's position and continued to output high firepower for nearly ten minutes, until the miniature Nascent Soul energy inside the turret was exhausted and entered overload mode.

Her rough treatment of the Nascent Soul made Bai Qiuran feel a little sorry for him. In the Spatial Fold where the two were hiding, Bai Qiuran couldn't help but tap her disciple's head.

"Give them a chance! If you keep using your Nascent Soul like that, it won't last long. Don't waste it!"

"I'm doing this for insurance purposes, aren't I?"

Tang Ruowei muttered under her breath, "Look at how stingy you are. Someone this stingy will never be able to cultivate to the Nascent Soul..."

Bai Qiuran glared at her, which startled the girl, causing her to shrink back and cover her face with her hands.

"Alright, hurry up and finish cleaning up here."

Bai Qiuran said irritably, "Don't forget we have another plan."

"Okay, okay."

Tang Ruowei waved her hand impatiently, then manipulated her Insect Race Empress Clone to carefully approach.

On the Empress's armor, the muzzles of the turrets were still emitting blue smoke. Tang Ruowei manipulated it to raise its two forelimbs, and with a hum, a pair of incredibly sharp, buzzing energy blades sprang out from the forelimbs.

It swung its sword, cutting through the smoke and dust. As the smoke dissipated, lying on the ground was the corpse of Insect Race Empress, almost unrecognizable. Under the intense heat of the rain of bullets, even the blue blood inside the Empress's body had been evaporated.

With victory secured, the surrounding insects crawled over and prostrated themselves before Tang Ruowei. The Imperial Guard and Special Command Individual also sent her Energy Wave of submission.

Then, they immediately sent another Energy Wave.

According to the insects' usual practice, the loser's fate is to be devoured by the winner, and the genetic chain becomes the winner's ladder to a higher level. On the insects' battlefield, there are never corpses, which cause serious waste of resources.

Therefore, these Energy Wave sent from the insects, if translated slightly, have the same meaning.

"Your Majesty, please gnaw on the corpse."