Within the Black Death Abyss lay a pitch-black lake, vast enough to hold countless star domains.
The lake was filled with black liquid, thick as ink.
This was the ambush site Chu Han and the Insect Queen had agreed upon.
Chu Han arrived and waited quietly for the Insect Race to walk straight into the trap.
Moments later, the void above the Black Death Abyss shook violently. Layer upon layer of spatial barriers shattered, and countless black fissures spanning hundreds of millions of miles split the sky.
The Insect Race army had arrived as expected.
The Insect Queen stood in the air beside the last remaining Insect Queen. Behind them came the entire fighting force of the Insect Race's dimensional space, their nests emptied for battle.
A full hundred towering Mother Nests floated in the sky. Endless swarms spread out beneath them, dense as a sea of stars.
For hundreds of millions of light-years around Chu Han, the swarms filled every inch of space. Killing intent hung heavy, the air was deathly still, and the Insect Race's cold pressure enveloped the entire world.
The remaining Insect Queen's gaze sharpened. She swept her divine sense across the area and found only one isolated aura of the Human Race: Chu Han's.
Delight flashed across her face. Her killing intent surged as she shouted, "Chu Han of the Human Race, today you die!"
Faced with an army that blotted out the sky, Chu Han showed no fear.
Instead, a mocking curve touched his lips. "Just as I'd expect of an Insect Queen. Simple-minded and easy to fool."
Those few words struck the Insect Queen like a thunderclap.
Her entire body stiffened, and her mind reeled.
The Insect Queen and her forces had previously been defeated after falling into a Human Race trap.
Chu