Evil Degree of the Locust Realm

"Your hearing should have reached the second tier by now, right?" Ming Yi asked.

She was clearly unaware that her own persona had already crumbled a little.

Wu Hen didn't expose her, simply nodding as he said, "I suppose so. I've reached the hearing level of a Head-Severing Demon. Any slight movement within the range of a small town is captured by me instantly."

"What is a Head-Severing Demon?" Ming Yi was full of question marks.

"It's a Head-Severing Demon. It's a type of desolate dust creature I encountered when I first entered the Desolate Dust. It has exceptionally powerful hearing and instantly hunts down anything that makes a sound," Wu Hen explained.

"Oh, I see. If that's the case, you could try using Auditory Domain. You might discover some unexpected abilities!" Ming Yi nodded.

"I'll give it a try." Wu Hen closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on his sense of hearing.

When a person closes their eyes, their surroundings usually fall into chaos. However, within this chaos, Wu Hen could perceive sound ripples emerging from different locations, rippling out like waves on a calm lake...

Behind him was the sound of a Wood Mayfly flapping its wings; harmless.

At the top of the tree canopy was a powerful breathing sound; dangerous.

On the distant desolate dust plains, there was a sound wave like a tsunami; terrifying.

A hundred meters away, a small Skylark flew past, chirping happily.

This chirp turned into a very clear sound ripple, traveling all the way to Wu Hen.

For some reason, a thought crossed Wu Hen's mind—a desire to use his consciousness to seize the source of this sound ripple!

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, Wu Hen's figure vanished from where he stood!

Ming Yi, standing to the side, only felt a blur before her eyes. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Wu Hen appearing a hundred meters away—right where the Skylark had been!

One hand firmly gripped the Skylark's wing...

Wu Hen himself could hardly believe it.

He glanced back at Ming Yi's position, then looked at the Skylark in his hand.

If this had been a living person, and he had a sharp blade in his hand, he could have likely decapitated them in an instant!

"Sound-Hunting Flash? You've mastered the signature skill of the Head-Severing Demon!" Ming Yi's sexy lips parted, forming a perfect circle like a small goose egg.

Wu Hen walked back and casually released the small Skylark.

"Yeah, it's amazing. I never expected spiritual perception to evolve into a signature skill..." Wu Hen was also pleasantly surprised.

With this ability, if anyone dared to badmouth him in the future, he could just use an instant shadow decapitation strike!!

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."

The sound, like a tsunami, grew increasingly distinct from the desolate dust in the distance.

Wu Hen furrowed his brows.

He raised his head to look at the tree trunk, noticing it was trembling slightly.

"Flutter, flutter..."

Suddenly, countless core leaves took flight from the violently shaking branches above, like a swarm of butterflies startled from a dream, fleeing in a panic toward the deeper reaches of the forest...

"Ming Yi, there seems to be something outside the Thin Boundary, something massive!" Wu Hen had heard the commotion a moment ago.

Ming Yi also realized something was wrong and fixed her gaze on the distance.

Her eyes were incredibly clear, as if they could reflect everything on the distant horizon.

As her gaze shifted and her eyelashes trembled, a sense of tension quickly spread across her face.

"Oh no, an Evil Degree expansion has broken through. I have to get to the Thin Boundary!" Ming Yi said.

With that, Ming Yi took a Green Cicada from her pocket.

It was the same mechanical cicada, which she tossed gently into the air. It quickly transformed into a magnificent mechanical eagle.

"Take me with you!"

"Then hold on tight!"

Ming Yi leaped up and grabbed onto the mechanical eagle.

Wu Hen also jumped up. Between wrapping his arms around Ming Yi's waist or grabbing the eagle's other claw, Wu Hen ultimately chose the mechanical claw.

The mechanical eagle flew toward the direction of the Thin Boundary.

One could see the pure land of the Five-Colored Soil shrinking bit by bit. Massive, death-filled primeval sand dunes were moving along the horizon, slowly encroaching upon the Five-Colored Soil and compressing the Thin Boundary!

The Thin Boundary acted like a massive Heaven-Earth Dome Screen, enveloping the Nuwa Divine Terminal and the Five-Colored Soil beneath it. On one hand, it shielded them from the alien aura of the outside world, and on the other, it acted like a canopy, scattering the multicolored radiance of the soil.

But at this moment, this special pure land boundary was being easily shattered, as if a massive void had opened up on the horizon, exposing the boundless darkness and eeriness of the Otherworld Desolate Dust!

Soon, the evil aura surged wantonly into the five-colored pure land. It brushed past those with weak willpower, causing them to stop inexplicably and stare at the shattered region.

They seemed to see something brilliantly alluring within the void, and in a short span of time, they began to rush toward the unknown sand dunes with the fervor of fanatics!

It was as if there were a god deep within the dunes that they desperately needed to worship!

"The Nuwa Divine Terminal is too weak," Ming Yi sighed softly.

Even the citizens who had already stepped into the Pure Land had their convictions bewitched. And this was under the shelter of the Nuwa Divine Terminal! How many of those who fanatically rushed into the sand dunes could possibly survive? After all, this level of Evil Degree was truly a man-eating abyss that left no bones behind!

Wu Hen had not expected that even at the foot of the Nuwa Divine Tree, they would still be unable to resist the invasion of the Otherworld Desolate Dust.

He wanted to know, what exactly was the Evil Degree of this sand dune that had crashed into the human Pure Land?

Arriving near the Thin Boundary, Wu Hen and Ming Yi stood upon the Five-Colored Soil.

Less than three kilometers ahead lay the sand dune, as massive as a ghost ship. As Wu Hen's visual clarity had improved somewhat, he was horrified to discover that his vision had been deceived before!

Because those tiny grains that piled up to form the ghost ship sand dune were not sand at all—they were Otherworld Locusts the size of sand grains!

The sand dune was not a sand dune at all; it was hundreds of millions of locusts piled up like a mountain!!

The Five-Colored Soil was not being covered.

It was being devoured by this continuous mountain of locusts!!

In an instant, Wu Hen felt a chill run down his spine...

He remembered that not long ago, his Vessel had nearly stepped into the Heavenly Sand Earth Desert. At that time, his vision had not been as sharp as it was now, and he had truly believed it to be a vast, wild desert. Little did he know, it was actually a boundless kingdom of locusts!!!

Their Nuwa Divine Terminal was currently traveling through such an Insect World Evil Desert!

"Sacred Fire, quickly light the Sacred Fire!"

"We cannot let the insect world expand any further!"

Not far away, a man wearing a cloak shouted orders in the air.

The so-called Sacred Fire resembled ancient totem piles. Wu Hen saw a group of people gathering Five-Colored Stones on the Five-Colored Soil. They stacked these Five-Colored Stones to form stone towers one after another and ignited a special flame at the top!

The radiance of the flames was a golden-rosy hue, sufficient to shroud a certain area.

When the evil aura passed through this golden glow of the Sacred Fire, it would immediately dissipate.

And that massive locust kingdom that was still crawling would also stop because of these Sacred Fire stone piles...

However, the golden glow of the Sacred Fire had clear boundaries, and both the Five-Colored Stones and the Sacred Fire were very limited. This form of resistance was not very effective when the massive mountain of dust locusts crashed into them.

Helpless, the crowd could only continue to retreat and defend.

The Five-Colored Pure Land was being devoured in large swathes, and some special Otherworld Locusts had already flown onto the Nuwa Divine Tree, where they began to wantonly devour the Core Leaf Butterflies!!

If the Core Leaf Butterflies represented the people of their homeland, then did the sight of these butterflies being devoured in droves mean that a terrifying catastrophe was simultaneously unfolding back home??

In that instant, Wu Hen thought of the great disasters that had claimed countless lives in his homeland in recent years.

And that thunderstorm that had vanished inexplicably a short while ago...

It seemed that right after he had captured Xiao Yi, the thunderstorm disaster in the homeland had completely disappeared!!

Could it be that the thunderstorm disaster in the homeland was caused by Xiao Yi and the Nuwa Divine Terminal being in the same stretch of desolate dust?

"Patrollers, what are you waiting for? Go and see what is causing the evil insects to run rampant!" At this moment, an arrogant command rang out, coming from a high-ranking official with a thick beard and a white cap.

"Going over there now, isn't that just sending us to our deaths?" the one-eyed female Patroller said.

"This is your duty!" the white-capped leader said in a hard tone.

Patrollers and Order Guardians had been gathering on the soil battlefield one after another, but the number of people was actually less than a thousand.

This surprised Wu Hen. Did the vast Nuwa Divine Terminal really only have this many Awakened?

Or was it that a large portion of them were still walking and exploring within the desolate dust?

"Wu Hen, come here."

Ming Yi led Wu Hen toward a position closest to a sand dune, where about six or seven people were standing near the Sacred Fire stone tower at the very front.

Wu Hen saw the man who had been to his house with Ming Yi before; he seemed to be the captain of this squad.

"Welcome to the team." Captain Qin Sheng gave a simple greeting and said nothing more.

"Joining the Patrollers at a time like this—if you delay the application form, you might be able to live a few more days," said a pale, thin man.

"It's fine, let him guard this place, we'll go in," Ming Yi suggested.

Regardless, Wu Hen was not yet an official member. In this terrifying Locust Realm, even a team composed of Awakened would likely face a mortality rate of over sixty or seventy percent.

Wu Hen was actually hesitating as well. This was an existence even more terrifying than the Zai Wu Evil Soil; how to walk out alive was a huge problem.

However, Wu Hen's right hand did not think so.

"Swish!"

Xiao Yi directly made the decision for Wu Hen, raising his hand high into the air.

Faced with Wu Hen inexplicably raising his hands high, the members of Ming Yi's squad could not help but cast looks of surprise and approval.

"Tsk tsk, this young man Ming Yi recruited is not bad; at least he has extraordinary courage!"

"Except for us Patrollers, the other Awakened have all retreated far away. As expected, those willing to join us Patrollers are the real men!"

Wu Hen was also very helpless.

Since his hand was already raised so high, he had to say with high emotional intelligence: "I will go in with the seniors; that is the only way to learn the real stuff."

Xiao Yi, you had better not be scamming me.

There must be some big prey inside that you are willing to manifest for!

For the super protein, let's pull off a big job!!