True Venerable Fishing Elder had never intended to act together with Feng Jun and the others.
It had nothing to do with discrimination; the gap in strength was simply there.
Just like now, when he discovered that the Insect Race had split its forces, leaving around ten million combatants to deal with this fleet, he felt that an opportunity had come.
Multiple battlefields, stalemated engagements, chaotic fighting... he felt that he could make his move.
The others exchanged glances, fully understanding that only a True Venerable dared to fish in troubled waters amid a battle like this. Whether they accepted it or not, they had to admit that if they made a move, it would be nearly impossible not to expose themselves.
Thus, they could only sigh inwardly: a True Venerable truly was a True Venerable.
Dawn True Immortal, however, gathered his courage and asked, "Grandmaster, can you count me in?"
True Venerable Fishing Elder glanced at him and shook his head decisively. "You would be too easily exposed."
As expected of his own grandmaster—there was no mockery, only a simple statement of fact.
Dawn True Immortal immediately fell silent. Mingxin True Immortal naturally did not dare say anything either, and as for the others... there was even less need to mention them.
True Venerable Fishing Elder acted with exceptional cunning. Because his mastery of the Way of Illusion and Reality was superb, a shadow so faint it was practically impossible to detect slipped through the dark regions of space untouched by the bright light, effortlessly harvesting Insect Race members.
His main targets were Golden-Core Insect Race members. As for Nascent-Soul Insect Race members... there were simply too few of them.
A fleet of several thousand ships faced more than ten million Insect Race members. Among them, there were only