The battle had never ceased after it began, because as long as Spiritual Power fluctuated here, the Insect Race would be drawn over. It was only a matter of how many came.
Unless they could kill every bug in the Insect Nest in one go.
But that was clearly unrealistic.
Amid the fierce battle, Lu Ye charged into the Insect Nest under He Xiyin's cover. After hastily sweeping his gaze around, he was forced back by the overwhelming swarm of bugs.
It was an enormous underground space, conservatively estimated to be even larger than the square before the Camp's Heaven's Mystery Hall. The surroundings were too dark, and Lu Ye had not been able to see much clearly.
Everywhere his eyes reached was covered by strange flesh walls. Dense, bulging flesh sacs rose from those walls, and Insect Race continuously burst out of them.
This was the Insect Nest!
The entire Insect Nest felt like the stomach of some living creature, nurturing an immense vitality within. That vitality was the root of the Insect Race's rapid reproduction.
According to Fourth Senior Brother, the Insect Race was a very peculiar existence. After hatching, they devoured anything that possessed vitality or energy. A small portion of that vitality and energy made the bugs themselves stronger, while another portion was fed back to the Insect Nest. The Insect Nest then used that returned vitality and energy to nurture more, stronger individuals.
There was an extremely close connection between the Insect Nest and the Insect Race, each supporting the other. Someone had once calculated that even a single Insect Nest like this, if left alone, could destroy the entire Spirit Stream Battlefield within ten years. By then, the Insect Race would become the masters of this place.
No one dared imagine just how powerful