Time passed. Several hundred Crimson Blood Sect cultivators steadily pushed inward from all directions, just as they had done when dealing with the Insect Race in Worm Valley.
Lu Ye moved along the edge of the battlefield, occasionally striking to kill the Tier Seven Bugs and prevent possible casualties on his side.
Half a day later, the Insect Race within the Insect Nest had been almost completely cleared out. Although flesh sacs on the fleshy walls around the nest continued to burst, hatching new bugs, those bugs usually bid farewell to this beautiful world before they even had time to inspect their surroundings.
Lu Ye was currently studying a massive flesh sac at the very center of the Insect Nest. It was roughly the height of a person, with vein-like tendrils faintly extending from it in every direction, connecting to every corner of the nest's fleshy walls.
The flesh sac itself was not the important part. What mattered were the three Tier Eight Bugs guarding it.
These three bugs were clearly different from the Tier Eight Bugs Lu Ye had killed before. Their serrated clawed legs were sharper, their black shells thicker, and their bodies were visibly a full size larger than those ordinary Tier Eight Bugs.
They had not reached the level of Tier Nine Bugs, but compared to ordinary Tier Eight Bugs, they were undoubtedly far stronger.
This was the intelligence Li Baxian had revealed in his message. These special bugs were a type of guard.
After hatching, other bugs would leave the Insect Nest under the drive of instinct, exploring outside while gnawing apart every scrap of vitality and energy they encountered.
But these guards would not. From the day they were born, they remained in the nest, standing beside that man-high flesh sac without taking a