Although the Bug Tide had erupted suddenly and on a massive scale, cultivators from all directions rushed over and quickly stabilized the situation. Still, no one knew how many would suffer disaster this time.
Most of the Insect Race had been drawn by Lu Ye onto this plain, but many had scattered elsewhere. Those scattered insects were bound to strike the villages and cities within a thousand li.
As time passed, fewer and fewer insects remained. Across the entire plain, cultivators could be seen slaughtering the Insect Race, while the deathly silent earth was piled high with their mangled corpses.
More cultivators who had received the news continued to stream over.
Lu Ye's team was well-balanced, with members from every faction. They killed the Insect Race with considerable efficiency, and the fact that slaying these insects earned Battle Merit was an unexpected delight.
As the battle here raged at its fiercest, Lu Ye suddenly felt a warning flare in his heart. Looking up, he saw a figure plunging from the sky, hurtling straight toward them.
A vast and imposing might spread through the air, and enormous pressure descended from above. The newcomer was unmistakably in the Divine Sea Realm!
Lu Ye had nearly thought the person was about to attack them. Fortunately, when that unfamiliar Divine Sea Realm cultivator was only thirty zhang away, he abruptly veered aside, landed nearby, and threw a punch that blasted apart the head of an Insect Race creature encased in bone armor and shaped like a hyena.
This insect was not weak, comparable to a True Lake Realm cultivator. The bone plating over its body also gave it tremendous defensive power, making it troublesome to kill.
Lu Ye and the others had killed quite a few insects of this type before, so they naturally