Above the stars, a creature with a human head and an insect's tail watched Ye Lin with extreme vigilance.
Golden insects stood around her, surrounding the Insect Queen and staring fixedly at Ye Lin. The slightest unusual movement from him, and they would strike at once.
"Submit to me, and I will spare your life."
As Ye Lin spoke, dense Sword Qi emerged across the heavens, every strand aimed at the insect race below.
If Ye Lin wished it, a single thought would be enough to slaughter every one of these insects.
Such was his strength now.
"Impossible. My insect race will never submit to any race."
The Insect Queen shook her head repeatedly, as though there was not the slightest room for negotiation.
"Then what a pity. The Insect Queen gives birth to insects. By my guess, there must be more than one Insect Queen, right?"
"Then keep clinging to your principles. Once I kill you, I'll seek out the other Insect Queens. I believe one of them will submit to me eventually."
Having said that, Ye Lin lightly flicked a finger.
In an instant, a terrifying sword cry rang through heaven and earth, and streams of Sword Qi fell like raindrops.
"No..."
At the sight, the Insect Queen let out a shrill scream.
At once, the Sword Qi halted in midair again.
"I... I submit. I submit."
Looking at Ye Lin before her, the Insect Queen spoke with lingering fear.
She had originally thought she could fight the man before her, but at the very moment the Sword Qi was about to fall, she realized just how naïve that thought had been.
Her thinking had been far too naïve.
Before this Sword Qi, she had no ability to resist whatsoever.
Once the Sword Qi descended, it would be