Across the vast expanse of Cloud Province, beneath the firmament, Insect Soldiers swept through the air like a black cloud. Amid the countless Flying Ya were Giant Demon Insects, each with a massive body like a hill.
These insects possessed enormous internal Space Pouch compartments, serving as Storage Bags fashioned from flesh and blood. Every hundred miles, they took turns landing to release large numbers of Worker Bee Puppets and Hunting Insects, then withered and dissolved.
As their enormous bodies rapidly rotted, insect blood flowed freely, soaking the earth and eating away at rock, turning into humus mixed with soil and vegetation.
Wherever the Insect Swarm reached, spores scattered and Mycelial Carpets sprang up, reproducing and spreading at an astonishing pace. More peculiar creations, somewhere between plants and fleshy organs, then rose from the ground, as though one nodule after another had grown upon the earth, their appearance utterly bizarre.
Underground, beyond the reach of ordinary human eyes, countless ribbonlike roots bored deeper, reaching as far as possible toward the channels through which the earth's spiritual essence might travel-the groundwater system-and silently completed the deployment of a biological Spirit-Gathering Formation.
Afterward, countless microorganisms and mineral elements passed in and out through exchanges, completing a series of complex reactions. This amounted to meticulous refinement at the molecular level, surpassing even the finest Puppet Master Craftsmen.
These ribbonlike roots contained large quantities of special digestive fluids capable of dissolving most minerals without damaging their molecular structures, allowing them to be used for separation and refinement.
"This Spirit Plant-like Insect Race Mycelial Carpet really is well suited to mining. If planted in genuine Spirit Fields, it could obtain even more spiritual essence."
In the Main Nest Hall, Li Chen surveyed an overview of the forces on all fronts. Yet he paid little attention