A few days after the exchange tournament ended, the Gemstone Queen Ying sent Lu Ran to the Insectoid Hive.
This was a contest involving the interests of three parties.
The Insect Queen had taken a fancy to Lu Ran's bloodline. She wanted to use it to produce an offspring and take her own strength to the next level.
After discovering Lu Ran's absurd strength during the exchange tournament, the Gemstone Queen Ying felt that personally training him with her own power would be rather inconvenient. Besides, she was lazy. Getting the Insect Queen to serve as a sparring partner for free was a pretty good option.
As for Lu Ran, although he knew the Insect Queen had designs on his bloodline, he was actually very interested in her too and wanted to meet this Cosmic Emperor.
After being teleported over and flying some distance through the Insectoid Hive's territory on his own, Lu Ran suddenly found the space-time around him thrown into disarray. He seemed to have been pulled into a new dimension. Knowing that the Insect Queen was responsible, he did not resist.
Soon, Lu Ran stood inside a dark nest. Beneath the dim glow, he saw a staircase leading upward to an enormous bed built from Universe-level materials. On that bed lay an indescribable insect monster, its body incorporating organs from numerous races. Even Lu Ran's scalp tingled at the sight.
Fortunately, the next moment, seemingly to facilitate communication, the insect monster began reshaping herself, slowly transforming into a humanoid insect with a distinctive appearance... She was of moderate height, with a slender yet powerful figure. Her skin had a unique blue-violet hue, as though blending the colors of the night sky and dawn, smooth and lustrous.
On her exquisite human face, the queen's eyes were as deep