The Insect Clan are a terrifying race; they come in many varieties, each with its own strengths.
The Sala Insect Race excel at two things: parasitism and reproduction.
In the universe, once any plane is occupied by the Sala Insect Race, that plane will soon become Sala Insect Race fertilizer plant. The Insect Clan will continuously absorb nutrients from the native creatures to cultivate an endless number of offspring.
Before long, the newly bred offspring will drain all the nutrients, and then in order to continue reproducing, they will have no choice but to wage war against other planes and plunder resources.
Therefore, the Insect Clan are notorious in the universe. Any plane that discovers their existence will try to exterminate them, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more offspring the Insect Clan will reproduce, and the more difficult they will be to deal with.
This time, the Insect Clan Sage has seized a high-quality Spirit Stone vein.
The middle-aged man who was parasitized was clearly Human Clan, so the Insect Clan Sage could draw energy from the Spirit Stone through this Human Clan body and then convert the Spiritual Power into the nutrients he needed to reproduce.
"Luckily, it was discovered early. If all of his insect eggs had hatched and infiltrated human society, it would have been a real problem."
Chen Mu noticed that hundreds of insect eggs had appeared in the Spirit Stone vein, but only a few had hatched. As long as they were eliminated now, they should not cause too much harm.
"I'll make the first move this time."
" Little White, you stay outside and keep watch. Don't let this Insect Clan escape."
Chen Mu gave Little White a few instructions, then took out a powerful longsword from his storage ring and slowly approached the Spirit Stone mine.
The Insect Clan Sage was very vigilant. Although Chen Mu was well concealed, he was still alerted when Chen Mu stepped into the mine.
"Trespassers, kill!"
This Insect Clan Sage is stronger than any Sage Little White has encountered before. He is already at the Peak Saint Level Early Stage, and he seems to have a strange power boosting him. His true combat strength is no weaker than that of the Mid Saint Level.
Unfortunately, even without the Law Cloak, Chen Mu's current combat strength is comparable to the Peak Mid Saint Level.
Furthermore, with the Eight Trigrams Dunjia Array he formed using Heavenly Stems War Soldiers, even a true Mid Saint Level would be unable to escape, let alone an opponent who was only comparable to Mid Saint Level.
After a fierce battle of dozens of moves, the Insect Clan Sage was pierced through the heart by Chen Mu's sword and collapsed to the ground.
However, the Insect Clan are incredibly resilient and actually abandoned their Human Clan bodies, secretly burrowing underground in an attempt to escape.
How could all of this be kept from Chen Mu, who possessed the Eye of Runes? Chen Mu immediately used the Earth Escape Talisman to go deep underground and kill the Sala Insect Race Sage on the spot.
Hiss!
When the Insect Clan Sage died, he spat out a liquid that stained Chen Mu's body. This liquid was colorless and odorless, and evaporated in an instant.
However, Chen Mu understood that the Sala Insect Race had marked him. Others could not smell this liquid, but if other Sala Insect Race encountered him, they would know that he had killed a queen insectoid.
"Ugh! This is such a hassle."
Chen Mu never expected that his act of punishing evil would cause him such trouble, and he was quite depressed.
Regardless, I can say that I have done a good deed. As long as this Insect Clan Sage lives, no one knows what the future holds.
Before leaving, Chen Mu casually examined the corpse of the Insect Clan Sage and surprisingly found eight warm, jade-like green gems on its body.
"Good heavens, Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone!"
The Sala Insect Race truly lived up to their reputation as the most greedy race. They could absorb an immense amount of energy in the shortest amount of time. This Insect Clan Sage had been entrenched here for more than two months, and it is estimated that all the Spiritual Power he absorbed had condensed into these eight Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone.
Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone can be said to be the purest solid form of Spiritual Power in theory. Any cultivator with a Spiritual Power system below the God Level can absorb the energy within them without any hindrance, and without any loss or transformation.
It could even be said that, as long as the physical body can withstand it, Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone can replenish all the Spiritual Power of a Saint Level Early Stage cultivator who has exhausted his Spiritual Power in an instant. This effect is stronger than most Saint-level medicines.
Therefore, Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone are extremely precious, a hundred times more precious than World Crystal, and they have always been in a state of being priced but not available. In many cases, even if cultivators want to buy them, they cannot.
"These eight grade Ninth-Grade Spirit Stone at least offer some consolation."
Chen Mu rummaged through the corpse a few more times and discovered that the Insect Clan corpse also had a strong self-healing ability. He simply used Ice Condensation Talisman to freeze the corpse and took it back to Chen Xuejun for research.
After dealing with the mother insect, the next step is to deal with the eggs.
When Chen Mu returned to the mine, he found that dozens of the insect eggs had broken open, clearly indicating that they had sensed the danger and escaped.
However, it was no use. Chen Mu had already sealed off the surrounding area with the Heavenly Stems War Soldiers, and when he released the domain to investigate, he found that all the escaped Insect Clan had been killed by Little White.
With a wave of his hand, Chen Mu crushed all the insect eggs in the cave and also gained a batch of Eighth-Grade Spirit Stone, which was an unexpected bonus.
Five insect eggs escaped, but these were not the mother insects and their reproductive capacity was much lower.
"Inform Hou Sailei later to announce this matter and let the soldiers of the Haotian Empire go and investigate."
Although Chen Mu is kind, there are limits.
This is, after all, the territory of the Haotian Empire. Protecting the people is the responsibility of the Haotian Empire's government, and he has no need to work for the Haotian Empire's government.
This time, Chen Mu waited for a while before the people from the Eight Directions Chamber of Commerce of Commerce arrived.
The reason they arrived was because this Insect Clan Sage was so ruthless that anyone who approached the Spirit Stone mine would be hunted down. So they all hid far away and it took them some time to get here.
The process was the same as before. Chen Mu helped them set up a simple protective array, then handed over the mine to them, jumped onto the space warship, and headed back to Xihe City.
"Brother Chen Mu, you are truly amazing!"
In just one day, they helped us drive away three Sage, haha..."
Back in Xihe City, Hou Sailei couldn't stop smiling. The problem that had been bothering him had been easily solved by Chen Mu, and he could finally get a good night's sleep.
"A few more locations? Why don't you give me the addresses too, and I'll take care of them all tomorrow?"
Despite the time was delayed to train Little White, Chen Mu still managed to resolve the three problems in most of the day. Not wanting to linger here any longer, Chen Mu asked directly.
"That's about it! Right now, there are only two places where I really need your help."
After all, Sage aren't as common as cabbages; there aren't that many Sage to target our Eight Directions Chamber of Commerce.
Hou Sailei raised his glass to Chen Mu and said with a smile.