Chapter 37: The Insect Race’s Hive

Inside the Dimensional Sphere.
Qu Yi, Jin Zun, Mu Zun, Shui Zun, Huo Zun, and Tu Zun stood together by a lake, gazing at the calm waters as they laughed and chatted.
“That Dragon Emperor—now I’m sure he wants to frame me in the Ruin Realm Divine World. I think not only him but also the leaders of the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and Monster Realm must now know that I possess several divine weapons, and they’ll surely try to take action against me,” Qu Yi said with a faint smile.
After meeting the Dragon Emperor on Wind Roar Island, Qu Yi returned to Tianjiu Star in the Mulin Star Region and brought the Five Lords into the Dimensional Sphere.
The Five Lords showed no signs of concern, smiling at Qu Yi.
Now, the rulers of the three realms all knew that Qu Yi had the transcendent artifact Boundless Star Constellation, as well as the extremely powerful defensive artifact Star Luo Ding. Under normal circumstances, none of them could deal with Qu Yi.
“Those leaders are now pinning their hopes on the Ruin Realm Divine World. They want to use its dangerous environment to frame me. Unfortunately, Emperor Hao is now under my control, and I’m aware of the situation there. If they try to frame me, they’ll just have to wait to be framed in return,” Qu Yi said with another smile.
The Five Lords laughed together.
Qu Yi glanced at them and, with a single thought, ten supreme Heavenly Soul Immortal-grade artifacts rushed through the air, two falling into each of their hands.
They were the ten artifacts Qu Yi had obtained from Emperor Hao’s treasure.
“These are supreme Heavenly Soul Immortal-grade artifacts once crafted by Emperor Hao. There are two in each set, perfectly suited for you five. With two artifacts each, let’s go together and deal with the monster races on the Tian Gang planets of the Mulin Alliance,” Qu Yi said calmly.
With these top-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal-grade artifacts, and the Five Lords’ current cultivation level of two-star Heavenly Soul Immortals, they could exert power equivalent to that of six-star Heavenly Soul Immortals. This made it easy to deal with the monster races on those planets.
After all, the highest-ranking leaders of those monster races were only at six-star Heavenly Soul Monster cultivation. With Qu Yi and the others attacking together, it would be easy to defeat anyone.
Huo Zun smiled faintly upon hearing this. “It’s a pity, I must go to Fire Glow Star and can’t join you in battle.”
A year had passed, and it was time for Huo Zun to go to Fire Glow Star to meet Luo Xinyun, the former leader of theHanhán Sect.
Qu Yi shrugged and said, “There will be other opportunities. For now, endure it and go reconcile with Huang Xu.”
Huo Zun looked displeased but said nothing.

There were four of them—Jin Zun, Mu Zun, Shui Zun, and Tu Zun—who winked at Huo Zun while laughing nonstop.
Qu Yi snorted, interrupting their teasing, and said with a smile, “Alright, now we’ll divide into three groups. Jin Zun, you’re in charge of the Mulin Star Region; Mu Zun, you’re in charge of the Shuiyang Star Region; Shui Zun and Tu Zun are in charge of the Tuba Star Region. Inside the Cunjie Ball, I still control a hundred Winged Ice Snakes. I’ll send them to the other thirty-five Tiangang Stars in these three star regions. Then, using the Boundless Stars, I’ll head to each of those Tiangang Stars one by one—after that, it’ll be time for our attack.”
Back then, after obtaining one million Winged Ice Snakes, Qu Yi lost almost all of them during the battle for the Jietian Fruit, but he still kept back over a hundred with particularly good innate abilities. Now, he planned to use these Winged Ice Snakes to carry out the task of traveling.
With the Boundless Stars, Qu Yi had the most timely support, allowing him to attack any beast race with full force at any time.
After all, aside from the five Zuns, Qu Yi also had Lei Ling, Lei Kong, Shui Kong, and Cang Yang, along with the supreme leaders of ninety-nine beast races. With all these forces combined, no beast race in the Fiery Realm could resist.
“Haha, this is going to be interesting,” said Jin Zun joyfully.
“Not bad. We’ll wipe out all the Tiangang Star beast races in these three star regions at once,” said Mu Zun with a faint smile.
The six of them burst into laughter.
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After discussing this, Qu Yi sent Huo Zun back to Duoxia Star in the Immortal Realm, telling him to go to Huoxia Star by himself. Then, Qu Yi placed Jin Zun on Tianjiu Star in the Mulin Star Region, Mu Zun on Tiansu Star in the Shuiyang Star Region, and Shui Zun and Tu Zun on Tianxian Star in the Tuba Star Region. As for Qu Yi himself, he stayed inside the Cunjie Ball.
As for those over a hundred Winged Ice Snakes, they had long transformed into human form and were constantly traveling across the three star regions, heading toward one of the Tiangang Stars.
At that moment, inside the Cunjie Ball, Qu Yi, lying on a soft chair, kept using his immortal consciousness to examine his dantian space.
The invisible Chaos Planet in the center seemed to have condensed more, though its size remained unchanged. The five planets orbiting the Chaos Planet had now turned into ten, forming a circle and rotating around it simultaneously.
At the cultivation level of a Two-Planet Heavenly Soul Immortal, two planets were born for each type.
These ten planets, in five colors—gold, green, blue, red, and yellow—represented the five elements of the planets. Naturally, each planet also symbolized a kind of world force.

As for the Soul Flower, it still had a three-layer structure, except that the top layer, representing the soul of an immortal, had become even more solid.
Soon, Qu Yi retracted his spiritual awareness, turned his body, and glanced at the Artifact God beside him.
“Artifact God, your body is in the form of a baby. Why do you always sleep like this? Aren’t you afraid it’ll damage your brain?” Qu Yi teased.
Most of the time, Qu Yi lay asleep on the soft chair, and he was always very curious.
Hearing this, the Artifact God lazily turned over as well and said indifferently, “Qu Yi, I can now be certain that the formation of the Divine Realm of Ruin might be related to what happened to me back then. The appearance of those divine artifacts is also connected to my battles from those days.”
Upon hearing this, Qu Yi instantly sprang up from the soft chair—this was the Artifact God speaking about his past experiences firsthand.
“What happened back then?” Qu Yi asked anxiously.
The Artifact God shook his head slightly, seemingly reluctant to talk, and said calmly, “It’s all related to the Boundless Stars. I never expected that once I successfully refined the Boundless Stars, it would immediately bring about attacks. Never mind. If you go to the Divine Realm in the future and grow strong enough, I’ll tell you. For now, there are still some things I can’t reveal to you.”
Qu Yi was stunned. Just when he was about to hear something astonishing, it was abruptly halted, leaving him with mixed feelings.
“Alright, since you don’t want to talk, I won’t ask anymore. The Divine Realm, huh? I will go there. I definitely will,” Qu Yi said solemnly.
The Artifact God simply lay back down and fell asleep again.
Qu Yi clicked his lips and had no choice but to lie down as well, continuing to scan the “Origin Space Dao” formation. He was confident he could complete the scanning within a year.
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Ten years passed.
Jin Zun remained on Tianjiu Star in the Mulin Star Region, constantly attacking the thirty-six snake communities to hone the power of the Metal World he had comprehended.
That day, after attacking the Two-Headed Snake clan, Jin Zun received a message via his communication card.
A Winged Ice Snake on a journey had already reached Tianshou Star in the Mulin Star Region.
Qu Yi suddenly appeared beside Jin Zun.
“Good. Let’s start our attacks from Tianshou Star,” Qu Yi said with a smile as he appeared.
Jin Zun nodded.
Immediately afterward, Qu Yi enclosed Jin Zun in a Dimensional Sphere and used the Boundless Stars to travel from Tianjiu Star to Tianshou Star.
On the Free Island of Tianshou Star, a man radiating a cold aura was atop a remote mountain on the island.
Suddenly, Qu Yi appeared.

“Master, you’ve arrived,” said the cold-looking man immediately as he saw Qu Yi coming out, bowing respectfully.
Qu Yi nodded and smiled, “You’ve worked hard. Rest now.”
That cold-looking man was actually an Ice-Winged Snake. As soon as Qu Yi finished speaking, it disappeared, naturally being taken back into the Inch Realm Ball.
Jin Zun then appeared beside Qu Yi.
“Tool God, please help and sense the situation of this Celestial Longevity Star,” Qu Yi directly contacted the Tool God inside the Inch Realm Ball.
Of course, to understand the entire situation of the planet at once, Qu Yi could only ask the Tool God to assist.
After a while,
“The Celestial Longevity Star has only one continent, shaped like a peach, hence it’s called the Peach Continent. The continent is occupied by the insect race, with the leader being the Insect Hive, which can naturally create many types of insect monsters,” the Tool God transmitted.
Hearing this, Qu Yi was stunned—so the legendary Insect Hive really existed.
Inside the Insect Hive lived a special kind of monster, resembling human brain matter, with eyes and a nose, but its round body kept expanding and contracting, feeding on the Soul Flowers of other monsters.
This monster was called the Insect Empress.
“This is quite interesting. There are countless insect monsters surrounding that Insect Hive. It won’t be easy for the two of us to enter and confront the Insect Empress directly,” Jin Zun also learned of this and immediately expressed his concern.
After creating various insects, the Insect Empress would carefully nurture them, resulting in many insect monsters at the Tianpo Monster level. With Qu Yi and the other’s strength, although they could kill some of these insects, it would take a great deal of effort.
Qu Yi smiled and said, “It’s okay. Let’s go and observe the situation first. If we can’t defeat her, we have plenty of time. We can wear her down until she dies. Besides, the Insect Empress can only stay inside the hive—this is our greatest advantage.”
Hearing this, Jin Zun suddenly thought of something and smiled.
Then, Jin Zun flew alone outside straight toward the Peach Continent.
After a month, Jin Zun finally flew from Freedom Island to the Peach Continent and landed on the coast.
“Who dares to come to our insect race’s stronghold?” As soon as Jin Zun landed, a hole appeared on the ground, and a Subterranean Thorn emerged, shouting viciously.
Jin Zun looked at the ten-meter-tall Subterranean Thorn, examining its ferocious appearance, then shook his head.
“When did such an ugly monster dare to show itself and threaten people?” Jin Zun said coldly.

As he spoke, two swords appeared in Jin Zun’s hands—the very two swords given to Qu Yi. Swinging them left and right, two golden blades shot out, carrying the powerful force of the Metal element, and struck directly at Qian Di Di Ci’s body.
A explosion erupted ahead, and Qian Di Di Ci’s entire body turned into blood and water.