Lin Huang lay quietly inside a cave deep within the hive, happily using Divine Telekinesis to observe the battle in the outside world.
Since elevating to become a Lord, his Divine Telekinesis strength had broken through to ultimate-rank lord-level. Furthermore, he was only using its sensing function to do peripheral spying, so he did not need to worry about being discovered.
After two rounds of futile attempts, the Bug Tribe still had no intention of negotiating. Instead, they were becoming increasingly frenzied.
Watching the trillions of Bug Tribe fighters swiftly gathering to consolidate a bug formation outside the hive, Lin Huang could more or less understand the Bug Tribe’s fury.
This was their stronghold. It was also the temporary dwelling of tens of thousands of Queen Mothers, as well as many Bug Queens that had not yet grown to full maturity.
Any living beings who barged in were not only showing utter disrespect to the Queen Mothers, but they were also an immense threat to the Queen Mothers, the young Bug Queens, and even the future of the entire Bug Tribe.
A hive was sacrosanct to the Bug Tribe. The Ten Thousand Bug Maze was the most sacrosanct of all sacrosanct objects to the Bug Tribe in this great world.
It was understandable that they seemed to have abandoned all reason, wanting to drive out Nine Snake and the others.
Nine Snake and the team had possibly been aware of this since the beginning, so they had not made any overtures to negotiate at all. They did not even bother to explain why they were here.
They were also aware that Lin Huang was certainly secretly watching the drama unfold at the moment. However, they had no choice but to play things according to what Lin Huang had scripted out.
Even as they watched the bug formation consolidating in the air, Nine Snake and the others made no move to stop it in the least.
A one-sided massacre was indeed rather boring. It was much more interesting to see one’s opponents struggle on occasion.
With that attitude in mind, Nine Snake and the rest patiently waited for the bug formation to finish consolidating.
The formation created from trillions of bug beasts had Heavenly Gods as its core and True Gods as auxiliary support, consolidating into a gigantic celestial beast.
Its massive size exceeded many of the surrounding stars.
This was a Galactic Titan Bug, a mutated bug from ancient times.
Back in ancient eras, the Galactic Titan Bugs consumed stars, absorbing the metal mines within them to strengthen their bodies.
When they were young, their size could compare to a planet. As they consumed more and more stars, they would continue to increase in size. The biggest ones were comparable to a star zone and consumed star zones as food.
As they looked at the Galactic Titan Bug that had been consolidated from the bug formation, Nine Snake and the rest remained calm.
For a moment, nobody was willing to make a move, even.
Seeing the Galactic Titan Bug charging over like a tank, a muscular brawler finally stepped forward.
He was short, only around one point six meters tall, but his entire body was terrifyingly muscled.
From where he was watching in the distance, Lin Huang felt that the thickness of this fellow’s arms might be at least twice the size of his thighs. He thought the man’s pectoral muscles were even bigger than his own head.
As for the man’s legs, the word ‘bucket’ was insufficient to describe how thick they were. More precisely, they were as thick as water tanks.
Lin Huang stared at the man’s bald head and secretly gave him a nickname—Short, Burly Baldy.
He abbreviated this to Short Baldy.
After Short Baldy walked out, his body swiftly began to crystallize. Instead of transforming into a white crystal, he changed into a red crystal.
He seemed to have been entirely transformed into a short, burly, bald ruby in human form.
He glittered under the light of the nearby stars.
Lin Huang noticed that the crystallization was not just a superficial change on the surface of the man’s skin but a transformation of the cells in his body. Every single one of his cells seemed to have transformed into crystalline structures from the inside out.
“He looks pretty tough,” Lin Huang commented casually.
The second his body completely crystallized, Short Baldy grinned ferociously. Suddenly he sprang forward to confront the Galactic Titan Bug, throwing a punch.
An instant later, the blood-red crystal fist collided with the Galactic Titan Bug’s head.
Boom!
A violent boom shook the entire galaxy, even transcending the restrictions of a vacuum and spreading in all directions.
A second after colliding with that fist, the Galactic Titan Bug’s head instantly exploded.
Immediately after, the punch’s power continued to spread deep into the formation itself. The Galactic Titan Bug’s body rapidly began to disintegrate like the collapse of a large building triggered by building implosion.
That single punch easily tore through the bug formation made up of trillions of bug beasts. More than half the bug beasts were killed or injured.
Nine Snake and the team watched the entire scenario expressionlessly. They did not display any traces of surprise or delight.
It was as if everything went without saying.
Lin Huang, watching the battle from afar, was not surprised at all either.
Although this bug formation was powerful, the consolidated Galactic Titan Bug was only lower-rank lord-level.
However, the short, burly bald man was a bona fide middle-rank Lord as well as a combat cultivator.
It was not surprising that the bug formation had been shattered by a single punch.
“This third round of assault has been countered as well…” Lin Huang was rather curious what the Bug Tribe’s reaction would be next.
Honestly speaking, the Bug Tribe should have had a fairly “accurate” gauge of the abilities of Nine Snake’s team after the three rounds of testing. If nothing else, they could determine that these arrivals had the abilities of at least middle-rank Lords
Logically speaking, at this point, they ought to have abandoned resistance and considered making peace with their opponents instead.
After all, given that all nine arrivals were middle-rank Lords, all these Bug Tribe beasts in the Ten Thousand Bug Maze had no chance of winning at all. This was not yet taking into consideration that there might be beings above middle-rank Lords among these nine.
The problem was that the Bug Tribe could not maintain rationality once someone had laid hands on their sacrosanct object.
Lin Huang felt the situation was hard to predict.
However, a moment later, he witnessed the answer to this question.
A massive number of Bug Tribe beasts swarmed out of the hive. Among them were even ten lower-rank lord-level Bug Queens, as well as a middle-rank lord-level Bug Queen.
Lin Huang was quite surprised to see this battle array.
It had to be said that the number of Lords in the Ten Thousand Bug Maze was indeed frightening. Not only that, this was clearly not everyone in the hive because not a single lord-level Queen Mother had revealed themselves yet.
Lin Huang knew that there was at least one lord-level Queen Mother in the Ten Thousand Bug Maze.
The eleven lord-level Bug Queens immediately gathered, creating a bug formation. One by one, they consolidated into the form of ferocious mutated bugs from the ancient era.
Each bug formation was made up of a lord-level Bug Queen as the core, with tens of billions of Bug Tribe Heavenly Gods and trillions of True Gods as auxiliary support.
Within the time it took to breathe, eleven bug formations had consolidated.
The mutated bugs in the heavens were comparable to a star in size. Their aura was skyrocketing.
The weakest aura was middle-rank lord-level, while the aura of the bug formation created by the most powerful Bug Queen had definitely reached upper-rank lord-level.
The team from the Raiders was clearly stirred when they saw that.
Nine Snake was the only one who remained expressionless. His emotions did not display any changes whatsoever.
“This ought to be fairly worth seeing.”
Deep in the hive, Lin Huang stared with great interest at the battlefield where both parties were. If not for the fact that he was worried the other bug beasts would smell it, he almost felt as if he wanted to bring out the popcorn.
