Chapter 449: Chapter 255: Betting on Gu Zheng’s Luck
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH!
A frigid wind blew, howling across the land.
High in the sky, Gu Zheng drifted forward as silently as a willow catkin.
A thousand meters ahead of him, a dozen or so second-rank members of the Devouring Insect Race flapped their wings, making the least sound possible as they flew onward with their heads down.
After resolving the insect plague in the Prefecture City, Gu Zheng had reaped over 50,000 Demon Points.
But he hadn’t exterminated all of the Devouring Insect Race. Instead, he had let a dozen or so escape, allowing them to flee while he followed unhurriedly behind.
As for Mo Jiateng, he had already left. His assistance was no longer needed for what came next, and he didn’t know the whereabouts of the Devouring Insect Mother either.
That was right.
Gu Zheng had let those dozen or so second-rank members of the Devouring Insect Race go for the sole purpose of finding the Devouring Insect Mother!
If the fourth-rank Devouring Insect Mother wasn’t killed, the Devouring Insect Race would be endlessly produced.
Normally, the appearance of a Devouring Insect Mother would cause a huge commotion.
It would plunder Vitality, transform it into Death Qi, and use it to strengthen itself.
The destruction of several cities and the absorption of Vitality from entire mountains and fields would surely cause a stir that would shake the entire prefecture, or even the entire country.
But before now, there hadn’t been the slightest hint of such activity.
It was only discovered this time because the Devouring Insect Race had spread out, conquered a county town, and affected the entire prefecture.
The Jing Country’s Court had yet to react, and reinforcements from the Demon Slayer Bureau hadn’t arrived.
So many people had died. If Gu Zheng hadn’t come, the entire prefecture would have been wiped out.
Yet the Devouring Insect Mother had made no move, and its hiding place was unknown.
’Is it preparing to lay eggs?’
’Is that why the other members of the Devouring Insect Race absorbed the essence of flesh and blood and plundered Vitality, not to strengthen themselves, but to bring it back?’
Gu Zheng pondered this as he flew silently through the air.
A thousand meters ahead, the dozen or so second-rank members of the Devouring Insect Race suddenly descended and entered a mountain peak.
They then turned into a hole in the ground and delved deep beneath the earth.
The tunnel was quite wide, large enough for two or three people to walk through side-by-side.
Gu Zheng suppressed his aura even further and followed them in.
The path led straight down for several hundred meters until the space ahead suddenly opened up.
A massive natural cavern appeared before him.
In the center of the cavern lay a member of the Devouring Insect Race, over three meters tall and as large as a house.
The aura of a fourth-rank being filled the cavern.
The Devouring Insect Mother!
However, the aura of this Devouring Insect Mother was very weak. A small half of its body was missing, and it only had two wings left, one in the front and one in the back, completely asymmetrical.
It was injured!
And its wounds were severe.
No wonder it hadn’t come out to wreak havoc, but was instead hiding underground, needing other members of the Devouring Insect Race to provide it with the essence of flesh and blood, with life and Vitality.
Gu Zheng found this amusing as he scanned the wounds on the Devouring Insect Mother’s body.
They weren’t caused by a weapon, nor were they the traces left by the use of a True Skill. They looked like they had been made by some kind of sharp claws.
In other words, the one who had severely wounded the Devouring Insect Mother was not a human expert, but another powerful Demon Fiend!
But that raised a question.
A battle between two fourth-rank Demon Fiends would not have been a quiet affair.
Yet no one had discovered or noticed it.
There was only one possibility: the great battle had taken place in the Demon Realm!
The Devouring Insect Mother had fled from the Demon Realm to the mortal world.
’But how did it get here?’
’There are no fourth-rank passages nearby!’
’Unless...’
’A fifth-rank Demon Fiend?’
A thought flashed through Gu Zheng’s mind.
A battle between two fifth-rank Demon Fiends, using their absolute power, had torn through the world’s barrier, forcibly opening a rift that allowed the Devouring Insect Mother to escape.
Even so, the Devouring Insect Mother had been so grievously injured that it couldn’t move and needed outside help.
Too bad for it...
FWOOSH—BOOM~
The Hurricane Domain activated first, forming wind blades that enveloped the Devouring Insect Mother like a tornado.
CRACKLE~
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Silent Extinction Thunder Realm followed close behind, merging with the hurricane and unleashing the Power of Silent Extinction to shred the Devouring Insect Mother.
"HSSS~~"
"ROAR!!"
Caught in the surprise attack, the Devouring Insect Mother let out a piercing shriek as its body was sliced apart. The sound waves were almost tangible as they slammed into the Domain, only to be disintegrated in an instant.
BZZZZ~
The void trembled as an invisible force seeped out and began to plunder.
It was the innate ability of the Devouring Insect Race: Vitality Theft!
This power ignored the two Domains and descended upon Gu Zheng from a hundred meters away.
"Hmph~!"
Gu Zheng snorted coldly. The Heaven-piercing Halberd materialized, forming a Divine Weapon Shield that blocked the plundering assault.
SWISH! SWISH!
The Thunder and Fire Power of the Heaven-piercing Halberd intertwined to form the shield. Although this was Gu Zheng’s first time using it, this power, different from that of a Domain, was the perfect counter to a Demon Fiend’s innate abilities.
Any other King’s Body would have had to dodge and reposition at this moment.
But Gu Zheng didn’t need to. He blocked with his Divine Weapon in one hand and continued the slaughter with his Domains with the other.
The Hurricane Domain, enhanced with Sword Intent, trapped the Devouring Insect Mother, while the Silent Extinction Thunder Realm continuously unleashed lightning to destroy its mangled body.
No matter how shrilly the Devouring Insect Mother cried or how frantically it used its Plundering Technique, everything slowly came to a halt. Finally, its entire mangled corpse shattered, exploding into countless fragments.
Spirit Capturing!
[Demon Points +2205]
[Demon Points +4166]
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Gu Zheng retracted his Domains and checked his newly acquired Demon Points, quite satisfied.
The Devouring Insect Mother’s Demon Pill was incomplete, so he absorbed it directly and converted it into Demon Points.
As for the other members of the Devouring Insect Race in the underground cavern...
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Flashes of blade light danced through the air, glinting like razors as they spread out to exterminate the members of the Devouring Insect Race hiding in the corners.
Then, he used Spirit Capturing to reap the Demon Points.
Once he was certain that no members of the Devouring Insect Race remained, Gu Zheng finally turned and left.
Back on the surface, Gu Zheng took out the Demon-Seeking Pot to sense for Demon Fiends within a ten-thousand-meter radius, mainly focusing on the small, scattered groups of the Devouring Insect Race.
Once he found them, he would rush over, kill them, and reap the Demon Points.
On this venture, the accumulated Demon Points he had gained from killing the Devouring Insect Race had exceeded one hundred thousand, but there was still no sign of a new Demon Technique.
It could only mean he hadn’t killed enough!
But unfortunately, the number of the Devouring Insect Race was limited. Gu Zheng searched back and forth, cleaning out the entire prefecture and even several neighboring ones. He exterminated every last member of the Insect Race and reaped another ten thousand Demon Points, but it still wasn’t enough to obtain a Demon Technique.
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