CHAPTER 78: CHAPTER 78: DEMON INSECT KING

Seeing ten little bees charging forward fearlessly, the Demon Insect King immediately unleashed the Power of Divine Soul Enslavement the moment the bees got close.

Outside the cave, Qi Ping also sensed a strong shock to the consciousness of the Golden Marrow Bees, causing the ten bees to immediately fall to the ground in a daze.

Fortunately, the contract with the animal companion remained unshakable!

"It’s just a bit of dizziness and confusion in consciousness, a bit of rest and they will be fine..."

After perceiving the state of the bees, Qi Ping also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately came up with a countermeasure...

"Bees, from now on, group into trios, each group with one of each bee type..."

"Buzz buzz...(Got it, boss!)"

The use of this Power of Divine Soul Enslavement consumes a lot of the Divine Soul Power, so he wants to see how many times this new Demon Insect King can use it...

Inside the cave, the Demon Insect King pondered as it gazed at the unconscious bees...

Something’s wrong...

According to the inherited memory, these bees should be under its enslavement, becoming its loyal servants.

It was supposed to be the future Demon Insect King, commanding tens of thousands or even millions of demon insects, how could it fail to handle just a few little bees?

The bloodline’s inherited memory told it, and its body’s instincts told it, that it was a born ruler, a leader of millions of demon insects. So what’s going on now?

However, before the Demon Insect King could figure it out, another trio of bees charged forward.

So, the unconvinced Demon Insect King unleashed the Power of Divine Soul Enslavement again...

Unsurprisingly, the bees’ consciousness was impacted, causing them to fall again, but they were still not successfully enslaved...

What’s happening?

The Demon Insect King began to doubt whether its inherited memory was flawed.

No time for the Demon Insect King to think more, the third wave of bees attacked again...

So it used the Power of Divine Soul Enslavement...

As a result, the bees again fell unconscious...

This time, the Demon Insect King was truly unsettled; it began to suspect there was no problem with the bees but it couldn’t find a suitable object for comparison.

After twenty consecutive attempts, the Demon Insect King had exhausted half of its spiritual power but failed to enslave even a single subordinate.

This plunged the Demon Insect King into deep self-doubt. According to the inherited memory, it should be the Demon Insect King, so why couldn’t it handle a few little bees?

Could it be that its inherited memory was a lie?

But the instinct from its body and the power flowing within it were all telling it that it was inherently the Demon Insect King... If it weren’t for this array trapping it, it would have already gathered countless minions outside to roam the world with its demon insect underlings...

...

But Qi Ping didn’t care what the Demon Insect King thought. He just wanted to drain the Demon Insect King’s spiritual power completely, then test the specific data of the Demon Insect King for the next step.

"Continue the attack, don’t give the Demon Insect King a moment to breathe and recover..."

"Buzz buzz...(No problem, boss! Leave it to us!)"

Then, the swarm continuously sent out bees to attack.

Finally, after more than ten continuous attacks, the Demon Insect King gave up its plan to enslave the little bees.

At this time, the bees finally landed an attack on the Demon Insect King.

The first to attack the Demon Insect King was the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee.

Under the sharp blade wings of the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee, a very shallow scar appeared on the Demon Insect King’s blood-red body.

However, within a mere breath, the Demon Insect King’s body quickly returned to its original state.

"The physical body possesses high resilience and extremely strong regenerative ability..."

Upon learning of the situation from the outside, Qi Ping immediately had a judgment on the current strength of the Demon Insect King.

According to the perception of the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee, the realm of this newly born Demon Insect King should only be at a Tier One late stage, but its pressure was terrifyingly strong.

Moreover, Qi Ping was well aware of the attack power of the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee’s blade wings. The Demon Insect King could easily withstand it at a mere Tier One late stage; its defense was almost absurdly high.

One should know that the defense of the late-stage Qi Refining black-robed cultivator was easily broken by the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee, demonstrating the defensive power of the Demon Insect King.

The second to attack the Demon Insect King was the Highly Poisonous Bee.

The highly poisonous bee, evolved from the Golden Marrow Bee, not only had a greatly increased toxicity but also an enhanced tail needle, possessing excellent piercing and armor-piercing traits.

Therefore, the highly poisonous tail easily pierced the Demon Insect King’s body.

But after the poison injected all its toxins into the Demon Insect King, there was no reaction from the Demon Insect King, not even a hint of poisoning.

Qi Ping, outside the cave, was not too surprised by this situation.

For some ordinary spirit beasts, the toxin of the Highly Poisonous Bee would be extremely lethal.

But for the Demon Insect King, a being with maxed out toxin resistance, it was unlikely to cause much harm, otherwise, the name Demon Insect King would be meaningless.

So the failure of the Highly Poisonous Bee was entirely within Qi Ping’s expectations.

As for the third to attack the Demon Insect King, the Ink Armor Bee, Qi Ping did not hold out any hope.

The Ink Armor Bee, a bee species specialized in defense, wasn’t adept at attacking; apart from its high defense, its attack power might even rank mid to low among Tier One high-level spirit insects.

The outcome did not surprise Qi Ping; the Ink Armor Bee couldn’t even break through the Demon Insect King’s defense.

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"Apart from these, the Demon Insect King, aside from struggling, did not counterattack, likely constrained by the Four Extremes Demon Breeding Array..."

"With this, the data of the Demon Insect King is basically tested: high defense, high toxin resistance, high recovery ability, and because of the constraint, there seems no other means of attack besides the Power of Divine Soul Enslavement; mobility and speed can’t be exerted due to body restraint..."

This data implies that against the Demon Insect King, the Ink Armor Bee and the Highly Poisonous Bee have lost their attack capabilities directly, the only one able to deal damage is the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee.

But even the damage inflicted by the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee was very limited and, with the Demon Insect King’s regenerative ability, it would recover in no time.

"In this case, it seems only Yaya can hope to kill the Demon Insect King..."

"Fortunately, Yaya’s strength has recovered to Tier One Perfection, and its lineage has evolved into the Yang Fire Crow. The Yang Fire Flame should inflict sufficiently lethal damage on the Demon Insect King..."

At this stage, Qi Ping already knew how to deal with the Demon Insect King.

However, Qi Ping did not immediately dispatch Yaya to execute the kill, instead ordering the High-speed Ring-cutting Bee to continue the attack.

"Bees, next send thirty High-speed Ring-cutting Bees as a group to launch full-scale attacks on the Demon Insect King, don’t give it any time to breathe, other bees should retreat..."

The reason Qi Ping did so was that he was still concerned about the Divine Soul Talent Attack of the Demon Insect King, as a fierce character capable of inciting a disaster of demon insects, it couldn’t be underestimated even in the weakest newborn state.

So Qi Ping planned to continuously use High-speed Ring-cutting Bees to disrupt, consuming the Demon Insect King’s spiritual power while probing and exhausting the Demon Insect King’s trump cards.