Giving high-grade pills and Emperor-Grade techniques to a future enemy?
Ray Chu was completely baffled by Ian Song's actions. "Just what are you plotting?"
Ian Song's face showed a hint of contempt. "With my strength, do I need a scheme to deal with you? Honestly, you're just too weak right now to even count as my opponent. Do you get what I mean?"
Ray's fists tightened involuntarily. He grabbed the pills and manual, striding out. Just before leaving, he suddenly turned back to Ian and said, "You'll regret what you did today!"
"Heh."
Ian just laughed it off, unconcerned.
About an hour later, Victor Chao suddenly arrived with his personal guards.
After some polite compliments, Victor revealed his real purpose: he wanted a batch of Flamefrost Armor from Ian.
Back when Ian cut down the Flamefrost vein, he forged over three thousand sets of Flamefrost Armor.
So, there was still plenty left in stock.
Since Victor used the Flamefrost Armor to fight the Insect Horde—and Ian's mission was to exterminate the Horde—he immediately promised Victor three hundred sets.
Hearing Ian could give him three hundred sets, Victor was overjoyed. Although Flamefrost Armor looked crude, its defense was far superior to top-grade divine armor.
Even as a Sun-Soul expert, Victor found it hard to obtain top-grade divine armor, so he'd only come to Ian to try his luck.
But in the end, Ian gave him a huge surprise.
"Young Master Chu, thank you so much!"
"No problem!" Ian waved it off. "It's all for fighting the Horde."
After chatting a while longer, Victor left, beaming. Ian promised to deliver the armor within three days.
Not even fifteen minutes after Victor left—
Hector Xingtian showed up again, still after Flamefrost Armor.
Mainly, Vermin Squad had stood out too much in yesterday's battle—none of their 108 members were injured, unlike Hector's squad, where everyone was wounded.
Hearing this, Elder May Wu quickly said, "Actually, Vivian has mentioned Young Master Chu to me before, but she was worried about disturbing you, so she didn't come. How about I have her visit you later? What do you think?"
Ian didn’t expose Elder May Wu’s little lie and simply smiled and nodded.
Seeing Ian nod, Elder May Wu was delighted. After expressing her thanks a few more times, she took her leave, secretly resolving to make sure Vivian Ouyang built a good relationship with this Evan Chu.
As soon as she returned to the Thousand Blossoms camp, Elder May Wu summoned Vivian Ouyang.
"Greetings, Elder Wu," Vivian Ouyang said, bowing respectfully.
Elder May Wu smiled gently. "Vivian, no need to be so formal—please, sit down. Oh, and I have some good news: Evan Chu has promised our Thousand Blossoms Valley fifty sets of Flamefrost Armor, twenty-nine more than Xingtian Squad and Immortal Sword Squad!"
Vivian Ouyang thought to herself, That guy actually knows how to look out for Thousand Blossoms Valley. She felt a little happier inside.
Seeing Vivian Ouyang’s expression, Elder May Wu silently confirmed her guess and her smile grew even softer. "I heard you know Evan Chu?" she asked.
"Yes. I know him," Vivian Ouyang nodded lightly.
Elder May Wu said, half reproachful, "Since you know him, why didn’t you say so earlier? Anyway, if you have time, go see him!"
"Yes, Master. I understand," Vivian replied.
Vivian nodded, but inwardly thought, Why do I have to go see him? Shouldn’t he come see me instead?
Meanwhile, on Ian’s side—
Not long after Elder May Wu left, the Radiant Faith Squad arrived. Ian promised them twenty-one sets of armor. After all, his Divine Temple had plenty of Flamefrost, and even if the original three thousand sets ran out, he could always forge more.
Several days quickly passed.
Blackrock City enjoyed a rare stretch of peace. After their crushing defeat, the Insect Horde seemed unable to recover.
Actually, to truly destroy the Insect Horde, you had to kill their Queens.
Before regaining his Immortal-Dao cultivation, Ian had struggled to locate the Queens. But now, with his power restored, he planned to deal with them the next time the Horde attacked.
Judging from the command cries, there were about eighteen Insect Queens leading the attack this time.
Finally—
On the ninth day after the great battle, the insect horde attacked again.
This time, their numbers were even more terrifying—double what they’d been before.
There were at least six billion Flying Beetles, and over ten billion ground insects.
Faced with such overwhelming numbers, everyone except Ian and his six demon subordinates turned pale.
"Young Master Chu, do you have any good ideas?"
Victor Chao asked Ian directly.
Ian didn’t answer. Instead, he unleashed his vast divine sense, blanketing a thousand kilometers around Blackrock.
Soon, he detected eighteen faint presences hidden in the nearby void—surely the eighteen Insect Queens.
How could he wipe them all out at once?
After thinking it over, Ian made his decision.
In a blur, Ian vanished from his spot.
"Where did he go?"
Victor Chao was utterly confused.
But before half a quarter-hour had passed, Ian returned, bringing over a hundred powerful figures with him.
Each of these figures kept their auras tightly suppressed—even Victor Chao couldn’t see through their cultivation.
Before Victor Chao could speak, Ian said, "Commander Zhao, I’ve found the Insect Queens’ hiding spots. Once we kill them, the horde will collapse!"
"Really? That’s fantastic!" Victor Chao exclaimed, overjoyed.
Ian transmitted the locations of seventeen Queens directly into the minds of the hundred-plus Fusion-realm demon experts.
"Move!"
At his word, Ian and the demon cultivators vanished from the city wall.
The next moment, they appeared thousands or even tens of thousands of meters away, each unleashing their strongest attacks at seemingly empty patches of air.
Ian himself used his great teleportation art to shift a hundred kilometers away.
He plunged directly into a dimensional layer, tossed out the Xuanhuang Pagoda, and pinned down a monstrous mountain of flesh dozens of times larger than a ten-story building.
That’s right—this grotesque, disgusting mountain of meat was none other than an Insect Queen.