234: Bug Army

Dragon Soaring Phoenix Dance!

An Qian flashed above the Gold Beetle, raising her Blood Soul high, and swung it down at the Gold Beetle below.

The Phoenix phantom descended from the sky, slamming heavily onto the Gold Beetle's back, causing the latter to sink down and land directly on the ground.

Little Gold leaped high, with the momentum of Mount Tai pressing down, raising its two sharp forelimbs to strike the wound An Qian had created.

“Hiss!”

The Gold Beetle, having recovered from Divine Power Stiffening, let out a tragic hiss.

As the hiss sounded, the surrounding insects immediately entered a frenzy, frantically rushing towards their King.

Among them, the dozens of Silver Beetles even emitted arcs of energy crescent blades as they ran.

Facing such a number of crescent blades, even An Qian, who was in the Golden Realm, had to choose to temporarily retreat.

The phantom, which had already reached the Gold Beetle, also had no choice but to teleport away.

“Hiss!”

Little Gold also let out a hiss, which, although it caused the surrounding insects to pause for a moment, failed to control any of them.

Countless crescent blades struck Little Gold's body, causing the golden light around it to flicker and almost dissipate.

“An Qian, use Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix.”

Qin Shi Lei teleported above Little Gold, and with a thought, he put Little Gold away, then teleported away again.

Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix!

After An Qian flew lower, she summoned countless giant firebirds.

With a downward refer to of her Blood Soul, the Phoenix phantom led the giant firebirds, roaring as they charged down towards the many insects below.

“Hiss!”

The Gold Beetle raised its head and hissed, then unleashed a huge Golden Wheel Slash towards the descending giant firebirds.

Boom!

The two met, creating a huge sound, and an invisible wave spread out in all directions.

In Qin Shi Lei’s eyes, the golden wheel disappeared, and the Phoenix phantom also faded significantly, with countless giant firebirds vanishing.

Immediately following were countless crescent blades that blasted towards the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix, then both hands vanished into thin air.

“Again!”

An Qian raised her Blood Soul again and swung it downwards.

The Gold Beetle swung its two forelimbs upwards, unleashing another Golden Wheel Slash.

Its subordinates also followed, attacking the giant firebirds in the sky.

“It seems you’ve forgotten about my Little Gold.”

Qin Shi Lei teleported near the group of Silver Beetles, and with a wave of his hand, released Little Gold.

At the same time, he immediately ordered Little Gold to use Golden Wheel Slash to attack the Silver Beetles in front.

Caught off guard, twenty to thirty Silver Beetles were cut in half by Little Gold's Golden Wheel Slash.

After one strike, Qin Shi Lei put Little Gold away again and escaped.

The Gold Beetle wanted to eliminate Qin Shi Lei first, but being restrained by An Qian, it couldn't spare its hands to attack the latter.

As for its Scythe Beetles, their attacks were too weak and they failed to focus fire, so all the scattered ability attacks were blocked by Zhang Xiaoli using her ability.

At this moment, the Gold Beetle felt very frustrated.

It clearly had countless subordinates, but couldn't utilize the effect of ganging up.

One enemy flew alone in the sky, another rode a giant bird also flying in the sky, and the other was even more annoying, constantly appearing and disappearing to launch sneak attacks.

An Qian then performed Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix twice more, while Qin Shi Lei took the opportunity to have Little Gold kill another fifty to sixty Silver Beetles.

At this point, only three Silver Beetles remained by the Gold Beetle's side.

Qin Shi Lei, who had teleported back to Little Strong's back, looked around and found that more distant Silver Beetles were rapidly rushing towards them.

“Let’s finish this quickly. An Qian, prepare to use Dragon Soaring Phoenix Dance again.”

After Qin Shi Lei finished speaking, he teleported behind the Gold Beetle again.

He swiftly stabbed several swords, triggering Divine Power Stiffening again.

An Qian immediately seized this fleeting opportunity and unleashed Dragon Soaring Phoenix Dance.

Boom!

The Gold Beetle was once again slammed to the ground.

The wound on its back was already horrifying, deep enough to see its internal organs.

“Little Gold, clear the area!”

Qin Shi Lei ordered Little Gold to clear the surrounding insects while controlling the phantom to teleport beside the Gold Beetle.

One-Punch Man!

The phantom followed the Gold Beetle's wound and fiercely stabbed into its internal organs.

The Gold Beetle had just recovered from Divine Power Stiffening when it was once again immobilized by the phantom, unable to even let out a scream.

“Zhang Xiaoli, contract scroll!”

To assist Zhang Xiaoli's contract, Qin Shi Lei even used the Eye of Illusion Breaking Purple to pull the Gold Beetle into an illusion.

Although Zhang Xiaoli didn't have the Beast Taming Art to assist her, this Gold Beetle was more severely injured than Little Gold was last time.

Plus, with Qin Shi Lei assisting with the illusion.

The severely wounded and dying Gold Beetle was completely unable to resist Zhang Xiaoli's contract.

Revive! Revive! Revive!

As soon as the contract was completed, Zhang Xiaoli immediately continuously cast healing spells on her pet.

After casting the healing ability, she put the Gold Beetle into her pet space.

“Qin Ge, do you think we should let this Gold Beetle control these insects to sweep across the Great Xia Country and clear out all the zombies in the Great Xia Country in the future?”

Zhang Xiaoli looked up at the countless insects around her and suddenly said with some excitement.

Qin Shi Lei's eyes lit up, and he said, “Using insects to deal with zombies is a pretty good idea. However, there are both pros and cons to this.”

“Zombies killed by insects won't drop treasure chests, so we'll lose some income.”

“When insects are killing zombies, I wonder if the Gold Beetle can control the insects and prevent them from swallowing the zombies' crystals?”

“This Gold Beetle should also be able to control hundreds of thousands of insects, but facing millions of zombies in a city, it will suffer heavy losses due to the difference in numbers.”

“Once its own tribe of insects is exhausted, it will be difficult to control insects from other tribes.”

Zhang Xiaoli said with some disinterest, “Given that, with these mere hundreds of thousands of insects, I'm afraid they really can't sweep across the entire Great Xia Country.”

She paused, then said, “How about we kill all these insects? Two to three hundred thousand crystals of Bronze Realm and above can at least be exchanged for millions of experience.”

“Wow!”

As she spoke, Zhang Xiaoli's breathing suddenly became a little rapid.

Such a large amount of experience could allow both her and Qin Shi Lei to advance to the Golden Realm simultaneously.

Qin Shi Lei also just realized that in the Insect World, Little Gold could control two to three hundred thousand insects, which also amounted to millions of experience.

However, he still wanted to rely on those insects to conquer the Insect World, so it wasn't good to kill them all.

Qin Shi Lei nodded and said, “We can indeed kill most of these insects, leaving only a small number of elite Scythe Beetles and Silver Beetles.”

“Only when our own strength is strong is it the most fundamental existence.”

“As for relying on insects to deal with zombies, we can try it, but we don't need to put too much emphasis on it.”

“After all, the speed at which I'm currently using elephant herds to kill zombies isn't slow. If we really were to drive insects to kill zombies, it would require long journeys, which isn't as convenient as our high mobility using Little Strong.”

An Qian suddenly asked, “Zhang Xiaoli, can you still contract pets now? How about contracting all these Silver Beetles and forming an army of insect pets?”

Zhang Xiaoli shook her head, “Contracting this Gold Beetle already feels very difficult for me; I probably can't contract even one more Silver Beetle.”

Qin Shi Lei also said, “It's also difficult for me to contract another Gold Beetle. If I were to first uncontract some of the elephant herd, I could give it a try.”

He paused and then said, “Zhang Xiaoli, you go back and find Su Xiaoxuan to help you heal your pet Gold Beetle. An Qian and I will recover nearby, then continue killing insects.”

After they left, the insects, no longer restrained by Little Gold, immediately became restless, hissing and searching for their Insect King.