152: Chapter 152 Insect Plague Rampant, Flying Giant Cockroaches? Devouring Heaven and Earth!

The Ghost Race had already made up their minds to avoid Xu Xuan's sharp edge.

This was because there were only two ways for foreign races to enter the Lord Continent.

The first method was the same as the Human Race: all lords would be scattered across the world, their power unable to concentrate, forcing them to fight individual battles.

The second method was the erroneous path taken by the Undead Race.

Eager to attack, the Undead Race chose to enter the Lord Continent directly through the Void Road-Bridge, attempting to bring the strength of their entire race into the continent at once.

This method had already been proven wrong; the Human Race was not as weak as they had imagined.

Xu Xuan of the Human Race not only had a group of divine generals under his command but also possessed a Floating Island!

The Floating Island was practically a cheat, allowing Xu Xuan to bring an entire city onto the battlefield at any time.

All things considered, although the first method would scatter the Ghost Race across the world, it was still better than clashing with Xu Xuan right from the start.

However...

While some already understood they couldn't face Xu Xuan head-on, there were still those who refused to believe it!

At that moment, on the Floating Island.

Xu Xuan had just finished his campaign against the human traitors and was about to enjoy lunch.

[Vassal Takeshita Asuka is requesting a call (Message: Military situation is extremely urgent!)]

Extremely urgent?

This piqued Xu Xuan's curiosity; what could be so pressing?

"Connect it."

Xu Xuan was currently sitting in a pavilion within the royal palace, with various delicacies sent as tribute by his vassals laid out on the table before him.

Beside him, Su Daji was peeling an apple for him.

Hu Zi Mei was lying in a chair, fast asleep and snoring.

In the midst of this leisurely atmosphere, Takeshita Asuka spoke up in a panic from the other side of the video.

"My Lord! Something has happened, My Lord!!"

Xu Xuan raised an eyebrow: "Can you get straight to the point?"

"It's like this: we have a vast agricultural zone in the south, tens of thousands of acres! It's been ravaged by insects!"

Hearing this, Xu Xuan felt a vague sense that something was wrong.

Did such a small matter really need to be reported to him?

He tapped the table lightly, a murderous aura surfacing on his face: "Takeshita Asuka, get to the point!"

"Lord Suzerain, these insects have devoured tens of thousands of acres of our crops and are breeding like crazy within them!"

"The insects they're producing are as big as tigers and look like ants!"

After listening to Takeshita Asuka's report, Xu Xuan realized something.

"The Insect Race?"

Just as Takeshita Asuka finished his report...

Another message popped up.

[Yamamoto Chizuru is requesting a call.]

"Connect!"

With a wave of Xu Xuan's hand, a second video call popped up, showing the delinquent girl Yamamoto Chizuru in her black sailor uniform.

Beads of sweat had formed on her forehead: "Lord Suzerain, a massive number of flying cockroaches have appeared in the eastern part of your territory. Their shells are hard, making them difficult to wound with blades or spears, and they can fly!"

As she spoke, Yamamoto Chizuru pointed the camera at the farmland behind her.

There, cockroaches the size of black bears could be seen, with dark, hard shells and a pair of powerful wings.

This...

Was this a version of a Guangdong cockroach magnified a thousand times?

Xu Xuan had grown up in Guangnan; cockroaches in the south could grow to four or five centimeters and were capable of flight.

If you tried to swat a southern cockroach with a slipper, they might even fly directly at you, as if ready to go down fighting.

In the footage Yamamoto Chizuru provided, those bear-sized cockroaches were like a plague of locusts passing through.

They devoured crops, wood, flowers, trees—even the withered branches and rotten leaves on the ground!

Everything was gnawed clean; wherever these cockroaches passed, even the houses were eaten by them.

They ate everything—whether it was people, pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, or geese—as long as it was edible, they even swallowed clothes.

These giant, hard-shelled flying cockroaches were even more terrifying than locusts.

Insect plagues were breaking out one after another, ravaging Xu Xuan's territory.

Seeing this situation, the vassals could only report to Xu Xuan one by one.

Watching these insects begin to sweep through everything at an incredible speed...

In less than a day, except for the Floating Island in the sky, every part of Xu Xuan's territory on the ground would be hit by a massive famine.

Sitting in the pavilion, Xu Xuan instantly lost his appetite, his expression turning uncharacteristically solemn.

At that moment, videos from other vassals came in.

[Jung Jae-soo: Lord Suzerain! I just led tens of thousands of spearmen to repel an Insect Race invasion. Those tiger-sized ants are too terrifying!]

[Lee Yoo-jin: Oppa! It's so scary! So many giant cockroaches are flying everywhere, our granaries have all suffered, they've all been turned into insect nests!]

In the footage, these insects had laid their eggs in the warehouses; the scene was extremely disgusting and could easily cause discomfort.

Furthermore, the newly hatched small cockroaches were all transparent, crawling all over the warehouse.

By now, Xu Xuan's expression had become solemn to the extreme.

"All divine generals, come to the Great Hall for a meeting!"

With a voice transmission, he summoned Grand Preceptor Wen, Yang Jian, Bai Qi, Chi You, and the others.

With such a severe insect plague, Xu Xuan finally realized the horror of the Insect Race.

Everyone immediately arrived at the Great Hall, and Xu Xuan also hurried to sit upon his throne.

Below, with the exception of Zhao Yun, all the other divine generals had arrived.

After Xu Xuan showed everyone the footage of the insect plague, Grand Preceptor Wen and the others all wore solemn expressions.

The Insect Race?

Weren't they supposed to enter the Lord Continent in a few days?

What was the deal with these insects?

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Nvba discovered a clue.

"Everyone, look! The heads of the insects in this footage aren't quite right."

Looking at the giant ants and cockroaches in the footage, their faces seemed... seemed like what?

Su Daji hesitated for a moment before speaking: "They look like they were transformed from humans?"

Her words were a sudden wake-up call.

With Nvba's observation, Grand Preceptor Wen pointed at the screen: "These insects are actually all transformed humans? Like Ghostification?"

Sitting above, Xu Xuan also realized it.

"It should be as General Ba said; the Insect Race also has the ability to transform humans into insects."

"These human traitors have abandoned their human forms to turn themselves into such disgusting things."

Everyone in the hall felt a wave of nausea and disgust.

Was it not good to be an upright human being? To actually turn oneself into something like an ant or a cockroach.

Turning into an ant was one thing, but this giant flying cockroach look was so absurd it actually made me laugh.

Lv Bu suddenly stepped forward: "My Lord, let's just go out and start killing! No matter how many insects come, we'll kill them all!"

Seeing that this brute Lv Bu only thought about killing, killing, killing...

Grand Preceptor Wen cupped his hands and said: "We must not! Even if we deploy our entire army, we cannot suppress this Insect Race. On the contrary, it will leave us exhausted from running around. This is the enemy's overt plot!"

Grand Preceptor Wen was right; these insects bred too quickly. Even if Xu Xuan deployed his full strength to kill them, they could never be wiped clean.

Instead, they would fall into an endless battle that would wear down his army.

But it wouldn't do to leave them alone without killing them either... this...

Just as everyone was talking at once, Chi You suddenly stepped forward.

"Great King, I have a plan! It can wipe out this insect pest."