184: The cocoon is broken!

“You talk too much.”

Bai Ye expressionlessly pulled out his arm, allowing Tian Quan's corpse to fall weakly into the sea below, where it was swallowed by the surging black water.

If Tian Quan hadn't actively stated his intentions, Bai Ye probably wouldn't have killed him so quickly.

But he was planning to control the other Fifth-Tier Beast Tamers to cause trouble for him.

He definitely had to be killed as quickly as possible.

With Tian Quan's death, the emptiness and numbness faded from the eyes of the controlled Beast Tamers on the Ghost Ship.

But they had only lost control; the bugs inside their heads hadn't been removed yet, so they all collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

After dealing with the unstable factor that was blocking him, Bai Ye finally looked toward the very center of the Storm Sea Eye.

An aura tens of times more terrifying than the Stitched Monster was located there.

A pure white gigantic cocoon was slowly pulsating beneath the thundercloud vortex, and under the tempering of the storm and lightning, its power gradually began to stabilize at the Monarch-level.

Unfortunately, its Beast Tamer was already dead.

Bai Ye left an afterimage in place, tearing through the waves blocking his path, and charged directly toward the location of the cocoon.

As long as he destroyed this Monarch undergoing a Breakthrough, the Insect Nest Organization would lose one Monarch-level entity.

A Demonic Beast undergoing advancement is probably at its most vulnerable state, second only to when it was first born.

Right now, any random Demonic Beast could inflict fatal damage upon it.

The Frost Vine Armor on his right arm let out a groan under the unbearable burden.

The air around his fist was compressed, causing a visible distortion.

He stepped forward, gathering the entire weight and power of his body into his right fist and striking out.

The instant his fist touched the gigantic cocoon, a dazzling point of light burst open.

The surface of the gigantic cocoon immediately caved in, marked by a deep fist imprint.

Centered on the fist imprint, fine cracks spread across the entire body of the cocoon, and suppressed white light erupted from within.

Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!

A continuous chorus of crisp shattering sounds rang out, and the gigantic cocoon, which enveloped the unborn Monarch, broke apart.

Interrupted at the most critical moment of advancement, the energy inside the cocoon went out of control and ran wild.

If its Beast Tamer were still alive, they might have been able to help it emerge in an imperfect state, which is the Quasi-Monarch Rank.

But the Beast Tamer was dead, and it alone could not control the massive energy.

The rampaging energy devoured the Demonic Beast inside, turning into millions of light points that were sucked up by the thundercloud vortex in the sky.

Only the hardest core was left exposed to the storm.

Almost simultaneously, on the horizon at the edge of the Storm Sea Eye, a stream of deep blue water broke through the air at supersonic speed.

A graceful figure appeared within the stream of water.

It was none other than Elder Lan Yin, rushing to provide support at full speed.

As a Monarch-level Water-element powerhouse, although her speed couldn't match Lu Yuanshan's Azure Luan Phoenix Bird, once she entered the sea, she could still surpass most flying Demonic Beasts.

As soon as she entered the Storm Sea Eye, she sensed the aura of the soon-to-be-born Monarch.

“Faster, faster! Just reach that place!”

When she desperately pushed her physical limits and rushed to the core area at an even faster speed.

Lan Yin happened to witness the final scene where the massive white cocoon disintegrated into scattered light points under the punch of a young man.

That unstable Monarch aura also came to an abrupt halt at this moment.

The storm ceased.

The dark clouds covering the sea eye were blasted open, leaving a massive gap due to the self-detonating energy impact of the Near-Monarch Rank entity.

Bai Ye was inevitably blown away, but the next second, sunlight fell upon Bai Ye's slightly pale face... Meanwhile, at the edge of the Silent Windless Zone.

The two Insect Nest Organization Sixth-Tier Beast Tamers who were fiercely battling Lu Yuanshan and the others simultaneously paused their movements.

They all looked toward the center of the Storm Sea Eye.

“The Monarch Project... failed?”

“That trash Tian Quan, he really deserves to die. Wasting so much manpower and resources, and it still failed.”

Lu Yuanshan and the Mountain-Shaking Earth Dragon keenly noticed the abnormality of their opponents.

“Heh, your plan ran into trouble.”

Lu Yuanshan seized the opportunity and sneered.

“Lu Yuanshan, you're lucky!”

The Black-Robed Person glared fiercely at Lu Yuanshan, having lost the interest to continue the entangled fight.

Since the mission failed, the Azure Luan Phoenix Bird's speed meant they could flee a thousand miles at any moment.

Continuing the fight would only waste time.

“Retreat!”

The two Monarch-level Magical Beasts faked an attack, forced back Lu Yuanshan and the Mountain-Shaking Earth Dragon, and plunged into the sea with their Beast Tamers without lingering in the fight.

They vanished without a trace.

“Trying to leave?”

Lu Yuanshan frowned, but ultimately stopped moving.

He currently lacked the resources to pursue them; if he had two more Monarch-level entities, he might have tried.

“Azure Luan, full speed ahead!”

With nothing obstructing them, the Azure Luan Phoenix Bird let out a clear cry and rushed toward the core area of the Storm Sea Eye at top speed, carrying Lu Yuanshan and the Mountain-Shaking Earth Dragon.

When they arrived at the scene, even with their extensive experience, they were stunned by the sight before them.

Countless damaged ships floated on the sea surface.

Among them were luxury battleships of the caliber of the tiangong divine ark and the deep sea leviathan.

In the center of these “Ghost Ships,” the corpse of the Stitched Monster, pieced together from countless insect carcasses, floated motionlessly on the water.

A massive hole running straight through its chest was a shocking sight.

Further away, the source of the Monarch-level Breakthrough aura that had once caused them palpitations was now just golden powder slowly drifting away in the sunlight.

Who exactly stopped the birth of a Monarch-level Magical Beast?

“There's someone over there!”

The Mountain-Shaking Earth Dragon said in a rough voice.

Lu Yuanshan looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a figure weaving back and forth among several “Ghost Ships.”

Lan Yin, meanwhile, followed behind that figure, continuously pressing her hands together, seemingly urging the person to restrain themselves.

“Student Bai, maybe we should exercise some restraint? No matter what, these things are the gains of others. It wouldn't be good to take everything, would it?”

Lan Yin watched Bai Ye, who was picking and choosing items on the tiangong divine ark, her eye twitching, and couldn't help but advise him.

Originally, since Bai Ye successfully prevented the birth of a Monarch-level insect, Lan Yin should have rewarded him handsomely, both logically and emotionally.

But Bai Ye, on the other hand, immediately ran onto the other ships and started looting the prey of other competitors—prey that hadn't yet been eaten by the insects.

He didn't even glance at Elite Rank ones; everything he picked up was Lord-level Demonic Beasts.

If these were taken back for points calculation, given the difference, the combined points of the top nine might not even exceed Bai Ye's first-place total.

The infinite was also moving the Demonic Beast Materials from the ship's warehouse, piece by piece, onto its own Jing Shen.

Its movements were extremely practiced, clearly showing that this wasn't the first time it had done something like this.

Song San followed nearby, his eyes occasionally sweeping over Elder Lan Yin, his mouth opening and closing as if he wanted to say something.

But the current situation was clearly not the time to speak up and curry favor with her.