Chapter 735 - 396: Five Insects, Part 2
"Eat it, I’ll tell you everything."
Huangfu Yi looked skeptical.
Bai Yang spread his hands,
"It’s up to you if you don’t eat it. Anyway, my time is almost up. If no one guards it after my death, the world of your Shellworm will perish."
Huangfu Yi looked at the egg capsule resembling a rice bowl, quickly made a decision, and resolutely picked it up to eat with his hands.
After all, when he came down, he had already put life and death aside. Besides, so far, no bad omens have been foreseen.
Oh, surprisingly, it actually tasted quite good, like chicken...
Seeing him finish eating, Bai Yang nodded and slowly said,
"I am guarding the insects underground."
Huangfu Yi looked speechlessly at this Centipede...
Bai Yang said,
"They are not from our scale insect family. The insects I am guarding against have bodies of gold and iron quartz. Some resemble hornets, some look like spiders, some like beetles, and even if destroyed, they can self-repair, mass produce.
They can also automatically collect minerals according to the needs of the adversary, self-transforming and evolving into various shapes, sizes, and weapons. It’s just like having magic treasures with spiritual sense.
But unlike magic treasures, each individual does not have independent consciousness, spirit or spiritual wisdom; they only obey a common consciousness. If translated, it would probably be called...
Eggs, the capsules that birth all creatures."
What...
As Huangfu Yi was shocked, Bai Yang began to tell his version.
Long, long ago, the rulers of the Taiji Realm were the Insect Clan.
A swarm of insects of unknown origins, created by unknown beings.
The civilization of these insects is undocumented, but it seems similar in organization to bee or ant colonies, with a shared consciousness. As if the entire insect swarm was a unified living entity, and the brain part was served by a specialized Insect Queen later.
Therefore, at that time, all beings, regardless of form or species, were no different from insects, were part of the swarm, like bone cells in a body, existing just like worker bees or ants, to serve and sustain the Insect Queen, born at dawn, dead at dusk, fulfilling their mission.
In that era, there were naturally no Spiritual Clan, monsters, humans, monkeys; you were an insect, I was an insect, everyone was something created by the Insect Clan. Even these palaces, equipment, and machinery were all the works of the Insect Clan, but no one knows why they transformed the world this way.
Until one day, something happened, ’Five Worms’ suddenly awakened to self-awareness, developing their own ’spirit’. They realized their creators considered them mere toys or test subjects.
So the ’Five Worms’ united, overthrew the Insect Queen’s rule, suppressed the unconscious swarm, and established a world ruled by beings with independent consciousness and spirits.
Later on, events largely aligned with what Huangfu Yi had heard.
Well, that ’minor difference’ is actually not so minor.
Although this Centipede hasn’t been out for a long time and doesn’t know what happened later, at least in its era, there was no internal war within the Spiritual Clan.
The myriad beings, the only enemy, were insects.
La, Feather, Armor, Scale, Shellworm—the five tribes were distinguished only based on the different battlefields against the Insect Clan, divided into five armies in succession for strategic lines.
What is meant by misleading people with monster talk, this theory is so outrageous that Huangfu Yi was temporarily speechless.
Wait, insects with bodies of gold and iron quartz... Could it be...
Then Bai Yang pointed underground,
"Below is suppressed an Insect Queen, the head of the Insect Clan, and what you ate was laid by her."
"This..."
Huangfu Yi looked puzzled,
"But this isn’t iron or quartz..."
Bai Yang nodded and said,
"Mm, the Insect Queen’s eggs taste actually quite similar to chicken eggs. It’s also different; compared to other Insect Clans, it’s more akin to biology. Moreover, it continuously breeds other Insect Queens to control small swarms. Instead of being the leader of the swarm, other Insect Clans are more like its tools.
These eggs will continue to hatch, parasitize mature insects, and eventually summon the Insect Clan we have sealed underground to destroy all of the spiritual beings and reclaim their world.
Since the Five Spirit Emperors liberated the Spiritual Clan, our Spiritual Clan has continuously fought against the Insect Clan. Through a hundred thousand-year blood war, sacrificing countless soldiers, we finally managed to kill all the Insect Queens and successfully seal the Insect Clan.
And what you Shellworm people call Immortal Venerable, in our era, was also the strongest warrior. Since you are his descendants, the task of suppressing the Insect Clan and guarding the world naturally falls to you."
Even Huangfu Yi changed color for a moment, as he certainly hoped this monster was merely lying cleverly, deceiving him, fabricating an outrageous lie, having ulterior motives to trick him into unsealing, or Body Seizing for reincarnation or something.
However...
If the other party was not lying, truly a Demon Clan battling for a hundred thousand years underground just to barely manage the Insect Clan, then this would be extremely serious...
Bai Yang thought he was worried about an upset stomach and comforted,
"Don’t worry, this batch of eggs is not yet formed, far from the time of its birth, won’t parasitize you, and is also quite nutritious."
Huangfu Yi had a headache,
"Since the Insect Queen is so dangerous, why keep it, why not destroy all the eggs..."
Bai Yang shook his head,
"It’s endless; we fought the Insect Clan for many years, but the other side always refused to communicate, only intent on exterminating our Spiritual Clan to the last. So our understanding of the Insect Clan remains very limited.
We only know that even if the Insect Queen is killed, sealing all the places suppressing the Insect Clan, new eggs will still emerge from various places every once in a while, parasitize living beings, transform into new Insect Queens, with no clue where they come from.