Martial Ascent to Divinity

Zhou Leng picked out twenty demonic contracts, switching the parties to himself and Ma Dabai, signing them one by one.

After signing each one, the contract transformed into a flame demon and then dissipated.

Once all twenty were signed, Zhou Leng was fine, but Ma Dabai was utterly exhausted.

She suspected that if they continued signing, she might become a slave.

"However, before handing over the position to you, I need to eliminate threats. Let’s discuss a method, I will encircle and attack reinforcements, meaning I will threaten the mother insect to summon other demigods of the giant insect race, and then I’ll deal with them one by one. The giant insect race truly doesn’t have any powerful demigods left?"

Ma Dabai hurriedly shook her head and said, "There aren’t any left. Both the mother insect and the Celestial Calamity Envoy have joined the battle, leaving the other demigods with no choice; if they don’t fight, they will die."

"When you obtain the Radiant Maternal Liquid, make sure to leave me some. I’ve heard its value isn’t inferior to the Life Divine Liquid; in some ways, it surpasses it," Zhou Leng said.

Ma Dabai quickly replied, "The Radiant Maternal Liquid possesses powerful reproductive abilities. After you drink it, you can raise a massive offspring army. If you need it, I will gladly assist."

Ma Dabai gently twisted her white belly.

"Oh, you can spare me that..." Zhou Leng replied, "Then let’s proceed as planned. Should I drag you over there?"

"No, no, no, my subordinates can carry me over."

"In that case, you make your way, and I’ll go slaughter gods."

Zhou Leng and Ma Dabai reached an agreement and turned to fly towards the mother insect’s lair.

Putting away all energy detectors, he looked ahead.

It was a massive mountain, standing ten thousand meters tall.

On the huge mountain wall, a cave door five hundred meters high was opened.

The dark entrance emitted a strong stench.

Outside the entrance, various giant insects moved back and forth.

Zhou Leng walked to the entrance and shouted, "Mother insect, hand over the Radiant Maternal Liquid, and I will spare your life."

Then he unleashed the presence of a demigod.

The giant insects, fierce and menacing a moment ago, collapsed on the ground in the next, their wastes flowing.

The piercing cry of insects echoed from within the cave.

Rumble...

A black beetle with a massive collision horn on its head charged out from the cave, eighty meters long, resembling a fierce rhinoceros beetle. It tore through the air, creating ear-piercing sonic booms, aimed directly at Zhou Leng.

The insects lying on the ground instantly recovered, fleeing in all directions.

With the collision horn incoming, Zhou Leng took a deep breath. Although he didn’t utilize true starlight energy, he employed all his strength.

After all, the giant insect race was known for its might.

Both large hands grasped the collision horn.

Boom!

Crack!

The collision horn shattered, and the eighty-meter-long giant insect, roughly as tall as a seven-story building, staggered and leaned backward.

Its large eyes were filled with confusion.

Zhou Leng glanced at his feet; they had only retreated one centimeter.

The demigod giant insect roared, its black shell unfolding, transparent wings fluttering, creating a powerful innate force, allowing its massive body to hover.

It fully flexed its wings, its body suddenly shifted sideways, leaving a dense trail of afterimages on the path.

Then, it rapidly circled Zhou Leng, forming a sky full of afterimages, stirring up a mighty whirlwind.

Zhou Leng understood that his opponent had lost in strength and was now competing in speed.

With a thought, countless demigod giant insect images rushed from all sides.

Seeing this scene from afar, the giant insects couldn’t help but marvel; the demigod giant insect was too formidable—they couldn’t distinguish between reality and illusion.

Zhou Leng remained motionless until the moment when the swarm of giant insects approached him and kicked out.

Boom!

The swarm of afterimages dissipated, and the massive demigod giant insect shrieked as it flew backward, crashing into the steep mountain of the mother nest.

With a thunderous sound, the mountain and ground shook. The giant insect’s body was embedded deep within the hard rock, its entire body cracked, fluid flowing, nearly dead.

Zhou Leng looked at his hands.

After completing the path of the ancestors of the fierce beast world, it seemed that his strength had increased even further.

He planned to check his strength when he got a chance.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew out of the cave entrance.

The speed of the shadow was unimaginably fast; ordinary giant insects hadn’t even seen it, only feeling a gust of wind passing.

With a terrifying speed exceeding 20 Mach, it was far beyond the newly promoted human Martial Saint, reaching the level of a lower Martial Saint.

Swish...

A giant black mantis, twenty meters long, maneuvered behind Zhou Leng, its arm blades as sharp as half-divine artifacts, aiming to slash both shoulders.

Zhou Leng didn’t even turn around; his arms slowly lifted, naturally grabbing the mantis’s arm blades, and then executed a massive over-the-shoulder throw.

In mid-air, the black shadow flashed, and the demigod giant mantis smashed onto the ground with a boom.

Zhou Leng spun around, executing another massive back throw.

Back and forth, by the seventh throw, the giant mantis’s huge tail exploded, its internal organs splattering.

Releasing the grip, the entire body of the giant mantis trembled, and then gradually stopped.

Zhou Leng walked over, pulled off both arm blades of the giant mantis with a couple of cracks, and then waved them in the air like holding a pair of scythes.

Hiss hiss...

Faint white air blades sliced through the sky.

The third demigod giant insect emerged, a giant spider.

Zhou Leng swung the mantis arm blades.

In one second, a hundred blades.

Faint white air blades, ten meters long each, formed a dense mass, slicing toward the giant spider.

Boom boom boom boom...

The giant spider dodged frantically, continuously spraying webs and venom, but Zhou Leng’s attacks were swift, fierce, and numerous.

At first, the giant spider managed to evade, but as Zhou Leng kept intensifying his force, the air blades flying out grew larger, more numerous, and stronger each second.

From afar, it appeared as if a giant web of interweaving blades was colliding with a web in mid-air.

The web of blades kept advancing, pushing back the spider web.

Not long after, the spider web fell apart, and the dense air blades hit the giant spider.

The demigod giant spider retreated sharply, climbing up the mountain wall to escape, shrieking all the while.

Zhou Leng chased it up the mountain wall, continuing to swing the giant mantis arm blades.

Boom boom boom boom...

With a piercing scream, the demigod giant spider stopped, and then its whole body burst with blood, falling from the high wall, leaving a slope soaked in blood, crashing to the ground.

Eight legs pointed skyward, trembling at high speed.

In no time, there was no more sound.

"Next one." Zhou Leng collected the bodies of the demigod insects while shouting into the cave.

Inside, there was silence.

"Summon the demigods outside, I’ll wait for you," Zhou Leng said.

"Human, why are you doing this?"

"Hmm? Savor my aura more closely."

"The Ancient Crown..." the voice suddenly stopped.

"Your Giant Insect Race, do you have any plans for your next move?" Zhou Leng chatted idly outside.

The Mother Insect replied intermittently, stalling for time.

There was no sign of the demigod giant insects arriving for a long while.

Then, after a period of waiting, a total of seven demigod giant insects lined up, rushing from the horizon.

The dust trailing behind them was like a sandstorm, stirring their rage.

Inside and outside the mother nest, countless giant insects screeched and roared.

"Giant insects, fearless!"

Among them, one demigod giant insect’s body emitted the blood light of an ancient beast.

Zhou Leng turned, retracting the giant mantis blade from his arm, and single-handedly faced the seven demigod giant insects.

In his abdomen, a great sun revolved.

His right arm slowly expanded.

With a ripping sound, his arm burst through his sleeve.

His right fist, shining bright, exuded a terrifying aura, as if containing a fierce beast within.

"Divine Radiance..."

Zhou Leng took a step forward, confronting the leading demigod giant centipede.

"...Heavenly Explosion!"

A thunderous roar erupted, the brilliant white divine radiance engulfing everything within hundreds of meters.

Nearing demigod giant insects saw that the hundred-plus-meter-long demigod giant centipede lunged forward, but as it approached Zhou Leng’s right fist, it continuously dissolved.

Ultimately, a body over a hundred meters long melted from a single punch.

The dust was flung high by the mighty power, mixed with the powder of the giant centipede’s shell, forming a faint small mushroom cloud.

In the pit on the ground, petrified lava turned the earth into glass, with charred edges.

The days of hard cultivation finally bore fruit.

Divine Radiance Explosion, the mushroom cloud rises, signifying his mastery of this Martial Saint killing move.

Nearby multiple demigod giant insects were injured by the blast.

Zhou Leng looked at the empty space ahead.

The body of the demigod centipede was gone.

A slight setback, but no matter.

Turning away, he abandoned the powerful killing move, only using the ordinary East Wind Fist against the remaining demigod giant insects.

The single Divine Radiance Explosion scared the ruthless and merciless demigod giant insects into chaos, leaving them unable to maintain composure, with many flaws in their attacks.

Zhou Leng’s prowess now surpassed newly minted demigod fierce beasts, let alone giant insects.

Moving like a dragon, his form like a crane, his body turned into afterimages flickering across the battlefield.

Punches landed on the demigod giant insects one after another.

One demigod giant insect after another fell.

Ultimately, Zhou Leng withdrew his fist, slowly collecting the corpses of the demigod giant insects.

Heaven and earth were silent, the swarm of insects quiet.

Collecting all the corpses, he headed towards the cave.

"Human, are you not afraid of the wrath of the Giant Insect Race?"

"Wasn’t the wrath of the Giant Insect Race already exhausted?"

"I can fight you to mutual destruction!"

"Stop bluffing, and die more peacefully."

"You underestimate our Giant Insect Race! Then... taste the fury of the insects!"

The cave shook heavily, and white light surged out of the cave, rushing towards Zhou Leng.

The white light twisted and flickered, like electric arcs gathering into a thick cloud, covering hundreds of meters.

The Mother Insect’s strongest attack, a spiritual storm.

From the cave came the voice of the Mother Insect.

"Don’t say you’re just a newly ascended Martial Saint; even a middle-level Martial Saint would have their Martial Arts Will heavily damaged! Human..."

The white arcs of light engulfed Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng stepped forward, through the dense cloud of electricity, his gaze calm, looking towards the cave.

"And then?"

Silence from within the cave.

Boom!

The land exploded, dust spreading, Zhou Leng turned into an afterimage, charging into the cave.

Inside, there were the screeches of giant insects, bursts of terrifying spiritual shocks exploding in all directions.

The ten-thousand-meter-high mountains rumbled and trembled, and massive cracks spread across the mountainside like dragons.

Soon, a harrowing scream pierced the skies, echoing for hundreds of kilometers.

Countless giant insects were agitated, either charging madly towards the Mother Insect’s nest or quickly retreating.

Inside the cave, it was completely silent, with only occasional gurgling sounds...

Much later, Zhou Leng emerged from the cave, dragging a "massive" creature.

The creature’s head and front were of a gigantic spider, with a head at least twenty meters high.

Its back was covered with layers of densely packed transparent wings, all in tatters.

Underneath the numerous tattered wings was a large, shriveled gray-white belly.

Zhou Leng kept walking outward, the belly continuously extending, and after walking two hundred meters, the enormous white belly finally revealed its tail.

In the distance, a massive army of giant ants hurriedly approached, with innate and grandmaster giant ants spitting blood from exhaustion as they carried Ma Dabai to the mother nest.

Ma Dabai gazed at the mother nest from afar, observing the small figure beneath the spider’s head, like a sesame seed next to a watermelon.

This sesame seed had just finished eating the watermelon.