I Have A Game Clone

by Stayrr

Ning Shi, a man from Saturn, accidentally downloaded a game on his phone called the Age of All. “Beep! Clone successfully created!” Ning Shi received a clone in the game. Whenever his clone got stronger, his real self would get stronger as well. “Your clone has trained in the training room for 12 hours. Vitality 1, Mentality 1.” “Your clone has slain the Earth-Dragon. You have re

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97 Soul Ring

By the time Ning Shi arrived in the courtyard, Casey had already received instructions from the servant contract and opened the door for him.

Ning Shi walked into the room, sat on the chair, and first checked Casey's character information.

[Character: Casey]

[Physique: 39 (40)]

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[Spiritual Power: 39 (40)]

[Appearance: 7 (Royal Prestige)]

[Family Background: 9 (direct relation to the Brad Empire royal family)]

[Bloodline: Golden nine-eyed lion (LV 9/Potential 10 stars)]

[Profession: Bloodline warrior LV 44]

[Skills: Golden mech LV 9, Nine-eyed technique LV 9, Lecherous Lion sword technique LV 9, Light Blade Enchantment LV 9, Wings of Light LV9 ]

[Talents: King's aura (blue), regeneration (purple), learning (gold), leader (purple)]

[Achievements: the 29th King of the Brad Empire. He has been in office for 17 years. He has done a good job in governance. He is an official member of the Mountain Cluster Palace. He has joined the Mountain Cluster Palace for 5 years.]

[King's aura (blue): Appearance 2. When recruiting people, success rate increases by 30%. When commanding subordinates, loyalty increases by 30%.]

[Leader (purple): Lions are not afraid of one-on-one battles, but they prefer to live in groups. A Lion King is very good at leading a team. When commanding an army in battle, his own combat power will increase by 50%, and the combat power of his allies will increase by 30%.]

[Nine-eyed Technique LV 9: the core skill of the Golden nine-eyed lion's bloodline. It can release nine pupillary techniques: golden light, burning, annihilation, inner demon, immobilization, energy absorption, soul control, holy light, and wish.]

[Lecherous Lion Sword Technique LV 9: This is a sword technique created by Casey when he observed the Golden Lion's estrus and mating behavior.]

[Sword technique specialty 1: tease. When using the sword technique, there is a 50% chance of arousing the lust of the opponent.]

[Sword technique specialty 2: Impulsiveness. Attack speed increased by 200%, damage increased by 200%, and self-defense reduced by 50%.]

Ning Shi was originally very satisfied with Casey's overall combat power, but after seeing the Lecherous Lion blade technique, he instantly broke his calm act.

He couldn't help but laugh.

"Casey, you have the aura of a king. Little did I expect you to have such a hobby. You can actually create your own sword technique with such an artistic conception."

Casey was more than a hundred years old and had been a King before, so his skin was thicker than the city walls.

Hearing Ning Shi's words, he was not ashamed, but proud.

"Of course, I was also a genius when I was young. When ordinary people saw mating, they only had an instinctive desire to do it. However, I broke away from the vulgar taste and comprehended a profound sword technique from an instinctive behavior."

As a servant, Casey would only listen to Ning Shi, but his personality would not change.

Therefore, he boasted without any hesitation.

With the data of Casey and Gu Bin, the two LV 9 Bloodline Warriors, Ning Shi had already determined the strength of an LV 9 bloodline.

Their overall physical fitness would not exceed 80 points, and their individual qualities would rarely exceed 40 points.

Then their super magical beast's value should be at least 40 points?

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At this point, the system gave him a prompt.

[40 points of physique or spirituality are set by the game system based on the starting points of super magical beasts, gods, and overlords. Anyone with a value above 40 is qualified to step into the super realm.]

[The value is not equal to the data, the evolutionary value is only for reference.]

Ning Shi then recalled that the upper limit of the Supreme Bloodline's potential value was 100. From this, he deduced that the total value of a super magical beast or God would not exceed 100.

Thinking about how his physique had reached 48 after he transformed into the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, Ning Shi immediately felt a sense of security.

Although the numbers were only for reference, they also showed that he would have the ability to fight against super magical beasts and gods after transforming.

"Casey, how many people are there in the Mountain Cluster Palace right now, and what's the organizational structure like?"

After Casey signed the servant contract, he could not hide anything from Ning Shi, so he answered directly.

"The Mountain Cluster Palace was established by Gru, the 9th King of the Brad Empire 600 years ago, and has been passed down since."

"The organization had two main purposes. The first was to ensure the continuation of the bloodline of the Brad Empire and the royal family. The second was to ensure that the Brad Empire would maintain the independence of the humans and not become the vassal of the gods or the super magical beasts."

"The organization was divided into five levels: Hall master, deputy hall masters, deacons, official members, and probationary members. Currently, there was one hall master, three deputy hall masters, 11 deacons, 237 official members, and 411 probationary members, making a total of 663 members."

"The reserve members must have at least an LV 9 bloodline, while the official members must have an LV 9 bloodline close to perfection."

Ning Shi nodded. He was not surprised at all that there were so many LV 9 Bloodline experts in the Mountain Cluster Palace. This was the accumulation of an Empire's royal family for close to 300 years.

After helping Lena win the title of the Duke of Rose, Gu Bin was worried that Ning Shi would have improper thoughts about the Rose City territory and had warned him.

Gu Bin's words implied that there were some LV 9 Bloodline experts hidden in the Alice family's ancestral home.

If the situation in a Duke family was already like this, then those in the royal family's heritage would definitely be hidden deeper.

"How much do you know about the origin treasure?"

Ning Shi asked again about the origin treasure. Casey was not impatient and answered seriously.

"I became an official member of the Mountain Cluster Palace five years ago, so I don't know much. I was able to attend the meeting last time mainly because I was once the king."

"According to deputy hall master Karl, the Mountain Cluster Palace could observe the state of the origin treasure from a distance, and should one get close, the origin treasure would slip away."

"Because the origin treasure was almost destroyed by the Beast God Guevsh, they are very cautious with it."

"After the Lionheart blade was destroyed by you, my Lord, Hall Master Joseba criticized Joerger. In order to atone for his crimes and make a contribution, he is currently closely monitoring the entire world in search of new origin weapons."

Ning Shi asked Casey a few more questions. However, upon seeing that Casey really did not know much about the origin treasure, Ning Shi said to him.

"Take the teleportation array and return to the Mountain Cluster Palace overnight. As for your assassination mission, just say that I escaped because you were careless."

"Don't worry, the contract I signed with you will definitely not be seen through."

...

"After you return to the Mountain Cluster Palace, just be yourself and don't do anything abnormal. If you have any news, you can open the character panel and use the message function to leave a message for me."

"As you wish, my Lord!"

Casey accepted the order. He took the teleportation array four times in a row and returned to the capital, the Golden Lion City.

Casey did not waste any time and walked all the way to the depths of the Mountain Cluster Palace.

He actually ran into Joerger along the way.

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Joerger's eyebrows were moving up and down.

Casey, who was familiar with his grandson, knew that in order to train his energy-conservation skills, Joerger had worked hard to keep his emotions hidden since he was young.

When he was extremely happy, his face would still be expressionless, but his eyebrows would involuntarily move up and down.

"What's the matter, Joerger?"

When Joerger saw Casey, he stopped in his tracks and a small figure immediately bumped into him.

"Ah! It hurts!"

...

A thin and weak youth cried out in pain.

Only then did Casey notice that there was a young man following behind Joerger. His line of sight had been blocked by Joerger's large muscular body.

Casey, as a former king, was naturally not a stupid person.

The appearance of the youth out of the blue, in addition to Joerger's happy eyebrows and the direction he was walking towards…the Mountain Cluster Hall.

Casey asked tentatively.

"Joerger, you found an origin weapon? This young man is the new host of the origin weapon?"

Joerger looked at the guards around him and gave his grandfather Casey a look.

Casey understood and didn't ask any more questions, only following him into the depths of the palace. 𝔫𝗈𝑣𝗲𝑙𝓊𝒮𝒷.𝗰𝑂𝓂

When he arrived at the Mountains Cluster Palace, he saw that Joseba and his brother Karl were already waiting for him.

After a respectful greeting, Joerger led the young man behind him to the front of Joseba and said,

"Ancestor, this young man is called Sean Carlos. He's the owner of the newly evolved origin weapon."

Joseba quietly listened to Joerger's introduction. He wasn't particularly excited about the news.

"He was the second son of Marquis Carlos. He was very talented since he was young and became an LV 3 Bloodline Warrior at the age of 14. He was also engaged to Bilodid, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Rosaceae."

"His dazzling talent made him a thorn in the eyes of the Marquis's eldest son."

"In the end, they poisoned his bloodline potion and turned him into a piece of trash. The engagement was also retracted by Duke Georgina."

Joseba didn't say anything. Nothing new was happening under the sun.

In noble families, the drama of brothers killing each other for the sake of inheriting the title was played out every day.

"After the last meeting, I activated the shadow intelligence network that was set up all over the country. I paid close attention to various abnormal people and events. During my observation, I found out that after Sean became a useless person for a year, his talent had inexplicably recovered, and he was even more talented than before."

"In the family competition, he defeated his elder brother with an LV 4 bloodline."

Joerger grabbed Sean's arm. On Sean's finger, there was a simple black ring.

"He was able to do all of this because of this ring. It is also the new origin weapon. Sean has already named it the soul ring because the soul of a person from the future lives inside!"

Casey's expression was filled with shock.

"A person from the future?"

Joseba showed an interested look.

If Ning Shi was here, he would definitely shout at Sean.

"As the saying goes, fortune changes sides frequently, it's better not to bully those that aren't as fortunate."

"An elite fighter is terrifying!"

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As Joerger finished his introduction, the ring on Sean's middle finger began to emit red light.

At first, the light was in the shape of a mist, but it gradually began to evolve, and a moment later, it converged into a red figure.

The figure bowed deeply to Joseba.

"I, Antonio Moulins, the Major General of the new Lion City, greet the great master of the mountains, the creator of the magic core civilization, and the pioneer of the rise of mankind, His Majesty Joseba Ryan!"

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Casey and Karl were both shocked. This was the first time they had seen someone in a soul state.

The soul was the domain of the gods, and mortals could not simply touch it.

Compared to Casey and Karl, Joseba was much calmer.

He was a transmigrator, and a transmigrator of the soul at that, so he understood Antonio's existence very well.

What he cared more about was what Antonio called him.

"The master of the mountains, the creator of the magic core civilization, the pioneer of the rise of mankind."

If Antonio was really from the future, then these titles meant that he had invented the magic core weapon in the future and led the humans to defeat the super magical beasts.

"Mr. Antonio, are you really from the future? Can you tell me about your experience?"

Antonio was floating in the air. He had no physical body, but his voice could be heard.

"I was born in year 455 of the new calendar, which is 500 years from now."

"In my era, the gods had all fallen, and the super magical beasts were hiding on the magical beast Island. After the humans occupied the magical beast continent, they reconnected the magical beast continent and the Moen continent, and changed their names to the 'Independent Continent'."

"I lived in one of the most prosperous cities in the independent continent, the New Lion City."

"In the textbooks that I've learned since I was young, Your Majesty Joseba is a great pioneer that changed the course of history. You invented the magic core cannons, magic core fighter planes, and the greatest magic core castle."

"The later generations continued to improve and create based on your magic core castle, eventually forming magic core sky cities, magic towers, magic core warships, and other powerful war weapons."

"That's why you've been honored as the creator of the magic core civilization."

Hearing these words, Joseba was extremely excited, his white beard trembling.

There was a sense of emptiness in his heart after being satisfied, which was immediately filled with greater ambition.

"With Antonio's help, I should do even better. Not only should I invent more magic core weapons, but I should also break through the limits of my lifespan!"

"How long did I live?" He asked.

"According to 'The Chronicles of the Brad Empire' and 'the History of Human Independence', His Majesty Joseba was the first king of the new human country, the Independent Empire."

"In the 11th year of the new calendar, you reached the end of your life and died in the palace."

"I can still live for another 55 years."

A trace of unwillingness rose in his heart. Breaking through the shackles of the LV9 Bloodline could extend his life, and he was definitely not willing to only live for another 55 years.

"I have to speed up the process of unifying the Moen Continent and defeat the super magical beasts. Only then can I gather resources and break through the LV9 Bloodline."

Just as Joseba was thinking this, Antonio said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. With me around, you will definitely be able to break through the limits of the LV9 Bloodline and become the Supreme. Your lifespan will reach a thousand years."

Joseba understood the meaning behind Antonio's words. Antonio must have a scheme for taking the initiative to say this.

"Mr. Antonio, before we make a deal, you must let me know the chips in your hands and the price I have to pay."

Antonio's mouth twitched as he spoke uncomfortably.

"I hope your Majesty Joseba can help me find a suitable body."

"You don't know this, but after becoming a soul, I can't eat, I can't sleep, and I've lost most of my normal senses. I'm going crazy!"

"Is this the punishment of endless silence? Is this the punishment from the heavens? I didn't do anything outrageous!"

"As long as you agree to find a body suitable for my soul to live in and swear a Bloodline Oath, I'll teach you the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique."

"In the future, humans abandoned the low-level Bloodline Guidance Technique created by the super magical beasts and uniformly cultivated the high-level Bloodline Guidance Technique created by the Supreme Empress Lady Lena."

"This guidance technique has no bloodline curses and can help humans cultivate into the Supreme Bloodline."

In order to win the trust of Joseba, Antonio whispered to him, telling him a small part of the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique. 𝗇𝓞𝓋𝓔𝑙𝐮𝑠𝔟.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Having studied Bloodline Guidance Technique for 200 years, he could immediately tell the value of the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique.

He took a Bloodline Oath on the spot and obtained the complete advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique.

Just as he was about to go cultivate, Antonio called out to him.

"Your Majesty Joseba, I can only vaguely remember some of the structures of complicated weapons like the magic core castles and magic core warships. However, I am very familiar with the magic core cannons and the magic core fighter plane."

"Perhaps we can discuss this further and quickly create these two weapons before we study the magic core castle."

Joseba was overjoyed. His research had just reached a critical moment. With the help of Antonio, the future soul, he would definitely be able to break through the bottleneck.

The soul ring had already recognized Sean as its master, and Antonio's soul could not be too far away from the soul ring.

In order for Antonio and Joseba to communicate smoothly, Sean had to stay with Joseba.

No one had asked Sean if he was willing to do so. He was just an insignificant teenager, and he was ignored outrightly.

Sean's mind was a mess. He still wanted to strengthen his family. He wanted to become an LV 9 Bloodline Warrior and fight his way into the Duke's mansion. He wanted to make Duke Georgina and her daughter, Bilo, regret breaking off the engagement!

Yesterday, he still thought that he was the Son of Heaven and could sweep the entire world.

Today, the teacher in the soul ring found a new backer, and he was also under house arrest by the royal family.

From the Son of Heaven to a tool, the change came too quickly.

Sean was speechless.

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Joseba led Sean into the underground palace. Casey reported to Karl about the failure of the assassination of Ning Shi. Karl's mind was still on Antonio and the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique.

He didn't care about Casey's failure.

Casey took the opportunity to leave. After returning to his residence, he left a message to Ning Shi through the character template.

On Ning Shi's side, he had just met with Olicia and Jeremy to make arrangements for their future undercover work when he received a system notification.

[Servant Casey has left a message, please take a look.]

Ning Shi quickly checked and found out that Joerger had found a new origin weapon.

He could only sigh. Although he was also collecting relevant information, the newly established intelligence system was far from the foundation of the Empire's royal family.

"Antonio? A soul from the future?"

Ning Shi saw the message and felt very puzzled.

"Is there really a future that is unchanging? If it really exists, then everything we're doing now would be meaningless. If there are different parallel universes in the future, then there are too many possible parallel universes…"

Sensing Ning Shi's thoughts, the game system gave a clear prompt.

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[There is no fixed future, and there is no parallel space and time. The future is always in an uncertain state of fluctuation. Take Schr?dinger's cat as an example.]

Ning Shi asked again after hearing the system's words.

"How do origin treasures obtain information from the future? how do you explain the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique and the magic core weapon that happened in the future?"

[There are countless possibilities for the fluctuating future. The origin treasure has intercepted the information that may evolve in the future.]

[From the present, one could derive 100 possibilities of the future and then obtain useful information from these possibilities. This was the power of the Evolution of Fate and divination.]

[With the appearance of the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique, the possibility of Lena creating the technique would disappear, and she would forever lose her identity as the creator of the technique.]

[The person who created this cultivation technique is either you or a mystery.]

The system's notification was so straightforward that Ning Shi instantly understood.

There was no such thing as a soul from the future.

Antonio was created by the power of fate evolution from the origin treasure of the Moen world.

They had evolved Antonio, perhaps because they were in a hurry and wanted to speed up the process of the rise of mankind.

They would use Antonio's hands to create magic core weapons in advance and strengthen the human race.

He looked at the blueprints of the magic core cannons and the magic core fighter planes in his bag and thought of how Joseba was learning the advanced Bloodline Guidance Technique.

Ning Shi was a little speechless.

These treasures from the beginning made the grand ability of fate evolution look like a thief who stole the fruits of other people's labor.

Sure enough, everyone liked to reap without sowing.

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After receiving the news from Casey and knowing that the new soul ring with a new origin weapon was controlled by the Mountain Cluster Palace, Ning Shi felt pressure.

With Antonio's help, Joseba would be able to develop the magic core cannons and the magic core fighter planes very quickly. By then, with the strength of the entire Brad Empire, the speed at which they could mass-produce magic core weapons would definitely be much faster than Duohuang.

Moreover, with his strength and talent, after obtaining the advanced version of the Bloodline Guidance Technique, it was hard to say when he would break through to the Supreme Bloodline.

Because of the problem of the origin weapons and the origin treasures, Ning Shi and the Brad royal family were already mortal enemies.

When the enemy became stronger, Ning Shi could not remain indifferent.

He decided to make the first move. Taking advantage of the fact that Joseba had not noticed him yet, he would use the power of the servant contract to secretly expand his territory and strength.

With a larger territory and a larger population, the speed of weapon production would naturally be faster, and it would be able to support a stronger army.

Now, Ning Shi had actually controlled a large piece of land in the Duke of Rose's territory, which was equivalent to one-tenth of the Brad Empire in terms of area and population.

He took out the map of the Brad Empire and studied it for a while before deciding to travel.

He made a full circle around the Rose City territory and Duohuang then contracted all the nearby noble Overlords and major generals as his servants.

The game system also guided him in this way and gave him the main storyline mission.

[ Main storyline mission 6: Increase the number of servants to 15000 and the number of followers to 4. Current number of servants: 10054. Current number of followers: 2 people. ]

[ Must-kill mission: Snatch Sean's weapon – soul ring. The soul ring has recognized its owner. You can only snatch it after killing the host. Mission time limit: 3 years. Punishment for failure: Spiritual Power -10, Physique -20 ]

Now that Sean was under the control of the Mountain Cluster Palace, Ning Shi didn't have the chance to kill him.

Next, he would travel around, recruit servants, and strengthen his power.

Ning Shi planned the route well. Some places could be used with teleportation arrays, and some places had to be rushed.

It seemed that he had to bring a mount to save time.

Thinking of his followers, Ning Shi said to the guard outside the door.

"Call Sonya over. Tell her that I need information on the geniuses of the various regions."

In order to find the new origin weapon as soon as possible, Ning Shi gave Sonya great power and rights and asked her to expand the Intelligence Department to investigate the sudden emergence of geniuses or strange events. 𝔫𝑜𝓋𝓮𝐥𝑢𝓈𝔟.𝑐𝑜𝑀

Even though Joerger had obtained the origin weapon before him, he had still managed to gather quite a bit of information on the geniuses from all over the world.

Ning Shi wanted to see if he could find some outstanding geniuses to take in as followers.

After a while, Sonya came in wearing black tights.

The feline girl walked silently, giving off a silent pressure. However, Sonya's elegant cat-like steps, coupled with her exquisite figure, contained the strange beauty of a thorny rose.

"My Lord, the information of the geniuses from all over the world is here."

Sonya bent down, her pointy cat ears perking up.

She handed the documents to Ning Shi with both hands and continued.

"Due to the lack of time, we have only collected information on the more dazzling geniuses on the continent. We have yet to collect information on the geniuses from small places and forces.

"You've worked hard. The Intelligence Department is expanding too fast. You have to keep a close eye on it.

Ning Shi said casually and picked up the information to read.

[ Name: Jennings Kambia, social relations: He is the second son of the Kambia family's collateral bloodline, the Baron of the wall-climbing vine.

[ Age: 19 years old. Bloodline: Level 4 cloud-climbing vine bloodline. Strength assessment: Level 6 bloodline combat power.

[ Battle record: Left the family after reaching adulthood, conquered a Baron's territory with a pioneering order, and defeated two Level 6 bloodline powerhouses. ]

[ Characteristic analysis: Suspected bloodline mutation. Bloodline upgrade has brought about an increase in physical fitness beyond ordinary people. ]

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[ Name: Dott Dupont, social relationship: The illegitimate child of Marquis Dupont. His mother was a farmer's daughter. She died and hated the Dupont family. ]

[ Age: 17 years old. Bloodline: Level 5 giant monolith snake bloodline. Strength assessment: Level 6 bloodline combat power.

[ Battle record: Joined the assassin organization, Red-Black Association, completed 131 assassination missions without failure. Killed Marquis Dupont's eldest son, Fran, three days ago.]

[ Characteristic analysis: In less than a year, he has advanced from Level 1 bloodline to Level 5. The speed of bloodline advancement is different from ordinary people. It is suspected that he can increase his strength through killing.]

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[ Name: Doug Sickle, social relationship: A farmer from Sickle Village under Baron Augustus. His parents died early, and his new wife died.

[ Age: 20 years old, bloodline: Level 2 violent bear bloodline, strength assessment: Level 6 bloodline combat power.

[ Battle record: Baron Augustus seized his wedding night. His wife was played to death by the Baron. His combat strength changed due to resentment, and he killed Baron Augustus, who had a Level 6 bloodline. ]

[ Loathed the nobles, wandered around the territory of the Unicorn Duke, and had already killed four nobles who liked to steal the wedding nights of commoners. ]

[ Characteristic analysis: Weak combat power, mainly relying on strange combat partners to kill. ]

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[ Name: Adrian Red Sun, social relations: The son of a blacksmith Sun Elves in the Sun Village. His mother died early, and his father raised him. ]

[ Age: 18 years old. Bloodline: Level 4 Red Sun Bloodline. Strength assessment: Level 7 bloodline combat power.

[ Battle record: His father accidentally obtained meteoric iron from outer space, and village chief Miku seized it by force. Faced with the siege of a hundred village guards, Adrian slaughtered the guards and the entire village with a sword alone. ]

[ After the father and son escaped, they were wanted by the Elven King. ]

[ Characteristic analysis: Ordinary combat strength, able to control a bloodthirsty demon sword to kill. ]

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Sean's name was also among the information on these geniuses. The intelligence from Duohuang had also noticed him, but it was a pity that his reaction speed was a little slow.

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Ning Shi read it carefully and found that there were a lot of geniuses with special characteristics, such as bloodline mutation, killing people to become stronger, summoning unknown creatures, strange demonic swords, physical strength increase, stacking berserk, and so on.

Many geniuses didn't rely on their own talent, but on the push of unexpected events to improve their strength by leaps and bounds.

It was no wonder the Intelligence Department had not been able to lock onto Sean immediately. Many of the geniuses there were more suspicious than Sean.

At the very least, Sean's training talent had been very strong in the past.

"My Lord," Sonya concluded, "after gathering the data of these geniuses, we discovered that the geniuses who have appeared recently have very average talent. Their rise is mostly due to external forces and luck.

"All sorts of strange abilities have appeared. This is something that has never happened before."

Ning Shi nodded. This phenomenon might be a sign of chaos, but it could also be due to other reasons. There was insufficient information at the moment, so it was impossible to make a conclusion.

As for the geniuses' own lack of talent, it was also caused by their birth.

The rich relied on technology, while the poor relied on mutation.

Most of these geniuses were in the lower-middle class of society, so how good could their talents be?

Ning Shi looked at the location of these geniuses and planned to meet a few geniuses on the way.

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The criteria for him to recruit followers were very simple. He wanted to see if he could trigger the system's character intimacy level. If he could, he would usually recruit heroic characters.

He could pay special attention to it.

After planning everything, Ning Shi took the teleportation array and arrived at Rose City after he had settled the affairs of duo Huang.

Ning Shi first went to the Duke's mansion to see Lena. Facing Lena's bright and hot big eyes, Ning Shi thought of Hao Meng and suddenly felt a little guilty.

He didn't stay for long and left in a hurry with the excuse that he had something on.

Ning Shi wanted to head east from Rose City and enter the territory of the Unicorn Duke.

The first target was the Marquis of Eagle Mountain, Scott.

The Marquis of Eagle Mountain territory was the most powerful Marquis territory under the Unicorn Duke. The territory was covered in mountains and hills, and it was extremely rich in all kinds of minerals.

After contracting Scott as a servant, he could secretly control the Marquis of Eagle Mountain's territory, and he would not have to worry about the lack of ore to produce magic nuclear weapons.

Furthermore, the territory of the Marquis of Eagle Mountain bordered the Rose territory. The continuous mountain range within the territory was a natural barrier for the Unicorn Duke to resist the Rose City territory.

After taking control of this territory, if anyone wanted to take over the territory of the Unicorn Duke in the future, the army would be able to cross the barrier and enter the unicorn plain to attack the city.

Walking out of the city, Ning Shi sat on a tall mammoth and enjoyed the night of the other world.

The moon was very round tonight. The silver moonlight blocked the brilliance of the stars, and the sky was like a dark blue curtain.

It was a natural beauty without any industrial pollution.

Ning Shi adopted the mood of a tourist and leisurely appreciated it.

Suddenly, a red dot appeared in the dark blue sky.

The red dot was getting closer and closer, and an extremely strong sense of oppression hit him in the face.

Feeling the pressure, the mammoths hesitated.

As the red dot approached, it knelt on the ground, its huge ears covering its eyes and trembling.

Ning Shi's vision was extremely good, and he saw the appearance of the red dot clearly.

It had a pair of unfurled wings, a ferocious head, three rows of sharp teeth in its mouth, and a slender body covered in dense scales. Under the moonlight, it flickered with a red halo.

It had a tail that was as long as its body. At the end of the tail, there was a row of sharp spikes. Its limbs were also extremely thick and strong, and it had terrifying sharp claws.

This image was extremely similar to the giant dragons that were circulated in the Western world.

Ning Shi suddenly remembered the encounter with the previous Duke of Rose, Du Bo, and could not help but shout.

"Taikoo Red Dragon!"

Facing the Taikoo Red Dragon's arrival, Ning Shi was on full alert.

In Western Legends, dragons were synonymous with evil. Among them, the chromatic giant dragons were usually chaotic and evil villains.

Ning Shi didn't believe that he would encounter a Taikoo Red Dragon not long after coming out to travel.

How could there be such a coincidence in the world? this Dragon had come for him.

After a few seconds, the Taikoo Red Dragon flew above Ning Shi.

Her body was huge, and when she spread her wings, they were forty to fifty meters wide.

Following the Red Dragon's hovering, a gust of strong wind rolled up, blowing Ning Shi's clothes until they fluttered.

A huge draconic might enveloped the mammoth, and it had already fainted. Its long nose was spread out on the ground powerlessly, and it had completely lost consciousness.

The Red Dragon's two huge eyes stared at Ning Shi, and cold air filled the surroundings.

Her eyes were sky blue, pure and cold, full of the coldness of a carnivore hunting its prey.

Facing the Taikoo Red Dragon's pressure, Ning Shi didn't panic. He also had a dragon bloodline and had draconic might, so he wasn't affected by the Red Dragon's draconic might.

Furthermore, he had the trump card of the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, so he might not necessarily lose to the Red Dragon.

Even if he couldn't defeat them, he could escape.

Even if he couldn't escape, he would only lose a bit of mental energy.

There was nothing to be afraid of.

"Your Excellency Red Dragon, you seem to have specially come to find me?"

Advanced magical beasts had intelligence, but the Taikoo Red Dragon was a super magical beast, so its intelligence was no different from a human's.

Ning Shi directly asked.

Seeing that it couldn't scare Ning Shi, the Taikoo Red Dragon's huge eyes turned, flashing with a hint of slyness.

She suddenly retracted her draconic might and transformed into a human.

She was wearing a red robe. A beautiful young woman with an extremely attractive figure appeared in front of Ning Shi.

Her voice was very gentle, like an elder sister from the neighbor's house, but the content of her words shocked Ning Shi.

"I haven't been sleeping well recently. The last time I woke up, I came out to exercise.

"This time, after I woke up, I sensed a guest from another world. I was very curious, so I came to take a look."

The Taikoo Red Dragon actually saw through Ning Shi's origin at a glance.

Ning Shi did not speak and directly threw an inspection technique.

[ Target detected: Ilya-Augustus. Spiritual power Comparison:27/55, able to investigate very little information ]

[ Character: Ilya August ]

[ Physique: 54 (…) ]

[ Spirit: 55 (…) ]

[ Appearance: 10 (Pearl of the dragon clan) ]

[ Family background: 10 (Direct descendant of the Taikoo dragon race) ]

[ Bloodline: Taikoo Dragon (…) ]

[ Occupation: … ]

[ Skill: Dragon Breath Level 13 ]

[ Talent: Draconic might (purple) ]

[ Achievement: … ]

Seeing the data full of ellipses, Ning Shi was numb.

According to his speculations, when one's Physique or Spiritual Power reached 50 points, they would be at the peak of the Supreme Bloodline, super magical beast, or the so-called gods.

He had thought that 50 points were the limit for all creatures in World of Moen.

Why did a Taikoo Red Dragon suddenly appear? Her Physique and spirit both broke through 50 points.

Ning Shi had a feeling of the game system's combat power collapsing.

After Ning Shi transformed into a Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, his physique was only 48 points. Compared to Ilya's 54 points, there was a difference of 6 points.

A difference of 6 points meant that the difference in combat strength was at least a dozen times, not to mention the huge difference in spiritual power.

Ilya looked at Ning Shi with her deep blue eyes and called out his name.

"Your Excellency Ning Shi, have you found my information? If there's any information that's been concealed, do you want me to lower my mental defense and let you investigate again?"

Ning Shi laughed awkwardly at being ridiculed for his insight technique, and then straightened his back.

If he died, it would just be a bit of spiritual energy. He must not be afraid.

And even though the Taikoo Red Dragon threatened him, Ning Shi could feel that she didn't have any ill intentions.

"Lady Ilya, why have you come to find me? This isn't a good place to talk. Why don't we find a place to sit down and have a good chat?"

Ilya looked at Ning Shi curiously. This man should have checked her strength, but he was not afraid at all.

It had been a long time since she had met an intelligent creature that could look her in the eye.

With a wave of her hand, Ning Shi's vision blurred and he felt dizzy.

When he looked around again, he found himself in a huge palace.

...

The main body of this palace was made of black rocks. It was extremely tall and spacious. On the walls, there were various lifelike embossed.

There were giant dragons and all kinds of species in the embossed. Every piece of relief sculpture was extremely vivid.

In the hall, the magic stone lamps were lit up, and all the equipment was arranged in an orderly manner.

"This is the palace I live in. It's located in the inner part of the highest peak of the Tianqing Mountain Range. Please have a seat."

There were two sets of daily necessities in the palace. One set was very large and should be used by Ilya when she was a dragon. The other set was exquisite and small, suitable for humans. 𝑛𝑂𝑽𝗲𝗅𝒰𝓈𝚋.𝑪𝑜𝐌

Ning Shi didn't stand on ceremony and sat down on the snow-white jade chair.

"I'm sleeping most of the time," Ilya explained. "When I wake up occasionally, I'll turn into a human and do some carving, painting, and other things to pass my time.

"The chair you're sitting on was made by me. "

Ning Shi touched the smooth and round armrest of the chair and sincerely praised, "Lady Ilya, these works of yours can definitely be appreciated as art pieces in the human world."

No matter how powerful a creature was, it would have its own hobbies. It was obvious that Ilya was very artistic and especially liked carving.

"Your Excellency Ning Shi, do you also study carving?"

...

"I know a little. In my world, there is a magical carving art called micro-carving.

"The master of micro-carving could carve a complete palace on a grain of rice. If there's a chance in the future, I can bring some information for Lady Ilya's reference."

This was the first time Ilya had heard of micro-carving, and she was greatly shocked. She wanted to ask for more guidance.

Ning Shi quickly changed the topic. Talking about carving could shorten the distance between them. If they continued talking, he, who was half-baked, would be exposed.

"Lady Ilya, I'm very curious. How did you know that I'm a visitor from another world, and how did you call out my name? "

Ilya smiled and took out a set of wine glasses and a bottle of fruit wine from her spatial ring.

After pouring a glass of wine for Ning Shi, she said, "It's because I'm also a guest from another world. Our souls contain the aura of another world.

"The strange thing is that the aura of the other world in your soul is very weak, so weak that it is difficult to detect, completely covered by the aura of this world.

"If I didn't come from another world and have some special abilities, I definitely wouldn't have been able to find you.

"Your situation has piqued my curiosity, so I came to meet you.

"As for your name, as you get stronger, your real name will become more and more special. I can sense a little of it with my senses."

Ning Shi understood. His avatar was formed by the soul of his main body, so he was essentially a person from another world. However, the avatar grew up in the World of Moen and joined the bloodline warrior system of the World of Moen.

It could be said that he had gained all his strength in the World of Moen.

The aura of the World of Moen on his body naturally became stronger.

This should be an effect deliberately created by the game system to hide the identity of outsiders.

As expected, what Ilya said next confirmed this point.

"As visitors from another world, we will be rejected by this world, and there are many restrictions on the use of our abilities. Otherwise, it will lead to bad consequences.

Ning Shi thought that Ilya wanted a way for him to hide his aura, so he said directly.

"If you want to hide the aura of the other world, I'm sorry, but I can't do anything because I don't know the specific method.

"The only thing I know is that I've cultivated the strength physique of the World of Moen, or perhaps that's why I've concealed the aura of the other world."

Seeing that Ning Shi was so honest, Ilya smiled, reached out her white and slender hand, and drank a glass of fruit wine.

"I'm strong enough, so I don't need to hide my aura. I only saw you out of curiosity.

"After all, I've been in this world for over a thousand years and have seen many visitors from other worlds. You're the most special one."

Ning Shi's heart was in turmoil, but he tried not to show it on his face. He drank the fruit wine in front of him in one go.

This wine was surprisingly very strong. After drinking it, one's throat would burn at first, but after that, one's spirit would enter a lazy state, making one extremely relaxed.

This wine was obviously not ordinary. Ning Shi savored the taste for a moment before asking.

"Are there many people from other worlds in the World of Moen? I always thought that I was the only transmigrator."

"A transmigrator? This term is very appropriate." Ilya filled their glasses again and replied, "The World of Moen is very special. For some reason, the world's barrier is very fragile, and many people from other worlds will cross here.

"Some of them transmigrated after they died, some of them encountered a space crack and their entire bodies transmigrated. Some like me came here by themselves out of curiosity about the situation in this world."

Ilya closed her eyes and sensed for a moment, then continued, "However, the strange thing is that recently, there have been more and more soul auras coming from foreign visitors.

"In less than a year, many transmigrators had come.

"Demon sword? Evil spirits? Interesting, very interesting, very interesting!"

Hearing Ilya's words, Ning Shi immediately thought of the genius information he had seen before.

Was the fortuitous encounter that allowed these geniuses to rise all backed by transmigrators?

Just as Ning Shi was about to ask again, Ilya's expression changed and she said seriously.

"Your Excellency Ning Shi, I want to sign a companion contract with you. I wonder if you're willing?"

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Ilya's invitation was too sudden, and Ning Shi was caught off guard.

"Lady Ilya, although I don't know the specific contents of the companion contract, from the name of the contract, it should be that after signing it, we will be companions who will fight side by side.

"We've only met for the first time today, and you're already asking me to sign this kind of contract. Furthermore, you're obviously stronger than me. I don't know what you value about me. "

"Or rather, what's your ultimate goal in signing a companion contract with me? "

Ilya's eyes flickered, and she looked a little lonely. She drank another glass of wine.

"It's a long story. I'll explain the companion contract to you.

"This is an extremely precious contract unique to the Taikoo dragon race. Every Taikoo dragon can only have one combat partner in their entire life.

"After signing it, we will become partners who trust each other. Both sides are equal, and there are no mandatory terms.

"After becoming partners, we have two abilities. One is to restrict the other. We cannot attack each other, or we will suffer the backlash of the contract. The attack power will be borne by us.

"The other is summoning. No matter where you and I are, we can use the summoning ability to summon the other person to our side.

"Summoning doesn't consume any power. As long as he is willing, the summoner can stay at the summoning location until the summoner stops summoning."

"I want to sign a contract with you because I'm proficient in the path of the soul. In my eyes, your Soul Fire is dark green, indicating that you like order and peace in your heart.

"The color of emotions is basically a mild yellow. You are very open when you communicate with me and didn't lie.

"It was only when I said that I've seen many transmigrators that your emotion turned dark red. It should be due to shock."

Ning Shi forced a smile unnaturally, drank a cup of wine, and directly requested.

"If you can, please don't use this ability. I don't like the feeling of being seen through."

Ilya nodded. "I'm sorry, I'm being presumptuous. Although we haven't known each other for long, I can basically tell that you're a good person."

This was a good guy card. Ning Shi rubbed his nose.

What Ilya said next made him even more embarrassed.

"After I transformed into a human, you peeked at my chest 5 times, my legs 7 times, and my butt 11 times. I poured you wine, but you peeked at my hands."

This is also a plus point. It shows that you are a real and honest person, not good at pretending."

Ning Shi's instinctive behavior was discovered. He coughed to clear his throat, picked up the bottle, and filled the two people's cups, using his actions to cover up the awkwardness.

In the dragon culture, there was no concept of chastity. Ilya finished the wine Ning Shi had poured and looked at Ning Shi seriously.

"I came to the World of Moen when I was very young. I don't have a dragon partner yet, nor have I used a companion contract.

"After signing the companion contract, if you have any physical needs, I can satisfy you.

"I'll say this first, the dragon race has a special body structure, and humans basically can't withstand it. If you're too fast, don't feel embarrassed, as long as you feel comfortable."

Ning Shi couldn't resist these words. He drank a cup of wine and changed the topic.

"What's the second reason? You won't choose me as your combat partner simply because I'm not bad in nature."

Upon seeing Ning Shi's defeated look, Ilya's big blue eyes turned into crescents as she laughed.

"The second reason is that I want to leave this world."

Ilya stared at Ning Shi nervously and asked word by word, "Your Excellency Ning Shi, I know the insight technique too. Although you have a supreme treasure on you and helped you conceal the information, I can sense that you have a way to leave this world, right? "

Ning Shi did not hide or lie but answered frankly.

"That's right, I have a clue."

There was no need for Ning Shi to hide it. With Ilya's perverted spiritual power and soul-detection abilities, lying would not work on her.

"You want to sign a companion contract with me and summon you after I return to my own world? "

Ilya nodded, and Ning Shi asked doubtfully, "With your strength, you should be invincible in the World of Moen, right? Who can make you stay?

"As you said before, the barrier of the World of Moen is very fragile. You can leave if you want, why would you waste your precious companion contract?"

Ilya did not answer Ning Shi's question directly. She stood up and walked to the embossed on the palace wall, pointing at one of the beastman sculptures.

This beastman had an ugly appearance and held a spear. He wore heavy armor and had a crazed look on his face.

"This is the so-called Beastman God, Guevsh, is a chaotic and despicable madman. Your Excellency Ning Shi, do you think that its appearance fits the image of a god in your imagination?"

Ilya spoke the common language of the humans in the World of Moen, and she used "it" to address him.

Ning Shi could feel the disdain in her words for these gods.

"And this fat meatball is the god of strength, Torrell. He's still struggling to survive in his Divine Kingdom." 𝓝𝒪𝓋𝐄𝐋𝓊𝗌𝓫.𝗰𝐎𝑀

From left to right, Ilya introduced them all the way, showing the images of the gods to Ning Shi one by one.

In the end, she concluded, "These so-called gods are all thieves.

"In the World of Moen, there is not a single God that uses their own power to light up their divine fire, condense their divine persona, and rule their divine title."

Ning Shi listened attentively. Ilya glanced at him and continued.

"After you experience many worlds in the future, you will sense that every independent world has a special existence. You can call it the world's will, the heavenly Dao, the god of heaven, the god of creation, or a large collection of the laws of the world's operation. It does not have an active consciousness and only operates passively to protect the normal development of the world.

"Visitors from other worlds like us are unstable factors in the world's development and will be rejected by him.

"Usually, the world's will is hidden and extremely difficult to discover.

"About 10,000 years ago, the will of the World of Moen suddenly appeared. At that time, a group of stronger species seized the opportunity and stole a part of the will.

"They relied on the world's essence power to ignite their divine fire, seized the power of the law to condense their divine personas, and then extended different divine titles through different power of the law.

"In order to ensure the stability of their divine positions, they tricked their believers and used the faith of intelligent creatures as nutrients to replenish their divine power.

"The gods were born."

...

Ning Shi was a little confused and asked, "If that's the case, we can only say that the gods seized the opportunity, but we can't say that they're thieves, right? "

After introducing the specific image of the god, Ilya sat back on the chair and poured two more glasses of wine before answering.

"There are three main reasons why I call them thieves. The first is that their way of strengthening themselves is at the cost of damaging the world's will.

"They stole the power of the world will, causing the World of Moen to become weak. The world barrier is extremely fragile, and the entire world is like a leaking ladle with many transmigrators.

"The second reason is that they had fooled the species of the world for the sake of their faith. They had consumed the soul resources of the entire world and hindered the normal operation of the world.

"The last and most important point is that these gods don't deserve to be called gods. They are considered strong among their own race, but they were essentially weak and ordinary species, unable to control the power of the gods.

"After becoming a god, they will be completely eroded by the power of the law and become slaves to the divine title.

The Beastman God, Guevsh's divine title is chaos and war. He doesn't care about the life and death of his own race at all. In order to strengthen his divine power, he started wars everywhere. His actions are also extremely chaotic. There is only chaos and war in him. When has he ever had his own free will?"

"Gods like the god of shadow and the god of love are even worse. As for the god of wisdom and the god of justice, they are even funnier. They don't understand what wisdom and justice are at all. After becoming gods, their various actions are like a clumsy clown."

Ilya's description made Ning Shi think of a sentence in the Yunmeng Kingdom's divine book, the Book of Changes.

"The heavens are vigorous, and a gentleman never stops improving himself. The earth is vast, and a gentleman should carry things with his virtue.

...

"Without virtue, even with wealth, status, power, and strength, one could not control it.

"Without virtue, the final result would be to lose oneself in wealth and power."

Gods being bound and enslaved by divine titles sounded ridiculous, but it was inevitable when one thought about it.

It was because the gods of the World of Moen lacked accumulation. It was both fortunate and unfortunate that they had reached the heavens in one step.

After talking about the gods, Ilya finally got to the point.

"In order to ensure the normal development of the world, World of Moen will begin to repair the world barrier. Because the power of natural laws is stolen, the world will instinctively choose the most economical way to repair it.

"First, one would have to repair the hole in the World of Moen.

"If the holes in the world barrier are seen as passages, then the current passages are all in the shape of cobblestones, big on the outside and small on the inside.

"It will be very easy for people outside to come in, but it is especially difficult for people inside to go out.

"A thousand years ago, a large number of gods fell, and the power of the world's will strengthened. It became even more difficult to leave the World of Moen."

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Ning Shi had doubts in his heart after hearing Ilya say this.

Ilya's spiritual power was as high as 55 points, and her perception was over-the-top. How could she not know that the World of Moen would be connected to the Saturn World in more than a month?

Logically speaking, if a world passage appeared in the Mieln Federation, the same passage should have appeared in the World of Moen.

Was it due to Ilya's negligence that she didn't discover it, or was the New World discovered by the Mieln Federation not the Moen Federation at all?

Or was it the world's consciousness that was intentionally interfering with Ilya's perception?

Ning Shi was a little uncertain.

Ilya's words made Ning Shi understand the reason…

"I've been in this world for more than 1100 years. At first, I thought it was very novel, but in less than 20 years, I felt bored. This is a world with nothing new.

"After that, I was sleeping.

"I woke up a few times in the middle and tried to find a chance to leave this place, but I failed in the end.

"In my boredom, I could only continue to sleep to increase my strength."

She was probably sleeping and didn't pay attention to the changes in the world.

To be able to become stronger just by sleeping, the talent of dragons was enviable.

After some consideration, Ning Shi was still prepared to sign a companion contract with Ilya.

It wasn't because he was lustful, but mainly because he valued Ilya's powerful combat ability.

Ever since he found out about the owner of the origin treasure, Ning Shi still had a sense of crisis in his heart. Who knew when the owner of the origin treasure from other worlds would kill his way to the Saturn World and snatch Ning Shi's origin treasure?

After signing the contract, he would have a powerful bodyguard and his sense of security would increase greatly.

The most important thing was that even if he didn't bring Ilya out, after more than a month, the world passage would be connected, and Ilya could still enter the Saturn World.

With Ilya's strength, she might cause a big problem if she didn't have anyone to guide her after entering the Saturn World.

Now, using the companion contract to bind and guide her was more beneficial to Saturn.

"Ilya, I can sign a contract with you, but I need you to promise me that you won't do anything stupid in my world."

Upon hearing Ning Shi's words, Ilya was extremely excited. She felt the prosperous atmosphere of Saturn in Ning Shi's soul.

She was a curious dragon who liked to explore the world.

Being trapped in the World of Moen was like being in prison. Now that she could get out, she was especially happy.

"No problem, Your Excellency Ning Shi. I can add a freedom clause in the contract. After arriving at Saturn, I absolutely won't harm the creatures there.

"I'll also give you an additional discount of one year of free service.

"For a year, you can order me to do anything, provided that it doesn't go against my bottom line."

A year might be the concept of a day for a Taikoo Red Dragon that had a lifespan of 10000 years.

"No problem!"

Ning Shi nodded in agreement.

Ilya walked to Ning Shi, took his hand, and pressed it on her soft and full chest. Her left hand was on Ning Shi's shoulder, and she read aloud.

"Under the witness of the great ancestral dragon, Hiccup, and the supreme free will, I, Ilya Pixie Zloyutro… August is willing to sign a Taikoo dragon companion contract with Ning Shi. The content is as follows…"

Ilya mumbled a bunch of words and a purple light shone from her body, turning into a ray of light that connected her and Ning Shi.

A notification came from the game system.

[ Taikoo Red Dragon Ilya August invites you to sign a companion contract. Do you agree? Yes, no. ]

[ After signing this contract, all attacks you deal to Ilya will be forcefully transferred to you. You can summon Ilya to battle, but you also must participate in the battle when she summons you. ] 𝒩𝑶𝒱𝔢𝓁𝓊𝑆𝓫.𝓒𝒐𝓂

After receiving the system prompt, Ning Shi felt more at ease. He clicked yes.

The purple light connecting the two of them was instantly cut off, turning into two balls of light and entering the bodies of the two.

Ning Shi felt a new message in his mind. If he followed this message, he could activate the summoning technique and summon Ilya to fight.

After signing the contract, Ilya's attitude towards Ning Shi became extremely close, and she said jokingly.

"Ning Shi, are my boobs comfortable to touch? The contract has been completed, and you still don't want to let go."

Ilya's words were straightforward and bold, and Ning Shi immediately retracted his hand. It felt amazing.

"Ning Shi, what's your travel plan this time? Tell me and I'll help you complete it. This way, you can return to your original world faster and summon me over."

Since they had signed the contract, Ning Shi was not so guarded against Ilya.

He explained the situation of the Duohuang and Brad Empires to Ilya.

"You know that I have a treasure. This treasure has a magical power that can force some people to contract as my servants. The success rate of the contract depends on the spiritual energy of the other party and me.

"I came out this time to use this ability to expand my influence."

Upon hearing this, Ilya opened her palm, and a crystal-clear fruit appeared in her hand.

The fruit looked like an apple, and it was emitting a faint silver-white light. Countless tadpole-like creatures were swimming inside the fruit, making it look very mysterious.

"I'm from the Sky Dragon World. This is a fruit unique to our world, the ethereal fruit. After eating it, it will strengthen your spiritual power, and the strengthening effect varies from person to person.

"This fruit will only be effective the first time it's consumed. To me, it's only an ingredient for making wine.

"This ethereal fruit is for you, just eat it."

Ning Shi's current spiritual power was only 27 points. Compared to his physique, it was indeed too low.

So, he didn't stand on ceremony. After remembering the favor from Ilya, he directly took the fruit and ate it.

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[ Consumed Sky Dragon World's specialty: Ethereal fruit. Spiritual energy is randomly increasing… Spirit 3 ]

Ning Shi instantly felt that his soul had been sublimated, as if it was constantly flying up until it flew to a critical point.

With a leap, his soul broke free from the restraints of his physical body, and the world turned gray in an instant.

The soul, without its support, was like a wisp in the wind, a small boat in the waves.

It was too terrifying. Ning Shi's thoughts flashed, and his soul instantly retracted back into his body.

Ilya seemed to have sensed something, and she said gently,

"Ning Shi, your spiritual power grew too fast, and your soul showed a rare phenomenon of rising. This is a normal reaction, so don't worry."

After stabilizing his mind, Ning Shi felt that his five senses were more powerful, and his control of his body was more precise. His thinking and memory speed were also faster.

"Thank you, Ilya. The ethereal fruit came just in time for me."

"You're welcome. Combat partners should help each other." Ilya smiled and poured out the last of the wine in the bottle, finishing it in one gulp. Then she said, "Let's go. Now that you have enough spiritual energy, I'll bring you around and subdue those servants."

To leave the World of Moen, Ilya had learned some spatial magic over the years. With her around, Ning Shi's speed of advancement was like teleportation.

...

In the blink of an eye, Ning Shi appeared in the residence of the Marquis of Eagle Mountain.

Under Ilya's casual suppression, the Marquis of Eagle Mountain could not move at all. He was forced to become Ning Shi's servant.

With the help of the Marquis, Ning Shi also contracted a dozen key figures in the Marquis' territory.

He had completely taken control of Marquis of Eagle Mountain's territory.

In the same way, Ning Shi had signed contracts with more than 2000 servants in one night, secretly controlling more than half of the Brad Empire.

Ilya was not impatient at all. She continued to follow Ning Shi and help him contract servants.

She suggested, "Ning Shi, your contract ability is very abnormal. In that case, why don't we directly find the royal family of the human empire?"

"If you contract all of them, won't you be able to unify the entire Moen Continent?"

Hearing this suggestion, Ning Shi suddenly smacked his head. He had been misled by his habitual thinking.

The previous plan was to slowly expand his power because Ning Shi was not confident that he could confront the three empires' full forces and the super magical beasts and gods behind them.

Now that he had Ilya's help, subduing these royal family members was a piece of cake.

But on second thought, it didn't seem right.

Ning Shi analyzed, "There are two problems now. One is that my spiritual power is not high enough. Many key figures, such as the Mountain Cluster Palace Master, Joseba, have spiritual power that is estimated to reach 40 points. I can't contract them.

"Secondly, I've observed the way you subdue your opponents, it's mental suppression. Under the suppression of the world's will, your attacks seem to be limited."

Ilya nodded, not hiding anything.

"As a visitor from another world, if I attack recklessly, it will lead to unpredictable tragic consequences. Otherwise, I don't mind helping you wipe out the super magical beasts and gods, but this is not allowed by the will of the world.

"If that's the case, I suggest that you focus on increasing your spiritual power. Once you have enough spiritual power, I will help you contract the higher-ups of the humans and control the Moen Continent.

"As for the Elven Empire, it's backed by the remaining gods, and the relationship between the gods and their believers is extremely special, especially those in special positions such as the Elven King and the Grand Elder. They're closely watched by the gods, and the chances of you being discovered by the gods if you sign a contract with them are extremely high.

"But you don't have to worry. After the Battle of the Gods a thousand years ago, many gods fell, and the world's will has recovered most of its power.

"Furthermore, humans have abandoned their gods, and the power of faith is also decreasing. The remaining gods are destined to perish, but we have to prevent them from taking desperate actions."

Ning Shi thought for a moment and said, "Next, let's go to the Elven Empire to contract servants. We won't touch people like the Elven King. It shouldn't be a problem to contract some middle and upper-class people."

Ilya nodded.

In the next two days, the man and dragon didn't rest and filled up Ning Shi's extra 5000 servant slots.

He had also gained control of nine cities in the Elven Empire to the south of Duohuang, as well as the demonic ape dukedom of the Ole Empire to the west of Duohuang.

The demonic ape Duke had a strong body, but his spiritual power was not high. Ning Shi successfully enslaved him.

Now, the area of power controlled by Ning Shi was no less than any of the previous empires. Under this trend, it could be said that the territory he ruled had already surpassed the three great empires.

Now that his servant quota was full, there were four things he had to do in the game.

One was to level up his cultivation and improve his spiritual power. Ning Shi estimated that when his spiritual power reached 35 points, he would be able to contract with Joseba. After contracting Joseba, killing Sean and obtaining the soul ring would be a matter of course.

The second was to find a hero, gain two more followers, and complete the main quest.

The third was to expand the production scale of magic core weapons and improve the combat ability of the army, in preparation for the battle against super magical beasts and gods.

The last point was to find the specific location of the world passage between the World of Moen and the Mieln Federation. If the people from the Mieln Federation came, Ning Shi wanted to give them a surprise.

"Ilya, I'll return to Duohuang first, and then return to my world. Just wait in the palace for my summoning!"

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103 Teacher Ilya

These few days, Ilya helped Ning Shi wholeheartedly, making Ning Shi feel her sincerity and kindness.

Ning Shi also hoped to make Ilya happy and repay her for her efforts.

After logging out of the game, Ning Shi first went to the physical store and bought a few sets of women's clothes for Ilya.

After buying the clothes, he returned to his room and activated his summoning skill.

Ning Shi felt a magical wave coming from his body. In an instant, he sensed Ilya's existence.

The space twisted and blurred, and Ilya appeared in front of Ning Shi in red wizard robes.

She furrowed her brows and sniffed. "Ning Shi, there's a lot of dust and impurities in the air of your world. There's also a greasy smell in some places."

Ning Shi didn't argue. Saturn's industrial civilization was developed, so it was normal for the environment to be a little worse.

Sacrificing a little bit of the environment in exchange for a great abundance of material goods was a very good deal.

This was a necessary path for development and the welfare of ordinary people.

After eating and drinking to their fill, they would consider the issue of environmental protection.

The natural environment of the World of Moen was good, but the material and spiritual lives of the people at the bottom were relatively poor.

Compared to the World of Moen, the quality of life of the ordinary people on Saturn was much better.

"Ilya, the environment isn't a problem. You'll slowly get used to it, and then you'll fall in love with the colorful life on Saturn.

"Here are a few sets of clothes that I bought for you. You can choose one that you like first.

"Your current outfit doesn't match the dressing habits of Saturn. It's too strange."

Ilya took the bag and randomly chose a set of clothes. She didn't care that Ning Shi was present and was about to take off her robe.

Ning Shi immediately stopped her.

"Ilya, go to the room and change your clothes. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, understand?

If you want to live a normal life on the planet, you have to learn the rules and customs here."

Ilya had traveled the World of Moen for more than 20 years and naturally knew about the differences between men and women in human society. However, in her opinion, combat partners were closer than lovers.

Moreover, Dragons didn't have any sense of shame when they were naked. When had you ever seen a dragon flying in the sky and covering its reproductive parts?

Therefore, she naturally wanted to take off her clothes in front of Ning Shi.

"Alright, Ning Shi, you have to get used to my trust. We are combat partners.

"I'll change!" Ilya emphasized and went straight to her room to change.

It took Ilya some time to wear Saturn clothes for the first time, and she complained when she came out.

"Ning Shi, I've never worn this kind of clothes before. You should teach me how to wear it."

But Ning Shi was stunned.

Ilya had changed into a black dress, which accentuated her snow-white skin. The deep V-neck design of the dress made her neck look long and slender, and also slightly exposed the deep cleavage on her chest.

The front of the dress was decorated with lotus leaf edges and straps. It was originally for the playful effect, but because Ilya's boobs were too big, the straps seemed a little short.

The only flaw was that the length of the dress reached her calves, covering her long, white legs.

Her shoes were a pair of black, pointy-pointed shoes. The straps were wrapped around her white ankles, and the black and white were distinguished. It was extremely eye-catching.

Ning Shi swore to the heavens that he did not have any dirty thoughts.

When he was shopping for clothes, the staff showed him the concept art of the model's clothing.

Although the dress was designed with a deep V-neck, it was in a playful and fresh style.

Ilya was dressed like a sexy queen.

Indeed, one's cuteness was nothing in front of sexiness.

"Ilya, you don't have any identification now, so don't go around for the time being. I'll teach you how to go online first. You can learn about our world through the internet.

"We'll think of a way to solve the problem of your identity later."

Ever since Ning Shi moved to the school, he had checked out of the room he had rented and moved his computer and other things to the school.

He didn't use the school's network, but instead, he had installed his broadband.

"Press this round button and the computer will turn on. This is the mouse and this is the keyboard, why is it lit up? It is because of electricity. I'll explain later…"

After all, she was superspecies with a spiritual power of 55. Her learning speed was very fast, and she had completely mastered the method of surfing the internet in a short time.

And she was addicted to it.

Ning Shi had just heaved a sigh of relief when Ilya began to ask.

"Ning Shi, what's an online casino in Macau? The art form of film is a great invention. It can record images of the past, but why do some people like to record their mating behavior?"

"What does YYDS mean? Isn't the written language of Yunmeng Kingdom squarish? These memes are very interesting. How do I make them?"

In the next two days, Ning Shi did nothing but help Ilya integrate into the Saturn World as soon as possible with the help of the network.

Ilya's brain was extremely powerful. Although she didn't understand some things, she remembered them all.

In two days, she could already communicate in Mandarin without any barriers, and she also had a basic understanding of Saturn's common sense.

Moreover, she had also thought of how to settle the issue of her identity.

"Ning Shi, I look more like the people of the Mieln Federation and the Kingdom of Mies. I'm going to go to the Kingdom of Mies and control some people there to help me create an identity.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt ordinary people. I'll see you tomorrow."

With that, Ilya disappeared.

...

On the morning of the third day, Ilya reappeared at school. She raised the passport in her hand and handed it to Ning Shi.

"Look, there's even an entry visa. It's absolutely real. No one will find any problems."

Not only had Ilya settled her identity, but she had also used some tricks to get herself a small sum of money and a bank card.

This was the power of a super god.

Ning Shi took her to the school administration office to register and said, "You can be a teacher in my school for the time being. You just need to teach the students some combat skills."

Then, he brought her around the school to familiarize her with the environment.

Finally, he stopped at the teachers' dormitory and handed her a key.

"You can stay here from now on. There are differences between men and women. It's not suitable for us to stay together all the time."

These two days, Ning Shi and Ilya had been living together. Ilya was beautiful and sexy, and she didn't guard against Ning Shi at all. Ning Shi had almost gone overboard.

Knowing that he couldn't stand the test, Ning Shi decisively chose to let Ilya move out.

Before Ilya could reply, Hao Meng suddenly walked out from behind Ning Shi.

... 𝑛𝐎𝑽𝓮𝓁𝐮𝐒𝑩.𝒸𝚘𝚖

She had heard the entire conversation just now.

"Brother Ning Shi, is this beautiful lady your girlfriend?"

Without waiting for Ning Shi's reply, Hao Meng stretched out her hand and said to Ilya, "Hello, I'm Ning Shi's classmate, Hao Meng. I'm also a teacher at the school. May I know your name?"

Ilya already understood the social etiquette of Saturn, so she reached out and shook Hao Meng's hand.

"I'm Ilya, Ning Shi's combat partner. We're not a couple. I can see that you like Ning Shi a lot. If you like him, you have to be brave and express it. "

Hao Meng was instantly defeated.

In comparison, Ning Shi was much better. He was already used to Ilya's straightforwardness.

When Ning Shi was walking around the campus with Ilya, Hao Meng saw them and couldn't help but follow them. She thought that Ilya was the girlfriend Ning Shi had mentioned, but she didn't expect it to be the case.

They were already living together, but they were still not a couple. Hao Meng felt that she had to re-evaluate Ning Shi's character.

Ilya took Ning Shi's key and continued, "Hello, Hao Meng. It's a pleasure to meet you. Your soul is very strange. It's the first time I've met an expert like you. I'd like to talk to you."

Hao Meng was also aware of Ilya's unfathomable strength and was also curious why such a powerful woman suddenly appeared beside Ning Shi.

"Sure, let's go to my room," she replied politely.

Then, the two beauties ignored Ning Shi and walked into the teacher's dormitory.

Ning Shi didn't stop Ilya from contacting Hao Meng.

She was just Ning Shi's combat partner, not a subordinate. Ning Shi would not restrict her movements, nor did he have the ability to restrict her.

Although Ilya was straightforward, she was extremely intelligent and knew what to do.

Hao Meng was also a smart person, so there shouldn't be any conflicts between the two.

After settling Ilya's matter, Ning Shi could be considered to have completed a big mission.

He looked at the time and saw that it was already 10 in the morning.

The phone rang on time.

"Hello, Mr. Ning, I'm the Dongfeng Express delivery man, Xiao Li. Your package has arrived. I rang the doorbell, but no one opened the door. Are you not in your room?"

"I'm sorry, something came up at the last minute. I'll be back immediately. Give me two minutes."

After returning to the real world, the cooldown period for absorbing A-level crystal had passed. Ning Shi absorbed another A-level crystal and raised his strength system to Level 4.

He found that one A-level spirit crystal was not enough for his cultivation, so he exchanged his remaining 1000 merit points for five A-level spirit crystals on the awakened forum.

Now, the goods had arrived.

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Ning Shi quickly returned to his residence.

The delivery man was in a black and red uniform, holding a package in his hand, waiting at the entrance of the courtyard.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Xiao Li!"

"It's okay, Mr. Ning. Please open the package for verification, then use this machine to verify your fingerprints and iris, and sign for the goods."

!!

Ning Shi took the package. It was a black iron box that was one foot tall. He removed the seal and opened the password lock. There were five A-level crystals inside.

After putting away the crystals, Ning Shi cooperated with Xiao Li to verify his identity and complete the signing process.

"Thank you for your cooperation. See you next time!"

After Xiao Li finished speaking, his figure disappeared on the spot.

This scene was very familiar, Ning Shi had seen it at Mo Yu's place.

It was obvious that the deliveryman was a space-type awakener.

Ning Shi walked into the room, locked the door, and prepared to improve his power.

[ Do you want to use an A-level spiritual crystal to upgrade your strength to Level 6? Yes, no.]

Ning Shi clicked yes, and the number of A-level crystals increased from 6 to 5.

A stream of energy gradually fused into his body. As the energy gushed into his body, the muscle fibers and structure of his body were changing.

Last time, when he rose from Level 3 to Level 4, the density of Ning Shi's bones and bones had been enhanced. This time, when he rose to Level 6, it was his internal organs and flesh that had been enhanced.

Ning Shi could feel that the strength-type special ability to strengthen the body was different from adding points in the game.

The strength of the game came from the ability of the origin treasure, which was a comprehensive enhancement of the whole body.

The strengthening of abilities was gradual and focused.

The first to third tiers of strength-type abilities were the adaptation period, and the increase in strength was slow and even.

After Tier 4, strength abilities would gradually change the body, bones, flesh, organs, and so on.

It allowed the body to adapt to a stronger power.

Such an experience could only be felt when one was truly cultivating.

Only with such an experience could he teach his students in a targeted manner.

[ Do you want to consume another A-level spiritual crystal to increase your strength to Level 7? Yes, no.]

"I can also absorb A-level crystals, but I have to wait for 24 hours."

[ The host's body has gradually adapted to the energy of the crystals. You can absorb more crystals at once. If your body can't bear it, the system will give you a prompt. Please absorb it without worry. ]

Ning Shi always felt that the system was encouraging him to absorb spiritual crystals, just like an agent recommending customers to buy a house.

"The game system probably charged me a toll when it helped me absorb the crystals?"

Ning Shi stopped his reverie and clicked yes again.

This time, the energy of the spiritual crystal directly rushed to his brain, and Ning Shi felt that his brain seemed to become heavier.

"I won't become a fat-headed fish, will I?"

In his wild thoughts, Ning Shi's strength-type awakener level had reached Level 7!

The increase in strength this time was very fierce, at least 50%.

Ning Shi couldn't believe it. He had a large physical base. When he cultivated his strength-type special ability, his physical quality increased, but compared to the original base, the increase was very small.

Did he really think that the strengthening of his body would be so obvious when he advanced from the sixth to the seventh step?

Ning Shi took a look at his body's data.

[ Physique: 44 (55) ]

[ Spiritual power: 30 (45) ]

[ Appearance: 8 (handsome) ]

[ Family Background: 6 (a slightly rich family. Family background changes according to the generations of the protagonist, unrelated to the protagonist himself) ]

[ Bloodline: Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus bloodline (Level 6/ Potential 10 stars) ]

[ Class: Bloodline warrior Level 16 (11.77 million/20.48 million) ]

[ Skills: Cloud Shadow Steps Level 5, Bajiquan Level 5, basic swordsmanship Level 10 ]

[ Talents: Learning (gold), divine power (blue), undying (blue), lightning field (gold), draconic might (gold), draconic body (gold), Blade Armor (blue), tyrant body (gold). ]

Not only did his Physique increase by 1 point, but his violence (purple) talent had also grown to divine power (blue), and his tyrant body had also been upgraded from blue to gold.

[ Divine power (blue): Increase strength by 500%. ]

[ Tyrant body (gold): passive talent. Immune to normal attacks and 100% resistance to negative status effects. Note: Damage that tyrant bodies are immune to will still be reflected by the Blade Armor. ]

All along, Ning Shi had never expected his strength system ability to make his strength advance by leaps and bounds. He didn't expect that it would be so powerful at Tier 7.

He was also a little confused. Was a Tier 7 strength-type awakener that powerful?

The game system gave a prompt.

[ After Tier 7, the strength-based ability's strengthening effect on physical fitness will increase proportionally. The proportion is determined by the individual's talent. ]

[ The user's strength-type talent has a compatibility of 90. It's considered a top-tier talent. The increase to Tier 7 physical fitness is about 50%. ]

[ The talent is upgraded because after the host's strength system ability reaches Level 7, the host will obtain two special traits. ]

[ Attribute 1: Boundless strength. Strength increased by 150%. It has been incorporated into the violence talent and has been upgraded to divine power (blue). ]

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[ Special trait 2: Body of steel. The body is as hard as steel and immune to some physical damage. It has been incorporated into the super physique talent. ]

Ning Shi instantly understood how overbearing strength-type awakeners were.

This was a special ability. It was not purely step-by-step cultivation, which unreasonably increased physical fitness in proportion.

That was why Ning Shi's improvement was so great.

After understanding this principle, Ning Shi instantly understood that strength-type awakeners must have a good foundation.

The stronger the foundation before Tier 6, the better the physique, and the greater the number.

After reaching Tier 7, his strength would increase even more.

From now on, Ning Shi felt that he was truly the number one person of the strength type.

He had his own insights and insights on the cultivation of strength-type awakeners.

[ Do you want to continue consuming 3 A-level spiritual crystals to increase your strength to Level 8? Yes, no.]

Ning Shi was overjoyed that he could still absorb it. He continued to improve!

...

[ When your strength system is upgraded to Tier 8, your physical fitness will increase by 60%. For the convenience of calculation, it will be converted to about one physique point.

[ Obtained physical characteristics: rapid recovery, able to recover stamina and injuries at a breakneck speed. It has been integrated into the talent undying (blue), and the undying talent has been slightly improved. ] 𝗇𝔬𝒱𝑒𝐋𝒰𝗌𝑏.𝐂𝑶𝑀

His strength ability had advanced to Tier 8, and Ning Shi's physique had increased to 45 points!

He didn't expect that his physical growth, which had almost stagnated in the game, would start to surge in reality through his strength-type abilities.

Unfortunately, there was only one A-level spiritual crystal left, and Ning Shi could no longer continue to upgrade his power.

Three A-level crystals were required to upgrade from Tier 7 to Tier 8.

According to this ascending pattern, it would take at least nine A-level spiritual crystals to upgrade from Tier 8 to Tier 9.

After that, he would need at least an S-level spiritual crystal to advance to the overlord realm.

The version update of the game system also required S-level crystals.

Ning Shi instantly felt that his merit points and resources were insufficient.

The officials had yet to confirm the reward for contributing the original extreme body forging method, so he didn't know how much it would be.

A-level and S-level spiritual crystals were strategic resources of the government. The government didn't sell them, and they had to exchange for them with merit points.

Ning Shi planned to use low-level spiritual crystals like E-level spiritual crystals to level up his special ability first.

Low-level spiritual crystals could be bought with money, and they could also speed up the cultivation of special abilities.

Due to the international trade of the awakening potion, the supply of crystals in the country was abundant. The price of E-level crystals was not expensive, 5000 per piece.

If it was bought by a student or a soldier's family, there would be state subsidies.

Compared to the price of 100,000 for one pill overseas, it was considered cheap.

Ning Shi had more than 2 million in his card now, and he planned to use it all to buy spiritual crystals.

It just so happened that the school's research lab needed to buy a large number of crystals to produce strength potions, and the channel was readily available.

"As long as there are sufficient resources, the speed of superpower cultivation is much faster than leveling up in games." Ning Shi thought, "Next, I have to find a way to earn some merit points to exchange for high-level spiritual crystals and earn some wealth to buy low-level spiritual crystals.

"I have shares in the university's research lab. However, it has just been established and I need to invest some money. I won't be able to see any profits in the short term. Why don't I go to the Investigation Department and take on some missions? I can get a bonus and earn some merit points."

Ning Shi was thinking about how to make money when his phone started to vibrate.

It was a call from Yang Yunzhi.

"Dazhi, how have you been recently? Do you want to treat me to a meal again?"

"Ning Shi, there's a problem with our company. We need you to come out and solve it."

Ning Shi looked at the time. It was almost 11 o'clock. He couldn't help but ask, "Are you in a hurry? If not, I'll come to you tomorrow morning."

Today was the start of the National Awakening competition. In order to train the actual combat skills of his three disciples, Ning Shi asked them to sign up.

The first match of the three was scheduled for the afternoon. In order to encourage them, Ning Shi had promised to treat them to lunch at noon and watch their game in the afternoon.

However, if Yang Yunzhi was in a hurry, he would have no choice but to break his promise to his disciple for the sake of his brother.

"There's no rush. You can go ahead with your work. I'll pick you up at your school at 9 am tomorrow. We'll talk about the details when we meet tomorrow."

"Alright, see you tomorrow!"

After hanging up the phone, Ning Shi drove to the fist statue on Pangu Avenue in the school. His three disciples were already waiting for him there.

It was a Thursday. Although there were classes, the teachers had given all the students participating in the competition time off.

Donglin City's Donglin City's First Strength Awakener School encouraged its students to participate in the competition, so there were a lot of students who had signed up for it, hundreds of them.

The school had arranged for a special bus to pick up the students to and from the competition venue.

Luo Yao and the other two received special treatment from Ning Shi, and their principal personally drove them to school.

"Get in the car!"

Ning Shi rolled down the window, and Luo Yao naturally sat in the front seat.

Jiang Bichao and Zong Shangren looked at each other and could only sit in the back.

After nearly two weeks of training, Luo Yao's body started to develop again.

When she first entered the school, she was short and thin, with a pale face and yellow hair, like a malnourished primary school student.

Now, her face was ruddy, her skin was smooth and elastic, her hair was soft and smooth, and her large black eyes were moving. In terms of appearance, she was very good at fighting.

The point was that she had grown five centimeters in two weeks!

She was now 1.44 meters tall.

To her, this was a great breakthrough and good news.

For the competition, the three of them wore the school's custom-made training clothes.

After the three of them fastened their seat belts, Ning Shi started the car.

"Do you guys have any food that you don't eat or any special dishes you like?"

The three disciples did not dare to speak the truth in front of their master, and they shook their heads.

[ Luo Yao: When it comes to food, I'm hungry again! I'm so happy to be able to have a meal with master. I must perform well today and win the competition. Master will send me to another competition one day, and we can have another meal together. Haha! Luo Yao, you're so smart! ]

[ Jiang Bichao: It's my first time in an off-campus competition. I'm so nervous. I can't eat spicy food. What if master wants to eat Sichuan food later? I'll get diarrhea whenever I eat spicy food, and it'll affect the competition. Should I tell master? I feel so conflicted. ]

[ Zong Shangren: I just came to Donglin City not long ago, so I didn't have the chance to eat out of school. If I were in Shangmo City, I would be familiar with it. I can eat any of the eight major cuisines, and I'll eat different dishes every day! ]

Seeing the thoughts in his disciples' minds, Ning Shi thought that Luo Yao and Zong Shangren probably really didn't have any qualms. Jiang Bichao couldn't eat spicy food, and he still had a competition in the afternoon, so he really shouldn't eat anything too spicy.

"The competition venue is Donglin Stadium. The places to eat near the stadium are probably full. Let's find a place to eat on the way there." 𝑛𝞸𝐯𝞮𝓁𝚞𝑠𝑩.𝗰𝔬𝕞

As Ning Shi drove, he said, "There's a bulgogi beef hotpot restaurant in front of us. It's a chain store that sells clear soup and shabu-shabu hotpot. Let's eat at this restaurant."

After confirming their venue, Ning Shi sped up and arrived at the store in 15 minutes.

It was still early, so they didn't have to line up. The four of them found a table by the window and sat down.

Ning Shi saw that his three disciples couldn't let go, so he picked up his tablet and placed an order.

At the bottom of the pot, he chose beef bone and radish soup, 10 servings of dragon meat, 10 servings of beef raw and cooked meatballs, 10 servings of tender meat, spoon meat, fat meat, streaky toe, and beef brisket.

Ning Shi ordered a lot. After the waiter received the order, he even specially came over to confirm it.

"Hello, Sir, you ordered 10 sets. Are you sure you didn't order the wrong ones?

"Sir, there are four people at your table. I suggest that you order a total of eight servings of meat."

The waiter's reminder was a kind one. Ning Shi smiled and said, "The order is correct. We are awakeners and our appetites are relatively large. Could you please serve the dishes faster? Thank you!"

Taking advantage of the interval when the dishes were served, Ning Shi instructed his three disciples, "The scale of this competition is very large, and casualties are allowed. The time you've been awakeners is too short, so you're mainly training.

"You must learn to measure the strength of your opponent. If the gap is too big, you can take the initiative to give up. Your strength is currently in a period of rapid growth. If you get injured, it will affect your future training."

Ning Shi listened to the thoughts of his three disciples. Luo Yao's reaction was to listen to their master, Jiang Bichao knew when to advance and when to retreat. Only Zong Shangren wanted to seek some excitement, thinking that it was no fun to admit defeat.

It seemed like Zong Shangren's match needed to be paid more attention.

After a while, plates of beef were served. The clear soup in the pot also began to boil. Ning Shi began to rinse the meat up and down.

The beef in this restaurant was fresh and tender. Different parts of the beef had different textures, which fully satisfied their desire to eat meat.

The scene of four strength-type awakeners eating together was so tragic that the waiter was dumbfounded. The empty plates were stacked so high that he forgot to clear them.

After the meal, Ning Shi drove for another half an hour and arrived at Donglin Stadium.

The car made two rounds, and all the parking lots near the stadium were full. Ning Shi had to say, "You guys get off the car and report first. I'll park the car further away and come over to find you."

He drove to a shopping mall two kilometers away and found a parking space.

Ning Shi suddenly had an interesting idea.

"When you're stronger, you can run here for future competitions. It'll be a warm-up."

After parking the car, Ning Shi quickly arrived outside the stadium.

At this moment, the stadium was packed like sardines.

Ning Shi had to squeeze to move forward.

It was one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was still an hour before the afternoon game started. These people were already ready to enter the venue.

Ning Shi heard a middle-aged man loudly calling his family.

"Oh, really? I'm on TV? There's an image of me in a live internet broadcast? Haha, honey, you have to come with me next time. The competition this morning was too exciting. It was really a flash of lightning. With these real abilities, who would want to watch those fake special effects in the movies?"

"Football? Don't mention football to me, I've already quit. I'm now a loyal fan of the National Awakeners' Competition!"

"Yes! Good! Good! I'll definitely return on time! He didn't drink! I'm hanging up."

The competition mobilized all media resources, including television stations, online media, live broadcast platforms, short videos, newspapers, magazines, and so on, to report on the competition-related content.

There were three competition venues in Donglin City: The city stadium, the sports and fitness center, and the red stone square.

...

In the stadium alone, there were more than 200 reporters, more than 20 TV stations, and even more media figures.

This was only a competition venue for a city.

Ning Shi knew that for the sake of this competition, the officials had specially modified the communication network of the competition venue, purchased the most advanced live broadcast equipment, and even freed up a few satellites in the sky.

They would strive to do their best for the National Awakeners' Competition and use the competition to drive the trend of martial arts among the people.

With such a background, no one knew who would win the competition and become a well-known celebrity.

As the coach of the contestants, Ning Shi could go through the contestant's passage. He squeezed into the front of the dedicated passage, verified his identity, and was about to go in when he met an old acquaintance.

Zhu Daniu, an awakener from the Investigation Department.

He took out his ID and was also registering his information and verifying his identity. He should be here to participate in the competition.

Zhu Daniu also saw Ning Shi and took the initiative to come over to greet him.

"Hello, Consultant Ning! Are you also participating in the competition?"

Ning Shi shook his head. "No, my students have a competition today. Did you sign up? "

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Zhu Daniu let out a bitter smile. "It's an official requirement. The proportion of participants from our Investigation Department must reach 10%. Everyone has been very busy recently, so the team sent me here."

"Oh? Did Wang Yunlin come as well?"

"No, Captain Wang was transferred to the army. We don't know where he went, but we lost contact with him after he was transferred.

When Ning Shi heard this news, he immediately guessed that Wang Yunlin had been transferred to the border for military service because of the previous incident.

He smiled. "The rewards for this competition are very attractive. As long as you can enter the top 32 in the city, you will get a prize. With your strength, you can try."

"In order to increase the audience's view, the officials have sent military experts to participate in this competition." Zhu Daniu pouted.

"There's also a large number of experts among the people participating in the competition, so I don't need to think about the reward.

"I just want to finish this competition as soon as possible and go back to handle the cases. There are too many cases now."

Ning Shi could feel that this was Zhu Daniu's true thoughts.

It seemed that after the series of events that happened during the National Awakening, Zhu Daniu had also grown a lot.

In the past, he loved to show off in front of others, but now, in the face of such a grand competition stage, he had no intention to compete or show off.

Instead, he wanted to return to the team to deal with the backlog of cases.

Ning Shi's heart moved. He remembered that he was short of merit points, so he left Zhu Daniu his phone number.

"Captain Zhu, if you encounter any major difficult cases in the future and have more merit points, you can give me a call.

You register first, I'll go in and find my students."

Ning Shi entered the contestants' waiting area when he finished talking.

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According to the competition system of the National Awakeners' Competition, the competition would only be held in 50 cities. Contestants who did not have a place to hold the competition in their own city and wanted to participate would have to go to the nearby city to register.

The competition this afternoon was the preliminaries. The preliminaries would last for a week and eliminate half of the contestants.

After that was the semi-finals. The semi-finals would also last for a week and there would be three rounds in total.

Those who could make it out of the semi-finals were considered one out of 16 elites. Therefore, the elite competition was after the semi-finals, which also lasted a week.

The elite competition would pick out the seed players from 50 cities, and only the top 8 of each city would be selected as seeds.

If any of the top 8 contestants were injured and unable to fight again, they would be replaced by the 9th place.

In the end, 400 seed players would be gathered and go to the Central City for the national competition.

The national competition would last for two weeks, and the champion would be decided in the end.

It would only take five weeks to decide the champion from hundreds of thousands of contestants. The entire competition schedule was relatively tight.

There were more than 300 participants in the afternoon. In four hours, there would be more than 100 rounds of competition.

If the competition progressed slowly, it would be postponed to the evening. These people had to finish the competition by today.

Fortunately, the gap between the strength of the preliminary contestants was relatively large, so the competition ended very quickly.

Even so, the tight schedule tested the organizing ability of the officials, and the transfers had to be very fast.

When Ning Shi came in, Luo Yao and the other two had already drawn their lots. Luo Yao was number 11, which meant that she would fight another opponent who had drawn number 11 in the 11th round.

Zong Shangren drew number 23, and Jiang Bichao drew number 44. Fortunately, he did not draw the number 100.

For the safety of the audience and to become the focus of attention, there was only one stage for this competition.

Around the stage, high-level special ability users had set up temporary energy barriers to ensure that their abilities would not overflow and hurt the audience.

The interior of the stadium had been greatly modified, and the overall style was similar to the Mieln Federation professional basketball league stadium.

The audience sat on the steps to watch the game. There was a large HD screen directly above the stage.

The screen was currently playing the exciting scenes from the morning's competition.

One of the contestants raised his hands and a huge water dragon appeared out of thin air, rushing toward his opponent.

The opponent couldn't dodge at all and was swept up into the sky by a water dragon. Then, he fell heavily and fainted on the spot.

The scene changed. A cool, handsome man was holding a throwing knife. He waved his hand and shot it out. The flying knife was as fast as lightning. If the camera did not play the slow motion, the audience would not be able to see the shadow of the flying knife.

Buzz!

The flying knife pierced through the opponent's head and took away a piece of hair. The opponent only felt a chill on his head. He touched his rough scalp and knew that the handsome man had shown mercy. He admitted defeat on the spot.

Ning Shi guessed that this handsome guy should be a metal-type awakener.

Of course, he could also be a spiritual type.

Controlling metal or using spiritual force to drive the flying daggers could achieve this effect.

When the time reached 13:55, the audience stopped entering and the venue suddenly turned dark.

A beam of light hit the analysis table. There were four people sitting there, two of whom Ning Shi knew.

Huang Jian was a famous sports commentator. He created many famous scenes for sports commentary. His commentary style was passionate and was known for his strong sense of immersion.

Liu Yunshi, a popular female artiste, had strong singing skills and good acting skills. She was one of the rare artists in Yunmeng Kingdom's entertainment industry who had professional skills.

These two must have been specially invited by the officials to increase the popularity of the competition.

Huang Jian had already begun to introduce the other two.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Good afternoon, viewers in front of their televisions and live-streaming platforms! I'm Huang Jian, the one who likes to talk nonsense. Welcome to the National Awakeners' Competition's Donglin Stadium division. Let's have a good time!"

The audience was very cooperative. They stood up one after another and let out deafening shouts.

With tens of thousands of people shouting together, the entire Stadium felt like it was shaking!

"I would also like to thank the online audience for their attention. I sincerely suggest that if there is an opportunity, you must come to the venue to experience the magical charm of the National Awakeners' Competition!

"Please allow me to introduce the guests who will be at the commentary booth today.

"Mr. Mou Zhenjiang is a consultant of the Central City Investigation Department and a visiting professor at the National Scientific Research Institute. He is a powerful Tier 7 awakener. In the study and improvement of the cultivation methods of the awakeners, Mr. Mou Zhenjiang is a master.

"Ms. Luan Limei, a Tier 8 awakener, an instructor of the Battle Wolf Brigade of the Western Military Region. She has trained many warriors for the country."

Mou Zhenjiang and Luan Limei stood up and the whole audience applauded.

"The two powerful awakener masters will break down the fighting arts of the National Awakeners' Competition in detail and help us understand what abilities the contestants have mastered…"

Huang Jian said a few words and introduced Liu Yunshi, then announced the start of the competition.

The lighting in the stadium was very good. The players went on stage from both sides, and the light beam followed the players.

When they got on the stage, several beams of light converged on the stage and illuminated it. 𝓝𝒐𝑽𝗲𝓵𝓊𝓈𝑏.𝒸𝒐𝗆

The two contestants immediately became the focus of tens of thousands of people.

On the big screen, a close-up shot would be shown, focusing on the micro-expressions of the players.

One of the contestants was a middle-aged man. It was his first time competing in front of tens of thousands of people. He was very nervous, and the corner of his mouth twitched unconsciously.

In front of him was a woman in her twenties. She looked cold and calm, but her fists were clenched tightly. The veins on the back of her hands were bulging, showing that she was not calm inside.

All these details were captured by the camera, creating a tense and exciting atmosphere for the game.

It had to be said that the resources and energy that the officials had invested in this competition had been fully utilized.

The effect it caused was also full marks.

The referee blew the whistle and the match officially began.

...

The man was a strength-type awakener. He held a large blade and quickly slashed at the woman!

The woman happened to be a metal-type awakener. She took control of the man's large sword and slashed it at him.

The man's strength was extremely strong. In order to protect herself, the woman also used her ability with all her might. In the end, she didn't control her strength well and the blade quickly cut through the man's shoulder.

Buzz!

The man's right arm was cut off at the end, and fresh blood spurted out. The competition stage was instantly filled with blood.

The medical team that had been prepared on the sidelines was immediately dispatched. They put the broken arm back, lifted the man on a stretcher, and sent him to the ambulance.

The audience was agitated by this bloody scene. Most of them were pale, and the timid ones were already crying.

On the big screen, the battle was still being replayed. The bloody scene of the broken arm was played repeatedly.

Luan Limei explained on the commentary platform, "The battle between awakeners is not a simple competitive sport. It is a battle of life and death. Although Fang Xuanjun lost this match, I am proud of him. His arm was cut off, but he did not make a sound. He has the courage of a man from Yunmeng Kingdom!

"In the face of the insect disaster, what we need is this kind of fearless spirit!

"On the other hand, although Yu Yu won, she still needs to train her mental state. With this kind of mentality, she won't go far in the competition."

...

The woman who won was called Yu Yu. At this moment, she was leaning on the railing of the stage and vomiting. It was the first time she had used her ability to hurt someone. Fresh blood splattered on her face, and it was still warm.

She had a stress reaction.

Ning Shi had long anticipated this kind of scene. The officials had long since confirmed the scale of the competition.

The disability indicator was not simply written in black and white, but the real rules of the competition.

If they vomited at the sight of blood, how could they fight against insects in the future? How were they going to deal with the subsequent beast and spiritual disasters?

The officials just wanted the people to gradually regain their vitality and get used to fighting.

Ning Shi turned his head to look at his three disciples and found that they were all fine and not particularly afraid.

He curiously looked at the inner voices of his disciples.

[ Luo Yao: Compared to master's swordsmanship, this one named Fang Xuanjun is too bad. He only knows how to swing his sword with brute force, so there's no beauty to it. If his arm is broken, he can always reattach it. Strength-type awakeners have very strong recovery abilities, he'll recover in a while. ]

[ Jiang Bichao: This competition is indeed very dangerous. My goal is the campus National Awakeners' Competition. This competition is just a warm-up. I can't afford to get injured. ]

[ Zong Shangren: Tsk, it's just an arm, do these people have to make a fuss about it? compared to the punishment master gave me in the dream, an arm is just child's play. ]

Ning Shi nodded with satisfaction. His three disciples had good mental qualities and did not fear the battle because of the cruelty and blood.

Only by passing this psychological barrier could one display their true strength.

In the National National Awakeners' Competition, many of the participants were veterans who had been awakeners for many years. This was not the stage for Luo Yao and the other two.

They had just awakened not long ago, and there was still a long way to go before they could become experts.

The first round of the competition did not cause much of a stir. All three of them encountered awakened ones above the fifth step and were eliminated.

His disciple's match was over. Ning Shi didn't plan to continue watching other matches and was prepared to return to school.

Before he left, he heard Huang Jian's explanation.

"Professor Mou, all the strength-type awakeners who appeared in the afternoon were defeated. Most of them were strength-type awakeners, but only a few managed to advance. What do you think of this phenomenon? "

Ning Shi didn't listen to Mou Zhenjiang's answer and walked out of the stadium.

"Train well," he said to his three disciples. "Whether a strength-type awakener can do it or not, you still have to rely on your fists

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107 Trouble

Ning Shi drove his three disciples back to school. After two days of rest, they would undergo the third cycle of extreme body forging, which would last for a week. 𝐧𝗈𝚟𝗲𝑙𝓊𝓈𝑩.𝔠𝑂𝓂

Looking at the last A-level spiritual crystal in his bag, Ning Shi thought for a moment.

Since there was a huge improvement when a strength type reached Tier 7, it should be the same for the transformation type.

"Let's see if I can improve my transformation to Tier 6," Ning Shi thought.

[ Do you want to use an A-level spiritual crystal to upgrade your transformation ability to Level 6? Yes, no.]

Directly clicking yes, Ning Shi felt that the energy of his transformation ability was more sufficient. After it gathered in the depths of his heart, the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus and the war insect beside his heart became more real.

If the shape of the flesh tissue before was blurry, it could no longer be called flesh tissue after reaching Tier 6. It felt like two red little creatures attached to Ning Shi's heart.

Ning Shi had a feeling in his heart that he seemed to be able to become a war insect forever.

As expected, the system gave him a prompt.

[ Your transformation ability has been upgraded to Tier 6. Due to your 99% compatibility, you've earned an additionally acquired characteristic: Duration of transformation Level 1. The host can slowly absorb the transformation ability while transforming. ]

In their original form, transformation-type awakeners could increase their power by meditating on their targets or absorbing energy from crystals.

After the transformation, one could no longer cultivate or absorb abilities. The ability was in a state of constant consumption, which was why the transformation was said to be long.

Ning Shi now had the endurance characteristic, which allowed him to cultivate or absorb spiritual crystals when he transformed, which could offset the consumption of his special ability during the transformation and prolong the transformation time.

Due to the long duration of the transformation, the description of the transformation skill had changed.

[ Transformation Level 6, shapeshifting target: 1. Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, duration: 150 minutes, 30-minute high-intensity battle: 2, war insect, duration: 24000 hours, 30 hours of high-intensity combat. ]

The consumption of maintaining the transformation of the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus was too large. The special ability absorbed by Ning Shi after the transformation did not have a big impact on the consumption, but the consumption of maintaining the war insect was relatively small.

The duration of the transformation greatly extended the duration of the war insect transformation.

"Maybe it's time to go to the insect world as a war insect and figure out the specific situation of the insect disaster."

Ning Shi planned to apply to Hu Changjun to enter the insect world through the border after solving the company's problems tomorrow.

After dealing with some official business in the principal's office, Ning Shi was about to go for dinner when Ilya appeared.

"Ning Shi, your classmate Hao Meng is very interesting. If I didn't meet you first, I would choose her as my combat partner."

Ning Shi didn't know much about Hao Meng's strength, but he had a deep impression of her developed brain.

"Ilya, it looks like you're having a good chat. Do you want to eat together? Yunmeng Kingdom's food culture is extensive and profound. You can enjoy it. "

As a giant dragon, Ilya's appetite could be said to be bottomless, as if she would never be full. This was an ability that all food lovers envied.

"Ning Shi, I would like to ask for a two-week leave from you. I've just come to this world and there are many things I want to experience for myself. After talking to Hao Meng, I've learned some secrets and I want to explore them."

Ilya kept her promise. She remembered that she had said that she would serve Ning Shi for a year, so she had to ask Ning Shi for leave when she left.

Ning Shi wouldn't restrict this big boss. "Go ahead and play as long as you want. I'll summon you if I need you."

"Thank you for your generosity, my partner!"

Ilya hugged Ning Shi and kissed him on the cheek, then disappeared.

Ning Shi smiled and returned to his room after the meal.

Ever since he had become stronger and stronger, he seemed to have endless things to do every day.

He had been expanding his influence in the game world and taking care of his apprentices in the real world as a principal. It had been a long time since he had been idle and had done something happy.

He had planned to practice his strength and transformation abilities at night.

After thinking about it, he still wanted to take a break, scroll through short videos, watch live broadcasts, and watch the few episodes of variety shows that he had accumulated.

They had a good night of leisure.

The next morning, Yang Yunzhi's car arrived at the school before 9 am. Chen Wei was sitting in the front passenger seat.

Ning Shi sat in the back row and asked, "Have you eaten yet? If not, let's go to the cafeteria to have a meal first."

"I've eaten." Chen Wei turned his head and said, "Shitou, I didn't disturb you, did I? This matter is a little tricky, so I'm asking for your help."

"F*ck, Old Chen, are you trying to slander me by saying that? We brothers do these things, so you can come to find me at any time, I'll be there whenever you call."

Ning Shi was most afraid that he would become stronger and become particularly distant from his former brothers.

He only wanted to be a free and happy person, not a lonely god. Becoming stronger was just a means, everything was to make himself happy.

If a person didn't have a few close friends, it would be less fun.

As Yang Yunzhi drove, he said without turning his head, "Old Chen is just worried that you'll be busy. We've seen you on the news a few times, saying that you're the number one strength type.

"Did you watch yesterday's competition? The strength-type awakeners did not do well. When the commentator Huang Jian asked professor Mou Zhenjiang for his opinion, Professor Mou said that the weakness of the strength-type awakeners is only temporary. Under the leadership of Principal Ning Shi, the strength-type awakeners will rise.

Instructor Luan Limei, who was straightforward, also agreed with Professor Mou on the spot and praised him for being unparalleled among the scholars.

"Although you didn't take part in the competition, your fame has been rising in a straight line. Many people have heard of Principal Ning Shi.

"So it's normal for Old Chen to be afraid of wasting your time."

Although Ning Shi wanted to keep a low profile, his strength didn't allow it. Under his instructions, the officials were already very restrained and didn't publicize too much.

Unfortunately, this was the current situation of strength-type awakeners.

They had a large base but were not strong. They needed the support of big shots and a role model to guide them.

Ning Shi was a role model and a big shot.

"That's enough. Don't you know what kind of person I am? I'm just bragging on TV. No matter what I do, we're still best friends."

As the car slowly drove out of the school, Yang Yunzhi told him about the trouble the company had encountered.

The cliché plot was that the company was developing too fast, and after making money, he had the capital to pick the fruits of his labor.

...

Ning Shi felt very strange. He had shares in one cup milk tea company, which the officials knew.

Under the official's care, the general capital or official power would not have any ideas about Ning Shi's company.

"What's the other party's background?"

Yang Yunzhi shook his head and said, "I don't know how powerful he is. There's only a rich second-generation heir called He Chuankun who contacted us. Three days ago, he came to our company and said that he wanted to buy our shares.

"Chen Wei and I treat this company as our own business and we don't lack money. How could we sell it?

"He Chuankun threatened us, saying that we can't buy any food.

"Although our company uses refined grain as the raw material for five grain juice, we have certain requirements for the channels.

"However, I don't believe that anyone can make the company unable to buy food, so I directly kicked him out of the company.

"Unexpectedly, since yesterday morning, several of the company's grain supply channels had all sent a notice saying that they would stop cooperating.

"We're looking for new grain suppliers, but they don't want to cooperate with us.

"I was thinking of letting the stores purchase raw materials separately. Although it's troublesome, it's feasible.

...

"Who knew that another official would appear behind us? Looking at his ID, he is the Section Chief of the Underground Construction Planning Department. He said that our company was suspected of wasting food and wanted to limit our food purchases.

"We are only allowed to purchase one ton of food a day, which is not enough for the store's consumption.

"Without enough raw materials, the company would go bankrupt.

"Right now, we have a total of 27 stores in Donglin City. We're spending a lot of money every month on recruitment, store renovations, and rent. Once sales stop for a few days, we won't be able to make ends meet.

"Chen Wei and I have never dealt with the government. Therefore, I can only look for you and see if you have any connections to solve this problem.

"After I confirmed your time, I will make an appointment with He Chuankun to come to the company today to discuss it in person."

Upon hearing this, Ning Shi immediately recalled Yun Moxiang's previous mention that the officials would implement the underground city plan.

He immediately gave Yun Moxiang a call to ask about the situation.

"The Underground Construction Planning Department has indeed been set up, and the site selection for the underground city has been completed. The underground city of Donglin City will be near Green Dragon Mountain.

The videos and teaching about the characteristics of the insects would also be released soon.

To prevent the looting of food, the Underground Construction Planning Department set up an Investigation Department.

"The Investigation Department will monitor the behavior of companies and individuals. If there are people who hoard or waste food, under the premise that they guarantee the basic amount, they have the right to limit the food quantity or the number of individuals who can buy. In serious cases, they will even be fined and detained."

Hearing Yun Moxiang's words, Ning Shi understood that this newly established department probably didn't know the company's background and had been used by some stupid capital to cause all this trouble.

These newly established functional departments could easily have too much power, which would cause problems.

Yun Moxiang was a smart person, and she sensed that something was wrong.

"Consultant Ning, did someone from the Underground Construction Planning Department have a conflict with you?"

Ning Shi didn't hide anything and told Yun Moxiang everything.

"If the country's situation is so severe that grain can't be used to make wine or drinks, then it's no problem. Our company will be the first to close down, but I don't see any related phenomena.

"I'm going to talk to He Chuankun now. You know my temper. If the other party touches my bottom line, don't blame me for being ruthless."

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Yun Moxiang knew Ning Shi's straightforward temperament. In her heart, she cursed the pig-like teammate of the Underground Construction Planning Department, but she immediately said,

"I'm already back in Donglin City. Please wait a moment, I'll go over and settle it immediately."

Ning Shi was an overlord in the game world. He had been in the ring, fought in battles, and killed countless people.

As he spoke, he unconsciously revealed a domineering and decisive aura. This was the aura of a superior and powerful person.

!!

"Shitou, you're too domineering!" Chen Wei couldn't help but say.

"Who did you call? will it work?"

Chen Wei only knew that Ning Shi was a principal, but he didn't understand Ning Shi's current situation. When the three of them arrived at the company's headquarters, the scene that happened in front of them made him dumbfounded.

He Chuankun, who had been extremely arrogant three days ago, knelt on the ground with a plop after seeing Ning Shi.

His face turned green and then red as he gritted his teeth and apologized.

Yang Yunzhi and Chen Wei looked at each other. A single phone call from Ning Shi made He Chuankun kneel down and beg for mercy. Was the principal of the Awakener School so powerful?

After a while, Yun Moxiang brought two middle-aged men and rushed to the scene.

"Consultant Ning, we've investigated the matter. He Chuankun is the third son of He Yunfan, the chairman of Wanyong Group.

"He Chuankun wasn't capable enough and wasn't valued at home. This time, when he was traveling to Donglin City, he discovered the business opportunity of five grain juice and had the idea of taking it.

"He's used to being arrogant, so he didn't check your company's background. He didn't know that you own 80% of the company's shares, so he bribed someone to deal with your company."

Ning Shi felt very strange. Why did He Chuankun just happen to find someone from the Underground Construction Planning Department? And why didn't he and the bribed person check the shares of their own company?

"Are you sure that this was all a coincidence?"

"Yes." Yun Moxiang nodded. "I've checked, and it's just a coincidence that I didn't find any traces of other people."

Since Yun Moxiang had said so, Ning Shi didn't want to argue over this trivial matter.

One of the people that Yun Moxiang brought was the leader of the Underground Construction Planning Department. He apologized to Ning Shi and explained the punishment for those who accepted bribes.

The other one was He Qun, He Chuankun's uncle and the person in charge of the Wanyong Group in Donglin City.

He said that he would hand He Chuankun over to the law and insisted on keeping a check for 20 million dollars.

"The He family didn't discipline you strictly. This money is our compensation for the trouble we've caused you. I hope you can be magnanimous and not misunderstand Wanyong Group."

Ning Shi did not decline and accepted the check.

However, the doubts in her heart deepened. Wanyong Group was one of the top companies in the country, and He Yunfan was once the richest man in the Yunmeng Kingdom.

He had a strong influence in both the political and business world of Yunmeng Kingdom.

Even if he didn't want to have a grudge against Ning Shi, there was no need to lower his attitude so much.

Ning Shi didn't think his influence was that great.

However, there were no clues at the moment. Ning Shi could only suppress his doubts. He suddenly felt that he should also set up an intelligence team in the real world.

If they had an intelligence team now, they could directly investigate the He family's situation.

There was no need to guess.

After the matter was resolved, Ning Shi gave the order to leave.

"Miss Yun, I'll have to trouble you. Everything will be handled according to the law. I still have things to deal with in the company, so you guys can do as you please."

Yun Moxiang understood and left with He Chuankun.

After they left, Ning Shi asked when he saw Yang Yunzhi and Chen Wei's shocked expressions.

"Dazhi, Old Chen, why do I have 80% of the company's shares?"

When Ning Shi signed the equity agreement, he didn't look at the shares. Only now did he know that he was the largest shareholder of the company, and he held 80% of the shares.

He was just about to say that he wanted to change the share ratio and resign from the agreement.

Yang Yunzhi chuckled and put his arm around Ning Shi's shoulder.

"Shitou, the company can operate mainly because of your formula. It's only right that you take the majority of the shares. The stock ratio is like this. No one is allowed to change it. If anyone changes it, Old Chen and I will quit!

Chen Wei was even more ruthless. He directly changed the topic.

"Shitou, do you still remember what happened to Miao Xinyue last time?

"After the National Awakeners' Competition was held, she became even more depressed. If you're free today, let's go together and help her out."

If Chen Wei had not mentioned it, Ning Shi would have really forgotten about Miao Xinyue.

He had promised Miao Xinyue last time that he would introduce Hao Meng to her when she came back.

"I was so busy that I forgot."

"Now that he was also a transformation-type awakener, he knew the problems of the transformation-type and could guide Miao Xinyue. He also knew the number one transformation type in the country, Principal Wu Qihua.

"If you really have any questions, you can ask Principal Wu.

He really should go and see Miao Xinyue's condition.

"We'll talk about the shares later."

"Alright, let's go over."

Yang Yunzhi gave Chen Wei a thumbs up and said, "You guys go ahead. The company's food purchase restriction has been lifted. There are many things waiting for me to deal with. I won't join in the fun."

Ning Shi laughed. "For your career, you don't even look at beautiful women. I'm impressed. I'll let you go today, but I'll make you lose money again at the next dinner."

Ning Shi and Chen Wei went to the underground parking lot. Chen Wei drove the car while Ning Shi sat in the passenger seat. They sped all the way and arrived at Donglin University half an hour later.

They arrived at 10:40 am. It was Friday, and Miao Xinyue had class.

...

When she heard that Ning Shi had come, she sneaked away and the three met on the field.

Compared to the last time they met, Miao Xinyue was a little tanned, and there were muscles on her arms and thighs.

When she shook hands with Ning Shi, there were calluses on her hands.

It was obvious that she had been training very hard during this period of time.

After Ning Shi understood the cultivation situation of the transformation type, he was even more confident. He asked the question he had always wanted to ask.

"Junior, why do you want to become stronger so much?" 𝓷𝒪𝗏𝓔𝐥𝑢𝑆𝕓.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Because Ning Shi had a cheat, he became stronger quickly without any pain.

However, in reality, everyone's cultivation was boring and painful, and not many people could persist.

It was better for teenagers. After all, their values and habits had not been completely developed.

However, people like Miao Xinyue who had awakened at the age of 20 and still trained like crazy to become stronger were really rare.

After most adults were awakened, without the interference and coercion of external forces, cultivation was only an occasional whim, and they could not persist at all.

...

This was the same as how many people knew to lose weight and work out, but they always failed in the end.

Miao Xinyue's persistence meant that she had an obsession in her heart. Ning Shi thought that the reason would be very heavy, but he didn't expect it to be so simple.

"I just want to become stronger and control my own life!"

Miao Xinyue pretended to jump in a relaxed manner, and her boobs also jumped.

"I was born in a poor mountain village. According to the customs there, girls have to get married at the age of 15. For as long as I can remember, my parents told me that they would sell me for a good price and save money for my younger brother's marriage and their retirement.

"That's why I hated being controlled and arranged by others since I was young. I studied hard and with the help of volunteer teachers, I entered a leading high school in the county.

"In order to get my parents to agree to let me study, I started writing novels to earn money since high school. I asked the volunteer teachers to help me save the money and give a portion of it to my parents every year."

"I was planning to get into Central University, but because I was writing novels, my studies were affected, so I got into Donglin University.

"But I don't regret it. I've earned money and controlled my own life. Even my current name is given by me.

"I have my own hobby. When I cosplay as an anime character, I feel like I'm one of them. Like them, I have a wonderful Life and story."

Miao Xinyue looked at Ning Shi, her charming eyes seemed to be able to generate electricity.

"Ever since I found out about the awakeners, I feel like I've lost control of my life again. There are so many extraordinary people here, and they can take my life at any time if they want to. So, I must become stronger!

Ning Shi admired Miao Xinyue. Not only was she talented, but her mentality and self-discipline were also top-notch.

"I can take you as my disciple, but you have to drop out of Donglin University and transfer to my school. This concerns your future. Are you willing to do so? "

Miao Xinyue looked at Ning Shi in surprise. She thought that Ning Shi had come this time to help check on her cultivation. She did not expect that Ning Shi would take her as a disciple.

After the National Awakeners' Competition, Ning Shi's reputation soared again. Miao Xinyue knew Ning Shi's strength and status, so she answered without hesitation.

"I'm willing! I can drop out at any time, and a degree is not important to me. The money I earn from writing books is already enough."

Ning Shi had heard from Chen Wei that several of Miao Xinyue's doujinshi works had hit the jackpot and she had earned a lot of money.

This was Versailles, the genius writer.

The reason why Ning Shi wanted to take Miao Xinyue as his disciple was that he thought of a key point.

The game system seemed to have solidified the transformation-type special ability into a skill, transformation Level 6.

Since it was a skill, if he took Miao Xinyue as his disciple, he could use the master-disciple module of the game system to teach her the transformation skill.

With Miao Xinyue's talent and mentality, with the effect of the skill imparting, she took off immediately.

Another genius was about to be born in his hands!

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After Miao Xinyue agreed to be his disciple, Ning Shi had one more disciple in the game system.

[Fourth disciple Miao Xinyue/ Inner Thoughts/ skill impartation.]

[Miao Xinyue: That's great. I'll definitely become stronger if I can become senior Ning Shi's disciple. Senior Ning Shi is just like Teacher Taozi, both benefactors in my life. I wonder what kind of anime character he likes. I'll cosplay one day and give him a surprise.] 𝓝𝒐𝑽𝗲𝓵𝓊𝓈𝑏.𝒸𝒐𝗆

Ning Shi turned off the Inner Thoughts skill and used skill impartation.

!!

[Do you want to spend 200 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue's transformation level to Tier 2? Yes, no?]

[Do you want to spend 300 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue's transformation level to Tier 3? Yes, no?]

…

[Do you want to spend 600 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue's transformation level to Tier 6? Yes, no?]

After the awakening competition started, Ning Shi's reputation points soared and were basically endless.

Although the reputation points cost of teaching the transformation skill was relatively high, Ning Shi still spent 2000 reputation points in one go to raise the impartation of the transformation skill to Tier 6 for Miao Xinyue.

After thinking about it, he realized that Bajiquan was also of great help to her, so he continued to impart the skill to her.

[Do you want to spend 100 reputation points to teach Miao Xinyue Bajiquan Tier 1? Yes, no.]

[Do you want to spend 50 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue's Bajiquan to Tier 2? Yes, no.]

…

[Do you want to spend 100 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue's Bajiquan to Tier 5? Yes, no.]

With that, he spent 500 reputation points to teach Miao Xinyue the Tier 5 Bajiquan.

Seeing that Ning Shi had accepted Miao Xinyue as his disciple, Chen Wei was quite delighted and said teasingly, "Let's say this first, the three of us are different. I don't want to be one generation lower than Shitou."

Ning Shi laughed and said mockingly, "Just you? I'm not even willing to take you in even if you want to be my disciple!"

"Xinyue, hurry up and settle the withdrawal procedures. Give me your ID card information, and I'll inform the school administration office. You can go straight to the school's registration," Ning Shi said meaningfully, "I've already taught you what I should so cultivate quickly. I'm going out for some time. I'll check your cultivation when I come back."

Miao Xinyue was confused by Ning Shi's words. She didn't understand. However, seeing that he didn't want to say more, she didn't ask.

Now that the company's troubles were resolved and he had accepted Miao Xinyue as his disciple, Ning Shi did not plan to return to school.

He had contacted Hu Changjun in the car earlier. Old Hu told him to fly to Beijiang City where someone would be waiting at the airport.

Ning Shi couldn't be bothered to buy a plane ticket either. He simply found a place where there was no one, turned into a war insect, and flew to the Beijiang Airport.

Three hours later, he appeared at the Beijiang Airport. He saw a tall young man holding up the name "Ning Shi" and walked over.

"Hello, I'm Ning Shi."

The young man quickly put down the sign and saluted, "Hello, Principal Ning! I am Li Zishan, a correspondent from the Beijiang Army 578th troop!"

A trace of puzzlement flashed in Li Zhishan's eyes. He noticed that Ning Shi hadn't walked out of the airport, but came from outside.

However, the discipline of a warrior made him not ask too much.

"Principal Ning, please follow me. The car is in the parking lot."

Ning Shi followed Li Zhishan and got into a tall and sturdy military vehicle.

With the roar of the engine, the military vehicle left the airport and slowly left the airport highway. It left the main road and drove toward a deserted land.

"It's faster if we drive in a straight line," Li Zhishan explained, "We will reach a special road for material transportation that the troops have specially built later."

After the car jolted for more than ten minutes in the wasteland, they arrived on a wide and flat transportation road.

Then, they drove along the transportation road for almost two hours.

Only then did Ning Shi vaguely see a large group of buildings ahead.

With Ning Shi's vision, he should have been able to see everything clearly even from a long distance. Yet, the buildings in the distance were always blurry as if they were shrouded in a faint mist.

Ning Shi understood that this was the world boundary. The reason behind his blurred vision was probably the blurry effect caused by the folding of space.

As the car drove closer, a 1000-meter-long wall entered his sight. Inside the wall were blue and white buildings. This was the base of the army in the realm.

Its main purpose was to prevent trespassers from entering the world boundary, as well as train the soldiers within and ensure logistics.

Passing through the army encampment, Ning Shi finally saw the world boundary for the first time.

It was like a glass passage that had been expanded hundreds of times. Here, the sense of spatial fragmentation was unusually strong.

Where the two worlds met, they were clearly separated by the world boundary.

Li Zhishan reminded, "Principal Ning, you must not touch these spatial boundaries. These are the 'scars' left behind when the world boundary was formed. They have a powerful spatial fragmentation ability. Any object that touches the boundary will be cut."

Ning Shi's imagination ran wild, "The boundary is so long, probably more than 20000 meters in total. Can we use its cutting ability to create items?"

"We can't. The boundary is the foundation of the world boundary. We can't touch it frequently, or it will easily cause the world boundary to fall."

Ning Shi nodded to show that he understood. He did not say anything more and walked straight into the world boundary.

In an instant, Ning Shi felt dizzy as if he was watching the stars shifting. It was similar to the feeling he had when he took the teleportation array in the World of Moen.

After his vision recovered, the first thing Ning Shi saw was a row of towering and spectacular city walls.

The city wall was a thousand meters tall. Standing at the base of the wall and looking up, the wall felt like a towering mountain.

The city walls were 1000 meters tall and 10000 meters wide. This was the capability of Yunmeng Kingdom's infrastructure. It was too powerful!

After Ning Shi verified his identity at the entrance of the city wall, he entered.

Only then did he know that the city wall was 50 meters thick and there were many rooms inside. The troops guarding the world boundary all lived in the city wall.

There were a total of three rows of such walls!

As Li Zhishan walked, he introduced the situation inside the world boundary to Ning Shi, "There are 200000 elite troops stationed at the world boundary. Added to the troops stationed within the national borders, that's a total of 400000 soldiers."

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"Every 15 km, we will build a row of city walls. The facilities inside the city walls are very advanced, and the soldiers usually rest in the inner rooms. Training is usually done in the open space between the city walls or back in the world boundary. This is the gym, this is the canteen, and that is the reading room…"

Li Zhishan walked as he spoke, leading Ning Shi to Room 502 on the fifth floor of the second row of city walls.

"Chief! Principal Ning Shi has arrived!"

A middle-aged man with a straight figure, thick eyebrows, a wide mouth, and a square face stood up. He walked forward and held Ning Shi's hands with both hands as he said, "Principal Ning Shi, welcome to the border. I'm the commander of the Beijiang Army, Ou Jianjun. Please sit!

After Ning Shi greeted him, he sat down. Since his mission was done, Li Zhishan went out, closing the door of the office.

Ou Jianjun made a cup of tea for Ning Shi and said, "Principal Ning, Old Hu has told me why you're here. Please reconsider. After all, the insect world is very dangerous."

"The metal-devouring insects that are wreaking havoc in our world and have already annihilated two countries are only the lowest level of cannon fodder in the insect world. Up until now, we've only explored the territory of the insect world near the world boundary a few times. We've also sent elite troops to explore deeper, but none of them returned. Among the warriors who died in the insect world, some of them were experts who had reached Tier 9."

"To be honest, when Old Hu told me that you wanted to go to the insect world, I had straight out refused. You're still young and are the pillar of the country. You're the leader of the strength-type awakeners. Many strength-type awakeners in the army respect you and are grateful for your extreme body-forging method. It's not wise for you to enter the insect world so rashly, which is why I don't agree."

Ning Shi had long been thirsty after flying all the way. He disregarded the temperature of the tea and drank it in one gulp.

Then, he replied to Ou Jianjun's good intentions, "Commander Ou, I dared to enter the world boundary because I'm confident. Chief Hu Changjun didn't agree to it at first as well, but I sent him a video to show him my new ability, and he ultimately agreed."

"Your correspondent, Xiao Li, will probably report to you later. When he came to pick me up, I didn't come from inside the Beijiang Airport, but from outside. That's because I didn't take a plane, I flew here by myself."

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With that, Ning Shi transformed into a war insect in the office.

Ou Jianjun had been fighting with the insects day and night, and his body had a stress reaction. When he saw the war insect, he almost attacked Ning Shi instinctively.

After holding back his impulse, Ou Jianjun looked at the 2 cm war insect before him and clicked his tongue in wonder.

"Principal Ning, I didn't expect you to have awakened a transformation-type ability. The idea of transforming into an insect is just genius! This idea is good! It's worth at least 1000 merit points!"

Ning Shi transformed back into his main body and drank another cup of tea.

"This is my secret. I hope Commander Ou won't spread it."

Ou Jianjun had just been inspired by Ning Shi and was quite pleased. He laughed heartily, "Don't worry, I swear on my military career that I will definitely keep this a secret. However, your idea of turning into an insect will greatly improve the investigation ability of the troops, so I still have to give you merit points."

"Since you can become a war insect, I won't stand in your way and will agree for you to enter the insect world," Ou Jianjun's expression became serious, and he seriously warned, "That being said, Principal Ning, although you can turn into an insect and mix into the swarm of insects, you have to act within your means and be careful. I will be here waiting for your triumphant return!"

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110 Devour

After getting Ou Jianjun's approval, Ning Shi went all the way without any obstacles. After passing through the third row of city walls and the dense fortifications, he saw the boundary of the insect world.

No longer hesitating, Ning Shi leaped and entered the insect world in a flash.

After entering the insect world, he turned into a war insect in mid-air.

Because he did not understand the situation in the insect world, Ning Shi chose to fly in the opposite direction to the world boundary.

After flying for a while, Ning Shi found that the energy response in the insect world was obviously more active, and the natural environment was better than that of the World of Moen.

Looking down from the sky, there were trees hundreds of meters tall, endless mountain ranges, and wide and turbulent rivers.

Ning Shi rose to an altitude of ten thousand meters and flew rapidly in the air.

What shocked him was that after flying for 12 hours and covering a distance of more than 12000 kilometers, he still could not see the end at all.

There were either dense forests or fertile plains along the way.

Ning Shi refused to believe it and continued to fly in one direction for another 12 hours.

Still, he didn't see the end of the continent, nor did he see the ocean.

With Ning Shi's speed, he could fly from the east of Yunmeng Kingdom to the westernmost side of the Kingdom of Mier in a full day.

"It seems that the insect world is far larger than Saturn. Along the way, the resources in the insect world are also obviously better than those on Saturn. The insect swarm probably didn't attack Saturn for resources," Ning Shi pondered in his heart and decided not to fly randomly anymore.

He landed in a forest and encountered a group of insects he had never seen before.

Each of these insects was about the size of a coin. They looked like cockroaches, but their bodies were colorful.

The mottled sunlight passed through the forest and shone on their bodies, making them look very beautiful.

Ning Shi had studied Hao Meng's research before and knew some insect language. In addition, after transforming into a war insect, he could receive special waves from the insects, so he could basically understand the insect language.

The group of insects was discussing animatedly.

"War insect? Why would there be war insects in the Mottled Forest? Could it be that they were defeated and migrated here to snatch our territory?"

"I don't know. Let's not provoke him. The war insects are not afraid of poison. Our poison won't work on him."

"Let's go and tell the insect commander the news!"

This group of insects had originally been crawling in the forest full of fallen leaves. When they saw Ning Shi, who was now a war insect, they immediately flew and prepared to return to report the news.

Ning Shi's wings shook, and his figure flashed, knocking down one of the insects.

When the other insects saw this, they didn't care about the unlucky insect that was hit and immediately flew away.

"I'm lost. Tell me the location of the war insect tribe."

Faced with Ning Shi's interrogation, the seven-colored insect didn't resist at all. It said frankly, "Your tribe is in the east. Fly 2000 kilometers to the east and enter the Black Crystal Forest. There is a tribe of war insects living there."

After getting the answer, Ning Shi pushed his head forward, and the long spike on his head pierced through the seven-colored insect.

The game system didn't react to the death of the seven-colored insect, and he didn't absorb any energy.

Ning Shi sighed in his heart. It seemed that his dream of killing insects to gain experience points and level up was temporarily shattered.

He didn't want any trouble, so he didn't stay any longer. The four pairs of wings on his back flapped and he soared into the sky.

After flying east for two hours, he finally saw a red and black forest. 𝐍𝑶𝐕𝚎𝒍𝗎𝑠𝑏.𝔠𝓞𝓂

The mountain was made of black rocks while the trees on the mountain had red leaves. The mixture of red and black was quite eye-catching.

Ning Shi landed in the Black Crystal Forest and soon saw hundreds of war insects that looked exactly like him.

They seemed to be patrolling. The leading war insect was larger, 4 cm in size, which was twice the size of Ning Shi's current body.

After seeing Ning Shi, it flew over and roared angrily, "Soldier, why are you moving about alone? Hurry up and return to the team!"

Ning Shi had prepared a bellyful of excuses, but they were of no use. His appearance as a war insect was the best pass, and there was no need for an explanation at all.

The captain would not listen to his explanation either.

In the war insect tribe, the soldiers were just cannon fodder and consumables. No one would care about them.

Ning Shi silently joined the patrol team and patrolled with the captain.

The Black Crystal Forest was extremely vast, and their small team was responsible for patrolling the area within a 200-mile radius.

The patrol lasted for eight hours, then all the insects flew into a black cave.

In the middle of the cave was a large pool. At the bottom of the pool was a large black diamond-shaped stone.

"Let's eat!"

With the captain's order, the hundreds of insects in the team flew to the edge of the pool and stuck their spikes into the water.

Ning Shi mimicked their actions. When his sharp spike entered the pool, a warm rush of energy flowed along the spike into his body.

Ning Shi felt a sense of satisfaction as if he had just eaten a bowl of fragrant white rice when he was hungry.

He wanted to continue, but he heard the captain give an order.

"Time's up, return to the nest!"

Clearly, there was a time limit to eating.

Ning Shi followed the captain's order and flew to a small pit with the other insects.

In the pit were many small holes. Ning Shi saw other insects drill into the small holes, so he did the same.

Ning Shi was here this time to understand the specific situation of the insect world, figure out the overall strength of the insect swarm, and it would be best if he could learn the purpose of the insect world invading Saturn.

He was off to a good start now that he had successfully sneaked into the war insects.

For the next three days, Ning Shi acted like an ordinary insect, patrolling, eating, and resting.

...

He gradually learned more about the war insects.

The war insects that lived in the Black Crystal Forest had a very strict hierarchy. The lowest level was the soldiers, followed by the captain, and then the lieutenants and generals, ending with the insect commander who held the highest power.

Ning Shi was just a small soldier. In three days, he had not even seen a lieutenant, let alone a general or the insect commander.

The war insects were very special. Their lives were only filled with patrolling and fighting, having nothing to do with production.

The war insect tribe that Ning Shi had joined was currently fighting against an azure insect tribe.

The azure insects looked like caterpillars. They were weak and slow, but they were good at spiritual attacks.

Creating illusions, mind storms, and mind control were all abilities of the azure insect. These abilities were the bane of the war insects, so the latter was currently in a bad situation. They had already lost a third of the Black Crystal Forest.

It seemed like they had only lost one-third of their territory, but in fact, the situation was already precarious and they were in a desperate situation.

The reproduction and feeding of the war insects relied on a resource called the black crystals.

Ning Shi had witnessed how hundreds of war insects had lifted a black crystal and thrown it into a black pool.

A few minutes later, thousands of war insects flew out of the pool.

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The food Ning Shi ate on the first day was the water of the pool where black crystals were soaked.

The Black Crystal Forest was rich in black crystal resources. Now that one-third of the area was gone, it meant that the war insects had one-third fewer resources while the azure insects had one-third more resources.

In this situation, it could be said that defeat was inevitable.

Someone smart would not stand under a dangerous wall. Ning Shi was prepared to find an opportunity to leave during the patrol today and find another war insect tribe.

He didn't expect to be attacked by a group of azure insects when he was patrolling with the team today.

Hundreds of navy blue azure insects hid under the leaves and released a collective mind storm at the patrol team.

The war insects in the team instantly fell to the ground and lost their lives without a sound.

Only two insects survived in the entire team. One was the leader. It was big and strong and had a high resistance to spiritual attacks.

The other was Ning Shi. He looked like an insect, but his Spiritual Power was actually as high as 30 points. In addition to the resistance of the tyrant body, the spiritual attacks of the azure insect soldiers were but tickles to him.

Being immune to mental attacks, the fragile azure insects were like sheep waiting to be slaughtered by Ning Shi.

Just as he was about to make his move, he realized that the captain was doing something strange.

It landed on the ground and pierced a war insect's corpse with its sharp spike. The corpse quickly dried up and turned into dust while the captain's body expanded.

This scene reminded Ning Shi of the formation process of the war insect armor.

The war insect armor was formed by the automatic gathering of the war insects' corpses.

"Is the war insect's talent to devour each other and strengthen themselves?"

Ning Shi was still guessing when the captain devoured another war insect corpse and its body grew a little bigger again, reaching about 5 cm.

Unfortunately, the azure insects would not just stand by and watch the captain move about. They activated the spirit whip, and the spiritual power of hundreds of insects gathered to attack the captain.

The captain fell without any resistance.

Seeing this, Ning Shi no longer hid. After resisting a few waves of spiritual attacks from the azure insects, he killed all of them.

Then, with anticipation, he pierced his spike into a war insect's corpse.

[It has been detected that the host is devouring the corpse of a war insect, simulating the relevant skill…]

[A new skill has been generated. Devour, Tier 1: You can devour the corpses of war insect soldiers to strengthen your war insect body. Note: This skill can only be used when you have transformed into a war insect.]

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111 Insect Commander

[You have devoured a war insect soldier corpse, body size 0.1cm, and your speed has slightly improved.]

Seeing the system hint, Ning Shi was overjoyed but also very confused.

"The captain had grown about 1cm after devouring two war insects, so why did I only grow 0.1cm after devouring one insect?"

[Devour will allow the body of the war insect to grow. The smaller the growth, the stronger the foundation.]

After getting the system's answer, Ning Shi no longer hesitated and used Devour on all the war insect corpses on the ground.

[You have devoured a war insect soldier corpse, body size 0.1cm, and your defense has slightly improved.]

[You have devoured a war insect soldier corpse, body size 0.1cm, and your Spiritual Power has slightly improved.]

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[You have devoured 20 war insect soldier corpses. Your skill, Devour, has been upgraded to Tier 2.]

[Devour, Tier 2: You can devour the corpses of war insect soldiers and captains to strengthen your war insect body. Note: This skill can only be used when you have transformed into a war insect.]

With the upgrade of his Devour skill, Ning Shi's speed of devouring the war insect corpses increased.

After devouring another 82 war insect soldier corpses, Ning Shi's war insect body had already reached 12cm in length.

Then, Ning Shi stabbed his spike into the war insect captain's corpse.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect captain. Body size 0.5cm, speed slightly improved. The war insect captain gene has been collected. You have been upgraded to a war insect captain.]

Ning Shi's insect body was now close to 13cm in length. Not only was his defense now stronger, but his flying speed had also increased by at least 50%. 𝔫𝞸𝓋𝗲𝑳𝑈𝑠𝒃.𝓬𝞸𝓂

Looking at the tattered azure insect corpses on the ground, Ning Shi put them all into his game backpack with the principle of not wasting anything.

With the Devour skill plus his realization that the azure insect was not a big threat to him, Ning Shi had no intentions of leaving the insect world for the time being.

Instead, he immediately flew back to the nest because he received a brainwave command in his mind.

"Lieutenant No. 74, Captain No. 3514, gather near the Level 4 Life pool!"

Ning Shi guessed that after he devoured the captain, he took its place because he collected its genes.

Therefore, he received the brainwave command.

The war insect tribe had a strict hierarchy, and their life pools were divided into four levels.

War insect soldiers were born from the level 1 life pool, captains were born from the level 2 life pool, lieutenants from the level 3 life pool, generals from level 4, and the insect commanders were born from the battles between the generals.

Other than the insect commander being promoted from the generals, rank promotions did not exist for the other war insects.

If a war insect was born a soldier, it would die a soldier. The iron rule of obeying the captain's orders was implanted in the genes of the soldiers.

After becoming the captain, Ning Shi thus received brain wave instructions from the lieutenant and could not help but want to obey.

This was the instinct of the war insect's genes and blood. Fortunately, he was not a creature born from the Life Pool.

With a flap of his wings, Ning Shi flew to the gathering point based on his memory.

The level 4 Life Pool was huge, in the shape of a bird's nest.

In the pool, a red gel-like substance boiled, and from time to time, some bubbles would surface. The whole scene looked quite disgusting.

At the edge of the pool, war insect lieutenant No. 74 was crouching under the steps.

The war insect lieutenant's body was more than a meter long!

Around it, thousands of war insects, ranging from one to three to four meters long, were crawling under the steps as well.

At the edge of the pool rested 11 bigger insects, if they could still be called insects.

Each of them was more than 10 meters long. Obviously, they were the war insect generals.

Compared to insects, the war insect generals might seem more like terrifying exotic beasts.

Ning Shi folded his wings and quietly sneaked into the team of more than a hundred thousand captains.

More and more war insects were flying over, and the number of captains, lieutenants, and generals increased.

All the insects crouched on the ground quietly, waiting for the commander.

Ten minutes later, all the war insects had arrived.

Then, a terrifying pressure appeared in the cave, and a huge figure slowly crawled out of the level 4 Life pool.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The cave trembled terrifyingly.

A 100-meter-long war insect stood above the Life Pool.

With cold and emotionless huge pupils, a body full of spikes, and slender limbs, this was the insect commander of the war insect tribe!

Ning Shi finally understood why the caves where the war insects lived were so huge.

All of this was to make the insect commander comfortable.

The spikes on the insect commander's head were more than five meters long, glowing with a cold light, and releasing a great amount of pressure.

Ning Shi felt great fear. He almost lost control of himself and flew away out of instinct.

At the critical moment, his tyrant body's resistance came into effect. He managed to not be controlled by fear and successfully resisted the urge to run away. Instead, he quietly blended in with the swarm.

Strictly speaking, the war insects' extreme physical and elemental defense was very effective against Ning Shi. After all, his spiritual power attribute was not high enough, so he could not do much to the war insects.

Perhaps only methods like the sword intent could cause some damage to the war insects.

Ning Shi was under much more pressure facing the insect commander than facing the Taikoo Red Dragon, Ilya. However, this didn't mean that the insect commander was stronger than Ilya.

When Ilya met with Ning Shi, her attitude was gentle and she harbored no ill intentions. She had restrained her strong aura.

...

In contrast, the insect commander didn't hide its power as a top-grade predator, and Ning Shi was now a war insect. His bloodline and genes were suppressed by the insect commander.

If he transformed into a Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus or back into his main body, Ning Shi would not have been frightened by the insect commander.

It was a pity that he could not use his insight technique to detect the insect commander's strength.

Ning Shi was just thinking when a wave of information was transmitted to his mind.

The insect commander sent out the information: "We're being eaten away by the azure insects. If this continues, we'll definitely lose. Today, we will gather the tribe and attack the nest of the azure insects. The captains will command the swarm to hold back the main force of the azure insects. Generals and lieutenants, follow me and break into the nest together to destroy it."

"If we can successfully destroy the nest, the azure insects would thus lose their source of soldiers and would be defeated without a doubt. If the attack fails, I'll devour you, all the Life Pools and black crystals, and try to break through to the insect king. As long as I become the insect king, the race can continue to reproduce, and the glory of the war insects will once again shine on the Insect Continent!"

With that, all the war insect generals let out vicious roars, "For the insect commander! For the war insects! Battle! Battle! Battle!"

Then, all the war insects began to roar, "Battle! Battle!"

Ning Shi was caught in all the chaos.

He felt quite unlucky. He had just sneaked into a war insect tribe and had not had time to get any information before he encountered a tribe war between insect tribes.

If the war insects could destroy the nest of the azure insects today, then he could continue to hide and develop in the war insect tribe. However, if they failed, he would have to face the insect commander's devouring.

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At that point, Ning Shi could only slip away.

He had considered summoning Ilya to kill the insect commander, but when he thought about the insect king that the insect commander had mentioned and the unknown situation in the insect world, he gave up on the plan.

He had to keep a low profile this time and figure out the situation in the insect world first.

It was a pity that the wisdom of the war insects was generally not much, so Ning Shi could gather less information.

Now, he knew that there was an insect king in the insect world. The birth of the azure insects was different from the war insects such that they relied on their hive. But the resources the two tribes needed should be the same, black crystals.

Otherwise, there was no need for the azure insect to fight the war insect to death.

After the insect commander finished conveying its command, the war insects scattered. Lieutenant No. 74 saw Ning Shi's 13-centimeter figure and asked, "Captain 3514, why did you devour your soldiers without command?"

Just as Ning Shi was about to explain the matter of the azure insects, Lieutenant No. 74 said, "Hurry up and go to the level 1 life pool to get some soldiers. With your current strength, you can command 1000 soldiers. Go!"

This was the way war insects worked. No superior would suspect their subordinates of doing bad things, and neither would they listen to their subordinates' explanations.

Ning Shi flew to the side of the level 1 life pool. The losses caused by the war these days were relatively huge, and many captains were lining up here to get their soldiers.

Fortunately, the storage of black crystals of the war insects was sufficient, so new war insect soldiers continued to fly out of the Life Pool.

After waiting for a few minutes, Ning Shi had 1000 war insects following him. These insects were only 2cm in size and flew obediently behind him.

Ning Shi communicated with the new war insects and found that these war insects were quite magical. Although they were not very intelligent, they knew whatever they needed to.

"No.1, how big is the Insect Continent and how many types of insects are there? "

"Captain, I don't know the size of the Insect Continent, nor do I know the types of insects. I only know that when I was born, there were 1412 advanced insect tribes and 18 kingly insect tribes, while the imperial insect tribes have long disappeared."

"What's the war insects' class?"

If it was a human, Ning Shi would have been caught as a spy for asking such a question, but the war insects did not have such thinking.

No.1 would not be surprised by Ning Shi's question. It only knew to obey.

"Captain, the war insects were once a kingly insect tribe. They were later defeated by the brain-eating insects, and the survivors fled in all directions, scattered all over the continent. Since then, there has never been an insect king among war insects. The supreme commander now is the insect commander, so we are now an advanced insect tribe."

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According to what No.1 said, the insect tribes' classes were divided according to the strength of their leaders.

A commander-tier leader made the tribe an advanced insect tribe. When an insect king appeared in the tribe, the insect tribe would collectively become a kingly one.

After Ning Shi became the captain, the soldier answered all his questions without a doubt. Ning Shi continued to ask, "No.1, how many insect reproduction methods are there, and what are they like?"

"Captain, there are three main ways for the insect tribes to reproduce. The first is biological reproduction, which is the responsibility of the insect queen. The second is fission reproduction, which is done by the existing insects undergoing fission and thus increasing the number of insects. The last one is energy reproduction, which uses the energy of crystals through different media to reproduce. The war insects and the azure insects reproduce through energy reproduction, relying on the energy of the black crystals."

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"All three methods have their advantages and disadvantages, but the genetic information tells me that no matter what kind of reproduction method it is, it will ultimately require energy. Therefore, energy reproduction is the most advanced and powerful reproduction method."

Ning Shi's insect head nodded in agreement.

In his opinion, the insect tribes' reproduction methods must be constantly evolving. The method of biological reproduction by the insect queen should be more traditional and backward.

On the other hand, fission sounded terrifying. After all, as long as the base number was large enough, the number of insects produced through fission would definitely be shocking. That being said, this method should not be able to guarantee individual combat power.

These were all Ning Shi's conjectures. Specific information could only be known after coming into contact with the relevant tribes.

"No.1, other than reproduction, is there any other use for the black crystals? Are there any other resources on the continent besides the black crystals?"

"Captain, my genetic information tells me that black crystals must be used for reproduction. Other than black crystals, there are white crystals, red crystals, purple crystals, and rainbow crystals on the continent. My genetic information tells me that those crystals are treasures. If you encounter those crystals, you have to report to the captain. I don't know their specific use."

Ning Shi guessed that the black crystals must have other uses. The insect commander had said before that it would devour the black crystal and evolve into the insect king.

It was just that the relevant information on this had been erased from the war insect soldiers' genetic information.

It was a pity that Ning Shi had only obtained part of the captain's abilities and position when he had devoured it. He did not inherit its genetic information.

Otherwise, with the captain's level, he might have known more information.

Ning Shi wanted to ask a few more questions, but he received instructions from a lieutenant in his mind.

"Captain 3514, meet up at the entrance of the Black Crystal Forest 10 miles to the east. After we've gathered, we'll launch a frontal attack on the azure insects' base camp. All are forbidden to retreat even one step."

Ning Shi put away his questions and led the war insect soldiers to the gathering point.

At this moment, the entrance of the Black Crystal Forest was densely packed with war insects.

The entire sky had turned pitch black.

Ning Shi made a conservative estimate that the number of war insects had definitely exceeded tens of millions.

Thinking back to the video of the war insects attacking the border of the Yunmeng Kingdom, tens of thousands of war insects had almost made the border fall, and they had paid a heavy price to kill the war insects.

If tens of millions of war insects charged at the world boundary together, they would most definitely not be able to defend the boundary.

And, this was only one of the insect groups in the war insect tribe.

Ning Shi finally understood the terrifying strength of the insect world.

"So maybe it's a small group of insects that attacked Saturn, not a unified action of the insect world?"

Ning Shi was getting increasingly puzzled about the cause of the insect disaster.

But now was not the time to investigate, because a head-on battle was about to begin.

As cannon fodder, the soldiers and captains would hold back the main force of the azure insects on the battlefield and help the insect commander's troops create an opportunity for a surprise attack.

"Battle! Battle! Battle!"

The overwhelming number of war insects flew toward the nest of the azure insect.

When they got close to the nest, the swarm of azure insects was sardined on the ground as they launched their attacks at the sky.

Mind storm, illusion creation, spiritual control… A series of skills were cast.

With that, some of the war insects were killed, some were trapped in illusions and danced on the spot, while some were controlled and attacked their teammates crazily.

The casualties of the war insects were great, but not a single insect retreated. They still bravely charged forward.

Finally, a war insect broke through the blockade and rushed into the group of azure insects, killing a row of them in one go.

Slowly, there were casualties among the azure insects.

Many of the azure insects had used up their spiritual power and became useless insects, which were then killed by the war insects.

The battle was getting increasingly intense. Although the azure insects had the upper hand, they could not win immediately.

In contrast, although the war insects had more casualties, their endurance and recovery abilities were stronger. Furthermore, as the battle went on, the azure insects' spiritual power was being drained.

The war insects were fighting more with less, but the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and they gradually gained the advantage.

Seeing this situation, the commander of the azure insects had no choice but to send out the soldiers in the nest to reinforce the main battlefield.

With the help of the soldiers from the nest, the azure insects gained complete control of the battlefield, and the casualties of the war insects increased.

Ning Shi looked around. All the soldiers around him had died. He didn't want to be in the limelight, so he pretended to have been inflicted by the mind storm and fell into the pile of war insects.

He knew that the war insects had won this battle.

Since the azure insects had sent out the soldiers that were supposed to guard their nest, the defense of the nest was thus empty, and it would definitely not be able to withstand the surprise attack of the war insect commander.

If the war insects won, he would not have to worry about being devoured by the insect commander.

Thinking of this, Ning Shi was relieved. He hid in the pile of corpses and secretly made a move on the corpses.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier. Body size 0.1cm, defense slightly increased.]

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier. Body size 0.1cm, spiritual power slightly increased.]

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[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect captain. Body size 0.5cm, speed slightly increased.]

[You have devoured 200 war insect corpses. Devour skill has been upgraded to Tier 3.]

[Devour, Tier 3: You can devour the corpses of insect soldiers, captains, and lieutenants to strengthen your war insect body. Your devouring speed has increased greatly. Note: This skill can only be used when you have transformed into a war insect]

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There were no war insect lieutenant corpses on the main battlefield. However, Ning Shi did not think too much about it and continued to devour.

After the Devour skill had been raised to Tier 3, the devouring speed was extremely fast. Once Ning Shi's sharp spikes touched the insect corpse, it would disappear.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier. Body size 0.1cm, spiritual power slightly increased.]

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect captain. Body size 0.5cm, defense slightly increased.]

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The feeling of picking up corpses was too good. He could devour and become stronger without limit.

Ning Shi was intoxicated by the pleasure of devouring and forgot the time. 𝗇𝒐𝐯𝔢𝑙𝐮𝑠𝐛.𝒸𝒪𝑚

His insect body grew longer and longer.

[You have devoured 2000 war insect corpses. Devour skill has been upgraded to Tier 4.]

When the game system sent the hint of the skill upgrade, Ning Shi's body length had reached about 2.5 meters.

He sensed that the strength of his war insect body had increased, and his speed was now so fast that it was as if he was teleporting.

...

After upgrading the Devour skill to Tier 4, Ning Shi's spike could release suction force and suck the insect corpses over. He could devour multiple war insect corpses at once and his speed was even faster.

At this moment, an intense battle had broken out in the azure insect nest.

Countless roars sounded from the nest, and the earth trembled. The wind blew over, scattering the corpses of the war insects.

The war insects on the main battlefield were all dead, and the victorious azure insects rushed back to their nest to help.

No insects had the energy to care about Ning Shi.

Ning Shi didn't try to hide and directly activated his Devour ability.

With that, his one-foot-long spike was like a magnet, attracting the corpses of the war insects around him.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier…]

After devouring another few thousand war insects, a system hint came.

[Your body length has reached five meters, reaching the genetic limit of the insect warrior captain. Please devour a lieutenant. You can only continue to devour after obtaining the lieutenant gene.]

Ning Shi felt his strength. Judging from the combat power of the war insect, his body might be stronger than the war insect generals.

To help him build a good foundation, the game system reduced the growth rate of his war insect body according to the ratio of 1:5.

If calculated in this way, the body strength of Ning Shi's current war insect form was equivalent to a war insect general with a body length of 25 meters.

Of course, this was only speculation. Without using the insight technique, Ning Shi could not determine the combat power comparison.

That being said, he was most definitely now stronger than a war insect lieutenant. As such, it shouldn't be difficult to find an opportunity to kill a lieutenant and devour its corpse.

He saw that the commotion in the azure insect nest was getting smaller, so he swept through the battlefield and put hundreds of thousands of dead war insects into his backpack.

Ning Shi did not collect the rest of the corpses.

One reason was that if he collected too much, he might not be able to devour all of them in a short time. The other reason was that he didn't want to arouse the war insect commander's suspicion.

Ning Shi could feel that the insect commander's intelligence was very high.

The corpses of the war insects were valuable. Thus, the insect commander would definitely come to deal with them after the victory. If the difference in numbers was too big, it would arouse the commander's suspicion.

There were at least 50 million war insect corpses at the scene. The absence of hundreds of thousands of them would not attract the attention of the insect commander.

Ning Shi thought for a moment, then used his transformation ability to change his 5-meter-long body to the 13-cm body he had been before the battle.

This way, he was just a lucky insect that had survived the battlefield.

Faced with the azure insects which were also an advanced insect tribe and could counter them, the war insects still managed to win.

Ning Shi estimated in his heart that the combat power of the war insect tribe should not be any inferior to that of the kingly insect tribes. The reason why it dropped to become an advanced insect tribe was probably due to the lack of the insect king.

Only by hiding in a powerful tribe could he obtain more information and more resources.

Furthermore, the Devour skill that he had also required the genes and corpses of the war insects.

As such, Ning Shi wanted to continue hiding in this war insect tribe.

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After a while, the ground began to shake. The huge insect commander appeared on the main battlefield with a group of generals and lieutenants.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, its eyes remained cold.

Ning Shi did not hide and flew into the air.

With that, the insect commander and all the insect generals focused their eyes on Ning Shi.

!!

Seeing that Ning Shi was just a puny captain, the insect commander simply have him a glance and no longer paid attention to him.

Only Lieutenant No.74, who had also been lucky enough to survive, sent a message to Ning Shi, "3514, how did you survive when all your men died? Come over quickly and stand by my side."

Ning Shi followed its orders and immediately flew over.

As soon as he left, the insect commander began to move. On its five-meter-long spike, a glimmer of light lit up. Then, the light grew brighter and brighter, illuminating the ground full of insect corpses.

The war insect corpses on the ground melted under the light and turned into a black liquid that gathered toward the insect commander's spike and integrated into its body.

With that, the insect commander's body began to expand, and its size increased. In a short while, its body length had reached more than 300 meters!

"Yi!" The insect commander let out a long cry, and the weather changed while a strong wind blew.

A cloud of mist shrouded the body of the insect commander. Ning Shi's vision was extremely strong, so he could see the situation in the cloud of mist clearly.

On the insect's 300-meter-long body, its muscles began to wriggle and contract.

Creaking sounds came from its body.

A pained look appeared in the insect commander's cold eyes. Then, its body slowly shrank from more than 300 meters to about 30 meters!

In just 15 minutes, the insect commander's body had shrunk by 10 times!

Although it had become smaller, the aura on its body had become stronger.

The generals surrounded the insect commander and seemed to be saying something to it.

They were communicating with brainwaves, so Ning Shi couldn't hear the content of their conversation. They were probably congratulating the insect commander for becoming stronger. 𝐍𝑶𝐕𝚎𝒍𝗎𝑠𝑏.𝔠𝓞𝓂

The insect commander's eyes rolled. It felt that the energy from the insect corpses it devoured this time seemed to be a little less, but it thought its feelings were wrong, so it did not pay much attention to it.

It simply said to all the insects, "Collect the corpses of the azure insects and throw them into the Life Pool. Then, use up all the black crystals in the azure insects' base to produce enough soldiers and captains."

"After that, send the soldiers and captains to occupy the entire Black Crystal Forest. The azure insects are only left with a few defeated survivors. They will voluntarily withdraw from the Black Crystal Forest. From now on, our tribe will occupy the entire Black Crystal Mountains."

After this battle, the war insect tribe seemed to have suffered a great loss. After all, all the war insect soldiers and captains were dead, and more than 50 million war insects were sacrificed. But in fact, they had gained a huge profit.

First of all, the insect commander had devoured the war insect corpses, and the energy was not wasted.

Second of all, the war insects had taken over the azure insect's territory and obtained more black crystal resources.

With the Life Pools, as long as there were enough black crystals, the tribe would be able to grow again in no time.

The scariest thing was that the war insects could recycle the corpses of the azure insects and use the bodies of their enemies to reproduce their own.

This was the complete recycling of resources. No wonder the insect world was so powerful.

The insect tribes' ecosystem made full use of all resources.

After giving its instructions, the insect commander flapped its wings and flew away.

Ning Shi obediently followed Lieutenant No.74 to deal with the mess.

The corpses of all the war insects, including the corpses of the war insect generals and lieutenants who had attacked the nest with the insect commander, had all been devoured by the insect commander.

As such, Ning Shi's idea of picking up a war insect lieutenant's body fell through.

Some of the generals and lieutenants returned to the base and began to use the black crystals to reproduce.

The speed of reproducing soldiers was much faster than that of the reproduction of captains. As such, the number of captains was relatively small for the time being. As a surviving captain, Ning Shi's subordinates had increased to 3000 war insects.

His first mission was to follow Lieutenant No.74 and clear out the Black Crystal Forest.

Although the main force of the azure insects was defeated, their nest had been destroyed, and their commanders were killed, there were still some azure insect generals and lieutenants who managed to escape.

To ensure the smooth takeover of the Black Crystal Forest's resources, these deserters had to be killed.

"Sir, I request to be the vanguard to scout the path ahead!"

The most dangerous part of such clean-up work was the vanguard, who may be easily killed by the enemy's ambush.

Seeing that Ning Shi had taken the initiative to volunteer, Lieutenant No.74 naturally agreed.

Ning Shi's goal was simple. He wanted to lead Lieutenant No.74 to the ambush of the remaining azure insect troops and make the latter die in the hands of the enemy. After all, he needed the genes of a lieutenant.

The war insects had extremely strong physical and elemental defense and good endurance, but they also had flaws. One was that they were not very intelligent, and the other was that they had low spiritual power, including perception.

With his super-strong perception, Ning Shi could often discover the enemy one step ahead.

With that, he led Lieutenant No.74's troops to eliminate three groups of deserters in a row and was thus praised by the lieutenant.

"3514, good job. Continue to lead the way!"

This time, Ning Shi deliberately flew toward the north of the Black Crystal Forest. The escape direction of the azure insects' main force had been towards the north, so it would be easy to encounter the ambush of their rear troops.

Sure enough, after flying about 10 kilometers north, Ning Shi sensed that more than 100000 azure insects were hiding in the tree hole of a big tree ahead.

"Reporting! 30000 units of azure insects have been discovered ahead. They are controlling a few banana leaves and are fleeing in a frenzy. We have to chase them quickly. If we are slow, we will not be able to catch up!"

Although there was no merit system for the war insects, the battle attribute in their genes had been maxed out. Hearing Ning Shi's words, Lieutenant No.74 took the lead and rushed out.

The lieutenant was the fastest. Although the insect army behind it tried its best to catch up, the lieutenant still managed to distance itself from the army.

When the lieutenant passed by a big tree, the azure insects, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, directly detonated their spiritual power bomb.

To the azure insects, killing a lieutenant was worth more than killing tens of thousands of war insects.

Boom!

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The meter-long lieutenant fell heavily to the ground and died immediately!

This scene was seen by the war insect army rushing over. The war insect army made a sharp hiss and rushed toward the azure insects in the tree hole.

It was another brutal war of attrition. Because the azure insect had no reinforcements, the rear troops were eventually worn down and wiped out.

Ning Shi took advantage of the war insect swarm's inattentiveness and pierced his spike into the lieutenant's body.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect lieutenant. Body size 1 cm, physical strength increased. The war insect lieutenant gene has been collected. You have been upgraded to a war insect lieutenant.]

From then on, Captain No.3514 died in battle, and Ning Shi became Lieutenant No.74.

From the insects' point of view, they only saw that Lieutenant No.74 had stood up again. They took it that he had fainted just now and wasn't dead as they had thought.

More than 50000 insects died in this battle. According to the rules of the insect society, if the lower-level war insects died in battle, the generals and lieutenants could devour the corpses if the upper-level insects did not issue specific orders.

Just like now, as long as Ning Shi's superior, General No.11, didn't issue an order, Ning Shi could devour the bodies of 50000 war insects by himself.

This was also the reason why the sizes of the war insects were different although they were the same rank of captains, lieutenants, or generals.

The more the war insects under one's command died, the faster the strength of the leader could be improved. This was the abnormal ecology of the insects.

...

In their genetic information, they were not allowed to kill each other, but they could devour the bodies of their own kind.

With this, the war insects' battle nature was ensured, and they could make full use of the resources.

From then on, they reproduced in the cruel Insect Continent.

After replacing Lieutenant No.74, Ning Shi led the remaining war insects and continued to sweep through the remnants of the azure insect in the Black Crystal Forest.

Two days later, the clearing of the Black Crystal Forest was complete. The azure insects were either dead or had escaped, and the Black Crystal Forest was completely controlled by the war insect tribe.

Ning Shi received an order from General No.11, "Lieutenant No.74, lead the troops to mine the black crystals from the black crystal mine No.18 in the Black Crystal Forest and transport them to the base."

The location of black crystal mine No.18 was also sent along with the order.

The work intensity of the war insects was outrageous. Ning Shi had been clearing the Black Crystal Forest without sleep or rest for the past two days, and he didn't even have time to devour the corpses of the war insects in his backpack.

Now that he had just finished clearing out the forest, he was being sent to mine the black crystals.

After arriving at the black crystal mine No.18, Ning Shi realized that it was a good job with a lot of money.

The intelligence of the war insects was low, so they did not know how to count the specific number of black crystals, nor did they know the specific output of black crystal mine No.18 that the azure insect had.

This gave Ning Shi a great deal of room to maneuver.

In the war insect tribe, the first insect that abused its power for personal gain had appeared!

The war insects used their sharp and tough spikes to dig out the black crystals piece by piece. Because the war insects' bodies were small, the black crystal chunks they dug out were not big, generally 2 to 3 cm in size.

Ning Shi ordered them to pile the black crystals in a cave.

The pile would be transported together.

The black crystals in the cave gradually piled up into a small mountain. Not a single insect realized that the small mountain was sometimes tall and sometimes low.

Ning Shi lay next to the pile of black crystals and put some into his system backpack now and then.

By the time the war insects began to transport the black crystals to the base, Ning Shi had already had a huge harvest.

Looking at the 320000 black crystals in the system, Ning Shi was overjoyed.

This was because of the black crystal's definition given by the system.

[Black crystal: Advanced energy. It can be used to update or recharge the system and to reproduce living beings.]

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114 System Update

Seeing that the black crystals could be used for the system update, Ning Shi did not hesitate to top up 1000 black crystals.

With that, the update progress jumped by 1%.

Ning Shi's heart was filled with joy. The joyous feeling of spending money on a game emerged, and he used 100000 black crystals in one go.

[The system update energy is ready. Do you want to update now? Yes, no.]

!!

[Estimated time for this update: 24 hours. During the update period, the game system backpack can still be used as usual. The avatar hack function will function as usual. The system hints will be sent as normal.]

The backpack could still be used, and it didn't affect the avatar hack function either, so Ning Shi simply clicked "yes."

[Game system version 3.0 update in progress… 0.1%… 0.2%…]

As the game system entered the update, Ning Shi followed the troops to transport the black crystals.

After sending the black crystals back to the base, Ning Shi and his subordinates had a good meal in the food pool with the black crystals, and their energy began to recover.

It was just that he was still not used to being so deprived of sleep. Seeing that the war insects under his command flew back to black crystal mine No.18 after eating, ready to continue mining, he did the same.

When he arrived at the mine, he gave his subordinates brainwave instructions, "Pile the black crystals in the cave. Without my order, don't transport them back to the base."

He then went to the cave where the black crystals were piled up and fell asleep.

It was a good sleep, and Ning Shi only woke up after a full 12 hours.

At this moment, the black crystals in the cave had already piled up into a small mountain again, so Ning Shi continued to steal some.

This time, he stole more than 300000 black crystals.

He looked at the system and saw that the update progress had reached 60%. Then, he began to devour the 450000 war insect corpses in his backpack.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier. Body size 0.1cm, defense slightly increased.]

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[You have devoured 20000 war insect corpses. Devour skill has been upgraded to Tier 5.]

[Devour, Tier 5: You can devour the corpses of war insect soldiers, captains, lieutenants, and generals to strengthen your war insect body. The devouring speed has greatly increased. Note: This skill can only be used when you have transformed into a war insect.] 𝓷𝑜𝗏𝔢𝗅𝗎𝓈𝑏.𝔠𝑂𝑀

After the Devour skill reached Tier 5, Ning Shi's war insect spike could release an extremely weak devouring light. When the light shone on the corpses of the war insects, they would melt into liquid and integrate into his body.

With that, Ning Shi devoured nearly 30000 war insects again.

[Your war insect body length has reached 50 meters. You have reached the genetic limit of a war insect lieutenant. Please devour a war insect general. You can only continue to devour and grow after obtaining the general gene.]

He reached his limit again. To conceal himself, Ning Shi changed his body to merely more than one meter long.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, he joined the mining team.

After all, he was a good young man who had received a proper education. If all he did all day was steal ores, he would feel guilty.

Guilty pleasure.

He couldn't just focus on pleasure though, he had to do some work.

This was because the war insect generals might come to the mine for an inspection, not to guard against the subordinates, but to prevent enemies from attacking the mine.

Unexpectedly, such an act had imperceptibly given Ning Shi some deterrence.

The next day at 6 am, the game system sent a series of hints.

[The game system version 3.0 update is complete. The game system is officially separated from the cell phone and is now bound to the host's soul.]

[Game system version 3.0. New ability: Main body hack entrustment.]

[The host's perspective can be freely switched between the main body and the avatar. When the host switches perspective to the avatar, the main body can choose to sleep or be entrusted to the system hack.]

[The memories and experiences generated by the hack will be automatically synchronized when the main consciousness takes over again.]

[As the host has used advanced energy to update the system, you have received two additional rewards]

[1. Hatchery. A representative existence of the insect ecosystem. It can be used to hatch and reproduce new insect tribes.]

[2. Insight technique has evolved into the Eye of Truth]

[Eye of Truth: it can detect the information of all living creatures, including the information of others in the game world and the real world. The amount of information it can detect depends on the comparison of the spiritual power between the host and the target.]

[Note 1: The information obtained by the host is calculated by the game system. It is only for reference. The physical value is not equivalent to the target's actual combat power. Please take note.]

[Note 2: The Eye of Truth can be used an infinite number of times, but every usage will consume the host's spiritual power. If used too many times in a short time, it will damage the soul's origin.]

[Note 3: The Eye of Truth is a sensory skill. When used, it may be easily detected by experts with strong perceptions and attract their hostility. Please use it with caution.]

One had to admit that this update was very powerful. In the future, Ning Shi could switch back and forth between his main body and avatar at will, and his main body could hack too.

In this way, the main body and the avatar were truly indistinguishable from each other.

Ning Shi asked a key question, "Under such circumstances, if the main body dies, will the avatar die as well?"

The system sent him lines of hints again.

[When the main body dies, the avatar will automatically dissipate. To enable the system's function of maintaining the avatar's survival even after the main body's death, please upgrade the game system to version 4.0.]

[For the game system to be updated to version 4.0 requires World Energy. Low-level and advanced energy cannot power the update.]

Ning Shi had thought that he could do it like those Russian dolls. If his main body died but the avatar was still alive, he could divide his soul again and build another main body.

In this way, as long as the enemy did not kill both his main body and avatar at the same time, Ning Shi would not die.

It was just that this ability would only be available in the upgraded version of the game system.

S-level spiritual crystals and black crystals were both advanced energies. What was World Energy? Ning Shi had never seen one before. Perhaps it was the world essence in origin treasures?

Putting aside his speculations, Ning Shi used the Eye of Truth on a war insect captain who was mining next to him.

[Eye of Truth activated. Target: War insect captain No. 3002. Comparison of the host's and the target's spiritual power: 30/13. All information about the target is available.]

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[Character: War insect captain No. 3002]

[Physique: 20 (30)]

[Spiritual Power: 13 (16)]

[Appearance: 3 (war insects don't need to mate)]

[Family Background: 7 (advanced insect tribe captain)]

[Bloodline: War insect captain]

[Profession: War insect captain]

[Skills: Rapid flight Tier 5, spike Tier 7]

[Talents: war insect body (blue), penetration (blue), combat nature (blue)]

[Achievements: none]

[War insect body (blue): Possesses an extremely strong war insect body. Physical defense increased by 300%, elemental defense increased by 300%, and energy recovery increased by 300%.]

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[Penetration (blue): Attacking with the spike brings a certain amount of space penetration damage.]

[Combat nature (blue): War insects are aggressive by nature and are never afraid of battle. They are immune to the intimidation skills of other tribes. On the battlefield, the more war insects die, the stronger the combat power of the surviving war insects. Their combat power can at most be increased by 200%.]

A war insect captain already had such insane combat power. No wonder the war insects were once a kingly insect tribe.

It must be known that the body of the war insect captain was only 4cm long. For such a small creature to have 20 points in physique was simply abnormal.

The system explained.

[The war insect has a high physique, mainly because of its speed and physical sturdiness. Its strength is not particularly strong. War insect captains can devour their own kind to become stronger, thus in theory, their physique can reach 30 points.]

[The war insect's spiritual power attribute is strong in will but weak in wisdom and perception.]

Physique and spiritual power were comprehensive concepts, each with its own emphasis. As such, the numbers were only for reference and did not represent actual combat power.

After checking the information of the war insect captain, Ning Shi tested the function of switching his perspective between the main body and the avatar.

[Do you want to switch your perspective to the avatar? Yes, no.]

He clicked "yes".

[Please select your main body state. 1. Dormant. 2. System hack.]

Ning Shi chose to hang up, and a hint popped up from the system.

[Host, please set up the fast-switching mode to achieve light-speed switching.]

Ning Shi set a switch password according to the hint, "think in my heart to switch my perspective to the avatar". Then, he choose for the system to not ask every time he wanted to switch, and also for the main body to be left to the system hack on default every time he switched.

Then, he began the first switch.

In an instant, Ning Shi's consciousness descended on his game avatar in the World of Moen. At this moment, the game avatar was practicing the Bloodline Guidance Technique in the training room.

There was no one else in the room.

Then, Ning Shi muttered to switch in his heart and his consciousness returned to his war insect body in the insect world.

After switching back and forth a few times, he had completely mastered and adapted to the perspective-switching function.

This kind of operation was indeed faster and more convenient. Moreover, the main body could hang up too now, so the speed of his strength improvement would be faster!

After trying out the Eye of Truth and perspective-switching, Ning Shi saw an ovary-shaped life form in his backpack.

The living being was sleeping quietly in the backpack, its body rising and falling with the even breathing sound.

[Hatchery, Level 1. Able to produce insect tribe soldiers. This hatchery has the insect tribe gene editor function. Please use the gene editor to edit the soldier genes.]

[The soldiers can fuse with the genes of various insect tribes. Gene editing doesn't work in the sense that the more genes you fuse, the stronger the insects will be, and the better the results will be. The results of gene editing are unpredictable.]

[The soldiers will determine the future development direction of the insect tribe. Once decided, the hatchery will not be able to reproduce any other types of soldiers. Please carefully choose the best soldier gene combination after countless editing.]

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Ning Shi understood that for the hatchery to reproduce an insect tribe, he needed to first find a base to let it take root and grow.

He was now in the territory of the war insect tribe and did not plan to leave for the time being.

Fortunately, he could use the gene editor first.

[Do you want to use the gene editor to decompose the corpse of the war insect soldier? Yes, no.]

!!

[The corpse of the war insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the strength gene.]

[Do you want to use the gene editor to decompose the corpse of the war insect soldier? Yes, no.]

[The corpse of the war insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the devour gene.]

[The corpse of the war insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the endurance gene.]

[The corpse of the war insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the strength gene.]

[The corpse of the war insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the speed gene.]

…

Ning Shi broke down hundreds of war insect soldier corpses in succession and obtained seven types of genes in total: strength, endurance, speed, devour, flight, defense, and penetration.

[Do you want to use the gene editor to decompose the corpse of the azure insect soldier? Yes, no.]

[The corpse of the azure insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the perception gene.]

[The corpse of the azure insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the wisdom gene.]

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[The corpse of the azure insect soldier has been successfully decomposed. You have obtained the will gene.]

He then decomposed a few hundred azure insect soldier corpses and obtained seven types of genes, perception, wisdom, will, transformation, soul fusion, energy absorption, and crawl.

In the gene editor, there were a total of 100 squares. Because he hadn't tried editing before, Ning Shi selected the seven genes of the war insect and put 10 copies each into the editor.

Then, he added 10 copies each of soul fusion, energy absorption, and will.

[Do you wish to consume one black crystal to activate the gene editing once? Yes, no.]

Ning Shi chose "yes", and the gene editor started up.

[Strength *10, endurance *10, …, will *10, editing in progress. A new species has been created. Please name it.]

Because it was experimental, Ning Shi simply named it Life No.1.

Life No.1's appearance was similar to the war insect, but the spike on its head was shorter. Above its eyes was a pair of feelers.

[Character: Life No.1]

[Physique: 16 (20)]

[Spiritual Power: 15 (20)]

[Bloodline: Insect tribe soldier]

[Skills: Rapid flight Tier 4, spike Tier 3, energy absorption Tier 4]

[Talents: Body of steel (white), balance (white)]

[Evaluation: An insect without any special characteristics]

Ning Shi checked Life No. 1's attributes. He had used many genes, so Life No.1's overall attributes were quite good, only two points lower than the war insect captain.

However, in terms of combat power, Life No. 1 was definitely no match for the war insect soldiers. 𝗇𝔬𝔳𝗲𝓁𝓤𝓈𝑩.𝐂𝒪𝑀

The war insects could beat Life No.1 just by relying on their bodies.

The system's evaluation was very pertinent. Life No. 1 had no special characteristics.

Ning Shi tried gene editing a few more times, but the evolved insects were all very ordinary.

He found some rules. If the genes he used didn't have enough types, the insect that was born would have major flaws. However, if there were too many gene types, the insect would have a little bit of each ability but no special characteristics.

"Let's try one last time. If I can't edit an insect with special characteristics for the time being, I'll wait until I have collected more genes from other insect tribes."

Ning Shi used another black crystal and activated gene editing.

[Devour *30, energy absorption *30, soul fusion *30, transformation *10. A new species has been created. Please name it.]

This was the 98th evolution. As per practice, it was named Life No. 98.

Ning Shi didn't have any expectations at first, but after seeing Life No.98's introduction, he was excited.

[Character: Life No.98]

[Physique: 12 (20)]

[Spiritual Power: 18 (20)]

[Bloodline: Insect tribe soldier]

[Skills: Mind control Tier 3, parasitism Tier 1]

[Talent: Gene optimization (white), learning (gold), soul devour (white)]

[Description: An insect with extremely high potential. No one can say for sure what it will bring to the world.]

To think an insect tribe soldier had a gold talent for learning! This was too overpowered. Its other skills and talents were also very strong.

[Mind control Tier 3: Use spiritual power to control the target. The control effect is determined by the comparison of the spiritual power of both parties.]

[Parasitism Tier 1: Parasitize a living creature. After it completes its growth with the help of the parasitized creature's nutrients, it will break out of the shell after absorbing the parasitized creature's nutrients. For Tier 1 parasitism, the parasitized target cannot be stronger than the insect tribe's head soldier. The parasitized target can only be changed once.]

[Gene optimization (white): While parasitizing, Life No.98 will be able to optimize the parasitized creature's most powerful genetic ability for itself. Being only in the white tier, this talent can only optimize one to two abilities.]

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[Soul devour (white): After Life No.98 breaks out of the parasitized creature, it will devour the parasitized creature's soul to strengthen its spiritual power and obtain soul elements. Being in the white tier, this talent can obtain at most one to two soul elements.]

Some of Life No.98's abilities were very similar to the main character of a movie that Ning Shi especially liked, Alien.

Life No.98 could live in the parasitized creature's body and gain the latter's abilities. Compared to the Alien, which only took nutrients from the parasitized creature's body, Life No.98 did not even let go of the soul.

Coupled with its gold talent for learning, it would definitely be an extremely terrifying insect.

Out of respect, Ning Shi changed the name of this insect to the guardian spirit insect.

According to the system's notification, when the hatchery's new base was completed, it would absorb Ning Shi's flesh and blood as nutrients. In return, he would have absolute control over the hatchery.

With that, the insects born from the hatchery would be injected with obedience to Ning Shi in their genetic information.

Therefore, Ning Shi was not worried about the guardian spirit insects losing control.

Since the guardian spirit insect was so powerful, Ning Shi couldn't be bothered to collect more insect genes. Either way, even if he continued to edit them, he might not be able to get a better combination.

[Are you sure you want to use the guardian spirit insects as the insect soldiers to be reproduced by the hatchery? Yes, no.]

[Reminder: Once the soldier module is confirmed, it cannot be changed. The subsequent insect captains and generals will be upgraded based on the soldier's abilities.]

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Ning Shi no longer hesitated and chose yes.

[The hatchery soldier has been confirmed. The hatchery's name has been changed to the guardian spirit insect hatchery. Please choose a base as soon as possible so that the hatchery can grow.]

[The growth and reproduction of the hatchery require energy. Please prepare sufficient black crystals.]

Ning Shi hadn't been in a hurry to build the hatchery, but after seeing the information on the guardian spirit insects, he couldn't wait to see their abilities.

Seeing that his war insect subordinates were still mining hard, Ning Shi flapped the four pairs of wings on his back and soared, finding a base for the hatchery.

After searching for a long time, he found a valley about 100 kilometers away from the Black Crystal Mountains.

There were only some ordinary insects in the valley, and there were no powerful insect tribes. This place was high in the mountains with dense forests, so it was more secluded and suitable for low-key development. Ning Shi was very satisfied.

He took out the guardian spirit insect hatchery from his game backpack. After the hatchery was held by Ning Shi, its body began to twist, and countless tiny feelers stretched out.

At the end of the feelers were sharp spikes.

The spikes pierced into Ning Shi's arm and pulled out pieces of flesh.

Before long, Ning Shi's arm was covered in injuries.

Ning Shi laughed bitterly in his heart, "Fortunately, I have undying talent, and my flesh regenerates extremely quickly. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to meet the flesh needs of the nest."

As the hatchery gnawed on Ning Shi's flesh, it began to grow bigger. Two minutes later, the hatchery, which had been the size of a football, had become the size of a thatched house.

It was like an altar, standing on the flat ground of the valley.

Ning Shi checked its information.

[Guardian spirit insect hatchery: Level 1 insect tribe hatchery]

[Black crystal: 0 grams]

[Producing insect tribe: Guardian spirit insect soldiers]

[Reproduction conditions: 20 grams of black crystals for one guardian spirit insect soldier]

[Level-up requirement: 100kg of black crystals]

The black crystals in Ning Shi's backpack were all collected by the war insects. Their sizes were relatively uniform, and one weighed about 40g.

With that, one black crystal could produce two guardian spirit insect soldiers, and 2500 black crystals would be enough to upgrade the hatchery.

Ning Shi first took out 10000 black crystals and put them into the hatchery, then issued the upgrade command in his mind.

With that, the hatchery extended several feelers and accurately swallowed 2500 black crystals.

After devouring the black crystals, the hatchery slowly grew until it was 15 meters in length and width and about 4 meters in height.

[Guardian spirit insect hatchery: Level 2 insect tribe hatchery]

[Black crystals owned: 300 thousand grams]

[Production insect tribe: Guardian spirit insect soldier, guardian spirit insect captain]

[Reproduction requirements: Soldiers 20g black crystal, captains 40g black crystal]

[Level-up requirement: 1000 kilograms of black crystals]

More preparation may quicken the speed of doing work. Ning Shi directly spent 11000 kilograms, which was about 275000 black crystals, to upgrade the hatchery to Level 4.

The Level 4 hatchery occupied the entire valley. Inside the hatchery were four huge growth chambers, corresponding to the soldiers, captains, lieutenants, and generals.

After reaching Level 4, the hatchery could thus reproduce lieutenants and generals as well.

A lieutenant required 1kg of black crystals, a general required 50kg of black crystals, and to upgrade the hatchery to Level 5, 500 thousand kilograms of black crystals were required.

There were now only 20000 kilograms of black crystals left in Ning Shi's backpack. It seemed that his resources were not enough and he still needed to continue to feed off of the war insect tribe.

With the hatchery, Ning Shi could feel the importance of resources more directly.

In the insect's ecosystem, resources were converted into combat power extremely quickly.

Resources represented everything.

Ning Shi had only been able to steal strategic resources like black crystals by blending in with a powerful insect tribe like the war insects. If he had sneaked into a low-level or intermediate tribe, he probably wouldn't even see a trace of the black crystal.

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Currently, the black crystals could no longer be used for the system update, and Ning Shi could not absorb them either, so he didn't have a use for them for now. As such, he simply took out all 20000 kilograms of the black crystals and put them into the hatchery.

He planned to first produce 10 generals, 500 lieutenants, 20000 captains, and 900000 soldiers. He would build the elite framework first, then start to make more troops.

After the setup was completed, the hatchery began to absorb the energy of the black crystals. The four breeding rooms were like balloons that were filled with air, expanding.

After a short while, the soldier's reproductive room was the first to start spewing insects.

The first guardian spirit insect was born.

From the outside, the guardian spirit insect looked like a ball. Their entire body seemed to mainly be made up of their heads, and their limbs were extremely small. If one did not look closely, one would not notice that they had arms and legs.

On the outside, the guardian spirit insect was very cute. They were round and cute.

The guardian spirit insect soldiers were very small, only about 1 cm in size, and their color was very light. If one did not pay attention, the insects would sometimes be overlooked.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The hatchery's reproduction speed was extremely fast, and one by one, guardian spirit insect soldiers shot out from the reproductive room.

After a while, the first captain was born. A lieutenant and general were also born in succession.

The difference between a guardian spirit insect and a war insect was that the higher the level of the guardian spirit insect, the smaller its body size.

The guardian spirit insect general's body was not even 1mm in size. If not for Ning Shi's good vision, he might have ignored it!

After seeing the form of the guardian spirit insect, Ning Shi was ready to leave because the system gave him a prompt.

[The insect tribe's reproduction follows natural selection. Only the fittest survive. It is not recommended for the host to interfere too much with the development of the guardian spirit insects. ]

Originally, Ning Shi was going to let the guardian spirit insects parasitize the war insects and see what kind of troops would be born after the former absorbed the latter's genes and nutrients.

However, the system had given him such a prompt. Thinking of the guardian spirit insect's gold talent for learning, Ning Shi decided not to interfere with their reproduction.

The guardian spirit insects would learn themselves and would choose a more suitable species to parasitize.

Ning Shi only needed to provide enough black crystals.

After thinking it through, Ning Shi was worried that if he left for too long, something unexpected would happen with the war insects, so he flew back to black crystal mine No.18.

As the master of the hatchery, he could see the development of the hatchery from a distance in his mind.

In the following week, Ning Shi obediently carried out his duties as a war insect lieutenant, mining with peace of mind. At the same time, he stole some black crystals and put them into his backpack every day.

In seven days, Ning Shi had stolen a total of 100000 kilograms of black crystals which he had put all into the guardian spirit insect hatchery. The current number of guardian spirit insects had already broken through the 5 million mark.

It had been more than ten days since he came to the insect world, and the length of his stay had far exceeded Ning Shi's plan.

He had originally only wanted to scout the insect world and planned to return in four or five days. He didn't expect to have managed to sneak into the war insect tribe so smoothly.

If he gave up his identity as a war insect lieutenant now, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

However, it had been too long since he had returned. Ning Shi was afraid that his family and friends would worry about his safety.

Thinking of this, he flew to a place where no one was around and activated his summoning skill.

A moment later, Elena appeared in front of Ning Shi, completely naked and covered in bubbles.

When Ning Shi saw this alluring scene, his heartbeat accelerated and he could not even maintain his transformation skill, directly transforming back to his main body.

A warm liquid seemed to be about to flow out of his nose. Ning Shi quickly took out his spare clothes from his game backpack and put them on Elena.

Elena sensed her surroundings and only relaxed when she saw that there were no enemies.

"Ning Shi, I was taking a bath when I felt your call. I thought you were in danger, so I hurried over."

Feeling Elena's good intentions, Ning Shi's heart warmed, and he said embarrassedly, "Elena, you should know about the insect disaster on Saturn. I'm in the insect world right now, but I might not be able to return for a while due to some delays. So not to worry my family, I hope you can help me tell them that I'm safe."

Elena used Ning Shi's clothes to wipe the bubbles on her chest, causing a bouncy wave of fairness that shook Ning Shi's heart.

"No problem, I'll tell Hao Meng to pass it on to the others. Don't worry. Is there anything else? If not, I want to go back and continue washing up. The foam is stuck to my body, and it's very uncomfortable if it dries."

"I'm fine, I'm fine!"

Ning Shi canceled the summoning, and Elena returned to her bathtub on Saturn.

After telling his family that he was safe, Ning Shi's heart calmed. He continued remaining undercover with ease in the war insect group.

Three days later, he finally got the chance.

General No.11 had come to inspect black crystal mine No.18!

After reaching the limit of a 50-meter lieutenant, Ning Shi had been looking for an opportunity to kill a war insect general.

He had previously sent a brainwave message to General No.11, saying that he had discovered a new black crystal mine where an azure insect general was stationed, so he could not attack it.

He had asked for the general's help.

However, General No.11 never replied. This time, he finally came.

General No.11's intelligence was obviously higher than the low-level war insects. After patrolling the mine, it looked at Ning Shi in confusion.

"No.74, the speed and number of black crystals your troops mine do not match the number of black crystals you transport to the base every day. Why is that?"

Ning Shi finally felt the pressure of being a spy. At the level of a general, the intelligence of the war insects was already better than many ordinary humans.

After a round of inspection, the war insect general saw the problem with black crystal mine No.18.

However, the genes of the war insects were deeply rooted, and there had never been a low-level war insect that could go against an advanced war insect.

As such, General No.11 only felt that the number was wrong, but he did not suspect that Ning Shi had stolen the black crystals. 𝓷𝑜𝗏𝔢𝗅𝗎𝓈𝑏.𝔠𝑂𝑀

Ning Shi flew to the general and sent a brainwave, "General, the reason why the numbers are not right is that…"

General No.11 listened attentively to Ning Shi's words and was completely off guard.

All of a sudden, all the trees at the edge of the mine began to shake, and the leaves on the trees pointed neatly in one direction.

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The patches of grass on the ground were originally soft, but in an instant, they hardened and pointed to the sky like sharp swords.

A chilling sword intent filled the world.

A ray of white light appeared out of thin air and struck General No.11's head.

Bang!

The sound of metal clashing could be heard.

Ning Shi's most powerful strike only left a deep wound on the general's head but did not cut it in half.

The general's body was sent flying far into the horizon by this strike, then it fell heavily to the ground. It was dead.

Although the attack hadn't cut through its body, the destructive will contained in the sword intent still destroyed General No.11's soul.

To display his swordsmanship, Ning Shi changed back to his human form.

The swarm of insects saw his appearance and there was a commotion. They rushed over one after another, wanting to stab him to death.

Ning Shi stomped and disappeared from where he was at an extreme speed. He then turned into a war insect and flew to the general's corpse to devour it.

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[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect general. Body size 1m, physical strength greatly increased. The war insect general's gene has been collected. Upgrade to the war insect general.]

General No.11's body was 15 meters long, so Ning Shi immediately transformed his war insect body into a 15-meter body and appeared in front of the war insects.

"Lieutenant No.74 colluded with the enemy and has been eliminated. You can continue mining. There will be a new lieutenant to lead you."

The war insects felt General No.11's aura and brain waves, so they did not doubt him and thought that the strange creature that had just appeared had been killed by the general. With that, they continued to mine.

Following this, Ning Shi found a quiet place and began to devour the remaining corpses of the war insects in his backpack.

[You have devoured the corpse of a war insect soldier. Body size 0.1cm, physical strength slightly increased.]

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[You have devoured 200000 war insect corpses. Devour skill has been upgraded to Tier 6.]

After the Devour skill was upgraded to Tier 6, Ning Shi could now devour thousands of war insect corpses in one breath, just like the insect commander.

In just a short while, the remaining 400000 war insect corpses were all devoured by Ning Shi. His war insect body thus reached a huge length of 450 meters, but it still had not reached the general's limit.

Ning Shi estimated that a war insect general's maximum body size was 500 meters.

When he became an insect commander, his body size would probably start to shrink. Ning Shi knew that his current body strength should be much inferior to the insect commander.

After all, the insect commander had devoured tens of millions of war insect corpses in one breath.

Rather than the increased strength of his body, Ning Shi saw an even more shocking scene.

After absorbing the general's genes, he obtained some fragmented memories from its genes.

In the general's memory, a "mountain" tens of thousands of meters high had come to life. It walked on the earth, crushing it.

Behind it was a huge bird that covered the entire sky. Wherever the bird flew, the ground immediately darkened.

The clouds followed the giant bird, looking like the white feathers on its body.

"What is this? A huge beast? Kun-Peng?"

Watching the general's memory, a familiar sentence flashed through Ning Shi's mind.

"A Kun-Peng is so big that it can't fit on one grill…"

Following that, a flash of inspiration flashed through Ning Shi's mind.

"The beast disaster!"

Ning Shi felt in his heart that these truly 10000-meter-huge beasts were very likely the so-called "beast disaster"!

According to Hao Meng's previous speculations, the insect world and Saturn World were originally one. The so-called disasters were all evolutionary competitions for the species of the two worlds.

In that case, the "beast" and "spiritual" in the "beast disaster" and "spiritual disaster" should also be species of the world.

Now that terrifyingly huge beasts had appeared in the war insect general's memory fragments, the beasts of the beast disaster were likely to be alive in the insect world as well.

The insect world's world boundary was only 1000 meters high now, so these giant beasts couldn't pass through yet. When the insect world and Saturn were completely connected, the restrictions on the world boundary disappeared, and the giant beasts would naturally descend!

Ning Shi didn't know if his speculations were right. Unfortunately, there were only these memory fragments about the giant beasts and no more information in the war insect general's genetic information.

Thinking of this, Ning Shi felt that he should find an opportunity to kill the insect commander. Perhaps then he could get more information.

Ilya was a master of soul research, and her ability was the perfect counter to the war insects. If he summoned her over, he should be able to kill the insect commander.

However, his Devour skill had only reached Tier 6. According to the skill's description, he could not devour the insect commander's corpse yet, so killing it now was useless.

Therefore, the most important task now was to lead the insect group under his command to launch a war against others. This way, he could devour more war insects for a legitimate reason, and level up the Devour skill.

Ning Shi then checked the war insect general's other fragmented memories and learned that the war insect tribe he had sneaked into was called the Black Hole Branch, which lived in the east of the Insect Continent.

At present, there were a total of relatively strong 19 branches among the war insect community that could survive and reproduce independently. They were scattered in different places on the continent.

Some war insect tribes were under other kingly insect tribes due to reasons of resources and strength.

Ning Shi was quite puzzled. The Insect Continent was so vast, so why did General No.11's genetic information have detailed information about all the war insects on the continent?

It seemed that there was a unique way of communication between the war insect tribes.

There were currently 17 war insect generals in the Black Hole Branch, and all of them were under the sole commandership of the insect commander.

The insect commander usually stayed in the Level 4 Life Pool and slept, using black crystals and life energy to increase its strength. Unless the war insect tribe was in great danger, it would not appear.

Usually, it was the 17 war insect generals who controlled the tribe.

Now that Ning Shi had become a general, he could almost do whatever he wanted as long as the insect commander wasn't awake.

He now had about 5 million war insects under his command. After eliminating the azure insects, General No.11's troops also occupied 21 black crystal mines.

Each black crystal mine produced about 400000 to 500000 kilograms of black crystals a day. With the 21 mines added together, the daily output could reach about 10 million kilograms!

Because the initial bodies of the war insects were extremely strong, the production of soldiers consumed more black crystals. The birth of one war insect required 100 grams of black crystals.

In other words, if Ning Shi wanted to, he could produce 100 million war insects a day.

After getting this result, Ning Shi realized that something was wrong. Although the resources controlled by the war insect army had doubled because of the expansion of the territory, it should be impossible for a general to produce 100 million war insects in a day.

Previously, the entire tribe of the Black Hole Branch was only about 70 million.

After carefully searching the general's memory, Ning Shi finally understood.

Within the tribe, two things consumed black crystals.

One was the Level 4 Life Pool. There was a price to pay for the insect commander to sleep in there and become stronger.

Half of the minerals mined by General No.11's troops had to be poured into the Level 4 Life Pool every day.

Previously, General No.11 had given the Level 4 Life Pool 5 million kilograms of black crystals a day. Ning Shi did not want to expose himself for the time being, so his behavior had to be consistent with General No.11's previous behavior.

Reducing the number of black crystals supplied to the Level 4 Life Pool would alert the insect commander, which he could not do for the time being.

In addition to the Life Pool, the food pool that Ning Shi had eaten in before also consumed black crystals.

Bread is the staff of life. One would be hungry and annoyed without food. Although the war insects had strong endurance, they still needed to eat.

To ensure their combat ability, the war insects' diet consisted mainly of black crystal energy drinks.

It was because of this that the war insect community would not blindly produce soldiers, as they could not afford to raise too many of them.

Moreover, the mines were not endless. With the mining speed of the war insects, some black crystal mines could be mined out in about ten days.

Excluding the consumption of the Level 4 Life Pool and the food pool, Ning Shi would have about 4 million kilograms of black crystals left in a day.

That night, Ning Shi sent all 4 million kilograms of black crystals into the guardian spirit insect hatchery. He first spent 500 thousand kilograms of black crystals to upgrade the guardian spirit insect hatchery to Level 5.

[Guardian spirit insect hatchery: Level 5 insect tribe hatchery]

[Black crystals owned: 3.5 million kilograms]

[Production insect tribe: Guardian spirit insect soldier, guardian spirit insect captain, guardian spirit insect lieutenant, guardian spirit insect general.]

[Reproduction requirements: Soldiers 20 grams of black crystals, captain 40 grams of black crystals, lieutenants 1kg of black crystals, generals 50kg of black crystals] 𝗇𝔬𝔳𝗲𝓁𝓤𝓈𝑩.𝐂𝒪𝑀

[Level-up requirement: 50 million kilograms of black crystals]

[Level 5 organ: Gu breeding room]

The gu breeding room, as the name suggested, let the guardian spirit insects kill each other in there, eventually producing a sole and more powerful individual.

Different from the war insects, The guardian spirit insects did not have a restriction that prevented them from advancing in rank. All of them had a gold talent for learning talent, so even a soldier could become a captain.

With a gu breeding house, as long as enough generals were produced, he could breed an individual insect at the insect commander level.

After investing resources this time, Ning Shi planned to be completely hands-off with the breeding of the guardian spirit insects.

He had already laid an excellent foundation for the guardian spirit insects to survive, reproduce, and compete. If they were still unable to establish themselves on the Insect Continent under such circumstances, it would mean that there was no value in nurturing this insect tribe.

In the next two days, Ning Shi began to increase his troops. He put the remaining black crystals into the Level 1 and Level 2 Life Pools, and the number of troops under him increased to 13 million.

In the following half a month, Ning Shi led his troops to fight everywhere.

He first annihilated a holy light insect tribe, a thunder moth tribe, a brain-eating insect tribe, and a blazing fire ant tribe.

After Ning Shi transformed into a war insect, although his war insect body's absolute strength was still inferior to the insect commander, he was more difficult to deal with than the latter.

This was because he was not afraid of spiritual power or soul attacks.

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In every battle, Ning Shi would charge at the front and behead the higher-ups of the enemy.

Thus, the results of his war were very impressive.

After exterminating four intermediate insect tribes in a row, the Black Hole Branch's sphere of influence had doubled.

In the process of the war, many war insects died.

It was normal for millions of war insects to die in just one battle. Ning Shi just needed to use the resources he had plundered and mined to replenish his troops.

As for the dead war insects, they were all devoured and collected by Ning Shi.

Surprisingly, the war insect general's body's limit was not 500 meters.

After devouring 2 million war insect corpses, Ning Shi's Devour skill had been upgraded to Tier 7. The light of Devour could now cover a wider range, but the Tier 7 Devour skill still couldn't devour the insect commander.

At this time, Ning Shi's real war insect body length had already reached more than 2000 meters.

However, he didn't feel any great power. He only felt that the huge body of more than 2000 meters was a heavy burden.

Even his flying speed had slowed down.

...

This was the side effect of continuous devouring. The war insect's body size, defense, and physical sturdiness increased the most from devouring, but the strength attribute had not increased much.

After its body became too big, its speed did not increase either. Instead, it began to slow down.

Ning Shi knew that in the genetic information of the war insect tribe, there must be a way to shrink the body and further improve the physical strength and speed.

But he didn't know the method.

Fortunately, he had the transformation ability and could transform into a smaller size.

It would not affect his combat ability.

However, as his body grew bigger, it took more energy to become smaller.

To reduce consumption, Ning Shi's war insect body size that he displayed to the public was now about 100 meters.

He had shrunk by 20 times and thus the consumption of his special ability had reached its limit. Ning Shi could now maintain the transformation for about 15 days.

He couldn't increase his body size anymore, or the transformation time might shorten sharply, and his undercover operation would be easily exposed.

In Ning Shi's backpack were more than 20 million war insect corpses, but he could no longer use the Devour skill.

If he could not devour corpses, the Devour skill could not be leveled up.

If his Devour skill could not be upgraded, he would not be able to devour the insect commander's corpse and obtain its genetic information.

Without the insect commander's genetic information, he would not know how to reduce his war insect body size. Yet after devouring war insect corpses now, he would continue to grow in size.

This was an endless loop.

In fact, Ning Shi had a way, which was to switch to the game world.

A month had passed, and his game avatar had leveled up by two levels with the help of the Bloodline Guidance Technique and the battle experience points provided by his followers and servants.

He had also accumulated 2 skill points.

Ning Shi could use the skill points to upgrade his Devour skill, but he had originally planned to save those skill points for his swordsmanship.

It was not worth it to use the skill points on the Devour skill that could only be used when he transformed into a war insect.

Just as Ning Shi decided to stop hesitating and use his skill points to level up his Devour skill, a message came from the guardian spirit insect hatchery.

After half a month of fighting in the gu breeding room, the guardian spirit insects had produced an insect commander!

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After receiving this information, Ning Shi immediately flew to the base of the guardian spirit insect hatchery.

He saw the first insect commander of the guardian spirit insect race.

Its appearance was similar to the war insect, with a sharp spike several meters long on its head. However, compared to the war insect, its body was thicker.

The insect commander's experience was legendary. It was not a general produced by the hatchery, but a lieutenant.

It had parasitized the body of a war insect lieutenant, seizing all of the war insect lieutenant's physical talents, then absorbing the war insect lieutenant's soul and optimizing the weakness of the war insect's spiritual power.

From then on, it became extremely strong, and slowly became a general from a lieutenant, and finally the guardian spirit insect commander.

Upon seeing the insect commander, Ning Shi used the Eye of Truth.

[Eye of Truth activated. Target: guardian spirit insect commander No.1. Comparison between host and target's spiritual power: 32/40. The target is not soldiered against the host, all information can be viewed.]

[Character: guardian spirit insect commander No.1]

[Physique: 45 (50)]

[Spiritual Power: 40 (50)]

[Appearance: 4 (cuteness attribute has been destroyed by the war insect gene)]

[Skills: Rapid flight Tier 8, spike Tier 9, mind control Tier 6, parasitism Tier 5, wing slice Tier 5, nine refinement war insect Tier 1]

[Talents: war insect body (purple), penetration (purple), combat nature (purple), learning (gold), gene fusion (gold), soul devour (purple), unyielding will (purple)]

Seeing the guardian spirit insect commander's information, Ning Shi once again sighed at the terrifying ability of the guardian spirit insect tribe.

Not only could they steal the excellent genes of other insects, but they could also further optimize the stolen genes.

This guardian spirit insect had just become an insect commander but already had such insane abilities. It had high attribute values, and its skills and talents were top-notch.

According to the calculations of the game system, the strength of the insect commander should be similar to the super magic beasts and gods of the World of Moen.

However, there were many insect commanders in the insect world. In the advanced insect tribe of the war insects alone, there were more than 20 insect commanders. And in the whole insect world, there were thousands of advanced insect tribes.

The kingly insect tribes had even more insect commanders.

By a conservative estimate, there were at least 100000 insect commanders in the insect world.

On the other hand, the World of Moen only had hundreds of super magical beasts and a few gods left.

In terms of strength, the insect world was obviously stronger. Moreover, the insect world had insect kings and those unknown terrifying giant beasts.

The guardian spirit insect commander No.01 was more than 50 meters long. When it saw Ning Shi, it lay prostrate with its head on the ground to show its submission.

"You're already a highly intelligent being," Ning Shi said with a smile, "I'll give you a name. You will be called Ning Yi from now on."

Ning Yi's mind was filled with happiness as it replied, "Great ruler of the guardian spirit insects, I will forever be your slave. The name you have given me is my supreme glory. From now on, my name is Ning Yi."

When Ning Shi checked Ning Yi's information, he noticed that the latter had mastered a skill called the nine refinement war insect.

This was probably the specific skill of the war insect to shrink its body.

Ning Shi asked for it, and Ning Yi directly used its brainwave to send the information over, which included the specific method of the nine refinement war insect.

The so-called nine refinement war insect was a skill etched in the war insect generals' genetic information when they were born. 𝗇𝑂𝒱𝑒𝑙𝓊𝓈𝓫.𝒸𝐎𝓂

Unfortunately, the information fragments Ning Shi obtained when he devoured General No.11 did not contain this key information.

The nine refinement war insect was a complete set of skills that included devouring corpses, black crystals, and other life forces of the same race to make the insect body stronger.

Unlike Ning Shi, the war insect generals would not grow infinitely in size. They would start reverse devouring when their bodies reached about 100 meters.

The energy from the corpses of their kind would positively increase their body size at first, but after starting reverse devouring, the energy obtained would increase the consumption of the war insect's body instead.

Through such consumption and resistance, the war insect could then get rid of the unneeded tissues and further strengthen its body.

Due to the increased consumption, the war insects would become smaller, but their physical sturdiness and attributes would increase greatly, and their combat power would double.

After obtaining the information about the nine refinement war insect skill, Ning Shi's Tier 7 Devour skill 7 disappeared and evolved into the Tier 0 Nine Refinement War Insect skill.

[Nine Refinement War Insect, Tier 0: Devour the corpses of your own kind and strengthen the cycle from positive to negative. You can devour the corpses of soldiers, captains, lieutenants, generals, and insect commanders.]

He could finally devour the insect commander's corpse!

Without the Nine Refinement War Insect skill, Ning Shi estimated that even if he upgraded his Devour skill to the end, he would not be able to devour the insect commander's corpse.

According to the information on the Nine Refinement War Insect skill, every time he completed the process of growing and then shrinking, he would've finished one cycle of refinement.

With every cycle of refinement completed, the Nine Refinement War Insect skill would increase by one level.

When the Nine Refinement War Insect skill reached Level 1, which meant he had completed one cycle of the refinement, he would've become an insect commander. When the skill reached Level 4, he would've then been promoted to an insect king.

Ning Shi was speechless at the thought of his 2000-meter-long body. Probably no war insect had ever reached such a large size before starting reverse devouring.

He had unintentionally become a weirdo.

After mastering the skill, Ning Shi no longer hesitated and prepared to start reverse devouring.

He had already prepared himself to endure extreme pain.

The reverse devouring process would definitely be extremely painful. After all, the energy would be consumed in his body, and his body would be forcibly shrunk to a smaller size.

Just the thought of this process made his teeth ache.

However, as soon as he began reverse devouring, the game system sent him a hint.

[Do you want to consume 21.21 million war insect corpses to complete the reverse devouring and refine your war insect body to 50 meters? Yes, no.]

Long live the great gaming system!

Ning Shi directly clicked "yes". With that, the war insect corpses in his backpack turned into a black liquid and integrated into his war insect body.

Then, his body shrank and only stopped after reaching 50 meters.

...

Ning Shi could feel that his war insect body was more compact and solid. His body was smaller, but his weight had increased several times.

After feeling it for a while, Ning Shi felt that his current war insect body was full of power and had extreme speed.

The system gave a skill suggestion.

[It is recommended that the host refine your war insect body to a length of 10 meters before starting the next refinement. The foundation laid in the first refinement is related to the potential of the subsequent nine refinements.]

When Ning Shi got the hint, he thus had a goal. He prepared to continue fighting wars and let more war insects die as a matter of course, becoming nutrients for his cultivation of the Nine Refinement War Insect skill.

However, plans could not keep up with changes. Ning Shi suddenly felt that although his war insect body had become smaller, the consumption of his special ability had increased instead!

Ning Shi instantly realized that this was caused by the rapid growth of his war insect body.

There were two principles to how long a transformation could last. The first was that the bigger the difference in size, the faster the special ability's consumption of power. The second was that the stronger the target was, the faster the special ability's consumption of the ability.

Ning Shi's body size had shrunk, but the strength of his war insect body had grown too fast.

He looked at the system hint.

[Transformation Tier 6, transformable target: 1. Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, duration: 150 minutes, high-intensity battle 30 minutes; 2. War insect, duration: 240 minutes, high-intensity battle 48 minutes.]

...

In other words, the system believed that he was already at the insect commander level and that his war insect body's strength was not much different from that of the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus.

To avoid unnecessary consumption, Ning Shi changed back to his main body in the guardian spirit insect hatchery.

"Perhaps it's time for Ilya to come over and kill the insect commander of the Black Hole Branch so that I can take full control of the branch. With that, I can mark out a forbidden area in the Black Hole Branch's base and prevent other war insects from entering. It will be my personal space where my main body recuperates. That, or I can return to the guardian spirit insect hatchery and change back to my main body. With two supply bases, even if the transformation time is shorter, I can still stay in the insect world."

Ning Shi was just about to activate his summoning skill when Ning Yi, who had been lying prostrate on the ground, suddenly sent over brainwaves.

"Respected chief sovereign! After I became the insect commander, a new stream of information appeared in my mind. According to this information, my brainwaves can join a brainwave network. In the brainwave network are all the insect commanders of the insect world and even the insect kings. I feel that this is very important news, so I have to report it to you."

Ning Shi was stunned. He could join the brainwave network after becoming an insect commander?

What was that? The insect world's internet?

"What can you do in the brainwave network?" Ning Shi asked.

Ning Yi used its brainwaves to send a memory fragment over.

In the image, Ning Yi's consciousness found a huge spider web and was automatically connected to a node in the spider web.

Through the spider web, it could see the messages left by the insect commanders on the other nodes, and it could also leave some messages on its own node.

In a node on his left, a seven-star insect commander had left a message.

"Selling one million seven-star insect soldiers in exchange for two million rainbow insect soldiers or one hundred thousand kilograms of red crystals."

On the third node to the left, another message was left, "Looking to purchase 1 million insect soldiers with the body-strengthening genes, private chat for price."

When Ning Yi's brainwave touched the third node on the left, it received a message hint, "Do you wish to enter the node?"

Ning Yi chose to enter and received another hint, "The entry request has been sent to the other party. Please wait."

At this point, the scene was cut off.

Although it was only a short clip, Ning Shi was greatly shocked!

It was not only because the insect tribes had such an advanced way of communication, but also because Ning Shi could feel the world of the insect commanders from the messages.

The insect commanders were using the brainwave network to exchange resources and information. Some were studying various genes, while others were optimizing their own race.

They were like captains, carrying their own race and sailing in the tide of evolution.

Under such a mode, it was no wonder the insect tribes in the insect world were getting stronger and stronger!

Compared to the insects, the humans on Saturn seemed to be too conservative and comfortable.

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After comprehending the brainwave network of the insect commander, Ning Shi understood why the general's genetic information contained the distribution of the war insect tribe across the Insect Continent.

It was probably the information that the insect commander had obtained from the brainwave network.

The war insect commander of the Black Hole Branch had been staying in the Level 4 Life Pool all this time. It probably had not just been sleeping.

Perhaps it was a teenager addicted to the internet.

!!

Ning Shi didn't think too much about it and directly activated his summoning skill, summoning Ilya over.

This time, Ilya wasn't taking a bath in a bathtub. She was wearing a formal suit. When she saw Ning Shi, a bright smile appeared on her face.

"Ning Shi, did you miss me? I was giving a lesson to the students at school. Being a teacher is really interesting. Seeing the students slowly becoming stronger under my guidance makes me feel fuzzy inside."

Ning Shi noticed the change in Ilya. Compared to before, she seemed more "human".

From her bright smile, it was apparent that she had been doing well recently.

Ning Shi explained, "Ilya, I summoned you here because I want you to help me deal with an enemy. His strength is about the same as the super magical beast in the World of Moen. Its physical and elemental defenses are extremely overpowered, almost to the point of being immune to damage. However, its consciousness and soul are its weaknesses."

He looked at Ilya and asked, "In the insect world, can you attack as you please? Were you rejected by the will of the world?"

Ilya sensed her surroundings and shook her head.

She replied, "I can sense that this is a vast and boundless world. The activity of energy is much higher than that of the World of Moen, but the strange thing is that this world doesn't have a will. I don't feel any rejection or suppression here."

Ilya carefully sensed her surroundings again and confirmed, "I can use my full strength, but my instincts tell me not to act recklessly here. There are strong people who can threaten my life in this world."

Ning Shi nodded. Ilya's strength had surpassed that of a super magical beast. According to his estimation, her strength should be about the same as an insect king.

There were 18 king-tier individuals in the insect world. So, there were at least 18 insect kings.

It was normal for Ilya to sense danger.

Strangely, she actually said that the insect world had no will.

"Can you feel the rejection of the world's will on Saturn?" Ning Shi asked.

"Yes." Ilya nodded and explained, "The world will of Saturn is very strong and very condensed. I'm very careful when I use my power there. I can't use the power that exceeds my limit. Otherwise, there will be terrible consequences."

Hearing Ilya's answer, Ning Shi frowned and paced back and forth.

How could this be?

According to his previous speculations, Saturn and the insect world were one and the same. Since Saturn had a world will, by right, the insect world would have one too. Both worlds should share the same will.

Could it be that his previous speculations were wrong, and that Saturn and the insect world were not the same?

Or was it because the insect world had been isolated from Saturn for too long, causing the world's will to shift to the latter?

There was too little information for him to analyze.

However, Ning Shi committed this point of suspicion to memory. His intuition told him that the fact there was no will in the insect world pointed to a greater secret.

"Since you can use your full strength, let's end this quickly and take down the war insect commander."

Ning Shi only wanted to kill the commander of the war insects and not the entire Black Hole Branch. He wanted to use the branch to improve his war insect body.

In order to prevent the battle from affecting the base of the Black Hole Branch, Ning Shi adopted the tactic of provoking and luring the enemy.

He sent Ning Yi near the base of the Black Hole Branch to kill the guards and generals of the war insects.

After Ning Yi killed a war insect general, the commander of the war insects was finally alerted.

The two insect commanders traded blows and Ning Yi retreated in defeat. The war insect commander wanted to devour Ning Yi's body, so he chased after the latter.

Its tragic fate had long been sealed.

After being pinned down by Ning Shi and Ning Yi, Ilya had enough time to chant and release extremely powerful soul magic.

Soul Spear!

The insect commander perished on the spot.

Although he had killed the insect commander, Ning Shi was not very happy.

When he sensed the aura of the Soul Spear, his heart was filled with shock and fear.

It was a destructive aura that could annihilate all life. Ning Shi had not been on the receiving end of the attack and was merely affected by the aura of this skill. Even then, he could not help but feel afraid.

He wanted to leave this place.

This was his soul's instinct to protect itself.

For the first time, Ning Shi felt the difference in strength between him and Ilya.

He only came back to his senses when he heard the hint of the game system.

[Do you want to devour the war insect commander and refine your body size to 10 meters? Yes or no.]

Ning Shi did not hide from Ilya. He directly transformed into a war insect and devoured the corpse of the commander.

A small section of the commander's 30-meter-long body shriveled up, and a stream of energy was transmitted to Ning Shi's war insect body.

His body slowly became smaller, and finally, he was refined to a length of 10 meters.

The insect commander's body was still full of energy, and the system continued to prompt him.

[Do you want to devour the war insect commander and grow your body size to 2000 meters? Yes or no.]

Once the war insect's nine transitions began and its initial body size was fixed, the body size of each subsequent transition would have to reach the initial body size.

For each transition, Ning Shi's body had to grow and reach 2000 meters.

This way, the energy he needed to consume with each transition would increase. However, if he could complete the nine transitions, his accumulated strength would also be extremely powerful.

Ning Shi chose "Yes," and two-thirds of the commander's body disappeared. Ning Shi's body expanded to 2000 meters like a balloon. This time, Ning Shi didn't feel heavy or burdened.

...

After completing the first transition, the strength of his war insect's body increased, and he could control his huge body freely.

[Do you want to devour the war insect commander and refine your body size to 1000 meters? Yes or no.]

With Ning Shi's last devouring, the commander's body completely disappeared. His war insect's body was also maintained at 1000 meters in length.

[The insect commander has been devoured. Its genetic information has been obtained. The host will replace it as insect commander of the Black Hole Branch.]

Just like before, after devouring the insect commander, Ning Shi took its place.

[The first transition is completed. After the ninth transition, you will upgrade by 1 level.]

After devouring the insect commander, Ning Shi completed the first transition and most of the second transition. His strength had been greatly improved!

He was now a 2000-meter insect commander at the first transition, but his strength was probably not much different from that of a war insect commander at the third transition.

Ning Shi wanted to examine the power of the war insect's body and check the memory fragments in its genetic information.

However, he noticed that his heart was beating violently, and he felt dizzy.

This was the signal of his transformation special ability being exhausted.

...

Ning Shi immediately transformed back and looked at the transformation skill description.

[Transformation Level 6. Shapeshifting options: 1. Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus. Duration: 150 minutes, 30 minutes for high-intensity battles. 2. War Insect Commander. Duration: 5 minutes, 1 minute for high-intensity battles.]

The duration of his war insect transformation was extremely short; it could only be maintained for 5 minutes.

On one hand, after the first transition, the war insect was already slightly stronger than the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus. Furthermore, its body size was also much larger than the 100-meter tall tyrannosaurus.

The consumption rate of his special ability was too fast, and he couldn't keep it up.

Ning Shi estimated that if he didn't have the endurance factor, he probably wouldn't last even 10 seconds as a war insect.

He had to increase the level of his transformation ability. Otherwise, as the war insect became stronger, it would be difficult for him to complete the transformation.

Ning Shi thought to himself, "I've been in the insect world for more than 30 days. It's time to return to Saturn."

As he thought of going home, Ning Shi could no longer suppress the longing for life back on Saturn.

Fried chicken that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, spicy and oily barbecue, and steaming hot pot; it had been a long time since he had tasted these delicacies.

The content creators whom he followed should have already uploaded several videos. The novels that he was following should have accumulated at least 200,000 to 300,000 words over the month!

He really wanted to go back and relax. 𝐍𝑂𝗏𝑒𝗅𝗎𝓢𝔅.𝓒𝑶𝓂

Over the past month, he had become an insect and had been spending time amongst them every day. He was either fighting or mining. He was exhausted.

Now that he had completely taken control of the Black Hole Branch, it was time to go home and rest.

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Ning Shi rested for a while. After recovering his transformation ability, he transformed into a war insect again and gave orders to the generals of the Black Hole Branch.

He ordered them to listen to Ning Yi's commands when he was not around.

After Ning Shi left the insect world, the Black Hole Branch would not have a commander. The reproduction of the clan had no support. Ning Shi planned to let the battle insects and the guardian spirit insects join forces and be temporarily led by Ning Yi.

If there were any issues, Ning Yi could contact Ning Shi through the mother nest.

!!

Ning Shi could only receive the brainwave information of the war insect generals when he transformed into a war insect. However, Ning Yi and Ning Shi's communication were not impeded by their forms.

After making arrangements for the insect world, Ning Shi said to Ilya, "Ilya, I'll unsummon you first. When you return to school, summon me."

This was the method that Ning Shi had thought of long ago, to utilize the bug of the summoning skill.

There was a benefit to using Ilya's summoning skill to return to Saturn. If the insect world needed help or Ning Shi wanted to enter here again, he could have Ilya unsummon him and he would return to the mother nest directly.

On top of that, with the summoning skill from the battle partner contract, Ning Shi's main body could also enter the World of Moen directly without going through the world passage of the Mieln Federation.

The contract skill of a battle partner was bound to Ning Shi's soul and main consciousness.

Ning Shi could attach his main consciousness to the game avatar and let the game avatar summon Ilya to the World of Moen.

Or he could ask his main body to cancel the summoning on Ilya and send her back to the World of Moen.

After that, he could leave his main consciousness in his main body, and Ilya could summon it to the World of Moen.

Ning Shi planned to study and cooperate with Ilya in the future. The summoning ability of the partner contract could be used well. Not only could it be used as a portal to travel back and forth, but it was useful as a last resort.

When they couldn't defeat the enemy, one of them could summon the other and instantly escape.

Upon hearing Ning Shi's words, Ilya nodded and replied, "No problem, you can unsummon me."

Ning Shi canceled the summoning, and after a while, he felt Ilya's summoning.

An unknown wave appeared in front of Ning Shi, and the space rippled like water.

Ning Shi no longer hesitated. He jumped into the rippling space.

After a moment of dizziness, he discovered that he was standing in a room.

The room was filled with all kinds of statues. On the table, there were also a few walnut shell carvings. The carvings shone with a round luster, indicating that they were often played with by the owner.

Ning Shi instantly guessed that this was Ilya's dormitory.

Ilya probably didn't want to expose her contract summoning ability, so she chose to summon Ning Shi to her own room.

After returning to Saturn, Ning Shi's mobile phone kept buzzing and vibrating. He received all kinds of notifications.

He took out his phone and saw many missed calls and text messages from his parents and friends, as well as all kinds of spam from advertising fraud.

Yun Moxiang also sent him a text message.

Ning Shi first called his mother to let her know that he was safe and promised to return home at night.

Then, he replied to his friends' messages one by one.

After he finished, Ning Shi saw Ilya sitting on the sofa, playing with her phone.

Only then did he realize that he had been occupying her dormitory, so he quickly said, "Ilya, thank you for your help this time. I've just returned and have a lot of things to deal with. I'll treat you to a meal tomorrow!"

Upon hearing Ning Shi's words, Ilya put away her phone, gulped and said, "I want to eat hotpot, the spiciest hotpot there is!"

"No problem!"

After Ning Shi finished speaking, he quickly sneaked out of the room.

A male principal appearing in a female teacher's dormitory might cause a misunderstanding if he was seen by others.

As he walked around the campus, he admired the tree-lined paths, speckles of sunlight, and chirping birds in the forest.

It was already the end of September, and the osmanthus flowers on campus were in full bloom. A sweet fragrance filled his nose.

The students were walking together in twos and threes, talking and laughing.

Although he had only been away for a month, Ning Shi still felt like a lifetime had passed since he last enjoyed the peace and beauty of the campus.

Just a moment ago, he was still in the wild forest, undergoing a bloody evolution. Now, he had returned to a peaceful life.

Ning Shi cherished this peace and tranquility even more.

When he returned to his dormitory, everything was clean. It seemed that someone had been helping to clean it while he had been away.

Yun Moxiang had left him a message before, saying that the official reward had been confirmed.

Ning Shi gave Yun Moxiang a call.

After three beeps, Yun Moxiang picked it up with a gasp.

She exclaimed, "Consultant Ning, when did you return? There's no news from the northern world boundary."

The government had always been concerned about Ning Shi's safety. Hu Changjun had ordered Commander Ou of the Northern Army to alert everyone as soon as Ning Shi returned.

However, Ning Shi came back by summoning and did not pass through the northern world boundary, so Commander Ou would not have known that he had returned.

"I came back using the Fei Li Island route, so the Northern Army would not know."

Ning Shi casually explained and changed the topic.

"Has my reward been approved?"

Yun Moxiang did not dwell on how Ning Shi had returned. She replied, "The reward has been given out. Are you in school? I'll go over to find you now."

"Sure, I'm in my dormitory. Come over."

After making an appointment with Yun Moxiang, it was close to noon. Ning Shi went to the cafeteria first to have a meal.

As he chewed on the sweet white rice and ate a large piece of red braised meat, Ning Shi almost shed tears of happiness. Life on Saturn was still better!

...

Be it the World of Moen or the insect world, although both were magical places, they were not Ning Shi's home.

The Yunmeng Kingdom was where Ning Shi's roots lay.

People could only live a happier life in their hometown.

After dinner, Ning Shi returned to his residence. Yun Moxiang hadn't arrived yet, so he went online to check the latest news.

In terms of the insect disaster, the Bei Shi Nation and Fei Li Island had been completely occupied by the insects, and all the resources on the ground had been devoured.

The insect swarm occupied these two countries and did not expand further.

There had been no new insect disasters in the month that Ning Shi had been away.

There were no major movements around the world.

In the Yunmeng Kingdom, the National Awakeners' Competition ended yesterday.

The champion was a handsome 30-year-old man named Yi Shengjia. He was a genius who was already a Tier 8 awakener at the age of 30.

His ability was one of the rare enabling-type talents.

...

There might have been a secret agreement for this year's National Awakeners' Competition; no Tier 9 awakeners participated.

After Yi Shengjia won the competition, his reputation soared. He was known by the media and the public as the top young awakener and the most powerful Tier 8 awakener in the Yunmeng Kingdom.

He had become the idol and role model of countless young men and the crush of countless young girls.

The official competition reward alone had made Yi Shengjia a billionaire, and there were countless business endorsements awaiting him. 𝗇𝔬𝓋𝗲𝐿𝐔𝔰𝔟.𝑪𝗈𝕞

Ning Shi could feel Yi Shengjia's terrifying popularity. Every website or platform he visited was filled with reports of the latter.

In his newsfeed, there were also all kinds of inspirational stories about Yi Shengjia.

Ning Shi didn't like this level of reputation. If one was too famous, they would lose their privacy.

Ding!

The doorbell rang. Ning Shi put away his phone and welcomed Yun Moxiang in.

Ever since Ning Shi had praised Yun Moxiang for looking good in a uniform, she was always in uniform every time she met him.

However, her uniform today was a little different. Her skirt seemed to be a little too short, and her black stockings only reached halfway up her thighs, revealing a part of her thigh between the stockings and the skirt.

Contrasted by the black silk, her legs appeared extremely fair, exuding an alluring shine.

Yun Moxiang carried a black bag in her hand. After putting the bag on the table, she went to Ning Shi's refrigerator first and took out a bottle of Sprite. She opened it and took a sip before saying, "The reward for the original version of the extreme body forging method has been announced. There was some dispute about the reward this time, but Commander Ou mentioned that you contributed to the idea of transforming into an insect. After the two contributions were added together, the reward was finally decided upon."

Yun Moxiang took out a box from the black bag and handed it to Ning Shi, saying, "You receive 3000 merit points and five A-level spiritual crystals."

She explained, "At first, Minister Hu suggested that we give you 5000 merit points. However, compared to past evaluations, 5000 merit points seemed too high of a reward. The main reason is that you've already been rewarded once for the simplified version of the technique. The official consensus was to give you 3000 merit points, but Minister Hu disagreed. In the end, Commander Ou intervened, and we finally came up with a reward of 3000 merit points and five A-level spiritual crystals."

Ning Shi took the A-level spiritual crystals and said, "I am grateful for Minister Hu trying to help me."

"What a pity," Yun Moxiang said.

"What pity?"

"The reason why Minister Hu helped you fight for 5000 merit points was to help you gather enough points to exchange for S-level spiritual crystals. His plan was for you to get 3000 points and exchange the 5 A-level spiritual crystals for 1000 merit points. Combined with the 1000 points you received last time, you'll have exactly 5000 merit points."

"It's a shame that you've used up the previous 1000 merit points, " Yun Moxiang lamented. "The S-level spiritual crystals in the storage will probably be taken by Yi Shengjia."

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Upon hearing Yun Moxiang's words, Ning Shi did not have much of a response.

He said indifferently, "S-level spiritual crystals are the country's resources, and the treasures in the country's secret vault belong to everyone. The merit point system was established for fairness. If someone has accumulated 5000 merit points, it's only natural for them to exchange for S-level spiritual crystals."

As Ning Shi's liaison officer, Yun Moxiang's future as an official was closely related to Ning Shi. More than anyone else, she wanted Ning Shi to become stronger.

Seeing that Ning Shi was so calm, she was a little anxious and inadvertently raised her voice.

!!

"Consultant Ning, times have changed. A month ago, there were still more than 20 S-level spiritual crystals in the vault. Perhaps they were stimulated by the insect disaster that destroyed two countries in a row, or perhaps they were influenced by the hot-blooded atmosphere of the National Awakeners' Competition, but during this period, many Tier 9 awakeners have exhausted their merit points and resources to exchange for S-level spiritual crystals."

Ning Shi was not surprised. As long as a Tier 9 awakener served the country, be it by arresting criminals within the country, maintaining stability, or resisting insect disasters at the border, they could earn a large number of merit points.

Their merit points could be exchanged for S-level spiritual crystals.

"Did any of these Tier 9 awakeners successfully break through to the overlord realm after exchanging S-level spiritual crystals?" Ning Shi asked, concerned.

Having been steered off topic by Ning Shi, Yun Moxiang's mouth twitched helplessly as she replied in a low voice, "A total of 13 Tier 9 awakeners took S-level spiritual crystals. Fortunately, one of them successfully advanced and became the seventh overlord of our country."

Hearing this good news, Ning Shi was also very excited. With every new overlord, the country's strength would increase.

Yun Moxiang finished the Sprite in one gulp and continued, "This big shot's name is Yi Guoqing, and he's Yi Shengjia's father. Just like Yi Shengjia, he's also an enabling-type awakener."

She introduced, "Yi Guoqing was originally the first advisor of the Special Affairs Bureau. After becoming an overlord, the country had temporarily arranged a new position for him. He was the president of the National Awakeners' Competition Association, responsible for the overall management of the three major competitions: the National Awakeners' Competition, the Campus Competition, and the World Competition."

She continued, "The enabling-type ability that President Yi Guoqing possesses is as rare as the transformation-type and summoner-type abilities. In the world, only the Kingdom of Mies has an enabling-type overlord. It's said that, after President Yi Guoqing became an overlord, his cultivation improved rapidly due to very few overlords sharing the same ability as him."

After introducing Yi Guoqing, Yun Moxiang returned to discussing the previous topic.

"There are only 11 S-level spiritual crystals left in the country's secret vault. In order to maintain a certain amount of supply, the government has increased the search and mining of spiritual crystals in the entire region in the hope of collecting more S-level ones. On the other hand, they have also announced a policy.

When the number of S-level spiritual crystals drops to 10, the merit points required to exchange for them will double, and each S-level spiritual crystal will cost 10000 merit points.

If new S-level spiritual crystals are added to the vault, the officials may restore the price to 5000 points, but no one knows whether there will be new spiritual crystals added."

Yun Moxiang looked at Ning Shi and said in a serious tone, "Currently, there's only one S-level spiritual crystal worth 5000 points left. Yi Shengjia used to serve in the southwest world boundary and performed outstandingly in many battles against the insects, so he has accumulated a lot of merit points. In addition to winning the National Awakeners' Competition this time, he has 4700 merit points accumulated and will soon gather 5000 merit points. It's very likely that he'll be the one to exchange for this S-level spiritual crystal."

Ning Shi was not concerned with Yi Shengjia, but instead asked, "What's the point of the officials raising the price like this? This isn't fair to the people who come after. Besides, the resources piled up in the vault are all useless unless they are converted into combat power as soon as possible."

Yun Moxiang crossed her legs and said, "For the sake of motivation. There must always be S-level spiritual crystals in the vault. If all the crystals were exchanged, why would a Tier 9 awakener still work for the country? Even though the awakeners might have some form of patriotism, the officials also had to consider material incentives for them. Although the price of S-level spiritual crystals would double, at least there is a goal for them to work towards, right?"

She added, "Not only did the government raise the price this time, but they also strictly prohibited the exchange and gifting of merit points. By law, everyone has to earn their own merit points to purchase S-level spiritual crystals."

Ning Shi understood that the government needed S-level spiritual crystals as a strategic resource to better unite all forces.

As for the price, it would certainly be impacted by supply and demand.

In all fairness, each generation basically competed among themselves. After the National Awakening, the number of awakeners increased gradually. If the production of S-level spiritual crystals couldn't keep up, the price would inevitably become more and more expensive.

Perhaps in a few years, the price of S-level spiritual crystals would be 10 times more expensive than it was now.

When Ning Shi considered this, he felt that he should get at least two S-level spiritual crystals as soon as possible.

He needed one for the advancement of his transformation-type ability and one for his strength-type ability.

He took out his phone and handed it to Yun Moxiang, saying, "I've been in the insect world for more than a month. These are the recordings I gathered, which contain crucial information about the insect and beast disasters."

On the phone, there was a recording of the aerial view of the terrain of the insect world that Ning Shi had recorded after flying for a day and a night.

There was also information about the social structure of the war insect tribe, the reproduction process of their bases, and scenes of life-or-death battle between the war insects and the azure insects.

There were even images of 10000-meter-tall giant beasts and giant birds wreaking havoc across the land.

These were all recorded by the game system.

Of course, Ning Shi still kept some things to himself. He didn't mention anything about the war insect's brainwave network for the time being.

The war insect commander's gene fragment contained all the information about the insect world. The territory near the three world boundaries of the Yunmeng Kingdom was the territory of the king-tier spirit devouring insects.

Ning Shi didn't hide anything about the spirit devouring insects ruling over other insect tribes as well as their characteristics. This information was intercepted by the system, made into a video, and put on his phone.

In Ning Shi's bag, there was still a large number of black crystals. He planned to put them in the school's research room for Hao Meng to study. At the national level, Ning Shi was only familiar with Minister Hu and Commander Ou.

He was not familiar with the others, so he held back for the time being.

After Yun Moxiang saw the videos on the phone, her hand trembled with excitement!

These images were too precious. From these images, the officials could derive more information, and thus make corresponding preparations for future insect and beast disasters.

The most precious information in Ning Shi's phone was the introduction of the characteristics of various insects in the war insect commander's genetic information.

For a long time, the government's research on the insects had been extremely passive.

The government could only obtain research materials every time the insects attacked. However, their appearance meant that there would be tens of thousands of casualties.

With this information, the government could immediately respond and defend against new species of bugs.

Ning Shi took back his phone and said with a smile, "I can send these images to the official designated cloud space. My request is simple. I don't want any merit points. I'll keep these five A-level spiritual crystals. With 3000 merit points and the information I obtained from the war insect tribe, I'll take two S-level spiritual crystals."

Yun Moxiang couldn't make the call on this matter. She called Minister Hu in front of Ning Shi.

After a while, Yun Moxiang hung up the phone and said, "Minister Hu wants to talk to you directly."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ning Shi's phone began to vibrate. It was Hu Changjun.

Ning Shi picked it up, and Hu Changjun's hearty voice was transmitted through the earpiece.

"Xiao Ning, you are indeed the man I thought you would be. Well done! I've received your request. If you trust me, you can upload the video to the secret vault website. After I verify the information, I'll definitely pay you two S-level spiritual crystals!"

He added, "I'm sorry. I said I'd give you at least three S-level spiritual crystals, but I didn't expect the situation to change so quickly. If it weren't for you being so capable, I might've gone back on my word. Don't worry, I won't let you down this time." 𝑵𝒪𝑣𝖊𝐋𝐮𝐒𝐛.𝑪𝒐𝓂

Ning Shi replied, "Minister Hu, thank you for your help. Even if the price of S-level spiritual crystals increases, I can still afford them. You don't have to worry about me."

He was very grateful to Hu Changjun.

Not only did Hu Changjun give him a Thunder Larva Saber and a bottle of insect brain pills the first time they met, but the former also helped him choose the best war insect armor.

In terms of official rewards, Hu Changjun had also fought to give him better resources many times.

...

Hearing Ning Shi's words, Hu Changjun burst into laughter.

"Good! The future of the country depends on outstanding young people like you. It's a deal then. After I verify the videos, I'll immediately call for a meeting between the overlords and deliver the S-level spiritual crystals to you as soon as possible."

After that, Hu Changjun hung up the phone.

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Under Yun Moxiang's guidance, Ning Shi uploaded the videos on his phone to the national secret vault's website.

Even after he uploaded them, Yun Moxiang was still very excited. She never imagined that Ning Shi would be able to bring back such precious information after just a single trip to the insect world.

She was so excited that beads of sweat were forming on her forehead.

She looked at Ning Shi in admiration and said, "Consultant Ning, in my heart, you are the strongest Tier 8 awakener. The top young awakener in the Yunmeng Kingdom, Yi Shengjia, is definitely not as good as you!"

For a moment, Ning Shi couldn't tell if she was speaking the truth or if she was just habitually flattering him.

To the officials and Yun Moxiang's knowledge, Ning Shi was still at Tier 8, but his true strength definitely rivaled even the top overlord realm experts.

Ning Shi had no interest in being the strongest Tier 8 awakener. He waved his hand to dismiss her.

"Miss Yun, I'm going to start cultivating. If there's nothing else, let's talk some other day."

After being asked to leave by Ning Shi, Yun Moxiang's initially excited expression froze.

Just as she was about to get angry, she thought of his great contribution this time. As his liaison officer, she would also benefit from it. She calmed down.

She revealed what she thought was her sweetest smile and softly said, "Consultant Ning, I'll take my leave first. If there's anything you need, feel free to contact me. I'm available at any time!"

Ning Shi nodded and said, "Take care. I won't see you out."

Yun Moxiang left with a smile.

Ning Shi locked the door out of habit and then put the A-level spiritual crystals into his bag.

[Do you want to use an A-level spiritual crystal to upgrade your transformation-type ability to Level 7? Yes, No.]

It would take close to 10 A-level spiritual crystals for his strength-type ability to reach Level 9, and he didn't have enough crystals at the moment.

Ning Shi didn't want to save up spiritual crystals. Currently, improving his strength was his top priority.

He chose to increase the level of his transformation-type ability.

He selected "yes," and a stream of energy entered his body. After circulating around within his body, the energy gathered near his heart.

Something like a Daoist inner core was formed near his heart.

The inner core was perfectly round, pure, and transparent. Energy surged within it.

The red tissues of the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus and the war insect were both contained within the inner core. Under the nourishment of the inner core's energy, they began to glow brighter and brighter.

Ning Shi knew that this wasn't an inner core, but a Core of Illusion born after his transformation-type ability reached Level 7.

Within the Core of Illusion, the transformation options would gradually become familiar with each other until they reached Level 9. They would obtain each other's characteristics.

This was the only way the transformation options could possibly surpass their originals in terms of strength.

[Your transformation-type ability has been upgraded to Level 7. Based on your 99% compatibility with your transformation-type ability, the acquisition of traits has been upgraded to the acquisition of talents. You can directly choose a talent from the transformation options and integrate it into your main body.]

Seeing the system prompt, Ning Shi was overjoyed. So, he could directly choose a talent from his transformation options? There was one clear choice.

Ning Shi chose the war insect's talent: war insect's body (purple).

After choosing this talent, Ning Shi sensed his body structure quietly changing. Although his strength didn't increase much, a sense of security welled up inside of him.

The most ridiculous thing about the war insects was that their bodies gave them unparalleled defense.

[War insect's body (purple): You now possess an extremely strong war insect's body. Physical defense increased by 10 times, elemental defense increased by 10 times, and energy recovery increased by 10 times. Note: Due to the body structure of the host and the war insect being different, the effect of the war insect's body on the host cannot be compared with the genuine article.]

Ning Shi understood the note. After all, no matter how strong his physical body was, it would be difficult for it to be exactly the same as the actual body of a war insect. It was definitely impossible to achieve the ultimate defense effect.

Even so, Ning Shi was still very satisfied.

With his three talents, war insect's body, super physique and undying, Ning Shi was simply an unkillable cockroach. He also had the talent of blade armor, which could reflect damage.

Ning Shi's only weakness now was his low spiritual power. His only talent for spiritual power and soul defense was super physique, and it needed to be strengthened.

After his transformation-type ability reached Level 7, he had three options for transformation. Excluding the bloodline of the Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus, Ning Shi could still choose two other options.

He needed to find a species with strong spiritual power to be his next transformation target.

Ning Shi hadn't thought about which species he should choose.

He would continue to increase his strength in the meantime.

[Do you want to use three A-level spiritual crystals to upgrade your transformation-type ability to Level 8? Yes, No.]

With the consumption of three A-level spiritual crystals, Ning Shi's transformation-type ability reached Level 8!

Not only did the number of transformed targets increase to six, but he also got two additional chances to obtain talents from his options.

The Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus was a product of his bloodline, so its talent was the same as his own. Ning Shi was not interested in the other talents of the war insect, so he would save these two chances for now.

[Your transformation-type ability has been upgraded to Level 8. Your transformation skill has been upgraded to Level 8 and transformation endurance has been upgraded to Level 3.]

[Your transformation endurance has reached Level 3. When you transform, you can also restore your transformation skill at a certain speed.]

[Transformation Level 8. Shapeshifting options: 1. Thunder-armored Tyrannosaurus. Duration: 240 hours, 4 hours for high-intensity battles. 2. War insect commander. Duration: 8 hours, 1 hour for high-intensity battles.]

Ning Shi complained internally, "The war insect commander transformation still could only last for 8 hours. It seems that Level 8 is not high enough for it to be useful."

The system immediately responded to his complaint.

[A normal Tier 8 transformation-type awakener can't fully transform into a war insect. You're able to transform into it because of your strong physique, 99% compatibility with your ability and your endurance.]

Seeing the system notification, Ning Shi instantly sobered up. The system was right. If an ordinary Tier 8 awakener could transform into an overlord realm war insect commander and fight for an hour, the transformation-type ability would have become the strongest ability in the world.

He was able to transform into a war insect commander at Tier 8. In addition to his high compatibility with his ability and transformation endurance, more importantly, his main body's physique was very strong. The difference between him and his transformation target was not particularly large. The consumption of his special ability was relatively minor, which was why he could produce such an effect.

He only had one A-level spiritual crystal left, so he could not further improve his strength for the time being. He also hadn't decided on his next transformation target yet. Ning Shi cast aside his stray thoughts and walked toward the research room.

He wanted to give Hao Meng the black crystal for her to study. While he was there, he wanted to share with her what he had seen and heard in the insect world.

As a high-level energy source on the same level as S-level spiritual crystals, the black crystal could reproduce all kinds of insects through the Life Pool and other mediums. It was a very powerful energy source.

...

If he could figure out methods to harvest this energy, it would be of great help to his strength.

Now, Ning Shi could only directly absorb the black crystal's energy while undergoing transition in his war insect form.

The amazing thing was that the effect of direct absorption was not as good as reproducing the war insects with the black crystal first and then swallowing them.

Ning Shi couldn't understand the logic behind it. What he wanted most was not to enhance the strength of the war insect body, but to enhance the strength of his main body.

Therefore, the study of the black crystal was imperative.

The person Ning Shi trusted the most was of course Hao Meng.

When he arrived at the laboratory, Hao Meng was doing research on the advanced stamina potion.

Currently, the stamina potion could only be fused with E-level spiritual crystals. Hao Meng was developing a way to fuse it with higher-level spiritual crystals to create an advanced version.

Ning Shi entered the laboratory and was about to explain his purpose for coming here to the receptionist when Mo Yu appeared out of thin air in front of him.

She said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go and announce your arrival."

Ning Shi nodded.

...

About a minute later, Hao Meng came out of the laboratory in a hurry, wearing a white coat.

Upon seeing Ning Shi, her eyes sparkled, and she couldn't conceal her smile. She threw herself into Ning Shi's arms.

Ning Shi suddenly felt a ball of warmth in his arms. A woman's delicate fragrance hit him in the face.

Hao Meng hugged him tightly. Ning Shi could feel the excitement in her heart, and his heart was in turmoil.

She said, "Shitou, Ilya said you went to the insect world. You've been gone for more than a month. We had an agreement before that your embrace would be lent to me as an investment in the research lab. I didn't expect you to run away. I'm going to collect my interest now."

After Hao Meng finished speaking, she buried her head in Ning Shi's chest, listening to his heartbeat quietly.

Ning Shi wasn't stupid. He wouldn't tactlessly reject a beauty's friendship. He put his arms around Hao Meng and enjoyed her in his embrace.

The two of them cuddled for a while as if there was no one else around. Then Ning Shi said, "I have something important to tell you. Let's find a place to talk." 𝐍𝑂𝗏𝑒𝗅𝗎𝓢𝔅.𝓒𝑶𝓂

Hao Meng nodded, rubbing her head against Ning Shi's chest a few times before straightening up.

Her face was red, but she looked extremely happy.

"Let's go to my office."

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Ning Shi followed Hao Meng to her office.

After Hao Meng finished making tea, Ning Shi handed his phone over.

"This is the information I obtained in the insect world. Take a look first."

Hao Meng took the phone, opened the videos, and watched them intently.

The more she watched, the more serious her expression became.

After Hao Meng finished, Ning Shi took a sip of tea and said, "In the insect world, the insect tribes are divided into low-level insects, intermediate-level insects, advanced-level insects, and the top king-level insects."

After devouring the war insect commander, Ning Shi was able to transform into it and send brainwave information to the generals. Throughout the process, he had also obtained the genetic memory of the commander, which allowed him to form some speculation about the insect disaster and beast disaster.

Ning Shi told Hao Meng his speculation, saying, "There are a total of 18 king-tier insects in the insect world, and the spirit devouring insects are one of them. Saturn shares a border with the spirit devouring insects' territory. I'm guessing that the so-called bug disaster is the invasion of spirit devouring insects alone. It's not an act of the entire insect world."

Hao Meng seemed to be thinking about something and didn't say anything. Ning Shi continued, "As for the beast disaster, it concerns two types of reproduction of the insect tribes."

Ning Shi sorted out the insect commander's memory fragments in his mind and organized his words.

"Some of the insect tribes reproduce by creating new, independent individuals. Most of them rely on their extremely terrifying reproduction ability to form an advantage in numbers and crush their enemies. A small portion rely on their powerful individual abilities and are groomed into elite soldiers. The war insects are elite soldiers. Compared to other insects, which numbered in the hundreds of billions, the number of war insects was really not that high."

Ning Shi continued, "On the other hand, some of the insect tribes reproduce by creating new parts to form an assembly. Their offspring do not have independent consciousness and abilities, but they could carry out certain roles, just like the various parts of a car. When they came together, they would form organs or body tissues such as hands and feet. When these tissues gather together, they can form a terrifying giant beast that is over 10,000 meters tall!"

Seeing the shock in Hao Meng's eyes, Ning Shi could empathize with her. He was also very shocked when he first learned about the origins of the giant beasts from the memory fragments of the insect commander.

Ning Shi poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and continued to explain, "The mountain-like behemoths and the giant birds in the sky you just saw are made up of countless tiny insects. You can consider these behemoths as individual entities, or you can see them as a group of insects. A single giant beast consists of an entire insect tribe.

For special reasons, these insects produce a magical chemical reaction after they combine, allowing the behemoth's body to possess all kinds of magical abilities.

In the core of the giant beast, there is an organ for the insects to reproduce. Inside, new insects are born continuously. Once the giant beast is injured, the newborn insects will fill the wound and the giant beast's injury will recover immediately. In theory, the giant beasts are immortal."

Hao Meng came back to her senses. She took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you think that the beast disaster refers to these giant beasts made up of insects?"

"Yes," replied Ning Shi as he nodded. "Based on the information we have so far, I'm guessing that the insect disaster refers to the invasion of the king-tier spirit devouring insects during the era when the world boundary existed. They invaded Saturn for some reason.

As for the beast disaster, it refers to us being attacked by giant beasts when the space barrier was lifted and the world boundary disappeared. It happened when Saturn and the insect world were in the same space."

Hao Meng asked another question.

"How many of these giant beasts have you detected in the insect world? "

"18. There are 18 of them in total, " Ning Shi replied. "This number corresponds to the 18 king-tier insect tribes that reproduce individuals."

Hao Meng's gaze shifted as she nodded. She said, "The numbers match. According to the documents I've read before, during the beast disaster, there were more than 10 giant beasts that attacked Saturn. The 18 giant beasts and 18 king-tier insect tribes are equal in number. This shouldn't be a coincidence."

Hao Meng analyzed, "Shitou, don't you feel that the way these behemoths are formed is very similar to our industrial production method? After listening to your description of them, I feel like there's a higher being or civilization that's producing and creating these behemoths."

Ning Shi was shocked and thought of the brainwave network of the insect commander. It was like a spider web that could transmit information and enhance the communication between the insect commanders.

It was indeed very similar to the model of the Internet.

Hao Meng's guess was very reasonable. Could it be that there was once a superpower from a higher dimension in the insect world?

However, after checking the insect commander's memory fragments, Ning Shi shook his head.

"According to the information I've obtained, the insect world has been reproducing and living like this for thousands of years. The most powerful species are the giant beasts and the insect kings. There has never been a more powerful civilization than them."

Ning Shi then told Hao Meng about the insect commander and the brainwave network.

The two of them analyzed it for a long time, but due to their limited information, they could not come to a definitive conclusion.

Hao Meng finally said, "The existence of the brainwave network and the giant beasts might be a coincidence. Everything is interconnected. Many civilizations or races will always have some common characteristics in the end. We can only slowly gather information to deduce the final truth."

After exchanging information about the insect world, Ning Shi took out a black crystal from his backpack and handed it to Hao Meng.

"This is the energy source needed for the war insects to reproduce, the black crystal. I think it's a very advanced energy source, so I want you to study it and see if we can use it. "

The energy source of the World of Moen were magic cores while Saturn had spiritual crystals. The insect world most likely depended on black crystals or other colored crystals.

Although the structure was different, they were all energy sources in essence.

Hao Meng took the black crystal and observed it carefully. Then, she said, "I can feel the energy contained in it. It's very pure, almost the same as a S-level spiritual crystal. However, it's probably very difficult for us to make use of it."

She continued, "There are many kinds of energy in the world. Electricity from power generation, heat generated from combustion, and nuclear energy generated by nuclear fusion were all forms of energy. However, these energies could only be used on external objects to increase productivity. The human body could not absorb them. In theory, the black crystal is only suitable for the insects to absorb and reproduce, so it should be difficult for us to utilize it."

Ning Shi smiled, took out another 10 black crystals, and handed them to Hao Meng.

He said, "It's fine. We're just studying them for the time being. We don't necessarily have to force any results. Even if we can't use them, it's good to understand the energy source of the insects."

Hao Meng put away the black crystals and replied, "Don't worry. It will be difficult to figure out how to use the black crystal, but I'll find out whether its energy can be absorbed by the human body or not after a while."

Seeing Hao Meng's confident look, Ning Shi was suddenly very curious.

He really wanted to know what abilities Hao Meng had.

Her subordinate, Mo Yu, was a high-level space-type awakener.

Her subordinates were already very strong, so Hao Meng's strength would certainly not be weak.

Since his curiosity was piqued, Ning Shi could no longer hold back and released the Eye of Truth.

[Eye of Truth activated. Target: Hao Meng. Comparison of the host's and the target's spiritual energy: 32/48. Target possesses a special mental barrier, only a minute amount of information can be viewed.]

[Name: Hao Meng]

[Physique: 30 (*)]

[Spiritual Power: 48 (*)]

[Appearance: 10 (A pretty face even in the 2D world)]

[Family Background: 7 (Highly educated family)]

[Profession: ]

[Skills: ]

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[Talent: ]

[Achievements: Director of the Heretic Research Institute, inventor of the National Awakening potion and stamina potion]

Once he completed his investigation, Ning Shi felt his spiritual power being rapidly consumed. Before he had time to look at the information given by the system, he had a throbbing headache. He could not help but hold his head.

Hao Meng also sensed that Ning Shi had used some kind of skill to probe her. She was a little angry at first, but when she saw him holding his head, she recalled her own mental barrier.

She was worried that she had accidentally injured him.

She sat next to Ning Shi and asked with concern, "Shitou, are you alright?"

Ning Shi only felt a slight pain in his head and was not hurt, but he felt a little embarrassed.

He knew that Hao Meng had sensed his probing and immediately apologized.

"I'm sorry, Mengmeng. I was just curious about your ability. I recently learned a probing skill and couldn't help but use it."

Hao Meng looked at Ning Shi helplessly and said, "My strength is at the overlord realm. If you're curious, just ask me. I'll tell you everything I can."

She repeated what she had said before, "Even if I hide some things from you, I have my reasons for doing so. I would never harm you!"

...

Ning Shi nodded and said to Hao Meng again, "It's my fault, I was too curious." 𝒏𝑜𝒱𝑬𝐥𝔲𝕊𝑩.𝑪𝑜𝓂

It was not right for Ning Shi to invade her privacy whenever he wanted, even if they were lovers. He had indeed acted too impulsively.

Anyone who had mastered an ability like the Eye of Truth would not be able to resist using it all the time.

After apologizing, the two of them smiled at each other and chatted in the office for a while before Ning Shi got up and left.

After walking out of the research room, Ning Shi couldn't help but look at Hao Meng's information given by the system.

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"She has 48 points of spiritual power?" Ning Shi was stunned. Hao Meng's strength was probably among the top ranking spiritual-type overlords.

Ning Shi was shocked when he saw her identity as the director of the Heretic Research Institute.

He thought of what Hao Meng had said many times. If she was hiding something, she must have her own reasons for doing so.

Hao Meng must have been referring to her identity as the director of the Heretic Research Institute when she claimed she was hiding something.

!!

She was probably worried that he would distance himself from her after finding out that she was the leader of an evil organization.

She didn't know that after Ning Shi saw her identity, he admired her even more.

Hao Meng was Scientist H, the great scientist who had developed the National Awakening potion. This achievement alone was enough for her to leave her name in the annals of history.

Moreover, she had also invented the stamina potion.

"So that is why Hao Meng is so smart. She's scientist H. It's only natural for her to be so proficient in scientific research. Ning Shi was secretly happy. He mumbled, "I've found a treasure. With Hao Meng's help, the school's research lab will definitely shine."

Then, he felt a sense of accomplishment. He was very proud to have such a great scientist as his girlfriend.

As for the Heretic Research Institute's evil actions, Ning Shi believed in Hao Meng and was certain that she would not do anything evil.

If she was really evil and unscrupulous, it would have been better for her to stay abroad. The environment abroad was much friendlier to evil organizations.

He shouldn't judge her based on rumors, but rather by her actions.

Hao Meng's return to the country and her contribution of the awakening potion to the country were all acts of justice.

Ning Shi could also feel Hao Meng's kindness from his regular contact with her, so he believed in her. There was either a misunderstanding that the Heretic Research Institute was classified as an evil organization, or there was some other unknown reason.

After settling the intelligence he gathered from the insect world and the black crystals, Ning Shi drove home and talked to his parents for a while.

After his parents became awakeners, their health got better, and they became wealthier. Ning Shi saw the smiles on their faces and felt gratified.

After seeing Ning Shi, his parents were relieved.

His mother, Wang Yan, reminded him again and again, "Son, before you go on a business trip next time, you have to tell us in advance. We couldn't contact you for more than a month. How could we not be worried?"

This time, it was Ning Shi's negligence. Facing his mother's blame, Ning Shi admitted his mistake with a good attitude and repeatedly promised that there would be no next time. Only then did his mother let him off the hook.

After staying at home for more than two hours, Ning Shi returned to school.

Now that the National Awakeners' Competition had ended, the Campus Awakeners' Competition would begin in three days.

In this competition, Ning Shi's disciples could no longer be bystanders.

They had to get good results, enter the national team, and qualify for the World Competition.

After Ning Shi returned to school, he gathered his four disciples at the field.

He wanted to check the progress of his disciples' cultivation.

After not seeing each other for more than a month, Luo Yao had grown a lot taller. She was now 1.5 meters tall!

At first glance, she had lost the innocence of a little girl and had gained a little bit of the playfulness and cuteness of a young maiden.

It was a pity that cuteness was not worth mentioning in front of sexiness. Beside her was Miao Xinyue, who had a hot figure and a charming appearance.

Before, Miao Xinyue had become a lot darker from training, but now she had returned to being fair. Ning Shi knew that this was due to the growth of her transformation-type ability.

Special abilities had a great nourishing effect on the human body, so the awakeners could live a long life without illness or disaster.

The higher the awakener's level, the stronger their abilities, and the better their physical condition would be.

Seeing Miao Xinyue's state, Ning Shi knew that her transformation-type ability must have improved greatly. He nodded in satisfaction.

However, he found it strange that Miao Xinyue's eyes were watery when she looked at him. She had a pair of seductive eyes, but at this moment, her gaze was charged with emotion.

Ning Shi was puzzled, so he pried into her inner thoughts.

[Miao Xinyue: I'm so happy to see Senior Ning Shi, no, Master again. It's just that compared to the enthusiastic Master in my dream, he is a little cold in reality. One day, I'll cosplay the anime character that Master in my dream likes for Master in reality. He'll definitely like it.]

Ning Shi was stunned. He couldn't help but ask internally, "What's up with this skill impartation? Why is Miao Xinyue cosplaying in her dreams when learning skills?"

The system replied seriously:

[Skill impartation is carried out through dreams. The personality and image of the master in the dream are created by the disciples by combining their own life experience and imagination.]

[In reality, Luo Yao admires you, likes you, and has other complex emotions towards you. In Luo Yao's dream, you are both her master and her lover.]

[The person Jiang Bichao missed the most was his mother, Jiang Yingmei. In his dream, you have some of his mother's personality. You are both strict and caring towards him.]

[Zong Shangren likes excitement and challenges and looks down on authority, but he is dealing with childhood trauma. In his dreams, you appear as a shadow and that pushes him forward.]

[As for Miao Xinyue, she envies your power and freedom. She loves anime and cosplay, and she also has a group of people who share her interests in life. So, in her dream, you are an avid anime and cosplay lover. After teaching her skills, both of you have in-depth discussions on cosplay. Specifically, she cosplays while you admire her work.]

Ning Shi had nothing to say, but the game system continued to send him notifications.

[According to the records left behind by the skill impartation, Miao Xinyue has cosplayed many characters for you in her dream, including but not limited to Saber, Rin Tosaka, Kotonoha Katsura, Nami, Rei Ayanami, Rem, and so on. She has received a lot of positive feedback from you in her dream.] 𝒏𝗈𝓋𝚎𝐥𝔲𝐬𝗯.𝐜𝑜𝑚

Ning Shi sensed a pattern. In his female disciples' dreams, his behavior was similar to that of his game avatar…

He couldn't do anything about it. The dreams were created by his disciples themselves, and he couldn't interfere.

In order to test his disciples' strength, Ning Shi sparred with each of them individually.

He realized that everyone's strength was improving very quickly!

Luo Yao especially had improved a lot. Her punching force already exceeded 5000kg. With her Level 5 Bajiquan, she could deal explosive damage.

Jiang Bichao and Zong Shangren's punching force had also reached 4000kg, which was almost beyond the strength of a Tier 3 strength-type awakener.

All three of them had different swordsmanship. Luo Yao's mind was simple, so she cultivated basic swordsmanship, pursuing ultimate strength and speed.

Jiang Bichao's swordsmanship focused more on techniques and moves. Despite being two meters tall, he liked to be technical and find the enemy's flaws to defeat them.

Zong Shangren's swordsmanship was swift and fierce. His killing intent was strong and he didn't care about defense when he attacked. He felt like a demon.

...

As for Miao Xinyue, her transformation-type ability had been upgraded to Level 3. This was partly due to the effect of the skill impartation, and partly because Hao Meng had given her a lot of spiritual crystal resources after knowing that she was Ning Shi's disciple.

After Miao Xinyue transformed into Railgun, not only had she fully mastered Railgun's close combat abilities, but she had also developed the character's electromagnetic abilities.

Ning Shi was very satisfied with the progress of his four disciples.

It had only been two months since the start of the semester. Many students had probably just begun adapting to their new roles as awakeners.

Those with talent might be able to reach Tier 2 and pick up an attack technique, while those with exceptional talent might reach Tier 3 and master an attack technique.

Luo Yao was now a Tier 4 strength-type awakener, while Jiang Bichao and the other two were at the peak of Tier 3. His disciples were also proficient in swordsmanship and fist techniques.

With such strength, it was not just a dream for them to win the Campus Awakeners' Competition.

After the test, Ning Shi said, "For the sake of fairness, the school will still hold a selection match in advance to decide the candidates for the Campus Awakeners' Competition. A total of 10 people will be selected for the school team, and you will also be participating in the selection."

"Don't worry, Master. Our goal is to be the national champion. We will surely win in the selection."

Following Luo Yao's words, Jiang Bichao and Miao Xinyue also made their promises.

Only Zong Shangren's brows were furrowed, as if he had something on his mind.

...

Ning Shi listened to his inner thoughts.

[Zong Shangren: Things at home seem to be very troublesome. Should I ask Master for help? To me, Master is the most powerful awakener. Yi Shengjia is only powerful in name.]

After Ning Shi read his thoughts, he said,"You three go cultivate. Zong Shangren, you stay behind."

After Luo Yao and the other two left, Ning Shi stared at Zong Shangren and asked, "Ren, you seem to have something on your mind. Tell me if you need anything. I'm your master, and I'll definitely help you."

Zong Shangren was very touched and said emotionally, "Thank you, Master!"

"I do have something that I need your help with. It's like this…"

Zong Shangren told Ning Shi what happened.

It turned out that Zong Shangren was born into a super-rich family. His father, Zong Qing, was the CEO of the Twin Group, and was once the richest man in the Yunmeng Kingdom.

The Twin Group was mainly involved in the food and beverage industry, and its development had been stable. However, his family had recently received a threat.

In the letter, they were ordered by a mysterious party to produce a drink. If they did not cooperate, people would be killed.

As a veteran in the business world, Zong Qing instinctively sensed that something was wrong. He chose to call the police at once and used his connections to find the awakeners in the Investigation Department to investigate the matter

Unfortunately, the next day, three of the Zong family's housekeepers were killed.

The Zong family received another letter, the contents of which requested the Zong family to send away the Investigation Department within three days and cooperate with them in the production of the drink.

If they didn't comply, they would kill the direct descendants of the Zong family.

Zong Qing didn't comply, but instead invited an expert to the Zong family to deal with this problem.

"There's something strange about this," Zong Shangren said. "The Wanyong Group's CEO, He Yunfan, actually called my dad and persuaded him to cooperate, saying that the He family had also encountered a similar incident."

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"The He family?"

Ning Shi's interest was suddenly piqued. The person who had caused trouble for his company last time was He Chuankun from the He family.

At that time, he had been very suspicious of the incident. He Chuankun's actions when he caused trouble for Ning Shi's company were too coincidental.

Now that the He family was also involved in the Zong family's troubles, he suspected that there was something fishy going on.

Ning Shi asked, "Ren, who sent the threatening letter? Has your family found the culprit? Are you aware of the effects of the drink that the culprit asked your family to help produce?"

Zong Shangren shook his head and said, "I am not privy to the details. My father kept it from me and only told me to go home quickly. I only knew about this incident when my elder brother told me. He did so because he was worried that I would be in danger at school."

He continued, "According to him, the second threatening letter was sent at noon the day before yesterday, and the deadline is tomorrow noon. After tomorrow noon, if our family doesn't give a clear answer, the culprit will start a massacre in our house.

"The Investigation Department has already sent quite a few additional experts to my house, but my father doesn't trust them. When the three nannies died, the Investigation Department's people were present in my house and they didn't find anything amiss. So, my father has hired an expert himself."

Those who could expand their business to the entire country and become top tycoons were not ordinary folk.

This was especially so for a veteran in a traditional industry like Zong Qing. He had been in the business for decades and had a strong network in political and business circles.

"Who did your father invite?" Ning Shi asked curiously.

Zong Shangren frowned and said, "My family and the Yi family have been friends for generations. My aunt married Yi Guoqing. Yi Shengjia is my cousin. Originally, my father was going to ask my uncle-in-law to come over to help. Unfortunately, my uncle-in-law has a very important matter that popped up at the last minute that he has to attend to, so he sent Yi Shengjia over to deal with this matter."

From Zong Shangren's tone, Ning Shi could sense the former's hostility towards Yi Shengjia.

The two of them were technically cousins. Even if they were not the best of friends, they should not be enemies.

There was definitely a hidden story behind this.

However, this was his disciple's private matter. Ning Shi did not want to probe.

Since this matter was related to the safety of his disciple's family and also involved the very problematic He family, Ning Shi decided to pay the Zong family a visit.

He said to Zong Shangren, "Buy tickets for the earliest flight back to your hometown. I'll travel back with you and settle this matter as soon as possible. You'll have to rush back tomorrow afternoon to participate in the selection."

He continued, "Your main task now is to cultivate and compete. I will take care of your family matters, so don't worry too much."

When he heard Ning Shi's words, Zong Shangren was both happy and touched. He thanked Ning Shi seriously. "Thank you, Master! I'll buy the tickets now."

Zong Shangren quickly booked a 5 p.m. flight. The two of them took a taxi and rushed to the airport.

Fortunately, the flight was only half an hour late.

The plane took off at 5:30 p.m. and landed at Shangmo City's Chang Hong Airport at 7:10 p.m.

Zong Shangren had already told his family that Ning Shi was coming.

The Zong family welcomed Ning Shi's arrival with open arms.

The Zong family's eldest son, who was also Zong Shangren's elder brother, Zong Shangcheng, had personally come to pick them up from the airport.

Zong Shangcheng said, "Principal Ning, thank you for coming all this way to help us. My father couldn't come to welcome you personally because he needed to stay at home. He specifically asked me to express my apologies. He has mentioned to me many times that he wants to host a grand apprenticeship ceremony for Shangren and you. He hopes that you won't turn us down."

Zong Shangren had once mentioned to Ning Shi that his family wanted to hold an apprenticeship ceremony for Ning Shi, but the latter had rejected it.

For one, Ning Shi didn't like to be extravagant. Secondly, he didn't have any good memories of the apprenticeship ceremony.

To a traditional family like the Zong family, it was extremely rude for their children to not hold a proper ceremony to formally acknowledge their master.

Ning Shi waved his hand and said courteously, "Mr. Zong, you're welcome. We're all young people, so we should speak freely."

Zong Shangcheng was 28 years old this year and had just graduated not long ago. He did not like to be pedantic either; all this was forced upon him by Zong Qing.

Hearing Ning Shi's words, he knew that Ning Shi wasn't a person who put on airs. So, he tugged at the expensive tie around his neck and completely pulled it off.

"Haha, Principal Ning, this is much more comfortable. Let's go. The car is in the underground parking lot. Once we get into the car, I'll tell you more about the situation at home."

Zong Shangcheng was very surprised when he saw Zong Shangren follow behind Ning Shi obediently.

His little brother was a devil incarnate at home. Even his father couldn't control him. Zong Shangcheng hadn't expected him to be so obedient to Principal Ning Shi.

Based on this alone, Zong Shangcheng could tell that there was more to Ning Shi than met the eye.

When they arrived at the underground parking lot, the driver was already waiting in the car. It was an extended version of a Rolls Royce.

In the past, Ning Shi might have looked disdainful on the surface, but he would definitely be thrilled to see such a top luxury car.

However, his worldview was different now. He could have any luxury car at his fingertips, so he was calm when he saw the car.

Zong Shangcheng motioned for his brother to sit in the front seat, while he accompanied Ning Shi in the back.

He opened the wooden wine cabinet in the middle of the back seat and took out a bottle of red wine.

Ning Shi quickly said, "Mr. Zong, I don't drink, so just tell me about your family's current situation."

Zong Shangcheng put the red wine back and took out a tea set. The back of this luxury car had been completely transformed into a reception room.

The driver saw Zong Shangcheng's actions and skillfully set the car to cruise. In addition, the road conditions in Shangmo City were very good, so the ride was smooth.

Zong Shangcheng plugged in the kettle and boiled the water as he began to say, "Principal Ning, I'm sure Shangren has told you about the threatening letters."

"To prevent Shang Ren from worrying, I concealed part of their contents. The letter stated that if our Zong family doesn't cooperate with the other party, after tomorrow noon, our entire family will die. Not a single person would be spared. In order to make us believe the contents of the letter, a cousin of mine, who was in charge of my family business in Central City, was killed by them," he added.

He continued, "After listening to the opinions of another cousin of ours and the Investigation Department, Father hesitated for a long time before deciding to gather all the Zong family members."

Ning Shi did not speak. In such times, every decision was difficult.

If all of their relatives returned to the Zong residence, it would be easy for them to be wiped out by the other party. However, if everyone was scattered outside, none of them could be protected at all.

When they returned to the Zong residence, the Investigation Department and the experts hired by the Zong family would be there. They would at least have a chance of survival.

Many people in the Zong family believed that the person who sent the threatening letter would not dare to come to the residence to cause trouble after tomorrow noon.

If the other party came to cause trouble, with the experts currently stationed in the Zong family residence, the former would be dealt with on the spot.

If they didn't come, it would be equivalent to guarding against thieves. The experts hired by the Investigation Department and the Zong family wouldn't be able to protect them for too long a time.

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Once this protective force was gone, the Zong family would be in danger again.

Even Zong Shangcheng had complicated feelings over this.

He wanted the culprit to come to seek his own death, but he was also afraid that the other party was too powerful and his family would not be able to handle them.

Zhong Shangcheng revealed, "The Investigation Department has already guessed the source of the threatening letter."

Ning Shi's expression changed, and he asked tentatively, "Is it the He family?"

Zong Shangcheng nodded his head solemnly. "The He family's behavior has been very abnormal over the past one to two months. The Investigation Department has been observing them since the beginning. After the threatening letter incident at my house, He Yunfan actually dared to call my father directly to tell him that the He family had also been threatened. He claimed that resistance was futile and many people had died. He wanted us to cooperate with the culprit, just like the He family did."

Ning Shi was also speechless. He Yunfan's behavior was undoubtedly like a player directly exposing his identity as a wolf during a game. The phone call he made was practically telling everyone that there was a problem with the He family.

With He Yunfan's methods and wisdom, how could he have acted so foolishly?

The water in the kettle was boiling. Zong Shangcheng rinsed the teacups and began to make tea.

"The Investigation Department has checked the handwriting of the threatening letters and found that it is very similar to He Yunfan's handwriting. There are only some minor differences," he said as he made tea.

Ning Shi could not help but ask, "During such critical times, wouldn't it be better to capture the wrong person than let the culprit roam free? Did the Investigation Department take any action against the He family?"

...

Zong Shangcheng shook his head. He placed the teacup in front of Ning Shi and poured him a cup of tea.

He then explained, "There are three main reasons why the Investigation Department hasn't taken action yet. Firstly, the He family is a wealthy family that is renowned throughout the entire country. They have deep connections. Without concrete evidence, the Investigation Department wouldn't dare to touch them as it would leave a bad impression.

Secondly, He Yunfan had been very kind in his early years. He had donated money to many poor students and even raised 311 children under his umbrella. Not only did he raise them, but he also contributed money and manpower to their marriages and house purchases. Among the 311 children, one of them is now a high-ranking officer in the government.

If there is concrete evidence, with the upright personality of the officer, he will not stand in the way of the department getting rid of the He family. However, if they were to touch the He family based on groundless accusations, who would face the wrath of the officer if it was a misunderstanding?

The last and most important reason is that the Investigation Department still can't figure out how the three nannies died in my house."

Zong Shangcheng drank a cup of tea and said bitterly, "Despite being under the protection of three consultants and an entire brigade from the Investigation Department, the three nannies all died mysteriously. In order to ensure everyone's safety, my house is now equipped with surveillance cameras with no blind spots. From the surveillance footage, the three nannies were fine one moment and fell to the ground dead the next. After they died, their eyes were wide open and they had fearful expressions, as if they had seen something terrifying."

He continued, "All the women in the house, including my mom, are praying to the Buddha at home, saying that there's a ghost in the house! The Investigation Department can't figure out the enemy's methods. Rashly making a move on the He family is equivalent to alerting the enemy."𝒩𝒪𝗏ℯ𝑙𝓊𝓈𝓫.𝓒𝞸𝔪

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Ning Shi frowned when he heard Zong Shangcheng's words. He knew that humans had souls, and he had experienced his soul leaving his body before.

However, Ning Shi would not go to the extent of claiming this incident to be the work of a ghost.

With the extraordinary strength of awakeners, if ghosts and monsters really existed in this world, they would have been discovered long ago.

Even if there were ghosts, they would just be another kind of life form.

Ning Shi took a sip of tea and slowly said, "The nannies' death could be the work of a rare awakener, or it could be done by a spiritual-type awakener. If an extremely powerful spiritual-type awakener was involved, they would have many ways to kill a person from a distance without a sound or a trace. As for the nannies' frightened expressions, it could be that they were threatened by the awakener or they saw an illusion."

Zong Shangcheng nodded and said, "My cousin and the Investigation Department have come to the same conclusion as you. They also think that it was an attack by a spiritual-type awakener. They have narrowed down the scope of the investigation. However, there are no results yet."

Ning Shi asked a crucial question, "The person who threatened the Zong family sent two letters. How were the letters delivered?"

Zong Shangcheng's face revealed a trace of fear as he said, "The letters appeared out of nowhere. The first letter was found on the table by a nanny when she was cleaning the house. When we checked the surveillance footage, the letter appeared out of thin air. The second letter's appearance was even more bizarre. At that time, my father was hosting a banquet to entertain his friends and the Investigation Department's team members. The threatening letter appeared on the table out of nowhere. 10 experts, 3 of them Tier 8 awakeners, did not notice anything unusual."

Zong Shangcheng took a sip of tea to ease his nervousness before continuing, "My father was completely disappointed in the Investigation Department because of this. He asked my cousin Yi Shengjia and two of his Tier 9 awakener friends for help."

The way the letters were delivered was so strange that even Ning Shi was a little curious. What ability did the culprit possess?

Their car did not head into the city, but towards Mingyang Mountain in the suburbs of Shangmo City.

Zong Shangcheng explained, "Our relatives have all returned. For logistical convenience and to not hurt the innocent in the city, we moved to our holiday manor at the foot of Mingyang Mountain."

Ning Shi nodded. This was the right thing to do. If a battle between powerful awakeners actually occurred in the downtown area, it would cause great damage and casualties.

From the looks of it, Zong Qing was a reasonable person.

"The Investigation Department is very satisfied with my father's actions,so they sent an additional rank-9 awakener consultant overnight."

Ning Shi said humbly, "You have three Tier 9 awakeners, plus the champion of the National Awakeners' Competition, Yi Shengjia, who is also known as the top Tier 8 awakener, here. The experts gathered here are more than sufficient to protect your family. It seems that I'm just here to give moral support."

Zong Shangcheng hurriedly replied with some polite words. 𝒏𝗈𝓋𝚎𝐥𝔲𝐬𝗯.𝐜𝑜𝑚

Ning Shi planned to keep a low profile during his visit this time. If the Investigation Department or the experts invited by the Zong family could solve the problem, he didn't intend to make a move.

This was because Ning Shi sensed that there was a conspiracy from the troubles of the Zong family.

The goal of the culprit who was intimidating the Zong family was obviously not as simple as getting them to help produce a drink.

If that was their only goal, they didn't need to create threatening letters and go to such lengths. They even gave the Zong family three days to consider and made such a big scene.

There must be a deeper scheme behind this.

Zong Shangcheng and Ning Shi were about the same age. Although they grew up in different environments, they still shared similar memories of their generation. Therefore, they chatted happily.

While they were talking, the car slowly drove into a luxurious manor.

The Zong family's manor at the foot of the mountain had a typical western style. There were metal gates and white stone pillars. The lawn in the manor was well-maintained, and the images of the three buildings reflected in each other's windows.

From the outside, the house looked very majestic. The marble had snow-white swirling patterns, and the ebony doors and windows were all exquisitely carved. Under the cover of the trees, it set off the profoundness and magnificence of the house.

There was a circular fountain in front of the manor, and three small streams were designed around the fountain. After flowing to the three houses, they gathered into a small pond in a depression.

It was obvious that the manor was designed by a master designer. Living here, one could feel the breath of nature as well as enjoy the convenience of technology and industrial civilization.

Before alighting, Zong Shangcheng hesitated for a moment before saying, "Principal Ning, you're Shangren's master. As the saying goes, a teacher for a day is a father for life. My father and I consider you a close friend. However, all our relatives are here, and there are dozens of them. If there are any ignorant fools who offend you, please tell me. My father and I will definitely punish them severely."

"Don't worry, I understand your intentions," replied Ning Shi as he smiled.

Zong Shangcheng wanted to express that the opinions of some of his relatives did not represent the stance of the Zong family or him and his father.

It seemed that when a family grew big, there would always be disputes.

Ning Shi got out of the car and followed Zong Shangcheng to the largest house in the middle.

Zong Qing was already standing at the door, ready to welcome them.

Seeing Ning Shi, he reached out to shake Ning Shi's hands as he revealed an expression of gratitude.

"Principal Ning, thank you for your help. I've troubled you with Shangren's unruly behavior! Please come in!"

After walking through the door, they were in a six-meter-tall hall. It was decorated with warm colors such as orange, yellow and red.

The hall was very lively and there were many people. They were divided in three groups, and there seemed to be a tense atmosphere between them.

After Ning Shi came in, everyone's eyes focused on him.

Ning Shi's perception was extremely strong. He instantly felt that a group of people were looking at him with hostility and contempt.

With a quick glance, he saw that this group of people were all wearing branded clothes and expensive jewelry. They should be relatives of the Zong family.

They surrounded a handsome and cool-looking man who was about 1.7 meters tall. Beside the celebrity-like young man, the relatives of the Zong family glanced at Ning Shi with either looks of disdain or hostility.

Ning Shi was a little surprised at first. By right, he had not offended anyone, but then he realized that this group of people wasn't targeting him, but everyone around them.

The way they looked at the Investigation Department was the same.

Zong Qing led Ning Shi to a nearby place and introduced him in a clear voice, "Everyone, this is Principal Ning Shi, the strongest strength-type awakener in our country. He is the master of my youngest son, Zong Shangren. I'm sure everyone has heard of him, so I won't go into detail."

As soon as Zong Qing finished speaking, a sharp female voice could be heard.

"What do you mean by the strongest strength-type awakener? He's just a country bumpkin carrying a sack. He's far inferior to Brother Shengjia!"

Behind Ning Shi, Zong Shangcheng instantly slapped his forehead.It was as he had feared. How could he have such a stupid relative?

Before Ning Shi could speak, Zong Qing walked up with an ashen face and slapped the woman.

He chided, "Zong Linna, you're my niece, so I did not discipline you before out of respect for your father. I can't believe you actually have the audacity to say such things in this situation. Get back to your room and I'll take back your shares in the group!"

Zong Linna covered her red and swollen face and looked at her uncle in horror. It was the first time she had seen her uncle so angry.

Not daring to say a word, she covered her face and went upstairs.

Zong Qing bowed and apologized, "Principal Ning, I'm sorry. My niece has been studying abroad and has just returned recently. It's the Zong family's fault for not being strict in disciplining her and allowing her to offend you. The Zong family will definitely compensate you later."

Ning Shi had noticed Zong Linna earlier. She was a little girl who dressed in avant-garde fashion and was most likely younger than 18 years old. Her eyes were full of admiration and adoration when she looked at Yi Shengjia.

...

There was no need to pay heed to the words of a little girl who didn't know much about the world. He said indifferently, "It's fine, Mr. Zong. There's no need for compensation."

Zong Qing was experienced in dealing with people and matters. He knew that he couldn't be caught up in this now and had to quickly move on. Thus, he led Ning Shi to introduce him to the important people in the hall.

"This is Consultant Ding, Ding Zhiyu, from the first unit of the Investigation Department of Shangmo City. Consultant Ding is a Tier 8 awakener skilled in fire-type abilities. This is the leader of the first brigade, Meng Dengjun. He is also a Tier 8 awakener and specializes in ice abilities. This is Consultant Zhou… This is my best friend, Tong Hansheng…"

Zong Qing introduced them as they walked, and Ning Shi nodded to them one by one.

These people had all heard of Ning Shi before. Regardless of what they thought of him, they were all very polite to him on the surface.

After being introduced to everyone, Ning Shi was about to ask why he didn't see any Tier 9 awakeners around.

Just then, three middle-aged men walked down the stairs. Ning Shi knew the one in the lead. He was Wu Qihua, the president of Shangmo City's Fujiao Awakener School.

Laughing, Wu Qihua hurriedly walked over to Ning Shi and said, "President Ning, it's truly a small world. I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Come, let me introduce you to these two men. This is General Jin Rongzhi from the Northern Army. This is Consultant Deng Zutai from the Special Affairs Department. You two are technically colleagues."

Jin Rongzhi had a stern expression. However, when he saw Ning Shi, he extended his hand and said politely, "Principal Ning, I've heard a lot about you. Commander Ou has always said that you're the young man he has the most faith in!"

As for Consultant Deng Zutai, he was even more enthusiastic.

...

He bowed slightly and said with a smile, "Consultant Ning, please take care of me in the future."

As a consultant of the Special Affairs Department, he knew Ning Shi was special in Hu Changjun's eyes. This young man's future was limitless.

Therefore, he chose to act courteous towards Ning Shi.

Everyone in the hall was shocked to see the three Tier 9 awakeners being so polite and respectful to Ning Shi.

There was only a one level difference between Tier 8 and Tier 9. However, the difference in strength between the two tiers was like heaven and earth.

After the three Tier 9 powerhouses arrived at the Zong family manor, they were indifferent to everyone and did not bother to show their faces. They ate and chatted in their group of three, separating themselves from the others.

Everyone thought that this was a matter of course.

Who would have thought that these three would be so polite to Ning Shi? Not only did they treat him like someone of their generation, but it seemed that they were also currying favor with him.

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Ning Shi knew that these three people treated him warmly because one of them wanted something from him. Wu Qihua needed the stamina potion produced by Ning Shi's school. The other two were acting like this due to their immediate superiors.

They weren't really showing respect for Ning Shi's own strength.

Facing everyone's shock, Ning Shi remained indifferent.

On the other hand, Zong Shangren raised his head high as if he was telling everyone that his master is the most awesome!

Ning Shi said, "Shangren, you should meet up with your family members. Mr. Zong, you can go on with your work first. I'll have a chat with Principal Wu."

Ning Shi, Wu Qihua, and the other two Tier 9 awakeners went to the big balcony on the third floor.

There were tables, chairs, and utensils for making tea.

Rich people indeed knew how to enjoy the night breeze in the mountains and the beautiful night sky with a pot of hot tea.

Wu Qihua took the seat of honor and made tea for everyone. 𝑵𝗈𝑽𝔢𝑙𝓊𝕊𝑏.𝗰𝑶𝔪

After boiling the water, he sighed and said, "Principal Ning, you have most likely felt the strange atmosphere in the Zong family. If it wasn't for the fact that I owed Zong Qing a favor, I would definitely not have intervened in this matter."

Ning Shi smiled bitterly and said, "I was just laughed at by a little girl from the main family. She said that I was a country bumpkin carrying a sandbag. I saw that the people in the hall were clearly divided into three factions. Why is that so?"

Before Wu Qihua could answer, Deng Zutai answered, "The one who laughed at you was a girl called Zong Linna, right? I heard from the Investigation Department that this girl went abroad when she was five years old and spent most of her time living overseas. She didn't pick up good manners, but instead mimicked the chaos and willfulness of foreign students. She has just returned to the country and is completely ignorant of the current situation in the country. She only knows that her cousin Yi Shengjia has won the national competition."

He continued, "Her cousin is the most powerful awakener that she knows of. In order to show off Yi Shengjia's power and gain his attention, Zong Linna has been acting like a Porcupine. She has been scolding people everywhere she goes. Quite a few members of the Investigation Department have been ridiculed by her."

Ning Shi was very surprised. He asked, "Didn't Zong Qing discipline such behavior "

Wu Qihua rinsed the teacup and said, "It's not easy for him to do so. Every family has its own difficulties. The Twin Group was founded by the Zong family's patriarch, Zong Houjing. Zong Qing took over the management of the group from the patriarch and gradually developed it to its current glory.

Zong Qing has three younger brothers and one younger sister. Although they didn't receive management rights, they all have shares in the group. This was an arrangement made by the patriarch in order to prevent his own children from fighting over his assets.

As such, Zong Qing is not the only one who has final say in the Zong family. Furthermore, his younger siblings have been extremely displeased with the fact that their father has left the management rights and the majority of the shares of the Zong family to their elder brother.

Zong Qing's sister, Zong Yun, who is also Yi Shengjia's mother, especially loves to fight for power. Sigh. Yi Shengjia is an outstanding young man. We wanted to get to know him initially. It's a pity that we can't do so."

Ning Shi recalled his disciple Zong Shangren's attitude towards Yi Shengjia. No wonder he was so hostile towards the latter.

After Wu Qihua finished speaking, Jin Rongzhi commented, "These are just boring grudges between the rich and powerful. They're still fighting among themselves in the face of danger."

Ning Shi really wanted to give Jin Rongzhi a thumbs up. He was right.

Wu Qihua poured tea for the three of them and continued, "The people in the hall are divided into three factions. It was actually Zong Yun who started all this. She is respected by others because of her son. She uses Yi Shengjia's prestige as the champion to gather a group of supporters in the main family. In order to highlight how incredible Yi Shengjia is, these people repeatedly targeted the Investigation Department."

He further explained, "The Investigation Department and this group of people are hostile to each other. The friends that Zong Qing invited to help out didn't want to offend either side, so they chose to remain neutral. Hence, when you arrived, you saw the crowd divided into three factions."

Deng Zutai chuckled while saying, "if it wasn't for Zong Qing's repeated attempts to keep them here and their duty to protect the people, the members of the Investigation Department would have left in a fit of anger long ago. When they set up patrols around the manor, do you know what Yi Shengjia said?"

Deng Zutai's expression became aloof as he imitated Yi Shengjia's tone, "You guys don't need to set up any defenses. I've given the cameras, stones, and weeds spirituality. Everything within a three-kilometer radius of this manor is under my control."

Deng Zutai ended by saying, "Meng Dengjun was so angry that his face turned green. He immediately dismissed all the patrols."

Only then did Ning Shi understand why he didn't see any members of the Investigation Department patrolling around the manor. They had been driven away by Yi Shengjia.

Wu Qihua did not say anything, but Jin Rongzhi commented objectively, "Yi Shengjia is speaking the truth. With his enabling-type ability, he can indeed monitor the entire manor. If there's any movement in the surroundings, his spirits will inform him.

Objectively speaking, there's nothing wrong with Yi Shengjia. Based on my observation, although he appears to act cold, he focuses all his energy on cultivation. He's very simple-minded, but he has an annoying mother."

Deng Zutai was only complaining from the perspective of the Investigation Department, so Jin Rongzhi's straightforwardness made him a little unhappy. To sour his mood further, Jin Rongzhi had not finished his statement.

"No matter what Yi Shengjia's mother does, it won't affect his future. He still has a good father."

Deng Zutai immediately shut up.

Ning Shi found this hilarious. Jin Rongzhi's tongue was really sharp. He had pointed out why the Investigation Department had kept tolerating Yi Shengjia despite being ridiculed and provoked. Yi Shengjia's father, Yi Guoqing, was now an overlord.

The Investigation Department could only bear with this predicament they faced.

Wu Qihua coughed to ease the awkward atmosphere and said, "There's no problem with Yi Shengjia's character and ability. The Investigation Department is happy that someone is sharing our workload."

Wu Qihua poured a cup of tea for Deng Zutai and comforted him saying, "You see, even with Principal Ning's prestige and ability, he was still ridiculed. To the ordinary people and low-level awakeners, Yi Shengjia is the champion of the National Awakeners' Competition. So, of course he is the most powerful awakener to them."

He teased, "The three of us are Tier 9 awakeners and these people fortunately know that 9 is greater than 8. Otherwise, we would have been mocked as well."

He concluded, "It's best if Yi Shengjia can solve the Zong family's troubles, then we would have repaid our debt and can leave early."

Ning Shi nodded. The National Awakener's Competition had just ended, and Yi Shengjia was currently in the limelight. The members of the main family were proud of him and thought that he was the best. This was normal.

Speaking of trouble, Ning Shi directly asked, "Principal Wu, have you guys figured out who the culprit is?"

Wu Qihua, Jin Rongzhi, and Deng Zutai looked at each other. In the end, it was Wu Qihua who spoke in an extremely low voice.

"Principal Ning, let's be honest with you. General Jin and I are here to repay the favor we owe Zong Qing. Our mission is to ensure the safety of the Zong family members. We don't have the motivation or the professional ability to get to the bottom of this case.

As for Consultant Deng and the Investigation Department, due to the evil deeds of some of the Zong family members, they have changed their strategy and intend to use these members as bait to fish out the evil forces behind the threatening letters.

So far, the Investigation Department has not found any more clues."

Ning Shi smiled as he said, "Principal Wu, it seems that our goals are the same. I'm here because of my disciple. My goal is to protect the safety of him and his father. As for whether the other family members live or die, I don't want to get involved too much because this matter is bizarre and full of conspiracy."

Ning Shi didn't hide anything and told the three of them about how his company had been targeted by the He family as well.

"The He family definitely has a big problem. It seems that they have evil intentions against me. Before I figure out the true purpose of the threatening letter, I won't act rashly. When the time comes, I hope that the three of you can help me take care of my disciple."

Wu Qihua agreed readily. He replied, "Don't worry, Principal Ning. This is what Zong Qing asked General Jin and I to do. Now that we have you, we will definitely do our best to take care of the Zong family members."

The four of them exchanged cultivation insights and their views on the insect disaster as well as current affairs.

They chatted late into the night before they went back to their rooms to sleep.

The next morning, after breakfast, Ning Shi was in the yard supervising Zong Shangren's practice when he suddenly saw a shadow flash in front of him.

The people around him all seemed oblivious to the shadow's presence.

Ning Shi instantly understood that he was the only one who could see it. No one else could.

Was there actually a ghost?

...

He remained calm and secretly used the Eye of Truth to inspect the shadow.

[Eye of Truth activated. Target: High-level evil spirit assassin. Host's and target's Spiritual Power comparison: 32/25. All information available.]

[Target: High-level evil spirit assassin]

[Physique: 34 (40)]

[Spiritual Power: 25 (40)]

[Appearance: 2 (A handsome being among evil spirits)]

[Family Background: 8 (High-level evil spirit)]

[Profession: Evil spirit assassin]

[Skills: Backstab Level 6, Stealth Level 9, Scimitar Mastery Level 7, Flash Level 4, Intimidation Level 5]

[Talents: Evil spirit body (purple), Two-handed Mastery (purple), Fatal Strike (purple)]

[Description: A high-level assassin from the Evil Spirit World, who grants his prey a silent death. Without special abilities and talents, you can't detect him at all.]

...

Ning Shi was shocked. The culprit was an evil spirit from the Evil Spirit World!

Beings from other worlds had also appeared on Saturn!

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128 True Goal

The shadow of the evil spirit assassin that Ning Shi saw was very ugly. Its nose was sharp and long, its eyes were like slits, and its mouth had fangs that curved upwards.

The body of the evil spirit assassin was similar to that of a human's, but its entire figure exuded a strange coldness.

Other than its ugly face, its head and body had thick cuticles. The cuticles were uneven and shone with a black light.

The evil spirit's limbs were long and slender. Its hands could touch the ground when hanging down.

!!

The evil spirit's appearance alone was enough to give many people nightmares.

Such a disgusting and ugly creature was currently walking in the middle of the crowd with a smile. It moved up to Zong Shangren's face for a moment, looking at the sweat on his brow as he practiced. Then, it flashed over to above Zong Yun, who was sitting in the courtyard and commenting on Zong Shangren's practice. It pulled a few strands of her hair over her forehead as if it was playing a prank.

Zong Yun thought that her hair was being blown by the wind, so she stroked it with her hand. Never in her dreams would she have thought that a terrifying evil spirit was currently above her.

Ning Shi's expression was calm. Even when the evil spirit assassin's ugly face was right in front of his eyes and he could see the dense cuticles on its face clearly, he did not show any unusual expression.

He had to feign ignorance towards the evil spirit assassin for the time being.

He silently checked the information displayed by the system.

[Backstab Level 6: It is skilled in attacking from behind. Backstab damage increased by 300%.]

[Stealth Level 9: It moves in the shadows and gaps in space. It can remain in stealth mode when moving around. Movement speed increased by 400%, and its first attack after emerging from stealth has strong critical damage.]

[Scimitar Mastery Level 7: It is good with scimitars. Special trait acquired: Scimitar Grandmaster. Scimitar damage increased by 200%.]

[Flash Level 4: It will use this skill to flash behind the target and instantly unleash 4 scimitar strikes.]

[Intimidation Level 5: It will reveal its terrifying evil spirit aura, greatly reducing the enemy's defense.]

[Evil spirit body (purple): It is born from nothingness. It has no physical body or soul. It is permanently in a hidden state and is extremely difficult to detect by living beings.]

[Two-handed Mastery (purple): It is ambidextrous. It can use two scimitars at the same time to deal double damage.]

[Fatal Strike (purple): There is a 50% chance of double damage critical hit, a 25% chance of a triple damage critical hit, and a 5% chance of a quadruple damage critical hit. The critical hit chances are not stacked.]

After reading the description of the evil spirit body, Ning Shi understood why no one could see it. He also understood how the two threatening letters were delivered and how the three nannies were mysteriously killed.

It was all the work of this evil spirit assassin.

"Why can I see evil spirits?" Ning Shi thought to himself.

The system replied.

[Not only does the Eye of Truth have the ability to see through things, but it also has the ability to see through all falsehoods, illusions, and concealment.]

No wonder it was called the Eye of Truth. The game system was indeed awesome.

Despite his praise, he still had some doubts.

"Evil spirits don't have a physical body or a soul, so how could such a creature exist? Moreover, without a physical body and soul, how could one define its Physique and Spiritual Power? Where did its scimitars come from?"

[The Evil Spirit World is extremely special. It is connected to many worlds. The desires, malice, love, hate, and all other emotions from the creatures of these worlds are all absorbed by the Evil Spirit World.]

[Evil spirits are the collections of these emotions and thoughts. Strictly speaking, they are not living creatures. You can consider them natural phenomena like clouds in the sky, or raindrops in rain clouds.]

According to the game system's explanation, evil spirits were natural phenomena produced in the Evil Spirit World. Just like how our world would have clouds and rain, after the Evil Spirit World collected emotions, evil spirits would naturally be produced.

[Generally speaking, the actions of evil spirits do not serve any purpose. They are creatures of chaos. Their Physique is calculated by referring to the damage they can cause to the physical world, and their Spiritual Power is calculated by referring to the damage they can cause to the spiritual world.]

After giving Ning Shi some hints, the game system didn't elaborate any further.

Ning Shi's mind was filled with questions. It was because the evil spirit assassin's actions were completely different from the game system's explanation.

Not only did it deliver a message and kill people, but it also had the skills of an assassin and was holding scimitars made of unknown material.

It had a clear goal and was well-trained. It was not the unconscious product of chaos as the system had defined it to be.

Ning Shi kept inquiring further, but the game system didn't respond. This was a rare occasion. He then realized something was wrong.

Ever since the game system had devoured the Lionheart Blade, its intelligence had greatly increased. It had never been so silent before.

It seemed to be afraid of something.

The game system evolved from the origin treasure of Saturn. If it was afraid of something, that something must be another origin treasure!

Could it be that this evil spirit assassin was backed by the Evil Spirit World's origin treasure?

Ning Shi was on high alert. He had not forgotten the fate of the hosts of the origin treasures to kill and devour each other.

The more Ning Shi thought about it, the more he felt that it was right. The game system only explained the origin of the Evil Spirit World and the evil spirits. How did the evil spirits, which supposedly lacked consciousness, suddenly acted with reason and purpose? It must be the ability of the Evil Spirit World's origin treasure.

The game system didn't dare to say too much about the origin treasure. It must have been worried that the other party would sense it if it mentioned it.

Ning Shi had an epiphany.

He analyzed internally, "When I was in the World of Moen, the game system didn't have any scruples when it mentioned the origin treasure of that world. Now, it's avoiding mentioning this origin treasure to such an extent. There are only two possibilities. Either the origin treasure of the Evil Spirit World has a strong sense of perception, or it's more powerful than the origin treasures of Saturn and the World of Moen!"

Ning Shi felt that the second possibility was more likely.

According to the game system's introduction of the Evil Spirit World, it was connected to many worlds and could collect the emotions of living creatures from other worlds. It was apparent that there was more to this world than met the eye.

An origin treasure from such a world would be very powerful.

"Master, can I rest now? I have to return to school this afternoon to participate in the selection contest, so I have to conserve some energy."

Zong Shangren's words pulled Ning Shi back to reality.

After experiencing the war in the World of Moen and the tribal war in the insect world, Ning Shi's mental fortitude far surpassed that of an ordinary person. Even when hunted by an unknown host, he did not panic.

He smiled and said to Zong Shangren, "Go and rest. Take a shower and revise for your culture class."

Zong Shangren was extremely respectful to a master like Ning Shi. He obediently went to bathe and study as the latter instructed.

On the surface, Ning Shi was enjoying the scenery in the courtyard, but in fact, he was secretly observing the evil spirit assassin.

The latter walked around in a circle in front of everyone and then followed Yi Shengjia.

...

From time to time, it would linger beside him, sniffing and looking around.

It completely ignored the other members of the Zong family.

Ning Shi immediately understood why the evil spirit organization sent out threatening letters and even gave the Zong family three days to comply. It was all for Yi Shengjia!

The evil spirit might be afraid of Yi Shengjia's father, Yi Guoqing, so it had thought of a plan to attack the Zong family while Yi Guoqing was dealing with important matters.

Yi Guoqing's wife was a member of the Zong family. For the sake of his mother, Yi Shengjia would definitely come to the Zong family to protect her.

This way, the evil spirit could investigate Yi Shengjia up close.

Ning Shi asked the housekeeper for a glass of lemonade. After taking a sip, he noticed something was off.

There was no need to go through so much trouble to investigate Yi Shengjia. The request in the threatening letter from the evil spirit organization might be genuine. They wanted the Zong family to help them produce the drinks, and they also wanted to investigate Yi Shengjia.

With the evil spirit's incredible concealment ability, there was no need for it to be afraid of Yi Guoqing. Therefore, it was truly a coincidence that something happened for Yi Guoqing to be absent at the last minute.

Ning Shi then thought of He Chuankun causing trouble for his company.

He thought to himself, "My company also sells drinks, and I have established channels to help the evil spirit produce drinks. He Chuankun must have been trying to use my company to produce and sell unknown drinks while investigating me, right? So, what do I have in common with Yi Shengjia?"

...

Ning Shi finally understood everything. He and Yi Shengjia were both outstanding geniuses of the Yunmeng Kingdom.

The evil spirit organization wanted to produce and sell the unknown drinks, but they also wanted to investigate the geniuses of Saturn.

Ning Shi had investigated and paid attention to geniuses before in the World of Moen. His goal was to find the host of the origin weapon of that world.

Putting himself in the shoes of the other party, Ning Shi was already certain that the evil spirit organization's true target was him.

They were trying to determine the host of the origin treasure of Saturn.

"I've unknowingly become someone else's prey?" he muttered to himself.

He finally understood that the intention of the He family and the evil spirit organization behind it was to find him. Not only was Ning Shi not afraid, but he also felt excited.

The long-awaited battle between the hosts of the origin treasures was finally here!

Sometimes, it was hard to tell who the prey was and who the hunter was. High-end hunters often appeared in the form of prey.𝑵𝗈𝑽𝔢𝑙𝓊𝕊𝑏.𝗰𝑶𝔪

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