Netherworld Retrograde
Chapter 264 - 123 Floating Sees the Blue Sky

Chapter 264: Chapter 123 Floating Sees the Blue Sky

In the shattered tunnel, the Insect Master’s unrestrained laughter echoed.

It was too joyful, too excited.

It had survived the Mad King’s attack, lived through an encounter with a King!

Before the No. 71 Disaster Fog descended upon No.3 Border City, the Insect Master had already learned of the Old Mad King’s condition within the Forbidden Zone.

The Mad King, a great existence alongside the King of Restricted Zone.

The reason he was called the Mad King was because of his arrogance. And he did have the capital for such arrogance.

In the war with the Forbidden Zone, he had repeatedly faced off against creatures of the Forbidden Zone despite the odds.

Defeated yet fighting, discouraged yet courageous, no setback could suppress his spirit.

When his Eighth Awakening transformed him into a Supreme Spiritual Ability User, he even fought hand-to-hand with the King of the Restricted Zone.

After he became a King, he even fought against two Kings at once.

His arrogance was indeed extreme.

But the curse of the Spiritual Ability Users pushed this arrogant King toward the brink of an old age death.

Each time he exerted his ability, unleashing his Spiritual Energy, his life force would rapidly drain away, and his once robust flesh would wither and shrivel. Years of battles had left this powerful King burnt out, and this once long-lived Spiritual Power Monarch might not even live to see a hundred years.

Even though his natural talent alerted the King of the Restricted Zone.

It could not change his fate of walking towards death.

He seemed destined to be a dazzling meteor streaking across the night sky, only to wither in its brilliance!

In the Insect Master’s plans.

No.3 Border City, a Giant City standing against a whole Forbidden Zone, the Old Mad King certainly would not enter the Disaster Fog.

Not to mention, facing the countless Insect Swarm, whether he would risk being killed by the curse to combat the endless stream of insects.

Should he disappear from the Physical World for a period, the Forbidden Zone would assuredly attack No.3 Border City.

So, the Insect Master believed, the Old Mad King would not enter the Disaster Fog, but would instead launch precise long-range attacks against it.

Although, it was unclear how humans would accomplish this.

But it had prepared thoroughly, placing the Flesh Barrier within the most perfect defensive labyrinth and raising its defensive power to the highest.

However, these were breached by humans with some mysterious method.

And it successfully drew the Mad King’s full power for one strike!

At that instant, it felt both excitement and tension.

It naturally could not withstand an attack from a King; its goal was to deceive the other party’s precise strike!

That gigantic Insect Master was nothing but bait to deceive the human team, luring the King’s strike.

It was in fact a powerful avatar possessing more than seventy percent of the Insect Master’s strength.

And its consciousness had always resided within a weak flesh body inside a Forbidden Army Insect, remotely controlling the avatar.

This was an extremely risky plan; at that time, it was very weak.

If discovered by humans, it would have no capacity to fight back. Merely killing this Forbidden Army Insect would cause the swarm to disband.

But in the end, its plan succeeded.

The crafted powerful avatar was killed; the Mad King’s attack was ultimately deceived.

It was overjoyed, the Mad King could not launch a second strike.

Within this Disaster Fog, there was no one left to challenge it!

It would devour all the biomass in the fog and transform into a Catastrophe of the Insect Swarm, eventually consuming everything!

But the subsequent collapse of the labyrinth was beyond its expectations.

When the Forbidden Army Insect that protected it was crushed to death by boulders, it was terrified, thinking it might die there.

That would be too unlucky!

To have avoided humans, evaded a King, only to be crushed to death by a rock?

It had struggled and managed to survive.

The Doll suddenly appeared, bringing a battered Li Yelai, just as they found shelter in the tunnel.

The Insect Master once again thought it would die right there.

The Doll’s combat power was extremely strong; even though it had a Five Senses Combat Power at the time, it stood no chance against the Doll.

This luck was just too bad! What kind of Calamity was this? The humans’ Causality Weapon?

But in the end, it survived.

The Doll did not discover it within the corpse of the Forbidden Army Insect and lost consciousness the moment it arrived.

During this time, the Insect Master took the opportunity to frantically absorb the corpse of the Forbidden Army Insect, as well as the biomass stored within it.

Thus rapidly recovering its combat power. And it commanded the nearest Insect Swarm to rush to the vicinity.

As its strength gradually returned and it was sure it could defeat a Captain, only then did it emerge from the Forbidden Army Insect’s body.

It appreciated Li Yelai’s look of shock and rage, and then revealed a strange smile.

Perhaps because it had devoured too many humans, although it belonged to the Insect Race, it had partly human features.

Although beautiful, the incongruity made its smile carry an effect that induced Fear.

"No wonder you could find me time after time... you must be the human Causality Weapon mentioned in the intelligence, right? The dreadful Calamity, the dreadful causality. This collapse and accurately finding me... were all your doing, right?" Its voice was strange and unpleasant, but it couldn’t hide its excitement, "But... such a pity!"

Yes, such a pity.

The strength of Li Yelai’s Calamity was so profound, even after the Insect Master’s plans had succeeded. His You Must Meet Strong Enemies curse brought him and the Insect Master together.

At that time, the Insect Master was truly terrified; it was the closest that the humans ever got to killing the Insect Master.

If at that time the Doll had been conscious and able to fight.

If Li Yelai had a Captain by his side.

No, even if it was just a strong Ye Boshou teammate.

The Insect Master probably would have died there!

But there were no ifs, nothing happened, and while Li Yelai and the Doll were unconscious, the Insect Master’s strength gradually recovered.