118 The Insect Inte
After receiving this information, Ning Shi immediately flew to the base of the guardian spirit insect hatchery.
He saw the first insectmander of the guardian spirit insect race.
Its appearance was simr to the war insect, with a sharp spike several meters long on its head. However,pared to the war insect, its body was thicker.
The insectmander’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 insectmander.
Upon seeing the insectmander, Ning Shi used the Eye of Truth.
[Eye of Truth activated. Target: guardian spirit insectmander 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 insectmander 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), pration (purple),bat nature (purple), learning (gold), gene fusion (gold), soul devour (purple), unyielding will (purple)]
Seeing the guardian spirit insectmander’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 be an insectmander but already had such insane abilities. It had high attribute values, and its skills and talents were top-notch.
ording to the calctions of the game system, the strength of the insectmander should be simr to the super magic beasts and gods of the World of Moen.
However, there were many insectmanders in the insect world. In the advanced insect tribe of the war insects alone, there were more than 20 insectmanders. And in the whole insect world, there were thousands of advanced insect tribes.
The kingly insect tribes had even more insectmanders.
By a conservative estimate, there were at least 100000 insectmanders 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 insectmander No.01 was more than 50 meters long. When it saw Ning Shi, ity 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 ve. 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 thetter 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’ gic information when they were born.
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 aplete set of skills that included devouring corpses, ck 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 be smaller, but their physical sturdiness and attributes would increase greatly, and theirbat 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 insectmanders.]
He could finally devour the insectmander’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 insectmander’s corpse.
ording to the information on the Nine Refinement War Insect skill, every time hepleted the process of growing and then shrinking, he would’ve finished one cycle of refinement.
With every cycle of refinementpleted, the Nine Refinement War Insect skill would increase by one level.
When the Nine Refinement War Insect skill reached Level 1, which meant he hadpleted one cycle of the refinement, he would’ve be an insectmander. 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 arge size before starting reverse devouring.
He had unintentionally be 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 toplete 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 ck liquid and integrated into his war insect body.
Then, his body shrank and only stopped after reaching 50 meters.
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Ning Shi could feel that his war insect body was morepact 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 rmended that the host refine your war insect body to a length of 10 meters before starting the next refinement. The foundationid in the first refinement is rted 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, bing nutrients for his cultivation of the Nine Refinement War Insect skill.
However, ns could not keep up with changes. Ning Shi suddenly felt that although his war insect body had be 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 couldst. 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.]
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In other words, the system believed that he was already at the insectmander 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 toe over and kill the insectmander of the ck Hole Branch so that I can take full control of the branch. With that, I can mark out a forbidden area in the ck 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 insectmander, a new stream of information appeared in my mind. ording to this information, my brainwaves can join a brainwavework. In the brainwavework are all the insectmanders 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 brainwavework after bing an insectmander?
What was that? The insect world’s inte?
“What can you do in the brainwavework?” 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 insectmanders on the other nodes, and it could also leave some messages on its own node.
In a node on his left, a seven-star insectmander 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 ofmunication, but also because Ning Shi could feel the world of the insectmanders from the messages.
The insectmanders were using the brainwavework 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 andfortable.