Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 60: Chapter 58: Human-faced Moth Swarm

After escaping the territory of the human-faced moth, the monstrous swarm chasing him slowed down.

The Thousand-Handed Centipede took a burst of energy and carried Su Jie tens of kilometers away, completely losing sight of the human-faced moth and successfully evading their pursuers.

“How fierce!”

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Su Jie used to sneak around in the past when facing the human-faced moths, crouching stealthily all day, looking for a chance to snatch a few.

This was the first time he had been so dominantly aggressive, and the process was quite perilous.

This could be seen from the state of the Thousand-Handed Centipede; its beautiful jade-like insect body had become pockmarked and some flesh had been corroded. It was currently whimpering pitifully and sneakily eyeing the captured human-faced moths, wanting to feed on them.

“You can’t eat these.”

Su Jie pushed the huge head of the Thousand-Handed Centipede away, delightfully looking at the captured human-faced moths, numbering at least a thousand.

Fearing that the vitality of these human-faced moths would decline, Su Jie grabbed a few and crushed them with his fingers, smearing the insect blood on his palm.

He then sat down with his legs crossed and began to practice the Body Worm Focusing Method.

The insect blood in his palm seemed to be scorched by high heat, evaporating into mist which Su Jie inhaled into his lungs.

Spiritual Power surged with his breath, and Su Jie’s breathing rhythm became extremely slow, taking a dozen minutes for his chest to rise and fall once, his long breath accompanying the flow of Spiritual Energy, his aura gradually changing, his thoughts slowing down, his mind emptying.

The human-faced moths, originally held by the pale corpse hands, were extremely agitated, frantically attacking everything around them.

But as Su Jie practiced the Body Worm Focusing Method, the scent of the insect blood on him changed, quieting many of the human-faced moths down.

Several hours later, almost all the human-faced moths had calmed down, lying quietly on the pale corpse hands.

Even when Su Jie loosened their restraints, the human-faced moths did not fly away to escape.

Opening his eyes from cultivation, Su Jie picked up a few human-faced moths and placed them on his palm. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

These short and stout poisonous insects, with human-like features, showed no intention of attacking.

“Take off!”

With a thought from Su Jie, a few human-faced moths looked up at him, then continued to lie on his hand, with only one moth moving slightly, rolling over on his palm, making Su Jie’s forehead crease with a black line.

“It seems I’m not quite commanding as an Insect King yet! Need more practice.”

Though not disappointed, Su Jie had only been practicing for a few hours, and the effect he achieved had already surprised him.

After thinking it over, Su Jie took out several Blood Marrow Crystals from his storage bag, crushed them, and threw them to the human-faced moths.

The once calm moths immediately started nibbling on the Blood Marrow Crystals.

“Take off.”

After the few human-faced moths had eaten their fill, Su Jie issued the command again.

This time, the moths flapped their wings and flew up from Su Jie’s palm, swirling around him in chaotic flight.

“Dammit, there’s no loyalty without feeding.”

Su Jie couldn’t help but express his annoyance; his Body Worm Focusing Method was still not perfected, and he could only rely on this method to speed up the Insect Control.

“But wanting to eat, that’s much simpler.”

Su Jie took out the Ancient Mirror from his bosom, stepped back into the Blue Star World, and soon returned with a large number of ordinary poisonous insects and snakes, feeding them to the human-faced moths.

The human-faced moths, unabashed and unreserved, treated this as a royal treat from the Insect King, joyously eating and drinking incessantly.

After several trips back and forth, Su Jie had fed the human-faced moths to their satisfaction and started the Body Worm Focusing Method again to command them.

Buzz buzz!

A large swarm of human-faced moths fluttered their wings and took to the air, following Su Jie’s commands, forming an ‘S’ shape at one moment and an ‘O’ shape the next in the sky.

Amid the roaring, thousands of human-faced moths vibrated their wings under Su Jie’s direction, attacking the forest ahead.

Like a group of bombers, the human-faced moths flew at low altitude, spewing acid water that riddled the extensive forest with holes, blackening it and causing many trees to fall one after another. In the end, the swarm perched on the tree tops, their ferocious mandibles wide open, leaving the ancient trees completely bare as they devoured them.

“Not bad, not bad, it’s just that their numbers are still a bit too few.”

Su Jie admired the swarm’s destructive performance, a smile inevitably spreading across his face.

But Su Jie’s laughter meant that the Thousand-Handed Centipede was in trouble.

Because when it came to capturing insects, it was the one that got beaten up.

Sizzle sizzle!

The Thousand-Handed Centipede let out a hiss, constantly rubbing its head against Su Jie, expressing its protest against his actions.

“Good boy! I’ll give you something tasty to eat soon.”

Su Jie patted the Thousand-Handed Centipede on its head and coaxed, “Just think, I’m doing this to enhance my strength. If I can master the swarm, I can capture a large number of poisonous insects to bring back to Blue Star in the future, and then evolve them into low-grade poisonous insects for your extra meals.”

Perhaps understanding the meaning of an extra meal, the Thousand-Handed Centipede immediately calmed down and willingly carried Su Jie as it ran toward Insect Valley.

…

Several days later!

In a dense jungle, Su Jie slapped his Insect Control Bag at his waist and called out, “Body Worm.”

The Insect Control Bag opened, and a wisp of black smoke rose from the bag, which upon closer inspection, was densely packed with human-faced moths.

Due to their overwhelming number and density, the tens of thousands of human-faced moths resembled a black cloud, blocking the sunlight, and like a surging tide flowing, wherever the human-faced moth swarm passed, all living creatures and plants were decayed and devoured completely, leaving the ground barren and turned to white land.

“Body Worm Focusing Method, indeed a powerful magic skill.”

Looking at the chilling scene, Su Jie felt extremely satisfied.

Over the past few days, relying on the mighty defense of the Thousand-Handed Centipede, Su Jie had entered and exited the territories of the human-faced moths repeatedly, capturing a large number of them.

Su Jie wasn’t worried about catching all the human-faced moths; these creatures were the most numerous poisonous insects in Insect Valley, numbering in the hundreds of millions. The ones Su Jie caught were merely a drop in the bucket, hardly worth mentioning.

In a few days, Su Jie had captured tens of thousands of human-faced moths, using the Body Worm Focusing Method to continuously release Spiritual Energy allowing his scent to be detected by the human-faced moths.

Fed continuously with a supply of Poison Insects, these human-faced moths gradually recognized Su Jie as their Insect King, following his commands faithfully.

The tens of thousands of human-faced moths represented the limit of what Su Jie could currently control.

Any more, and Su Jie might not be able to control them — the swarm could potentially rebel and devour their master.

The swarm continued to dance in the sky, the buzzing sound of their wings flapping echoed from above.

A few human-faced moths, compared to the regular ones, had a dark golden hue on their bodies and flew extremely fast. The acid they spat out was so corrosive that it could create holes over two meters deep in the ground.

These were human-faced moths that had evolved into low-grade poisonous insects.

Generally speaking, the evolution of communal poisonous insects is particularly difficult, as they do not rely on individual strength against enemies but on their astonishing numbers, with little difference between individuals.

But under Su Jie’s ample supply of Poison Insects, some of the human-faced moths were lucky enough to complete their evolution, becoming stronger than the ordinary individuals in their species.

Although there were only a few for now, the number of human-faced moths that successfully evolved was definitely going to increase. With an unending resource of Poison Insects, Su Jie was very confident about this.