Yu Jing and the rest looked at each other, and Mr. Tideheartener ordered everyone to retreat without hesitation. Soon after, all the cultivators retreated, and the heavens fell silent.
Lu Yin released the space in his heart, and the Heavenly Dao of Karma enveloped Dan Zhu. This was the second time, but this time, he did not plan to use karma to investigate. Besides karma, he also had the ability to create karma with his words.
The Divine Seal Catalog's light connected to the Wordless Heavenly Book, flickering with images. Lu Yin casually waved his hand to create karma, and at the same time, he used his words as a brush to paint the world. Everything moved according to his will, and he moved according to his will.
Dan Zhu watched Lu Yin's hand descend, and his mind almost collapsed. He did not want to die; he wanted to send news of the Lost Tribe back. He did not want to die.
The stronger his will to live, the more his mind collapsed.
As Lu Yin's hand descended, it stopped half a finger away from Dan Zhu. In that instant, the Divine Seal Catalog inserted karma, and Lu Yin's voice entered Dan Zhu's ears. "We won this war."
Dan Zhu's pupils dilated as various scenes appeared in his mind. In the war, he had destroyed the human race, and he had been invincible. The Longevity Stele had suppressed everything, and an endless sea of bugs had devoured the heavens. He had also seen the Lost Tribe and that ancient card. Everything could be obtained; the hive had won this war.
"Tell me, how did we win?"
Lu Yin asked again, and Dan Zhu did not hesitate to tell him everything he knew, whether it was in his plans or in his fantasies.
Regardless of whether it was in his plans or fantasies, they were all based on the hive's current strength. Lu Yin wanted to know what Dan Zhu believed to be the most likely reason for the war. Because of this reason, the hive's victory meant that the humans had lost.
Dan Zhu fervently revealed everything, and Lu Yin's karma continued to deplete.
In the distance, Yu Jing and the rest could vaguely see Lu Yin's back. They could not understand what he was doing, so they could only wait.
Jue Huang and Ye Ge were recuperating; they were lucky not to have died.
Jue Rou pursed her lips and looked into the distance worriedly. Mister Lu was not invincible, and he had just spat out blood.
At that moment, she was reminded of the words recorded in her family's ancient books. No civilization could be easily destroyed. The Panasonic Universe thought that it could be easily dealt with, but in the end, they still sent reinforcements to the Fifth Night Pillar and Mr. Lu.
Civilization itself represented will and endless possibilities.
Humans were far from being invincible.
At this moment, she had grown up.
Not long after, Lu Yin threw Dan Ji into the Hell of the General Appointment Platform to increase his karma. At the same time, he took away his Lost Clan card.
The card's name was Stronghold, and the trap was an imitation of the Third Stronghold's starry skies.
Dan Ji had managed to do just that, as he had used his Rampart to defend against the Heaven and Earth Convergence Spirit Treasure array formation. It was considered extremely powerful, but it was nothing in front of Lu Yin. Lu Yin's words were law, and Lu Yin did not even need to break through his Rampart to defeat Dan Ji.
The information he'd obtained from Dan Ji made his heart heavy.
The hive civilization only had one Immortal Master, and that was the Immortal Master. So what?
Could this war really be won?
Dan Ju and the others were just the first batch of insects to test the combat power of the Nine Clouds Universe. The real attack was the second batch.
The insect nest civilization's insect sea was endless, and there were also many Green Immortals. There were quite a few Green Immortals who had reached the Great Circle of Crossing Bitter Adversity, like Dan Zhu. Above them were the four insect lords, who the Immortal Master called the ultimate fighting force. So far, none of the four insect lords had appeared.
In the battle scene that Dan Ji saw, the four insect lords were the second batch to arrive, and they were also the main force of the attack on the spiritualized universe. Against them, humans had no chance of winning.
The four insect lords were Hou, Time of Avici, Dan Xiao, and Luo Chan.
In Dan Ji's knowledge, Hou was a terrifying creature with enough power to overturn the starry skies. The hive civilization had never seen a creature that could surpass Hou in terms of power. Even the Immortal Master said that under the Immortal Master, no creature could surpass Hou in terms of power.
In the battle scene that Dan Ji saw, he had said something fanatically. On that day, Hou descended and tore the universe apart, displaying a power that made humans despair. That power overturned everything and buried all the will of humans. It was the last straw that determined the outcome of the war.
Time of Avici was a strange creature. The sun and moon alternated, and the universe was like a needle. It was a creature that controlled time.
No creature had ever been able to leave alive in front of Time of Avici. The hive civilization had endless battles, and Time of Avici was the controller of time. In any battle, they could hand over the strongest enemy to Time of Avici. Time of Avici had never been defeated.
In the battle scene that Dan Ji saw, Lu Yin's death had come from Time of Avici.
Dan Xiao was born in the Third Stronghold in human form, just like Dan Ji. She was a beautiful girl with thick yellow curly hair and wore a princess dress. However, it was this girl who had stolen the power of the Lost Tribe's strongest powerhouse, Xia Di. That power that made everything beneath him and that power that could not be looked directly at had allowed Dan Xiao to surpass all the other Immortals in a short period of time and become one of the four insect lords.
Even if Dan Ji did not fall into the illusion of winning, Lu Yin still knew about Dan Xiao.
When he used karma to investigate Dan Ji, he had seen Dan Xiao.
Dan Xiao was the greatest traitor in the history of the Lost Tribe's war. If not for her, the Lost Tribe would have already launched their final battle. Of course, they would still be defeated by the Immortal Master, but the time of their defeat would be much earlier.
Dan Xiao could be considered a pure member of the Lost Tribe. This was because she had left the hive after she was born and was adopted by the Emperor.
She was the Emperor's adopted daughter and was also the most hated person by the Lost Tribe.
The last Insect Lord was called Luo Chan, and it was also the direct reason why Lu Yin felt that it would be difficult to win this war.
In Dan Ji's illusion of winning the war, Luo Chan had played the greatest role.
Lu Yin had previously found it strange that the hive civilization had split into four in such a short period of time and attacked the spiritualized universe from four different directions. They were so far apart that even the One Leaf Blue Lotus would take years to arrive.
However, the hive civilization had arrived very quickly.
The answer was Luo Chan.
Luo Chan was a strange lifeform in the universe. Dan Ji's understanding of it was beyond the understanding of all other lifeforms. It did not exist in karma and jumped out of the long river of time and endless space. This was because it could teleport.
The Luo Chan could teleport in the boundless universe within a square inch.
This was an extremely terrifying innate gift. Even an Eternal Realm powerhouse could not achieve this, but Luo Chan could.
It could also give other lifeforms the ability to teleport, allowing them to travel freely in space within a certain range as long as its aura was left behind.
That was why there were four different directions to attack the spiritualized universe. That was why Dan Ji believed that they would definitely win this war.
Imagine that when Luo Chan arrived, it would constantly shift the position of the insects. Wherever the humans had the strongest defenses, the insects would move to another direction, and the humans would not be able to react in time. The sea of insects could completely shake off the humans and directly attack the spiritualized universe or the Ninth Heaven Universe. At that time, even an Eternal Realm powerhouse would not be able to catch up.
And Luo Chan could arrive at any time.
It felt like the hive civilization had spread throughout the entire universe. How could the humans fight it?
They would always face air.
No matter how they defended, it was impossible to stop the hive in the entire Ninth Heaven Universe. As long as there was a gap, it would become a key point for the hive civilization to attack.
Lu Yin was very strong, but he could not defend against the entire universe. If Luo Chan was here, it could just take the insects away, and Lu Yin would not be able to catch up to it. Even if he spent some time to catch up, it would be as easy as playing with a child.
These were the four insect lords of the hive civilization. Even without an Eternal Realm powerhouse, Lu Yin still felt heavy pressure. Even if there were Eternal Realm powerhouses in the Ninth Heaven Universe, and even if the Immortal Masters had not arrived, he still felt that it would be difficult to win.
The hive civilization was too special. They had too many strange innate gifts, an unfathomable reproduction speed, and a power that was constantly transforming. If they had one or two more Eternal Realm powerhouses, they would definitely be qualified to be a fishing civilization.
No, they did not have a fishing civilization. Instead, they went directly for food.
Master Grass's thinking was too simple. He wanted to use Tian Yuan as a barrier to stop the hive civilization. What a joke. If the hive civilization was lured over, it would not be Tian Yuan that was in danger, but rather the entire human race.
The key was that Qinglian Shangyu and the others were not here.
Lu Yin believed that he was invincible below the Eternal Realm. Even if he faced the four insect lords one-on-one, he would not be afraid. He did not think that the four insects could defeat him, but this was a war, not a one-on-one fight.
Luo Chan was too important in this war, and it could determine the success or failure of a civilization.
Lu Yin was not confident that he could find it.
Only an Eternal Realm powerhouse could do so.
However, the hive civilization had been through many wars and must have faced Eternal Realm powerhouses before. They would not be without vigilance.
The heavy pressure caused the heavens to darken even further.
Even with his back to the group, they could still see that Lu Yin seemed to be greatly suppressed.
They did not disturb Lu Yin and waited quietly.
Not long after, Lu Yin found Mr. Tide-listener, Jue Ling, Yu Jing, and a group of other powerhouses who had reached the Primordial Realm and the Crossing Calamity Realm. He told them about the hive civilization.
Everyone was shocked. They could not believe that the hive civilization was so powerful.
Dan Zhu could already ignore the attacks of Jue Ling and Yu Jing, who were at the peak of the Crossing Calamity Realm. Even a supreme spirit treasure array like Heaven and Earth could not deal with it. They had thought that the hive civilization was second only to the Immortal Masters, but now they were told that there were four even more powerful insect lords.
In particular, Luo Chan's existence left them in disbelief.
They knew that the universe was boundless and that there were many mystical creatures, but they did not believe that there was such a creature that transcended their knowledge.
The existence of such a creature was too illogical.
Lu Yin said in a low voice, "I know you don't believe me. In fact, if not for my karma, I wouldn't have believed it either. But this is the truth."
Jue Ling's eyes flashed. Had it been announced?
He had already admitted that he comprehended karma.
Yu Jing and the others were not surprised at all. In fact, as time passed, the news of Lu Yin comprehending karma had already spread among the top cultivators. The only thing missing was for him to admit it himself.
Now that he had admitted it, no one was surprised. However, there was an indescribable shock that was difficult to suppress. They did not know if it was envy or jealousy.