Insects were lifeforms, and their bodies naturally emitted energy fluctuations. Yang Tian and Soli could clearly sense the situation around them.
After traveling for about ten minutes, the Little Blue Dragon caught up with Yang Tian and Soli. It told Yang Tian that it had found a valley with no insects within dozens of kilometers.
This was exactly what Yang Tian needed!
Yang Tian and Soli immediately went to the place the Little Blue Dragon found. After a quarter of an hour, they arrived at a valley between two short mountains.
The insects had just been released and were rapidly reproducing. The density of insects on the planet was not very high.
"Yang Tian, why did you find this place?" Soli asked in puzzlement as she looked at the seemingly ordinary valley in front of her.
Yang Tian smiled. "Did you forget that I can use runes?"
Soli immediately understood what Yang Tian was going to do next.
Fighting the insects, constantly fighting … That was a foolish thing to do.
It was better to find a place to hide and quietly stay there for three days.
When the time was up, this test would be over.
But how would they leave then?
When they came down, the middle-aged Divine General did not explain!
Yang Tian shook his head with a wry smile. He felt that there might be some 'program' at the last moment!
Next, it was time for the strange program to come into play.
Yang Tian walked around the valley at an extremely fast speed.
The mountains on both sides were not high, only dozens of meters high, and the slope was not very steep. Ordinary humans could climb up.
The valley in the middle was S-shaped, about a hundred meters long and fifty meters wide.
Such a place looked very ordinary, but it could be found everywhere on this planet. It seemed to be formed by the changes in the terrain and the impact of the water flow.
While Yang Tian was observing the valley, the strange program recorded the surroundings through Yang Tian's vision.
Next was the problem of the material.
Yang Tian squatted down, casually picked up a small piece of rock, and crushed it into powder.
Crushing the stone, Yang Tian relied entirely on the strength of his muscles.
After that, Yang Tian crushed a few more stones.
Through Yang Tian's reaction, the strange program knew the hardness of these stones.
Terrain, stone hardness, gravity of the planet, air pressure … all these data were collected, and the strange program began to calculate at high speed.
In less than half an hour, the strange program had designed the array that Yang Tian wanted.
The talisman array mainly concealed one's aura and simulated that this place was a volcano.
The insect's intelligence was extremely low, so it probably wouldn't force its way in.
Even if they broke in and dared to jump into the fire pit, the rune arrays would still be able to protect Yang Tian and the rest of them inside the rune arrays as long as enough energy was provided.
After the design was done, the next step was to draw it.
Yang Tian took out a rune pen from his storage bracelet and began to draw runes on the rocks of this valley under the control of the strange program.
Fortunately, the surface of this planet was all hard grayish-black rocks and no sand. Otherwise, it would've been more difficult to build a rune array.
While Yang Tian was concentrating on drawing the rune arrays, Soli and the Little Blue Dragon were constantly paying attention to the situation around them.
Before Yang Tian finished drawing the rune arrays, they wouldn't allow a single insect to crawl over and disturb Yang Tian.
Although this planet was twice the size of Earth, the distance between the tens of thousands of 'spots' where the insects appeared was actually not far. With the insects' crawling speed and their reproduction speed, it would take less than a day for them to occupy the entire planet.
By then, countless insects would spread out in search of food and encounter the cultivators who landed on the ground … In fact, it wouldn't take that long. While Yang Tian was drawing the rune arrays, there were already cultivators fighting the insects.
On the spaceship, the middle-aged Divine General had been observing the cultivators below.
Some people began to kill the insects. The low-level insects were constantly dying in their hands. They seemed to be very relaxed. Some people were constantly looking for a safe place. When they found an insect, they immediately avoided it. They tried not to fight with the insects.
Some people began to dig holes after discovering the insects and avoiding them. It seemed that they wanted to hide in the caves.
Of course, some people also hid in the water.
But was it useful?
Obviously not. The middle-aged Divine General kept shaking his head when he saw the cultivators' actions against the insects.
It was impossible to kill all the insects. The insects had an extremely sensitive sense of smell. After killing the insects, the fishy smell would spread out along with the airflow and attract more insects.
Constantly avoiding them also wouldn't work. When the entire planet was full of insects, there would be no space to move.
This was a planet without an ocean. The insects that crawled out of the ground could quickly spread across the surface of the planet.
It was terrifying that the insects on this planet could reproduce so quickly. Of course, it was because these insects had been 'processed'.
It was useless to escape into the water. Insects existed in the air, land, and sea. There would be more insects underwater than on land.
This was because there were many microorganisms in the water. The organic matter produced over a long period of time would be deposited at the bottom of the water, attracting a large number of insects.
What about digging holes and hiding in the rocks?
This seemed like a good idea.
However, the insects had an extremely sensitive sense of smell. As long as there were energy fluctuations on the cultivators, they would be able to detect it.
Humans were far inferior to insects in terms of digging holes.
As time went by, every surveillance image was covered by a dense swarm of insects.
There were many types of insects, at least a hundred!
Among them, the most representative ones were the hatworms with a semi-circular body and eight legs under the abdomen. They crawled very quickly and released venom to attack enemies. There were also the hatworms that corroded and devoured organic rocks.
These insects had extremely thick shells and strong defenses. They weren't easy to kill.
The venom they spat out could even corrode the outer shells of spaceships.
The armor worn by cultivators would be destroyed if it came into contact with the venom of these insects for a long period of time.
The second type of powerful insect was the Black Star Insect. Its body was huge and had three segments. When this insect grew into an adult, its body length could reach 20 meters and its height could reach 10 meters. Its tail could also shoot out extremely sticky silk.
Once wrapped by this silk, cultivators at the Planet realm would immediately lose their ability to move. For Star-Realm cultivators, it would be fine if they didn't wear armor. Once they were wrapped in armor, it would be tantamount to spinning a cocoon around themselves.
There was another type of powerful insect called the Hunger Insect.
As the name implied, this type of insect was almost never full. They were very small, and an adult insect was only the size of a finger.
However, they moved in groups, just like the army ants on Earth.
Wherever these insects went, anything on the surface that could be eaten by them would be devoured by them.
Don't think that you can kill them easily just because they are small. The bodies of these insects were extremely hard, just like a solid piece of alloy. When one stepped on the ground, they would only sink into the ground.
In addition to the insects that crawled on the ground, there were also countless insects that could fly in the sky.
…
When the middle-aged Divine General saw these densely packed insects, his scalp went numb.
With his reaction speed, he could clearly see more than four hundred images. These were the surveillance images of every cultivator below.
Soon, the middle-aged Divine General turned his attention to one of the images.
In this surveillance image, Yang Tian was holding a talisman pen and inscribing runes in a valley …
"Using runes … Interesting!" the middle-aged Divine General muttered to himself after staring at the image for a few seconds.