I get stronger every day I live.

Chapter 171 The Desperate Human Race, Trapped in the Insect Hole
Unbeknownst to him, Lai Yang's physical cultivation had already broken through to the fourth level of the Mortal Immortal Realm, making him invincible.

He had lost count of how many insectoids he had killed. All sorts of insectoids attacked Lai Yang like moths to a flame. Most of the insectoids couldn't even get close to him and were instantly wiped out by the hundred-foot sword domain surrounding Lai Yang.

The corpses of the Zerg monsters were piled up like mountains, and a disgusting, foul stench permeated the air, mixed with various powerful poisonous gases.

Unfortunately, it had no effect on Lai Yang. Not to mention how high his resistance was, the purple heavenly lightning power contained in his physical body was enough to make him ignore most of the poison.

Lai Yang raised his hand and released heavenly lightning, pushing it forward violently. The purple heavenly lightning, exuding a destructive aura, raged out like a weapon of mass destruction. Wherever it struck, thousands upon thousands of insectoid monsters perished before they could escape.

The insect army was becoming increasingly sparse, while the humans in front of them were fine except for their aura becoming somewhat weak.

Seeing this, even the most foolish insect-candle could see through the trick; this guy was clearly feigning weakness to the enemy.

But why? What was his purpose in doing all this? Was it just to kill all of its children?
Even if he kills all his children, so what? At most, Insect Candle will feel a little sorry for him.

However, given enough time, it can still spawn countless Zerg in a short period of time for use.

As long as it doesn't die, it can create an endless army of Zerg, so what it does is completely meaningless.

Little did Chongzhu know that Lai Yang was no ordinary ascendant, but a cheater with a built-in stat allocation system!

Killing beings of the same cultivation level has a 100% chance to increase random attributes. Killing beings one level lower has a 10% chance to increase attributes, killing beings two levels lower has a 1% chance to increase attributes, and killing beings two levels or more lower has a 0.001% chance to increase attributes.

Even if you kill a creature that has no cultivation, there is still a 0.001% chance of increasing a random attribute by one point.

The probability of one in 100,000 seems very low, but it is actually not high at all.

Therefore, Lai Yang would not intentionally kill weak creatures for this reason. Even if he slaughtered billions of creatures across the entire Immortal Continent, he would only increase his cultivation level by a few minor realms at most.

After breaking through the eighth realm of physical cultivation, it takes 6400 points of basic attributes to advance to the next minor realm.

If you kill creatures that are two realms below Lai Yang, you need to accumulate 6400 base attribute points.

In the absence of extremely bad luck, Lai Yang would need to annihilate approximately 6.4 million living beings to advance to a higher realm.

For some transmigrators with low moral standards, they might not care at all.

For ordinary cultivators, breaking through a small realm is not easy, and the higher the realm, the more difficult it is to break through.

Take the seventh-level Tribulation Transcending Realm as an example. Even a chosen one from a lower plane like Chu Xiao, without any shortage of resources, would still need to spend tens or hundreds of years to reach that level.

If leveling up could be easily achieved by killing creatures weaker than oneself, many people would probably do it at any cost.

However, Lai Yang is not ready to do such a thing yet. Firstly, it would be troublesome, and secondly, he could have peacefully lived for more than ten years and increased his cultivation level by one small realm. Why would he go to the trouble of doing something that would be outrageous to both gods and men? Wouldn't that just add to his karma and sins?

Immortality is the invincible path; why shed the blood of others?

Lai Yang's physical body was still some distance from the fifth level of the Mortal Immortal Realm, and Chongzhu finally couldn't suppress his impulse.

Because the massive army of insects it created was almost wiped out by Lai Yang alone!

Its billion Zerg swarm!
Looking around, in less than a year, they were reduced to less than 100 million by the enemy alone.

Moreover, he showed no signs of exhaustion whatsoever. This was simply outrageous; it had never encountered such a monstrous human immortal in its entire life.

He was practically a tireless killing machine with unlimited stamina and magic.

Most importantly, the Insect Candle instinctively sensed that the aura emanating from Lai Yang was becoming increasingly dangerous, and if it didn't act soon, it might be too late.

The mental attack from the insect candle had no effect on Lai Yang. Countless tough tentacles extended from the body under its carapace and attacked Lai Yang. With a casual twitch, the tentacles shattered the ground, creating a large crater.

Upon seeing Chongzhu personally take action, Lai Yang immediately abandoned his desire to continue exploiting others. His sword energy domain rapidly expanded, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of feet around him, showing no trace of weakness.

"You cunning human, I'll devour you alive!"

How could Insect Candle not understand that it had been tricked by Lai Yang? Countless tentacles tore through the air and attacked Lai Yang, like indestructible blades piercing through space.

Seeing this, Lai Yang used his agile movement technique to dodge, raised his hand and clenched his fist, unleashing the power of purple heavenly lightning, which transformed into a terrifying thunder dragon that roared and pounced on the insect candle.

The tentacles of the insect candle were annihilated and destroyed the moment they came into contact with the purple thunder dragon, its power was extremely domineering.

As expected, the purple thunder dragon landed on the massive, twisted body of the insect candle, piercing a large hole in its defenses.

Insect Candle couldn't believe that the opponent's attack could break through its proud defense, and couldn't help but let out a painful roar.

"Damn it, I'm going to kill you!" Insect Candle roared in fury, unleashing an attack like a storm, leaving no room for escape.

Lai Yang was accidentally hit and his body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, smashing countless things along the way before crashing to the ground.

Lai Yang gave a soft hum and quickly adjusted his posture.

The next moment, a massive attack formed from condensed immortal power descended from the sky as dense pillars of light, each pillar containing destructive energy.

Lai Yang's expression hardened, and he drew a sword curtain around his body to block the attack of the light pillar.

When the smoke cleared, the earth was riddled with holes.

Insect Candle's move was enough to instantly kill any being below the mid-stage of the Mortal Immortal Realm; it believed that even if the opponent didn't die, they would be severely injured.

Suddenly, endless sword intent condensed from the void, transforming into a giant sword that tore through the heavens and earth and fiercely slashed at the insect candle.

boom! ! !
In an instant, nearly a quarter of the insect's body was torn apart by the sword intent, leaving it a bloody mess.

But this was not the end. Dozens of magic arrays appeared in the space around the insect candle, including trapping arrays, killing arrays, and illusion arrays.

Before the insect candle could escape, a dazzling barrage of attacks came one after another, relentlessly assaulting the injured insect candle.

"Enjoy the feast I've prepared for you."

Taking advantage of the moment when the insect candle was held back, Lai Yang opened his palm, and purple lightning surged out from his body. Then, he ran his palm across the sword, and the power of the purple lightning was immediately attached to the blade of the top-grade spiritual weapon.

"This sword will slay you."

"Purple Heavenly Thunder Slash!"

The purple lightning and Lai Yang's sword intent merged perfectly. With a single swing, the blade in Lai Yang's hand suddenly exploded, and the sword light, carrying a world-destroying power of Dao, surged out.

The insect candle looked utterly horrified; it couldn't believe that this sword strike had actually made it feel a deadly threat!

As the purple lightning sword energy descended, everything in sight was annihilated, even leaving a bottomless sword pit in the ground, and the surrounding environment was in a state of scorching heat.

Lai Yang didn't hear the system notification sound about the attribute increase, but he could no longer sense the aura of the Insect Candle, as if its life force had been completely cut off.

Just to be on the safe side, Lai Yang struck the tattered body of the insect candle a few more times.

[All attributes +1]

This time, I finally heard the system notification sound.

"Good heavens, you were playing the fake death trick on me, and you acted it so convincingly. Luckily, I'm a step ahead, or I would have been fooled."

Lai Yang let out a long sigh, looking at the top-grade spirit sword in his hand, now only the hilt remained, a hint of regret on his face. "Alas, this was the only top-grade spirit sword I had, and it's already ruined as soon as I arrived in the Immortal Realm."

Lai Yang looked at the corpse of the insect candle.

With Insect Candle dead, all the other insectoids scattered, and his situation in the Immortal Realm was temporarily safe.

Lai Yang collected the corpse of the Insect Candle. The material from the corpse of an Insect race at the late stage of the Mortal Immortal Realm was enough to make up for his loss.

Once he finds suitable materials for sword forging, he might be able to try to create a celestial weapon.

When Lai Yang returned to the starting point where he entered the Immortal Realm, he suddenly realized that he could not go back.

"I'm doomed. I've destroyed the Gate of Ascension. How am I supposed to get back now?" Lai Yang's eyes widened slightly.

Previously, the location of the Immortal Continent could be located through the Ascension Gate, but now that the Immortal Gate connecting to the Immortal Continent has been destroyed, the connection between the two worlds has been completely severed.

With his current abilities, even if he shattered the void, he wouldn't be able to find the coordinates of the Immortal Continent. Forcing his way back would only result in him getting lost in those countless spaces.

Lai Yang destroyed the Ascension Gate in order to protect the Immortal Continent from being affected by the battle and from becoming a pasture for the Zerg.

Now look what's happened! He's dug himself into this mess. He came here perfectly fine, but now he can't go back.

He was all alone in the immortal realm, with no relatives or friends, and he had to start all over again.

Besides, Lai Yang didn't even know where he was.

How could a mere Karami who had just entered the eighth realm possibly survive peacefully in the Immortal Realm?

Lai Yang didn't hesitate for long. He couldn't think of anything else, so he decided to take it one step at a time.

Lai Yang collected the fragments of the Ascension Immortal Gate, hoping that he could find a way to repair it and then find his way back to the Immortal Inquiry Continent.

Chu Xiao, Jian Wuji, Li Xiaowen, Li Xiaonuan, and Xiao Hei are all asking about the Immortal Continent.

Lai Yang didn't know which way to go, so he randomly chose a direction that felt relatively safe.

Along the way, Lai Yang encountered many attacks from the Zerg, but he killed them all with a single slap.

Suddenly, Lai Yang sensed the presence of other humans and stopped abruptly, a hint of joy flashing in his eyes.

As long as there are people nearby, he can find a safe place. Right now, he just wants to find a peaceful town in the Immortal Realm to live in.

If he manages to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, then no one should be able to do anything to him.

At the same time, we should look for a way to repair the Ascension Gate, and go back to see it when we have the chance. If possible, we should also bring Chu Xiao and the others to the Immortal Realm.

Lai Yang followed the scent of the humans and soon arrived at a huge wormhole.

Compared to the enormous wormhole, Lai Yang's figure appeared incredibly small.

Lai Yang could sense the presence of the Insect Candle within the wormhole, and after a moment's thought, he said, "Could this be the Insect Candle's nest?"

Then, Lai Yang subconsciously released his powerful divine sense to explore the inside of the giant wormhole.

Lai Yang soon discovered that the countless wormholes contained at least hundreds of millions of worm eggs.

Some of these wormholes do indeed house humans, but those humans are also infested with Zerg and controlled by the parasites.

Although they were alive, their expressions were unusually numb, and their eyes were incredibly empty, like walking corpses.

Moreover, their numbers are quite large, numbering in the tens of thousands, including many human cultivators.

There were even a few who had reached the eighth realm of cultivation, but they were merely objects of enslavement by the insectoid race.

Within countless wormholes lie countless skeletons, including those of demonic beasts and other creatures, but mostly those of humans.

Even their few remaining skeletons were crawling with Zerg larvae, which would break through their bones and suck out their marrow until they were completely drained of their last bit of nutrition.

Upon seeing this scene, which resembled a living hell, Lai Yang frowned, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

The Zerg have enslaved tens of thousands of humans, and the other powerful humans seem to care? Is human life so cheap in the Immortal Realm? Or are they simply unaware?
Lai Yang didn't hesitate for long before entering the Zerg nest in front of him. He and his sword wiped out all the Zerg and their eggs inside the wormhole.

As for the humans who were being controlled, Lai Yang used the power of heavenly lightning to kill the parasites inside their bodies.

Lai Yang's gaze fell upon the women with their large bellies, and he immediately recognized that they were carrying not babies, but countless worm eggs.

It's disgusting that these Zerg would use them as breeding grounds to incubate their eggs.

Lai Yang had never seen such a scene before, such a cruel and hellish sight. He had only seen it in some grotesque comics and anime series before he transmigrated.

Watching the show was just okay, but seeing it in person was a completely different experience, making one feel suffocated and distressed.

“I have eliminated all those worms, and I have also cleaned the worms out of your bodies. You are saved,” Lai Yang said to the numb crowd.

The group exchanged glances, but their faces didn't show much joy upon hearing Lai Yang's words.

Seeing this, Lai Yang couldn't help but feel strange. Why did these people still have such expressions?
“Do you know where the nearest human town is? I’ll take you there,” Lai Yang said.

"It's no use, we can't escape, it's all a dead end no matter where we go."

"Humanity is finished."

Upon hearing this, Lai Yang was startled and pressed for an answer: "What do you mean? What do you mean that humanity is finished?"

Just then, a man came out. Although his eyes also revealed deep despair, he still retained his rationality.

"You ascended from another dimension, didn't you?"

Lai Yang nodded.

"No wonder then. You're wasting your time. There are no safe human towns nearby."

"The place we are in is called the Xuanming Realm, which was invaded and conquered by the insect race ten thousand years ago."

"The Xuanming Realm is now controlled and ruled by the insectoid race, and other races are almost extinct."

“Even if we escape with you, we have nowhere to go. In the end, we will either be eaten by the Zerg or become slaves of other Zerg, just like our current lives. When they find you, you will become just like us.”

The man's eyes were bloodshot, revealing a hint of madness, as he spoke in a deep voice.

"What? This world has already been conquered by the Zerg?"

Upon hearing this, Lai Yang was greatly alarmed and his expression changed.

The Immortal Realm, which countless people on the Immortal Continent yearn for, turns out to be nothing more than a man-eating wormhole? How ridiculous!

If what the other party said is true, things are a million times worse than the worst-case scenario Lai Yang had anticipated.

(End of this chapter)