They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 86 A Glimpse of the Reappearance of the Global Locust Plague (5000 words)

The Starshattering King Insect Skarakabaz is a giant insect known as the successor to the Jaw of the Insect King.

Unlike the clone created by Ruan Mei, which could only exist for fifty-six seconds and was only slightly larger than a normal real insect.

However, at the level of Commander, body size no longer has much impact on combat power; what truly affects combat power is the amount of imaginary energy from the Destiny that can be mobilized.

The clone of Ruan Mei was able to withstand the attack for over fifty seconds by the Pioneer alone until it took a powerful blow head-on before almost losing. Just thinking about it, you can tell that the clone of the Star Shattering King Worm Skarakabaz definitely doesn't have the strength of the original, and is far inferior.

Therefore, the genuine Star Shattering King Worm Skarakabaz now presented to the combined forces of the Immortal Boat Alliance and the Interstellar Peace Company is about the size of Mercury in our solar system. Although it is much smaller than the Egihazo next to it, it is still a planetary-level behemoth.

Moreover, the color of its two giant mandibles at the edge of its mouthparts is not quite right; they are not the same dark blue as its body as usual, but a bright blue when it is charged.

Instead, like Taizyuros's scythe, its blood-red central texture paired with jet-black edges gives it an indescribable sense of lethality.

Meanwhile, its four carapaces are decorated with huge teardrop patterns, and the light spot in the center twinkles like a satellite orbiting a planet.

Hmm? Blinking?

Almost at the same time that Dan Lei realized something was wrong, Luo Fujun issued a military-wide communication.
"Everyone, deploy the battleship's protective barriers and shields! External personnel, take cover! The enemy's command insects are about to launch an attack!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, countless quantum energy cubes shot out from Skaracabaz's carapace and rained down on the Interstellar Peace Corporation fleet that was besieging the Zerg swarm.

This move is Skarakkabaz's signature skill, Radial Sting.

This quantum energy cube is filled with highly radioactive explosive quantum energy. When Interstellar Peace Corporation's gunships and spacecraft encounter this thing, they are instantly melted through their shields, leaving not even a trace.

The two fleets of the Immortal Boat Alliance are in a better position.

First, due to the agreement, neither fleet was on the front line at this time, and they were less affected by the attack, only slightly impacted.

Moreover, due to the distance, the smaller warships of the Immortal Boat Alliance have room to dodge.

As for the flagship, with the support of the Hunting Fate Energy, it can withstand this kind of attack.

For example, Fu Xuan, who was behind Dan Lei, lost control of the formation on the Luo Fu flagship after Skara Cabaz tore apart the spatial gate.

Therefore, Fu Xuan made a decisive move, transferring the energy originally intended for opening the gate to himself, and deploying a massive [Qiong Guan Zhen] formation with Fu Xuan as the core to envelop the entire ship when Skarakabaz attacked.

With the help of the warship's shields, the [Qiong Guan Zhen] easily blocked the radial sting poison that Skarakabaz was spraying towards them, without the ship even issuing a high-energy alarm.

Moreover, Fu Xuan himself was not greatly affected; his face only had a flushed look, like someone straining while squatting.

Looking at the massive [Qiong Guan Formation], Dan Lei recalled Luo Fu's basic introduction to it and its effects in his previous life's game, and decisively praised Fu Xuan.
"Lord Fu Xuan, your [Qiong Guan Formation] is truly profound. It can even weaken and distribute the attack of the envoy, so that the ship's shields can evenly bear the force and block the attack."

If it were anyone else here, the spaceship's shields would probably be on the verge of collapse by now.

Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan immediately laughed proudly.

"That's right. Do you think I only know divination and not how to fight? I am a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time."

Within my [Exhaustive Observation Formation], you, Miss Topa, and Mr. Sand Gold are free to attack. The Interstellar Peace Company won't be able to hold out any longer; the Immortal Ship Alliance will have to step in and engage.

Here, when Fu Xuan says that the Interstellar Peace Company can't hold out, he doesn't mean that the fleet besieging the bugs has been completely wiped out.

To be precise, Skarabaz's attack yielded very little result.

Of course, the Interstellar Peace Corporation had no good way to deal with the attack from the Commander-class. The reason why the losses were not significant was entirely because another Commander intervened.

Just as the Radiation Sting Poison was about to fall into the main fleet of the Interstellar Peace Corporation, a giant fairy fox composed of blue, white and black suddenly appeared in front of the fleet.

This celestial fox was transformed from the fusion of Feixiao and its majestic spirit, and was named Feihuang. At this moment, it was about the same size as those large star beasts that roamed the universe.

Fei Huang's hunting power transformed into a laser beam and shot out. As soon as the laser beam left its mouth, it expanded dozens of times.

As Feihuang swung his neck, the terrifying hunting beam intercepted more than 90% of the radiating sting venom that Skarakkabaz was aiming at Interstellar Peace Corporation.

Immediately afterwards, Fei Huang's entire body began to emit a dangerous red light, and its size continued to expand until it grew to about the size of the moon.

As mentioned before, for the Commander, body size does not determine combat strength, and a large body does not necessarily have an advantage.

The reason why Feixiao gathered more power from the hunting path to make his fused Feihuang bigger was purely because he was afraid that Skarakkabaz's poor eyesight would prevent him from noticing him.

At this point, although Feihuang's size still made Skarachabaz look like a Chihuahua, Skarachabaz had definitely spotted it and felt threatened.

Therefore, Skarakabaz's attack came to an abrupt halt, and it turned to the flying yellow bird, spreading its body to display its full-body patterns as a form of intimidation.

There's no way around it; those locusts in the global locust plague are absolutely devoid of intelligence. Even if you command them, they can only follow their instincts to intimidate; communication is out of the question.

Of course, those with synesthetic beacons probably already knew what Skarachabaz was saying; it was saying...

"Get out of here immediately, this is my territory."

However, Fei Xiao was not intimidated by Skarachabaz. Fei Huang, dressed in white lightning, rushed to Skarachabaz's elytra almost instantly. His fox claws flashed with lightning, and with one claw, he tore through Skarachabaz's elytra, injuring the hind wing below.

Skarachabaz began to struggle violently the moment it felt the attack, because very few of its attacks could actually hit its back.

At this moment, it's like a headless fly, aimlessly flitting about in the universe.

At the same time, the venom from the radial fissures began to indiscriminately spray itself, and the shell on its back began to multiply the sharp spikes, with only one purpose: to knock down the flying yellow that was "rubbing" its back.

However, Fei Xiao always fights like a berserker. When faced with the attack of Radiation Sting Poison, he will dodge if he can, and if he can't dodge, he will use the power of Hunting Fate to withstand it. Anyway, as an AOE attack, this thing is much weaker in destructive power than a one-on-one attack.

As for the spikes, Feixiao said he was having a headache about how to hold onto Skarakkabaz tightly, and these spikes were there to provide the grab points.

Of course, while being attacked, Fei Xiao did not forget to control Fei Huang and continue to frantically attack the elytra beneath his feet.

So, very quickly, one of Skarakabaz's four elytra was torn off by Feihuang, who was transformed from Feixiao.

However, with the sheath falling off, Skarakabaz finally managed to shake off Flying Yellow.

When Fei Huang reappeared before him, and he could use his scythe claws, giant jaws, and those ranged attacks that couldn't bend, he immediately condensed a pyrolysis death ray in his mouth and fired it out at top speed.

This is Skarakkabaz's signature move; the Star Shattering title is based on this move.

Fei Xiao naturally dared not take the attack head-on. With a quick maneuver, he dodged the attack, but the Interstellar Peace Company fleet behind him, unable to dodge in time, suffered a terrible fate.

However, Feixiao did not pounce on him again. Instead, he provocatively fired another Hunter Energy Bullet into Skarakabaz from his mouth.

It can only be said that Black Tower's assessment of the global locust plague insects is absolutely correct. These creatures have no ability to think at all; apart from reproduction, they only have some pre-programmed instincts.

Skarakabaz had a piece of its elytra torn off by Feihuang, and now considered it an enemy that had invaded its territory, determined to kill it.

Therefore, Feixiao stopped engaging Skarakkabaz in close combat and instead began luring it away from the main battlefield.

Skarakkabaz cooperated perfectly, completely disregarding why the enemy who was just close to him suddenly stopped, and instead tried to press his advantage, easily luring him away.

Normally, wherever the Zerg King goes, the Zerg swarm will follow.

At this moment, four planetary-level mother insects had emerged from the spatial rift torn open by Skarakabaz.

Fortunately, there were only four, unlike the seven or eight planet-level queen insects that I remember from the true hibernation insects.

It seems these insects suffered considerable losses on their way here.

However, the path these queen insects took to follow Skarakabaz has been completely blocked.

The reason why Feixiao lured Skarakabaz away was simple: the battle between Commander-level beings was not something that people of other levels could observe up close.

Insects are not afraid of death; as long as the mother insect survives, they can make up for any number of deaths.

But the Immortal Boat Alliance and the Interstellar Peace Company are not suitable.

If Skarachabaz were still here, hunting the Queen Insect would be a joke; no one would dare approach the Envoys' battlefield. As for why Jing Yuan didn't join Fei Xiao in directly annihilating Skarachabaz...

It can only be said that battles at the Envoy level are not so simple. Even if the Immortal Ship Alliance can win in a two-on-one fight, it doesn't mean they won't be severely injured by the insect's dying counterattack.

Given Jingyuan's personality, he would definitely try to minimize losses and kill Skarakabaz by underhanded means. Now, he is probably no longer in the fleet.

So now it's a battle of soldiers against soldiers, and kings against kings.

From Dan Lei's perspective, Fu Xuan had already entered the closed-eye command phase. According to the appointments made at the war conference, with the two generals absent, Fu Xuan was the commander-in-chief of the two immortal ships' allied forces, and Jiao Qiu was the deputy commander-in-chief.

At this moment, the third eye on her head is gathering all the battlefield information as the core of the supercomputer and then giving the corresponding response.

Of course, Jiaoqiu's control panel is also on this network. Given the current distance between the two, Xianzhou Technology can naturally achieve zero-delay communication.

Since it was agreed beforehand that the Mother Worm Interstellar Company would be responsible for half of the task, their fleet has now launched a full-scale attack on the two relatively smaller Mother Worms.

The Immortal Boat Alliance didn't mind the Interstellar Peace Company's sneaky behavior, because in the eyes of the Immortal Boat Alliance, it didn't matter which of the four insects they chose.

Moreover, the distribution of insects by the Immortal Boat Alliance was very simple: Luo Fu and Yao Qing each received one.

Therefore, Dan Lei, who was now free, did not rashly disturb Fu Xuan who was processing the data, but instead took the initiative to apply through Yu Zhao to become the main attacker against the mother insect.

Fu Xuan saw Dan Lei's application immediately, and then she hesitated for a moment.

Considering the actual situation, Danlei is indeed the most suitable main attacker to eliminate the queen insect.

On Luofu's side, there are only a few people who can serve as the main attackers. Apart from Dan Lei, there are Yan Qing and those who have made a name for themselves in Luofu.

But these people definitely wouldn't be able to spar with Feixiao or even cut off a section of her hair.

Moreover, Dan Lei wasn't attacking alone; he also had two bodyguards with the power of command, so there was almost no chance of him failing.

The problem is that Fu Xuan is afraid that if he releases Dan Lei now, the kid will simply disappear after the mother insect is eliminated.

After all, it's normal for communication to fail once the mother insect self-destructs, and it's also normal for people to disappear for a while when communication fails.

But upon closer reflection, Fu Xuan realized that no matter whether he let Dan Lei out now or not, Dan Lei would eventually disappear from his life.

Why not make the most of Dan Lei's combat power?

Therefore, Fu Xuan quickly made up his mind and ordered Dan Lei to report to the designated warship and wait for departure.

When Dan Lei saw that Fu Xuan let him go so easily, he was overjoyed and immediately went to report to the fighting ship with Topa and Sand Gold.

Fu Xuan understood the importance of speed in warfare; when fighting a planetary-level queen insect, speed was crucial.

Because they constantly produce low-level insects in large quantities, and sometimes even give birth to true hibernating insects.

Moreover, large numbers of insects have already broken through the encirclement of the Interstellar Peace Corporation and headed to Aijihazo to capture organic matter to bring back to replenish the energy of the mother insect.

Therefore, Dan Lei's warship set off quickly, and Luo Fu's vanguard warship had already begun fighting the insects. From the voices at the front, one could hear the slogan "Clouds obscure the sky, protect the immortal ships."

Meanwhile, Dan Lei could see from behind that Luo Fu's battle fleet had transformed into five giant dragons in a spiral pincer shape and had already charged into the swarm to begin their reaping.

The Stone-Refining Arrows (high-temperature electromagnetic cannons) on the Luofu Fighting Ship have extremely strong penetrating power; they can even shatter the carapace of a giant true worm with a single shot, and their firing rate is extremely fast.

Meanwhile, Luofu's medium and large warships will also be equipped with Blazing Crossbows (super high-explosive cannons with armor-piercing capabilities). If a Giant True Stinger gets hit on the head by one of these, it's game over.

As for those little bugs, after the Cloud Cavalry of Luofu are equipped with special military armor, they can also cut down bugs in the universe. Ordinary non-fate-path warriors can keep a dozen or twenty bugs from getting close to them.

Moreover, the armor and shields on the Cloud Cavalry soldiers are effective against the bites and self-destruction of ordinary insects. Unless they are covered in bites from those low-level insects, their defenses will not be breached.

All I can say is that the items from the Immortal Boat Alliance look retro, but they are actually all cutting-edge equipment from the most advanced parts of the universe.

In comparison, the armor of the Grammer Cavalry is obsolete and should be phased out.

All I can say is that Sam's strength lies in the fact that the pilot is Firefly, not in the strength of the armor itself, but in the strength of the Firefly pilot.

Moreover, the Cloud Cavalry also had ranged weapons, including bows and arrows, as well as rifles (which resembled WWII rifles but were actually electromagnetic weapons). The warships also had many firing ports around them, which were for the use of these rifle users.

These rifles are very powerful; they can basically shoot two or three low-level insects in one go.

However, as the battle lines continued to advance, Luo Fu's five giant dragons encountered tremendous obstacles.

There were too many insects, and the number of combatants on both sides was completely disproportionate.

Moreover, starting with the true hibernating insect, and even more advanced insects, they all possess ranged attack capabilities.

The once windless universe is now being whipped up by the insects using their wind elemental power, creating all sorts of strange winds. In addition, all the insects have the ability to self-destruct, and combined with the mother insect's energy breath, the Immortal Continent Alliance's warship fleet is suffering heavy losses and is unable to advance.

Ordinary Cloud Cavalry can only handle True Stinging Insects; only those Cloud Cavalry who are themselves powerful Destiny Walkers can deal with Giant True Stinging Insects.

At this moment, they are doing their best to clear the way for the warship where Dan Lei is located, with only one goal: to allow Dan Lei and his two companions to directly confront the mother insect as soon as they leave the ship.

Of course, the same goes for the pilot of Dan Lei's warship. He was now using all his skills to speed across the battlefield. If the air strategist in charge of logistics at the rear saw Dan Lei's ship's current flight maneuvers, he would probably be very excited.

However, the three people on the ship, Dan Lei and his companions, were definitely the most excited.

The various high-speed, extreme maneuvers performed on this ship would have shaken the internal organs of an ordinary person to their core.

Fortunately, Danlei, Topa, and Sandstone are not ordinary travelers on their own paths.

Dan Lei has the Six Treasures Immortal Thief to strengthen his inner palace, so he can withstand this kind of G-force and shaking.

The sand metal said that he had experienced too many hard times in the past, and that he had done all sorts of rough boats, so this was nothing.

The only one who felt a little uncomfortable was Toppa. Although she was also born in a poor place, she had followed the path of office promotion. By the time she was able to encounter the battlefield and war, her status was already quite high. This was the first time she had ever been on a boat that was rocked like this.

Fortunately, Topa wasn't shaken to the point of feeling nauseous; she just looked a little uncomfortable.

Moreover, the warship where Dan Lei was located was already nearing its limit. The pilot had broken away from the main force on a single ship. Although there were no giant true gnats around, true gnats and ordinary insects were everywhere. Low-level insects had already launched several effective self-destruct attacks on the ship.

Therefore, the pilot could only notify Danlei.
“Mr. Danlei, we’ve reached our limit. You’ll need to push forward for the rest of the way. However, we’ve already reached a position diagonally above the mother insect’s head.”

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei immediately stood up and said...
"Thank you for your hard work. We'll walk the rest of the way ourselves after opening the delivery pod."

As the pilot opened the fighter jet's drop pod, an insect seized the opportunity and rushed in. However, before it could self-destruct, Toppa blasted it into dust with a single shot.

Now that the spaceship can no longer fly at high speeds when it is deployed, Topa looks much better.

Seeing the two men's mocking expressions, she immediately shook her gun in annoyance.
“What are you all standing there for? Sand Gold, go down first to attract the insects and clear a path. Dan Lei, go second. I'll bring up the rear.”

This arrangement is actually fine. As the one being protected, Dan Lei naturally needs two bodyguards flanking him from the front and back.

So without saying a word, Sand Gold started playing with the dice made of imaginary energy, and they jumped.

In any case, for powerful destiny travelers, the universe only requires them to protect themselves with the power of destiny; they don't need any technology at all.

Then Danlei immediately followed, with Topa close behind.

　In the PV for "A Thousand Stars Chronicles": "Flying Arrow Chasing Stars", Fei Xiao's summoning of the Divine Lord seems to belong to the fusion type. At around 2:39, the fairy fox in the eyes of the enemy directly turns into Fei Xiao.

　　Friendly reminder: the Flying Sky boss that we players are fighting is actually Thunderclap.

　　The setting states: Through the transfer of the "Crimson Moon," the dying but not dying thunderbolt appears in the form of a flying spirit, standing opposite the original body, like a mirror reflection.

　　Therefore, his method of controlling the fairy fox is only for reference.

　　In the game, Lao Yang's first appearance is a vacuum fall, and the station where he fights the Doomsday Beast leads directly to the outside universe.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)