World-saving Plan: The Only Savior

Chapter 1684 - 8: The Insect Race’s Pursuit

Although the star map used by Yadun didn’t seem particularly valuable to Zhang Xiaoman, it was still made with low-level dark spiritual materials and considered a decent resource for the Insect Race.

However, their worker bees didn’t devour it, instead handing it over to that insect swarm’s Insect Queen.

Zhang Xiaoman couldn’t perform a complete memory search on the Insect Queen whose power was close to the Upper Enlightenment Level. This move required a very high threshold; unless one’s strength greatly exceeded the other’s, it would be very difficult to probe the other’s memory.

"All I saw through it was limited, at most I can roughly deduce the location of its higher-level insect swarm..."

He removed his hand from the rapidly dying Insect Queen and shook his head slightly.

Ziwei was eager to try as well, but immediately dispelled the thought when thinking of the terrifying backlash effect of the Insect Race’s Spiritual Connection network.

Even though Zhang Xiaoman didn’t gain detailed intelligence from that Insect Queen, he wasn’t disheartened.

They had now gradually penetrated the interior of the Insect Domain; even without these memory readings to guide the way, it was impossible not to find insects to fight. After all, there were simply too many insect swarms here; landing on any planet would likely reveal their traces.

"The intelligence of the Insect Race is not inferior to the Spiritual Wisdom Clan, especially these Insect Queens, they possess extraordinary intelligence. Deciphering a star map is not a difficult task for them."

Ziwei speculated.

Zhang Xiaoman understood the other’s meaning; in fact, he had already anticipated it. Since they had thought of using the star map to find other scattered Phantom Spirit Clan, naturally, these insects would think of it too.

Therefore, the situation might be even more tricky than he imagined; the insects wouldn’t let the survivors develop freely and must have already sent pursuit troops after them.

"Desert Worms share information through Spiritual Connections, once this Insect Queen acquired the star map, other Insect Queens would naturally know the survivors’ locations. We must act quickly."

Zhang Xiaoman relayed the situation to Yadun, who clenched his fists with a worried expression.

"The star map is made with Transmission Crystals, used to sense the location of other Transmission Crystals, always kept by the elders of the Holy Hall..."

"Last time when we were on Biro Star, we lost the star map because of the hasty retreat. We originally planned to use it to find the whereabouts of other clan members, but those insects also..."

"Damn! I said this sort of thing shouldn’t be left to the elder! His mind is only occupied with that never-revealed Void God, he doesn’t care about us at all!!"

Zhang Xiaoman could sense Yadun’s resentment towards that elder, but he wasn’t interested in past grievances; since the situation had already occurred, talking more wouldn’t help, better to quickly rectify it.

He instructed Yadun and their clan members to prepare themselves, as he was about to activate the nearest Transmission Crystal sensed on the star map. The success of the upcoming plan would depend largely on their performance.

Though, in Zhang Xiaoman’s view, these Phantom Spirit Clan members were quite weak, he knew it was impossible to oppose these Desert Worms alone; he needed enough manpower.

The captured planets needed guards, resources needed to be gathered, and he couldn’t personally engage in every small-scale skirmish, otherwise, even with the Clone Technique, he would exhaust himself.

The numbers of Awakeners in the Star Alliance were not many; they could still protect Water Blue Star, but they were far from enough for the entire Phantom Spirit Star System.

Therefore, recruiting the remaining Phantom Spirit Clan survivors was vitally important. Zhang Xiaoman made Yadun and others his spokespersons, having them share their experiences would significantly increase the chances of attracting others.

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Saba Star, Central Administrative Area.

What was once a beautiful and tall city had been reduced to ruins by the desert worm onslaught. Shattered building remains were everywhere, mixed with flames and thick smoke, despairingly burning under the silent sky.

Saba Star used to be a highly populated advanced administrative planet within the Phantom Spirit Star System, the central hub of nearby star systems.

But now, all prosperity was gone. The insect swarm easily breached their defenses with strong space firepower, followed by a sea of Insect Race troops, and the entire planet fell within an hour under such an attack.

"Governor, we must retreat, the insect swarm outside is attacking more fiercely. Our warriors can no longer hold them off. If we don’t withdraw soon, we’ll all die here!"

Beside a collapsed house, a Phantom Spirit with the Holy Hall insignia imprinted on his chest desperately persuaded his companions.

The Phantom Spirit known as the Governor looked at the crowd gathered in the distance, torn in indecision.

"Many people haven’t made it yet; if we leave now, they’ll be left to die..."

The Governor bit his lip, his gaze turning towards the approaching insect swarm, a trace of fear in his eyes.

The power of the insects was far too overwhelming. Just a reconnaissance team had driven them to this situation; the Holy Hall warriors were no match, hit hard before they could even leave the base, barely clinging to defense.