Immortality begins with Swallowing the Stars.

Chapter 22 Artistic Conception Level

"This is……"

The monstrous, mangled corpse of the giant insect was tens of meters tall, covered in streamlined scales, with a bizarre shape and an aura of antiquity emanating from it.

It seems that even after thousands of years, its terrifying killing intent has not been worn away.

Even though it was just wreckage, it still made Lu Jing's heart tremble.

"Could it be the Zerg?" Lu Jing's mind raced. "Since there's a Zerg hive on Earth, it's not so unbelievable to find the remains of a Zerg warrior here."

Lu Jing couldn't determine how powerful the remains were in life, but he was certain that they far surpassed the strength of humans and monsters on Earth.

As for whether the remains of these suspected Zerg warriors are related to the Zerg Queen in Shennongjia, he cannot yet determine.

"It would be too cowardly to be scared by the remains of these Zerg that have been dead for who knows how long."

Lu Jing forcibly suppressed his shock and turned to look at the grotesque worm: "However, these insect monsters on Wu Mountain, and this insect king, are definitely related to the remains of that insect race!"

"Be careful!"

Jiang Mu's expression suddenly changed. The centipede-like insect king suddenly shot into the air and arrived in front of the two in the blink of an eye. A foul smell wafted up and its two tentacles shot towards the two of them at the same time like whips!

Two streaks of dark light flashed, and the Insect King was struck as if by lightning, its body arching backward.

Jiang Mu was stunned for a moment before Lu Jing led him several dozen meters away.

"This speed... has exceeded the speed of sound! No, why isn't there a sound barrier?" Jiang Mu couldn't hide his astonishment.

Then, Lu Jing pulled Jiang Mu and they seemed to teleport back and forth in the huge space inside the mountain, dodging the insect king's attacks, while also manipulating the two mandible pincers to attack the insect king's body like lightning.

Previously, Lu Jing had to exhaust himself to achieve near-sonic speed once, but now his physical abilities have improved to the level of a beginner warrior. With the added boost of his mental power, he easily surpassed the speed of sound.

Moreover, Lu Jing discovered that his "wind attribute body" could now completely eliminate air resistance, without any sound barrier.

This is also why he can easily exceed the speed of sound; otherwise, to break the sound barrier, one's physical body would need to reach at least the level of a war god to withstand the load and pressure of breaking the sound barrier.

Although the Insect King was incredibly fast, especially its instantaneous launch speed, it was still only at supersonic speed, so it couldn't attack Lu Jing and Jiang Mu at all, giving Lu Jing the initiative in the battle.

However, Lu Jing was also unable to break through the insect king's defenses.

"Damn it! The exoskeletons of these insect monsters feel much tougher than those of monsters from other places!"

Lu Jing frowned slightly. His two weapons, made from the sharp mouthparts of the second-tier spider monster, were definitely much stronger than the weapons Jiang Mu had given him, but they were still no match for the insect king.

"Krohne! Krohne!"

Lu Jing finally understood the helplessness of human powerhouses in the early stages of the Great Nirvana, before the invention of the Cro alloy.

This is not a fair contest at all.

Although the power he exerted by manipulating his mandibles with his mental energy was formidable, the Insect King also possessed the strength of a second-tier advanced beast general, making it impossible for him to kill it with the force of the counterattack.

In this way, the vast cavern inside the mountain was filled with howling winds and afterimages. Two dark lights flashed back and forth like lightning, but neither could do anything to the other.

The Insect King's massive body nimbly landed on the ground, its ferocious mandibles, composed of more than a dozen pairs of venomous mandibles, colliding at high frequency and emitting silent ripples!

Jiang Mu exclaimed in alarm, "Infrasound! Oh no, he's summoning insect monsters!"

Lu Jing's expression changed slightly, and then he saw that there were many dark cave entrances on the surrounding mountain walls of the empty cave, from which rustling sounds were coming out.

Then, one after another, winged insect monsters emerged from the cave and flew towards Lu Jing and his companion!

Lu Jing snorted lightly, and the two streaks of black light accelerated their speed, transforming into two bolts of lightning that darted into the swarm of insect monsters, shuttling back and forth, instantly killing most of them.

However, the insect monster's exoskeleton is extremely tough. Every time an insect monster is killed, some of the mental energy attached to the mandibles is consumed, and the speed will also decrease slightly. In the end, it's like a spent arrow, unable to pierce through thin silk.

Moreover, although the cave inside the mountain was spacious, it was still a limited space. As more and more insect monsters entered, Lu Jing's room to maneuver was gradually squeezed.

This is the Insect King's plan to summon the Insect Monsters!

"I'll use a mental attack to entangle the Insect King, you'd better run!" Jiang Mu said firmly. "I'll send a message to the military the moment the mental attack is launched. With your speed, you can easily escape the core area of ​​the nuclear explosion."

The military sent her, a mentalist capable of mental attacks, to behead the Insect King because they had anticipated the defensive strength of this powerful second-tier insect monster. Not to mention human experts of the same tier, even those one tier higher would find it difficult to kill it physically.

Even with the addition of a second-tier advanced mentalist like Lu Jing, the situation will not change drastically.

Jiang Mu's mental attack technique, besides requiring extremely high talent, cannot be mastered overnight, thus preventing Lu Jing from leveraging his superior mental power.

Lu Jing did not respond to Jiang Mu's words, nor did he show any anxiety or frustration about the increasingly unfavorable battle situation.

Because he had already immersed himself in some kind of mysterious state.

His gains in the Nine Cauldrons world this time are definitely not just mental power and stronger physical strength.

It could even be said that the most valuable gain was that divine secret manual, "The Heavenly Emperor's Divine Mirror"!

It took him nearly ten days to comprehend eleven of the twelve illustrations. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of a powerful innate Golden Core cultivator, he could have fully comprehended the "Heavenly Emperor's Divine Mirror".

At this moment, he seemed to see the image of the dragon reaching out its claws in the clouds in the first picture again.

The wind follows the clouds, the rain follows the dragon!

wind!

wind!

wind!

After passing through the two insect monsters, the two mandibles manipulated by Lu Jing's mental power suddenly traced a mysterious trajectory and slightly adjusted their posture in the air, as if they had transformed into the two sharp claws of a cloud dragon.

A convergence of forces!

Dragon's claws reach out from the clouds!

A gentle breeze blew by!

Two black dragon claws, blending into the wind, appeared and disappeared intermittently, and when they reappeared, it was as if they were emerging from the clouds.

It slowly and deliberately reached for the Insect King's head!

But the Insect King seemed completely unable to escape.

A thunderclap ripped through the cave, launching the insect king, which had locked onto Lu Jing, into the air. The king's long body trembled suddenly and fell to the ground like a mushy noodle!

The insect monster had a bottomless black hole on each side of its head, and two small holes on either side of its venomous pincers at the tail.

In that instant, Lu Jing actually manipulated two mandibles from the spider monster to pierce through the insect king's entire body!

After the Insect King died, the other insect monsters seemed to lose their will. They no longer relentlessly attacked Lu Jing and his companion, but instead flew around aimlessly like headless flies.

"Just now... the Insect King is dead?!" Jiang Mu had lost his previous expression of fearlessness and looked at the scene in front of him with some astonishment and confusion.

"He's dead."

Lu Jing looked at the two cracked jaw pincers floating beside him, his expression a mixture of surprise and delight.

"Could this be... a sense of atmosphere?"

(End of this chapter)