Immortal Starry Sky
Chapter 45 - 42: Frenzied Devouring

Chapter 45: Chapter 42: Frenzied Devouring

Wang Xu had joined the Black Eye Battle Group for three days now.

During these three days, Wang Xu received tasks at the battle group’s base and immediately rushed to the respective Insect Beast Regions, beginning a spree of insect beast hunting.

Facing Tier Five and Tier Six insect beasts, Wang Xu was utterly fearless. Even when encountering an insect nest, surrounded by hundreds of Tier Six insect beasts, Wang Xu remained composed, closing his eyes and performing a Heart Level body technique. Not a single Tier Six insect beast could touch the hem of Wang Xu’s clothes.

One bloodbath after another, one insect nest after another was slaughtered by Wang Xu.

Using this endless army of insect beasts, Wang Xu successfully reached the pinnacle of Tier Five and began to assault Tier Six.

The assault on Tier Six was not as simple as it seemed. Countless Tier Five trainees were trapped at the pinnacle of Tier Five, just a step away but always unable to break through.

Wang Xu was in such a state, the energy provided by hundreds of Tier Six insect beasts was terrifying to describe, and yet this energy was entirely divided among Wang Xu’s cells and the Energy Core.

Especially the Energy Core, which unceremoniously absorbed more than half of the energy, leaving the remainder for Wang Xu but still unable to let him break through to Tier Six.

"Such tremendous energy should effortlessly break through to Tier Six. Why can’t I even feel the bottleneck?" Wang Xu wondered, as the cells in his body seemed like a bottomless pit, continuously devouring energy but never feeling full.

After devouring over a hundred Tier Six insect beasts, this time the energy could be described as unprecedented, yet it was all absorbed completely by the cells in Wang Xu’s body.

Wang Xu could clearly feel that his skin and flesh had undergone earth-shattering changes, with his mere flesh body comparable to A-level armor, even ordinary A-level weapons left only a white scratch on his skin.

Only the S-Level "Thunderous Saber" that Wang Xu had seized from Lei Beng could cut his flesh, leaving wounds.

And not only that, Wang Xu’s regenerative capability had reached an exaggerated level.

After being strengthened, the flesh body of a Genetic Warrior greatly enhances self-healing ability. Wounds that usually take ten days to half a month to scab often heal within a day or even shorter.

In Wang Xu’s case, it healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, even deep knife wounds healed and scabbed within just a few minutes, peeling away to reveal skin as smooth as before, leaving no trace of the wound.

The reason, Wang Xu concluded, was the transformation of his body by changes in the Energy Core.

"What exactly is the Energy Core? Why has no one ever mentioned it?" Wang Xu pondered.

Whether in the Safe Zone or the battle group base, he never heard anyone talk about the Energy Core, as if it didn’t exist at all.

The "Basic Flesh Body" is known to the public, and any Genetic Warrior who has undergone cultivation should be aware of it. But why is the secret of the "Core" unknown?

Unable to comprehend, unable to understand, Wang Xu simply abandoned the thought, continuing his frenzied devouring.

The slaughter began again, killing every insect beast in sight as Wang Xu reached each location, leaving behind a river of blood and the insect nests to let the insect beasts continue to breed.

Though the insect beasts were detestable, Wang Xu couldn’t completely eradicate them, as there needed to be an opportunity for others to temper themselves and experience life-and-death.

As long as the insect nest wasn’t destroyed, a new swarm of insect beasts would proliferate in due time.

"What’s going on here?" When subsequent battle groups arrived in the insect beast region, ready to begin their mission to hunt insect beasts, they only saw soil soaked with fresh blood, without a single insect beast corpse left behind.

Everyone stood with mouths agape, stunned, completely clueless about what had happened.

The same scene played out in several places, and suddenly, several posts appeared on the battle group’s virtual forum.

"Eerie incident! The Tier Six insect beasts in B14 region were completely slaughtered, leaving not a single corpse!"

This was a post from a battle group member who went to complete a mission in the B14 region. Initially, this post didn’t garner much attention.

"Insect Beast cleansing event in B58 region, only ground littered with still wet blood. Which battle group is conducting this cleanse?"

Soon after, another related post emerged.

"Massive insect beast cleanse, leaving no room for others. Not a single insect beast remains in B67 region!"

As time went by, posts concerning insect beast cleaning incidents started appearing one after another, with descriptions in the posts being broadly similar, only leaving a large pool of blood at the scenes, with all the insect beast corpses gone.

Frequent posts sparked high attention, drawing increasing notice to the insect beast cleansing incidents, even prompting top hundred battle group members to post, swiftly turning the forum’s spotlight onto the cleansing incidents.

The crowd named it the "Bloodhand Incident."

The Bloodhand Incident rapidly stirred a storm, becoming widely known among all battle groups at the battle group’s base.

Insect beast cleansing incidents had occurred twice in history. The first was right at the foundation of the battle group base, to purge the surrounding insect beast population when several "Venerables" intervened, sweeping the surrounding thousand miles, setting up various insect beast regions.

The second insect beast cleansing happened ten years ago, when the top-ranking Celestial God Battle Group cleansed the C-level, B-level, A-level, and even S-level insect beast regions with overwhelming dominance, leaving not even the insect nests, with the strong smell of blood lingering for hundreds of miles. If not for the interference of the upper echelons of the base’s battle group, they might have continued the slaughter.

Since that incident, the battle group base explicitly banned insect beast cleansing incidents. If it happens, the involved battle group would be disbanded and exiled immediately!

Henceforth, no insect beast cleansing incidents occurred again.

Of course, it was not that insect beast cleansing incidents never occurred again, but as long as the insect nests weren’t destroyed, breaking the foundation, disturbing the balance of the insect beast regions, the upper echelons turned a blind eye.

Wang Xu excelled at this point, leaving the insect nests intact when slaughtering insect beasts, or else the upper echelons wouldn’t hesitate to send strong warriors to hunt him down.

Swish, swish, swish~

After another massacre of an insect beast region, a mysterious flame flew out, devouring all the insect beast corpses, and immense energy surged within Wang Xu.

"Here it comes! The bottleneck of the Tier Five pinnacle!"

After absorbing the corpses of countless Tier Six insect beasts, the cells within Wang Xu’s body finally reached a state of saturation, with the Energy Core having divided a large portion of the vast energy. With the remaining energy, Wang Xu sensed his cultivation reaching a bottleneck. His spirits lifted, and he immediately sat cross-legged, starting his breakthrough to Tier Six.

Tier Five to Tier Six is a significant leap, with a substantial improvement in the flesh body and fist power. This leap was more pronounced in Wang Xu’s case, almost an abyss-like difference.

Boom, boom, boom~

Energy continuously assaulted, cleansing Wang Xu’s flesh, muscles, and bones.

Wang Xu’s skin flushed red, with convulsive pains erupting from all over his limbs.

Cold sweat seeped out, Wang Xu gritted his teeth enduring the pain, while energy surged wildly within him.

Black impurities emerged on the red skin, and a thin membrane appeared over his skin.

"Crack, crack..." Suddenly, faint sounds emitted from within Wang Xu’s body, his gaze brightened, as energy surged once more.

Boom!

Suddenly, a formless momentum exploded, causing fissures to appear on the ground.

Wang Xu, as if transformed, underwent a change in demeanor, a flash of brilliance in his eyes, and leapt up, looking up to the sky and howling!

It’s done!

Tier Six!

Wang Xu elegantly clenched his fist, feeling the air crack as if he could shatter it at a whim, with his fist power escalating to another level.

As the thin membrane peeled off, revealing his smooth, white skin, delicate as a newborn’s.

From now on, Wang Xu’s power ascended to yet another level.

"Continue hunting insect beasts to stabilize the realm." With his realm elevated, Wang Xu was eager to see exactly how much he had improved.

Another bloody massacre!

Towards insect beasts, Wang Xu felt no sympathy. Killing insect beasts was more like a mission to him. He had experienced the battles of insect beasts attacking the Safe Zone, understanding that humans and insect beasts stood in absolute opposition, without any sense of pity!

Why could he massacre insect beasts now, while they had no power to resist?

Because of strength!

In turn, if insect beasts possessed strength, they would equally slaughter humans.

Strength decides everything!

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