The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 158 - 72: The Image of God and the Church (3k)

Chapter 158: Chapter 72: The Image of God and the Church (3k)

Within the Swarm Consciousness, Bai Yi easily called up every angle of this "statue," even including the carving process.

A blush suddenly spread across his face, the temperature of his earlobes swiftly surpassing the warm water in the pool, steam even started to rise from the top of his head.

Oh, that’s steam from the pool water, no worries then...

Wait, this is definitely a big deal, hello!

What’s the deal with this statue?

Bai Yi frantically traced back through the network, only to find that this matter had not at all been hidden within the Swarm Network; it could be found with just a search.

It all started yesterday after Bai Yi showed off in Eternal Life City. Suddenly, a civilian approached his colleague—an Engineering Ant responsible for chopping vegetables—with the idea to construct a church statue for Bai Yi and to establish the Baiyi Church.

Listening to the idea, which seemed profound yet arcane, the group consciousness of the Engineering Ants reported it up to Shang Ji. Shang Ji found the idea to be good, so he found the proposer, promoted him, and put him in charge of all matters concerning the Baiyi Church.

With Shang Ji’s support, the proposer fully exercised his initiative, found a builder named Nong Er, and their ideas instantly meshed. They planned out the sculptures and the subsequent temples and churches in one go, and began construction immediately.

This plan spread throughout the Swarm Network. Every Swarm’s group consciousness expressed keen interest and wished for the statue of their Queen to display her most beautiful posture.

With the attention and support of the entire territory (excluding Bai Yi), they threw together a ten-meter-tall giant statue for Bai Yi in just one day, placing it on the previously removed high platform where Bai Yi had slain the Black Bear.

And as the protagonist, she was the last one to know about it?

"Wait a minute...

Does that mean I’m going to have a church?"

Bai Yi suddenly realized the seriousness of the situation.

"Does this also mean that I might be worshipped as a goddess with incense morning and night?"

Bai Yi felt immensely shocked, and the intense sense of shame made her want to sink to the bottom of the water and never resurface.

It wasn’t that the situation couldn’t be stopped—under her name, she could absolutely halt the matter just by stepping forward.

But Bai Yi could feel that the Swarm Consciousness and several of her subordinates seemed to care a lot about this, and she didn’t want to disappoint their kindness.

Moreover, Shang Ji had also left a report on the future development and benefits of the church, seemingly waiting for Bai Yi to discover it, ensuring that it would appear in a "prominent" position as soon as Bai Yi began to search for related content.

This was also something Shang Ji had prepared, one of the channels for Bai Yi to recruit Admirers in the future, leveraging the power of faith to move the soul.

Although even now, the Pope who was promoted wasn’t that pure in his admiration.

Compared to the believers, he was more like a hardcore fan of Bai Yi, the legendary solo stan.

"Forget it, if they’re happy, then let them be..."

Bai Yi decided to play the ostrich, pretending not to know about it, got herself together, returned to her tree hollow to research Potions for a while before going to sleep.

The next day, Bai Yi woke up and continued yesterday’s work, making more space for You’s growth and cultivating the Mutated Banyan Tree into several Tree-men.

With yesterday’s experience, there were dozens more Tree-men cultivated today than yesterday. Bai Yi waited until 12 PM, and the Cycle Challenge began on schedule.

[Cycle Challenge—Man and Beast has begun. Temporary territories for Mutant Creatures have been marked, destroying territory markers will be considered as destroying territories]

[Note: Since the challenge lasts for two weeks this cycle, the leaderboard settlement time will be extended synchronize with the end of the challenge]

Two prompts appeared consecutively, indicating the official start of what was likely to be a bloody Cycle Challenge.

Bai Yi projected her consciousness into the network, looking through the Swarm’s eyes at the territories of the two Beast Kings. At the core of their territories, conspicuous marks appeared in each of the Beast King’s nests.

But from their behavior, it appeared the marks were only visible to the Lords—both Beast Kings completely ignored them.

According to yesterday’s agreement, both Beast Kings cooperated with the Swarm, allowing them to facilitate the destruction of the markers.

Two prompts popped up promptly, reporting the results to Bai Yi.

[You have destroyed the territory of a Rank 5 Mutant Creature (Monkey King). Based on your level of participation, you have received 100% of the reward and earned 10,000 points]

[You have destroyed the territory of a Rank 5 Mutant Creature (White Feathered Owl). Based on your level of participation, you have received 100% of the reward and earned 10,000 points]

On the challenge panel, many Lords had made preparations during the buffer day, and as soon as the prompts appeared, many Lords earned varying amounts of points.

Some only saw a small increase of a few tens, and the most was Iron Blood. After the start of the challenge, the points increased by dozens, and then in less than ten seconds, there was a sudden leap, with an addition of 1,000 points.

Bai Yi guessed that these round figure points were probably earned from destroying territories, while those scattered points were likely from hunting those Mutant Creatures that had been designated as having territories.

But since Bai Yi hadn’t caused any harm and directly destroyed the territories, she only got two large round figure points, jumping to the top of the leaderboard in an instant.

But soon, the round figures on the challenge leaderboard were disrupted by Bai Sheng and Bai Fa, who had left their territories and started to take action with the Swarm.

Bai Yi’s sudden leap in points soon attracted the attention of some Lords, considering everyone else’s points were still hovering around dozens, and even the strong Lords only a few hundred, and even the top Lords had only just reached into the four figures.

Then suddenly out came a breakthrough into the five-digit?

Not just scrapping past ten thousand, but a bonus on top, reaching twenty thousand?

Why don’t you just ascend to heaven?

This immediately set the channel ablaze, blowing all the Lords within their territories out of the water.

Iron Blood: "10,000 points? I found a tier 4 creature lair beforehand, and even if I destroy it as quickly as possible, I only get a thousand!"

Snow: "+1"

Shuishui: "I only found a tier 3 group, is this the world of the top players..."

Landon I: "Is this from destroying a tier 5 lair? I remember Fan Mao is near White Poplar Mountain, right? Did you attack the Beast King’s lair?"

Corpse King: "Awesome, how did you do it?"

Fan Mao: "Cough cough, just a little trick..."

Fan Mao: "I simply negotiated some terms with two Beast Kings and paid a price to have them help me destroy the lair markings. As you know, there’s a food shortage in the aftermath of the cold disaster, and I just so happen to have plenty of it."

Iron Blood: "Holy shit, you can do that?"

Corpse King: "A path I hadn’t imagined..."

Everything Bai Yi said was true, but she each hid some key information.

She also realized that this move seemed a bit beyond the comprehension of the other Lords currently.

As they say, to be half a step ahead of the average person is genius, and a full step is a monster, let alone Bai Yi who this time surpassed by more than a small margin.

When everyone was still hovering at tier 2 and suddenly you say I’m tier 5, that’s a bit too conspicuous.

Although Bai Yi indeed has the capability to crush the other Lords, she still wants to have a good time playing with everyone.

But after this hint, it seems that she has put her apparent strength back to a level that everyone can understand.

However, there were still deliberate leaks in her story, but that was exactly what Bai Yi intended, just to see when the other Lords would realize it.

Continuing with her work, Bai Yi decided to change her mood in the afternoon, taking a break from cultivating Tree-men, and to continue You’s Transcendent Transition Ceremony and her research on potions.

Otherwise, if she kept cultivating Tree-men non-stop, Bai Yi felt that she might not be able to endure.

After giving the Tree-man its stationing location, Bai Yi hurried back.

Thinking about her long list of upcoming tasks, she felt as though a gray donkey in her ear whispering devilishly:

"Doctor, you still have many things to handle, you can’t rest now..."

Bai Yi’s footsteps unconsciously quickened even more.

...

On the outskirts of White Poplar City, the ruins of Huyang Town, the war camp

"Is there really such a move? Then can I also..."

Iron Blood muttered to himself, turning his head to look out the window in the wall facing south, his gaze seeming to penetrate the dense forest to look towards the vast lake to the south, and then to the big island in the middle of the lake.

But soon, he realized that he simply couldn’t achieve it.

Having the terms to negotiate with the Beast King at least required the strength to be taken seriously by them, whether it was a one-time or even mutually assured destructive method, after all, one would need to make the Beast King wary to calmly negotiate.

Let alone that Beast King was a tier 6 being, even if it was only tier 5, with his strength, he wasn’t qualified to negotiate...

Even if he had nominally already reached an agreement with that Beast King, allowing him to expand his territory within its land, to think that because of this relationship he would recklessly go up to it and meddle with its lair.

Iron Blood felt that he would definitely be punched back.

"Ah, the power disparity...

This Fan Mao probably has some special method that’s about to threaten those Beast Kings, otherwise, where would any trade talk come from; those Beast Kings would’ve just robbed him directly.

It seems that he hasn’t built the strongest territory in the area near White Poplar Mountain for nothing.

Plus, since the cold disaster, Fan Mao seems to have been quiet for a while; he must have gone to an instance, probably getting that method in there.

Thinking of that, Fan Mao’s point rush last week was probably not what he claimed to be a beast tide; maybe they’re just back from the instance, using the method to pressure White Poplar Mountain...

I was still a bit confident when it was just a tier 4 territory, but now...

Looks like I’ll have to change my attitude towards Fan Mao..."

Iron Blood murmured thoughtfully, looking out the window where the sunshine quickly turned into a downpour, and the room immediately became wet and stuffy.

"This damn weather...

Tch, how come mosquitoes started appearing just after the cold disaster ended?

Really, the mosquitoes breed as soon as it warms up, huh?"

Iron Blood quickly went up to the window to shut it tight to prevent rain from wetting the room, meanwhile complaining about a mosquito that took the chance to slip in while he was closing the window.

Just as he was about to slap it dead, the mosquito already blended into the darkness after the window was closed, and even he, who was overtly tier 3 but actually had tier 4 strength, couldn’t locate it.

A faint buzzing sound rose and then disappeared again near his ear, as if frantically taunting him.

...

Unnamed Potion·New Version (Tier 2/Gold): An improved second-generation potion, with extraordinary ability attempting to suppress its negative effects, tastes extremely bitter and feels gooey. Permanently increase maximum Life Value and Magic Power Value by +20, instantly restore 200 points of Life Value and Magic Power Value, temporarily reduce all attributes by 20%, up to 20 points, duration 24 hours, repeated use within a week will not increase permanent attributes.

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