The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 189 - 103 As Usual

Chapter 189: Chapter 103 As Usual

"A Rank 5 Martial Artist? That’s somewhat interesting..."

After the last meeting, Bai Yi’s Fei Wen had already spread throughout White Poplar City, allowing Bai Yi to monitor her own "backyard."

The Corpse King’s territory was no exception; close to each of these powerful Lords, there was more than one Fei Wen conducting surveillance.

Deep underground within their territories, a team of Insect Swarm stood ready at all times.

Moreover, ever since they acquired the hibernation ability for gene concealment, which improved things a step further, they had moved closer to the surface to ensure that they could serve as Bai Yi’s antennas when necessary.

Upon discovering Corpse King’s ascension, Bai Yi immediately dispatched the relevant surveillance Fei Wen, extracting thoughts from Corpse King’s surface consciousness.

"That world does seem a bit interesting, a world of Martial Artists, which apparently revolves around viral growth.

However, with a bit more enhancement of the witch, I could achieve the same attribute; on the contrary, these so-called Martial Arts are quite something.

They can actually trigger external forces, and the principle is to cover the outside world with one’s own microcosm?

Pity, direct reading of consciousness can’t yield a detailed method of cultivation, maybe I can trade for some items from that world with her at some point, directly getting a glimpse of it.

Hmm, just right, she has ascended now, and as a local Rank 4 senior, my attention can be seen as reasonable.

When the time comes, I’ll start the conversation on the pretext of trading Potions, exchange some unique plants from that world with her, and naturally obtain the anchoring items."

Her Potions had been on sale for several days, and approaching a newly ascended Rank 4 Lord to peddle high-tier Potions wouldn’t arouse suspicion.

After all, she has always been collecting rare creatures; no one would suspect that what she needs them for is as anchors.

Over the past few days, thanks to the part of the Potions that were given away, her Potion trade had already received quite a bit of cordial feedback from other Lords.

Leveraging this advertising effect, many Lords exchanged various plants for her Potions.

After all, compared to various materials, these could just be casual flowers and grass that could be exchanged for a bottle of Rank 3 or even Rank 4 Potion, only a fool wouldn’t do it.

However, this has also led to an increase in redundant creatures.

While Bai Yi isn’t about to foot the bill for these, the situation will surely become increasingly prevalent over time; rejecting them one by one is too troublesome, so it’s better to issue a list of traded creatures sooner rather than later.

She scheduled this task to be dealt with later in the evening.

As for the negotiation with the Corpse King, Bai Yi directly handed it over to Shang Ji.

Now Shang Ji impersonated her in negotiations without easily revealing flaws, and with Potion matters always being handled by Shang Ji, Bai Yi could rest assured.

With Shang Ji’s efficiency, Bai Yi believed she’d receive the desired information by evening.

Consciousness returned to the Swarm Consciousness; after Corpse King experienced the discomfort brought by the attribute enhancement, she started arranging for various upgrades after the Territory Upgrade, setting out to elevate the rank of her subordinate Zombies.

As a byproduct of Corpse King’s superpower control, these Zombies had no fixed barracks and were her superpower creations.

Although this gave Corpse King a substantial early advantage, allowing her to quickly control a large number of Zombies of corresponding rank post-upgrade and gain strong Combat Power, it now became a limitation.

These controlled Zombies not only enjoyed the rank suppression of the Lord’s panel but also could not be upgraded with Experience Points like normal soldiers; they could only depend on their Mutation-like absorption of Magic Power to upgrade slowly.

That is also the Corpse King’s ability, similar to her gene reading and Fusion, allowing her to extract the "virus" from some powerful Zombies to strengthen the weaker ones.

But clearly, Corpse King’s Zombies are not like Bai Yi’s Insect Swarm, capable of reproducing large numbers as soon as one is integrated.

It can only be strengthened one by one by Corpse King’s own superpower.

Bai Yi, following Corpse King’s "personal introduction," understood the real strength of her subordinate Zombies.

Besides herself, there are 3 Rank 5 Zombies, all brought out from the instance, and these are Martial Artist Zombies proficient in martial arts.

In addition to these, there are some Rank 4 Zombies who were elevated in sync with her breakthrough in Lord Rank, along with a larger number of Rank 3 and Rank 2 Zombies.

The former were forcibly suppressed to Rank 3 by the Lord Rank after Corpse King regenerated them, while the latter are the ones she had yet to strengthen.

Moreover, this is also why despite having Rank 5 Zombies, she can still only advance to Rank 4...

But that’s just the strength recognized by the panel.

In Corpse King’s surface thoughts, Bai Yi learned that the Rank 3 and above Zombies with a certain level of intelligence under Corpse King’s command were currently cultivating the Martial Arts of that world.

Although their progress was slightly slow, their pure Martial Arts cultivation had reached a close to Rank 4 level, possessing their own rudimentary Inner Realms.

And the lower-ranked Zombies, forget about it due to their lack of intelligence; this is also the focus of Corpse King’s plan for elevation.

After initiating over a hundred Rank 2 Zombies and elevating them to the level of Rank 4, the Corpse King’s Magic Power was thereby exhausted.

Bai Yi didn’t investigate because she felt threatened. To Bai Yi, although the Corpse King is nominally at the same 4th Rank as her, only she knows the gap in their combat power.

Not to mention the number of Insect Swarms under her command, there are also a huge number of witches that recently joined, and her high-tier combat force is completely overwhelming, she even has achievements of killing creatures at the 6th Rank.

On the other hand, the main force under the Corpse King hasn’t even fully stepped into the 4th Rank, and due to the scarcity of Zombies, there are just over twenty thousand of them now.

—This is already her limit of control, the result of her repeatedly enhancing her Spirit Attribute. Controlling more Zombies would become unstable.

Bai Yi’s interest is merely out of curiosity, as Zombies are, in some sense, as terrifying as the Insect Swarm.

But because of the existence of the Corpse King, Bai Yi doesn’t dare to utilize these special creatures; after all, they are just too uncontrollable and can easily be manipulated by other Superpower Users.

As for extracting keywords, she had encountered Zombies in the first week but was not able to extract the keywords from Zombies.

But now, after several promotions, she hasn’t tried it yet, as Zombies have become difficult to find, almost turning into endangered creatures due to the efforts of the Lords.

"Perhaps I can find an opportunity to let the Insect Swarm capture a Zombie and bring it back..."

She had noticed that the Corpse King began to gesture in the air, seemingly operating a panel.

This time without reading thoughts, Bai Yi knew that Shang Ji was sending a message to the Corpse King in her name.

Knowing that Shang Ji would give her a satisfactory result, Bai Yi withdrew her consciousness and no longer paid attention.

She didn’t even care about the channel that had become lively because of the Corpse King.

There are still many tree-planting tasks waiting for her in Eternal Life City!

...

Outside of White Poplar City, Mechanical Workshop

Jun Lin didn’t accompany his followers to the territorial border to kill Mutant Creatures. He was not worried about the combat power of his group of Cultivators.

Besides, there were two other 4th Rank Heroes with various Spiritual Artifacts, and the other Cultivators were equipped with plenty of modern weapons.

Now his points were steadily in the top of the leaderboard, closely following Fan Mao who seems only a digit higher, but actually had an extra zero.

He was already aware of the Corpse King’s breakthrough.

In fact, he too had just turned off the panel and left the channel.

This breakthrough was indeed unexpected for him, the Iron Blood plan had a much better effect than anticipated.

Originally, he thought that he would not be able to earn much admiration from those low-level Lords, just like in the past life where the call for peace talks had mediocre results.

But in this life, out of nowhere, there appeared a bunch of quite strong Mutant Creatures, and even Fan Mao was selling seeds directly instead of just releasing food supplies as in the past.

Due to various differences from before, even he, who only symbolically gave out some weapons and equipment, got more than five thousand Admirers.

Including his own soldiers, that number was close to ten thousand!

So although the Corpse King’s breakthrough surprised him, it was not about the deployment, but that this person turned out to be the Corpse King.

He initially thought it would be Iron Blood or even Landon who released the building blueprints.

"Looks like I need to start operating too. I was originally planning to advance in an instance, but now it seems I don’t need an instance to gather enough Admirers.

Otherwise, if I don’t advance soon, I’m afraid I’ll fall behind in progress...

I never expected that because of my butterfly effect, this life has already deviated so quickly from the memories of my past life."

Jun Lin mused, pausing suddenly, and after a moment as if he remembered something, he muttered to himself.

"According to the memories of my past life, after clearing the Mutant Creatures at the territorial border and ending the Cycle Challenge, the next Cycle Challenge would enter a calm period.

I remember that they divided into several groups and threw the selected soldiers into a world with a very fast flow of time, letting them move freely to collect resources and occupy territory.

Lords could not enter to command and could only periodically send materials. In the end, the points were awarded based on the harvest of their soldiers.

The reward back then was something I longed for a long time, but in my past life, my soldiers were too weak, and I, the strongest, could not enter, so I only got a very low reward. This time, I must get the top rewards!

Ha, with the memories of the past life, I’m quite clear about the main intel of those worlds. With this advantage, success is definitely ensured..."

Jun Lin muttered to himself as he left the room. Su Su, who happened to be passing by outside the door, saw Jun Lin’s demeanor and smiled lightly.

He is just like usual...

...

Inner Realm Martial Artist: A Martial Artist not only requires physical training but also needs a strong spirit! By nourishing the body with the spirit, one forms a Grotto Heaven within themselves, making them invulnerable to heat and cold, capable of withstanding natural erosion, becoming a complete entity. Only Inner Realm Experts can withstand the power of Outer Realm Martial Artists!

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