Ruling Martial World by Infinite Insect Swarms

Chapter 120: Chapter 117: Breakthrough! 5 Poisons Cult Inheritance Key

Five hundred meters deep underground, beneath the Qin Residence.

A Needle-spine Crawler retracted its sinuous body. Qin Yu stepped out from the hollow, fleshy pipeline and surveyed this subterranean Insect Nest Base.

It was his first time visiting this place.

The moment he appeared, the otherwise pitch-black environment lit up with a faint, fluorescent glow. It resembled the light of fireflies—not dazzling, but bright enough for Qin Yu to clearly see his surroundings.

This was a massive ”hall” standing roughly thirty meters tall, with a diameter spanning a full hundred meters.

Worker Insects scurried back and forth across the thick Fungal Mat, alongside Tunneling Armor Insects and other units possessing Earth Control Talents and a knack for excavation.

Qin Yu walked out of the hall and headed outward.

The deep, expansive corridors were similarly carpeted with the Fungal Mat, featuring numerous alcoves along both sides.

Without even looking, Qin Yu knew exactly what lay inside them.

They housed slumbering combat units like Thorn Snakes and cockroaches, or Worker Insects busily expanding the space further. This was one of his Cultivation Rooms.

More importantly, it was the final sanctuary for the Qin Family.

Should any disaster strike, all the dormant Insect Race units would instantly burst forth from the underground, covering the Qin Clan Members as they escaped toward the Wilderness Mountain Range.

Three separate escape tunnels leading in different directions were currently being excavated.

Qin Yu always prepared for the worst-case scenario. With vast numbers of reconnaissance units patrolling the skies and covering a radius of several hundred kilometers around Cyan Peak County, he could keep his family safe even if an expert in the Primordial Mansion Realm attacked.

And if anyone dared to try, they would naturally have to face his wrath!

An utterly frenzied Insect Swarm!

Stopping in the middle of the corridor, Qin Yu familiarly stepped into a fully incubated Cultivation Room.

He sat down cross-legged.

GURGLE! GURGLE!

High-concentration Energy liquid flooded into the room, rising until it completely submerged him. From the fleshy walls of the chamber, countless fine tentacles extended and pierced into his body’s acupoints.

Carefully sensing his internal state, Qin Yu closed his eyes and naturally circulated the ”Wind and Thunder Poison Dragon Technique” deduced by the Insect Swarm.

CRACKLE!

A portion of the fine tentacles connected to his body began to emit purple lightning, while others generated Energy resembling cyan wind vortexes.

Wind and Thunder Body Refining!

Violent Energy surged into his body. The Thunderbolt Power made every hair on his body stand on end, while the whirlwind slashed and spun inside and out like a flurry of blades.

Qin Yu let out a muffled grunt, but he withstood the furious Energy. He continuously drove the circulation of his Qi and Blood, guiding this power to Enhance his bones, limbs, and internal organs.

He was no longer the novice he once was.

Even before this, he had merged numerous Body Refining Techniques of the Five Poison Sect into one, fortifying his bones and muscles with the deduced ”Five Poison Dragon Transformation Technique,” granting him immensely formidable strength.

This time, he was simply switching to an even more powerful Cultivation Technique.

”I’ll use this opportunity to break through the final hurdle of the five viscera, complete the nurturing of my kidneys, and reach the Qi and Blood Like Dragon Realm!”

Feeling the power within his body, aided by the countless fine tentacles embedded in him, Qin Yu could clearly ’see’ every inch of his physique.

He could even observe the changes occurring within every single cell.

Under the continuous nourishment of Qi and Blood, his heart, liver, spleen, and lungs had already transformed into four Qi and Blood Melting Furnaces. Only his kidneys remained.

The internal organs were the most vital parts of the human body. When ordinary people engaged in Cultivation, they had to tread with extreme caution. The slightest mistake would result in severe injury, or even death.

This was why the vast majority of Martial Artists required years of tempering before they could break through and ignite a new Qi and Blood Melting Furnace. They had to probe gingerly, nurturing their bodies at a glacial pace, treating every attempt to break through a bottleneck as though facing a deadly enemy.

But Qin Yu was different.

He could clearly see his internal condition. With the assistance of the countless fine tentacles and the Insect Nest regulating the Energy, he could nurture his internal organs in the most perfect state possible.

For him, the Qi and Blood Realm had no bottlenecks.

Theoretically, he could break through from Qi and Blood Like Wolf to the Qi and Blood Like Dragon Realm in a single day, directly attaining the Realm of Perfection.

However, his physical body simply couldn’t handle such stress!

”I still need to collect more Cultivation Techniques, Arrays, Insect Control and Gu Refining methods, Elixirs, Artifact Refining techniques, and all other types of Secret Techniques—even ordinary books,” Qin Yu thought to himself. ”Knowledge is power. Only with a richer foundation of theoretical knowledge can I possibly deduce an even more powerful Cultivation System.”

He watched as the purple and cyan Thunderbolt and fierce wind Energy rapidly nurtured his kidneys.

Although the ”Wind and Thunder Poison Dragon Technique” appeared to be deduced and fused from three Cultivation Techniques—the ”Spirit Snake Shadow Poison Scripture,” the ”Wind and Thunder Treasure Mirror,” and the ”Five Poison Dragon Transformation Technique”—that was not entirely the case.

Other diverse Cultivation Techniques collected by the Insect Swarm, such as the ”Wind and Thunder Body Tempering Technique,” the ”Thick Earth Unmoving Technique,” and the ”Water Dragon’s Roar,” had also served as crucial references.

If someone were capable of seeing the circulation of his Qi and Blood, they would undoubtedly be horrified.

At this moment, the circulation within his body was not merely refining his skin, flesh, sinews, bones, and internal organs. It was simultaneously refining every tiny blood vessel, every single muscle fiber, and every fragment of bone.

He had truly achieved a state of refining both the internal and external, unifying them into a seamless whole!

This had long since surpassed the limits of a Beta-level Low Grade Technique. Within the Qi and Blood Realm, it could be said to have reached the absolute zenith.

Techniques like the ”Spirit Snake Shadow Poison Scripture” were actually unorthodox, focusing purely on agility and lethal poison. This was because they were fragmented derivatives of the Five Poison Sect’s ultimate Core Technique, the ”Five Poison Reunification Holy Scripture.”

Only an Alpha-level Technique Upper Grade like the ”Five Poison Reunification Holy Scripture” could truly refine every minute meridian in the entire body.

Yet now, the Cultivation Technique deduced by the Insect Swarm had achieved the exact same feat.

HUMMM—

When the purple and cyan Thunderbolt and fierce wind Energy finished nurturing his kidneys, the fifth Qi and Blood Melting Furnace ignited with a roar. The surging Qi and Blood around Qin Yu erupted toward the heavens.

It sounded as though phantom dragons were roaring.

”The Qi and Blood Like Dragon Realm. It’s done!”

Qin Yu opened his eyes, his expression as calm as still water, devoid of any overwhelming surprise.

This was simply an inevitable outcome.

Over three hundred Clones had already taken this step, testing every single possibility. The ”Wind and Thunder Poison Dragon Technique” had also been verified time and time again. He was merely replicating the process.

The Qi and Blood continued to circulate within him. The aura that had radiated outward retracted back into his physical form, further nourishing his body. Half an hour later, the circulation of his Qi and Blood reached its maximum limit.

Only then did the liquid in the Cultivation Room slowly drain away, and the myriad fine tentacles connected to his body detached one by one. After putting on his clothes, Qin Yu clenched his fist.

He violently threw a punch.

The air exploded with a cracking BOOM.

100,000 catties!

With a casual strike, his pure physical strength alone amounted to the force of 100,000 catties!

Due to differing focuses in Cultivation Techniques, the sheer force of most Qi and Blood Like Dragon Martial Artists maxed out at around seventy to eighty thousand catties when unleashing their full power.

But after Qin Yu’s Body Refining, his pure physical strength had reached a staggering 100,000 catties!

CRACKLE!

As the ”Wind and Thunder Poison Dragon Technique” flowed within him, purple and cyan lightning abruptly flared around Qin Yu, weaving itself over his body to form a set of Wind and Thunder Armor.

”If I erupt with my full power, my strength can increase by at least another five times! My speed and defense have also been massively enhanced. I just can’t fully test this underground,” he calculated internally.

A fervent light flashed in Qin Yu’s eyes. And this was only his power in his normal state. Relying solely on his incredible speed and strength, he could likely contend with an ordinary Qi Sea Martial Artist.

If he utilized his Power of Dominator to command the Insect Swarm, increasing this baseline strength by ten times would be a breeze!

A single punch packing five million catties of force!

Relying purely on this brutally savage strength, he could easily pummel Early Stage and Middle Stage Qi Sea Martial Artists to death, and holding his own against a Late Stage Qi Sea Martial Artist would be no problem at all.

This was his true power!

The Dominator of the Insect Swarm was the most powerful existence within the Swarm. Even the mighty forces of beings incubated through special defense measures, such as the Mountain-Splitting Demon King and the Flood Dragon King, fell under his absolute command.

”And my Divine Sense has also grown much stronger.”

The physical body was the vessel. As the body grew stronger, the Soul followed suit, enabling him to exert an even greater Power of Divine Sense.

With a mere thought, the Evil-breaking Saber flew out autonomously, spinning around him at high speed.

Object Control!

Relying purely on this Divine Thought Power, Qin Yu could slaughter ordinary Qi and Blood Realm Martial Artists.

He then enveloped his entire body with his Divine Thought. Lifted by that tyrannical psychic force, Qin Yu’s body levitated into the air—he was ’flying’ under his own power!

If anyone witnessed this scene, they would be absolutely dumbfounded.

Even someone like Li Wanqing—who possessed extraordinary talent, an innately powerful Soul, and Innate Spiritual Pupils—could not come anywhere close to doing this. She could only manipulate treasures to attack.

Yet Qin Yu wasn’t particularly surprised. As the Dominator of the Insect Swarm, he was the Swarm itself!

He could mobilize the collective power of the entire Mind Network.

Closing his eyes, he sank his consciousness into the Insect Swarm’s Mind Network.

Within the Mind Network, among the four distinctly powerful nodes, Qin Yu anchored his consciousness to one emitting cyan specks of light.

WHOOSH—

Deep within the Wilderness Mountain Range, the ’Seven-Colored Spirit Deer’—its body fully restored and incubated anew—galloped wildly through the forest, stepping upon the wind to take flight.

Buoyed by the power of fierce gales, it sprinted freely across the sky.

”So this is the Unity of Heaven and Man, the Wind Realm?”

Controlling the body of the Seven-Colored Spirit Deer, Qin Yu manipulated the Primordial Qi between heaven and earth, meticulously comprehending the power within it.

The most crucial aspect of breaking through from the Qi and Blood Realm to the Qi Sea Realm was comprehending the Unity of Heaven and Man, and grasping a certain Mental Realm of the world.

What was the Unity of Heaven and Man?

Simply put, it meant one’s martial skills approaching the Great Dao, resonating with the will of the heavens, allowing every strike and stance to draw upon the Power of Heaven and Earth.

Qin Yu couldn’t achieve that just yet.

But it didn’t matter.

The Seven-Colored Spirit Deer, Mountain-Splitting Demon King, Flood Dragon King, and Red Feather Demon King were all in the Qi Sea Realm. By channeling through their bodies, Qin Yu could experience this power firsthand.

Demon Fiends were different from Martial Artists.

Demon Fiends relied on bloodline power. In a sense, they never truly mastered the principles behind it, but their innate bloodlines naturally allowed them to control elements like water and fire.

Relying on a trace of Golden Crow Bloodline within it, the Red Feather Demon King could nurture True Sun Fire. It was born with an exceptionally high affinity for the Law of Flame.

The other three Demon Fiends were much the same. The Flood Dragon King belonged to water, and the Mountain-Splitting Demon King belonged to earth.

The Seven-Colored Spirit Deer belonged to wind. Inherently attuned to the Wind Attribute Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, it naturally commanded the Wind Attribute Primordial Qi of the world.

This was sheer Talent!

But humans were different.

The vast majority of humans possessed no powerful bloodlines. They had to rely entirely on themselves to comprehend nature, to grasp that elusive trace of a Mental Realm. Only then could they manipulate the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

”Boarding the carriage first and paying the fare later?”

Qin Yu chuckled softly as his consciousness departed from the Seven-Colored Spirit Deer’s body.

The entire Insect Swarm was an extension of his own body. The power wielded by the Seven-Colored Spirit Deer was naturally his own, and the same applied to the other three Qi Sea Realm beings. Under these circumstances, given his Talent, the difficulty of him comprehending the Wind Realm was lowered by thousands of times.

The most terrifying aspect of the Insect Race was their ability to devour and evolve. They devoured not merely flesh and blood, but also Law Insights.

”It seems I’ll need to find an opportunity to slay another Thunder Attribute Qi Sea Realm Great Demon so I can comprehend the Thunder Realm. That way, my breakthrough will be even easier,” Qin Yu mused. ”In fact, I could master every other Mental Realm one by one! If I manage to pull that off, just what kind of Heaven and Earth Phenomenon will trigger when I break through to the Qi Sea Realm?”

Wearing a faint smile, Qin Yu walked over to the hall of the subterranean Insect Nest. A Needle-spine Crawler enveloped him, breaching the layers of earth to deliver him to the surface.

”Huh?”

He had just returned to the surface and stepped out of his room, planning to run through a few drills to familiarize himself with his newly broken-through strength. However, a strange glint suddenly flickered in his eyes.

At this very moment.

A piece of news that somewhat surprised him had just emerged from Bishui City, a thousand miles away, where the Treasure Pavilion auction was scheduled to be held in seven days.

”An item suspected to be a Five Poison Sect Inheritance Key has been added to the auction?”