Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: New Insect Nest Function—Directly Evolve Minions

’That’s not all…’

Gu Yuexi swallowed. She stared at the little mosquito, her expression a mix of shock and doubt, as she sensed the lingering trace of its aura in the air.

’Within that aura… there seems to be a faint, yet heavy and solid, special Realm.’

’The Earth Realm!’

’It’s not a nascent form, but a true Earth Realm!’

’And… its aura has already reached the Entry Realm!’

’Did it… get this from sucking blood, too?’

’Was it converted from the Earth Origin within the Mountain-Shaking Demon Ape’s Essence Blood?’

’But isn’t that sort of thing used for setting up formations?’

’Origin and Realm are concepts of the spirit and will! You’re supposed to grasp them by comprehending the essence of the Martial Dao or the Power of Heaven and Earth!’

’They don’t have a physical form! It’s impossible to absorb and refine them!’

’How in the world did it do it???’

Gu Yuexi was completely numb. She felt that the common knowledge of cultivation she had built up over two lifetimes had been mercilessly crushed to dust by this mosquito.

’The existence of this thing is just too absurd!’

Seeing the Empress’s stunned expression, as if her entire worldview had collapsed, Chu Sheng couldn’t have been more satisfied.

Maintaining his harmless little insect appearance, he once again focused his attention on the system panel. He looked at the two words “New Mechanism” displayed after [Nether Flame Insect Nest Level 9].

’This… What wonderful new thing is this?’

Chu Sheng immediately used his thoughts to open it.

The next second, a brand-new stream of information appeared clearly in his mind!

[New Function: Insect Swarm Evolution!]

[The host can command the swarm to retrieve and decompose any biological corpse containing energy. Using the “Soul-devouring Nether Flame” as the fire, it can be refined into the purest “Life Essence” and stored in the Nest as a numerical value!]

[In the ’Nether Flame Insect Nest’ interface, the host can open the ’Insect Swarm Evolution’ list and consume “Life Essence” to upgrade, modify, or even induce directional mutated evolution in the insects within the Nest!]

’Holy crap?!’

Chu Sheng was overjoyed. ’This is awesome!’

He’d been worrying about this before!

His sixteen thousand Peak of Second-Grade Spirit-Devouring Worm underlings were great to use right now, a veritable Insect Race army that would attack anything he pointed at.

But once his own strength increased by a few levels, these underlings would inevitably fail to keep up and become nothing more than cannon fodder.

’When that time comes, am I really going to have to go through all the trouble of capturing a new batch of High-Tier underlings? That would be such a pain!’

But now, everything was solved!

With the [Insect Swarm Evolution] function, all his problems were solved in one fell swoop!

He could take these loyal Peak of Second-Grade underlings and cultivate them all the way up!

From the Peak of Second-Grade to Third-Grade! Fourth-Grade! And even King-level!

’And… I can even direct their mutated evolution?’

’Doesn’t that mean that in the future, whatever kind of soldier I, Lord Mosquito, want, I can create?’

’This is like taking the “unit tech tree” from a real-time strategy game and dropping it right in here!’

’Want to pursue ultimate Destructive Power? Then I’ll just consume Life Essence and mutate some of my underlings into “Enhanced Suicide Bombers”!’

’Want to fight a positional war or carry out assassinations? Then I’ll mutate a batch of “Surprise Attack Soldiers” that are skilled at stealth and can release deadly poison!’

’If I want to play it safe, I’ll just create a batch of “Heavy Armor Meat Shields” with maxed-out Defense Power to hold the front line!’

The thought of the future, of himself commanding a terrifying, world-blotting Insect Race army composed of various specialized units, sweeping away all enemies, made Chu Sheng’s heart surge with excitement!

’With this new mechanism to recycle biological corpses and refine them into Life Essence…’

’From now on, those trash Demon Beasts I disdained to feed on are no longer trash! I can convert them all directly into Life Essence to upgrade my underlings!’

’My resource utilization is maxed out! Absolutely maxed out!’

Chu Sheng was ecstatic. He was simply too satisfied.

This evolution had given him a new Active Skill, a new Passive Skill, and a new Core Mechanism!

Moreover, all three abilities were tailor-made for his “Insect Race Dominator Route”!

’They complement each other perfectly!’

’In future fights, I can just turn into an ordinary White-striped Aedes Mosquito, mix in with my tens of thousands of underlings, and who would be able to find me, Lord Mosquito?’

’Even if you get lucky and find me in the vast sea of insects, and you try to take out the leader by hitting me with your strongest killing move…’

’I’ll just distribute the damage to the swarm. How’s that for frustrating?’

’My survivability is completely maxed out!’

After taking stock of all his gains, Chu Sheng’s heart swelled with heroic ambition. He felt like he was already absurdly strong.

Then, he glanced at the requirements for his next full evolution.

[Notice: The next full evolution requires reaching a Qi Blood Value of 10,000 (Fourth-Grade Early Stage), 2,000 Mental Power, and consuming 2,000 Evolution Points!]

’Mm, just as I expected. The Qi Blood Value for each evolution needs to meet the threshold of the next Grade.’

’It’s just that this Qi Blood requirement for the Fourth-Grade Early Stage is really a bit too high…’

’And there’s even a new requirement for two thousand Mental Power?’

’Hiss…’

’It’s really getting harder and harder!’

Chu Sheng sighed softly. His recently inflated ego instantly deflated quite a bit.

’This hurdle really is a bit big.’

’The two thousand Evolution Points and two thousand Mental Power are still manageable.’

’I still have a complete vial of King-level Essence Blood untouched, and I haven’t used much of the one hundred Third-Grade Spirit Grasses Xiao Ran gave me. If I absorb all of them, forget two thousand Evolution Points, I could probably scrounge up three thousand!’

’As for Mental Power… I’m at 1050 points, but I need to nearly double that to reach 2000.’

’Although the gap is large, as long as I go to the Hong Kong Island that the Empress is so fixated on, find one of those Heavenly and Earthly Treasures that can increase Mental Power, and take a few sips, it shouldn’t be an unattainable goal.’

’The biggest problem right now is the ten thousand-point Qi Blood Value!’

The evolution patterns so far had already proven that the Qi Blood Value required for each full evolution was the threshold for the next major Grade.

But the gap between Third-Grade and Fourth-Grade was just too immense!

The Qi Blood Value at the Peak of Third-Grade was only around five thousand. The leap to ten thousand was a full doubling of that!

However, Chu Sheng wasn’t surprised by this anymore.

Over this period, by eavesdropping on Gu Yuexi’s thoughts, he had already learned the reason for this huge gap.

Between the Peak of Third-Grade and the Fourth-Grade Early Stage, there seemed to be only a small realm of difference, but in reality, they were separated by an insurmountable chasm! It was a bottleneck that stopped 99.9% of all Martial Artists!

Between these two stages was an extremely special transitional realm—the Qi Blood Melting Furnace Realm!

This realm was the critical bridge for a Martial Artist to cross from the Low-Grade Realm to the Middle-Grade Realm!

A Cultivator who entered this realm would take the vast Qi Blood already in their body and subject it to extreme condensation and purification, ultimately triggering a qualitative transformation!

During this process, the quality of their Qi Blood would skyrocket, and at the same time, the quantity would also soar at a terrifying rate!

The resulting increase in combat power would be exponential!