On the other side, Helemis and Sheperd had already arrived at the temple. They were wearing black robes, with only their sharp chins showing under their hat brims, which could block the erosion of the moonlight, but it could not hide their murderous aura.
The insect king that was living in the temple suddenly raised his huge head, perhaps sensing something. He used his mental power to move the temple's door, which suddenly opened with a loud bang and hit the wall with a loud bang.
"call!"
Countless winds and snow poured in instantly, blowing away the busy golden beetles on the ground. A blood moon hung on the top of the frosty branches, illuminating the "battlefield" below.
The Insect King smelled the spiritual power of Helemis, and his body swayed anxiously for a moment, and he was horrified: [Helemis, it is you, how come your spiritual power has become so strong? ! ]
Helemis didn't like nonsense. His hands hidden in his sleeves had grown sharp nails that glowed like steel in the dark night. His voice was cold and calm:
[I am here to kill you.]
[If you win, I will tell you. ]
The Insect King said in a low voice: [Kill me? Why?]
Before Helemis left, Lin Kong once said to him: "Villains die because they talk too much. Don't chat with the Insect King about nonsense. Kill it first."
[Hermes! I will kill you! Kill you!]
The Insect King screamed even louder in pain. It shook off Snow Amber heavily and crawled into the temple with its huge and bulky body at an incredible speed. Its golden blood dripped all over the ground, attracting a flock of birds to peck at each other.
The Insect King was furious, and immediately used his mental power to strangle Helemis. At the same time, an invisible blue barrier appeared in front of him, firmly blocking his attack.
In a flash, Helemis suddenly flew up and attacked the Insect King as fast as a shadow. The surrounding trees fell to the ground in an instant because of this violent mental attack, and a huge vacuum circle appeared in the temple.
Those golden beetles usually feed on animal fat, and their stomachs are full of oil. Once they come into contact with sparks, it is like firecrackers being lit, with a series of crackling explosions. The fire grows bigger and bigger, and quickly spreads towards the temple.
Seeing this, Xuebo spread his wings and immediately stepped forward to help. He flew to the top of the temple, and with his hands in the air, countless bricks and tiles were lifted up and hit the insect king like raindrops.
The Insect King originally wanted to control the flock of birds, but he was one step slower than Helemis. He could only lift the snow on the ground to resist the fire and increase his mental attack on Helemis.
Helemis' figure floated in the air, and the black brim of his hat was accidentally blown off by the wind. He controlled the birds to block the red moon for him, pulled out a slender bamboo tube from his sleeve, unscrewed the lid and threw it directly into the insect pile. There was a burst of explosions, and flames several meters high rose from below.
Gradually, the barrier became thinner and thinner, and Helemis's face became uglier and uglier. He finally flew up with a "whoosh" and shook off the golden beetles that were attacking fiercely.
Xuebo didn't have the same endurance as Helemis. He rolled on the ground in pain, holding his head tightly with both hands, and banging his head against the ground desperately: [My head! ! It hurts so much! ! ]
Although Helemis was now able to fight the Insect King, the mental imprint of the opponent rooted in his mind was still a fatal handle. Helemis felt his temples throbbing, as if an invisible hand was crushing his brain, and his face turned pale with pain.
[Ahhhhh!!!]
Upon seeing this, Helemis raised his hand and made a seal. A blue light curtain rose from his body. The originally silent forest suddenly shook violently. Countless white crows and red-winged birds flapped their wings and flew out from their nests. They attacked the Insect King in a black mass, pecking frantically at the holes on its skin corroded by the moonlight.
The Insect King screamed in pain and swung his tail hard. Helemis was knocked several meters away and spat out a mouthful of blood.
[You dare to rebel—]
Helemis remembered this sentence and thought it made sense. He gathered his strength in his palms and countless blue rays of light suddenly came from all directions, illuminating the dark night.
The saliva of those golden beetles was corrosive. They rushed to Hermes like a tide, but were blocked by the energy barrier, so they began to gnaw on the energy in the outer circle.
That was the simple fire starter that Lin Kong usually used to make fire. It had a bamboo tube on the outside and was filled with flammable wood fiber fragments and red-bellied phoenix feathers. As long as the lid was removed and exposed to the air, flames would immediately ignite.
The Insect King hid in the shade of the temple and let out a strange roar from his throat. Then countless golden beetles suddenly crawled out from the ground and attacked Helemis. They were so dense that it made people's scalps numb.
The roof of the temple was no longer obstructed, and the blood-red moonlight shone through the gap onto the Insect King. White smoke immediately emerged from its wrinkled skin, and large holes appeared on it as it was corroded.
The Insect King took advantage of this opportunity to knock Xuebo down from the temple. His mental power penetrated into his brain and began to absorb his vitality crazily. His voice was majestic and angry: [Xuebo, even you dare to betray me! ]
The Insect King's spiritual power was like a sharp blade, stirring desperately in Helemis' mind, trying to strangle him. However, Helemis's black figure was as steady as a rock in the night sky, with a flock of birds circling around him, and his spiritual power was continuously output. The originally majestic and magnificent temple was already crumbling under the pecking of birds.
The Insect King was also using his mental power to launch an attack. His deep and rich laughter echoed endlessly in the valley: [Hermes, admit defeat. Your mental power cannot outlast mine!]
Helemis' mental power was originally inferior to its. Now in order to control the flock of birds, he was transferring a large amount of mental power every moment. He simply could not bear this loss.
The black robe on Helemis' body was already soaked with cold sweat. He clenched his teeth silently, struggling to resist the mental imprint of the Insect King in his mind, his mouth full of the taste of blood.
The Insect King continued chattering:
[Hermes, as long as you stop now, I will forgive you for the past. You will still be my most loyal subject and the most powerful servant of the temple! ]
Helemis gritted his teeth and spat out two words: [Lie! ]
Insect King: [You are my child, I will have mercy on you. ]
Hermes' eyes were bloodshot: [You have no mercy! ]
The Zerg King flicked his tail in annoyance: [If I die, the Zerg will never be able to reproduce again! ]
Under the strong mental pressure, Helemis' mouth and nose had begun to bleed. His veins were bulging all over his body, and he was obviously in extreme pain. He said sarcastically: "If the price of reproduction is to be devoured by you, then the Zerg should not have been born in the first place!"
Helemis is not against the law of the jungle, but the Insect King's demands are too excessive and have disrupted the balance of the food chain in the jungle. If this continues, not only will the Zerg perish, but other species will also find it difficult to survive.
There are tens of thousands of living creatures in this vast land. Apart from the Zerg, there are naturally still the Beasts, Birds, and Dragons. No one can reproduce from generation to generation unless they are strong and smart enough.
When Helemis fought back with a flock of birds, the Insect King summoned pterosaurs to devour the birds; when Helemis controlled the tigers to bite and tear, the Insect King summoned black bears and poisonous snakes. All of a sudden, snakes, insects, rats and ants poured out, and all the beasts fled in all directions, shaking the entire jungle.
By the end, their mental confrontation had reached a white-hot stage, and they finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore, and exploded with a deafening bang.
"boom!!!"
Helemis' figure flew dozens of meters away like a kite with a broken string, fell heavily to the ground and spit out large mouthfuls of blood. The surrounding trees collapsed in large numbers, the snowflakes melted rapidly, and a huge black pit appeared on the ground.
The Insect King was also badly injured, its fat body was now bloody and golden blood was constantly flowing out. It struggled to wriggle its body, madly sucking the vitality of nearby animals to restore its strength, and a thin layer of scab gradually formed on its broken wounds.
Helemis's injuries were obviously more serious. If he had not been strong enough, his internal organs and brain would have been shattered long ago. He lay on the snow, moved his fingertips with difficulty, and tried to get up from the ground, but fell back heavily. Seeing this, the Insect King shook his head and slowly moved in front of Helemis, making a "hissing" laugh from his throat, as if he was laughing at his overestimation of his own abilities, and as if he was angry out of shame:
[Hermes, slaves can never defeat the king. ]
[But you are very capable. You actually hurt me. ]
The insect king's body was large enough to look down at Helemis from above. Its cold forelimbs pressed down on Helemis's head, cutting through the flesh as it pressed down. It threatened in a low voice: [Tell me! Where does your mental power come from? ! ]
Helemis did not answer, but coughed up a mouthful of blood before saying: [You haven't won yet, why should I tell you? ]
The insect king's sharp forelimbs almost pierced his brain: [You've already lost! ]
Helemis sneered: [But I'm still alive! ]
The Insect King was furious and said, [Hermes! Believe it or not, I will kill you now! ]
Although Helemis was seriously injured, his spiritual thread was more than a hundred times stronger than before. After swallowing it, it might be able to speed up its molting speed.
The Insect King was immediately excited when he thought about it, and began to absorb the vitality of Helemis. However, at this moment, a black figure suddenly flew over the sky, and it turned out to be Jia Yan.
[king!]
Jia Yan seemed to be holding something in his hand, and when it was about to fall to the ground, he threw it heavily to the ground, splashing up a cloud of dust.
"Oh my god!"
Lin Kong was thrown to the ground by Jia Yan and felt dizzy. It took him a long time to recover. He struggled to get up from the ground, and saw Helemis lying on the ground covered in blood. His face suddenly changed: "Hermes! How are you?!"
Lin Kong quickly ran over and held him in his arms. He wiped the blood off Helemis' face in a hurry, his expression unable to hide his anxiety: "Are you okay? Why are you bleeding so much!"
Jia Yan landed lightly on the ground, and when he saw this scene, he snorted coldly: [King, it turns out that Helemis has been hiding this prey in the cave. He didn't offer it to you when you needed food the most. He has long had the intention of betraying you! ]
Just now, Jia Yan was blocked by the mental barrier outside the cave and was unable to hurt Lin Kong. It was not until Helemis was seriously injured and dying that the barrier shattered.
Jia Yan originally wanted to kill Lin Kong, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. The Insect King asked him to bring back the body of Helemis. If he returned empty-handed, he would be punished. It would be better to bring back a prey to appease the Insect King's anger.
Jia Yan secretly hoped that the Insect King would die. If the Insect King died, he would not be restrained by the opponent's mental power. So he held Lin Kong hostage and observed in the dark for a long time, just to see who would win or lose, but he did not expect that Helemis would still lose.
It was natural for Jia Yan to now side with the Insect King, intending to show his loyalty.
The Insect King heard this and hummed in confusion. It stared at Lin Kong and sniffed his scent. Suddenly, a green light flashed in its dark eyes, just like a jackal that had been hungry for eight hundred years and suddenly saw fresh flesh and blood and became wildly excited: [I didn't expect there would be prey with such abundant vitality in the dense forest! Jia Yan, you have done a great job! ]
If Helemis is a large and filling steamed bun, then Lin Kong is like a bowl of fatty braised pork. The Insect King immediately abandoned the dying Helemis and directly took Lin Kong in front of him, eager to suck the fresh blood from him.
Seeing this, Helemis's eyes turned grim and red as if they were about to bleed. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but the sharp claws in his hands suddenly grew and he attacked the Insect King directly.
Jia Yan quickly stopped Helemis, grabbed his wrist tightly, and roared with wide eyes: [Helemis! How dare you betray the king for a prey? ! ]
no, he is not…
Helemis knew that Lin Kong was no longer a prey to him.
[Get lost!]
All creatures will burst out with great strength when they are on the verge of death. Helemis used all his strength to hit Jiayan and knocked him to the ground. The latter was about to chase him, but was pounced on by Xuebo who jumped up from the ground. The two insects wrestled fiercely with each other.
Jia Yan couldn't believe it: [Xuebo! You dare to betray the king! ]
Xuebo thought, what king? That fat bug is not his king. He was so angry that he used his claws to scratch Jiayan's face. He liked to be conceited and thought that disfigurement was the greatest harm to a bug: [I don't recognize it as my king! It just wanted to devour me! Jiayan, isn't it a shame for you to help him hurt your own kind? ! ]
Jia Yan was already severely injured and vomiting blood from Helemis's blow, and Xuebo's scolding shook his mind. For a moment, he was beaten to the point where he had no strength to fight back. In desperation, he could only pull Xuebo's hair hard and punch his pretty face: [You loser, what qualifications do you have to scold me? ! ]
[You are the waste! A waste who doesn't even dare to resist! ]
The two of them wrestled on the ground, rolling further and further away, and had unknowingly drifted out of the battle circle.
On the other side, the Insect King was about to bite Lin Kong's neck when a strong wind suddenly blew from behind him. Something sharp pierced into his left eye unexpectedly, deep and fierce, with endless chill—
At that moment, time seemed to have been paused by someone.
The insect king froze for a moment, then began to twist wildly, with a scream that almost broke the eardrums. It swung its giant tail and slammed Helemis into the pit, roaring angrily with endless hatred: [Hermemis! I will chew you into a pulp! ! Cut you into pieces! ! ]
After the insect king finished speaking, he opened his bloody mouth, which had a circle of sharp teeth, enough to chew Helemis to pieces. He raised his head high, preparing to give Helemis a fatal blow, but the next second, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, accompanied by a crackling corrosion sound.
The Insect King looked down in disbelief, and was caught off guard by a pair of dark, cold eyes. Lin Kong's hands were covered in blood, and he was holding a handful of sharp and long fangs of a giant beast, and fiercely stabbed it into its abdomen.
The fang was taken by Helemis from a hundred-year-old saber-toothed dragon. It was as hard as gold and stone, and was sharpened to a long and flat edge. He usually used it to cook and cut meat for Lin Kong, and he always carried it with him.
Lin Kong stabbed too hard, and the edge cut his hands, blood gushing everywhere. His blood caused the Insect King as much damage as the power of the Blood Moon, and the area around the wound was rotting and turning black at a rapid speed, like a ball of stinking rotten meat.
The Insect King was in great pain this time. It swung its body and was about to hit the ignorant prey away, but it didn't expect Lin Kong to react faster. He rolled on the ground to avoid the attack and stabbed it in the back with the sharp blade in his hand.
[Ahhh!!! I’m going to kill you!!!]
The insect king was too heavy to catch Lin Kong, so he could only use his mental power to attack. However, a surprising scene appeared. Lin Kong was not controlled by the insect king's mental power at all. He attacked it like crazy, cursing:
"I'll stab you to death, you good-for-nothing! I'll stab you to death, you good-for-nothing!"
Lin Kongsha was so anxious that he didn't care about much else. He rode on the insect king, grabbed the other's neck tightly, and stabbed down fiercely, splashing golden blood all over his body: "An insect like you is a waste of food! You old man! You've lived for two hundred years and you still think it's not enough! It's even a question whether I can live to eighty! Die, die, die!"
Lin Kong hugged the body of the Insect King and wrestled and rolled on the ground, repeating the stabbing action frantically. At this moment, he had ignored the pain caused by the impact of the gravel. He only knew that if the big insect in front of him didn't die, none of them would survive!
Jia Yan was originally fighting with Xue Bo, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw this. Xue Bo took the opportunity to kick Jia Yan into the black swamp next to the dense forest, with great force and speed: [Get down! ]
The black swamp was formed by the poisonous juice spewed out by the Kasyapa snake. Just now, the Insect King summoned hundreds of beasts to attack, and countless black holes were corroded on the ground, which were full of venom.
After being kicked in, Jia Yan almost choked to death. He hurriedly crawled out. His whole body was covered in black ink, with only a pair of emerald green eyes with some white left. He stared at Xue Bo in anger, his voice changed because of anger: [Damn it, I will tear your face apart today! ! ! ]
(End of this chapter)