Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

“Amitabha, Benefactor Xu, one should be lenient when one can,” a monk behind Fa’er stepped forward and said.

"Didn't I spare you?" Xu Nianzhen sniffed the epiphyllum in her hand, then raised her eyes and said calmly, "I didn't even take the lives of you bunch of bald monks, and you're still not satisfied?"

"Senior brother." Seeing that Xu Nianzhen insisted on having the Star Tokens on their bodies, the monk turned to look at Fa'er, clearly unwilling to give them up.

Fa'er appeared quite calm and handed over the Star Token he possessed. He had come to participate in the Star Domain War on the orders of his master to convert the remnants of the Spirit Communication faction. Points were secondary. He turned his gaze to Chen Mo, who was instructing Dongfang Nishang to extract the White Soul Inner Core, and said loudly, "Benefactor Chen, the sea of ​​suffering is boundless, but turning back is the shore. Accepting conversion is the right path."

Chen Moli ignored him and, after seeing Dongfang Nishang dig out Bai Po's inner core, returned the body to Bai Yao and the others.

Seeing that Chen Mo remained obstinate, Fa'er sighed softly: "Benefactor Chen, we will meet again soon."

With that, he waved his hand, and the Star Token on his body flew towards Xu Nianzhen. Then he turned and left.

"Senior brother." Seeing that Fa'er gave it so easily, the monk who had spoken earlier became a little impatient and wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Xu Nianzhen, who made him hand over the Star Token.

“Yuanjing, your Zen mind is not firm enough,” Fa’er said.

Upon hearing Fa'er's words, the monk named Yuanjing hesitated for a moment before obediently handing over the Star Token.

After that, all the contestants from the Sea of ​​Bitterness handed over their Star Tokens.

"Hurry up and take it out."

On the other side, seeing that Dugu Wu and the others remained unmoved, Dongfang Nishang immediately urged them on.

When Dugu Wu saw that Ku Hai had given in so quickly, his expression changed. However, since Ku Hai was gone, they were no match for Chen Mo and his group. They had no choice but to hand over the Star Tokens. However, judging from the expression on his face when he handed over the Star Tokens, this matter was clearly not over.

"Zheng!"

As soon as Dugu Wu handed over the Star Token, Wen Mengyao, who was ruthless and taciturn, attacked Teng Luo and Teng Nu.

The clear and melodious sound of the zither was filled with an aura of killing intent.

Dugu Wu wanted to help, but seeing the Miaoyin Sect disciples staring at him intently, he had no choice but to give up on Teng Luo and Teng Nu.

"If you want me to die, then we'll die together."

Seeing that he was about to die, Tengluo's face also became ferocious.

The next moment, its body grew to enormous size, and the earth arched up wildly like a fragile eggshell. Its feet transformed into countless roots, burrowing into the earth and frantically absorbing its nutrients. Green plants visible for miles around withered and died instantly.

Meanwhile, Teng Luo's body grew larger and larger, reaching a hundred feet in the blink of an eye, and it continued to grow. Then, it swallowed the magic weapon "Eternal Netherworld Lamp" in one gulp, and its body strangely began to burn from the inside out, as if a terrifying energy was about to be released.

"Oh no, it's going to self-destruct."

Xu Nianzhen's pupils suddenly widened, and the epiphyllum in her hand bloomed and exploded instantly, turning into thousands of petals that surrounded her body. Her figure suddenly retreated.

"receive."

Wen Mengyao abruptly stopped, her red lips parted slightly, and then she raised her hand and flicked it, summoning a wind chime-shaped magic weapon. The moment it came into contact with the air, the wind chime magic weapon suddenly grew dozens of times larger, taking in Jing Chan and all the other disciples of the Miaoyin Sect. Then she turned and retreated hastily.

Dongfang Nishang and Huang Su rushed towards Chen Mo at the same time. After rushing a short distance, Chen Mo saw Dongfang Nishang's actions and suddenly slowed down. Finally, Dongfang Nishang grabbed Chen Mo's waist and quickly retreated with Huang Su.

Dugu Wu and the others, who were still some distance away, changed their expressions upon seeing this scene and quickly fled into the distance.

Meanwhile, Teng Nu took the opportunity to escape in the opposite direction from Wen Mengyao.

"Oh!"

The group had barely retreated a short distance when Teng Luo's body suddenly swelled to a terrifying extent, followed by a deafening explosion.

"Oh!"

A powerful energy burst forth from Teng Luo's body, and the terrifying energy wave, like a tidal wave, swept wildly in all directions. Most terrifyingly, this energy wave not only had a terrifying spiritual attack, but also the effect of destroying the primordial spirit.

As a result, this land, which was already in ruins, began to tremble violently as if an earthquake had struck. Cracks, each tens of meters long, spread out like a spider web, and even the surrounding mountains began to shake suddenly, as if they were about to collapse.

Although Chen Mo and his group had already retreated far enough to avoid the heat wave, they were still affected by it. Then they felt a powerful push from behind and were thrown a long way.

At this moment, both Dongfang Nishang and Huang Su mobilized their spiritual power to protect Chen Mo.

At this moment, Dongfang Nishang looked at Huang Su with surprise in her eyes.

However, she didn't have time to think about it at that moment.

At that moment, the three of them were slammed to the ground by a wave of heat. Apart from getting a mouthful of dust, they were otherwise unharmed.

Of course, Chen Mo, already severely injured, coughed up another mouthful of blood.

"Are you alright?" Dongfang Nishang and Huang Su went to help Chen Mo up at the same time and asked in unison.

Dongfang Nishang and Huang Su were both taken aback. Then, the latter quickly released Chen Mo, took out a healing pill from her storage magic treasure, and handed it to Dongfang Nishang: "Quickly feed it to him."

Dongfang Nishang glanced at Huang Su without saying anything, then took the pill and fed it to Chen Mo.

On the other side, after releasing Jing Chan and the others from the magic weapon, Wen Mengyao immediately flew into the sky and looked down at the earth. At the place where Teng Luo had just self-destructed, a huge crater nearly a hundred feet long had appeared. The area around the crater was also a mess of ruins.

Wen Mengyao's eyes swept over every corner around her, and finally, her gaze settled on a small tree next to the giant pit, no bigger than the palm of her hand and without a single leaf.

Wen Mengyao's gaze turned cold. She summoned her guqin and gently plucked a string. The small tree below burst open. Less than half a second before the burst, an ancient lamp shimmering with a ghostly light shot out. The flame of the lamp was now a phantom primordial spirit, which was Teng Luo.

"No wonder I couldn't sense the aura of the magic weapon's explosion. You've got a good plan; in the instant of self-destruction, you separated a wisp of your primordial spirit and placed it on the Eternal Netherworld Lamp."

Wen Mengyao had also cultivated the "Myriad Treasures Furnace Technique" and was very familiar with the aura of exploding magic weapons, but there was no aura of magic weapons shattering in the explosion just now.

With a flick of her slender fingers, she was about to wipe them out completely.

"No, don't kill me! We can talk this over. I can give you the Star Token and this Eternal Netherworld Lamp. In my current state, I can't threaten you anymore." With only a wisp of her remnant soul left, Teng Luo was utterly terrified and begged Wen Mengyao for mercy.

Wen Mengyao's slender fingers did not stop. As the zither music began, she completely extinguished the last wisp of Teng Luo's remnant soul, leaving only an extinguished Eternal Netherworld Lamp and a Star Token that fell from the Eternal Netherworld Lamp to the ground.

"Even if I kill you, all of this will be mine."

Wen Mengyao raised her hand and summoned the Eternal Netherworld Lamp and the Star Token into her bosom. "You bitch, you filthy whore, you've gone too far, you've gone too far!"

Outside, the powerful members of the Heavenly Demon Tree Clan were furious upon seeing this scene and cursed Wen Mengyao.

Even though our clan's prodigies have begged for mercy, they still insist on killing us all. This is simply an insult to the Heavenly Demon Tree Clan.

Faced with the fury of the Heavenly Demon Tree Clan's experts, Ruan Yibai not only didn't care at all, but also said calmly, "In the Star Domain War, life and death are one's own responsibility. Senior, you should take it easy. Besides, isn't there still one member of your clan alive?"

To the powerful members of the Heavenly Demon Tree Clan, Ruan Yibai's words were not words of comfort, but rather a blow to their morale.

The Heavenly Demon Tree Clan had only three contestants, but now two of them have died, and even the Eternal Netherworld Lamp has been stolen. The remaining vine, although it escaped, is of little use now, and it may have to hide for the next two days.

It was so angry it was about to vomit blood.

"Look, why are Dugu Wu and the others back again?"

"They're really back. Could it be that they can't swallow this insult and are planning to fight back?"

"..."

Just then, someone pointed in surprise at the scene in the Hetu Luoshu, where Dugu Wu, Bai Yao, and Gu Hai and his group, who had just left, had actually returned.

Inside the Starry Sky World.

"Here, everyone get a share." Xu Nianzhen was very generous and distributed the Star Tokens she had obtained to Feng Yi, Lin Miao, and the others.

"I don't need it." Seeing that Xu Nianzhen was still going to give it to him, Chen Mo quickly waved his hand, and then with a wave of his hand, a series of sparkling crystals floated around him. He said, "The star crystals that Bai Po and the others mentioned, could they be these stones?"

When Chen Mo destroyed that crystal mine before, he also mined some.

"It's a star crystal."

When Fengyi, Xuanyan, and the other members of the Chiyuan and Qingluan clans saw the crystals floating around Chen Mo, their eyes widened in astonishment.

Unexpectedly, Chen Mo really did have star crystals. They had previously thought it was Bai Po's conspiracy, since it was only Bai Po's side of the story and they couldn't verify whether Chen Mo actually had them or not.

"Since these stones are of use to you, then..."

"They're back."

Just as Chen Mo was about to distribute the star crystals to those who had helped him, Xu Nianzhen suddenly interrupted him. Everyone followed Xu Nianzhen's gaze and saw that Dugu Wu, Bai Yao, and the group from Ku Hai had returned.

"Protect the prince consort," Dongfang Nishang said to Lin Miao and Lin Chen, then drew her spear and stood ready for battle.

"Something seems wrong. Something is chasing them." Wen Mengyao, who was still high in the sky, noticed something and became alert.

Just then, everyone saw dust rising in the distance, and the dust cloud was moving towards them.

As the dust settled closer, everyone could see that it was a group of insects, similar to the mineral creatures Chen Mo had seen before, except that they had two antennae on their heads. The exoskeletons of these insects also seemed to be a mineral, like rubies and sapphires, shimmering with a ghostly light.

They swarmed together, each the size of an adult's head, densely packed together. Some even flew in the air, countless in number, enough to trigger trypophobia in anyone who saw them. The cloud of dust was produced by the rapid movement of these insects.

What disgusted Chen Mo even more was that each insect had a string of red numbers on its head. This display of the system's power made him feel dizzy.

Although these insects are not very powerful, numbering only five or six hundred thousand, or even tens of thousands, their sheer number is overwhelming.

Moreover, due to the dazzling array of numbers, he couldn't quite make out some of the red ones, but it seemed to represent over two million units of power.

"What are these things?" Xuan Yan's expression changed upon seeing them. There were so many, and she had never seen such creatures before.

“They must be the original creatures of this world,” Xu Nianzhen said. “Although we don’t know why they are chasing Dugu Wu and the others, just to be on the safe side, we should leave as soon as possible.”

Everyone nodded.

Chen Mo put away the star crystal first, and Dongfang Nishang carried him on her back. This made Huang Su, who subconsciously wanted to ask for help, suddenly feel at a loss and a little embarrassed.

"Hurry, they're getting faster!" Wen Mengyao suddenly exclaimed.

Just then, Dugu Wu suddenly shouted, "It was he who killed your friend and wiped out your friend's entire clan; it has nothing to do with us."

As he spoke, Dugu Wu pointed at Chen Mo.

To make the guidance even clearer, he also unleashed a burst of spiritual energy, which formed a colored arrow in the air, pointing directly at Chen Mo.

At this moment, the group of insects behind Dugu Wu seemed to understand Dugu Wu's words and all looked at Chen Mo. In an instant, as if they had smelled some kind of aura on Chen Mo, the eerie light emanating from the mineral carapace on their backs became brighter and more strange, and then the two antennae above their heads swayed.

No one saw how the other person spoke, but a sound wave of the same frequency rang in their minds, making them understand what the other person wanted to express.

"Those from beyond the heavens will all die."

Upon hearing what the insects meant, Chen Mo, Dongfang Nishang, Wen Mengyao, Xu Nianzhen, and the others' expressions changed.

Dugu Wu's face was also ashen: "Damn it."

Clearly, Dugu Wu and his group had already communicated with a group of insects and knew their purpose before this. However, they did not expect that even after they had found a scapegoat, the insects would still not let them go.

"Oh no, let's go! They've got their eyes on us too!" Xu Nianzhen exclaimed urgently.

The outside world was also in an uproar.

"What is this thing? It looks a bit like a Star Crystal Worm?"

"Never seen it before, it's not a creature from my Celestial Star Realm."

"There are so many of them, it seems they're hunting down the contestants. Should we end the interstellar war?"

After all, the Starfield War is a competition between contestants from various forces, but if they are wiped out by these insects, it would be a joke.

Many people turned their gazes toward Xuan Kongzi.

"Although this extraterrestrial insectoid race is a variable, it is also part of the Starfield War. Moreover, Emperor Xuan has already suppressed it with the Hetu Luoshu, so the Starfield War can still continue," Xuan Kongzi said, not paying much attention to the suddenly appearing swarm of insects. (End of Chapter)