Each of these strange insects is about the size of a human head, and the appearance is somewhat similar to that of a praying mantis, but the body is not as slender as a normal praying mantis, but as fat as a cockroach, with a pair of large scissor-like jaws on its head, and its forelimbs are shaped like sickles, and its hind limbs are not only thick but also have rows of jagged barbs, and its abdomen is like a bee with a sharp needle at the end of the tail.

Its whole body is covered with a layer of black and shiny carapace that looks like a metallic texture, and the dark red compound eyes on the head of each strange insect exude a cold and brutal aura, and the insect wings can be swept through a distance of tens of meters with a single breath, and their jet-black carapace also has dark red tattoo-like markings, and when flying and the magic energy particles in the atmosphere interact with friction, the markings will slightly flicker a scarlet ominous light and swallow the magic energy particles in the atmosphere into their bodies.

The black insect cloud that such strange insects gathered together and continued together, from the perspective of Jiang Yan and Xiaobai, there was no end in sight, I am afraid that the insect cloud spread out and could cover the entire land of the Nedles.

Millions or tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions? I'm afraid no one can tell the exact number of them.

Jiang Yan

The black swarms fly at a low altitude, almost along the ground, but not because they can't fly high, but because there is food on the ground that they want.

The ecology of the earth in this dimensional space is not desolate, but can be said to be full of vitality, all kinds of demonic plants almost cover the earth, the difference is only in the density of growth.

Originally, after leaving the Demon Forest, Jiang Yan and the others were in a vast plain, and the land of the plain was covered with black grass and occasionally a few small groves of small scale.

But after the black monster swarm appeared, everything was gone.

Wherever the insects passed, whether it was grass, shrubs, or woods, they only swooped down, covering the entire area below under the black insect cloud, and when they flew up again, all that was left was a bare piece of bare soil.

It truly interprets what it means to 'where you pass, not a single grass grows'!

Because of the distance, Jiang Yan's naked eyes couldn't see exactly what was going on for the time being, but fortunately, the detection wave of the data ability had already presented all the processes in his perception.

The black monster insect pounced on the demonized plant, and the mouthparts with jaws and blade-like insect limbs were frantically gnawing and tearing the body of the demonized plant, and it was often dozens or even hundreds of strange insects besieging a demonized plant together, lying on the plant densely, and at most three seconds was enough to devour it completely.

When the demonized plant was attacked by the black monster insect swarm, it was not that it did not resist, and even caused damage to a small number of black monster insects. But in the face of the seemingly endless sea of insects, they can't resist it at all, and if they kill a few strange insects, they will be completely engulfed by more strange insects.

In this way, the black monster insect swarm gnawed all the creatures in the place where it passed until there was no debris left, and at the same time approached Jiang Yan and Xiaobai. To be honest, even if Xiaobai is confident in his mimic phantom jellyfish's stealth ability, he is gradually a little uneasy at this time.

After all, it has never seen this strange insect anywhere else, and who knows if the other party can see through the disguise of the phantom hidden jellyfish?

"Hmm...... Let's be on the safe side. Jiang Yan also felt that it was not safe, so he simply activated the data ability again, and put a layer of data shield that could block information interaction on the body surface of Xiaobai's mimic phantom jellyfish, further strengthening their hiding ability.

didn't wait long, even if he was flying and devouring all the creatures he encountered along the way, the flight speed of the black monster insect swarm did not slow down much, and he soon met Jiang Yan and them.

What reassured them was that the other party really didn't see through Xiaobai's hiding, and flew over Xiaobai's hiding place without stopping at all.

Jiang Yan even saw that there were strange insects flying by less than half a meter above their heads, and the barbs and hairs on the legs of some of the strange insects that were close could be clearly seen.

Since they hadn't been discovered, Jiang Yan naturally didn't want to provoke these ferocious insects casually, because the results of the ability scan had already revealed their data information.

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Name: Demonized Black Worm

Race: Insect (?)

Level: Level 1 4th Order ~ Level 1 6th Order

——Program——

[Magic Factor Lv.2]: Has a strong talent for adaptability and affinity for magic particles

[Magic Energy Manipulation Lv.1]: With the talent of manipulating magic energy particles, the level of Lv.1 is enough to control magic particles to be injected into the limbs and carapace of the insect body, strengthening the attack and defense power to at least 50%, and can barely condense the magic energy particles in the body to form a relatively simple structure of small power long-range 'ray-type' and 'cannonball-type' attack patterns.

"Hermaphrodite Lv.1": The Demon Black Worm is a race that has the characteristics of both male and female insects, and usually combines with each other to reproduce offspring, but if necessary, they can also reproduce offspring alone.

[Super-Speed Reproduction Lv.2]: The reproduction ability of the Demonized Black Worm is very strong, and even if there is only a single individual left, it can re-breed the population to more than 1,000 individuals in just an hour without lack of nutrition.

"High Growth Lv.2": As long as there is no shortage of nutrients, it only takes three minutes for newborn larvae to grow to the adult stage.

[High Speed Digestion Lv.1]: The Demonized Black Worm can digest the food it eats into pure nutrients at an extremely fast rate, enough to digest prey dozens of times its own body size in just a few minutes.

[Sufficient Reserve Lv.1]: The Demonized Black Worm can absorb excess nutrients into the body and temporarily store them for growth, repair, and reproduction.

[Hunting Instinct Lv.1]: The innate killing instinct inherited by the race has been engraved into the genes of the black worm, and the demonized black worm with this killing instinct talent is naturally able to adapt to battle, and will not have any fear when fighting because of the strength of the enemy.

[Swarm Will Lv.1]: Each individual in the Demonized Black Worm population is able to link with each other's psychic powers, and through this ability, they can communicate and distinguish friend and foe, and when necessary, they can temporarily unite the psychic powers of their compatriots to fight against attacks originating from the psychic system.

[Regeneration Lv.2]: After being injured, the Demonized Black Worm can accelerate the self-healing of its own injuries by consuming stored nutrients. Even if half of the worm's body, including the head, is destroyed, as long as the nutrients are sufficient, they can regenerate in ten minutes.

[Tough Armor Lv.1]: The armor defense of the demonized black worm is similar to that of metal, and it is so tough that even in the face of the full force of an ordinary adult man holding an axe, it can only be cracked, and it also has resistance to energy strikes, which is enough to resist energy attacks of strength below the fourth order without damage.

"Black Worm Toxin Lv.2": The jaw teeth on the mouthparts of the demonized black worm, the tail needle hidden in the abdominal cavity, and the tips of the worm's limbs are all secreted with severe poison, and the toxicity is enough to kill an adult elephant in ten seconds with a small wound at the level of an ordinary mosquito bite, and it has a strong paralyzing and hallucinogenic effect.

"Pheromone Marker Lv.2]: Demonized Black Worms can release an insect pheromone that is almost only perceived by themselves, and this pheromone is highly infective, not only adhering to physical matter, but also infecting the energy and mental power of non-physical states. Because of its specialized infectious power and concealment, it is basically non-destructive, but once a normal creature is contaminated, it is very difficult to get rid of it. At the same time, pheromones can easily be detected by nearby demonized black bugs. They often use this pheromone to mark specific objects, either to warn other members of the species, or to make it easier for swarms to track down targets that are at odds with them. With this pheromone, they can easily identify enemies with whom they have a grudge, even after years of separation!

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After reading the data of this demonized black worm, Jiang Yan was very glad that he did not rush into conflict with them.

Fearless of death, super fecundity, able to heal and regenerate, melee attacks are highly poisonous, ranged can also manipulate magic particles to release powerful long-range energy attacks, can jointly resist spiritual attacks, and can also mark enemies with pheromones that are difficult to eliminate, very grudge......

Although the strength of these demonized black insects is very weak in Jiang Yan's opinion, the average cultivation level is only the first level of the fourth order to the first level of the sixth order, and he can easily kill hundreds of such insects, but the problem is that these guys will never fight alone with you when they fight, but will gather into a cloud of insects and a sea of insects that cover the sky and the sun and directly drown you!

Jiang Yan had no doubt that with this ability to demonize black insects, as long as they gathered one-fifth of the number of insect swarms in his foreword, if there were no powerful masters above the third level to stop them, they would be completely enough to gnaw away a large city with a population of one million in the imperial capital of the Duragon Empire into a dead and empty city with no corpses left in just ten minutes!

If Jiang Yan was in the outside world, with the ability of a third-level master to absorb free energy from the outside world at any time to replenish his own consumption, he would not be afraid of this kind of quantitative siege, but the problem was that the heaven and earth in this dimensional space were filled with magic energy particles!

Although it is estimated that there are some normal spirit child energy because it is connected to the main material continent through the spatial channel, it does not occupy a large proportion, and it is also mixed with a large number of magic energy particles.

The energy of magic energy particles is too active for normal beings, and if they are ingested at will, it is easy to have various unknown mutations and alienation reactions, which is not consistent with the spiritual power system that Jiang Yan is currently cultivating.

This also caused Jiang Yan to be unable to absorb this kind of energy mixed with a large number of magic energy particles, so it would be a big problem in terms of consumption to fight with the sea of insects.

Therefore, Jiang Yan felt that if he could avoid it, he would try not to cause trouble in vain.

The group of demonized black insects was too large, and after Jiang Yan and Xiaobai hid, seven or eight minutes passed, and the black insect clouds above their heads were all transferred, and the entire insect cloud was surrounded by the noisy sound of countless buzzing insect wings, and gradually moved away in the direction where Jiang Yan came.

Jiang Yan, who had reappeared in shape, looked at the direction in which the demonized black insect swarm was leaving, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "That direction, it seems to be going to the demonized forest just now, right? It doesn't look like an accident, but it looks like it's ...... Specifically in the past to seek revenge?"

Jiang Yan, who was curious in his heart, simply let Xiao Bai split into a small clone, and then let it go back the way it came, and go back to the Demon Forest to investigate.

And he himself took off in Xiaobai's body and continued to explore ahead.

After waiting for a while, the small clone split by Xiao Bai successfully tracked the eye-catching traces left by the demonized black insect swarm, and sure enough, it was back to the place where the demonized forest was located before.

Jiang Yan connected the perspective of the small clone through the ability, and saw from a distance that the black insect cloud composed of the demonized black insect swarm directly pounced into the demonized forest with the same black hue, and began to attack all the plants inside.

Jiang Yan can also be regarded as having truly seen how the "Magic Energy Particle Manipulation", one of the skill programs of the Demon Black Swarm, unleashes the attack.

I saw that a spherical energy mass with a black-red streamer and a body size about the size of a fist condensed in front of the demonized black worms one by one, and then was thrown into the demonized forest by them, or simply the abdominal cavity of the demonized black worm was slightly agitated and opened its mouthparts, and then spit out a black-red energy beam equivalent to the thickness of a tap water pipe from its mouth, blasting into the demonized forest at an extremely fast speed.

The plants in the Demonized Forest naturally did not take a passive beating, and instantly rioted back to color, led by the Demonized Giant Tree, and between the countless branches, the black blades in the sky were wrapped in the dark red magic energy particles and the enhanced streamer turned into countless afterimages and shot towards the Demonized Black Insect Swarm.

Even, at this time, the demonized plants also showed other attack methods that Jiang Yan had not seen before. Some of the man-eating flower-like plants several meters tall lifted their tank-sized buds, and the petals bloomed and aimed at the black insect cloud in the sky, and then with a bang, they spewed out one after another black-red energy bombardments about half a meter to a meter thick.

Not only are the man-eating flowers on the ground unleashing their attacks, but the demonic giant trees are throwing blades at the same time, and huge blooming buds are also poking out from the bushes, and together with the man-eating flowers on the ground, they continue to pour violent fire into the sky.

Obviously, although Jiang Yan does not have the ability to scan plant-based creatures for the time being, they basically all have the ability to unleash long-range energy attacks, such as the "magic energy particle manipulation" of demonized black worms.

Moreover, these demonized plants rooted in the earth, I am afraid that they are just like the demonized mushroom monster on the side of the Nederles that has been suppressed by Jiang Yan's wise brains, and they have the innate ability to directly draw energy from the earth to replenish their own consumption with the help of their roots.

Why is Jiang Yan so sure?

The rhythm of those demonic plants with flower-shaped organs spitting energy cannons has not stopped since the start of the war, and the fastest can even release at least three bursts of magical energy shells the size of a water tank every second.

The magic energy cannons released by these plants are obviously far stronger than the small cannons that are only arm thick at most from the demonized black insects, and many of them directly recoiled the cannon hits of the demonized black worms, and exploded after falling into the insect cloud above, and can turn hundreds of demonized black insects into ashes with a single shot.

The demonized black insects also seemed to know that it would not be beneficial to compete with them to attack them, and they did not insist on fighting against the demonized plants, and soon gave up their long-range attacks, and instead let out a piercing hissing sound in unison, and the dark red markings on the carapace all lit up with a scarlet light.

However, he has already strengthened the combat power of his insect body itself with the skill of "magic particle control".

Then these demonized black insects rushed into the forest with the barrage of energy cannons and blades, and even if they left countless corpses, they insisted on flying onto the flowers and trees, and began to wave their jaws and sickle feet to bite and eat the flesh and skin of the plants.

To Jiang Yan's surprise, the demonic plants in this forest also seem to have a very strong regenerative ability, often regrowing within seconds after a branch is gnawed off, and at the same time, they also begin to spit out some colorful strange liquids towards the insect swarm through some trumpet-like organs.

Some of these liquids are so corrosive that the slightest contamination of the black worms will cause the body to fester, and some of them are as virulent as insecticides, and all the black worms they encounter are struggling to scream and die in great pain......

But there are also many black insects that gnaw away all the stems, leaves, roots, and whiskers of the demonized plants, and spit out pebble-sized eggs on the spot.

After these eggs came into contact with the outside world, they broke open one after another in less than three seconds, and small larvae emerged from them, and they quickly grew to the adult stage at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then joined the war against demonized plants again.

At the same time, every moment, there are also a large number of black insects that are preyed on by the demonized plants and quickly digested into their own nutrients, and the toxins of the black insects have almost no effect on them.

Under the gaze of Jiang Yan, who was secretly observing, the two sides staged an extremely cruel and tragic racial battle, and Jiang Yan couldn't help but smack his tongue again and again.

"Tsk, is this world full of such dangerous things? If I want to occupy this place completely, I will have to clean them all up first......"

Thinking of that workload, Jiang Yan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. I want to talk about "The Almighty Supreme of All Worlds" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~