# Chapter 2258: Is It Alive?
Undoubtedly, this meticulously planned worm baby operation had failed!
They had still underestimated the power of the Star Devouring Insect Queen. They had prepared so many killing moves, yet all of them were deciphered by Chong Bishi one by one!
No one who climbed to the Star Devouring level was a fool, especially someone like Chong Bishi, who enjoyed scheming against others!
Her various defensive measures had reached an almost perverse level, ensuring there was no possibility of her capsizing in a ditch!
And she happened to be plotting against Xuanshe at the same time, which was completely unexpected!
Now, with Void Insect Glue everywhere, retreating into the Dimensional Gap had become a luxury. Chong Bishi was already on alert, though she couldn't mobilize the insect swarm!
But if they still wanted to seize the Immortal Spirit Cocoon, the only option left was to fight for it directly!
But the fear was that before they could grab it, they would be bitten to death by the endless insect soldiers!
This was Chong Bishi's insect nest after all. If they didn't leave now, their lives would be forfeit here!
Though extremely unwilling, they had to accept the reality of failure and retreat first. They could figure things out later!
Jiangnan waved his hand, and countless Void Chains shot out, wrapping around everyone!
Then he snapped his fingers repeatedly, setting up ten Spatial Barriers at the entrance of the breeding hall to block the way!
Void Black Holes erupted one after another, like beating war drums!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Countless insect soldiers were compressed into origin points, but the gaps were quickly filled!
The original power of the Void Black Hole was enough to tear space apart!
But with the Void Insect Glue suppressing everything, it couldn't tear through at all!
Jiangnan grimaced. The blockade at the entrance only lasted a moment before being broken through by the endless insect soldiers!
But that was enough time for Jiangnan to generate another Warp Bubble, which shot out with a loud bang!
"Boom!"
A large hole was blasted directly through the hard Insect Glue wall, and Jiangnan charged in one direction to escape!
However, under the effect of the Void Insect Glue, space became extremely stagnant, hard to distort or push!
All Spatial Spirit Techniques were greatly slowed in release speed and effectiveness. Even the Warp Bubble's speed was reduced by who knows how many times!
It couldn't travel far before it was on the verge of disappearing!
"Shengyi, Shengcai! Find a way out!"
Shengyi nodded frantically, her face pale. She quickly activated Heaven's Favorite Eye • Visual Sharing!
But looking around, everywhere was filled with murderous intent. Even the positions that originally had golden light turned black in an extremely short time!
Shengyi's pupils flickered continuously, looking like she was about to cry.
(☍﹏⁰。) "What's going on? There doesn't seem to be any way out? We... we might be doomed here!"
This kind of hopeless situation, Shengyi had never encountered before!
But Jiangnan was completely unfazed:
ﾚ(ﾟ皿ﾟ;)ﾍ "Scared of what? It's just a small situation! Just follow big bro, and you won't die! Since there's no way out, just pick any path!"
"I'll even turn a dead end into a way out!"
If worst came to worst, he still had Black Hole Devouring Star as a fallback, but without reaching Transcendent level, using that move was playing with his life!
Let's try to escape first. If they couldn't, they'd figure it out later!
But just during this brief pause, large numbers of insect soldiers came charging down the corridor like black waves!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth. Six Rift-Saw Blades slashed out toward both sides of the corridor. He picked a random direction and the Warp Bubble crashed straight through!
But compared to the massive insect nest structure, the distance Jiangnan and his team moved was practically insignificant!
...
In the breeding hall, Chong Bishi watched Jiangnan and his team's escaping backs, a smirk curling at the corner of her mouth.
ᥬ(๑ୖ҉෴ୖ҉) "Only three months or so, and Jiang Devil actually escaped from the Ming He Death Prison? Hmm~ This is big news!"
"Let me see if you can escape from my palm, dear. Poor Sacred Law Council still thinks Jiang Devil is suffering in the Death Prison? Hah~ How self-righteous of them!"
"But this time, the Sacred Law Council will owe me a huge favor, hehe~"
Chong Bishi chuckled softly, covering her mouth. Large numbers of insect swarms had already surrounded and protected her!
Although no pheromone commands could be received from Chong Bishi, the insect swarm wouldn't fail to recognize their own queen!
Chong Bishi's gaze then fell on Xuanshe's Chaos Divine Soul beside her!
It was already completely taken over by the Chaos Puppet Worm. Even now, he couldn't believe that Black was actually Jiangnan!
He couldn't even self-destruct now. If he did, the puppet worm would also infect the other divine souls outside through the energy feedback!
"Chong Bishi, you truly have guts! Having over three hundred rich mining areas isn't enough for you? You want to dip your hands into what's mine?"
"You're addicted to stealing from others, aren't you? Do you think the Chaos Race is just a decoration? What isn't yours, you can't take!"
"Our two races are allies! Are you disregarding the alliance? In your view, are allies only meant to be screwed over?"
Chong Bishi chuckled lightly: "Compared to a fragile alliance that could be betrayed at any time, I prefer making you my puppet!"
"That way, you'll always be on my side. In this starry sky, I don't trust anyone except myself!"
"As long as you behave obediently, I'll make you grow big and strong, reaching unprecedented heights. After all, what's good for you is good for me!"
"Of course, you can also choose to abandon this divine soul and regain your freedom. But then your strength will plummet, and you'll lose everything you have now. Without sitting in the big mine owner's seat, you, Xuanshe, are nothing!"
"Think it over before answering!"
Xuanshe was almost exploding with rage. If not for the fact that the rest of his divine souls were held by Jiangnan, he would have had the courage to abandon this part!
At worst, he could hide for a while and spend some effort to recover!
But the problem was, if he gave up this forty percent, he would have practically nothing left!
Becoming Chong Bishi's puppet willingly? How could he ever be willing?
But now he had no choice!
...
"Boom!"
With a thunderous sound, Jiangnan crashed into a planetary node of the insect nest web!
The internal structure was complex, incredibly spacious, filled with branching paths and tunnels everywhere!
But the moment Jiangnan barged in, all the tunnel gates closed like sluice gates!
"Rumble!" The insect nest structure transformed wildly, like a rotating kaleidoscope, making it impossible to tell directions!
Looking back, the insect soldier army hadn't chased after them!
Jiangnan looked around, a bit dazed!
That's right, he was lost. When they came in, Jiangnan had clearly imprinted the path in his mind!
But when they tried to retreat, the insect nest structure was completely different!
It was like a huge maze with no exit, Jiangnan and his team scurrying around like little mice inside!
Just then, on the thick insect nest walls, black tunnels tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter cracked open!
A total of seven or eight!
Their sheer diameter was larger than that of an average planet!
Blood light surged on the walls, bloodlines like magical runes flickering unceasingly inside!
Chong Feiyu said urgently: (งᵒ̌﹏ᵒ̌)ง "That's it! No mistake! This insect nest... is alive! That Bitch Bishi actually completed it!"
At these words, everyone shuddered violently!
Jiangnan's scalp tingled: "What do you mean? The insect nest is alive? Are you saying that such a massive insect-built structure is actually a lifeform with its own consciousness?"
"We're running around inside its body?"
Chong Feiyu nodded repeatedly: "A normal insect nest doesn't have the ability to drastically change its own structure. Unless it itself is a lifeform!"
"Modifying the insect nest, giving it life and will... that was an idea I proposed before. I discussed it with her, but even at my peak, I couldn't complete it!"
"I planned to complete my evolution first and then work on the modification, but I didn't expect things to turn out like this! Chong Bishi used the past five thousand years to perfect this idea!"
"A living insect nest with life and will... she actually managed to create it!"
Shengyi's scalp tingled: (☍﹏⁰。) "It's alive? So no matter how we run, we can't escape, right? The insect nest can easily detect our position and change its structure!"
"Guiding the insect army to kill us?"
Jiangnan grinned. Truly, what goes around comes around. A living insect nest?
The team had hidden inside Xuanshe's body, entering Chong Bishi's body. Now they were stuck inside the insect nest's body!
If the insect nest was compared to a human body, these tunnels were blood vessels. Jiangnan and his team were invading viruses to be eliminated, and the insect swarm was the white blood cells?
What a perfect ambush from all sides!
Just then, Yakeli suddenly narrowed his eyes, looking at the eight enormous black tunnels!
"Watch out! They're coming!"
Blazing solar wind blew out from the tunnels, and the temperature within the node began to rise crazily!
Chong Feiyu said urgently: "It's a Stellar Energy Cannon! The insect nest has mobilized all the collected stellar energy here, wanting to launch a devastating strike against us!"
Jiangnan's forehead broke out in cold sweat. Good heavens, the insect nest could even do this?
The silicon race played with technology, the insect race played with biological mutation?
"Everyone, defend!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Blazing white-hot high-temperature jets burst out from all eight tunnels!
At this moment, the entire insect nest node turned into an incinerator!
The energy collected from a dozen or so surrounding stars was all unleashed within this node!
The temperature inside far exceeded that of a sun's core, enough to incinerate everything!
"Domain Expansion • Stygian River Charging Star!"
Samo and Boden quickly deployed their domains, layering them together to withstand the high-temperature impact!
This intense incineration lasted nearly three full minutes before gradually ending!
The entire node chamber was still filled with extremely high temperatures!
Sparks flew, things distorted, even the insect glue on the inner walls of the node chamber had melted!
In the very center of the chamber floated a reddish-hot strong-phase alloy sphere, covered with a layer of melted crystal on the outside!
The next moment, tens of thousands of tunnel gates opened all around the chamber, and countless insect soldiers surged in!