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Time quickly passed.
That Insect Empress finally finished killing that plant lifeform.
Although the combined attacks of the Insect Kings were extremely terrifying and could even threaten King-tier powerhouses,
this plant lifeform was simply far too massive.
Its roots and vines stretched at least tens of millions of kilometers.
That size was indeed excessively large.
As a result, even though the Insect Kings managed to kill this plant lifeform, they suffered heavy losses.
Roughly tens of thousands of Insect Kings died.
After killing this plant lifeform, just as Luo Fan had expected,
the Insect Empress flew toward the area where the other plant lifeforms were gathered.
Then, she once again lured out another plant lifeform and destroyed it using the same method as before.
Luo Fan noticed that this Insect Empress was constantly replenishing her Insect Kings.
This indicated that she possessed a very large number of Insect Kings.
This Insect Empress was likely well prepared.
Nurturing so many Insect Kings required a great deal of time.
Under normal circumstances, an Insect Empress would not carry so many Insect Kings with her.
The optimal combat number for Insect Kings was around ten thousand.
This was the maximum number an Empress could finely control.
If the number was too large, precise control would become impossible.
The greatest strength of Insect Kings lay in individual combat.
If it was only about launching combined attacks, it would be better to use millions of Insect Warriors instead.
They were cheaper, easier to nurture, and required far less control.
The best use of Insect Kings was small-scale legion warfare.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, an Empress would not bring too many Insect Kings.
Carrying a bit over ten thousand was more than enough.
However, judging from the Insect Empress continuously replenishing her Insect Kings,
she had brought at least several million Insect Kings with her.
Otherwise, killing these plant lifeforms would have been extremely difficult.
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Thus, time continued to pass.
Before long, this Insect Empress had already killed ten plant lifeforms.
All ten of these plant lifeforms were Immortal-level.
Moreover, Luo Fan discovered something else.
The bodies of these plant lifeforms were extraordinarily large.
Large divine bodies were normal for plant lifeforms.
However, logically speaking, for ordinary Immortal-level plant lifeforms, having vines and roots spanning a few hundred thousand kilometers should already be sufficient.
Even some well-nurtured Marquis-tier Immortal plant lifeforms would only have vines a few million kilometers long.
Yet these were merely ordinary Immortal-level plant lifeforms, and their vines and roots exceeded tens of millions of kilometers.
This was highly abnormal.
After killing ten plant lifeforms, the Insect Empress had lost nearly one million Insect Kings.
Such losses would cause even these genius Empresses great pain.
However, Luo Fan noticed that the number of Insect Kings under her command had not decreased at all.
She continued replenishing them without pause.
This alone showed just how much preparation she had made.
During this period, Luo Fan also managed to uncover her identity.
She was a Metamorphosis Realm genius Insect Empress who had entered this secret realm over ten thousand years ago.
Her name was Youmeng.
Her strength was sufficient to rank within the top ten of the Metamorphosis Realm.
Her comprehension was comparable to some early-stage King-tier powerhouses.
One had to know that such geniuses were extremely rare even within the Human Race's Primal Secret Realm.
Among the genius World Masters of the Primal Secret Realm, only a handful had passed the eighteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
This alone was enough to show just how powerful Youmeng was.
On the Human Race's Assassination List, Youmeng ranked thirteenth.
Although she ranked outside the top ten, this list combined geniuses from three major alien races.
Her potential was therefore still enormous.
Luo Fan would find it somewhat troublesome to deal with her.
The main concern was that she might transmit information outward.
This secret realm allowed access to the Dream Network.
This was precisely why Luo Fan could look up Youmeng's information.
Having stayed in the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm for ten thousand years, she was certainly plotting something significant.
Luo Fan planned to wait until she dealt with the remaining plant lifeforms before making his move.
Among the remaining four plant lifeforms, one was a high-level Marquis-tier Immortal, and one was an early-stage Marquis-tier Immortal.
The remaining two were peak Immortal Army Commander–level plant lifeforms.
Moreover, Luo Fan also discovered that the divine bodies of these two Marquis-tier Immortal plant lifeforms were even larger than those of the previous ten ordinary Immortal plant lifeforms.
To deal with these two plant lifeforms, even this Insect Empress would have to pay a tremendous price.
After all, although these plant lifeforms were not particularly strong, their divine bodies were simply too large.
Killing them was extremely troublesome.
Luo Fan also noticed that when the Insect Empress lured plant lifeforms away, sometimes more than one plant lifeform would move.
However, each time she only allowed the Insect Warriors sent to lure them to guide a single target.
As for the rest, she directly abandoned those Insect Warriors.
After devouring those Insect Warriors, the plant lifeforms would return to their original positions.
Moreover, these plant lifeforms seemed to possess an especially strong bloodthirsty instinct.
Whenever they encountered Insect Warriors, they immediately wanted to devour them.
As a result, most of the Insect Kings controlled by Youmeng left almost no corpses after death.
Not only that, even the opposing plant lifeforms left very few remains.
After all, Immortal divine bodies were composed entirely of divine power.
As this divine power was consumed, the plant lifeforms' divine bodies would shrink.
Therefore, after these plant lifeforms died, almost no remains were left behind.
Furthermore, they were well aware that they could not fall into dormancy.
Thus, when their divine bodies became too small, many of them chose to self-destruct.
At this moment, the Insect Empress continued dispatching Insect Warriors to lure the plant lifeforms.
However, the remaining four plant lifeforms seemed unaffected and stayed completely still.
These plant lifeforms had extremely low intelligence and did not realize that companions who left never returned because they had died.
Logically speaking, when faced with food delivered right to their mouths, they should have taken the bait.
Yet now, these plant lifeforms did not move at all.
This indicated that there was something even more valuable where they were.
As a result, they were unwilling to leave their positions.
Seeing that the Insect Warriors could not attract their attention, Youmeng could not help but let out a soft sigh.
Her brows slightly furrowed, and a conflicted expression appeared on her face.
If anyone were to see that look, they would only want to pull her into their arms and comfort her.
However, there was no one else here.
Only some Insect Kings with little intelligence, and Luo Fan, a human who coveted Youmeng.
Luo Fan did indeed covet Youmeng.
However, his primary goal was to enslave her.
What genius Insect Empress would not be worth enslaving?
That said, enslaving her would not be easy.
Insect Empresses were never weak in terms of the soul.
Their willpower was stronger than that of most other races at the same level.
As one of the very best among them, Luo Fan guessed that Youmeng's willpower might already have reached the Immortal level.
It might even be higher than his own.
To enslave her, it would be best to wait until she was severely injured.
Alternatively, sealing Youmeng directly would also work.
Only then would Luo Fan have a reasonable chance of enslaving her.
As for direct enslavement, that was basically impossible.
At this moment, Youmeng moved.
She released a massive number of Insect Kings once more.
Previously, she had only deployed several hundred thousand Insect Kings.
This still allowed her to barely command a small portion of them.
The rest could only be ordered to focus their attacks on the plant lifeforms.
However, this would also lead to increased losses among the Insect Kings.
After all, she could not precisely control them to dodge attacks.
Thus, although the overall offensive power increased, the losses also rose significantly.
Now, she actually brought out another several hundred thousand Insect Kings, directly assembling a force of one million Insect Kings.
One had to know that this kind of tactic was extremely extravagant.
An Insect Empress could at most barely control one million Insect Warriors.
Even then, she could only direct them to attack a single point.
If they were attacked, it would be very difficult to command them to fully evade.
The losses from such a method were enormous.
Youmeng directly controlled one million Insect Kings and sent them flying toward the four plant lifeforms.
Seeing this, Luo Fan did not move closer. Instead, he retreated even farther away.
Such a battle would affect an extremely wide area.
He needed to keep his distance to avoid being caught in the aftermath.
Being discovered at that point would be disastrous.
Luo Fan had just opened a small wormhole and left when he sensed a massive disturbance in the distance.
One had to know that he had already moved eight hundred million kilometers away from the battlefield.
Yet he could still feel such terrifying energy fluctuations and law fluctuations.
This showed just how horrifying the battle between the two sides was.
From afar, he could already see the combined energy attacks of the Insect Kings.
At this moment, Luo Fan only wanted to applaud.
The fiercer the fight between them, the better.
He could now only use a detector to observe the battlefield.
Fortunately, his detector was advanced enough to still capture the scene.
Naturally, it was nowhere near as good as observing up close.
Through the detector, he could see that the vines and roots of the two Marquis-tier plant lifeforms stretched to several tens of millions of kilometers.
The terrifying combined attacks of the Insect Kings frequently shattered these plant lifeforms.
The two Marquis-tier Immortal plant lifeforms both possessed undying bodies and quickly recovered.
However, the two peak Immortal Army Commander–level plant lifeforms did not have such abilities.
Once their vines were severed, they were truly gone.
As a result, whenever they were about to lose their vines, they directly self-destructed that portion of their divine bodies.
Even so, Youmeng was not faring well either.
The losses among the Insect Kings were now far too great.
The power of the vine self-destructions from those two peak Immortal Army Commander–level lifeforms was even greater than the self-destructions of the previous plant lifeforms.
Moreover, this time there were far more Insect Kings involved.
After being caught in the blast radius, a large number of Insect Kings died.
Youmeng continued to dispatch Insect Kings to replenish her forces without pause.
At this point, the two sides had clearly entered a battle of attrition.
Just as the standoff reached an impasse, the Insect Kings suddenly retreated at high speed.
After the plant lifeforms chased them for a short distance, they once again returned to their previous positions.
Just as Luo Fan thought that Youmeng would send another massive wave of Insect Kings forward,
two Insect Warriors flew toward the plant lifeforms instead.
The four plant lifeforms extended several vines, intending to seize and devour these two "small snacks."
At that moment, a massive explosion rang out.
"Boom!"
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