Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 564 First Conflict with the Shell Organization

The edges of the two spaces twisted and shattered at their boundary, only to be forcibly mended by the self-repairing power of space itself. Finally, with a muffled roar, the two continents completely merged.

The space of the shell structure and the space of Ryuji Cave are now connected.

"You arrived quite quickly." Kabuto Yakushi stood beside Muu, his bare feet resting on the cold rocks.

He had already put on the white coat of Wuwei, but it was empty inside, and his figure was only vaguely visible.

Strands of her still-damp hair clung to her cheeks, making her face appear even more feminine.

Wuwei's gaze unconsciously followed her: "You look quite like Lord Orochimaru's test subject."

"Shut up." Kabuto Yakushi said expressionlessly, his gaze fixed on the newly appeared land in the distance.

On the edge of the land, the outlines of buildings are faintly visible, including naturally formed mountains as well as man-made bases and towers.

The swarm has laid out layers of warning lines along its boundaries, but for adversaries at the shell organization level, these lines can only serve as early warnings; the best option is to withdraw entirely.

Not long after the space stabilized, a woman in blue, a white-haired youth carrying a knife, and a blond boy wearing glasses appeared one after another. They were the three elites sent by the Shell Organization: Cihang Jingzhai, Guoxin Jushi, and Shentu Huasheng.

Previously, after Cixian noticed something was wrong after the space docking, the little ten-tailed fox beside him was unusually quiet, with no branches sticking into the soil to search for prey.

This means that there is nothing he needs here: no life, no chakra.

Something is very wrong. Although the snakes of Ryuchi Cave may have fled beforehand, the White Snake Immortal is extremely cunning and will stop at nothing to save his life.

However, just to be on the safe side, Cixian still sent three people to investigate first.

As expected, the three of them found no signs of life after their investigation; not even a single insect, let alone a snake.

Guoxin Jushi squatted down, ran his fingertips along the drag marks on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "The marks are new."

"There are signs of a struggle." The Divine Painter looked around, raised his hand, and drew hundreds of small snakes. "Find them."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a buzzing sound came from the sky.

The three of them looked up at the same time, and a dark cloud surged in from the horizon—it was a swarm of insects!

Hundreds of millions of insects blotted out the sky, like a living black curtain, sweeping in from the depths of Ryuchi Cave.

In the center of the swarm, several enormous outlines vaguely appeared, which were the mother bodies of the giant biological insect soldiers.

They are comparable in size to tailed beasts, weak in combat but with amazing defense. Their only purpose is to devour soil and all other substances to reproduce insects like crazy.

Cihang Jingzhai immediately assumed a fighting stance.

"The insect messengers of the Aburame clan." Koshin Koji's tone was unreadable. "It seems this space has changed hands."

At that moment, a voice came from the void: "Shell Organization, you're too late."

Cihang Jingzhai looked at the swarm of insects and, without saying a word, spewed out a large amount of lava.

Guoxin Jushi formed a hand seal: "Fire Release: Samadhi True Fire".

The flames he spewed were not ordinary flames, but nearly transparent white flames, said to be able to incinerate everything in the world.

This has long transcended the realm of chakra and belongs to divine arts.

White flames licked the swarm of insects, instantly turning any insect touched into ashes without any chance to struggle.

But more insects kept coming in, seemingly without end; as soon as one layer was burned, three more immediately surged up.

Samadhi True Fire is extremely powerful, but Koshin Koji's chakra is limited, while the swarm of insects is almost endless.

Even more deadly is that the insects are adapting to the temperature of the flames.

At first, the Samadhi Fire could burn large swarms of insects; gradually, the insect shells became charred and hard, and the flames needed a longer time to burn through them.

"These insects are evolving!" Guoxin Jushi's tone revealed a hint of surprise.

This is an emotion rarely seen in androids, and sure enough, they are actually evolving in the direction of humans.

Seeing this, Cihang Jingzhai formed hand seals and simultaneously unleashed Lava Release and Boiling Release. Scalding lava and corrosive acid mist surged forth, engulfing the swarm of insects.

The Lava Release melted large swarms of insects into black charred blocks, while the Boil Release tore a huge gap in the insect swarm's formation.

But as soon as the dead insects hit the ground, they were devoured by the swarming insects of their kind; they were actually consuming the corpses of their companions.

The Divine Painter finally spoke: "Don't waste your energy. These insects are just expendable resources; the real threat is the three mother insect nests."

Of the three, he was the most intelligent and had already seen through it: the reason why insects can rapidly iterate and update is because the individuals that survive and develop fire resistance bring the resistance genes back to the insect hive, completing the population iteration.

If they continue fighting, their abilities will eventually be completely adapted to and rendered ineffective by the insects. Only by directly destroying the insect nest can they eliminate the future threat.

Without further hesitation, he unrolled the scroll, bit his finger, and used his blood as ink to outline a door on the scroll.

"Ninja Technique: Divine Paint: Two-Dimensional Cage"

The door on the paper detached from the painting and became a real object.

The door opened, revealing not air inside, but a pitch-black two-dimensional void.

The Divine Painter appeared in a flash above the giant mother insect, raising the scroll and snapping it forward.

A powerful suction force emanated from the door, instantly drawing the mother insect inside.

The moment the insect entered the door frame, its body was flattened and stretched, turning into ink stains on the paper, completely trapped and unable to move.

This is his divine magic.

Just as the mother insect was trapped and about to be completely annihilated, Kabuto Yakushi and Muwei finally appeared.

"A two-dimensional cage, an interesting ability. But..." Kabuto Yakushi raised his hand, gathering a ball of pure natural energy between his five fingers, and flicked it gently.

The energy struck the door frame with pinpoint accuracy, and the once sturdy door instantly crumbled into a pool of ink.

Instead of being angry, the divine painter Kabuto laughed – he personally destroyed the mother insect he had cultivated.

Seeing his companion's painstakingly cultivated insect queen destroyed, Wuwei's face turned ashen: "Please don't act rashly before you understand the situation."

"I'm sorry," Kabuto said apologetically.

"I hate apologizing afterwards." Wuwei's figure instantly coalesced and rushed towards the other two insect nest mothers.

White flames, lava escape techniques, and acid mist instantly descended upon him. However, the white flames only burned off a layer of skin before his body quickly adapted, and his flesh immediately regenerated.

"Your flames are ineffective against me!"

"Troublesome." Guoxin Jushi uttered a low growl, drew his longsword, and with a flash of sword light, Wuwei's body instantly shattered into four pieces.

The next instant, the shattered body transformed into countless insects, piecing itself back together, but the clothes on its body became tattered and torn.

"You ruined my clothes!" Wuwei's face showed displeasure. He had just said that transforming would not damage his clothes.

He raised his hand and waved it, and a wisp of gray mist wrapped around the blade of Guoxin Jushi's knife. Upon closer inspection, it was not gray mist at all, but tiny insects that were barely visible to the naked eye.

Guoxin Jushi immediately released his grip, but in just a moment, the long sword was completely corroded by the swarm of tiny insects.