Chapter 2604

"Not wanting to go in, but calling him out to talk? I'm afraid it's to come out and fight."

Lin Moyu could see that there were indeed many formations here, and they were very ancient.

Carrying an aura of vastness, it was clear that Master Kurong had done quite a bit of research into the way of formations.

The Demon Sovereign said, "Do you want to do it, or should I?"

The Demon Sovereign didn't really understand formations; if he were to do it, he would probably just force his way in.

Lin Moyu smiled and said, "Let me do it. Some of the formations here will self-destruct. If we force our way in, we might destroy the things inside."

From these formations, one could roughly gauge Master Kurong's level in formation techniques. It shouldn't be at the Dao Venerable 7th Realm yet, so they weren't extremely powerful formations.

Their only advantage was that the formations he set up were very ancient.

They had some research value. The Demon Sovereign said, "Fine. Then you do it. This old guy Kurong, his formation skills are clearly average."

"Yet he especially loves tinkering with this stuff. After researching for so many years, he hasn't made much progress."

Lin Moyu heard the disdain in the Demon Sovereign's words and smiled, saying, "Formations have very high requirements for talent."

"Sometimes, if you don't understand, you just don't understand. There's no help for it."

The Demon Sovereign deeply agreed. Even though his cultivation realm was high, he didn't really understand formations.

He could only figure out formations below the 3rd rank.

Above the 3rd rank, he wasn't very capable. Most of the formations Master Kurong set up here were just for warning purposes.

Lin Moyu estimated that Master Kurong didn't want to be disturbed, and in case he was doing something, he could be warned in advance.

However, there was one thing Lin Moyu didn't quite understand: formations of this level couldn't stop the Demon Sovereign at all, yet the Demon Sovereign was clearly wary and didn't really want to force his way in.

Perhaps there were some things hidden within the formations. The Demon Sovereign warned, "Be careful when you are breaking the formations. Hidden inside one of them is a Soul-Eater Bug."

"The Soul-Eater Bug will cause no small amount of damage to the soul. Even I find it a headache."

While studying the formation, Lin Moyu asked, "What is a Soul-Eater Bug?"

The Demon Sovereign said, "The Soul-Eater Bug is a peculiar type of insect. That guy Kurong sucked it down from the Outer Heaven Great Dao once. The Soul-Eater Bug is quite troublesome."

"It has Immunity to most powers. Once it bites you, your soul will be damaged and it will be very hard to recover."

Lin Moyu could hear the Demon Sovereign's wariness. Since the Soul-Eater Bug was so difficult to deal with…

Chapter 3312: The Buddhist Clan and the Insect Clan Have a Great Karma

"Why doesn't Master Kurong use it?"

The Demon Sovereign chuckled. "It's not that he doesn't want to use it; it's that he can't. He is also afraid of the Soul-Eater Bug, so he can only trap it in the formation to act as a gatekeeper."

So, it wasn't that Master Kurong didn't want to use the Soul-Eater Bug, but that even he was afraid of it.

With that in mind, Lin Moyu became even more cautious.

Originally, these formations were not difficult in his eyes; they were just ancient enough to have some research value.

Now, he became careful, and his breaking speed dropped significantly.

He could break them slowly, but he couldn't let anything go wrong. The fact that the Soul-Eater Bug could be trapped in the formation showed that its own power wasn't that strong.

Yet it ignored the body's defensive power. The truly troublesome part of the Soul-Eater Bug lay elsewhere: first, it had Immunity to various attacks; second, it could directly cause soul damage, which even the innate souls of those in the Great Dao Realm could not defend against.

This characteristic made even the Demon Sovereign somewhat wary.

Lin Moyu asked the Demon Sovereign where the Soul-Eater Bug came from. The answer the Demon Sovereign gave surprised Lin Moyu; the Demon Sovereign actually didn't know where the Soul-Eater Bug came from.

But this also proved one point: the Soul-Eater Bug was not a product of the Origin Continent.

Back during the Origin Catastrophe, the Soul-Eater Bug only appeared very late.

Lin Moyu could only speculate whether the Soul-Eater Bug came from other worlds.

While breaking the formations, Lin Moyu continued to talk with the Demon Sovereign.

Conversing with the Demon Sovereign was much better than with that old fox, the Three Ancestors.

From the Demon Sovereign's words, he could obtain a lot of information.

And this information was something the Three Ancestors would not tell him, or even if they did, he would have to pay a corresponding price.

That's just how so-called businessmen are.

Everything is about money.

Lin Moyu now occupied a large piece of land in the Western Continent.

In terms of territory area alone, it was no worse than the Dragon Clan or the Insect Clan, only slightly smaller than the Buddhist Clan. It could be considered a four-legged balance of power.

As for the remaining Dao Venerables of the Hundred Herbs Alliance, their combat power was indeed not weak, but they would no longer have any territory.

Whether it was the Dragon Clan or the Insect Clan, neither was easy to deal with.

Since he had become one of the four pillars of the Western Continent, Lin Moyu naturally had to understand the other three.

His previous knowledge of the Buddhist, Dragon, and Insect Clans all came from the information provided by the Three Ancestors.

This time, it was a good opportunity to ask the Demon Sovereign and see how he viewed things.

Only by cross-referencing could he obtain more accurate information.

The Demon Sovereign did not hide anything; he spoke as if he were chatting with an old friend.

He recounted what he knew.

The Buddhist Clan and the Insect Clan were indeed not native inhabitants of the Origin Continent. To be precise, the Buddhist Clan's inheritance did not originate from the Origin Continent, but the beings of the Buddhist Clan were all people of the Origin Continent.

Calculated this way, the Buddhist Clan could be considered half-native to the Origin Continent, whereas the Insect Clan had absolutely nothing to do with the Origin Continent; they came from other places entirely.

Lin Moyu was a bit puzzled by this.

"The Dragon Clan are native inhabitants of the Origin Continent and are so powerful, why don't they wipe out the Insect Clan? I think the Dragon Clan should have the ability. The Dragon Clan and the Insect Clan seem to be sworn enemies."

"But the Dragon Clan has never truly wiped out the Insect Clan. That doesn't make sense," Lin Moyu said.

The Demon Sovereign replied: "It's not that they don't want to wipe them out, but they cannot. The root of the problem is very deep. It involves the Origin Catastrophe of that year and also involves the Great Dao. Even I only know the tip of the iceberg."

"Even if I wanted to tell you, it might not be correct. You can understand it this way: both the Buddhist Clan and the Insect Clan have a huge Karma, a Karma so great that the entire Dragon Clan cannot bear it. So, even though they have a feud with the Insect Clan, they never consider wiping out the Insect Clan."

Lin Moyu said almost instinctively, "Then the significance of the Dragon Clan fighting the Insect Clan is to suppress the Insect Clan?"

The Demon Sovereign said, "That's possible. More detailed information is perhaps only known to the Dragon Clan. The Dragon Clan I speak of is not the Dragon Clan within the Origin Continent, but those above. The Dragon Clan on the Outer Heaven Great Dao are the true masters."

"The Dragon Clan in the Origin Continent must all follow their orders. However, under normal circumstances, the Dragon Clan on the Outer Heaven Great Dao will not interfere with the Dragon Clan in the Origin Continent. I estimate that the inability to wipe out the Insect Clan is also an order left from a very, very long time ago."

As for why the Buddhist Clan and the Insect Clan have such great Karma, and what exactly that Karma is, the Demon Sovereign is not very clear about it either.

This is another mystery that Lin Moyu will need to unravel himself in the future.

However, Lin Moyu was secretly glad that he hadn't done anything wrong.

At the time, he had indeed had the thought of turning the Insect Clan into food for the Bone Hell to upgrade the Bone Hell.

Fortunately, he didn't do that. Karma is something one must be careful about; getting too entangled in it is not good for oneself.

If your luck is bad, some Karma can even be fatal.

After breaking several formations in a row without discovering the Soul-Eater Bug, Lin Moyu smiled and said, "Master Kurong is indeed quite interested in formations, but he knows his talent in formations is not good."

"Why does he still study formations so much?"

The Demon Sovereign said, "I don't know either. I remember he didn't study formations from the beginning; this must be something from the last few hundred thousand years."

Master Kurong had come to the Origin Continent a long time ago. He only started studying formations a few hundred thousand years ago, and he has been studying them for hundreds of thousands of years.

It definitely wasn't out of curiosity.

Lin Moyu was very clear that for someone in the Great Dao Realm like Master Kurong, whatever he did, he must have a purpose.

To be able to endure having poor talent and study formations for hundreds of thousands of years, and even study them to the level of approaching the 7th Realm, there must be a reason.

After breaking another formation, Lin Moyu suddenly stopped. He had found the Soul-Eater Bug.

The Demon Sovereign asked, "Is it in the formation ahead?"

The Demon Sovereign could not see the Soul-Eater Bug through the formation like Lin Moyu.

Lin Moyu waved his hand and projected an image: "Is it this one?"

In the projection, a chubby insect was revealed. This insect was reddish all over.

This red was very peculiar, like blood yet not blood. At first glance, it had a sense of brilliance.

Amidst the brilliance, it also made people feel a sense of danger.

Only half of the insect's head was exposed, with most of it retracted into its body.

It had three pairs of sharp claws that looked very keen and flashed with a cold light.

In the middle of the bright red carapace on its back was a tiny gap, which also indicated that the carapace could move; it should be a pair of wings.

The moment he saw the projection, the Demon Sovereign said very affirmatively, "That's it. That's it. Looking at its appearance, it should be in a deep sleep."

"Is there any way to not wake it up? If it wakes up, it will attack everyone nearby. I'm not afraid, but if it's a soul below the Dao Venerable 7th Realm, I'm afraid they would be finished after being bitten two or three times."

The Demon Sovereign's words were somewhat terrifying. The soul of a Dao Venerable Realm expert was already very strong, yet it couldn't withstand two or three bites from it.

Lin Moyu did not doubt the Demon Sovereign's words at all. "Is there no way to kill this thing?"

The Demon Sovereign said, "It's not easy to kill. It has Immunity to most Great Dao powers. Only a few types of Great Dao powers can kill it."

"But the Great Dao power that each Soul-Eater Bug fears is different. I don't know which Great Dao power this Soul-Eater Bug fears, nor do I know how Kurong trapped it."

"I actually admire Kurong a little." The Demon Sovereign spoke very sincerely; it was clear that he really found the Soul-Eater Bug a headache.

Lin Moyu, however, noticed some clues: Master Kurong hadn't actually trapped it.

He just kept it in a state of deep sleep. Once there was any external stimulation, it would wake up.

If it were really as terrifying as the Demon Sovereign senior said, once it woke up, this formation would not be able to trap it.

This formation was connected to the entire valley. If they forced their way into the valley from other places, this formation would self-destruct, thereby causing the Soul-Eater Bug to wake up.

With such an arrangement, forcing their way in was not an option.

The Demon Sovereign's voice became low. "Do you have any ideas?"

Lin Moyu said, "Let me think."

Chapter 3313: This Sovereign Never Lets His Guard Down

Lin Moyu did not act immediately, but carefully observed the Soul-Eater Bug.

The Demon Sovereign didn't rush him either; he knew it couldn't be rushed.

Lin Moyu could clearly feel that the Demon Sovereign was somewhat nervous at this moment.

A mere Soul-Eater Bug could actually make someone in the Great Dao Realm like the Demon Sovereign nervous; it was somewhat amusing.

Lin Moyu looked through the formation, carefully observing the Soul-Eater Bug, while simultaneously sensing the aura on the Soul-Eater Bug. Using his eyes to look…