However, at this moment, Song Chi’s confidence had substantially increased. Without those double-winged tiger head insects that could gnaw at the ship’s body up close, he was not afraid of just these remote acid attacks.

The [Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator] at the Third Rank Level had a shield value of over four million, and the key was that the defense value was over one hundred thousand. Those First Rank splatter bugs simply couldn’t break through, and as for the not so numerous Second Rank splatter bugs, the Dark Matter Energy Shield could easily withstand their attacks.

Without paying too much attention to the dense attacks coming from below, Song Chi only diverted a fraction of his attention to perform necessary evasions, while the vast majority of his focus remained on that Third Rank queen insect.

After repeated attacks from the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon, the wound on the head of the queen had expanded to over thirty meters, and the loss of large amounts of thick purple blood seemed to have weakened the giant creature with a body length of a kilometer.

Its roar had significantly weakened compared to before, and even its head appeared powerlessly draped over the rocky ground.

Seeing this, Song Chi’s heart didn’t waver the slightest bit; he still controlled the Cang Qiong to hover above the entrance between the second and third layers of space, tirelessly unleashing the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon again and again.

His idea was simple, regardless of whether the Third Rank queen insect was truly weakened, it was absolutely impossible for him to risk bringing the Cang Qiong closer to it. After all, there were still more than twenty hours until the subsequent retreat, plenty of time. Instead of taking risks, he preferred a steady approach by slowly dealing with it using long-range attacks.

Perhaps because Song Chi didn’t take the bait, or possibly because it forcefully suppressed its own feeling of weakness, in any case, the queen insect’s body once again underwent changes. There was another intense flash of purple light, followed by even more insect eggs being expelled from its body.

With this round of egg-laying, its already shrunken abdomen deflated even more, but the eggs released this time were in the hundreds of thousands.

Seeing this, Song Chi no longer paid any attention to the splatter bugs below. The Electromagnetic Ray Cannon’s muzzle turned, clearing away the dense swarm of insect eggs as fast as possible.

As the Cang Qiong unreservedly cleared away its young right in front of it, the queen insect opened its mouth wide, revealing its ferocious fangs below.

Song Chi thought it was preparing to roar to issue some command again, but this time he was wrong.

A dazzling purple beam shot out from its mouth at an incredible speed, piercing towards the Cang Qiong.

This purple light ray was astonishingly fast, not much slower than the Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light previously emitted by the Cang Qiong.

Luckily, Song Chi had always maintained enough vigilance and had never underestimated the Third Rank queen insect, so at the crucial moment, he entered the limit-breaking state for the first time, then fully controlled the Cang Qiong to make a minor deflection.

Due to this slight deflection, the highly penetrating purple light ray only struck the side of the Cang Qiong, with about half of its might being dissipated.

Glancing back at the Dark Matter Energy Shield’s shield value, Song Chi’s breath paused slightly.

The four million shield value was now shockingly reduced to just over a million and a half. If he hadn’t entered the limit-breaking state to minutely control the Cang Qiong, the Dark Matter Energy Shield would have likely overloaded.

After the initial fright, a hint of a smile quickly appeared in Song Chi’s eyes because he was almost certain that the queen insect was indeed weakened.

The purple light ray seemed to have drained a considerable amount of its energy, and after the attack, the purple crystal skin on the surface of its body had noticeably dimmed.

If one were to compare its previous purple crystal skin to the tender skin of a young girl, then now it resembled the skin of an eighty-year-old woman in her previous life, shriveled and wrinkled, clearly different at a glance.

In the control room, Song Chi’s eyes slightly narrowed, but he still had no intention of getting closer. A Third Rank being was still a notorious queen insect of the Shattered Starry Sea. He dared not take any risks; who knew if the opponent had other cards up her sleeve?

Just now, that purple light ray had nearly caused the [Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator] to overload completely. If another such attack came, he was afraid he might have to stay here forever.

Still controlling the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon to eliminate those insect eggs, after about ten minutes, even with Song Chi firing at full strength, tens of thousands of the Insect Race appeared in the third layer of space, in addition to the tens of thousands of splatter bugs from before.

Almost a hundred thousand of the Insect Race were now stacked up in the third layer of space within the ruins.

Looking at the insect race that nearly filled the entire space, Song Chi’s brows remained tightly furrowed, but still, he had not the slightest thought of retreat.

Aside from the twenty thousand splatter bugs earlier, the newly bred insects were mostly Zero Rank, posing no great threat to the Cang Qiong.

And if that queen insect were to release again the little energy left inside her body...

Glancing at her now much deflated body, Song Chi smiled softly. If it happened again, even if the queen insect didn’t immediately fall into a deep sleep, a state of severe weakness was inevitable, and that was precisely what he most wished to see.

In the Cang Qiong, Song Chi was curious about the queen insect’s choice, but of course, the cannons on the Cang Qiong never stopped firing, the secondary cannon attacking those Zero Rank double-winged tiger head insects, and the main cannon kept targeting the body of the queen insect.

Like this, dozens of seconds later, the queen insect made a choice that somewhat surprised Song Chi; it actually chose to expel the little energy remaining inside its body.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read