Boundless’s return had essentially brought the crisis of the Nests under control for the Tianyuan Megaverse. Humanity had started a counteroffensive against the insects, and they had been systematically clearing them out from parallel universes, but there were simply not enough top experts to settle things quickly.
If the Spirit Nidus wanted to cause trouble at this time, the Tianyuan would truly face a crisis.
Sovereign Dou Sheng clenched his golden cudgel as he stared past the boundary. “They want to cause trouble? Do they even have any experts left?”
Shan Gu was also quite puzzled. “Just what did Lord Lu do in the Spirit Nidus to give you so much confidence?”
Beside them, Mu Zhu calmly stated, “Regardless, they shouldn’t be thinking of making problems for us right now.”
As they spoke, more experts rushed towards the boundary. Sovereign Dou Sheng swept his golden cudgel in a wide arc, clearing a swarm of insects with one stroke. After that, Genesis’s massive form shot through the gate before slowing to halt in front of the Tianyuan’s experts.
Chu Yi’s eyes flashed. “Just as I thought, it’s a Spirit Nidus battleship.”
Before anyone else could react, E' Nan rose up from the battleship’s prow and excitedly shouted, “By the order of Lord Lu, the Spirit Nidus has come to support the Tianyuan Megaverse! As he commands, we will obey without question!”
The Tianyuan Megaverse’s experts stared in a daze. What? Lord Lu ordered the Spirit Nidus to support us?
No one had expected that outcome, not even those who had returned aboard Boundless. When they returned home, Lu Yin had been luring the Immortal beast that had been hunting him away, while the Spirit Nidus cultivators who had been captured had all been taken away by Master Qing Cao.
How had Lu Yin pulled such a thing off? This meant that he had escaped from an Immortal monster and somehow managed to issue orders under Qing Cao’s very nose to force the Spirit Nidus to assist the Tianyuan! It was unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
Ancient God, Wu Tian, Garan Zhiluo, and Lord Xu all looked at Chu Yi’s group in confusion. Was Lu Yin not on the run, as they had thought? Had Master Qing Cao not returned to the Spirit Nidus? What was going on?
Far away, Emperor Slayer’s mouth fell open in stunned disbelief. Just what has Lu Yin done now?
He had heard details of what had happened in the Consciousness Megaverse from those who returned with Boundless, and he had been happy with his decision to flee early on. If not for that, he would have needed to face both the Immortal beast and Qing Cao. However, Lu Yin faced both and still escaped... and he can even order the Spirit Nidus about now? That’s madness!
No one could understand what could have possibly happened.
Su Shidao, Zi Tianshu, and the others observed the Tianyuan’s experts with solemn expressions. As expected, these people were strong, far beyond what they had imagined.
They were able to feel Ancient God’s power, Lu Yuan’s unfathomable depths, Garan Zhiluo’s overwhelming killing intent, Progenitor Yōu Ming’s power, and Mu Ke’s blade qi. The pressure of these cultivators alone stifled the Spirit Nidus.
After all that had happened, the Spirit Nidus had lost its edge. In contrast, the Tianyuan had experienced a massive leap forward. There was no longer any comparison between the two.
The Spirit Nidus was painfully aware that their sole remaining advantage was their numbers. The overall power of the Spirit Nidus’s cultivators surpassed the Tianyuan’s, which was why they were capable of aiding in the current insect crisis. However, when it came to top-tier experts, the Spirit Nidus had fallen behind.
The Tianyuan was no longer the weakest of the three human megaverses.
With Wang Wen and Wei Rong giving them a bit of guidance, the Spirit Nidus’s four battleships sailed to four different parallel universes, where they began exterminating insects.
Upon seeing the bugs that filled the universes, the people of the Spirit Nidus understood why Lu Yin had exterminated all of the bugs in the Spirit Nidus before the vessels left. It was clear that these insects were the crisis that the Tianyuan was facing.
Lu Yin had never shared the exact cause of the crisis, only that the more cultivators who were sent to support the Tianyuan, the better.
They finally knew why.
But... how did these bugs get to the Spirit Nidus? Did Boundless take them? Wait, E' Nan!
Su Shidao suddenly remembered E' Nan. Lu Yin had only found that man right before leaving the Spirit Nidus, but why had the man been in the Spirit Nidus to begin with? Anyone with a brain could reach the conclusion that E' Nan had probably delivered the bugs there.
Realizing that enraged Su Shidao. That man had shifted the crisis over to the Spirit Nidus. Despicable!
To think that I’ve been so kind to him on the way here, how infuriating!
However, he could not have possibly made such a decision on his own. These people of the Tianyuan are truly devious.
Fortunately, Lu Yin himself was not terrible. He had helped the Spirit Nidus by eliminating the bugs there. Judging by that, he had a better personality than most of the people in the Tianyuan Megaverse.
Elsewhere, in the Heavens Sect’s main hall, Lu Yuan, Ancient God, Chu Yi, and others gathered around E' Nan, listening to the message that Lu Yin had left for them.
“Are we supposed to keep them here?” Lu Yuan asked as his brows rose. Killing intent flickered in his eyes. “Do we ‘take care’ of them?”
E' Nan replied, “No. Lord Lu simply means that they cannot be allowed to return to the Spirit Nidus.”
“Why not? You’re not actually saying that they’re going to permanently live here in the Tianyuan Megaverse, are you?” Chu Yi was puzzled.
E' Nan replied, “That’s indeed Lord Lu’s intention. Also, this is only the first group. He wants the current and the next generation of cultivators to move from the Spirit Nidus to the Tianyuan. He wants the Heavens Sect to give them some territory. No matter what, they can’t be allowed to return to the Spirit Nidus for the rest of their lives.”
Wang Wen chuckled. “This plan sounds familiar.”
Wei Rong nodded. “First it was the Sixth Mainland, and then the Three Monarchs Universe was absorbed like this. Is Lord Lu trying to incorporate the entire Spirit Nidus?”
E' Nan shook his head. “I don’t know about that, as Lord Lu didn’t tell me.”
Lu Yuan slapped a hand down on the table. “In that case, let’s find more crises. As long as the Tianyuan remains in danger, they can’t leave.”
“Other crises? How?” Sovereign Dou Sheng was stunned.
Wei Rong smirked. “We can just make something up. The Tianyuan is ours, so we can say whatever we want.”
Ancient God turned around and started to walk away.
“Where are you going?” Lu Yuan asked.
Without even looking back, Ancient God replied, “To talk to Emperor Slayer. We need to make sure that he doesn’t let anything slip. He’s gotten too familiar with the Tianyuan.”
Chu Yi agreed. “True, it’s time for a chat. Let’s also call Astral Anura, the Megalith, and the Pridebeast over. We can all have a chat.”
The plaza beneath the Heavens Sect’s main hall had a cauldron. Inside it, Sapling occasionally stretched its leaves upward, only to retract them again in a disappointed manner.
“He’s sent word.”
Green leaves suddenly reached out, glowing with a pleasant emerald light as they reached towards the speaker. Mister Mu was visiting Sapling.
After returning with Boundless, Wilderness God and the other experts had immediately helped out with exterminating the bugs. Once victory became assured, one of them had taken over the task of restraining the sequence string, which had freed Mister Mu.
The man raised a hand to gently touch Sapling’s green leaves. “He’s safe, and he will return.”