âGo, go. Find a suitable place to bury me.â Da Huang imagined the future where it, a cosmic wildbeast, would return to the mysterians, whereupon it would gain their respect and its legend would spread through the entire Mysterium Cluster! It had once been abandoned and forgotten, finally ending up falling on Violetglory. It had become attached to the Minister Supreme, Xing Huangâs, palm. It had just let the days pass.
It didnât expect an opportunity like this to fall into its lap. It could wipe away its past shame and reestablish its glory! âLi Tianming could never have expected that after defeating the Blood Abyss Wargod and moving away from Violetglory so that not even the wonderians could track it, he still couldnât escape them! My existence will be his eternal nightmare.â Da Huang was excited and started chattering on, showing its low intelligence as a cosmic wildbeast.
âHe deserves it.â As for the Minister Supreme, he was excited to be the mysteriansâ game-changer. He walked forward, trying to find a suitable spot.
âThe land here is all flat. How will you hide?â The Minister Supreme felt a headache.
âDoesnât matter, just find somewhere deserted to bury me. Here is fine!â Da Huang said.
âYou sure?â
âSure.â
âThis star has expanded, so the soil layer is thin. Below is the fusion formation. When you grow bigger, your head wonât just pop out of the ground right?â
âItâs fine. Even if it does and they find out, Iâm not a Voidheart Worm. Theyâll just think Iâm a wildbeast thatâs native to Violetglory and wonât connect me to the mysterians,â Da Huang said.
âTrue.â The Minister Supreme extended his hand. The eye and mouth on his palm slowly slid off and fell down, becoming a yellow, octopus-like lump of flesh. Its tentacles were all covered with suckers, out of which yellow fumes began pouring.
âIt stinks!â The Minister Supreme covered his nose, feeling faint.
âShut up! We wasteland bugs are the universeâs smelliest bug! The more we eat, the more we stink. When my body grows large enough, the stink will travel to the astralscape and mark this sun as a smelly star. The mysterians used to use us wasteland bugs before they started raising Voidheart Worms to locate nova sources. You donât need pairs, like Voidheart Worms, you can just use your nose to smell it!â When Da Huang thought of its raceâs history, it felt incomparably proud. To these bugs, the smellier they were, the more valuable they were.
It was truly a gift to become famous based on smell.
âIf you all were so great, why did the Voidheart Worms replace you?â
âThey have our abilities, while also being strong in combat. However, we breed faster!â Da Huang said.
âAlright! Say, wonât you be discovered because of the smell?â the Minister Supreme asked.
âDonât worry. We wouldnât have been able to survive if we couldnât conceal ourselves. When the smell reaches a certain level, itâll be uniform everywhere.â Da Huang was filled with confidence. âQuick! I need meat! Lots and lots of it.â
âThe sun temporarily has limited wildbeasts, so youâll need to wait!â
âNo rush!â
The Minister Supreme would secretly find meat for it while Da Huang dug downward, laughing. âJust wait until my smell knocks you all out! Iâll stink up this whole place and you wonât be able to escape the mysteriansâ noses no matter where you run!â It had been filled with resentment ever since it was abandoned by the mysterians. However, it wasnât resentful toward the mysterians, but instead had a desire to one day contribute merit and earn glory for its race.
Da Huang couldnât help but laugh excitedly.
âYou moron! What a ⦠complete joke. Didnât all⦠of you⦠hear whose⦠territory the⦠sun is! One star⦠canât have⦠two bugs⦠Get it?â There was suddenly a mechanical voice next to Da Huang.
âWhoâre you!â Da Huang was so startled its soul left its body.
In front of it, a small silver cockroach became visible. The cockroach had the gaze of someone looking at an idiot. âI am⦠your granddaddy!â
Da Huang had no impression of the cockroach. It wasnât Yin Chenâs combat form and it was usually hidden, so not many people had seen it.
âYou want⦠to silence⦠me here? I heard⦠everything you⦠said just... now now! A pair⦠of idiots!â the cockroach coldly laughed.
Da Huang felt like it had been humiliated. âGo and die!â It leapt forward and pinched the cockroach to death before letting loose a sigh of relief. However, it quickly found itself beset by an ill premonition.
âDa Huang, come out,â the Minister Supreme said from outside. He sounded despondent.
Da Huang crawled out of the soil and found a golden head above it, blazing with fire. A red-haired sovereign was holding up the Minister Supreme by the back of his neck. Sovereign Brightscorch was also there, helplessly looking at them.
Da Huang's vision turned dark. Its grand plan had been thwarted!
Wudi was hoisting the Minister Supreme up and chuckling. âNewcomers, havenât you heard who the king of insects on this sun is? This is my sonâs Yin Chenâs territory. Trying to conspire and sell us out?â
The Minister Supreme and Da Huangâs expressions constricted. It wasnât that they were unaware of Yin Chen; however, the gossip being spread about Tianming had too many versions, and some were too absurd. Some even said every grain of sand on their star was his body and so on.
As someone whoâd rejected Tianmingâs takeover of the Divineglory Dynasty, the Minister Supreme had indeed not bothered to understand him well. He refused to believe!
Still, it was indeed their bad luck. Yin Chen couldnât cover everywhere now, so there were gaps in the surveillance. It was just a coincidence they had been found out so soon.
Wudi was speechless, too. A disaster in the making had been resolved just like this. âSo, youâre very smelly? Letâs see if the Flameyellow Coffin can burn you to ashes.â Wudi picked up Da Huang and tossed it inside the coffin.
âMercy!â Da Huang cried.
âAnything that wants to challenge the sun or Tianming should die as early as possible.â Wudi never left any path to survival for his enemies.
The universeâs smelliest bug was burnt to ashes just like that. In the end, the fellow had nothing but its smell. Back then, Skywolf Frostâs Voidheart Worm had been even bigger than an astralship. That had been truly terrifying.
âDa Huang.â¦â The Minister Supreme felt his knees go weak when he saw his brother die so tragically.
âIs this your little brother?â Wudi asked Sovereign Brightscorch.
âYes! Iâm sorry that I almost harmed everyone.â Sovereign Brightscorch was very remorseful.
âFortunately, nothing happened. Todayâs a joyous day, so Iâll let you handle it yourself!â Wudi said.
âMany thanks, Brother Wudi,â Sovereign Brightscorch said.
The Minister Supreme was thrown to the ground, utterly stunned. Had his grand plan really died in the crib because of a few sentences? Wasnât this world too scary? Li Tianmingâs shadow had been cast over everything! He hadnât experienced the war between the celestial orderians and myriad sects, otherwise he would have been certain that any conspiracies against Tianming had to be done in the dark without being said out loud. There might seem to be no one around, but there were actually insects watching everything!
After Wudi left, Sovereign Brightscorch was speechless. So was the Minister Supreme.
âSorry, Imperial Brother.â
âGet lost, you idiot!â