The further you go, the denser the fungal carpet on the ground becomes, until it completely merges into one.

On this land, blue-green fungal carpets covered everything.

And on these fungal mats, 'flower buds' more than a meter high began to appear.

Its shape resembles an unopened flower bud, composed of four closed mycelial petals.

With each opening and closing, a large number of light spots were emitted, more than a thousand times more than the light spots Qin Xiao had created.

Using the force of opening and closing, it soared into the sky and drifted into the distance.

Strange structures also appeared approximately every kilometer along the luminous veins through which the current passed.

It was a dark black, hard lump, like a strangely shaped stone.

Qin Xiao's True Sight skill could actually be activated on it.

Electric Bug; Golden Seven Stars, Purple Talent; Skills: Electric Shock, Biotic Armor, Electrocution

It's an insectoid beast!

Qin Xiao was truly amazed by this unique energy system and this special relationship of survival.

He speculated that these fungal mats and insects were likely cultivated through gene editing.

However, being able to create a species that directly utilizes energy is truly worthy of being called a cosmic insect race.

Qin Xiao raised his hand, reduced his strength, and a surge of sword energy rushed out.

Clang!

A metallic clang rang out, and the dark black 'strange rock' flashed with a faint light.

Click click click~

Like a stone cracking open, the dark black rock transformed in front of Qin Xiao into a strange beast that looked like a ladybug.

With a round body, eight long legs, and a split shell on its back, it vibrated and hummed as it rushed toward Qin Xiao.

Before the insects even arrived, a bolt of electricity as thick as a thigh appeared out of thin air and struck Qin Xiao and the others.

However, before the current could get close to Qin Xiao and the others, it was controlled by Ilya and dissipated into the air.

Without stopping, the beetle flew straight at us, curling up into a ball with its carapace facing forward.

Jingjing took off, twisted her slender body, and slapped her tail, sending the beetle flying.

"This bug has pretty good defense," Qin Xiao remarked.

Although Jingjing didn't use much force with her tail, it was still something that ordinary golden beasts couldn't withstand.

Yoyo swam over, and then slapped her tail back.

The group studied it for a while and found that apart from being tough and being able to control electric current attacks, the insect didn't seem to have anything special about it.

However, as a basic guardian, these attributes and abilities should be sufficient.

After all, looking at this huge, seemingly endless fungal carpet, the number of fungi must be quite considerable.

Qin Xiao casually sliced ​​the beetle in half with a single strike and found a spirit crystal inside the beast's body.

The small sphere beside them also appeared on its own, projecting a light screen that scanned them.

[Gold-tier beast, 1 point, kill count: 1/100]

Qin Xiao curled his lips. This really leaves no loopholes. Gold-ranked individuals are easy to kill, but there are only 100 spots available.

Even if you kill all the enemies, you'll only get 100 points.

At this moment, Lu Chengxiao and Ye Qinghuan stared intently at Qin Xiao's broadcast page on the screen.

"Wow, we've finally opened for business! Keep it up, bro!"

Lu Chengxiao muttered nervously.

Ye Qinghuan shook her head, "It's only just begun, so we definitely need to get familiar with the environment first. The current points aren't reliable."

Lu Chengxiao ate a potato chip. "I know, I'm just a little nervous."

I opened a bet on the top seed in the points competition and went all in on Qin Xiao.

Look at the top spots on the leaderboard; they've all scored almost twenty points.

Ye Qinghuan smiled helplessly, "Then watching this competition was really worthwhile for you, you were fully engaged and full of anticipation."

Qin Xiao's side continued to advance, but troubles began to come one after another.

After killing the electric bug, it seemed to activate some kind of command, and more and more electric bugs began to awaken along the way.

From the initial three, then five, to the later ten, then one hundred.

Although it wouldn't cause Qin Xiao any major trouble, there were no more points to be gained after killing a hundred.

Qin Xiao and the others jumped onto Youyou's back.

"Hey, hurry up and get there!"

Qin Xiao gave the order, no longer wanting to get entangled with these electric insects.

Ilya controls the terrifying electric currents and viscous electric fields in the air.

As Youyou accelerated her flight, even wisps of lightning and sparks appeared above her head.

However, a layer of ice shield can prevent these damages from occurring.

As Qin Xiao approached the central area, the ground cover suddenly cracked open in the center where the plasma was emitted.

Thick currents surged continuously, and then a large number of insects shot out.

These insects resembled clumps of plasma forming an octopus, each with eight sucker tentacles, and they hovered and flew toward Qin Xiao's location.

Behind the swarm of plasma worms, a huge, eye-filled monster followed, flying at a leisurely pace.

Soon, Qin Xiao spotted the plasma bugs coming from the opposite direction and checked the data provided by True Sight.

Plasma Bug; Gold Ten-Star; Purple Talent; Skills: Plasma Bomb, Concentration, Self-Destruction

"Watch out, there are exploding bugs. Deal with them remotely."

Holy crap, even suicide tanks are here!

Looking at these three skills, one can only say they were born for explosions.

Upon receiving Qin Xiao's command, the beasts began to control their spiritual energy and elements.

Ling'er's Psionic Missiles, Slovic's Shadow Spikes, and Jingjing's Golden Edge all added a buff to Youyou's Mysterious Ice Spikes.

In an instant, attacks rained down on the plasma worms.

However, apart from Ling'er's psionic missile detonating the plasma bug, the other attacks had no effect.

Slovic's Shadow Spikes pierced the Plasma Worm like a hedgehog, but the enemy was completely unaffected.

Even Yoyo's 'enchanted' ice spikes were useless, although the extremely low freezing temperature instantly froze the plasma bugs upon hitting them.

However, as the free currents in the air converge, these ice blocks, which have no power source, are quickly melted by the extremely high temperature.

Damn, it's immune to physical attacks?

Qin Xiao was somewhat surprised; this plasma bug was quite a strange creature.

At this moment, Ilya raised her hand, as if controlling something, and the plasma bugs that were approaching from a distance immediately began to explode.

A series of secondary explosions wiped out the plasma worms in the sky.

"Master, these insects are so strange, they're just like energy creatures," Ilya said thoughtfully.

"It's quite interesting. It looks like an energy creature. They can even create this kind of insect."

While Qin Xiao was still marveling at the situation, behind the insect that Ilya had defeated, a giant eyeball-shaped monster quickly transmitted the image back.

The central area, hundreds of meters underground.

This place is entirely formed by fungal carpets, with huge electrical currents everywhere, illuminating the area with their emitted light.

The image transmitted from the other eyeball is being displayed in the eyeball of the other enormous eyeball.

In front of the eye-screen, a humanoid creature stands upright, watching silently.

Its body is covered with carapace, its head is very large, and it has a single eye in the middle. It does not have any human facial features such as a mouth or nose.

Even when all the plasma bugs exploded, he remained expressionless.

Finally, some strange text flashed on the screen, translated as follows.

Species: Unknown

Energy level: Level 7

Race: Unknown

Rank: Limit

The data has been uploaded to the Queen's database.

Queen's Decree: Grant access to the electric hive. Soldiers have set out to capture and collect genetic information.