With its robust defenses, the Zerg are much easier to resist than one might imagine.
After all, the space passage is only so wide. No matter how many Zerg there are, only so many can come out at a time. Unlike other races, there are no powerful individuals who can act as vanguards to break through. The number of Zerg is being steadily depleted.
Numerous lords surrounded the space passage, peacefully reaping merit points. The insects were relatively weak among their peers; their greatest advantage lay in their numbers and reproductive capacity.
Now that their numbers have been contained and no mother insects can reproduce indefinitely, killing them is incredibly easy.
For a long time afterward, no queen insect emerged from the spatial passage. Ye Chen was unsure if there were any more queen insects inside. However, a dark god had already emerged from Raphael's territory. Zhulong had no choice but to rush to Raphael's location with another demigod to kill the newly appeared dark god.
The simultaneous emergence of dark gods from two spatial nodes was somewhat unexpected, but it was also prepared for. After a brief period of chaos, they gradually became more proficient, and support from both sides was extremely swift.
Compared to Ye Chen's side, Raphael's war ended much faster. It was already in its final stages, and all that was left was to kill a few dark gods before handing it over to the other lower-ranking lords.
The war on Ye Chen's side, however, will take a long time.
The Zerg are a species whose ecosystem revolves around the Zerg Queen. After a Queen is destroyed, it takes a long time for the next demigod-level Queen to discover the entrance to the spatial passage. Moreover, with the death of a Queen, a new Queen will be born, making the Zerg virtually inexhaustible.
Only when the resources of the world behind the spatial passage are completely exhausted, and the mother insect no longer has any edible food, will she be forced to travel to this side through the spatial passage. Otherwise, as long as there is one insect left, it will create countless insects.
"So? Could we use a spatial portal to enter the other world and completely exterminate the insects? Or even trace back to the source of darkness?" Ye Chen asked in his mind. He knew that someone had already tried this, but he still wanted to know more details.
"Theoretically, it's possible, but the risks are too great. And who told you that the space behind it can definitely be traced back to the source of darkness? It's just a plane that was once conquered."
"Therefore, once you pass through the spatial passage, you will only be swallowed by endless darkness, and you may even be completely trapped inside because you lose your return spatial coordinates."
"This kind of spatial node is not the first time it has appeared. Countless plane lords in history have tried to find it, but very few have returned after finding the plane coordinates, let alone traced it back to the source of darkness."
"A ninth-tier lord who once returned from the other side said that only by reaching the peak of the ninth tier, or even the final tenth tier, is it possible to truly overcome the darkness and stop it at its source!"
Raphael answered based on his knowledge and experience, but this answer made Ye Chen's heart tremble slightly. Ninth rank, or even tenth rank. If he remembered correctly, there was not even a ninth rank lord in the Blue Star plane. The gap in strength was too great.
Realizing it was impossible, Ye Chen gave up the idea of ​​continuing to try to go in. He could only stay on the perimeter and clear out the insects that came out. This would be a long and tedious process, possibly lasting longer than any other spatial node. After all, the insects' regenerative ability was too strong. They were like cockroaches that could not be killed. If you were not careful, they might come back with a vengeance.
"When facing a spatial node like the Zerg, the best approach is to deploy defensive facilities on the perimeter and prepare for a protracted war," Raphael advised.
"The higher the level of the insect queen, the greater the energy demand. The planes behind the teleportation channel are all dark planes that have exhausted their resources and have already fallen. Therefore, insect queens cannot stay indefinitely without coming out. Only those insect queens with weak forces need to hide inside."
"Therefore, once we survive the first few waves, this spatial node will be basically safe. We just need to deploy defenses in the spatial channel for a period of time to purify the dark energy. After that, we can close the spatial channel. In the absence of a high-level insect queen, this node will gradually be forgotten."
Ye Chen nodded. Since they couldn't teleport there through the spatial channel, this was the best solution they could think of at the moment.
Spatial nodes, spatial passages... these things always exist in space and cannot be hidden, but they are difficult to discover and find. In fact, if you come at a different time, you may encounter a different spatial node.
Therefore, as time goes by, if no higher-level unit deliberately records these nodes, they will soon be forgotten, and finding them again will be like finding a needle in a haystack, in a sea as vast as the stars.
After dealing with his own spatial node, Raphael went to support the fat man's side. As time went on, powerful dark creatures began to emerge from the fat man's spatial node. It was difficult for his group of low- to mid-level lords to resist them alone, and they needed some mid-level lords of the fifth or even sixth rank to fight against them.
Meanwhile, due to Ye Chen's special circumstances, the matter of opening a new spatial node was postponed again, and they planned to deal with the two spatial nodes they already had first.
As it turned out, Raphael's approach to dealing with the Zerg was correct.
As time went on, although the number of Zerg emerging from the spatial passage did not decrease significantly, their strength was steadily declining, even for the Zerg Queen.
After the third demigod-level insect queen was killed, none of the subsequent insect queens reached the demigod level, and their strength decreased with each passing year.
Recently, a queen insect that emerged from a spatial passage was only at the fifth rank. The insects it hatched were rarely above the fourth rank. Only its group of guardian insects were slightly stronger. A few witch warriors rushed up and killed it without any pressure.
More than a year had passed since the spatial passage was opened. After the fifth-tier insect queen was killed, Ye Chen began to gradually hand over the garrison control here.
For most low-level lords, without the threat of high-level insect queens, this is an excellent place to farm merits.
As for Ye Chen, he returned to the spatial passage where Fatty and Raphael were, and began to kill the last dark god and do the corresponding cleanup work.
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