Chapter 526: Purgatory World (1/2)

Nikello City.

The spirit insect’s underground city.

There were around three million spirit insects living in the city, with several different tribes.It could be considered a large underground city.

The spirit insects were different from the normal underground or surface race.The spirit insects could gnaw on energy rich minerals to survive, so this energy and metal were a part of their life and even cultivation that they couldn’t lack.The energy was not just for the consumption of the spirit insects, the metals could also harden their carapaces and give them stronger defenses.

This was why while the spirit insects were one of the stronger powers, they didn’t attack the surface world.This was because the underground world had enough resources for them to use and they wouldn’t be too adaptive to the environment of the surface world.This is just like why the surface’s spirit beasts and humans didn’t attack the underground world.

There were also several influences in the underground world and they were ruled by several powerful leaders.

The most famous one was the Spider Queen Alexis.

Alexis controlled a third of the territory and population of the spirit insects and she was the only spirit insect leader trying to establish a foothold on the surface world.This current Nikello City as a city under the control of the Spider Queen.

Chu Tian was tied up as he walked forward, “I am warning you, if my companions see that I am missing a single limb, you won’t be able to see a single egg!”

“Stop talking!”

Chu Tian looked at Nikello City and his eyes were slightly stunned as he looked at the underground city for the first time.The appearance of Nikello City was like a giant appendage that was covered in tumours inside a giant beast.

There were large empty spaces around the city where the spirit insects opened breeding farms and fields, raising dark beings and dark plants.The spirit insects didn’t have a high dependance on them, but they still needed them a bit.

Nikello City was reached as high as three thousand meters, looking like an irregular funnel.The top was big and the bottom was small, where it was connected to the ground, being completely empty on the inside.When one entered into it, there would be transport networks stretching in every direction, just like a honeycomb.

Perhaps even the most complicated labyrinths couldn’t compare to this.

Chu Tian entered the nest to appreciate the insect clan’s life.The spirit insects didn’t have order and didn’t even have an army or officials.Other than the one lord ruling above, the entire city was divided into clans, making it very chaotic.However, there was a tacit understanding in this chaos.

The tacit understanding of the spirit insects came natural, just like a group of ants or bees.Even if there was laws, the inferior submitted to the superior and each person finished their duties, having something that they were required to do.

Too complicated.

Escaping from here was harder than ascending to heaven!

If Chu Tian didn’t have the Space Scroll, he wouldn’t have dared take this risk!

The spirit insect city was as complicated as blood vessels, but there was a giant tunnel in the middle of the city, or accurately speaking, it was heavily guarded tunnel.There were large amounts of elite spirit insect warriors as if they were worried about enemies appearing.

Chu Tian released a bit of Divine Sense to investigate.

At the end of the tunnel, there was a large space and a giant tunnel leading down.

The spirit insects locked Chu Tian in a prison built out of crystals, so firm that even Spirit Transformation Experts couldn’t destroy it and Divine Sense was completely trapped inside.Even with Chu Tian’s Vision Domain Divine Sense, he couldn’t investigate the outside world.

A dark elf was suffering all kinds of tortures inside the cell.

“What goal did you have in coming here!”

“Quickly talk!”

This young dark elf boy was scarred all over from the spirit insects.Several spirit insects had cut the skin on his back and then applied large amounts of pain inducing medicine on the wounds.

The dark elf was exceptionally unyielding.

No matter what kind of torture it suffered, it didn’t even give a grunt.

A spider soldier bringing Chu Tian in asked, “What is going on?”

“A spy from Purgatory!”

“What are you leaving the Purgatory people for?Just kill them!”

“The lord said to keep the spy and get news about Purgatory from his mouth, so we can’t kill hi yet!”

“Humph, a spy from Purgatory and a thief from the surface, lock them up together.”

The dark elf fainted from his torture and was finally locked in the same room as Chu Tian.This was the most strictly guarded cell, after all, these two were the two greatest criminals of the city.

After around ten minutes.

The dark elf woke up from his pain.

Chu Tian looked at him with curiosity and asked in the elven language, “Hey, are you alright?”

“Human?”

“You know about humans?That’s great.” Chu Tian felt he could communicate with this fellow, “You are someone from Purgatory?How were you caught.”

“How do you know about the Purgatory World?”The dark elf seem to quickly forget his pain and revealed a look of surprise and disbelief, “Aren’t humans a race that live on the surface?Why were you caught by the spirit insects of the Subterranean World!”

Subterranean and Purgatory.

Two very strange words.

Chu Tian could guess their meaning.