The scrawny man gave a bitter smile, his face filled with unwillingness.

"Kill her! Otherwise we will all die!"

The other two Ancient Remnant Clan members knew they were dead for sure, roaring crazily as they attempted to launch a suicidal encirclement attack.

However, Zhou Huai had no intention of giving them a chance to show their courage at all.

Just as they were preparing to unleash their final potential, the Alien Parasite inside their bodies frantically sucked away their inner energy.

"Ugh ah——!"

The screams shook the skies.

The three of them curled up weirdly at the bottom of the pit, and slender insect shadows could even be seen rapidly moving across the surface of their skin.

Natsume Rinku watched them quietly, expressionless.

She had once been like this too, struggling in pain and despair.

It was just that she had met the Master.

And these people were the Master's prey.

"Eliminate them!"

The City Guard leader finally reacted at this moment. Although he was intimidated by Natsume Rinku's aura, eager to make meritorious service, he still drew his short sword and wanted to lead people to rush up and finish them off.

In his view, these monsters were already crippled, and killing them now would be a great achievement.

However, a hand covered in black spell power blocked his path.

Natsume Rinku turned her head and looked at him.

"Lady Goddess?"

The leader's hand holding the sword stiffened, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

This person was the current symbol of the Divine Dynasty and the sole spokesperson of that Divine Lord.

As a City Guard commander who had been in office for less than two days, he was imposing in front of ordinary people, but in front of Natsume Rinku, his status was not even as good as a slightly Advanced ant.

"The Master said to leave them alive."

Natsume Rinku's words were concise and to the point.

"Understood, understood!"

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, waved at the soldiers behind him, and his voice became sharp due to fear: "What are you still standing there for?! Catch them! Quick! Use the heaviest magic-suppression chains, plus three layers of special alloy cages!"

"Sir, what... what if these monsters suddenly riot again?" The adjutant's voice trembled, and his hand holding the gun shook uncontrollably.

"Useless trash!" The commander cursed, "With Lady Goddess and Insect Emperor guarding us, can they still turn the world upside down? Move faster! If anything goes wrong, none of us can expect to live!"

The soldiers snapped out of it, rushed forward tremblingly, and carefully dragged the three Awakening ones whose presence had weakened to the extreme into the special prisoner cart.

Zhou Huai watched Caesar's backend experience value income prompts blur into afterimages.

【Ding! Your Alien Parasite is absorbing energy, Experience Points + 12,000!】

【Ding! Your Alien Parasite is absorbing energy, Experience Points + 15,500!】

【Ding! Experience Points + 11,000...】

"This feeling... is truly long-lost." Zhou Huai smiled, "Most of the Avatar were wiped out, but the quality of these power banks is shockingly high."

He looked at Caesar's Level experience bar.

After the battle of slaying Kujo Naruya, he witnessed the formidable power of an SSS-Class Professional, but also experienced its appetite.

Under normal circumstances, the experience points required for an SSS-Class Professional to level up were several times or even ten times that of an SS-Rank Professional of the same Level! If it were any other SS-Rank Professional, after absorbing this massive amount of energy throughout the day, they would have long broken through the Level 50 mark and stepped into the Advanced Levels.

Yet what was the result? Up to now, Caesar hadn't even touched the hurdle of Level 30.

"The more heaven-defying the profession, the more of a bottomless pit of resources it is." Zhou Huai muttered to himself, "But now... I have finally found a way to make Caesar level up quickly."

He issued the highest command.

The Information Bugs scattered in every corner and every sewer of Tokyo turned into an invisible giant net and began to tighten.

"Since it's already exposed, let's completely clear the field."

In less than an hour, the feedback from the Information Bugs came one after another.

"Found him, the fourth one, hidden in an Advanced ward of the Tokyo National Hospital, actually possessing a dying old man?"

"The fifth one, in the underground black boxing ring of Shinjuku? Tsk, no wonder the combat awareness is so strong."

Zhou Huai controlled Caesar, turning into an illusory shadow on the streets of Tokyo late at night, locking onto and bringing back these two escaped fish.

At this point, in Tokyo alone, he had captured 5 Ancient Remnant Clan members.

This was far from over.

That night, Zhou Huai mobilized all the Information Bugs within the Insect Tide, spreading them to major cities throughout Sakura Country.

Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka...

Unusual energy fluctuations in every shadow could not escape Zhou Huai's perception.

Just one night passed, and the total number of Ancient Remnant Clan members he searched out from the crowd reached 21.

They were secretly transported to this underground base.

Here had become Zhou Huai's exclusive breeding farm.

As the quantity increased, massive amounts of experience points turned into a surging torrent, pouring into Caesar's body!

【Ding! Your Avatar Insect Emperor Caesar's Level has increased! Current Level: LV29!】

【Ding! Experience points overflowed, Level increased! Current Level: LV30!】

"Good!"

Zhou Huai stood up from the sofa. This leveling speed was so fast it made his scalp tingle.

You must know that after reaching Level 30, upgrading each Level required massive accumulation, yet he had completed this leap in just one day.

Feeling the vitality and power surging back into Caesar's body, Zhou Huai had an urge—if it weren't for keeping them alive and using these guys as bait to lure out Mr. Duan, he really wanted to let the Alien Parasite activate its maximum suction and suck dry all the energy in these 21 old monsters!

"In that case, Caesar's Level could at least reach Level 35, touching the threshold of Level 40..."

But he quickly suppressed this thought.

"Harvesting them slowly is the only way to achieve sustainable development."

Zhou Huai sat back on the sofa, his fingers lightly tapping on his knees, but his thoughts flew to a more distant place.

"Sakura Country, this tiny place, after being plowed through once by Great Xia, actually still popped out more than 20 Ancient Remnant Clan members. Then, within Great Xia's vast territory and even richer Spiritual Qi nowadays... the number of Awakening people will be frighteningly high."

Once those old monsters completely adapted to their modern bodies, mastered current professional skills, coupled with their version-defying combat experience...

This world was truly about to usher in a version melee.

Just as he was thinking about this question, hurried footsteps came from outside the base.

"Thud, thud, thud!"

The door was gently pushed open, and a subordinate wearing the Divine Dynasty's black clothes and the Great Xia Military Department's liaison badge on his chest walked in.

His expression was respectful and anxious. Seeing Caesar, he knelt on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Lord Ever-changing Star Lord, Marshal Zhao has an urgent matter looking for you. Please be sure to connect to the remote communication or go to the command post in person."

"Marshal Zhao?"

"Did the Marshal say what specific matter it is?" Caesar asked.

The liaison officer pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "The Marshal only said one sentence—inside Great Xia, a huge chaos has broken out."

Zhou Huai fell silent.

Although he had a hunch long ago, it seemed that the thing he worried about had still happened.