As the city guards watched expectantly, Qin Shilei returned to Bei'an City once more.
"Charge!"
Qin Shilei drew his sword and waved it forward, shouting in a deep voice, "We will fight these damned insects outside the city to the death!"
"To the death!"
"Kill!"
The ten thousand elite city guards charged out of the city gates, their killing intent surging.
As before, Qin Shilei's pet, the purple armored beetle, made the first move to control the insects before the city guards quickly slew them.
Although only half the city guards went out today, the efficiency of killing enemies doubled.
After cutting off the source of the surrounding insects, the number of insects began to decrease slowly.
One day later, a passage leading to the outside world was finally opened.
The survivors of Bei'an City, who had been cooped up for too long, beamed with sunny smiles and passed through the passage to search for supplies in distant lands.
Eight days later, tens of millions of insects outside Bei'an City were wiped out.
Bei'an City was finally completely free from the siege of the insects.
On this day, Bei'an City erupted in celebration.
"The damn insects are finally all dead!"
"Thanks to City Lord An and Great Leader Qin, we were able to easily resolve the insect siege."
"Fighting monsters with Great Leader Qin is too easy, it's simpler than killing chickens."
"With Great Leader Qin, recapturing Great Xia is just around the corner!"
"Long live Great Xia! Long live Great Leader Qin!"
Countless evolutionary beings also experienced significant power boosts from slaying large numbers of insects.
Qin Shilei also obtained a massive amount of insect corpses.
With the supply of these countless insect corpses, the Enlightenment Tea Tree had grown into a large tea tree nearly two meters tall.
The tea tree had a total of one hundred and sixty-five leaves.
Qin Shilei plucked sixty-five of them and had Zhang Qiang and Xie Haimei summoned.
"Brother Zhang, Sister Haimei, you two were with me from the very beginning."
"In consideration of our long-standing relationship and your contributions to Hope City, I am pleased to bestow upon you four leaves of the Heaven and Earth Treasure grade Enlightenment Tea."
"I hope you can use this to successfully advance to the Golden realm and continue to strive for the happy life of our Hope City."
Zhang Qiang and Xie Haimei's faces lit up with joy, and they expressed their gratitude, "Thank you, City Lord, for your generosity. Your subordinates swear to follow you to the death."
With the incredible effects of the Enlightenment Tea, both of them successfully advanced to the Golden realm.
Qin Shilei then returned to Hope City and also bestowed two leaves of Enlightenment Tea upon He Kaige.
He Kaige also successfully advanced to the Golden realm and, kneeling on one knee, pledged his loyalty.
In just one day, Hope City gained three more peerless masters of the Golden realm.
Currently, there were only fourteen masters of the Golden realm on the entire Blue Star, and Hope City accounted for half of the peak masters in this realm.
Hope City, Xinluo City, Bei'an City, Junhai City, and even Ayah City in India.
Survivors, whether they were related to Qin Shilei or not, were all stunned by this discovery.
They exchanged words with each other.
"Great Leader Qin must have mastered a method for people to smoothly advance to the Golden realm."
"I must perform well so that Great Leader Qin will also help me become a peerless master of the Golden realm."
"You're only Silver One Star, is it too early to be thinking about the Golden realm?"
"Planning early will make it easier to gain Great Leader Qin's favor in the future, and thus have a chance to advance to the Golden realm."
Experts at the Silver Nine Star level, such as Lu Tiangang, Shen Feixue, and Han Hongyu, felt their hearts burning, wishing they could immediately fall at Qin Shilei's feet to pledge their loyalty in exchange for a chance to advance to the Golden realm.
The loyalty of all evolutionary beings aspiring to reach the Golden realm towards Qin Shilei increased significantly because of this.
Qin Shilei held the Enlightenment Tea but did not give it away blindly.
He would bestow the precious Enlightenment Tea only on those who had reached the peak of the Silver realm and were sufficiently sincere towards him.
After dispatching He Kaige to India to assist Shen Feixue in managing Ayah City, Qin Shilei once again embarked on the path of resolving spatial rifts.
His first stop was the spatial rift near Hope City.
He easily found a Golden Armored Beetle to guard the insect valley where Chihuo used to reside.
Qin Shilei now knew of a spatial rift in Liuhua County and another in Dechuan City.
He chose to go to the one in Liuhua County first.
Relying on Chihuo's oppressive aura, Qin Shilei smoothly arrived in front of the spatial rift in Liuhua County Square.
He put away Chihuo and stepped into the spatial rift, arriving on the seaside of the insect realm.
At this moment, countless insects were still rushing towards the spatial rift from beyond the mountain.
As soon as the insects saw Qin Shilei, they bared their teeth and charged forward.
"Roar!"
Chihuo let out a roar as soon as it appeared, stunning the swarming Scythe Armored Beetles and Silver Armored Beetles.
"Master, I can only suppress them and prevent them from attacking us, but I cannot command them. This is because they still have the imprint of a purple armored beetle more powerful than me in their minds."
Qin Shilei said indifferently, "Alright, let's go meet that purple armored beetle."
Following his memory, he flew towards the basin where the purple armored beetle was located.
"Roar!"
As he was about to reach the basin, a huge roar suddenly came from the direction of the basin.
Immediately after, an ancient voice echoed from ahead, "Youngster, this is my territory, Lait, and you have trespassed."
Upon hearing this, Qin Shilei immediately guessed that this was the voice of the purple armored beetle.
Soon, a purple figure appeared in front of Qin Shilei.
"Youngster, why are you consorting with this alien creature?"
The purple armored beetle looked at Qin Shilei with unfriendly eyes and then turned to ask Chihuo.
Chihuo replied sincerely, "This is my master."
"What?" Lait roared, "You dare to enslave our noble purple armored beetles. Release the contract quickly, and I will spare your corpse."
Qin Shilei smiled broadly and said, "It's not impossible for me to release the contract. As long as you agree to become my pet, I will release Chihuo's contract."
"A mere alien of the Golden realm dares to insult the great Lord Lait."
Lait roared with rage and charged towards Qin Shilei.
Seeing the opponent attack his master, Chihuo immediately rushed forward.
Boom!
Chihuo was sent flying dozens of meters away with a single blow.
Qin Shilei seized the opportunity to teleport to the ground.
Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth!
As soon as he stood on the ground, he transformed into a small giant.
Lait turned and pursued Qin Shilei.
This purple armored beetle was indeed a Platinum Six Star expert, at least fifty percent faster than the Sharpclaw Beast Emperor Qin Shilei had slain before.
In the blink of an eye, it was in front of Qin Shilei.
Boom!
Sword and claw clashed, Qin Shilei retreated three steps, but the purple armored beetle only retreated one.
The opponent's strength was even greater than his own.
Qin Shilei's mind moved, and phantom images appeared beside him, but they merely lurked around, waiting for an opportunity, and did not join Qin Shilei in attacking the purple armored beetle.
The purple armored beetle merely glanced at the phantoms before charging at Qin Shilei again.
Clang clang clang!
The purple armored beetle's sharp forelimbs continuously slashed at Qin Shilei, but they were all blocked by the Juque Sword.
After a rapid exchange of blows.
Qin Shilei understood that the purple armored beetle's speed, strength, and reaction time were all superior to his own, even stronger than when he activated One-Punch Man.
He was pushed back step by step by the opponent.
Just then, the sounds of insects chirping echoed from afar.
Seven or eight Golden Armored Beetles, leading countless insects, rushed towards them.