[Divine Realm intrusion detected. Would you like to expel the intruder?]
Just as Xu Luo was considering whether to use his newly acquired evolution points to upgrade the crawlers or to continue increasing the number of mayflies to expand the collection team, the alarm of the Divine Realm sounded.
Someone was invading!
Of course, the Divine Realm had expulsion capabilities and could drive out intruders as long as the disparity wasn't too great.
"Show the intruder's screen!"
Xu Luo didn't panic. He upgraded the ten thousand crawlers he had on hand while checking the screen displaying the intruder.
"It's him?"
Seeing the familiar face on the screen, Xu Luo frowned.
It was Xiangyang, who had previously tried to buy the Divine Realm from him. Now, since Xu Luo didn't agree to sell it, Xiangyang was directly invading?
"Does he really think I'm easy to bully?"
Xu Luo ignored it and waited until the crawlers had fully evolved before lifting the Divine Realm's shield.
"Huh? He actually lifted the shield himself?"
Xiangyang, who was originally preparing to forcibly break the shield with tools, was stunned, then excited.
"Xu Luo, you're courting death!"
Generally, schools prohibited students from fighting each other, but how could such things be fully controlled?
"Xu Luo, I'll say it again, give your Divine Realm to me, and I'll compensate you with ten thousand credit points. If I break into your Divine Realm myself, you'll get nothing!"
Xiangyang arrogantly declared.
Given the large-scale unemployment, finding a job was extremely difficult, and the wages were low. Ordinary people earned between one hundred to two hundred credits a month, so ten thousand credits was a significant amount.
However, becoming a professional Divine Fighter was different.
"If you won't listen, then go to hell!"
Seeing no response from Xu Luo, Xiangyang immediately ordered his followers to attack.
Upon receiving the order, a group of goblins rushed eagerly into Xu Luo's Divine Realm.
In no time, over a hundred goblins, armed with stones and wooden clubs, charged into Xu Luo's Divine Realm.
Although these goblins were poorly equipped, Xiangyang thought dealing with some crawlers would be a piece of cake.
"Just a hundred?"
Xu Luo sneered, calmly commanding the newly evolved jumping bugs and armored bugs to hide underground, waiting for the enemy to approach.
As for the explosive bugs, since they were one-time use, he didn't evolve them.
Even though these two types of bugs were only at bronze level one, far inferior to the goblins' level three, their sheer numbers were overwhelming.
Just as the goblins neared the queen with no defenses, a large number of fist-sized creatures suddenly emerged from the ground.
Initially, the crawlers were only thumb-sized, but after evolution, they grew to the size of a fist with significantly increased attack power.
The jumping bugs leapt onto the goblins, each attack inflicting only single-digit damage, but with five thousand jumping bugs, the front-line goblins bore the brunt of the assault.
"What's going on? Weren't your species the lowest-level crawlers?"
Seeing twenty of his goblins fall instantly, Xiangyang screamed in shock, feeling more distressed about his losses.
So many losses in just one encounter.
Seeing the number of bugs surrounding the goblins made his face even paler.
The armored bugs could withstand the goblins' attacks without being killed in one hit. At this point, the armored bugs surrounded the goblins, allowing the jumping bugs to attack.
In no time, dozens of goblins were overwhelmed.
"Did I lose just like that?"
Xiangyang stood dumbfounded, watching his goblins fall one by one, finding it hard to accept.
After a while, he noticed that the connection between the two Divine Realms hadn't been severed.
"What's going on? I've already lost, so why hasn't the connection been cut?"
If Xu Luo knew what he was thinking, he would have told him, "Young man, you're too naive."
Having encountered a fool, there was no way Xu Luo would let this battle end so quickly.
Meanwhile, his mayflies were rapidly breaking down the goblin corpses into evolution points, but he intentionally left a few goblins alive, breaking their limbs and surrounding them, ensuring the battle wouldn't end.
Collecting corpses yielded far more evolution points and was much faster than collecting barren soil.
Xu Luo converted all the newly acquired evolution points into mayflies to speed up collection. Then, these tiny creatures swarmed into Xiangyang's Divine Realm.
When they connected earlier, Xu Luo saw a forest and stream in Xiangyang's Divine Realm. The environment and resources were much better than his own.
How could he miss such an opportunity?
"My species! No! My Divine Realm!"
Xiangyang suddenly screamed. Although losing goblins hurt, he now feared an even more terrifying issue: his Divine Realm was shrinking, and he didn't know why!
The unknown was the most terrifying. Xiangyang didn't dare to gamble. He could buy more species, but if something happened to his Divine Realm, the loss would be enormous.
"Xu Luo, just you wait!"
Furious, Xiangyang cut the connection to the Divine Realm. Although this meant losing the faith power used to establish the connection, he couldn't worry about that compared to the potential consequences.
"What a pity!"
Xu Luo shook his head. A little more time would have been perfect!
In his own Divine Realm, one hundred mayflies could collect one evolution point per day. But in Xiangyang's Divine Realm, targeting resource-rich areas, even in a short time, they collected thousands of evolution points.
With the connection cut, the mayflies were automatically expelled from Xiangyang's Divine Realm.
But thinking of his gains, Xu Luo smiled again.
Now he had a total of 150,000 mayflies and thousands of evolution points. The jumping bugs and armored bugs, originally five thousand each, had suffered some losses but still numbered over three thousand each, and he had obtained new genetic templates.
[Congratulations, you have obtained the "Sawgrass" genetic template.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained the "Snail" genetic template.]
Two templates in total, both from the forest in Xiangyang's Divine Realm.
With the new templates, Xu Luo saw new evolution directions for his insect species.
[Jumping Bug + Sawgrass Gene = Bronze Level Five "Mantis Bug"!]
[Armored Bug + Snail Gene = Bronze Level Four "Shell Bug"!]
Mantis Bug: Possesses strong attack power!
Shell Bug: Stronger defense!
The two new evolution paths greatly strengthened Xu Luo's insect army.
However, it also increased his feeding pressure.
Each evolved bug required ten evolution points, and every two days, they consumed one evolution point. This meant that feeding ten thousand of them would cost five thousand evolution points per day.