Because he had made the decision for a rapid operation, Feng Jun frantically demolished the encampments in the following day.

With sufficient cooperation from Nascent Souls, he astonishingly eliminated eleven encampments in one day.

During this time, he returned to Earth with the encampments for brief recharges, but people here did not notice these activities.

When dismantling the twelfth encampment, Feng Jun was almost there, but the insect race encampment suddenly exploded. Various insects scattered and fled, flying over the sky and earth.

The encampment was monitored by three Nascent Soul True Immortals, who quickly informed the main forces of the changes.

Many True Immortals arrived quickly, boldly attacking the insects escaping in all directions, sweeping away the insects present within moments, even extending the battlefield cleanup to five hundred li beyond.

In terms of economic efficiency for the action alone, this attack was a loss, but the True Immortals did not quibble over it. The enemy was changing their garrison mode, so hiding tactics were not so necessary.

Almost simultaneously, both Yidong and the Ren Tu True Sage sent messages— all insect race encampments on the mining star began to scatter and retreat. Even insects attacking the human race army had some retreating, leaving only those on the front line to fight.

The insect race showed significant wisdom in cutting off its tail for survival, fearing that the attacked human race army would counter-attack, and with both sides pinching them, more insect combat strength would be lost on this planet. Therefore, they left the frontline insects as cannon fodder.

The attacked human remnants also keenly noticed this change, but nobody thought of counter-attacking. Since the beginning of the battle, fighting had been intense and stalemated, exhausting almost everyone—anyway, there were plenty of insects, not lacking expendables.

There were human race warriors who hadn’t slept for four days and nights, and almost upon receiving the news, they fell asleep soundly in the trenches, with some even suffering from frostbite.

Most True Immortals were teleported by Feng Jun to the boulder to start recovering spiritual energy. Some True Immortals with considerable remaining spiritual energy began roaming around the mining star, both sweeping remaining insects and inquiring about what happened.

In fact, most of the insects didn’t know what exactly happened, just blindly following commands, being the lower tier.

At the crucial moment, it was still the True Sage who was well-informed. The Ren Tu True Sage quickly announced that the insect retreats were not only due to the encampments’ losses, but importantly, human reinforcements had arrived, fiercely battling the insects outside the star system.

The currently arrived forces included three regiments from three corps and a large number of local armed forces—a hastily assembled reinforcement. Since this insect attack was sizable, everyone was careful to avoid being lured away.

However, more reinforcements would surely arrive later, that’s for sure.

The insects attacking the mining star did not intend to give up their attack on the planet, even though some encampments inexplicably lost contact. They believed this was because the human race developed some new weapon.

So initially, their reaction was to first concentrate and resist, to figure out what the human race did—only if the encampment is large enough might something be discovered in the resistance.

As for many insects dying in this approach, it was completely out of their consideration. The insects were abundant, dying inexhaustibly! The more insects perish, the more severely the enemy’s combat resources deplete.

However, with the arrival of human reinforcements, the insects had to adjust their battle plans, thus all insects stationed on the mining star retreated completely. They don’t fear consumption, but pointless expenditure should be conserved if possible.

Feng Jun did not understand the insect race’s logic, but when he heard that human reinforcements had arrived, he knew it was about time for him to leave. "I need to go back to recuperate a bit, it was pretty crazy this time, managing to take down eleven encampments."

Some of these encampments were merged. If carefully calculated, the insect race encampments he eliminated amounted to over half of those stationed on the mining star.

His need for recuperation was naturally agreed upon by others, among them, True Immortal Qing Ji felt especially pleased as three encampments were credited under her name for this attack, she gleefully remarked, "You head off quickly then, don’t make us wait another two days."

Yan Donglai, hearing this, secretly sneered to himself, thinking that while people have time to visit White Pebble Beach, don’t you still have to continue waiting?

After arriving in the insect world, he hadn’t encountered the good fortune of an insect encampment. However, he wasn’t anxious, spending his days wandering the mining star, occasionally killing some isolated insects and insect squads, mostly understanding the world-related information.

When cultivators reach his level, they essentially won’t act rashly, but only move on strategy. This vast world is right here, so slowly killing is fine, why rush?

During this process, Yan Donglai profoundly understood what sort of status Feng Jun held among the True Immortals in the Sect System. Ultimately, hearing is not as impactful as seeing with one’s eyes.

Therefore, he refused to divulge any information about Feng Jun, always smiling without answering when someone asked where he met Feng Jun, leaving several True Immortals particularly helpless.

This time, Feng Jun left for an entire day. Not considering Earth Realm’s time, he spent most of that time at Mount Zhige, finally meeting Zhang Caixin, and the two headed to White Pebble Beach together.

His main purpose for coming to the Insect World this time was to observe the battle situation. However, the eleven barracks he brought along took up a significant portion of his Storage Bag, even though the storage space he currently possessed was beyond the imagination of most cultivators.

The battle situation was still unclear; the newly arrived reinforcements had already launched attacks on the Insect Race’s massive army outside the star system. However, due to the overwhelming numbers, it remained a mobile warfare, fought with great agility.

The attention of the two True Sages and most True Immortals had already been drawn to this place—for such a grand event, how could one miss it? Taking advantage amidst the chaos is the right way.

However, True Sage Diaosu was the first to notice Feng Jun’s return. In fact, he also detected something else, "The aura of Tribulation Thunder... did you make a trip to White Pebble Beach?"

"I did make a trip there," Feng Jun nodded, then spoke after some thought, "I feel that there’s no use for me here, so I’ll take a trip to the fourth and sixth planets, is that okay?"

Before this, he was extremely busy, constantly traveling between two realms and frequently needing to recharge, always thinking about when he could finally rest. Now that he had truly become idle, he felt a bit lost and particularly unaccustomed.

"You might as well take a look," True Sage Diaosu replied, "Be careful, go quickly and return safely."

Feng Jun first went to the fourth planet and upon arrival, discovered that not only had the Human Race been nearly wiped out, but the Insect Race didn’t even bother setting up any barracks or the like. They simply spread out, covering the entire planet.

In such a situation, even if he wanted to take action, it would be difficult to operate, as the Insect Race had already stabilized. The entire planet was guarded by seven or eight Nascent Souls, responding to each other continuously.

Given the number of True Immortals among the Human Cultivators, launching a sudden attack to annihilate these Nascent Souls would pose no problem at all. However, doing so without being detected would be challenging.

The sixth planet was slightly better. The Human Race Army was still holding out. The landed Insect Race had not set up camps all over but rather established four large camps, each housing at least 200,000 Insects. Abandoned Insect camps could still be seen.

It was clear that the events on the Mining Star had spread, affecting the Insect Race’s methods of stationing troops to some extent.

Insect squads were still frequently seen; if Feng Jun was willing to take action, eliminating a single Insect squad wouldn’t be an issue.

But he also knew that these scout-like squads didn’t fear sacrifice at all—for them, sacrifice meant the existence of an enemy, which was a message in itself.

So he didn’t touch these guys. Rooting out evil entirely is necessary, but doing so without strategy, isn’t that just foolish?

Then he took a look at the Mining Star and finally found something that reassured him. With the Insect Race’s major withdrawal, the defending Human soldiers felt a great boost in morale.

Although the Insects occasionally launched some cannon fodder to maintain low-intensity combat, the defending soldiers had already started repairing the defense lines. If not for the fact that everyone hadn’t yet recovered their energy, a counterattack wouldn’t be impossible.

Those soldiers speculated why the Insects would retreat. Some said it was because reinforcements from the star system had arrived, while others guessed that a rescue team had come to the Mining Star—this wasn’t speculation. During the long war, the Human Race had deciphered some simple signals from the Insects.

There was finally some success! Feng Jun felt slightly better and then returned to Big Stone.

Just as he returned, he saw True Immortal Huo Liu flying over, obviously intending to rest a bit. So, he used his Divine Sense to greet him, "True Immortal Huo Liu, it’s good you’re back. Please inform Immortal Yi Jue for me, I plan to temporarily leave the Insect World..."

True Immortal Huo Liu hesitated for a moment, then turned to leave, "Forget it, I’ll go tell her. You should speak to her directly."

Feng Jun’s mouth twitched: It’s really awkward having low cultivation; even saying a word requires asking others to pass it on.

Only because True Immortal Huo Liu couldn’t hear his thoughts did he avoid getting spat on: You’re just an Initial Golden Core Stage, having a Nascent Soul True Immortal helping to deliver a message, and you’re still dissatisfied?

Not long after, Yi Jue flew back and asked, "Is something going on back home? Do you need help?"

She wasn’t a combat-type cultivator and usually preferred research. This visit to the Insect World was mainly to find research materials and inspiration. She had already found some, so staying to fight was fine, but returning with him was also no problem.

Feng Jun shook his head. He had no intention of interrupting her exploratory journey, "I feel there’s no need for me here temporarily, so I’ll go back to handle some matters and take the opportunity to advance a stage."

"Advance a stage?" Yi Jue looked him up and down, "You really are aggressive and diligent. Are you sure you don’t need a protector?"

"No need," Feng Jun thought for a moment and then took out a Talisman, "This is an Essence Blood Protection Talisman I crafted. If you need my help, just activate it and I’ll come as soon as possible."