I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second Chapter 582: A Familiar Face in a Distant Land, The Long-Awaited Ideal Son-in-Law

The middle-aged man stayed back from the horde of silver beetles, chanting spells in a low voice. A mere glance was enough to tell that he was a mage-type expert, right in the middle of casting a spell.

Maintaining that distance from the swarm probably stemmed from his worry over the spell getting disrupted or some surprise occurrence that would leave him no chance to respond or evade.

From how he forced the swarm to go against their instincts and turn on one another, it was clear this middle-aged man was an illusionist-type professional.

Maybe since he'd only recently broken through to War God level and wasn't fully skilled with the Supreme Law yet, the middle-aged man managed to control just two silver beetles at once for battle.

His accomplishments weren't bad at all, though the efficiency left much to be desired.

Right when the sixth pair of battling silver beetles neared the end of their clash, a sudden twist occurred.

Dense sweat started beading on the forehead of the middle-aged man as he kept up his nonstop spellcasting.

His fingers clenched tighter in the seal formation, his face shifting from calm to deeply creased brows.

"Damn it, how could this be."

"These wretched silver beetles, why have they suddenly gotten so hard to command!"

As he grumbled to himself, a huge shadow only he could see unfolded behind him.

It turned out to be a massive dark purple bee, its body bristling with razor-sharp spikes everywhere.

Unlike Blue Star's bees, this one's wings had mostly withered away, barely detectable unless scrutinized closely.

Its abdomen ballooned out hugely, almost a hundred times bigger than normal.

"Hehe, puny human, you dare challenge me for dominance over my minions?"

"Do you think the Insect Race Queen is some pushover?!"

A sinister, taunting voice echoed from behind him.

An intense bone-chilling cold, along with that eerie voice, pierced straight into the middle-aged man's body.

Terror gripped his heart, shattering his concentration and even paralyzing his own movements.

To the point where the silver beetles nearby all recovered their freedom without him noticing.

"Have you Blue Star humans grown too cocky these days??"

"Even a lowly illusionist mage dares plunge solo into the depths of the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms, showing zero respect for my Insect Race."

"Very well, I'll use you as a lesson today. Once your mangled corpse is found, my Insect Race's fearsome reputation will once more cow the entire Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms."

The Insect Race Queen buzzed her mouthparts, unleashing a strange sonic pulse.

The seventeen remaining controlled silver beetles snapped back to normal instantly, fangs and claws out as they charged the now-frozen middle-aged man.

The man never imagined his plan to just grind some basic monsters for practice and maybe score a treasure drop would run him into the Insect Race Queen.

He also hadn't foreseen that a simple indirect mental link with the Insect Race Queen would bring him such dire consequences.

As the silver beetles' massive, jagged mandibles zeroed in on his flesh.

The middle-aged man could almost see Death looming right in front of him, calling his name.

Boundless remorse flooded his mind.

He hadn't even gotten to activate his Signal Spirit Crystal for backup; was it all ending this abruptly?

The instant it looked like he'd be torn apart in the next moment, a blast of freezing cold erupted.

"Wuhoo, looks like I showed up right on cue, eh, Uncle Nangong Su?"

Lin Yi snapped his fingers, sending an ice-blue halo rippling outward in a flash.

Anything the blue wave touched froze solid into ice sculptures.

"Supreme Law?"

The shadow lurking behind Nangong Su instantly clocked that the youth facing him was no pushover upon spotting Lin Yi.

"Hmm, nothing but a basic Supreme Law. It can't pose much danger to you, can it, Your Majesty?"

Just a basic Supreme Law?

The Insect Race was indeed a headache, but they couldn't escape one harsh truth.

Their upper limit was pitifully low.

When the Upper-Rank God linked Insect Hive Star with Blue Star, he'd factored in the power balance between them.

In raw strength, reproduction rate, or maturation time, humans lagged far behind the Insect Race.

Yet in cultivation aptitude and personal potential, individual humans vastly outshone those from Insect Hive Star.

The casual "just a" nearly drove the Insect Race Queen berserk.

After all, her current power was only a lesser Law beneath the Creation Law.

"Human, such foolish arrogance!"

The Insect Race Queen bristled at those words.

The shadow quivered its mouthparts again, blasting out sound waves meant to bewilder the mind.

To be fair, this trick had worked well on Nangong Su.

But against Lin Yi with his Great Celestial Immortal Skill, it did absolutely nothing.

No surprise there; those overpowered passive resistances were downright cheat-level, leaving the Insect Nest Queen howling fruitlessly with zero impact.

Six Dao No-Thought Slash: Human Dao

The louder the Insect Race Queen wailed, the wilder she got, ramping up the pitch and intensity of her sonic assault without cease.

Lin Yi stayed completely unaffected, but Nangong Su struggled to hold on.

To spare him any lasting organ damage, Lin Yi struck swiftly with a slash.

The Insect Race Queen's shadow behind Nangong Su partly dissolved into void right away.

The hypnotic mind-seizing sound waves cut off sharply.

"Lin Yi, my young friend, is that you?"

Spotting the son-in-law his daughter always boasted about coming to his rescue, Nangong Su grew a bit thrilled.

"Ah, no, Xiaoyi, who would've thought you'd appear here—Uncle's overjoyed, really, the connection between you and my Xiaoling runs so deep~"

Uh...

Lin Yi paused, unsure how to reply for a second.

Lin Yi's fame had swept across Blue Star ages ago.

If Nangong Su and the Nangong Family elders hadn't witnessed Lin Yi dining at their place, they'd never buy that their daughter snagged such a stellar match.

Ever since, Nangong Su kept gently nudging his daughter to invite that stellar son-in-law back home, arrange a family meetup to formalize things, and so on—until it all knotted up inside him.

Since his junior brother took on the covert task from Xu Sheng, he'd seldom shown up in Shenxiao.

Nangong Su couldn't exactly beg Lin Yi to smooth over family grumbles again and kept making excuses to stall.

Even amid the smears Lin Yi faced head-on, the Nangong elders backed this youth fully. And once Lin Yi rose as Blue Star's hero, the clan's approval of him as their "son-in-law" hit an all-time high.

Nangong Ling fielded dozens of calls daily from kin, all harping on the same thing: when would Nangong Su finally bring the Nangong family's treasure of a son-in-law home?

Running into the Nangong family's prized son-in-law amid the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms—how could Nangong Su not get pumped?

"Uncle, we can chat destiny stuff later. First, let me tangle with this Insect Race Queen and gauge her true strength!"

With that, Lin Yi lifted his right hand.