I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second Chapter 587: Every Beginning Is Difficult—Troublesome Information Gathering

The massive spider charged with protecting the tunnel's entrance was completely gone, indicating just a single outcome.

They were all eliminated!

Staring at the bugs in front of him, smashed by overwhelming force into sticky puddles, Lin Yi felt deep revulsion within, reflecting that the Insect Race had to be the vilest beings he'd ever laid eyes on.

[You successfully killed 450 Soul-Devouring Spiders, gained experience *180000, and acquired Poison Fang *1]

[You successfully killed....]

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One glance at the dense, vibrant forest would never reveal that Insect Hive Star was under the total control of the Insect Race.

Should a person awaken from a daze right at the entrance, they could easily mistake this mountain region for somewhere on Blue Star.

Spotting a suitable boulder, Lin Yi sat down and retrieved the positioning Spirit Crystal from his portable space, planting it beneath his feet.

Behind Lin Yi stretched a vista identical to the Blue Star Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms, featuring a towering pyramid-shaped peak amid the jungle.

In contrast to Blue Star, the Insect Race outside the linked tunnel displayed zero effort in fortifying the area.

Even on Blue Star, where top-tier professionals cherish their lives immensely, the beings from the other two planets showed no desire to assault the Insect Race?

Indeed.

Out of the four linked planets, Insect Hive Star proved the most aggressive in warfare.

This stemmed from the fact that nine-tenths of foes on the Blue Star Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms hailed from Insect Hive Star, whereas the other two planets boasted reasonable smarts and rarely dispatched troops for sneak attacks.

Considering Insect Hive Star produced nothing but all sorts of bugs, why fight a horde of vermin over land? Who in their right mind would covet such a world?

Little surprise, then, that few bugs patrolled the Insect Hive Star tunnel entrance.

Being the pioneer human stepping onto Insect Hive Star, Lin Yi lacked any prior intel on the planet.

All he knew was the appearance of the Queen of the Insect Nest.

While the Eye of All-Seeing paired with Eyes of Golden Flame could scout distant details effectively, it fell short of mapping the whole Insect Hive Star.

Lin Yi's immediate task involved deploying the detection Spirit Crystal alongside the Map Detector from his portable space to chart as much of the planet's layout as feasible.

[Touch of Reincarnation] allowed extraction of foes' memories, an excellent way to snag data.

Yet against the dim-witted Insect Race, it proved frustratingly ineffective.

Insects came in diverse shapes with tough vitality and builds, but their brains left much to be desired.

They blindly followed the Queen's commands without grasping the planet's layout or the Insect Race's hive setup.

Their behaviors and daily functions relied chiefly on the vibration frequencies released by the Queen.

Thus, Lin Yi resorted to the map recording device from his portable space to methodically collect details on the Insect Nest Planet.

A detection Spirit Crystal ranked as a unique Spirit Crystal type; once embedded in the soil and triggered, it released specialized sonic waves to scan a fifty-kilometer area and relay the data to the Map Detector.

The entire operation lasted about thirty minutes.

By planting sufficient detection Spirit Crystals, Lin Yi could swiftly log Insect Hive Star's map into the Map Detector.

This held immense importance for Lin Yi personally and for Blue Star at large.

Seizing the moment before the Queen unleashed a bug horde against him, Lin Yi pulled out a detection Spirit Crystal from his portable space and set it down per the Map Detector's designated spot.

The detection Spirit Crystal activated rapidly, emitting distinct sonic waves the instant Lin Yi turned it on, capturing the full terrain from the echoes.

But mere moments after positioning the initial detection Spirit Crystal, a massive uproar erupted from the thick woods at his back.

Thump thump thump!

Lin Yi instantly recognized from the noise that a colossal beast was thundering across the earth.

Frantic and thunderous.

Accompanying the behemoth's strides came echoes of crumbling peaks, snapping timber, and panicked cries from fleeing wildlife.

Gazing toward the racket, the Eye of All-Seeing pierced through the thick canopy to spot the monster barreling his way.

Resembling Blue Star's ant lion, the beast was this creature.

Far surpassing Blue Star's ant lion in scale, this monstrosity loomed impossibly huge.

Twice as long as its own frame, its jaws sparkled brilliantly under the sun, while its armored hide shone fiercely; six powerful limbs churned in rapid succession, propelling horrifying velocity.

Adorned with countless razor barbs akin to twin lances, its enormous mandibles pulverized every obstacle in its rampage.

Witnessing the behemoth bug charge straight for his freshly placed detection Spirit Crystal, Lin Yi clutched his forehead in frustration.

"Damn it, how could I forget this!"

Far inferior to humans in intellect, insects were.

Survival had honed their senses to a sharpness humans could only dream of, however.

Sound waves and tremors invisible to human perception registered vividly for bugs.

Evidently, the detection Spirit Crystal's emissions had agitated this brute, spurring its mad dash.

Merely a standard Crystal Stone, the detection Spirit Crystal stood.

Powerless against the Insect Race's armored forms, it was; the collision from a nearly five-hundred-meter titan promised devastation, enough to pulverize the crystal outright if trampled.

Mechanical wings sprouted from Lin Yi's back in a flash, whisking him instantly to the first detection Spirit Crystal's site.

A fierce gale whipped up by the hurtling colossus bore down on him.

Hovering right in the blast's van, Lin Yi pondered deeply, as if brushing off the formidable bug ahead, casting a brief, scornful glance its way.

Surely not every detection Spirit Crystal demanded personal babysitting till completion? The delay would be endless!

[Hair Clone] might boost his output greatly, yet squandering skills on such drudgery felt wasteful.

Lin Yi's thoughts hadn't concluded when the titan bug arrived.

That said, the titan ignored Lin Yi completely; its blade-sharp jaws snapped shut abruptly, poised to grind the detection Spirit Crystal to dust.

Precisely then, Lin Yi sprang into action.

Vanishing in a blink, he reappeared before the titan bug, thrusting out his right hand to deliver a light finger snap—crack!

Since gaining [Blessing], Lin Yi's stats had surged dramatically, amplifying his skill potency immensely.

As skill power and output climbed, finger snap devastation followed suit, skyrocketing.

The catastrophic blow hammered the nucleus, wiping out the titan bug's health in one go.

A howling blast roared through as the titan bug's form crumbled to ash and evaporated away.