I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second Chapter 596: Knowledge Is Power! The Return of the Overlord!

Zacks mused inwardly that Lin Yi truly had no means to grasp this knowledge; without his revelation, Lin Yi would remain completely unaware.

"Forget it, forget it. Planetary will usage carries no time limit or cooldown period. Just two limitations apply. Naturally, calling on planetary will for personal gain forces the user to suffer massive backlash. In Blue Star folks' words, it's akin to scorching one's own lifespan."

In this instant, the saying 'knowledge is power' shines brighter than ever.

The Insect Nest Queen, initially inferior in strength to Lin Yi, flipped the dire circumstances by capitalizing on her informational advantage.

With that informational edge erased, how could she possibly stand against Lin Yi now?

Lin Yi respectfully clasped his fists and offered thanks to Zacks.

"Gratitude for the Upper-Rank God’s aid today. Should chances arise later, I’ll definitely return the favor."

Zacks offered no reply, simply tore open a space passage and vanished, leaving Lin Yi staring at his nonchalant retreating figure.

In wits, the two women fell short of Lin Yi’s sharpness.

Having overheard the exchange between Zacks and Lin Yi, they failed to pick up any viable way out of the peril.

On the planetary will’s two conditions, Lin You and Lin Qianqian grasped the basics and paid close attention, but caught no whiff of a fix, their gazes brimming with bewilderment.

"Lin Yi, when exactly did the Upper-Rank God share the crisis-solving method with us?"

Asking this might paint her as dim, yet Lin Qianqian couldn’t hold back her burning curiosity and blurted it out.

"Haven’t I been handling this all along?"

"Once I shatter the Insect Nest Queen’s authority over the whole Nest Insect Star, can’t I strip away every power she claimed by sacrificing her life force?"

The logic stands firm.

Lin Qianqian was on the verge of blurting her doubts when realization dawned on her.

During Zacks the Upper-Rank God’s talk of conditions, he noted that only with Nest Insect Planet’s beings united in loyalty could the Insect Nest Queen wield planetary will personally.

Lin Yi might not wrest living control from the Insect Nest Queen, but undead beings fall under his command.

Undead or not, they qualify as creatures, right?

The shock awaiting the Insect Nest Queen is finally unleashing.

"You intend to deploy those undead creatures?"

Lin Yi nodded, affirming Lin Qianqian’s insight.

"Let’s move—deliver a stunning blow to that Insect Nest Queen."

With a mere thought, the trio blinked away from the Undead Space.

The Insect Nest Queen possesses human-level cunning.

Still, she couldn’t fathom how Lin Yi and the two women vanished so abruptly.

Even with her acute perceptions, no sign of Lin Yi registered, driving the Insect Nest Queen into utter fury.

She wildly vibrated her antennae, broadcasting orders across Nest Insect Star’s insects:

All insects, mobilize immediately—hunt Lin Yi and the others’ trails no matter what, then rip them apart!

The insects, receiving the directive, threw everything into the search, leveraging their sharp olfaction and instincts to probe every hint.

Any non-insect odor or trace sent them into a frenzy, scouring every hidden corner.

Amid this chaos, Nest Insect Star’s other beasts, squeezed for survival space, fled in panic, their terrified shrieks resounding endlessly, sending shivers down spines.

At a steep riverside cliff, a thundering waterfall plunged from its brink.

A leopard mother with her cubs, hemmed in by ten agile, razor-edged long-legged fiend insects, teetered at the waterfall’s rim.

Nest Insect Planet’s insects tower enormously, while mammals stay Blue Star-sized.

Forget ten against one—even one-on-one, the leopard stood no chance versus the bugs.

Its throat emitted a low, unending lament, like a dirge for itself and its young.

If asked the insects’ motive, it stemmed from failing to pinpoint Lin Yi and company, so they sought leads from the beasts.

Lacking common tongue, the insects extracted memories via a bizarre brain-fluid draining technique on animals, turning them into prey.

For life, the jungle-savvy leopard family bolted nonstop, only to hit a dead end.

As the insect horde pressed forward, the leopards chose the waterfall’s plunge over a humiliating death by bug claws.

While the insect race attempted to seize them, the leopard utilized its cat-like swiftness and nimbleness to elegantly dodge aside.

However, after losing their balance, the mother leopard along with her cubs tumbled helplessly downward toward the earth.

Seeing this scene, the ten insects gave up chasing after the leopards.

No one knew what existed below the endless waterfall.

One thing was clear: no matter how light their bodies or how agile they were, plummeting from that altitude meant certain death by smashing into pieces.

Right when the two leopards closed their eyes in resignation to their doom, a soft power abruptly emerged beside them, suspending them in the air.

Glancing back, they spotted hordes of flying insects charging straight toward them.

What could this mean? Just when a glimmer of hope had appeared, was it about to be crushed?

Against all odds, though, the mother leopard and her cub weren't ripped to shreds by the rapidly closing insect race.

On the contrary, those insects swiftly skirted past the leopards and assaulted the ten insects obstructing their path.

The insect race possessed absolute faith in their fellow kind, leaving the ten pursuing insects completely off-guard against their incoming brethren.

They had no time to respond before the wing-mounted blades of the flying insects sliced them to bits.

To the shocked leopards' gaze, the flying insects dropped to the ground, humbly kowtowing toward a spot behind them.

Supported by Lin Yi’s mild gravitational force, the two leopards were gently brought back down to solid ground.

Was this a miracle from the heavens?

Lin Yi gestured, urging the two black panthers now safely on the ground to depart, before calling forth every insect race member he had revived via necromancy from the Undead Space.

A quick count suggested their numbers exceeded three hundred thousand!

"The Queen of the Insect Nest should discover our return soon enough. Prepare for battle. Apart from the Supreme Law, the Queen’s power, compared to ordinary War Gods, is only stronger, not weaker. For you two sisters, it’s a great training opportunity."

Lin Yi wasn’t being overly conceited; without the boost from the Taichu Law, the Queen of the Insect Nest simply couldn’t match Lin Yi’s level.

Truth be told, she posed even less threat than the endless hordes of insects.