I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second Chapter 601: Playing Dumb to Outsmart the Strong? I Told You, But You Wouldn’t Believe Me

I figure Xia's engineering squad should reach the site soon, hauling materials at maximum speed.

That said, Lin Yi's concerns proved far from groundless.

The Blue Star engineering team hadn't shown up yet when energy waves erupted from the Space Channel that connected the Insect Hive Star to the other two planets.

Ripples surged at the Space Channel's junction, and moments later, right before Lin Yi and his two companions' eyes, a squad of flame-shrouded beings emerged—looking much like regular humans but wreathed entirely in fire.

Lin Yi had taken part in few clashes across the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Realms.

Yet prior to departure, he'd thoroughly reviewed data on the three nearby planets.

Leading the way was a flame-wrapped figure from the fire affinity natives exclusive to Elemental Star.

Elemental Star's standout feature lay in how its planet's inhabitants could dodge nearly every physical strike via their elemental forms.

Innately immune to physical damage without fail, they'd maxed out their magic resistance across the board.

Therefore, despite lacking massive health pools, Elemental Star's denizens boasted exceptional durability.

Given Elemental Star natives' attributes, they ought to utterly dominate Insect Hive Star's bugs in theory—so why hadn't they claimed victory there?

Credit for that went entirely to the Insect Nest Queen.

After repeated defeats against Elemental Star forces, the shrewd Insect Nest Queen uncovered the elemental counters at play.

To block Elemental Star intruders from exploiting their edge over Insect Hive Star, the Insect Nest Queen armed every bug breed she spawned with elemental strike capabilities.

In this way, the Elemental Star powerhouses' natural superiority got fully nullified.

Elemental Star beings matured slowly, and their breeding rates paled beside the Insect Race's—so once Insect Hive Star cracked the code against them, Elemental Star elites thought twice before invading.

Now, Elemental Star's top fighters sensed massive upheaval on Insect Hive Star, prompting this scouting party's dispatch.

As Elemental Star elites materialized, heat levels spiked dramatically at the Insect Hive Star's channel nexus.

Through the Eye of All-Seeing, those fire-affinity elites from Elemental Star registered around the Ninth Transformation tier of Blue Star pros.

Scanning the area, they found not a single active bug on Insect Hive Star; instead, bug corpses littered the ground in horrifying density, stirring phobia in anyone who saw.

A lone youth with two women, all seeming pretty feeble, chilling casually by the Space Channel entrance?

The head fire-being fixed a puzzled stare on Lin Yi's trio, scrutinizing them intensely.

He failed to grasp how these average-looking humans endured the Insect Hive Star's abrupt catastrophe, or precisely what catastrophe unfolded there.

With no clues to probe the truth of Insect Hive Star's events, he dialed back his flames cautiously, wary of charring the fragile humans ahead by mistake.

"Hey, human kid, what happened on the Insect Hive Star, and why are the three of you here?"

The flame-being's demeanor dripped with haughtiness.

Lin You and Lin Qianqian couldn't stifle their chuckles at the sight.

Not even the planet-willed Insect Nest Queen dared act so boldly before Lin Yi.

This fellow sure packed some nerve.

"Ah? Us three?"

"The three of us came to wipe out the Insect Hive Star. We've just finished the mission from higher-ups by annihilating it. Now we're awaiting our planet's devs to arrive."

"This world's packed with rare goodies. Developing them fully will boost our planet's power big time. So, you here to snatch resources from us?"

"I advise you not to. I'm actually pretty tough, you know."

Lin Yi's remarks sparked howling laughter from the Elemental Star squad.

As fellow smart species, Elemental Star dwellers had delved deeply into intel on the other three planets' lifeforms.

Typically, humans awaken their first skill and step into the ranks of professionals at the age of eighteen, embarking on their journey of advancement.

However, Lin Yi seemed merely in his early twenties, and for someone so young to boast like that, it struck the powerhouses of Elemental Star as complete absurdity.

The Insect Hive Star holds immense power. The leaders from Elemental Star have repeatedly vowed to destroy it, yet they've never dared to actually move against it.

Could this human youth right before them truly surpass in strength those who command the Supreme Law at the Saint Transformation Layer?

Who would ever believe such a claim if it were spoken aloud?

After his burst of laughter, the flame person from Elemental Star lifted his blazing palm and swung it before Lin Yi's face, clearly flexing his might to intimidate him.

"Kid, if you're gonna lie, keep it to yourself. Don't act like it's real, 'cause I got no patience for wasting breath on you. One more chance—if your words don't please me, this hand lands on your shoulder."

Indeed, after this show of force, everyone figured Lin Yi and his two companions would spill all their secrets obediently, yet Lin Yi stayed utterly nonchalant, shrugged casually, and fired back a response.

"Ah, it's rare for me to be this honest with a foe. See, I've laid it out this far, but it still won't buy it. Ah, really disheartening~"

Lin Yi's utterly speechless expression fully ignited the rage of the Elemental Star flame person. Sticking to his rule against babbling with morons, he exploded with his maximum power, smashing his palm down on Lin Yi's shoulder to deliver a deadly strike.

Yet, the scene they all pictured didn't unfold.

The frame of this apparently defenseless young man turned out utterly indestructible; hundreds of degrees in scorching heat slammed into him without so much as a flicker of flame.

The flame person stood completely stupefied.

When you can't detect an enemy's power level, only two scenarios fit.

The first: the foe is genuinely feeble, so sensing their source power's depth feels natural to miss.

The second: the foe's power overwhelms to an extreme degree, creating a horrifying chasm compared to the examiner's own strength.

Gazing at the youth in front, who bore no wounds or grimaces despite the blistering inferno, it was plain as day—the reason Elemental Star's folks failed to read Lin Yi's strength was the second possibility!

"How, how can this be possible!"

The flame person yanked to free his hand, only to realize his elementalized arm clung stubbornly to Lin Yi's shoulder; no amount of force could pry it loose.

"You, you kid, what have you done!"

Fear and alarm twisted across the flame person's features.