When Luo Fan heard the voice, he immediately knew who it was.
It was Irina's younger sister, Eliza.
For an Insect Race Mother Queen to nurture offspring was extremely difficult.
An Insect Race Mother Queen could nurture at most fewer than ten offspring in her entire life.
Moreover, if a Mother Queen nurtured too many offspring, it could even affect her own potential.
Therefore, Insect Race Mother Queens with relatively good talent often had only one offspring.
Some might not nurture any offspring at all.
Only those with relatively poor talent, who were stuck at the World Master level and unable to break through, would nurture several offspring.
After all, once one had reached the limit of their talent, whether their potential was affected was no longer important.
Unlike other species, Insect Race Mother Queens were all female.
Thus, they could nurture offspring on their own.
Eliza was Irina's biological younger sister.
The two of them were separated by several hundred thousand years.
When Irina went to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to gain experience, Eliza had only just reached the Universe level.
Because Luo Fan possessed Irina's memories.
He knew it was Eliza the moment he heard her voice.
Although Eliza had permission to enter Irina's palace.
She could not enter places such as Irina's cultivation chamber or bedroom.
After Luo Fan opened the door, he saw a bewitching figure.
The other party's figure was extremely perfect.
Her face looked as if it had been carefully carved by the Primitive Universe itself.
However, Luo Fan could still faintly see the similarities between her and Irina.
The moment she saw Luo Fan, a trace of joy immediately flashed across her face.
"Sister!"
"It really is you!"
"You didn't appear for so long, I thought you were dead!"
Eliza directly pounced into Luo Fan's arms.
He could feel waves of bewitching aura emanating from her body.
Even though Eliza was not deliberately using any bewitchment secret technique.
An Insect Race Mother Queen would naturally emit waves of allure even if she just stood still.
Let alone throwing herself directly into Luo Fan's embrace like this.
He felt the softness in front of him, yet his heart remained icy cold.
With his current willpower and mental state, such allure had no effect on him at all.
Even if Eliza were to use a bewitchment secret technique, it would still be useless.
After hugging Luo Fan for a while, Eliza raised her head and looked at him with a pitiful expression.
"Sister, where did you go during this time?"
"I kept sending you messages, but you never replied."
"If the Insect Race warriors in your territory were not still working, I would have thought you were dead."
Luo Fan spoke in Irina's tone.
"I previously went to the Extraterritorial Battlefield and suffered a severe injury to my soul."
"So I fell into deep slumber for all these years."
"I only recently regained consciousness."
Yes, this was Luo Fan's excuse.
Falling into slumber due to excessive consumption of divine power only happened to Immortal-level experts and above.
After breaking through to Immortal, the entire body would be transformed into divine power, forming a divine body.
If too much divine power was consumed, it would affect one's strength.
Moreover, because every trace of divine power contained an Immortal's partial soul and life imprint.
Once divine power was reduced to only ten percent, one would very likely fall into slumber.
However, Irina was not an Immortal.
So Luo Fan could not use that excuse.
Instead, he said that Irina had fallen into slumber due to a damaged soul.
This was much more reasonable.
After all, if the soul was severely injured, cultivators below the Immortal level would fall into slumber.
Just like in the original records, when Hong and the Thunder God burned their domains and souls to fight the Golden-Horned Giant Beast, they fell into slumber.
And if there was no external interference, soul injuries were extremely difficult to recover from.
The stronger the strength and the stronger the soul, the more so.
Therefore, sleeping for several hundred thousand years was entirely normal.
This was the excuse Luo Fan had come up with.
After all, since Irina had returned after such a long absence, anyone who knew her would inevitably ask about her situation over the years.
When Eliza heard this, she revealed an expression of sudden realization.
After chatting for a while longer, Luo Fan used the excuse of needing to purchase some soul-recovery treasures and notify Irina's teachers and friends of her return, and had Eliza leave first.
After Eliza left, Luo Fan directly opened a three-dimensional projection.
This was the Insect Race treasury.
Because the number of Insect Race Mother Queens was extremely small.
Every Insect Race Mother Queen could be considered a genius.
Basically, becoming a World Master was not difficult.
Thus, Insect Race Mother Queens would all receive training from the Insect Race.
It could be said that within the Insect Race, everyone was an elite.
Unlike the Human Race and Demon Race, which needed to sift through countless individuals to select geniuses for cultivation.
The number of Insect Race Mother Queens was small, while the Insect Race, as a peak race, possessed abundant resources.
Therefore, every Insect Race Mother Queen could receive a certain level of cultivation.
Of course, the better the talent of the Mother Queen, the more resources she could obtain.
Below the Immortal level, Insect Race Mother Queens were divided into four secret realm tiers.
From lowest to highest talent, they were the Initial Egg Secret Realm, the Cocoon Chrysalis Secret Realm, the Butterfly Transformation Secret Realm, and the Queen Secret Realm.
All Mother Queens, at the very least, could enter the Initial Egg Secret Realm to obtain resources and slowly grow into World Masters.
Mother Queens in the Initial Egg Secret Realm were basically equivalent to Human Race geniuses from the Doomsday Secret Realm.
After all, almost every Insect Race Mother Queen could obtain acknowledgment of a lower origin law.
This was precisely why the Insect Race could become a peak race relying on just a single race.
Unlike the Human Race and Demon Race, which were formed by the gathering of many races.
As for the Mechanical Race, they evolved through artificial means, and almost every one of them was strong.
Members of the Cocoon Chrysalis Secret Realm were those who had a chance of obtaining acknowledgment of a higher origin law.
For an Insect Race Mother Queen to break through to Immortal, she needed at least to comprehend a higher law to a certain extent.
Otherwise, comprehending only a single lower origin law would make breakthrough impossible.
To break through to Immortal, they needed to comprehend the Space or Time Origin Law to a level close to King-level Immortal.
This was also why all Immortal-level Insect Race Mother Queens were King-level Immortals.
The number of Mother Queens in the Butterfly Transformation Secret Realm began to drop significantly.
In a single generation, there were usually fewer than a hundred.
These Mother Queens all had a firm chance of breaking through to Immortal.
They even had a slim possibility of becoming Universe Venerables.
Although nearly a hundred per generation sounded like a lot.
In reality, the span of a single generation for the Insect Race and the Human Race was vastly different.
For the Human Race, a World Master's lifespan was only about one thousand epochs.
This was because the lifespan of an ordinary being's soul was only one thousand epochs.
Insect Race Mother Queens, however, had extremely special souls.
Thus, even World Master-level Mother Queens had lifespans exceeding one hundred thousand epochs.
Some with good talent could even reach lifespans of tens of millions of epochs.
Those who could enter the Butterfly Transformation Secret Realm generally had lifespans of at least one million epochs or more.
Finally, there was the Queen Secret Realm.
Those who could enter this secret realm were basically equivalent to geniuses who appeared once every ten million epochs in the Human Race.
Geniuses who entered this secret realm were almost always taken as disciples by Mother Queens at the Universe Venerable level or above.
As for Irina, she was merely a Mother Queen from the Cocoon Chrysalis Secret Realm.
The reason she went to the Extraterritorial Battlefield was to seek an opportunity for breakthrough.
However, for most Mother Queens, their permissions were largely the same.
As long as they had the money, they all had permission to purchase resources suitable for cultivators below the Immortal level within the Insect Race.
Luo Fan quickly used Irina's account to purchase some soul-repairing treasures.
Because Insect Race Mother Queens were extremely talented in soul-related aspects.
There were many soul-related treasures within the Insect Race.
These were specially collected by the Insect Race.
If one was going to put on an act, it had to be thorough.
After these soul-repairing treasures arrived, Luo Fan planned to begin advancing his secret realm rank.
Advancing a secret realm was actually very simple.
One only needed to pass the secret realm assessment.
Because the number of Insect Race Mother Queens was very small.
The Insect Race did not place limits on the number of slots in each secret realm.
As long as one passed the assessment, they could enter the corresponding secret realm and receive the appropriate allocation of resources.
To enter the Butterfly Transformation Secret Realm, one needed at least to obtain acknowledgment of a higher origin law.
This was one of the requirements.
There were also other assessments.
They evaluated both combat strength and law comprehension.
In terms of combat strength, the focus was mainly on soul strength and the strength of Insect Race warriors.
After all, if an Insect Race Mother Queen could nurture powerful Insect Race warriors or Insect Race Kings, it would be of great benefit to herself.
For Luo Fan, this was not particularly difficult.
After all, before this, he had already had Irina nurture a large number of Insect Race warriors.
As for law comprehension, he could handle that with ease as well.
Regarding the soul aspect, he could rely on his powerful soul amplitude to pass the assessment.
However, before that, Luo Fan still needed to meet one person.
That was Irina's teacher, the Mother Queen Lanqi.
Lanqi was an Immortal-level Mother Queen and Irina's teacher.
When Irina was severely injured and fled from the Extraterritorial Battlefield, she had sent a message to Lanqi.
However, after sending that message, she had been sealed by Hu Yan bo.
Thus, Luo Fan still needed to deal with Lanqi.
Very soon, he arrived at Lanqi's palace.
When the guards at the entrance saw Luo Fan's current appearance, they did not stop him and directly let him pass.
After entering the palace, Luo Fan saw a beautiful figure.
It was Lanqi.
"Irina, you finally came back."
"What exactly happened to you during this time?"
"I even specifically went to the location you mentioned before to search for you, but I never found you."
Lanqi looked at Luo Fan with a worried expression.
However, in her eyes, there was also a faint trace of doubt and suspicion.
Luo Fan repeated the excuse he had previously given to Eliza.
This time, he included more detailed explanations.
When Lanqi heard this, a trace of anger appeared on her face.
"Hmph, a mere Blood Tiger King dares to injure you."
"Later, I will go to the Extraterritorial Battlefield and see if I can find him and enslave him."
The Blood Tiger King was the King-level expert who had driven Irina away.
At that time, Irina did not have enough Insect Race warriors, which was why she had been forced to flee.
"Since you are back, you should first recover properly."
"You can come to Queen City to find me. I will also take a look at your current strength."
The location of Queen City was within the Insect Race Queen's small universe.
Its status was roughly equivalent to Chaos City of the Human Race.
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