The mysterious girl pulled Ye Ling into a small, enclosed space before releasing him.
"Phew... safe now."
The girl removed her tattered hood, revealing a dirty face.
Ye Ling quickly calmed down, glanced around the space, and then looked at the mysterious girl, asking, "Who are you?"
Although the girl's face was covered in bloodstains and scars, and her left eye was blind, her underlying features were still evident. A thorough cleaning would reveal her to be quite beautiful.
The girl replied to Ye Ling, "You don't need to know who I am. You've already alerted the Insect Mother. If I hadn't saved you, you'd be dead!"
"I'll create an escape route for you later. You can escape the insect nest from there. This place isn't for you."
The girl spoke to herself, showing no intention of revealing her identity to Ye Ling. Instead, she set Ye Ling aside and began to construct an escape route for him.
Ye Ling felt somewhat speechless at the girl's self-talk. However, since she harbored no ill will, Ye Ling saw no reason to waste time with her and immediately walked towards the edge of the space.
"Hey, hey! What are you doing?"
Seeing Ye Ling about to leave, the girl immediately dropped her work and stopped him, quickly saying, "This is the only blind spot in the insect nest. Only by staying in this space will the Insect Mother not find you! Now that the Insect Mother has awakened, if you go out now, it's a dead end!"
Ye Ling looked at the girl's serious demeanor and couldn't help but sigh, saying, "I don't even know if you're friend or foe, how can I trust you?"
"Besides, you're the one doing all the talking... When did I ever say I wanted to escape?"
The girl was taken aback, "Weren't you swallowed by the insect nest? Why aren't you running?"
Ye Ling: "Who said I was swallowed?"
The girl: "You, you weren't swallowed, so did you come in voluntarily? Are you crazy?"
Seeing the girl's shocked expression, Ye Ling realized there might be a misunderstanding between them and said, "The Insect Mother's parasites are attacking my world. I've come to deal with the Insect Mother."
"You want to deal with the Insect Mother?" the girl exclaimed, "What a joke! Do you know how strong the Insect Mother is?"
Ye Ling: "I was about to find out, but unfortunately, you interfered!"
"Are you serious?" The girl examined Ye Ling carefully, then waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, no! You're no match for the Insect Mother. You should leave the insect nest first... The Insect Mother has absorbed too much nourishment. If you die in here too, it will be even harder to deal with the Insect Mother later!"
Ye Ling said, "Since you insist on me leaving, you must give me a reasonable explanation. I still don't know who you are, so how can I trust you? What if you're an accomplice of the Insect Mother?"
Seeing that Ye Ling wouldn't back down without an answer, the girl sighed slightly and replied, "Alright... I am the ruler of the Star Chaos. I was swallowed into the insect nest a long time ago, and since then, I've been operating within it."
"Star Chaos?" Ye Ling was surprised, "I've never heard of this world?"
After Ye Ling became the ruler of the Primordial Chaos and exchanged information with the Primordial Chaos consciousness, he gained a rough understanding of the large ordered worlds in the void.
At the very least, Ye Ling had never heard of Star Chaos as a large ordered world.
Of course, the Primordial Chaos consciousness didn't have a complete picture of the void, so it was normal for some worlds to be missed.
The girl, seeing Ye Ling's confused expression, couldn't help but retort, "It seems you really haven't seen much of the world. You don't even know about Star Chaos, the number one world in potential and overall ranking in the void. With your current state, how dare you try to deal with the Insect Mother?"
"Star Chaos... is the number one ranked large ordered world in potential?"
Upon hearing the girl's answer, Ye Ling's lips twitched, and a storm of shock surged in his heart!
How ancient was this girl?
Currently, Primordial Chaos was the number one ranked world in potential for the new generation. If the Star Chaos where the girl was from was also ranked number one in potential, then she would be at least from the previous era!
Primordial Chaos had existed for an immeasurably long time, beyond counting by numbers. Yet, this girl in the insect nest was older than Primordial Chaos itself?
At this moment, Ye Ling looked at the girl as if he were looking at a living fossil!
The girl, however, didn't think she had been in the insect nest for that long and said to Ye Ling, "Alright, I've told you my identity. You should believe me now, right? I'll send you out!"
"Wait!" Ye Ling stopped the girl, "Since you can send me out of the insect nest, why don't you leave yourself? Do you know how long you've been here?"
"I've been assimilated by this insect nest. I am now a part of this insect nest and cannot leave."
The girl shook her head, then added, "But why do you care how long I've been here? Counting the time, I've only been here for a few million years... This amount of time is nothing to me. Once I figure out the insect nest and sever its connection, I can leave."
"A few million years..."
Ye Ling's lips twitched, "Senior, your perception of time is truly 'keen'."
The girl didn't catch Ye Ling's sarcasm and laughed, "Of course! After all, I've been calculating the time since I entered, and I can't be wrong!"
"Wait! After you entered the insect nest, you've been calculating the time?" Ye Ling, who had just been marveling at the girl's obliviousness to the passage of time, heard this and his pupils suddenly constricted. He immediately asked the girl.
"Of course! Are you still doubting my calculation ability?" the girl retorted.
"This is going to be troublesome!"
Upon hearing the girl's answer, Ye Ling immediately realized that the flow of time inside the insect nest was completely different from that in the void. If he stayed here for a while, the outside world would have undergone immense changes, and the war between the Observers and the Skywalkers might have already ended!
Realizing this, Ye Ling didn't hesitate. He immediately unfolded the Nameless Void, observing the time flow inside the insect nest and the outside world. Indeed, he found that the insect nest and the void were not in the same spacetime!
"What are you doing?" The girl, seeing Ye Ling suddenly become serious, asked curiously.
Ye Ling didn't respond to the girl. He immediately expanded the scope of the Nameless Void to encompass the entire insect nest, then frantically activated his power!
An incredibly vast river of time appeared outside the insect nest. The Nameless Void directly brought the insect nest into the river of time, moving back towards Ye Ling's current temporal point.