William immediately commanded the poison stinger dragonflies to form a large web by having one stay every kilometer, expanding from the center outward to create scanning nodes. He moved through these dragonflies in the form of divine possession. Every time he switched, he consumed divine power to release his divine sense, scanning a one-kilometer range. This scanning method ensured that no area would be overlooked.

  The core of a divine realm can only be hidden when stable and unmoving. If the core isn't concealed, its aura will be detectable by other demigods from tens of kilometers away.

  "I found it, it's here!" Within just five minutes, William felt the divine core's aura, and it was hidden along the path the piercing wolf spider swarm had passed.

  William immediately mobilized nearby insect units to gather around the location, and dozens of piercing wolf spiders quickly appeared in front of him. They began digging fiercely. Within ten minutes, they had successfully unearthed the divine core.

  As the divine core was exposed, a demigod figure rose from it.

  "Wait, don't attack! Please, spare me. I still have 500 divine power. I'll give it all to you if you allow me to keep 100 square kilometers of my divine realm and 10,000 core followers," the demigod figure of Leis said as it sent out its divine sense. He knew that somewhere around him, there must be a divine being possessing one of the insects.

  A poison stinger dragonfly immediately flew over and stopped in front of Leis. William then spoke: "I’ll ask the questions. You answer. If your answers satisfy me, I’ll consider sparing you."

  "Ask, ask anything. As long as I know, I will tell you," Leis quickly responded, seeing that the opponent hadn’t immediately destroyed his divine core, giving him a glimmer of hope.

  "With your divine realm’s area, your followers’ equipment, and the divine power you have left, you must have already defeated other invaders. How did you do it?" William asked, expressing his doubts.

  Leis, seeing that the question wasn’t about sensitive topics regarding reality, immediately responded.

  "I’ve experienced two invasions. When the invaders’ followers entered my divine realm, they couldn’t adapt to the wetland terrain. My followers used guerrilla tactics to drive them back..." Leis explained.

  As William listened, he began to think deeply, finally coming up with reasonable explanations for all of his doubts.

  The opponent wasn’t weak at all. They had over a million lizardmen followers, all of whom were capable of fighting, and the terrain of their divine realm was perfect for the lizardmen’s strengths.

  Facing invaders who couldn’t adapt to the wetland and jungle combat, Leis naturally held a massive advantage. Even against invaders who could fight in the wetland, even if they had good organization and could form large-scale armies, they wouldn’t be able to fully capitalize on their strengths in this divine realm due to its unsuitable terrain for large-scale group battles.

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  In smaller skirmishes, the wetland lizardmen could drag the fight into a war of attrition. As long as the divine core was hidden well, Leis’s divine realm would become a hunting ground where all units entering would constantly switch between hunter and prey.

  For the sake of defending their home, the wetland lizardmen would fight the invaders to the death. Without large-scale losses, there wouldn’t be any morale collapse.

  This demigod had used the conditions very well to hide all of his weaknesses and had done a commendable job. The various mixed weapons and equipment did indeed add diversity to the lizardmen's combat tactics, making it difficult for their enemies to predict and boosting their combat effectiveness.

  Unfortunately, when facing William’s insect swarm, the weaknesses were laid bare, as the swarm was a natural counter. All the weaknesses were exposed to William’s gaze.

  In the past, army ants in the jungle were considered apex species, let alone William’s piercing wolf spiders that were the size of millstones.

  "Alright, I’ll give you thirty seconds to extract your divine power," William said, having resolved his doubts. He immediately issued his ultimatum to Leis.

  "Impossible! If you do this, I’ll self-destruct my core..." Before Leis could finish his sentence, a piercing wolf spider, which had been waiting nearby, instantly pierced the divine core with its legs. With the core shattered, Leis was kicked out of the divine realm.

  William didn’t have time to care about Leis’s feelings. With the tremor from the divine realm’s collapse, William immediately activated his own divine realm. With his previous experience, he swiftly began scanning with his divine sense.

  He immediately consumed divine power, merging all the terrain he liked into his divine realm first, and declared victory, demanding that the lizardmen immediately surrender and accept their fate as prisoners.

  The final stabilization of the divine realm only lasted for about ten more minutes. During this time, William hurriedly gathered up the fragmented divine realm and began piecing it together.

  Within less than two hours, William completed absorbing the divine realm.

  Standing in the sky, watching the last fragment of the divine realm merge with the surrounding terrain, William activated the divine realm concealment card. After the concealment effect stabilized, his divine realm randomly teleported away from the battle zone. He then scanned the surroundings, ensuring there were no other beings nearby, before quickly diving into post-battle tasks.

  Five days passed in a blur while William worked tirelessly. During this time, he sold the newly acquired lizardmen followers. Thanks to the fact that the lizardmen had barely resisted, he managed to capture nearly 900,000 of them.

  However, this type of follower, which only had combat potential in special terrain, wasn’t popular on the market. It only earned William less than 2000 divine power.

  He then used this revenue to replenish consumable cards such as blank sealing cards, random teleportation cards, and range scanning cards.

  Meanwhile, Chen Hua, working in the market, assumed that William was still preparing and encouraged him to be patient, praising his calmness in preparation.

  William didn’t explain and simply reassured Chen Hua, telling him not to worry, as he had everything under control. After that, he hurriedly left.

  At this moment, William stood in the sky, reflecting on the post-battle summary, feeling slightly helpless.

  Aside from successfully capturing the opponent's divine realm, his other two plans had failed. One plan was to reduce the number of piercing wolf spiders, but as expected, the entire battle saw less than 100,000 spiders lost, which had negligible impact on a group of over 4 million.