Before the reinforcements arrived, they had already steeled themselves—or rather, they even felt a little anticipation.
But when they arrived, forget the lesser cultivators—even the two True Venerables were dumbfounded.
That thing trapped in the cocoon... no, trapped within layer upon layer of great webs, was that arrogant Human-Faced Bee?
A mighty Soul-Splitting Realm being had been trapped by the Five True Venerables?
Because the reinforcements were strictly forbidden from approaching, lest accidents such as Body Seizure occur, everyone could only watch from far away.
The distance was a little too great, and the angle was wrong as well, so no one could see the Black-White Vortex in True Venerable Qu's eyes.
But everyone saw an enormous Butterfly phantom absorbing the Human-Faced Bee's... whatever it was, from within the great web.
"The Grand Protector... is truly mighty and domineering!" countless cultivators could not help crying out.
"Form ranks, form ranks! Put up your defenses!" Qingkong felt a little ashamed; in truth, he had not contributed all that much to this battle.
This time, exterminating the Soul-Splitting Realm Human-Faced Bee took Qu Jianlei a full month and a half!
This was an experience he had never had before. That feeling really was... hard to describe!
Strictly speaking, forget exterminating a Soul-Splitting Realm Great Expert—even erasing an Out-of-Body Great Venerable over a century or so would not be rare.
Out-of-Body Great Venerables were hard to kill; that was universally acknowledged. Especially when they had avatars, Remnant Souls, and the like, killing them off completely was even harder!
But the Out-of-Body Great Venerables Qu Jianlei had killed... even if they had not reached triple digits, they were comfortably in the double digits, and almost every single one had been an instant kill!
Were Out-of-Body Great Venerables that easy to kill? Not really. But,