One of the Seven Great Starry Sky Demonic Insects: Pupil Worm

Just as Su Luo was about to reach out and take the crystal core,

a white little worm several centimeters long suddenly crawled out of one of the Four-tailed White Ape's eyes.

It looked like a hairless caterpillar.

Su Luo stared at the white worm in confusion.

He could not understand why something like this was inside the Four-tailed White Ape's eye.

Just as he reached out to grab the little worm,

it suddenly sprang up and landed between Su Luo's brows.

Su Luo felt a sharp pain shoot through his brow.

His heart jolted in alarm. The little worm was actually trying to burrow into his brain!

Su Luo hurriedly pinched the worm's body between his fingers and pulled it out from between his brows.

He raised a hand to touch his brow. Sure enough, it was bleeding, and there was even a small tear in the skin.

If he had reacted even a moment later, the worm might really have crawled into his brain.

Who knew what problems would have arisen then?

The more Su Luo thought about it, the more frightened he became. He glared wide-eyed,

furiously watching the worm in his hand gradually grow weak.

His fingers slowly tightened, intending to crush the little worm to death.

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

"Don't, don't, don't! If you squeeze any harder, I'll really die!"

Su Luo's expression instantly froze at those words.

Then he frowned deeply, staring fixedly at the little worm in his hand as his fingers stopped tightening.

"Was that you talking?"

The little worm nodded weakly, looking as though it was in great discomfort.

"Human big brother, could you let me go first? Being pinched by you is really quite uncomfortable."

Su Luo's gaze turned icy, and he snorted coldly.

"Hmph. You nearly burrowed into my head, and you still want me to let you go? You little bug have quite the beautiful dream."

Though he said that, Su Luo still loosened his grip slightly.

He was rather interested in this worm. He did not want to accidentally crush it to death.

As Su Luo loosened his grip a little, the worm also breathed a sigh of relief.

By then, the three sisters had already come up behind Su Luo.

Seeing him pinching a white worm, they could not help looking at one another.

"Brother Su Luo, why are you holding a bug? It keeps wriggling around. So disgusting." Shen Huaiyu looked at the little worm with distaste.

Upon hearing that, the worm in Su Luo's hand seemed to have been struck right in its sore spot.

"You rude female creature, do not lump me together with the ordinary bugs on your planet!"

"Don't think I wouldn't dare teach you a lesson just because you have a powerful mate!"

The worm's furious voice rang in all four of their minds.

After hearing it, Shen Huaiyu's face gradually flushed red. Her gaze darted away, and she did not dare look directly at the other three.

Su Luo lightly flicked the little worm with a finger, signaling for it to watch its words.

Shen Huaiyue and Liu Yunyi exchanged a glance without saying anything, instead turning their attention to why this little worm could talk.

"Su Luo, why can this worm speak? Where did you catch it?" Shen Huaiyue asked curiously.

"It crawled out of the Four-tailed White Ape's eye. I don't know why this worm can talk either."

"Hey, what exactly are you?" Su Luo pinched the worm and held it before his eyes.

The little worm gave several proud humphs.

"Hmph, hmph, hmph. My origins are not something lowly creatures like you are qualified to know."

Seeing how arrogant it was, Liu Yunyi immediately drew her sword and pointed its tip at it.

"Su Luo, should I stab it to death with one strike?"

Feeling the chill from the sword tip behind it, the little worm hurriedly tried to placate Liu Yunyi.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't get worked up! It's not like I said I wouldn't tell you. This female creature, please put away your weapon. We can talk things over properly."

"Cut the nonsense! Quickly explain your origins! Waste any more of our time, and I'll crush you to death immediately!" Su Luo said coldly, a frosty gleam flashing in his eyes.

Seeing the killing intent in Su Luo's eyes, the little worm knew it had no choice but to explain itself.

But it was a super race of the starry sky, yet here it was, being threatened by such lowly creatures.

At that thought, tears welled up in its eyes, and it let out a deep sigh.

"Alas~"

"A tiger fallen onto the plains is bullied by dogs!"

After composing itself, the little worm began recounting its origins.

"More than ten years ago, I hatched from an underground cave."

"The moment I was born, my race's inherited memories flooded into my mind."

"Those inherited memories told me that I am one of the Seven Great Starry Sky Demonic Insects—the Pupil Worm."

After hearing the little worm's words, all four of them wore puzzled expressions.

"The Seven Great Starry Sky Demonic Insects? Pupil Worm? So you're an extraterrestrial life-form?" Su Luo asked in surprise.

"That is indeed the case, but I do not know why I was born on such a backward planet," the little worm said in confusion.

"You say we're backward? How are we backward?" Shen Huaiyue stared at the little worm indignantly, determined to make it explain itself.

"This somewhat hot-tempered female creature, I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet. Listen as I explain slowly," the little worm soothed her.

"Though I have never personally seen other planets, compared with the civilizations of other planets that flashed through my inherited memories, your planet's civilization is indeed backward."

"To judge whether a planet's civilization is backward, one must look at whether the life-forms on that planet can traverse the starry sky."

"Whether by relying on their physical bodies or on technology."

"As long as they possess the ability to traverse the starry sky, they will have opportunities to interact with the civilizations of other planets, as well as the means to conquer them."

"Yet from what I have observed, your civilization is still at an extremely backward stage. It completely fails to meet the requirements for traversing the starry sky in any form."

After hearing the little worm's words, the four of them could not help crying out in amazement inwardly.

So there were other races beyond the starry sky.

Yet alongside their amazement, a sense of urgency rose in their hearts.

If other races came to conquer Azure Star, would the powerful people of Azure Star be able to hold them off?

Noticing that their mood had grown heavy, Su Luo quickly changed the subject.

"That Seven Great Starry Sky Demonic Insects thing you mentioned—besides you Pupil Worms, what else is there?"

Upon hearing that, the little worm immediately spoke with great enthusiasm.

"Besides us Pupil Worms, the other six races are the Fantasy Dragonfly, Thunder Domain Centipede, Undying Cicada, Star-eating Ant, Ghost-Piercing Butterfly, and Mother Nest Spider."

"Each type of Demonic Insect possesses a long lifespan and different powerful abilities."

"As long as a Demonic Insect forms a symbiotic bond with a life-form, it can strengthen its host."

"For example, as long as I form a symbiotic bond with a life-form, I can evolve my host's eyes."

"Of course, depending on the host, the abilities gained after evolution will differ."

"After I bonded with this white ape, whose talent was barely passable, it grew another two eyes."

"The mental shock released by its eyes could force its opponent into a rigid state for several seconds."