Seeing Chen Fei's hand pause, Xing Gong's terrified expression gradually returned to normal.
"If you kill a Spirit Devouring Worm, you'll be marked by the entire swarm. Nor can you imprison us. If Spirit Devouring Worms remain separated from the swarm for too long, the swarm will still track us down."
The corners of Xing Gong's mouth had already begun to curl upward of their own accord. Nearly every living being in the Void Return Realm knew how tyrannical Spirit Devouring Worms were.
Without absolute strength, when facing Spirit Devouring Worms that would seek revenge over the slightest grievance, the only thing one could do was yield.
Being parasitized by Spirit Devouring Worms meant losing much of one's freedom, but in another sense, it also provided an extra life-preserving talisman.
Moreover, the Spirit Devouring Worm King had promised that as long as they remained beside the swarm for a thousand years, they would ultimately regain their freedom.
This was not a false promise. This swarm of Spirit Devouring Worms had existed in the Void Return Realm for who knew how many years. Scavengers came and went, and indeed, many scavengers had eventually regained their freedom.
They could pillage and slaughter weaker races as they pleased. Once their lives were in danger, they could reveal the Spirit Devouring Worm larvae inside them, and they might even have hope of freedom in the future.
For all these reasons, the number of scavengers behind the Spirit Devouring Worms had always remained extremely high.
Most of them were desperate, vicious people with nowhere else to go, Dao Integration Realm cultivators who sought shelter with the Spirit Devouring Worms and truly survived.
"Release us now, and we'll leave at once. Otherwise, if it comes to fish dying and the net breaking, no one will be