"With only dozens of half-mature Insect Mountain Range beasts, the three Fellow Daoists were already injured. Once those Insect Mountain Range beasts advanced, they truly seemed far too terrifying."
Although Qin Fengming was astonished that half-mature Insect Mountain Range beasts existed, he still felt somewhat surprised that three late Integration stage cultivators at the peak had been poisoned merely from facing dozens of advanced Insect Mountain Range beasts.
The levels of demon insects were difficult to match with cultivator realms.
Some demon insects already displayed vastly different strengths while they were still larvae. It seemed that even in the larval stage, they could be divided into several realms.
For example, when Qin Fengming had been in the Qi Gathering stage, he had been able to kill thousands upon thousands of larval flying ants with only a few Fire Python Talismans. Yet the Calamity-Devouring Ants in the Insect Mountain Range were also in the larval stage, and even a peak Integration stage cultivator could only flee for his life upon encountering them.
Although both were in the larval stage, their strength differed as vastly as heaven and earth.
The ancient records contained no clear distinctions on this point, but Qin Fengming had privately divided the stage into early, middle, late, and peak larval phases.
It was obvious that the Insect Mountain Range beasts they had encountered were all at the peak of the larval stage. As long as the demon bees had not exhausted their lifespans, they might advance into the half-mature stage. The Insect Mountain Range beasts that Ke Xingxin had raised in the Human Realm, however, had at most just advanced into the late larval stage.
"Fellow Daoist, you haven't truly seen a half-mature Insect Mountain Range beast. The needle rays it shoots can ignore our protective spiritual light.