Clinging to the hope that the enemy would not patrol the same place twice, I frantically restored my true body while treating the weakened Mother Insect. The Mother Insect had already worked incredibly hard. It had even managed to lie low and preserve its life for quite some time without being discovered—all thanks to its feigned death.
Now that I was back, how could I possibly let it continue suffering at the enemy's hands?
Thus, not only did I keep recovering, but the Mother Insect began recovering as well. Once it had recovered to a tenth or two of its strength and was no longer in danger of perishing, I stopped it from recovering further and tucked it into my sleeve pouch.
By then, I had extracted the crystal's power and regained human form. As my energy steadily reached one or two tenths, I also began setting up a larger grand formation to conceal our aura. The enemies here were definitely not weak. What kind of existence was the Mother Insect? Anyone capable of killing it would be equally formidable. Of course, it was unlikely that the enemy's leader had remained here. Enough time had passed since my clone had nearly been destroyed, and their leader could not possibly still be here wasting time.
So I could continue recovering at full speed without worry.
However, the enemy did not give me much time. When I had recovered around thirty percent of my strength, the two men and one woman did not arrive—but a new team of three did!
As they flew along, they failed to notice me. Only after they flew over me did they spot me sitting cross-legged on the crystal platform below!
"Look! Over there, it seems... it seems there's a fellow Daoist sitting there!" one of the