Danger and Opportunity Foretold

[One's life aura could often be used to judge the degree to which a living being's Immortal Essence had been tempered. Thus, you could preliminarily determine that Hou Ba's strength was already sufficient to rival an ordinary cultivator at the Peak True Immortal Realm.

Being able to make such gains was not only due to his awakened immortal body and Divine Eye, but also because he had digested quite a bit of what he had gained at the banquet.

At this rate, you felt Hou Ba should not have been wearing such a worried expression. Yet, you saw that he was deeply troubled, as though he had something important to tell you...]

[Only after a long while, once you had heard Hou Ba out, did you understand what had happened.

According to Hou Ba, while you had been away bidding farewell to others, he had received a message from a friend. He learned that his friend had unfortunately fallen into a sealed spatial rift. While continuously searching for a way out, his friend had entered a Small World, only to find it even more dangerous than the spatial rift.

Within a spatial rift, there were still some chances of survival. At worst, one might encounter astral gale winds. As long as one was not cursed with truly rotten luck and ran into the most terrifying varieties, Hou Ba's friend had sufficient strength to deal with them.]

[However, Hou Ba's friend had entered this Small World and found it far from safe. It was filled everywhere with Insect Beasts, not only numerous but also quite powerful.

Insect Beasts differed from other Demonic Beasts with intelligence. Most of them possessed no "brains" at all, only the instincts of Insect Beasts.

When they encountered living beings, these Insect Beasts would often seek to