Back to the homeland

This was not their first time working together while invisible. Even without seeing each other, they could sense each other's positions through their cultivation methods. Liu Shuyue led the way while Chen Xuan watched their rear, and they soon reached the source of the cries for help.

In a clearing surrounded by shrubs, a girl with short, light chestnut hair was locked in a desperate struggle with a crawling creature. It looked like a house centipede, but it was more than a hundred times larger—almost longer than a person!

Its head also bore a pair of pincer-like mouthparts. Compared to the girl's slender neck, they were practically a guillotine. She clearly knew that too, and desperately braced both hands against its lower jaw to keep it from biting her.

Chen Xuan used the Heavenly Cloud Skill to scan their surroundings and found no other points of light.

As the girl's resistance grew weaker, Liu Shuyue acted. She summoned a Thousand Thoughts Sword and sliced the creature's body apart in the blink of an eye.

Green fluid gushed from its belly, splashing all over the ground.

The girl escaped its grip and scrambled several meters backward, her face still frozen in terror.

Liu Shuyue dropped her invisibility, stepped forward, and asked, "Who are you?"

But the moment the girl saw Liu Shuyue, her taut nerves snapped. She threw her arms around Liu Shuyue and buried her face against her, sobbing loudly. Liu Shuyue was left utterly at a loss.

It took several minutes for the girl to recover.

"S-sorry... I didn't mean to. I'm just... really... scared of bugs." She apologized over and over.

Chen Xuan could understand that reasoning.

Most insects looked like indescribable alien life-forms when magnified a hundred times on camera, let alone when a crawling creature that