A Wei murmured an incantation and pointed toward the center of the cellar. In an instant, the thick rock walls around them vanished, as though they had become a layer of transparent glass.
Daylight pierced through the ground above, illuminating the surrounding layers of earth.
Chen Xuan felt as though he stood inside a compartment suspended in space, with a deep void beneath his feet.
Bang!
With a dull impact, an enormous creature pressed itself against the "glass shell."
Several people behind him drew sharp breaths.
Even Chen Xuan felt a chill crawl up his back.
It was a gigantic bug!
It resembled a centipede, with countless legs and armor like a stegosaurus's back. Each segment bore a protruding bone spike, and a single spike was as large as an adult human. Taken as a whole, its size rivaled a heavy freight train.
But it was not a true centipede.
Its head resembled a human skull, and its two bulging eyes swiveled a full 360 degrees. It had two mouths, one in the usual place and another between its jawbone and throat. Numerous insectlike, curved jaw appendages grew on either side. It was as hideous as
anything could be.
This monster with a human face and an insect's body triggered the uncanny valley effect almost instantly, as though the sole purpose of its
appearance was to inspire terror and disgust.
"I remember there being a bug on the moon, too," Lin Qing said, her expression grave.
"That must be what the Dimensional Limit Organization calls the Star God." Chen Xuan nodded. Although this crawling creature was nowhere near the Star God in size, it was certainly no pushover. Otherwise, the Lotus Cloud Sect's great formation would have dealt with it long ago.
At least in A Wei's judgment, it was