In the end, Chen Fan ignored Bald Bird's nonsense and directly lifted the Spirit-Sealing Array!
At the same time, after Chen Fan put away the Bone Sword and Soul Devouring Banner, the blood stench over this stretch of sea had already dispersed. Seeing that the crisis seemed to have dissolved, the many cultivators in distant Heavenly Sand City immediately flew over on their artifacts, wanting to see what exactly had happened.
However, at their artifact-riding speed, it would still take two hours to reach this place. Chen Fan and the others did not care.
"Kid, what exactly is beneath that great hall? It actually required Artifact-Devouring Insects to seal off the exit," Bald Bird asked.
Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui were both startled at those words. Mu Yunshui asked in disbelief, "You're saying that the black beams that corroded our Spirit Tools and Storage Rings were called Artifact-Devouring Insects?"
"Other than Artifact-Devouring Insects, I can't think of anything more heaven-defying than this. I only remembered them after seeing Old Yellow Tooth's Heaven-Climbing Rope being corroded. But these Artifact-Devouring Insects don't belong to this world..." At the last sentence, Bald Bird merely muttered under his breath. Then he looked at Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui again, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Each Artifact-Devouring Insect is finer than a grain of sand, nearly like dust, yet their numbers are immense, and they breed at an astonishing rate. They specialize in devouring artifacts. Even cultivators of lower cultivation might struggle to escape disaster upon encountering them—the insects can bite through their skin and poison them to death. But... as far as I know, these bugs seem rather fond of silk and cloth as well. Your clothes... heh heh!" Bald Bird let out a childish little laugh, the fiery red feather atop his head