This strange type of Insect Race posed no threat at all to cultivators once it lost the hosts it had parasitized and controlled.
Lu Ye lowered his head and studied the insect clutched in his hand. It was about the same size as the ones he had discovered before and looked like a cicada-like parasite, except its entire body was golden, as if cast from gold.
"Insect King!" he murmured softly.
"What?" Zhou Hai frowned.
"This is the Insect King!"
Everyone looked baffled, especially the Cloud River Tier Nine cultivators. They had never even heard of an Insect King. After spending so long on the Cloud River Battlefield, going through one Secret Realm after another and seeing many Insect Race creatures, all they had ever known were monsters that only knew destruction and slaughter. There had never been any such thing as an Insect King or not.
"How do you know it's the Insect King?" Xia Qianqian asked in confusion.
"When I was parasitized just now, I sensed something..." Lu Ye carefully recalled the feeling from that instant, then said thoughtfully, "Kill it, and the crisis in the Myriad Beast Domain can be resolved!"
At those words, everyone immediately grew interested. Zhou Hai said, "How can you tell?"
Lu Ye sorted through all the information he had obtained in the instant he was parasitized and explained, "All the other Insect Race creatures are controlled by this Insect King. Once it dies, the rest of the Insect Race are nothing but decorations. Even if they remain inside the Monster Beasts, they won't have any effect on them..."
When he was parasitized, he had sensed many auras above him. Those were clearly the auras of the insects parasitizing the Monster Beasts. In the direction of Two Realms City, there had also been