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Over the past few days, the little black beetle Zhang Tie had transformed into had been cautiously exploring the First Abyss.
After eight days of exploration, Zhang Tie had gone from being completely unfamiliar with the First Abyss to gradually becoming acquainted with it.
The greatest advantage of the little black beetle was that no one could detect its existence. Its greatest drawback, however, was that its eyesight was far inferior to Zhang Tie's. If Zhang Tie could see several kilometers away in the First Abyss, this little black beetle could only see a few hundred meters.
Such was the trade-off: gain something, lose something.
No external incarnation could possibly be omnipotent.
To borrow the words of the Great Wilderness Scripture, the best and most irreplaceable external incarnation a person possessed was, in fact, their own body—human birth was hard to come by.
Fortunately, after adapting for the past few days, Zhang Tie had gained a fairly thorough understanding of the First Abyss, this knightly battlefield.
The beetle incarnation could make him impossible to detect.
Yet his true body could detect enemies farther away.
Between remaining undetected and possessing stronger perception, after several days of practical experimentation and careful comparison, Zhang Tie had come to feel that the latter ability was more important to him. After all, he had entered the Earth Element Realm to kill enemies and increase his strength.
Zhang Tie was already preparing to summon his true body. Then, as the little beetle rested atop a gigantic plant on a stretch of abyssal land, he spotted the first Devil Race