He looked up ahead.
The canopy there was no longer impenetrable.
A massive, dark green peak rose from the sea of trees, its contours cold and stark beneath the gray-white daylight.
It looked to be a little over a hundred kilometers away.
Xu Feng caught his breath and decided to rest here for a while to recover his strength.
Little White stood watch while Xu Feng slept soundly.
He slept until midnight.
An extremely dense flurry of wingbeats suddenly sounded in the distance, startling Xu Feng awake.
The sound was low and discordant, like countless pieces of iron colliding and scraping together.
"Squeak, squeak-" Little White cried uneasily, sensing a swarm of powerful insects.
Xu Feng slipped quietly out of his sleeping bag, crouched behind a massive tree, and parted its drooping leaves to look into the distance.
In a clearing two kilometers away, a dark mass of insects was frantically battering a gray building half buried underground.
The insects were forty to fifty centimeters long and resembled locusts, with narrow bodies, powerful hind legs, and hooked forelegs.
They were gray-green all over, with thin wings on their backs.
They hurled themselves at the building in waves, their mouthparts striking showers of sparks from its alloy walls, their beating wings leaving layer upon layer of blurred gray afterimages.
The swarm had almost completely covered the building. Only a few ventilation openings still flashed with divine light from time to time, clearing small patches of the attacking insects.
But fresh insects quickly filled the gaps.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then towering flames and flashes of law power erupted from deep in the forest.
Crimson flames, azure wind blades, and ocher blade light bearing mountain phantoms flared in succession, making the entire sea of trees flicker between light and darkness.
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