The battle at the Hundred Million Dao Realm stage swiftly began.
First came the insects.
But unlike before, no insects with the strength of the Hundred Million Dao Realm appeared.
This was hardly strange. The primary focus of the Daluo Realm was one's own Great Dao. Whether it was the physical body or the soul, their importance was comparatively diminished.
A physical body comparable to the Daluo Realm was, in truth, already close to the limit. To become stronger, those insects would need to possess Great Daos of their own and use them to strengthen their bodies.
Thus, the trial at the Hundred Million Dao Realm layer instead reverted to how things had been at the Taiyi stage.
Throughout the entire world, vast numbers of insects at the early Daluo Realm level continuously appeared.
This time, they were not concentrated into any single type. There were countless varieties—flying ones in the sky, beetle-like ones, and many-legged ones.
Not only were these insects small, they made very little commotion. The moment they appeared, they appeared in swarms.
This undoubtedly caught Xue He and the others off guard.
After receiving the news, they had assumed that the trial at this stage would pit them against creatures at the Hundred Million Dao Realm level, with their numbers drastically reduced once again. All they needed to do was conceal their auras and find a way to notify those outside first.
In other words, because they had not begun clearing them out immediately, by the time they reacted, they were already surrounded by an ocean of insects.
Casualties were almost unavoidable.
Quite a few people died at the Taiyi and Ten Million Dao Realm stages.
The team Li Su was in also suffered quite an impact. Although Xue He and Li Xiao reacted quickly enough