At the eastern foothills of the White Wolf Mountain Range, before Rock Python Demon City.
Though Jiaozhou's "Five Insects" Hu Family was merely a third-rank aristocratic clan, the fact that it had maintained its footing in Jiaozhou for over a thousand years was enough to show its strength and depth of inheritance.
One had to know that before the Immortal Dynasty opened up Liu Province and Yue Province, the main battlefields where the Immortal Dynasty clashed and warred with the Demon Country were Ning Province and Jiaozhou.
Of the two, Jiaozhou was even more perilous. At the time, it thrust deep into Demon Country territory and could practically be said to have been surrounded on three sides by the Demon Country's assaults and slaughter.
Its hardship far surpassed that of Ning Province.
Thus, in the thousand-odd years since the Hu Family established itself in Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou had been breached by the Demon Country on several occasions. At its most perilous, nearly the entire province had fallen, save for Jiaozhou City.
Yet even so, through more than a thousand years of wind and rain, the "Five Insects" Hu Family still stood firm in Jiaozhou, never slipping even an inch. This alone revealed something of the Hu Family's methods and strength.
The Hu Family bore the name "Five Insects," and its family inheritance specialized in raising and employing all manner of demon insects and gu insects.
Facing the three Demon Kings that had charged out from Rock Python Demon City to encircle and kill him, the Hu Family's True Lord unleashed two insects: one was a crimson centipede with a pair of wings, while the other was a black snake with a single horn upon its head.
However, the Hu Family's True Lord had not released the two insects to fight the