After driving Song Wen back with a single strike, the Void Beetle pressed its advantage. The three pairs of thin wings on its back quivered as it closed in.
Song Wen, however, had no intention of fighting it at close quarters again.
The Thunder Kui Wings abruptly appeared behind him, unleashing a surging torrent of lightning. Song Wen took the opportunity to retreat farther.
Facing the onrushing lightning, the Void Beetle advanced rather than retreated. A shimmering gray spiritual radiance lit up its carapace, and it plunged straight into the attack.
Boom!
The lightning exploded like a waterfall.
Arcs of lightning scattered across the sky.
Yet the Void Beetle did not slow in the slightest. The shimmering gray radiance around it flickered within the cascade of lightning, forcibly tearing through it and smashing open a passage.
Its body is exceptionally powerful. It can already fight cultivators at the late Tribulation Transcendence stage head-on, despite the difference in rank. Then let's test its soul!
As Song Wen retreated, light flashed between his brows, and nine transparent blades shot through the air.
To test the strength of the Void Beetles' souls, Song Wen deliberately refrained from applying Nether Poison to the Soul-Slaying Spikes.
Noticing the nine transparent blades suddenly bearing down on it, the Void Beetle's dark eyes visibly narrowed.
It seemed to sense the danger. The gray spiritual radiance around it abruptly contracted, gathering entirely at its head and forming a thick gray barrier over its carapace.
But with the gray radiance no longer protecting the rest of its body, those parts were immediately exposed to the lightning.
Lightning washed over its carapace. Though it failed to tear through the shell, the tremendous impact greatly reduced its speed.
Perhaps fearing that the lightning would destroy its six thin wings, it folded