Ying Wu was so bored that he passed the time teasing Sang Zhi and the others, while Song Wen waited idly nearby.
That wait lasted half a month.
At last, Li Chen returned with reinforcements.
However, Song Wen was somewhat disappointed.
Aside from Li Chen, seven people had come in total. Yet only one woman was a mid-tribulation-transcendence cultivator; the other six were all Mahayana cultivators.
Moreover, among those six Mahayana cultivators, only one was at the mid-Mahayana stage. The rest were all at the early Mahayana stage.
However, all eight of Li Chen's group cultivated the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
Song Wen guessed that Youye had likely given each of them the cultivation method for the Corpse King Reincarnation Art in order to recruit more people.
Yet the spiritual herbs required to refine the Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill, which prevented one's cultivation from falling during a cultivation method conversion, were limited in this world. Some Mahayana cultivators had thus been unable to take the pill. Although they had successfully converted to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, their cultivation had fallen to the early Mahayana stage.
With a mid-tribulation-transcendence cultivator assisting them, Li Chen and the others grew far bolder. They only stopped their flight ten thousand li away from the giant insect phantom.
Li Chen raised a hand and pointed toward the giant insect phantom in the distance. "Fellow Daoist Ku Yan, look. That is the phantom condensed by that beast. As for its true body, it is feeding at the former site of the Scarlet Sun Sect."
In truth, Ku Yan did not need Li Chen to tell her. She had long noticed the Void Beetle gnawing on corpses within a valley.
Ku Yan lived up to her name. She did not appear particularly old, yet her face and