[Cicada!]
[The parasitism law!]
[Ordinary cicadas had larval and adult stages. Extraordinary magic beasts that used cicadas as their bloodline template naturally inherited this trait, and could even switch freely between the two forms.]
[A seventh-ring tier warlock with a cicada-like extraordinary magic beast true form, who wielded the parasitism law-everything made sense now!!]
[Cicada monkeys could lie dormant underground for over a decade. No wonder the old warlock had remained hidden in the Warlock Alliance for over a hundred thousand years without outsiders knowing, maintaining his extraordinary cicada monkey form.]
[It was no longer strange that he had risked exposure to steal the Formless Tree that formed the Warlock Alliance's foundation!!]
[In all likelihood, the old warlock had spent those hundred thousand years in cicada monkey form, lying dormant beneath the Formless Tree's roots and drawing bloodline power through it to grow.]
[Parasitism! His path of parasitism did not involve parasitizing any single creature. Instead, he used the Formless Tree to parasitize the bloodlines of all kinds of extraordinary magic beasts.]
[Rather than follow the orthodox bloodline path of hunting Beast Gods and incorporating their bloodline laws, this old warlock had blazed his own trail. His cicada monkey physique had grown to an inconceivable level, yet his larval form betrayed none of it. Only when he used that foundation to molt into a cicada did he unleash power that could only be called terrifying.]
Within the domain, the scales on the Mother of All Snakes' tail blazed with boundless radiance.
Her snake hair danced in the air, blood-red light coiling around hundreds of pairs of scarlet eyes as she stared at the extraordinary magic beast true form the old warlock had revealed after molting.
Although her ocular technique could capture only a few scraps of basic information, combined with