Xu Changqing's body jolted violently, forcing him back several steps. Each step stamped cracking spatial ripples into the void, yet there was not the slightest hint of retreat in his eyes. Instead, his fighting spirit blazed ever fiercer, like oil poured onto flames.
The Lifeless Insect Mother was also shaken by that towering force until her aura fell into disarray. The process of refining the Profound River Water was forcibly interrupted, and the backlash made her let out a muffled groan of pain.
The Lifeless Insect Mother looked utterly incredulous. "No, that's impossible!"
Xu Changqing sneered. "Without absolute confidence, how would I dare come looking for you?"
The Insect Matriarch let out a shrill howl, and the Red Wedding Dress fluttered without wind. "You... you actually fused with the Defiled-Earth God's source power! You thief!"
Xu Changqing shrugged and replied as though it were only natural, "Fortuitous encounters belong to those destined for them. You simply lack that fate!"
"You—really—deserve—to—die!!!"
The Lifeless Insect Mother's voice turned into a hysterical roar.
Every word contained a towering hatred that wished to tear Xu Changqing into ten thousand pieces. The entire space trembled beneath her furious bellow.
At this point, neither side held anything back. Either you died, or I perished.
Yellowish-brown spiritual radiance and a black curtain of water tangled together with even greater violence, as though heaven and earth had been completely flooded by those two colors.
Primordial Yellow Force was vast and weighty, every strike like the trembling of the earth.
Primordial Heavy Water, meanwhile, was strange and ever-changing, sinister and corrosive, eroding everything.
Immediately afterward, the Lifeless Insect Mother's lower body swelled madly. Its twisted shape made one's scalp prickle, while thousands of limbs thrashed continuously, spraying out an ocean of black slime.
The slime devoured and fused with