The screams gradually faded. The sinister aura around the Nine-Headed Insect slowly withdrew, and its eight insect heads shook impatiently, flinging away the blood essence and scraps of flesh clinging to them.
It lowered its head and swept its gaze over the traces left on the ground. Its human face was filled with ferocity, yet it did not linger. Turning around, it transformed into a black shadow and charged once more into the depths of Qiong Valley.
The Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan Core was within reach. It had to find it while racing against time and could not allow outside forces to interfere again.
Not far away, Xu Qiansui stood like a withered log, completely concealing his aura.
As a puppet, his vision was shared with his master. Xu Changqing had seen every detail of the Nine-Headed Insect slaughtering the Evil Cultivators just now.
The Nine-Headed Insect's appearance, especially that human face, always felt familiar to him, as though he had seen it somewhere before, yet he could not recall it for the moment.
As he mulled it over, he suddenly froze.
"Wait..."
"This face looks like Eldest Senior Sister's grandfather!"
"Bei Cangxuan, the patriarch of the Luohe Bei Clan!"
Back then, because of Wangwang's lifespan problem, Xu Changqing had accompanied Eldest Senior Sister to Luo River. Not only had he learned the origins of the Bei Clan, he had also obtained the Bloodline Grafting Secret Art.
Though so many years had passed and they had met only once, he still recognized him.
Xu Changqing was suddenly enlightened. "No wonder his strength is so overbearing. So it's him."
The Lifeless Insect Mother was a hidden-world colossus, commanding countless Insect Cultivators beneath her.
Yet before this, he had never heard of someone like the Nine-Headed Insect.
Only after the Lifeless Insect Mother