"They're dead, dead! All of them are dead!"
Terror gripped Qiu Bai's heart.
Before him lay four Ancient Zheng Bug corpses, each burst open from within, dead beyond any doubt.
Two of the Ancient Zheng Bugs had clearly just died.
As for the other two... they had died earlier!
Qiu Bai was horrified.
From outside, he had not seen those two Ancient Zheng Bugs enter this patch of grass at all. Only after coming in himself had he discovered them.
It was not that they had never entered. The distorted space had simply kept him from seeing them.
They had been dead all along!
More importantly...
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Pain!
Agonizing pain!
Both his Spirit Body and Divine Body were in unbearable agony.
It felt as though they would burst apart at any moment.
A terrifying pressure bore down relentlessly on Qiu Bai's mind.
"A-a Sovereign?" Qiu Bai looked up with difficulty at the handsome young man of the Demon Race before him. The young man was watching him with mockery, though a trace of surprise also touched his lips.
Despite that mocking expression, Qiu Bai knew who had unleashed the overwhelming pressure that left him unable to move.
It was not this young man of the Demon Race at all!
It was the young man of the Human Race not far away, still sitting cross-legged and motionless, seemingly deep in cultivation.
From the corner of his eye, Qiu Bai saw streams of Dao Resonance flowing around him.
"No, not a Sovereign." Qiu Bai was terrified.
Pressure alone had rendered him immobile.
True, Qiu Bai did not hold a high position in the Insect Race, nor was he particularly strong. He had only recently broken through to King-Sealing Creation.
But crushing a King-Sealing Creation like him into immobility with nothing