The Giant Mouth worms cried out, "How is he so strong? We can't keep fighting him! Run! Find a way out!"
"This guy is a monster! If he keeps burning us like this, we're really going to die here!"
"Damn it, I haven't become a Main Brain yet! I can't die here!"
The worms fled one after another.
Individually, they were not actually that strong. Even compared to ordinary Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouses, they were merely average.
The Giant Mouth Clan's strength lay more in their sheer numbers.
But a lone worm could only do so much.
Against the Demon Emperor's sustained, large-scale destructive power, their effectiveness grew increasingly limited.
Of course, every defeat ultimately came down more to insufficient firepower.
With enough firepower and sufficient numbers, never mind the Demon Emperor's little flames-even a Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouse at perfection would die beneath their Insect Sea tactics.
The energy within any living being was finite.
Moreover, as one's cultivation rose, one's control over the surrounding energy grew increasingly precise.
Sealing off energy and exhausting it were methods of warfare.
When these worms realized they were powerless and doomed to fail,
they would choose to flee.
Watching the Heavenly Dao Realm worms disappear from this world,
Demon Emperor Daochen was utterly speechless.
"When you strike a tiger, leaving it alive is the greatest taboo."
"Those worms escaped. That's going to be a real headache for us!"
Although they posed no threat to him, nobody wanted to spend every day on tenterhooks.
Besides, now that these fellows had escaped, they had a chance to build an altar and teleport reinforcements over again.
Chaos Heaven nodded. "All we can do is stay vigilant and find their hiding places. This world is only so big. Where could they possibly hide?"
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