However...
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!!" The other Steel-armored Beetles still devouring the divine beast Black Tortoise's remaining bones and turtle shell suddenly turned around and surged madly toward the beetles that had toppled over and lay motionless...
With a flurry of "Crack, crack, crack!" they swept through like a gale stripping away clouds. These Steel-armored Beetles were actually devouring their fallen kin, a sight even more terrifying than before...
At the sight...
"Hm?" Li Xiaoya's expression shifted, a trace of delighted surprise rising across his face. "The Steel-armored Beetles are about to advance?"
Exactly!
This was not the first time Li Xiaoya had witnessed this. Once the Steel-armored Beetles began attacking and devouring one another, it surely meant they were about to advance. They were already at the late Mighty One stage. If they advanced again, wouldn't that put them at the Immortal Tribulation stage?
If he could command tens of thousands of Immortal Tribulation-stage Steel-armored Beetles, wouldn't he be able to wipe out the Dragon Race single-handedly...?
But!
Li Xiaoya had been a little too optimistic...
Before long...
The original seventy or eighty thousand Steel-armored Beetles had dwindled to less than half as they continued devouring one another. Moreover, the divine beast Black Tortoise's remaining bones and turtle shell had already been eaten clean. There was nothing left at all!
Tsk... Looks like there won't be many left...! Li Xiaoya thought, somewhat disappointed...
Just then...
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!"
"Crack, crack, crack! Buzz, buzz, buzz!" With nothing else left to devour, the remaining Steel-armored Beetles suddenly blazed with ferocity. A shocking aura of bloodshed rippled from them as they launched frenzied attacks on one another, tearing and biting...
For a time...
Staggering, suffocating buzzing continually reverberated through the icy mountain range. Countless ice-covered peaks and rocks shook loose and