"Two more unlucky fools!" White Jade watched gloatingly as the dark cloud of black strange insects chased after two Demon Race cultivators, giggling as though she found it immensely entertaining.
Watching her giggle, Ye Han found it rather amusing too. He had always felt there was something odd about White Jade. She did not seem like an ordinary demoness cultivator.
He and White Jade had already been lying in hiding here for several days.
Ahead lay a formation barrier, shrouded in an astonishing mist of demon aura. Even with Ye Han's cultivation and powerful divine sense, he could not discern what was inside.
Moreover, extremely terrifying strange insects guarded the area around the formation barrier. Anyone who attacked it, touched it to probe for a way to break it, or even merely approached it would face their frenzied pursuit.
Over these several days of covert observation, Ye Han had already seen several groups of demon cultivators try to break the formation and enter the barrier, only to be attacked and chased away by these strange insects.
From his observations, Ye Han concluded that although these strange insects looked utterly unremarkable, they were probably esophagus insects, one of the bizarre varieties recorded in books on strange insects.
Some books recorded only the name of the esophagus insect, without describing its appearance. However, two traits gave them away. These esophagus insects actually had no fear of attacks using spells or the power of law. They directly devoured any spells and power of law that struck them, then unleashed them in retaliation. They were formidable indeed.
Had they merely devoured and reflected attacks from ordinary low-level cultivators, that would have been understandable. But the Demon Race cultivators in the Ancient Demon Land were almost all at the Mahayana Stage or above. These insects