Hearing this, Xiao Hua could not help but cry out, "How many ordinary people have gone missing?"
Long-Eared Arhat had originally had other figures to report, but seeing Xiao Hua ask, he took a deep breath and said with a mournful sigh, "Forty temples... approximately 4.67 million benefactors have vanished!"
"How could there be so many?" Xiao Hua's heart suddenly ached. He then looked at his disciple and asked, "Do you have more bad news?"
The Creation Sect disciple took a deep breath and announced, "Besides the information above, Star Picking Tower has other reports. Strange insects appeared in Qing Province and Yang Province of Cangxian Continent, annihilating nearly 700,000 people across four towns; 400,000 people vanished in the White Bone Mountain Range in the western Pure Land, and the mountain range was devoured—if nothing unexpected happened, the strange insects were responsible as well; near Chidi River in the eastern Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, 800,000 members of the Demon Race disappeared, including 307 Great Demons; east of the East Sea, 310,000 seafolk across three sea realms were exterminated by the strange insects..."
"Is there more?" Xiao Hua gritted his teeth.
"There is..." The disciple flipped his hand and took out a jade pupil, respectfully handing it to Xiao Hua. "Star Picking Tower lost more than a dozen disciples obtaining images of the strange insects!"
Xiao Hua reached out, and the jade pupil instantly fell into his hand. He was about to press it against his forehead, but hesitated. He gently closed his eyes, steadied his mind, and only then placed it there.
Just as Xiao Hua had expected, the jade pupil contained images of more than a dozen strange insects, large and small. Two of them were almost identical to the two he had seen in the void