"How could that be?" Dongfang Qionghao asked in great astonishment. "Lightning Master Xiao, what do you mean by that?"
Xiao Hua hurriedly recounted his earlier encounter with the two strange insects, then said at last, "In this Xiao's view, these strange insects several thousand zhang long must have only recently advanced! They devoured too much true qi and advanced too quickly. Not only could they not adapt to their own bodies, even their intelligence could not match their strength, which was why they had so little ability to fight back against us! And look again, everyone—between the strange insects a few zhang long from before and these several-thousand-zhang insects, there are not many insects measuring ten or a hundred zhang. It must be because... the unseen Strange Insect King sensed our strength, abandoned the idea of driving those medium-sized insects, and directly sent these several-thousand-zhang insects against us!"
"True Person Xiao means..." Ancestor Hongmeng was dumbfounded as well. He exclaimed, "These strange insects with the strength of the ninth grade of Yuan Force... were merely testing our strength?"
Xiao Hua's gaze swept over the Sovereigns of the various teachings one by one before finally falling upon Ancestor Hongmeng. He said, word by word, "That is what this Xiao thinks. I hope this Xiao is wrong!"
"Chirp, chirp..." Suddenly, a faint cry from a strange insect rang out. Though the sound was soft, and utterly inconspicuous amid the insect cries rising and falling throughout the entire space, it nevertheless fell clearly upon the ears of the Sovereigns of the various teachings.
Even outside Xiao Hua's Niwan Palace, the Innate Divine Restriction rippled with waves of golden light again!
"The Strange Insect King?" Xiao Hua's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly tried to follow the sound, but even with Xiao Hua's strength, he