At this news, Di Nian Evil Spirit's spirits hit rock bottom.
There was no need to think. Those beasts of the Insect Race had arrived.
He had thought that advancing to Apostle and gaining access to a higher battlefield would finally let him spread his wings.
If he could just hold out a little longer, until he advanced to Monarch, he could fuse the High Tower into himself and escape those two foul neighbors for good. Then he would be free to soar through the skies and swim the boundless seas.
He would never see that wretched, annoying place, the Di Family Mountains, again!
Yet he had never imagined that he would barely set foot on the Rift Valley battlefield, without even having time to savor it, before those two beasts came hunting him down.
They might as well have gotten right in his face and said: Yes, we're targeting you.
Di Nian Evil Spirit swore repeatedly in fury, expressing his anger through the art of language.
Evil Eye marked the coordinates of the Insect Race's arrival. "Our old neighbor is entering the battlefield."
Di Nian Evil Spirit took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed his rage, and turned his perceptual gaze into an invisible blade that slashed toward Evil Eye's mark.
In the northwestern sky above the battlefield, a pitch-black fissure tore open out of nowhere. A "meteor" trailing a blazing tail plummeted from within, streaking across the gray sky before smashing into the canyon floor with world-destroying force.
Boom!
It was as though the sky had split apart. The earth shook.
Shattered stones turned to powder and sprayed outward, spreading into a ring of dust that blotted out the sky.
An enormous crater appeared at the impact site.
Surging biological energy rapidly coalesced at its bottom. Amid the bubbling