Now that unusual activity had appeared on the Wind-Thunder Plains again, all these people had come seeking an opportunity.
An opportunity? Could it be that thing I saw earlier?
With that thought, Xue Fuyao found a secluded spot and brought out their bodies.
She had originally planned to study the so-called Wind-Thunder Beetles, but even after she left the bodies on the ground for a long time and deliberately drew lightning down to strike them, no beetles burst out.
Seeing this, Xue Fuyao could only activate the Heavenly Eye again. To her surprise, all the Wind-Thunder Beetles inside these people had already died.
She frowned, bent down, and dug a dead Wind-Thunder Beetle out of one of the bodies.
Perhaps because it had not fully matured, the Wind-Thunder Beetle's body was still a translucent purple, and its shell was soft. There were no internal organs inside it; it was like a solid lump of flesh. She had never seen a creature like this, except...
"A Gu Worm?"
Xue Fuyao picked up the Wind-Thunder Beetle and examined its internal structure. She discovered that it was not solid after all and did have internal organs, but those organs were still developing, which was why they were transparent.
It was not a Gu Worm, just an ordinary beetle Spirit Beast.
The reason it had become like this was probably related to the environment here.
Xue Fuyao burned all the remaining bodies, then turned and left, heading in the direction she had seen earlier aboard the Wind-Thunder Divine Boat.
From Sima Yun's memories, she learned that they were not the only ones who had noticed the changes in the Wind-Thunder Plains. Before them, quite a few people had already slipped into the plains, including those from Wind-Thunder Manor, which had risen to prominence through