At the very moment Shenwu and Zhuo Hanqing appeared, the six righteous cultivators locked in a bitter struggle against the stone-bodied evil creature on the battlefield below also received a heavyweight reinforcement.
The word "heavyweight" here did not merely emphasize this special being's formidable strength; it also literally described its hulking physique.
When the King Insect was forming its cocoon in its early years, it had been fortunate enough to catch a share of the splendid phenomenon when Yang Yuanhong broke through his realm, gaining a remarkably abundant portion of True Dragon Breath from it.
After emerging from its cocoon, its tail shell had already faintly taken on a few dragon-like features.
But at that time, the King Insect had only been in the Core Formation Realm. Overall, it still appeared to be in an incomplete adult form, half upright and half crawling.
Now, after more than twenty years of cultivation and accumulation within Chen Yang's stone grotto-heaven, this special spirit insect's tribal leader had finally completed its second advancement and transformation, growing into the form of a fully mature adult.
When it first burst from beneath the earth's crust and cleaved the enormous body of that stone-bodied evil creature cleanly in two at the waist, all the cultivators present were startled.
Before the King Insect launched its attack, they had been just like Bai Ming, completely unaware of its presence.
And when it struck, it had moved so quickly that the crowd caught only a huge, blurred Dragon Shadow.
Only after the stone-bodied evil creature had been sliced into two halves and crashed heavily to the ground did they finally see the appearance of the "person" who had attacked.
After advancing into its adult state, the King Insect's overall form no longer possessed that segmented awkwardness. Instead, it had