Chapter 605: Chapter 566: Insect Demon, Only a Peerless Celestial Pride...

The sky was torn asunder.

The first thing to emerge was a massive limb, its tip sharp and its surface covered in barbed spines.

An invisible storm erupted as the limb pierced through, whipping the bonfire beneath the starry sky into a frenzy. The kneeling "figures" all around flickered and swayed.

But the figures were clearly unfazed by this discomfort.

As the storm hit, they erupted in a cheer that was like a crashing tsunami: "We welcome our god! Please, our god, enjoy your feast!"

Some figures even prostrated themselves on the ground, weeping tears of joy. "Our god, this sinner has prayed for a thousand years and now finally beholds your divine form... SOB, SOB... How fortunate this sinner is!"

As it wept, the figure suddenly sat up, reached out with a sharp hand, plunged it into its own chest, and tore.

RRRIP!

The ethereal figure was torn apart just like that.

It had torn itself in half. Its torso flew into the sky, leaving its head floating in mid-air, which shrieked with glee, "I, too, honor our god! I am willing to feed our god with my own body! Hehehe..."

The air filled with monstrous shrieks as the fiends danced in a mad frenzy.

On the high platform, Du Xingheng lifted his icy gaze, which seemed to carry an overwhelming aura of carnage, and stared directly at the insect limb.

Meanwhile, the tear in the sky continued to widen.

WHOOSH—

The invisible storm grew more violent. It carried not the sound of wind, but an overwhelming aura of brutality, chaos, terror, and madness.

In the darkness, Ah Zhan could barely restrain herself any longer.

If her father wasn’t holding her down, she would have flown to the high platform that very instant. She wanted to rip her heart out for the man she called Yun Lang, to show him her crimson organs and her blazing passion, and then ask him:

"Look at me. Look at all I have to offer. Are you telling me your heart isn’t moved in the slightest?"

But her father merely placed a hand on her shoulder, heavy as a mountain, and warned in a deep voice, "Stop this madness! Ah Zhan, Yun Liuguang is ruthless even to himself. How could he possibly care for anyone else?"

"No!" Ah Zhan cut her father off, her voice filled with emotion. "Dad, even someone Cultivating the Emotionless Dao has to overcome the trial of mortal feelings! I’m willing to be Yun Lang’s trial. I’m not afraid of the pain that will come. Even if he eventually transcends his feelings and leaves me, at least we’ll have had our time together!"

"Foolish!" The middle-aged man’s hand was steady as a mountain, but his voice trembled slightly. "Can you truly not see it? This man... he is willingly feeding himself to the demon! Only a peerless Celestial Pride can lure out the Insect Demon..."

"What are you talking about?" Ah Zhan asked, surprised. She couldn’t immediately grasp her father’s meaning. "What do you mean, ’willingly feeding himself to the demon’?"

Her father said, "His Sword Intent is so strong that even I would have trouble suppressing it. I’ve pursued him several times, and even though my Power is two realms higher than his, he has always managed to escape me. Ah Zhan, these Insect Gu only seem unkillable because they rely on their Undying Body. But they could never catch Yun Liuguang. Do you understand?"

Ah Zhan couldn’t understand at first. But beneath the torn sky, as the chaotic storm intensified, a Tooth Carving she wore on her chest began to emit a faint Spiritual Light.

And in that same moment, a flash of insight struck her mind.

"Dad! He..." Ah Zhan was still in disbelief, her voice becoming shrill and distorted. "Are you saying... he let those Insect Gu catch him on purpose? Just to... to feed himself to the demon? To lure out the Insect Demon?"

"Impossible!" Ah Zhan shook her head. "How could that be? Does he have a death wish? No, I don’t believe it!"

Her face was a mask of terror, but then, a moment later, realization dawned. "It was you! You all planned this beforehand, didn’t you? Dad, you made some kind of deal with him, right?"

She turned to glare at the middle-aged man. "Dad, he’s insane, and you’re all insane along with him? No... I have to go save him! When the Insect Demon truly appears and devours him, he will die!"

The Tooth Carving on her chest erupted with a deep, eerie blue light, and Ah Zhan’s body suddenly shot upwards, growing—

In an instant, she transformed from a woman of normal height into a small giant, nearly ten feet tall.

This inhuman Transformation allowed her to instantly break free from her father’s grasp.

Just as she was about to rush out again, the middle-aged man standing behind her also suddenly grew taller and larger.

The man grew to a height of five meters. With a light tap on the back of Ah Zhan’s neck, the enraged girl went limp and fell unconscious. The man caught his daughter and handed her to another giant who had appeared from the shadows. "Take her back to the protection zone," he ordered. "Don’t let her out before dawn."

The giant in the darkness silently took the girl, nodded, and retreated.

The middle-aged man sighed, then turned back to stare up at the sky.

The sky had now torn completely open.

A gigantic insect, its body like an undulating mountain range, probed with its limbs and twisted its colossal torso, pushing aside starlight as it squeezed through the rift.

But the first thing that entered their vision was a face that blotted out the sky—the face of a child!

Yes, a human face grew upon the giant insect’s abdomen.

The instant their eyes met, terror flashed in the middle-aged man’s eyes and his face twitched, but his tone was ecstatic. "It’s a variant! It really is a variant!"

Not a Mature Form, but a variant. That meant they still had a fighting chance.

Overjoyed, the man’s body grew again, this time to a height of a hundred feet.

Then, the first thing he did was suddenly reach up, grab his own eyes, and gouge them out!

At the same time, the Human-faced Giant Insect that had squeezed through the sky let out a wail: "Wuuuu..."

Its cry was strange and shrill. Beneath the sound, the stars trembled. Then, one by one, the Insect Gu figures below stood up, tilted their heads back, and detached their own skulls.

Yun Liuguang, who had kept his eyes closed as if in a deep sleep, opened them. He raised his head and met the gaze of the human face on the insect’s abdomen.

The instant their gazes met, tears of blood streamed from Yun Liuguang’s eyes!

The giant insect’s limbs swam through the air, and it let out a baby-like giggle. The next moment, it was hovering directly above the altar.

The human face opened its heaven-devouring maw—

"AHH!" Then, it let out a bloodcurdling scream.

Yes, the giant insect had actually screamed.

Because at that very moment, directly opposite it, another ferocious-looking phantom insect had appeared!

It was Song Ciwan, who had tossed the Ancient God’s Horn into the air.

As the Ancient God’s Horn flew through the air, Song Ciwan empowered it with her True Qi and burned a thousand years of her Lifespan to sound its call.

BLAARR—

The Seven-star Level Marvel, the Ancient God’s Horn, had successfully summoned the phantom of an Ancient Divine Insect Race variant!

Though only a phantom, its combat power was no less formidable. The instant the two insects met, the phantom giant insect spewed out a sky full of silk threads.

The threads tightly enveloped the Human-faced Giant Insect’s entire body, sticking to it and instantly slowing the flailing creature’s movements, as if it were mired in a swamp.

Immediately after, the countless stars in the sky began to blaze with infinite light.

The magnificent starlight rained down like thousands of swords of light, striking with cold, deadly precision.

The giant running through the darkness was suddenly stunned. ’This is...?’

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