Chapter 606: Chapter 567: A World-Shaking Battle

Starlight crisscrossed the sky, like a Celestial Sword hanging down from above.

In the ink-black night, the sprinting giant wasn’t the only one left stunned. So too was a Beauty Snake with a human head and a serpent’s body, hidden in the shadows—

And another group of Chaotic God Martial Artists, whose bodies had turned to iron and stone, their auras suppressed until they resembled inanimate objects.

In the inky streets, the minds of these "inanimate objects" wavered, their auras fluctuating.

Humans, demons, otherworldly beings, and local natives... Heaven-Reaching City was bustling tonight. Figures rushed over one after another, but none of them could act as quickly as the master of the starlight.

The timing was too perfect, the strike too decisive. The other figures bustling about in the night hadn’t even had time to react.

Of course, some were annoyed. "Where did this reckless fool come from, sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong? That guy named Yun wanted to die, so you should have just let the Insect Demon eat him! Why save him?"

Song Ciwan, of course, didn’t know that Yun Liuguang had intended to feed himself to the demon. She had been pursuing the secrets of the Ancient Divine Insect Race for a long time. Now that she had finally encountered a true member of the Insect Race in this bizarre ancient city, how could she allow this giant insect to devour a Celestial Pride of the Human Race right before her eyes?

She roused all the True Qi in her body and unleashed the Star Cross Skill.

The celestial canopy hung low. At this moment, the stars in the sky, which should have been distant, felt as if they were only a hand’s breadth away from her.

Song Ciwan felt that she had never been this close to the stars of the cosmos... so close she could almost hear them breathe.

Yes, it was as if she could hear the breathing and heartbeat of the stars.

THUMP-THUMP-THUMP—

It was the sound of all the stars in the sky pulsing, colliding, and roaring.

When the sky tore open and the giant insect emerged from the Abyss, it shattered not only the order of the Mortal World but also the revolution of the cosmic stars.

All the stars in the sky were rejecting this giant insect!

Realizing this, Song Ciwan’s spirit was undoubtedly invigorated.

She stepped through the void, drawing down the starlight.

Gradually, what projected down from the sky, pouring out in a crisscrossing torrent, was no longer just swords of starlight, but clearly an entire river of stars.

RUMBLE—

The heavens collapsed. The starlight fell upon the giant insect, causing it to roar in fury.

But its roars were clearly in vain.

Because at this very moment, not only was the starlight from the entire sky pouring down on it, but another phantom giant insect, one of equal size, was also fighting it with all its might. This was the Insect Race phantom summoned by the Ancient God’s Horn.

The giant insect phantom summoned by the Ancient God’s Horn could only exist for fifteen minutes. In terms of realm, it was the same as the giant insect that had just torn through the sky—a variant of the Insect Race.

As far as Song Ciwan currently knew, the growth stages of the Ancient Divine Insect Race, starting from Insect Eggs, were larva, variant, and Mature Form... or perhaps a semi-mature form before the Mature Form.

What came after the Mature Form was still unknown.

Song Ciwan was thankful that this wasn’t a Mature Form. ’If it was just a variant—’

Just as the Human-faced Giant Insect was struggling and roaring, bound by spider silk and submerged in starlight, on the verge of being completely suppressed by Song Ciwan, she suddenly saw a massive, barbed insect limb detach from the creature’s side with a soft ripping sound.

In that split second, Song Ciwan subconsciously assumed the detached limb had been severed by the starlight.

The next moment, however, the limb suddenly exploded in mid-air.

Countless barbs, each over thirty feet long, suddenly shot out in all directions—

SHH-SHH-SHH!

These barbs tore through the starlight, and under the illumination of the blazing bonfires on the ground, they scattered toward every corner of the dark world.

Some of them struck the frantically drifting figures of the Insect Gu. Any of these "human figures" grazed by the giant barbs immediately exploded, turning into ash.

But turning to ash was clearly not the end of these Insect Gu’s "lives."

Song Ciwan could clearly sense that every time an Insect Gu was struck by a barb and incinerated, the aura of the Human-faced Giant Insect in the sky grew imperceptibly stronger.

Although the power provided by each Insect Gu was extremely faint, their numbers under the starry sky were in the tens of thousands, as numerous as mountains and seas, simply uncountable.

Most of the Insect Gu were weak, and upon being hit by the giant barbs, they died instantly on contact.

The few that were exceptionally strong would shout excitedly the moment they were struck: "I offer myself to my god! May my god live for a thousand ages!"

AHHH—

The giant barbs struck, and the Insect Gu shrieked.

The air filled with eerie sounds, as if the world had descended into madness and demonic chaos.

Plumes of ash exploded in mid-air, and the Human-faced Giant Insect’s aura climbed rapidly.

But that wasn’t all. The impact of the giant barbs was indiscriminate.

When the giant barbs came whistling through the air, Song Ciwan was initially able to dodge them at the last second using the ’Void’ Character Technique.

But as the Human-faced Giant Insect’s power grew stronger, there was a sudden moment when several giant barbs leaped through space. Moving like streaking stars and chasing lightning, they struck Song Ciwan with completely unexpected speed!

It happened even though Song Ciwan had instantly activated Upright Shadowless.

However, the giant barbs carried a twisted, chaotic, and frenzied power... a strange force that was impossible to evade, and it pierced through the protective principles of Upright Shadowless.

’No, perhaps it wasn’t that the barbs pierced the protection. Rather, in that instant, my own mind was warped, and I stepped out of the Upright Shadowless state.’

In any case, regardless of the reason, in that single, dazed moment, Song Ciwan was hit!

The Human-faced Giant Insect let out an infant-like cry and shriek, "Waaa... waaa..."

In the distance, the Corpse Demon running through the darkness cried out in alarm, "Xing Lan Fairy!"

She stopped in her tracks, not daring to run anymore, her heart just throbbing with a faint dread.

A terror the likes of which she hadn’t felt in thousands of years now completely enveloped the Corpse Demon.

And the effects of the giant barbs filling the sky didn’t stop there.

The giant barbs pierced countless Insect Gu, struck Song Ciwan, and also hit Du Xingheng and Yun Liuguang, who were tied to the high altar, as well as the figures hidden in the darkness further away.

These included the ten-meter-tall giant, Uncle Dong; the other natives of Heaven-Reaching City whose bodies had turned to iron and stone; the Great Demon Hooked Snake with its human head and serpent body; and various other humans and demons hiding in the darkness...

All these events, though long to describe, happened at almost the same instant.

Struck by a giant barb, Du Xingheng’s blood gushed forth as he struggled, his eyes filled with torment.

Yun Liuguang, who already had a sword in his chest, took another hit from a giant barb that completely pierced his body. His listlessly lowered eyes finally lifted slightly.

Yun Liuguang was on the brink of death, yet his Sword Intent gathered like a storm, beginning to circulate and move under the impact of the endless giant barbs.

But as for Song Ciwan, who was the first to be hit, the giant barb had failed to completely pierce through her body!

That’s right. Although Song Ciwan had been struck by the giant barb, that incomparably sharp weapon, filled with an extremely strong chaotic power, had not actually managed to fully penetrate her body.

The Thunder Fire Body Devouring Technique, Opening the Universe, and her Horizontal Training Body had finally revealed their power in this distant Heaven-Reaching City.

Though she wore the face of Xing Lan, various phenomena unique to a Horizontal Training Body began to manifest around Song Ciwan.

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