Chapter 721 The Martial Soul Hall Gets Eaten Too

The small insects were numerous, but their defenses were incredibly weak.

Whether struck by Primordial Power or Soul Techniques, a direct hit would instantly shatter a small insect, causing it to burst into a pile of mangled flesh and pale yellow fluid.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

Amidst a continuous series of sickening splats, insect after insect was blasted apart as they charged forward.

The Inner Sect Disciples from the major sects were all elites of the Martial King Realm. Their control over their Primordial Power was exceptionally fluid and precise.

Although the small insects were fast, they still couldn't evade the disciples' attacks.

Under the dense barrage of Primordial Power, the vast majority of the small insects fell before they could reach their targets.

However, a few managed to break through into the crowd, sending the nearby disciples into a panicked frenzy as they tried to avoid getting touched by the disgusting creatures.

"ARGH! I've been bitten! I've been bitten!"

A miserable scream suddenly erupted from the crowd. An unlucky soul had finally been bitten by one of the small insects.

It was a disciple from the Saint Extreme Sect—a fourth-level Martial King who served under Zhou Jianxiong.

He was standing relatively close to Chu Qingyun, who got a crystal-clear view of the moment the insect bit him.

The small insect charged into the crowd, then leaped. The lower half of its front third split open, revealing a large mouth filled with fine, dense teeth. In a single bite, it tore a huge chunk of flesh from the unlucky fellow's thigh.

Clutching the piece of flesh in its maw, the small insect landed on the ground and devoured it in a few quick crunches.

However, just as the small insect raised its head again, a blast of Primordial Power descended from the sky, instantly smashing it to smithereens.

It was the fourth-level Martial King's revenge.

'It broke through a fourth-level Martial King's Primordial Power defenses in a single bite and tore off such a large piece of flesh. This insect's attack... is no simple matter!'

Chu Qingyun was stunned.

Just before the small insect had struck, the fourth-level Martial King had managed to summon some of his Primordial Power as a defense, but it hadn't been enough.

'And that was just one of the small insects. If it had been that huge one...'

An image of himself being bitten by the giant insect flashed through Chu Qingyun's mind, and he couldn't help but shudder violently.

'No way. I absolutely cannot let that thing bite me!' Chu Qingyun thought to himself.

The swarm of small insects was soon completely wiped out.

Nothing remained on the ground but piles of mangled flesh and puddles of pale yellow fluid.

As for the Sect Disciples, only that one unlucky fourth-level Martial King had been bitten. Everyone else had escaped the ordeal shaken, but unharmed.

At that moment, the wounded fourth-level Martial King was sitting on the ground. He had gotten some topical medicine from a fellow disciple who still had their Storage Ring and was in the process of bandaging his wound.

However, everyone else—even his own companions—kept their distance, forming a wide circle around him.

Sustaining an open wound in the Blood Sect ruins was no small matter.

From their experience, anyone bitten or scratched by a Blood Corpse or Blood Beast would quickly mutate—their eyes would turn red, their nails would lengthen, and they would become a new Blood Corpse.

Therefore, everyone around was extremely vigilant, terrified he would suddenly mutate and start attacking.

"Wu Sida, how are you? Do you feel anything strange?" one of them asked.

"Anything strange?"

Wu Sida, the chunk of whose flesh had been bitten off, shook his head. "No. Besides the pain, I don't feel anything strange."

Everyone waited a while longer. Logically, if he were going to mutate, it should have already started.

But Wu Sida showed no signs of impending mutation.

Two more people asked him after a while, but Wu Sida still felt nothing out of the ordinary—aside from the excruciating pain in his leg.

After another short wait, someone finally couldn't take the suspense. "Wu Sida, you were bitten by a monster in the Blood Sect ruins! Don't you feel like you're about to turn into a Blood Corpse at all?"

Only after hearing this did Wu Sida jolt, suddenly remembering he wasn't in some ordinary Land of Trial—he was in the ruins of the Blood Sect!

A look of terror instantly spread across his face.

But a moment later, it twisted into ecstatic joy. "Hahaha, I'm not mutating! I was bitten, but I'm not mutating! Hahaha…"

Wu Sida couldn't help but roar with laughter, his heart filled with the elation of having cheated death.

Meanwhile, a few of the braver onlookers approached to inspect his eyes, teeth, and nails, discovering that he truly showed no signs of mutation.

In the end, the others could only speculate.

These insects from the Underground Space, though disgusting, were apparently different from the Blood Corpses and Blood Beasts on the surface. They didn't transmit any strange disease that turned people into Blood Corpses.

"Haha, how lucky! You got bitten and didn't even mutate!"

"To get bitten in the Blood Sect ruins and only lose a chunk of meat… you really lucked out. A blessing in this cursed place!"

"Good thing there weren't any even smaller bugs inside that small one. Now *that* would have been a real problem…"

After confirming Wu Sida wasn't mutating, a few of them teased him as they bypassed the area where the insects had been slain and set off once more.

The people from the Martial Soul Hall also set off again on their own path.

However, not even Wu Sida himself noticed it.

As they set off again, a blackish-red line, as thick as a finger, appeared on the skin just above the now-staunched wound on his thigh.

Apparently, there was more than one giant insect in the Underground Space.

They hadn't gone far before the Martial Soul Hall group also encountered a large insect, this one a full three meters long. The creature dragged its bloated body toward them with a dry, rustling sound.

"Heh heh, you little sect runts, watch closely! This bug won't attack those of us from the Martial Soul Hall!"

The Fifth-level Martial King from the Martial Soul Hall—the same one who had mocked Chu Qingyun's group and told them to go back—suddenly quickened his pace. He stepped out in front of the giant insect, once again taunting them.

Based on his experience, the monsters in the Blood Sect ruins, be they Blood Corpses or Blood Beasts, always ignored people from the Martial Soul Hall.

This time, however, he was dead wrong.

His words were still echoing in the empty Underground Space.

The giant insect shot forward, appearing before him in an instant. Faster than a clap of thunder, it reared up the front third of its body.

The lower half of its front third split apart, revealing a grotesque and disgusting maw. It leaped and, in a single bite, swallowed the entire upper half of the Fifth-level Martial King from the Martial Soul Hall.

The Fifth-level Martial King struggled instinctively, lashing out with two blasts of Primordial Power that tore two head-sized wounds in the giant insect's body.

But the giant insect tackled him to the ground. Its body writhed, and its mouth seemed to be chewing incessantly.

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