Chapter 727 - 727: Giant Bug

'This isn't working. It's too dangerous. I have to use my Shadow Martial Soul!'

Chu Qingyun thought.

At this point, he couldn't worry about being exposed anymore. If this continued, he was bound to be hit by the Primordial Power!

However, this time, the Martial Soul Hall emissary's extremely powerful blast of Primordial Power didn't slowly dissipate into the dark space like the previous ones.

Instead, with a BANG, it seemed to strike something.

'Have we reached the deepest part of the Underground Space? The very end?'

The thought flashed through everyone's mind.

Just then, the ground began to tremble slightly, and many of the stone pillars started to vibrate with a low HUM.

A terrible premonition surfaced in the hearts of Chu Qingyun and the Martial Soul Hall members. All seven of them froze in place, not daring to make a single rash move.

It was pitch black ahead.

In mid-air, about forty meters above the ground, a dark red light suddenly appeared. The light formed a perfect circle, over four meters in diameter!

After appearing, the dark red light trembled slightly, shifting left and right, up and down.

Finally, it dipped downward, seeming to lock onto the stunned Chu Qingyun, and twenty-odd meters behind him, the six members of the Martial Soul Hall.

Looking at the light, Chu Qingyun felt a strange sense of familiarity.

'This thing... it couldn't be...'

A very, very bad guess formed in Chu Qingyun's mind.

He summoned a ball of Primordial Power into his hand. With a thought, he compressed the light of the Primordial Power, shining it toward the dark red, circular glow.

GULP... GULP...

In the silent depths of the Underground Space, the sound of throats swallowing hard could be heard.

That wasn't some dark red ball of light—it was an eye! The pupil of a colossal, fifty-meter-tall super-bug!

By sweeping the light from his Primordial Power up, down, left, and right, Chu Qingyun was able to make out the rough silhouette of the giant bug.

From the front, this giant bug looked no different from the large ones, with one exception: besides the two rows of eyes on its sides, it also had a single, massive, circular, dark red eye on the upper part of its face.

That was the light Chu Qingyun and the others had first seen.

The giant bug seemed to have been sleeping.

And the Martial Soul Hall emissary's blast of Primordial Power had woken it up.

Soon, in the deeper darkness beyond, more dark red lights lit up one after another, like two rows of streetlights. The giant bug was slowly awakening.

Run!

This was the first thought that came to Chu Qingyun and the six from the Martial Soul Hall once they snapped out of their shock.

The attacks of the large bugs were enough to threaten a powerful sixth-level Martial King, and after death, they would release swarms of smaller bugs to attack wildly.

And now, this giant bug was dozens, even hundreds of times larger than the large ones!

A single bite from this thing... even a Celestial King Realm Expert probably couldn't withstand it.

And heaven knows what other disgusting things were hidden inside that nauseating mouth.

This type of bug had no fluctuations of Primordial Power or Qi, making it impossible to determine its corresponding rank or Realm, or even to judge its strength.

But based on its size, they guessed this behemoth was likely the progenitor of all the bugs—definitely not something that Earth King Realm cultivators like them could provoke!

The Martial Soul Hall emissary silently gestured to the five beside him. Then, all six shot Chu Qingyun a resentful glare before slowly beginning to back away.

They naturally hated Chu Qingyun's guts.

But the Martial Soul Hall emissary had always held himself in high regard; he didn't think trading his life for Chu Qingyun's was a worthwhile exchange.

But just as the six from the Martial Soul Hall began to retreat, the giant bug's single eye on its face lifted slightly, its gaze shifting to lock onto them.

'Damn it, it's spotted us!'

Stared at by that enormous eye, all six from the Martial Soul Hall cursed inwardly and immediately stopped, not daring to even breathe too loudly.

'Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine!'

But at that moment, Chu Qingyun commanded inwardly and instantly unleashed his Martial Soul.

A Martial Soul Illusion instantly materialized. Heaven and Earth Primordial Power gathered, pouring into the illusion along with his own Primordial Power. Ten enormous, pillar-like vines grew out at incredible speed and slammed violently into the giant bug, whose full form was still shrouded in darkness.

Seeing Chu Qingyun's brazen attack, the six from the Martial Soul Hall stared with wide eyes.

'Does this guy have a death wish?!'

But in the next moment, after they realized his true intention, the faces of all six turned green.

The ten pillar-like vines slammed hard against the giant bug at almost the same time with a loud BANG. The immense recoil immediately traveled back through the vines to Chu Qingyun.

But Chu Qingyun, instead of resisting or using combat techniques to absorb the force, used the momentum to leap backward, turning into an afterimage with a WHOOSH.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished from the sight of both the six from the Martial Soul Hall and the giant bug.

Chu Qingyun's thinking was completely different from the Martial Soul Hall emissary's.

The Martial Soul Hall emissary wanted to retreat quietly without attracting the giant bug's attention, leaving Chu Qingyun at the front to take the brunt of it.

But Chu Qingyun's thought was that it didn't matter whether the bug noticed them or not; it was already awake, so escaping was the top priority.

Of course, this meant the six from the Martial Soul Hall were now left to cover his rear.

"That selfish bastard!"

The six from the Martial Soul Hall cursed Chu Qingyun endlessly in their hearts.

However, they were out of time. After being awakened by Primordial Power and then slammed by ten giant, pillar-like vines, the giant bug was now wide awake and furious.

"SKREEE... ROAR!..."

The giant bug slightly raised the front part of its massive body, shattering a large section of the Underground Space's ceiling and stone pillars. The lower part of its raised torso split open to both sides as it let out a deafening, furious roar.

Immediately after.

Like a downpour, it sprayed a massive number of large bugs—the same kind Chu Qingyun and the others had seen before—from its gaping mouth.

Each of the large bugs spat from the giant's mouth was a full five meters long, fat and bloated. They dragged their deathly-white bodies forward as they charged toward the Martial Soul Hall emissary and his five companions at incredible speed.

The six from the Martial Soul Hall were instantly scared out of their wits.

This dense swarm charging at them wasn't made of the small bugs, but the large ones—a single one of which was enough to kill and devour a Fifth-level Martial King!

"Run!"

The Martial Soul Hall emissary roared, immediately turning to lead the escape.

Under the pressure of death, the six from the Martial Soul Hall erupted with their full speed, using every last ounce of their strength. They finally managed to create a small bit of distance between themselves and the swarm.

But before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, another roar echoed from the darkness behind them, followed by the RUMBLE of the ground shaking violently.

The giant bug was also charging after them, crashing through everything in its path!

And its speed seemed even faster than that of the large bugs; it directly crushed any of them that got in its way into pieces!