Two faintly glowing azure escape lights, one behind the other, streaked across the sky.
"Save me! Save me!..."
The golden light chasing from behind emitted strange cries from time to time, sounding like the wails of an infant, pitying and sorrowful, stirring a sense of compassion in anyone who heard them.
But one glance back would reveal the truth.
The creature trailing behind was not some pitiable weakling but a bloodstained amalgamation, half-human and half-insect—the Golden Cicada God!
Its ascension had been interrupted by Yellow Dragon Sage, rendering its body even more deformed.
The upper half remained that of a cicada, while the lower half, besides blade-like wing membranes, now sprouted countless pale human limbs.
A mere glance was enough to induce an involuntary nightmare.
The lamentable intelligence of this poison worm seemed to have increased slightly, learning to feign vulnerability by crying "save me" as humans do.