Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Looking at their puzzled expressions, Cao Fangcun's face turned grave as he slowly opened his left palm!

Old Servant Suanzi and the middle-aged beautiful woman hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to see more clearly what these mysterious things actually were.

"How could it be like this!"

However, just as the two of them clearly saw what Cao Fangcun was holding in his hand, a series of shocking waves arose in their hearts, and the expressions on their faces instantly froze, revealing a look of disbelief.

It turned out that what Cao Fangcun was holding in his hand at this moment was not the common mist, but small insects with tiny bodies and black wings.

Even more amazing was that on the backs of these small insects, there were unique and complex patterns, like human eyes, which made people feel chills down their spines after seeing them.

Cao Fangcun had just casually grabbed, and he had caught no less than thousands of these black insects.

From this, it could be inferred how many such small insects were contained in this vast and dense black fog in front of everyone?

"Young Master Cao, do you know what these insects are?"

After all, Old Servant Suanzi was a person who had seen storms, and his heart was extremely firm. Therefore, after a brief moment of stunnedness, he regained his composure, narrowed his eyes, and asked Cao Fangcun.

Hearing this, a blue flame suddenly appeared on Cao Fangcun's palm, burning all these thousands of black insects to ashes. After patting his hands, he calmly said: "If I'm not mistaken, these insects should be Nebula Insects."

"Hmm, Nebula Insects?" The middle-aged beautiful woman had also recovered from the shock just now. Hearing Cao Fangcun's words, she immediately asked in surprise: "What are these Nebula Insects? Why haven't I ever heard of them before?"

"It's normal that Fellow Daoist Meijiao Niang hasn't heard of these insects, because they don't belong to the Qianyuan Continent at all. They are unique creatures in this relic," Cao Fangcun said with a wry smile, and continued: "In fact, our Cao family has a great connection with these Nebula Insects."

"Oh? Brother Cao, can you tell me all the information you know about these insects?" Chen Tian had been observing the dynamics of this black fog composed of Nebula Insects, but after hearing Cao Fangcun's words, he suddenly let out a soft sigh and said to him.

"Of course," Cao Fangcun hurriedly nodded and said, "Even if Brother Chen doesn't ask, I will tell you everything I know."

A trace of icy light flashed in Cao Fangcun's eyes as he began to tell everyone in detail.

It turned out that when Cao Fangcun's seventh-generation ancestor, Cao Hui, ventured to the second level, it was because he encountered these Nebula Insects that he was seriously injured, forced to retreat, and died not long after.

Moreover, in addition to this, five thousand years ago, the Cao family also organized a team to enter this ancient relic to explore, but before long, these people collectively lost contact. The last message they sent was the three words 'Nebula Insects'.

In other words, it is very likely that they also encountered this mist composed of Nebula Insects, and were trapped to death.

Since then, the Cao family has focused its efforts on investigating the characteristics of these Nebula Insects.

After thousands of years of arduous research, the Cao family finally had a certain understanding of these Nebula Insects.

First of all, it is certain that these Nebula Insects do not belong to the creatures of the Qianyuan Continent. They should have been brought down from another world.

Secondly, these Nebula Insects are extremely strange. The way they perceive the existence of humans is not through the appearance traces of human form, body temperature, and aura, but rather targeted at the spiritual consciousness fluctuations of human cultivators.

That is to say, when you send out your spiritual consciousness to these Nebula Insects, they will immediately sense it, and then start attacking in groups, and follow your spiritual consciousness all the way, until your entire body is completely eaten up.

It was precisely because he knew this that Cao Fangcun looked so panicked when he saw the gray-clothed old man releasing his spiritual consciousness just now, wanting to stop him.

But unfortunately, although Cao Fangcun's reaction was still considered agile, his movements were ultimately slow. Just before he spoke to remind him, the gray-clothed old man had already released his spiritual consciousness towards these Nebula Insects, and aroused their agitation.

The spiritual consciousness released by the gray-clothed old man was like a torch in the dark night, particularly eye-catching, and immediately attracted the attention of these Nebula Insects. In excitement, they immediately besieged and greedily gnawed at this spiritual consciousness.

The reason why the gray-clothed old man was suffering from a splitting headache just now was also because his spiritual consciousness was being gnawed by these Nebula Insects. If Chen Tian hadn't decisively cut off the strand of spiritual consciousness extending out with the Xuanjin Immortal Sword, I'm afraid that he and the others would have been eaten clean by these Nebula Insects by now.

"Now, you should understand how terrifying these Nebula Insects are, right?" After telling all the information he had, Cao Fangcun looked at everyone with a serious face.

"There are such strange insects in the world that specialize in eating spiritual consciousness! This concubine is hearing about it for the first time!"

After listening to Cao Fangcun's explanation, the middle-aged beautiful woman's pretty face froze, and she said in surprise.

Indeed, if Cao Fangcun hadn't explained it, she probably wouldn't have thought that these Nebula Insects perceived humans through the spiritual consciousness of cultivators! And they can also climb all the way along the spiritual consciousness and devour people completely!

"It can only be said that the world is so big, there is nothing that is not strange," Cao Fangcun said with a wry smile, shaking his head and sighing.

However, at this moment, he seemed to have thought of something again, and suddenly turned to ask Chen Tian: "By the way, Brother Chen, how did you know that these Nebula Insects were devouring Senior Ning's spiritual consciousness just now?"

He hadn't paid attention to it before, but after calming down, Cao Fangcun suddenly remembered that just now, when everyone was stunned, only Chen Tian took action, cutting off the spiritual consciousness released by the gray-clothed old man in an extremely decisive manner, separating his body from that part of the spiritual consciousness, so as not to allow the Nebula Insects to fly over along the spiritual consciousness.

It was precisely because of this that after the Nebula Insects had eaten the gray-clothed old man's part of the spiritual consciousness, they did not detect any other new spiritual consciousness, and gradually calmed down.

Otherwise, by that time, all of them would have died!

What puzzled Cao Fangcun was that, apart from their Cao family, few people in this world knew the origin of these Nebula Insects, and they never expected that what caused these Nebula Insects to agitate just now would be the gray-clothed old man's spiritual consciousness! Not to mention taking action against it!

So when Cao Fangcun saw Chen Tian's clean and neat actions before, he became suspicious.

Hearing this, Old Servant Suanzi and the middle-aged beautiful woman seemed to have also noticed something was wrong, and also looked towards Chen Tian, with suspicious light flashing in their eyes.