Suburb of No.7 City, within 7-A-3 Mechanical Outpost.
Su Changqingâs figure appeared above this deserted base, looking at the silent scene below, he couldnât help but frown.
"The location should be here, but... why is it so quiet, without any traces of battle."
He slowly descended, then pointed his finger at the center of his forehead, a golden light entered his forehead, and his pair of slender phoenix eyes emitted the same radiance, greatly activating the Spiritual Vision State.
"Hiding underground, no wonder there are no traces on the surface."
Different from the Spirit Detection Technique used by Jiko, the perception range offered by Spiritual Vision is much larger, at least ten times that of the Spirit Detection Technique, reaching a radius of five hundred meters.
Now, upon activating Spiritual Vision, Su Changqing immediately noticed the abnormality from underground.
In his perception, many worm-like creatures were hidden deep underground, their numbers appeared to be at least a thousand, stacked together, constantly squirming, making the scene utterly revolting.
If someone with trypophobia saw this scene, they would probably faint from fear.
"These are..."
As soon as Su Changqing saw these little insects, he felt a sense of familiarity, but because the distance was too far, he couldnât clearly sense the opponentâs aura, so he hesitated to confirm.
While hesitating, suddenly a strong spiritual force entered his mind, causing him to groan, his figure unsteady, almost falling.
"Indeed, itâs these guys!"
Su Changqingâs eyes narrowed, strongly enduring the dizziness in his mind, he locked his gaze onto the empty area below.
Next, a gust of wind and sand appeared from nowhere, sweeping across the area beneath him.
The next moment, the area covered by the sand appeared as if blocked by some transparent object, causing the sand to adhere to it, eventually outlining the shape of a gigantic monster on the ground.
It was a butterfly with wings spanning over ten meters, at least in appearance, it indeed resembled the butterflies commonly seen by Water Blue Star people.
"Blood Butterfly!!"
Su Changqingâs face turned stern, instantly recognizing the origin of the monster.
"No, wrong, this is not a Blood Butterfly, it should be a higher-level form of the Blood Butterfly, its spiritual power is too strong, far surpassing the few Blood Butterflies Iâve encountered before!"
Enduring the increasingly clouded mind, Su Changqing bit his teeth, gathering all his energy to block the incoming spiritual attacks.
Then, he conjured a long spear made of golden light in his hand, throwing it towards the monster on the ground.
The Blood Butterfly hadnât realized it had been discovered, continuing its focused attack until the long spear approached, prompting it to react, a dim white shield appearing beside it.
"Boom!!"
The long spear struck the shield, triggering a strong Dark Spiritual Power explosion.
Su Changqing gathered his strength, extracting a small black cube from his storage ring, transforming it in his palm, ultimately shaping it into a dark giant sword over five meters long, like armor, connecting to his arm, appearing extremely disproportionate overall.
Second-tier Eye of Calamity!
Su Changqingâs form shot like lightning towards the Blood Butterfly on the ground.
The latter couldnât react in time, experiencing an attack following the shieldâs shattering, its body pierced by the giant sword, emitting a piercing scream.
"Ah!!"
Su Changqing couldnât help but cover his ears, the Blood Butterflyâs dying scream was a powerful spiritual attack, causing close proximity pain.
Fortunately, the Blood Butterfly was already at the point of collapse, Su Changqingâs attack penetrated its body, leaving it to struggle one last time before completely losing life.
"Whew~"
Panting heavily, Su Changqing finally recovered from the recent spiritual attack.
"This creature is also of Third-level existence, those who explored here earlier must have fallen victim to it..."
Su Changqing pondered internally.
Although itâs power was akin to Upper Enlightenment Level, Blood Butterflies are special, belonging to a type termed as "super biased specialty."
Their physical strength wasnât strong, and their conversion efficiency of Dark Spiritual Power was low, allowing many lower-ranked ones to easily kill them in close combat.
But with weakness comes strength, exchanging other abilities for incredibly terrifying spiritual power.
Even a Lower Control Level Dark Spirit like Su Changqing couldnât withstand their attacks.
Moreover, after evolving, these Blood Butterflies possess remarkable concealment techniques, if others were here instead, they wouldnât have even located it before being destroyed by its powerful spiritual attack.
Seizing the time, Su Changqing absorbed the monsterâs corpse before shifting his gaze underground.
"According to Blood Butterfly habits, they donât immediately kill captured prey but use offspring âParasitic Spiritsâ to inhabit their body, a process that takes about a week..."
"Meaning, the missing person earlier might not be dead yet, he couldâve been taken into the nest by this creature!"
Su Changqingâs expression lit with excitement.
The monsterâs nest must lie below, built within some underground area of this base, he decided to find it quickly.