Within a dark, secret chamber in the Lu Family estate in the Imperial Capital.
A figure in black sat upon a stone dais. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, and the surrounding firelight flickered as if buffeted by a sinister wind.
'Lu Zhengyi and the others who went to attack the Academy are dead.'
'This is impossible. Could it be that Huaa Que wasn't injured? No, there's no way he's completely unscathed. It seems someone interfered. But who?'
'And the mother Demon Insect is agitated. It seems that person has discovered the child insect.'
The black-clad figure flipped his hand over, revealing an ugly Demon Insect. It was the size of an infant's thumb, pitch-black, with eight legs on its abdomen. At that moment, the Demon Insect was emitting a faint black glow, its sharp mouthparts snapping open and shut relentlessly...
This kind of behavior only occurred when a child insect had died.
"Venerable Lord."
