Chapter 1557: Star Sealing Runic Cage
Chapter 1557: Star Sealing Runic Cage
“It’s not like it matters,” Cain muttered under his breath. Without any hint of mercy or ceremony, he sent the unconscious pair of Divine Transformation Masters directly into his Luminous Phoenix Heart.
Intense flames erupted, incinerating the two bodies as if they were nothing more than tinder. Their flesh burned away in a matter of seconds, followed swiftly by the crumbling of their bones. A surge of vitality then coursed through Cain’s flesh and blood, focusing especially on his Rebirth Heart.
As the two Divine Transformation Masters were consumed down to the last speck, Cain felt his Rebirth Heart pulse with renewed strength. However, as the embers faded, he realized there were two things left completely untouched by the Luminous Phoenix flames.
“As I expected,” he said softly. “They’re not so easy to destroy.”
Hovering within the fiery domain were two motionless entities: a strange spider and a black butterfly. These were the Gu Insects belonging to the cultivators Cain had just annihilated. While they had no active power on their own—being inert without their hosts—they retained an inherent invulnerability that kept the flames from consuming them. As Third Realm phenomena, Gu Insects were notoriously resilient, and mere flames, however powerful, could not easily harm them.
Glancing away from the inert Gu Insects, Cain’s gaze shifted toward the corpses of the Apotheosis Masters still floating above the river. Their bodies trembled with dark energy as the Gu Insects within them began to feed, devouring any remaining blood, energy, or life force. In some cases, these Gu Insects burst directly out of the corpses, growing larger and more fearsome as they gobbled up everything, right down to the last drop of blood.
Under normal circumstances, Cain would have used his own Gu Insect to devour the incapacitated Insects in his Luminous Phoenix Heart and the ones emerging from the floating corpses. But he did not possess a Gu Insect. Allowing them to remain here was unacceptable since anyone else who stumbled upon this scene could reap these Gu Insects for themselves.
Yet Cain was not out of options. He had not spent the last few weeks submerged in the river merely biding his time. He had prepared meticulously for exactly this kind of scenario.
Rolling up his sleeve, Cain revealed an intricate rune on his left forearm. “Star Sealing Runic Cage,” he whispered, a satisfied glint in his nebula-like eyes.
This Runic Formation was modeled after the very same formation the Sky Sovereign once used to contain a Tier 9 Astral Supremacy Star within his own heart after the death of his body. Of course, Cain’s version was far less powerful than the original, but it remained immensely formidable, standing at a half-step Prima Deity rank.
The Star Sealing Runic Cage was not meant to imprison something as large and powerful as a star in its prime. Instead, Cain had adapted it to trap the smaller but numerous Gu Insects he was likely to encounter. As he channeled energy through the runic formation, the sigil began to glow, projecting a subtle force that latched onto the dormant Gu Insects.
All at once, the spider and the black butterfly within his Luminous Phoenix Heart, along with the various Gu Insects hovering above the water, were pulled into the glowing rune, disappearing from sight as they became sealed within the formation.