An hour later.
In a mountain recess, Su Jie appeared with the Ghost Bride, the vast insect blanket dissipated.
As for Ning Xinyue, Xiao Fengyuan, and Qi Shijian, they were transported to another area by the insect blanket. Su Jie wasn't worried about being separated; he already knew their approximate location and could find them later.
The insect blanket disappeared one by one until the Thousand-Handed Centipede's body, the size of a chopstick, crawled up Su Jie's arm.
Sizzle!
The Thousand-Handed Centipede gave two weak cries; using this technique meant it had discarded most of its body mass.
Not even "cutting off an arm to survive" would suffice to describe this—it was tantamount to severing everything below the neck.
With a heavy heart, Su Jie stroked the head of the Thousand-Handed Centipede and took out an Insect Control Bag, from which he fed it a large quantity of poisonous insects.