He couldn't even understand the totem patterns, but what hit him the most was that he couldn't even figure out what they were!
All this while, Shi Buyi's proudest caliber was not his prowess, but his intellectual capacity and quick-witted thinkings; thus, him being unable to understand or even figure out what the totem patterns were had struck him harder than anything else.
In fact, with him cultivating the Pure Yang Yuan Shen and ascended as a monster god now, Zhong Yue couldn't have control him at will like before anymore. Especially the godly aura from the Pure Yang Yuan Shen was posing an overbearing pressure to the insect magnate parasitizing his Yuan Shen.
It now became incredibly hard for the insect magnate to parasite and manipulate his Yuan Shen.