Chapter 313: Insect Demon Level 6 and Gadfly King
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
There was also the sentence recorded in the previous paragraph: The Great Tribulation descends to the world, the land ascends, the world reverses, and all nations are destroyed.
According to the time, it was clearly not the Great Extinction that Ling Shuangxue had mentioned before, but a destructive event that happened two to three hundred years ago.
So, extinctions had happened more than once?
Lin Yan thought of this world. History records were extremely rare. Could the root cause be that there would be a strange extinction every once in a while?
He took a deep breath. Why did the Great Extinction happen? What kind of time interval was there?
It had been 400 years since the last Great Extinction.
If there was really a next Great Extinction, when would it happen?
A faint sense of urgency arose in his heart, as if there was a light on his back.
He exhaled slightly. It was too far away to think about all this now. He had to do what he had to do first.
It took Lin Yan a few days to finish reading the bookshelf of historical records.
He could roughly recognize the ancient language of this world, so he rummaged through the other bookshelves and quickly found a single row. Compared to the other books, the leather books were a little thicker. They were filled with information about the Gadfly Demon, and there were also many less detailed drawings.
After carefully flipping through the book, Lin Yan’s understanding of the Gadfly Demon gradually became clearer.
According to the records in the book, this Gadfly Demon could be divided into six stages. It could be divided into egg form, larva form, nematode stage, Ball Insect Stage, demon egg stage, and demon bug stage. There were a total of six stages, and there were also simple illustrations.
Other than the demon egg stage, the Gadfly Demons of every later stage were stronger, harder to kill, and even more terrifying than the Gadfly Demons of the previous stages.
Lin Yan carefully identified it. The illustration was too simple. He could only tell that it was probably at the nematode stage from the Gadfly Demon he had seen last time.
During this period, the Gadfly Demon would first grow into a long line-like worm. It would have a mouth full of teeth, and no eyes or ears. As it ate more, it would gradually grow a second head, a third head…
One head, two heads, three heads…
By analogy, it could grow up to 18 big heads and become an 18-headed nematode!
Its body would also become thicker and longer as the number of heads increased. It would gradually curl into a ball that was more than ten feet tall and enter the Ball Insect Stage.
Coupled with the description, the 18 lines that were drilled left and right in the simple and crude painting beside him actually gave off a lifelike and disgusting feeling.
However, what terrified Lin Yan the most was that the life form of the Gadfly Demon was different from all the common life forms.
It did not have a gender. Even during the Demon Bug Stage, it did not have any intelligence. It only had the instinct to eat, reproduce, and parasitize.
Its reproduction method was not like that of a macroscopic creature at all. It was not even like any insect that Lin Yan knew. Before entering the Ball Insect Stage, every Gadfly Demon could collapse into hundreds or thousands of Gadfly Demon egg worms at any time. They could enter the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother’s body to parasitize and devour the flesh before developing into new bodies.
Above the Ball Insect Stage, although it could not completely collapse, it could instantly expel more egg worms and parasitize the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother.
Asexual reproduction, and its main body was made up of countless egg worms. With such powerful reproduction ability and the interference of the traitors, the hundreds of thousands of people of the Turtle Spirit Clan were actually helpless in the end.
As he continued searching, Lin Yan memorized all the key information he saw. However, seeing was believing. He still needed to see for himself to know what the Gadfly Demon looked like.
Furthermore, the more he read, the more confused he became. The Gadfly Demons were actually not small.
The Nematode Stage was one to two meters long. The Ball Insect Stage was ten to twenty feet long, let alone higher levels.
In the records, there were endless Gadfly Demons, almost all over the body of the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother.
However, the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother was only a hundred meters long and wide. How could such a body fit so many Gadfly Demons?
He recalled that the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother had said that her body had been shrinking day by day in the past four to five hundred years. He did not know if the parts that had been contracted had been cut off or if something else had happened.
When he flipped to the last page, Lin Yan was slightly surprised. He didn’t expect the record holder to write a page alone.
After reading carefully, Lin Yan’s eyes turned slightly solemn.
On this page, apart from the six stages above, there was another stage above the highest level of the Demon Bug Stage for the Gadfly Demon!
However, this stage was completely different from the previous six stages. It had completely surpassed the scope of the Gadfly Demon and become a new individual. It was impossible to tell what relationship they had with the Gadfly Demon.
Every one of them was different. Their forms and structures were different, but their bodies were incomparably huge. They often occupied an area in the body of the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother and did not move. All the Gadfly Demons were under their command and were even treated as food.
Therefore, such individuals could not be classified at all. In private, the Turtle Spirit Race called them the Gadfly Kings, the kings of the Gadfly Demons.
“According to the records in the book, the Demon Bug Stage is already more than 30 feet tall. Moreover, their entire body seems to be forged from steel. Their strength is comparable to a Hero, which is the Jade Grade Noble Realm…”
The Hero level was the classification of the Turtle Spirit Clan’s strength. Lin Yan specially used the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to consult Captain Song. In the Turtle Spirit Clan, everybody was divided according to their strength levels: Commoner, Guard, Captain, Commander, and Hero.
Among them, the commoners and guards corresponded to the Strength Realm and Tough Realm.
Captains, commanders, and heroes corresponded to the Yellow Grade, Black Grade, and Jade Grade Noble Realm. This classification had a simple and primitive feeling.
“Therefore, with my current strength, as long as I’m careful, it’s actually very easy to kill Gadfly Demons below the Demon Bug Stage.
“On the other hand, there are very few records of the Gadfly King level. Is it because there are too few of them or because they’re too powerful and people can’t get close, so there’s very little information recorded?”
The only troublesome thing was that once the Gadfly Demon encountered danger, it would either split into egg worms or expel them. It was very likely that he would not be able to kill them. Instead, it would let more egg worms parasitize the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother.
“Therefore, there are two things to do next.
“First, enter the Gadfly Demon battlefield and observe its true information. Ask the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother where to start cleaning up the Gadfly Demons.
“Secondly, I have to cultivate the Three Dominations as soon as possible. This cultivation technique is extremely profound. From the inheritance, it seems to be able to unleash a strange power. Not only does it counter the Gadfly Demon, but it also greatly increases my attack power.
“If 1 can cultivate it to 100% and sublimate it to the extreme…”
He had already stayed here for five to six days. From the records alone, the scale of the Gadfly Demons far exceeded his imagination. He had a vague feeling that he would probably have to stay here for a month or two.
At that time, if he could sublimate this Three Dominations to the extreme, it would probably have a miraculous effect on these Gadfly Demons…