Chapter 207 Approaching the Divine (29)
“Look at how painful the Mother Worm looks…”
At this moment, they finally arrived at an enormous cavern.
In the center of the cavern, a gigantic Mother Worm was coiled, her massive and bloated body almost filling the entire space, covered in thick black chitin that shimmered with a dark golden light, even resembling divine radiance.
Her head reached the dome, making it impossible to see her skull; a pair of sharp foreclaws and numerous long, segmented legs extended from beneath her body, and her enormous tail was continuously expelling giant spherical eggs encased in mucus.
Surrounding her were countless small soldiers, whose appearance did not resemble the soldiers fighting outside; they seemed to be specifically responsible for tending to the Mother Worm, meticulously transporting the giant eggs into the incubation pools.
All around them were such incubation pools, filled with breathing giant eggs; some of these eggs were becoming increasingly transparent, with whatever was inside about to hatch.
Compared to the Mother Worm, these small soldiers were like ants.
And they, too, were the same.
But upon reaching this place, Liu Sheng was no longer afraid.
For her, facing a single powerful enemy was simpler than facing countless small soldiers.
“You are responsible for clearing out these small soldiers and eggs,” Liu Sheng commanded. “Be careful of the liquid inside the eggs; it might be corrosive, so don’t touch it.”
“Yes!”
“As you command!”
“Grand Divine Official, what about this Mother Worm…?” Yanran Divine Official asked worriedly.
“No matter, I’ll handle it.” On Liu Sheng’s face was an expression of certainty.
Since the Grand Divine Official commanded so, they simply complied.
Yanran Divine Official held her bright mirror, and its light once again shone upon the insectoid soldiers responsible for tending, instantly freezing them and filling them with fear.
Tianyuan’s ceramic bowl burst again, and several crude roosters flapped their wings, charging towards the frozen small soldiers, their sharp claws and beaks mercilessly tearing them apart.
Qing Cong’s phantom swiftly moved between the incubation pools, each touch solidifying these incubating eggs into jade, while He Shan’s crane-headed monster swung a hoe, smashing these jade-like insect eggs into fragments, working in perfect coordination.
The other Divine Officials also activated their weird objects with their Little Tentacles, and Guai Qi surged.
Facing these weak small soldiers and defenseless insect eggs, they could finally crush them.
As more and more insect eggs were destroyed, the Mother Worm let out a painful and desperate shriek, and the surrounding air seemed to tremble.
At this moment, Liu Sheng, holding the Holy Sword, had countless Little Tentacles coiling out from her body, scrambling up the Mother Worm’s chitinous shell.
The entire nest seemed to respond to her wailing, with the walls and floor shaking violently.
Yanran Divine Official quickly reminded, “Everyone, stand firm!”
Liu Sheng was unaffected and continued to climb.
Only now, upon closer inspection, did she realize that the chitin was covered in complex patterns, incredibly hard, and between the chitin plates, a viscous green liquid flowed, emitting a pungent, foul odor.
Liu Sheng seemed oblivious, climbing little by little along her body to the bloated tail.
The Mother Worm seemed to sense the threat, her spiky claws and legs shifting uneasily, her hissing growing sharper.
Raising the Holy Sword high, Liu Sheng unhesitatingly plunged it into the tail.
Mucus shot out, and the green liquid splattered everywhere as if alive.
However, before the mucus could hit her, the Little Tentacle swiftly grabbed her and swung her away, avoiding the viscous fluid.
From within the Holy Sword, tentacles imbued with divine radiance spread rapidly like a network of electricity inside the Mother Worm’s body.
Starting from the tail, these tentacles carried powerful rule-based energy, rapidly disintegrating the Mother Worm’s internal data structure.
The Mother Worm’s tail began to tremble violently, and the energy flow became chaotic, causing her to let out a painful howl.
“The core of the nest is ‘reproduction’; the Mother Worm’s tail is the terminal for the entire nest’s energy flow. The disintegration of the tail will cause a 斷流 in data transmission, destroying the ‘reproduction’ rule and rapidly disintegrating the entire System,” the world reminded.
Indeed, as the Mother Worm’s tail was completely disintegrated, the entire nest’s energy transmission and data processing System collapsed.
The Mother Worm let out a final, mournful cry, which was also like despair and liberation.
Her entire body rapidly disintegrated into data modules in the sacred light, finally transforming into countless specks of light and dissipating into the air…
Liu Sheng was supported by the Little Tentacle and gently landed on the ground, looking at the scene of the massive data collapse before her, feeling somewhat complex.
As the Mother Worm fell, the entire nest suddenly seemed to lose its vitality, no longer trembling or breathing, and the mucus on the walls and floor turned into a watery consistency, flowing away.
“Congratulations! thirty-ninth xuan candidate, you have successfully passed the ‘Insectoid Nest Descent’!”
“Reward: Mother Worm Model.”
In Liu Sheng’s hand appeared a palm-sized miniature model, an exact scaled-down replica of the Mother Worm; its chitin, limbs, and mouthparts were remarkably reproduced, and its transparent tail contained numerous densely packed spherical insect eggs, reflecting a strange luster like gemstones.
Liu Sheng held it up and examined it closely; this intricately detailed model was actually… somewhat cute.
“World! What on earth is this for! Can it be used to summon a Mother Worm?!”
“No, it’s just a souvenir,” the world replied coldly.
“I always feel like this illusion is getting stingier and stingier…”
“I don’t know why, but seeing the Mother Worm always makes me feel a sense of empathy.”
“Perhaps… as a fellow female?”
“Hmm? Indeed… she can be considered female, right?”
The Liu Shengs recalled the Mother Worm’s mountain-like, armored, and powerfully beautiful body, and they all nodded in agreement, with some Liu Shengs even expressing admiration.
“Unfortunately, her energy was always used for reproduction, and she had no self-preservation ability, which is why we were able to disintegrate her so easily.”
“However, what we should be more concerned about now is how this thing appeared here.”
Liu Sheng turned to look at the surrounding Divine Officials, her gaze sweeping over faces mixed with concern, reverence, and admiration, and the irritation in her heart slightly subsided.
“Let’s go back to the Divine Temple and resolve this matter,” she said coldly, a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.
…
“How could this thing appear here? Impossible!”
Outside the illusion, when the insectoid nest appeared in the mirage, Ling Shangshu, who had been watching coldly, couldn’t sit still; he stood up in shock and pressed his eyes close to the “xuan thirty-nine” mirage.
“This! This should be an extremely dangerous Rank, right?” Yan Xueshi, who had more research on this, recognized it at a glance, his expression turning somewhat grim.
Ling Shangshu seemed to recognize it, nodding gravely, “That’s right, this is an extremely dangerous Rank; it once appeared in the Northern Border…”
He seemed to recall something, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.
“This is illogical; if a weird objects of this Rank appears, the candidate can’t cope!” Hanshan Jun frowned.
Li Shangshu smiled, “The weird objects in this illusion are all pre-set; how could something so out of place, exceeding the standards of this realm, appear? The only explanation is—”
“The Supreme God intervened?”
In the imperial palace, the Emperor whispered, his face full of disbelief, and he too suddenly stood up.
The sequela of making too many PPTs recently—tenosynovitis has flared up. Luckily, Little Tentacle helps me write, but unlike Sheng Sheng, I only got two tentacles, so the efficiency is a hundred thousand times lower (;'Д｀)
Thank you, darlings, for voting for me with monthly and recommendation tickets! I feel like I owe you, and I’m already urging Little Tentacle to write faster for me!
Two-Finger Zen skill activated!