Chapter 283: The Devoured Divine Corpse and the Bewildering Truth

"Screech!"

The next moment, Baichuan gave a light flick, and the vast sea of light suddenly let out a bird-like cry; then the purple light Burst forth, and piercing shrieks rang out without end.

That was because the extreme concentration of electrical energy caused its power to manifest as an even more formidable purple radiance.

In just a few breaths, the boundless sea of light completely transformed into an even more terrifying purple ocean — a sea of thunder and lightning, a thunderstorm sea vast enough to shroud an entire continent!

A stifling, breath-stealing majesty silently descended — the purest might of heaven and earth, before which anyone would tremble.

The terrifying sea of thunder peeled away from Baichuan's dragon body, pressing down toward the earth inch by inch; amid the dreadful rumbling, thick purple lightning bolts, like electric dragons, kept shooting forth, striking the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.

"Whoosh!"

Faced with this scene, the countless chains standing guard could no longer sit still. One chain, half the size of Baichuan itself, trailing endless Yin Qi, shot forth, trying to pierce the true dragon above the heavens — and then came a chain-version of a thousand arrows fired at once.

In an instant, the sky was shrouded by the thunderstorm sea, and the earth was veiled by the endless Yin Qi chains.

The boundless thunderstorm and the chains began to clash.

This was the collision of Yin Qi and lightning!

Yet an unexpected scene unfolded.

One electric dragon, upon touching the chain, did not cancel out — instead it traveled down along the chain.

The material of this chain actually conducted electricity!

It was forged from a nameless, mysterious metal. In the past, it wasn't that no cultivators using thunder arts had appeared, but facing the many True Lords and divine Spirits who were incomparably weaker in comparison, those cultivators never had the chance to unleash any resistance before these chains.

In an instant, horrifying, hair-raising electric dragons passed straight through the chains and bit down toward the silently slumbering divine corpse.

Faced with this scene, the chains themselves seemed dumbfounded, unable to react.

"Boom!"

A heavy rumble sounded.

It was the mysterious chain, at the final moment, resolutely severing itself — the sound of that one chain snapping.

But this was, after all, only a death throes struggle. After this electric dragon came countless more, and the ever-approaching thunderstorm sea — and so—

The next moment, dazzling lightning erupted across the mountain-sized divine corpse!

"Hmph."

A muffled groan, thunder-like, sounded, causing the sky to rustle and tremble.

This was the first sound the divine corpse had made in all this time, a deep, muffled sound — proving that it had not truly died. The reaction it brought was an even denser surge of Yin Qi spilling out.

The boundless Yin Qi seemed to want to block the power of the lightning, but at that moment an abrupt change arose.

The divine corpse trembled!

And with it, the leakage of the boundless Yin Qi rapidly decreased.

"This is?"

Baichuan above was suddenly startled, because he saw the divine corpse move — though its movement was very slight, against its mountain-like body it was all the more obvious.

Why was this?

Why, after being struck by his power, did it not only fail to release Yin Qi to protect itself, but instead gather in and reduce the leakage of Yin Qi? Was Yin Qi the source of its life? Or...?

"Wail!!!"

Before Baichuan could think further, the next moment a wretched, long cry rang out.

Then Baichuan saw the chest area of the divine corpse suddenly and continuously bulge upward.

It was a figure like a wandering dragon, writhing ceaselessly beneath the divine corpse's surface. Amid the strange writhing, Baichuan saw that the face of the divine corpse — shrouded in dense, chaotic fog — was suddenly struck at one corner by lightning, revealing part of its features: an expression of agony that even slumber could not ignore!

Under the intense agony, the Yin Qi around the divine corpse decreased even more rapidly.

The divine corpse would rather endure the pain and the grievous wounds brought by the lightning's assault than retract its own Yin Qi!

Such a bizarre situation left even Baichuan uncertain — something was off about the divine corpse itself!

But knowing this was a golden opportunity, Baichuan silently intensified the power of the thunderstorm sea.

"Hmph!"

Under the stalemate, with the thunderstorm ceaselessly assailing it—

Suddenly, the divine corpse let out another pain-filled muffled groan.

Then, a shocking scene unfolded!

"Wail!!!"

From within the boundless thunderstorm sea, an angry, pain-wracked, wretched long cry rang out once more.

The chest of the divine corpse directly burst open with a great hole, and a strange, plump white worm shrouded in terrifying Yin Qi burrowed out.

It was called strange because where its belly should have been, there was instead a monstrous mouth running from head to tail, lined with layer upon layer of densely packed sharp teeth — at this moment it was fiercely biting into a portion of the divine corpse's flesh, gnawing away without cease.

As the divine corpse's flesh disappeared, the Yin Qi on the strange worm's body — thinned by the thunderstorm — grew denser and denser, while its torn, mangled body continuously healed.

But the thunderstorm sea did not stop, and the Yin Qi grew ever sparser, barely able to escape — it too grew anxious.

"Wail—"

It was seen throwing back its body and shrieking once, and then an eruption occurred.

Places on the divine corpse's body kept bulging upward; long, worm-like trails kept appearing on its surface, writhing and swelling ceaselessly; from time to time, worms a size smaller than that first strange worm even poked out from the divine corpse's body.

In an instant, the entire divine corpse suddenly changed its appearance, becoming a flesh-and-blood breeding ground for a swarm of strange worms! Being devoured by countless worms.

In a flash, with countless chunks of flesh vanishing all at once, the dense Yin Qi once again surged forth violently.

"W-worms?"

"What kind of worms are these?"

"Something's wrong with that mysterious existence!"

"Could it be that we've been having our power devoured by these worms all along?"

"W-what kind of joke is this?!"

Watching this horrifying scene of the divine corpse being devoured, the True Monarch Spirits chained below also lost their composure in disbelief, terror rising within them.

Some Spirits had even begun struggling desperately, fearing those bizarre long worms would burrow into their bodies as well.

Their Dao hearts had clearly shattered.

They could endure being killed by existences vastly stronger than themselves, even being consumed as nourishment until their power was completely devoured — but they could not endure a swarm of terrifying, grotesque worms burrowing into their bodies, watching helplessly as the worms writhed within, gnawing inch by inch through flesh and blood, until death finally came!

In an instant, Baichuan's gaze above also hardened.

Because he had clearly noticed that the great maw beneath the bizarre long worms looked somewhat familiar!

It was nearly identical to the mouths of those worms that had surrounded him, trying to gnaw at him, when he was on his way here!

In a flash, he connected the dots — perhaps those strange worms outside were not deliberately cultivated by this divine corpse, but rather descendants of the long worms now inside this divine corpse's body, or descendants of descendants!

Regarding this divine corpse's current situation, he could now state with absolute certainty that something was very wrong with it.

Perhaps the mastermind behind all this was not necessarily the divine corpse itself, but rather these bizarre long worms devouring it — or perhaps the divine corpse was instinctively protecting itself because it was being continuously devoured!

And thus, the scene before him had come to pass.

In an instant, based on all the information he had gathered along the way and what he was witnessing now, Baichuan deduced several hypotheses.

Whether they were true or false, he did not yet know.

But he knew that the bizarre long worms' current state was not good either — this was an excellent opportunity.

He wanted not only the divine corpse's ability model, but also the bizarre long worms' ability model.

If all of this had been caused by these bizarre long worms, then to be able to bring a powerhouse above Heavenly Venerate to such a state, their abilities must be extraordinarily powerful.

The potential might be no less than his Blood Worm ability model, or the Dragon Blood system.

One must remember, Baichuan had sensed from this divine corpse an aura intensity extremely close to his normal state.

This was an astonishing piece of information — his true strength was planet-level!

Yet the other party was extremely close to him, meaning at least half-step planet-level! Or close to that level.

Having made up his mind, fearing that delays would breed complications, Baichuan weighed the potential of the two ability models and decided to first take down the bizarre long worms — the more valuable and relatively easier to capture target.

Because he considered that this divine corpse had lain here for so long; to say those Heavenly Venerate Main Gods didn't know about it was impossible.

Yet the divine corpse and the bizarre long worms were still here, which meant the other party must possess some mysterious means.

This point was corroborated by the 【Forbidden Technique Chains】 that had pierced through and bound it, which he had once seen in the Progenitor Dragon's memories.

The chains formed by that Forbidden Technique were exactly identical in shape to the chains here!

Baichuan didn't believe for a second there was no connection.

Therefore, temporarily setting aside the mountain-like divine corpse and first taking the bizarre long worms was the optimal choice.

After all, the latter couldn't escape — or rather, even if it fled, as long as the seemingly endless bizarre long worms remained, it could never recover.

For this kind of mysterious worm species, without a king, evolving a new one probably wouldn't be much of a challenge.

This was a vague intuition within him, coming from the Blood Worm.

In an instant, as Baichuan's thoughts shifted, the Sea of Thunder below abruptly changed.

The terrifying electrical energy — composing every single Light Point of lightning in this vast Sea of Thunder — seemed to possess consciousness, all fixing their gaze on the fattest, whitest bizarre long worm that had appeared first, for that was undoubtedly the swarm's leader.

Boom!

A shocking lightning dragon came crashing down directly.

The bizarre long worm, which had seemed to be gloating over the divine corpse's submission moments ago, suddenly moved. Those eyes, larger than a person's, swiveled — and it saw a lightning dragon, whether intentional or not, hurtling toward it.

Seeing this, having just absorbed a massive influx of Yin energy, it didn't dodge, but instead let out a shriek and manipulated a vast amount of Yin energy to condense into form and lash out.

Bang!!

In an instant, the seemingly terrifying lightning dragon was directly dispersed, transforming into countless electric filaments that scattered.

However, countless more lightning dragons followed, crashing down.

The bizarre long worm also began to engage. With a single movement of its plump white body, it endlessly drove Yin energy to launch attacks.

At this moment, Yin energy scattered, electric filaments splashed.

Lightning dragons and Yin energy whips continuously clashed.

"Ying ying!"

The bizarre long worm shrieked triumphantly, watching the several dozen lightning dragons it had completely dispersed, then casting a resentful glance at the ever-approaching Sea of Thunder. Knowing its Yin energy was still insufficient, it began burrowing back into the divine corpse's flesh and blood.

It wanted to return inside the divine corpse's body, then hide back into that chaos and vanish.

This familiar action suggested the other party had probably done this more than once before.

"Now!"

Watching this from above, Baichuan's eyes shifted, and he shouted inwardly.

In an instant, the Yin energy shrouding the bizarre long worm abruptly solidified!

"Ying?"

The bizarre long worm froze, its head still buried in the divine corpse's flesh suddenly halting, not understanding what had happened.

Why had the Yin energy, usually under its perfect control, lost control and solidified?

But for Baichuan, this was only the beginning!

Under the bombardment of countless lightning dragons, for this very moment he had even restrained his power, only to quietly conceal a portion of Light Points while the other party was off guard, then transform them into Yin energy and let the other party control them.

After all, given the abilities the other party had displayed, the moment it sensed anything amiss, it would burrow into the divine corpse's flesh and blood in an instant. Once it grew wary and retreated to the deepest part of the divine corpse's body, even he would be somewhat at a loss.

Now was the time to close the net!

As his thoughts turned, Baichuan abruptly activated the energy of those concealed Light Points.

In an instant, within the solidified Yin energy, scattered Light Point energies began to converge, then transformed into a Dragon Claw of energy that gripped the other party tightly!

Behind the Dragon Claw, countless Lightning Light Points began to transform, no longer appearing in the form of lightning power, but reverting to their most primal state, then becoming a rope of light, incredibly tough, that stretched all the way up to him hovering in the air above.

This situation — previously only possible within the Star Vault when transforming the nature of Light Points — had finally been resolved after he obtained Spirit Power.

"Since the fish has already taken the bait, it's time to reel in the line! When it comes to raw strength, he's truly never feared anyone!"

Feeling the peculiar sensation of the rope of light in the palm of his claw, Baichuan also murmured inwardly.

At this very moment, boundless yin qi rippled, just like a pool of water, and within that "pool" a rope of light pierced through the lower depths and the upper reaches of the "water." One end was tightly bound to a bizarre, serpentine worm whose body was considerably larger than Baichuan himself, while the other end was gripped in the claw of a true dragon.

Isn't this exactly like fishing?

The next instant, the dragon claw gripping the rope of light exerted sudden force, and then began pulling the rope of light back ceaselessly.

In an instant, a tremendous force came crashing in, and the bizarre serpentine worm seemed to sense the danger, beginning to wildly churn the yin qi.

"Crack!"

Amid the sound of shattering, the Light Point that had been solidifying the yin qi finally could hold on no longer and dispersed.

At this moment, the bizarre serpentine worm began to struggle frantically.

Its biological instinct told it that once it was torn away from the divine corpse's warm nest, what awaited it would surely be death!

In that instant, two colossal beings began to pit their strength against each other.

Speaking of which, Baichuan, who was flying in the air, was at a relative disadvantage here, because there was nothing for him to leverage against — not even air existed, and there even seemed to be a flight-prohibition domain in effect.

But could Baichuan really not have anticipated this?

Baichuan was indeed no genius, but he was no fool either.

If he couldn't even consider this much, then his so-called infinite calculating power might as well be thrown away — it would simply be a disgrace to dragons.

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(End of this chapter)