Chapter 294: Blood Worms Are Special, the Truth of the World?

A strange feeling.

This was the first sensation Baichuan had after using the Star-Devouring Worm's split body to absorb that mysterious metal.

After becoming a Heavenly Venerate-level powerhouse of this realm.

There was neither an elevation in life level nor an increase in strength.

Only one more kind of authority was gained, along with an amplification of perception.

At this moment, his perception expanded boundlessly, radiating outward from the Star-Devouring Worm like ripples in all directions, unlocking a certain authority that permeated the heavens and earth wherever it swept, bringing it completely under his control.

Within the range of the unlocked authority, he gained a feeling of being able to control everything — even the ability to imprison other beings from perceiving the heavens and earth.

So long as he wished it, it would change according to his will — summoning wind and rain, turning stone to gold, creating objects from the void…

All of it was but a trivial matter accomplished with ease; he didn't even need to understand the principles behind it. So long as he had the intention, that mysterious authority would spontaneously transmit a stream of information, spontaneously commanding the power called Spirit to autonomously fulfill his thoughts.

But this also seemed like an illusion — as if he were separated from actually being able to do these things by a layer of frosted glass.

He was struck by a sudden enlightenment: he himself was incomplete. His body lacked a means to exercise this authority, and this ability was one he was very familiar with — its name was 【Planet Tentacles】.

Realizing this, Baichuan could only smile wryly.

Perhaps this was the drawback of cheating. Ordinary beings need to start from Qi Refining and slowly improve step by step; throughout this process, all abilities and means would be perfected as they grew stronger, and only at the very end would they obtain the mysterious substance, unlock the authority, and become a Heavenly Venerate.

But he, due to various considerations, had not directly evolved the corresponding abilities and means even while cheating — he had skipped straight to obtaining the authority in one step, resulting in now possessing the authority but lacking the means to exercise it.

Fortunately, it was no major matter. Now that he had the Star-Devouring Worm split body to serve as a guinea pig, he could fully evolve that LV5 ability.

"This is?"

At this moment, Baichuan suddenly looked toward the heavens in some surprise.

In that instant, his perception, riding the Burst of breakthrough, spread directly toward the boundless reaches of heaven and earth, all the way to its limit.

In that split second, due to the breadth of it, he seemed to faintly glimpse a portion of Mingtu's and Ren Jian's concrete appearance and structure.

That was…

"Boom…"

But before he could see it clearly, several heavy rumbles interrupted his attention, snapping him back to himself.

Dragon eyes, brilliant as if eternally undying, turned toward the arrivals.

The boundary between Mingtu and Ren Jian was, at this moment, violently torn open by the arrivals, who forced their way in.

Throughout the entire process, the no-flight restriction and barriers he had set up had not hindered the arrivals in the slightest.

Baichuan was not surprised by this situation.

Because they were three Main Gods of the Heavenly Venerate level who had come uninvited, one after another.

Gazing at these three Heavenly Venerate Main Gods with differing auras, Baichuan narrowed his eyes, lost in thought.

"Hahaha…"

"Newborn kinsman, do not blame your elder brothers for coming uninvited…"

"You must have many questions, I imagine. No rush — let your elder brothers answer them for you."

Amid the bold laughter, Yin Bao Tian Zun, the first to arrive, glanced at the tiny Star-Devouring Worm emanating a Heavenly Venerate aura and the shriveled corpse of the Lord of Destiny not far behind it. His gaze flickered, and ignoring Baichuan's main body beside him, he cupped his hands toward the tiny Star-Devouring Worm and stepped closer.

"It's fine…"

Watching Yin Bao Tian Zun approach, Baichuan's intuition told him the other party meant no good.

But he paid it no mind — after all, who among them didn't?

In fact, the arrival of these three Heavenly Venerate Main Gods suited his purposes perfectly!

Since the unknown Heavenly Venerate from before had possessed that mysterious substance representing authority within his body, these three Heavenly Venerates naturally had it as well.

This was fated to let him gather several authorities in one go and see whether any miraculous change would occur.

Regarding this world, he already had a vague conjecture.

At the same time, the ability models of these opponents would let him verify his earlier conjecture.

Thinking of this, Baichuan replied with a light laugh, quietly watching the other party approach step by step, until…

"Ah…………!"

"K-kinsman… you, you?"

"Damn it! How dare you!"

……

Two months later, at a battered and broken place in Mingtu.

A true dragon, its entire body covered in blood, slowly opened its eyes. Around it lay three corpses exuding terrifying auras yet utterly shriveled.

One was a five-hundred-meter toad; one was a vine a full kilometer long, somewhere between animal and plant, resembling a two-headed snake; one was a long-legged Electric Eel wrapped in countless bolts of lightning.

These were precisely the three Heavenly Venerate Main Gods who had come after Baichuan's split body broke through not long ago.

These Main God Level beings — setting everything else aside, perhaps because they had lived for far too long — all had body sizes exceeding Baichuan's.

Clearly, not long ago, Baichuan had still been rather proud of his own size.

One must know he had reached a full hundred and seventy-plus meters — a size that could already be called gargantuan, stunning every single onlooker.

But now, before the four or five hundred meters — even a thousand meters — of these Heavenly Venerate Main Gods, he was actually as small as a little runt.

Although for him now, size was no longer the sole factor determining strength, a massive body would naturally cause his strength to multiply as well.

It seemed he needed to find a way to continue growing his size.

Baichuan stroked his blood-soaked chin, thinking slowly.

Apart from that, these Heavenly Venerate Main Gods didn't have a single humanoid among them!

Whether the three Heavenly Venerate Main Gods lying at his feet now, or the unknown Heavenly Venerate he had once killed, or the three Lords of Radiance who had been swallowed by these three and fully digested — they were all aberrations.

Clearly, this world was dominated by the human race — yet another point that left him temporarily puzzled.

And the toad-like corpse was precisely Yin Bao Tian Zun, whom Baichuan recognized. As for the other two, Baichuan did not know their names.

Of course, he didn't need to know, because at this moment they were all dead, beaten to death by Baichuan, and the splashing blood dyed him into a blood dragon.

And after beating them to death, he began scanning their ability models while absorbing their mysterious authority, and at the same time activated the evolution of his Star-Devouring Worm avatar — the ability 【Planet Tentacle LV5 (Inner)】.

This was also thanks to his ability to multitask, and since it didn't involve himself, he could handle so many things simultaneously.

Now, everything had finally come to an end.

Three rhombus-shaped pale gray metal pieces, each a full size larger than the one he had encountered before, spun in mid-air, waiting for his avatar to absorb them.

Three pools of blood containing terrifying energy also awaited his decision.

Of course, there were also three brand-new ability models.

It was time to verify his hypothesis.

Thinking of this, Baichuan slowly opened his Ability Panel.

Accompanied by a familiar flash of black lines, he went straight to the ability structure library and opened those three ability models.

A few breaths later, Baichuan slowly let out a sigh, his expression complex on a blood-spattered dragon face.

His hypothesis was correct.

These three Tian Zun Main God Level powerhouses' ability models were indeed almost identical to the previous Tun Lue Zhe panel, except for one ability — all were LV4 (Extreme) level abilities.

This gave his hypothesis even stronger support, and not only that, the one different ability also bore a certain similarity in its function.

The three Tian Zun Main Gods' respective abilities were 【Treasure Devouring】, 【Life Vine】, and 【Thunder Fruit】.

Treasure Devouring was the unique ability of Yin Bao Tian Zun, that is, the Treasure-Devouring Golden Toad clan; Life Vine was the unique ability of the Pseudo Snake Vine; and Thunder Fruit was the ability of that creature named Xuan Yin Thunder Eel.

These were three creatures whose names Baichuan had never even heard of. Looking at the descriptions of their abilities, they all seemed to exist in groups, just like that unknown Tian Zun's true body — the Tun Lue Zhe.

And the effects of their abilities were basically either transforming the environment, causing tremendous hidden harm to it, or controlling other living beings to plunder all their gains, giving themselves a harmful-to-others-beneficial-to-self ability to grow stronger.

Just like the Tun Lue Zhe's 【Seal Feeding】.

For example, the Treasure-Devouring Golden Toad's ability effect was to give birth to a kind of treasure qi that attached to various objects, enhancing them, and while the enhanced objects could give the recipient certain benefits, it would silently draw out wisps of the recipient's origin, which the Treasure-Devouring Golden Toad would then devour to grow.

Another example, the Pseudo Snake Vine's ability was to grow special vines called Life Vines on its true body. The Life Vines could draw the Vital Essence of the earth, transforming the earth's Vital Essence into a special small ball for its own absorption.

Another example, Thunder Fruit gave birth to a special active lightning within the body, appearing like a natural treasure. After being devoured, this lightning normally posed no harm whatsoever to the creature's body, and even had various wonderful effects that made the creature stronger. But once the Thunder Fruit's master had the intention, it could easily extract it along with all the creature's power back to supply its master, and the creature from which everything was extracted would naturally instantly become a skeleton.

It could be said that all these abilities were the kind that could easily build up a faction for development, without any harm, while supplying their own growth, and the growth speed was extremely fast.

It was as if they had all been carefully selected from the vast multitude of species by certain existences for a special purpose.

But was this possible?

Baichuan wasn't sure, but the mysterious creatures represented by these abilities did give him a sudden thought.

It seemed these incomparably mysterious creatures all had a tiny bit of laziness?

Whether it was the Tun Lue Zhe from some time ago, the Star-Devouring Worm of old, or the creatures corresponding to the three current abilities, they were all the kind of villains who didn't work themselves, directly plundering others' results or absorbing the power of heaven and earth.

In comparison, the Blood Worm ability was different. If these creatures were villains like bandits, then the Blood Worm was completely a law-abiding honest fellow, always painstakingly trying to build the world stronger while selecting the nourishment it needed from it — a decent being in mutual benefit with heaven and earth.

He didn't know whether it was the Blood Worm's inherently good nature, refusing to associate with these evil types, or whether his development of this ability had gone wrong.

And it seemed he still didn't even know the Blood Worm's true name to this day.

Even now, he couldn't sort out the operating logic of the information displayed on the Ability Panel.

Clearly, he had never seen these creatures before him, yet the panel displayed their names, while the Blood Worm had no name shown — that name was just a placeholder from his first impression.

Was it because the Blood Worm's bloodline was more noble? Or was he too weak back then? Or perhaps…

But one thing was certain — the Blood Worm was special!

Of course, Baichuan didn't think too much about this aspect.

After all, wild guessing was useless; as long as he lived long enough, there would come a day when he would know.

After verifying his hypothesis, Baichuan looked again at the three mysterious metal pieces before him, and without further hesitation directly controlled his Star-Devouring Worm avatar to swallow them in one gulp.

In an instant, the information corresponding to the three metal pieces, each a little larger than his own, exploded in his mind like a high-intensity bomb.

It was as if an endless flood of information surged wantonly through his consciousness like a wild dog off its leash.

Fortunately, Baichuan had long been prepared. A large number of Light Points had already spread around him, and the tremendous computational load began to slowly and steadily bear the pressure on that portion of consciousness.

From this point on, Time began to flow once more.

In Mingtu there was no distinction between light and day, and in the blink of an eye countless days had passed without knowing.

Until one day.

Baichuan, who had slowly absorbed the three larger mysterious metal pieces, opened his eyes once more.

Now he could be said to have absorbed the mysterious authority of a full five Tian Zun, and at this moment he finally sensed that the authority had gained an additional effect.

And it was precisely because of this effect that he sensed something peculiar.

This authority seemed to be the authority of that peculiar thing!

And the previous ability to control heaven and earth, casually producing all kinds of effects, was merely one function of that peculiar thing!

As for what it was, Baichuan still didn't know, because the authority was not yet complete — perhaps it was the source of Spirit power he had been longing for!

Of course, although he didn't know, he had already learned where that peculiar mysterious thing was.

The next moment, Baichuan shielded the Star-Devouring Worm in the palm of his claw, and then completely disappeared from Mingtu.

Target —

Ice Plains!

Yes, that thing was in the Ice Plains where he had first descended.

It was just that the direction was wrong, after all, the Ice Plains ran through this entire heaven and earth, dividing it into Dongfang Quyu and the western region, and its size was no less than Dongfang Quyu or the western region.

During the journey, he didn't know how long had passed when Baichuan suddenly recalled that vague discovery from before.

In an instant, he directly released his perception range, which had become even broader due to the expansion of that mysterious authority.

In an instant, the almost tangible spiritual fluctuation spread outward in all directions of heaven and earth, using the Star-Devouring Worm as a medium.

A few breaths later, after his perception ability had spread to its limit, completely covering the entire Dongfang Quyu and even a small portion of the Ice Plains, Baichuan finally discovered a fact that was subtle but extremely astonishing —

The earth actually had a slight curve!!!

And the shape of that strange thing on the Ice Plains was somewhat odd!

The next instant, Baichuan, who suddenly thought of something, stopped his Flight outright. His face full of shock and uncertainty, he directly raised his head to look at that heaven and earth which, even without light, still held a sliver of brightness.

Then, without a hint of hesitation, he shot straight up into the sky, flying toward the farther distance.

Climbing! Climbing!! Climbing endlessly!!!

At this moment, Baichuan ignored the biting gale as dense Spirit power began to spread out and shroud his body, soaring toward even greater heights.

An hour later, Baichuan, who had already flown several thousand meters into the firmament, finally looked down at the ground.

At this moment, the earth was already incomprehensibly tiny in his eyes, but right now he had no mind to care about that.

Because all of his attention had been hooked dead-set by the shape of the earth, and the shape of that incomparably massive strange thing on the Ice Plains!

That was……

(End of this chapter)