Chapter 370: The True Immortal's Ability Model! Star-Devouring Bugs, [Bug Devouring Moon]

He had thought himself already strong enough, but in this moment, facing his own myriad doubts, Baichuan suddenly realized that this power, for all its might, still fell far, far too short of what he truly desired.

A force capable of merely destroying planets was still far too weak — so weak that he couldn't even bend the world to his will. He needed greater power, power vast enough to let him do as he pleased throughout this perilous Xingkong!

"Your Excellency..."

Little did he know, perhaps because Baichuan's gaze was too direct — after all, being stared at blankly by the enormous eyes of a planet-class beast, lost in his own thoughts, and sighing softly after she spoke her words of farewell.

Lingxin's flawless cheeks flushed a bewitching crimson, and in Baichuan's daze, a subtle misunderstanding arose — she thought the dragon whelp before her was reluctant to see her leave.

This wondrous feeling, this feeling of being needed, stirred some peculiar emotions within her as well, and a radiant maternal glow seemed to emanate forth.

Their clan was one that needed to be needed. Just as trees cannot do without soil, water, and sunlight — as the descendants of the World Tree and Fusang Wood, they themselves carried the nature of trees, and possessed the power of two special beings, and thus could not do without this feeling of being needed.

It was as if that longing and need the myriad things of the world held for the World Tree and Fusang Wood had, by some mysterious fate, transferred in part onto their race.

After all, both the World Tree and Fusang Wood were needed by all things in the world. The former upheld the entire world — it could even be said to be a world itself, with all living beings of a world dwelling within it.

The latter bore the heavy duty of illuminating the world with the Golden Crow; there was even a saying that the Golden Crow itself was birthed from Fusang Wood. Whether true or not remains unknown, but one can still grasp Fusang Wood's importance. If the Golden Crow (a star) ceased to exist, how could a world possess vitality?

Perhaps the pure-blooded beings of these two races could discard this not entirely beneficial influence, but they, who possessed only a thread of these two bloodlines, could not avoid it.

For them, this was both a blessing and a curse.

Speaking of blessing — because of this bloodline, their race gained a characteristic that enhanced the modification of worlds, making it easier to maintain the stability of those powerful beings' worlds and to foster their flourishing development. This, invisibly, made them more popular throughout Xingkong, and made it easier to gain the aid of some friendly powerful beings. For instance, the Golden Crow elder who sheltered their clan was such a case.

Speaking of curse — this feeling, even now after she had once suffered betrayal, still held a certain sweetness for her. It was an influence from the spirits of all things in the world; if it remained this pronounced even for her, who had truly broken through to True Immortal, one could well imagine how much more so for her weaker clansfolk.

At the same time, their characteristic also caused some evildoers to lurk in the shadows, watching for lone members of their clan.

One must understand that a race with such an inherently gentle nature, as harmless as a little white rabbit, yet possessing a tremendous beneficial modification enhancement for the world — even across the entire universe, such a thing was rare.

Much like a supreme treasure from myth that could anchor a world's fortune and cause it to flourish, their positioning was precisely this: apart from certain special powerful beings, there was simply no one who did not need them.

Unfortunately, her body was now incomplete, and even maintaining her own Spirit at this moment required borrowing the power of that Golden Crow elder, who shared deep ties with them. How then could she linger?

At this point, she didn't even have the spare strength to seek out her own subordinates.

In the end, she could only sigh softly — their meeting had come far, far too late...

"Your Excellency, I must take my leave."

"Should we part this time, we may never meet again. I can only offer you a single Green Wood Seed, a token of my clan. If in the future Your Excellency is fated to set foot in Shanhai Ancient Pass, you may use this to seek me out."

Having spoken, the ethereal figure bowed slightly, and a blaze of fierce crimson light ignited beneath her feet, then transformed into a skyful of stardust as her form vanished.

At the very last moment, Baichuan seemed to sense something and raised his head to look upward — a pair of sharp, fiery-red eyes seemed to glance at him appraisingly.

"Green Wood Seed... Shanhai Ancient Pass..."

Baichuan murmured softly to himself, committing that latter phrase — laden with special meaning — deeply to memory. His intuition told him he would one day set foot there, but in what manner he arrived would depend entirely on himself.

At this, Xingkong once again returned to deathly stillness; apart from him, there was not a single living thing left in this stretch of sky.

For this was the Subspace that the beings of that stretch of sky called the dwelling place of no living things — suspected to be the wreckage left after another universe's destruction.

After a long while, he silently opened his Ability Panel. Sentimentality was, after all, not his nature; only by growing stronger did he have the right to understand everything. It was time to evolve and break through.

Accompanied by the familiar glow rising softly, a panel he knew intimately appeared before Baichuan:

'Name: Baichuan'

'Race: Pseudo-Dragon / (Bi'an)'

'Length: 50,000 meters / Planet Body'

'Lifespan: 250,000 years'

'Points: (Expand)'

'Abilities: LV5 Ability (Expand), LV4 Ability (Expand), LV3 Ability (Expand), LV2 Ability (Expand), LV1 Ability (Expand)'

'Ability Structure Library: (Expand)'

'Kedianji...'

After gazing at the panel he hadn't seen in a long while, Baichuan decisively opened the Ability Structure Library. What met his eye was a host of brand-new ability models as numerous as the stars — "Human Shadow," "Grey Shadow," "Corpse Beast," "Sand Beast"... "Fierce-Tooth Tiger," "Wild Tiger," "Wild Bird," "Guyue"...

These were all his harvests from Zhenyu, but now was not the time to sort through them. He swiftly scanned past and selected two special ability models: "Guyue" and "Wild Spirit Bi'an."

The former was the ability model of the True Immortal Guyue whom he had slain; the latter was his own split body from that world.

Unfortunately, he had been unable to scan Lingxin's ability model — perhaps because Lingxin had not truly died, nor lost the power to resist.

Thinking of this, Baichuan also recalled that when he had asked Lingxin earlier, she had mentioned that her continent-class body, along with their subordinates, had all been scattered by that explosion; he didn't know whether their situation was good or bad.

The thought flashed through his mind in an instant, and he did not dwell on it. A hundred thoughts are not as good as one action — it wouldn't be too late to consider acting once he broke through. Or rather, if he didn't break through, even leaving this Subspace might be difficult.

With his selection, a fierce mechanical creature resembling both tiger and dragon, wreathed entirely in lightning, leapt out first, treading thunder and roaring skyward; closely following, a grey moon-body wrapped in bizarre insect-shadow tentacles, but with a humanoid upper half, also charged forth. Its vivid yet utterly ferocious aura remained no less terrifying even within the space of this panel.

Truly worthy of the terrifying existence he had had to completely ignite all his own matter and borrow the power of that True Immortal source to defeat.

Baichuan sighed inwardly, and the detailed information of the two models fully imprinted itself in his eyes:

'Race: Wild Spirit Bi'an / Baichuan'

'Abilities: Sharpness LV6 (Characteristic), Environment Assimilation LV5 (Planet), Black Sun LV5 (Planet)...'

'Race: Grey Moon Spirit / Guyue'

'Abilities: Moon Dream LV6 (Characteristic), Bug Devouring Moon LV6 (Characteristic), Moon Phase LV5 (Planet), Assimilation LV5 (Planet), Grey Mist Control LV5 (Planet), False Ambush LV4 (Transcendent)...'

The former — his own model — he merely gazed at for a while at that special LV6 ability, then looked toward Guyue's, and an unexpected situation appeared.

Baichuan stared at those familiar abilities — Assimilation, False Ambush...

These were the abilities of the Star-Devouring Bugs he had once encountered. In his understanding, the Star-Devouring Bugs should have been merely an ordinary Earth Immortal Realm race, yet somehow their abilities had appeared on Guyue!

His earlier guess had not been wrong! Guyue — or rather, the entire Lingneng Clan — truly did have some mysterious connection with the Star-Devouring Bug race.

On the outer aspect Guyue had displayed, those strange insect shadows truly were Star-Devouring Bugs!

But why would a True Immortal-realm Guyue need the abilities of Star-Devouring Bugs?

Baichuan was somewhat puzzled. Logically speaking, a dignified True Immortal should have no need for mere Earth Immortal Realm Star-Devouring Bugs; the power of Star-Devouring Bugs could not possibly grant him any help.

Yet based on the True Immortal bearing he had displayed earlier, it was clear those Star-Devouring Bugs should have occupied an extremely important position — not merely as ornamentation, but even as part of the root of his great power!

Thinking this, Baichuan looked toward those few LV6-level abilities and opened their detailed explanations one by one.

However, upon looking, he was visibly stunned; information beyond his expectations appeared before his eyes:

Moon Dream: A special text condensed from the sublimation of a Moon Spirit's own power under a certain special force, suspected to be a condensation of some mysterious particle, carrying unimaginable power, an extension of True Immortal power, capable of emitting a special amplitude that spans an entire planet, pulling all sentient beings into a dream.

Bug Devouring Moon: The Star Devourer shall one day be devoured. The grudge of the Star Devouring Bug clan, a visage unique to beings who have plundered the Star Devouring Bug's once-in-a-lifetime unknown power; those who bear the visage of Bug Devouring may obtain the power of Star Devouring, yet if they grow weak, they shall surely be devoured by bugs!

Sharpness: A power born from the sublimation of a beast bearing the visage of a dragon after being tainted by the heart's source blood of a mysterious Star Beast, carrying unimaginable power, an extension of the Star Beast's incomplete power, capable of releasing a brilliance that draws forth all sharpness in the world.

Looking at the information above, especially the first ability 【Bug Devouring Moon】, Baichuan was stunned for a long time; this was the first time he had seen an ability with such an exaggerated negative status, and its level was one he rarely encountered in his life.

At the same time, he seemed to already understand how Guyue had broken through to True Immortal, and it appeared his understanding of the entire Star Devouring clan had some errors……

If his guess was correct, Guyue's breakthrough should be related to that once-in-a-lifetime special power of the Star Devouring Bug.

The Star Devouring Bug was absolutely not merely an Earth Immortal race as he had imagined, but an exceptionally special and mysterious race.

At this moment, looking at this ability, Baichuan recalled the previous dream experience regarding the Star Devouring Bug: purple destructive energy tore across the starry sky, piercing through the world, completely turning the Star Devouring Bug's mother planet into a brilliant firework in the starry sky, and during this process a meteor carrying countless Star Devouring Bug larvae fortunately drifted away.

A power capable of destroying a star—he had once not understood what realm that power belonged to, but now thinking about it, it absolutely could not be the power of an Earth Immortal!

It was absolutely a terrifying existence at the True Immortal level or above, but the question was, how did a mere Earth Immortal race like the Star Devouring Bug deserve to have a True Immortal or higher existence personally act to destroy them?

Just relying on an LV5 planet-level Assimilation? That ability that even couldn't Assimilate an Earth Immortal, which even Tianyuan Zunzhe needed to spend so much time on?

How could that be! True Immortal or higher existences wouldn't have so much time to target such an ordinary Earth Immortal race; take the world Lingxin once mentioned, it was full of Earth Immortal realm subordinates, would dealing with an ordinary Earth Immortal race require that much effort?

Impossible!

At the same time, how could a mere Earth Immortal race possibly produce an LV6-level special negative ability!

But what kind of encounter could possibly cause a True Immortal or stronger expert to act and exterminate them?

Baichuan didn't know, but there were definitely secrets within that he could hardly imagine.

In the past, limited by his insufficient experience, even though he had experienced that near-extinction escape from another perspective, he couldn't detect the hidden secrets within; but now, merely recalling slightly, he discovered many doubts.

Most importantly, having seen the LV6-level ability from the Star Devouring Bug, he found it strange why his previous Ability Panel hadn't displayed LV6-level abilities?

If Guyue truly was as he guessed, having defected to the "Ancestor" and received the Star Devouring Bug from him, plundering the power of Star Devouring to break through to True Immortal, then why didn't the Ability Panel scan out the LV6-level ability of that living Star Devouring Bug he had encountered before?

If it had been scanned out back then, he wouldn't have needed to go through so much trouble.

Was the Ability Panel lacking?

This guess had just appeared when Baichuan shook his head.

If it truly were lacking, then it wouldn't be possible for him to scan out LV6-level abilities now.

There must be some special mechanism within that he couldn't imagine, just like how the Ability Panel named ability models—some were unclear while others were clearly displayed, and he still hadn't figured it out.

However, since the special case of the Star Devouring Bug had appeared, did it mean that other LV5 ability carriers he had encountered and inferred to be Earth Immortal races might also not be as simple as he guessed, such as the Blood Bug……

At this moment, because of the appearance of the Star Devouring Bug's special ability, Baichuan instantly felt his doubts had multiplied; the more he thought, the more his head exploded, so he decisively gave up thinking.

This really wasn't something he could figure out just by thinking.

He'd better break through.

Of course, he didn't dare to evolve the Star Devouring Bug ability; he only selected the LV6 Characteristic ability Sharpness that suited him best, and if that didn't work, he'd choose Guyue's.

Not choosing both was because he feared accidents.

True Immortal, LV6 was too special, far beyond the abilities he had encountered before.

As he selected and pressed the confirm button, after paying the points, Baichuan immediately felt the familiar drowsiness surge over him once again.

His main body abruptly separated from that planet-body, falling into the inner world, into the area he had specifically isolated for his evolution.

The viscous liquid enough to submerge a dragon body fifty thousand meters long appeared and covered once again.

At this moment, evolution began.

……

(End of this chapter)