Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1400: 752: Void Fortress Beneath the Dead Star's Core
Previously on Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension...
His concern wasn't centered on locating the B2 Virtual Realm Fortress, but on alerting the other two without sparking any doubts.
Just then, Zhao Sheng's eyebrow lifted abruptly; a scheme had already sparked in his mind.
“Hmm, I remember crossing paths with a swarm of Void Worms earlier. Yes, that's the way!”
His words barely ended when he vanished, teleporting two Constant Years into the distance.
Deep inside the churning Chaos storm, a vast shroud of gray-black ghostly mist surged forward without warning.
This ghostly mist blanketed the heavens, surging with unstoppable force like a piercing rainbow, laced with a bone-chilling intent to kill.
Through the scan of Divine Thought, the mist's disguise fell away, exposing hordes of gray-black bugs.
These bugs looked like wriggling worms, each roughly a foot long on average, their plump forms reminiscent of silkworms, though sharp black bone spikes ran along their backs, sending shivers down the spine.
“Good thing this swarm of Void Worms totals less than a billion. The Insect Emperor's strength probably hasn't reached Returning to Void yet—nothing too tough to deal with.” Zhao Sheng eyed the onrushing cloud of worms and stepped lightly ahead.
The instant after, he materialized right in the swarm's heart.
Here, the Void Worms grew enormous, their lengths spanning seven or eight zhang typically, radiating a formidable presence with strengths from Nascent Soul up to Divinity Transformation.
Void Worms thrive in packs, and the bigger the horde, the greater their combined might, letting them withstand the brutal “conditions” of the Dark Sky through unified force.
“A billion worms as one!”
That's the key to how Void Worms endure in the Dark Sky!
The Void Worm horde sensed Zhao Sheng's entry at once, unleashing a flood of psychic pulses that merged into an ocean-like, overpowering mind, crashing toward him.
“Way too sluggish! You've missed your chance!” Zhao Sheng chuckled with a head shake, then flickered out of sight.
Bam!
In a heartbeat, he rematerialized, crashing down fiercely on the skull of a colossal worm stretching nearly a hundred zhang, his form partly buried in the tough, leathery hide.
“Stay still, or face death!”
Zhao Sheng abruptly released the crushing aura of the Returning to Void Realm, while delivering a lethal warning to the Insect Emperor pinned below.
Fury and alarm gripped the Insect Emperor as it prepared to muster its whole swarm against the “Human Clan Cultivator” atop it.
But an unstoppable power drilled in from its crown, smashing much of its brain into pulp in a flash.
Then came a storm of thunderous blows to the Insect Emperor,
leaving its awareness scrambled and hanging by a thread amid the furious barrage. Only then did Zhao Sheng halt and demand, “Will you yield?”
“I yield!” the Insect Emperor wailed back in desperation through transmission.
“I question, you reply. To which Alien Demon group do you belong?”
“I come from the Zhe Luo Demon Group. From the moment consciousness awoke, 37,503 years have passed, and I oversee herding this swarm of Void Worms now.”
Zhao Sheng gave a nod, detecting no falsehoods, and pressed further, “What's your task?”
“I was 'patrolling' the boundary, yet I never meant to cross you, lord.” The Insect Emperor proved clever indeed, aping the sycophancy of Human Clan ways.
Zhao Sheng approved of this Alien Demon and posed a few more queries.
Sure enough, the Alien Demon possessing the Insect Emperor's form knew nothing of B2 Virtual Realm Fortress's location or that their foes had seized it already.
It ranked as a mere low-grade Demon Monster in the Alien Demon ranks, barred from “elite secrets.”
Yet Zhao Sheng sought no intel from it; his aim was instead...
Bam!
The Insect Emperor's skull burst open without warning, gobs of gray-white brain tissue erupting outward, wiped clean instantly by the Space-Time Storm.
With a casual flick, Zhao Sheng summoned bolts of Purple Cloud Divine Thunder from the void, all lancing into a dark Demon Shadow that dissolved before it could cry out.
He extended his grasp, drawing forth an egg-sized, many-sided crystal from the depths, which settled into his palm.
Chaos erupted in the worm horde right away, descending into wild disorder.
Soon, though, it fractured into seven or eight scattered bands, bolting off in every direction at speed.
Scattered Demon Thought Subbodies hid within the various packs, managing to slip away unscathed.
Zhao Sheng made no move to pursue, letting them flee.
He swiftly retrieved the Nine Divine Gu and dispatched a summons to Hundred Birds Taoist and Ji Tian both.
After biding most of the day, Hundred Birds Taoist showed up first.
“Taoist Yan, have you truly uncovered the location of B2 Virtual Realm Fortress?” Hundred Birds Taoist burst out eagerly upon arrival, seeking confirmation.
“Yan got lucky! Not long into my hunt, I stumbled on Void Worms under demon control. To my surprise, the Insect Emperor spilled that the Alien Demons had hauled B2 Virtual Realm Fortress into this world's Star Domain—that's why I called you in haste.”
Saying so, Zhao Sheng gestured to the enormous worm carcass at his feet and revealed the alien crystal clutched in his grip.
This alien crystal boasted three hundred and seventy-six faces, qualifying it as a Primordial Spirit Demon type.
Hundred Birds Taoist lit up with joy at the mere glimpse, harboring zero doubts about Zhao Sheng's tale.
After all, fabricating such a story gained him nothing and served no purpose!
“Haha! Taoist Yan truly excels! This puts us well ahead of the Demon-slaying Team. They'd never guess the Alien Demons moved B2 Virtual Realm Fortress right into the present world's Star Domain.”
“Pure fortune favored me!” Zhao Sheng replied modestly, masking his true feelings.
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