Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill

Chapter 1124: Chapter 501: Devouring Spirit Silver Worms (Part 2)

"Could these be... living things?"

Fu Chao swallowed hard and spoke in a low voice.

At this moment, his earlier arrogance was gone without a trace.

It wasn’t that Fu Chao was cowardly, but those constantly squirming silver lines, packed so densely together, made one’s scalp crawl; it was enough to trigger trypophobia.

Yu Yunyi and Lv Ruoxi, hovering in mid-air, instinctively retreated a few steps and stood behind Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing furrowed his brows, channeling Spiritual Power to his brow center. The vertical pupil opened, glowing with a dim blue light as he carefully examined the lines on the floating island.

"Be careful! These are ’Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms’, an ancient remnant species!"

A moment later, Li Yunjing’s expression changed drastically: "They specialize in devouring Cultivators’ Mana. Once they latch onto you, even your bones will be gnawed into dust!"

Before he even finished speaking, those silver lines suddenly writhed violently like boiling mercury and whooshed into the air, transforming into tens of thousands of slender worms. Each one gleamed with a metallic silver luster, their mouthparts opening and closing with a teeth-numbing "kakaka" sound.

"There’s so many!"

Fu Chao’s scalp went numb. His hand shook and he almost threw the Fire Thunder Bead away. "There’s gotta be tens of thousands of them, right? How the hell are we supposed to fight this?"

"Let me try!"

Yu Yunyi’s face turned grim. Suppressing the fear in her heart, she raised the Jade Flute to her lips. Clear, piercing sound waves spread out almost tangibly as she tried to drive the swarm back.

However, these Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms seemed immune to sound. They only paused slightly before charging in even more frenziedly.

"Flowers Bloom and Wither!"

Lv Ruoxi let out a delicate shout. Her Short Sword bloomed into a flurry of sword flowers; wherever the Sword Qi swept past, hundreds of worms were sliced in two—but the severed sections instantly split into two separate worms, making their numbers even greater.

"How are we supposed to kill them like this?"

Lv Ruoxi jumped in fright. She hadn’t expected that her attack would not only fail to eliminate the Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms, but actually increase their number.

"Five Elements Demon-Sealing Array, rise!"

Li Yunjing shouted. The Yin Yang Five Elements Celestial Derivation Sword burst into brilliant light as the Power of the Five Elements transformed into five massive walls of light, shielding everyone in the center.

The Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms slammed into the light walls, producing a hissing corrosive sound. The walls visibly thinned at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"We can’t go on like this!"

Blue veins bulged on Li Yunjing’s forehead. "The more we fight these worms, the more they multiply. We have to find their weakness!"

He suddenly recalled a record from an ancient text and gritted his teeth as he shouted, "Fu Chao, use the Fire Thunder Beads! Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms fear high temperatures!"

"Fuck! If they’ve got a weak point, this just got a lot easier!"

Fu Chao snapped out of his daze. His hands flicked rapidly, and dozens of Fire Thunder Beads shot into the swarm like meteors.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The explosions were deafening. Flames roared skyward, and the Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms caught in the blast instantly curled up into charred clumps, letting out shrill, miserable screams.

Yet even more worms surged out from the depths of the floating island like a tidal wave, completely cutting off the four’s retreat.

Staring at the silver tide of Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms pouring in, Li Yunjing’s gaze was suddenly drawn to the light bands hanging down from the edge of the floating island.

As the swarm approached those light bands, strange ripples spread across them. Any worms that touched the light bands instantly went rigid and dissolved into a wisp of green smoke.

"It’s the light bands!"

"These worms are afraid of the crystalline light that makes up the floating island!" freēwēbnovel.com

"They can’t leave a certain range of the island—they were Sealed here by an ancient mighty being!"

Li Yunjing suddenly turned, pointing his sword toward the light bands. "Fu Chao, use your most powerful Fire Thunder Bead to blast open a path. We’ll charge for the light bands!"

"Got it!"

Cold sweat covered Fu Chao’s forehead as he trembled and took out a Fire Thunder Bead the size of a fist.

This was his bottom-of-the-chest treasure; once detonated, everything within a radius of ten miles would become a sea of fire.

"Everyone, be careful!"

Fu Chao’s face twisted with pain as he gritted his teeth and hurled the Fire Thunder Bead toward the densest part of the swarm.

In an instant, blazing light erupted like a scorching sun. Shockwaves flung swathes of worms into the air, making the entire floating island tremble violently as the silver lines writhed madly, emitting ear-piercing shrieks.

"Go!"

Thunder exploded around Li Yunjing’s body as he pushed the Thunder Escape Technique to its limit, sweeping Yu Yunyi, Lv Ruoxi, and Fu Chao up with him. They turned into violet lightning, threading through the gaps in the swarm. With each swing of the Yin Yang Five Elements Celestial Derivation Sword, crackling arcs of lightning left behind swathes of charred worm remains.

As they neared the light bands, tens of thousands of Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms suddenly converged into a colossal wave of insects, forming a towering silver wall that barred their path.

Clearly, these Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms possessed intelligence and understood that they could not let Li Yunjing’s group of four enter this area so easily.

"Yin and Yang reverse, Five Elements in Place!"

Li Yunjing took a deep breath and poured his Mana madly into the Yin Yang Five Elements Celestial Derivation Sword, cleaving forth a bolt of Chaos Divine Thunder.

"Rumble!"

Where the lightning passed, space itself shattered inch by inch, and the insect tide was forcibly split apart.

Thousands of Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms were reduced to ash. No matter how strong their Life Force was, they could no longer split and spawn more worms.

Seizing the moment, the four of them turned into streaks of light and rushed into the area covered by the light bands.

As the strange radiance fell upon them, the Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms who had been relentlessly pursuing them abruptly halted and let out unwilling screeches, forced to hover at the very edge of the light bands.

Only then did they notice that within the light bands was a staircase leading toward the core of the floating island. The steps were made of semi-transparent crystal, with mysterious Runes flowing within, silently narrating secrets of the ancient past.

"Let’s go!"

Li Yunjing’s expression eased. Ever since he figured out how much power these Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms could withstand, he’d been at ease.

No matter how ferocious these Spirit-Devouring Silver Worms were, he could kill them!