811: 'Strange Insect'

Clear sky, warm breeze, azure sea and sky.

Yang Dian stood still on the surface of the sea, his gaze fixed on the rippling water.

Amidst the shimmering waves, a colossal azure cauldron appeared and disappeared in the water, seemingly real yet illusory.

"Woo~"

Amidst the melodious whale song, the azure sea suddenly turned pitch black.

The next moment, a bulge rose from the sea, and an orca over a thousand meters long leaped out of the water, flipped in the air, and then slammed its back towards Yang Dian.

"Such a big fish, yet still so fond of making a fuss."

He pointed a finger at the orca, and the colossal, sky-obscuring creature instantly transformed into a small fish, no bigger than Yang Dian's palm, landing at his feet and flapping its fins, still making a fuss.

The Little Black Cat, who hadn't been outside for a long time, had its eyes light up.

"Human."

"It's a fish."

Yang Dian, hearing the appetite in the Little Black Cat's voice, smiled and tapped the Little Black Cat's head:

"They say fish have a three-second memory, are you the same?"

"This is Hu Jiu."

Hu Jiu, having been shrunk by Yang Dian, emerged from the sea, sprayed the Little Black Cat's head with water, and then opened its mouth to giggle.

The Little Black Cat, having choked on water, pounced on Hu Jiu like a hungry cat, and the cat and whale began to play on the sea surface.

His doting gaze lingered on the cat and whale for a moment before falling to what was in front of him.

The ripples created by the orca's leap had already subsided, and the azure square cauldron, seemingly integrated with the ocean, reappeared on the surface of the sea.

Taking a step forward, Yang Dian was about to explore the secret behind the cauldron when, without warning, a gust of wind swept across the world.

The wind wasn't strong, only enough to make the tentacles on Yang Dian's head flutter.

But the gradually gathering familiar aura still made Yang Dian stop his actions.

"Place of Seal, Mortals stop."

Looking at Lin Mo, who stood before him with his hands behind his back, exuding a detached aura, and with no emotion in his eyes, Yang Dian paused for a moment before smiling.

The unsuppressed aura brazenly rose from the sea.

Yang Dian seemed to step out of a mirror and into the present world.

The wind stilled for a moment, then began to circle around Yang Dian.

The sea also stilled for a moment, and then, with Yang Dian's standing place as the core, the entire ocean began to ripple in circles.

Heaven and Earth originally had no center.

But as Yang Dian released his aura, Heaven and Earth once again had a core.

Fish, shrimp, and crabs gathered at his feet, and birds hovered above his head.

Even Earth's seemingly eternal magnetic field began to re-weave itself, centered around Yang Dian.

At this moment, Yang Dian, who was one with Heaven and Earth, felt like a god.

If he wanted wind, there was wind; if he wanted rain, it rained.

All spirits, all things, would move according to his will.

'This is what it feels like not to suppress myself?'

In his thoughts, Yang Dian looked at Lin Mo, the Sea God, whose eyes were still indifferent:

"Mortals are not allowed near."

"What about now?"

"Captain."

Lin Mo remained silent, still blocking Yang Dian's path, not allowing him to approach the illusory cauldron:

"Place of Seal, Mortals stop."

Upon hearing this, a hint of complexity appeared in Yang Dian's eyes.

In a person's life, there are always some regrets.

Like the one he couldn't catch.

And like the past that cannot be redeemed.

If each minor realm in the Destiny Realm counts as a world, then Yang Dian, who had traversed thousands of worlds, still couldn't find a way to restore Lin Mo.

'If I can't find it now, it doesn't mean I won't find it later.'

'If Tier 4 doesn't work, then Tier 5; if Tier 5 doesn't work, then Tier 6.'

'As long as I keep improving and master enough rule power, one day I will be able to awaken the Captain and restore his humanity.'

Thinking this, Yang Dian looked again at the independent stellar remnant space sealed by the Sea God Cauldron, and his consciousness communicated with the Dimension Butterfly.

'See what's inside.'

The next moment, the abundant moisture in the ocean sky gathered into a mirror in front of Yang Dian, and then a vast, empty space appeared before him.

There was no land, no ocean, and no material form existed.

That sealed stellar remnant space was like pure void.

But how could something that could make Heaven and Earth actively warn of its presence be just a simple void?

As his thoughts turned, the mirror made of water vapor in front of Yang Dian began to change, splitting into two parts.

One for the macro, controlling the overall situation.

The perspective of the mirror's image began to rise, letting Yang Dian know that the stellar remnant space sealed by the Sea God Cauldron was, in total, less than 500 meters in diameter.

One for the micro, with exquisite detail.

The internal area of the stellar remnant space continuously magnified, until after thousands of tens of thousands of magnifications, it finally revealed the danger hidden within it.

It was something with nine segments, covered in bristles, with a pair of pincers at its mouthpart, and a triangular tail at its rear, an entity that couldn't be definitively called a bacterium, a virus, or anything else.

Yang Dian had never seen this thing in any literature from other worlds, only feeling that it was somewhat dangerous.

Even he, if he accidentally got entangled with this small thing, seemed to have to pay a considerable price.

'A danger that could threaten Tier 4 Star Shattering level, or affect Tier 5 Sun Extinguishing level?'

In his thoughts, Yang Dian turned to look at Lin Mo.

If Lin Mo hadn't ascended to godhood to Seal the stellar remnant space, and if this stellar remnant had truly crashed to Earth back then, Earth's civilization might have long ceased to exist, right?

'Not necessarily.'

'After all, there are many secrets on Earth. Even if the Captain didn't ascend to godhood, there should have been other beings, like Zeus, Odin, or Ra, who would have sensed the crisis and actively sealed this thing, right?'

After thinking for a while longer, Yang Dian pushed all sorts of conjectures deep into his mind.

Hindsight was useless.

Now, it was better to think about how to restore Lin Mo and how to deal with that stellar remnant space.

Yang Dian currently had no clue how to restore Lin Mo.

However, as for that stellar remnant space... he reached forward, and an invisible spatial fluctuation arose. The stellar remnant space, less than 500 meters in diameter, began to shrink under the influence of spatial power.

However, as soon as its diameter shrunk by less than a meter, the 'strange worms' slumbering within the stellar remnant space seemed to be startled awake by Yang Dian's actions, and they all began to shake their heads and scurry around.

No, it wasn't scurrying.

Feeling his Qi and blood consumption rate suddenly increase by more than a hundredfold, Yang Dian frowned and withdrew his hand.

Two seconds later, the Qi and blood that enveloped the stellar remnant space, carrying a trace of spatial power and used to collapse the stellar remnant space, were exhausted. The stellar remnant space then expanded back to its 500-meter diameter.

The 'strange worms' inside the space circled the stellar remnant space a few times, and only after confirming that the Mutant power enveloping the stellar remnant space had disappeared did they one by one pass through the spatial barrier and drill back into the stellar remnant space, trembling slightly a few times before falling back into slumber.

"This thing..."

Yang Dian took a deep look at those almost imperceptible strange worms, smaller than bacteria, then waved his hand, dispelling the mirror formed by water vapor.

He was confident he could send those strange worms to other worlds before they reacted.

But there was no need.

Although the strange worms were somewhat dangerous, if utilized well, they could also be a means of subduing enemies.

'I just don't know who could make me release these strange worms.'

'Furthermore, while there is no information about these strange worms in known records, other forces in the Destiny Realm might have information about them.'

'I'll go wander around the Destiny Realm again...'