85: Chapter 85 Strange Phenomenon: Ten Thousand Insects Devouring a Star
"Am I... awakening?" Ling Yichen also sensed his abnormality, his heart filled with immense shock.
He had never imagined that he could awaken. After all, his physical body was different from ordinary people; the entity he presented was not fixed and could change at will.
Ever since his body was modified, he had felt like a rootless duckweed, unable to find a foothold. But after practicing the Myriad Worm Body Forging Method, he gradually began to feel a sense of being grounded.
Especially when he cultivated the Five Viscera Realm of the Myriad Worm Body Forging Method to great success, this feeling was most real. He even felt, at one point, as if he had returned to his past.
And now, he was actually beginning to awaken; this was simply incredible. At this moment, he could clearly feel that some mysterious power within his body was waking up, an aura from ancient times was unfolding.
As this aura gradually strengthened, he was surprised to find that his body was undergoing huge changes. The most obvious was the evolution of the Worms.
As the awakening began, the Worms in his body seemed to have received great nourishment, and countless Worms were transforming and evolving. Soon, Worms evolved into Spirit Worms; the number went from one or two to dozens. Batches of Spirit Worms surged forth crazily, and in just a few breaths, hundreds of Spirit Worms had evolved, and they were still increasing.
At the same time, Ye Qingzhu and W, who were cultivating at home, immediately sensed this disturbance, and both of their expressions changed. Soon, they walked out of their homes and arrived at Ling Yichen's door.
"What's going on? Why is there such a strong sense of oppression?" Ye Qingzhu asked, confused. W, however, had a fluctuating expression, lifting her eyes to look around, seeing that the surrounding light was rapidly fading and spreading outward bit by bit.
"He might be awakening!" After saying this, W seemed to think of something and immediately shouted to the crowd: "Leave here first, I'm afraid something might go wrong!"
Although Ye Qingzhu didn't understand why W said that, she chose to trust her. Immediately, she returned to her room, brought Tang Juan and Ling Yixuan out, and W also notified Tian Yingying's family.
When everyone gathered in the hallway, the entire hallway had gone completely dark, without a trace of light. Everyone felt as if they had fallen into a huge black hole, and an inexplicable sense of fear struck them.
At this moment, Ye Qingzhu raised her hand, and with a sizzling sound, a thunderball appeared in her hand. The thunderball flickered with light, barely able to illuminate the surrounding environment.
"Hurry up, it's not safe here!" W urged. Ye Qingzhu immediately frowned and looked at her, asking: "What do you mean? Aren't you coming with us?"
W shook her head immediately and replied: "I need to stay and protect him to prevent anyone from disturbing his awakening!" Hearing this, Tian Yingying and Ye Qingzhu said almost in unison: "I can stay too!"
W said with a serious expression: "No, you all have family members to take care of, nothing can go wrong!" Hearing this, Ye Qingzhu's expression became even stranger. She stared at W and said: "It's just an awakening, why are you making it sound like a life-or-death battle!"
W gave a wry smile and muttered: "Hard to say, it's possible we really will have to go through a life-or-death battle. My intuition tells me this time... is very dangerous!" Actually, what W didn't say was that she didn't just say this because of intuition; she truly felt the danger.
Inside her body was a taboo, which was the source of her power. Only by fully mastering that taboo could she officially become a member of the 26-Character Army and become a City Lord's Guard. And just now, when Ling Yichen had just awakened, the taboo within her triggered a warning, just like last time when she met Ling Yichen in the elevator, and even more violently than last time. That was why she had such a reaction!
Everyone heard this with complicated expressions, worried for Ling Yichen and also for W.
"Alright, stop dawdling, hurry up and go. Don't worry, I won't have any problems, and he won't either, I promise!" Saying this, W directly pushed Ye Qingzhu and the others.
Seeing this, the group didn't delay any further and quickly went downstairs with their families. Watching them leave, W sighed, then quickly ran back to Ling Yichen's door. She entered the password and pushed the door open!
However, the moment she opened the door, a powerful resistance surged. She had to exert more strength to barely push the door open and enter. Once inside, the resistance became even stronger, and she even felt a sticky sensation, as if she were currently deep in a pool of mucus.
However, as she entered the room, she finally saw Ling Yichen. Ling Yichen was sitting cross-legged in the center of the living room, and a powerful aura was constantly erupting from his body. She moved her steps, trying to get closer, but just as she successfully took a step toward Ling Yichen, a sudden change occurred.
Around Ling Yichen, in the endless darkness, pairs of crimson eyes opened abruptly, all staring at W. W was startled by this scene, her whole body trembling, the hairs on her body standing on end, and cold sweat dripping down her back. At this moment, she felt like she was being targeted by thousands of venomous snakes, and these snakes could pounce at any time to bite her and tear her to pieces!
"Get away!" W couldn't help but let out a low shout. The next second, her clothes burst, and under her butterfly bones, a pair of golden wings unfolded. The golden wings bloomed with brilliant golden light, resisting the invasion of the darkness. However, the aura on Ling Yichen's body was too vast; the more she resisted, the greater the force of the darkness's invasion, so great that she could barely endure it.
At this moment, Ling Yichen did not perceive any of this. His attention was completely attracted by the Spirit Worms inside his body. So many Spirit Worms!
As the awakening continued, the number of Spirit Worms in his body skyrocketed, increasing from hundreds to thousands in an instant.
He was happy to see this, and without hesitation, he immediately divided these Spirit Worms into four streams, injecting them into his liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, strengthening the condensation of the Five Viscera Realm.
"3600!" "3960!" "4290!" ... "7200!"
When the condensation of the five viscera reached 7200 Spirit Worms, Ling Yichen sensed a slight abnormality. The Intelligence Worm in his heart seemed to be overwhelmed, becoming impatient, restless, and shaking constantly!
However, the awakening also brought it quite a few benefits. Its body was already turning towards a pale gold, and it was becoming more and more intense. Ling Yichen knew that it was evolving towards a King Insect, but because the power was not enough, it had not yet fully evolved into a King Insect.
And the reason it was appearing restless now was precisely because it hadn't completed its evolution, and its strength was no longer enough to suppress the Spirit Worms in the four viscera. Understanding this, Ling Yichen stopped the act of condensing Spirit Worms into the four viscera. If he continued to condense, the power of the four viscera would be stronger than the heart, and he would be in danger. At best, he would suffer from Qi deviation; at worst, he would explode and die.
After stopping the condensation, Ling Yichen's attention withdrew from his body. At this moment, he finally discovered the situation outside. He sensed that W was struggling to hold on not far from him. At the same time, he also sensed the extent to which his awakening had developed.
In his perception, outside his body was an incomparably huge black phantom. That phantom had reached tens of meters in height, almost covering the entire building, and even poked its head out. It was still past five in the afternoon, and everywhere else was bright with daylight, but only Chenxiang Garden was covered by dark clouds, as if the apocalypse had arrived, pitch black and frightening.
Just as he was surprised by these scenes, another change occurred. A piercing, strange beast roar erupted from the mouth of that huge phantom. The next second, the huge phantom actually took to the air, rushing directly into the high sky. Behind it, it dragged a long black tail, and in the tail, pairs of crimson eyes were blinking, which was extremely terrifying.
Above Chenxiang Garden, the original dark clouds instantly turned into a boundless starry sky. Beneath the starry sky, several huge stars were silently hovering. The phantom rushed into the starry sky, carrying countless crimson blood eyes, and pounced towards the huge stars one by one.
In an instant, that star was wrapped by the huge phantom and countless tiny blood eyes, as if it were a meatball surrounded by ants. In the blink of an eye, the star burst, turning into fragments, and was then devoured by those crimson blood eyes. Phenomenon, Myriad Worms Devouring Stars!
Ling Yichen watched this scene, completely shocked. W, standing not far away, was the same, but the difference was that her feelings were deeper than Ling Yichen's. She muttered: "Is this a phenomenon or... a flashback in time?"
"Why do I have a feeling of falling into a time turbulence, seeing the past and the future." W's eyes were a bit dazed because she was not sure whether what she had just seen was a false phenomenon or a scene that had happened in the past.
At this moment, she just felt her head swelling severely, as if it were about to split open at any time. Moreover, she faintly felt that the taboo in her body was somewhat out of control.
"No... no!"
She suddenly exclaimed, then looked at Ling Yichen. And at this time, Ling Yichen also looked at her. Seeing this, he was stunned. W, not far away, was glowing all over, as if endless light sources were about to rush out of her body. Under the illumination of these light sources, a mark resembling a dragonfly was rapidly being outlined on W's forehead.
After the mark was outlined, an even more terrifying light source emerged, scrambling to burst out from W's forehead, and this created a phenomenon, as if these light sources were about to tear W apart!
"Run... away!" W painfully shouted these two words to Ling Yichen, and then she was completely submerged by the light source, turning into a brilliant, dazzling light being.
The next second, a huge light wheel with a diameter of ten meters appeared under W's feet. Boom~ The light wheel erupted with a golden beam of light that soared into the sky, simultaneously destroying everything the beam touched!