177: Chapter 177 The Labyrinth
Like an unsheathed wild blade, he did not retreat but advanced instead, actively charging headlong toward that bottomless, gaping abyss!
In the final second before being swallowed by the endless darkness, Lin Yuan's roar, filled with infinite violence and madness, resounded throughout the entire Burial God Star Abyss:
"Want to eat me?"
"Today, I'm going to dismantle your old bones... from the inside out!"
The next instant, Lin Yuan's figure, accompanied by a sky full of meteorites, was swallowed whole into the belly of the Spirit-Swallowing Beast Ancestor, which was comparable to half a planet!
Darkness.
Endless darkness and a nauseating stench.
Accompanied by a dizzying sense of weightlessness, Lin Yuan crashed into an abyss.
This was the belly of the Ancestor of the Star-Swallowing Spirit Beast, an entirely independently functioning "universe of flesh and blood"!
"Sizzle—" As soon as Lin Yuan landed, his boots began to emit acrid white smoke.
Beneath him was a bottomless, dark green sea of stomach acid.
These viscous liquids were by no means ordinary stomach acid, but a strong acid imbued with the corrosive power of high-dimensional laws!
Even if an interstellar cruiser were to fall in, it would be dissolved into a pool of molten iron within seconds.
Lin Yuan snorted coldly, his legs suddenly exerting force to stomp a crater dozens of meters deep into the ground beneath him.
Using the reaction force, he launched himself into the air, landing on a stomach wall that towered like a mountain range.
As soon as he steadied himself, the surrounding environment suddenly underwent a strange transformation!
The massive, crater-sized tumors covering the stomach wall seemed to sense the intrusion of Lin Yuan, this "foreign object," and began to writhe and swell frantically.
"Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!" Hundreds upon thousands of giant tumors burst in succession!
Amidst a sky full of blood and gore, countless giant insects, comparable in size to heavy armor, crawled frantically out of the tumors!
Star Blood-Thirsty Insects!
These were the parasites raised within the body of this Half-Step Ninth Rank old monster, and at the same time, its most ferocious "immune system"!
Each Blood-Thirsty Insect exuded the genuine aura of a peak Seventh Rank entity!
"Hiss—!!!" Sensing the fresh, pure divine-demonic blood essence on Lin Yuan's body, thousands upon thousands of Blood-Thirsty Insects instantly fell into a frenzy.
Like a black tide breaking through a dam, they surged frantically along the steep stomach wall, overwhelming the sky and earth as they rushed toward Lin Yuan's position.
The dense sound of insect limbs rubbing together converged, enough to make one's scalp tingle and one's liver and gallbladder split in terror!
"Trying to disgust me with bugs?"
Standing at the high point of the stomach wall, Lin Yuan watched the insect tide rushing up like a tsunami, the violent murderous intent in his eyes completely ignited.
"Clang—!" slaying abyss roared out of its sheath!
The dark red blade carved a blinding cold light through the pitch-black abyss.
Lin Yuan did not retreat in the slightest; wielding the blade in one hand, he crashed directly into the impenetrable black insect tide!
"Die!"
Lin Yuan roared, his arm muscles bulging, and slaying abyss transformed into a destructive black hurricane.
With a single horizontal slash, the hundreds of peak Seventh Rank Blood-Thirsty Insects charging at the front, along with their supposedly indestructible black armor, were sliced clean in half at the waist!
Charge! Slash! Thrust! Knee strike!
Lin Yuan rampaged through the sea of insects, his left hand forcefully ripping off the mouthparts of a giant insect, and with a backhand, using it as a shield to smash the head of another giant insect.
His right hand swung slaying abyss repeatedly, kicking up a sky full of severed limbs and broken arms in the passage made of flesh and blood!
The insect swarm was endless; as soon as one wave was killed, ten more immediately surged out.
The surrounding high-dimensional acid mist seeped in everywhere, and combined with the high-intensity continuous slaughter, Lin Yuan's stamina began to visibly drain.
Under the frenzied gnawing of millions of giant insects, cracks finally appeared in his protective Qi.
"Sshh!" A Blood-Thirsty Insect leader lurking in the shadows suddenly lunged out, its sharp front pincers tearing through his protective Qi and leaving three bone-deep bloody gouges on Lin Yuan's back.
Blood splattered!
The intense pain did not make Lin Yuan retreat; instead, it thoroughly ignited the ferocity in his bones!
"Is that all the strength you have? Didn't you eat?"
Lin Yuan grabbed the giant insect's antennae with a backhand, laughed wildly, and suddenly exerted force with both arms, actually ripping this peak Seventh Rank insect king in two on the spot!
Green insect blood drenched him, making his face look like an Asura from hell.
Fist to flesh! Blade to blood! Lin Yuan had completely lost himself in the slaughter, stepping over mountains of insect corpses, advancing frantically step by step toward the depths of the giant beast's internal organs!
Meanwhile, in the space outside.
"Fire! Blast it with everything you've got!"
Dragon Battle stood on the deck of the Kunlun, roaring with bloodshot eyes.
The hundreds of main cannons from the three great Yanhuang fleets, along with the combined military formation of the twenty thousand Asura Army, were bombarding the body of the Star-Swallowing Spirit Beast like a violent storm.
They knew their attacks could not inflict fatal wounds on this Half-Step Ninth Rank ancient giant beast, but they had to use this method to tenaciously hold the giant beast's attention, alleviating the pressure on Lin Yuan who had burrowed into its belly!
Firelight constantly burst between the giant beast's gray-white bone spurs, the Ancestor let out an angry roar, its massive body rolling frantically in space, attempting to swat away these annoying flies.
Deep inside the giant beast.
"Splurt!" The slaying abyss long blade pierced through the head of the last Blood-Thirsty Insect blocking the way.
Yanking the long blade out, green mucus dripped down the blade groove to his feet.
The insect swarm had finally been repelled, and Lin Yuan leaned panting against a massive blood vessel.
His bare upper body was covered in crisscrossing scars, his own red blood mixed with the insects' green blood, sliding continuously down his muscle lines.
"Stamina consumption is over forty percent; I can't keep hacking away aimlessly like this."
Lin Yuan's eyes were cold; this Half-Step Ninth Rank old monster was too massive, its vitality too strong.
Even if he hacked away inside for ten years, shredding countless organs, the opponent could instantly recover relying on its formidable regenerative power.
To kill it, he must find its vital point!
"System!"
"Forcefully scan this old beast's entire body structure for me! Even a planet must have a core! Mark its most lethal source core for me!"
【Ding! Command confirmed!】
【Target is a Half-Step Ninth Rank super-large life form... Life magnetic field interference is severe!】
【Forcefully breaking through dimensional shielding... Deep analysis starting!】
【Warning: Analysis will be time-consuming, progress bar has been generated, please ensure you stabilize the current area, Host!】
On Lin Yuan's retina, a slowly pulsing golden progress bar immediately popped up: 1%... 3%...
Just at the moment the system initiated the deep scan.
The rolling Spirit-Swallowing Beast Ancestor outside seemed to have sensed this fatal threat pointing directly at its origin from within its body!
"Damn insect! What have you done inside this old one's body?!"
The Ancestor's furious roar thundered in Lin Yuan's ears along the flesh-and-blood passage.
The massive blood vessel beneath his feet began to spasm frantically, and the surrounding flesh walls contracted violently like a living thing.
Following that, at the end of the passage, a high temperature capable of incinerating the void and melting divine iron came sweeping over with the momentum of a mountain toppling and a sea overturning!