335: Trapped

Escape, I must escape immediately.

Qin Shilei instantly made a decision.

Thunder Escape!

He once again transformed into a bolt of lightning and rushed out in a random direction.

The phantom stayed put to hold back the Earthworm Emperor.

When Qin Shilei reappeared from Thunder Escape, he only felt intense battle fluctuations coming from behind him.

Loud rumbling sounds continuously echoed from afar.

Qin Shilei dared not choose to hide nearby.

He also didn't choose to release his faster pet, Little Strong, because Little Strong's body was too large and would be more easily discovered by the opponent.

He flew rapidly forward directly through the forest.

Thirty seconds later, he used the cooled-down Thunder Escape again to flee even further away.

He alternated between flying and Thunder Escape, changing directions several times during the process.

In just five minutes, Qin Shilei had already moved sixty to seventy kilometers from his original location.

Suddenly, his connection with the phantom was cut off.

The phantom must have been shattered by the opponent and disappeared.

I can't keep running.

Qin Shilei instantly had this realization.

He quickly dug a hole in a nearby mountain, hid inside, and then blocked the entrance.

He took out several high-grade crystals and quickly absorbed them.

Less than ten minutes after Qin Shilei had hidden himself, the Earthworm Emperor arrived nearby.

"I know you're nearby, you can't escape."

"Why don't you obediently come out and die!"

"You hateful heretic, you actually hurt the great Lord Barton. I will definitely tear out your tendons and bones."

"I smell your scent, I'll find you soon."

"As long as you acknowledge me as your master, I can spare your life. Come out quickly."

The Earthworm Emperor's hoarse voice occasionally resounded nearby.

Accompanying his voice were bursts of loud impact sounds.

Clearly, the Earthworm Emperor couldn't find Qin Shilei and was destroying and venting his frustration nearby.

Half an hour later, the Earthworm Emperor's voice finally disappeared.

However, before Qin Shilei could emerge from the mountain cave, various chaotic sounds faintly drifted from outside.

A premonition of ill omen immediately filled his heart, but he dared not act rashly.

What Qin Shilei couldn't have imagined was that outside the cave, within a hundred-mile radius, countless worms were rapidly hopping around.

These worms were all summoned by the Earthworm Emperor to search for Qin Shilei.

Under such a dense, carpet-like search, the cave Qin Shilei had just dug, without any concealment, was quickly discovered by a worm.

It was a Bronze-level worm, and it continuously crashed into the blocked entrance of the cave.

Qin Shilei looked out through a tiny crack in the entrance and found that it was just a weak worm.

He kept pondering methods to leave or slay the Earthworm Emperor in his mind.

The last use of the Stealth Array was gone, so he couldn't leave silently.

Although Thunder Escape was fast, its range was only a mere ten kilometers, and it probably wouldn't allow him to escape far from the incredibly fast Earthworm Emperor.

His pets also wouldn't be of much use against a Platinum Peak Earthworm Emperor.

He thought left and right but couldn't find a foolproof method.

At this moment, the worm outside also broke open the blocked entrance. As soon as it saw Qin Shilei, it tried to open its mouth and call out to its companions.

"Go to hell, you unlucky fellow."

Qin Shilei thrust his sword into the opponent's mouth.

He walked out of the mountain cave he had just dug, looked around, and saw countless fleshy worms hopping in the forest.

He quickly found a direction with the fewest worms and used Thunder Escape to shoot forward.

These ordinary worms only felt a bolt of lightning flash over their heads and didn't realize that it was the person their Earthworm Emperor was looking for.

However, the elemental fluctuations emitted by Qin Shilei's Thunder Escape were detected by the Earthworm Emperor dozens of miles away.

The opponent quickly pursued him, following the fluctuations.

In a chase and escape, Qin Shilei had only run seventy to eighty kilometers when he was caught by the opponent.

Perhaps fearing that Qin Shilei would freeze him again, the Earthworm Emperor first covered his body with a thick layer of earth-element armor.

"Why don't you keep hiding!" the Earthworm Emperor laughed furiously.

"Do you believe I'll release my pet, the Platinum Peak Phantom Sound Butterfly Empress, and freeze you into an ice sculpture?" Qin Shilei said calmly.

"Hmph, what a joke."

The Earthworm Emperor sneered, "You, a mere Golden Realm weakling, actually claim to possess an Emperor-level pet. Who are you trying to fool?"

Though he said he didn't believe it, he became alert and vigilant.

Then, without further ado, he directly charged towards Qin Shilei.

At the same time, countless watermelon-sized meteorites, summoned by the Earthworm Emperor, rained down from the sky towards Qin Shilei.

Teleport!

Qin Shilei instantly appeared several hundred meters away, avoiding the meteorite's attack range.

However, as soon as his figure appeared, the opponent quickly charged towards him again.

After several consecutive teleports, the opponent remained like a persistent parasite, trailing behind him.

Although teleportation didn't consume much, Qin Shilei's elemental energy was less than half, so he couldn't use it indefinitely.

As Qin Shilei was contemplating how to escape the opponent, a huge suction force suddenly came from behind him.

This suction force was so strong that even the Golden Four-Star Qin Shilei was instantly sucked back several tens of meters.

Teleport!

With a thought, Qin Shilei was about to leave the range of this suction force again.

Who knew that the usually infallible teleportation had somehow failed.

Perhaps the suction force caused the surrounding space to become chaotic, or perhaps there was another reason.

Qin Shilei only felt his vision darken, and he was instantly sucked into the Earthworm Emperor's body.

A fishy stench assaulted his nostrils.

Then, countless highly corrosive gastric juices swept towards him.

Silver light flashed, and Qin Shilei quickly deployed a layer of lightning armor around his body.

Teleport!

Qin Shilei remained in place and did not leave.

He could only use the lightning around his body to observe everything around him.

What Qin Shilei hadn't expected was that he was currently suspended in a pitch-black space about thirty to forty meters in diameter.

Beneath his feet was a pool of water, from which a dark brown liquid occasionally surged out and splashed onto him.

Under the corrosion of this liquid, the elemental energy within his body was rapidly depleting.

"Didn't I get sucked into the Earthworm Emperor's body? How did I end up here?"

Qin Shilei was completely baffled.

He flew towards the dark area on the right but was blocked by a transparent wall.

He raised his Giant Que Sword and fiercely slashed at the transparent wall.

Boom!

It was like striking hard metal, causing the Giant Que Sword to bounce high up.

Devouring Thunder!

The violent heavenly lightning raged around, but it had no effect except for splashing countless water droplets from the pool below.

Qin Shilei then tried several other attacks, but he had no way to deal with the transparent wall surrounding him.

On the contrary, the elemental energy in his body, after a frantic output and the corrosion of the liquid beneath his feet, was on the verge of being exhausted.

Qin Shilei had no choice but to pick up the Crystal Source hanging from his waist and directly absorbed it.

After consuming half of the spiritual energy from the Crystal Source, his elemental energy not only recovered to its full state, but his cultivation also successfully advanced to Golden Five-Star.

However, even with the advancement, it offered no help to his current predicament.

If he continued to be trapped here, he would eventually run out of elemental energy and die.

Qin Shilei's heart stirred, and he used his Eye of Illusion Breaking Purple to observe this place.

Worm's Stomach, a small space refined by the Earthworm Emperor through a fortuitous encounter, possesses the effects of refining food and trapping enemies.