306: Everyone has mutated and collapsed, and you call these terrifying tentacles "spicy strips"?

"Drip."

A drop of thick, purplish-black liquid slowly slid down the blood hole in Spirit Emperor's glabella.

That was not blood.

It was more like some kind of living mollusk. The instant it fell into the air, it twisted itself into a tiny tentacle, wildly flailing in the air and letting out a shriek like a baby crying.

Lu Sheng's middle finger was like the final straw that broke the camel's back, completely shattering the human skin disguise that this "Foremost Person of the Current Age" had barely managed to maintain.

"Heh heh..."

Spirit Emperor lowered his head, a strange, airy chuckle escaping his throat.

His voice had changed. It was no longer the lofty, imposing majesty, but a buzzing sound produced by the high-frequency friction of countless insect wings, causing scalps to tingle and brains to resonate.

"The skin... is broken..."

Spirit Emperor slowly raised his hands and grabbed the lapels on both sides of his chest.

Then, he ripped hard.

"Screech—!!!"

There was no scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere.

That layer of human skin, which was extremely well-maintained and glowed with a purplish-gold luster, was easily torn open and peeled off, like a worn-out bodysuit.

And beneath that layer of human skin.

There were no bones, no internal organs, and certainly no heart symbolizing the beat of life.

There were only... insects.

Countless, dense, glossy black worms were intertwined, forming every muscle fiber of this body.

And where the chest cavity should have been, there was a massive, constantly contracting and expanding tumorous nest. Countless slick black tentacles were scrambling out of the nest, as if celebrating a carnival of rebirth.

"Gag—!!"

Outside the light screen, among the hundreds of millions of True Sea spectators, Mortals with weaker mental fortitude immediately vomited everywhere.

How could this be the Spirit Emperor?

This was clearly a Humanoid Insect Nest that had worn human skin and occupied the Kunlun Main Peak for hundreds of years!!

"This is the God you have been kneeling to for hundreds of years?"

Lu Sheng stood below, not showing fear like the others. Instead, he observed the expanding, unspeakable mass with interest, even having the leisure to comment:

"The internal structure is quite complex. People with trypophobia would drop dead on the spot."

"Roar—!!!!"

As the human skin completely fell off, the black mass was finally freed from the constraints of the humanoid form.

It began to swell wildly.

Ten meters... a hundred meters... a thousand meters!

In the blink of an eye, a terrifying monster, large enough to obscure the entire sky above the Blood Plain, descended upon the world.

It had no fixed shape, resembling a black sludge composed of countless tentacles and eyeballs. The tip of every tentacle bore a mouth full of sharp teeth, spewing gray hallucinogenic venomous mist.

A wave of absolute disgust and chaos, stemming from the fundamental level of life, instantly swept across the entire Asura Purgatory Realm.

[Warning! High-Dimensional Abyssal Mother detected!]

[Mental Contamination Index: 9999+!]

[Sanity check in progress... Check failed!]

"Ah ah ah ah!!"

Above the Blood Plain, the Prodigies who had narrowly escaped the Blood Sacrifice Chains were now suffering torture more terrifying than death.

"Don't look! Don't look at its eyes!!"

Someone shrieked miserably, covering their eyes tightly with both hands, but black pus and blood flowed from the gaps between their fingers.

"Heh heh... so many bugs... grass is growing on me..."

Someone's mind instantly collapsed, giggling foolishly while frantically scratching their own skin.

Visibly, their skin began to fester, growing black bristles, their fingernails fell off, turning into sharp bone spurs.

Mutation!

This was the abyss's most malicious method—Assimilation!

Even Luo Tianfei, an owner of a God-Tier Sequence, had a pale face and her delicate body trembled violently at this moment.

The Nether Phoenix Origin within her body was screaming wildly, trying to resist the pervasive whispers, but her vision was already doubling, and the world in her eyes twisted into a Picasso painting.

"Guard your Spiritual Platform!!"

A clear, cold shout, like a basin of ice water, barely managed to recall everyone's consciousness.

Dao Yi sat cross-legged on the edge of the Blood Plain, bleeding from all seven orifices. His originally moon-white Daoist Robe was stained red.

But the Supreme Divine Light behind him, at this moment of despair, opened up a hundred-meter-diameter Pure Land.

"Supreme Emotionlessness... Suppress!!"

Dao Yi bit the tip of his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of purplish-gold essence blood.

The Pure Land shone brightly, firmly protecting Luo Tianfei and the others, isolating them from the external whispers that were enough to drive people insane.

"Dao Yi..." Luo Tianfei slumped to the ground, her eyes red as she looked at the precarious figure.

"Don't worry about me... look at him." Dao Yi's voice was hoarse. His eyes, which were originally full of compassion, were now fixed intently on the center of the storm.

That man.

That lunatic who ate the forbidden fruit.

In this desperate situation of wildly dancing tentacles and overwhelming mental contamination, what was Lu Sheng doing?

He... put away his spear.

"Clang."

The dragon devouring spear transformed into a streak of light and dissipated.

Lu Sheng stood beside Thunder Without Limit's corpse (which had now been contaminated into rotten flesh), looking up at the Abyssal Mother Worm that occupied the entire sky.

In those dead gray vertical pupils, there was no fear, no disgust.

There was only one emotion... the surprise one feels when seeing an extra-large Australian Lobster while browsing a seafood market.

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Lu Sheng stuck out his scarlet tongue, licked his somewhat cracked lips, and his Adam's apple bobbed uncontrollably.

"Such a huge mass..."

"It's all high-protein."

"Gulp."

This sound of swallowing saliva was jarringly out of place on a battlefield filled with screams and whispers, yet it was ridiculously clear.

The Abyssal Mother Worm in the sky seemed to sense this undisguised covetousness.

Its thousands of eyes rotated simultaneously, locking onto this tiny ant.

"Blasphemer..."

Countless mouths opened and closed simultaneously, emitting chaotic, overlapping demonic sounds: "Become... the Mother Nest's... nourishment..."

Boom!!

Hundreds of black tentacles, as thick as ancient trees, carrying highly toxic mucus that corroded space, smashed down towards Lu Sheng like a meteor shower.

This single strike was enough to completely pierce through this Blood Plain!

"Nourishment?"

Lu Sheng grinned, exposing his yellowing molars, his smile twisted and fanatical.

"I'm still growing, so I certainly need nutrients."

"Archaic Heaven Emperor Venerable—time for us to... eat!!!"

Buzz—!!!!!!

A supremely domineering pillar of dead gray light shot up into the sky from Lu Sheng's crown.

Within that pillar of light, the thousand-meter-tall Emperor Dharma Idol manifested once again.

But this time, the Dharma Idol held no weapon.

Its two sky-shading, grayish-white hands suddenly shot out, neither dodging nor evading, and grasped the hundreds of descending tentacles.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—

That was the sound of the Power of Desolation and the Abyssal Venom corroding each other.

"Get over here, dammit!!"

Lu Sheng roared, and the muscles in his arms instantly swelled twofold.

The Dharma Idol exerted its strength accordingly.

That massive Abyssal Mother Worm was actually dragged down by this brute force!

Immediately after.

Under the gaze of everyone present, whose worldviews were collapsing.

The Emperor Dharma Idol grabbed a handful of tentacles that were still twisting wildly and spraying venom, treating them like a handful of slightly hot Spicy Strips.

Then.

It violently stuffed them into its mouth!

"Crunch!!!"

That was the sound of rules breaking.

It was also the squelching sound of some soft tissue being forcibly chewed by teeth.

"Mmm..."

Lu Sheng, in his true form, closed his eyes, displaying a contemplative expression, like a gourmet savoring a top-tier dish.

In his mind, the System, which had been silent for a long time, was now scrolling wildly as if it had exploded.

[Ding! High-Dimensional Abyssal Active Protein detected!]

[Warning! This substance contains highly toxic mental contamination...]

[Archaic Desolate Body check in progress... Digestive System operating at overclocked speed!]

[Check passed! This is just a lump of meat!]

[Converting... spirit source +50,000! Physical Body Strength +1%!]

"Burp."

Lu Sheng opened his eyes and let out a satisfied burp accompanied by a black smoke ring.

He looked at the Abyssal Mother Worm in the sky, which was convulsing wildly and screaming due to the intense pain, and curled his lips in distaste.

"Too much gristle, it gets stuck in my teeth."

Lu Sheng commented, his tone filled with fastidious regret.

"And the texture of the meat... it's a bit tough, like chewing a rubber tire."

"However..."

The gray light in Lu Sheng's eyes surged. Not only did the hunger not subside, but it became even more frantic because his appetite had been whetted.

He raised his hand and pointed at the core embedded deep within the rotten flesh of the Mother Worm, which was emitting a dark gold radiance—that was the exact location of the heart of the true sea.

"The filling inside there should be... a bit more tender, right?"

The entire scene fell into deadly silence.

Even Dao Yi, who was struggling to hold on, couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

Lunatic.

This was absolutely a madman.

While everyone else was thinking about how to survive, this guy... was complaining about the monster's texture?!

Above the sky.

The Abyssal Mother Worm completely went berserk.

It felt humiliated.

As a noble abyssal royal clan member, as a predator that had devoured countless planes, it was actually being treated as a snack by a low-dimensional ant?!

"Die!!"

"I will... chew you into meat paste!!"

The Mother Worm roared, its body suddenly splitting open to reveal a massive Abyssal Maw large enough to swallow mountains, which descended directly upon Lu Sheng.

"Getting desperate?"

Lu Sheng stood his ground, not running, but instead spreading his arms as if to embrace the massive maw.

The Five Elements Life-Extinction Wheel behind him reversed wildly, turning into a massive black vortex.

"It's good that you're desperate."

"Perfect, I was too lazy to nibble piece by piece anyway."

"Since you want to compare whose mouth is bigger..."

Lu Sheng sneered, the Dragon scales all over his body stood on end, and the Origin aura of the Archaic Desolate Dragon was released without reservation at this moment.

"Then let's see... who eats whom!!"