143: Lord's Will

Lu Yang's head felt a bit hazy.

He had only just anticipated the Ground Spine Spider's attack, used a short-term levitation to avoid its underground ambush, and then used a grenade to blast it to death. How did his vision suddenly go black?

Looking at the complete darkness before him, which clearly resembled a chaotic mental world, Lu Yang quickly reacted.

“Let there be light!”

The dark world instantly brightened.

He found himself standing on a purple fungal carpet, with a colossal creature, two or three stories tall, slowly moving towards him less than a hundred meters away.

It looked a bit ugly.

Its entire body was covered in translucent brood chambers filled with vesicles, its carapace cracked and twisted due to the proliferation of internal nestlings, and dozens of underdeveloped young nestlings, like bloated white maggots, writhed in a pale green nutrient fluid.

Of course, these were only its manifestations in the mental world at this moment.

While the total quantity of its mental energy was large, its mental energy level was not high, only at the average level of a newly ascended Tier 1 professional.

Compared to Lu Yang's current Tier 2 professional level of mental energy, it was like the difference between tofu and a rock.

Although a tofu block the size of a vat could envelop a football-sized rock, it was impossible to assimilate and digest it.

So, even if the opponent had a head start and pulled Lu Yang into its home turf, its mental world, once Lu Yang reacted, he only needed to snap his fingers to instantly brighten the opponent's previously dark mental world.

“It must be the Zerg Swarm Lord hidden deep within the secret realm. As the sole ruler of the Zerg in this area, only they possess such powerful mental energy and the special ability to pull targets into their mental world, making it impossible to guard against.”

“It's just a pity you seem to have picked the wrong target.”

If it had pulled in Liu Lei of the Three Mountains or other Train Captains at this moment, to put it bluntly, they might not have understood the reason until their death.

However, it pulled Lu Yang.

An existence whose mental world was far more powerful than its own.

Although Lu Yang was not usually proficient in the development and application of mental energy, in this situation, facing external invasion, his own stress response alone was enough to protect himself and even counterattack.

When the dark mental world was illuminated and Lu Yang saw the Zerg Swarm Lord's appearance, he immediately shouted in a chuunibyou manner, “Armor Hero, please grant me strength!”

Under extreme mental concentration, a bright white mecha instantly appeared on Lu Yang's body, looking identical to the one in his Train Captain's carriage.

He imagined the first time he used the high-thermal cutting light blade, and a three-meter-long flaming blade, formed from the Golden Civilization Fire, immediately appeared in his hand.

The intense heat caused the surrounding mental space to subtly distort.

The moment the mecha and the flaming blade appeared, the Zerg Swarm Lord, which had been continuously moving towards Lu Yang, seemed to have seen a natural enemy and hurriedly changed direction, trying to get away from Lu Yang.

But how could Lu Yang let it have its way?

Pale purple jet flames erupted from the low-altitude auxiliary thrusters beneath his feet.

Lu Yang, like an arrow shot from a bow, instantly surged forward to the front of the Zerg Swarm Lord.

The flaming blade in his hand cut a brilliant arc, and in the blink of an eye, it sliced off a small piece of its left body.

The Zerg Swarm Lord let out a silent, shrill scream.

It was like a mental shock attack.

However, compared to the mental shock emitted by the Mutated Meat Tai Sui Crystal Core that Lu Yang had encountered before, it was not just a hundred thousand li inferior, not to mention that Lu Yang was currently wearing a miniature combat mecha formed from mental energy.

He grabbed the pale silver mental crystal that remained after the Golden Civilization Fire had burned away the dross, swallowed it in one gulp, and shivered involuntarily with relief.

Then, he immediately struck while the iron was hot, brandishing the flaming blade and beginning to furiously cut at another bloated part of the Zerg Swarm Lord's body.

Cut a piece, eat a bite.

Cut a piece, eat a bite—

After several bites, Lu Yang's mental body surprisingly let out a satisfied burp, feeling a refreshing sensation all over, even more exhilarating than giving Rui Ran, Train Captain of Ghost Princess mental rewards for an entire night.

Comparatively, the Zerg Swarm Lord was a bit miserable.

Its original three-story-tall body was reduced by one-third within a few short minutes by Lu Yang.

Pale green nutrient fluid, manifested from mental energy, flowed everywhere.

Even more terrifying, it now stood frozen in place, not daring to move.

Every step it moved in any direction, Lu Yang would rush over, cut off a piece from that direction, and throw it into his mouth.

He was eating live Wasabi.

It was even more terrifying than a butcher in a slaughterhouse.

Devoid of human emotions, it was, in accordance with its instincts, about to develop a terrifying feeling called fear.

Just as Lu Yang was about to continue his previous actions, slowly devouring the Zerg Swarm Lord's mental energy, a strange, Pale Golden Worm-like creature with transparent wings suddenly flew out from the top of the Zerg Swarm Lord's head, attempting to escape outside the mental world. However, Lu Yang, with quick eyes and hands, impaled it on the tip of his flaming blade.

The scorching Golden Civilization Fire burned it, making sizzling sounds.

But unlike the Zerg Swarm Lord's body before, it was not quickly incinerated; instead, it struggled violently.

Seeing this, Lu Yang immediately used his mecha's steel-clad hand to crush its head, like crushing an ant.

Thus, the Pale Golden Worm's body, which had been violently struggling, instantly quieted down, and under the searing heat of the Golden Civilization Fire, it emitted an alluring, invisible fragrance.

Facing this fragrance, Lu Yang, like a beggar who had been hungry for several days and suddenly saw a Manchu Han Imperial Feast, involuntarily made a swallowing motion.

So, the next second, he slapped the golden worm's corpse into his mouth.

Crunch, crunch—

Hmm, it tasted like chicken, crunchy, and quite delicious!

The moment Lu Yang swallowed the entire golden worm, his vision was suddenly infinitely elevated, and countless purple light dots appeared on an oval-shaped spherical land.

They varied in size, brightness, and darkness. The closest one was where he was currently located, a small but very bright purple dot.

At the same time, many unknown, inexplicable wills tried to link with him, some strong, some weak, but Lu Yang subconsciously rejected them all immediately.

Then, the next second, his consciousness was pulled back to the mental world constructed by the Zerg Swarm Lord.

And countless fragmented memories also emerged in his mind.