Chapter 547: World Eaters’ True Nature

As Xiao Shou recalled the plot of this world, he couldn’t help feeling that, although one novel was a power upgrade cultivation story and the other was a quick transmigration cultivation story with a system, the world of the novel featuring Xiao Ran as its female protagonist was practically gentle by comparison.

The Mystic Jade Realm in this system based cultivation novel was so frustrating that it made his want to vomit blood. One world had a danger rating of B, while the other had shot straight up to SS.

At this point, Xiao Shou had no idea that the events he would encounter later would force him to revise his danger ratings for this world entirely. Recalling the details of the plot, he explained just how dangerous the World Eaters were.

"Once World Eaters emerge from their cocoons, they immediately begin feeding. They’ll eat absolutely anything: mountains, land, spirit stones, spirit jade, spiritual energy... But their favorite food is cultivators, whose bodies are filled with spiritual energy. The more they consume, the stronger they become."

"As their power grows, so do their bodies. The more they eat, the larger they become. Their natural defenses alone can exceed those of ninth grade demon beasts by more than tenfold. And the most terrifying part is that, despite their enormous size, they have no vital points anywhere on their bodies. Their actual cores are tiny, almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye or spiritual sense, and they move around freely throughout their gigantic bodies."

That was why, after the World Eater Catastrophe erupted, it often took several rogue immortals working together to kill a single World Eater. Yet the creatures appeared in such dense swarms that they were impossible to count. Once a mother World Eater reached a certain level of maturity, it could lay eggs, producing hundreds of millions in a single batch. These eggs would cluster together and invade living creatures, devouring their flesh, marrow, and spiritual energy from within.

Because cultivators could not clearly perceive the creatures’ true forms, they assumed the strange phenomenon was simply some kind of unusual energy. It was only when the World Eater Catastrophe erupted in full and cultivators throughout the Mystic Jade Realm were plunged into war that Yun Zixuan quickly discovered their true nature.

Come to think of it, whether in the memories of the woman who had been reborn before the female protagonist Baili Ruoxi transmigrated into this world, or after Baili Ruoxi herself arrived, Yun Zixuan seemed to possess a special method for locating the tiny bodies of the World Eaters. That was how he could slay even the most enormous ones with a single sword strike.

In the previous life remembered by the reborn woman, Yun Zixuan eventually became the savior of the Mystic Jade Realm, sacrificing himself to save the entire world.

Unfortunately, the Mystic Jade Realm still perished in the end.

Furthermore, the final part of this Chapter in the novel described how, after the female protagonist self detonated and triggered the destruction of the two Heavenfall Immortal Sword and Heavenrise Immortal Sword, the entire realm was annihilated. Only the strongest World Eater Mother survived, drifting through the void with wounds covering its body.

Yet that World Eater Mother never appeared again in the later plot. It probably wasn’t meant to foreshadow anything. The author had most likely simply forgotten about it while writing.

After listening to Xiao Shou’s explanation, Tushan Shanhe imagined the situation, his silver eyebrows drawing together slightly.

"If that’s the case, destroying them will be extremely difficult. Are we supposed to watch them devour the entire spirit realm without being able to do anything? Is there really no way to locate their true bodies? No matter how strong their defenses are, there must be a way to break through them. But finding their actual bodies is another matter entirely."

"Great Granduncle Shanhe, dealing with them is the responsibility of the Mystic Jade Realm. It has nothing to do with us, does it? Why should we worry about it? At most, we can leave them some information about the World Eaters and then hurry out of here," Xiao Shou said anxiously.

Tushan Shanhe glanced at him and replied in an unhurried tone, "And then what? When the people of this realm suffer because you chose to do nothing, will you regret it so deeply that it becomes a heart demon?"

"I won’t develop a heart demon! Besides, we’re leaving them information, aren’t we? The cultivators here aren’t fools. They might come up with a solution."

Even if they couldn’t, that would simply be the fate destined for the Mystic Jade Realm. It was just like the Heaven Origin Realm. When Xiao Shou had first transmigrated there, how could he have known that merely pointing out a suspicious detail about the female protagonist to Yu Lin would lead to consequences even worse than the destruction caused by the female protagonist herself?

The Heaven Origin Realm had been all but completely destroyed. Perhaps the only consolation was that more people and cultivators had survived than in the original plot.

Xiao Shou had never realized that the actions of the female protagonist, Xiao Ran, and one of the male protagonists, Zhong Kui, would leave the Heaven Origin Realm so utterly depleted of talent. Every cultivator with even a shred of justice or compassion had sacrificed their life in the war against the Demon Abyss Clan.

Those who remained were mostly selfish opportunists who cared about nothing but their own survival. Later, cultivators from the Holy See of the Fourfold Order, who had been lying low in the Sunfall Domain, even used the entire domain as a sacrifice to obtain immeasurable merit. With so many factors intertwined, the people of the Heaven Origin Realm suffered nearly a thousand years of torment at the hands of the Demon Abyss Clan, until Fu Young was resurrected and destroyed the realm, creating a new Heaven Origin Realm in its place.

The outcome in the current situation was entirely different.