Ninth In the World

Chapter 704: The Powerful Worms

After rushing into the Wormhole passageway, a nearly 100-feet-tall huge worm pounced toward Di Jiu.

Di Jiu sent a fist move out and the colorful worm splashed onto the ground, looking disgusting.

Meanwhile, hundreds of worms rushed forward and attacked Di Jiu, disregarding their lives.

These worms were nothing for Di Jiu. He raised his hand and sent a fist move out, turning a large number of worms into scraps.

In just a few seconds, the worms in the Wormhole increased in number and endless worms rushed over from the direction of the Dao World.

Di Jiu had actually been bound by worms in this narrow space, which made him furious. Even though he could escape, he did not leave. His Heavenly Aqua Saber turned into saber screens, killing this swarm of worms with its saber flares before they fell to the ground.

Based on Di Jiu’s experience, the worms would disperse after they were killed to a certain extent.

What made Di Jiu feel dumbfounded was that no matter how many worms he killed, the dead worms blocked the passageway and the worms rushed over endlessly.

Di Jiu also discovered that the worm carcasses were very soon swallowed by the worms behind them.

Then, the aura would increase by a level.

Di Jiu felt that he could not go on like this. He had to leave this Wormhole. When he went out, he could set up a Confinement Killing Array.

What surprised Di Jiu was that by the time he was really ready to leave, his Spiritual Force had been compressed to the extreme. Even the saber flares of his Heavenly Aqua Saber began to get compressed, so he could not rush out of the besiegement of these worms.

Di Jiu knew very well how strong his Spiritual Force was. It had been tempered in the spatial rift for thousands of years. Even the Spiritual Force of a Dao Integration expert might not be more condensed than his.

He had come to this Wormhole before. How could his Spiritual Force be bound?

While Di Jiu controlled the saber flares of the Heavenly Aqua Saber, he constantly killed the surrounding worms and opened his Dao eye at the same time. His Dao eye passed through the gap in these countless worms and saw someone with a human head and a worm’s body.

This guy kept letting out a low shriek as the endless worms pounced toward Di Jiu and risked dying.

Di Jiu’s heart sank. He did not mind these worms pouncing toward him earth-shatteringly, as he believed that he could kill all these bugs eventually and then walk away calmly.

However, the guy with the human head and worm’s body seemed a bit scary strength-wise. Even though Di Jiu had not met a Dao Integration expert, he had killed a half-step Dao Integration expert and could also infer the level of strength a Dao Integration expert possessed. The guy with the human head and worm’s body seemed to be stronger than a Dao Integration expert.

The Dao Integration was the extreme of the second step, so how could he be more powerful than that? What did this mean?

A third-step expert? Di Jiu believed that this fellow was not there yet, but he very likely was at the edge of the third step.

Even if they fought one-on-one, Di Jiu could not be sure that he could beat this fellow. At the moment, all the worms of the Worm Protectorate pounced toward Di Jiu earth-shatteringly. If this went on…

Di Jiu did not dare think any further. He had to kill these worms in the shortest time possible and rush back to the Dao World.

Di Jiu took out over tens of thousands of saber weapons and set up a level-three Strangulation Divine Saber Array.

The saber flares in this Wormhole passageway grew denser and denser, and the endless worms that rushed over seemed to be killed by the saber array once they approached.

Di Jiu killed them as fast as he could, but the worms also rushed over at the same speed. Furthermore, the worms confined by his saber array would swallow the fragmented worm carcasses before they were killed by the array.

For dozens of days, Di Jiu could not budge at all from the confinement of these endless worms. Once again, his Spiritual Force condensed and his Starry Sky meridian expanded, unable to withstand this uninterrupted massacre.

Di Jiu was unaware of how many worms he had killed. He only knew that a large number of worms were killed by him at every moment.

…

“Big Brother Shen, this is somewhat strange. For more than ten days, no worms have come. What’s going on?” At the Wormhole entrance in the Dao World, a young man with a yellow complexion looked at a middle-aged man standing before him and spoke with a doubtful tone.

The middle-aged man, who looked honest, was the head of the Wormhole Defense Northern District, Shen Changshui, who was just as puzzled. It made no sense that no worms had come over to attack them for more than ten days. In fact, they had waited for more than ten days since the last massacre and no worms had come over.

Something was not right.

“I seem to smell a bloody aura that comes after the worms are killed,” said a slightly older male cultivator.

After hearing the cultivator’s words, several people around shouted, “I thought this was my misconception, but it turns out you guys have the same feeling!”

Shen Changshui replied in a low voice, “It seems I’m right. I thought it was absolutely impossible because this Wormhole is rumored to lead to the Worm Protectorate through many spatial wind blades and turbulence. Even if we kill over tens of thousands of worms, we may not be able to smell the odor. Now that we do, unless it’s fake, it means that someone has really killed over hundreds of millions of worms in this Wormhole. This is simply…”

Shen Changshui did not go on, thinking that this was kind of incredible.

…

Di Jiu felt a little weak all over and his Spiritual Sea hurt. He actually doubted whether he could persist.

He decided to persist for half a day. No matter what, he would have to enter the Ninth World to rest for a while and he did not care about exposing it. If this continued, maybe his Spiritual Sea would collapse.

For more than half a month, he did not know how many worms had been killed by him in the Wormhole. Di Jiu estimated that the number of worms he had killed had to be hundreds of millions.

What surprised Di Jiu was that, although he planned to enter the Ninth World and rest, the overwhelming worms suddenly retreated. When Di Jiu’s Spiritual Sea was eased, he noticed that the man with the human head and worm’s body had long disappeared.

Di Jiu, who was injured, fell to the ground. His Spiritual Sea had not suffered light injuries.

Di Jiu wondered in confusion what that guy with the human head and worm’s body had meant to do. Had he just sent over hundreds of millions of worms for him to kill? After he’d waited for him to kill these hundreds of millions of worms, he had just retreated?

Di Jiu shook his head. In any case, he did not have the energy to think about this. He was only glad that he had rushed into the Wormhole ahead of time. If he had been in the Worm Protectorate, Di Jiu doubted that he would have had a chance to come to the Wormhole again.

After swallowing a few Dao pills, Di Jiu struggled to rush toward the Dao World. If it weren’t for the man with the human head and worm’s body, Di Jiu would have set up a Defensive Confinement Array in the Wormhole. After seeing that guy, Di Jiu had realized that it would be useless to set up even a level-seven Divine Array. Besides, he could not set up that array without using the Five-Element Flags.

Plop! When Di Jiu rushed out of the Wormhole, he fell to the ground, heaving a sigh of relief. He had finally exited the Wormhole. If another wave of worms had besieged him, he would really have had no way to get out.

When he rushed out of a Wormhole alone, everyone outside the Wormhole was surprised.

Di Jiu grabbed a few elixir pills and swallowed them before he waved to the cultivators guarding the Wormhole. “Do your thing. I’m only passing by. I will leave after taking a break.”

After saying that, Di Jiu did not care whether there was anyone beside him. He only focused on recovering his Essence Energy. However, after a long time, he stopped. He knew that he could not do so here. He had to leave the Wormhole first.

“Brother Di, is that you?” A surprised voice addressed Di Jiu.