Chapter 437: The End of Metamorphosis
It was as if knowledge that did not belong to this world was roaring in the sea of consciousness. Information was like some kind of hungry living thing, instantly gnawing at the soul, leaving it full of holes. The "self" of the great sage collapsed in a very short time, but was captured by the "spider web" in the next moment and forcibly reassembled.
In a dark space, this huddled soul was crawling on a spider web, his body shriveled and wrinkled, his hair and beard withered and falling off. He raised his head tremblingly, and only two empty holes remained of his eyes that he had gouged out with his own hands. However, that huge shadow had been irrevocably imprinted in his cognition. No matter which direction he "looked", the other party seemed to always stand in front of him.
He felt as if he had become the legendary blind prophet "Kondaman", whose eyes were permanently burned on the big spider web at the end due to a reckless peeping, and he could never return to the normal world in this life... Who is the blind prophet Kongdaman? ...
Irene watched with interest the... thing shivering in the dark.
She couldn't see clearly what that thing was, because in the past few seconds, the little soul had shrunk again and again. At first it was still a big bug, but now it was almost the size of a grain of rice.
How interesting! Will he shrink again? Will he compress himself into a speck of dust out of fear? After being compressed into a speck of dust, can this soul still think and communicate? A lot of ideas suddenly popped up in Irene's mind, but soon these ideas faded away in her not-so-bright mind. She at least remembered that there was still a fight "outside" and that she should first find a way to help Yu Sheng solve all the obstacles that stood in the way of the "Star Derivative Body".
So she stretched out a spider silk in the darkness and draped it over the shivering soul.
She wanted to tie him up and take him back - although she didn't know how to take a soul away. In fact, she didn't even understand what this dark, spider-web-covered "space" was, but she felt there was always a way.
Maybe I can tie the other person up into a small ball and fix it? This way, the thing should not shrink any further. Then... maybe I can put it in my pocket and take it back? There is a pocket on the side of my skirt, which Yu Sheng sewed on by himself. It is usually used to hold glass balls and rubber bands, and it should be able to hold souls. If it doesn't work, I can just put it in my mouth and take it back, like a silly fox...
Yu Sheng would brag about his own – Silly Fox and C-shaped Buckle could only fight and kill, but the powerful Irene could capture people alive on the battlefield.
The puppet narrowed its eyes in delight.
But the next second, she saw the trembling soul shattered all of a sudden - the moment the spider silk wrapped around him, he turned into ashes in the darkness.
Irene's eyes widened suddenly, and as the soul dissipated, she heard the other party's voice coming through the spider silk, weak but with the joy of relief: "Ah, thank you for your kindness..."
Irene: “…”
After being stunned for less than a second, Irene jumped up on the spider web in a hurry: "Hey! You are so stupid to thank NM! How the hell can this thing be so fragile... I didn't let you die!!"
But everything was irreversible. The fragility of a soul that had been devoured by a star-evolving body was far beyond imagination. The puppet lost her spoils, and then, this space began to become unstable - the spider web built between the sacrifice and her also quickly disintegrated.
Irene looked up, then turned around and crawled back, cursing.
She quickly broke away from the soul cage constructed by the astral crystal, and then crossed the "battlefield" where the flow of time was slowly returning to normal. She crawled past Luna, and this time she did not dare to look at the C-shaped buckle, but passed through the spider web that was about to break like a gust of wind, and finally buried her head under Yu Sheng's arm.
The broken crystals whizzed across the sky, and then fell from the sky weakly as if they had lost power. The lightning storm brewing between the clouds roared, but quickly dissipated in the wind and rain before it struck. Then, a strange, low roar echoed in the wilderness.
Those "Great Sages" built of crystals quickly disintegrated and collapsed with a roar, and countless crystal fragments were scattered in the mud and rubble.
The crystalline cracks in various places on the ground were trembling, but no new "Great Sage" was regenerated from them.
Yu Sheng looked at the scene in astonishment, not understanding what was happening for a moment.
Then he felt a small head moving under his arm. When he looked down, he saw Irene sticking her head out and grinning at him awkwardly.
"I, I almost caught him!" said the little doll somewhat guiltily.
Yu Sheng: “…Ah?”
"Almost! I found the soul of that guy, and had the thread wrapped around it, but it broke when I pulled it. The crystal was pitch black, and I didn't notice how fragile it was. And I don't know why he was so scared, and he had a serious tendency to self-destruct. Yes, he must have self-destructed. I was very careful, and it broke when I pulled it lightly..."
Irene immediately started to babble a lot, and Yu Sheng didn't even have time to react to what she was saying. In the end, he only half understood that the sudden "death" of the great sage seemed to be related to this little doll. She might have developed some new tricks but was not proficient in using them...
As for what the new trick was and how she did it just now, I really couldn't understand.
Now is obviously not the time to go into the details.
The strange roar continued to echo and did not disappear with the complete death of the "Great Sage". Something terrible seemed to be brewing deep underground, and... getting closer and closer.
The mountains in the distance seemed to be shaking, and the crystalline jungle covering the mountains and the plains was undulating and squirming strangely. The crystal structures that emerged from the depths of the earth seemed to come alive, and were restlessly moving in the low roar.
Yuan Hao and Xuan Che descended from the sky. They had already noticed something was wrong deep underground. Yuan Hao looked particularly solemn: "There is an evil creature emitting evil thoughts."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but before he could speak, he heard a chaotic noise that was even louder than before. Then his mind became hazy again. In this hazy state, he saw endless crystals growing and piling up before his eyes. He saw a huge cave formed by the accumulation of crystals. Then, he saw a figure floating between the crystals.
Yun Qingzi stood there, he raised his head in the crystal wall, his face made of flesh and blood and crystal was smiling.
"Daoyou...I hope you are well."
Yu Sheng suddenly woke up from this illusion.
Hu Li was the first to notice and immediately turned around: "My benefactor, are you okay?"
"It's okay - I found that guy!" Yu Sheng waved his hands quickly, with a smile on his face. "Originally, I was worried about how to locate the 'core' of such a big thing, but I didn't expect that He would take the initiative to 'contact' me."
Xuan Che's face lit up when he heard this, but before he could say anything, another roar even more terrifying than the previous one suddenly came from underground, interrupting everyone's actions.
The next second, everyone subconsciously looked up and looked in the direction where the roar came from.
A mountain at the end of the wilderness... cracked open.
The mountain seemed to have a living creature inside. The thick rock layers were cracked like fragile eggshells, and in the cracks of the mountain, a hidden crystal structure flashed by. Then, a huge "limb" that looked like a tentacle, but was crystal clear and glowing with a strange luster, poked out from the cracks in the mountain!
The terrifying mountain-like limb was stirring blindly in the silent and thick atmosphere in a terrifying manner.
The roars continued, coming from farther away.
In the endless and silent rain curtain, another terrifying limb seemed to appear among the distant clouds. That limb pierced the earth, penetrated into the atmosphere, turned over the thick clouds, and stirred up the violent storm.
Irene's eyes widened: "What...what is this?!"
Hu Li also tensed up instantly. Her fur became fluffy, and her tail fluttered in the wind and rain, making a threatening sound: "Woo-woo-woo--"
Yu Sheng felt a roar of noise in his mind. In the huge and chaotic information impact, he tried hard to "grasp" the current state of the Star-Evolving Body. Suddenly, a flash of enlightenment exploded in his consciousness, making him break out in a cold sweat: "... No! The Star-Evolving Body is forcibly ending its metamorphosis... It wants to 'ascend' ahead of time!"
"Ah?!" Irene was shocked. "Oh no, didn't Baili Qing say that it would take several days for this thing to ascend?!"
"But Yan Xingbi now has a brain - He realized that the cognitive barriers and minions he set up in Shuji were having problems one after another, so He wanted to leave this already unsafe 'habitat' in advance," Yu Sheng said quickly, "Yun Qingzi is helping Him weigh the pros and cons!"
Xuan Che took a step forward: "Then..."
Yu Sheng waved his hand vigorously without waiting for Xuan Che to finish. He frowned tightly, as if listening to something in the wind and rain. Then he spoke quickly: "You and your uncle-master go to Mo City. That city is currently the biggest 'tearing point' on Shuji. As long as that city is still there, the activities of the derivative stars will be suppressed to a certain extent - this can buy some time."
Xuan Che and Yuan Hao nodded immediately: "Okay!"
Hu Li turned around and said, "My benefactor, what about us?"
Yu Sheng raised his head and looked into the distance, squinting his eyes slightly.
The earth is cracking, and horrible crystalline limbs are emerging from the cracks, wriggling and waving blindly in the atmosphere.
Like an invitation.
But the focus of Yu Sheng's attention was not on the crystalline tentacle, but on a crack closer - that was where the "Great Sage" had come out when he was resurrected for the first time.
Through the connection established by the blood, he could see the complex and deep structure beneath the crack, as well as the cavities that were wriggling deep underground.
"Let's go underground and say hello to the 'Angel'."
(End of this chapter)
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