Skeleton Chen Shi had just arrived in the New Xiang Imperial Capital when he saw countless flesh-and-blood tentacles dancing in the sky, hurtling downward. It was precisely the Heavenly Venerate mobilizing primordial worms in the Underworld in an attempt to strangle him.
"Whoosh—"
Skeleton Chen Shi's figure was nimble, bobbing up and down as he flew through the encirclement of numerous tentacles, then sprinted wildly across a flesh-and-blood tentacle. A series of pfft sounds came from behind him as slenderer tentacles drilled out from that very tentacle like hairy earthworms, writhing and curling toward him to wrap him up.
Skeleton Chen Shi dodged repeatedly, driving the Blood Lake True Scripture. Though he held no blade in his hand, he executed the sword techniques of the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, hacking apart the tentacles that closed in on him.
Flesh and blood squirmed on that immensely thick tentacle, growing humanoid figures from the flesh—first without limbs, gradually sprouting four limbs; without facial features, gradually growing features.
The faces of those humanoid figures were precisely the face of the Heavenly Venerate.
They detached from the primordial worms, moving with extreme speed and infinite agility as they pursued Chen Shi from all directions.
Skeleton Chen Shi had by now cultivated to the realm of Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit and Immortal Dao physical body, lacking only in joining with the Dao. Encountering the first Heavenly Venerate, the two ran swiftly across the tentacles, exchanging two or three moves before that Heavenly Venerate had half his skull sliced off, tumbling and crashing downward.
Other Heavenly Venerates surged over like running fleas.
Skeleton Chen Shi fought and moved alongside these Heavenly Venerates, often exchanging just a single face-to-face clash of one or two moves before breaking away and departing.
Those Heavenly Venerates were transformed from the