Thousand-legged Black Silkworm
In the stillness of the night, a chilly wind blows, and dew quietly spreads...
Yi Yun, who was fast asleep, suddenly woke up.
A sense of instinctive danger welled up in Yi Yun's heart, and he instantly activated his Energy Vision. In his vision, a furry, ball-like wild beast appeared.
This wild beast had a pair of large, round, black eyes, and its body was covered with many tiny tentacles. These tentacles rubbed against the ground, but strangely, they made no sound.
Not only that, the worm's aura was extremely secretive, not emitting the slightest trace. As it moved, corrosive liquid flowed from the pores of its entire body, leaving a trail of corrosive liquid on the ground wherever it passed.
These corrosive liquids also slowly seeped into the soil.
"Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!"
With a few barely audible thuds, the Detonation Array Disk that Yi Yun had set up earlier failed to activate just as it was about to be activated, due to the corrosive liquid that had seeped into the soil; they were directly corroded.
Yi Yun's muscles tensed instantly, and the Purple Crystal light within his body overflowed. This wild beast was Thousand-legged Black Silkworm!
Yi Yun had read in the book "Divine Wilderness" that the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm was a very troublesome wild beast. It liked to ambush its prey at night, and it was somewhat slow-witted. It would completely ignore the excrement of King-level Savage Beast. In addition, the liquid flowing from its body could corrode the Detonation Array Disk, causing the trial participants to lose warning time. Therefore, it was considered the nemesis of solo trial participants.
The hairs on the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's body are like steel needles, containing highly poisonous fluids that can be shot out like arrows. If a martial artist gets even a little bit on them, they will be corroded into dust.
This is the most powerful move of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm. Especially when it fires thousands of arrows from its entire body, there is almost no chance of dodging.
Most trial participants would avoid the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm if they saw it, to prevent it from launching a fatal attack.
Before coming to the Divine Wilderness, Yi Yun made ample preparations. The weakness of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm is its speed. To deal with it, the first thing to do is to keep your distance and attack from a distance.
To engage in close combat with such a wild beast, whose entire body is covered in venom and protected by countless tough, steel-like barbs, is almost tantamount to suicide.
Yi Yun, wielding the Great Cang Bow, suddenly leaped out of the pit!
Bang!
The sudden explosion, with flying dirt and rocks, abruptly halted the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's movements.
At this moment, Yi Yun had already flown back ten zhang away. He drew his bow and nocked an arrow in mid-air, and the Great Cang Bow was like a full moon in the night sky.
Yi Yun rapidly gathered all his Yuan Power, which surged like a tide onto the dark arrowhead. The Chasing Wind Arrows gleamed with a chilling, brilliant light in the night.
Call out!
Yi Yun fired an arrow, a streak of light piercing the night sky. The arrowhead of Yi Yun's Chasing Wind Arrows contained an explosive array!
This arrow struck the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm with lightning speed!
Boom!
With a deafening roar, the explosive array detonated, and the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm let out a mournful cry. A large amount of bodily fluids splattered into the void.
Black blood splattered onto some grass around the wilderness. With muffled hissing sounds, the places where the poisonous blood fell were corroded and riddled with holes.
Just as the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm was about to perish, Yi Yun's eyes, sharp as a hawk's, fixed on the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm, his arms tensed, and he drew his bow and fired in rapid succession!
Crash! Crash! Crash!
The bowstring snapped with a whistling sound like muffled thunder, and the arrow pierced the air, leaving a visible trace of vital energy in the void.
In the darkness, these arrows fell like meteors, carrying the force to tear everything apart, enveloping the wounds on the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm caused by the blasting magic array!
Whoosh whoosh!
The arrows pierced the old wounds on the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's body with perfect accuracy, shooting into its soft flesh.
The arrow tore through the frail abdomen of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm, piercing it completely, and then plunged heavily into the ground.
The Thousand-legged Black Silkworm let out a deafening hiss, its entire body contracted, and its bristles shot out like flying arrows!
Normally, the Thousand- Thousand-legged Black Silkworm would only shoot out a few dozen bristles to kill its prey, but this time, threatened with death, it shot out all its bristles, densely packed like rain!
This is a truly indiscriminate attack!
Those who fight against the Thousand-Legged Thousand-legged Black Silkworm are likely to die from its desperate attack, as there is simply no room to dodge!
Yi Yun had long anticipated that the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm would launch a desperate counterattack at all costs. He stomped his toe on the ground, causing the earth beneath him to explode. Yi Yun's body seemed to be swept up by a whirlwind as he rushed toward the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's flank.
Whoosh whoosh!
Countless steel needles flew past Yi Yun's body, but he avoided them all.
Yi Yun was positioned where the steel needles were sparsest, directly opposite the wound of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm!
Yi Yun's attack just now blasted apart a large portion of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's flesh, and the bristles here were also destroyed. The few remaining bristles could not be fired because the flesh was destroyed.
This gives the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's indiscriminate attacks a single weakness!
This was something Yi Yun had planned long ago; otherwise, Yi Yun would have had a hard time dealing with the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's dying attack. He created this opening, which provided him with a safe haven!
Seeing that its final attack was ineffective, the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm panicked; it had just fired almost all the steel needles from its body!
Its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced in a short period of time.
It brewed venom within its body, intending to spray it and corrode Yi Yun's body. At that moment, Yi Yun took a step forward, his body transforming into a streak of light, and flew to the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's front.
Snap!
The Thousand Army Saber was drawn, emitting a buzzing sound. A bright blade of light pierced through the head of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm with astonishing speed. Before the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm could spit out its venom, its head exploded due to the massive amount of energy condensed within the Thousand Army Saber.
The Thousand-legged Black Silkworm, which had been screaming mournfully, seemed to have its throat grabbed and its voice abruptly stopped.
Its body convulsed violently a few times before collapsing to the ground with a thud.
Yi Yun's entire attack was executed flawlessly, giving the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm no chance to catch its breath!
Seeing that the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm was dead, Yi Yun recalled the mental incantation of the <Myriad Beast Catalog>.
To condense Dharma Aspect Totem, one must first condense a beast imprint from the corpse of a wild beast.
The so-called Beast Mark is the condensation of the life essence and Savage Power of a slain wild beast!
Normally, after a wild beast is killed, its life essence and Savage Power will slowly dissipate into the world.
The power in flesh and blood dissipates the fastest, while the power in bones dissipates slowly. It can be used by the Savage Heaven Master to refine Savage Bone Relic.
It is difficult for martial artists who are not Savage Heaven Master to utilize this power.
However, when a martial artist cultivates the Totem Secret Method, they can, to a certain extent, borrow the Heaven and Earth Laws, allowing the life essence and Savage Power within the wild beast to resonate with the killing intent within their own body, thus slowly drawing away this power.
Only wild beasts killed by a martial artist's own hands can resonate with them through their own killing intent.
With the help of Totem Secret Method, these separated powers will slowly condense into a small ball of light, inside which are the imprints of dead wild beasts.
This is the mark of the beast.
In reality, the beast imprints condensed by martial artists using Totem Secret Method only occupy a very small portion of the total energy of the dead wild beasts.
Therefore, even if the beast seal is removed, the dead wild beast can still be used to exchange for Dragon Scale Rune. Relics made from the bones of such wild beasts will not be much less effective.
Condensing a Beast Seal is no easy feat. Many martial artists have to kill numerous wild beasts to barely manage to condense a single Beast Seal, and even then, the quality is extremely limited.
The beast seal is of low quality, so the resulting Dharma Aspect Totem will naturally have limited power.
In order to successfully condense the Dharma Aspect Totem, many trial participants will try to choose Totem Secret Method that are relatively easy to learn.
Although the higher the level of the Totem Secret Method, the higher the grade of the beast imprint it condenses.
However, high-level Totem Secret Method are impossible to learn. It takes killing dozens of wild beasts to barely condense a beast seal, and the quality is extremely rough. In that case, even the most advanced Totem Secret Method would be meaningless.
For example, the <Myriad Beast Catalog> that Yi Yun cultivates is such a secret technique.
Even the sages of Tai'a Divine City, when they borrowed the <Myriad Beast Catalog>, only tried to comprehend its profound mysteries; they had no way of cultivating this secret technique that no one else could master...
Yi Yun closed his eyes and meditated for a while in front of the corpse of the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm, then focused his spiritual energy into the Purple Crystal...
The Purple Crystal located in Yi Yun's chest flashed with a strange light. Yi Yun felt as if a vortex had appeared in his body. The killing intent he had just generated from killing the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm permeated this vortex, emitting a soft hum.
Within the Thousand-legged Black Silkworm's body, a vast amount of life essence and Savage Power were drawn out by this vortex, surging forth like a tide!
Waaaaah...
The energy trembled violently in mid-air, eventually condensing into a beast seal the size of a fist.
This beast seal emitted a crimson-gold light, and within it was the phantom of a silkworm. With a thought, Yi Yun the beast seal whistling into his body.
Whoosh!
The energy of the beast seal surged into Yi Yun's limbs and bones, and an indescribable feeling spread throughout Yi Yun's entire body.
Although he had absorbed the essence of wild beasts many times before, never before had it made Yi Yun's pores open up like today, giving him a feeling that his soul and flesh were being sublimated together.
"Is this the process of condensing the Dharma Aspect Totem...?"
Yi Yun felt an inexplicable sense of exhilaration throughout his body. Every inch of his bones, blood, and meridians was undergoing a silent transformation under the nourishment of the wild beast's essence.
The life force surging within Yi Yun's body rose in waves, like sprouting rice seedlings.
After more than ten breaths, when all the energy in the beast seal had been absorbed by Yi Yun, he finally opened his eyes.
So comfortable!
Yi Yun didn't know what the beast imprints extracted from the corpses of wild beasts looked like when others condensed their Dharma Aspect Totem.
How would that be different from the beast seal I extracted with Purple Crystal?
However, now is not the time to consider these things. According to the records in "The Divine Wilderness", when a Thousand-legged Black Silkworm is on the verge of death, it will emit a special scent to notify nearby Thousand-legged Black Silkworm to come.
Soon, more than a dozen Thousand-legged Black Silkworm will gather here, and there is even a certain possibility that a Thousand-legged Black Silkworm king will appear, which is definitely not Yi Yun can contend with.
He must leave here immediately!
...(To be continued~^~)