)More than forty kilometers from White Mound Village.
Night.
On a huge tree whose trunk took two people embracing it to encircle, White Serpent Guo Xudong was half reclining among the branches, quietly resting.
His entire body was wrapped in a Glowstone Carpet that blocked Ghost Shadows, and he breathed through the ventilation holes in the carpet.
As time passed, the night grew deeper and deeper.
A faint, rustling sound of insects crawling gradually came from the ground.
Guo Xudong suddenly opened his eyes, tore off the carpet, and looked down.
By the faint moonlight, great clumps of Black Worms surged out from the Black Soil in patches, like fountains erupting from the earth.
The Black Worms poured out from underground and spread madly in every direction like ants. In barely a dozen seconds, they had dyed all the grass black.
A tide of black rolled through the forest wave after wave, searching for any living thing it could devour and tear apart.
Soon, some Black Worms seemed to have caught a scent and began climbing toward the tree where Guo Xudong was.
His expression unchanged, Guo Xudong quickly took out a small bottle, opened it, poured out some mucus, and smeared it over himself for a while.
Before long, an unpleasant odor began to emanate from his body. The smell quickly drove away the Black Worms below that had been trying to approach.
After putting away the small bottle, Guo Xudong was just about to go back to sleep.
Bang! Suddenly, a heavy, muffled thud came from nearby.
His expression shifted slightly, and he rose again to look in that direction.
Among the trees, a gigantic black shadow more than a person tall was charging rapidly toward him. It looked like an enlarged beetle, with a mouthpart resembling a