After seeing Zhou Duoyuan off, Lin Yi finally cast off the entanglement of trivial affairs.
He instructed Zhao Honglie to temporarily handle the affairs of the residence, while he himself needed to enter seclusion for several days. Then, in the Seclusion Chamber, he took out the Small World Core of the Spirit Vine World.
This was the treasure that had dropped when he killed Spirit Vine Child. With the Small World Core, he could teleport directly into the Spirit Vine World.
However, perhaps because the White Tiger Realm was separated by another layer, Lin Yi spent a full half hour communicating with the Small World Core before the teleportation finally succeeded.
Compared with his last visit, the environment within the Spirit Vine World seemed to have changed again. Ancient trees towered into the sky, living creatures flourished, and the land stretched beyond sight. Overall, it was thriving.
But at that moment, Lin Yi suddenly noticed something was wrong. Ronglong and Jianmu, which had taken root in the Spirit Vine World, were gone. Only two enormous pits remained.
"Something's wrong!"
Lin Yi's expression darkened as his senses spread in an instant, enveloping the entire Spirit Vine World.
Several days earlier.
Beyond the fetal membrane of the Small World, an enormous shadow that blotted out the sky was darting about wildly. It was a Black-striped, Two-Eyed Centipede tens of thousands of zhang long!
Its shell was a dull ink-black, covered in ferocious diamond-shaped patterns. Between those patterns flickered an eerie green poisonous light, as though it had been steeped in an incurable toxin.
Its hundreds of pairs of insectile legs were sharp as blades, leaving faint black trails as they cut through the void. Every wriggle produced a piercing shriek of air being torn apart.
The compound eyes on the Black-striped,