Chapter 1352: Chapter 1097: An Opportunity
"Although I don’t know what exactly is going on, I am quite certain that both you and Little Black come from the Heavenly Kingdom. I got this information from Little Black... and although it came out of nowhere, it’s never been wrong," Long Yi said.
"Well, if you say so, then it must be true!" Xiaodie said with a cheerful smile. She didn’t care where she came from, as both places had left her and Little Black with rather unpleasant memories.
"Sooner or later, I’ll go to this so-called Heavenly Kingdom and see for myself. I should be able to uncover all the secrets there," Long Yi said.
"Sure, if that really is my home, I will definitely host you well!" Xiaodie said.
As they were preparing to leave, the space in the distance suddenly ripped open, and a blood-red shuttle-shaped warship appeared in the distance. The warship looked like a giant tooth, entirely blood-red, with some writhing tentacles at the rear end.
As soon as the warship appeared, a red beam of light swept across and, upon spotting Long Yi, a stream of energy immediately locked onto him.
"So unfriendly, other than the Divine Worm, I can’t think of anyone else," Long Yi sneered. It was just perfect because he was just worrying about not finding anyone, and they had come to him!
At that moment, inside the blood-red warship was a captain infected by the Divine Worm. He came from a marine planet, wearing specially sealed armor, completely soaked in water, with an octopus-like head inside a transparent crystal helmet.
"Is this Long Yi? Just a little runt?" the captain looked at Long Yi, who was locked by the energy stream, his two large eyes filled with disdain.
"Master, we should still be careful. After all, Simu said that this Long Yi is a True God, and he also has God Eater..." the captain’s deputy said.
"Scared of what! Even if he has God Eater, can he appear in front of me instantly? Do you think the Divine Text barrier of this warship is just for show? Fire some cannons at him first; I want to see if this kid is as powerful as the rumors claim!" the captain roared.
At that moment, Long Yi realized he was locked by the energy stream. His Divine Status had already reacted, knowing it was used for targeting the ship cannons. He even grabbed Little Black and was about to tear through space with Xiaodie, but Little Black, excited, suddenly expanded into a huge black round shield shape.
Boom!
The cannon’s beam hit directly on the round shield transformed by Little Black. Puzzling runes and texts that Long Yi didn’t recognize appeared all over Little Black. The cannon’s energy was completely devoured by Little Black, not even a bit spilling over the edges!
As the cannon ceased, Little Black resumed into a small spherical shape and fell back into Long Yi’s hands. Long Yi had no clue where Little Black had devoured the energy to.
At that moment, the captain inside the warship was even more surprised, his eyes widening.
"What kind of magic is that? No, no, that definitely isn’t magic, what kind of device is that? Is it Giant’s equipment? Why haven’t I heard of anything like this from the Giants? Damn it! Charge all cannons, prepare the main cannon! I want to see how many cannons you can withstand!"
Another locking energy once again enveloped Long Yi, and this time, Little Black transformed again into a black round shield, which amused Long Yi, seeing that Little Black even devoured this locking energy.
"Master! Our locking magic has been devoured! We can’t lock Long Yi!" the gunner aboard reported immediately.
The captain did not reply, as he saw Long Yi far in the distance waving at him, indicating through gestures, "I’m not running, fire away."
"Same position as before! Bombard at full strength!"
All cannons from the Tusk Warship that could target Long Yi opened fire at the same time. Little Black stretched its body, blocking and devouring all the energy from the firing cannons in all directions. Despite appearing only as a thin layer, these deadly cannon shots couldn’t even make Little Black vibrate slightly.
"Main cannon fully charged!" a gunner aboard shouted.
"Fire!" the captain roared.
The front end of the Tusk Warship slowly opened, revealing a huge crystal. At this moment, Xiaodie moved behind Little Black, placing one hand on the thin layer of black material.
Boom!
Even in the vacuum of space, Long Yi could hear the roar produced by the pure energy waves. The thick beam of the cannon struck Little Black; runes on its entire body intensely flickered, while Xiaodie opened her butterfly wings, channeling the energy into her body. Although their devouring capability was strong, they couldn’t swallow such a massive scale of explosive energy in such a short time, so Little Black needed Xiaodie’s help.
As the main cannon finished firing, the captain felt extremely uneasy inside, as his instincts told him something was amiss.
On the huge surveillance screen, only Xiaodie and the black material in her hands were visible, while Long Yi was nowhere to be seen.
"Hahaha, I thought this guy named Long Yi was so powerful, but it turns out he’s nothing special after all! He was obliterated by my one cannon!" the captain laughed maniacally.
"I admire your confidence greatly. Unfortunately, that admiration won’t save your life!"
Along with the voice, a Dragon-slaying Sword appeared. The captain’s sealed armor was instantly split horizontally. However, inside the severed armor there was no body or blood, just mechanical devices and a lot of water. At the same time, a spatial ripple came from within the captain’s helmet, and the transparent part of the helmet disappeared altogether.
It turned out, that part was its true form!
"Everyone, hold him off, do not let him decipher my teleportation destination!" the captain’s voice rang out.
Immediately after, a barrage of magic blasted over.
This bastard is really cunning!
With the roar of magic, Long Yi turned around and slashed with the Cosmic Stone Greatsword, releasing a lethal Destruction Ripple that shredded all the attackers around him. Right after, Long Yi himself also teleported away.
If it had been before, this kind of delay might have worked. But now Long Yi was different from before, he could instantly know the destination of such a teleportation right in front of him.
At this moment, the originally grand and mighty captain was controlling a transparent helmet flying forward. It was an octopus-like creature, and its body was only so big. The grand and mighty humanoid device was used to maintain its imposing image as well as to sustain its life. The moment Long Yi severed that machine body, it activated teleportation to escape, estimating that as long as Long Yi could be delayed for one minute, it could find an escape pod and flee completely.
But in fact, its subordinates couldn’t even manage to delay for three seconds.
In a blink, Long Yi was already in front of him.
"Come, let’s talk," Long Yi said with a sinister smile.
"Hehe, Lord Long Yi! True God, I..."
"If you’re about to say some bullshit about submitting to me, then I advise you to give up that fantasy right now," Long Yi cut off his fantasies before he even started speaking.
"What exactly do you want?" the Divine Worm asked coldly, its face losing the feigned sycophancy.
"I just want to figure out where exactly you all are hiding," Long Yi said.
"You think I would tell you?" the Divine Worm scoffed dismissively.
"Why not? Isn’t your relationship among yourselves very good? I originally thought you would be in competition with each other," Long Yi said.
"Hehe, even the most irreconcilable enemies will unite in the face of our real enemy," the Divine Worm said.
"Ah, so it’s like that. Well, that’s too bad, I was actually planning to give you a chance," Long Yi said as a golden python emerged from the palm of his hand. At this moment, the python was no longer in the form of electric arcs, but gleamed with golden light. However, the Divine Worm did not judge the God Eater by its appearance, but by the rules. Upon seeing the python appear, the Divine Worm was frightened out of its wits. Despite hearing about it many times from other Divine Worms, seeing it in person truly made it feel a lethal threat.
"Lord Long Yi! True God! Let’s talk this over! Please!" The Divine Worm no longer maintained its previous tone but became sycophantic again.
"You want to talk it over now?" Long Yi chuckled, not withdrawing the python but instead letting it out. The golden python coiled around the floating helmet of the Divine Worm, which was really about to be scared out of its wits.
"True God! Whatever you want, just say it! Didn’t you say you were going to give me a chance?" the Divine Worm nearly wailed, not acting, but truly terrified.
"Yes, I indeed intended to give you a chance," Long Yi said.
"What kind of chance?" the voice of the Divine Worm trembled.
"What kind of chance do you think all the Divine Worms want?" Long Yi counter-asked.
"What the Divine Worms want?" the Divine Worm asked itself.
Nonsense, of course, it’s to become a god! That’s something every Divine Worm dreams of! To become a true god! To become true gods, they desperately devour their own kind to gain more Divine Status, more Divine Power, more Divine Souls!
"I think, you should have understood," Long Yi smiled, grabbed the helmet with one hand, held it in front of him and said, "In my view, you are definitely not the best among all the Divine Worms of this Plane, right?"
Was there any need to say that? The Divine Worm in front of him seemed somewhat downcast. Whether it was the bastard with the golden warship or the bastard with the black Mechanical Planet, they all considered themselves the absolute leaders. And him? Because he hadn’t parasitized a humanoid lifeform initially, he was now looked down upon by them, and indeed, their strengths were actually much greater than his.
"So, what if I can help you become stronger?" Long Yi said.
The Divine Worm was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "True God, although I am just a mere worm, I still have this bit of intelligence. You’re planning to use me to eliminate them first, then to eliminate me, right?"
Long Yi laughed, "Smart, truly as cunning as a Divine Worm should be. Actually, that’s exactly my plan, and I didn’t intend to hide this from you. So, now I want to ask you, are you willing to help me?"
Willing to help? The Divine Worm scoffed inwardly. If it said no right now, the next moment the God Eater would devour it completely clean. But if it said yes, what could it do, let me go back and then wait for me to lure out the other Divine Worms? (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote and recommend it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
