Chapter 1534: Chapter 183 Imperial Secret Technique?_2
"No wonder there’s no pain, in the end, it’s still a worm; as a parasite, where would it get the sensation of pain from?" Elsa laughed.
At this moment, the Divine Worm that was parasitic inside the true Emperor’s consciousness was utterly terrified. Everything about it had been foolproof; it had been uniquely parasitic inside a fetus. And on the day of the Emperor’s birth, it underwent the Imperial secret ritual, covered in Crystal Poison dust all over its body. This isolated it from all contact with other worms and also prevented any worm from harming it.
For many years, it had grown accustomed to this isolated way of life. Suddenly now, the Crystal Poison covering its body was gone, and it actually didn’t react in time!
Escape?
The thought had just appeared when a terrifying pressure had already descended!
"Come, let’s continue our peaceful discussion about the subject of the hive."
Without any resistance, the worm was forcibly pulled into Long Yi’s consciousness. Memory and consciousness were separated; the consciousness was shredded by the God Eater, while the memories were fully displayed before Long Yi.
"This guy has parasitized more lives than most of the worms I’ve devoured, from birds to insects, from higher life forms to lower ones; its parasitic career could almost make for an adventure novel," said Long Yi.
"However, by comparison, this so-called Emperor’s memory is completely blank. It has been parasitized since it was a fetus, resulting in it having no memories of its own," Elsa said as she examined the Emperor’s body.
Long Yi continued examining the worm’s memories: "Let me see... this worm, it actually came from the Lower Plane! Due to various coincidences, it traversed the Plane, and because of the Plane’s rules, it kept changing hosts. In the Middle Plane, it once briefly parasitized in the Emperor of Azure Sky Empire’s consciousness, but it left soon after, choosing the Emperor of the Hong En Empire, but before long, it left again, the reason being that the false god had driven it away. Later, it went to the Ancient Mage... wait a second! Isn’t the Ancient Mage Tower in the Lower Plane?! No, no, no, that’s not the Ancient Mage Tower, that’s just a Giant spaceship. My goodness, that gave me a scare."
In that memory, Long Yi truly saw the spaceship of the Ancient Mage Tower. However, the details seemed a little off; clearly, this thing was not the Ancient Mage Tower.
"Something’s not right! This bastard’s memory sequence is messed up!" Long Yi suddenly noticed that although the memories extracted from the worm’s mind were quite orderly, the timeline of the memories was incredibly chaotic. The worm’s memory of entering the so-called Ancient Mage Tower didn’t happen after it was driven away, but thousands of years ago!
Thousands of years ago, the Ancient Mage Tower was actually in the Middle Plane?
Long Yi began to rebuild the worm’s shattered memories using this segment of memory as a reference. This was completed with Divine Power; it had been too long since Long Yi had used his Divine Power, and now it felt quite comfortable to use it occasionally.
Quite quickly, under the influence of Divine Power, the memories were rebuilt. Long Yi read through this part of the memory again, and he was completely dumbfounded.
"Elsa, I think I’ve made a big mistake," Long Yi scratched his head and said.
"What’s wrong?" Elsa asked anxiously.
"I let the worm hive slip away right under my nose."
Saying so, Long Yi showed that part of the memory to Elsa.
"That hive, it was in the Ancient Mage Tower?" Elsa couldn’t help but be surprised as well.
"Yes, if this memory isn’t wrong, it’s here. Moreover, I’ve been to that location as well," said Long Yi.
In memory, a bizarre sphere that kept changing was slowly taking root in the soil, which belonged to the agricultural area inside the Ancient Mage Tower. At this time, there was absolutely nothing inside the spaceship, only some automatic machines flew out from the surroundings to level the land. In the blink of an eye, the land was completely leveled.
This memory didn’t come from what the worm had seen with its own eyes, but from a pirate it had parasitized. This pirate had stumbled upon the Ancient Mage Tower by chance and had seen the insect nest inside. Although every worm knew it was an insect nest, the pirate didn’t have a clue.
After parasitizing the pirate, the worm had desperately searched for the spaceship for a very, very long time, but the entire spaceship had vanished without a trace. After staying in the middle plane for a thousand years, the worm arrived at the upper plane and had been searching for that spaceship ever since.
Clearly, it had taken the wrong path. The spaceship had not gone to the upper plane, but to the lower plane.
"Damn it, I’ve been to this piece of land many times. How did I never notice anything related to the worms here? No, no, no, or rather, what the hell is this thing called an insect nest?" Long Yi started scratching his head again. Whenever he was puzzled by something, he would start scratching his head. And this time, he scratched his head for quite a while.
"Is there no description of the insect nest in these worms’ memories?" Elsa asked.
"The insect nest is described as the origin of the worms in their memories," Long Yi said. "In their view, to control the insect nest is to control the fate of all the worms in the multiverse. But as for what it really is, not a single worm knows."
Long Yi had devoured so many worms and, after cross-referencing their memories, found that they all knew of the existence of the insect nest and that it was very important. However, what the insect nest actually was, none of the worms knew.
Simply knowing the importance of the insect nest was not enough because the memories were too short, so even Long Yi failed to uncover these details from the worms’ recollections.
"No, I must make a trip to the lower plane," Long Yi said.
"Go ahead, go to the Celestial Clan and find my sister Selena; she’ll help you open the gate to the lower plane. And this time, coming back won’t be as troublesome. Using the Celestial Clan’s teleportation gate leaves a mark, and with this mark, we can bring you back here at any time. The Empire is now under my control, and our plan will continue to proceed in an orderly manner," Elsa said without any hesitation.
"Be very careful. My greedy snake is very strong. If you encounter danger, the greedy snake can eat more than just worms; it can eat almost anything," Long Yi said.
"Don’t worry. As long as I’m not around you, my intelligence and alertness will return to normal," Elsa joked.
Long Yi paused for a moment, then chuckled: "I’ll take that as a compliment."
Removing his helmet and taking off Elsa’s as well, Long Yi gently kissed Elsa’s cheek, then quickly put the helmets back on and rushed to the periphery.
At the door, the old Prophet stopped Long Yi: "Mr. Long Yi, there is something I must tell you now."
This old Prophet was the same person who had received Long Yi before, and it was him again this time.
"Go ahead," Long Yi said, finding it difficult to ignore these mystical individuals.
"Our prophecies have mentioned the insect nest before, but the outcomes after you obtain it have divided us. This is the first time our Prophet tribe has been divided. Some of us see a future of destruction, while others see a future of peaceful prosperity. Therefore, we prefer to believe that the future concerning the insect nest is an undetermined one. Hence, we decided to make an exception and tell you everything we’ve seen, so you can decide for yourself what to do."
Sharing visions was the ability of these Prophets, allowing others to see what they had seen. Quite like sharing memories, through this special magic, Long Yi saw completely opposite futures from two different Prophets. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote and support on Qidian (qidian.com). Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)
