Overlord: Insect Eater

Chapter 57 Breaking the Cocoon
In front of a passage completely filled with white crystals, a huge golden centipede coiled around, blocking the door with its body made of gold to prevent outsiders from prying.

Beside the golden centipede, a praying mantis with huge eye spots pierced its sharp limbs into the wall, hung itself upside down on the wall, and also stared at the outside world.

In the distance, Tian Centen and the others watched this scene and couldn't help frowning.

"What the hell was the worm doing that day, that it let its own spirit worm block it, and hid in without seeing anyone..." Tian Chi said impatiently. "Could it be that he still wants us to wait here for him?"

At this critical moment, wasting one more minute would reduce the chance for their team to get out of the sea of ​​suffering.

Next to it, Tianlu looked at a black flying insect the size of a grain of rice in his palm, and after a while, said: "My phantom insect just told me that the energy fluctuations behind this channel are very strong, and the other party may be cultivating, or may even be breaking through. ..."

Everyone couldn't help but sink in their hearts. Such a breakthrough must not be disturbed, and the time cannot be determined, so it is impossible to wait here.

After pondering for a while, the Celestial Centipede made a decision and said, "In this way, there is his own spirit insect guarding here, so there should be no need to worry about safety. I will leave some marks here, and the Celestial Insect will naturally catch up after it completes the breakthrough."

Everyone nodded upon hearing the words, this is already the best way.

At the same time, in the crystal chamber behind the passage.

Tianchong Chiguoguo sat cross-legged in the brown liquid in the crystal pool, a faint dark golden light flowed on his skin, and golden light patterns outlined a mysterious picture on his body surface.

At this time, in his body, a huge cocoon of light is constantly expanding and contracting, as if breathing evenly.

Along with its breathing, the brown worm emperor spirit liquid was quickly absorbed, and then a huge amount of pure energy was released, filling the celestial worm's air sea.

Tian Chong's mind sank into his body. At this time, the billowing spiritual power was roaring in. The speed of infusion was far beyond his own cultivation. Therefore, at this time, Tian Chong's sea of ​​Qi had already been filled with majestic and vast spiritual power. Flooded, and even faintly felt a tingling pain.

The next moment, a burst of flames suddenly came from nothingness, directly surrounding the souls of the Heavenly Insect Sea...

boom!
Tian Chong felt his soul suddenly exploded, and a dark flame rose in his pupils, making Tian Chong feel a nameless heart fire constantly filling his soul.

"Soul Fire..."

Shenpo fire is a kind of flame born from within the soul.

This kind of flame does not cause any harm to the physical body, but it is fatal to the soul.

Once the victim can't bear that kind of roasting, it is very likely that even the soul will be reduced to ashes.

During cultivation, the soul condenses the energy and spirit of the human body, which can be said to be the most important thing for a monk. If the soul is destroyed, not only will a person's cultivation Dao foundation be destroyed instantly, even the mind will be lost. reserve.

Among the supreme tribulations, the soul difficulty is undoubtedly the most dangerous one. Once there is a slight mistake, the soul will disappear and cause irreparable consequences.

Therefore, in the face of this kind of catastrophe, even the celestial insects would not dare to neglect in the slightest.

This kind of burning lasted for nearly a day. At this time, in the sea of ​​worms, above the huge light wheel of spiritual power, the small face of the soul wrapped in flames had already wrinkled together, and the tide of burning pain in the soul The general constantly invaded him, and constantly challenged his tolerance limit.

It only takes three or four days at most for ordinary people to overcome the ordeal for the first time, but Tian Chong, because of the strength and tenacity of the soul, unexpectedly lasted for a week...

When Tian Chong's eyes opened again, the pair of originally dark pupils seemed to have a clear feeling.

A mass of breath mixed with high temperature was slowly ejected from its mouth, the high temperature even distorted the air in front of Tian Chong, as if there was a burnt smell emanating from it.

"Finally succeeded..."

The burning flames in Tian Chong's eyes quickly faded, and soon returned to normal.

And his originally tense body also relaxed at this time as if he was relieved from a heavy burden, and the high temperature and severe pain emanating from the soul in his body had completely dissipated.

Having reached this stage of cultivation, Tian Chong feels that his soul has almost become real, and it is no longer the illusory feeling of the past, which can be regarded as a small achievement.

Even if his physical body is destroyed now, as long as his soul escapes, Heavenly Insect will still have the chance to condense his physical body again and gain rebirth.

Of course, the most important role of the Soul Difficulty is to pave the way for stepping into the Supreme Realm...

After all, only if the soul is strong enough can one become a true supreme.

Difficulty of soul is divided into three levels, and these three levels of tribulations are all preparations for the next Supreme Realm.

"It seems that if you want to continue in a short period of time, it will be impossible. The spirit is no better than the body. A slight accident will cause major problems, so it is better to follow the steps."

Feeling the power of the soul, Tian Chong also clearly sensed that his soul has become fragile at this time, so he can only slow down the speed of cultivation for the time being.

"Jinchan, all the energy from now on will be used to help you break out of the cocoon!"

"Alright! I've been waiting for your words for a long time..."

Jin Chan was overjoyed immediately, and then the beating speed of the light cocoon in Tian Chong Qi Sea suddenly doubled!
In this way, more than ten days have passed, and it has been nearly a month since entering the insect world.

Every time the worm world is opened, it will last for a year, so now the worm still has a lot of time for him to use.

And when the last day of the first month was about to pass, the light cocoon that had swelled to the limit suddenly penetrated into the void in Tian Chong's air sea, and appeared on top of Tian Chong's head the next moment...

boom!
The golden beam of light suddenly soared into the sky, directly blowing off the top of the crystal chamber, and completely exposing the celestial insects to the sky.

The Flying Golden Centipede and the Six-Eyed Sword Mantis, who were originally arranged by Tian Chong to guard outside, felt the terrifying aura emanating from the light cocoon, and all of them were so frightened that they kept curling up, their heads pressed hard to the ground, and moved. dare not move.

"Hiss..."

A burst of strange sounds came from the light cocoon, followed by a burst of dazzling golden light, cracks began to appear on the originally huge light cocoon, and the singing of insects and cicadas appeared like hallucinations. Tian Chong's ear made the latter's face more and more happy.

boom!
The light cocoon burst open, golden light radiated.

At the same time, a ferocious giant beast broke out from the golden light, and after reaching the sky, it raised its head to the sky and let out a roar.

This thing has ferocious fangs and mouthparts. Its golden body is accompanied by black lines. The three pairs of transparent size are like huge blades. A terrifying aura comparable to super divine beasts like dragons and phoenixes pervades, directly suppressing the entire ruins. The whole sky above the ruins.

Feeling the destructive and terrifying aura emanating from the giant, Tian Chong's eyes couldn't help but glow.

With such an aura, I'm afraid it can't compare to a sixth-rank supreme being, right?

After showing off the terrifying aura that belonged to the ancient evil insects, the originally huge six-winged golden cicada shrank rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it became the size of a palm, and then directly crossed the void and appeared directly in front of the sky insect on the shoulders.

The three pairs of transparent blade wings on the back of the golden cicada vibrated slightly, and a pleasant voice sounded in Tian Chong's ear.

"Hey, Xiao Chongchong, did you see how strong I am just now? How about it, I will hang out with my brother in the future, and make sure you are popular and hot, and you can do whatever you want. You just need to serve Mr. Jin Chan well. How about it? Sample?"

Tian Chong looked at the little thing on his shoulder speechlessly.

"I think you are itchy, right? Who was calling 'Brother Chong' and 'Father Chong' just now, and you became arrogant right after breaking the shell?"

"Who? Who?"

"How could I, the Six-winged Golden Cicada, call out such an unbearable name!"

"Ah, yes, yes, the one who was called the Golden Origin Silkworm just now, what's the matter with you, the Six-winged Cicada? Right?" Tian Chong gave this cheeky guy a blank stare.

"that is!"

"You're talking about the golden source silkworm, so it has nothing to do with my six-winged golden cicada!"

Tian Chong shook his head helplessly, and he didn't know who he learned this little thing from...

"Stop talking nonsense, let's talk about your current strength..."

Jin Chan quickly crawled on Tian Chong's shoulders, and in a short while had reached the top of Tian Chong's head, pondered for a while, and replied: "If you only look at the level of spiritual power, I am now at the level of the third-rank Supreme Supreme Spiritual Power. But in terms of combat power, unless you are the Supreme Being, you can beat me, but no one can kill me!"

Tian Chong nodded.

This is the dominance of the ancient evil six-winged golden cicada. Even if it has just broken out of its cocoon, a monk in the supreme realm will never be able to kill it!
"That's it, if that's the case, then there will be no worries about exploring the insect world this time."

Facing a group of younger generations of the spirit insect race, Tian Chong didn't feel that he was useful to Jin Chan, but with such a strong backing by his side, he could change his behavior in the future.

"Okay, it's time for us to find the team. Jin Chan, are you going to stay outside or enter the spirit sac?"

"I don't want to go inside the spirit worm sac. In such a dark and dark environment, even the consciousness will fall into a deep sleep, so I don't want to go!"

Seeing that Jin Chan was very resistant to the spirit worm sac, Tian Chong didn't force it, but directly let it stay on his headband, which looked like a golden hairpin from a distance.

Next, Tian Chong took back his six-eyed knife mantis and flying golden centipede, seeing the two guys' fearful look at the golden cicada above his head, Tian Chong had no choice but to put them into the spirit insect sac middle.

Afterwards, following the traces left by the centipede, the worm turned into a sword light and disappeared into the ruins.

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Thousands of miles away, Tian Centen and a group of nine people are currently exploring in a ruins.

A few people broke in here by chance, but they didn't encounter other teams competing for it.

It's just that this ruins seems to have been searched more than once a long time ago, so apart from some junk, nothing of value was found at all, which made everyone in the team feel very nervous. A look of bad luck.

"Brother, the scores of those eleven branches have caught up again. If this continues, we will enter the top three ranks again..." Tianlu looked at the spirit card in his hand, which showed the score ranking of all twelve branches of the Tianmai.

These words made Tian Centipede frowned uncontrollably.

Although their journey went smoothly and they didn't encounter other teams, their twelve teams were ranked last in terms of basic points due to their small number of people. Unless other lower-ranked teams were robbed, their twelve teams must still be among the bottom three.

"We can't just look for the ruins like this anymore, captain, we have to plunder other teams too!" At this moment, even Tiange couldn't bear it anymore.

Tian Centurious looked at the serious faces of everyone, and knew that everyone's thinking was right. Originally, he wanted to improve the strength of his team members as much as possible in the early stage, but it seems that he can only go so far...

"Okay! After searching for this ruin, we will also start hunting other Tianmai teams!"

Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that in the previous ruins, everyone had a good harvest, and several of them directly improved their combat effectiveness a lot. Everyone has the power to fight!
"It's a pity that the worm hasn't come back that day, otherwise his ancient sword butterfly will definitely be a great power, and our team will be more confident!"

"I hope that kid's luck is not too bad. If he is caught by other Tianmai teams, he will be finished..."

Thinking of this, Tian Centen couldn't help but worry about Tian Chong.

But at this moment, a member of the team suddenly made a special discovery...

"Look what that is!"

Hearing a scream, Tian Centen who was in deep thought woke up immediately, and then quickly followed the sound to look over.

On a futon at the end of the hall where they were, there seemed to be a figure in a gray robe sitting cross-legged, as if eternity.

This scene directly shocked the nine members of the entire twelve teams.

How could there be living figures in such a place full of bones? !

"That is definitely not a living person!"

Looking at the faintly visible withered face, coupled with the fact that he couldn't feel the slightest vitality from his body, Tian Centen immediately stopped everyone's panic with a loud voice.

It's just that he didn't know if his voice had alarmed the other party. Just as Tian Centen's voice fell, some dust fell from that figure rustlingly, and then his withered face was lifted up. In the depths of the pupils of his eyes, a strange red-black color flickered.

"Damn it, go back!!!"

The moment he was stared at by those weird black pupils, Tian Centen felt a bone-piercing cold rise directly from the back of his head, and a death crisis directly enveloped his whole body.

　Thanks to book friends Yu Yi and Ting Zi Feng Chimes for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)