The Great Worm Lich

Yesterday night, in order to not attract any attention from those ‘raised’ wizards towards his wizard gus that easily moved hundreds of meters after they were enlarged, Zhang Lisheng had only been using his transformation power in battle. Not only that, he would only enlarge his body every time during the battle when he needed to push down the totem pole.

At this time, the wizard gu Ghostface that had been crouching the entire night while not moving at all, nor swallowing any flesh or blood, suddenly showed signs of transformation, causing him to be unable to suppress his shock and delight.

Speaking of it, it had been months since Ghostface showed signs of transformation but it had been stuck at the final stage forever, rendering Zhang Lisheng, who had nurtured three ancient strange words but had always relied on luck, to be helpless.

Now that he saw the wizard gu jumping to the ground and resuming its normal posture by propping up its eight legs before charging directly to the bark house of the tribe in a dumbfounding manner, he could only let the wizard gu take its course and shouted at the frozen aborigines, “Make way! Make way…”

Upon hearing the Raider’s words, the aborigines learned that the great spider was not commanded by the tribal living faith to brutally kill them for the purpose of blood sacrifice, so they immediately dodged to either side in haste, crouching on the ground as they let Ghostface destroy countless treehouses of the tribe.

“It’s like a nail that’s attracted by a strong magnet when it charges directly in a straight line. What has attracted Ghostface actually?” Zhang Lisheng followed closely behind the wizard gu. He first stepped on top of the ruined houses and then stepped on the smashed tree branches before coming to a muddy land in the jungle that looked ordinary.

All of a sudden, Ghostface stopped stiffly as the lower abdomen of its short body was placed closely to the surface. The faintly showing grimacing face on its back cracked open to become a slow wriggling meat hole, a gust of tough silk thread was suddenly spewed out and spread out in a looping shape before boring into the ground.

“Encompassing Net…” When Zhang Lisheng saw that the wizard gu automatically cast his omniscient power, he was extremely dumbfounded. As he was muttering, the thread that had plunged into the soil seemed to become tighter and tighter as it drilled into the ground deeper and deeper. It actually forced the soil under Ghostface to split open and hurled Ghostface into the soil.

The soil tumbled and not long after, a corpse that was deeply buried underneath appeared. That corpse was fully naked, bald and small in size. Its entire body firmly adhered to the silk thread ejected from the meat hole on the back of Ghostface. As it was squeezed by the condescending wizard gu, it slowly became one with it.

Zhang Lisheng stood at the edge of the pit and extended his head to look inside the pit. Due to the angle that he was at, he did not see any corpse appearing. He only noticed that Ghostface that kept pressing down suddenly stopped and its body gradually shook to secrete countless silk threads that formed into a big cocoon.

“It’s not a silkworm nor a butterfly! Don’t tell me that it’s even going to break out of the cocoon? If that’s the case, wouldn’t Ghostface’s transformation be too easy then? Wait a minute! No! This doesn’t seem right…” The confused young man extended his head and shook his head continuously. All of a sudden, he saw the already formed round cocoon spray out three bundles of silk around the deep pit. In a short while, it pulled three naked bodies out of the walls of the pit and stuck them onto the big cocoon.

The corpses slowly melted against the round cocoon. Before it turned into corpse oil and flowed into the cocoon, Zhang Lisheng saw the face of one of them clearly. It turned out to be an elite disciple from the Witchcraft’s Gate of Life of whom he had spent quite a long time with before this.

After contemplating about it as his eyes turned wide, the young man finally understood that the key to Ghostface’s transformation was actually a wizard’s corpse, or in other words, a biological corpse that contained a great amount of powerful energy in the body.

This guess made Zhang Lisheng, who still did not know that the reason the wizard gu was able to turn into a cocoon was because it had obtained a Grand Wizard’s corpse, sit down by the edge of the pit and mutter to himself in shock and surprise, “How lucky is this? If it weren’t for the coincidence that I’ve tricked those idiotic wizards, I wouldn’t have been able to see Ghostface’s transformation even if I die of old age! I just wonder whether the bodies of these three wizards are enough or not.”

Just like this, after sitting right there waiting with both joy and worry in his mind till evening, the cocoon was still unchanged in its form, causing the young man to gradually become anxious. After pondering about it, he gritted his teeth and spat out a black line formed by black blood to envelop the big cocoon so that it can infiltrate it and nourish the transforming wizard gu.

Time continued to pass by slowly. Finally, in the middle of the night, Zhang Lisheng, who had just started to feel that he exhausted the omniscient power in his body, felt an inexplicable jolt in his heat. Then, he saw the round cocoon in the pit slowly spinning as billions of silk threads started to form. After swaying in midair for a moment, the silk threads suddenly constricted into the body of a strange insect that emerged out of the cocoon.

That strange insect was less than three meters tall and its round body was like having four giant spiders being molded together by force, with a ferocious head growing out of the four directions of north, south, east, west each. Its back and abdomen that were covered with long colorless, velvety hair had the mark of a grimacing face. The eight thick legs under its body grasped the soil deeply, appearing to be very powerful.

As soon as Zhang Lisheng saw it, eight hieroglyphic words immediately appeared in his mind —”Heaven encompassing net, capturing everything in a flash.”

After being stunned for a while, he commanded the transformed wizard gu to leap out of the pit and even so, he still felt this situation was surreal in his heart. “That’s all? So easy? With no danger at all…”

After all, the transformations of Money Toad, Wyrmdragon and Crocodragon last time were all full of dangers and thrills, to the point that they could only succeed when they were at the verge of death. He was not accustomed to the easily succeeding transformation of the wizard gu in becoming an ancient strange worm.

However, the reality was right in front of Zhang Lisheng’s eyes and did not allow him to not believe in it. After composing himself, a more joyous expression appeared on his face. Without warning, he leaped onto the back of Ghostface and marveled the zero traces left behind by the wizard gu’s transformation and his own luck, before commanding the four-faced giant spider to crawl towards the Tudenan tribe.

When the transformed Ghostface once again walked through the jungle, it was as though every direction of the place where it walked past was connected by some invisible spider threads. As long as there’s a slight gap in the forest, be it high or low, on the air or underground, it could crawl through it freely as it liked. Its crawling speed was so fast that it was absolutely marvelous and in just a little while, it crawled into the tribe silently.

It was already late at night but the Tudenan tribe was still brightly lit. After fishing and hunting for enough food, the Tudenan tribesmen began to build simple short shacks overnight, intending to create a new temporary shelter for those new tribesmen that could shelter them from rain and wind. It looked like it would be another sleepless night tonight.

Zhang Lisheng put his wizard gu away under the extremely huge totem pole and looked around at his surroundings. He looked at all of the conquered aborigines, who only grieved the loss of their tribes for only one night before dedicating themselves entirely to becoming a Tudenan tribesman, and once again marveled at the tenacious characters and hearts the harsh and cruel jungle life on the island had given to the Hellfire men in these thousands of years.

“What a tough and tenacious civilization! It’s completely a wild fantasy wanting to conquer them from the outside,” he could not help but say with amazement. When he saw Tugra, who was running excitedly towards him wrapped in long animal skin, he could not help but shake his head again. “Well, of course, everyone is different. There’s always an exception…”

“Raider, I have good news to tell you! The tribe has already opened a pathway to the ocean! After we finish building the bark house and complete the expansion of the tribe, we will build the first shipyard by the sea!” The Tudenan’s headman crouched on the ground and interrupted the tribe’s Raider’s unspoken criticism about him with good news.

“The tribe has already opened a pathway to the ocean? Then how about the Moha tribesmen? They weren’t annihilated yesterday! On top of that, isn’t it a difficult task to open a pathway to the ocean from the jungle?”

“The Moha tribesmen have fled and migrated to an unknown portion of the jungle! They’d rather rob the hunting ground of a small tribe than be Tudenan’s neighbor or enemy. Not only that, we’ve also found a few converted Pumanro people who know how to tame the Lohlo, the craftsmen’s partner! After they’ve converted to become Tudenan tribesmen, they’ve brought us to look for the wooden pen where the Pumanro tribe was raising the Lohlo and we’ve found 20 pairs of adult Lohlos in total. It’s all because of these Lohlos that we were able to open a pathway to the ocean in such a short period of time.”

“Lohlo? Those big animals there?” When Zhang Lisheng heard Tugra’s explanation, he pointed at the few giant ape-like animals who were following obediently behind the excited tribal craftsmen as they walked ostentatiously into the tribe.

The strange animals that were covered with long mottled camouflage-colored hair had a big ape head. Their eyes appeared to be very clear and their bodies were about three to four meters high. There were two pairs of arms on each side of their sturdy bodies, the upper pair was thick and long, almost touching the ground when it was swinging, while the lower pair was thin and short, appearing to be light and handy.

“Yes, Raider. They’re Lohlos.”

“But those beasts look much fiercer than the giant millispiders. They don’t look like the craftsmen’s partners at all.”

“Great Raider, the Lohlos look fierce but in actual fact, they are very timid. They can catch insects and pick some wild fruits to feed themselves and when they sleep, they’ll hang themselves on trees with their two thick arms. They cannot be used in a battle at all even if they’re tamed. However, their thick arms are extremely powerful and their small arms are very agile. Not only that, they are very smart too so they can become a very good partner to the craftsmen. The instant they’re tamed, they can already carry out crude jobs like opening the pathway in the jungle,” Tugra stared at Zhang Lisheng’s expression and said respectfully.

The reason he sent out more than 20 of the best craftsmen, along with their partners, to go open the pathway that connected the tribe to the sea despite the busy state of the tribal craftsmen, was because he knew that Zhang Lisheng had always attached great importance to the sea. For this reason, he wanted to take this opportunity to express his loyalty again.

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, Zhang Lisheng nodded and said, “Oh I see! This is really a magical island but a human’s heart is even more magical! Tugra, I’m very happy that you can understand the importance of the ocean to an island tribe. Even though the fishery in the underground Golden River may be able to feed 150,000 Tudenan tribesmen, the ocean is the true treasure that is inexhaustible. Remember this word, it’s never possible to raise a ‘big monster’ in a hazy underground river. ”