The Great Worm Lich

The two moons in the Oasis World sprinkled its glorious cold moonlight on the ground.

Under the moonlight, the snake monster in the campsite twisted its body like a dough twist, tightening its bulging belly until the dense black scales on the abdomen erected to reveal the muscles hidden underneath.

“Die! Die! Die!” As though sensing the strength in the body had finally reached its limit, the snake monster raised its flat head up high without warning and shouted madly to the sky. Then, it squeezed out more force and had its long body twist another half circle.

Even though the snake’s voice was mixed with a strange hissing sound, it still sounded almost exactly the same as Chen Guangxing’s voice. Guo Caiying, who was watching from afar, could not help but ask in shock after the shout resonated, “Lisheng, i-is Researcher Chen the snake that swallowed the big monkey?”

“He’s indeed Chen Guangxing. If I guessed it correctly, then Master Chen has used Bashe’s transformation power to transform into this,” Zhang Lisheng stared at the distance and answered without turning his head.

“Bashe? I’ve learned the proverb ‘Bashe swallowing the elephant’ before when I was young. I-Is this transformation power strong?” The girl asked again curiously.

“We could say that it’s quite a powerful transformation power, but it’s still not as good compared to mine…” Zhang Lisheng blew his own trumpet, and when he saw the belly of the snake monster transformed by Chen Guanxing tighten without warning, an ominous premonition rose in his heart. Immediately, he shut his mouth and bent his knee to leap up like a toad while flying across several hundred meters away.

In the air, he opened his black mouth and opened the flesh tubes on his body. At once, they could hear loud swishing sounds in the sky while the young man absorbed an ample amount of air.

At the same time, a dull roar resonated from inside the body of the snake monster transformed by Chen Guanxing, and right away, its body exploded into pieces.

Flesh and blood started to fly in the air. A strange golden-furred ape that had multiple small wounds all over its body clenched its fists and smacked on its own chest. Staring at the moon and letting out a long howl, the fur on its shoulder suddenly cracked apart while two huge sarcomas grew.

The sarcomas squirmed after they appeared, with its eyes, nose, and ears gradually accentuating on them. Then, four brand new arms extended out of the golden ape’s wide shoulders as it took on the form of a monster that had three heads and six arms.

When Zhang Lisheng, who had expanded his body to become like a hydrogen balloon as he gradually descended from the air, saw this strange scene on the monkey king, he could not help but feel his heart clench. However, after a bout of careful observation, he saw that the ape actually showed a bewildered look and an extremely tired expression after mutating. At once, he felt relieved again.

At this moment, the attack that the young man had prepared already reached the point where he had to send the arrow out of the string already. If he missed this opportunity, the best option he had next was to change his mind and flee after landing on the ground.

With his mind whirling around rapidly, Zhang Lisheng decided and no longer hesitated. Opening his black hole-like big mouth, he spat out a gust of cyclone-like wind.

That cyclone stirred the air till it became somewhat distorted, forcing a massive amount of air to slam downward rapidly. It was only until it had enveloped the monkey king tightly and tore open its tiny wounds to grow over three meters long could they hear a sharp ear-piercing whistling sound.

After it spurted the cyclone out, it sent Zhang Lisheng, who was still in the air, crashing back onto the trunk of a giant tree that was 1000 meters tall because of the counter force. When he saw that his sneak attack had hit the ape and had become more severely injured, he did not dare relax at all and hurriedly commanded thousands of wizard gus to crawl out of his body.

When the wizard gus left the young man’s body, they transformed into giants with a size of several dozens of meters tall after the small tiny insects merged together and charged towards the apes while they blotted out the sky.

Having been attacked sneakily, the monkey king, who was shrouded in the cyclone, endured the pain and leaped from one side to another to escape out of the cyclone. When it was still trying to catch its breath, it saw the countless giant bugs charging towards itself and at once, anger rose in his heart.

It barred its mouthful of teeth and howled loudly. Relying on all four limbs, it leaped up and picked up its own wooden stick, before wielding it to become 100 times bigger and brandishing it all over randomly, smashing the wizard gus into a bloody pile of flesh one after another.

Unfortunately, even though the golden ape had endless strength, the wizard gus that Zhang Lisheng commanded were just too many in number. Not only that, but the bugs even shrank and expanded as they liked, catching it off-guard, and no matter how it smashed them to death, there were still a few that sneaked past him.

If those poisonous bugs that managed to sneak past him only bit the monkey king once, it could still endure it by force, but many of the wizard gus transformed to become 3 to 6 meters long after approaching it before burrowing into the flesh and blood of the monkey king through the wounds on its body.

Even though the body of the golden ape was as hard as a rock, and that it’s tight, taut muscles would clamp the poisonous bugs to death after only burrowing for two to three inches deep, it still brought harm to the monkey king in the long run.

The monkey king that was born at the top of the food chain in the jungle of 10,000 square kilometers in the Oasis World had never experienced the taste of ‘danger’ before.

In its rage and fear, it relied on its innate instinct of being a wild beast. The six ears on the three heads suddenly shook for a few times and the six eyes were staring all over him wildly while sweeping their gaze past the sea of bugs onto the surroundings before fixing upon a giant tree of 1000 meters high in the distance.

Zhang Lisheng, who was just about to command the wizard gu to dodge since he wanted to spit another cyclone, suddenly found himself staring into the eyes of the ape. Chills rose from his heart and the scales on his back erected. Hastily, he leaped and dodged away, but unfortunately, it was already too late.

When the monkey king had identified the enemy’s position, it ignored its own danger completely and threw out the towering giant wood in its hand with its entire might.

The giant wood rotated twice in the air, forming a wind pressure so huge that it distorted Zhang Lisheng’s movement. Instantly, the wooden stick hit him and sent him flying into the depths of the jungle.

By the time it hit the young man, the monkey king also had to pay a very high price. The shrunken poisonous bugs had already covered its whole body, and there were still many giant wizard gus looking for an opportunity to bite, tear, and claw at it while adding more injuries onto the ape.

The injury was getting more severe. The golden ape could already feel that the enemy would not die, but it, on the other hand, could barely survive for long.

For this reason, after making sure of the direction Zhang Lisheng had fallen, it grabbed a flat giant bug that had almost swallowed one of its entire arms and wielded it to block all the attacks from the group of bugs in a rage before charging away speedily.

When the monkey king was chasing him in the depths of the jungle, Zhang Lisheng, who was entirely covered in ragged scales and had his bones exposed after smashing into several giant trees hundreds of meters high till they collapsed, was on the verge of his death since he landed on a pile of slippery moss. Fighting against the dizziness his head felt, he attempted to convert his transformation power from Money Toad to the lizard.

The jungle was silent in the darkness. It was clear that the tragic war between the overlord of the forest and the human just now had sent all the beasts scurrying away in shock.

In this quiet moment, the young man could hear his heartbeat gradually losing strength. A bitter smile crept upon his face but at this moment, he suddenly heard a noise of something moving closer rapidly nearby, sending chills down his heart.

Changing between the transformation power would only take six breaths, but Zhang Lisheng, who was basically in a desperate situation now, felt that it stretched out infinitely.

When he saw the trees swaying in the distance with the help of his amazing eyesight, the monkey king’s ferocious face had already jumped out of the darkness. The young man, who had already started to feel despair, managed to beat the monkey as he completed his transformation at the very last minute and nihilated right away while dodging the punch of the golden ape that it struck with all its might.

Zhang Lisheng barely saved his own small life. After the attack of the monkey king, who had seen its enemy lying in the forest dying, fell through, it understood, with its beast instinct, that it would certainly die if it continued to fight on.

The ape was born sly and brutal; it would bully the weak while fear the strong. Once it entered the state of despair, it actually chose an unimaginable option—it suddenly turned and fled.

However, after escaping for just several steps away, a sudden, uncontrollable, atrocious rage rose out of the blue from its heart. Turning around, it wanted to fight to the death with its enemy again, but it found how difficult it was to defy nature. At once, the ape could not go against it, and just like that, it started to hesitate at such a critical juncture.

Zhang Lisheng was lurking in a weed beside the golden-furred giant ape, so when he saw that the monkey had suddenly stopped after turning around to leap and crawl on all four limbs while trying to get away from the attack of his wizard gus, he seized this chance to extend the nine scorpion tails behind him to get close to the ape. Activating all the wizard power in his body, he cast the omniscient power ‘Sliver the air with nine tail end’.

In an instant, the nine scorpion tails inter-played in the air while drawing mysterious arcs and split the air open while cutting nine long and deep wounds that revealed the golden ape’s bones.

Fresh blood gushed out from the monkey king like rain, taking away its last ingenuity.

In this life-and-death battle consisting of alternation between stunned trepidation and berserk roaring, the giant ape that was gradually drenched in blood started to move slowly. Its strength gradually became weaker and in the end, it collapsed onto the jungle soil.

“Is it finally dead?” Upon seeing the monkey king collapsing, Zhang Lisheng did not feel relief yet and continued to command his wizard gus to sink their teeth into the ape while tearing its skin off for a while. Only then did he carefully stand up from the place where he was hiding and muttered to himself.

This monkey had punched and slammed two Grand Wizards and had directly died before they even got the chance to change their transformation power, which sent a lingering fear in the young man’s heart. He extended his head to watch for a moment, and finally, he slowly walked up to the monkey king. Just as he took about two to three steps, he saw that the giant ape’s body suddenly twitched violently for a while, so, at once, he leaped back and nihilated his body again.

However, very soon, Zhang Lisheng found out that his caution had been excessive. The reason the monkey king twitched was not that it had resurrected but instead, it had mysteriously bent its knees and hugged it with both of its hands. As it twitched, it began to shrink and in the end, it shrank to become a stone that was the size of a goose egg.

“It turned into a stone…” Bewildered, Zhang Lisheng stared at this hill-like ape that was over ten meters tall turning into a stone that could fit into his palm in front of him and finally muttered to himself after a long time of astonishment.

Then, he walked up and bent over to pick up the stone. After turning it around, he noticed that other than its heavy weight, there was nothing out of the ordinary about it at all. Opening his mouth, he blurted out, “Don’t tell me that this monkey is actually the prototype of Sun Wu Kong that is begotten from a stone. The Colossal World is indeed full of many weird things…”

While he was lamenting, he commanded the surviving hundreds of wizard gus to crawl back onto his body and enter his flesh again. Even though thousands of his wizard gus had died for the sake of testing the power of his Gu Sea Method, and that he had killed the Oasis World’s monkey king by luck, with him almost dying in return, he was still very satisfied with the process and results.

Breathing a long sigh of relief, the young man plucked a huge stiff leaf to wrap around his lower body and put the transformed stone monkey in between his waist. After jumping around in the jungle for a while, he returned to the branch where Guo Caiying and the other two were.