In the dead of the night, the cold wind blew gently as icy dew slowly spread …
Yi Yun, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up.
An instinctive sense of danger arose in his mind. Yi Yun immediately opened his energy vision. In his vision, he saw a furry, ball-like desolate beast that was slowly squirming.
This desolate beast had a pair of black round eyes. Its body was covered in tiny tentacles. These tentacles rubbed against the ground, but strangely, they did not make a single sound.
Not only that, the worm's aura was extremely well hidden. It did not emit a single bit of it. As it walked, corrosive liquid flowed out of its pores. Wherever it passed, it left a trail of corrosive liquid on the ground.
This corrosive liquid also slowly seeped into the soil.
"Chi!" "Chi!" "Chi!"
With a few almost inaudible sounds, the detonation disk arrays that Yi Yun had previously set up had malfunctioned just as they were about to be activated due to the corrosive liquid that had seeped into the soil. They had been directly corroded.
Yi Yun's muscles tightened as the Purple Crystal within his body shone. This desolate beast was the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm!
Yi Yun had read in the "Divine wilderness" manual that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was a very difficult desolate beast to deal with. It liked to ambush its prey at night, and it was slow. It turned a blind eye to the feces of king-ranked desolate beasts. In addition, the liquid that flowed out of its body could corrode the detonation disk array, causing cultivators to lose any warning. Hence, it was the nemesis of lone cultivators.
The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's hair was like steel needles. It contained a highly toxic liquid that could be shot out like arrows. If a warrior came into contact with it, they would be corroded into dregs.
This was the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's most powerful attack. Especially when its body was shot with thousands of arrows, there was almost no way to dodge.
Typical cultivators would avoid the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm if they saw it, to prevent it from attacking with its life on the line.
Before coming to the Divine wilderness, Yi Yun had made sufficient preparations. The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's weakness was its speed. To deal with it, he had to first open up a distance and attack from afar.
Fighting this desolate beast that was covered in poison and had countless tough, steel-like spikes protecting it was equivalent to suicide.
Yi Yun suddenly burst out of the pit with the Tai Cang Bow in hand!
Peng!
The sudden explosion caused the movement of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm to suddenly stop.
And at this moment, Yi Yun had already retreated a hundred feet away. He nocked an arrow in mid-air and the Tai Cang Bow was like a full moon in the night sky.
Yi Yun's body's elemental energy rapidly condensed and surged towards the black arrowhead like a tidal wave. The Wind Chasing Arrow shone brightly in the night.
Xiu!
Yi Yun shot out an arrow. A stream of light tore through the night sky. Yi Yun's Wind Chasing Arrow had an explosive array embedded in the arrowhead!
This arrow struck the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm with lightning speed!
Rumble!
With a loud bang, the Exploding Array exploded. The Thousand-legged Black Silkworm let out a mournful cry, and a large amount of its body fluid splattered into the void.
The black blood splattered on the grass around the wilderness. With a muffled sizzling sound, holes appeared where the poisonous blood landed.
At the moment the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was about to suffer, Yi Yun's eyes were like a hawk's as he stared at the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm. His arms tightened as he drew his bow and shot continuously!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bowstring whistled like thunder as the arrows tore through the air, leaving visible traces of Yuan Qi in the void.
In the darkness, these arrows fell like meteors. With an aura that seemed to tear through everything, they hit the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's wounds caused by the Exploding Array!
Sou Sou Sou!
These few arrows accurately pierced through the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's old wounds and penetrated its soft flesh.
The arrowhead tore through the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's weak abdomen and penetrated deeply into the ground.
The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm let out an earth-shattering cry. Its skin and flesh shrank as its bristles shot out like arrows!
The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm usually shot out a few dozen bristles to kill its prey. But this time, under the threat of death, the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm shot out all its bristles, densely packed like rain!
This was a true indiscriminate attack!
Cultivators who fought with the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm could easily die from the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's desperate attack because there was no room to dodge!
Yi Yun had long expected that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm would counterattack at all costs. With a stomp of his feet, the ground beneath his feet exploded. Yi Yun's body seemed to carry a strong wind as he charged towards the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's flank.
Sou Sou Sou!
Numerous steel needles brushed past Yi Yun's body, but Yi Yun dodged them all.
Yi Yun's position was where the steel needles were the most sparse. He was facing the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's wound!
Yi Yun's attack had blasted apart a large portion of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's flesh. The bristles had also been destroyed. The few remaining bristles could not be shot out due to the damage to its flesh.
This made the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's indiscriminate attack have an additional flaw!
This was something Yi Yun had already calculated. If not, it would have been very difficult for Yi Yun to deal with the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's dying attack. He had created this flaw to give himself a place to hide!
Seeing that its final attack had no effect, the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm panicked. It had shot out nearly all the steel needles on its body!
In a short period of time, its combat strength would be greatly reduced.
It began to brew poison in its body, hoping to spray the poison to corrode Yi Yun's body. But at this moment, Yi Yun had already taken a step forward. His body turned into a beam of light as he flew in front of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm.
Cha!
The Thousand Army Saber was unsheathed, emitting a buzzing sound. A bright saber beam pierced through the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's head at an alarming speed. Before the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's poison could be spewed out, its head had exploded due to the large amount of Yuan Qi condensed in the Thousand Army Saber.
The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's shrill screeching stopped as if it had been strangled by someone.
Its body violently convulsed a few times before collapsing to the ground.
Yi Yun's entire attack was done in one go. He did not give the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm any time to catch its breath!
Seeing that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was dead, Yi Yun recalled the "Ten Thousand Beast Totem" sutra.
To condense an Aspect Totem, one had to first condense a beast mark from a desolate beast's corpse.
The so-called beast mark was the condensation of the desolate beast's life essence and Power of Desolates!
Under normal circumstances, after a desolate beast was killed, its life essence and Power of Desolates would slowly dissipate into the Heaven and Earth.
The energy within the flesh and blood dissipated the fastest, while the energy within the bones dissipated slowly. It could be used by Desolate Heaven Masters to refine desolate bone relics.
Warriors who were not Desolate Heaven Masters would find it difficult to use this energy.
However, when a warrior cultivated the totem mystic technique, they could borrow the laws of Heaven and Earth to a certain extent, allowing the life essence and Power of Desolates in the desolate beasts to resonate with their own killing intent. From there, they could slowly extract this energy.
Only a desolate beast that a warrior had killed with his own hands could produce such a resonance with the desolate beast's killing intent.
With the help of the totem mystic technique, the energy that was extracted would slowly condense into a tiny blob of light. This blob of light had the mark of the dead desolate beast.
This was a beast mark.
Actually, the beast mark condensed by a warrior using the totem mystic technique only took up a tiny portion of the desolate beast's energy.
Hence, even if the beast mark was extracted, the dead desolate beast could still be used to exchange for dragon scale runes. Using the desolate bones of such a desolate beast to refine a relic would not be much worse.
To condense a beast mark was not simple. Many warriors had to kill many desolate beasts before they could barely condense a beast mark. Furthermore, the quality was extremely limited.
The beast mark's quality was low, so the Aspect Totem that was condensed was naturally limited in power.
To successfully condense an Aspect Totem, many cultivators would try their best to choose a totem mystic technique that was easier to learn.
Although the higher the grade of the totem mystic technique, the higher the grade of the beast mark condensed, it was impossible to learn a high grade totem mystic technique.
However, it was impossible to learn a high level totem mystic technique. Killing dozens of wild beasts and barely condensing a beast mark, and the quality was extremely poor. Then, even a high level totem mystic technique would be meaningless.
For example, the 'Ten Thousand Beast Totem' that Yi Yun cultivated was such a mystic technique.
Even the Tai Ah Divine City's sages would only try to understand the mysteries within the 'Ten Thousand Beast Totem'. They would not cultivate this mystic technique that no one could master …
Yi Yun closed his eyes and meditated in front of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's corpse. He sank his spiritual energy into the Purple Crystal …
The Purple Crystal in Yi Yun's chest began to glow. Yi Yun felt as if a vortex had appeared in his body. The killing intent he had generated from killing the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm filled the vortex, emitting a soft hum.
Within the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's body, large amounts of life essence and Power of Desolates were being pulled by the vortex, surging out like a tidal wave!
Wu Wu Wu …
The energy vibrated violently in mid-air, finally condensing into a beast mark the size of a fist.
This beast mark emitted a reddish-gold glow. Within it was a silkworm baby's phantom image. With a thought from Yi Yun, the beast mark flew into Yi Yun's body.
Sou!
The beast mark's energy surged into Yi Yun's limbs. An indescribable feeling spread throughout Yi Yun's body.
Although he had many experiences of absorbing desolate beasts' essence energy, there had never been a time like today. It made all the pores on Yi Yun's body open up. It was as if his soul and flesh were being sublimated.
"Is this the process of condensing an Aspect Totem …?"
Yi Yun felt an inexplicable carefree feeling. Every inch of his bones, blood and meridians were being nourished by the desolate beast's essence, silently undergoing a transformation.
The life force within Yi Yun's body was like a sprouting seedling, rising bit by bit.
After about ten seconds, when the beast mark's energy was completely absorbed by Yi Yun, he opened his eyes.
So comfortable!
Yi Yun did not know what the beast mark extracted from a desolate beast's corpse was like when others condensed their Aspect Totem.
Would it be any different from the beast mark extracted from the Purple Crystal?
But now was not the time to consider this. According to the "Divine wilderness" records, when a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was on the brink of death, it would emit a special scent to inform the nearby Thousand Feet Black Silkworms to come over.
Soon, more than ten Thousand Feet Black Silkworms would gather here. There was even a chance that a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm King would appear. That was not something Yi Yun could handle.
He had to leave this place immediately!
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