Chapter 84: The Worm Is Here, The Dragon Was Once Here!
This Ice Demon Worm has an extremely bizarre and twisted appearance, making people feel that this creature’s evolutionary tree is not the same as that of other creatures on the Douluo Continent.
Its white-purple body is covered with viscous, slippery transparent mucus, which forms a protective membrane that isolates external petroleum.
At the same time, this mucus also reduces resistance, allowing these Ice Demon Worms to swim at extremely high speeds in the thick petroleum.
Why say these Ice Demon Worms have a bizarre appearance? Because many fleshy buds grow on these worms’ bodies, densely packed irregularly all over their bodies.
Those fleshy buds seem to have their own life, wriggling on its body, causing Huo Yuhao’s sanity to plummet!
Moreover, there are so many of these worms in the petroleum lake that it’s the kind that would make trypophobia sufferers explode at a single glance.
This giant oil field probably can’t be exploited. Not to mention that Enthusiasm Headquarters is too far from here, just the existence of these Ice Demon Worms makes the danger level of this oil field extremely high!
Even Huo Yuhao is a bit unwilling to scan these disgusting worms with spiritual power.
These worms’ heads have no eyes, only two white short antennae, and the tips of the antennae seem to be spiritual power sending and receiving devices.
Their way of observing the world is somewhat like the spiritual detection sound waves Huo Yuhao used at the Ding Yi Chamber of Commerce.
Since that’s the case, it’s easy to handle; spiritual power is Huo Yuhao’s specialty.
He used Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power to set up a mental power shielding barrier around his body.
For the Ice Demon Worm, Huo Yuhao is now playing the classic transparent human from ACG.
Of course, even if the world’s most premium furry came, they would absolutely never like these ghost bugs!
He would rather believe that someone in this world controls Cthulhu than believe someone has a fetish for Ice Demon Worms!
If there really is, Huo Yuhao says people’s fetishes are still too free; he recommends seeing a doctor here.
Huo Yuhao endured the disgust and used telekinesis to capture a hundred-year Ice Demon Worm.
Even Tian Meng, who is also an insect soul beast, couldn’t bear to look straight at these worms’ appearances.
In the Extreme North, he had only heard the names of these Ice Demon Worms and knew where they were, but he had truly never seen them before.
In the past, he was either gorging on Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow or playing Speed and Passion with Ice Empress, with no time at all to learn in detail about these Ice Demon Worms.
“Yu Hao, this soul beast looks way too casual! It’s completely different from other creatures on the Douluo Continent.”
Huo Yuhao nodded, agreeing with Tian Meng Ice Silkworm’s statement.
However, he actually knew that life’s evolution is never about constant refinement.
All organs in living beings actually follow one principle: if it works, it’s fine!
For example, human eyes are actually just a blob, and frequent use can lead to declining vision, which the Douluo Continent also follows.
Because there are quite a few people here who wear glasses.
The reason humanity can see clear lush forests, pristine skies, and blue oceans.
Is actually mainly due to the extremely overpowered brain processing in the biological world.
In a sense, everything you see is brain-supplemented by the brain.
So-called chromosomes, DNA, and genes are not as mysterious or grandiose as people think.
It’s just the simplest brute-force method, accumulated bit by bit.
In life’s long evolution, a pile of shit mountain code is left on the DNA, sometimes not even knowing how this code runs.
If evolution is seen as an exam, life’s goal is never a perfect score, but just sixty points to pass.
Reproduction and survival are life’s main melody; bluntly put, it’s the small head controlling the big head.
Of course, the Douluo Continent is a fantasy world, so the creatures here definitely can’t be described that way.
At least in Huo Yuhao’s view, the creatures of the Douluo Continent are constantly refining in their evolution!
They rely on the unique heaven and earth origin energy here to evolve various supernatural abilities, honing their bloodlines bit by bit, sprinting toward a perfect score in the path of evolution.
And the creatures closest to evolutionary perfection are the Dragon Clan!
This is the conclusion obtained from studying the three Dragon King corpses under the Green Soil of Xilu City.
Organizing his thoughts, Huo Yuhao used spiritual power to scan this about three-meter-long Ice Demon Worm, recording it in the Illustrated Record.
This time, the information that appeared in the Illustrated Record was exceptionally long, and at the same time, the “special information (part two)” Huo Yuhao had obtained before faintly emitted golden light, then dissipated along with the information.
“Ice Demon Worm: A special worm living in the southeastern part of the Extreme North.”
“The Extreme North was once a dense forest millions of years ago,”
“where a large number of Dragon Clan lived.”
“Later, the Dragon’s throne shattered, ten thousand dragons wailed in grief, the sky fell, and the shadow of death enveloped this perfect race.”
“Dragons were born from pride, and should have died for pride.”
“But there were always some Dragon Clan unwilling to die, unwilling to become an abandoned race just like that!”
“They abandoned their pride!”
“They abandoned solitude!”
“They embraced each other.”
“They chose to become worms.”
“In this bone-chilling Extreme North world, they self-degenerated in despair, casting aside the crown of evolution.”
“Elegant dragon bodies turned into worm bodies; aren’t those abhorrent fleshy buds traces of the existence of dragon scales?”
“They lost their eyes not because they like darkness, but because they are unwilling to witness their current ugly bodies.”
“Heh, where the worm is now, the dragon once was!”
“Recording: Due to the degradation of their former bloodline, the Ice Demon Worm carries a certain virus belonging to the Dragon Clan, which targets genes.”
“Owners of true dragon bloodlines can ignore the virus”
“Beware of the three poison fangs in its mouthparts; the virus enters the prey’s body through these poison fangs.”
“This creature is not recommended for consumption………”
Seeing “special information (part two)” link with the recording ability, the Ice Demon Worm’s information appeared extremely detailed in the Illustrated Record.
Huo Yuhao also learned that the so-called Ice Demon Worms before him were once giant dragons soaring in the skies.
Because of the Dragon God’s madness, the Dragon Clan became abandoned; these Dragon Clan living in the Extreme North could not accept this cruel reality.
They chose self-degradation, turning from giant dragons into worms, eternally binding themselves in this petroleum lake forever.
“Heh, I wonder what Di Tian would think seeing this group of worms?”
“Anger or sorrow?”
“Probably anger, furious at this group of worms that defile the Dragon Clan’s glory.”
Huo Yuhao stepped on that hundred-year Ice Demon Worm with his foot, looking at the massive white-purple body rolling in the petroleum lake.
That was an Ice Demon Worm with cultivation around thirty thousand years, the king of these worms.
The fleshy buds on its body were almost like scales, but it still hadn’t escaped the worm body and showed no signs of eyes being born.
Unwilling to soar, then be a worm for life.
Huo Yuhao had no interest in helping this group of ugly, aesthetically devoid worms.
