The Great Worm Lich

In the doldrums of his power, Zhang Lisheng was inexplicably caught in the Four Image Formation that was set up by the Gate of Dao’s elders. Still, he managed to make a reverse sneak attack and successfully escaped the desperate situation. Firstly, it was because the ambushers had made an outdated and wrong assessment on his strength, thinking that they had already sent out a critical formation. In actual fact, their power was insufficient, and they had used the wrong structure. Secondly, the tricks that the people in the Gate of Dao used were all filthy and did not even possess any favorable climate and topographical advantages. Not only that, but they were not wholly united and were too eager to seek success. Thirdly, when the young man transformed into the eye beast, the invisible moment of force power that he used could miraculously fight against the Dao method. This allowed him to survive the long joint attack from the four Taoist priests.

One could say that if they had not presented any of these three factors, the young man would have inevitably been nihilated, with his soul shattering. However, all these three had been given, allowing him to break the formation, kill a few Gate of Dao’s elite disciples, and escape. He had even swallowed the primordial spirits of the Gate of Dao’s elders who had diligently cultivated fruitfully.

The negative emotions such as bitterness, anger, remorse, despair, and more that were produced after these primordial spirits entered his stomach was enormous, in terms of quantity. However, one still couldn’t compare this to the amount that Zhang Lisheng received when he led the Wizard Li expeditionary army across the ocean to exterminate powerful Hellfire tribes. After all, no matter how big the ‘ferocious tiger’ was, there were only two of them, so it was just a matter of time for them to weigh beneath hundreds of thousands of bugs.

From a different perspective, no matter how many ‘bugs’ there were, the quality was still not as nourishing as the ‘tiger’s meat.’ However, since Zhang Lisheng was so occupied with escaping, he had not realized it yet. It was only until he, whose body and spirit had started to deteriorate as he limped on the desert while tripping over the dune till he fell to the ground, did he notice the abnormalities.

“The preservative I made has already condensed in my body till they turned into a semi-solid state like jelly. Why would it seep out of my wound so much then? Don’t tell me that the Taoist’s power has dissolved it…” Crawling up from the ground with great difficulty, the young man realized that his chest had been entirely covered with sand. Both of his trembling hands felt extremely sticky, so he could not help but look at the thick oil on his palm as he blurted out.

As he mumbled to himself, he strode his heavy footsteps continued to move forward. Without warning, a flashlight went off above his head, causing him to exclaim in surprise, “No, no! This is… this is…”

He pressed a hand on his heart. With his mouth dropped, an ecstatic expression could be seen on his face as he mumbled coherently, “It’s beating! It’s beating! My heart is actually beating and producing blood and pushing the preservatives out of my blood vessels. My body is clearly showing signs of vitality now. In this case, it would only be just a matter of time before I become a Grand Wizard. Why is this happening? Why would I suddenly cross the chasm of Resurrection out of the blue… C-Could this be a blessing in disguise, and this is the result of me swallowing the primordial spirits of the two Taoists? As expected from a Taoist priest! Hahaha…”

The young man laughed happily for a while and vented the irrepressible joy in his heart. Realizing that he had been somewhat too smug, he crouched and turned his head around, before placing a hand over his eyes to shade himself from the sun as he looked at the distant sand sea. Noticing that nobody was giving chase to him, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to amble in the desert.

After walking a few hundred meters, more mucus leaked out of the wounds on his body. At the same time, Zhang Lisheng found that the beating of his heart was gradually becoming clear, despite not having to place his hand on his chest. When he finally staggered and saw the massive silhouette of the New Washington A, his heartbeat had already reached over 500 beats per minute.

An ordinary human would have long died if he had such a heartbeat speed. However, to the young man, this was just none other than slight anxiety.

Not only that, but the tightening of his chest also meant that it was a sign that his body was alive. For this reason, he was not concerned about his fast heartbeat. He felt that this was a normal reaction as he focused all of his attention on how he should enter the oasis city.

“If I walk in just like that, I’ll definitely be treated like a monster or a madman…” The preservative squeezed out of his body as his blood was mixed together with the sand. When it dried, it stuck onto his naked body like a layer of armor. As Zhang Lisheng muttered to himself, he continued to walk towards the city while trying to remove the mud from his body, revealing his dry skin.

When he saw his skinny body, he was completely taken aback. Puzzled, when he scrubbed off all the mud from out of his body, he lowered his head and stood there, looking at his skeleton-like body. After a moment of shock, he said with a wry smile, “I knew that I wouldn’t be so lucky to become a Grand Wizard so easily and comfortably…”

While he was speaking, he suddenly felt a pang of pain in his chest. The thudding sound that was gradually getting louder in his ears became even more rapid.

In just a short span of a few seconds, along with the pain that was gradually growing intense, that sound slowly reached to a point where Zhang Lisheng could no longer endure it. Without warning, it suddenly disappeared, and by the time the young man felt that the buzzing sound had gone, he remained stunned for a while. Immediately, he placed his palm on his heart that was beating rapidly like a sports car revving and realized that it was no longer beating, as if he had ‘died.’

As chills ran down Zhang Lisheng’s spine, he felt that the energy in his body was entirely sucked out. If it were not for the fact that he was unusually excited, he would have collapsed onto the ground.

Just as he gritted his teeth, feeling infuriated for no reason, he suddenly felt an extremely faint beating in his palm.

His anger disappeared as the young man’s eyes widened. His palm pressed harder on his chest until another weak heartbeat came. Only then did his stiff body finally relaxed.

The situation was not as good as he had initially expected, but it was not in vain. He relaxed and thought about it before finally burying himself into the desert, carefully pondering in the dark. After a long while, he finally cleared the jumbled messes in his head and realized the cause of the matter.

Zhang Lisheng made an inference. The reason his heart began to beat in the first place was that as his stomach ‘digested’ the primordial spirits of both Gate of Dao’s priest, they had kicked off his ‘dead’ body’s vitality.

Then, as the resistant energy of the primordial spirits gradually became weaker, the speed of his ‘digestion’ steadily accelerated. All of the organs in his body, especially his heart that was the central organ of them all, showed a steadily growing vitality that somewhat exceeded what was normal.

It was natural for this abnormality that resulted from the digestion of the Taoist elders to not be able to last long. By the time he had completely absorbed the soul, it immediately returned to its original state, leaving behind a recovering vitality that was only less than one percent.

The young man first thought that he had obtained a strong hawk, but it turned out that he had only managed to get a skinny sparrow. After understanding all this, the vast difference caused the young man to feel disappointed. Despite feeling disheartened, he knew that the gap between one and a hundred was 100 times. Still, the difference between zero and one hundred was infinite.

The thing that he obtained might seem insignificant. Nevertheless, the reality was that a fundamental change had already started to occur. In any case, he had indeed crossed the chasm of Resurrection.

“The expansion of the Wizard Li tribe is close at hand. As long as it did not occur from nothing, the rest will just be a matter of time…” After climbing out from the yellow sand, Zhang Lisheng consoled himself and no longer thought about the gains and losses.

At this time, the sky had turned completely dark. A cold wind began to blow in the originally steaming desert. Sensing the trace of moisture in the wind that coursed through the oasis, a smile appeared at the corner of the young man’s mouth. “Perhaps I don’t have to walk anymore. Hopefully, it’ll succeed!”

Striating his body, he allowed a big expanse of his body to come into contact with the touch of wind.

With the harsh ear-piercing sound, the strong wind sweeping up countless yellow sands passed through Zhang Lisheng and continued to roar forward. The only difference was that there were many tiny and moist sand groups in the sand.

The sand groups lightly fluttered in the air and came into contact with more moisture. The number of sand stuck to it was also gradually increasing. Finally, the sand could no longer sweep them up and just dropped on the ground.

After that, they began to roll under the moonlight, condensing together one by one to form a pile of wet sand that grew four thick limbs and heads with only eyes and ears.

When the ‘Sandman’ was born, it stood at the same spot, motionless. It was only until the young man had opened his mouth and gently order, “Come here,” did it finally jolted and ran up to Zhang Lisheng.

Under the bright moon that was emitting light, the body of the sandman that was made of moist sand looked extraordinarily fragile. His thoughts could command it. That appeared to be much more useless than any of the poisonous insects that Zhang Lisheng used to refine.

However, in actual fact, the wizard gus that the young man had killed could not be considered in the same breath as the sandman that had been oppositely endowed with a short life span.

Killing a living creature only needed a dagger. However, the level of power in giving life to an inanimate object, that had no wisdom and could only understand the most straightforward command, was already a god’s secret.

However, just like how an anxious national chess player would not have a mind as clear as the surrounding spectators, Zhang Lisheng did not realize that he had just used god’s power in a foreign world for the first time.

Looking at the moist sand creation that was smaller but several times sturdier than himself, he was only enveloped with a sudden feeling as he philosophically answered, “It’s a success! It only took ten seconds for me to create a sandman from when I started to sense the trace of water vapor in the wind. Nevertheless, if there were no water vapor, I wouldn’t have been able to create the sandman even in 10,000 years. This is the difference between one and zero, I suppose.”

Pointing to the city where the lights were shining in the distance, he ordered, “Squat down first and then stand up again before walking towards that light.”

As the young man was speaking, he sat straightaway on the broad shoulders of the sandman, who was kneeling on the ground and raised his feet up. At the next instant, like sensing the weight on its shoulders, the sandman stood steadily and stepped forward to walk to the New Washington A.

Even though its legs were short, the tireless creation from divine power had a fast space. After ten minutes, it brought its ‘creator’ to the edge of the oasis city.

When the young man saw that the bright street lights were within his reach, he commanded the sandman to stop. According to his plan, he drew something in the air. He reshaped his short but sturdy creation into that of an ordinary human being.

“This should be okay now,” After Zhang Lisheng had finished his work, he took a few steps back and looked back. When he saw that the sandman could already mislead the public in thinking that he was one of them, he said, “Slow down and move forward.”

Following behind his own creation, he walked on the cold concrete road of the city.