Chapter 501: Self-Detonation

Chapter 501: Self-Destruction

Seeing the Starworm Empress continuously adapting to Holy Xi's power and growing stronger,

Li Wei was also contemplating how to deal with the Starworm Empress.

Brute force alone was no longer possible.

The Meteor Fireball Technique couldn't be used here.

If he could use the Meteor Fireball Technique, he would still have a chance to overwhelm the Starworm Empress with massive damage.

Now, blindly attacking would only embolden the Starworm Empress, making it even more powerful.

Seeing that the Starworm Empress could even absorb and evolve from Holy Xi's sacred power,

A flash of inspiration struck Li Wei's mind, and he came up with an idea.

Thus, what happened earlier occurred.

An inconspicuous ball of light was mixed into the Sacred Dragon's breath and absorbed by the Starworm Empress.

Since it was completely different power, although this force wasn't strong, driven by instinctual adaptation,

The Starworm Empress absorbed and digested it without hesitation, converting it into its own ability.

The next second, it paid the price.

After absorbing this ability, the Starworm Empress discovered that the energy within its body was rapidly expanding at a geometric rate.

But precisely this transformed energy was unusable by it.

The power Li Wei had mixed into the light ball was [Elemental Fission].

Elemental fission could elementalize matter, releasing the enormous energy contained within substances.

This transformation was occurring within the Starworm Empress's body—its internal matter was quickly elementalizing into elemental energy.

Li Wei had realized from the beginning that the Starworm Empress had not evolved any elemental attack methods.

He didn't understand why.

Because he had seen starworms that could breathe fire.

So starworms should be able to adapt and evolve elemental attack capabilities.

Li Wei guessed that perhaps the Starworm Empress had abandoned certain abilities during its evolution.

Although it couldn't adapt to evolve elemental abilities, when facing elemental magic attacks, it could adapt to evolve stronger magical resistance.

Just like how it had golden stripes imbued with sacred power on its body, yet it couldn't use sacred power.

The golden stripes gave it higher resistance to sacred power.

It was as if all its evolutionary abilities in terms of energy had been invested in defense.

The Starworm Empress's body continued to elementalize, yet it couldn't control this ability.

After Holy Xi stopped attacking, she glanced at the Starworm Empress and hurriedly turned to fly away into the distance.

The Starworm Empress's body had changed from dark green-black to red, like a boiled lobster, with its shell turning red under the illumination of the massive elemental energy within.

Precisely because the Starworm Empress's shell had evolved extremely strong magical resistance,

The elemental energy within its body also couldn't be released, being confined within its sturdy shell.

Like a bomb.

As more of its body became elementalized, the chain reaction speed of elemental fission accelerated.

Squeak squeak squeak! Crack crack crack!

The Starworm Empress's body inflated like a balloon being blown up.

Seeing its body swell to over twenty meters, with the external shell still unbroken, Li Wei showed a regretful expression.

This shell, if used to forge equipment, could definitely create legendary-level super magical resistance gear.

It might even withstand forbidden spells.

When the elemental energy converted from the matter within the Starworm Empress exceeded a certain threshold,

Its super magical resistance shell finally couldn't withstand it anymore.

With a crack, in less than 0.0001 seconds, all the elemental energy within the Starworm Empress erupted, becoming an enormous fireball appearing in the Ice Emperor's stomach.

The explosive shockwave stirred up violent storms and towering waves in the sea of acid.

Li Wei and Holy Xi had long since moved far away, but they were still splashed by flying acid liquid.

Fortunately, they had retreated quite a distance, so the aftermath wasn't too severe.

When the blinding light dissipated, the Starworm Empress and the massive black island starworm nest had both vanished.

Everything had been obliterated in that terrifying explosion. Just as Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief, the entire world began to shake.

Boom boom boom! Sway sway sway!

Even more massive waves erupted, acidic seawater shooting into the sky, as if the whole world was about to turn upside down.

Both Li Wei and Holy Xi showed traces of panic.

Soon, Li Wei realized it wasn't the world flipping and churning.

It was the Ice Emperor making a move.

The previous explosion had also affected the Ice Emperor, causing the current apocalyptic scene.

The world churned for more than ten minutes before calming down.

Just as Li Wei thought everything was over,

An irresistible super storm swept over.

Li Wei and Holy Xi, caught in the storm, instantly lost sight of each other.

The storm carried Li Wei toward the end of the acid sea, where he saw an enormous whirlpool.

The storm directly sent him into the whirlpool.

Li Wei's expression changed drastically as he hurriedly activated full defense.

Bang!

His entire body sank into the whirlpool of the acid sea.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

The magical shield was rapidly corroding, and Li Wei's mana was being consumed at an alarming rate.

Fortunately, this didn't last too long.

Li Wei was thrown out of the whirlpool and arrived in a strange world.

He floated in mid-air, and after great difficulty recovering from dizziness, he was stunned by the scene before him.

Before him was a massive ring-shaped world, with endless land stretching above his head, below his feet, and to his left and right, covered with trees.

For a moment, he couldn't distinguish which direction was sky and which was ground.

Li Wei floated in the air for a moment before plummeting toward the earth in a particular direction.

As he fell, Li Wei suddenly remembered the separation from Saint Xi.

He hurriedly searched for Saint Xi's figure.

"What's going on? Didn't Saint Xi make it over here?"

Li Wei could not sense Saint Xi's presence.

Closing his eyes, he perceived the soul link between them.

Saint Xi was alive and well, uninjured, and her emotions were very stable.

Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

Though he didn't know where that sudden storm had swept Saint Xi away to.

But at least she hadn't encountered any danger.

The next step was to find a way to regroup.

The distance between them was too great for Li Wei to communicate with Saint Xi on a soul level.

He could only determine the direction of her location through vague soul perception.

Li Wei flew toward the direction where Saint Xi was located.

He glanced around, noticing not far away was a circular landmass filled with trees.

Although it was circular land, when landing on the ground surface, one couldn't tell it was curved at all.

Li Wei sensed his mana, which had been consumed by more than half, and thought: Before searching for Saint Xi, I must first restore some of my magical power.

Otherwise, if I encounter any danger and don't have enough mana to deal with it, that would be troublesome.

Li Wei took out some Tian Shan snow water to drink, slowly recovering his magical power.

The surrounding trees seemed to react to the Tian Shan snow water in his hand, making rustling sounds.

Li Wei turned to look, seeing several trees nearby growing toward this spot, like Venus flytraps discovering prey, gradually surrounding him.

(End of Chapter)