I seek immortality by chance

Chapter 577: Heart-eating insects advance, fighting thousands of miles away
"boom!!"

Black calamity clouds gathered, and an aura of destruction emerged above the sky. All the ferocious beasts within a thousand miles were trembling in fear, curling up in caves, and dared not move.

Sixth level of heavenly tribulation.

The heart-eating worms followed Gu Yuan, and none of the bodies they inhabited were bad. They had already reached the peak of the fifth level and were able to trigger a heavenly tribulation. Before, they were just suppressing it.

But now, he had to endure the calamity.

"call out!!"

The heart-eating worm flapped its wings as thin as a cicada's wing, suddenly drilled out from the body of the Ape King, and faced the calamity clouds in the sky.

It can practice cultivation, fight, and even mate with the help of its "body", but it cannot break through the heavenly tribulation, which it must do with its real body in person.

This is also one of the reasons why it has been suppressing the heavenly tribulation and dared not break through.

Its strongest abilities are "residence" and "devouring memories", but its main body is not strong.

Although he can switch between reality and illusion and has unparalleled soul power, he is just an ordinary monster under the heavenly calamity.

Even worse.

This is also the reason why heart-eating insects are so rare in the world.

It is easy to die from natural disasters.

But since it followed Gu Yuan, it has been devouring beings that are beyond its realm. The strength of its soul power far exceeds its own realm, and its foundation is extremely strong. Therefore, even when facing the sixth level of heavenly tribulation, he is not too panicked.

"If you dare, chop your grandpa to death!"

As the thunder struck, the Heart-Eating Bug let out an angry roar, flapped its twelve wings, and suddenly flew into the sky.

"boom!!"

But when the calamity cloud fell, the heart-eating insect was knocked back at an even faster speed.

Its insect body was wrapped in layers of thick soul power, but in the thunder, this kind of illusory soul power was the most unbearable and directly penetrated everything, knocking its body away and smashing it into the cliff.

"Master, save me!"

The power of the thunder was beyond the expectations of the Heart-Eating Bug. It shouted loudly, hoping that Gu Yuan would lend it a helping hand.

But Gu Yuan sat cross-legged without even raising his eyelids. He just opened the jade box brought by the Heart-Eating Bug and took out the Green-Scaled Bodhi Dates from it.

There is no need to be overly afraid of the first few thunder tribulations.

It’s better to practice first.

His current practice in the middle stage of Tianling is no different from that in the early stage of Tianling. Both involve condensing magic power stars. When the twelve magic power stars are condensed again, he can condense the "Sun Wheel".

Even the middle stage of the Tianling realm is higher, and the condensation of magic power may be faster than that of the early stage of the Tianling realm.

Therefore, this magical date is still very useful to him. Taking it can increase his magic power by one star.

"Angang!"

When the spiritual date entered his mouth, the green scale-like date skin melted instantly, transforming into thousands of green dragon shadows that suddenly drilled into Gu Yuan's stomach and then swam towards his limbs and bones.

The light red date flesh turned into a hot stream and merged into his stomach.

Gu Yuan felt as if there were dragons and snakes crawling under his skin. Winding traces appeared one after another. His whole body was hot and his blood seemed to be boiling.

Dragons and snakes were swimming and the blood was boiling, but Gu Yuan felt more and more comfortable. The "river of magic power" in the Dantian was surging, and not long after, an illusory "star" turned from virtual to real, and then moved without wind, from the water to the sky, and hung in the sky.

There are fourteen stars in the first month of Tianling!

Another step forward in cultivation!
"boom!!"

"master!"

Gu Yuan felt better, but from the side of the mountain top came a panicked cry for help.

Above the sky, inky black calamity clouds as thick as a bucket fell down at a very fast speed, attacking the thumb-sized heart-eating insect with terrifying force.

This is the last thunder, and it is the most terrifying.

The heart-eating worm was already charred black, with cracks all over its twelve wings, and its soul power was greatly reduced. If it were struck by this lightning, its life would be in real danger.

The soul power it has accumulated has far surpassed its realm, but its natural soul body has the weakest resistance to the power of thunder and lightning. Even with such accumulation, it is still difficult to survive the thunder and lightning with its own strength.

"Keep your mind focused and don't panic!"

Seeing this, Gu Yuan's expression also became stern, and he shouted at the heart-eating insect.

Then, lightning began to grow in his eyes, and lightning flashed from all the bones and acupoints in his body. All his blood turned into lightning liquid.

He stood cross-legged on the spot, but his skin was transparent and his whole body completely turned into a ball of "thunder spirit".

An inexplicable attraction and commanding force quietly permeated.

"boom!!"

"boom!!"

The lightning, which was originally as thick as a bucket, suddenly split into two. One continued to strike the heart-eating worm, while the other flew out and struck Gu Yuan.

"boom!!"

The heart-eating worm was chopped away fiercely, six of its twelve wings were broken, the soul light around it dimmed, and its breath was greatly reduced.

Although seriously injured, there was ecstasy in the eyes of the Heart-Eating Bug.

The thunder of tribulation has passed, and it still has nearly half of its soul power, and has already seen the light.

"Don't be complacent, the golden fire is coming!"

But before he could laugh, he heard a solemn scolding in his ears.

Upon hearing this, the Heart-Eating Bug quickly used its remaining six wings to protect its face and curled up on the top of the mountain.

"boom!!"

It happened in a flash. A ball of golden flame immediately surged out of the heart-eating worm's body. The flame was born from within the body, burning the demonic power and wrapping up the entire body of the heart-eating worm.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan withdrew his gaze and didn't look any further.

Jinhuo can only rely on the Heart-Eating Bug himself to deal with this disaster; he is unable to help.

But the heart-eating worm followed him and devoured countless souls, even the soul of a seventh-level great demon. Souls are like water, so they should be able to wade through the scorching golden fire.

He lowered his eyes and watched the inky lightning slowly disappearing in his palm. He then raised his head to glance at the rolling calamity clouds with a thoughtful look on his face.

"After obtaining the Taiyi Divine Thunder Seal, my innate body was greatly stimulated. I can indeed forcibly change a trace of the thunder. However, this is the only chance. Any more will only intensify the heavenly tribulation..."

Although he also had a congenital body before, it was still far from enough for him to control the thunder.

Only when the thunder method is further developed can it have this bit of magic.

"In this way, if Senior Sister and Qingqing are going through the tribulation, I can also lend a helping hand..."

This ability is actually not very useful to Gu Yuan himself, but if it is used to help others, then he will be a human-shaped treasure that can walk and avoid disasters.

Who knows, you can also use this ability to trade some treasures.

"what!"

"It hurts!"

While Gu Yuan was thinking, the heart-eating worm was engulfed in flames and kept screaming.

But the dark green soul light on its insect body was like water, constantly extinguishing the golden fire. Even when the soul fire was about to be sharpened, there were wisps of bright and clear light emerging, carrying a hint of inexplicable Taoism.

Gu Yuan knew that the Heart-Eating Bugs were doomed to fail.

"boom!"

"Hahahaha, what a bullshit heavenly calamity! I'll kill your grandpa Bug if I dare!"

Sure enough, not long after, the golden flames around the heart-eating worm dissipated with the wind, and then it suddenly opened its eyes, looked up at the sky, and let out an extremely arrogant roar.

The robbery cloud ignored the cries of the Heart Devouring Bug and quietly dispersed. Without killing this "heaven-defying creature", it could only disperse helplessly, accepting that there was one more sixth-level monster in the world.

"Boom!"

The spiritual energy in the sky surged like a tsunami and fell into the body of the Heart-Eating Bug. Its broken and charred body emitted a translucent luster, and its broken wings condensed again. The thumb-sized body suddenly stretched to the size of an index finger, and the number of the twelve cyan-gold wings increased again, directly becoming sixteen, which looked a little creepy.

Demonic energy rises into the sky, terrifying soul thoughts surge endlessly, and the heart-eating worm breaks through to the sixth level!
Not only that, his soul was surging, his demonic energy was surging, and he was actually about to enter the middle stage of the sixth level.

"Jie Jie Jie!"

"Break it for me!"

The heart-eating worm circled in the air, constantly emitting excited and sneerful sounds from its mouth.

But the surging demonic energy suddenly stopped at the last half step and no longer rose.

The aura of the heart-eating worm remained at the early sixth stage.

Its smug laughter suddenly froze.

Having reached the level of the sixth stage, it is already comparable to the human race's celestial spiritual cultivators. Every step is the result of hard work. It thought that with its accumulation, it could directly break through to the middle stage of the sixth stage in one step and reach the same height as its master, or even surpass him. But now it seems that it is still a long way behind.

"Master, the beasts here are rampant, ignorant of fate, and killing innocent creatures. There is also the Dragon Clan Demon Mansion with evil intentions, wanting to seize the Dragon Slaying Platform. Let's go and kill the monsters and dragons!"

The heart-eating worm rolled its eyes, fluttered its wings, and flew to Gu Yuan with a flattering laugh, and suggested in a low voice.

"Okay, go and kill the demons and dragons. I'll wait for you here. Make sure you bring back the Dragon Slaying Platform."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuan did not refuse. Instead, he chuckled and said to the heart-eating worm.

The heart-eating worm was startled for a moment, and the flapping of its wings stopped.

……

……

Half a month later.

In a vast ancient forest, Gu Yuan sat cross-legged on the broad back of Lei Xiao Qilin, with a turquoise wine pot and golden dragon meat floating in front of him.

While drinking, he swallowed this last treasured piece of dragon meat and looked ahead with a smile.

In front of the forest, there is a quiet ancient pond with bottomless water. Even though the sun is high in the sky, the pond with a radius of a thousand feet is still cool.

"boom!"

"call out!"

At this moment, in the pool, there was a red dragon, spitting dragon flames from its mouth, fighting with a giant crocodile with a golden body and thick scales.

"Die for your grandpa bug!"

The red dragon spoke in human language, roared angrily, and continuously spit out streams of scorching dragon flames, attacking the golden-armored crocodile.

The golden-armored crocodile doesn't seem to know any mysterious magic, but its scales are indestructible. Even though it is burned by the dragon fire, its scales become more and more dazzling, emitting a golden glow.

It feels like real gold is not afraid of fire.

This red dragon is not a real dragon, but a sixth-stage early stage ferocious dragon that was inhabited by the Heart-Eating Worm. It is a native creature of this world, with low magical powers and impure blood. It is only evolved from a demon snake in the pond, so it could not withstand the soul of the Heart-Eating Worm and was taken away by it.

As for the previous Ape King, because the Heart-Eating Bug wanted to break through the heavenly tribulation and leave this body, the Ape King's physical body soon died. In addition, it was originally struggling to control the Ape King, so it was difficult for it to inhabit it again, and it could only use this demon dragon as a transition.

In the past half month, it transformed into a red dragon and traveled through thousands of mountains with Gu Yuan, picking many exotic fruits and treasures, but there was nothing that could be called "opportunity".

During this period, he kept "hinting" at Gu Yuan to attack and kill the powerful ferocious beast in the middle stage of the sixth level, so that it could live in it and take this opportunity to break through the last half step and achieve the middle stage of the sixth level.

But would Gu Yuan fulfill his wish?

A sixth-level ferocious beast is not a cabbage that you can easily encounter.

Even in this Xuanfeng Realm, you still need to rely on luck to see it.

And he entered this world with a purpose.

Seize the Dragon-Slaying Platform, devour dragon flesh, and search for secret treasures.

These all take time.

The Xuanfeng Realm was vast and boundless, and he had been walking for a full half month. Not only did he not find the Dragon-Slaying Platform or other natural treasures, he did not even see the shadow of a human cultivator or a great dragon monster.

Therefore, he could only follow the direction of the spiritual veins of the mountains and rivers and keep walking towards the center of the vast mountains.

The closer you get to the center of the mountains, the stronger the spiritual energy becomes, the more likely it is that more rare treasures will appear, and you may also encounter other cultivators or powerful monsters.

It is a good time to wait for the stone liquid to cool down and to move out of the first exploration range of the stone liquid.

Therefore, Gu Yuan's direction of progress was planned, and he would naturally not follow the wishes of the Heart-Eating Bug and help him search for ferocious beasts all over the mountains and kill them.

But today, in the ancient pond in the mountains, a giant crocodile suddenly appeared and swallowed the light of the sun, attracting the attention of a man and a bug.

This is a giant golden crocodile in the middle stage of level six!

The heart-eating worm was immediately overjoyed and asked Gu Yuan for help.

Gu Yuan naturally would not refuse.

He was unwilling to go through the trouble of finding a sixth-order beast and killing it, but if he encountered one, he would naturally not let it go.

More importantly, this giant crocodile has scales all over its body that shine brightly with golden light and are indestructible. They are excellent materials for refining weapons and can be said to be full of treasures.

However, Gu Yuan wanted to train the Heart-Eating Bug, so he did not take the initiative to attack, but let the Heart-Eating Bug solve the problem on its own first.

So this is the scene before our eyes.

"Beast!"

Seeing that it was unable to break the defense of the giant golden crocodile, the Heart-Eating Bug opened its mouth and roared. A red light appeared in its dragon eyes and transformed into two divine lights, which suddenly shot towards the giant golden crocodile's eyes.

This red dragon is a creature of this world. It does not know how to cultivate and does not participate in the creation of the world. However, the heart-eating worm has devoured countless memories and possesses many magical powers and secret techniques. Now it is living in the body of the dragon. Although it cannot cultivate the magical powers of the physical body in a short period of time, it can use the dragon's body to perform various secret techniques.

At this moment, the light of the dragon's eyes is the secret technique of the seventh-level demon, Black Dove Phoenix, the Red and Phantom Soul-Scattering Divine Eyes.

This number can concentrate the monster's soul power in its eyes, integrate it with the power of boundless red fire, ignore the physical body, and directly burn the enemy's soul.

Once the soul dies, no matter how powerful your physical body is, it will be useless.

"Roar!!"

The giant golden crocodile's scales are indestructible, and it is also highly resistant to soul techniques. When this divine light passed through the giant crocodile's nictitating membrane, the power of red fire dissipated by 30% out of thin air. If this giant crocodile knew how to practice, could polish its scales and condense the armor light, this technique would definitely be useless to him.

But a ferocious beast is still a ferocious beast after all. It is difficult to resist this mysterious secret technique with its physical strength alone. The giant crocodile felt as if its soul was on fire and it was in extreme pain. It could not help but let out a painful howl, and its tail kept whipping the deep pool.

He moved his limbs, madly trying to dive into the pool of water, using the cool water to dispel the heat of his soul.

But it's too late.

"Give me your body!"

The heart-eating insect roared angrily, and suddenly a small golden insect appeared between the eyebrows of the red dragon. It flapped its sixteen wings, turned into a stream of light, and drilled directly into the eyebrows of the golden giant crocodile.

The giant crocodile's huge figure suddenly froze, as if it had turned into a golden sculpture.

In his eyes, a green insect shadow slowly emerged.

Not only that, an even more powerful demonic energy surged from the giant crocodile's body.

After this devouring, the Heart-Eating Bug completed the last half step and completely entered the middle stage of the sixth stage.

But Gu Yuan didn't bother to look at the heart-eating worm, but looked into the distance.

Everything seemed normal within his field of vision, but Gu Yuan's keen senses sensed a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy, floating slowly from the southeast.

Like ripples on a lake, spreading over an infinite distance.

"Someone is fighting thousands of miles away..."

(End of this chapter)