“What is it that Sect Leader Tang wants to see me about?” Ye Mo asked in a puzzled manner.
Tang Mengyao said somewhat gloomily, “I have learned of Qian Die’s whereabouts and am preparing to go in search of her. I think this is something that I should tell you about.”
When Ye Mo heard this, his eyebrows gaped and he immediately said in a deep voice, “Where is she?”
Ao Qian Die had backstabbed himself and was trying to exterminate Mo Yue of Fei Hai City, if he found this female entrant, Ye Mo would not let her go.
“She should be in the Five Star Sect’s Double Heart Valley.” Tang Mengyao said in a low tone, of course she knew about the hatred between Ye Mo and Ao Qiandie. Ao Qian Die had been under her sect for over twenty years, it was impossible to say that she didn’t have any feelings, although Tang Mengyao knew full well that Ao Qian Die had been taken from her, she still wanted to know if Ao Qian Die had been taken from her while she was under her sect, or if she had been taken from her before that.
“How do you know?” Ye Mo then asked, once again puzzled. This time, however, Tang Mengyao just sighed and didn’t answer again.
Ye Mo knew that it should be a private matter, so he didn’t continue to ask, he just said, “Things are over over here, so I’ll go to Double Heart Valley with Sect Leader Tang.”
Tang Mengyao nodded, she had come originally to ask Ye Mo to go there together, for reasons she couldn’t say, yet she felt she should do so.
“By the way, does Sect Leader Tang know this thing?” Ye Mo asked as he once again pointed at the long greyish-white sèd worm corpse on the ground.
Not concerning Ao Qiandie, Tang Mengyao spoke much more easily and immediately replied, “That’s right, I know this thing. This is the most terrifying worm in the Cultivation World, called the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Worm. On the list of strange spirit bugs in the Cultivation World, other entrants ranked it as number one, though some entrants had to rank another spirit bug as number one. As a result, on the list of strange spirit insects in the Cultivation World there were two sentences like this, ‘If it is not a spirit insect that has not entered immortality, it is not the first Shadowless Silkworm; if it is not a spirit insect that has entered immortality, it is not the second Void Devouring Saliva.'”
Ye Mo froze for a moment, that first sentence he had also heard of, wasn’t it about his ‘shadowless’? Could it be that Tang Mengyao knew where this ‘Shadowless’ came from? She had seen herself strike with ‘Shadowless’ and wondered if she knew she had ‘Shadowless’. Then Ye Mo paid attention to Tang Mengyao’s expression and found that she didn’t seem to know that she had ‘No Shadow’. Ye Mo thought for a moment that it was normal, the ‘Shadowless’ was short and fast every time it struck, and before her divine sense could lock on, the ‘Shadowless’ would have already been put away by itself.
Thinking about this, Ye Mo once again asked, “What does Sect Leader Tang mean by these two words?”
Tang Mengyao explained, “In the cultivation world there is a most powerful thing that resembles a worm but is not a worm. This thing is called the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’, and I heard that the place where the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ come from is so mysterious that no one knows about it, not even the Immortal Realm. But the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ cannot be born in the Cultivation World, but it can roam the Cultivation World. I have heard that the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ appear in pairs in the form of eggs in mortal interfaces where they are unable to cultivate. Only a great power can put the eggs of the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ into pairs to hatch in the mortal entry interface.
Because this worm appeared later in the cultivation world, it was so powerful that the cultivators in the cultivation world thought it was a new strange spirit worm, but they soon found that even the most powerful strange spirit worm and the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ were very different. In the end, they did not cla*sify the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ as a strange spirit insect, which is how the saying ‘Not a spirit insect does not enter the immortals, not the first Shadowless Silkworm.’ That’s how the phrase came about.”
Ye Mo nodded, what Tang Mengyao said was similar to what Lin Isao Half said back then, so this should be the origin of the ‘Shadowless’. He even suspected that ‘Shadowless’ was the one Chu Jiu Yu brought to Earth, just who could tell about such things?
Tang Mengyao paused for a moment and pointed at the nine-headed worm that was killed by Ye Mo and said: “This worm is very frightening, it is the number one vicious worm in the cultivation world, even the unripe ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ are afraid of this thing. I heard that this worm came from the Immortal Realm, and even in the Immortal Realm, a high-ranking Nine-Headed Void Devouring Worm was terrifying beyond compare. Therefore, at that time, some people ranked the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ as the number one spiritual insect in the Cultivation World, and they ranked the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect as number two.
It was soon discovered that the Nine-Headed Void-Devouring Insect was countless times stronger than the next few strange spirit insects in the rankings, and could not even be compared. Moreover, the ‘Shadowless Taosworms’ grow very slowly and the immature ones are far from being a match for the Nine-Headed Void-Eating Insect. This is why there is the saying, ‘If it is not a spirit worm that has entered immortality, it is not the second Void Devouring Saliva. The nine-headed Void Devouring Worm is no longer treated as a strange spirit worm.”
Speaking here, Tang Mengyao took out a jade slip and handed it to Ye Mo and said, “I also know this from this jade slip, and this Nine Headed Void Devouring Insect is not a spirit insect in the strictest sense, and we can even say that the Nine Headed Void Devouring Insect is simply formed by the attachment of the soul of an entry cla*s.”
Ye Mo listened to this but his heart was moved, he had always suspected that these spirit mists and this devouring space was something that the entry was made for, now that Tang Mengyao said this, he believed it instead.
After receiving the jade slip handed to him by Tang Mengyao, Ye Mo immediately found that the jade slip introduced the same things as the objects, except that the objects focused on spiritual herbs and ores and the like, while the things introduced in this jade slip focused on spiritual insects or demonic beasts and the like.
Ye Mo quickly found the introduction of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect.
The Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect, also known as the Void Devouring Saliva. It is a fierce worm raised by a cultivator with his soul, and its mouth can devour space and its saliva can corrupt everything.
A cultivator needs to divide his soul into ten or more parts, depending on the strength of the cultivator’s soul. One of them is used as the main body, and the other is used as the soul of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect. Each portion of the split soul body controlled by the nine-headed Void Devouring Insect will grow into a space devouring ghost insect, and when these nine split soul controlled nine-headed Void Devouring Insects grow up, the cultivator as the main body will put these nine nine-headed Void Devouring Insects together.
After these nine split soul-controlled nine-headed Void Devouring Insects are put together, they will automatically merge into one and become a true nine-headed Void Devouring Insect. If the number of surviving split souls exceeds nine, then the extra ones will be devoured.
Once the nine souls of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect are united, that is, when it has nine heads, it will be an invincible existence in the entire cultivation world before it can truly be called a Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect.
This is because even the lowest priced Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect can easily devour space and spew out saliva that no cultivator can resist. Not to mention cultivators at the peak of the True Transformation, even low-level Void Immortals can only flee. If the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect advances to a more advanced level, even a Golden Immortal or even a higher level Immortal will definitely die if they encounter it.
However, the first step in rearing the Nine Headed Void Devouring Insect is extremely difficult, as many of the split soul bodies are exterminated by powerful cultivators before they mature. The cultivator who raises the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect can only divide a dozen or so split souls at most, and once too many split souls are exterminated by an entrant with less than nine, his Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect will not be able to be raised. Even if one head is missing, even an eight-headed Void Devouring Insect will be much less powerful. This is why the nine headed Void Devouring Insect’s split soul bodies are usually kept in places that are rare to enter or where there are very few great powers.
Ye Mo sucked in a cold breath as he watched, this nine-headed Void Devouring Insect was a bit too terrifying, right? He finally understood why the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect was only bred in the Cultivation Realm, because it could not be bred in the Immortal Realm at all.
In the Immortal Realm, if someone dared to take on a market such as the South Mountain Market, the soul of the Nine Headed Void Devouring Insect would have been exterminated to the point where there were no scraps of bones left.
But in the Cultivation World, it’s different. If Nanshan Market hadn’t come by itself, who would have been able to exterminate it? Not to mention that Tang Mengyao would not care about such things, even if she did, would she have the means to extinguish the grey mist? Moreover, the introduction of this nine-headed void-devouring worm only said that each of the nine split soul bodies would grow and finally fuse. It also didn’t say that one must pa*s through this void devouring grey mist in order to become a DD. He only recognized this nine headed void devouring worm after he had killed it, otherwise she wouldn’t necessarily have recognized this place even if it was the place where the nine headed void devouring worm split souls grew.
“So powerful.” Ye Mo put away the jade slip and sighed, he decided that no matter what he had to exterminate that split soul body in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range as well, this thing was prematurely terrifying. It was so powerful with only one head, once it had nine heads in one and was controlled by that breeding cultivator, how could it fight?
Although there was also this kind of white stained mist in the Fallen Soul Ruins, yet Ye Mo thought that it was not the split soul of the Nine Headed Void Devouring Insect inside the Fallen Soul Ruins, because there was no devouring space present.
No, it suddenly occurred to Ye Mo that if that space devouring ghost in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range was also a split soul body, then why didn’t Chu Xiao Yi exterminate it in the first place? Instead, it was suppressed? What he could extinguish now, Chu Xiaoyi could not?
He finally understood what it was that was sealed by Chu Xiaoyi, it was probably not the split soul body of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Bug, but the entry that fed the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Bug. Only such a great power could Chu Xiaoyi not be able to exterminate it and choose to suppress it instead.
Tang Mengyao didn’t notice Ye Mo’s expression, after she heard Ye Mo’s sigh, she also nodded and said, “The Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect is indeed terrifying, I didn’t think that this kind of vicious insect really existed in the cultivation world, it seems that the one in the Ten Thousand Pill Mountain Range is also one of the split soul bodies of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect.”
Ye Mo did not explain to Tang Mengyao, after he burned the split soul body of the Nine-Headed Void Devouring Insect with a ball of fire, he was still secretly shocked, before he had cleaved that black sè thing with lightning. If he hadn’t struck it, it might have started to grow again if it had been in a different place.
“Let’s go, go to Double Heart Valley.” Ye Mo decided to exterminate Ao Qian Die first. As for the things suppressed in the Ten Thousand Pill Mountain Range, his current strength shouldn’t be enough to move them.
As they watched Ye Mo and Tang Mengyao leave, those low level cultivators who were hiding on the side then swarmed and rushed into the Southern Mountain Square where the grey mist had dissipated into thin air.
There was no more grey mist here, and the ground was full of goodies. Ye Mo and Tang Mengyao couldn’t look at them, but those Foundation Establishment cultivators and Golden Dan cultivators looked at them as the greatest treasures.
