With ten tentacle-like appendages and a pale, bloated abdomen, as well as rapidly quivering wings,

everything about this Gu Worm was extraordinary.

"Is this the Gu King?" Du Tianxing suddenly felt nervous for some reason.

This demon insect was evidently highly toxic... No, no, how could he entertain such a thought? Without testing, he must not scare himself. He must be prepared, but not deterred by fear!

Du Tianxing took a deep breath as a cold light emerged in his hand, gradually dispersing the surrounding azure fog. He turned to the group of Golden Core Cultivators behind him and said, "Take my token and go to our ancestor... be careful!"

The jade pendant hanging from his waist flew backward into the hands of a Golden Core Cultivator. With the token in their possession, those cultivators sprinted away at full speed.

The Xia Gai Demon Worm seemed intent on chasing after them. Du Tianxing met it head-on, twisting his shoulders with force, creating an exaggerated arc, then...

The ground beneath his feet shattered explosively, and as he passed by the Xia Gai Demon Worm, a moon-white Cold Power surged upward.

His real target was the restriction above! Those "family backbone" members at the Golden Core Stage, their deaths would be inconsequential. The Nascent Souls were the foundation of the family, heirs could be reproduced. He would not confront this unfathomable demon insect himself.

Once the restriction was broken, cultivators throughout Divine Capital would notice the anomaly. Given the intricate connections of local noble families in Divine Capital, surely someone would come to the rescue!

Just then, the spiritual energy around him showed obscure fluctuations. That seemed to be... space?

A foot emerged from the void, landing precisely on that moon-blue Cold Power.

In a certain fantasy setting on Earth, Xia Gai Demon Worms are the followers of the dim-witted and oblivious, leading to the descent of a supreme being. This time, the Heart Demon Demon God, Xia Gai, served the role of positioning and detection.

Gravity, by its very nature, is the warping of space-time caused by mass. Gravity-based spells and the Taiyu Cosmic Light Technique are essentially two sides of the same coin.

Furthermore, Wang Qi's true cultivation for the Wanfa Sect is infinitely close to the Xiangyu Heavenly Position Technique. Analyzing and computing space has always been his forte.

In a single step, he precisely crossed hundreds of feet to reach the front of the attack.

The sole of his foot made direct contact with a strike at the Nascent Soul Stage, then purple light and moon-white Qi Force burst forth, creating a stunning azure brilliance. A Spirit Prohibition, stolen from Dragon Guard, exerted an incredible effect. Within a realm smaller than atoms, a terrifying bound force was unleashed.

The Strong Interaction, the most potent of the four fundamental forces. It is two orders of magnitude stronger than the Electromagnetic Force. However, it is a short-range force that even operates at distances smaller than atomic diameters.

But under the influence of Spiritual Power, it was unleashed!

If placed in the context of the four fundamental forces, most spells are composed of Electromagnetic Force, with a few involving Gravity. Among these forces, the Strong Interaction is over a hundred times stronger than Electromagnetic Force, not to mention the weakest, Gravity.

This is a fundamental disparity!

This powerful law, pre-set by Wang Qi in "mathematics" and administered by Jarvis, turned the air around Wang Qi into armor, altering and twisting the mechanical waves transferring power, spreading the force across every inch of the armor and then neutralizing it through the macrostructure between Dragon Scales.

"This is the Nascent Soul Stage..." muttered Wang Qi as he stomped out the attack and drew his sword in a sweeping motion.

The intense light stole everyone's sight, and the collision of the two mana caused the spiritual energy to surge, obscuring the Spiritual Sense. Although the obstruction of Spiritual Sense was brief, in that moment, there was a gap with no observer.

The Quantum Cloud Sword Qi spread silently.

As the spiritual energy stabilized and the bright light faded, Du Tianxing hurriedly extended his Spiritual Sense, eager to identify the person blocking him—he might just be the mastermind behind this attack!

But what he saw was a sword light.

Perfect, deadly sword light!

Du Tianxing would not underestimate the sword light emitted by this enemy. Instinctively, he employed the close-ranged swordsmanship defensive move of the Yanyue Sect, Moon Wheel Dance. A sword condensed from Qi, with the moon following its dance. However, he only realized something else in despair after deploying the sword technique.

"You are already dead."

Behind him, Wang Qi delivered a timely, melancholic sigh.

He was already dead. Collapsing into a macroscopic state, the sword light hit his Quchi acupoint, piercing right through it. Just there, a batch of Mana was amassing, ready to transform into sword light with the next cycle. The Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword not only detonated this Mana prematurely, but the Mana, following the sword qi, counterattacked, entering his chest and abdomen. His internal organs were already frozen and necrotic.

By the time he realized it, he had already been struck by the sword. Or rather, once hit, the fact was established, and only then was the trajectory confirmed.

"What exactly... exactly are...", Du Tianxing tried to ask something. However, the loss of vitality rendered his vocal cords weak. Typically, Nascent Soul cultivators do not depend on the physical body, but in that strike, all the Mana in his body was influenced, even the Nascent Soul suffered a fatal injury, teetering on the brink of collapse, threatening to disperse once out of the body.

Wang Qi snapped his fingers, and the Xia Gai Demon Worms immediately pounced on Du Tianxing. An unprecedented power of the Heart Demon Curse swept through the man's entirety.

"Attempting to harm me, a dead man…" Du Tianxing's first reaction was "absurd." However, his expression changed rapidly.

Vitality trickled into his body. This power was weak, but the vitality it contained was immensely strong. The injuries he sustained should have been irreversible, yet they began to heal under this power!

"No—!" Suddenly, Du Tianxing felt a wave of terror. He would rather die than be controlled, to become a puppet. The remaining strength instantly ignited, transforming into a strike that shocked heaven and earth! In this strike, the Xia Gai Demon Worms were dispersed like bubbles, like candle flames.

Yet, at the same time, Du Tianxing's expression twisted into one of agony and suffering. Then, he too joined the ranks of those weeping bitterly.

"Fool, to give up on the hope of life, to seek mutual destruction with the enemy, is also a form of 'despair'," Wang Qi shrugged.

Meanwhile, in the direction the Golden Core Cultivators were fleeing, panicked screams arose: "Don't... don't... ahhh!"

The awakening wrought by Du Tianxing's self-sacrifice had shattered only a "window," an "interface," of the Five Plagues Total Curse—nothing serious, analogous to a program error, needing only to be closed and restarted, which wouldn't take much time.

Feeling an unprecedentedly powerful individual blending into the Heart Demon Network, Wang Qi again closed his eyes, immersing himself in the construction of the network. The sobbing, unwitting Du Tianxing raised his hand, forming a hand seal, operating the law.

However, this action caused Du Tianxing's face to turn pale, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, and the already stabilized Nascent Soul astonishingly bore several ferocious wounds.

"The Nascent Soul can't directly absorb Outer Heaven Spiritual Energy?" Wang Qi gave up trying to force it, instead allowing him to adjust his breath on his own, drawing nature's spiritual energy to restore oneself.

One by one, thumb-sized Alien Insects appeared around him. Unlike the native Shenzhou Gu worms, these took the form of 10-limbed Xia Gai Demon Insects.

Wang Qi lightly touched one of the Gu worms with his finger, muttering to himself, "Any form they adopt in front of mortals is not their true form; it's merely an interface for interacting with the outside world. Their real body is the Heart Demon Network itself—unless one kills off all the individuals infected by the Heart Demon Curse, destroying the interface several times over will definitely not kill them."

Suddenly, he realized, giving the Xia Gai Demon Worms that name was somewhat degrading. Although followers of Asatros, the Xia Gai Demon Worms were only a high-tech, high-magic race, not evil gods, and slightly lowbrow...

Zhen Chan sighed, "You actually killed a Nascent Soul, destroyed a family... and you're just at Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment..."

"The Heart Demon Curse is an exceptionally strong Combat Skill, and if it were incorporated into the Immortal Alliance's weighted value assessment system, it wouldn't score lower than eight. Moreover, Dragon Guard is a standard ability of the Dragon Clan, who have dominated Shenzhou for a billion years, utilizing Strong Force is also an ability rated over eight. Not to mention the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword, rated ten, a peerless Swordsmanship that defies causality. If all these powers combined can't kill a Nascent Soul, then I must be utterly useless."

Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment, with a weighted score over thirty, equivalent to a Nascent Soul Cultivator with a score around three. And with the calculated recklessness, instantaneously killing was not difficult.

"Merely six years..." Zhen Chan couldn't quite describe his feeling. In his memory, it took at least a hundred and two hundred years of cultivation to reach the Nascent Soul Stage. Yet, Wang Qi had risen from nothing to killing a Nascent Soul in just a mere six years.

Wang Qi devoted himself entirely to perfecting the Heart Demon Network, declaring, "Stay alert, the main event is coming."

He flicked his long sword, and the green Ghost Soldier "New Moon" appeared behind Wang Qi, several groups of Xia Gai Demon Worms gathered, faintly forming a formation.

The Quantum Cloud Sword Qi spread out again, waiting for the next Nascent Soul Cultivator to break through.

Deep within the Du Residence, a refreshing burst of laughter echoed from afar: "Hey, Tianxing, what's taking you so long, do you need your uncle... Your Excellency is—ah!"

Another scream. Wang Qi opened his eyes, finding that his laid Quantum Cloud Sword Qi had already collapsed into a definitive attack. The Nascent Soul Cultivator, caught completely off guard, had been pierced through a vital point, his life hanging by a thread: 'Ancestor... save me! Save... save me…'

The emerging Nascent Soul Cultivator couldn't avoid using Spiritual Sense to survey the surroundings. The Quantum Cloud that had permeated the entire Du Residence would collapse in an instant he sensed it. Wherever the Quantum Cloud covered, there was potential.

Wang Qi felt a slight dizziness in his head. The two uses of the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword had taken away most of his Mana and Heart Power. Although most calculations were borne by the Heart Demon Curse, and abundant Life Flame could quickly refill the Mana and energy, this particular expenditure still inevitably led to a period of vulnerability.

He tapped a few Xia Gai Demon Worms with his fingers, and then the Alien Insects transformed by the Heart Demon Curse sped towards the second appearing Nascent Soul Cultivator, carrying a few sparks of Life Flame. Wang Qi rather hoped to use a third strike of the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword to bring the Du Family Ancestor under his command. But things didn't go as hoped.

A piercing howl broke through the skies. The surrounding Spiritual Power fluctuated, the temperature plummeted. The Du Family Ancestor, like a raving lunatic, bellowed: "Who is it... who seeks to annihilate my Du Family to the last!" (To be continued. If you enjoyed this work, you are welcome to vote at Qidian (qidian.com), donate monthly tickets, or read on the mobile site at m.qidian.com.)