748 A Demonic God Is Born! (1/2)
If one went by the distance between it and the Eternal Star, the planet that Wang Baole and the fifth elder went to was number three. Its size was similar to that of the Earth, and one could see that this was once a planet bursting with life. One could even make out the specks of green vegetative cover that seemed to embellish the planet's surface.
However… that was merely an embellishment. On the surface of this planet, there were hundreds of thousands of craters. A small crater was at least a hundred thousand feet wide, while a large one was as big as a city.
One would think these craters were created by meteorites. But as they got closer, as Wang Baole and the fifth elder saw everything, they discovered that… in those craters, there were numerous pools of flesh and blood!
The flesh and blood looked like corpses, though as part of them became mush, they started looking like blood-colored pools of mud. From the floating limbs, one could see that there were human-like organisms in there, while some were ferocious beasts. There were even some that looked like they were from other civilizations. One could even occasionally see a floating head, and each head had an aggrieved expression. It was obvious that they had gone through an unimaginably horrifying event when they were alive.
If that was it, with the experience of Wang Baole and the fifth elder, they wouldn't be shocked. But… in the mush of the crater, there were numerous thick purple blood vessels!
These blood vessels seemed to be absorbing nutrients from the mush in the crater. They spread outwards, connecting all the craters on the planet, seemingly forming a large purple network. In this network formed by the purple blood vessels, there were millions of points on which large tumors grew!
Some of these tumors were wriggling, while others seemed to be asleep. Some broke open just as Wang Baole and the fifth elder looked towards them, and out of them crawled horrifying human-like, multi-legged organisms!
These organisms had black bodies and looked like centipedes. They let out screeches as they crawled out and headed directly towards the nearest crater. As they neared a crater, they burrowed into it, opened their mouths, and kept absorbing. As they absorbed, their life force increased significantly.
This scene made the scalps of the Holy Crest Sect disciples behind Wang Baole numb. The fifth elder narrowed his pupils and mumbled softly beside Wang Baole.
”Not a local mutant civilization… this is obviously a foreign mutant civilization!”
”Foreign mutants?” Wang Baole gazed at the purple network on the planet's surface, narrowed his eyes, and asked.
”In a sense, if a planet is invaded by a foreign mutant civilization, it could be considered a calamity. Once they appear, nearby star systems will be alerted immediately. If the invasion can be settled, they will use all of their might to try and eliminate the enemy. If they cannot do so, they will join forces with other nearby star systems to suppress the enemy.”
Their method of invasion differed according to the level of the civilization's sentience. If the civilization was highly sentient, they would go out to look for food on their own. As for those with low levels of sentience, they would often hide their young in meteorites. That, or become parasites and hide in the bodies of other organisms. This was how they traveled to other star systems.
Normally, they traveled in groups. As a meteorite crashed into a civilization, they would become parasites within the planet to absorb nutrients. They would then kill off all life in that civilization, using it to grow and develop.
As he listened, a glint flashed through Wang Baole's eyes. The fifth elder beside him placed all of his attention on the planet below and didn't notice the glint in Wang Baole's eyes. That was especially so when he noticed that the centipede-like mutants started with auras that weren't strong, despite them growing in strength very quickly. He could hardly hide the excitement he felt.
”This star system's civilizations must have been hit by meteorites containing the young of mutants, resulting in the extinction of their entire civilization. However, this is great news for us!”
”Their starting auras are only at the Qi Condensation level. According to ancient literature, mutants at this sentience level can reach no higher than the Planet realm. At the same time, they have extremely low Spirit Intelligence when they're born. Long Nanzi, our luck is pretty good this time!” As he spoke, the fifth elder started laughing. He raised his right hand to point at the planet below as he looked towards Wang Baole.