Chapter 1746: Trying to Fish but Getting Caught Instead
But the current issue was that Jiangnan could faintly sense the coordinate node of Baldr's alternate dimension!
However, it was very far from here. Jiangnan had already been flying the Jue Ling Pillar in that direction for a long time!
Yet the sensation hadn't become any clearer!
It felt like looking at a mountain and riding a horse to death trying to reach it!
If this continued, who knew how much time would be wasted on travel?
Outside, the global spirit calamity had erupted, chaos everywhere. Jiangnan didn't want to waste a lot of time stuck in the Dimensional Gap!
Just then, intense spatial fluctuations came from afar, rapidly approaching!
Jiangnan: !!!
What the hell was that?
So he immediately pulled Shanmao into his arms and illuminated the area with her bald head!
[Resentment from Luo Tianhong: +666!]
A pink segmented creature, about a dozen meters long, was swimming through the endless darkness, charging at top speed!
The moment Liu Mang saw it, he shuddered, eyes wide with terror: ● "What the hell is that? An earthworm? There are living things in the Dimensional Gap?"
Jiangnan looked excited: "Why not? Plenty! We hit the jackpot!"
So he raised his hand, condensed a Rift-Saw Blade, and hurled it violently!
It was about to hit the giant earthworm!
But to Jiangnan's astonishment, the earthworm twisted its body!
The Rift-Saw Blade actually bent, reversed direction, and flew straight back at Jiangnan!
Jiangnan: ???
What the hell? It changed the blade's attack direction?
No! Wrong! The space was folded?
With a teleport, Jiangnan immediately dodged with the Jue Ling Pillar!
The Dimension Earthworm shuddered, turned around, and fled!
Jiangnan chased after it, dragging the Jue Ling Pillar!
"Damn it, think you can escape?"
Liu Mang clung to the pillar in terror!
What was Nan Shen doing? Don't casually chase unknown creatures in the dimensional rift—it's dangerous, dammit!
That earthworm didn't seem very strong—Jiangnan could have caught it several times!
But he didn't. Instead, he hung far behind, chasing relentlessly!
Chasing and chasing, a massive rocky mountain appeared ahead!
So huge that its edge was invisible, floating silently in the endless darkness!
Compared to this rocky mountain, the Jue Ling Pillar was as small as a toothpick!
Shanmao was shocked: "So the Dimensional Gap isn't entirely empty? A mountain?"
That Dimension Earthworm slipped into the rocky mountain and disappeared in a flash!
Jiangnan rubbed his hands together, cackling:
(¬‿¬) "Let's see if we can grab a spirit skill or something here!"
"I still have an empty star glory slot! You two stay here—I'll go take a look!"
With that, he teleported to the mountainside!
Liu Mang swallowed: "Nan Shen's got some serious balls, huh?"
He dared to step onto a mountain in the Dimensional Gap?
The moment he landed, Jiangnan immediately threw out a few Void Black Holes, swinging a six-hundred-meter barrier broadsword, wildly destroying things!
"Any worms here? Come out and serve! You—"
Before he could finish, Jiangnan's body froze instantly—he couldn't move!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The surrounding rock exploded as hundreds of pink giant earthworms burst out from the mountain's soil!
Each was several hundred meters long, their segmented bodies writhing endlessly—a horrifying sight!
"Oh my god! My little worm! A real human? We're rich!"
"Oohoho—so this is a human? And whole! The bait wasn't wasted! Good job, little worm!"
A three-hundred-meter-long earthworm leader praised the smaller one, utterly thrilled!
Shanmao's scalp tingled: "Xiao Nan! Come back!"
They'd fallen into an earthworm nest?
Jiangnan's face darkened. So that little earthworm earlier was bait to catch him?
Pretty clever, huh?
He wanted to leave too, but the space around him was sealed. Jiangnan was locked in place, space constantly squeezing his body. He couldn't even teleport!
Space seal?
Not just one—hundreds stacked on top of him!
Completely immobilized!
Many smaller Dimension Earthworms were ecstatic, chattering excitedly:
"Boss, we're really rich! You know the Pan Yang tribe? They've moved their whole clan into the Lost Kingdom! No more struggling in this barren place!"
"It's all because of Black God's reward, right? I heard they contributed a human organ called an 'appendix,' and Black God was thrilled!"
"After all, Black God's greatest desire is human spare parts, right?"
Jiangnan: ???
What the hell? Appendix? Was that Mo Mo's appendix?
The appendix had become a hot commodity in the Dimensional Gap?
What kind of fetish did this Black God have?
The Pan Yang tribe got rich?
No way!
And what was the Lost Kingdom? Who was Black God?
So the Dimensional Gap wasn't completely lifeless?
The earthworm leader grinned: "We've got two humans in one go! Let's disassemble them and offer them separately to Lord Black God!"
"The rewards will be even bigger!"
Liu Mang: ???
I'm a human too! Count me in!
The next instant, Jiangnan's hands and feet were folded backward!
The sickening sound of breaking bones echoed!
Jiangnan was now like a toy that could be twisted at will!
As Shanmao screamed, Jiangnan's waist bent backward, folding him in half!
Jiangnan was amazed: "Tsk, tsk—space seal combined with space fold? So this is possible?"
The earthworm leader was also surprised. Even after being twisted like this, the human's expression remained so calm?
"Don't struggle! All your efforts are in vain! Be a good tribute for my earthworm clan!"
Jiangnan grinned, speaking pure animal language:
"Since you've heard about the Pan Yang tribe, have you heard how they got that appendix?"
The earthworm leader frowned, about to tear Jiangnan apart. The next moment, Jiangnan vanished!
In his place was an oxygen bottle twisted into several pieces!
Under the space seal, teleportation was impossible, but displacement still worked!
Reappearing on the Jue Ling Pillar, Jiangnan's injuries healed rapidly. Blood Incineration activated, blood mist swirling!
"So you're the leader? Sorry—that tumor in your head? I'm taking it!"
With that, he flashed back onto the rocky mountain!
Holding the Rift-Saw Blade, he slashed at the three-hundred-meter earthworm leader!
Countless space seals flew at him, but Jiangnan teleported away instantly!
The Rift-Saw Blade exploded, spatial blades slashing wildly. Many earthworms used space fold to redirect attacks!
They transferred the flying spatial blades back at Jiangnan!
But Jiangnan opened a Space Wormhole, transferring the attacks right back at them!
Many earthworms were cut in half!
The leader teleported to dodge, but the moment it reappeared, Jiangnan teleported right after!
Six Spatial Barriers sliced through its body, cutting it into seven pieces!
But to Jiangnan's surprise, the seven pieces fled in different directions!
However, Jiangnan wasn't fazed. He opened a Space Wormhole. The leader, unable to dodge, stuck its head in!
The wormhole snapped shut instantly, cutting it in half again!
Then a Void Black Hole appeared, compressing those pieces into a ball!
The earthworm leader panicked. He'd been over three hundred meters long; now he was only a dozen meters left!
Do you know how long it took me to grow this long?
"Stop cutting! If you keep cutting, there's nothing left!"
But Jiangnan didn't care. He just slashed another Rift-Saw Blade!
A black vortex appeared in front of the earthworm leader, spinning rapidly!
The Rift-Saw Blade was crushed, devoured, and annihilated!
Jiangnan's eyes widened. Another spirit skill?
Three?
Pretty loaded, huh?
Seeing Jiangnan's shock, the earthworm leader sneered: "Never seen this before? I'll—ya-hoo!"
Before he could finish, a Space Wormhole opened beneath him. Jiangnan's golden middle finger stabbed straight into the earthworm leader!
Its body froze. Jiangnan slashed another Rift-Saw Blade, splitting the leader in half!
A pigeon-egg-sized Dimension Pearl landed in Jiangnan's hand. He wiped it on his clothes, disgusted.
(¬益¬) "Trash spirit skill—what's there to show off? So lame, I don't even want it. Pfft!"
The other earthworms saw their leader killed and panicked!
"Brothers, attack! Fortune favors the bold! Catch him and we're rich!"
Jiangnan cracked his neck, utterly unenthusiastic. Since it had come to this, he'd reluctantly pluck a hundred or so tumors for fun!
These Dimension Earthworms might be troublesome for others, but for Jiangnan, they were nothing special.
With his current skills, as long as he reacted fast and handled them carefully, he felt no real threat!
But the Dimension Earthworm clan's nightmare had begun. The mountain rumbled endlessly!
Jiangnan, wielding a Rift-Saw Blade in one hand and an Air-Slash Broadsword in the other, weaved through countless earthworms, hacking away like chopping meat filling!
Shanmao's eyelids twitched: "I guess I was worried for nothing."
Liu Mang covered his face: "Nan Shen is this fierce even in the dimensional rift? He's the boss everywhere!"
"Boom!"
Half the massive mountain was shattered!
After having over a hundred Dimension Pearls plucked, the earthworms finally broke and begged for mercy!
"Th-this human is a demon! Don't come any closer! Are we going extinct?"
"Stop cutting! Please stop! Three hundred pieces—any more and we can't reconnect!"
"Don't bully us earthworms too much, I tell you! Believe I'll complain to Black God? We have backing, you know! If you're this arrogant, Black God won't let you off!"
Jiangnan's interest piqued: "Black God? How black? Blacker than my brother Mang?"
Liu Mang: …