Xiao Fei stood in the void, sensing that the entire world had descended into chaos.
He felt a knot of tension in his own heart. He had always been plagued by misfortune; was this disaster aimed at him?
He was also a little nervous now, contemplating whether he should make a swift escape.
Just as he was preparing to bolt, the world was suddenly shaken by another violent tremor.
Then he sensed the spiritual energy concentration of the entire world slowly declining, like a deflating balloon.
Xiao Fei followed the direction of the spiritual energy leak.
A quarter of an hour later, he arrived at the edge of this world.
There was a colossal black hole, and all the spiritual energy from the world was pouring into it.
Xiao Fei probed the black hole with his divine sense and found it to be like a bottomless pit, absorbing endless spiritual energy without any change.
Had the world broken? Was it leaking?
Xiao Fei beckoned, and a distant mountain flew towards him.
He then stuffed the mountain into the black hole, effectively blocking its entrance.
With the entrance sealed, the spiritual energy leak immediately stopped.
Seeing this, Xiao Fei brushed the dust off his hands. A good deed done for the day, he felt greatly gratified.
At the same time, he sensed a wave of gratitude from the Heavenly Dao towards him.
However, his good mood did not last long. The black void he had just blocked opened and closed, and the mountain shattered into pieces before being swallowed into the black hole.
Then the black hole opened again, and the world's spiritual energy continued to surge into it as before.
In the brief moment the black hole opened and closed, Xiao Fei had clearly seen its outline – it was a gigantic mouth.
"What... what is this thing?"
In Xiao Fei's mind, this colossal mouth felt vaguely familiar, but he couldn't recall when he had ever seen such a large mouth.
Judging by its appearance, it seemed difficult to deal with. He wondered if he could defeat it.
He decided to try!
With a thought, Xiao Fei conjured a ball of light in his hand, which was compressed space.
He directly hurled this ball of light into the great mouth.
The ball of light exploded within the mouth, transforming into countless tiny spatial rifts that sliced outwards in all directions.
The great mouth seemed surprised that this thing had teeth, that it could prick its mouth and get stuck in its throat, proving difficult to digest.
The mouth's interior was cut by Xiao Fei's spatial rifts, causing many wounds from which black blood flowed.
Wounded by Xiao Fei, the great mouth seemed enraged. It desperately began to burrow into the world from the location of the black hole.
Gradually, a large, perfectly round, jet-black head emerged from the outside.
Seeing this massive head, Xiao Fei finally recognized it. Wasn't this a Dao Worm?
Last time, he had led a large group of Earth Immortals into a world that had just nurtured a Dao Worm, and they had nearly been wiped out.
It was only thanks to Zhu Yu's timely arrival, using his great divine powers to immobilize the Dao Worm, that he, combined with the power of lightning, managed to capture the Dao Worm in his Yellow Gourd.
The Dao Worm before him appeared to be larger, and since it came to devour other worlds, its strength should also be greater than the previous one.
However, he was no longer the same person he used to be. He was, after all, a True Immortal, and could at least contend with it.
If he couldn't win, he could always escape back into his space.
In the lower realms, there were few powerful beings, and even Earth Immortals would be suppressed, unable to unleash their full strength.
There were almost no experts above True Immortal. Zhu Yu, when in the lower realms, usually only displayed Earth Immortal strength.
Without the constant scrutiny of the Immortal Realm's many powerful beings, he had no reservations and could freely use his spatial abilities as before.
Xiao Fei condensed another, larger ball of light in his hand and hurled it towards the Dao Worm's black head.
This time, the ball of light did not scatter into countless tiny spatial rifts. Instead, it transformed into a spatial rift a foot wide and over ten zhang long, directly slicing towards the Dao Worm's black head.
Spatial cuts were sharper than any sword or blade, and they directly sliced into the Dao Worm's head, cleaving the front of its head in two.
A large amount of black blood flowed from the wound. As soon as this black blood emerged, it turned into black mist and re-integrated into the Dao Worm's head.
Xiao Fei did not stop after his successful strike. Another ball of light immediately appeared in his hand and was hurled at the Dao Worm.
These balls of light were merely compressed space formed by his spatial laws, and he could produce them endlessly.
One ball of light after another, transformed into spatial rifts, struck the Dao Worm's head, inflicting numerous wounds.
However, the blood flowing from the Dao Worm would turn into black mist and re-enter its body, quickly repairing its injuries.
At the same time, the Dao Worm was not one to simply take a beating without retaliation. Numerous black tentacles had appeared around Xiao Fei, densely coiling towards him.
Xiao Fei enlarged a ball of light in his hand, forming a space ten zhang square, enveloping him within.
When the countless tentacles extended into this space, they found that no matter how far they reached, they were always kept at a distance of ten zhang from Xiao Fei.
It was as if this ten-zhang distance was an insurmountable chasm, impossible to cross no matter how hard they tried.
Sensing that the Heavenly Dao of this world was still trembling, Xiao Fei roared towards the sky:
"If you don't want to die, hurry up and help me! Blast it with golden tribulation lightning!"
The Heavenly Dao seemed stunned, but after Xiao Fei's reminder, a large patch of tribulation clouds immediately appeared in the sky.
Golden lightning crackled within the tribulation clouds, and soon a lightning pillar about ten zhang wide directly struck the Dao Worm's head.
This was likely the most powerful tribulation lightning the Heavenly Dao had ever unleashed.
The Dao Worm trembled from the impact, and even the black tentacles surrounding Xiao Fei quivered in unison.
Seizing the opportunity, Xiao Fei unleashed over a dozen more balls of light in rapid succession, transforming into countless spatial rifts that swept away the surrounding black tentacles. Even the Dao Worm's head sustained several more wounds.
The severed tissues, cut by his spatial rifts, quickly turned into black mist in the air, about to merge back into the Dao Worm's body.
This characteristic of the Dao Worm allowed it to quickly recover from the damage Xiao Fei inflicted.
Just then, with a thunderous roar, another massive bolt of golden tribulation lightning descended from the sky, causing the black mist to tremble and churn.
"Good opportunity!"
Xiao Fei immediately took out his Yellow Gourd and aimed it at the black mist entangled with the golden tribulation lightning, sucking it in with a mighty pull.
Both the black mist and the golden tribulation lightning were drawn into the gourd.
Xiao Fei realized this was an effective tactic; with this, the Dao Worm would no longer be able to recover quickly after being injured.
He then continued to throw ball after ball of light, transforming into spatial rifts that wounded the Dao Worm.
Simultaneously, the Heavenly Dao of this world used tribulation lightning to strike, preventing its regeneration.
And then, using the Yellow Gourd, he seized the opportunity to absorb the black mist.