Tao Qian originally planned to ignore his cover being blown, using all methods available to severely injure Lian Yulou if possible, then slowly grind him to death.
But now, Lian Yulou had vanished?
Doubt replaced pleasure on Tao Qian's face as he furrowed his brows and locked his gaze onto that area.
Suddenly, his vision blurred.
The Innate Spiritual Sensing adorned with "High Spiritual Vision" gifted by Senior Sister Lingji, which had not been used for a long time, unexpectedly provided feedback.
Tao Qian's pupils contracted sharply, revealing the reflection of an extremely tiny "Blood-Colored Insect" that other cultivators couldn't detect even if they used their Divine Souls to sweep through the area.
It somewhat resembled the Corpse Evil Worm that Tao Qian used for controlling demons.
However, there were more differences, the biggest similarity being that both made one feel disgusted and ominous.
But before Tao Qian could take a closer look, his complexion abruptly changed.
With another wave of his sleeve, the Demon Gourd inside shook and dropped out several Star Zha Demons and a Decree Demon.
Tao Qian commanded, and the stars immediately sliced through the ground.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
With a noise like the universe beginning, the invisible insect morphed from minute to massive in an instant.
A "gigantic creature" that appeared abruptly, almost collapsing the entire Heavenly Mother Mountain, was like something neither human nor insect, a monstrous beast composed entirely of a viscous, disgusting mixture of flesh, even including that lower part of the giant creature; they swelled, wriggled, and had countless hooked claws and writhing flesh tentacles growing out of them.
On the surface of the viscous flesh, perhaps a million vivid faces of men, women, young, and old, twisted and emerging.
These human faces were extremely lifelike, displaying various expressions and emotions, such as desires, sufferings, karmic ties, and sins from the ordinary mortal world—all starkly revealed.
Despite sensing the imminent threat and fleeing beforehand,
Tao Qian was still too late.
This gigantic creature, this great worm, swelled instantly, a million blood-red tentacles forming a barrier-like around Heavenly Mother, blocking Tao Qian's path.
Among them, tens of thousands, silently like Evil Silk, completely submerged Tao Qian.
That moment, Tao Qian heard an angry roar from Lian Yulou:
"Damn it, you damned creature."
"Destroying my mortal body, damaging my dao journey, leaving me no hope for Daoist Transformation... Ah, ah, ah, I want your soul to forever reside within my body, never to be freed."
Hearing this voice at the same time,
Tao Qian's body was submerged by the tentacles, triggering an immediate surge of new Record knowledge in his mind.
The confusion quickly resolved, but fear also arose.
[Record Name: Desire Sin Tribulation Body.]
[Record Type: Cultivator.]
[Record: This is the true form of the Evil Sect's True Inheritor, Lian Yulou, who cultivated one of the Evil Sect's Great Books, "Desire Sin Scripture." This scripture is extremely profound, utilizing the desires and evil energies of the world for cultivation without many restrictions. It can be said to be without any prohibitions. After entering Ultimate Happiness Realm, this scripture allows the cultivator to completely shed the human form, mutating into a Desire Sin Tribulation Body, which achieves a sort of Undying Immortality. It can parasitize within the True Soul from reincarnation to reincarnation of the cultivator until the Nine Tribulations Perfection is achieved. Not only retrieving all daoist powers, but at the perfect unison of the Ninety-nine Returns to One, it glimpses the mysterious Daoist Transformation from the Heavenly Mechanism.]
[Note One: Due to the destruction of his mortal body this lifetime, the Desire Sin Tribulation Body, hidden inside Lian Yulou's True Spirit, emerged prematurely. His merits from lifetimes of cultivation were almost entirely lost, with no more chances to glimpse the secrets of the Daoist Transformation Realm.]
As the first note emerged, Tao Qian understood the source of the terrifying premonitions and also the extent of Lian Yulou's current wrath.