The Great Worm Lich

Flying joyfully in the sky, Zhang Lisheng was already about over ten meters away from Wizard Li Island. He suddenly felt that the god’s power in his soul and body that he had only obtained in less than a day had dissipated. This happened before he could have the time to even explore how much mysterious power it contained.

A few minutes later, he had already reverted to a wizard who mastered Rank-10 in Gate of Death and Rank-6 in Gate of Sacrifice. Other than his wyrmdragon’s incarnation that had a subtle mastery on the fog around him due to the qualitative change his breakthrough caused in the Witchcraft’s Gate of Sacrifice, there was no other change.

If a person were born with frailty and disability, he would not feel much inconvenience in his life. Nevertheless, if he wanted a taste of the life of a strong and healthy person for a moment, he would understand how sad he was if he reverted to his original state. This was the feeling Zhang Lisheng was currently having now.

“M-My divine power is being robbed just like this? I can still see the shadow of the island, but it’s just…” Even though the young man had a hunch before this, when he looked back at the Wizard Li Island while concealed in a milky white fog, he could not help but mutter with a bitter expression, “How sad! God, oh god, you’re a god when you’re in your territory and’ nation.’ However, when you leave, you’ll immediately return to your original form. No wonder the Truth’s overlord from the Shrimp World No. 1 was unwilling to take a single step into Earth no matter what…”

Now that the young man had experienced it personally, his depth of understanding of the word ‘divinities’ had differed entirely from before. When he reached the curtain that the Atlanteans set up, by combining all his previous experiences, he finally understood that one must only treat ‘god’ as a preparatory step for ‘divinity.’ Once he crossed the border, it would be easy to become a real divine god.

However, even if he really could become a true god, the divine power that he mastered would only work in the ‘world’ wherein he was a god. It would be ineffective when he returned to Earth.

Of course, gods could exert their divine power across the ‘worlds.’ As long as there were enough believers in the foreign world, he would definitely be able to do so. However, its strength might be severely limited.

His Eternal Comprehension Spell could allow him to understand the language of any ‘world.’ This meant that some powerful gods seemed to have the ability to enable their divine power to cross the world fence.

According to Armandnik, the Shrimp World No. 2 scholar who gave the young man the Eternal Comprehension Spell, the gods who possessed this kind of profound, mysterious power were called ancient gods!

“Ancient god! Ancient god… Does it mean by ancient deities or ancient spirits?” In the face of the red light in front of him, Zhang Lisheng, who tried to understand the order of promotion of god, smiled wryly to himself. “Looks like becoming a god is not the end but only the beginning. Besides, even if I could become an ancient god, it didn’t necessarily mean that I can become an opponent to the sea monster that can devour planets. Zhang Lisheng, oh, Zhang Lisheng, there’s still a long way to go! Sigh, freedom, oh, freedom, why is it that the more I cultivate, the more illusory the word ‘freedom’ becomes…”

After muttering a little, the young man no longer thought about it. Lifting his spirit up, he commanded the clouds to charge forward, instantly passing through the light curtain. To his surprise, danger suddenly appeared at this time. A series of thick mist evaporated from the sea, with over ten, thick, red laser beams splitting out of the sea surface and shot into the clouds.

The cloud was huge, so the beam could not get a clear shot of its target. However, when it rotated and cut through it, the cloud still managed to hit Zhang Lisheng’s arms, whose body was immersed in heat flow due to his forced entry through the light curtain. Caught off guard, half of its arm that was cut off transformed into green smoke.

It was so fast that Zhang Lisheng did not feel any pain nor any burning sensation. He looked at the wound that was utterly burnt, with not even a drop of blood. He then began to release 20 to 30 wizard gus from his skin. They expanded to the size of a yak and flew out of the cloud.

When the baits appeared, just like what Zhang Lisheng had expected, they managed to attract the laser beam to pursue. Even though more rays had emerged from the sea to participate in the killing, those beams were no longer critical. As long as he consciously commanded the flying bugs to dash forward, it would still be enough to have enough time for the young man.

Hiding in the cloud while standing on the back of a gigantic flying insect, Zhang Lisheng transformed his transformation power from wyrmdragon to become a lizard. He nihilated and dove into the sea, disappearing instantly without a trace.

Now that the cloud in the sky had lost the support of his omniscient power, it dissipated quickly. The wizard gus that could never outrun the laser beams also had been lasered into ashes. At once, the blue sea and blue sky at the New York coastal sea regained its calmness.

At this time, Zhang Lisheng, who escaped from the calamity, had retransformed into the wyrmdragon’s incarnation to swallow fishes. Not long after, he successfully grew a new arm.

When his body recovered, he swam freely on the bottom of the sea, feeling that his power to control the power was unprecedentedly abundant. The young man was strong enough to fight against all strong enemies did. Thus, he did not turn back to see the laser defense devices that brought the calamity a moment ago to him looked like. He did not even intend to destroy them to avenge himself.

Instead, he changed the transformation power back to a lizard and silently sneaked into New York City. Relying on his mysterious omniscient power that allowed him to be unseen, he stole a set of clothes and several dozens of cash before appearing on the streets of New York.

After that, Zhang Lisheng spent two eventful days all by himself. When the 27th day of December arrived, he rented a taxi and went to the military base on the outskirts of New York.

Everything seemed to have been arranged early. When he told the guarding sentry his purpose of arrival, he looked at Zhang Lisheng’s face carefully before standing upright to salute, allowing the taxi to enter the base.

“Could it be that you’re a high-level officer, sir?” The taxi driver that smelled like curry looked at the calmness of the young man from the rearview mirror. Suddenly, he said with a slight excitement, “He actually allowed me to drive in without checking any ID.”

“Do I look like a high-level officer?” Zhang Lisheng asked with a smile.

“Not really, but I heard that many young military officers are now promoted quickly because of their battle achievements, particularly the drivers of the Steel Warriors. You look like…” The driver said incessantly.

Those who were driving or walking on the tree-lined road outside were all professional soldiers with valiant and heroic bearings. From time to time, super-large transport vehicles carrying heavy-duty war chariots and Steel Warriors would slowly drive by the car lane. The young man looked at the young man and waited for the Indian man in the driver’s seat to finish his eager chat before finally saying in a smile, “You’ve guessed wrongly, sir. I’m just an ordinary biologist. I came to the base to help the military…”

Before he could finish his words, a camouflage-colored jeep suddenly drove in front and honked them before stopping in front of the taxi.

When the car stopped, the door of the jeep opened. Out came a beautiful black female officer. When Zhang Lisheng saw her face through the gap between the seats, he threw two hundred dollar bills onto the taxi driver. “The person picking me up has arrived. Thank you, Mr. Driver.”

Then, he proceeded to push the door and leapt out of the car.

“Good morning, Mr. Lisheng, you’re right on time!”

“Good morning, Lieutenant General Alison, punctuality is the most basic virtue of a gentleman. Besides, I’m told that this matter is very urgent,” Facing the female officer’s praises, Zhang Lisheng smiled back. “Speaking of urgent, is Colonel Larry and Madam Someril ready to leave?”

“Colonel Larry doesn’t have the physical strength and brains to go to the foreign world’s primitive jungle on the Shrimp B1 Island with us,” Alison said with a smile. “Only 16 people will participate in this operation. Eight Earthlings and eight Atlanteans. Get on the car, Mr. Lisheng, let’s talk as we drive.”

“You must be kidding me, Lieutenant General Alison,” Zhang Lisheng sat in the jeep’s co-driver seat in shock. “No spaceship, no satellites, and only 16 people going to explore a ‘world’? Even if it’s just a preliminary investigation, it’s a massive project that is impossible to complete.”

“Mr. Lisheng, you’ve overestimated the complexity of our job,” Alison smiled. “Actually, most of the information about a vast civic “world” can be obtained through books. If a horrible creature such as the sea monster had been born in the Shrimp World No. 2 before, do you think there wouldn’t be any records in the historical myths and legends?”

“Oh, so you want to blend in into the original civilization society of the Shrimp World No. 2 and shorten the process of understanding the planet by plundering their knowledge?” Zhang Lisheng said with bafflement. “This is indeed a good idea, no wonder Madam Someril would value me so much. However, I’m afraid she’ll be disappointed. I may be a little influential in the Shrimp World No. 2, but that’s only limited to the Wizard Li Island. I won’t be of much help if we leave the territory of those barbaric natives.”

“Mr. Lisheng, the myths, legends, and the knowledge system of the same race are roughly the same. If we could get a huge understanding of the Wizard Li tribe’s civilization, it would be a huge gain.” Alison continued to say with a smile. “Besides, Rome was not built in a day, we have time.”

“Miss Alison, I don’t have such an intention to dedicate the rest of my life to the US government and the alien fleet,” Zhang Lisheng said with a shrug.

“But you have the time to stay in the foreign world to research for biological knowledge till you forget to eat and sleep, don’t you?” Alison stopped the jeep in front of a large, three-story office building at the seaside military port. She then opened the door to get out of the car. “Just think about it, in the process of integrating into the different cultures of the Shrimp World No. 2, we’ll definitely encounter many strange creatures that you’ll be interested in. Doctor, what reason do you have to be unwilling to participate in such an operation?”

“This has never crossed my mind before.” Due to his disguise on Earth, Zhang Lisheng could no longer come up with any excuse to reject the female lieutenant’s request. He could only force a smile and answer as he got down of the car, “Yes, I really don’t have any reason to hate this kind of thing.”

“Please come with me if you don’t hate it, Mr. Lisheng,” The Atlantean walked with the young man to the office building. “We’ll first meet with the FBI and CIA agents and Sergeant Major Someril before we depart.”