"The little girl dares to go against us, the Yellow Sand Bandits? She's practically asking for death!" Watching the fallen redhead girl, several Yellow Sand Bandits wore expressions of satisfaction. If it weren't for her still being quite useful to their superiors, she would have already been turned into a pile of minced meat!
"Bring the Battle God’s Blade back to the boss, and leave this little girl to play with Wuye. If she doesn’t die, are any of us interested?"
"Hehe! What do you think?" Several Yellow Sand Bandits leered with a perverse smile. If not for orders from above, they would have just had their way with the redhead girl and disposed of her on the spot. Such acts were common for them, quite routine!
"But this Miss Taraku clan is different. Although young, she's much quicker than the other women outside!"
"That goes without saying. After all, why would Wuye look at her?"
"Who says… Ah!!" Just as a Yellow Sand Bandit was about to speak, he immediately clutched his neck, his eyes bloodshot, before deflating like a burst balloon. In the blink of an eye, all that was left was a skin bag and bones.
"What's going on?!" The Yellow Sand Bandits were used to licking blood at the edge of the blade, and they immediately became alert at the sight. They extended their power to form a shield around themselves for protection.
However, the shield seemed to be of no use at all. Following the first fallen Yellow Sand Bandit, several more quickly followed suit, each one losing all flesh and blood, leaving only skin bags and bones.
"Damn! How could there be Sand Bloodworms here!"
"Quick, seal your blood and check if you have any worms in your body!"
As if realizing the source of their problem instantly, the Sand Bloodworm was a notorious creature in the Yellow Sand world, tiny in size, not even one-tenth the size of a mosquito, with extremely high aggression. Once inside a living being's body, it would soon suck the flesh and blood dry, leaving behind a pile of dry bones!
"Ahhhh—!"
"Tu Si, what are you doing!"
"Have you gone mad?!"
"I'm not mad, but all of you can just die!" Tu Si, as he was called, said with a fierce look. “This is the legendary power of the Battle God. It is said that mastering its power can directly elevate one to become a deity!”
"You bunch of aimless trash, not even a bit tempted by such great power!"
"Tu Si! Are you afraid of betraying the Yellow Sand Bandits?"
"Hahaha! After I become a deity, do you think I’ll still be afraid?"
"You…"
"Hmph! Name one powerful being who didn’t climb over corpses. You can become a stepping stone for a future deity. It’s an honorable thing to die!"
"Ahhhh—!" Apart from Tu Si, each of the other Yellow Sand Bandits spasmed and fell, before soon their skin bags containing bones lay on the yellow sand.
"Haha!" Tu Si chuckled, and then, one by one, small black worms crawled out from the dead Yellow Sand Bandits, entering his nose and ears before wriggling beneath his skin, creating a chilling sensation just by watching.
"With the Bloodworm Technique coupled with the power of the Battle God, I can ascend to become an immortal deity!" Tu Si laughed manically.
He had chanced upon the Bloodworm Technique on a mission. It was an extremely evil spell that uses one's own essence to nurture Worms and turns one's body into a nest for these creatures. Once mastered, these worms would also become a part of his body. With every flesh they consumed, his strength would increase rapidly!
Approaching the unconscious redhead girl, Tu Si had no intention of showing any mercy to this orphan of the Taraku family. In his eyes, strength was the only true path to success – with strength, one could have it all; without it, one was as good as nothing.
Picking up the Battle God's Blade from the ground, a very famous artifact said to contain the power of a mighty deity, Tu Si felt a surge of immense power flowing within the warblade. His worms inside him suddenly calmed down, as if they had encountered something they feared.
"It truly is a remarkable item!" Although he had come into contact with many immortal artifacts before, none had caused such a reaction among the worms within him!
"Now, I just need to find out how to cultivate the power of the Battle God!" A formation flickered under Tu Si's feet, and a huge, grotesque worm crawled out, carrying Tu Si with the unconscious redhead girl on its back!
"Let’s go!" Ignoring the bones strewn on the ground, Tu Si commanded the summoned killer worms to burrow beneath the yellow sand.
"Zhoosh—!" Just as Tu Si disappeared into the sand, a swift shadow descended from the sky, plunging violently into the sand.
"Boom—!"
A violent explosion erupted under the yellow sand, sending numerous golden sand grains flying thousands of meters into the air. Tu Si, who had just burrowed under, was also blasted out by the shockwave.
"Run!" Although uncertain of the situation, Tu Si instinctively felt the danger and immediately thought that the Yellow Sand Bandits had reinforcements on the way. So, without hesitation, he fled.
But before he could go far, a figure blocked his path, a young-looking boy. Tu Si sensed the boy and realized that had he not seen the boy, he wouldn't have sensed any trace of him whatsoever.
