Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 738: Chapter 531: Spiritual Worm_2

Spirit Worm.

This was the name sent by Sos, whose true form whereabouts were unknown, after Chen Zhixing retrieved this worm from Zhang Wen’s mind.

The Spirit Worm, which appears like a caterpillar, behaves much like one in reality.

It parasitizes the Sea of Consciousness of others, thriving in its caterpillar state by devouring the scattered thoughts of others, and while doing so, it excretes some evil thoughts to pollute the host’s Sea of Consciousness, making the host irritable, angry, and impulsive.

Once it has surpassed the most fragile caterpillar stage, it reaches the stage of the devouring adult. During this phase, the Spirit Worm devours the dilapidated and corrupted consciousness of the host, which was polluted during its larval stage. Once it has completely consumed the host’s consciousness, it forms a cocoon in the Sea of Consciousness to hibernate. Meanwhile, the external host body, having lost conscious control, turns into a monster driven solely by survival instincts—eating and slaughtering—until the cocoon in its mind successfully transforms. A new consciousness is born, and the host awakens.

But at this point, the host is no longer the original person but a metamorphosed Spirit Worm.

Carrying some of the original host’s memories and inheriting everything about the original host’s physical body and most of the host’s interpersonal relationships, it can be considered another form of possession, claiming the nest of a magpie.

Yet this is not the end of the journey.

After the Spirit Worm’s consciousness awakens, it consumes the energy accumulated by the body’s natural instincts during this period to make this physical body enter a cocoon state as well, continuously adjusting the body’s talents, physique, appearance, and even the cultivation path.

By the time all of this is done and the person possessed by the Spirit Worm ’awakens’ again, they will be a truly ’new life’ that retains most of the original host’s memories but is significantly stronger in every aspect.

This is the complete life cycle of a Spirit Worm.

Oh.

By the way, the message Chen Zhixing received from Sos was that the Spirit Worm is not an actual race but essentially a cultivation technique of possession, applicable to most life forms in the Star Sea, allowing them to distill their life’s essence into a Spirit Worm to possess others.

Interestingly, this perverse technique originates from a small world in the Cosmic Realm, designated by Sos as a D-level Plane, where the cultivation method of the Spirit Worm seems to be the fundamental legacy of a sect that worships an Evil God.

Anyway, Chen Zhixing felt quite speechless after reading it.

Can such an eerie technique actually become a heritage?

Besides, how did a so-called D-level world create such a bizarre technique that even a cultivator from the Celestial Profound Realm finds to be unsettling?

Is it really just all about piling up time and luck?

After pondering for a moment, Chen Zhixing continued to study the Spirit Worm in his hand, casually commenting:

"Don’t underestimate this thing. After all, it is the most refined legacy of a world. Oh, by the way, do you want this cultivation technique? If, someday, the Cosmic Realm’s lifespan comes to an end, perhaps Little Stone you can use this technique to escape death."

"Huh? Me?"

Shi Hao pointed to himself, then shook his head vigorously: "No way! Master, I’m quite satisfied with my current body, everything tastes great, why would I want to change it!"

"Hmm, that’s true, but I’ll give you a copy of this cultivation technique anyway, study it when you have time. Who knows, you might discover something new."

Saying this, Chen Zhixing grabbed in mid-air, and a large cluster of Starlight formed into a jade scroll in his hand, which he casually tossed to Shi Hao.

"Oh."

Shi Hao caught the jade scroll and stuffed it into his bosom without even looking at it.

He continued to lie on the chair, not wanting to move.

Truly feeling nothing to live for.....

...

Chen Zhixing was very interested in this Spirit Worm.

Because it was the first type he had seen that, without a Golden Nature, could resist the summons of the Spirit Realm and remain in the material world as an embodied consciousness.

Although this was likely related to the incomplete laws of the Spirit Realm in small worlds like the Cosmic Realm, Chen Zhixing believed that with some significant modifications, this thing might also be useful if taken to the Cosmic Realm!

No.

Chen Zhixing even suspected that this cultivation technique would still have most of its effects if taken to the Cosmic Realm, at least the part of merging other consciousnesses and devouring them to form a cocoon is absolutely effective!

The only aspect Chen Zhixing found unreliable was transforming oneself into a Spirit Worm to resist the summoning of the Spirit Realm.

By taking on the form of a worm, could it evade the gravitational pull of the Spirit Realm?

This is clearly unscientific.

If escaping the pull of the Spirit Realm were so easy, wouldn’t the Taoist Lords of the Celestial Profound Spirit Realm have sneaked out using this method?

"Anyway, this always remains a pathway. As for whether it can truly be achieved, more trials need to be conducted... hmm, I still need a few more experimental subjects."

It’s easy to find experimental subjects.

After getting in touch with Sos, Sos told Chen Zhixing to come and collect them in a little while.

Although Sos didn’t have ready Spirit Worms at hand, given the Cosmic Realm’s current state of war, there would inevitably be some unlucky individuals who cultivated the Spirit Worm technique and died. During this period, Sos just needed to extract the Spirit Worm from them and hand it to Chen Zhixing.

In this regard, Sos was perfectly suitable.

The Terminal Death God, in terms of the Celestial Profound Realm’s terminology, is essentially the first Taoist Lord of the Cosmic Realm’s Spirit Realm, a true divine entity mastering the laws of guidance and death.

Diverting a few dead conscious entities is nothing more than child’s play for Sos.

But here lies the intriguing aspect of people.

When Chen Zhixing hadn’t brought it up, Sos didn’t consider the Spirit Worm significant, since it was ultimately just a trivial trick for ordinary cultivators, akin to a real worm for those with Golden Nature and Divine Format, unable to affect them.

After all, anything a Spirit Worm can accomplish, a Divine Format can do too, and more comprehensively, as Spirit Worm is essentially a simplified, lower version of a Divine Format without the law attribute.

Existences like Sos naturally didn’t see anything special in it.

But nowadays, upon discovering Chen Zhixing’s interest in the Spirit Worm, Sos instinctively felt he should also research whether there was indeed something unique about the Spirit Worm.

After all, even a formidable fellow like Chen Zhixing showed interest in this little worm.

As for the reason Chen Zhixing gave Sos, ’exploring the real reason why Spirit Worm could resist the Spirit Realm’s attraction,’ of course, Sos believed it. However, he still thought that if the Spirit Worm had this point that attracted Chen Zhixing, perhaps he could also identify another useful point in it?

Thus.

Throughout the Cosmic Realm, every cultivator of the Spirit Worm technique encountered bad luck in a short time.

They were either affected by passing Legendary Demigods or got swept into the ongoing war. More exaggeratedly, some Spirit Worm cultivators found their Divine Sense impacted by the World Law while cultivating and inexplicably died just like that!

Is there a more absurd way to die than this?!

However, in the Cosmic Realm, for those native low-level cultivators, Sos, being the Terminal Death God, truly can decide their life and death with just a thought.

Be it on a physical level or a law level.

Ordinarily, he doesn’t do it simply because he doesn’t want to, and only those whose cultivation reached the Legendary Realm or Golden Peak, who can barely resist their law, manage to escape from Sos’s means.

Is what Sos does going too far?

Is there any fairness in the Cosmic Realm?

Don’t joke.

Your purpose in cultivating Spirit Worm is possession, Sos is the Death God, and killing you outright is merely his duty!