Gamers Are Fierce

Just as Li Ang used the Mystery Delver title skill to gather intelligence, the ritual track of the Desolated Lion had not yet reached the level of completely controlling every part of the Mutated Starfish's body.

The size of the Mutated Starfish was simply too massive, requiring both neural signals and divine power that could cover a vast distance instantaneously to command and control it.

However, the nerve centers of the starfish's tentacles had been severed by Li Ang, replaced by bug nest units capable of simulating neural impulses,

The divine power emitted by the Desolated Lion, due to the long distance, was gradually diminished and could not contend with the brain worms infused with Swamp God Power at the midsection of the tentacles that Li Ang had heavily invested in.

A normal human can move their limbs, but they cannot control the flow rate of blood in the limbs or make a single muscle twitch independently.

But the bug nest can influence and interfere with each part by expanding neural circuits and precisely releasing neural electrical signals and hormones,

even exerting more of the inherent power of the body than the original owner of the Mutated Starfish's body.

In other words, this is—Starfish Martial Arts.

The tip of the tentacle curled like a martial artist clenching a fist,

billions of muscle cells tightly compressed together, contracting, expanding, relaxing, extending, operating like the components of a vast mechanical system, jointly playing a grand and harmonious symphony.

The entire tentacle swept across the broken dome ceiling, carrying gale force, and slammed into the temporary divine power barrier conjured by the Desolated Lion.

Boom!

The divine power barrier manifested a hundred-meter-long web of cracks, continuously erupting with explosive crackling sounds.

The enormous body of the Desolated Lion suddenly shook, small tentacles entwining its surface ruptured and fell, and the divine power generated under pressure barely maintained the existence of the barrier.

Then, once more.

Li Ang quietly loosened his clenched fist, and the starfish tentacle with a cracked, thorny surface likewise relaxed its tip, stretching out like an open palm,

pressing against the surface of the divine power barrier.

Boom!

Another giant tentacle broke through the wall, launching a swift assault from another side, also pressing against the Desolated Lion's divine power barrier.

"Do you know how a starfish eats?"

"Beneath a starfish's tentacle, there are four rows of densely packed tube feet with suckers. When capturing bivalves, it uses two tentacles to grip the sides of the shell and employs the vacuum action of the suckers on the ends of the tube feet to pry open the shell."

"Then it turns out its cardiac stomach, pierces the shell, secretes digestive enzymes, dissolving the bivalve's adductor muscle and internal organs, completing digestion..."

With the mutterings of the Bug Nest Tyrant, two giant tentacles, or arms,

extended the dense suckers on their tube feet,

firmly adhering to the semi-solid divine power barrier.

Rip.

The two giant arms pulled to the sides slowly but steadily, causing the divine power barrier to burst out with a continuous explosive sound.

Bam!

Finally, the divine power barrier completely shattered,

A bright light flashed in David's eyes as he lay on the ground, his four wings, barely grown from his back, surged skyward, and the Sword of Flames in his hand suddenly swelled, striking the Desolated Lion's neck.

Screech—

Amber blood splattered everywhere as numerous severed arms went limp and fell. The Desolated Lion wobbled and lurched to the right, almost collapsing.

Divine power, I still have... divine power.

The Desolated Lion abandoned calling upon the upper tentacles, driving his somewhat blurry consciousness to desperately extract the divine power contained in the main body disc of the Mutated Starfish beneath the safety door.

But,

Within the essence link formed by the ritual track, only a small amount of thin divine power and a large number of incomplete neural signals were returned.

What, is going on?

Bang!

The ground before the Desolated Lion burst open, and Su Ni Sheng charged from underground, throwing a large, continually burning, white fishing net-shaped object onto the ground.

This was the neural circuit of the Mutated Starfish's main body disc.

A complex emotion flashed in the eyes of the Desolated Lion, formed from starfish tentacles. He stepped heavily on the ground with one hand to balance himself and looked up to the sky, roaring.

David, engulfed in the roar mixed with immense divine power, broke through the ceiling dome and disappeared into the darkness of the upper floors,

while Dann Chenzi and others also unwillingly used the cover of the roar to teleport away from their original locations.

On the scene, only the Desolated Lion, tentacles, players, and bug nest remained.

"..."

The Desolated Lion scanned the battlefield expressionlessly, the nerve centers of the Mutated Starfish's main body disc severed, leading to less and less divine power being injected into the ritual track, the track itself no longer able to maintain operation.

According to their initial expectation, the Desolated Lion would successfully integrate with the Mutated Starfish and ascend to divinity in one go with the faith infusion of billions of Otherworldly beings.

Not only could they return to their world with the doors captured from Earth players, increasing the chances of civilizational continuity,

but they could also utilize the characteristics of the Mutated Starfish, "producing energy endlessly just by absorbing geothermal energy," to rescue their civilization from the collapse predicament caused by the survival space being severely compressed by the Magic Sunflower.

Unfortunately, the plan, in the end, still fell short.

At this moment, any words were meaningless; the Desolated Lion felt the divinity continuously flowing back into its body and said indifferently, "I look forward to meeting you again next time..."

Before the words fell, it retreated half a step, opened its lion's mouth towards the pitch-black space beneath the safety door, and the tentacles covering its body exploded root by root.

"Stop him!"

Tai Hao's expression abruptly changed, shouting fiercely, regardless of Spiritual Power consumption, forcibly driving the Air Dragon to blast forward.

The other players also sensed a strong ominous foreboding from the ether,

Amber swung his scimitar, the Black Sail phantom fired artillery,

David threw the Judgement Spear,

The Witch recited an incantation,

Su Ni Sheng threw a punch.

However, all attacks fell on the resolute Desolated Lion's body, only shattering its surface tentacles but unable to harm the Desolated Lion's body within the depths of the tentacles.

"..."

Li Ang glanced at the Desolated Lion, seeming to realize something, directly activated the Mirror World Travel effect of the Abyssal Magic Mirror, which had cooled down, disappearing from the scene,

teleporting to the upper floor's Bug Nest Center.

He glanced around, confirmed no System Detector emerged, and turned to the numerous brain worms waiting for a long time, calmly instructing, "Begin."

As the bug nest units took over the Mutated Starfish tentacles, halted the tentacles' attack on the Lost World, the collapse momentum had been stopped,

The spherical giant bug nest could also stably stand on the ground.

Buzz—

The bug nest vibrated,

thousands of pipelines inserted into the surface of the bug nest expanded, contracted, cycled,

Injecting the amber-colored liquid collected by lower units into the biological factory within the bug nest center.

The amber liquid is the blood of the Mutated Starfish and also the cornerstone containing the starfish's divinity.

Thousands of tons of amber blood, after numerous filtrations, purification, refinement, was finally injected into the incubation pool.

Li Ang, clad in Bug Nest Tyrant Armor, stepped slowly into the Amber Blood Pool, exuding dense steam, his body extending plant tendrils.