Chapter 1796: Chapter 1714: Xuanhuang Worm

This Main God Instrument is indeed powerful. As long as there are enough souls to consume, it completely surpasses the Wrath of the Godslayer and the Slaughter Blade.

However, this Main God Instrument also has limitations. Only the King of Hell can use it normally. If Huang Yi wishes to use this Hell Demon Sword, his soul will be corrupted, just like Xing Yuan before, with no good outcome.

He is a player; his soul is under his own control. The effect of soul corruption will manifest through specific negative effects, such as illusions appearing before his eyes, or attacking the wrong target, among others.

The power of this Main God Instrument mainly lies in its various attributes, while the three accompanying Artifact Skills have little direct impact on combat, serving more of a supportive role.

However, he cannot use these three skills now, as his skill slots are already full, and he would need to sacrifice 3 skills to do so.

The skill [Soul Devouring] perfectly solves Huang Yi’s current issue of having too many main artifacts, for he now possesses three Main God Instruments and has no further need for the Slaughter Blade.

The Void God soul of the Slaughter Blade can no longer bring him strength enhancement, and the Tyrant Possession Artifact Skill is uncontrollable and very inconvenient.

He previously reached the Main God Level in terms of strength, and now has acquired 1/4 of the Crystallization of the Divine King, the Hell Demon Sword, and treasures like the Xuanhuang Worm, which is not inferior to the strength of the Tyrant in those years.

He can use the Soul Devouring skill to devour the Slaughter Blade’s artifact spirit, thus acquiring a portion of the Slaughter Blade’s attributes.

In the future, wielding both the Hell Demon Sword and Wrath of the Godslayer will make him even stronger.

[Soul Command] is not needed now since the Hell Demon Sword has already absorbed the souls of three Demon Kings, which is an exceptionally rare perfect soul match.

[Soul Exchange], this skill resembles the form-switching of his Sun-Chasing Dragon’s Wings.

The Sun-Chasing Dragon’s Wings can switch to Sun Chaser Holy Dragon Wings, or Sun Chaser Demon Dragon Wings to gain two different effects: Holy Elements and Demonic Attributes. However, he is a Nefalem, simultaneously possessing both demigod abilities, so there’s no need to switch.

As for the Hell Demon Sword’s switching forms, it has notably different effects. When close to death, it can use the sword form to perform bloodsuck and restore health points. When lacking divine power or energy value, it can be switched to the scythe form for absorption. The shadow form can absorb the enemy’s soul energy to enhance soul strength, granting immunity to more adverse conditions. These three forms can adapt to various situations.

The Hell Demon Sword is such powerful equipment, yet its level requirement surprisingly is — none!

Meaning, even a level 1 player can use it.

However, if this demon sword is used by others, they will be subject to the negative effects of soul corruption. Those with weak strength might be corrupted at a mere touch without getting to enjoy the benefits it brings.

The item description of this demon sword is quite unique, the sentence subtly hints at a succession relationship — fighting with the devil for too long, one becomes a devil oneself.

Indeed, he now seems to have inherited the King of Hell, obtaining his most important artifact — the Demon Sword. Moreover, the Second World is currently very powerful, similar to the Demon Clan’s past, constantly conquering various worlds within the universe and incorporating them into the Second World’s map.

The system announcement has also proclaimed him as the new Master of the Mortal World, which is an inheritance from the King of Hell.

This identity is not merely a title but genuinely beneficial, akin to the Name Bestowing Attributes —

[Master of the Mortal World]:

When in the Mortal Realm, all damage received is reduced by 60%.

While in the Mortal Realm, when surrounded by multiple attackers, the more enemies there are and the longer the battle persists, the stronger your power becomes. The extent of augmentation adjusts dynamically based on specifics.

Traveling to any world in the Mortal Realm will not result in any weakening, except for special worlds.

Space teleportation abilities greatly enhance, allowing for sharing these teleportation capacities with others.

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The privileges of this Master of the Mortal World identity are numerous, most of which only function in the Mortal Realm and are useless outside it.

Some of the attributes are precisely those the King of Hell had once manifested.

For instance, the privilege to enhance one’s strength when besieged by multiple attackers was the reason the King of Hell grew stronger the more he fought, forcing Huang Yi to abandon the crowd tactics and transform himself into an existence akin to Kado, integrating over 9 billion players to combat him.

From now onwards, Huang Yi will also possess this attribute.

After becoming the Master of the Mortal World, his strength is now at its peak, finding no one who could threaten him, hence the King of Hell’s previous disdain towards others. Currently, he too finds no worthy opponent, certainly able to look down upon anyone.

But he does not plan to linger in the Mortal Realm for long; after resolving the issue with the King of Hell, he has no more goals remaining here, making continued stay meaningless.

He must ascend to the Heaven Realm, for that place holds his concerns — the Beast God and the Forest Goddess.

Though upon reaching the Heaven Realm, he will no longer be within the Mortal Realm, and the various attributes brought by this identity will cease to be effective.

Aside from the Hell Demon Sword, Huang Yi also obtained a treasure from the Poison Master—the Xuanhuang Worm.

Previously, the Xuanhuang Worm had burrowed into his body, but he had never seen its form. Now, he only felt it coiled motionless inside him.

The Poison Master, seeing that Huang Yi was too powerful to reclaim the Xuanhuang Worm, had no choice but to leave, otherwise he would never have given up so easily.

Huang Yi immediately controlled the energy within himself, subduing the Xuanhuang Worm and forcing it into his arm. He bit open a small wound, allowing it to emerge.

In an instant, he and more than 9 billion players saw the form of the Xuanhuang Worm for the first time.

The Xuanhuang Worm looked like a tiny golden Eastern dragon, with finely detailed dragon horns and claws, covered in golden scales. It was small and cute, obediently lying in his palm.

[Xuanhuang Worm] (Special Creature)

It can absorb various toxins to achieve detoxification. The more toxins it absorbs, the stronger it becomes. It can burrow into a target’s body, gnaw at their organs, and inject various stored toxins. After recognizing a master, it will share the owner’s life. Unless the owner dies, the Xuanhuang Worm will continue to live. Once its connection with the owner is severed, it cannot share the owner’s life.

This Xuanhuang Worm is indeed very powerful, living up to its reputation as the Poison Master’s treasure. It can absorb any toxin, possessing superior detoxification ability. No matter the toxin, having the Xuanhuang Worm absorb it will neutralize it instantly.

In terms of attack, the Xuanhuang Worm can burrow into an enemy’s body, attacking with physical biting and injecting toxins, making it very agile.

This is far more efficient than Huang Yi releasing the Kiss of Death Poison. The Kiss of Death spreads into the air and is very low in efficiency, as the enemy inhales too little of the gas for it to be lethal.

But with the Xuanhuang Worm’s help, directly injecting toxin into an enemy’s body is exceptionally powerful, just like when the Queen of Agony drank in the Kiss of Death, achieving a completely different effect.

In fact, many other poisonous creatures have similar effects, but they generally have one weakness—they are very fragile and easily killed by enemies, making them not worth cultivating.

This leads to few toxic experts specifically enhancing poisonous creatures’ power, often using swarm tactics like the Insect Race, valuing quantity over quality, and not regretting their loss.

However, the Xuanhuang Worm is well-protected in terms of life, being able to share its owner’s life. As long as the owner does not die, neither will it.

This powerful self-preservation ability makes it worth cultivating and allows it to be useful repeatedly.

Currently, the Xuanhuang Worm is merely subdued by Huang Yi; its master is still the Poison Master.

The Spirit Demon is an expert in this field, and Huang Yi can ask him to obtain the Xuanhuang Worm.

If the Spirit Demon is unwilling to help, he can use other methods to sever the connection between the Poison Master and the Xuanhuang Worm, such as traveling to the Heaven Realm or Heroes’ Prison, similar to how the King of Hell severed the connection with the Demon Sword.

If the recognition between the Xuanhuang Worm and the Poison Master is not through a Master-Servant Contract, Huang Yi can directly make a contract with the Xuanhuang Worm after severing the connection.

If the Xuanhuang Worm has a Master-Servant Contract with the Poison Master, it would be troublesome and might require using the Pact of Water or other special methods to become the new master of the Xuanhuang Worm.

At this moment, Huang Yi turned, gazing towards the east.

By continuing eastward, he could reach the Xuanhuang World of the Eastern Pole Universe, a new place he had never visited.

However, he had no reason to go to the Xuanhuang World, so he immediately turned and flew west, beginning his return to the Western Universe.

The ultimate battle had ended, and the more than 9 billion players fused with him started to log off or terminate the fusion state.

After terminating the fusion state, they each returned to their original regions, having temporarily lost the attributes they had while fused with Huang Yi, needing 30 days to recover automatically.

Huang Yi’s strength started to decline rapidly, with the power he had fused with quickly dissipating, as if his body was being hollowed out.

As these players left, they also took away part of the aura of the crystallization of the Divine King, causing the crystallization in his body to start shrinking.

But he quickly realized that the speed at which the Divine King crystallization shrank did not match the speed at which the players were leaving, as it seemed much slower.

He quickly recalled the recent system announcement that said he’d be rewarded with 1/4 of the Divine King crystallization, though it didn’t specify the exact method of reward.

Previously, he had assumed it would be 1/4 of the Divine King crystallization given to him out of nowhere.

But now it seemed that the system’s reward method was to extract part of the Divine King crystallization from players worldwide to reach this 1/4 amount, gathering it within Huang Yi.

This way, the total amount of the Divine King crystallization remained unchanged, and Huang Yi still could not obtain an entire crystallization of the Divine King.

He didn’t believe anyone could achieve that, as even the King of Hell had not managed it for countless years, so he couldn’t easily do it either.

Moreover, the system’s ultimate task is to slay the King of Hell, not to become the Divine King, which also explains the situation.