The tall stone slab pressed directly against the narrow passage, pushing the top section of the passage upward significantly.

Herag realized that after taking out this stone slab, the situation inside the passage hadn't changed at all.

He speculated that the reasons for this must be complex, and simply taking out the stone slab would hardly make any difference.

Herag even suspected that returning the stone slab to its original position wouldn't alter the situation here.

Although the situation inside the passage hadn't changed, the stone slab instead provided support here, temporarily maintaining the present conditions.

Herag knew this was only temporary. Once the force from above came down, it would be an all-around, seamless compression.

The stone slab could only support the vertical direction, with no way to provide support front and back.

When a complete collapse occurred, Herag would be crushed to death by the surrounding rock and soil layers.

At that time, he might become the first wizard in the history of the Wizard Plane to be crushed to death by rock layers underground.

Now running upwards was already too late because through Shenlan's environmental sensing, Herag had observed that both the upper and lower passages had started to collapse.

Herag glanced at the plane coordinates in his left hand but did not directly activate the teleportation to escape.

It was still the same principle, he would eventually automatically return, and by then, appearing directly inside the rock layers would still mean death.

Once teleported over, Herag would need to seize every moment to increase his power, ensuring that when he returned, he could survive in such circumstances.

Cre-e-eeak...

Herag heard some subtle sounds, coming from the surrounding rock and soil layers, sounds of them being compressed by pressure.

He looked up at the top of the passage; some chunks of earth had already started falling.

If it weren't for the stone slab supporting here, this passage would've collapsed instantly.

Herag's mind raced, thinking about how to get out of this peril.

He didn't have much time left, estimating that within seconds this area would be fully compressed and collapsed.

By then, pressure would come from all directions, and even though Herag was in Titan Power form, it was impossible to withstand such immense pressure.

Herag gripped his left-hand coordinate with his right hand, ready to activate teleportation at any moment.

Until the last moment, this method couldn't be used.

Because in a certain sense, teleporting to the Abyss Plane only postponed the death time, not solving the problem fundamentally.

Earth chunks gradually fell down, interspersed with various stones.

Every second passing increased the pressure in Herag's heart.

Just as the passage was about to completely collapse, Herag almost retracted the stone slab and activated the plane coordinates.

He suddenly sensed the presence of a demon through Shenlan's environmental detection.

That giant worm, similar to an earthworm, was the kind of demon that had previously attacked him from underground.

Herag immediately had an idea, drew his longsword, temporarily relieved the Titan Power, and sliced a long wound on his palm.

Not only that, but he also splattered his blood out while shouting loudly towards the position of the giant worm.

The sound waves quickly transmitted through the rock layers to the giant worm, which had very sensitive perception underground.

Upon sensing the sound waves, it immediately turned and swam towards Herag, its body shell extremely hard and uniquely structured, seemingly specifically designed to move through underground rock layers.

The giant worm soon smelled the blood scent, which made it excited and rushed towards Herag at increased speed.

It moved underground at extremely high speed, much faster than its actions on the surface.

In almost a blink of an eye, the giant worm arrived at the rock layer next to Herag.

The giant worm opened its mouth wide, ready to bite down towards Herag's location, intending to swallow the entire chunk of rock layer along with the prey.

Herag focused his full attention, timing the giant worm's approach and mouth opening, calculating the right moment.

As soon as that moment arrived, Herag immediately retracted the stone slab, causing the rock layer above to collapse instantly.

But these rock layers didn't hit Herag; instead, they fell onto the giant worm.

The rock layers had no effect on the giant worm, as its fine surface structure could cleverly absorb these forces.

The giant worm swallowed Herag along with that section of rock layer whole, then contentedly wandered randomly underground.

Inside the giant worm's body, Herag took out a dagger and thrust it into the giant worm's cavity, anchoring himself so as not to be sucked into its digestive organs.

The dagger seemed trivial compared to the giant worm's body; such a minor wound had no impact on the giant worm and didn't even make it aware of the knife inside its body.

This kind of giant worm had many twist-like blade organs at its throat to crush the food swallowed, facilitating digestion.

As Herag was being swallowed and almost reached the throat position, he used the Teleportation Technique to skip past the throat location.

The position he was currently clinging to was similar to the esophagus in humans, with darkness behind, appearing like a bottomless abyss.

Further below should be similar to stomach digestive organs since Herag sensed a strong stench and acid smell.

Herag guessed that if he fell down, he would most likely be completely digested soon.

This giant worm, daring to swallow rocks and such without fear, undoubtedly possessed extremely strong digestion capabilities.

Herag grasped the dagger, resisting the suction from behind.

This giant worm's digestive organs seemed to automatically draw in items from ahead.

This suction was extremely strong, and if not for Herag anchoring himself with the dagger, he would likely have been sucked in.

Moreover, the muscle tissue he was in kept writhing, seemingly trying to send him down.

However, Herag's dagger was deeply embedded, firmly wedged in place.

The situation now was akin to a fishbone getting stuck in one's throat, firmly lodged and unable to swallow down.

After stabilizing his position temporarily, Herag dangled mid-air, being swung around wildly.

This giant worm was moving at an extraordinarily high speed, constantly changing direction.

If Herag didn't grip tightly, he might be flung off inadvertently.

He didn't know where the giant worm was heading, nor did he know when it might stop.

Herag prepared to take some action; otherwise, if this giant worm randomly led him to some strange place, he'd never be able to return to the Land of Dawn in his lifetime.

After a while, the giant worm seemed to realize the anomaly inside its body.

It initially thought it had swallowed the prey but realized that this prey was stuck internally and hadn't gone down.

Once the giant worm realized this, it began to thrash its body in an attempt to fling Herag into its digestive organs.

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