Facing the worm swarm surging like a white tide, Lynch's eyes flashed coldly, without any intention of retreating. He was even too lazy to use more complex Law Power; against these vast numbers of yet individually weak offspring, the most direct and brutal approach is often the most effective.

"Ching!"

Ifrid's Sword was unsheathed once again, and as the dark red blade emerged, it burst into a blazing golden flame! The scorching heat instantly dispelled the surrounding chill and stench, illuminating the dim tree hole with radiant brightness.

With a low shout, Lynch advanced instead of retreating, transforming into a burning stream of light and charging into the overwhelming swarm of worms!

The sword light danced, and the flames roared!

Just as Lynch anticipated, although these worm offspring were astonishing in number and emitted an unsettling aura, their individual power was only equivalent to the Domain Early Stage and they hadn't mastered true Domain Power, rendering them utterly insignificant before his Middle Domain existence.

More crucially, fire naturally restrained these soft-bodied, heat-averse creatures!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle——!"

Ifrid's Sword sliced through the congealed grease like a red-hot branding iron. Wherever it passed, the worms emitted shrill screams like bursting bubbles, their bodies turning black and curling up upon contact with the golden flames, and then turning to ash! As the sword blade swept by, it created a vacuum zone, countless worms annihilated in the inferno.

Lynch's figure traversed the worm swarm, each sword swing igniting a sea of fire, his movements efficient and straightforward, devoid of any flamboyance. The worms' bites and corrosive spatula were easily vaporized and deflected upon approaching the flame force field and Elemental Shield around him, unable to pose any substantial threat.

This was entirely a one-sided slaughter, highly efficient.

Seeing the seemingly endless swarm continuously pouring out from the depths of the tunnel, Lynch frowned slightly and decided not to waste any more time.

He suddenly thrust Ifrid's Sword into the void in front of him, pressing his hands upon the hilt, his spiritual power resonating entirely with the Flame Rule within the sword!

"Boom——!"

Centered on him, a massive Flame Domain composed entirely of golden flames abruptly expanded, as if detonating a small sun inside the tree hollow!

The intense radiance swallowed everything in an instant! The rampant Flame Element, like unbridled wild horses, swept through the entire passage ahead! Those dense, myriad worm offspring had no time to scream before they disintegrated into nothing under the absolute high temperature and flame burning at the Law level!

Within just a few breaths, the passage once filled with the white worm tide was completely cleared, leaving only scorched marks on the ground and cave walls, along with the acrid scent of burnt protein lingering in the air, evidence of the sheer number of enemies that were present here.

Standing in the flame-cleansed passage, Lynch was surrounded by the scorched aroma. He scanned the ravaged ground, bending down to gently prod the ashes with the tip of Ifrid's Sword.

"The structure of these offspring... seems somewhat abnormal."

He crouched down, gathering a trace of spiritual power at his fingertip, carefully probing the remaining worm fragments. Under the Spiritual Vision's perspective, the fragments' interiors revealed an extremely unnatural energy circuit as if forcibly altered.

"Not a structure formed by natural evolution..." Lynch whispered thoughtfully, "This method of energy conduction seems like some kind of... trace of human intervention?"

He frowned slightly, taking out a specially made Alchemy Glass Bottle from the storage space, using tweezers to carefully collect a few relatively intact remnants and a clump of not completely carbonized tissue sample into the bottle.

"Bring it back for a detailed analysis, perhaps some interesting discoveries await."

With the sample bottle securely stored, Lynch gripped Ifrid's Sword planted in the ground and slowly rose. The flame patterns on the sword flickered in the gloom, illuminating his resolute face.

"Time to meet the main adversary."

He stepped forward, treading over the charred remnants, heading into the deeper, denser darkness of the tunnel. Each step was steady and powerful, the fire quietly burning on the sword blade like a hunter poised to strike.

Lynch tightened his grip on Ifrid's Sword, continuing deeper along the damp and slippery tunnel within the tree hollow. The path grew more treacherous, the corruptive aura almost tangible, each breath seeming to bear a corrosive weight.

After traversing a particularly long, winding, descending narrow passage, the darkness ahead abruptly retreated, and his vision suddenly cleared.

He stepped into an unimaginably vast internal space. It seemed like a natural cavity formed within Vadorra's hollowed-out torso, impossibly wide, with a towering ceiling lost to the darkness, stretching beyond sight.

The space's walls weren't rock but the necrotized, hardened, and grotesquely crystallized woody structure inside the World Species, covered with massive, withered, blackened energy circuits akin to dead vascular networks.

The air was suffused with a stomach-churning stench, a mix of overwhelming putrescence, pungent acidity, and some biological glandular secretion, almost suffocating.

The ground was layered in thick, viscous mud composed of worm secretions, shed skins, and partially digested wooden debris, emitting a squelching "puki" sound with every uneven step.

Scattered around were pieces of massive, partially devoured energy core fragments, resembling dull crystals, still holding faint energy waves but thoroughly polluted by decay.

The entire space felt like a huge, filthy biological stomach, filled with an air of death and decay.

Lynch held his breath, his sharp gaze scanning over this discomforting nest like a searchlight, hunting for signs of the main body.

Just then—

Within the deepest shadows ahead, two points of dark green phosphorescence suddenly lit up without warning!

The glow wasn't a reflection but self-emitted, exuding a cold sheen of greed and violence, each one the size of a carriage wheel, like two bottomless pools of toxic liquid swamp.

Soon followed a creepy, concentrated, wet "sasa" sound from the darkness, akin to countless scales rubbing against each other.

With that sound, a massive shadow slowly wriggled out from the depths of darkness, revealing its true form—

It was a gigantic white worm the size of a hill!

Its body diameter exceeded several tens of meters in height, and its length was difficult to estimate, most of it still hidden in the darkness behind. Its entire form had a diseased, semi-transparent ghastly white color, faintly visible were its organs slowly moving inside, filled with corrosive energy.

The smooth, greasy skin was coated with a glossy slime, reflecting the flickering firelight from Ifrid's Sword.

Above its terrifying petal-like split maw, occupied its entire frontal aspect, were those two emotionless, dark green phosphorescent compound eyes, presently fixing firmly on the uninvited intruder into its nest—Lynch!

The Bone Eroding Worm's main body had finally revealed itself! The oppressive sense of its massive form and the Domain Level corrosive aura it emitted far surpassed its offspring, filling the entire nest space in an instant.

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