Xianwei claimed not to come for the legion, well, indeed he came just for the legion. He said he’d been drifting in the void for years. Although occasionally encountering meteors and consuming plenty of mineral water ice, he was severely lacking in all essential vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids necessary for the human body. His skin had rotted, his stomach ulcerated, so he wandered in search of food and came over after hearing there was food here.
Spider Xi asked, who did you hear that from?
Xianwei said he couldn’t remember, because his Divine Sense had long since slipped into a coma after drifting in the void for too long. Recently, when swaying near Star Sky, his Divine Sense suddenly detected a lot of food and gradually awakened. However, most of that food was already owned by others; at first, he tried to snatch it, but got beaten until his head was smashed and couldn’t fight due to hunger and weakness. Finally, someone pointed him on a bright path, and he wandered to Chaotic Star Sea to find wild food. Unexpectedly, it was still owned.
"Great Demon Ancestor! It must be that group of Great Demon Ancestors on Jupiter causing trouble behind the scenes! It’s this group blocking the Star Gate that resulted in our legion’s main fleet being unable to pass through!
But friends, don’t worry! Our legion lacks nothing; essential medicines and nutrients for the human body were synthesized industrially tens of thousands of years ago! Open your mouth, ah～"
"Ang～"
So the whale-headed man opened his mouth, and Spider Xi commanded the legion’s container cluster to swoosh and slammed into the giant mouth. No one knew if it was mines or nutrients being shoved in.
But Tie Dan didn’t believe the nonsense at all, directly pointing to the whale’s scar-covered wounds,
"Stop talking nonsense! Don’t even mention that the Light Spear Decomposition Cannon couldn’t leave a single hole on you; you can even dissolve my sword power! And these sores that keep festering and rotting, who knows how many years they’ve been that way! I reckon they were inflicted by a Level 1 Taoist Ancestor of Returning Void and Merging Dao, hence unresolved to this day, with Dao power still lingering in the wounds!
Moreover, those accumulating white bones clinging to you aren’t corpses you killed yourself! Clearly, you exterminated Penglai’s fleet, reincarnating, and devouring their Tao Body and Primordial Spirit! Now confess! Who are you?!"
Threadworm sighed,
"I really forgot..."
"Humph! Refusing toast only to take punishment..."
"Bro, don’t!"
Tie Dan raised his hand, ready to split, suddenly feeling a tightness on his wrist due to the spider silk, getting yanked, and in the next moment, his Primordial Spirit was ousted and pulled back into the control room.
Tie Dan was initially stunned and then flew into a rage, placing a sword on Spider Xi’s neck,
"Bastard! Don’t think I dare not kill you! I’m not your string puppet! Block me again, and I’ll slash you too!"
Spider Xi trembled in fear but still clenched his teeth, advising,
"Bro, bro, you better calm down, there’s a chance for negotiation and resolution, why fight and kill? It’s not easy to survive these days, too many have already died..."
"Quite right, quite right, Little Worm says so too. Peace is precious."
Tie Dan and Spider Xi turned their heads only to see an old man with a white beard who had somehow joined them in the communication room, wandering around with his hands tucked behind his back, and gazing with eyes as cloudy as Chaos, faintly swirling with white-thread-like parasites.
"Now the Heavenly Dao is consumed by Chaos, All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds are collapsing, countless parallel universes are inevitably in destruction. This world is among the very few remaining oases. Everyone should value peace to prevent senseless slaughter."
Tie Dan, without a second word, abandoned Spider Xi and stabbed with a sword.
The old white-bearded man also flickered and dodged the sword blade.
Even though Spider Xi was born with eight eyes capable of seeing in all directions, he could barely keep track of the blue and white Mysterious Light dodging and fluttering inside the room, leaving countless afterimages with every breath. In a blink, they had exchanged over a hundred moves, evenly matched with no result.
"Good lad, not bad at all, only three people could press and beat this poor Taoist before, and you’re the fourth!"
"Still spouting nonsense! You dodged so many moves, clearly, you’ve learned routines from My Sword Sect! Speak! Who taught you?!"
"I already said I can’t remember!"
"Then we’ll fight until you remember!"
"Stop fighting, you two!"
Seeing unable to persuade them at all, Spider Xi sighed, opened the door, and walked out, making his way along the ship’s bridge to the command room,
"General, First-Class Soldier Xi reporting."
The command room chair was empty, with only a mass of Blood Intestine-like tissue slowly wriggling, faintly revealing a silhouette of a deep brown human stain, as if the human originally seated there was blown away by gamma ray exposure, like a boiled egg in a microwave, cells all exploded and scattered everywhere.
Spider Xi showed a momentary expression of loneliness and sorrow, rubbing his mandibles,
"It’s fine, a good sleep will heal it. The invading demon has temporarily stopped approaching. However, the other side’s Divine Soul crawled along my threads and is now fighting with Brother Xuantian."
The mass of tissue quivered.
Spider Xi said,
"Now he has proven his strength, can you invite Brother Xuantian to join the legion?"
The mass quivered.
Spider Xi nodded,
"You’re right, Brother Xuantian indeed has mild manic depression and is not suitable to join the legion just yet..."
Then Tie Dan popped up from behind Spider Xi and glared at him,
"You’re the one with a mental illness! I’m perfectly normal! Is this really the General? This is merely neural reactions, right?"
The old man also curiously poked at the meat on the chair, making it jiggle and bounce,