Bi Chong - 220

At the same time, both Tian Ren and the mysterious man turned their heads to look at whatever fell out.

It took Tian Ren a second to comprehend the situation, but he was quickly able to tell what it was.

It was a worm. A pink worm that was now rolling around on the ground, seemingly in pain from leaving the mysterious man's body. A moment after it fell out, a couple more worms began to fall out. Then, they started falling out even faster. 

Tian Ren was so stunned and confused that he didn't even attack. He watched as the mysterious man covered the wound to prevent any more worms from falling out and a large amount of Qi was infused into the area.

By the time the mysterious man removed his hand, no more worms were falling out. For some reason, however, the cloth on the mysterious man's body was not healed.

"Since it has come to this point, I might as well just show everything. It's been a while since I've breathed fresh air anyway." The mysterious man said, talking to himself as he reached for his head and scrunched up the cloth on his scalp by grabbing it before fully pulling the cloth off, revealing his true body.

Tian Ren's eyes widened even further as he saw the man, no, the worm's true body. A bunch of worms were crawling around together while maintaining the shape of a human body. 

Tian Ren couldn't see through the pile of worms, but he quickly assumed that the man's personal body must be under the worms somewhere.

"My name is Bi Chong. I am the first and last patriarch of the worm race." He stated.

If anyone from the beast world were to be present, they would be extremely shocked at the revealing of Bi Chong's true identity.

The worm race, while not particularly powerful, used to be one of the top one hundred races in the entire beast world.

However, it had suddenly disappeared many years ago. Nobody knew how it happend, or even when it happened as it went unnoticed for a long time.

When the main area of the worm race was investigated, no traces of anything were found whatsoever.

Now, the patriarch of the worm race had been revealed to be the strongest existence of the beast world.

"From the moment I was born, I was able to feel a connection with the members of my worm race. It wasn't the type of connection one feels with fellow members of a species, but the type of connection one feels when they are one with another." Bi Chong started saying.

Tian Ren didn't know why he was yapping, but he silently listened on, healing from his earlier injuries.

"It wasn't until I reached the void traversing realm and became the first patriarch of the worm race that I understood what the feeling was. I literally was connected with all of the worm race. By exerting my superior power, I was able to erase their minds and connect them with me. A bit of memories still lingered in order to protect their souls, but the entire worm race became a part of me." He said before finally taking his gaze off of the distance and looking at Tian Ren.

"Sorry for all the monologing. I've never told anyone my story before, and since you will be dead in a few minutes, I supposed that you wouldn't mind me rehearsing." Bi Chong said.

"I did mind. Your voice isn't exactly pleasant without your filthy little costume on." Tian Ren responded.

He felt nothing but disgust for the worm in front of him.

Without another word, Tian Ren and Bi Chong moved.

Tian Ren once again reached his hand in the air and used a bolt of lightning to form a lightning sword as he moved towards Bi Chong.

At the same time, Bi Chong moved his right hand to his left side as if he was going to pull a sword out of his sheath. As he did so, some of the worms on his body moved and formed a sword in his hands. 

He then began to swing it forward. As he did so, he covered the sword in darkness Qi, solidifying and sharpening it, before finally covering it with the hundred thousand soul flame.

Only then did Tian Ren and Bi Chong's swords connect. A much more powerful force than before exploded out, creating a crater in the ground much bigger than before. 

Tian Ren pushed the heaven eye to its limit, increasing the pressure it gave off as well as increasing his own strength, and Bi Chong with his new and revealed form was able to fully show off the power of his divine physique, its exact effect unknown to anyone but Zhou Fan.

Despite Tian Ren's power being gifted by heaven itself, both people only tied in the first clash. In a second, a hundred more clashes followed. They flew around the mountain wildly, teleporting everywhere despite the Qi it took.

In the next second they clashed a thousand times. Then ten thousand, before finally averaging a hundred thousand clashes in a second. In only five seconds, the mountain was severely damaged and on the brink of falling apart.

Finally gathering the maximum momentum, both Tian Ren and Bi Chong were ready for the final move.

Tian Ren teleported directly below the eye again with his sword raised straight up. The eye of heaven sent an immense amount of Qi into the sword, still remaining in the air and providing pressure, but not having much of its previous power.

It would only stay for another second, but that was more than enough. Next, a hundred thousand lightning strikes struck Tian Ren's sword, completely sucking every bit of Qi out of the clouds formed from his power. Everything happened in less than half of a second.

Tian Ren's sword was now releasing a power it never had before.

On the ground, Bi Chong was also preparing his move. All the darkness within ten million miles gathered on his sword of worms. The power of the hundred thousand soul flame was giving off also increased higher. In a fourth of a second, it turned an even darker red.

Bi Chongs final trump card had arrived. The million soul flame.