The Great Worm Lich

Chapter 583: The Leather World and the Path of the Future

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At the same time, when the space crack connecting the Shrimp World No. 2 to Yingzhou was erased by the self-protection force of the paradise, Zhang Lisheng struggled to pull himself upwards and finally caused the tricolored eggshell of red, yellow, and blue to crack and shatter, revealing his body entirely.

Under the radiant sky, his originally healthy energetic face became far more childlike than before, but when he had a solemn expression on, it contradictorily gave off an awe-inspiring manner. His pair of sparkling eyes revealed an innocent heart that was seeking for truth about everything in this world. His head that was as bald as a monk was covered with irregular-shaped scales of three different colors of red, yellow, and blue.

In fact, other than his face, this kind of kaleidoscopic scales depicting mountains, earth, and ocean patterns was densely laid on the young man that had a human upper body and a snake lower body. He was about 180 centimeters tall and each of his body parts was divided according to the golden ratio.

At first glance, the biggest difference between this body and the huge, horrible monstrous image; was that this body was filled with a ‘newly born’ aura. In fact, in a sense, Zhang Lisheng was indeed a newborn baby, a baby that had his attribute transformed from an Earth being to a god.

“So it turns out that ‘earth god’ is actually the last stage one has to overcome to rise above the ordinary. The transformation that follows next is a ‘new life’ that is a higher life.” Gently swinging his tail in the sky with ease, Zhang Lisheng stared at a scale in his hand as he muttered to himself as always.

Right now, he could naturally float and swim in the air without the need to mobilize and condense the water vapor in the air. The power of water and soil, along with the distorted evolution force, was no longer power-driven by his ability. Instead, they were like the blood flowing in his body; free for him to use as though they were a beating heart and without the need for him to consciously control it.

Such a change had little effect on the improvement of power, but in terms of his ability attribute, it was a profound essential change. If the young man had had this ability when he was trapped in Yingzhou just now, then the formation left behind by the ancient Taoist sages would never have been able to shackle the seawater and soil and stop him from using them.

Besides, the Five Elemental Spell that restraint each other mutually; no matter how high the level was, it would just be like a joke in front of him. It did not have any effect at all except trumping up a countercharge.

Unless the Ancient Goddess Nuwa resurrected perfectly, no creature would have a higher priority than him in using the power of water and soil.

However, at this moment, Zhang Lisheng still did not understand the importance of ‘exclusiveness’ in using power. For this reason, after muttering to himself, he directed his attention on the scale that was being constantly rubbed by his hands.

This piece of scale was like a leather engraved with a microscopic realistic map. It was the skin of the young man shredded during transformation. Through a faint realization, he understood that this was the most important relic in his entire life. At the same time, it was also the most powerful tool for him to research the creation and evolutionary power that he mastered.

“Creation, evolution, creation, evolution... Evolutionary creation, evolutionary creation.” Zhang Lisheng could not suppress his smile as he murmured, “This is indeed an unexpected evolutionary creation. Legend has it that Ancient Goddess Nuwa has a treasure called the Mountain River Soil Grain Map. There’s a world that can nourish and create all things inside and it must be created from her shredded skin. Unfortunately, no matter how powerful Ancient Goddess Nuwa is, she only had the ability to create, only obtaining the ‘Creation’ from the ‘Evolutionary Creation’ while she needed time for the term ‘Evolution’ to be tempered. However, I’m different. The distorted evolutionary force is also an evolution. My Leather World truly has two power of creation and evolution. Even though the degree of completion is not high, it should not be inferior to the Mountain River Soil Grain Map at all...”

When the young man was blowing his own trumpet, he looked down at the distant vast sea surface. A thin water column was rising and at once, his heart gave a jolt and he could not help but throw the scale out.

After the scale was thrown out, it continued to flap and flutter in the strong wind in the high air as it became larger. In the end, it spread out and seemed to almost cover the entire sky.

The aborigines kneeling on the Wizard Li’s ancestral ground praying suddenly felt their vision turned black as the day suddenly became dusk. Not daring to raise their heads, they began to praise the god even more piously.

Soon, a loud wave roaring sound resonated in the air. Some of them could not help but raise their heads secretly in horror and look up to the distance. In the darkness, an unimaginably huge vivid drawing of earth, ocean, mountains, and rivers was suspending over their heads while drawing water from the sea’s surface to form a water curtain that rose straight into the sky before absorbing the boundless seawater into it.

“Great God, y-you’re the only religion in Wizard Li...” Such a god was too intimidating in the eyes of a mortal. After staring at this phenomenon with their mouth’s agape for a long time, those who took a peek finally retracted their gaze with their entire body; trembling violently and placed their heads on the ground, before continuing their prayers in stutter with their bodies curled up.

At this time, Zhang Lisheng, who only wanted to take a few powerful marine creatures to rear in his Leather World, was also amazed by the great power of this relic. He looked at it in shock for a while and stretched out his hand to take the Leather World onto his palm again.

The relic was formed by Zhang Lisheng’s shredded skin so the instant it returned to his palm, it immediately gave him a familiar feeling of connecting with his bloodline. The situation inside was immediately presented in his mind.

“I’m not gonna count the microbes as there isn’t much value in the monolithic marine life below ten grams. I’ll just calculate the critical point.” The young man said to himself. “Well, there are 47.96 million single marine organisms of more than ten grams. As for those that are above 50 grams... Eh? I’ve counted wrongly. There are 47.75 million single marine organisms of more than ten grams... Oh? 47.60 million I mean... Eh no, it’s 47.30 million...” Sensing that the number of creatures in the Leather World was decreasing at a very high speed, the young man’s happy face started to turn grave.

A few minutes later, by the time all living creatures had died, he fell into a long moment of silence and shook his head gravely. “It seems that I need to select many living organisms that can survive in an extremely harsh natural environment and perfect it in order to make the Leather World work. It’s impossible for me to succeed at the first attempt now...”

The relic that he thought could be compared favorably to the witchcraft’s god’s creation treasure lost its value greatly so Zhang Lisheng no longer cared about it and casually draped it on his shoulder as he floated down to the Wizard Li’s ancestral ground.

The flame on the totem pole gradually extinguished. The carving on the stone pillar had transformed to become the young man’s current appearance.

“Where’s Tugra?” The instant the young man landed, his snail tail turned into two legs and his scales faded away as he asked in a deep voice.

“Great God, the headman is in Red Mountain Harbor, he should be able to reach the ancestral ground very soon.” A native chief with four feathers on his head stood up and walked up to the Wizard Li’s god respectfully. After crouching down and kissing his footprint, he answered.

Upon hearing this answer, Zhang Lisheng asked again in a solemn expression, “Then has the entire Hellfire Archipelago conquered by the Wizard Li?”

“Yes, Great God. The new power you bestowed to your believers has made the tribe stronger. All of the enemies on the Hellfire Archipelago have been crushed by that power and converted to your faith.” The native chief answered while kneeling. The new power mentioned by him was none other than the spell-casting power Zhang Lisheng bestowed to his devout believers when he liberated his soul on Earth.

The power of the totem pole, which was previously uncontrollable and accumulated by the power of faith had been naturally bestowed the most devout hundreds of thousands of his believers. Before the young man returned to his place of faith and after he had completely achieved his transformation into a god and it had become completely controllable now. After it was perfected naturally, it could be divided into a total of six levels.

For the first level, a high priest at this level could only superficially sense and manipulate the power of water, soil and the distorted evolution power. It was manifested by the ability to condense sand on land to bury the mortals, to not lose their directions during sailing, and to induce the genes of weak herbivores to undergo an uncontrolled evolution in a short period of time.

A high priest of the second level could have a better manipulation of the power of water, soil and the distorted evolution power. They could drive soil to form sharp ground thorns to pierce the enemy soldiers on the land, predict the current in the deep sea and induce the genes of medium-sized herbivores to undergo an evolution.

A high priest of the third level could already have a wider scope of manipulation on the power of water and soil. Be it on land or in the sea, they could form a variety of attacking spells and could induce the twisted evolution of small carnivores.

On the fourth level, the power of the high priests could already have a severe effect on the victory of a battle of hundreds of people. Powerful rock current on land or whirlpool in the ocean could be said as their rudimentary war spell. Hence, they could also induce ‘distorted evolution’ on ferociously large carnivores.

On the fifth level, due to their ability that could blend the power of water and soil together that allowed a qualitative change in their spellcasting power, the Wizard Li’s high priests would have already possessed the strength to decide the outcome of a battle involving thousands of people. At the same time, they would also have the initial qualifications to have the ability to intervene with the evolutionary process of supernatural beings.

A high priest of the highest level would be able to use the power of manipulating soil and water, as well as the distorted evolution, as freely as he liked. Their strength was roughly the same as that of the Grand Wizards in the Gate of Witchcraft or the Gate of Dao’s Taoists who had made a breakthrough to the Heavenly Gate Stage on Earth.

Compared to the Super Hellfiremen created by transplanting the Gold Core fragment, the power of the Wizard Li’s high priest actually did not have a big advantage and not only that, their existence would greatly deplete the power of faith offered by the tribal believers.

However, in Zhang Lisheng’s point of view, such a power system was extremely important. This was because, in his future plans, the high priest’s greatest role was not to become a spellcaster on the battlefield, but a ‘scientist’ in the laboratory.

This inspiration had hit him out of nowhere suddenly. If the young man had not been an outstanding biologist, it would have been impossible for him to have such inspirations. However, the value was so high that it was incredible. After Zhang Lisheng thoroughly straightened out his mind, he decided that other than the first batch of lucky ones who obtained the supernatural power because of their pious heart, only the elite scholars and craftsmen in Wizard Li who would be bestowed with the high priest’s power.

After these people obtained the power of the high priest, the only thing that they would have to do ever since was to study and create biological weapons using the distorted evolution power. Not only that, but they would also have to combine this god-bestowed power with the science on Earth that had been slowly settled in the tribe through the alien’s translating device to form a brand new civilization system.

Having 100,000 or even millions of spellcasters might sound like an intimidating and baffling powerful force but it would be a cock-and-bull story, and if he wanted to use this alone to fight against Atlantis to take control of the hundreds of foreign worlds. If he wanted to create such a miracle, the only plausible method was to master a powerful ‘civilization!’