The atmosphere grew tenser by the day.
On the first day, the hundreds of thousands of uniformed mortals all pulled out syringes that were their size or larger and proceeded to extract gushing waves of blood. However, the syringes were not normal as they didn't seem to contain any of that blood. Instead, the Void Wynn's blood was sent elsewhere as it was extracted.
This allowed them to continuously pump blood from the 180,000-kilometer-long existence. However, the extent of their absorption was so great that the size of the Void Wyrm experienced a noticeable decrease. It shrunk by about a tenth of its original size, causing countless observers to be shaken!
"The Void Wyrm's blood is special," Wu Yu explained to Feng Qingchu as she waited beside him with an unconscious Exalted. The one that had given up their life for the cause was treated with the utmost care, and Wu Yu had already decided to ensure their future would not end there.
"Special how?" Feng Qingchu asked curiously. Their job was over; they only had to wait with their hands on Spiritual ropes, waiting to pull back the Highlords, which would pull the Venerables, and so on.
"The Void Wyrm isn't a typical beast or creature like His Majesty's Ancient Fire Phoenix. His Majesty said it's closer to a Spirit of Cultivation than a beast; All I know is that it could be used to cultivate one's Origin State, Spatial and Temporal Affinity, and physical body." Wu Yu explained with barely contained excitement. The prospect of elevating his Origin State was significantly increased after learning the various requisites for the stages within the Mystic Ascendant Realm.
After the first day, the mortals brought out pickaxes and started to work immediately, slamming against the scales with hearty grunts. The impacts produced no sound, yet the scales fragmented into pieces. They then grabbed at and pocketed the pieces.
They were taking bits of its scale! One scale at a time! The Starlords assisted by moving them to various locations after they reached a certain depth. Without them, the range of activity for these Qi Condensation cultivators would be pathetically low. But with them, they covered a large portion of the 162,000-kilometer-long body!
"How come it's not waking up?" Feng Qingchu would grimace in horror from time to time, seeing how some of these mortals were violently striking with their pickaxes. What if the Void Wyrm woke up?!
"It's currently in its initial state of slumber. Unless Ascended beings approach, the Void Wyrm won't react even if we cut off its head. Unfortunately, using a mortal to cut off its head would take longer than three days."
"Why are we taking its scales? Can it be used for something?" Feng Qjngchu easily abused her fountain of information that was Wu Yu, and all the Earthly Saints silently listened in. They were all too tense to talk, so they only listened.
"Did you see how His Majesty barely damaged its scales? These scales are powerful, and they can rival high-grade Mystic-World material. They all contain Void Energy employed to create certain tools, objects, and weapons or be used in various products. It is the best substitute for spatial and temporal-attributed materials as well. It had endless uses."
By the third day, the mortals began placing various jade bottles from their robes inside the broken bits of scales. They firmly put them in each location as many times as they could.
Nearing the end of the seventy-two hours, the scales started to recover at a frightening pace, and Wu Yu suddenly shouted in a rousing roar! "NOW!" A single word and the
Earthly Saints.
Stunned, Feng Qingchu was baffled by the missing link! "What about the mortals?!" She panicked as she thought something had gone wrong.
"PULL!" Wu Yu ordered with an unquestionable tone. Feng Qingchu bit her lower lip anxiously as she listened and pulled with her all!
The mortals were left on the Void Wyrm. Slowly, a wave of gushing pressure began to emit from the Void Wyrm's body. It was about to enter its Unawakened Sentinel State! As the gushing surge of pressure was exerted, the uniforms of the mortals began to ripple in attunement with the wave. Then, the mortals vanished one by one in spontaneous outbursts of Void Portals.
In a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of mortals all vanished from the surface of the Void Wyrm.
"What?!" By the time all of the cultivators were reeled back to the furthest extent, far away from the Void Wyrm, the Spirit Beast of the Endless Void Mirror began to sink into space, forming a depression as a burst of chaotic spatial light started to leak. It breached into chaotic space and vanished before everyone's eyes.
They could no longer sense it!
Such a gargantuan creature just...vanished!
After a long, long while, many exhaled the breaths they held out. An unseen creature of that size was terrifying, and they could barely contain the bodily fluids within their bladders. It was abnormally tense!
"Wooo!" Wu Yu also breathed out in relief. The tension in his body escaped wildly, and he felt the urge to go to sleep. For the first time in a long time, he wanted to sleep! From day one to now, his mind had been fully active to deal with any abnormalities using the contingencies Wei Wuyin had given him. Fortunately, the initial plan had worked.
"What happened to the mortals?" Huoyan Xingshi flew over, asking, concerned. While he had no connection to those mortals, he didn't feel right about letting them suffer after Wei Wuyin had gotten all their use. That was extremely cruel, and even his heart was slowly growing cold.
Wu Yu could see the curiosity brimming from everyone. He stretched lightly as he executed a cleansing spell, quickly fixing his ghastly, bloodied appearance. Regaining his regal charm, Wu Yu grinned.
"The blood and the scales of the Void Wyrm have to be placed in a special location. If not, it'll hunt them down. They were all transported elsewhere as His Majesty had originally planned." Huoyan Xingshi and the others felt enlightened. If that thing noticed they had its scales and blood, they would certainly provoke its rage.
"Also, his Majesty could not be certain if the pressure it'd emit upon entering its sentinel state would kill the mortals or not through the protection of the Starlords present, so he leveraged it instead." Wu Yu further explained, and then he looked off to the area that once contained a colossus of a serpent.
It was designed to avoid areas enveloped by a Solar Star's radiance in its sentinel state, so the Neo-Dawn Starfield and this area were clear. But if it awakened again, it would come back.
"What about His Majesty?" Ye Mufeng inquired.
Wu Yu's expression remained calm, but he didn't answer-he couldn't. Eventually, he could only say: "His Majesty will return when he can. For now, we need to prepare for the Chosen King Competition as he originally instructed."
The expressions of most changed, especially the Exalted. The Ascendant Emperor was their greatest hope of changing their destiny, striving to reach the stage of a True Ascended being! If he was gone...
"All of you will be rewarded for your efforts; His Majesty has long since made preparations for each of you." Wu Yu's words sparked hope in their hearts! While those not Exalted were simply excited to receive benefits from this activity. While it may have seemed easy, they were risking their lives. A single mistake could've awakened the Void Wyrm, and without Wei Wuyin, who knew what would happen?!
"Let's go," Wu Yu said as he led the way back to the Neo-Dawn Starfield. The elites of the Neo-Dawn Starfield had just performed a world-shaking heist, and unbeknownst to them, this will lead to opening a path of survival in the coming calamity.
The days continued and two years soon passed...
