The Path to Sainthood from Fairy Tail

However, this strange feeling did not last long. Li Xuan slowly turned his gaze and looked outside again. "I see, but why did he do this? Is he giving a date and hitting it with a stick? Using both kindness and force to control these people?"

Tian Le chuckled, but his pale face made his smile a little creepy.

"They're not worthy enough for Qi Caiyuan to use such tactics." At this point, Tian Le's smile froze, as if he had thought of something. He then added, "The Collapse Fist he unleashed is a representative move developed by countless martial artists practicing the Jidao style. Similar techniques include the Thunder Martial Style's Bomb Fist and the Severing Fist of the Zhanmie Style. As a representative of the Jidao style, the Collapse Fist is renowned for its destructive power. However, just now, Qi Caiyuan released such a massive force onto the ground. With the temple's protection, we weren't affected, and the people outside simply fell."

"From what I've observed, Qi Caiyuan's goal should be to find the creatures hiding beneath this desert..."

Before Tian Le finished speaking, visible vibrations appeared outside again.

A huge depression suddenly appeared on the flat sand, and quicksand surged. Several unlucky students were unable to react in time and were swept down by the quicksand, disappearing instantly.

"why is that?"

“It’s quicksand! Get out of the way and don’t get sucked in!”

Qi Caiyuan quietly watched the students flee in panic, until...

The sand on the ground suddenly stopped flowing into the depression, and then a huge ochre-colored insect jumped out of the depression, pushing those unlucky guys into the air, allowing them to experience flying for free.

"Sure enough, the eighteen underground floors aren't just inhabited by creatures without extraordinary powers. It's just that these extraordinary creatures usually stay dormant underground and don't normally appear."

Tianle in the temple looked as if he had expected this.

"This is... Zerg!?" Li Xuan said in surprise. He didn't expect Tian Le's prediction to come true so soon.

But...isn't the speed a bit too fast?

Just when Li Xuan was puzzled about how this "Zerg" got here, Tian Le interrupted his thoughts: "This is not a Zerg, it is an independent extraordinary creature called a desert worm."

"Is that so? Then it seems it's not the right time yet."

Tian Le continued to explain the worm's origins: "The desert worm first appeared on a planet in a certain star system of the Ten Thousand Star Federation. The first witness was an explorer who loved to explore everywhere. The team he led on this expedition lost more than a dozen people before returning alive. He eventually announced the existence of the desert worm to the world."

At this point, Tian Le laughed at himself and said, "It is said that the desert worms come from an unknown laboratory. They have been studying extraordinary creatures and trying to simplify this method to create a powerful killing machine.

When Li Xuan heard this, he immediately understood what Tian Le meant. The team of explorers suffered not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

"By the way, I heard that the Xingqi Empire has also developed a creature called a demon beast. What's the difference between them?"

Tian Le patiently explained Li Xuan's confusion: "The difference between them is actually not that great. In other words, high-level extraordinary creatures and demonic beasts can be considered the same kind of existence. They can all continue to grow stronger and develop intelligence that is no less than that of humans."

"What about those low-level monsters and extraordinary creatures?"

“Now it’s considered a category.”

Li Xuan: “…”

"Aren't you talking nonsense?"

"No. The first generation of organisms researched by the laboratories of the Xingqi Empire and the Wanxing Federation were actually different. Even the research directions of the laboratories within these two major forces were different, and the organisms that were born were also different. But as they have multiplied to this day, they are almost the same, with almost no difference."

Li Xuan nodded. Although he didn't know why the extraordinary creatures and the monsters ended up in the same place, he kept this piece of knowledge in mind.

"By the way, since both major forces have studied it, the Holy Spirit Kingdom can't stay out of it, right?" Li Xuan asked again.

"That's natural. It's just that their research is even more cruel. They want to... create gods!"

"Creating a god!? Doesn't the Holy Spirit Kingdom have a supreme Lord? Why would they create a god? Could it be that this 'God' isn't a divine being but just a code name?"

This time, Tian Le did not answer, but shook his head: "The answer to this question needs to be discovered by yourself."

After saying that, he pointed outside: "Come and help me, it's done outside. We should also go out for a walk and witness this grand occasion."

What grand spectacle? Could it be Qi Caiyuan battling desert worms? But such a scene would surely be bloody and tangled, at most bordering on gory. How could it be called a grand spectacle? Unless Tian Le was a pervert.

Li Xuan shook his head, finally put the idea behind him, and went to support the weak Tian Le.

With Li Xuan's support, Tian Le slowly walked to the door of the temple.

At this time, the desert worm was still confronting Qi Caiyuan.

The body of this desert worm exposed above the desert is as tall as a six-story building. On the top is a big mouth full of sharp teeth, and sticky liquid drips to the ground in strings.

Although Qi Caiyuan is huge after the transformation, his height is only half of the exposed upper body of the desert worm. The difference between the two is obvious at first sight.

But even with the physical advantage, the desert worm was still wary of Qi Caiyuan's strength.

It was originally sleeping soundly in its home under the desert, but the sudden earthquake almost buried it in its home.

Although this degree of collapse is nothing to it, it is absolutely unbearable to be disturbed.

So without saying a word, it bravely headed towards the direction where the vibration was coming from.

However, when it knocked those boring bugs away and soared into the sky, it found a monster standing on the ground.

This monster's race seems to be the same as those bugs just now, but the difference in strength is like heaven and earth.

It is totally beyond the ability of a single insect to defeat the monster. Even if the other insects in its family are added, it is enough to fill the stomach of the monster in front of it.

Suddenly, the originally calm ground shook again.

"No!" the desert worm cried in its heart.

But everything is irreversible.

"Haha, little brother, let me help you!"

A white figure rushed out of the desert, and at the same time, several unlucky children who did not have time to evacuate were escorted by it.

This is also a desert worm, and it is the older brother of the desert worm that appeared for the first time.

These two desert worms were researched in the same batch, so they are called brothers. In addition, they have an older sister and a younger brother, a total of four desert worms living in this desert.

As the third youngest, it spends most of its time sleeping. Occasionally, when it wakes up hungry, it gets up and hunts a few unlucky prey, then rinses its mouth with sand, and continues to sleep after eating and drinking its fill.