Chapter 1042 - 1142: The Sandworms Attack

Ye Tianfan landed on the ground, then started walking forward on foot!

The reason Ye Tianfan wasn't flying in the sky but using his feet instead was because he felt that if every scene in here had its own trial, then in this wind and sand, there was no way they'd let him just fly straight through so easily. His trial definitely had to be walked out by himself!

Maybe if he walked on the ground, there was a good chance he'd trigger the exit!

Although Ye Tianfan knew this possibility wasn't that high, since he'd guessed there might be such a mechanism, he decided to give it a try. After all, in this boundless wind and sand, there didn't seem to be any other method. At this moment, Ye Tianfan was basically lost; he no longer knew which direction the way back was in, and as for the direction he'd been flying in, he had no idea if it had deviated from the one he'd originally chosen.

Ye Tianfan felt that even if he had deviated, it didn't really matter. He hadn't picked any specific direction to begin with; any direction was fine so long as he wasn't circling in place. As long as he could reach the edge as quickly as possible, that was enough.

If Ye Tianfan could quickly reach the edge, he'd be able to see whether there was an exit at the boundary, and he could search around the perimeter. Because under normal circumstances, exits were usually at the edges; if the exit wasn't at the edge, then it could only be considered Ye Tianfan's bad luck, and he'd have to slowly search the desert. Maybe what the desert was testing was perseverance as well!

Ye Tianfan hadn't been walking in the desert for long before he felt something moving within the range of his Divine Sense!

So Ye Tianfan focused his attention on that moving thing, wanting to see what exactly it was.

Before Ye Tianfan could observe carefully, he sensed more and more things at the edge of his Divine Sense starting to rush toward him.

And their speed was so fast that a hundred meters vanished in the blink of an eye. When Ye Tianfan sensed this speed, he couldn't help but draw in a cold breath, because these things weren't coming from the sky, nor from the surface. They were charging at him from beneath the desert. The desert underground wasn't as solid as normal land, but it was still essentially a fluid, with resistance, and that resistance was definitely much greater than water!

Yet these things could actually ignore—or at least not really care about—the resistance of the sand and still move at such speed. This astonished Ye Tianfan greatly. If he were moving beneath the desert himself, and could reach even one-tenth of their speed, he'd already be thanking the heavens.

When these things were about to rush within a hundred meters of him, Ye Tianfan finally reacted. Ignoring his own shock, he hastily summoned the Fire Lotus Sword and flew up into the sky.

And at the exact moment Ye Tianfan left his original spot, an incomparably huge worm, with its giant mouth open full of fangs, burst out of the ground at the place where Ye Tianfan had just been and snapped its teeth down!

Although this worm was extremely fast, with the Fire Lotus Sword under his feet, Ye Tianfan's speed was no slower than the worm's, in fact much faster. So this worm bit nothing but empty air—and ended up with a mouthful of sand!

Right after this sand worm broke through the surface, countless other worms also burst out of the surrounding sand one after another, using their momentum to shoot toward Ye Tianfan, trying to devour him directly in midair!

Seeing this, Ye Tianfan hurriedly flew much higher and knocked away the worms that were about to reach his side one by one!

Only after Ye Tianfan had struck down each of the worms that broke the surface and no new worms were leaping up did he begin to examine what these emerging worms looked like!

"Th-This… is a sand worm?"

Looking at how strangely familiar these worms appeared, Ye Tianfan was hugely puzzled.

These worms looked like sausages—no head, no legs—but much bigger than any sausage, each roughly as tall as a building.

Ye Tianfan recalled the records about sand worms: sand worms were like dried sausages, about as thick as a human thigh and about as long as a human was tall. But they were highly poisonous; even the slightest contact with humans or livestock would cause immediate death, with not even a chance for rescue. Their biting power was extremely strong. Even if you wore a top-tier Defensive Magical Treasure, you could still be killed by a sand worm; its razor-sharp teeth could pierce through the treasure and bite directly into your flesh. Moreover, a sand worm's sense of smell was extremely keen. As long as it remembered your scent, even if you were a thousand miles away, these sand worms could still accurately track you down!

Of course, the texts also recorded many detailed facts about these sand worms. Ye Tianfan quickly ran through all the information on sand worms in his mind, and not a single document ever mentioned that sand worms could grow this large. Even the largest sand worm recorded in the texts was only three meters long, and its thickness was just about the same as a human body!

How could there possibly be such gigantic sand worms—and this many of them!

If sand worms could grow to this size, they would have long since come to dominate the Ge Pen Desert.

After being knocked back down to the ground by Ye Tianfan, these sand worms didn't seem willing to give up. Right where they were, they began compressing their bodies, shrinking from building-length all the way down to around a meter, then suddenly springing themselves open. In an instant, the sand worm snapped out like a released spring, charging straight toward Ye Tianfan!

And their speed this time was even faster than before, not inferior in the slightest, maybe even greater. Seeing this, a flash of doubt crossed Ye Tianfan's mind. Since when were these beasts this smart?

Then Ye Tianfan dodged the charge of that sand worm, only to see countless more sand worms rushing at him!

Just as Ye Tianfan was about to evade again, he suddenly thought that if he dodged, then when these sand worms fell back down, wouldn't they make another attack at him? By then he'd be attacked from both sides, and it would be hard to avoid!

Thinking of this, Ye Tianfan immediately summoned the Xuanhuang Pagoda, shrouded himself within it, then recalled the Fire Lotus Sword from under his feet back into his hand!

Ye Tianfan then directly used the third form of the Fire Lotus Sword Art on the sword. As soon as a sand worm rushed at him, he cut it down with that third form!

There was one thing that had to be mentioned: a sand worm's skin was extremely tough. Ordinary sand worms were already tough-skinned, but still breakable.

Yet on these giant sand worms, even when Ye Tianfan used the third form, he couldn't cut through their skin. It was like he was using the Fire Lotus Sword as a club, swatting these sand worms back down one after another!

As Ye Tianfan whipped these sand worms down one by one, he took a close look at the spots where the Fire Lotus Sword struck their skin. Their skin wasn't cut open at all; there was only a faint white mark, and even that white mark vanished in the blink of an eye.