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However, Hu Qi’s arrival changed everything.

In a way, he had indirectly saved this world, though it wasn’t his intention.

But if not for him, once this Void Creature finished hatching, the entire world would have become its sustenance.

For the beings living in it, death would have been the only outcome.

But now that Hu Qi had devoured the Void Creature, the crisis was naturally averted.

However, regardless of the outcome, Wu Yang’s death was almost a certainty.

This was because he had already formed an extremely close symbiotic relationship with the Void Creature.

It was like a kind of life Contract.

Once the Void Creature finished hatching and emerged, the first to die would have been Wu Yang.

Furthermore, it would most likely have devoured Wu Yang’s soul and used his physical body as a vessel to walk the world.

After all, according to the information he had obtained, the vast majority of Void Creatures—with a few rare exceptions—did not have physical bodies.

Therefore, after successfully hatching, they would choose a body to use as a host.

And Wu Yang was clearly the vessel it had chosen.

According to the inherited memories of the multi-eyed white worm, the growth of a Void Creature is divided into three distinct stages:

The first stage is the incubation period, a state where it has not yet broken out of its shell, like this multi-eyed white worm.

This is the weakest period for a Void Creature, but even so, the power it displayed was already comparable to the True God Level.

The second stage is the juvenile period. When a Void Creature breaks out of its shell, it can truly step into the True God Realm.

At this stage, the Void Creature already possesses a complete combat Ability.

The third stage is the mature period, which is the fully developed form of a Void Creature.

The inherited memories indicated that in the Sea of Sumeru, only beings at the Daoist Lord Level could contend with them.

It’s worth noting that the strength of different types of Void Creatures varies significantly.

A creature like the multi-eyed white worm would only be considered Middle Class among Void Creatures.

According to legend, there are even Void Creatures known as the Void Royal Family that exist above them.

At the same level, their terrifying power far exceeds that of ordinary Void Creatures.

Besides that, there was another point.

Although the power of Void Creatures was terrifying, compared to the True Gods in the Sea of Sumeru, Void Creatures had a fatal shortcoming.

Their Lifespans were too short.

Different types of Void Creatures have different Lifespans.

Some live for tens of thousands of years, while others can live for tens of millions.

To an ordinary person, a lifespan of this length is practically eternal, long enough to span several civilizations.

But compared to an Immortal True God, they are merely short-lived.

This Innate flaw became the most fatal weakness of the Void Creatures.

The life cycle of a Void Creature is shockingly unbalanced.

If its Lifespan were divided into ten parts, the incubation stage would consume three-tenths of that time.

Of the remaining seven-tenths, the juvenile period would take up five to six-tenths.

Only in the final one-tenth of their lives could they enter their truly mature period and push their power to its Peak.

Furthermore, unlike the beings of the Sea of Sumeru, the increase in a Void Creature’s power does not rely on its own arduous Cultivation.

They are unable to increase their strength through Cultivation or enlightenment, and can only grow passively over time.

And by the time they truly reach their mature form, it also means they are approaching the end of their lives.

This growth model meant that Void Creatures spend their entire lives growing, and just as they finally transform into their mature form, their lives are about to end.

Perhaps it is precisely these strict lifespan limitations and long growth cycles that have saved the Sea of Sumeru from being ravaged by Void Creatures.

As for the reason Hu Qi was previously trapped, it was also due to this Void Creature.

Although Void Creatures vary in form and Ability, all of them share a common Trait:

They must absorb a world’s origin to complete their incubation.

This parasitic behavior produces a special effect.

The rules of a world that a Void Creature has latched onto are strengthened by void characteristics, making its spatial structure abnormally stable.

This transforms the entire world into a one-way cage from which no being can escape.

This is also why even a powerful expert like Altdina, who had reached the limit of a Second Realm Dao Seed, would have her power drastically weakened by the suppression of the world’s rules upon entry, leaving her completely powerless against the incubating Void Creature.

It could be said that even if Hu Qi hadn’t followed her in, it was highly unlikely that Altdina would have made it out alive.

Under this model, once a Void Creature successfully becomes a parasite and enters the incubation stage, the probability of it dying prematurely is greatly reduced.

However, that Void Creature likely never imagined, even in death, what was to come.

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Because of the ’Waistcoat Pass Scroll’ Hu Qi had redeemed from the Reincarnation Bookstore, he was not suppressed by this world’s rules and could unleash his full strength.

This led to the Void Creature being found and easily devoured by Hu Qi before it could even finish incubating.

It was an utterly ignominious death.

There was one more thing.

After successfully incubating, a Void Creature will destroy and annihilate everything.

It returns these worlds to nothingness.

This is the mission etched into the depths of their souls.

In some ways, this behavior of the Void Creatures is similar to that of the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent.

Except, it is far more malevolent.

The only good thing is that these Void Creatures are not numerous, and even when they do appear, they only exist in the Bottomless Realm.

This is because the world origins in other regions are simply insufficient to support the incubation of such powerful life forms as Void Creatures.

Therefore.