Luo Chen had indeed been careless. Over the past month, most of his attention had been consumed by developing Ghosts and Gods Scatter, along with the many other matters weighing on his mind. In the process, he had overlooked the fact that Black King was carrying more than a million parasitic dragonworms on him!

Yu Ziyou's repeated warnings about Zhang Jingqing's low cultivation on Sun Moon Island had only made this easier to miss. Eventually, Luo Chen had focused entirely on protecting her, confident that his mana and origin energy would be enough to shield her from the pressure. It had never occurred to him to consider the beasts living inside Black King. More importantly, Black King had also not said a word about them!

In any case, it had already happened. Black King had exhausted a tremendous amount of origin energy protecting himself, and shielding more than a million dragonworms at the same time was simply beyond him. Under the immense pressure, nearly all of them had been crushed, and their blood and mangled bodies churned inside him until...