842: Chapter 0798: The true Undead Small Strong!
842: Chapter 0798: The true Undead Small Strong!
On Earth, scientists believe tardigrades are the most robust animals known.
These multicellular creatures are minuscule, with most not exceeding 1 milliter, and the smallest at birth is only 50 microters.
The largest only reaches 1.4 milliters.
They are transparent or co in colors like white, yellow, brown, deep red, or green, largely due to what they feed on.
They are composed of a head, four body segnts covered by a chitinous cuticle, and four pairs of legs ending in claws, suction cups, or toes.
The muscles, made up of long cells, are distributed in accordance with body segnts.
Their mouth has two protrusions, one for piercing food and another as an absorption tool.
The foregut contains many paired glands, with a thin esophagus connecting to the midgut.
Between a tardigrade’s midgut and hindgut are Malpighian tubules, dedicated to maintaining osmotic pressure within the body.
Scientists have conducted various experints on the vitality of tardigrades.
They can survive for several days at -200 degrees Celsius and for two minutes at -272 degrees Celsius.
They can withstand temperatures of 181 degrees Celsius for two minutes.
Even more terrifying, they thrive under radiation of 5700 Grays.
(1 Gray of radiation is equivalent to the radiative intensity of 5000 chest X-ray machines; 10 to 20 Grays can easily kill humans or most animals on Earth.)
They can also endure exposure to 570,000 Roentgens (humans would die within seconds at this level of radiation).
They survive in strong acids with a pH of 1 and strong alkalis with a pH of 13, conditions which would completely dissolve a human, leaving not even bones behind.
They can live for a considerably long ti in microwaves, whereas humans would be cooked within a minute under the sa intensity.
Even in a vacuum, they can continue to survive.
They can even withstand a pressure of 600 gapascals, which is six tis the water pressure of the deepest Mariana Trench and would not crush them.
…
Recalling the introduction and research on Earth about “water bears,” Lv Zhong looked thoughtfully at the strange insects disappearing into the distant lake.
With his powerful Immortal Sense enveloping one of the strange insects in the lake, Lv Zhong carefully sensed what was different about these insects.
At first glance, these strange insects seed very similar to the water bears on Earth, but they were many tis larger.
However, Lv Zhong felt that there was sothing very odd about these Alien Insects.
With a thought, Lv Zhong activated the Space Dao Marks and instantly flashed to the space above the lake.
His powerful space power locked onto an Alien Insect in the lake in a split second and ford a void Spatial Touch to try to capture the creature for further study.
To Lv Zhong’s shock, the Alien Insect he had enveloped with his Immortal Sense seed to sense it was being watched and even sensed a terrifying space power trying to bind it.
He watched as its body suddenly swelled, then shrank, and the space tendrils he had released were powerfully rebounded by so energy.
He couldn’t capture it imdiately.
“Hiss—”
A subtle infrasonic wave emanated from the body of the insect, which stirred its nurous kin, turning their heads one after another.
Seemingly aware of Lv Zhong’s presence in the sky, transparent bubbles suddenly appeared on their bodies.
These bubbles expanded in an instant and then burst, ejecting them from the lake with a trendous force directly towards Lv Zhong, who was suspended in mid-air.
While hovering mid-air, Lv Zhong suddenly felt the air below change, and a horrifying, imnse pressure was released, shooting towards him.
Pressure?
“No, these creatures seem to be able to freely control the air pressure of the surrounding space, forming blade-like attacks with the pressure…” Lv Zhong was astonished as he sensed the insects’ attacking capabilities, and was both alard and delighted.
He could actually control the power of air pressure?
That was a terrifying ability!
While even middle school students on Earth knew about the existence of air pressure, ordinary people were unable to sense just how powerful the force of air pressure could be.
This air pressure was also an absolute force between heaven and earth!
And just now, one of the bizarre insects had unleashed an attack with a pressure blade that was nearly equivalent to over 700 standard air pressures.
This level of standard air pressure was akin to the water pressure found at depths of over 7,000 ters underwater, with each square ter subjected to a force of about 7,000 tons, and the entire human skin surface area is only about 1.5 to 2 square ters, hence a person would experience a pressure of 10,500 to 14,000 tons.
Such pressure might not trouble an ordinary immortal or even an Independent Immortal, but within this space, where the spatial pressure was inherently extre, coupled with the insect’s air pressure attack, both pressures compounded could possibly injure an ordinary Independent Immortal or even an immortal.
Moreover, this was just a casual strike from one of the insects.
What if it attacked with full force?
Or if a massive number of insects attacked at the sa ti…
Thinking this, Lv Zhong beca pensive.
He didn’t flee, nor did he launch an offensive, but instead prepared to test out the collective attack strength of these insects with his own defense.
“Space Shield—” With a thought, ten space shields appeared in staggered layers below Lv Zhong’s feet.
Ten space shields, each one graded according to its energy strength.
The first space shield could defend against a full-force strike from an Independent Immortal at the peak of the first tribulation, the second could withstand a full-force strike from an Independent Immortal at the peak of the second tribulation…
and the ninth space shield could withstand an Independent Immortal at the peak of the 9th tribulation.
A 9th tribulation peak Independent Immortal was extrely rare in the lower world, but if one did appear, they could ascend to the Immortal Realm with a golden immortal’s body.
The tenth space shield could not defend against a Profound Immortal at their peak.
After all, Lv Zhong’s own strength was insufficient, and he was also utilizing external forces to release the space shield; the tenth space shield he released could barely withstand a strike from a Profound Immortal at the early stages.
After releasing these ten space shields, Lv Zhong flew to a higher position and used his Immortal Sense to quietly assess the destructive power of those insects below.
“Boom…” The first space shield was directly shattered by ten pressure blades.
At that mont, Lv Zhong realized that each of these pressure blades was nearly equivalent to 1,000 standard Earth air pressures.
Moreover, due to the “line breaking through the plane” principle, the cutting line of these spatial blades was staggeringly powerful.
Then, several more explosions followed in quick succession, and the second to eighth space shields were shattered in a short period of ti.
From these trials, Lv Zhong sensed that the highest attack strength of a single [pressure blade] from one of these insects was at most equivalent to 2,100 standard Earth air pressures.
And the eighth space shield was shattered by nearly 100,000 insects attacking simultaneously.
The combined effect of the different air pressures was terrifyingly powerful.
The ninth space shield was finally breached by nearly half a million insects participating in the attack.
However, what was shocking was that the tenth space shield, which could withstand a strike from a Profound Immortal, was broken by a single insect the size of an Arican football.
The force of a single blow was nearly equivalent to a full-force strike from an early-stage Profound Immortal.
This is an Insect King!
Or even possibly an Insect Emperor!
Horrible!
Truly terrifying alien insects!
“This…
such powerful alien insects, could they really be water bears?” Lv Zhong exclaid in alarm.
Just as Lv Zhong was shocked out of his wits, below, the giant Insect King, comparable in size to a rugby ball, was actually leading its subordinates of the Insect Army, rocketing upwards at high speed towards Lv Zhong in the sky.
Riding the wind?
Wrong!
This was the enemy casually manipulating the air pressure differences to produce a flying effect.
Wind is exactly ford by air pressure differences.
Common people move with the wind, but these monstrous bugs were actually controlling the wind at its source.
Lv Zhong’s face changed, his eyes now gleaming with multicolored lights.
“Haha, these alien insects are absolutely treasures, not to be missed—”
Laughing loudly, Lv Zhong who had been prepared for a long ti, promptly activated the Great Annihilation Pearl, creating a huge Spatial Black Hole spanning several kiloters in the sky.
Lv Zhong provocatively hooked his finger at the strange insects rapidly pursuing him from below, and in an instant, he flashed into this huge Spatial Black Hole.
Upon entering the Great Annihilation Pearl, Lv Zhong gasped for breath.
Forcing the opening of the Great Annihilation Pearl within the Hongng Dragon Tomb requires a great deal of effort.
Each ti, he had to prepare in advance to activate it.
This ti, the opening caused such a huge commotion; a spatial black hole several kiloters in size was almost Lv Zhong’s limit.
The strange insects pursuing from below were incredibly fast.
The mont Lv Zhong entered the huge Spatial Black Hole, so of the insects instinctively followed him in.
Other insects were sucked into this great Spatial Black Hole by a suddenly erging powerful devouring force.
“Hiss…”
Sensing that a number of their kin were taken away by the Spatial Black Hole above, the Insect King emitted furious subsonic waves.
Far from preventing other kin from entering, it actually commanded more alien insects from the lake to surge upwards.
“This…” Lv Zhong watched all this, not understanding, his mind suddenly filled with many question marks.
Seeing the behavior of this strange insect, it clearly has developed intelligence, and even a considerable degree of intelligence.
How could it knowingly call more of its kin into the trap above?
Is this a rhythm to deliver death?
Is it an idiot or a fool?
Wrong!
Lv Zhong suddenly shook his head vigorously.
With strength and cultivation that reached such levels, how could it possibly be an idiot?
And given the aura of spirituality and Soul Energy emanating from it, it is not only not a fool, but it may even possess intelligence higher than that of ordinary humans.
If it’s not acting foolishly, then does it have enough confidence to be unafraid of the Spatial Black Hole in the sky?
Thinking of this, Lv Zhong suddenly decided to put it to the test.
With a thought, there was a vacuum-like space created behind the Spatial Black Hole, enveloping a large number of insects that had rushed in.
Amazingly, these insects did not fear the vacuum environnt at all; in fact, they seed very relaxed.
Then, Lv Zhong mobilized the Sun True Fire Tower, transforming it into supre Light Wave Radiation that enveloped the vast swarm of strange insects!
What happened next was shocking again, as these insects were still unfazed by such supre Light Wave Radiation.
“Damn, what on Earth are these monsters?” Lv Zhong swallowed nervously, unable to believe it, and summoned the flexible water force from Kan Ding, evolving it into the ultimate Yin, ultimate cold, ultra-low temperature.
This temperature was even lower than what’s known as absolute temperature.
At such an extrely low temperature, most materials would shatter or beco brittle, but these strange insects only slowly entered a hibernation-like slumber, unaffected by the ultra-low temperature.
Afterward, Lv Zhong conducted several tests on the strange insects that had entered the Great Annihilation Pearl: lightning bombardnt, high-temperature burning, spatial overpressure, drowning…
He found that lightning could not kill them, high temperatures could not destroy them, spatial pressure could not flatten them, and only drowning could cause them so damage.
However, the insects with Powerful Strength like the Marshal Level, King Level, and Insect King Level were not hurt even by drowning.
“This…
This is truly the Undead Small Strong, isn’t it…” Lv Zhong was shocked to the extre, yet also ecstatic to the extre.
(To be continued.
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