I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 229 - 227: Ruoye Silk

Below the lake surface.

A black-spotted sandworm rushed towards Li Xing with a speed disproportionate to its size. Li Xing wasn’t panicked at all; she performed the Green Smoke Step in the water, her movement technique agile and her speed not at all slow.

Just before the black-spotted sandworm was about to collide with her, Li Xing leaped and dodged it. The black-spotted sandworm couldn’t stop in time and continued forward at its original speed.

At this moment, Li Xing was already behind the black-spotted sandworm. She swung her fist and punched hard at the sandworm’s rear.

"Whew—!" The huge sandworm, like a deflated balloon, rushed forward at an unbelievable speed, instantly disappearing from its original location. Half a minute later, a dull and heavy impact sound echoed throughout the cave lake.

Duang——!

It’s hard to tell how far the black-spotted sandworm was sent flying by Li Xing, only to crash into the cave wall in the lake. Judging by the sound of the impact, the sandworm either died or suffered serious injury.

On the lake surface, another sandworm floated up straight, finally allowing Chu Yunyi and the others to breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed Li Xing hadn’t suffered any loss.

Li Xing flexed her fists and swam towards another sandworm.

After sending several sandworms flying in succession, the remaining sandworms finally realized that this seemingly small bipedal creature before them was not easy to deal with. Although sandworms are slow-witted, they understood that they needed to change strategy; if close combat didn’t work, then they would bind first before fighting.

The remaining sandworms swam over, encircling Li Xing, and collectively began to spit silk.

"Puff puff—!"

The speed at which the silver silk was spat underwater was evidently slower than in air, and the distance between the sandworms and Li Xing varied, causing a time lag between the various silk threads.

Li Xing utilized this tiny time lag by using the Heavenly Wolf Saber to block all the approaching silver threads deftly. Not only did she block them, but she also intentionally wrapped the silver threads around the broad back of the Heavenly Wolf Saber a few times.

Li Xing slightly tugged the saber’s handle, testing the silk’s toughness, and nodded with satisfaction.

When the sandworms realized that their predatory silk had not entangled the bipedal beast, they planned to squeeze out enzymes from the glands on their sides to melt and re-wrap the silver threads. Li Xing took action.

Li Xing gripped the Heavenly Wolf Saber’s handle with both hands and rapidly spun it, continuously extracting silk from the sandworms’ mouths and wrapping it around the saber.

Under Li Xing’s control, the Heavenly Wolf Saber acted like a spinning spindle, relentlessly extracting "silk" from several oversized "wild silkworms".

The entire lake was stirred by the rapidly spinning Heavenly Wolf Saber, forming a massive whirlpool. Everything submerged in the lake, be it bones or sandworms, could not resist the terrifying centrifugal force and soon rotated along.

The increasing centrifugal force sped up the silk extraction, and the "spindle" of the Heavenly Wolf Saber quickly wrapped into a massive ball of silver thread.

Initially, the sandworms had the strength to oppose Li Xing, but as the spinning speed of the Heavenly Wolf Saber increased, the centrifugal force amplified, making them dizzy; the amount of silk extracted grew rapidly.

Now, the sandworms had only one feeling: their bodies were hollowed out, leaving them strengthless and only able to spin with the lake water.

At this moment, the three people on the shore were stunned, puzzled by how the underground lake turned into a washing machine.

The size of the silver thread ball collected on the Heavenly Wolf Saber had reached a terrifying level. Li Xing, observing the quality of these silver threads, knew the sandworms had reached their limit; any further extraction would lead to their demise.

Carrying the burden of causing the extinction of a species undoubtedly brings huge karma, and surviving wasn’t easy for these sandworms. Li Xing didn’t want to leave a Heart Demon, so it was time to stop.

Currently, the Heavenly Wolf Saber had started to rotate by inertia. If she stopped it, Li Xing would face the sum of the inertia of the whole underground lake and everything within it. This wasn’t a level achievable by human flesh, but Li Xing was up for the challenge.

With the Eternal Green Technique operating, Li Xing’s arms instantly turned smooth as jade; although lacking exaggerated muscles, the power contained in her tendons, bones, and flesh was enough to make ancient sand snakes tremble immensely.

Li Xing exerted her arms, and the sleeves of her Battle Suit immediately shattered into fragments from the massive force. The force from Li Xing’s arms counteracted the centrifugal force of the lake water, causing hundreds of small whirlpools to emerge and slowly calm down.

Once the lake water completely settled, Li Xing glanced at the dozen or so sandworms floating vertically upwards in the water, slowly rising to the surface, and breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, they were just dizzy, not dead.

Putting away the massive silver thread ball, Li Xing carried the Heavenly Wolf Saber merrily back.

The lake surface, which had been rotating in one direction, suddenly erupted with countless small whirlpools; then, as if its force was let off, it eerily stopped, leaving the three people on shore dumbstruck and petrified.

But the scene that followed was even more unforgettable for them—more than a dozen giant sandworms floated to the surface, completely motionless.

Cui Tianxiao pulled Ye Qingting nervously: "Did Xing do this?"

Ye Qingting found it hard to believe that Li Xing alone could render over a dozen sandworms, each five or six times her size, powerless. But if it wasn’t Li Xing, then who?

Despite his shock, Chu Yunyi felt more relieved. It didn’t matter what method Li Xing used; as long as she was safe, that was enough.

With a splash, Li Xing emerged not far from the shore and flashed them a bashful smile.

Before anyone could respond, Li Xing’s expression suddenly changed, and the Heavenly Wolf Saber shot from her hand, with a whistling noise, toward Chu Yunyi’s face.

Ye Qingting and Cui Tianxiao were stunned by this sudden event, not knowing what to do; Chu Yunyi’s pupils contracted, his eyes reflected the image of the Heavenly Wolf Saber, yet he didn’t move an inch.

The Heavenly Wolf Saber cut through the air past his cheek and embedded into the wall behind him, with only the handle and the guard partially visible.

Just then, Li Xing leaped from the water, executing the Green Smoke Step to swiftly arrive next to Chu Yunyi.

At this moment, Li Xing’s aura turned fierce and dominant, like a Divine Weapon drawn from its sheath, even her gaze was too sharp to meet.

Circling around Chu Yunyi, she found nothing unusual, yet Li Xing’s expression remained severe, intimidatingly so.

With a twist of the wrist, the Heavenly Wolf Saber flew back to Li Xing’s hand, where she meticulously checked the blade’s edge; clean and neat, it showed no signs of impact.

Li Xing, in this formidable appearance, made Ye Qingting and Cui Tianxiao tremble in silence, leaving only Chu Yunyi to ask gently, "Ah Xing, what’s the matter?"

"Didn’t you notice anything approaching you just now?"

Chu Yunyi frowned; he really hadn’t noticed anything beside him earlier.

Firstly, all his attention was on Li Xing emerging from the water. Secondly, his Spirit Sea had been hurt by the Enchantment Array, making his senses less sharp than usual.

"I didn’t notice."

Li Xing, from afar, had faintly seen a humanoid transparent creature standing beside Chu Yunyi, extending something like tendrils toward him.

Those tendrils were about to touch Chu Yunyi’s head when, in desperation, she threw the Heavenly Wolf Saber.

However, strangely, after Li Xing noticed the anomaly and expanded her Divine Sense to cover the cave, she was surprised to find that creature had vanished without a trace, as if it had evaporated on the spot.

This was an underground passage, with a complex terrain; how could it disappear in the blink of an eye? It was inexplicable.

Li Xing even wondered if she had been submerged for too long, leading to hallucinations.

Yet, the lingering aura around Chu Yunyi’s body indicated something had indeed approached him, and it was a sinister, icy presence filled with Evil Qi.

Li Xing felt an inexplicable familiarity as if she had encountered a similar aura somewhere.

Could this be the mastermind behind stealing the Competition Token? If so, the identity of the person behind the scenes would be exceedingly mysterious.

"Perhaps I saw wrong."