Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The suction force of the spatial rift seemed to have suddenly stopped. The people wanted to take a look but the blinding light was making it hard for them to do so. They were happy that the suction force had stopped, and they didn't have to dodge random projectiles.

But the people were now under a different kind of duress. Their skin was burning and blisters were appearing on it. It was still fine for them before when the spatial rift was sucking everything in, as long as they dodged the projectiles or stayed far away from the rift, they would be fine.

But now this new type of energy was burning their skin and pain assaulted their senses. The strange thing was, their clothes were fine, but their bodies were still being affected.

"What in the heaven's name is the disaster!" one of the old clan heads uttered with shock.

"What ever that light is, I think it's stopping the suction force of the spatial rift and is also releasing the hot energy." Lu Peng analyzed.

By now their eyes had acclimatized to the bright light a bit and it wasn't as unbearable as before. While they still have to squint to see it, they could at least see something.

"LOOK! ITS THE YOUNG MASTER!" One of the cultivators who had tried to save Shirong yelled.

Clan head Lu's neck snapped at his response and he took a look.

"Impossible! How?" He said in disbelief before jubilation papered on his face.

"AHAHA! The heavens are merciful!" He uttered in joy.

Clan head Lu was about to proceed forward to get Young master Shirong and threw the rope towards him again. Now that their spirit qi was no longer in danger of being sucked by the spatial rift, clan Head Lu thought it would be fine.

He was the only one currently here that was fine despite the heat and was not suffering from skin blisters either. 

~poof~

The rope spirit tool that was thrown towards Shirong suddenly lost power in the middle and turned limp before falling to the ground helplessly. The spirit qi that was infused to control the spirit tool was also dissipated after that.

"What!" The clan head said in shock.

But before he could attempt anything else, he felt the spirit qi emanating from his body getting suppressed. Clan Head Lu could do anything else and only tried to resist this. He didn't know what exactly was happening, and thus he didn't proceed ahead.

***

Shirong could see that the spear was emanating a lot of energy to repel the spatial attribute qi that was coming from the spatial rift. This had created a divide which had also blocked the suction force in the process.

Another strange thing Shirong found was that while he felt hot, no blisters were appearing on his skin.

"Is the spear… intentionally avoiding me?" Shirong wondered as he looked at the other people who were getting them.

He was the closest to the spear and yet he was safe, while the others were now shouting in pain. This lasted for about a minute before Shirong felt the energy coming from the spear starting to stir.

~Whirl~

The energy started to spin around the spatial rift, forming a vortex. The diameter of the vortex slowly shrank as it started to close in towards the spatial rift.

~Woong~Woong~Woong~

A droning sound was heard as the vortex started to speed up. It was now making multiple revolutions in a second, and it didn't seem like it would slow down. Its speed kept on increasing as it forced the spatial qi back into the rift.

Seconds seemed like hours as all the people braced themselves. 

~Phut~

Then in an almost anti-climatic manner, the spatial rift was compressed and disappeared with a suppressed sound.

"That's it? A spatial rift was stopped just like that?" Shirong question in disbelief.

Shirong then saw the spear move towards him, and he instinctively held out his hand. 

~Shing~

The spear was clasped in his hand as the glowing light started to dim down. It was now that a fact hit Shirong.

'I need to hide the spear! The others can't know of it!' He thought to himself with great worry.

He looked around and saw that they were still having a hard time seeing due to the bright light. Even he was only able to sense the spear due to his connection with it and was barely actually 'seeing' it.

Shirong quickly started to think of ideas and his thoughts ran at lightning speed. Shirong's eyes went wide as a potential solution appeared in his mind.

"Hopefully this should work…" Shirong prayed in his mind.

He then communicated with the spear using his communication and tried to see if it could do what he wanted it to do. The spear lightly hummed in his hand and then he felt it move. The spear started to wrap around his arm and moved upwards.

"Sssss!" Shirong gasped in pain as the hot surface of the spear rubbed against his skin. 

When he had held the spear, it was likely that the spear had protected him, but now that it was doing something else, it could no longer do the same. 

The sound of searing flesh was heard as the spear moved over his exposed skin. A lot of his clothes had been torn off by the suction force and his torso was completely bare. The spear made a loop around his right arm and then around his left arm.

Then the middle part extended over his neck, latching around it. The length of the spear started to extend and wrapped around his chest. Every place that the spear touched was burned, and Shirong was gritting his teeth to bear it. 

The spear had now wrapped around his neck, upper arms, and upper torso. It looked as if Shirong had been wrapped with a rope. But a second later, Shirong felt it starting to rapidly suck his spirit qi as another change happened.