The Undying Transmigrator

Book 2: Chapter 27: Refugees

Vol 2 Chapter 27: Refugees

"This fish appears to have been selectively bred into this form rather than achieving it through cultivation. It's a creation of civilization."

"The fish's body contains structures similar to the surface cysts, with some parts seemingly designed to preserve small to medium-sized creatures, and others being undeveloped eggs. However, whether eggs, cysts, or the creatures preserved within them, all have undergone severe mutation."

"Its heavenly spirit has been invaded by external forces, seemingly caused by 'Heavenly Demons' that the Great Matrix of Universal Kindness and Spiritual Tracing had already blocked. These small to medium-sized creatures show similar traces, but they resisted the influence by temporarily abandoning thought processes - though this couldn't prevent physical mutation and spiritual death."

"The decaying blood is toxic. If it lands on someone who has just introduced qi into their body but hasn't yet opened their internal spring, it could cause physical deformity. Those just beginning to nurture their spiritual apertures might also mutate if injected with large amounts of toxic blood. Only those who have started developing their internal Secret Realms or practice unorthodox methods that strengthen digestive abilities can feast without protection."

"The fish possesses special space-warping organs capable of ultra-distance movement that surpasses crossing between our worlds?"

"It also has environment-modifying capabilities, though this ability has transformed into a kind of... pollution?"

"No large parasites found, no abnormal creatures beyond the fish and small-to-medium organisms detected. They haven't engaged in combat with external entities."

"This fish's size potential isn't limited to this - it can grow even larger."

Summarizing the information, Mo Wen determined this fish was a biologically engineered "colonization vessel" created by some civilization. It attempted to escape its own world, wasn't pursued by enemies, yet still had its defenses breached by 'Heavenly Demons,' ultimately becoming a new invader itself.However, a civilization shouldn't have just one such giant fish. Where were the others?

The moment this question arose, the world's boundaries expanded once more.

Fish appeared again, but this time numbering sixty-three.

Sixty-three giant fish, like sixty-three mountain ranges, sixty-three super-massive cities, their presence nearly swallowing the entire sea in shadow.

The one at the center of the school had a completely different form, resembling some kind of biological brain tissue.

Strange sounds accompanied the appearance of that mutated brain fish, suddenly ringing out before being blocked by Mo Wen.

He wouldn't allow language that could cause mental damage to affect the explorers who had just escaped danger.

But Mo Wen could still hear their voices.

"Survive, we must reach the next world." "The queen betrayed us, we should have continued the succession ritual." "I'm here, I'm present, advance with me."

Amid the chaotic murmuring were hatred, comfort, prayers, but ultimately, they converged into one maddened exclamation.

"New world!"

That exclamation brimmed with desperate longing for survival, overflowing with the joy of successful continuation.

However, this path was closed.

What had arrived in the new world weren't acceptable refugees, but a group of invaders.

The mutated detached giant eyes turned toward Mo Wen, still twitching as if in fear, but guided by the central brain fish, they didn't retreat.

The brain fish's song, or rather vibrations, were gathering and channeling the colonial fish school's power.

Behind Mo Wen, the researchers who were also powerful cultivators attempted to intervene, but Mo Wen stopped them: "Take the explorers to safer areas. This few enemies, I can handle alone."

Nobody doubted that the supreme powerhouse who had suppressed an era could possibly be defeated.

Without another word, they immediately evacuated with the people.

Yet even after the others had strategically withdrawn, Mo Wen still didn't immediately attack the fish school.

He could feel the vibrations gathering the fish school's remaining consciousness, their dwindling clarity seemingly trying to convey some message to him.

For Mo Wen, his mental defenses far surpassed his physical defenses - he had the luxury to indulge this.

A terrifying roar capable of shattering the minds of ten billion people crashed against his consciousness, like ants throwing pebbles at the sky.

"Submit/Persist"

"Livestock awaiting slaughter/Otherworldly civilization"

"Your end is certain/If the succession ritual left by immortals is broken, it cannot restart"

"All heavens have perished/We failed to find other worlds"

"Accept your death/Receive our legacy"

"Live on for us."

Vast but comparatively minuscule information for a civilization tried to force its way into Mo Wen's consciousness. This was both the attack of the corrupted and the final gift of the defeated, capable of destroying any normal mortal, but Mo Wen was long accustomed.

"I, remember."

Once again, he remembered a civilization's struggle.

Even after acknowledging it countless times at the end of previous worlds, he still felt sorrow.

All he could do now was conduct their funeral, then purge the contamination from this hasty legacy, using whatever usable parts remained to continue the civilizations that still existed.

Dragon Blade slashed toward the central brain fish.

It was instantly sliced into fish fillets, the powerful beings almost fused within the brain fish all perishing under this single strike.

The song that had forcibly gathered the fish school's power now became a weapon slaughtering them. The backlash from broken connections almost instantly shattered their thinking organs.

The giant eyes burst with sheets of blood, tentacles violently piercing through their bodies, trembling madly.

New mutations appeared on their forms. If left to struggle, they might find new ways to continue controlling their bodies.

But obviously, Mo Wen wouldn't give them that opportunity.

They died.

Toxic blood and fish flesh floated across the sea, like an ocean of meat.

The invasion... was this concluded?

Mo Wen's spirit focused sharply as he sensed a thread of danger.

Immediately after, he saw a dragon - one that could be considered Long Yunshui's kin, but fused with a massive giant tree, filled with madness.

"Vast heavens above, why such extremes!" he screamed madly, violently swinging the giant tree that tore away large patches of his skin and scales as he hurled it toward the flesh ocean, while charging at Mo Wen himself.

Starting from the dragon and extending to the visual horizon, mad waves over ten thousand miles long rose with the dragon, obscuring the giant tree and flesh ocean, while blocking Mo Wen's other senses beyond sight.

Mo Wen wasn't surprised - if there were enemies, he would kill them.

But before combat, a question arose in his mind.

The world's borders expanded in all directions. If the intervals between invasions in this area were this short, what about other regions?

He took flight again, gazing into the distance.

Beyond this area, there were indeed more giant monsters employing their various abilities to scavenge resources and deploy offspring. Additionally, there might be smaller creatures undetectable at this distance also launching attacks against the dynasty.