Chapter 583: New Type of Parasite

The fight didn’t last long. After Long Tian killed the second Star Sea-level warrior, those from the main plane finally fled in all directions when they realized the situation was unfavorable.
Long Tian and the others wanted to chase after them, but Ye Feng stopped them.
“No need to chase. I’ve already marked them. Once they find a place to hide, I’ll go after them myself.” Ye Feng prevented Long Tian and the others from wasting effort, as no one else here, aside from him and Long Tian, could keep up with those people in terms of speed.
But since those people had scattered, Ye Feng simply gave up chasing. It would be much easier to find them once they stopped fleeing.
After watching those powerful beings from the main plane escape, Ye Feng turned to Sherlock and the others. “Shall we start the Holy Land ranking competition?”
“There’s no need to continue this ranking competition,” said a tall, bald man who stepped beside Sherlock. He was Scheelf, the ruler of the First Holy Land. Clearly, he didn’t think any of his subordinates could compete with Ye Feng and the others. He had also clearly seen how they killed those people earlier—the effortless proficiency, without even blinking, undoubtedly meant those people were covered in blood. He didn’t want his own people to die at their hands. “Sherlock, we admit defeat in this ranking. Your Fifth Holy Land will officially become the First Holy Land.”
“We also admit defeat!” The rulers of the other major Holy Lands agreed one after another.
“But since no one is competing for first place, we still need to determine the rankings for the lower positions, right?” Sherlock’s expression showed excitement along with something else. In fact, he was also eager to see how strong the warriors from the other major Holy Lands really were.
“Then fine. Let’s compete for second and third place,” the other rulers reluctantly agreed.
After some discussion, the Holy Land ranking competition proceeded as planned, though Sherlock’s group didn’t need to participate. The other major Holy Lands started competing from second place.
Not long after the competition began, Ye Feng sneaked away unnoticed by everyone. In fact, everyone noticed his departure but pretended not to see it. The message he left for Long Tian and the others was, “Those guys from the main plane have stopped. I’m going to deal with some historical issues.”
Bai Yiyi also disappeared at the same time, but aside from Pearl and a few others, no one else really noticed.

Ye Feng’s marking method is an auxiliary ability of spatial teleportation, allowing him to mark people or objects in space so that he or others can be instantly transported to their side. The remaining eleven people had now split into four groups, each staying in a different location. In the blink of an eye, Ye Feng appeared at his first destination. This group consisted of three people—one at the late Nebula level and the other two at the mid-Nebula level. Seeing Ye Feng’s sudden appearance, the three immediately felt desperate. They had clearly witnessed Ye Feng’s battle against that Sea of Stars-level warrior, who had no chance to resist and turned into a cold corpse in just a few breaths. Even together, the three of them were no match for that warrior, so Ye Feng’s appearance terrified them. Ye Feng activated his gravity field and spatial freezing field, rendering the three immobile as they could only watch helplessly as Ye Feng approached step by step. They felt their bodies trembling but unable to escape. As Ye Feng got closer, they felt a heavy blow to their heads before everything went black and they lost consciousness. Looking at the three unconscious men, Ye Feng summoned the queen bee parasite. “My master, what are your orders?” The queen bee’s body had a metallic sheen, and its wings resembled countless sharp blades, intimidating to behold. “These three are in a unconscious state. I need you to use parasites to control them.” From the start, Ye Feng had no intention of killing them, as a major battle was approaching, and they were valuable combat forces. “I doubt it’s possible. Their cultivation is too strong. Even in a coma, their strong subconscious could activate their soul power to destroy the parasites,” the queen bee said helplessly, shaking its head. “I’ll erase their consciousness first,” a female voice suddenly appeared beside Ye Feng—it was Bai Yiyi, dressed in white. To enhance Bai Yiyi’s soul attack capabilities, Ye Feng found a spiritual treasure for soul attacks in the Arche of Ultimate Martial Arts and gave it to her. After taking the Star Condensing Pill from Ye Feng, she broke through to the Nebula level. Although still at the early Nebula level, her eerie soul attacks, combined with the help of the spiritual treasure, were enough to defeat even peak Nebula-level warriors. Ye Feng had long known the difficulty of using parasites to take over bodies, so he was fully prepared. He took Bai Yiyi with him when leaving.

Bai Yiyi first chose a guy at the mid-nebula level to conduct the experiment. After all, she knew how to attack souls, but erasing consciousness was something she had done for the first time. Consciousness is deeply hidden within the soul, so to attack it, one must rely on someone skilled in soul attacks. With the help of the spiritual treasure, Bai Yiyi’s soul power easily penetrated the other person’s sea of consciousness while he was unconscious. The other person immediately sensed this abnormal intrusion; his own soul appeared in the sea of consciousness, trying to drive Bai Yiyi away. But a battle at the soul level is completely different from a real-world fight. In Bai Yiyi’s eyes, the guy’s soul attacks were as clumsy as those of a three-year-old child swinging a stick. In just three breaths, she completely subdued his soul, then inserted the spiritual treasure into it, crushing his consciousness to pieces. By the time she withdrew, the guy had woken up, but his eyes were vacant, as if he were a puppet. Bai Yiyi nodded at Ye Feng, who then turned to the Queen Bee. “This works.” The Queen Bee pierced the guy’s neck with her tail stinger. In less than a breath, she pulled it out and nodded at Ye Feng. “The implantation is complete. The insect egg needs a day to develop fully, and then another day to digest the target’s memories. After that, he will be identical to the original person, with no differences, except that he will obey me.” “Can he continue to cultivate?” Ye Feng doubted this. “Yes, because only his consciousness has been replaced; everything else remains unchanged,” the Queen Bee replied. “If he mixes in his original environment, will he be discovered?” Ye Feng clearly had other plans. “No. This parasite has been improved many times. For its development, I’ve had numerous discussions with the Ant Queen and those second-generation female insects. Eventually, we designed it in a microscopic cellular form that can perfectly disguise itself as brain cells. Since the brain’s structure is extremely complex, even if someone were to examine it at the cellular level, they wouldn’t be able to detect it unless they had an in-depth understanding of the brain structures of various organisms and could clearly see how brain cells change under different conditions. Of course, we’re still working on further improvements to this parasite,” the Queen Bee replied, to Ye Feng’s surprise.

“I’ll give it a try. Tell him not to resist,” Ye Feng said as he swept his soul power over the powerful warrior already controlled by the parasite, finding nothing abnormal. Finally, he scanned the brain area three more times with no results either. He then turned to Bai Yiyi. “Yiyi, try you. Can you detect anything unusual?”
Bai Yiyi nodded. After trying for a while, she shook her head with a smile. “I really can’t detect anything. Even when scanning at the cellular level, there’s nothing abnormal. Of course, I haven’t studied how brain cells function, so even if there’s a difference from normal, I wouldn’t be able to tell.”
“Very good.” Ye Feng finally believed the answer given by the queen bee. He looked at Bai Yiyi. “Next!”