Yang Yuhu had used the Immortal Art: Roaming the World to return to Penglai, and Daoist Huang Long had hurried over to the East Sea using his Golden Path. All of that had happened in a mere moment; the tiny maggot couldn't possibly have finished eating the massive black iron alms bowl in such a short time.1

Earlier, the little maggot dug into the alms bowl and ate at a maddening pace. As the little maggot expelled golden threads, its size grew increasingly larger. The larger the maggot got, the faster it ate... and the faster it ate, the larger it became.0

Once the moment was over, the tiny maggot had grown into a white wormlike creature the size of Chu Liang's palm!1

Chu Liang could finally get a proper look at the creature now that it had grown a lot larger. It turned out that the creature wasn't actually a maggot. The creature had several pairs of short golden legs and a golden mouth, and its plump body had distinct sections.0

Rather than a maggot, the creature was more like a silkworm, especially since it could expel threads... from its rear end.3

The white and golden silkworm had eaten a large chunk of the iron, leaving a dip in the smooth interior surface of the alms bowl. That meant the engraved enchanted formation was damaged, and the suppression effect was lifted.0

The owner of the enchanted tool had already left, so the alms bowl was now an ownerless damaged enchanted tool.0

Chu Liang injected...4