Chapter 97: Demonic Centipede

Chapter 97.1: Demonic Centipede

Qing Yu saw that long bright red creature and her eyes widened as she stared. Seeing it charging straight at the youth in attack, she quickly shouted loudly: “Dodge quickly!”

And upon hearing those words, though Qing Bei who had been prepared to take on the creature did not understand why, but having gotten used to placing his trust in Qing Yu, he quickly dodged to the side.

But the creature’s speed was just incredible. Its body that was tens of meters long retreated back in an instant to straighten itself out flat. A stamen like part of its body at its mouth then quivered slightly, before a thick gooey liquid sprayed out.

Qing Bei was unable to avoid it in time and a good half of his shoulder was hit. Having suffered absolutely heart wrenching pain when he underwent treatment for his crippled legs before, he had developed quite a high tolerance for pain. But getting shot with that strange liquid, it had caused him to immediately cry out in agony, and fall to the ground.

“Little Bei!” The expression on Qing Yu’s face sank.

Ever since Qing Bei came to regain the use of his legs, she had not allowed him to be injured again, but he was now seriously wounded by this creature here. When that creature had leapt out from the rock, she had immediately felt that something did not feel right.

With a full bright red body, several tens of meters in length, its mouth with something that looked like a flower stamen and its dense number of feet, it was clearly the Demonic Centipede that appeared only in deserts, a creature whose entire body was covered in lethal poison and the venomous fluid it spits out from its mouth was the most poisonous among poisons!

But the Demonic Centipede usually resides deep underground in the deserts. How did it come to be hidden within a boulder, and had followed them for such a long distance! ?

The fear still lingering, she would not be able to decipher the reason for that no matter how smart she was. Before her, she saw that Qing Bei was lying there on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, already fallen unconscious. She could only temporarily seal his meridians with her golden needles to stop his blood from circulating, to prevent the venom from spreading over a large area.

She turned around to discover that the Demonic Centipede was initiating an attack upon Yan Xi Rou and Yan Xi Wu. Fortunately, although the two sisters did not possess very high levels of cultivation, they were quite adept at running away. Though they were screaming their heads off from terror, the Demonic Centipede was not able to catch them at that moment, its long body dragging its speed down by quite a bit.

Qing Yu’s brows knitted up. She had been just beside that creature just now, but it had seemed like the creature did not see her at all but had gone to attack the other two people instead of striking at her. Why?

A soft snigger suddenly sounded beside her. Zang Mai had suddenly appeared out of the blue, his long gold and silver eyes highly dazzling. He then winked at her and said: “Mistress, not only will that fella not attack you, but even if you stand right in front of it, you will still be safe and sound.”

“Why?”

“Here. Watch!”

Zang Mai smiled mischievously before his gold and silver figure shot at the speed of light to suddenly appear right in front of the Demonic Centipede that was relentlessly pursuing the two young ladies, standing there without moving an inch, his hands behind his back.

Qing Yu’s eyes widened in disbelief as she stared, when she saw the Demonic Centipede actually went around the golden haired youth, before continuing to pursue the two girls.

“How did that happen?” Qing Yu was a little stunned as she looked at the youth who had come running back. “Did you turn yourself invisible just now?”

Under most circumstances, in order to avoid trouble, whenever Zang Mai came out to move around, Qing Yu would ask him to make himself invisible and must not appear before people. It was when he did not conceal himself, that others would then be able to see him.

“I did not!” The youth opened his palms before him in innocence.

“Then you released your aura to threaten it?”

“Definitely not.” Zang Mai pouted defensively as he looked at her. “My foolish Mistress, you’re usually very smart. Why have you suddenly dumbed down today?”

Chapter 97.2: Demonic Centipede

“That fella doesn’t have eyes or a nose so it obviously can’t see or smell to detect an enemy. But as its body is closely stuck to the ground, it is able to accurately locate the enemy through any movement on the ground. As you had not moved earlier, it was completely unaware of your presence and when I suddenly appeared in its path earlier, it just went around me as it had thought that I was a boulder.”

“Boulder?” After Zang Mai’s explanation, Qing Yu finally understood why it had thought the golden haired youth was a boulder!

“The environment here is strange and queer and one cannot just use their eyes to see the place. All the rocks and boulders here had suddenly come out from underground and that was why it had thought that I was a boulder that just shot out from underground.”

“So I see.” Qing Yu nodded, and she then ravaged the youth’s head violently with her hand. “Not too shabby Little Burrow. You’re almost a walking encyclopaedia. To think that you know this as well, you’re truly your Mistress’ personal security blanket.”

Having his head ruffled so suddenly in a way that could almost be termed as lovingly, and being praised so highly, a red flush unconsciously tinted Zang Mai’s cheeks. “Mm. That I am able to be of assistance to my Mistress, Little Burrow is very happy.”

After a moment of bashfulness, the youth then opened his mouth to say in a serious tone: “Mistress, you’ll still have to be careful. Although that fella is stupid, it is still a peak seventh level spirit beast that is about to advance into the eighth level. You must kill it before it advances or it will become more powerful when it reaches the eighth level.”

[Peak seventh level spirit beast….. Do they really have to be that lucky?]

Qing Yu cast a worried look at the youth on the ground. [She has to deal with it as quickly as possible. Otherwise leaving her foolish younger brother in that condition could become very dangerous. She really regrets not bringing Little Snow along this time as Little Snow would only need to suck out all the poison and he’ll be fine.

“Little Burrow, watch Little Bei for me. I fear that there might be other creatures nearby.”

Qing Yu stood up after giving her order. Watching the two girls who were almost going to collapse from running, she then said in a voice that was not very loud but was penetrating enough to reach their ears: “Go hide behind that boulder to the side in front of you. Just stand there and do not move another inch.”

When Yan Xi Rou heard that she screamed back in disbelief. “Do you think we’re stupid! ? Are we really supposed to stand there to await our deaths?”

“If you do not wish to die, then do as I say.” Qing Yu said indifferently.

In comparison, Yan Xi Wu was smarter than her sister. When she heard Qing Yu’s words, she instinctively obeyed and hid herself behind the boulder, standing still and not daring to move a single muscle. Seeing that, Yan Xi Rou had no choice but to follow suit.

Immediately, the vast and expansive flats fell silent.

The Demonic Centipede that was speeding forward suddenly halted, the stamen like mouth quivering slightly at the tip. It seemed to be rather puzzled why its two prey had suddenly disappeared and its body that was tens of meters long writhed and twisted around in fury, becoming rather confused.

It suddenly stopped its furious thrashing and turned its body towards a particular direction. There seemed to be some movement coming from there.

At that moment, Qing Yu’s was approaching step by step with almost no sound coming out from under her feet. But as her footsteps were too light, it made the creature start to doubt for a moment whether it was mistaken.

Chapter 97.3: Demonic Centipede

Suddenly, those footsteps grew louder. In fact, it broke into a run. The Demonic Centipede perked up immediately and its body that had been stretched out flat on the ground suddenly came upright, lashing out a ferocious attack towards the source of the sound but then crashed into an incredibly hard boulder instead. It became dizzy immediately and it was a while before it regained its senses.

[Where’s the enemy?]

[The movements had clearly been coming from this direction. Why had it suddenly disappeared?]

The speed of the Demonic Centipede’s attack was too fast to dodge and Qing Yu had already leapt up to stand on one foot atop a high boulder, her arms held wide open, standing steadily.

That creature had foolishly crashed into the boulder as expected and though Qing Yu was at right above its head at that moment, the creature was completely unaware of it.

Since it did not have any eyes or a nose, it could only stick its body close to the ground to feel the enemy’s movement to locate them.

It waited for a moment to ascertain that there was no other movements before it clumsily slithered away. However, it was right in that instant that Qing Yu’s body suddenly shifted and the foot she held suspended in the air was lowered as she jumped hard upon the boulder once. This time, the Demonic Centipede was smarter and it did not go charging headlong towards the sound anymore, but decided to spit out a large mouthful of poison instead.

Qing Yu immediately leapt onto another boulder and the surface of the poison covered boulder immediately started to bubble, actually softening as it melted down into a corrosive puddle.

Qing Yu was aghast. “…..” [That’s some damaging attack!]

It seemed to realize that it was being toyed by the opponent and it became furiously enraged. That stamen shaped like mouth began to spray venomous fluid all over the place, looking like it would not rest if it was did not force its prey to show itself today.

[Damn it. If it continues to remain in such a berserk state, things might turn out ugly. A spirit beast’s power was at its strongest when it went berserk and it could possibly advance its level.]

The aura around Qing Yu’s body suddenly congealed and she leapt up into the air. Her long upslanted eyes flashed with a dark glint and they turned completely jet black, where not a single speck of white could be seen in those eyes, looking incredibly strange.

“Sacred Burial Arts, Ravaging Rot!”

With those few soft words that came out from her mouth, the ground suddenly lurched, and the entire place seemed to be rocking violently.

Countless thick and strong black vines then burrowed out from underground, every inch covered with sharp hooked barbs, the tips of the vines waving like wildly tentacles of an octopus. They were clearly so soft and flexible but they continued to grow incessantly, every single vine like a sharp blade that left countless wounds on the body of the Demonic Centipede.

What was most precious to the Demonic Centipede was the blood that ran inside its body, which was more greatly prized than the venom that it spat out through its mouth. If that venom was cultivated into poison, it would definitely qualify to be placed among the top ten on the poison charts but when it bled, with the loss of blood, its attack also becomes weaker.

The thick vines continued to grow maniacally, increasing endlessly in number, till it finally formed into a circular prison that fully surrounded the Demonic Centipede, trapping it as they coiled around its body and gradually tightened, which sped up the rate of its bleeding.

Trapped inside, the Demonic Centipede let out highly agonized cries, its stamen shaped mouth spitting out venomous fluid in an attempt to corrode the vines off it. But any vine that was corroded away was quickly replaced by the never ending growth of more vines, which did not help its predicament at all, but merely weaken itself further.

It might be because of its perilous situation that it came to ignite its survival instincts further. It continued to struggle and writhe, and the venom from its mouth was suddenly like a dam that had been opened, spurting out like a torrent which pushed the vines back over a large area. Its body then suddenly expanded in size by a full round in an instant, and that small stamen like mouth suddenly turned into gaping jaws that was filled with teeth sharp as saws.

The eyes of the golden haired youth from further away turned sharp. “Good grief! It has risen a level!”