Ever since he gained intelligence, he had been the absolute ruler of this forest.
Because of his thick shell and irresistible venom, even a hundred years ago, the other demon kings at the same level had not dared provoke him lightly.
Human city walls were even more fragile than rotten wood before Hundred-Foot Centipede.
But now.
He had merely taken a nap, yet such a terrifying Monster had emerged in this forest.
Anger, fear, jealousy.
Countless complex emotions, all carrying negative feelings, surfaced deep within Hundred-Foot Centipede's consciousness.
Ssssss!
Thick black baleful aura seeped from the holes in Hundred-Foot Centipede's shell. This was no ordinary poisonous mist, but something even more vicious and dangerous.
The black fog spread. The towering ancient trees withered and yellowed the instant they were touched by even a trace of it. Great swathes of branches and leaves fell from their trunks, turning to dust before they could reach the ground.
Even the moist earth began to dry up and crack.
Hideous, twisted faces took shape in the black mist, screaming soundlessly.
Hundred-Foot Centipede's ferocity was roused. Shrouded in black fog, his shattered shell began to mend, while countless jointed legs moved in alternating rhythm, producing a scalp-numbing rustle.
"Ignorant brat, let this old man show you the cruelty of the world!"
The giant centipede seemed to have been filled with boundless fighting spirit.
The black fog around him first surged like a tide, then blazed fiercely like an ominous fire capable of burning the world to ashes.
"Come!"
Gamia Great Serpent loomed above, looking down on everything.
Her two molten-gold eyes held a majesty too overwhelming to meet, like a giant dragon that had stepped out of myth.
Boom!
Hundred-Foot Centipede's fury was completely ignited. Most creatures contaminated by the Red Moon were insane; even a king like Hundred-Foot Centipede had little reason left once enraged.
Strands of black mist gathered before him, forming a sphere like a Black Sun.
Countless Vengeful Spirits drifted up and down inside it, their faces pained and distorted, as if they had fallen into the endless hell with no hope of release.
"Die!"
A crimson glow exploded within the black sphere, then burst forth, tearing through the air and piercing space as it swept toward Little Boa with irresistible force like collapsing mountains and raging seas.
This was Hundred-Foot Centipede's killing move. That black mist was not poisonous fog secreted by any living creature, but the boundless resentment born after the humans he had tortured to death perished.
Even Little Boa, with her extraordinary traits, did not want to come into direct contact with that power steeped in hatred and corruption.
So!
Gamia opened her mouth and drew in a deep breath.
The inhalation was so long that even the thin clouds in the sky were churned together into a faint vortex.
Gales surged in from every direction.
Gamia's raised upper body abruptly swelled several times over.
The next moment.
Roar!
The intangible air, compressed by Gamia's powerful muscles, carried terrifying kinetic force as it surged like a flood across the broad cone-shaped area before her.
Crash!
The primeval forest let out an unprecedented wail. One enormous tree after another was violently uprooted.
Thick roots, still clinging to wet soil, were swept into the air before shattering into countless tiny fragments that rained down upon the distant forest.
The innate ultimate technique Hundred-Foot Centipede had regarded as his lifeline was consumed by layers upon layers of surging wind blades before it could even reach Little Boa.
Layer after layer of turf was swept away by the gale.
Even with his tens of thousands of legs gripping the ground tightly, the giant centipede could not withstand the terrible storm and was forced back inch by inch.
Rumble...
After a long, long time, when the tremendous noise gradually subsided.
Everyone who witnessed the scene was stunned by the terrifying sight before them.
The giant centipede that had hung over the people of Moon Country for a hundred years now lay sprawled before the great serpent like a dying wild dog.
The black shell that blades, spears, arrows, and even powerful catapults had failed to damage in the slightest was now covered in dense cracks, with countless streams of dark green venom flowing from its wounds.
On both sides of Hundred-Foot Centipede, within the cone-shaped area stretching roughly several kilometers.
All vegetation and rocks had vanished. Only bare ground remained, displaying Gamia's unmatched, overwhelming strength.
"This is way too outrageous..."
In the distance.
The monks who had come all the way from Moon Country, in less than half an hour.
Had experienced life's wildest ups and downs, over and over again.
Even now, as they looked at the patch of yellow earth that had abruptly appeared in the forest.
Even monks with exceptional composure wondered whether they were trapped in a dream conjured by the Red Moon.
"Is this the power of a god?"
Renguang stood on higher ground, looking at the Golden Serpent in the forest, as if she were burning.
He let out a sigh of relief, but when he saw the pool of black blood in the corner, unbearable grief appeared on his face once more.
Shenjian Village.
Inside the shrine, Rinzi sat by the window and slowly unclenched her tightly clenched hand.
As an ordinary person, she could not, like the Magic Monks of Moon Country, accurately determine the state of the battle from far away merely by sensing the subtle changes in demonic power in the air.
But the force unleashed by the clash between the two colossal beasts was simply too vast, enough to alter the heavens themselves.
From the start of the battle.
Black baleful aura and golden light had been clashing against one another.
Yet no matter how viciously the black baleful aura shifted and writhed, the golden radiance never showed the slightest sign of retreat.
Instead, it occasionally launched a counterattack, seizing back part of the sky occupied by the black baleful aura in a single stroke.
In the end.
The golden light surged up like a tidal wave, grinding away every trace of black baleful aura.
Rinzi did not leave the shrine. She simply sat quietly by the window, watching the golden radiance expand bit by bit and suppress and erase the black baleful aura bit by bit.
Then it illuminated the sky, dazzling like the sun yet cold and clear like the moon.
It also lit up the girl's eyes, reaching straight into her heart.
How magnificent!
After this arc ends, there will be another template below. Wishing everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance, and a joyful family reunion.
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