Crack!
Crack!
The top of the insect cocoon was drilled open, and the pink body of the Thousand-Hand Centipede emerged from within.
The body that had just shed its skin was pink, but upon contact with the air, its shell rapidly darkened and thickened, transforming into a heavy chitinous carapace.
Now that its transformation was complete, the Thousand-Hand Centipede had reached an astonishing twelve meters in length, comparable to the length of a bus.
Sizzle!
Its new shell was somewhat itchy. The Thousand-Hand Centipede reared upright and rubbed itself against a large tree to scratch the itch.
It had not expected that this action would crush the several-dozen-meter-tall tree. Falling branches and leaves landed on the Thousand-Hand Centipede's head, and it looked utterly bewildered, clearly still unaccustomed to the sudden surge of its immense strength.
"A low-grade Gu worm refined three times. Even among the inner disciples, I'm afraid not everyone could accomplish that."
Su Jie thought happily as he turned his gaze toward the Thousand-Hand Centipede's head.
The greatest change brought by this Spirit Refinement evolution was not the Thousand-Hand Centipede's increase in size, but the layer of hard facial armor that had grown over its head and face. It was a ghastly pale color, matching the hue of those pale corpse hands, as though it had been made from bleached bones.
The surface of the facial armor was riddled with cracks, with purple radiance seeping and flowing beneath them. It was bizarre beyond words.
At the eye sockets of the facial armor were a pair of deep hollows. At their profound, dark centers rested a pair of cold, merciless insect eyes that stared at every living thing that came near.
The appearance of this white-bone facial armor made the Thousand-Hand Centipede even stranger and more sinister.
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