People could fail from being overly confident sometimes.
Too much confidence made people complacent, especially when dealing with matters. It could affect their actions, and there was no helping it—it was all subconscious behavior.
Chen Mo was very strong, and with the Mother and Child Ghost assisting him, he felt that these centipedes could not possibly affect him. So although he kept telling himself to be careful, he occasionally overlooked details.
That had caused the accident just now. If Chen Mo had not been powerful, he might have been surrounded and killed.
Fortunately, his confidence came from strength rather than delusion! After dealing with those Flying Centipedes and figuring out a few things, he swiftly retreated, making sure he would not be injured.
After all, even a lion could be hurt by a mouse, and an elephant might be killed by an ant.
He turned and avoided all the Flying Centipedes, sweeping his Spiritual Sense around as he inspected the rooms within the palace.
Flying Centipedes continued to emerge from the palace grounds and the tunnels inside the palace. Their numbers had already reached more than sixty. Some enormous centipedes were also poking their heads out of the tunnels, with a few crawling out of the building and beginning to search for Chen Mo.
Although he did not know how these centipedes communicated with one another, the fact that they had gathered to search for Chen Mo showed that they possessed a certain degree of awareness and intelligence.
The Flying Centipedes in particular were quite clever. Not only could they conduct back-and-forth grid searches, they could also cooperate at different heights to locate their enemy.
If Chen Mo had not had a Breath Concealment Talisman, several other aura-concealing Talismans, and the Mother and Child Ghost's assistance, he would already have