The entrance was like a dog hole, but the Stone Chamber opened into a space ten zhang across. It was nearly pitch-black inside, lit only by the glow of dozens of worms.
Gu insects packed the chamber, surging like black waves as their shrill cries shook the air.
Without protection, an ordinary Gu Child would be reduced to bones in an instant.
Five figures were covered from head to toe in Gu insects, their bodies shrouded in a thick layer of poisonous mist.
An intensely oppressive atmosphere filled the chamber. The five living people had no choice but to fight like Gu insects.
Compared with the chaos inside the Gu Cave, the five men surrounded by the swarm now faced an even more brutal fate.
Standing amid the swarm, they could barely use their innate Gu, because they needed the insects to protect their bodies. If the Gu insects and poisonous mist covering them were breached, they would be devoured by the swarm while they fought.
"Kill Liu Feng first, then the one surnamed Yan. The three of us can settle things between ourselves afterward." Liu Xing's voice rang out, cold and low.
His eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging across his body, and he breathed heavily like a beast.
Chen Xiaocui and Niu Yuanshan, who had come with him, were in much the same state. All three had taken Red Refining Medicinal Gu.
Almost at once, three figures moved inside the Stone Chamber.
Liu Xing, Chen Xiaocui, and Niu Yuanshan each transformed into Twenty-Two Eyes.
The instant they closed in on Liu Feng, Yan Hongda also activated Twenty-Two Eyes, unleashing his Gu technique that muddled other people's vision.
"Liu Xing, I'm your opponent."
At his words, the three turned their heads in unison and looked at Yan Hongda.
The four exchanged glances, and the scenes in their eyes became jumbled.
In an instant, the entire Stone Chamber seemed to break apart into a hundred pieces. All four had Twenty-Two Eyes, and could make out the correct positions in an exceptionally short time.
Liu Xing kept moving. As Yan Hongda came within reach, both his arms swelled to twice their size.
Veins throbbed across his thick arms as he swung the Ghost-Head Broadsword down in a savage chop.
Twelve eyes blinked across Yan Hongda's arms. With Motion Vision, he precisely blocked the blow with his short blade.
But the force that came through the blade was astonishing. It sent him flying, and he crashed into the writhing swarm.
"You don't know what's good for you. Once I've killed Liu Feng, you're next. Why rush to your death?"
Liu Xing could be said to possess one and a half Exotic Gu. Though his Ox Eater had failed, it had still granted him incomplete brute strength.
Meanwhile, Chen Xiaocui's iron chain had already unfurled, while Niu Yuanshan faced Liu Feng with a massive shield.
As Liu Xing charged in, all three aimed their Gu techniques at Liu Feng.
"Confuse their vision!"
In all three of their sights, Liu Feng stood motionless.
He watched the three charging at him with a cold gaze, without even opening his Compound Eyes.
Before them, the jumbled images numbered over a hundred. But to Liu Feng, they were child's play! With only the Mind Eye Technique, he had already caught the three's true positions.
"Your Gu techniques are nothing special!" A cold smile appeared at the corner of Liu Feng's mouth as he suddenly reached behind him.
The five insect legs of the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth coiled together, forming a sinister greatsword.
After being fed to fullness on Spirit Monster blood essence, this Soldier Gu was in a strange state. Its legs had swollen, their color tinged red.
Now transformed into a greatsword, it had grown a full size larger. Doglike teeth jutted all over its body, as if it were dripping blood, making it all the more terrifying.
Seeing Liu Feng smile as he held that monstrous sword, without even opening his Compound Eyes, Liu Xing, Niu Yuanshan, and Chen Xiaocui were all shocked.
"Putting on an act!"
"Die!"
Niu Yuanshan struck first with his massive shield, while Liu Feng swung the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth in a horizontal slash.
A dull "thump" rang out. Niu Yuanshan and his shield were sent flying together.
"I'll take him!" Liu Xing's arms swelled in successive rings.
His thick, grotesquely swollen arms bulged with muscle, as if they were about to burst.
Flashes of fire streaked through the Stone Chamber as the Ghost-Head Broadsword and the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth clashed furiously. Despite Liu Xing's supposed advantage in strength, he couldn't overpower Liu Feng.
"I'll kill all three of you. Why should I wait for the time it takes an incense stick to burn?" Liu Feng laughed coldly as he traded blows with Liu Xing.
The second Exotic Gu egg inside him had half hatched, giving his physique a second enhancement.
The blood essence of two Spirit Monsters was a potent tonic. How could the three's Red Refining Medicinal Gu compare?
His blood surged through his body. Though the wound to his ribs had yet to heal, the Mind Eye Technique let him anticipate the three's movements, and he remained completely at ease.
"What use is this burden? We'll die if the swarm devours us, and we'll die if we lose to that man surnamed Liu."
Niu Yuanshan rolled to his feet and abandoned his shield. He split the Gu insects protecting him into two groups, flinging half of them toward Liu Feng.
"Bzzzz..." A vast cloud of Gu insects swept over like a curtain of black smoke.
As Liu Feng exchanged blows with Liu Xing, he shifted his steps just enough to draw Liu Xing in front of him, placing him directly in the path of Niu Yuanshan's swarm.
Chen Xiaocui waited for her chance on the side, hoping to use her iron chain to bind the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth, but she never found an opening.
In her eyes, Liu Feng's movements seemed to have been calculated in advance! And it seemed as if he had calculated the moves of all three of them, too!
"We can't drag this out any longer..."
Chen Xiaocui changed targets. When she was four steps away, she swept her iron chain toward Liu Feng's legs.
The result was predictable: she missed again. With only the corner of his eye, Liu Feng could dodge her chain by just the right amount!
Chen Xiaocui froze for an instant, as if awakening from a dream. A deep chill slowly spread through her heart!
The next moment, she turned toward the entrance and shouted, "He—he's not right! Valley..."
She wanted to shout and warn the Valley Master that there was something terribly wrong with this man!
But her words seemed to awaken a terrifying beast. Before she could finish saying "Master," Liu Feng abruptly turned to look at her.
In that instant, Liu Feng's appearance changed completely. All his Compound Eyes snapped open, and veins coiled across his body like black patterns.
Their gazes crossed. The Stone Chamber vanished from Chen Xiaocui's eyes, and she plunged into a black-and-white maze teeming with countless Gu insects.
Ahead and behind, above and below, left and right—the swarm covered the world, crashing down like a black tide that swept away everything.
The Gu insects surging through the Stone Chamber just a moment earlier were multiplied a hundredfold in her eyes!
Chen Xiaocui was clearly standing on the Stone Chamber's floor, yet in a daze, she felt the ground disappear beneath her feet. Reality clashed with perception, and she toppled toward the rolling tide of Gu insects.
"Ahhh..." A girl's terrified scream rang through the Stone Chamber.
"Splurt!" The scream cut off abruptly as the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth tore Chen Xiaocui in half at the waist.
Once Liu Feng had made his move, he didn't pause for an instant. He couldn't let anyone alert that old ghost Lu Huai outside.
His gaze swept from Niu Yuanshan and Liu Xing to Yan Hongda, who stood frozen in the corner.
In an instant, the scenes before all three collapsed, replaced by a black-and-white maze pieced together from more than a hundred interwoven images!
Each of them stood in one image, becoming part of this "moving" maze. In the black-and-white scenes, the swarm surged like waves, sweeping away everything.
"I won't accept this..." Liu Xing swayed and roared hoarsely.
At that moment, he felt as if he had once again become a half-finished product from a failed Gu seeding. Liu Feng was the one who had truly succeeded.
It was just like the day he emerged from his Metamorphic Rebirth: Ma Kun's Dead Eye had no effect on him, and he had crushed Ma Kun with his Gu techniques.
Now Liu Xing felt as helpless as that good-for-nothing Ma Kun, with no choice but to shut his eyes! As for the Exotic Gu inside him, facing Liu Feng, it was no better than trash!
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