"Hm?"
During a sweep with his divine sense, Jiang Ding gave a soft sound of surprise.
With a flicker, he arrived within Centipede Celestial Lord's Demon Palace.
It was dark and damp, pitch-black within, the air thick with waves of fishy stench. All manner of tunnels twisted in every direction, leading deep into unknown places.
This showed that although Centipede Celestial Lord had cultivated to the Spirit Transformation stage, he still retained much of his beastly instinct. Unlike the Ice Phoenix Clan, he possessed little that could be called "civilization," whether Demon Race immortal dao civilization or human immortal dao civilization. The same was true of his way of doing things.
At the very heart of the Demon Palace, Jiang Ding found the corpse of a golden-armored centipede.
This golden-armored centipede was only several hundred meters long. It likewise possessed an unusual bloodline, no inferior to Centipede Celestial Lord's, and exuded the aura of a quasi-fifth-order being.
Her chest had likewise been torn open into a great hole. The Hundred-Poison Golden-Silk Gu parasitizing within her had devoured her heart and skull.
"Her."
Yes, she was a female centipede, and presumably Centipede Celestial Lord's wife.
However, it seemed that "wife" was merely a term used by outsiders. To Centipede Celestial Lord, she might have been nothing more than a mating object.
A faint wisp of divine sense appeared in the golden-armored centipede's abdomen.
Jiang Ding casually slashed.
The centipede's corpse was split open, as was its stomach, revealing a centipede egg drenched in gastric fluid and venom. Golden and green patterns intertwined across its surface. There was life within it, along with a faint wisp of tender, loving divine sense.
"Tushan... Tu Shan Heavenly Lord?"
The wisp of divine sense asked softly.
Its voice was gentle, without hatred, without earth-shaking resentment