Cock-a-doodle-doo!
At the rooster's cry, the world turned white!
The Wrathful Sunny Rooster flapped its wings and shot out of the coop, its sharp beak raised high as it let out a piercing crow that could split gold and crack stone.
The swarm of centipedes surging through the depths of the tomb passage like a tide was thrown into sudden disarray by that crow.
The venomous insects, which had been brimming with ferocity moments ago, now seemed to have encountered their natural predator. A black mass of them crushed together, desperately burrowing into cracks in the stone, gaps between bricks, and beneath ruined walls.
Those too slow were trampled and bitten by their own kind behind them. In the blink of an eye, the entire insect tide had become utter chaos.
With a beat of its wings, the Wrathful Sunny Rooster dove straight down.
Though it was not particularly large, it stood out starkly amid the densely packed centipede swarm.
With every dive, its golden eyes flashed. Its talons crushed insect shells, and whenever its sharp beak struck, a rapid series of crisp pops rang out like bursting beans.
Those highly venomous centipedes had no power to resist it. Instead, they became excellent nourishment, snatched up one by one and chewed with loud crunches.
Of course, a single Wrathful Sunny Rooster could not possibly devour tens of thousands of centipedes in one go.
The divine rooster was like a sheepdog herding a flock. Wherever the insect swarm gathered most densely, it pounced.
As it charged left and right, the centipede horde was forcibly split into several streams, fleeing in panic in different directions, unable to muster the terrifying momentum it had possessed before.
The group had been forced back step by step by the insect tide, but seeing the situation