In the Wild Forest, the insect tide surged. Nearly a hundred Heavenly Treasure Centipedes each had bodies several dozen feet long, with humanlike arms interspersed among their twenty-odd pairs of flailing clawed legs.
The entire shrub forest seemed to have become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with countless evil ghosts struggling within it, clawing at one another.
Air blade slash!
A sword aura as solid as steel swept across a Heavenly Treasure Centipede's body and, with a ripping hiss, tore it in two.
The Heavenly Treasure Centipede struggled tenaciously. Even with its head severed from its body, it refused to lie still in death like a true monster, using the last of its strength to spit out a cloud of sickly green poison.
With a bang, flames ignited it, and a violent explosion sent shock waves roaring in every direction.
Amid the explosions, several Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipedes spat out dark golden light at once. Gang edges took the shape of blades and shot through the air like arrows.
Clang, clang, clang!
Xiao Die whirled her twin sabers rapidly. With her sensory Origin Device working, the long, pointed blades precisely tracked every incoming gang edge as she tried to cut them all down. But there were simply too many Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipedes. Almost every one of these demon centipedes, each possessing foundation establishment combat power, could threaten her on its own. With ten attacking together, their spells surged like a tide, leaving her no room to breathe.
Amid the sword-shaped gang edges, great quantities of poisonous mist sprayed out before being ignited. Raging flames, carrying terrifying heat capable of melting gold and forging iron, scorched the trees within several hundred feet and forced the two Battle Puppets steadily backward.
Jingang was scorched and blackened by