"Hiss..."
"Hiss, hiss..."
Within the gloomy underground tunnels, Human-Head Centipedes with hideous faces crawled about, sinister light flickering endlessly in their crimson eyes.
They were all Corpse Puppet monsters that the Centipede Daoist had refined from carefully selected materials, combining human bodies with the bodies of demon centipedes. Their gleaming shells shone like metal in the darkness of the tunnels.
A rank, bloody stench mingled with the sickly green poison miasma, thick as dense fog. Even the surrounding earthen walls had been stained with a fungal membrane.
This was a low-lying valley more than thirty li from Broad Cloud Peak. Some time earlier, members of the Heavenly Dragon Gate had discovered that Li Chen's underground surveillance was relatively weak and could not detect gaps in his coverage beneath the earth, so they had begun digging here.
They had ample manpower, and with the cooperation of numerous armies and Human-Head Centipedes on the surface, they too had managed to move unseen and unheard, successfully drawing close to the Market District.
On this day, a large number of Human-Head Centipedes and Heavenly Treasure Centipedes had even evaded interception from the air and arrived safely, ready to launch a retaliatory ambush against Guangyuan Ward.
The Centipede Daoist was ruthless. He was not content with frequent harassment like Li Chen's, but intended to settle everything with a single hammer blow and crush his opponent outright.
As time passed, fully ten thousand Human-Head Centipedes entered the tunnels and traveled several dozen li, reaching an open area outside the Market District.
Within a hundred-li radius, armies at various positions launched fierce attacks simultaneously, using their movements to cover this surprise force. Broad Cloud Ward's troops seemed to have been pinned down at those positions as well.
Several Heavenly Dragon Gate disciples accompanied the Human-Head Centipedes as