"This Centipede Daoist..."
Watching the monster reveal its true form in the Mystic Light Illusory Image Array, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, Li Chen finally managed to locate Centipede Daoist deep within the hundred-odd Corpse Puppets.
He resembled a corpse buried in a mountain of bodies, most of his body wrapped in swollen masses of flesh, his figure inflated like a balloon to several dozen feet across.
His body was covered in millstone-sized tumors, each topped with fang-like spikes. Totem-like black markings covered them, carrying an indescribably mysterious significance.
Long strands of flesh had sprouted from his hands, feet, shoulders, and buttocks. These were the Human Centipedes previously mistaken for octopus tentacles, all formed from severed halves of human bodies strung together. As they swayed in the wind, their long hair drifted like willow catkins, unspeakably bizarre and horrifying.
The Spirit Essence previously detected by the Mechanism Devices had flowed from these bodies. They shared a mysterious connection with Centipede Daoist in this state, seemingly independent individuals yet linked through nerves and flesh, forming an enormous Corpse-Gathering Abomination.
"That's fucking disgusting!"
Shaking Light said, "Target confirmed as Centipede Daoist. Suspected true form of his transformed body!"
Li Chen had already suspected that Centipede Daoist used the Core Heart condensed through his half-step Core Formation cultivation to gather these Corpse Puppets together. He faced enemies with only one body at a time while hiding himself deep inside, where ordinary people could never see him.
This achieved something similar to his own Magic Cube Maze, but with flesh connecting everything, the spatial continuity during transitions was even more seamless. There were almost no openings between compression and extension, unlike the obvious vulnerability when he summoned a Void Gate to complete a substitution.
Using some technique involving the Cosmic Dao and