"I saw it. It's huge... an ugly black Sandworm, possibly hundreds of meters long! Haha, let me test this monster's strength for you first!"
The voice in the earpiece sounded somewhat weak and breathless, with even a hint of inexplicable fanaticism.
It made them vaguely suspect that this Transcendent really had bottomed out his Mental Value and gone insane!
Immediately afterward, a tremendous explosion and the monster's roars came through the earpiece.
Then there was no sound at all. The humans and Snake People exchanged looks, swallowed in unison, and began their anxious wait.
Of course, Zhang Ming had switched off the earpiece himself, worried that the humans' and Snake People's panic would become nourishment for the monster's growth.
The ugly giant worm before him lay curled in the passage, its appearance hideous in the extreme! Its enormous circular mouthparts alone measured a full ten meters across, with more than ten thousand teeth inside. Its elongated, wormlike body was nearly a hundred meters long and segmented like a roundworm.
More terrifying still were the long, dark, sticky structures surrounding it, with thick, asphalt-like liquid slowly rolling down from above.
Facing this hideous behemoth, his adrenaline surged so fiercely that every strand of his hair stood on end!
"What a huge worm!"
Just as Zhang Ming pretended to walk into its trap and was about to be swallowed, Stone Mama threw the Flare prepared long beforehand.
Boom!
The sudden glare seemed to freeze the entire dark space for a brief instant. Sparks flashed through Zhang Ming's mind. He raised the Abyss Axe, his entire body glowing red, and delivered a forehand chop with all his might!
With Soul Burning and Strength Burst stacked together, along with the axe's own gravitational effect, the terrifying blow tore straight through the air and