The Centipede King was as fast as black lightning, trailing earth-shaking momentum through the air and making the air around Mo Qi Qi explode.
Mo Qi Qi's gaze sharpened, and his flippant, crazed demeanor instantly vanished.
Powerful formation energy gathered into a concentrated pillar of light that pierced the fathomless darkness, aiming straight for the Centipede King's legs.
A bloody hole was burned through one of the Centipede King's legs, but it healed almost instantly.
Amid the spreading smoke, more arrowlike legs shot toward Mo Qi Qi.
Mo Qi Qi swayed, sometimes flipping over, sometimes weaving left and right, sometimes darting up and down.
He narrowly evaded the barrage of attacks.
Seeing this, Lin Ke used the World-Altering Method, conjuring black ice crystals mixed with rocks that slowly closed in on the Centipede King's legs.
Moments later, the ice crystals clung to the Centipede King, gradually slowing it down.
Two or three of its legs were also frozen together, unable to move.
Mo Qi Qi seized the opportunity to redirect and transform the formation energy, his fingers swiftly weaving seals in the air.
The Golden Great Talisman thundered down over the Centipede King, making it let out a piercing scream as one of its antennae drooped.
It looked as though it had snapped in the middle.
The next second, a rainstorm of attacking legs laced with the centipedes' distinctive venom spread toward Mo Qi Qi, pinning him in place like a vast net.
He was pressed against the abyss's rocky wall as frenzied stomps and hammering blows rained down all around him in a dizzying flurry, leaving him unable to raise his head.
Lin Ke was also taken aback at the sight. This went against all reason.
Why was a centipede, which would not readily attack cultivators, being so aggressive?