Chapter 778 - 708: Killing the Centipede Monster

Chapter 778: Chapter 708: Killing the Centipede Monster

If you couldn’t even sever the tentacles of a mere Centipede Monster, you could forget about harming its glossy, black, armored shell.

"Celestial Thunder!"

The tentacles parted. Tu Xiao’an’s body flared with electrical light, and a massive bolt of thunder shot toward the charging Centipede Monster.

The strike seemed powerful enough to shake the heavens, but when the Celestial Thunder hit the Centipede Monster’s body, it simply bounced off, slamming into a nearby rock wall.

The tentacles swept in again, stabbing toward Tu Xiao’an’s body with incredible speed.

The Centipede Monster also lunged forward, its giant, terrifying fangs aiming to tear him apart.

It offered him no chance of survival.

For a moment, Tu Xiao’an had nowhere to run.

"Disperse."

Tu Xiao’an frowned, and his entire body dissolved into a cloud of black mist, evading everything.

The Centipede Monster, relying on its immense physical strength, crashed forward, smashing through everything in its path. But Tu Xiao’an had vanished.

Its countless legs came to a halt. It stood stunned, searching all around.

Thirty feet away, Tu Xiao’an’s figure reappeared. He was wreathed in black, fiery Qi, making him appear as a Death God returned from Hell.

The moment he reappeared, Tu Xiao’an grinned at the hideously ugly Centipede Monster and gave his Heaven Swaying Sword a flick.

The moment the Centipede Monster saw Tu Xiao’an, it charged viciously once more, intending to tear the tiny human before it to shreds with its fangs. But suddenly, a sharp pain shot through its abdomen. It faltered, then began writhing on the ground in unbearable agony. A flood of green blood gushed out from its underside, pooling all over the ground.

It was disgusting and reeked horribly.

Huh?

Feng Linjie, the onlooker, was stunned. ’The Centipede Monster is injured?’

’When did that happen?’

’He was clearly on the defensive, just trying to block.’

It turned out that somehow, unnoticed, the Centipede Monster’s softest part—its abdomen—had been neatly sliced open by the razor-sharp Heaven Swaying Sword. Tu Xiao’an had gutted it.

With such a fatal injury, it was no wonder the giant centipede was in so much agony!

That was why Tu Xiao’an had smiled upon reappearing. When he had dispersed into black mist, he had materialized underneath the Centipede Monster.

In a flash, he had delivered the fatal blow.

Tu Xiao’an knew full well that his Elemental Power wasn’t very effective against this beast.

In a frontal assault, even the Heaven Swaying Sword couldn’t break the Centipede Monster’s defense. He had to find its weak point.

That weak point was its underbelly.

There was no glossy black armored shell there.

This was all part of the combat experience Tu Xiao’an had gained over a long time.

You couldn’t just attack blindly, nor could you unleash Elemental Abilities at random.

If an attack couldn’t cause damage, it was just a waste of energy.

At this moment, the giant Centipede Monster was fatally wounded. It roared and thrashed on the ground, blood pouring endlessly from its abdomen. But its Life Force was too strong; it wouldn’t die so easily.

’He’s finished it just like that?’

Feng Linjie watched, dumbfounded. The mighty Centipede Monster had seemed invincible, its physical strength making it incredibly difficult to fight.

Yet at the hands of this Snake Emperor, it had been grievously wounded with such ease.

’So strong!’

The only one who could leave him, a mighty High Rank War God, in such awe was probably this monster, Tu Xiao’an.

"Stop all that roaring. I’m here to finish you off."

Tu Xiao’an took a step forward, his form as ethereal as a phantom. The next second, he was standing directly on the Centipede Monster’s armored shell.

A torrent of Flame erupted from him, surging down his body and onto the Centipede Monster’s massive carapace.

WHOOSH...!

The flames raged. The Centipede Monster, now burning fiercely, began to thrash about wildly, its two tentacles whipping toward Tu Xiao’an on its back.

Tu Xiao’an brandished his Heaven Swaying Sword, unleashing blasts of Sword Qi that knocked the tentacles back one by one.

With a single thought, nine Flying Knives, each as thin as a cicada’s wing, appeared and shot like lightning toward the Centipede Monster’s vicious eyes.

Tu Xiao’an was kicking it while it was down. A top-tier monster like this wasn’t so easy to kill.

Its health bar was thick and long; he had to grind it down.

Its belly was sliced open, its entire body was being immolated by flames, and now it was under attack by his Flying Knives.

’Let’s see you survive this.’

But this was, after all, the same monster that had sent Feng Linjie fleeing for his life.

The instant the Flying Knives shot out, its eyes snapped shut. CLANG... CLANG... CLANG!

The Flying Knives, which could supposedly pierce anything and kill without drawing blood, couldn’t even penetrate the Centipede Monster’s eyelids.

It seemed that aside from its underbelly, every inch of this great beast was rock-hard.

Completely impenetrable.

Tu Xiao’an kept the Flying Knives aimed at the Centipede Monster’s eyes. ’Go on, try opening them.’

Then, amidst the raging flames, Tu Xiao’an finally managed, with great effort, to sever the two pesky tentacles.

He had to strike each tentacle seven or eight times with the Heaven Swaying Sword, a testament to their incredible hardness.

The Centipede Monster was now shrieking without pause. Its cries were as mournful as a wandering soul and as sharp as a Ghost’s wail, each sound piercing the ears.

Suddenly, from the ground in every direction, countless smaller centipedes burst forth. They were called "small," but each one was ten feet long.

They were a dense, writhing mass.

"Holy crap!"

Feng Linjie, who had been hiding and watching the show, was caught in the crossfire. A portion of the countless centipedes that erupted from the ground charged toward him.

Even more of them lunged at Tu Xiao’an, like bolts fired from a Sword Crossbow.

However, just because Feng Linjie couldn’t handle the giant Centipede Monster didn’t mean he could not deal with these smaller ones. With his longsword in hand, he was like a reaping machine, effortlessly cutting them down one after another.

Conversely, the Skeleton Monster, which apparently had local residency, just stood there, and not a single centipede went to attack it.

But the Skeleton Monster didn’t stay idle. It hefted its Big Axe and began chopping away at the centipedes on the ground.

Each swing of the axe split a centipede in two, its countless legs still wriggling as disgusting green blood oozed out.

"Celestial Fire Burning!"

The flames that had been raging on the giant Centipede Monster suddenly erupted outward, spreading to the smaller centipedes and indiscriminately incinerating everything in their path.

SSSS...!

The giant Centipede Monster continued to shriek, its miserable cries driving the smaller centipedes on the ground into an even greater frenzy. They wanted to save their master, to protect their leader.

Unfortunately for them, Tu Xiao’an didn’t care how many came.

These centipedes weren’t even as strong as Ghost Wanderers. If even Ghost Wanderers couldn’t withstand his Celestial Fire, what chance did these ugly crawlers have?

Meanwhile, Tu Xiao’an focused all his attention on the giant Centipede Monster.

As the Celestial Fire continued to burn, Tu Xiao’an noticed the Centipede Monster’s armored shell beginning to soften, showing signs of melting.

This caused the monster’s physical defenses to drop drastically.

Besides, with its abdomen bleeding continuously, the Centipede Monster was already at the end of its rope.

At this, Tu Xiao’an ruthlessly began stabbing the Centipede Monster’s head, back, and tail with his Heaven Swaying Sword. He found that each thrust only penetrated about half an inch. Only by applying continuous force could he slowly cut deeper.

But even this was an excellent result.

The creature’s physical toughness was simply monstrous. Under normal circumstances, the Heaven Swaying Sword would have been completely useless against it.

He slowly drove the sword deeper, then yanked it out. Green blood shot into the air like a geyser.

’It’s got a lot of blood.’

Tu Xiao’an continued to stab, forcing the blade in with all his might on each thrust, trying to bury the sword completely before pulling it out again.

It was an exceptionally cruel method.