Chapter 281 - 272: Commander Luo, Aren’t You Going to Hurry and Wash Your Neck to Welcome Me?

In the outskirts of Shenghai, a black-and-red centipede shadow slithered rapidly across the ground. A full hundred meters long, it was relentlessly pursuing a military jeep.

The shadow's speed was unbelievable. Even with the jeep's engine pushed to its maximum, the distance between them continued to shrink rapidly.

Just as the shadow was about to catch the jeep, it suddenly faltered without warning, its speed dropping abruptly.

The jeep seized the opportunity to surge forward. On the bumpy dirt road, the vehicle shook and swayed, its four wheels leaving the ground as if it were about to take flight...

"[Gui Cang]!"

Fu Juemin sat in the jeep, hands gripping the steering wheel tightly. His body seemed welded to the seat, remaining perfectly still despite the vehicle's violent tossing and turning.

Switching from [Great Medicine] to [Gui Cang], the fatal "fragrance" vanished. The Flood Dragon Level Centipede Spirit suddenly lost the target that drove it mad with desire, and it fell into a brief state of confusion and bewilderment.

The centipede shadow spun in place a few times. Its thousands of eyes, like bright lanterns, looked up at the darkening sky. As if wary of something, it actually began to show signs of retreating.

Just then, the tempting "fragrant bait" reappeared in its Perception.

After only half a second of hesitation, the centipede shadow shrieked and shot forward once more!

Fu Juemin watched the Centipede Spirit's reaction clearly in his rearview mirror. He glanced up at the sky, which was gradually filling with dark clouds, and a strange look flickered across his face.

He had learned of this Centipede Spirit from Friend Mountain Mine not long after arriving in Shenghai. It was terrifyingly powerful and a perfect match for his Five Aggregates Poison Form. To be honest, he had coveted it for a long time.

He had even privately discussed with Gu Shouyu and the others how to deal with this Centipede Spirit.

He remembered Gu Shouyu once proposing a particularly outlandish method: forge a massive wok, set it up facing the sky on Friend Mountain, then pick a day with a thunderstorm to lure the Centipede Spirit out and use lightning to strike it dead!

According to Gu Shouyu, a monstrous being on the level of the Friend Mountain Mine Centipede Spirit had accumulated a massive amount of vile demonic energy. It was like a gigantic negative magnetic field. Based on the principles of Yin Yang Five Elements, the moment it came out, it would be extremely susceptible to a backlash from the world's pure, masculine yang energy—the most representative form of which was, of course, lightning.

They would only need to provide some guidance, and they could very likely use the Majestic Power of Heaven and Earth to kill this Centipede Spirit.

At the time, Fu Juemin had thought the method was too wildly imaginative and risky, so he hadn't paid it any mind.

But now, he was seeing it with his own eyes. The day had started out bright and sunny, but right after he lured out the Centipede Spirit, the weather had begun to visibly change. The dark clouds gathering in the sky were even spreading outward from the direction of Friend Mountain.

'So there really is something to it... No wonder this beast has been hiding under Friend Mountain, refusing to come out!'

Fu Juemin wrenched the steering wheel, and the military jeep shot over a slope, soaring high into the air.

Before the vehicle had even fully landed, the dirt slope behind it exploded. A wave of scorching, slightly corrosive fire swept over, kicking up countless bits of flying earth and rock...

Fu Juemin switched back and forth between [Great Medicine] and [Gui Cang]. Whenever the Centipede Spirit was about to catch up, he would immediately enter his [Gui Cang] state, using the chance to pull away. The moment he noticed the creature growing wary and starting to retreat, he would instantly activate [Great Medicine] and continue to lure it forward....

It was just like kiting a fish.

Only Fu Juemin, who possessed both the [Great Medicine] and [Gui Cang] Talents, would dare to attempt such a maneuver.

Even so, the entire process was still as perilous as dancing on a knife's edge or walking a tightrope over a cliff.

"BOOM!!"

A line of fire shot through the air and scored a direct hit on the fleeing jeep. The vehicle instantly exploded, turning into a heap of furiously burning scrap metal.

Fu Juemin landed steadily on the muddy ground several dozen meters away. Without a single glance back, he shot forward the instant his feet touched the earth.

He sprinted wildly along the dirt path by the riverbank. From the cracks in the rocks of the mudflats and the grassy patches along the way, countless smaller centipedes swarmed out, surging toward him as if coordinating with the giant Centipede Spirit to block his path.

Innumerable tiny legs crawling over the ground created a RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE, which merged into a wave of noise that would make one's skin crawl. An ordinary person seeing this would have likely gone weak in the knees.

But Fu Juemin's expression didn't change. His Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique was at the Great Success level; when adding points to it, he had witnessed countless images of being swarmed by venomous creatures. He had long since become immune to such sights.

Without the jeep, his speed was actually faster, but he still couldn't match the full-speed pursuit of the Flood Dragon Level Centipede Spirit.

This Centipede Spirit was no fool. After he switched between [Great Medicine] and [Gui Cang] a few times, the pauses grew shorter and shorter. It seemed to have figured out that the problem lay with Fu Juemin, a man who was no bigger than an ant in its eyes.

A terrifying heatwave blew away the damp air of the riverbank. The incredibly dense Demon Fiend aura formed a visible miasma that seemed to connect with the dark clouds in the sky, pressing down on Fu Juemin from behind.

Fu Juemin paid it no mind, simply pushing his Body Technique to its absolute limit.

'Almost there... almost there...'

He lifted his head. In the distance, the silhouette of the Jianghai Defense Command's building complex was already clearly visible.

.....

The river wind swept over the vast military base, letting out a low moan.

The bright morning sun had vanished at some point. Atop a high-walled guard post, a sentry on duty gazed at the darkening sky and muttered a curse or two.

As he turned, he suddenly felt something was wrong with the scene before him. He wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him—a dense, black tide seemed to be surging rapidly along the road that led straight to the command base.

The sentry quickly grabbed the binoculars hanging on his chest and fixed his gaze in that direction.

The moment he saw the scene ahead clearly, he froze in place as if struck by lightning.

A few breaths later, the binoculars slipped from his hands. The sentry's face was deathly pale, his eyes filled with terror. He staggered back two steps, then tore open his throat and, with all his might, let out a heart-rending cry: "En... enemy attack!"

"WOOO—!"

The alarm, like a dull foghorn, blared forcefully!

In an instant, dozens of visible and hidden sentry posts in Fu Juemin's direction opened fire simultaneously!

"RAT-A-TAT-TAT—"

A storm of bullets swept past in front of him, kicking up strings of muddy splashes on the ground!

Of course, most of them flew over his head, pouring down on the terrifying, dense ocean of centipedes behind him.

Fu Juemin sprinted through the rain of bullets. He tore off his tie and unbuttoned his suit jacket, one by one, a look of exhilaration and madness gradually appearing on his face.

The alarms and gunfire seemed to spur the Centipede Spirit to chase even faster. Manic shrieks echoed from behind him, growing closer and closer.

But not only did Fu Juemin not deactivate [Great Medicine], he instead pushed it to an even more intense level.

The fatal "fragrance" grew ever more potent, and the shrieking of the Centipede Spirit behind him became an almost unbroken line of sound!

The closer he got to the base's main gate, the sparser the bullets landing near him became.

When the last two guards manning machine guns, who had been frantically firing at his back, finally buckled under the immense psychological pressure, dropped their weapons in a mental collapse, and ran—

The smile on Fu Juemin's face bloomed to its widest.

He pushed off from the ground and leaped high into the air. His arms spread wide, and the invisible "fragrance" surged to an unprecedented peak. And then...

He plunged straight toward the base's main gate before him!

"BOOM!!!—"

The great tide of centipedes following Fu Juemin slammed violently into the base's main gate.

A blinding, surging ball of fire erupted.

The base's high walls, built of reinforced concrete, held for less than a breath before they were blasted apart!

The hundred-meter-long, terrifying centipede shadow crashed through the high wall, and the surging black tide of centipedes poured rapidly through the breach.

In that instant, the entire Jianghai Defense Command officially plunged into an ocean of despair and chaos!

Fu Juemin sprinted through the base, [Great Medicine] still active, leading the Centipede Spirit that was latched onto his trail on a tour around the base.

He was intimately familiar with the base's layout. Wherever he ran, gunfire, explosions, and screams would immediately erupt.

No one was paying attention to him anymore. Nearly everyone's gaze was drawn to the hundred-meter-long Centipede Spirit following him.

After Fu Juemin had "kited" the Centipede Spirit twice around the entire base, he deactivated [Great Medicine], switched to [Gui Cang], and came to a stop in an inconspicuous corner. By now, the base had completely transformed into a chaotic and brutal battlefield.

Countless people fled in panic amid the swarms of centipedes covering the ground, and countless gun barrels spat frantic flames. Explosions, screams, and shrieks intertwined, while fire, bullets, and blood splattered everywhere!

Having completely lost the target it had been chasing, now being raked by machine guns and artillery and stimulated by hot blood, the Centipede Spirit had fallen into a state of absolute mania and rage.

It was like a gigantic Grinding Disc of flesh and blood; wherever it went, it immediately unleashed a wave of bloody and brutal slaughter!

There was no longer any need for Fu Juemin to do anything. Its savagery thoroughly aroused by the vast amounts of flesh and blood, the Centipede Spirit wouldn't calm down anytime soon.

And the military, for its part, could not possibly allow such a terrifying Great Demon to rampage within its base.

Fu Juemin withdrew his gaze and turned to walk calmly in another direction.

The sky was now grim and overcast. The gathering dark clouds were like a massive black wok clamped tightly over the entire base.

The rain hadn't started to fall yet, but the low pressure that precedes a downpour was already making it hard to breathe.

Fu Juemin followed a familiar path deep into the base, encountering almost no resistance along the way.

He walked through the gates of the Commander's Mansion, and all the noise and chaos seemed to be shut out.

He walked forward along a thick, crimson carpet, passing through a wide corridor flanked by displays of ivory, chiming clocks, and Western porcelain... Finally, Fu Juemin came to a stop before a pair of heavy, gilded doors.

Just a door away, Fu Juemin could clearly perceive a vast, chaotic, and convoluted Demon Fiend aura inside the hall. It was like a murky flame, burning quietly, as if awaiting his arrival.

Standing before the doors, Fu Juemin slowly broke into a smile.

He gently twisted his neck, producing a crisp CRACK CRACK of bone.

Then—

He kicked out violently!

"BOOM!"

The beautiful gilded doors instantly shattered into pieces.

Through the suddenly billowing dust and smoke, Fu Juemin walked forward step by step, unhurriedly.

As he walked, he spoke softly, "Commander Luo, an old friend has come to visit... Aren't you going to wash your neck and come out to greet me?"

At the same time, directly opposite Fu Juemin, a massive shadow seated on a black marble throne slowly raised its head at the sound of his voice.