Chapter 125 - Six-Winged Golden Centipede (1/2)

King Teng and the other Qi Practitioners remained standing at the same position, staring at the stairs leading towards the palace as their faces showed serious expressions.

One of the Qi Practitioners among them exhaled and said softly, "Thank god it was just an Awakening level seal, or the power would be even greater."

Blood dyed the stairs red and countless strange totem carvings appeared on the stairs. After a few moments, with the blood started to fade away, the totem carvings disappeared as well.

They remained standing for quite some time before King Teng suddenly moved a step forward, landing on the first step of the stairs where he remained without moving.

Then, vines appeared under his legs and they grew quickly, forming countless complicated totem carvings that stopped the operation of the totem carvings on the stairs, immobilizing them.

"King Teng is indeed powerful, he lives up to his title of the strongest among the younger generation's Qi Practitioners in Xian Kong City."

A goat headed Qi Practitioner suddenly said, "But then King Teng, I'm afraid that you might not be able to see through all the changes in the totem carvings hidden in these hundred and eight steps with your skills, right? Everyone in this world has their own strengths, we must pool our intelligent and work together if we want to get inside as soon as possible to obtain the monster god Ming King's heritage, what do you think?"

King Teng remained silent as he looked at the next step as cold sweat started dripping down his forehead. It was indeed just like what the goat-headed Qi Practitioner has said. He managed to see through the changes of the totem carvings on the first step but the changes in the second step were completely beyond his capabilities, making it difficult for him to decipher it.

At the same time, an indistinct melodic tune of the lute could be heard again while the sky started to drizzle again. The figures of Yu Xuanji and Hu Qimei could be seen in the rain, carrying an umbrella and a lute respectively. The two young experts walked towards them in the rain before stopping in front of the stairs before them.

"So difficult! These hundred and eight stairs are even more difficult than flying up the skies!"

Yu Xuanji looked very serious and his eyesight brushed through the other Qi Practitioners as he said, "Everyone, why don't we temporarily cooperate to solve these hundred and eight stairs and compete with each other for the heritage of monster god Ming King after entering into the palace?"

A few more strong-looking Qi Practitioners walked towards them and one of them said, "Only the stronger ones would be able to detect the changes of the totem carvings on the stairs. I say now is not the time we fight with each other, rather, we should work together to get past this obstacle first!"

King Teng who was standing on the first step of the stairs suddenly said, "Alright, we work together to get past these stairs, after which, we shall decide what to do with the heritage once we get into the palace!"

"Hmmm? Long Yue is not here yet?"

Hu Qimei looked around for Zhong Yue but to no avail and something struck her as she whispered, "He is incredibly strong, there's no reason for him to be defeated or killed on his way here so how could he not be here yet?"

"The Black Mountain's secret realm is incredibly dangerous. If one is not careful, even Awakening level Qi Practitioners would die in that forest back then, not to mention Rebirth level Qi Practitioners."

Something flashed across Yu Xuanji's eyes and he replied, "Brother Long might have ended up suffering a tragic fate if he is not here yet."

The Black Mountain's secret realm was way too dangerous for them, they only managed to get to this point by exercising extreme caution, avoiding the mysterious insect race and battles. They also saw some monsters who met their sad ending when they encountered the insect race. Thus, they were all cognizant of the horror of the insect race.

In such a dangerous place, even Awakening level Qi Practitioners might lose their lives, not to mention the fact that there is not a much of a gap between Zhong Yue and their own capabilities that were clearly inferior to that of Awakening level Qi Practitioners.

Somewhere in the darkness of the jungle, a golden ray was encircling around Zhong Yue, moving as fast as lightning while it kept on clashing with the Sword Qi dancing around Zhong Yue, each collision created bright sparks that intermittently lit up the darkness.

The golden ray tried to breach the perimeter of the [Fourth Sword Style] and it almost managed to make contact with Zhong Yue multiple times!

Although the [Fourth Sword Style] was incredibly strong and imperceptible, it was its first time going up against such a tenacious opponent. The main reason for this was that of the small body size of the insect race within the gold ray, which lent it the ability to escape from the [Fourth Sword Style]'s encirclement with relative ease.

The failure to trap this insect race meant that the full power of the [Fourth Sword Style] could not be unleashed!

No wonder the Sword Cocoons sword silks was listed as eighth among the Ten Malefic Weapons. Everything has their own fortes and weaknesses – the Sword Cocoons sword silks also have something that they wouldn't be able to contend against!

Dang——

A loud sound resounded out as the golden ray harshly clashed with the Black Tortoise Gold Spirit Shield in front of Zhong Yue, the impact inflicting considerable damage such that it caused cracks to crawl all over the shield like spider-webs. Unlike its tiny body size, the strength of this insect race was incredibly strong!

With its hundred legs, the centipede moved quickly in the air just like how the martial art grandmasters traveled in the air, with the addition of its three pairs of incredibly sharp cicada wings, its speed was incredibly fast. Other than that, under its tiny body was hidden a tremendous power that with each charge, it could inflict heavy impact that would cause a bout of dizziness onto Zhong Yue with each collision and threaten to shatter Zhong Yue's shield!

So it's this little thing! Monster God Ming King!

Zhong Yue's body moved and visualized the eight-handed Ming King. At that moment, with all of the Sword Qi in his eight hands, he swung them down continuously towards the golden ray in a high-frequency barrage.

Before the golden centipede could recover from its dizziness after knocking on the Black Tortoise Gold Spirit Shield, Zhong Yue's attack had already rained down on the centipede like an unstoppable hurricane! Zhong Yue aimed his attack at only one spot as he kept on swinging his Sword Qi onto the back of the centipede like a rapidly-rotating propeller, creating a chain of loud noises. As the raucous symphony subsided, what was left was a centipede that was sliced in half!

Such incredible defense!

Zhong Yue exclaimed in awe. If it were any other Qi Practitioner, no matter which race they were, be it the monsters, humans or the celestial race, they would have been sliced into pieces after being hit once, not to mention the high-frequency onslaught that Zhong Yue had released on the six-winged golden centipede. However, the insect race's defense was so strong that it took Zhong Yue so much effort just to kill it!