Chapter 1323: The Drunkard

The Drunkard

From the moment the Centipede Poison Chief crawled out of the cave, countless gazes landed on its body.

For these seven days, the matter of the Centipede Poison Chief wanting to challenge the King had already spread throughout the entire Ghost Mockery Abyss. All the Calamities' first reaction was shock, then came doubt... They all thought the Centipede had gone mad.

Under the gaze of pairs of eyes in the darkness, the Centipede Poison Chief crawled straight in a certain direction. It could feel that within those gazes, there was confusion, pity, helplessness, and ridicule...

It had never felt this stretch of road to be so long.

After an unknown amount of time,

A spacious clearing finally appeared before its eyes.

At this time, on the clearing, a centipede emitting a crimson light was leading a group of small centipedes, forming a circle there, as if guarding something. Numerous Poisonous Insects surrounded the clearing, whispering among themselves as they watched this scene, occasionally casting their gazes toward the very center of their circle...

A figure draped in a Great Crimson Theatrical Robe was lying motionless there like mud, as if dead.

The King?

What happened to the King??

Following the Centipede Poison Chief's arrival, almost all the Calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss converged here. Densely packed pupils stared at this clearing, and whispers rose and fell.

Seeing the Poison Chief arrive, Wu Yi proactively stepped in front of Chen Ling's body and spoke respectfully:

[The King drank eight jars of Five Poison Wine yesterday and hasn't woken up yet.]

The Centipede Poison Chief looked at Chen Ling, its expression somewhat colorful.

Eight jars of Five Poison Wine?

Going down with this amount, even the Five Great Poison Chiefs would have to be unconscious for several days... Chen Ling knew clearly he was going to fight it today, yet he actually drank so much in one breath yesterday...

Did he really not put it in his eyes that much???

The Centipede Poison Chief let out a few hisses toward Chen Ling, as if wanting to shout him awake. But no matter how loudly the Centipede called, that Great Crimson Theatrical Robe remained like a dead person, without any reaction.

[Lord Poison Chief, the King cannot fight with you now. Let the challenge between you two be delayed until next time...]

Wu Yi spoke again.

Still delay?

The Centipede Poison Chief's gaze froze. After struggling for a moment, a ruthless glint still surfaced in its pupils.

[It was the King himself who arranged today with me. The time has arrived now, you say next time and it'll be next time?]

[Even if it has to be delayed, the King himself has to tell me personally!]

[What kind of thing are you?!]

The Centipede Poison Chief absolutely did not want to delay. Firstly, it truly didn't want to continue being enveloped by the shadow of fear. It had already decided to end everything today, so it had to do it. Secondly, right now the King was dead drunk, which was a great opportunity for it to strike!

If the original Centipede Poison Chief felt its chances of winning were less than thirty percent, now that Chen Ling was dead drunk, its chances of winning were undoubtedly vastly improved!

Adding on that the King personally arranged the time with it, even if it struck now, it couldn't be called taking advantage of someone's precarious position; it could only be said that the King underestimated his enemy too much.

The Centipede Poison Chief's Rank 8 Aura pressed over oppressively, and Wu Yi's heart sank.

But facing its own ancestor's angry shout, it didn't retreat, but rather released all of its own Aura to contend with it!

Boom——!!

A hurricane swept across the Ghost Mockery Abyss.

Wu Yi itself was only Rank 7. Although it could fight a Rank 8, it was only barely. Moreover, what it faced was not an ordinary human Rank 8, nor was it the kind of "fraudulent" Rank 8 of other Calamity territories. What was before its eyes was a Poison Chief who had slaughtered an unknown number of Rank 8s, stepping over the corpses of its own kind step by step to reach today!

If Rank 8s were to be ranked high and low, then the Five Great Poison Chiefs of the Ghost Mockery Abyss were definitely the top of the top. Placed in any other Calamity territory, they were existences capable of sweeping across the entire field.

Under the suppression of the Centipede Poison Chief's Aura, Wu Yi felt incredibly strained. It could only barely maintain itself from being toppled, but those small centipedes of the centipede army behind it were all knocked unconscious on the spot one by one...

[A little thing from who knows where, snatching a little benefit from under the King's hands, is fit to challenge me?]

The Centipede Poison Chief didn't conceal its Killing Intent at all, revealing its ferocious teeth toward Wu Yi.

Right at this moment, a massive toad descended from the sky!

Thump——!!

The violent tremor accompanied by a strong wind directly swept across the entire field, shattering the Centipede Poison Chief's Aura into pieces.

It saw the Toad Poison Chief glaring at the Centipede Poison Chief, its chin violently bulging...

And then it let out an earth-shattering "Ribbit"!

[Centipede, you want to take advantage of his precarious position?!]

[How could this be me taking advantage of his precarious position! It was the time the King himself arranged with me! Now I am here, and as a result, he drank himself drunk! He is just running away from me!!]

The Centipede Poison Chief angrily retorted.

Closely following, the ground between the Centipede and the Toad suddenly bulged, and a scorpion crawled out from within.

[Scorpion! You come and judge! Is the Centipede sneak attacking or not?!] The Toad questioned the Scorpion.

The Scorpion hesitated for a moment,

[Strictly speaking, this was agreed upon in advance by the Centipede, and the King himself also knows... Therefore, it doesn't count as a sneak attack...]

[You...]

Before the Toad could say anything else, a cold glint had already flashed across the Centipede's pupils!

Taking advantage of the moment the Toad was distracted arguing, it flicked its body, directly transforming into a black ray of light, passing through Wu Yi and the crowd of unconscious small centipedes. Its ferocious mouthparts flashed with a cold light as it bit toward Chen Ling's dead drunk body.

The Centipede's strike was truly too sudden. None of the Poisonous Insects present could react. The ordinary Calamities seeing this scene all let out bursts of shocked hisses!

[Today, I will kill you, this tyrant, and revive the Ghost Mockery Abyss!!]

The Centipede Poison Chief's angry roar directly overwhelmed all the sounds of the Poisonous Insects, echoing within the dark abyss.

However,

Just as its sharp mouthparts were about to pierce through Chen Ling's body,

That body, which was originally a puddle of mud, actually raised its hand like lightning, tightly grabbing the Centipede Poison Chief's mouthparts. No matter how much force the latter exerted, it was difficult to advance even a fraction!

At this moment, the Centipede Poison Chief was stunned... The exclamations of the other Calamities also abruptly stopped.

On the clearing, the figure in the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe stumbled up from the ground, like a lazy drunkard recovering a sliver of clarity from a hangover. He shook his head, murmuring muddleheadedly:

"Wu Yi..."

"I can still drink... I'm not drunk..."

"Bring... more wine!!"

Wu Yi: ???

The Centipede Poison Chief looked at Chen Ling in front of it, who couldn't even stand steadily, and that pair of hands steadily gripping its mouthparts. Its brain went blank for a moment...

Is the King exactly drunk or not??

"Why..."

"I clearly didn't do anything... Why... does everyone have to slander me?!!!"

Chen Ling, who hadn't even opened his eyes, suddenly roared hysterically. His expression instantly became painful and ferocious. His five fingers gripping the Centipede Poison Chief suddenly clenched tight, the terrifying power actually gouging out several cracks on it!!

In the next moment, that Great Crimson Theatrical Robe of Chen Ling's actually began to visibly dye black!

A brutal and furious Aura poured out from his body!!