Chapter 1327: The New Poison Chief

The New Poison Chief

Chen Ling could not enter the Human Domains, but he could walk sideways in the Gray World.

With tens of thousands of Poisonous Insects in the Ghost Mockery Abyss, several super-strong Poison Chiefs, plus Chen Ling himself now possessing Rank 8 Combat Power, even looking at both the Gray World and Earth realms, Chen Ling was fully worthy of being called an "overlord" of an area. The once incredibly thorny Scarlet Heaven Cult strongholds, in his eyes, had also become perfect tonics waiting to be excavated.

While Chen Ling was thinking, the Primal Slaughter below intensified. Both centipedes seemed to have thrown away their lives, not caring in the slightest whether there was any possibility of rescue after being severely injured, but directly slaughtering each other regardless of the cost. At this moment, only one goal remained in their eyes:

Kill the opponent!!

The Centipede Poison Chief bit down on Wu Yi's head in one bite. Although Wu Yi was in severe pain, it did not shrink back. It actually forcefully withstood the risk of having its head bitten off and bit back inside the Centipede Poison Chief's mouth, right on the half-severed flesh of the Centipede Poison Chief that was about to fall off, causing the latter such pain that it rapidly loosened its mouth and retreated.

The Centipede Poison Chief's attacks were indeed ruthless, but it didn't expect this junior centipede's attacks to be even more ruthless. Others would damage the enemy by one thousand and themselves by eight hundred, but Wu Yi's fighting style was completely damaging the enemy by one thousand and itself by two thousand!

It wasn't fighting the Centipede Poison Chief, but comparing whose health bar was longer now and who could survive to the end.

"I'll sleep for a bit first. Wake me up later when they are about to decide the winner."

The Scorpion Poison Chief was startled, seemingly not expecting him to actually sleep just like that, and moreover, on its back... It was deeply aware of the principle that Accompanying a King Is Like Accompanying a Tiger, so for so many years, it had always smartly maintained a distance from the King that was neither too far nor too close, using its own shrewd and unique perspective to judge the development of things.

Including this time when the Centipede Poison Chief wanted to assassinate the King, it had also secretly pushed the waves. When the centipede couldn't find an opportunity to strike, it was the one who egged on the Toad to host the welcome banquet. It was different from the centipede; it didn't have any deep hatred towards the King. Doing this was merely wanting to borrow the centipede's hand to test what the King's "personality" was exactly like this time, in order to decide its "social distance" with the King afterwards.

But this scene right now, it had absolutely not expected.

This was the first time the King was so...

Close to it?

The King was really asleep, and sleeping very soundly. The Scorpion could even hear the faint snoring on its back.

One must know, right now the Scorpion's life-taking tail stinger was just swaying suspended in the air like this. As long as the Scorpion wanted to, it could instantly tear Chen Ling's body apart with this stinger... Unlike the difficult slaughter of the centipede, the Scorpion could feel that if it struck now, it really had a high probability of directly killing the King!

A moment of struggle flashed in its eyes, but it still didn't choose to act.

On one hand, it still feared the King from the bottom of its heart;

On the other hand... it felt that the King this time was somewhat different.

Perhaps, this time it could also try to pull the "social distance" a bit closer... Of course, the premise was that this personality of the King could persist a bit longer.

Time passed minute by minute. Finally, the slaughter below approached its end.

The Scorpion used its tail stinger to gently pat Chen Ling's shoulder.

[King, it's time for you to wake up.]

Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes and sat up from the Scorpion's back... His deep eyes lightly swept a glance at the Scorpion beneath him, then cast his gaze directly at the battlefield.

Both centipedes had now bitten each other beyond recognition. Just now, the Centipede Poison Chief only had half its body torn and half its head bitten off by Chen Ling, but now its body had broken into seven or eight segments, and its head was also mostly shattered, looking incredibly miserable.

Meanwhile, Wu Yi, who similarly only had half a head left, was crazily drilling into the severed wound of the Centipede Poison Chief's head like an earthworm, as if wanting to directly drill into its head and eat its brain.

The Centipede Poison Chief's vitality was almost exhausted, fundamentally unable to stop Wu Yi's gnawing. As Wu Yi drilled its own half head into the Poison Chief's head, in just a few short seconds, the Centipede Poison Chief's life force completely extinguished. After unwillingly casting a final glance in Chen Ling's direction, its dilapidated body completely collapsed on the ground like mud.

After using up its final strength and finishing gnawing the Centipede Poison Chief's brain, Wu Yi stumbled and dragged its remnant body to crawl out of the Centipede Poison Chief's corpse, prostrating in front of Chen Ling.

It succeeded.

It did not disgrace its mission.

To be honest, even Chen Ling didn't expect that Wu Yi could actually really defeat the Centipede Poison Chief. Therefore, when he saw Wu Yi crawl over with his own eyes, he was somewhat surprised in his heart, and also somewhat gratified... Although the time he had spent with Wu Yi wasn't long, Wu Yi's degree of loyalty was extremely high and had also successfully won his favorable impression. Now that Wu Yi had become the new Centipede Poison Chief, he was naturally quite satisfied.

"Although you defeated the original Poison Chief, you can't relax your vigilance either." Chen Ling spoke calmly,

"Next, perhaps there will be quite a few Rank 7 Poisonous Insects launching challenges against you... Only when you fight your way out of their siege can you truly be considered to have firmly seated yourself in this position."

Wu Yi already knew everything. It slowly crawled up, its incomplete body forcefully stimulating a high-spirited will to fight, staring dead at the surrounding Poisonous Insects with various gazes.

Killing the Centipede Poison Chief was just the beginning. Next would be countless extremely arduous and tragic slaughters.

This was the required path for every generation of Poison Chiefs.

Chen Ling didn't pay any more attention to it, but rather landed his gaze on the Centipede Poison Chief's corpse in the distance...

The other Poisonous Insects were all immersed in the shock of Wu Yi killing the Centipede Poison Chief, but Chen Ling was different... In his field of vision, an illusory soul with the outline of a centipede was slowly floating up from the Centipede Poison Chief's corpse.

This was the new ability brought to him by [Self-Reconstruction of Biomagnetic Fields and Consciousness Frequencies], able to see the souls of living beings.

The Centipede Poison Chief's soul rose into the sky bit by bit. It seemed to still retain its final sliver of consciousness, looking down at Wu Yi prostrating in front of Chen Ling below, and those incredibly surprised Poisonous Insects... In its gaze, there was pain, unwillingness, and also deep helplessness.

But suddenly, its gaze met Chen Ling's, and it froze directly on the spot.

What is the King trying to do??!

While the centipede soul was in a daze, Chen Ling was rubbing his chin with one hand, as if pondering something...

A moment later, he tentatively raised his hand and beckoned towards the centipede soul floating in the sky from afar.

In the next second, the centipede soul actually flew straight towards Chen Ling!

"...So that's how it is."

Chen Ling muttered to himself.

Chen Ling looked down at his own hands, a glint of sharp light flashing in his eyes:

"A new Rank 6 ability... interesting."