Chapter 1351: Breaking the Cocoon

Breaking the Cocoon

Not knowing whether it was because the lamps were lit or because Sun Bumian was suppressing the Great Inauspiciousness Aura of the Underground Palace, Jian Changsheng slept pretty well this night.

He lazily sat up from the bed, yawned, and turned to look at the bed beside him, only to find it empty... Jiang Xiaohua, who should have been lying on it originally, had already disappeared.

"... Where did he go?"

Jian Changsheng suspiciously turned his head to look at the other side, seeing Sun Bumian still maintaining a cross-legged posture sitting on the bed. His eyes were covered in bloodshot streaks, and his face was written with exhaustion.

"Diamonds, why is your complexion so bad? Did you not sleep all night??" Jian Changsheng frowned and asked.

"... No, I slept for a while, it's just that I'm not used to sleeping here."

Sun Bumian waved his hand.

"Oh... where's Clubs?"

Jian Changsheng: ...

Jian Changsheng stretched his back, "Alright, I'll go out for a stroll."

After staying in this Underground Palace for a long time, it was truly a bit boring. Jian Changsheng also didn't want to eat a "Poisonous Insect breakfast", so he simply got up directly, planning to walk around in the Ghost Mockery Abyss. Anyway, they were currently Chen Ling's guests, and these Calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss wouldn't dare to make a move on them either.

When he came last time, these Calamities didn't make him suffer less. This time, he had to properly show off his prestige.

"You go first, I'll go to the restroom in a bit." Sun Bumian yawned.

After Jian Changsheng left, Sun Bumian got up and prepared to put on his shoes.

But the moment his figure stood on the ground, his feet stumbled, and he almost planted his head directly into the ground.

Fortunately, Sun Bumian was extremely agile and supported himself on the edge of the bed. His brows were tightly furrowed, and while rubbing his aching temples, he muttered to himself:

"This guy Hearts... what exactly happened to him? How could the ferocious Aura be terrifying to this extent... It's already approaching a true World-Ending Calamity."

"My Rank is still not high enough... I have to think of a way to promote as soon as possible, otherwise..."

Sun Bumian leaned against the edge of the bed, resting for a long while before recovering, and slowly moved towards the outside.

...

"Clubs~"

"Clubs~~"

Jian Changsheng walked on the soil of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, like an old uncle out for a stroll, calling out leisurely as he walked.

Along the way, the Poisonous Insects that were still sleeping were woken up by Jian Changsheng's voice. They raised their heads from their holes with bewildered looks to look outside. After discovering it was the Great King's guest, even though they had some resentment, they could only silently hold it in, retract back into their respective holes, and continue sleeping.

Seeing that no one in the entire Ghost Mockery Abyss dared to provoke him, Jian Changsheng's back couldn't help but straighten even more. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a patch of obviously fresh soil on the ground to the side, and his eyes lit up slightly.

"Clubs, time to wake up!"

Jian Changsheng walked onto that patch of fresh soil and stomped forcefully, but there was no reaction from below.

Jiang Xiaohua's sleep had always been very deep, and he had absolutely no concept of time. If no one took the initiative to wake him up, he could sleep in the dirt for a whole week...

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng directly dug open the soil below with a single motion, reaching in to drag him out:

"Stop sleeping, Clubs. The four of us can just make up a mahjong table."

However, in the next second, a startled venomous snake suddenly poked its head out from underground, biting fiercely at the hand Jian Changsheng reached out!

"Ouch!"

Jian Changsheng also didn't expect that what was below wasn't Jiang Xiaohua, but a venomous snake. Although he retracted his hand extremely fast, a line of blood was still shallowly scratched by the venomous fangs...

Less than ten seconds after Jian Changsheng exclaimed, a figure in red flashed out from within the Underground Palace.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing the bloody scratch on Jian Changsheng's hand, Chen Ling frowned, and his sharp gaze directly looked at the venomous snake underground.

The venomous snake seemed to have finally reacted, prostrating directly on the ground in fear, its whole body starting to tremble... At the same time, its abdomen bulged slightly, as if something was about to come out.

"Ah? It's nothing, it's nothing... I just got a small cut. I originally wanted to dig out Clubs, I didn't expect it to be down there. I accidentally offended it." Jian Changsheng waved his hands repeatedly.

After learning the reason for the matter, Chen Ling glanced at the venomous snake's stomach and sighed lightly:

"Your luck isn't very good. This venomous snake is giving birth, which is when it's most aggressive... You just happened to dig it up, so it became stressed."

Fortunately, for Jian Changsheng, this small cut couldn't be considered an injury at all. Coupled with his own certain resistance to toxins, it should be able to self-heal in a while.

Jian Changsheng smiled embarrassedly at the venomous snake, as if apologizing to it.

At the same time, about ten-odd meters away from Jian Changsheng, the soil layer arched slightly, and a white-haired head poked out from below with a blank expression...

"Hearts, Spades?"

"Hmm? You actually woke up yourself? I was just planning to come wake you up."

"Oh... the dirt here is cold, so it wasn't very comfortable sleeping, so I woke up very early."

Jiang Xiaohua said while climbing out from the ground.

"Where's Diamonds?"

"He should still be in the restroom."

Chen Ling nodded slightly, didn't say anything more, and walked straight towards a certain place in the Ghost Mockery Abyss.

Jian Changsheng asked in confusion:

"Where are you going?"

"Calculating the time, it should be about ready... I'm going to pick up a 'person'."

"Pick up a person? Who else is in this Ghost Mockery Abyss besides us?"

Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua were already idle with nothing to do anyway, so they directly followed behind Chen Ling.

As Chen Ling advanced, centipedes suddenly crawled out from the surrounding cliffs and land one after another. As if sensing something, they swarmed and approached in the same direction...

Seeing this bizarre scene, the confusion in Jian Changsheng's heart grew stronger.

Only after Chen Ling stopped did Jian Changsheng see that on the open ground not far away, a massive black object resembling a giant cocoon was standing there alone. Beneath it was an already rotted giant centipede corpse, looking incredibly hideous.

Thump—— thump—— thump...

Muffled sounds continuously echoed from inside the giant cocoon. At the same time, the giant cocoon itself was also gently shaking, as if something was about to break out!

"What a terrifying Aura!" Jian Changsheng keenly sensed the Oppressive Aura of the Calamity transmitting from within the giant cocoon, his expression changing slightly.

That Oppressive Aura was actually not inferior to the Rank 8 toad they had fought when they first came in!

Just how many powerful Calamities were there in the Ghost Mockery Abyss?

Besides them, almost all the centipedes in the entire Ghost Mockery Abyss had converged here. They surrounded the land around it, as if respectfully awaiting something.

Chen Ling's gaze stared fixedly at the shaking giant cocoon. As the frequency of the muffled sounds continuously increased, the shaking of the giant cocoon also became more intense. When a loud noise resembling thunder burst open the abyss, the giant cocoon explosively burst apart from the center!

Boom——!!

A hundreds of meters tall black-and-red centipede broke out of the cocoon!