Chapter 22: Centipede Demon Appears on the Road; Ambushed and Counter-Captured [22]

The night is thick, and a half-moon hangs high.

Moonlight falls in abundance, permeating everything above and below.

Shining down upon the ground, it is as if a pool of shimmering water has been poured out among the pine rocks.

A dragon shadow, a foot in length, flies through the forest; with silver horns and golden scales, it passes through metal and stone without making a sound. As it bares its fangs and brandishes its claws, a sharp, baleful aura is faintly visible.

After maneuvering for a while, the dragon shadow lands in Fang Longye's hand; it is actually a small spear the length of a writing brush.

Fang Longye's thoughts stir, and the "writing brush" returns to a length of about a zhang, and he performs a spear flourish. It is none other than the Panlong Spear, which has already been refined to the perfection of a low-grade Dharma Treasure.

Feeling the sharpness and handiness of the Panlong Spear, he says happily: "It is fortunate that when I was forging the embryo, the quality of the various spirit materials added was excellent, and the material was sufficient to bear nine Heavenly Dipper Restrictions."

Unlike that Golden Scale Armor, which was handled perfunctorily before and used mediocre materials; after seventy-two Earthly Fiend Restrictions were condensed into one Heavenly Dipper Restriction, it lost all potential and could no longer bear a second Heavenly Dipper Restriction.

Currently, he is unable to cultivate fire-type divine abilities, nor does he have a furnace to melt spirit materials into liquid to infuse into the Golden Scale Armor to enhance its material.

In this way, the Golden Scale Armor can basically be declared retired.

Fortunately, he now has plenty of spirit materials, so he simply re-forged an inner armor, adding the scales he had shed previously. Now, it has also been refined to nine Heavenly Dipper Restrictions.

He retracts the Panlong Spear into his body to nourish it.

Feeling the Incense Vow Power swirling around his body, he says to himself: "It is time to return to the mountain."

By now, another year and a half or so has passed. Although there is still a long way to go before Ding Yun, the 'Heavenly Mandate Empress' he designated, can overthrow the Zhang Kingdom court, the Yuanlong Dao has already been developed into something respectable by his avatar.

Because of this, it has gathered a large amount of Incense Vow Power. It is just that he does not know how to handle it, nor does he dare to absorb it casually.

Therefore, he thought of Qingshe, his guide in cultivation.

"Hmm, I will rest well tonight and set off tomorrow." Fang Longye walks slowly into the stone chamber of the cave.

The next day.

Starting from Xiaocang Mountain, he rides the clouds and drives the wind, heading all the way toward the Ten Thousand Mountains.

On the cloud, Fang Longye is in a great mood. After going out for a trip, his cultivation has now entered the Ascension Realm, only one step away from being a Loose Immortal.

He also picked up a not-so-small bargain, obtaining a damaged Spirit Treasure, and his artifact-refining skills have greatly improved.

Even without exposing the set of Dharma Treasures he previously refined through the Small Heavenly Dipper Cloud Restriction Method, he is now covered in Dharma Treasures.

Even the Storage Bag, a Dharma Artifact with seventy-two Earthly Fiend Restrictions perfected that Qingshe gifted him before, has been refined by him into a Dharma Treasure. Now it can no longer be called a Storage Bag, but should be called a Qiankun Bag.

Because of this, on a whim, he simply changed his route back to the Qingshe Mansion.

Entering from the southeast and then traveling west, he enjoys the scenery along the way.

"Eh?" After entering the Ten Thousand Mountains and traveling less than three thousand li to the west, Fang Longye sees a great surge of metal energy in a dense forest stretching for hundreds of li beneath his cloud.

Having experience with this, he knows that there should be a gold and stone spirit mine below, and based on the richness of the metal energy, he could at least harvest a batch of spirit materials comparable to Millennium Cold Iron.

So he slowly lowers his cloud, following the spiritual energy sensed by his primordial spirit, and heads deep into the dense forest.

A moment later, he stands in the depths of a valley, holding a lump of spirit iron, and laughs: "Millennium Cold Iron ore, this counts as quite a harvest."

Then he shakes his head again, "It is a pity that there is no manpower to mine it. I can only collect the cold iron that has completely condensed in the mine; the remaining ore with too many impurities will have to wait until there is an opportunity to deal with it later."

He is using his primordial spirit to scan, constantly picking up cold iron of extremely high quality with few impurities.

Suddenly, his primordial spirit jumps violently, and a sense of crisis strikes his heart.

He sees a glimmer of golden light appear not far away, and in an instant, it is before his eyes, lunging directly at his chest.

"Clang—" Caught off guard, although Fang Longye dodges the heart position, he does not move away completely, and his viscera are struck by the blow.

Fortunately, he has Dharma Treasures protecting his body, so he is unharmed.

Under the collision of the two, the aftermath instantly destroys all the trees within a radius of ten li.

Fang Longye is startled, summons the Panlong Spear, holds the spear shaft, and waits in full battle array, staring at the golden light. He sees it glowing brightly, only an inch or so in size, completely unremarkable; half a breath later, it instantly grows larger, revealing itself to be a golden-armored centipede over ten zhang long—

"Size Manipulation?" Fang Longye exclaims.

The centipede shakes its body, transforms into a multi-armed monster, holds two Xuanhua Great Axes, and laughs wildly: "You have some knowledge; it is indeed this Great Divine Ability. Why don't you surrender quickly? I might just spare your life."

"Is that so? Hehe—"

Fang Longye raises his eyebrows; he is too lazy to engage in a war of words. Having regained his composure, he relies on the pile of Dharma Treasures protecting his body, does not bother with striking first, and stands still, waiting to see what other means the opponent has.

"You are courting death!" Seeing Fang Longye's attitude, the centipede demon immediately roars, opens its mouth, and spits out a dozen poison arrows that chill the air. Then its body grows larger, and it swings its two axes to hack forward; the axes contain sharp and overbearing Dharma power, capable of splitting a mountain top into pieces.

Seeing this, Fang Longye lightly avoids the cold poison arrows, his body folding like a willow leaf, drifting with the wind; in an instant, he arrives before the demon with his spear. He surges his Dharma power and stabs with his spear, meeting the sharp edge of the axes.

This strike causes the space to tremble, surging and magnificent.

Vast and brilliant, the sound is like a rolling thunder.

The surrounding Aura explodes completely, shooting out in all directions, as if it were substantial.

As soon as the centipede demon's twin axes touch the Panlong Spear, fine cracks like spider webs spread from the blades.

Then they shatter.

The Panlong Spear's offensive does not diminish, transforming into the image of a flood dragon, lowering its head and whiskers, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, charging forward in a grand manner, carrying supreme power, its sharpness fully revealed.

It heads toward the centipede demon, which has already been injured and sent flying by the impact.

Around the flood dragon, sounds like bells, drums, jade chimes, and so on, all play together, the momentum shaking the heavens.

This strike is powerful, heavy, rigid, and explosive.

As soon as it touches the centipede demon's body, it severely wounds it.

Seeing the situation is bad, the centipede demon hurriedly drives the 'Size Manipulation' divine ability, preparing to shrink its body and escape.

But Fang Longye, having anticipated its move, activates the 'Twelve Phases Yuan Chen Moon Wheel Method', and a moon wheel appears.

Twelve rays of light project, transforming into a continuous stream of phantom heavenly soldiers, constantly attacking its mind; the centipede demon instantly falls into a stupor.

Feeling its primordial spirit weakening rapidly, nearing extinction, Fang Longye, having guessed its identity, hurriedly retracts his attack and uses a high-grade Dharma Treasure, the Immortal-Binding Rope, to tightly bind the dying, unconscious demon in place.

In the blink of an eye, Fang Longye ends the battle.

"What a fool. If you had used Size Manipulation to shrink your body from the start, I really might not have been able to take you down so quickly. You insisted on making your body larger; isn't that just giving me a living target?"

If you don't have the diamond drill, don't take on the porcelain work. In Fang Longye's view, the centipede demon should have used the Size Manipulation divine ability to shrink, just like it did when it ambushed him earlier.

He was not a demon of the type that possessed boundless strength and a massive original form like himself, so he should develop in the direction of precision.

One must know that after using Size Manipulation to shrink one's body, while speed increases, the body's density also strengthens accordingly.

If he had not had a Dharma Treasure protecting his body earlier, his flesh would have been pierced through and he would have suffered heavy injuries; this is the marvelous use of the Size Manipulation divine ability in the direction of shrinking.

Within a radius of a hundred miles, everything was in shambles, a scene of misery destroyed by his fighting.

Fang Longye looked at the dying centipede monster and found himself in a dilemma.

Regarding this centipede monster, he roughly guessed that it should be the very same centipede from the Huluwa story of his past life.

In his view, if he could refine it into an avatar, it would be more helpful for the impending crisis; not to mention combat power, just going undercover under the Snake and Scorpion Demons was enough to tempt him.

Very well, in any case, the avatar Fang Xian had already managed Yuanlong Dao well enough, and for now, refining the centipede demon into an avatar was more important.

After making his choice, Fang Longye intended to activate the Pure Lotus Divine Ability to absorb everything from the avatar and let the Lotus Seed return as soon as possible.

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