Chapter 189: Internal Detonation! The Most Difficult Battle!

Chen Mo widened the distance and glanced at the newly appeared Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede, noting that its extraordinary rank was only low‑grade legendary, yet all its attribute numbers were absurdly high, with the peak combat power reaching an astonishing 6 million!

【Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede (sexless)】

【Rank: Low‑grade Legendary】

【Constitution: 5.12w】

【Agility: 5.82w】

【Strength: 5.95w】

【Spirit: 5.24w】

【Abilities: Void Hunt, Poison Realm Descent, Death Bite, Poison Mist, Blood‑Poison Corrosion, Ultra‑speed Poison, Heavenly Dragon Bite, Heavenly Dragon Soul Snatch.】

【Combat Power: 583w~644w】

Even more terrifying— the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede's peak combat power continues to surge at a staggering rate.

It seems its power is gradually reviving!

It quickly reached 7 million! Chen Mo did not hesitate; he immediately sprinted toward the exit, burst out of the crimson waterfall, and without looking back ran toward the secret realm entrance.

This Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede is downright perverse, even stronger than the three‑eyed poison scorpion; as a former deity, it likely possesses some powerful unknown abilities.

I am certainly no match now! Yet what he did not expect—

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede unexpectedly followed, also burst out of the waterfall, and raced straight after him.

Moreover, its speed surpassed his! After awakening from the corpse of the Yellow Spring Fruit Tree, the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede had shed regional limits and could move to any area.

"Too late!"

Chen Mo felt a weight in his heart; he had not expected such a turn of events.

Now the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede has completed its revival and, at a staggering speed, has caught up, making escape impossible.

But if he fights to the death, there may still be a chance!

"You, quite impressive! I didn't expect that after all these years, the outside world would produce a being that, with a calamity‑born body, can surpass the legendary realm."

At that moment, an ancient, mysterious and imposing voice resonated in Chen Mo's mind.

Obviously, it was the voice of the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede.

"As for you, you must be the clan once attached to Ice Phoenix, right?"

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede then spoke to the avatar of the Sky‑Curtain Ice Spider:

"I can smell Ice Phoenix on you; I didn't expect that under my world‑ending poison, there were still some that slipped through."

"If you were given more time to develop, perhaps you would truly become mythic beings."

"Unfortunately, I am awake now."

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede did not rush to attack.

On one hand, it had absolute confidence in itself; on the other, after ten thousand years of slumber, it couldn't help but speak more.

Chen Mo mobilized the spirit energy within his body, and simultaneously pulled various spirit herbs and divine pills from his pack, stuffing them wildly into his mouth.

Among them were disaster‑divine pills, many of which he had obtained earlier in this Yellow Spring Forest.

Some enhance basic attributes such as speed and strength, while others boost recovery and spirit‑energy regeneration.

Take the pills before battle, stack the buffs to the max!

"Then let me see how long you can hold out."

A scarlet flash flickered in the centipede's compound eyes, and immediately a rumbling roar erupted from the distant Blood Sea Lake and Poison Insect Valley.

The water on Blood Sea Lake boiled, then surged upward, forming centipedes over a hundred meters long of blood‑colored water. These blood centipedes were vivid and bore little difference from the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede.

Once formed, these blood centipedes rushed toward Chen Mo at more than ten times the speed of sound.

Meanwhile, the red mist of Poison Insect Valley coalesced into a massive head that blocked the sky, also lunging at Chen Mo.

Both Blood Sea Lake and Poison Insect Valley were once parts of its body, so the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede could naturally control them!

Thousands of hundred‑meter blood centipedes howled from all directions toward Chen Mo, like ten thousand dragons returning to their nest, a spectacular sight!

"Zhi Ge!"

At the critical moment, Chen Mo unleashed his domain.

Zhi Ge, which has always been able to erase all attacks, this time did not completely eliminate all the blood centipedes!

The sheer number of blood centipedes, each bearing immense energy, exceeded Zhi Ge's limit!

Nevertheless, after Zhi Ge's domain weakened them, the blood centipedes became exceedingly ethereal.

Combined with Chen Mo's almost perverse defensive ability, they were safely blocked.

Yet this was only the first wave of the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede's attack.

The second wave, the massive centipede head formed from red mist, arrived in quick succession.

The blood‑mist head opened its crimson chaotic maw, aiming to swallow Chen Mo whole into the void.

"Zhen Xie!"

Chen Mo immediately unleashed his Zhen Xie domain at full power; with the double domains overlapping, the blood‑mist head shattered into red mist the instant it bit.

And the price Chen Mo paid was—

His internal spirit energy was nearly depleted! Though the 【Zhen Xie】 and 【Zhi Ge】 domains are useful, they are extremely mana‑draining, and the stronger the attack, the more spirit energy they consume.

"Is this evil god's casual strike really that terrifying?"

Chen Mo immediately lay on the ground, rapidly restoring spirit energy through the title 【Lying Lion+】.

After upgrading, 【Lying Lion+】's recovery speed became extraordinarily rapid.

This gave Chen Mo the resources for sustained combat! "Interesting, it actually held up."

Seeing the Suanni block his first attack, the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede's scarlet eyes showed an unexpected expression, and the sigils on its wings glittered.

And in the next second, its figure vanished in an instant.

But a sense of unprecedented danger rose in Chen Mo's heart.

Chen Mo instinctively sidestepped, yet it was still a bit too slow.

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede suddenly emerged from the void and snapped a bite toward its neck.

Because Chen Mo sidestepped, the bite struck his shoulder, and golden blood spurted out instantly.

This move looks like the Jade King Snake's 【Viper Spirit Flash】, but its principle differs vastly.

The Jade King Snake's 【Viper Spirit Flash】 essentially bursts forth at unimaginable speed in an instant, achieving a flash effect with a certain distance limit.

However, the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede truly traverses spatial distance, attacking the enemy directly.

【Void Bite】

As a mythic creature, it rarely possesses only a single power.

And the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede also wields the power of space.

A totem‑grade spell, this technique is seldom used by the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede; in the divine war its effect was negligible, and now, in this body, overly powerful spells or forbidden abilities cannot be released.

Nevertheless, it had a very good effect on Chen Mo.

Chen Mo immediately swiped his claws in retaliation, and nine venomous flying swords around him rang with a metallic clang, slashing toward the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede. The swords struck its carapace, spraying a cascade of sparks, finally breaching the armor and leaving a thin scar.

Chen Mo then released 【Cease Weapon】, forcibly dispersing the spiritual protection layer on the carapace.

At last, the flying sword pierced straight through.

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede's body is only low‑level Legendary Realm, not utterly invincible! Yet the next second, the shredded flesh bizarrely writhed and visibly regenerated.

【Flesh Reconstitution】

It is a passive ability the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede possesses; when its body suffers severe injury, its flesh reassembles at an unimaginable speed.

On the other side, after launching his attack, Chen Mo immediately created distance.

At the same time, the wound previously slashed by the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede began to heal rapidly.

The effect of 【Lying-Flat Lion+】 also granted Chen Mo extraordinary regenerative ability, and combined with the various divine pills he previously took to boost recovery, he can now achieve limb‑regeneration level healing.

A flash of confusion flickered in the crimson eyes of the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede.

He wasn't surprised that the mythical lion before him had injured him; rather, he was shocked that the mythical lion showed no signs of poisoning!

One must know that the most lethal aspect of its 【Void Bite】 is not the bite force itself, but the toxin carried in its fangs.

Even a Legendary Realm being bitten by it would melt into a pool of blood within seconds.

Yet the mythical lion before him was still hopping lively.

Being immune even to its own toxin was a bit absurd.

But the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede was not angry, rather delighted; the more extraordinary the potential of this mythical lion, the more excited it became.

On its eight pairs of flesh wings behind, red sigils burst forth with a flamboyant scarlet glow.

Then the silhouette of the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede vanished again.

Boom! Accompanied by the sound of metal striking stone, the Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede's claw slashed Chen Mo's body again, this time across his back!

Golden blood spurted out again.

The Heavenly Dragon Poison Centipede was too fast! It has mastered the power of Extreme‑Speed Poison; the ghost‑faced fish in Blood Sea Lake consumed the centipede's extreme‑speed blood, thus gaining unimaginable speed.

And the speed emitted by the centipede's true form was extraordinarily swift.

Combined with 【Void Bite】, Chen Mo could barely parry.

Its attack trajectory was uncapturable, unpredictable, unbeatable! Even releasing Absolute Zero could only stall the centipede's silhouette for less than 0.5 seconds, and it consumed massive spiritual energy.

Although Chen Mo could immunize against the toxin the centipede carries.

Nevertheless, both sides had a huge gap in speed and strength.

"Completely suppressed."

In this high‑intensity battle, Chen Mo's mind was intensely focused, sinking into extreme calm.

He did not contemplate the consequences of defeat, nor think of anything beyond the fight.

Instead, he devoted his whole being to the battle.

While constantly dodging, he also searched for the centipede's weakness and probed its attack patterns.

The gap between them had not reached a point of being completely unmanageable.

There was still a chance!

Five minutes later, Chen Mo's body was covered in scale‑like wounds; it must be said, this was undoubtedly the toughest battle he had fought since his rebirth.

Every aspect was being crushed.

The centipede's massive jaws lunged again; upon realizing its toxin had no effect on the mythical lion, it decisively abandoned its prized deadly poison and continuously used 【Void Bite】, purely employing its physical strength to scar Chen Mo.

Because the attacks were too dense and swift, the mythical lion's recovery speed could not keep up with the injury rate.

If the fight continued, this mythical lion before him would eventually be defeated by it.

However this time, the moment it emerged from the void, its entire blood suddenly stalled, as if solidified.

Although it lasted less than a second, it disrupted its attack rhythm.

Chen Mo, at the cost of severe injury, finally succeeded in predicting the position the centipede would appear after using Void Bite, then used a pre‑released Frost Condense to restrain it for half a second.

Relying on that fleeting half‑second, Chen Mo charged straight into the centipede's massive maw.

Because he possessed 【Deadly Poison Lion】, Chen Mo could immunize against the centipede's internal toxin; what is perilous to any other creature became an excellent opportunity for him.

Immediately after, Chen Mo enacted the tactic he had rehearsed dozens of times in his mind, simultaneously releasing the dual domains 【Demon Suppression】 and 【Cease Weapon】, again restraining the centipede for two seconds.

"Give me death!"

Chen Mo let out a roar from within, then, disregarding everything, mobilized all his ice‑type spiritual energy and unleashed 【Ice Explosion】.

This is an inheritance spell he mastered after advancing to the Heavenly Disaster Advanced stage.

A Legendary‑level spell.

Only saw, amidst the suanni's white fur stained with golden blood, streaks of spirit patterns emitting a lustrous blue light appear.

A dazzling blue light also burst forth from the tip of his horn.

The next second.

A deafening boom rang from the belly of the heavenly dragon poison centipede; the incomparably violent ice-origin energy was compressed to the limit and then exploded in an instant.

Like the deafening blast of hundreds of nuclear bombs detonating at once, the ice explosion's blizzard of snow and ice crystals swept outward in all directions.

In under five seconds, it froze every living and non-living thing within a radius of dozens of kilometers, then the immense shockwave pulverized everything into ice dust.

Naturally, this included the heavenly dragon poison centipede.

Because it lay at the epicenter of the ice explosion, it bore the full brunt of the blast.

The heavenly dragon poison centipede's body was blown apart into pieces, flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Internal detonation!

This is Chen Mo's plan.

Compared to its hard shell, the internal flesh and organs are likely the heavenly dragon poison centipede's weaker point.

Of course, the power of the ice explosion also inflicted massive damage on Chen Mo.

At this moment, his whole body was a bloody mess, golden blood soaking every strand of fur, making his lion shape almost unrecognizable.

Even though, on the eve of the ice explosion, he had transformed himself into an undead form according to plan, he still suffered a tremendous impact.

But the battle wasn't over; Chen Mo had no time to tend to his wounds, instead using a wisp of energy just recovered by the 【Lying Flat Lion】 to drive his body with will, chasing after the heavenly dragon poison centipede's completely shattered skull.

The heavenly dragon poison centipede wasn't dead! Though its aura had become extremely weak, it was still alive.

Then the flesh and blood blasted into ice dust began to strangely coalesce into piles of minced meat, seeking to reassemble again! 【Flesh Reassembly】

However, before the heavenly dragon poison centipede could fully recover, Chen Mo's attacks came one after another.

The undead claw swept down, and undead fire spread through these minced meats, thoroughly crushing the heavenly dragon poison centipede's attempt to reassemble and revive.

(End of chapter)