Chapter 1230: Centipede Legion

After the earthquake ended and everything in the laboratory returned to silence, Teacher Ye slowly put down the liquid in his hand.

He took off his lab coat, put on his teacher's shirt, wrote a few lines on the day's experimental results, and then walked along the stairs toward the first level of the Mother Tree...

"Teacher Ye, there was an earthquake outside!"

Outside the laboratory, several very young students were waiting anxiously. Seeing Teacher Ye come out, they immediately described everything that had just happened with vivid gestures.

Earthquakes were rare in the Gray Realm, and Teacher Ye understood the children's unease. He gently patted their heads and said gently:

"Don't be afraid, the Mother Tree is very safe."

As soon as he said this, the tension on the children's faces dissipated for the most part. After some comfort from Teacher Ye, they completely let go of their worries and skipped away into the distance.

Teacher Ye asked as he walked out: "Has Zhao Yi returned?"

"Not yet. The Holy Son, Old Wolf, and the others haven't returned either."

"How many days have they been gone?"

"It must have been half a month..."

Teacher Ye's brow furrowed imperceptibly, but he soon began to laugh and play with the children again.

As his figure gradually walked up the stairs, a bright red opera robe beneath the gray sky outside the tree hole caught his attention.

……

Chen Ling walked out of the Mother Tree's gate and headed straight toward the gray earth in the distance.

This was outside the canopy of the Mother Tree. The originally hard ground now had a large number of holes—looking around, there were hundreds of them. The smallest were over ten meters wide, while the largest were as thick as a building, bottomless, as if leading directly to the underworld.

If anyone were to jump down these holes, they would find that a vast underground kingdom had been dug out beneath this area.

The bright red opera robe moved along the edges of these holes.

When he reached the largest hole, he lifted his foot slightly and stomped on the earth!

"Come out."

One second, two seconds...

*Boom—!!*

The next moment, a massive, crimson centipede crawled out of the hole. Its glossy carapace emitted a deadly cold light, and each of its legs looked like a pitch-black blade. It towered over the hole like a magnificent red mountain...

And around it, more and more centipedes crawled out of the holes, their bodies slightly smaller than the massive one, but still a hundred meters tall. In addition, there were a large number of small centipedes, like the children they had birthed, wagging their bodies at Chen Ling's back like puppies, filled with joy. The earth, which had been silent and riddled with holes, turned into a forest of centipedes in the blink of an eye.

In half a year, the strength of these centipedes, which had shared the Red Star's power from Chen Ling, had advanced by leaps and bounds. Especially the largest super-centipede; Chen Ling estimated its combat power was already at the peak of the Seventh Rank. If they really fought, it could even contend with the Eighth Rank by virtue of its advantage as a disaster...

There were also many Sixth-Rank centipedes, and behind their tails followed a bunch of small, red-glowing centipedes that would grow into high-rank combat power in time.

If the centipede army Chen Ling had casually assembled half a year ago was just a prototype, then what was before him now could truly be called a "legion"!

Who would have thought that an actor whose own strength was still at the peak of the Fifth Rank could cultivate a terrifying disaster legion in the Gray Realm?

"Wu One, did you sense the source of the earthquake just now?" Chen Ling looked at the massive centipede and said calmly.

Wu One was the name Chen Ling had given this large centipede. Chen Ling had never kept pets before and didn't know how to name these non-human species. Besides, with so many centipedes in the legion, naming them one by one would probably exhaust him... So he simply took the "Wu" from centipede and added a number to address them.

Wu One coiled its body, its sharp mouthparts opening and closing, as if telling him something.

After listening, Chen Ling's brow furrowed even tighter.

Just as he had guessed, the earthquake just now wasn't a natural phenomenon, but mountains shifting between the crusts under some kind of force. Without a doubt, this was some World-Ender moving its disaster territory as a whole...

Fortunately, its path was far from the Mother Tree, so the tremor wasn't strong. According to Wu One, all the geological structures along that path had been overturned, crushing quite a few weaker disasters to death.

"I see."

Chen Ling was about to leave when his peripheral vision caught something, and his footsteps paused slightly.

In the distance, at the edge of the Gray Realm's earth, a giant skeleton wolf was sprinting toward here at full speed. As it got closer, one could see deep, dark marks on its bones, as if it had been severely injured... On its back, several figures were hanging limply, as if they had fallen into a coma.

"Old Wolf?"

Chen Ling's heart sank, and he immediately turned into a blur, rushing toward them!

Old Wolf's strength wasn't weak, and after becoming a disaster, its speed was extremely fast. Even when it had forcibly broken into the Wuji Realm, its injuries hadn't been that serious. But right now, it looked as if it were exhausted, its body swaying unsteadily.

Seeing the silhouette of the Mother Tree in the distance, Old Wolf's body had reached its limit. It stumbled, and its massive body rolled onto the earth. The people hanging on it were thrown off, falling in various places in a sorry state, but even so, they still didn't wake up.

Chen Ling was the first to arrive. The first thing that caught his eye was Zhao Yi, covered in blood...

Zhao Yi's injuries were relatively light compared to the others. Chen Ling scanned the area and saw two more people on the verge of death nearby. Without a moment's hesitation, he hoisted them onto his back and ran toward the Mother Tree at full speed!!

At this time, the people inside the Mother Tree also noticed the anomaly. More and more figures rushed over. Seeing this scene, they were all shocked and hurriedly hoisted the wounded, following behind Chen Ling.

"Teacher Ye!"

"Teacher Ye! Save them quickly!!"

Everyone rushed into the Mother Tree carrying the seriously injured Zhao Yi and the others, giving the students who were preparing to go to class a huge fright. Seeing those blood-stained figures, they all exclaimed, momentarily at a loss.

"It's the Holy Son!"

"Didn't the Holy Son and the others go to the human realm to purchase supplies? How could they..."

"Quick! A stretcher! A stretcher!!"

“……”

At the same time, Teacher Ye appeared at the door. Seeing the severity of their injuries, his expression turned incredibly ugly.

He pushed up his glasses and said calmly:

"Xiao Tao, take the medical team and look after Zhao Yi; his injuries are the lightest... You guys, carry the others to the laboratory. Be quick."

"Yes, Teacher Ye!!"

With Teacher Ye's arrival, everyone seemed to regain their composure, immediately and orderly beginning to divide the wounded into two groups.

Chen Ling stood to the side, watching as Teacher Ye took Old Wolf and the others into the underground laboratory. As the door slowly closed, the Fusion Faction fell into a brief silence...