Chapter 1307: The Five Poison Heads

Thump——!

Thump——!!

Thump——!!!

Every time it landed, the earth shook violently, and dense cracks spread across the ground, as if meteorites were constantly bombarding the earth...

At the same time, a terrifying eighth-rank aura rolled out from the toad!

The first eighth-rank calamity of the Ghost Mockery Abyss... had appeared.

Two large, round eyeballs stared fixedly at Chen Ling on Wu Yi's back. It leaped, covering a distance of several kilometers in one bound, and crashed down beside Chen Ling, its massive body crushing several small toads into meat patties.

Its chin swelled rapidly, as if some world-destroying power were brewing within. When its chin had swollen to be even larger than itself, it opened its giant mouth, and a thunderous roar exploded in the underground abyss!!

"CROAK——！！！!"

The raging aura swept out forcefully, blowing away all the calamities below the fifth rank nearby. The hurricane whipped Chen Ling's hem, and his bright red opera robe fluttered in its foul breath...

Chen Ling: ...

"That's enough, that's enough." Chen Ling wiped the toad saliva off his face and said, somewhat speechless,

"I know you're excited... but don't get too excited yet."

Chen Ling could feel the joy of this eighth-rank toad. That earth-shattering "croak" just now was exactly like a child left home alone for five years seeing their mother return and letting out a heart-wrenching "Mom!"...

The reason it came so slowly was also because its body was simply too heavy; hopping all the way here was truly not easy.

After the toad appeared, the earth on the other side suddenly surged violently.

A figure shimmering with the luster of black steel broke through the soil, like a precision tank emerging from underground. A sinister, massive barb hung at the end of its tail, swaying left and right as if it possessed its own consciousness... Beneath it, a scorpion with a sharp aura waved its giant pincers, then immediately prostrated itself on the ground.

Compared to the toad's massive body, the scorpion was much smaller, but its tail hook, shimmering with a cold glint, looked as if it were saturated with poison, making one's heart palpitate just by looking at it.

Its complex, intersecting eyes reflected Chen Ling's opera-robed figure, wondering what it was thinking.

Bang——

Immediately after, the cliffside nearby suddenly deformed, and a slender gecko descended from the sky, landing heavily on the other side of the toad.

This gecko was camouflaged so well that even Chen Ling hadn't noticed it just now. However, compared to the scorpion's complex eye structure, the gecko's eyes were visibly dull, like a big idiot who was always a beat slow at everything. Apart from lying flat like a dead fish at Chen Ling's feet, it couldn't do anything else.

"Toad, scorpion, gecko..." Chen Ling looked at the three eighth-rankers before him, thoughtful.

"There should be more."

Before Chen Ling could finish his sentence, a thick, giant python slithered out from a nearby cave like a silent, ghostly shadow.

This was no ordinary black snake. Its shadow-like body was covered in eerie gray patterns, and the pits below its snake head looked like two mottled human faces. Its ink-stained tongue flickered, and waves of bone-chilling cold began to permeate the air.

As this poisonous snake slowly lay down beside Chen Ling, the final giant shadow finally crawled out from the end of the abyss.

It was a thick centipede with tens of thousands of dense, slender legs. It was several kilometers long, like a moving, poisoned saw blade. Even as it tried its best to coil up in front of Chen Ling, it still occupied most of the path...

Its gaze first swept over Chen Ling, then looked at Wu Yi beneath him... At that instant, an inexplicable chill rose in Wu Yi's heart.

In terms of seniority, all the shadow centipedes in this abyss were descendants of this giant centipede, Wu Yi included. At first, Wu Yi was also a bit excited to see this "ancestor," like a child who had scored first place outside and was rushing home to report their results, but in the end, it was met with a pair of eyes filled with vigilance and disgust.

Wu Yi sensed a sinister hostility from its "ancestor."

The giant centipede slowly bowed before Chen Ling.

Centipede, scorpion, toad, poisonous snake, gecko...

Just as Teacher Ye said, the calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss were mainly underground creatures, led by the Five Poisons. These five eighth-rank calamities were likely the most terrifying existences in the Ghost Mockery Abyss, aside from the Mockery Calamity himself.

To be honest, the lineup of calamities kneeling before Chen Ling now could easily wipe out any realm that didn't have a demigod presiding over it.

Is this... the strength of the Ghost Mockery Abyss?

"Rise." Chen Ling said indifferently.

As his voice fell, the five poison heads slowly rose, their sky-blocking giant shadows occupying almost the entire path of the abyss.

Chen Ling patted Wu Yi's head lightly. Wu Yi understood immediately and continued to walk deeper into the abyss with Chen Ling on its back... But soon, it had to stop.

Because two giant shadows were still blocking its way.

Chen Ling frowned slightly.

"Make way."

The scorpion nearby directly raised its tail hook and gave the dazed gecko a hard knock on the head.

The slow-witted gecko finally reacted, crawled to the side, and cleared a large space... then continued to stay there like a rock, motionless.

Chen Ling's gaze fell on the centipede poison head.

Seeing this, the centipede poison head also "panicked" and came to its senses, moving its body to the other side to clear a wide path for Chen Ling.

During this process, it kept its head bowed, looking extremely respectful, but Chen Ling could vaguely sense a different emotion from it, as well as a lingering feeling of being watched... as if it were suspiciously probing him.

The path opened, and Wu Yi carried Chen Ling straight toward the depths of the abyss.

The bright red opera robe looked back at the prostrate centipede poison head, a hint of coldness rising in his eyes amidst the ghostly blue glimmer...

Chen Ling sneered in his heart.

The toad had the heaviest body and hopped the slowest, yet it was the first to come welcome him;

Setting aside that dull gecko, the other poison heads arrived later than the last. It was impossible that they hadn't sensed his aura immediately. So... it seems that during the time the Ghost Mockery Abyss was leaderless, these eighth-rank poison heads all had their own agendas...

Chen Ling slowly withdrew his gaze, no longer focusing his attention on these giant shadows, his expression calm.

No matter what thoughts these beasts had, they were ultimately just beasts.

He had just been played in the human realm and had a belly full of fire with nowhere to vent. If he could be brought down by this group of beasts back on his own turf, then he, Chen Ling, might as well not live...

He was curious to see what kind of waves this group could make now that he had returned to the Ghost Mockery Abyss.