Chapter 1327: New Poison Chief

Chen Ling cannot enter the human realms, but he can walk sideways in the Gray World.

With tens of thousands of poisonous insects in the Abyss of Ghostly Mockery, several super-strong Poison Chiefs, and Chen Ling himself now possessing Eighth-Rank combat power, he is enough to be called an "overlord" even when looking at both the Gray World and Earth. The once incredibly troublesome Jiangtian Sect strongholds have now become nothing more than ten-fold tonics waiting to be excavated in his eyes.

While Chen Ling was deep in thought, the primal slaughter below intensified. The two centipedes seemed to have staked their lives on it, completely disregarding whether they could be saved after being heavily injured, instead killing each other regardless of the cost. At this moment, they had only one goal in their eyes:

Kill the other!!

The centipede Poison Chief bit down on Wu Yi's head. Although Wu Yi was in extreme pain, he did not retreat. Instead, he risked having his head bitten off to bite back into the centipede Poison Chief's mouth, right onto the half-severed flesh that was about to fall off, causing the latter to quickly let go and retreat in pain.

The centipede Poison Chief was indeed ruthless, but it hadn't expected this junior centipede to be even more vicious. Most people would trade a thousand to damage the enemy and eight hundred to damage themselves, but Wu Yi's fighting style was to trade a thousand to damage the enemy and two thousand to damage himself!

He wasn't fighting the centipede Poison Chief; he was comparing whose health bar was longer and who could survive until the end.

"I'm going to sleep for a bit. Wake me up when they're about to decide the winner."

Although Chen Ling had sobered up, his head was still groggy. After giving instructions to the Scorpion Poison Chief, he lay down on the spot and fell asleep quickly.

The Scorpion Poison Chief was stunned, seemingly not expecting him to just fall asleep like that, and on its back no less... It understood the principle that "staying with a king is like staying with a tiger," so for all these years, it had cleverly kept a distance that was neither too far nor too close, using its shrewd and unique perspective to judge the development of events.

Including this time when the centipede Poison Chief wanted to kill the king, it had also been fanning the flames in the shadows. When the centipede couldn't find an opportunity to strike, it was the one who encouraged the toad to host the welcome banquet. It was different from the centipede; it held no deep grudge against the king. It only did this to use the centipede's hand to test what the king's current "personality" was like, so as to decide its future "social distance" with the king.

But it had never expected the scene before its eyes.

This was the first time the King had been so...

Close?

The King was truly asleep, and sleeping very soundly; the scorpion could even hear faint snoring on its back.

You have to realize that the scorpion's deadly tail hook was currently dangling in the air. If it wanted to, it could instantly tear Chen Ling's body apart with that hook... Unlike the difficult struggle with the centipede, the scorpion could feel that if it struck now, there was a very high probability it could kill the King directly!

A moment of hesitation flashed in its eyes, but it still chose not to act.

On one hand, it still feared the King from the bottom of its heart;

On the other hand... it felt that this King was a bit different.

Perhaps, this time it could try to close the "social distance" a little... Of course, provided that this personality of the King could last a bit longer.

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, the slaughter below reached its end.

The scorpion gently tapped Chen Ling's shoulder with its tail hook.

[King, it is time for you to wake up.]

Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes and sat up from the scorpion's back... He swept his deep eyes over the scorpion beneath him before casting his gaze directly toward the battlefield.

Both centipedes were now torn beyond recognition. Just a moment ago, the centipede Poison Chief had only been torn in half by Chen Ling and had half its head bitten off, but now its body was broken into seven or eight pieces, and its head was mostly shattered, looking incredibly miserable.

And Wu Yi, who also only had half a head left, was frantically burrowing into the severed opening of the centipede Poison Chief's head like an earthworm, as if he wanted to drill directly into its brain and eat its brain matter.

The centipede Poison Chief's vitality was almost exhausted, and it was unable to stop Wu Yi's gnawing. As Wu Yi burrowed his half-head into the Poison Chief's head, after just a few seconds, the centipede Poison Chief's life force was completely extinguished. After taking one last unwilling look in Chen Ling's direction, its broken body collapsed onto the ground like mud.

Using his last bit of strength to finish gnawing the centipede Poison Chief's brain matter, Wu Yi dragged his broken body out of the corpse and knelt before Chen Ling.

He had succeeded.

He had not failed the mission.

To be honest, even Chen Ling hadn't expected Wu Yi to actually defeat the centipede Poison Chief. Therefore, when he saw Wu Yi crawl over with his own eyes, he felt a mix of surprise and gratification... Although he hadn't spent much time with Wu Yi, Wu Yi's loyalty was extremely high, and he had successfully won Chen Ling's favor. Now that Wu Yi had become the new centipede Poison Chief, he was naturally quite satisfied.

"Although you have defeated the former Poison Chief, you cannot let your guard down," Chen Ling said calmly.

"Next, there may be many Seventh-Rank poisonous insects that will challenge you... Only when you fight your way out from among them will you truly have secured this position."

Wu Yi already knew everything. He slowly crawled to his feet, his broken body forcibly igniting a soaring fighting spirit as he stared fixedly at the surrounding poisonous insects with their varied gazes.

Killing the centipede Poison Chief was just the beginning; what followed would be countless extremely arduous and brutal battles.

This was the path every generation of Poison Chief had to take.

Chen Ling didn't pay any more attention to him, instead casting his gaze toward the corpse of the centipede Poison Chief in the distance...

The other poisonous insects were immersed in the shock of Wu Yi killing the centipede Poison Chief, but Chen Ling was different... In his vision, an illusory soul with the outline of a centipede was slowly floating up from the corpse of the centipede Poison Chief.

This was the new ability brought to him by "Self-Reconstruction of Biological Magnetic Fields and Consciousness Frequency Bands," which allowed him to see the souls of living beings.

The centipede Poison Chief's soul rose into the sky bit by bit. It seemed to retain a final shred of consciousness, looking down at Wu Yi kneeling before Chen Ling and those incredibly surprised poisonous insects below... There was pain, unwillingness, and deep helplessness in its gaze.

But suddenly, its gaze met Chen Ling's, and it froze in place.

What... what does the King want to do??!

While the centipede's soul was stunned, Chen Ling was rubbing his chin with one hand, as if pondering something...

A moment later, he tentatively raised his hand and beckoned from afar toward the centipede soul floating in the sky.

The next second, the centipede soul actually flew straight toward Chen Ling!

"...So that's how it is."

Chen Ling muttered to himself.

Chen Ling looked down at his hands, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes:

"A new Sixth-Rank ability... Interesting."