Chapter 1351: Breaking the Cocoon

Whether it was because of the lights or Sun Bumian suppressing the ominous energy of the palace, Jian Changsheng slept quite well that night.

He sat up lazily from the bed, yawned, and turned to look at the bed next to him, only to find it empty... Jiang Xiaohua, who should have been lying there, had disappeared.

"...Where is he?"

Jian Changsheng turned his head suspiciously to the other side and saw Sun Bumian still sitting on the bed in a cross-legged position, his eyes bloodshot and his face full of exhaustion.

"Diamond, why do you look so terrible? Did you not sleep all night??" Jian Changsheng asked, frowning.

"...No, I slept for a while, I'm just not used to sleeping here."

Sun Bumian waved his hand.

"Oh... where's Plum Blossom?"

"He went into the dirt to sleep. If you go out and dig now, you might still be able to dig him out."

Jian Changsheng: ...

Jian Changsheng stretched, "Alright, I'm going out for a stroll."

Staying in this palace for too long was really boring, and Jian Changsheng didn't want to eat a "poisonous insect breakfast," so he just got up and planned to walk around the Ghost-Mockery Abyss. Anyway, they were Chen Ling’s guests now, and the Calamities in the Ghost-Mockery Abyss wouldn't dare to lay a hand on them.

Last time he was here, these Calamities had given him a hard time; this time, he had to show them who was boss.

"You go ahead, I'm going to use the bathroom first," Sun Bumian yawned.

After Jian Changsheng left, Sun Bumian got up to put on his shoes.

But the moment he stood on the ground, he stumbled and almost fell face-first.

Fortunately, Sun Bumian was quick and caught himself on the edge of the bed. He frowned, rubbing his aching temples, and muttered to himself:

"Red Heart... what on earth happened to him? How could the ominous energy be this terrifying... It’s already approaching a true World-Ending Calamity."

"My rank is still not high enough... I have to find a way to improve it as soon as possible, otherwise..."

Sun Bumian leaned against the bed for a long while before recovering and moving slowly toward the outside.

……

"Plum Blossom~"

"Plum Blossom-er~~"

Jian Changsheng walked on the soil of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss like an old man out for a walk, calling out leisurely as he went.

The poisonous insects that were still sleeping along the way were all awakened by Jian Changsheng’s voice. They looked out from their holes in confusion, and upon discovering that it was the King’s guest, they had to swallow their resentment and shrink back into their holes to continue sleeping.

Seeing that no one in the entire Ghost-Mockery Abyss dared to provoke him, Jian Changsheng straightened his back even more. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a patch of obviously fresh soil on the ground, and his eyes lit up slightly.

"Plum Blossom, wake up!"

Jian Changsheng walked onto the fresh soil and stomped on it hard, but there was no reaction from below.

Jiang Xiaohua was always a heavy sleeper and had no sense of time; if no one came to wake him up, he could sleep in the dirt for a week...

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng dug into the soil and reached out to pull him out:

"Stop sleeping, Plum Blossom, the four of us can just make a table of mahjong."

However, in the next second, a startled poisonous snake suddenly poked its head out from underground and bit Jian Changsheng’s reaching hand hard!

"Ouch!"

Jian Changsheng hadn't expected that it wasn't Jiang Xiaohua underneath, but a poisonous snake. Although he pulled his hand back extremely quickly, a thin line of blood was still scratched by the fangs...

Less than ten seconds after Jian Changsheng exclaimed, a figure in red flashed out from the palace.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ling saw the bloodstain on Jian Changsheng’s hand, frowned, and cast a sharp gaze directly at the poisonous snake underground.

The snake seemed to finally realize what was happening and crawled on the ground in fear, its whole body trembling... At the same time, its abdomen pulsed gently, as if something was about to come out.

"Ah? It's nothing, nothing... just a small scratch. I was trying to dig up Plum Blossom, I didn't expect it to be down there. I accidentally offended it," Jian Changsheng waved his hands repeatedly.

Chen Ling learned the reason and looked at the snake’s belly, sighing softly:

"You don't have very good luck. This snake is giving birth, which is when it's at its most aggressive... You just happened to dig it up, and it reacted defensively."

Fortunately for Jian Changsheng, this small scratch really didn't count as an injury, and since he had a certain resistance to toxins, it should heal on its own in a while.

Jian Changsheng smiled sheepishly at the snake, as if apologizing to it.

At the same time, about ten meters away from Jian Changsheng, the soil arched slightly, and a white-haired head poked out from below in a daze...

"Red Heart, Spade?"

"Hmm? You actually woke up on your own? I was planning to come call you."

"Oh... the dirt here is cool, it wasn't very comfortable to sleep in, so I woke up early."

Jiang Xiaohua said as he crawled out of the dirt.

"Where's Diamond?"

"He should still be in the bathroom."

Chen Ling nodded slightly, said nothing more, and walked straight toward a certain part of the Ghost-Mockery Abyss.

Jian Changsheng asked in confusion:

"Where are you going?"

"Calculating the time, it should be about right... I'm going to pick up a 'person'."

"Pick up a person? Who else is there in this Ghost-Mockery Abyss besides us?"

Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua had nothing better to do, so they followed behind Chen Ling.

As Chen Ling advanced, centipedes suddenly crawled out from the surrounding cliffs and soil, as if sensing something, and swarmed toward the same direction...

Jian Changsheng saw this strange sight, and his confusion grew even deeper.

When Chen Ling stopped, Jian Changsheng saw a huge black object like a giant cocoon standing alone in an open space. Below it was the long-rotted carcass of a giant centipede, looking incredibly grim.

THUMP——THUMP——THUMP...

Dull sounds echoed continuously from inside the giant cocoon. At the same time, the cocoon itself was shaking gently, as if something was about to break out!

"What a terrifying aura!" Jian Changsheng keenly felt the Calamity pressure coming from inside the cocoon, and his expression changed slightly.

That pressure was not even inferior to the eighth-rank toad they had fought when they first arrived!

How many powerful Calamities were there in the Ghost-Mockery Abyss?

Except for them, almost all the centipedes in the entire Ghost-Mockery Abyss had gathered here. They circled the surrounding ground as if waiting for something.

Chen Ling stared fixedly at the shaking cocoon. As the frequency of the dull sounds accelerated, the shaking of the cocoon became more violent. When a sound like thunder exploded in the abyss, the cocoon burst open from the center!

BOOM——!!

A black and red centipede, hundreds of meters tall, broke out of the cocoon!