CHAPTER 733: CHAPTER 395: CENTIPEDE_3

Fortunately, these fungal spores don’t have a particularly significant impact on the human body, and Huangfu Yi, having practiced the Five Immortals Sword Scripture, attempted to protect himself with Poison Qi. Surprisingly, he managed to directly refine the surrounding miasma for his own use, resulting in a noticeable increase in cultivation along the way... Ahem, that’s not the main point...

In short, during his journey deeper, Huangfu Yi studied the mushroom distribution and made some discoveries. The growth of fungi seems to follow a special trough within the city, similar to the wires transmitting energy in Yangjingbang, containing a glowing liquid resembling meridian blood vessels throughout the entire city. However, whether due to disrepair over time or accidental leakage, the luminous liquid has leaked from the channels, gradually covered by these spores, becoming a nutrient trough for mushrooms.

With this realization, Huangfu Yi figured that even mushrooms know where the nutrition is, so following the pipes to the end would likely lead him to the Centipede Monster within the Sealing Array.

Thus, Huangfu Yi pinched the formula to retract the Double Wheel, replacing the Sword Pavilion with the sword bag in hand. Following the guidance of the glowing mushrooms, he held his breath and focused, continuing to delve deeper, traversing the world of fungal spores for an unknown duration until reaching the city’s deepest point...

The endpoint of the pipelines is a place akin to a sewage treatment facility, perhaps once a treasure vault base, now forced open by the fungi relentlessly following the scent of the glowing liquid.

Squeezing through the gap opened by the mushroom forest, one can see many huge jars in the warehouse, with the ones on the periphery already covered by spore blankets. The inner jars seem to have been deliberately damaged, with a large amount of liquid pouring into a Big Cauldron, filling it, overflowing, and being absorbed by the fungal blanket. Curiously, the surrounding fungi, for some reason, only grow around that Big Cauldron, seemingly afraid and not daring to approach...

Huangfu Yi jumped onto the nearby jar top to look.

Found it, an egg was soaking in the cauldron.

Is it a centipede egg? It looks so strange...

It’s an oval, dark brown egg capsule, mostly soaking in the cauldron, like soybean paste in a pot, though sizeable, about as tall as a person. At first glance, it resembles the war remains biological cabin from Outer Heaven, with something faintly pulsating inside the egg capsule, as if there is something alive.

It doesn’t look like a centipede... Might as well just kill it, right?

Without hesitation, Huangfu Yi immediately pulled out his sword bag, pinched the sword technique, and sprayed out a refined stream of Innate Sword Qi, attaching it to the key flying sword, locking onto the egg capsule, and directed a sword towards it!

"Quick!"

"Crack, crack!"

With a silver arc, the egg shattered.

...

Is that all?

"Aren’t you going to eat it..."

Just as Huangfu Yi looked confused, suddenly a man’s voice sounded from the corner of the treasure vault!

Huangfu Yi shivered all over, leaped up, fully opening his sword energy! While controlling the flying sword to protect his body, his eyes stared intensely, roaring angrily,

"Who are you!"

"...You’re asking... who I am..."

Then from the shadows, there came a clattering sound, like iron pieces colliding, as a pillar suddenly moved, took a step to the left, swayed to the right, and a silhouette emerged, walking with bowed legs, steps clanging, and approached step by step.

"Centipede walks a hundred steps through rugged mountains, one blade splits the chaotic void. Two iron edges cut through mountains, thousand segments of Xuan Armor reflect rosy reds.

Frost condenses on the battle axe for a thousand years, the Spirit Platform untouched by dust. Only hearing the call of the General at Mangdang, the Flying General breaks through the Ghost God’s Palace!"

Upon seeing this person, Huangfu Yi saw him standing two zhang and eight chi tall, carrying twin swords on his back, draped in armor, covered head to toe in iron armor, with a red shell covering his face, resembling mobile armor at first glance. Upon sweeping his Divine Sense, surprisingly, he couldn’t discern this person’s cultivation but felt completely clear-minded, pinching the formula with a club, gathering a mouthful of sword Qi in his chest,

"Centipede."

The iron man raised his head, his helmet sporting two cockroaches—er, centipede braids—flipped back, shaking his head,

"Forerunner under the Left General’s command! Di Suwei of the Flying Cavalry! Ling Baiyang! Present!"

Huangfu Yi snorted coldly, pinched the sword formula, his eyes glinting coldly,

"Evil demons and heretics, spouting nonsense! If you are the Flying Cavalry, then I’m the General of Western Expedition! Come fight!"

"Wait! Tiger Talisman and Command Arrow, silver seal green ribbon here, please verify true identity!"

Unexpectedly, the iron man raised his hand and tossed an Iron Plate and a silver seal into midair, where they hovered, shining brightly...

What’s going on here...

Huangfu Yi calculated and calculated but never expected the guy to directly reveal credentials, making him momentarily stunned. Moreover...

It’s real.

Indeed, he’s seen the silver seal green ribbon before; his father owns one, too, valued at two thousand shi.

Then the iron man looked toward Huangfu Yi,

"Show yours."

"Uh..."

Joking aside, where would he get a General’s seal... Huh? Wait, that plate seems...

Huangfu Yi took out the Iron Plate from his waist and raised it for comparison.

Though engraved with a few extra words, the design...

Then the steel centipede man rejoiced,

"Tiger Talisman! Great! Someone finally comes for the shift!"