Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 232 - 148: Mid Grade Five Refinement Poisonous Insect (Third Update)

Chapter 232: Chapter 148: Mid Grade Five Refinement Poisonous Insect (Third Update)

A week later!

Fumen Breeding Farm, Underground Poisonous Insects Cultivation Base.

Strife, shrieks, blood, and insect cries constantly occurred here.

When everything had returned to calm, the several-tens-of-meters-long body of the thousand-hand centipede began to grow layers of insect cocoons, wrapping its entire body as it entered a state of transformation.

Su Jie sat cross-legged in front of the thousand-hand centipede. The low-grade poisonous insects accumulated in the base had once again been devoured by the thousand-hand centipede, which had finally stepped into the much-anticipated fifth Spirit Refining stage for Su Jie.

In the dim Underground Gu Insect Base, the giant insect cocoon seemed to be breathing, akin to a beating heart, expanding and contracting rhythmically.

The cocoon swelled increasingly larger as it expanded, providing more sustenance for the poisonous insect incubating inside.

As time passed, the cocoon gradually underwent changes, sprouting verdant greenery as if it were moss or fungal fluff, spreading outwards from the cocoon’s center.

The concrete ground beneath the fungal growth corroded into powder, releasing a damp smell.

The surface of the cocoon, similarly covered with emerald patterns, ancient and mysterious, was filled with vitality and life force,

The entire Underground Poisonous Insects Base continued to transform, the fungal growth extending a hundred meters away, turning the place into an endless green world.

Su Jie looked at the fuzzy fungi strands climbing onto his body. The fungi intermingled with his skin, rooting with an intense desire to parasitize Su Jie’s flesh and blood while seemingly devouring his life force.

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Spiritual energy surged as Su Jie shook off the fungi trying to grow upon him, feeling not fear but joy within.

The more drastic the change in the thousand-hand centipede, the stronger the abilities it would gain from the evolution, naturally bringing joy to Su Jie.

Several days passed and the expanding insect cocoon ceased to grow any further, resting quietly in the base, entering the silence before the final transformation.

Three more days passed, and the quiet cocoon finally began to change again.

Cracks spread from the top of the cocoon, with strong tidal waves of energy gushing from the openings, making everything around even darker, and ordinary poisonous insects in the underground base fell silent as if an existence that all beings feared was breaking out.

Under Su Jie’s expectant gaze, a towering and terrifying figure emerged from the cocoon, the evolved thousand-hand centipede appeared before Su Jie.

Each pale corpse hand had become more robust and prominent, now numbering six to seven hundred, and its overall form had also grown larger, with sharp mandible-like mouthparts, its two eyes now a dark red, emitting a sinister and dangerous light.

The thousand-hand centipede had undergone significant changes compared to before, besides growing to the length of 80 meters, it had developed a surface layer of dark green scale armor through the fifth Spirit Refining abnormal development.

The scales were incredibly hard. When rubbing against giant stones on the ground, it crushed the stones to dust without leaving a single scratch on the scales.

The thousand-hand centipede was now a genuine Mid Grade Five Refinement poisonous insect, a powerful and terrifying creature.

Sizzle!

The thousand-hand centipede, with the joy of rebirth, happily pounced in front of Su Jie, its huge head nuzzling him, causing Su Jie to stagger.

Boom, boom, boom!

The enormous weight of the thousand-hand centipede’s body was unknown, but as it ran, it made the ground shake, even the formation could not fully isolate it.

“It’s an earthquake!”

“Quick, evacuate the people, there’s been an earthquake here.”

“First, go shut off the electricity and inform the company.”

On the ground, a violent tremor threw the staff of Fumen Breeding Farm into panic, thinking an earthquake had occurred, and chaos ensued.

“Stop, stop, stop, I know you’re happy, but don’t tear down my house!”

Su Jie patted the head of the thousand-hand centipede to calm it down; his possessions certainly weren’t enough for it to tear apart.

The thousand-hand centipede wiggled its antennae, placed Su Jie on top of its head, and then eagerly began to demonstrate its newly acquired abilities.

It opened its ferocious mouthparts and sprayed outward.

A cloud of black smoke surged out, instantly covering a large area ahead.

This black fog carried a curse effect, moving at a rapidly fast pace, and anything it touched began to age, decay, and disintegrate acceleratedly.

The steel-reinforced concrete ground quickly rotted and cracked, as though it had weathered thousands of years.

Some of the poisonous insects’ bodies decayed directly into dried-up shells, their flesh withering away like snow in the spring sun, crumbling into dust and dispersing with the wind.

In the face of the thousand-hand centipede’s rampant curse, the entire Gu Insect Base was thrown into disarray. The insects, in terror, attempted to flee. Those that had not yet advanced to Low Grade, upon the slightest contact with the deathly black fog, were consumed by the curse spreading through their entire bodies. Within seconds they aged, decayed to dust, and their Spiritual Power was extinguished, unable to withstand such a powerful death and decay curse.

After the black fog enveloped the area, the ground turned a pale gray, resembling lifeless dead land, devoid of vitality and vigor.

Conversely, the surface of the thousand-hand centipede itself was dotted with numerous green fungal threads that drifted around, extracting the Life Force from the curse’s harvest to heal its body.

This was a new ability that the thousand-hand centipede had mastered after its fifth Spirit Refining, the Death Decline Curse Cloud.

A terrifying curse capable of aging and wilting all things.

With the centipede’s current ability, almost anyone below the Secret Realm stricken by this Death Decline Curse Cloud would find survival incredibly difficult.

And yet, this wasn’t the full extent of the thousand-hand centipede’s new powers. Having previously consumed the fruit of the Heavenly Poison Treasure Wood Tree, this Spirit Refining allowed the centipede to master two abilities at once.

After unleashing the Death Decline Curse Cloud, luminescence surrounded the thousand-hand centipede. Its dark green scale armor bore extremely mysterious patterns that emerged, naturally primitive, like the ultimate truth of the universe.

Boom, boom!

Su Jie used the Purple Light Ray, and two High-Temperature Beams shot from his eyes onto the body of the thousand-hand centipede. Yet, they did not penetrate the layer of dark green scale armor but caused some black charring on the surface.

This was the second ability the thousand-hand centipede had acquired, a defensive scale armor, which had elevated its resistance to various kinds of damage to an entirely new level.

This ability might not seem as flashy as the Death Decline Curse Cloud, but defense was an indispensable aspect for the thousand-hand centipede.

With its inherently strong physique, extreme scale armor defense, as well as the centipede’s original self-healing and splitting abilities,

the centipede of today, if placed in a game, would be like the final boss—high attack, high defense, hefty health bar, robust recovery, and a wealth of tactics, seemingly an insolvable form.

At this stage, Su Jie believed that ordinary High-grade Poisonous Insects would likely have to flee in the face of the thousand-hand centipede.

Even in the perilous Insect Valley, the thousand-hand centipede could dominate a territory; not many insects would be a threat to it. After all, insects that had gone through five refinements of Spirit Refining were extremely rare.