Chapter 6: The Great War of the Mausoleum Guardians

  Only the sound of painful hissing continued to come from the blazing flames, and the air in the brightly lit cave was filled with a pungent smell of burning.

  It won't be long before the centipede group is buried in fire. If Lao Wu were here, he would definitely join his hands together and chant "shan zai" again at the sight of this scene.

  "Let's go, there may be even more difficult things for us to face in this tomb."

  Treading on the charred corpses of the centipedes, the crowd continued to walk cautiously into the stone tomb. Only Hou Ling remained behind, looking at the centipedes on the ground with a puzzled expression.

  Everyone felt much more at ease after burning the centipede. The stone tomb was very spacious, but after walking for a long time, it turned out that there was nothing inside. It seems that we came in vain today.

  Just as everyone was losing hope, a strange hissing sound came from deep within the darkness of the tomb.

  "It doesn't look good, this centipede hasn't been completely burned yet. Everyone be careful and quickly retreat to the exit." Sima Lin exclaimed in surprise.

  Not far from the exit, a giant centipede as big as a bucket of water, with its whole body glowing blood red, was blocking our way. It stared at us with two copper bell-sized eyes and kept spraying toxic fog from its mouth with a hissing sound.

  Everyone was shocked. Sima Lin saw the situation and shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone! Don't mess up the formation now. First, back to back, surround in a circle."

  We saw that the centipedes were not in a hurry to attack, but instead kept twisting their blood-red bodies back and forth about ten meters in front of us, flying and crawling through the air, which was suddenly filled with a foul stench.

  Sim Lin feared that everyone would be poisoned and hastily took out the antidote pills from his bag, instructing each person to put one in their mouth and hold it.

  "What's going on? Now." asked Liu Di.

  "What we burned earlier must have been its descendants. Now this beast is furious, absolutely do not clash with it head-on." Sima Lin said, also being shocked by the gigantic monster in front of him.

  That giant centipede, seeing that it couldn't knock us down with its toxic fog, became enraged and raised half of its body high up. The sharp claws on its mouth kept opening and closing repeatedly, apparently ready to attack.

  "We must suppress its arrogant momentum." Thinking of this, I quickly took out the cinnabar powder from my bag and sprinkled it forcefully towards the blood centipede. The pungent smell of the cinnabar made our spirits shake for a moment.

  The monster seemed extremely wary of the雄黄, twisting its several-meter-long crimson body and retreating several meters in a flash. For a moment, it didn't dare to attack again.

  "After the centipede retreated, he felt slightly relieved and quickly expressed his thoughts: 'If we can spray the Huangjiu wine into the centipede's eyes and blind it so that it cannot see anything, only then will we have a chance to kill it.'"

  After finishing, he gave each person a bottle of Huangjiu wine and planned to find an opportunity to blind the eyes of that poisonous substance.

  Fen Bi Xiong Huang wine second brother said: "I think this demon has been around for hundreds of years, its outer shell must be extremely hard, except for the eyes which are a weak spot. The joints where its limbs connect should also be relatively weak. If Sixth Brother can use his big knife to chop at those places, he'll definitely be able to heavily injure it. Next time if it attacks, Sixth Brother will specifically target those areas."

  My second brother's words made sense. At this time, the yellow powder in the air began to disperse. In order to lure it over, I didn't sprinkle any more yellow powder. The monster apparently also realized this and quickly twisted its blood-red body, dashing towards us like lightning.

  Everyone saw the situation and quickly dispersed to both sides to dodge. The centipede, seeing that it had missed its target, became even more furious and targeted the largest of the six brothers, pouncing on him.

  Look at that centipede's fierce momentum. Old Six hastily dodged to one side and swung his large knife with force towards the joint where the giant centipede's segments connected.

  That monster seemed to know its way around and with a hiss, it withdrew its body. Sixth Brother's knife fell empty and struck the ground, hitting the granite floor. All that could be heard was the sound of metal clashing against stone, followed by sparks flying everywhere.

  I took a big gulp and shouted to everyone: "You all retreat and find an opportunity to spray the Huangjiu wine, let me and Lao Liu come and entangle with this thing. What's there to fear about the millipede?"

  Pulling out the golden knife from behind, wrapping it around the centipede's tail and attacking it. The giant centipede apparently didn't expect us to launch a pincer attack from both front and back, and seemed a bit caught off guard.

  My heart skipped a beat as I quickly joined forces with my sixth brother to find the weak points of this several-zhang-long giant centipede and chop at it, but it had to dodge back and forth. However, it was always able to agilely evade our attacks, and occasionally when we did manage to hit its exoskeleton, it didn't seem to be hurt in the slightest.

  At this time, Liu Di was even more brave and danced with a big knife, the wind blowing on his face, the scars on his face were red and swollen due to excessive force. The poisonous fog of the centipede couldn't hurt him, and Liu Di didn't seem to be afraid of this monster at all. Several times, he hacked at the centipede's body with a big knife, although it couldn't hurt it, but also made the centipede feel pain. I couldn't help but think of the scene where Liu Di killed that ninja with one sword in Mount Fanjing.

  The centipede saw that it couldn't handle the six brothers in a short time, so it gave up on them and turned its body to attack me instead. The beast is just a beast, as soon as it moved its body, its tail was completely exposed without any defense in front of me.

  Seeing this, I was overjoyed in my heart, the opportunity had come and how could I let it go. At that moment, I swung the golden knife with all my might towards the place where the tail segments were connected, and I felt a large amount of sticky liquid splashing onto my face. Before I could wipe away the disgusting stuff, a burst of shrill cries came as the centipede attacked me.

  The pain made it let out a sharp "squeak" as the toxic mist in its mouth was no longer as dense as before. I hastily dodged backwards, not letting its giant pincers stab me. Due to this beast's overly furious spinning attack, my tail couldn't be spared, and it was exposed once again in front of Sixth Brother. Sixth Brother struck at the same spot where I had chopped earlier, and with a single slash, a long section of my tail was cut off alive.

  In severe pain, the monster was in a state of extreme confusion. Everyone present quickly opened the bottle cap and poured the realgar wine into the centipede's eyes.