Chapter 104: Blood Fiend Mother Worm
Ding Meng controlled the blood bees, although it was only based on the simple guidance of the aura of the insect eggs within his body.
However, controlling such a large number of blood bees still gave him a sense of dominance and the thrill of holding power.
If only he could control insect tamers like that person, then being threatened wouldn’t be a problem…
Power changes people.
Ding Meng drove the blood bees to spread out continuously as he moved through the forest.
“Who’s there!”
A disciple from Hundred Herbs Hall sensed Ding Meng’s presence and was mercilessly pierced through the heart by Ding Meng in the next moment.
He continued to search the shrubs, and the buzzing blood bees suddenly transmitted information.
Ding Meng’s expression changed, and he showed excitement, rushing forward. Indeed, he found a cyan fierce tiger in a shrub as tall as a person.
A deep, bone-visible wound ran from the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s spine to its flank. The bleeding had been barely stopped, but it had greatly weakened its strength, giving it a sense of feebleness.
As soon as Ding Meng saw it, the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger immediately discovered him, turned its head, its tiger eyes icy, and suddenly rose, preparing to pounce.
“Roar!”
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger, already a wounded trapped beast, was now exceptionally ferocious.
The moment it discovered Ding Meng, it attacked.
Ding Meng’s expression slightly changed, and then he directed the swarm of blood bees to gather, charging at the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger like a mass of crimson mist.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger swiped with its claws, imbued with demonic essence, and instantly killed dozens of blood bees.
But in the next moment, the blood bees scattered, evaded its attack, and headed straight for its wound.
The blood bees pierced the wound and immediately began to suck blood.
In normal times, such an attack would not have been able to harm it.
But now the wound was exposed, and even though the blood bees were not strong, they could tear open new wounds from it.
The intense pain caused the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s demonic essence to surge, and it killed the attacking blood bees.
Then it turned, jumped directly into the shrubs, and fled without looking back.
“Trying to run?!”
Ding Meng’s gaze flashed sharply, and then he quickly chased after it, weapon in hand.
The blood bees led, with him following behind.
A cloud of red insect mist traveled rapidly through the forest, forcing the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger towards Su Yan’s direction.
Ding Meng sent out a signal, and Su Yan, Cai Peng, and Wang Cang all knew he had found the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
They each drove their blood bee swarms to come, gradually encircling the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger was already a second-order feral beast, its intelligence gradually awakening.
Waking from its frenzy, it realized it had been tricked by the detestable human martial artists.
And now this weak martial artist was relentlessly pursuing it, intending to kill it completely here.
It constantly changed direction, trying to escape the area.
But no matter which direction it went, its path was blocked by a terrifying swarm of crimson blood bees.
It wanted to fight its way out, but the swarm of blood bees was even more fearless than it.
For a time, it could only keep changing direction.
“Roar!”
The tiger’s roar was like thunder. At this moment, the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger was cornered at a cliff entrance with walls on both sides. The blood bees formed a dense, buzzing canopy.
Ding Meng, Cai Peng, Wang Cang, Yang Kun, and Yang Lun had gathered, weapons in hand, blocking the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s escape route.
They were extremely vigilant, knowing that a cornered beast was the most ferocious.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s eyes were filled with ferocity, its demonic essence surging like a tide. It showed no regard for its ruptured wound, condensing it into a vortex, preparing to attack.
Su Yan appeared, and the Gold-Eating Demon Insect, like a blade, slashed into the scene, heading straight for the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
Geng Metal Qi transformed into saber light, launching the first attack.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s demonic essence vortex was not yet fully prepared, so it had to unleash it hastily.
A strike of demonic essence shattered the vortex, and immense power poured out.
Insect Patterns transformed into an invisible shield.
It intercepted most of the surging demonic essence, and the scattered power tore apart the surrounding shrubs.
The Gold-Eating Demon Insect retreated, and the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger leaped forward, intending to tear the Gold-Eating Demon Insect to shreds in one bite.
At this moment, the Red Armored Mad Scorpion’s massive body blocked the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
Its two claws, like hammers capable of crushing mountains and breaking stones, swung towards the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger had no way to dodge this attack and was firmly struck on its wound. The sound of bones shattering was heard, the old injury flared up, and blood gushed out.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger fell, its beast pupils filled with madness.
It pounced fiercely, one claw reaching for the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger. The claws blocked in front of it, clanging loudly, reaching the heavens. Deep crevices were torn out by its claws, and blood splashed out.
Rustle rustle
The Red Armored Mad Scorpion was injured, and the pale figure of the White Bone Poison Centipede shot through the shrubs, launching a surprise attack.
Its ferocious mouth opened, spitting out dozens of White Bone Poison Centipede Nails.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger stumbled, its tiger claws swinging to block half of the attack, and it leaped to dodge the remaining White Bone Poison Centipede Nails.
The bone nails plunged into the soil, immediately staining the surrounding soil black.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger roared and growled, feeling a powerful threat from the White Bone Poison Centipede.
Buzz
The Blood Locust flew in, and three to four thousand blood bees covered it like a cloud, heading straight for the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger.
“Roar!”
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger roared to the heavens, spitting out wave-like surges of demonic essence.
Large swathes of blood bees fell to the ground, unable to get close.
But this was only a temporary advantage, as the Red Armored Mad Scorpion and White Bone Poison Centipede attacked from the sides.
Both were attacking fiercely.
One was a demonic insect from the heavens, its white bones like shadows, its poisonous mist rolling, hiding countless poisonous nails.
The other was a demonic star insect general, its pair of claws like executioner’s blades heading for the vital points, its mouth spewing poisonous mist like a fiery line, so hot it struck fear into the heart.
With three of them attacking, the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger had no way to keep all the blood insects at bay.
It fought with all its might, evading the three fierce insects, but its wounds continued to tear open. Blood bees had already burrowed into its wounds, devouring its blood.
The Rock Mud Fierce Tiger became even more ferocious, its desperate struggle making every blow astonishing.
If not for the Red Armored Mad Scorpion taking the brunt of the attack, the White Bone Poison Centipede would likely have been torn to shreds by now.
But even so, more than half of the Red Armored Mad Scorpion’s carapace was shattered.
“Swoosh!”
The Gold-Eating Demon Insect charged into the formation, attacking from a sharpest and most devious angle. The sharpness formed by Geng Metal Qi instantly tore through the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s skin.
The intense pain caused the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger to erupt in a furious roar, its massive water-blue claw blades slashing towards the Red Armored Mad Scorpion.
This strike was almost the full power of a second-order feral beast. Jiao Yang Sou and the others saw it and their expressions suddenly changed; the insect beast was doomed.
In a flash of lightning, the Red Armored Mad Scorpion blocked with its claws, and the Gold-Eating Demon Insect flew back, its insect patterns forming an invisible shield.
The two combined, and with a muffled bang, surging demonic essence spread wildly.
However, it was not enough to shatter the claws.
Hundreds of blood bees seized the opportunity and rushed into the cracks in the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger’s chest and abdomen. This time the wounds were wide open, with no further obstruction.
In just a few minutes, with blood gushing out like a fountain, the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger had no more strength to fight. It thumped to the ground, lifeless.
The battle site was a mess. Ding Meng and the others nearby stared blankly, still in disbelief.
This… they had killed a second-order feral beast with the power of the Spirit Nurturing Realm?
Killing enemies across realms, although it was a group effort, they had seen the ferocity of the fierce insects firsthand.
Individually, they were all extremely difficult opponents in this forest.
And if the fierce insects were so terrifying, what about the person controlling them?
Su Yan stepped forward and collected the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger into the Insect Realm Space, his gaze sweeping over Ding Meng and the others.
The bodies of the disciples from the Little Mountain Association and Hundred Herbs Hall who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion and were killed by the others while they were guarding and intercepting were placed to the side.
Su Yan waved his hand, and the remaining more than two thousand blood bees swarmed forward, sucking the flesh and blood from the corpses dry.
“Lord, the commotion at the camp has lessened. It seems the Little Mountain Association people have succeeded.”
Jiao Yang Sou stepped forward to remind him. Not only in the direction of the camp, but the sounds in Ancient Forest Mountain had also greatly diminished.
“Let’s go.”
Four of the insect tamers were injured. Although they could indeed contend with one or two True Intent Realm martial artists, it was unlikely they could take advantage of the situation now.
The fighting in Ancient Forest Mountain gradually subsided. On the way out, they could see the corpses of people from Hundred Herbs Hall or the Little Mountain Association from time to time.
As far as the eye could see, the disciples of Hundred Herbs Hall had suffered heavy losses.
Their personnel were scattered, fighting feral beasts, and then being ambushed.
Under these successive schemes, perhaps no less than a hundred people had died that night.
This scale of casualties was a devastating blow.
When they returned to Grindstone Mountain, the sky was beginning to lighten.
Without Su Yan needing to say anything.
Jiao Yang Sou and the others took the initiative this time.
“Lord, we will split into three groups. Yang Lun and I will infiltrate the city to gather information on Hundred Herbs Hall and the Little Mountain Association. Ding Meng will go to Tiger God Temple City to gather intelligence. Brother Cai Peng will probe the wind for the Greenwood Gathering to see what items are available. Brother Wang Cang will remain at the stronghold to await orders.”
Jiao Yang Sou and Yang Kun, in a display of confidence, exchanged glances with the others, hinting at each other, and stated their plans.
Beneath his mask, Su Yan smiled slightly and nodded, “Proceed as you have planned.”
Although it was just an arrangement for gathering information, proactive arrangements had a completely different meaning than reactive ones.
Insect eggs could control life and death, but they could not control people’s thoughts.
Those who can think for themselves and work are good cattle and horses.
“Finally got the blood marrow of a second-order feral beast…”
Su Yan took out the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger, holding a sharp-edged boning knife.
He carefully carved off the entire spine, bloody and covered in flesh and blood, and placed it on the ground.
He released the Blood Locusts, and without needing his command, they sensed the restless urge of the Blood Locusts when facing their final molting material.
“Eat.”
At Su Yan’s command, the Blood Locusts pounced, their sharp mouthparts crushing the spine and devouring the blood marrow within.
The accumulated molting energy was now being released. The Fierce Insect Cauldron vibrated slightly, and the fierce insect engravings appeared, gathering the power of molting and entering the Blood Locust’s body.
The blood-colored energy coalesced into a giant cocoon, about ten feet high and two meters wide, completely enveloping the Blood Locust.
Energy surged continuously, and the Blood Locust within the cocoon was undergoing a earth-shattering metamorphosis.
Su Yan waited patiently. As the Insect Master, feeling the changes within the cocoon also benefited him.
Unconsciously, the True Essence in his body flowed, and he began to absorb the spiritual energy from his surroundings.
After about two hours, the blood-red cocoon’s light receded, and then cracking sounds were heard as fissures spread across the cocoon.
Su Yan stared at the cocoon. With a crackling sound, two scythe-like, scarlet appendages emerged from the cracks.
Immediately after, a fierce, scarlet, and ruthless insect beast poked out from within.
【The Blood Locust, after consuming the molting material: second-order feral beast blood marrow, red blood crystal, and marrow-sucking leech, metamorphosed into the Blood Fiend Mother Worm】
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm was over ten feet long, with four pairs of blood-colored, cicada-wing-like elytra that resembled blood-stained blades. Its head bore strange horns like sharpened swords, its compound eyes were scarlet, its mouthparts were sharp, and its proboscis was like a whip. Its forelimbs were sharp as spears, and it had a pair of hooked claws.
Behind its slender abdomen was a long, flexible tail, scarlet and soft, which moved like a tentacle with a tail hook.
“What a ferocious appearance!”
Su Yan, upon seeing it, felt that it was as ferocious as some kind of demonic insect, exuding a palpable aura of bloodlust, coldness, and brutality.
Powerful, the Blood Fiend Mother Worm’s strength was far greater than that of the White Bone Poison Centipede and the Red Armored Mad Scorpion, having entered the ranks of second-order feral beasts.
Su Yan grinned, feeling as if a string in his heart had been loosened, and the pressure on his shoulders was no longer so immense.
“With the first second-order strength insect tamer, there will be a second, a third…”
Hiss
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm let out a strange hissing sound. Su Yan calmly perceived its ability changes and suddenly his eyes lit up: “Blood Fiend power and Blood Marrow Worm…”
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm’s successful metamorphosis made Su Yan eager to try the insect essence extracted from it.
He stood in his stance training, cultivating the Poison Dragon Golden Body Technique and the Golden Ape True Skill. The meridians throughout his body circulated, and behind him, the ferocious visage of an insect-shaped White Ape appeared, guarding him.
The White Ape inhaled and exhaled, absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy into its body for refinement.
At this time, the phantom image of the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon was still intermittent, not fully formed.
Su Yan’s mind sank as he extracted the insect essence from the Blood Fiend Mother Worm.
Like a vast river pouring into the mountains, the surging and magnificent aura shocked even Su Yan.
It was several times stronger than that of the White Bone Poison Centipede and the Red Armored Mad Scorpion.
Once the insect essence entered his body, it transformed into a torrent that flowed into various meridians, continuously strengthening their toughness, muscle strength, further improving his bone structure, and converting it into True Essence.
Su Yan’s mind was completely immersed in it. Such a vast amount of insect essence made him feel as if he were seeing the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon in his comprehension.
In the visualization diagram of the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon, poisonous gas billowed towards the sky, its ferocious aura strikingly similar to the current state of the Blood Fiend’s overpowering presence.
Both were fierce beasts born from the myriad of feral beasts.
“White Ape True Intent, taking ferocity as its form, spirit as its bone, like a white ape in the mountains… As for the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon, the torrential poisonous mist is merely an embellishment; it is not sinister, but domineering, the dominance of a flood dragon that devours the world…”
Su Yan’s eyes flashed with brilliance, and a smile played on his lips. He immediately extracted the insect essence from the remaining three fierce insects, pouring it into his dantian and acupoints, washing his meridians.
He also took out the Poison Dragon Pill from the Insect Realm Space and swallowed it in one gulp.
Toxins surged, True Essence rolled, Su Yan’s aura continuously climbed, and the phantom image of the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon appeared and refined further.
Using insect carapaces as scales, insect bones as the spine, a sky-covering poisonous mist, containing blood fiend aura. Within the spine, similar to the White Bone Poison Centipede, lay the core of Yin-cold poisonous mist.
What an unparalleled fierce flood dragon, what a marvelous Beast Spirit True Intent.
Su Yan, in his Spirit Nurturing Realm body, successfully comprehended his second Beast Spirit True Intent. Although it was merely a phantom image, who’s to say it couldn’t materialize after reaching the True Intent Realm?
