Chapter 109: Might Of The Blood Fiend Mother Worm
“You refuse a toast, so you’ll have to face the consequences!”
At this moment, Du Erniang had changed her appearance, her face as grim as water, exuding a venomous and indifferent aura.
She walked two steps towards Su Yan, the True Essence on her body manifesting and condensing into a ten-foot-long crimson spotted fierce leopard in front of her.
A low growl, eyes filled with ferocity.
“I wondered why you dared to fall out with me, and it turns out it’s because of this?”
Du Erniang sneered, “It’s common for martial artists to kill people. What if I dig out human marrow to refine pills? It’s not a human pill. I’ll ask you again, you’re only at the Spirit Nurturing Realm, do you really intend to defy me to the death?”
“Alright.”
Su Yan waved his hand, and suddenly a large mass of crimson insect mist surged out, heading straight for Du Erniang, buzzing loudly, becoming even more alarming in the enclosed cave.
“You court death!”
Du Erniang was startled, and then she ordered the Beast Spirit True Intent, the crimson spotted leopard, to pounce.
At this moment, the crimson spotted leopard attacked with its claws. Its crimson claws were faintly scaled, and a circle of water-like True Essence blade patterns formed around it. With one swipe, it crushed hundreds of blood bees on the spot.
‘Has it undergone partial metamorphosis?’
Su Yan saw the anomaly on the crimson spotted leopard’s body with just one glance, noting that it was indeed transforming into an abyssal water leopard.
After the crimson spotted leopard struck, Du Erniang continued to sneer, already certain of victory: “With just these tricks?”
Although she didn’t know where Su Yan had summoned these blood bees from, with just these means, he was definitely no match for her.
She took a long whip from her waist, her True Essence surged, and she swung the whip towards Su Yan.
The long whip was like a sharp blade, coiling towards Su Yan, piercing through the swarm of blood bees and heading straight for his face.
Swish.
A sharp saber light swept across, and the whip’s attack was immediately intercepted.
A red figure lunged straight towards Du Erniang. The chilling aura immediately made her retreat by more than three feet.
The Beast Spirit crimson spotted leopard stirred up water blades to block in between, clanging.
The water blades were shattered, and the crimson spotted leopard also sustained two deep gashes. Du Erniang’s face turned slightly pale, and she quickly mobilized more True Essence to repair her Beast Spirit True Intent.
“You’re from the Beast King Sect?!”
The ferocious Blood Fiend Mother Worm stood between Du Erniang and Su Yan, with countless blood bees swirling around. The entire cave space was filled with the sound of buzzing.
Du Erniang looked at Su Yan with a mixture of shock and uncertainty, even with a hint of fear.
“Guess.”
Su Yan knew she had reservations but didn’t use it to his advantage. Under the threat of death, someone as venomous as Du Erniang would have no reservations.
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm flapped its blood-blade-like wings and spat out a stream of blood fiend energy from its mouth, directly pouncing at Du Erniang.
Its speed was extremely fast, and its blood fiend energy was particularly malevolent, corroding True Essence.
Du Erniang gritted her teeth and immediately merged with the crimson spotted leopard, strengthening their connection and launching several combined attacks.
Red blade attacks flew out, resisting the blood fiend energy.
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm surged forward, engaging in combat with the crimson spotted leopard.
Two giant beasts, one transformed from True Intent, with True Essence and spirit turned into a physical form, each attack filled with surging True Essence.
The other was a fierce insect beast, incredibly ruthless in its combat, often using its sharp tibial scythes to block all escape routes.
The two fought blow for blow, each strike leaving wounds on the other.
The combat between two second-order entities was extremely perilous, and the surface of the cave was covered with marks left by their blows.
Du Erniang’s body’s True Essence was continuously drained, and as the crimson spotted leopard was injured, her own body was significantly affected.
Thousands of blood bees surrounded her, preventing her from launching a surprise attack on Su Yan.
For a time, this crimson blockade completely separated Du Erniang on the other side, posing no threat to Su Yan.
Damn it!
Du Erniang’s heart sank, knowing she couldn’t continue like this.
Su Yan was merely controlling these strange, ferocious insect beasts and hadn’t even used his own True Intent.
If he were to act as well, she would likely be suppressed even more severely.
“Whoosh.”
She took a step back, her long whip coiling, and unleashed a move called “Coiling Python Sweeps the Mountain.”
Powerful True Essence swept away hundreds of blood bees in front of her, even piercing through them and heading straight for Su Yan.
Su Yan let out a cold laugh, his insect armor silently covering his arm. He raised his hand and struck with “Fierce Ape Suppresses the Sea,” shattering the incoming True Essence.
What a chance!
Du Erniang’s eyes flashed with brilliance, but instead of charging at Su Yan, she turned and rushed towards the cage where the abyssal water leopard was.
From the side of her fair thigh, she drew out a second-order low-grade black snake dagger, its sharpness revealed, emitting a faint whistling sound as it cut through the air.
She infused it with her True Essence, transforming it into an even sharper blade, which she then slashed at the iron bars.
The abyssal water leopard in the water was agitated. Although it wasn’t Du Erniang’s tamed beast, it had been trained for a long time and had a faint connection. Once it was released, it would definitely attack Su Yan first.
Clang!
With a crisp, loud sound, the steel bar, as thick as a wrist, was directly severed by Du Erniang.
A gap, neither too large nor too small, appeared in the iron bars. The abyssal water leopard immediately charged, causing the entire cage to rumble loudly.
Seeing her attack succeed, Du Erniang wanted to go further and release the abyssal water leopard, preparing to strike again.
Suddenly, a white light flashed, and her raised arm fell with a thud, along with the black snake dagger, which clattered to the ground.
*Puchi*.
Blood gushed out, and the intense pain assailed Du Erniang’s brain, instantly turning her face pale.
She caught a glimpse with her peripheral vision: a strange insect resembling a jade knife was flying in front of her, chillingly frightening.
Blood bees swarmed over. Du Erniang was already severely injured and had no strength to resist.
She hurriedly recalled the crimson spotted leopard, and the two merged. The True Intent phantom appeared outside, with Du Erniang’s physical body within, like a cornered female leopard fighting for survival.
Claw attacks, roars, water blades flying wildly…
A large number of blood bees died in this desperate struggle; in just over ten breaths, three thousand blood bees were reduced to scattered fragments of flesh.
But this number was completely unable to break through the insect mist.
Since its transformation into a Blood Fiend Mother Worm, its capacity to breed blood bees had reached ten thousand.
A stream of blood fiend energy spread from within the blood bees. The Blood Fiend Mother Worm attacked. The True Essence-constructed Beast Spirit True Intent was constantly corroding her back, leaving Du Erniang’s face as pale as paper.
“Spare my life, and San Die Stream will be yours to command from now on!”
Du Erniang only wanted to preserve her life now. The crimson spotted leopard could only allow her to resist the blood bees’ attack for a short time.
But the Blood Fiend Mother Worm and the elusive Gold-Eating Demon Insect, like the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head.
She couldn’t hold on forever. Her severed arm had already started to bleed uncontrollably.
The feeling of weakness in her body became even more pronounced…
Damn it! Why in this place of all places!
If it were in an open area, even if she couldn’t defeat Su Yan, she would have had somewhere to escape.
“The pill prescription for the True Intent Pill.”
Su Yan’s calm voice echoed. Upon hearing his reply, Du Erniang immediately said, “As long as you spare my life, I will hand over the True Intent Pill prescription immediately…”
Before her words had even fallen, the Blood Fiend Mother Worm suddenly attacked Du Erniang. The crimson spotted leopard leaped to block, but was struck by the tibial scythe, losing half of its body.
The Beast Spirit True Intent disintegrated, and Du Erniang was immediately heavily wounded. Her True Essence surged backward, and she vomited a large amount of blood.
At this point, Du Erniang had completely lost her ability to resist and collapsed powerlessly on the ground.
Dense swarms of blood bees gradually crawled all over her body, sucking the flowing blood.
A spine-chilling sensation filled Du Erniang’s mind. At this moment, she no longer had any trace of the demeanor of a True Intent Martial Artist.
Fear, fear of death…
At this moment, she had only one thought: to survive, no matter the cost.
“The pill prescription is in the secret compartment under my bed in my room. Gold and silver valuables and the Red Leopard Mountain Suppressing Technique are also there. Spare me… I can serve you…”
Her voice gradually choked with sobs. Blood bees poured into Du Erniang’s throat, their sharp proboscis piercing her throat.
“Dong.”
The abyssal water leopard slammed against the cage again. The iron bars, already damaged, were now even more broken.
It had been imprisoned here for who knows how many years, and now it finally had a chance to break free.
It was now almost maddened.
The banging sounds continued to come, the pond water churned, and faintly, blood could be seen seeping out.
“I almost forgot about you.”
Su Yan looked at the abyssal water leopard with a hint of regret, lamenting that it wasn’t a second-order insect beast.
Inside the Fierce Insect Cauldron, enough Feral Beast Essence Blood had already been consumed.
The refinement of a second-order insect beast required a thousand catties of Feral Beast Essence Blood and the heart blood of a second-order Feral Beast.
After the siege battle against the Rock Mud Fierce Tiger, quite a few materials from feral beasts had been obtained.
A thousand catties of Feral Beast Essence Blood and the heart blood of a second-order Feral Beast were ready. If there were a second-order insect beast, it would naturally be no problem.
Shua.
The abyssal water leopard was about to charge when, at this moment, the Blood Fiend Mother Worm, having received the order, arrived at the edge of the iron bars.
Blood fiend energy condensed on its tibial scythe, and then a red glint flashed. In an instant, the iron bars shattered with a loud crash.
“Roar!”
Freedom regained, the abyssal water leopard immediately let out a deafening roar.
Then it pounced at the Blood Fiend Mother Worm. The churning pond water surged in front of it, and for a moment, the abyssal water leopard seemed like a vicious beast formed from water.
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm was not afraid at all. It unleashed three to four insect blades in succession, cutting through the water flow and separating it.
The two fierce beasts lunged at each other. The Blood Fiend Mother Worm had the advantage of flight and dragged the abyssal water leopard away from the pond.
Su Yan glanced at the two fighting beasts and couldn’t help but worry about the abyssal water leopard’s physical body being severely damaged.
So he waved his hand, and the White Bone Poison Centipede and the Red Armored Mad Scorpion appeared simultaneously, flanking each other to contain the abyssal water leopard’s attacks.
The Gold-Eating Demon Insect lurked among the three insects and launched a surprise attack. Before long, it had severed the abyssal water leopard’s animal sinew.
No matter how strong the abyssal water leopard was, it was just a trapped beast. How could it withstand the siege of the Blood Fiend Mother Worm, the White Bone Poison Centipede, and other fierce insects?
When it exposed a flaw, the Blood Fiend Mother Worm struck from above, its sharp tail hook piercing its head, killing it instantly.
“A second-order feral beast, two second-order pill prescriptions… It wasn’t a wasted trip. Perhaps I can also check on Wang Tiangong and Lin Xiao’s situation.”
How could wealth accumulation be faster than being a bandit cultivator?
After collecting the abyssal water leopard’s corpse, Su Yan’s mind began to wander.
However, he soon calmed down.
Du Erniang was tricked by him and besieged by insects in this cave, unable to unleash her full strength, which was why she was easily killed.
But if she were in an open area, even if she couldn’t defeat the Blood Fiend Mother Worm, she wouldn’t have been unable to escape.
The Beast Spirit phantom of the crimson spotted leopard merged with the martial artist’s physical body. With full strength, she could have charged out like a crimson spotted leopard, and even the Blood Fiend Mother Worm would have had difficulty stopping her.
“Robbery matters can be handled gradually, and priorities must be distinguished…”
Su Yan’s most important task now was to accumulate resources, and to raise the White Bone Poison Centipede and the Red Armored Mad Scorpion to the metamorphosis stage, and then complete their metamorphosis.
As for resources, they were merely means for him to become stronger.
To neglect the cultivation of his fierce insects and his own martial arts cultivation for the sake of accumulating vast resources would be to abandon the fundamental for the superficial.
He took the black snake dagger from Du Erniang, along with the crimson and black bone crimson python whip.
Both were second-order low-grade sharp weapons, rare treasures in Yun Cang Town.
Du Erniang was too confident and wore no armor. Her fair skin was covered in crimson blood.
Su Yan shook his head slightly: “If she had worn just one more layer of armor, it wouldn’t have been so easy to kill her. She was too confident.”
The blood bees swarmed up and devoured Du Erniang’s corpse. Her white bones also became food for the White Bone Poison Centipede.
After Su Yan cleaned everything up, he swaggered out of the cave and from Du Erniang’s cultivation room.
“It’s you?! Where is the Leader?”
Seeing Su Yan appear alone outside the door, Cai Yao, who had been waiting, was shocked.
Cai Yao was flustered and panicked, a bad premonition already forming in her heart.
“Oh, you’re still here. Perfect, lead the way for me.”
As soon as Su Yan’s voice fell, Cai Yao immediately drew the pair of Mandarin Duck Knives by her side and lunged towards his neck like a white ribbon.
Behind her, the crimson spotted leopard phantom appeared, its qi and blood interwoven with True Essence.
Clang.
However, the next moment, the Mandarin Duck Knives were caught by a large hand. The Black Scale Gloves were indestructible, and the faint Insect Armor was incredibly strong.
The Mandarin Duck Knives could not break through the defense, and Cai Yao’s face changed drastically, immediately panicking.
Before she could create distance, Su Yan suddenly grabbed her, and Cai Yao’s neck was caught in his hand.
The arms holding the knives were now unable to move in time.
The black snake dagger slashed across, severing the tendons in both her arms.
Cai Yao’s face turned pale. Su Yan, holding her neck, pulled her closer, and the black snake dagger pressed against the juncture of her snow-white neck and collarbone.
“If you don’t lead the way, you’ll die. Think carefully.”
Su Yan’s tone was exceptionally calm, as if stating a trivial matter, as if crushing an ant.
But Cai Yao felt the sharpness emanating from her former master’s weapon, and her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, sank to the bottom.
Du Erniang must have met with misfortune.
“I’ll lead the way.”
Her voice, almost shrouded in fear, answered tremblingly.
Cai Yao, held hostage by Su Yan, led the way in front.
Inside the inner cave stronghold, many minions and leaders suddenly saw Cai Yao with her arms bleeding and her face as pale as paper, immediately realizing something was wrong.
“What did you do?!”
Someone yelled. Cai Yao wanted to shout back, to protect her life.
However, before she could speak, she heard a voice from behind her.
“Trouble.”
As the voice fell, it was as if a sleeve was waved, and a buzzing sound slowly arose.
Three thousand blood bees poured into various parts of the inner cave stronghold, like a rampaging blood cloud.
All the minions who jumped out to block were surrounded by blood bees, killed one by one, and then had their essence blood extracted.
Although not as potent as Feral Beast flesh and blood, as martial artists, they were not bad.
A terrifying red cloud enveloped the inner cave stronghold. Cai Yao listened to the shrill screams, her slender back trembling uncontrollably.
Flesh and blood were devoured, leaving only white bones.
Then even those white bones were completely consumed by a certain white shadow.
Such slaughter continued until Cai Yao led Su Yan to the top floor and entered Du Erniang’s room.
