Chapter 250: Blood Bone Centipede King
The Six-Winged Blood Centipede requires a total of four molting materials: Iron Fir Crystal Bone, Earth Core Profound Crystal, Netherworld Centipede King, and Heavenly Heart Lotus.
Previously, with the help of his grandmaster Gu Sanqian, he had successively obtained three of them, allowing the Six-Winged Blood Centipede to devour them one after another.
Now, only the last item remained—Netherworld Centipede King.
Originally, Su Yan was still planning to search for it after finishing matters here, but unexpectedly, Yu Lianhua this woman actually raised a Netherworld Centipede King as her trump card.
This was truly a pleasant surprise.
Su Yan entered the main city and dispatched the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust and Troop Devouring Ghost Moth. Both had strength equivalent to third-order Feral Beasts, and even surpassed others in the same rank.
With them suppressing the situation, plus Zhai Gaoyi leading the Mountain Guard and inner and outer disciples, it was enough to stabilize the entire Bailu County City.
Su Yan released the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower, transforming it to three zhang tall, standing in the courtyard.
He released the Rhinoceros Tiger to guard inside this courtyard, not allowing others to approach.
And he himself walked into the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower.
At this time inside the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower, all four of Blood Shadow Old Demon were bound by chains, their True Essence continuously extracted bit by bit into the tower body, constantly refined.
Their True Essence all became the source of Su Yan’s True Essence, gradually integrating into his body, then used to enhance his physical body.
The four saw Su Yan and all revealed some fear.
“I, we are willing to surrender, to serve you…”
Ding Kang was the most afraid of death and immediately begged for mercy. Even if his life was controlled, it was still better than now, being used as a cultivation cauldron for others.
All of his cultivation was absorbed by this tower body, turning the whole person into something like a human pill.
Where was this some righteous famous sect? This guy was even more evil than evil cultivators.
“Yuan Ye”
“Subordinate is here”
Yuan Ye heard Su Yan’s summons and walked forward at this time, bowing in salute.
“Force out their cultivation manuals, and extract all the intelligence. It doesn’t matter if they die.”
Yuan Ye heard this, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes, and immediately agreed: “Subordinate understands.”
“Yuan Ye, you, you actually betrayed us.”
At this time, Zhuo Chengyun finally reacted; the person under the black armor was actually Yuan Ye.
They had thought Yuan Ye merely went missing, but unexpectedly he had defected to Beast King Sect.
No, he had defected to Su Yan.
“Fellow Daoist Zhuo, people have their own aspirations, sorry. I advise you to confess honestly, lest I use harsh methods.”
The interrogation was handed to Yuan Ye. Su Yan himself walked toward the topmost layer of the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower, not even considering subduing these four.
Not to mention control methods, the Blood Fiend Marrow Worm was not absolute control. To control their actions, he would also need to use the Primal Blood from the bloodline gift.
Even so, it was still difficult to completely control people’s hearts.
Now, among his subordinates, he already had Yuan Ye and Old Ancestor Bai Cang, trustworthy people, and also Nangong Hong Yue.
All three were Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists, sufficient for handling Lingnan Prefecture matters for the time being.
These four captured ones were instead more suitable as True Essence providers.
He went all the way to the top floor, where the Netherworld Centipede King was now completely bound here.
Su Yan smiled and waved his hand to summon the Six-Winged Blood Centipede.
At this time, the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s body was even more plump, its red carapace incomparably hard, like a fully accomplished Spirit Tool.
After devouring three molting materials, the power accumulated in its body had already reached a peak.
Now with the Netherworld Centipede King right in front of it, that attraction from the depths of its bloodline made the Six-Winged Blood Centipede restless.
“Devour it, then begin metamorphosis.”
The Six-Winged Blood Centipede had long been unable to hold back, and now with its master’s command, it directly pounced.
It bit down on the Netherworld Centipede King’s body. The pitch-black Insect Armor, enough to withstand Spirit Tool attacks, could not resist the Six-Winged Blood Centipede’s hard mandibles.
With a crunching sound, a large chunk of flesh and blood was torn from the Netherworld Centipede King, then swallowed in big gulps.
Although the Netherworld Centipede King was a third-order Calamity Beast, it had no power to resist in front of the Six-Winged Blood Centipede at this time.
Su Yan watched the Six-Winged Blood Centipede completely devour the massive Netherworld Centipede King, then its body gradually changed. Metamorphosis red light completely enveloped it, and finally under the power of the Fierce Insect Cauldron, it formed a massive cocoon.
The cocoon was ten zhang tall, standing in the center of the top layer of the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower.
“Looks like it will take a few days.”
Su Yan sensed it briefly and knew this metamorphosis would not be quick.
He exited the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower and immediately went to handle Bailu County City matters.
Zhai Gaoyi was capable, leading the Mountain Guard and inner and outer disciples to capture or kill all Yan Ying Sect disciples one by one.
The commotion lasted a full day and night, during which quite a few True Intent Fourth Realm Martial Artists tried to burn and flee the city.
But the Troop Devouring Ghost Moth and Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust had already taken control of the entire city.
Before they could cause greater chaos, they immediately launched attacks.
Either Spirit Tool phantoms fell from the sky, piercing bodies directly, or they were surrounded by the Fiend Bee swarms summoned by the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust, then devoured of all flesh and blood.
The killing lasted a long time, but the commotion was not as big as imagined.
Except for some unlucky Beast King Sect disciples, casualties were almost negligible.
“Three million Origin Stones, a hundred third-order Origin Stones, Spirit Gold, Spirit Herbs, and more…”
Zhai Gaoyi reported all the items seized from Yan Ying Sect and rebel forces during the battle.
Including shops, mansions, and large numbers of mountain deeds and land deeds, all handed over to Su Yan.
Su Yan glanced at them and said: “According to the rules, after turning in to the sect, the remainder is distributed to disciples based on merit.”
“Yes”
Gains from war, especially sect treasuries, mansions, and other plundered resources, must be turned in.
Two-thirds turned in, one-third issued as merit rewards.
Personal kills in combat are not included.
This is to prevent disciples from killing the goose for the egg or falsely claiming merits.
As long as turned in, there is registration and record-keeping, everything traceable.
Disciples earn merit and also contribution points, which if sufficient, can be exchanged for more.
With Su Yan’s permission, Zhai Gaoyi immediately ordered it arranged.
With rewards to distribute, the disciples’ efficiency was undoubtedly higher. Another day was spent thoroughly stabilizing Bailu County City.
City operations were gradually handed over to the original local forces of Bailu County City.
Some house deeds, shop deeds, and mountain deeds were now allowed to be bought back from Beast King Sect later.
By the third day, Su Yan had appeared inside the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower, where the cocoon’s gestation had reached a certain extent.
The red halo continuously expanded, then gradually contracted, turning the entire massive cocoon into something like a red gem.
Su Yan stood before the cocoon, sensing the life metamorphosing inside.
Cracking sounds came, cracks constantly spreading across the cocoon. Soon the cocoon began to shatter, and a massive centipede with blood-red body and eerie bone armor appeared before Su Yan.
Third-order pressure swept like a tsunami. Without the Myriad Insect Prison Suppressing Tower’s concealment, the entire Bailu County City would probably tremble under this pressure.
【Six-Winged Blood Centipede devours molting materials Iron Fir Crystal Bone, Earth Core Profound Crystal, Netherworld Centipede King, Heavenly Heart Lotus, metamorphosing into Blood Bone Centipede King】
【Blood Bone Centipede King: 1/100（Nascent Stage）
The Blood Bone Centipede King also had six wings, these six wings made of blood-colored bones, flowing with deep red blood, eerie and powerful.
Its whole body bone armor was blood-colored skeletons, not only incomparably hard, but also filled with blood power, possessing powerful self-healing ability and extremely potent blood poison.
A pair of mandibles split into four parts, ferocious and terrifying, enough to shatter gold and crack stone.
“Not bad”
Su Yan’s eyes showed uncontrollable joy. The Six-Winged Blood Centipede had been with him the longest, starting from the lowest point, merely an unranked Yin Water Centipede.
But after multiple metamorphoses, it reached this level. Its blood poison control was like a Blood Demon, faintly carrying some of the aura of that aquatic Blood Flood Dragon.
Su Yan stroked the Blood Bone Centipede King’s head, and Insect Yuan feedback from the Blood Bone Centipede King reached him.
The three traits—Insect Bone Armor Body, Insect Consciousness Seed, and bloodline gift—were all slightly stronger, especially the Insect Lord Bloodline from the bloodline gift, which became even more powerful due to this metamorphosis.
After familiarizing himself for a while, Su Yan then stored away the Blood Bone Centipede King.
He came down from the top layer to the first floor.
Yuan Ye had been waiting respectfully for a long time. In front of him were over ten booklets. He respectfully said: “The cultivation manuals, martial skills, and divine abilities of Blood Shadow Old Demon, Ding Kang, Zhuo Chengyun, and Yu Lianhua are all here. Subordinate has preliminarily verified them, no issues.”
Their cultivations were all at the same level; unless carefully prepared, tampering with the manuals would easily be discovered.
Thus, after Yuan Ye’s verification, the credibility of these cultivation techniques and martial skills was naturally high.
Su Yan picked up one and glanced: “《Blood Bat True Technique》《Blood Bone True Body》… all third-order manuals, not bad.”
The manuals were all around third-order, with upper, middle, and lower grades, but not much difference. Naturally inferior to Beast King Sect.
Especially under such interrogation, it was certainly impossible to condense true intent diagrams, making cultivation more difficult.
But Su Yan did not care; he had no intention of cultivating these manuals.
Cultivation manuals, hardening techniques, martial skills…
He lacked none of them, and all were extremely advanced. There was no need to dual cultivate so many more.
After becoming a fourth-order Insect Master, his foundation had gradually solidified. As long as he continued nurturing his Fierce Insects well, reaching the top was just a matter of time.
As for these manuals, they were just to enrich his foundation.
Although Gu Sanqian said little, combined with what he visualized in the Blood Flood Dragon Secret Realm of Qin Jingtian in combat with the Blood Flood Dragon.
He already roughly knew that breaking through to Golden Body Realm probably required not just following predecessors’ paths, but also fusing out his own dharma.
Creating techniques was one path.
“The Fierce Insect Cauldron’s power of creation is unmatched, and I have three traits. It’s not impossible to create suitable cultivation manuals for myself.”
He stored away all these manuals, then said: “Ignore these four from now on. You just watch them.”
“Yes”
Su Yan strode out; at this time, Bailu County City had been fully recaptured.
Zhai Gaoyi had already begun sending spies to scout the situation in other major cities within Bailu County.
As soon as Su Yan came out, he received Zhai Gaoyi’s news.
“Qingshan City and Biashan City successively quelled Yan Ying Sect’s commotion under True Person Di Yining and True Person Xia’s leadership. The opponent’s Dan Qiao Realm True Person led the escape, all gathering in the Pushan area, following Soul Puppet True Person Zhao Wenxing, preparing to flee into Lishan County.”
Su Yan frowned slightly. The Dharma Aspect True Person who entered Bailu County to plunder had been identified: Zhao Wenxing, who used humans as puppets to create Spirit Sealing Puppets.
This fiend was an evil path figure in Lingnan Prefecture from two to three hundred years ago, disappeared for over a hundred years, unexpectedly having joined Three Flames Divine Palace.
Others use Spirit Sealing Talismans with true intent or Feral Beast souls for spirit sealing; he went even more direct, most skilled at using Martial Artists’ souls and physical bodies for spirit sealing into puppets.
Though ingenious, it was utterly cruel.
And what he liked most were hardening Martial Artists; their physical bodies were the strongest, and refining them into Spirit Sealing Artifact puppets was the most powerful.
“What’s the situation in Pushan? Any news from my grandmaster?”
“Zhao Wenxing entered Bailu County and killed four Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists, taking their bodies. He massacred a small city, over half of 200,000 civilians dead or injured. True Person Gu fought him once without capturing him, now chasing to Pushan.”
Su Yan frowned: “Already massacred a city, and Monster Suppressing Guard has no movement?”
Never mind which major power the city belonged to, just ordinary civilians—they were all nominally subjects of the Dali Dynasty.
“The small city had no Monster Suppressing Guard soldiers, but Monster Suppressing Guard has now surrounded Lishan County, planning to siege all of Yan Ying Sect at Junlao Mountain, leaving none.”
Yan Ying Sect had crossed the line; such slaughter was not mere Martial Artist sect conflict.
Civilians, or ordinary people, were the foundation of the dynasty and also of sects.
Even killing them meant Yan Ying Sect, including Three Flames Divine Palace behind it, must pay the price.
“True Person Gu sent word: all Mountain Guard head to Pushan, together with Pushan Old Ancestor, to leave Soul Puppet Old Demon Zhao Wenxing behind.”
Zhai Gaoyi finally stated Gu Sanqian’s order.
Su Yan nodded: “Full speed ahead, day and night without stop.”
“Yes”
The Yan Ying Sect Martial Artists who entered Bailu County for attack numbered no more than two thousand, plus their covert allies, not exceeding ten thousand.
Now with several sieges, Su Yan’s side even directly killed Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists; even fewer of them remained.
With Pushan Old Ancestor moving to block Zhao Wenxing’s retreat, and adding his grandmaster Gu Sanqian, leaving the fellow Dharma Aspect Realm Zhao Wenxing was possible.
However, Su Yan frowned slightly, still having some concerns in his heart.
Within Bailu County, Pushan Old Ancestor was the only Dharma Aspect Realm.
With Gu Sanqian provoked, Zhao Wenxing still dared head there—what exactly was his reliance?
Setting aside his inner doubts for now, Zhai Gaoyi organized the troops and directly set off.
Pushan Mountain Range was only eight hundred li from Bailu County City.
Black Scaled Leopard’s speed was extremely fast; under forced march, in just one day and night, Su Yan arrived at the outskirts of Pushan Mountain Range.
The Mountain Guard disciples around Gu Sanqian had already set up, occupying a village as a foothold.
The troops found them and immediately assembled.
At this time, Di Yining, Xia Wan’er, Zhao Mingcheng, and other Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists had already arrived with their teams; Su Yan was instead the last.
After greeting, Su Yan learned from Xia Wan’er that Zhao Wenxing was hiding in this Pushan Mountain Range, using Spirit Sealing Puppets to conceal traces.
They had searched for several days; without Pushan Old Ancestor and Gu Sanqian sealing the borders, Zhao Wenxing would likely have escaped long ago.
“The Head Seat is waiting for you. Senior Pu is also there, discussing the siege on Zhao Wenxing.”
