Chapter 24: A Single Roar Scares Off A Million Corpse Beetles?
“Retreat!”
With an angry roar, Su Mo released his dantian internal energy outward, amplifying the power of the Lion’s Roar Skill to the extreme through the resonance of his chest cavity, oral cavity, and head cavity.
The cave’s space resonance instantly expanded this power to its maximum!
At the same time, the Kirin Bloodline Power within his body also rapidly spread with the sound wave!
A majestic Kirin Bloodline Power swiftly spread through the space like a tide!
This power was enough to intimidate hundreds of beasts and subdue insect clans!
Perhaps these flying insects and beasts had never seen a kirin, let alone witnessed the power of a kirin.
But this crushing pressure and oppressive might from the power was directly imprinted deep in their bloodlines, and even after thousands of iterations, it could still make them feel fear from the depths of their souls.
With one angry roar, the insect tide instantly crashed against an iron plate like a tide, with the foremost wave shattering with a bang!
The few corpse beetles running at the very front were actually so frightened by Su Mo’s angry roar that they directly fell to the ground.
The insect tide behind collided with them, producing a series of banging and crackling sounds, then they all came to a stop.
Immediately after, these insects let out a series of wails, then turned around and fled.
They were just like seeing the most terrifying divine being, not daring to approach any closer.
Even though the Corpse Beetle King was in the tree hole, having just used high-frequency vibration to summon them!
The originally dense corpse beetle swarm instantly scattered like a receding black tide, rapidly retreating to all sides of the cave.
Large and small corpse beetles scrambled to crawl into the holes in the cave walls; they had come as fast as they were now fleeing.
Here, Zhang Qiling and the others in the tomb passage soon heard rustling sounds coming from behind.
They were already very familiar with this sound; they knew at once it was the sound of the corpse beetle swarm crawling.
Da Kui, Pan Zi, and Wu Tianzhen immediately turned pale with fright:
“What’s going on? These corpse beetles are crawling back again?”
“Could Master Su have run into some trouble?”
“From the sound, these corpse beetles seem to be crawling toward us!”
Uncle Wu San’s face also alternated between pale and green, his eyes full of doubt mixed with fear.
That earlier angry roar had sounded extraordinarily powerful, but they didn’t know what the situation was like on Su Mo’s side.
How come the corpse beetles were crawling back in the blink of an eye?
Moreover, from the sound, they were rushing toward their rear!
Little Brother’s face was also somewhat pale, but his gaze remained calm, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the tomb passage behind.
Rustle, rustle, rustle…
Soon, shadowy figures of the corpse beetle swarm appeared in the tomb passage.
The large swarm of corpse beetles crawled back from the cave into the tomb passage, rapidly charging toward them.
After Da Kui and Pan Zi shone their flashlights and clearly saw it was indeed a large swarm of corpse beetles, their faces turned even paler.
“The corpse beetles are back!”
“Run!”
The two turned and were about to sprint away; Uncle Wu San, Wu Tianzhen, and A Ning also turned and ran.
But no matter how fast they ran, in this tomb passage, they couldn’t possibly outrun the corpse beetles.
And at that moment, Zhang Qiling stood motionless in place.
Uncle Wu San ran a few steps, saw Little Brother standing still, and couldn’t help but be stunned:
“Little Brother, what are you doing…”
Little Brother stood in place, watching the corpse beetle swarm crawl toward him with wide eyes, but a cold smile appeared on his face:
“They’re not attacking; they’re afraid!”
“Afraid?”
Uncle Wu San couldn’t help but be stunned again.
Could it be…
As he spoke, the corpse beetle swarm had already crawled to within less than a zhang of Zhang Qiling.
Zhang Qiling suddenly slashed the Black Gold Ancient Blade across his palm again.
The palm that had already stopped bleeding now flowed with fresh blood again, and a thick Kirin Bloodline aura instantly spread through the tomb passage.
Creak, creak…
The rapidly charging corpse beetles suddenly flapped their wings and chirped, all coming to a stop.
They stared with their bright red little eyes, stopping in fear in place; after lingering there for a few seconds, they suddenly turned and crawled off into other branch paths.
Zhang Qiling watched the rapidly fleeing figures of the corpse beetle swarm, a smile appearing on his face.
“That’s right, they’re afraid!”
“They were scared off by Master Su’s shout, that’s why they came back here!”
The slash he made to his own palm was not just to deter the corpse beetles.
It was also to verify his idea.
Earlier, Su Mo’s Lion’s Roar had traveled through the deep tomb passage, and he could faintly sense a different kind of deterrent power in the roar!
That was absolutely not an ordinary Buddhist Lion’s Roar!
An ordinary Buddhist Lion’s Roar used mid-breath to resonate the three cavities, spreading internal energy from the dantian through space, using majesty and sound waves to intimidate petty foes.
But Su Mo’s roar not only had the power of Buddhist internal energy, it also carried the Kirin Bloodline Power that Zhang Qiling was very familiar with!
Only this majesty of the Kirin Bloodline Power, capable of subduing hundreds of beasts and myriad insects, could make the tidal wave of corpse beetles retreat so quickly from the cave!
“You mean Master Su’s single roar scared off a million corpse beetles?”
Uncle Wu San, hearing Zhang Qiling’s words, was full of shock and disbelief.
Da Kui, Pan Zi, Wu Tianzhen, and A Ning were even more shocked, almost unable to believe their ears.
One person roaring could scare off so many insects?
Was he even human?
A Ning’s beautiful eyes flickered,
She suddenly recalled the scene when she first met Su Mo in the tomb chamber.
At that time, she had been surrounded by corpse beetles on the statue’s shoulder, her expedition team members under her all dead in the beetles’ mouths, yet when Su Mo appeared, he strolled as if on a leisurely walk, not taking those corpse beetles to heart at all.
And those corpse beetles, upon encountering him, were like seeing a terrifying demon king!
“It must be him…”
A Ning couldn’t help but nod:
“He’s not human!”
Da Kui, Pan Zi, and Wu Tianzhen looked at each other in bewilderment.
Little Brother’s and Uncle Wu San’s and A Ning’s statements shocked them and seemed unbelievable, but upon careful thought, it felt very reasonable.
From entering the waterway onward, every ability Su Mo had displayed exceeded their cognition.
If someone claimed they could roar and scare off a million corpse beetles, they would definitely think it nonsense, a joke, shameless bragging.
But if it was Su Mo who did it, they vaguely felt…
It was very reasonable!
Da Kui suddenly lit up with joy:
“So does that mean all those corpse beetles are scared off? Should we go back?”
Little Brother was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head:
“Don’t go!”
“It’s still very dangerous there; it might be nothing to Master Su, but if we go, we’ll definitely drag him down!”
He looked toward the distant darkness and said in a deep voice:
“We’ll wait for him outside; he’ll definitely be fine!”
…
Here, after Su Mo’s angry roar, the corpse beetle swarm quickly burrowed back into the cave wall holes, scattering even faster than a receding tide.
The Buddhist Lion’s Roar combined with the majesty of the Kirin Bloodline Power, plus the cavity resonance effect of the cave, multiplied the power of Su Mo’s move several times over.
That was exactly why the tidal wave of corpse beetles retreated so quickly.
At that moment, a gust of wind suddenly came from overhead.
Su Mo looked up and saw the mummified corpses hanging from the vines above actually dropping from the air one after another, like overripe fruit.
It turned out that Su Mo’s angry roar not only scared off the corpse beetles, but even those vines seemed unable to withstand the power’s shock, loosening their grip one after another.
Smack, smack…
Mummified corpses fell from the air like scattered petals, landing on the ground.
In an instant, these mummified corpses were smashed into scattered corpse pieces all over the ground.
Some mummified corpses had completely turned into white bones, with bone fragments and skulls scattered everywhere.
The Nine-headed Cypress also suddenly stopped its frenzied swaying, becoming much quieter.
Moonlight spilled down through the rock crevices, passing through the twisting dragon-like giant python branches and vines, scattering in front of Su Mo.
But the tree hole in front of him remained very dark, like a huge mouth devouring life.
From within the cave faintly came a sharp vibrating hum.
That was the Corpse Beetle King’s hum,
As if carrying a bit of fear, and a bit of anger!
